Social notes highlight holidays and family visits
The clipping lists numerous holiday visits and gatherings in Biddeford Saco Old Orchard Beach and nearby towns. Names include Murphy Morneau Finn Merrill O Rourke Manning Curtis and Choroszy among others with guests from Hartford Boston Needham Newfield Westbrook and Clemson. Also reports the death of Lowell Millard Barden of Ogunquit with funeral details and survivors.
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Richard Murphy
Ferry Road
Saco
Wilmer Morneau
Hartford
John Merrill
Summit Street
Biddeford
Edward Rabideau
Annie Carmody
Liggetts Company
Philip Elenidis
Yonkers
N. Y
Peter
Nikki Gregory
West Grand Avenue
Old Orchard Beach
Ronald Howard
Fostoria
Ohio
Hosea Curtis
Hill Street
Charles Taylor
Woodsville
N. H
University of New Hampshire
Elizabeth Stanton
Portland
Carrie Stanton
Madeline Goodwin
Harry Scott
Clayton Boutet
Karen
Keith
John Choroszy
Boutet
University of Maine
Orono
Clemson
S. C
Judy Sullivan
Clemson College
Lucien Oudreau
Norman Boudreau
Debra
Waltham
Mass
Charles D. Richard
William Palmer
Long Island
Merrill Smith
Nashua
Robert Scott
Bradley
Auburn
South Street
Sunapee
Robert Whitten
Hartley Whitten
Townsend
Edward McEnery
James Finn
Foss Street
P. Joseph Walsh
Lorraine
Lorraine. Accompanying Them For A New Year's Visit Was Mrs. Walsh
John Murphy
Winter Street
Adah Chapter Eastern Star Plans New Year Program
Obligation night and a New Year program will be held at the stated meeting of Adah chapter Order of the Eastern Star Friday at 7 50 p m in the Biddeford Masonic hall. Mrs Ruth Be Sey will be in charge of refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adah Chapter
Order of the Eastern Star
Biddeford Masonic Hall
Ruth BeSey
Church Notes and Services Schedule
Higher Grade Corp Cadets of the Saco Salvation Army meet Friday at 8 30 p m Holy Communion to be celebrated in Trinity Episcopal church Friday at 9 30 a m Christ Episcopal church holds service Friday morning at 8.
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Saco Salvation Army
Trinity Episcopal Church
Christ Episcopal Church
BOMARC Missile Arrives at Dow AFB for June Use
The first of several $700,000 BOMARC missiles arrived at Dow Air Force Base. The 47-foot, 15,000 pound missile with a 250 mile range was delivered by Boeing from Seattle. Site readiness is planned by June 1.
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Missille
Bangor
Dow Air Force Base
Boeing Aircraft Company
Seattle
Card of Thanks From the Bellefeuille and Dubois Families
The Bellefeuille family expresses gratitude to neighbors relatives and friends for sympathy spiritual and floral bouquets funeral help and time off work. Mrs Raymond Dubois extends thanks for flowers cards and gifts received during her Notre Dame Hospital stay.
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Bellefeuille
Notre Dame Hospital
Raymond Dubois
Ladies Aid Meeting in South Biddeford Hosts
The Ladies Aid of the South Biddeford Methodist church met at 9 Guinea road Biddeford with Misses Addie and Emma Piper as hostesses. Vice President Mrs Sarah Staples filled in for the president Mrs Marion Clark and Mrs Inez Johnson acted as secretary. The next meeting is scheduled for January 13 at Mrs Peggy Thomas’s Guinea road home. Present were Inez Johnson Ella Piper Nellie Norwood Fannie Gross Anna Tremblay Sarah Staples Martha Goldthwaite Edith Sawyer Jane Day Jean Goldthwaite Pegsy Thomas and the hostesses.
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Addie
Emma Piper
Ladies Aid of
South Biddeford
Inez Johnson
Ella Piper
Nellie Norwood
Fannie Gross
Anna Tremblay
Sarah Staples
Martha Goldthwaite
Edith Sawyer
Jane Day
Jean Goldthwaite
Pegsy Thomas
Sanford Teen Fatally Wounded in Sand Pit Shooting
Kenneth E. Dart aged 16 was killed by a .22 pistol slug while target shooting in a sand pit near his home. Police quote two companions saying the pistol discharged as the youth spun it on a finger.
