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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1964
Page
2
This afternoon in Portland a small craft warning is posted along the coast. The weather is cloudy with scattered snow flurries and high temperatures in the low to mid 30s. Winds are west to northwest at 15 to 25 mph with gusts higher at times. Tonight and Saturday remain mostly cloudy with additional snow flurries. Lows fall to the 20s as west and northwest winds continue 15 to 25 mph and stay gusty.
Edmond P Libby aged 43 of Green Street Saco is identified as a medical patient being treated at Saco Osteopathic Hospital.
Bradford Chapter Order of De Molay holds a semi public installation Sunday at 2 PM at Masonic Hall Main Street Biddeford. Saco Rebekah Lodge meets tomorrow at 7 30 PM in Odd Fellows Hall Saco to rehearse ritualistic work for the degree of the order. Refreshments will be served.
Confessions heard at St Martha's Kennebunkport Saturday 7 to 8 p m St Monica's Kennebunk Saturday 4 to 5 p m St Mary's Wells Beach Sunday morning before Mass Junior Band and songs of Saco Salvation Army meet Saturday at am E and L Club Saco School Street Methodist Church meet Monday 7 30 at Mrs Ethel Cobb Ferry Road Saco Members asked to bring bowls Mrs Elsie Lane in charge of entertainment
The Rochambeau Club accepted four new members Arthur Dube Albert Daigle Harry Mumbro and Gerard Letellier at a meeting at the club rooms on South Street Biddeford Leo Belanger announced Mardi Gras Night moved to March 14 after a bean supper by the Dames Rochambeau The club will hold a joint supper with the Auxiliary on Feb 20 Hotel reservations for the National Snowshoe Convention in Lewiston Feb 28 to March 1 were assigned to Raymond Belanger and Lucien Lachance A report on the Ottawa snowshoe convention was given by Herman Tremblay Raymond Belanger George Neault and Rene Huot The Saturday Night Parties drew 182 attendees and President Dennis Pelletier conducted the meeting with a Leo Belanger award presented.
New York stocks rose toward record highs on light trading. Du Pont led gains among blue chips with about ten points, while chemicals, mail order retailers, airlines, rails and office equipment also climbed. Cigarette stocks declined on weaker state tax receipts. AP average rose 1.1 to 293.0 at noon, Dow at 791.54 after a 5.13 advance. trading was moderate and breadth irregular.
Funeral services for Mrs Rose D Lamothe of 40 State St Biddeford were conducted at St Josephs Church Biddeford A solemn requiem high mass was celebrated with Rev Syl via Levesque as celebrant and Deacon Rev Marc Franck and Sub deacon Rev Norman Carrier Assistants Music by organist Mrs Dianna Rousselle choir under her direction Burial followed in St Josephs Cemetery graveside prayers by Father Levesque Bearers included Joseph Letellier Rene Roy Sr Roland Simard Ernest Valliere Antonio Daigneault and Leslie Duprey Delegations from St Anne Sodality Our Lady of Fatima Circle Daughters of Isabella Fremont Club and out of town attendees listed.
News At A Glance reports President Johnson meeting top aides over Castro’s water cutoff to Guantanamo and a Cuban incident. In Key West, 29 accused of illegal fishing await jail in a local case.
Michael Schoonjans for a WeUA Real 1.0 announced a letter notifying Pepperell Mig Co of contract termination. The current contract expires April 15 at midnight with negotiations to begin February 25 between the company and union. Textile workers inBoston areas have voted to seek a 10 percent wage hike plus fringe benefits starting in April.
The 57th annual farm and home week at the University of Maine will close with Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman delivering the keynote address on April 2. The conference opens March 30 at Orono with events and sessions emphasizing rural life and farming policy.
The article covers the 1964 civil rights act focusing on equal job opportunities for Black Americans and the plan to cut federal funds from programs practicing racial discrimination. It notes the Danish West Indies have been called the Virgin Islands since the U.S. purchase in 1917.
AP writer Bob Thomas reports Anne Bancroft, Oscar winner, in Hollywood briefly to film a comedy skit with Bob Hope where she plays a first woman president. She reflects on her B movie years, divorce, and study with Herbert Berghof before gaining fame in Two for the Seesaw and The Miracle Worker, which later won big prizes.
Tide schedule shows high and low times for February with amplitudes 76 20 and sessions at morning and evening hours. It lists eight listed readings with specific A M P M markers and corresponding times across the day.
