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Biddeford Saco Journal

Location

Biddeford, Maine, United States of America

Date

Feb 29, 1968

Page

8

Local Couple Honored On 25th Anniversary

Portland celebration marks the 25th wedding anniversary of Albert Maurice and his wife of 2 Bond Street Biddeford. A supper at Valle's Charterhouse followed by a party at 2 Breton Street hosted by the Maurice couple with many relatives and friends in attendance.

Portland Valle’s Charterhouse Albert Maurice Bond St Biddeford Robert Maurice Breton St Henri Labonte Robert A. Maurice Richard Babineau Dennis Babb Louis Maurice Norman Sylvestre Shirley Maurice Arthur Blais

New Book List Announced In Biddeford

McArthur Public Library in Biddeford lists March new titles including Kennebunk History by Bradbury and other works such as How To Buy a Used Car, The Economics of Crisis, Swan ders Belles Images, Moravia The Nice and the Good, The Action of the Tiger and A Trace of Footprints. The March McArthur Preview reviews The Readers Guide to Periodical Literature and The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell in its monthly issue.

McArthur Public Library Kennebunk Bradbury Jackson Janeway Podkovitz Romney Dreiser Swanders Les Belles Images Simone de Beauvoir Steppenwolfe Hesse Moravia Murdoch Sjogren Welch Wolfe McArthur Bertrand Russell

Today In History February 29 1968 highlights Eisenhower bid for second term

On this date 1956 President Eisenhower announced he would seek a second term after a heart attack. Other notes include a failed assassination attempt on Queen Victoria in 1872 and Czechoslovakia adopting its first constitution in 1920.

Associated Press Dwight D. Eisenhower Britain Czechoslovakia Admiralty Islands United States

Prizes Awarded by Fatima Circle at St Johns Hall

Last night Our Lady of Fatima Circle Daughters of Isabella held a social at St John s Hall Adams Street Biddeford awarding prizes to numerous members. Recipients included Laura Richard Belangere Millette Jean Mette Brochu Pau line Pinard Clara Gauthier Josephine Benoit Diana Moulin Rosa Bothillette Therese Lami rand e Therese Dutremble Delia Saucier Angelina Marcotte Jeannette Morin Lorette Boutet and two others with additional prizes to Flora Lambert Norman Bouthillette Josephine Benoit Cora Le Prohon Regina Gaulin Simone Lapierre Aline Metayer Yvette Ledoux Lorraine Cote Violette Bellefeuille Eva Moreau Jeanne Provencher and Laurette Beaudoin.

Our Lady of Fatima Circle Daughters of Isabella St. John’s Hall Adams Street Biddeford Laura Richard Belangere Millette Jean- Mette Brochu Pauline Pinard Clara Gauthier Josephine Benoit Diana Moulin Rosa Bouthillette Therese Lamirande Therese Dutremble Delia Saucier Angelina Marcotte Jeannette Morin Lorette Boutet Flora Lambert Norman __— Bouthillette Cora le Prohon Regina Gaulin Simone LaPierre Aline Metayer Yvette Ledoux Lorraine

DeWitt Completes Nine Weeks of Army Training at Ft Polk

Army Pvt. Merle R. DeWitt 23 son of Mrs. Marion C. DeWitt Kennebunk Maine completed nine weeks of advanced infantry training at Ft Polk Louisiana His last week covered guerrilla warfare under simulated Viet Nam conditions for five days including night attacks raids and countering enemy actions He learned to remove booby traps set ambushes read maps conduct land mine warfare and fire the M 14 rifle M 60 machinegun and 3 5 inch rocket launcher.

FT. Polk Merle R. DeWitt Marion C. DeWitt Storer St Kennebunk Maine Vietnam

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