Roux Elected Director of Local Chamber of Commerce
Maurice C. E. Roux personnel manager at Pepperell Manufacturing was elected a director of the Biddeford Saco Chamber of Commerce industrial division to fill the unexpired term of J. Arnold Kely. A new city directory project was announced with work starting next summer and delivery planned for late summer or early fall. Horace S. Nichols reported on hiring Hugh McC. Marshall as industrial agent effective January 18. Directors and attendees included Joseph Audie Paul Casavant Albert Deshaies and others.
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Maurice C. E. Roux
Pepperell Manufacturing Company
Biddeford-Saco
Horace S. Nichols
Hugh McC. Marshall
Kennebunkport
Nichols
Marshall
Charles J. Zetkus
United States Chamber of Commerce
Joseph S. Audie
Paul Casavant
Albert F. Deshaies
Stuart V. Flavin
Archie B. Maxwell
Horace C. Nichols
William A. Soule
Harry M. Wooster
Roger Sherman
Clayton W. Cartmill
Chuckle on Youth and Driving Excuses
A lighthearted quip notes you are only young once and suggests the best way to quiet chatter is to let her drive. Copr. Gen. Fea. Corp.
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Gen
Fea. Corp
Biddeford Man Files Bid For County Commissioner
Richard Laverriere of Biddeford a loomfixer and TWUA executive board member announced his candidacy for county commissioner. He has served as Ward 5 warden, leads local Democratic clubs, and is married with three children. Reginald R. Frechette of Sanford, a six year county commissioner and board chairman, also seeks re nomination after a career in state legislature and local labor leadership.
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Richard Laverriere
Pear Street
Biddeford
Peppere! Manufacturing Company
Verriere
TWUA
Afl-Cio
Laverriere
St. Louis
Lincoln
Cleveland
Ohio
Democratic Social Club
Green Lantern Democratic Club
St. Jean Baptiste d’'Ameri
Fernande Gregoire
Reginald R. Frechette
Sanford
Frechette
United Shoeworkers of America
Maine State Council
CIO
Universal Shoe Cod
Marie Brochu
Bed-Ridden Pioneer Kenned Byllesby Ends Striving Life
Downey California AP Kenny Byllesby a Coast Guard veteran and chemist at Douglas Aircraft endured polio and 22 years in hospitals. Paralyzed from the neck down he gave speeches taped to groups and founded a firm selling invalid lifts and beds. He supported his family and inspired others until his death as his wife Connie prepared to graduate from Compton Junior College.
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Downey
Calif
Kenny
Kenneth Byllesby
Connie
Coast Guard
Bylesby
Douglas Aircraft Co
Kenneth
Tulsa police officer foils hidden rat trap attack
Tulsa Police Commissioner Robert Mawhinney says an unidentified officer nearly grabbed a traffic ticket when a camouflaged rat trap lurked beneath it. The trap was set to snap on the officer’s hand as he reached for the ticket.
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Tulsa
Okla
Robert Mawhinney
Tearful Daughter Describes Finch Murder Night
Patti Daugherty testified in the Finch murder trial about her mother Barbara Jean Finch being beaten and shot July 18 near their West Covina home. She recounted screams and the stepfather Dr R Bernard Finch and his mistress Carole Tregoff facing charges while Marie Anne Lidholm, the housemaid, also witnessed events.
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Los Angeles
Patti Daugherty
Finch
Barbara Jean Finch
West Covina
Patti
R. Bernard Finch
Carole Tregoff
Mother
Marie Anne
Marie Anne Lidholm
Finchs
Dr. Finch
Grand Jury Returns 20 Indictments in York County Case
The York County Superior Court grand jury, Alfred, returned 20 indictments with two secret. Foreman Alfred S. Bradford of Biddeford led the panel. Indictments include thefts of money and copper wire from the York Corporation in Sanford and other larceny charges. Several defendants from Sanford and Saco face multiple counts, with details listing dates and alleged values of stolen property.
