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Biddeford Saco Journal

Location

Biddeford, Maine, United States of America

Date

Jan 04, 1962

Page

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Combined election and installation at Saco lodge meeting

At the Saco lodge F and AM annual meeting in Saco Masonic hall new officers were installed. Richard Braley was named worshipful master with Carleton Pendleton senior warden and Millard Tripp Jr. junior warden. visitors from Augusta Limington Cornish Parsonsfield and Biddeford attended. A lobster stew supper followed the ceremonies.

Saco Lodge Saco Masonic Hall Carleton Pendleton Richard Braley Millard Tripp, Jr Robert W. Moody Howard L. Cushman Harry Nielson Edgar H. Pellerin Robert Hooper Robert A. Petterson Ryler Urbain Roberge, Jr Richard FE. Clark Charles West Parsonfield Donald R. Fogg Archie Evans 18Th Masonic District Howard Cushman Robert Moody Augusta Limington Cornish Parsonsfield Biddeford

Medical Aid For Aged Tops Kennedy Agenda

Senator Humphrey predicts President Kennedy will push hard for a medical aid program for the elderly financed through Social Security and pilot it through Congress. He cautions Congress may resist broader civil rights and education proposals while noting executive actions can strengthen voting rights and civil rights laws.

Washington Robert H. Humphrey D-Minn Kennedy Congress Humphrey Senate John M. Bailey Minnesota Robert F. Kennedy

Government Big Enough to Give All and Take All

A satirical quip criticizes a large government by noting it can provide everything yet take everything you have. It attributes the line to Copr. Gen. Fea. Corp. and frames it as a caution about expansive state power.

Gen Fea. Corp

Wells High Well Wells Evacuated After Morning Bomb Hoax

Nearly 900 students at Wells High, Junior High, and Wells Elementary were evacuated after anonymous calls threatened a bomb at Wells High. Principal Wells received two calls. State Police aided by Wells police and local officers searched the campuses. No bomb was found and investigators pursue the caller.

Wells Wells High School Wells Elementary Russell K. Noyes Robert W. Johnson Elmer C. Hutchins Hutchins Harold Scribner Sherwood Baston Robert Nichols Noyes

Tshombe Blames UN Intervention for Katanga Strife

Elisabethville Katanga President Moise Tshombe accused the United Nations of odious aggression during a provincial assembly speech on ending Katanga's secession. He argued UN intervention worsened relations with Kinshasa and called for a cease fire to halt killings.

Elisabethville Katanga Congo Moise Tshombe United Nations Assembly Tshombe U.S New York Balubakat Party Joseph Kasavubu Kamina U.N Balubakat Cyrille Adoula

Last-Ditch Fight Called as Algeria Turmoil Widens

Tension escalates in Algiers as Secret Army Organization urges general mobilization of European settlers in a bid to resist decolonization. Attacks kill 37 in three days, raising total deaths to at least 60 and fueling widespread terror across major Algerian cities.

Algiers Algeria de Gaulle France

Crippled Plane Lands Safely at Otis Air Force Base

A Super constellation with 19 crew and six tons of radar gear returned safely to Otis AFB after two engines failed at 11,000 feet during a night Atlantic flight. Capt. Lloyd G. Grandy and Capt. Robert E. Simon steered the transport home with escort from two RAF aircraft, guided by Radar towers off Chatham and Nantucket.

Atr Force Base Mass Otis Air Force Base Lloyd G. Grandy Hermon N.Y Robert E. Simon Hamburg Military Air Transport Service Air Force Otis Texas Chatham Nantucket

Vatican Accepts Cuban Ambassador Amid Excommunications

Vatican sources say Fidel Castro’s regime will appoint Luis Amado Blanco y Fernandez, a Spanish-born dentist and journalist, as Cuban ambassador to the Holy See. The Cuban Foreign Ministry announced Blanco y Fernandez would depart Havana for Rome on January 9, despite excommunications tied to the regime.

Dor Vatican Luis Amado Blanco Y Fernandez Castro Havana Blanco Y Fernandez Ist Holy See Vatican Secretariat of State Cuba Eduardo Boaz ‘Masvidal Dino Staffa

Hungary Puts On/ A TV Satire Gently Mocking Regime

In Budapest a 42 hour televised revue lampoons government failings to about two million viewers. Cameras highlight leaders in the front row as a soft breeze of reform appears post Moscow party congress. A plumber jokes about new apartments and workers mock the idea of work amid machinery and collective farming.

Budapest Hungary Moscow

Cold Wave Warning Extends Across States From Rockies To Plains

The Associated Press reports snow and rain dampening northern regions from Idaho to the northern Appalachians as cold air moves in from the Rockies to the Midwest and New England. Low readings include 4 below in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, with 50s in parts of the West and Gulf Coast. The Weather Bureau issued cold wave warnings for the Dakotas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, and parts of Maine New Hampshire and Vermont, while daytime temperatures are forecast to reach 60s in northern sections and 70s in southern areas.

Associated Press Idaho Appalachians Rockies Midwest New England Florida Minnesota Lake Superior Montana Texas Great Lakes Region Sault Ste. Marie Mich Maine Gulf Coast California Miami Key West Weather Bureau Dakotas Nebraska Iowa Plains Mississippi Valley Vermont New Hampshire Atlantic Coast States

Warren's Furniture Plans Major Expansion in Biddeford

Warren's Furniture in Biddeford announces expansion after purchasing adjacent Central Maine Power space on Route 1. The remodel will merge sites, double the area by adding the former Polackwich Dress shop, extend into year end or early 1963, and likely double the sales staff with a broader furniture line.

Warren's Furniture Company Biddeford Richard Levy Levy Main Street Company Central Maine Power Company Route 1 Warren's Central Maine Polackwich Dress

U2 Pilot Survives 40,000-Foot Plunge Into Swamp

Air Force Captain Charles Stratton ejected from a U2 during a training flight from Laughlin AFB to Birmingham. He woke after a six hour tree rescue and nine hours in a cypress, reporting an electrical malfunction and an explosion as the plane fell. wreckage lay submerged in Pearl River swamplands near the Louisiana Mississippi border.

Biloxi Miss Charles Stratton Air Force Pearl River Louisiana Mississippi Stratton Keesler Air Force Base Ment Laughlin Air Force Base del Rio Tex Birmingham Ala

Relief Operations Start As Congo Flood Recedes

The Congo River flood waters recede and large relief efforts begin to repair damage from the worst flood on record. Matadi port remains cut off by the rampant river, halting all shipping as the U.N. flood relief director expects easing by the weekend and river traffic to resume.

Congo Leopoldville the Congo Congo River U.N. Command Matadi Atlantic Alessandro Corradini U.N

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