New Mail Delivery Plan To Be Started Saturday
Kennebunk will serve as a key Maine city in the US Post Office Metro delivery system starting Saturday. Portland will also be a key post in the Biddeford-Saco-Old Orchard Beach area. The Metro plan speeds first class letters mailed before 5 p.m. to delivery across the state the next day using rail, highway, and operator links.
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Kennebunk
US Post Office Department
Metro
Maine
John B. DeMott
Boston
New England
Biddeford
Portland
Biddeford-Saco
Old Orchard Beach
Auburn
Augusta
Bancor
Bath
Dameriscotte
Dover- Foxcroft
Ellsworth
Farmington
Houston
Lincoln
Presque , Isle
Rockland
Waterville
Portsmouth
N. H
Lewis H. Burr
Biddeford Heart Fund names committee chairs
Mrs. Leo Joncas announced the Biddeford Heart Fund drive chairmen for the February campaign culminating on Heart Sunday February 28. Appointees include Mrs. Laurence Barnes residential drive, Mrs. Stephen White clubs and organizations, Miss Eleanor Mogan containers distribution, Archie Maxwell bank donations, Richard Moore treasurer, Mrs. Madeline Davenport publicity, Mrs. Frank Carey Valentine tag day, and Atty. Marcel Viger Kiwanis week chair with more to be announced.
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Biddeford
Heart
Laurence Barnes
Stephen White
Heart Containers
Eleanor Mogan
Archie Maxwell
First National Bank
Richard Moore
Madeline Davenport
Frank Carey
Kiwanis Club
Atty
Marcel Viger
Viger
Joncas
Wentworth Street
Chuckle on Procrastination From Gen. Fea. Corp
A brief humorous item notes advice to delay tasks that should be avoided entirely, attributed to Copt. Gen. Fea. Corp. The gag hinges on the irony of delaying a permanent or unsafe action, reflecting a quarry of wartime humor and caution in daily life.
Soviet ready to resume lend lease talks with US
The Soviet Union stated it is ready at any time to resume negotiations on settling World War II lend-lease debts with simultaneous normalization of economic relations with the United States. Moscow criticized U S offers to Britain and others and pressed for removal of trade restrictions on the USSR and unrestricted American trade.
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Washington
R RP
Soviet Union
United States
Nikita Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Cap David
Us.s.r
Britain
Russia
Pickpockets Roll Judge Talbott’s Court
Berkeley report says a thief entered Municipal Judge Floyd C. Talbott’s chambers and lifted his billfold from the coat. Stolen were his identification and $104, prompting a warning to pickpockets to stay away from the court.
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Berkeley
Calif
Floyd C. Talbott
Talbott
Taylor Warns Soviet Military Superiority Trend
Gen Maxwell D Taylor told a Senate defense panel that the Soviet Union could gain military superiority next year unless the United States takes heroic measures. He cited dwindling bomber forces, limited long range missiles, no anti missal defense and no civil defense. Gen Lemnitzer also testified as the hearings examined U.S. military readiness.
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Washington
Maxwell D. Taylor
Soviet Union
Taylor
Senate
Mexican Light & Power Co. Ltd
Mexico City
Senate Space Committee
Lyman L. Lemnitzer
Last hope dies for 435 miners trapped in South African mine
In Coalbrook South Africa a microphone lowered into a nine inch bore at the Clydesdale mine’s 515 foot level captured only water gurgle, ending hopes for any survivors among 435 trapped miners, six white and 429 African, marking the second worst mine disaster after Honekeiko colliery in Manchuria in 1942 which killed 1,549.
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Coalbrook
South Africa
Clydesdale
Honekeiko
Manchuria
Washing the generals dog and polishing shoes anger Air Force panel
The Air Force withdrew a illustrated manual telling enlisted aides how to wash generals dogs, set tea tables, make cocktails, and shine shoes after a House subcommittee read portions aloud to Stephen Jackson and Brig. Gen. Albert B. Clark. Rep. Becker ridiculed the morale risk while Jackson vowed withdrawal and a new directive banning duties for personal officer gain.
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Washington
Air Force
House
Stephen
Jackson
Albert B. Clark
Clark
Subcommittee
Frank J. Becker
Becker
Dr Finch Denies Murder Charge in Wife's Death Trial
In Los Angeles AP report Dr R Bernard Finch testifies he did not murder his wife, claiming the shot that killed her happened by mischance during a struggle over a gun. He rejects conspiracies with Carole Trekoff or others as false, as spectators fill the courtroom awaiting details.
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Los Angeles
Finch
R. Bernard Finch
Carole Tregoff
Finch An
Dr. Finch
Jack Cody
Carole Trekoff
Calm Finch
Private school pupil bus service ends in Maine town
In Richmond Maine the town discontinues bus rides for private pupils after the state Legislature refused to legalize such transport. Superintendent Russell W Perry said only about a dozen Seventh Day Adventist students stopped riding, while Auburn School Committee allowed private pupils to continue on public buses until questions are answered. Auburn buses serve 1,850 students with about 400 private Catholic students riding separately.
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Richmond
Maine
Russell W. Perry
Seventh Day Adventist
Auburn
Past Catches Up Life Crumbles in California
Irene Marie Robbins, 45, known as Ruth Crum, faced 18 years of secrets after an Illinois parole violation surfaced. She confessed to her husband and was arraigned on a fugitive charge as authorities pursue extradition. Her husband vows to support her, saying she has been a law abiding citizen for 18 years.
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Alfred
N. Y
Dorothy Lebohner
New York City
Dorothy
Warren Sutton
Chester
42nd_ street
New York
Edward K. Lebohner
New
Gardena
Calif
Irene Marie Robbins
Ruth Crum
Havana
Ill
Illinois
Frank
California
Edmund G. Brown
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Maine State Home Economics Association
Thornton Academy
Doris Bacheller
Shirley Hobbs
York and Cumberland Extension Service
Betty Wright
Lincoln Junior High
Esther Emmons
Burns School
Saco
Eleanor Watson
Thornton
Albert Oliver
University of Pennsylvania
Bacheller
Watson
Syria
Israel
Jerusalem
U.N
Damascus
Tawatik
Sea of Galilee
United Arab Republic
Heart Fund
Dolby
Indian Hill
Dyer Street
Fea. Corp
Swift
Roosters
Peck
Alfred Street
Pine Cone Temple
Pythian Sisters
Saco K. of P. Hall
Susan Blow
Nadine Smart
Colleen Berry
Elizabeth Halasz
Ruth Kelley
Sarah Metcalf
Mary G. Dawn
Mary Grace
June Ogden
Edith Halasz
Bertha Berry
Violet Gobeil
Malvina Miles
Norma Berry
Agnes King
Martha Souza
Maude Brown
Karlskrona
Sweden
Air Brass
Main St
Notre Dame
Sacred Heart
McKenney & Heard CO
Shuw
Potters
Jerry's Meat Mart
HAM
Porter House
Nepco Pastromi
Elmdale
Pascal Celery
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