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York County Superior Court
Alfred
Alfred S. Bradford
Biddeford
Richard A. Spaulding
Saco
James Nadeau
Paul E. Moreau
Augusta
Frank E. White
Kittery
Vernon A. Williams
Hollis Seavey
Harrington
Old Orchard Beach
Motor Vehicle Division
Freeman B. Penney
Victor McFarland, Jr
Joseph N. Smith
Sanford
York Corporation
Vernon E. Gavel
Bernard Woodward
Donald Oscar Martin
Old
York
Richard McGarey
Berwick
Roland Charles Edward Amnette
Armand Trottier
Democrats Challenge Ike Budget Surplus
In Washington AP reporting, Democrats and some Republicans challenge President Eisenhower’s forecast of a 4.2 billion dollar budget surplus while urging continued defense spending amid rising Soviet threat. Senate figures including John F. Kennedy question if the nation can cut deficits without weakening security.
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Ashington
Democratic Congress
Eisenhower
America
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Electronics Plant Opening At North Windham Site
CBS Electronics plans a new one story plant at North Windham to assemble miniature receiving tubes for radio and television sets. The firm currently employs over 4,000 workers in Danvers Newburyport and Lowell Massachusetts and expects to hire about 30 women initially with gradual expansion to 200 to 250 workers as production starts.
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North Windham
CBS Electronics
Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc
Greater Portland Area
New Hampshire Primary Becomes Battleground for Three Men
In Concord New Hampshire Kennedy Nixon and Rockefeller enter the first in the nation presidential primary fray with campaigns shaping the Democratic and Republican delegate contests. Kennedy supporters file nominating petitions and Nixon backers seek favorable to Nixon delegates while Rockefeller supporters join the GOP battle.
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Concord
N.H
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Richard M. Nixon
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Nixon
GOP
Rockefeller
Democratic National
Bernard L. Boutin
Laconia
Kennedy
Secretary of State
Jack Kennedy
United States
Boutin
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Map shows sweep of potential from central US
An AP Wirephoto map illustrates a wide sweep projecting a potential influence or reach stretching thousands of miles from a point near the center of the United States, conveying geographic implications in a concise visual caption.
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United States
Refueling In Mid Air Saves Plane
PORTSMOUTH N H A B47 bomber en route to Pease Air Force Base suffered a locked landing gear. A dramatic mid air refueling from a KC97 tanker prevented a ditching at sea. Maj Douglas H Frost of Vernon Texas piloted the bomber and Capt Richard L Nelson of Cap Rock New Mexico piloted the tanker. The Stratojet landed safely after an hour using a manual gear extension system.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Pease Air Force Base
Douglas H. Frost
Vernon
Texas
Richard L. Nelson
Cap Rock
N. M
Regina In Hospital For Gun Wound
Portand Maine Trooper Detective Stephen J Regina, 42, of Saco, is back at Maine Medical Center for surgery on a hernia or rupture from one of his two bullet wounds received in a five hour gun battle in Limerick last May. He was hospitalized nearly five months after Gordon Hamlin killed his wife, then Westbrook Police Chief Pierre Harnois and then died by suicide.
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Portland
Stephen J. Regina
Saco
Limerick
Maine Medical Center
Claude A. Burnett
Regina
Gordon
Hamlin
Pierre A. Harnois
Westbrook
Sloganeer Without Peer is World's Top Buttoneer
New York AP notes Emanuel Ross sells campaign buttons since 1947 and boasts famous lines like I Like Ike. He unveils Nixon Man of Steel for Vice President Nixon and offers slogans for Stevenson Symington Humphrey Kennedy Johnson, while declaring he does not care who wins as his business is buttons.
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U.S
Emanuel Ross
Eisenhower
Ross
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon Man of Steel
Nixon
Adlai
Adlai” Stevenson
Stu
Stuart Symington
Hubert
Sen
Humphrey
Jack
Joan F. Kennedy
LBJ
Lyndon B. Johnson
Ike
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