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Sanford
Kenneth E. Dart
Body Identified of Old Town Man in Penobscot River
The body found in the Penobscot river Monday was identified as Stephen Bednarcyk 58 of Old Town. Bednarcyk disappeared October 23 when his canoe overturned in the river.
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Old Town
Penobscot River
Stephen Bednarcyk
Bednarcyk
Lizard Treated Aboard Ship En Route To Oakland
San Diego zoologist Dr. Charles Shaw treated a lizard aboard the steamship President Van Buren after crew members found the reptile favored soda water but the beverage was spiked with whisky. The animal was headed to a trade fair in Oakland, California.
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San Diego
Calif
Charles Shaw
San Diego Zoo
President van Buren
Philippines
Oakland
Portland Fair Weather Tides Notice
The clipping records tide predictions for Portland with continued cold tonight and Friday. It lists high and low tides by date and time in January and December, noting amplitudes and periods.
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Portland
Births Recorded for Dubois Verrill and Ouellette Families
To Mr and Mrs Raymond Dubois of Biddeford a son Daniel Leo born December 18 at Notre Dame hospital weighing seven pounds. Maternal grandparents Leo Bourque and Mrs Bourque. paternal grandparents Roland and Mrs Dubois. To Airman 2 c and Mrs Dwicht Verrill Wichita Falls Texas a son Joseph Dwicht born December 29 weighing five pounds three ounces. Grandparents Robert Noyes and Lawrence Verrill. To Mr and Mrs William Ouellette Biddeford a daughter Barbara Ann born December 22 at Webber hospital. Mrs Ouellette formerly Hazel Grover.
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Raymond Dubois
George — Street
Biddeford
Daniel Leo
Notre Dame Hospital
Leo Bourque
Pool Road
Roland Dubois
May Street
Dwicht Verrill
Wichita Fox
Tex
Joseph Dwicht
Verrill
Madeline Peacock
Saco
Robert Noyes
Lawrence Verrill
South Carolina
William Ouellette
Dupont Avenue
Barbara Ann
Webber Hospital
Ouellette
Hazel Grover
Christmas Day Guests Visit Cape Porpoise Homes
Cape Porpoise residents hosted a spread of visitors and relatives over the holiday. Guests included the Campbells and Hutchins families, Winkie Perry, Grace Packard in Wakefield, the Ridlons and Maling, Melville Freeman’s daughter and granddaughters, the deWildts, Harriman guests, the McLarens, the Harveys and Mercier families, the Bilders, and the Perkins clan, with several travelers to Florida.
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Dana Campbell
Herman Campbell
Lester Hutchins
Arlettie Tibbetts
Winkie” Perry
Eaton Trailer
Grace Packard
Wakefield
Mass
Fremont Ridlon
Ardelle Maling
Robert Ridlon
Dry Mills
Melville Freeman
Eleanor Adams
Beverly
Cynthia Adams
Henry deWildt
Eliot
Henry Megert
George Harriman
William MacKenna
Lina Nunan
Florence Nunan
McLaren
Stoneham
Charles Adams
Corbells
Earl Harvey
Andrew Harvey
William Mercier
Florida
Edward Bilderback
Alberta Redmond
Arthur Redmond
Harry Etherington
David Perkins
Brunswick
Irving Perkins
Arnold Dart
Council Committee Plans For Lecture
The Brotherhood committee of the Biddeford Saco Council of Churches will meet Sunday evening at 7 15 in the Unitarian Parish house Saco to make plans for the lecture appearance of Andre Trocome January 13 at the Universalist church.
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Biddeford-Saco
Kennebunk Post Office Announces One Day Mail Break
Postmaster Lewis H Burr says there will be no town or rural mail deliveries on the scheduled day. Street collections will occur at the usual time and mail will be dispatched as normal. The lobby will stay open all day tomorrow.
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Lewis H. Burr
Kennebunk
Saco driver charged after Main Street crash
Saco police determined Louis Staples of Biddeford was not a car passenger in the vehicle driven by Freda P. Gagne of Saco that skidded into Kent's cleaners window. The car is registered to Staples. Gagne, 28, faces a driving without a license charge. her case was continued to January 4 in Saco Municipal Court.
