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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1960
Page
6
A five room ranch house on Herring Avenue features a bath, art finishes, an attached garage, plaster walls, oak floors, oil hot water baseboard heat, combination windows, and full landscaping with walks and a driveway.
Palm Beach Florida style lodging offers large bedrooms with twin beds private bath and a sitting room porch for 50 dollars weekly. Listings include 3 rooms and bath furnished heated apartments at Sam's Place and other furnished heated rooms. inquiries accepted at multiple Maine addresses. Probate notice from Alfred York County directs notices to interested parties for estate actions with a January 12 1960 probate hearing and name change petition for James Paraskevas.
The City of Biddeford will hold a January 18 1960 meeting at 7 00 PM in the Mayor s Office City Building to consider Malt Liquor license applications for Con s Tavern 302 Main St Attest City Clerk Raoul Binette The notice is issued by the Municipal Officers.
St. Francis College Red Knights fell 93 to 83 to Curry College in Milton. Rockwell led Curry with 23 points, Oliphant 22, Hawes 18, while St. Francis were paced by Ay er 14 and Ouellette 14 in a losing effort, after a strong early Curry burst and a late push that fell short.
Saturday results Montreal beat Chicago 2 to 1 Boston defeated Toronto 3 to 2 Detroit and New York tied 3 3 Sunday Chicago shutout Montreal 3 0 Boston beat Toronto 4 0 New York defeated Detroit 4 0 Monday schedule pending
Journal Bureau reports from Washington note Republicans favor gray suits and Democrats blue by wide margins. The piece jokes about the impossibility of distinguishing parties or congressmen by appearance and recaps the new session opening with Democratic Leader McCormack praising Speaker Rayburn on his birthday, while Minority Leader Halleck signs on with cautious optimism about Rayburn’s future tenure.
Ingemar Johansson arrives with his status as world heavyweight champion from Sweden, overshadowing a thin boxing news week marked by sporadic nationwide shootings and a blackout of Friday night TV fights due to a bowling program. The week’s top bout features Kenny Lane against Ralph Dupas in Mobile, with Lane seeking, and Dupas defending, welter rankings. telecast on ABC at 10 p.m. EST.
Buffalo prepares for a Tuesday night boxing clash between 17-0-1 Jackie Donnelly and 23-fight unbeaten Dickie Diveronica, protege of Carman Kasillio from Syracuse, pairing local zeal with rising talent.
The Associated Press reports Eastern and Western divisions with team records and results. Philadelphia defeated Syracuse and Boston beat Detroit. other results include Minneapolis over Cincinnati and St. Louis over Boston. Saturday schedule shows Boston vs Syracuse in Philadelphia, St. Louis at Philadelphia, New York at Cincinnati.
Norman Oklahoma Mrs Byron Amspacher stepped on a nail in her garage and again after tossing it into the yard. The incident spanned the same day indicating repeated injury from the same nail.
The listing from the American Mercantile League at Pastime Lanes records 13th week results with teams Saco Men's Shop Dodge's Texaco Champion Home Imp and others, showing wins and losses and individual scores for players including T. Single and R. Janelle.
The annual Mothers Tea at St. Joseph High School will be held Sunday from 2 to 4 p m in the Home Economics department. Student committees lead arrangements with Miss Michelle Baillargeon as general chairman and Rev Sister Mary Alphonse as special adviser for the social. Other chairs include Miss Ruth Poirier Miss Priscilla Legare Miss Claudette Fournier Miss Claire Rondeau Miss Priscille Rondeau and Miss Patricia Cote Miss Doris Lessard. Mothers of the students will be guests of honor greeted by faculty and student committees.
Boston's Don Simmons backed by the new goalie mask as he stopped 37 Toronto shots to blank the Maple Leafs 4-0 after enlarging eye nose and mouth slits. Boston also beat Toronto 3-2 on Saturday night marking their second straight win over the Leafs.
Arni Gross of Decatur Illinois continues to lead the Petersen Bowling Classic in Chicago after climbing to 1627 overall. The tournament offers a 25000 prize and runs through June 26 with four newcomers breaking into the top ten over the weekend.
Mr and Mrs Charles L Davis Sr of Wells hosted a holiday family reunion at Wells Grange hall with eight children and their families attending. Guests included Charles L Davis Jr Alexandria Virginia Donald E Davis Long Island New York Walter Sherwood Jr Marblehead Massachusetts Susan Elizabeth Pamela Walter Richard Davis Park Forest Illinois Marshall Boston Wells Thomas Michael St and Mrs Richard Hotte Arlington Virginia Mr and Mrs Robert Davis Alexandria Virginia and others.
Christ Episcopal church Biddeford outlines canvass program with a Loyalty Dinner attended by 68 members and friends at Wonderbar steak house. George Butler presided as general chairman. speakers included Horsfield Allen Carter Libby and Rev Mark M. McCullough.
Eugene R. Poston is named manager of employee relations for Diamond National's New England Lumber Division. The division runs 27 retail building supply stores, two wholesale warehouses, and one lumber plant across New England. Poston, a Holy Cross graduate, joined Diamond in 1950 and has held multiple personnel and employee relations roles, most recently in the corporate staff. Diamond National was formed this fall by the merger of Diamond Gardiner and United States Printing & Lithograph.
An early Sunday morning fire caused by an overheated coal burner destroyed twelve hundred peck bags of potatoes and badly damaged a truck owned by E. B. Canty Produce of Brewer. The Brewster driver slept in the cab after adding coal to the heater. remaining potatoes froze in sub zero temperatures. Firemen answered the 1 58 a m call on Elm Street after a motorist reported smoke from a parked truck. The floor walls and top were badly damaged and overall loss was not estimated.
Nan Claims argues that casual indifference blocks action in crises and questions what happened to women who would sacrifice. She urges educated women to use leisure for purposeful study and to hold definite views, knowing good and bad and explaining why.
Coroner Paul Kopseh said bodies were recovered from the wreck. Fireman Phil Lehman, 46, of Cleveland, and Kenneth Hale, 42, of Rosedale Indiana, along with George Rummel, 55, of North Butler Indiana, and an unidentified 55 year old woman died. Allen Memorial Hospital Oberlin treated 33 and admitted 19. Wreck site is ten miles from the hospital. Other injured were sent to Elyria Norwalk Medina and Lodi hospitals.
The official seal adopted by the Federal Aviation Agency features a light green globe with a gold four pointed compass rose and a stylized gold wing on the horizontal axis.
Mrs Richard Haggett of Wapping Connecticut and her children David Patricia and Nancy visited hosts Mr and Mrs Charles L Davis in a family gathering.
Teamsters President Hoffa, speaking to about 1,000 Buffalo Joint Council members, labelled Sen John F Kennedy a fraud on the American people and accused him of sacrificing labor to win Southern bloc support for the presidential nomination. He criticized Kennedy's positions on the Landrum Griffin bill and labor amendments.
A New York Central spokesman said investigators had not determined the call or cause of the wreck. He noted the Southwest Limited was moving at a pretty good clip through the area.
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