New Year's TV Lineup Promises Parade and Football
Cynthia Lowry notes networks pack New Year's Day with parades and major football bowls. CBS and ABC host celebrity specials while NBC covers Pasadena Parade and weekend sports. Sunday features FYI crime focus and Meet the Press with Kennedy. Audie Murphy stars Tuesday Startime. Maureen O'Hara returns Thursday on CBS.
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Cynthia Lowry
New York
CBS
Dick Clark
ABC
Good
Gray Guy Lombaro
Arlene Francis
NBC
Jack Paar
Nellie Bly
Ben Alexander
Audie Murphy
the Man
Maureen O'Hara
Mrs. Miniver
Tragic year in Hollywood claims top stars and scandals
AP reports 1959 as deadly for cinema with deaths of Cecil B. De Mille Ethel Barrymore Errol Flynn and Mario Lanza. Other notable losses included Carl Switzer George Reeves and Preston Sturges while top stories covered Khrushchev in Hollywood Debby Reynolds and Eddie Fisher ties and rising censorship clashes.
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Hollywood
Ethel Barrymore
Cecil B. de Mille
Victor McLaglen
Edmond Gwenn
Errol Flynn
Lou Costello
Wayne Morris
Kay Kendall
Adrian
Charles Victor
William Bishop
Preston Sturges
Paul Douglas
Carl Switzer
George Reeves
Khrushchev
Debbie Reynolds
Eddie Fisher
Elizabeth Taylor
Bing
Kathryn
Bing Crosby
Anna Kashfi
Marlon Brando
Mario Lanza
Rome
Watch Night services at Washington Avenue Methodist Church
New Year Eve program at Washington Avenue Methodist Church begins 8 pm with an hour of music. Rev Herman Thurlow guest speaker 9 to 10 pm. Social hour 10 to 11 pm with refreshments. Candlelight communion led by Rev John T Stahl 11 pm to midnight. All parish members and friends invited.
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Washington Avenue Methodist Church
Herman Thurlow
Advent Christian Church
John T. Stahl
Thomas Cockerille
Donna Cockerille
Pine Avenue
Boston
Boston Celtics
Minneapolis
Globetrotters
Boston Garden
Gar den
Abbott- Verville Amvets
Post
Walnut Street
St. Margarets
Ladies Sodality
St. Margarets Parish Hall
Versatile wife joins bar after law degree in Toledo
Mrs. Bernadine Gilman of Bellevue Ohio has been admitted to the bar after earning a law degree from the University of Toledo College of Law. She is a concert violinist and serves as a mathematics and English teacher.
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Bellevue
Ohio
Paul Gilman
Bernadine
Social notes and upcoming district meetings in Kennebunk
Ivy Temple Pythian Sisters cancel New Year Eve party due to the holiday. Pamela Riley and other relatives visit Kennebunk Inn guests of the Curry and Bowdoin families. Water District rate hearing postponed to January 14 with a $117000 annual revenue increase sought. Teachers salary proposal meeting set for January 6 at 7 30 pm with the Kennebunk and Kennebunkport School committees.
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Ivy Temple
Pamela Riley
Jean Chabot
Boston
Miss Chabot
Leo Chabot
York Street
Ernest Cartwright
Summer Street
Lenox
Mass
Robert L. Curry
Lenox School
Curry
Richard Cartwright
Kent's
Kent, Conn
Fernald White
James H. Riley
San Antonio
Texas
Hickok Secretarial School
Kennebunk Inn
Charles Bowdoin
Wayland
John B. Bowdoin
Lynnfield Center
E. Seavey Bowdoin
Albert Cowgill
Joan Bouchard
Fletcher Street
Joan Sheldon
Jean Weeman
Martha Boothby
Ann Cowgill
Faye Wentworth
Cynthia Berdeen
Joan Bergeron
Kathleen Bonney
Marion Emmons
Diane Hutchins
Jackie Lembree
Janet Howe
Joan Sullivan
Betty Cheney
Betty Goulden
Kennebunk
Kennebunkport and
Wells Water District
Public Utilities Commission
Kennebunk Town Hall
Kennebunkport
Wells Beach 1960 Jewelry Show Fashion Event
A 1960 jewelry fashion show is set for Saturday at 8 p m in the Wells Beach fire station recreation hall. Models from Dover Durham Portsmouth North Berwick York Sanford and Wells will present designs with Mrs Maurice Q Spencer of Wells as narrator. No admission charge and public event. Prizes gifts and refreshments will be offered.
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Wells Beach Fire Station
Dover
Durham
Portsmouth
N. H
North Berwick
York
Sanford and Wells
Maurice Q. Spencer
Wells
Curtis Dargis Engagement Announced In Kennebunk
Mr and Mrs Ralph D Curtis of West Kennebunk announce the engagement of their daughter Karen Jean Curtis to Paul R Dargis son of Mr and Mrs Edward Dargis of Kennebunk The bride to be is a Kennebunk High junior The groom to be is a 1957 Kennebunk High graduate and a US Navy Yeoman Third Class stationed in Boston aboard the USS Colleton No wedding date set
Wells Star Club Plans Supper For Past Heads
The December meeting of the Star club of Priscilla chapter Order of the Eastern Star Wells met at Mrs. Marjory Fernald’s Ogunquit home. Plans were made for a 6 30 p m Friday Jan 8 covered dish supper before a chapter meeting at Highpine Masonic hall to honor past matrons and patrons. Ham salads and dessert to be provided by officers. A Christmas party followed with gifts exchanged. Attendees included Priscilla Galencia Brewster Kimball Paine Keene Goodale Rand and the hostess.
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Star Club of Priscilla
Order of the Eastern Star
Wells
Marjory Fernald
Ogunquit
Highpine Masonic Hall
Star Club
Violet Rand
Priscilla Galencia
Margaret Brewster
Mildreth Kimball
Doris Paine
Mabel Keene
Jeannine Goodale
Dorothy Fitch
Engagement of Miss Catherine Guiney to Alden Warner
Announcement from Biddeford Maine notes the engagement of Miss Catherine Helena Guiney daughter of Mr and Mrs Jeremiah R Guiney of 40 Highland Street Biddeford to Alden Howard Warner son of William D Warner of Stamford Connecticut Warner a former Saco resident and a graduate of Thornton Academy the 1959 University of Maine class now pursuing graduate biological research at Southern Illinois University The wedding is planned for June 18.
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Catherine Helena Guiney
Jeremiah R. Guiney
Highland Street
Biddeford
Alden Howard Warner
William D. Warner
Stamford
Southern Illinois University
Economists square off on growth and inflation battle
A Senate House Economic Committee staff report argues growth can rise without boosting inflation, challenging administration policies and favored aims of both parties. It calls for tax policy shifts during recessions and hints at halting debt and bond interest growth, stirring GOP and admin debates. A separate robbery tale from St Louis recounts two suspects and a boy guiding police to the scene.
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AP Business News
New York
Congressional
Senate House Economic Committee
Congress
Treasury
U.S
ST. Louis
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