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Saco
Main Street
Louis Staples
Guinea Road
Biddeford
Freda P. Gagne
Beach Street
Kent's Cleaners
Staples
Freda Gagne
Hilary Mahaney
Fatal basement accident claims former school superintendent
Alfred E. Wright, 6 percent, former superintendent of School Union 6, was killed when he fell into a buzzsaw in the basement of his home. Wright retired three years ago and led a special education resources project at Nasson College.
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Alfred
Maynard EE. Wright
School Union 6
Wright
Nasson College
Television Marks Year One To Forget Era of scandals and TV shifts in 1959
AP reports a year of quiz rigging payola and screen star cameos with many Westerns and mysteries drawing audiences. CBS and NBC pushed uplift programs while prime time favored old films and new series like The Untouchables. Jack Paar Mickey Rooney Zsa Zsa Gabor Ingrid Bergman and more appeared. 1960 looked brighter.
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New York
Ople
CBS
NBC
Jack Paar
Mickey Rooney
Tuesday Weld
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Bobby Darin
Ingrid Bergman
Sir Alec Guinness
Cyd Charisse
Maverick
Untouchables
Dragnet
Omnibus
Firestone Hour
Playhouse 9
Cliff Arquette
Perry Como
Steve Allen
Dinah Shore
Garry Moore
Red Skelton
Arthur Godfrey
Sam Levenson
Jackie Gleason
Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Ed Murrow
U.S
Bedrolls Suggested For New Year Partygoers
Boston report notes the Automobile Legal Assn safety director George Dunn urged party hosts to provide bed rolls or cots. He said guests who drink heavily can sleep on site and drive home safely the next day.
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Boston
Automobile Legal Assn
George Dunn
Association
Landlord Murdered Over TV Squabble in New Hampshire
In New Boston New Hampshire an elderly boarder killed 81 year old landlord Frank Chandler with a baseball bat after a month long dispute over television programs. The killer Alphonsus Bellefontaine 87 collapsed and died of a heart attack shortly after. Police and medical officials described Bellefontaine as eccentric and noted the fight began after he moved into Chandler's home last October. Chandler died instantly in a pool of blood and Bellfontaine died on the kitchen floor following the attack.
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New
Boston
N. H
Alphonsus Bellefontaine
Frank Chandler
Conrad Danais
Bellefontaine
Chandler
Oscar Burns
Milford
Hillsboro
Burns
Texas Wopper Tops All To Win Best Liar Prize
In Burlington Wisconsin the 1959 Liars Club named W. C. Cook of Wichita Falls as world champion liar for a tale claiming wind shortages necessitated removing windmills. Honorable mentions cited yarns about Manitoba sunflowers and a hollow tree home misstatement by Rev Ralph W Heller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Burlington
Wis
Wells
Pootner
W. C. Cook
Wichita Falls
Cook
Arctic Circle
Manitoba
R. T. McCullough
Winnipeg
Ralph W. Heller
Transfer
Ohio
Polio case in Brewer raises Maine tally to 90
The State Bureau of Health reported one polio case in Brewer last week, lifting the year's total to 90. Last year at this time there had been only three cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Brewer
State Bureau of Health
Lost 9 year old questioned after jail visit in Lockport
In Lockport New York deputies question a missing nine year old boy who would not disclose his name or address. The jail cook identified the boy as a friend’s son and arranged ham and eggs before guiding deputies to the boy’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lockport
N. Y
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York
Lowell Millard Barden
Ogunquit
Paul Hazlett
Ogunquit Baptist Church
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Allen G
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Barden
Ruth ‘Empey
Lillian Cowl
Bethlehem
Claire Barden
Baslton
Ethel Hanley
Maude H. Tennant
Jackson
Fla
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Miles
White House
Dulles International Airport
Chesley M. Martin
Elgin, Okla
The
American Medical Association
Chung Shu Kwei
Washington, D.C
David G. Woodgush
New York State Veterinary College
Cornell
Ithaca
N.Y
Kennebunk Mail
Journal
Leipzig
East Germany
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Switzerland
Dmitry V. Tiyin
Llyin
Zizi Jeanmaire
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