Olympic team members Marolt and Hessel faced police at a railway station after a late night drive when a car with a French teammate was found with the key in the ignition. Marolt claimed he resisted arrest briefly and argued police methods, while Hessel described police beating him during questioning.
Last night's northeast storm blanketed the area with snow and rain, creating several slipping hazards. In Saco three-vehicle collision at Bradley and Tasker Streets involved Brian Callahan and Hector Bourgoin, with Reginald Lacroix skidding into a mail bar. damages estimated at 350, 150, and unspecified amount. Biddeford reported no local accidents despite the hazardous conditions.
Pauline Polly Ann Nadeau welcomes neighbors to the area as the one year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Leo Paul L Nadeau of 40 Cleveland St Saco. Her maternal grandparents are Conrad T Fortier of 365 Elm St Biddeford and paternal grandfather is State Rep Napoleon L Nadeau of 131 Hill St Biddeford.
Mrs. Vivian Rowe of Biddeford was rescued from a burning living room and taken to Weber Hospital with second degree burns on her legs and back. Fire started when a cigarette dropped on the couch, and crews battled heavy smoke to contain the seven room fire. Rowe was listed in fair condition after treatment.
Herbert Mayberry, 20, of Windham, jailed in $10,000 bail on arson charges for a Sunday nursing home grounds fire, awaits a mental examination ordered by Superior Court Justice Thomas E. Delahanty after he indicated an insanity plea if indicted. The article also notes conflicting witness characterizations of the incident.
Johnson outlined the State Department view that fishing boats were inside U S waters as Castro cut water to the Guantanamo base. He warned Castro of potential measures, while Goldwater urged a Marines response if water supplies were not restored. Castro accused U S aggression and said he may ask the U N to intervene.
Six members of the Maine Young Republican Club from Bangor and fewer, Maine, distributed thousands of leaflets promoting the proposed one million dollar Passamaquoddy tidal power project in Quebec. Charles Kendrick, a university student, said people rarely discarded the leaflets, often reading them or taking them along.
To Mr and Mrs John Paul Audie North Olmstead Ohio a daughter Kathleen Marie weighing eight pounds four ounces at Fairview Park Hospital Cleveland Ohio Jan 31 Paternal grandparents Oscar Audie Saco maternal grandparents Charles Leger Old Orchard Beach and Mrs Olivia Lever Boston Mass Miss Audie is the former Miss Lorraine Leger of Old Orchard Beach To Mr and Mrs Dexter P Smith Belmont Mass a daughter Kelley Ann weighing eight pounds 12 ounces Jan 26 at Malden Hospital Malden Mass Grandparents Carl Carlson Malden Mass and Ernest C Smith Kennebunk Quality Service in the Journals Classified
John Cleary was elected president of the Biddeford Saco Joint TWUA board. Other officers include Thomas Le Blanc vice president Adrien Petit secretary Israel Shevenell warden Francis LaMontagne Beatrice Provencher Robert Descoteaux auditors Lillian Tardif Albert Cantara Robert Labelle and Robert Beaulieu as executive board members. Adrian Petit named sports program director. The union plans two women bowling leagues one men league soft ball and basketball teams and to start a Little League team next summer.
Mayor Willie Pomerleau announced two committees with named appointees. The first, to work with Saco on the Saco River dredging, includes Marcel Beaudoin J Frederick Warner and Esdras Goulet, with preliminary meetings through May 14 ahead of a public hearing on dredging feasibility. The second panel on an industrial program lists Albert Deshaies Jr Richard Reay Henry Camire Rudolph Bergeron and Pomerleau, which has conferred with Municipal Association official Franklin Chapman and meets again Monday evening at the council for further plans.
The Biddeford Police Commission selected Rene George Lemelin and Joseph B Beale as new regular officers. Beale lives at 21 Gove Street and Lemelin at 21 St Mary’s Street in Biddeford. They will begin this week on the second and third shifts to reach full strength.
In Brunswick Harvard Nieman Foundation curator Louis M. Lyons told Bowdoin College students that American newspapers lag behind the education surge. He urged metropolitan papers to recruit more diplomatic correspondents from graduate schools and universities during the Pickard journalism lecture series named for Portland Transcript owner.
A quirky column muses on sleep, its vague definition, and how experts differ on its meaning. It then shifts to an advertisement for Felix T Sheltra & Son offering property sale services via Paul E Sheltra, plus a weekly household tip about cream style corn with crisp bacon.
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