Deaths in Old Orchard Beach William Blanchard 86
William Blanchard 86 of Ocean Park Road Old Orchard Beach died Saturday in an Augusta hospital after an illness. Born in Saco March 11 1882 he was a machinist at Saco Lowell Shops Biddeford for over 30 years. Surviving are daughter Georgia M Blanchard Boston sister Alma Day Lyman and several nieces and nephews. Funeral 1 30 p m tomorrow Shumway Funeral Home Saco burial Laurel Hill Cemetery Saco.
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Old Orchard Beach
William Blanchard
Ocean Park Road
Augusta
Saco
David and
Georgianna Thompson Blanchard
Blanchard
Saco-Lowell
Biddeford
Georgia M. Blanchard
Boston
Almeda Day
Lyman
Shumway Funeral Home
Spring St
Laurel Hill Cemetery
St John s by the Sea Parish Meeting Held Old Orchard Beach
The annual parish meeting of St John s by the Sea Church was held Sunday evening. Reports from officers and committees were presented and Rev Harold McElwain gave his report. Officers elected include Warden Albert Collishaw Treasurer Andrew King Clerk Katherine Whitman.
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Old Orchard Beach
St. John’s - By - the - Sea
Harold McElwain
Albert Collishaw
Andrew King
Katherine Whitman
Bishop's Committee
Howard —Slaney
May Slanery
Marie Court
Francesca
Alice Morin
Gordon Morin
Sarah Smith
Thomas Smith
Lillian Gross
Evelyn Pearson
John Price
Memrs
Harold Clarke
Digby Clarke
Irving E. Racey
Montreal
Ann Pennell
Auxiliary Guild
McElwain
Altar Guild
Melissa Siviscolchi
Bridge Players Attend Tournament at Speak Easy Payhouse
Bridge players met at the Speak Easy Payhouse on Lawn Avenue for a tournament. Winners were Mrs. Marshall and Mrs. Ross first, Mrs. Wilbur and Brackett second, and Bean and Mrs. Main third. Members listed include Mrs. Zaitlin W eld Mullen Flannery Snow and others. A Boston trip for the Individual Tournament followed with strong showings from Mrs. Briggs and Mrs. Flannery and multiple sections across the event. A lesson is set for tomorrow at 7 p.m. and another game Thursday at 7 30 p.m.
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Speak Easy Payhouse
Lawn Avenue
Eleanor Marshall
Rosalie Ross
Mary Wilbur
Lorimer Brackett
Herbert Bean
Ruth Main
Ida Rosen
Esther Green
James Moutsatsos
Margaret Field
Alice Fecteaurs
Joan Mullen
Edrice Bates
Ruth Zaitlin
Claire Weld
James Mullen
Gwen Flannery
Supreme Court upholds Patriarca conspiracy conviction
The U S Supreme Court refused to review the conspiracy to murder conviction of Raymond L S Patriarca aged 60 leader of the Patriarca crime family from Providence. The ruling follows a Boston trial and first circuit affirmation.
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Washington
Cosa Nostra
Raymond L.S. Patriarca
Providence
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. District Court
Boston
T ‘O'S Suupreme
1St Circuit Court of Appeals
Jack
Patriarca
Henry Sankeo
Cassesso
Somerville
Mass
William
Willie
Marfeo
Rhode Island
Tameleo
Suffolk Superior Court
Edward
Teddy” Deegan
Pregnant teacher challenges school policy on teaching after maternity
Barbara Finlayson 25, a blonde pregnant teacher in Alachua County sues to overturn a board ruling that forbids teaching in the second semester after pregnancy. Her husband Gordon is a University of Florida professor and Law Prof Robert Furlong plans a formal protest deeming the policy legally and socially invalid.
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Associated Press
Gainesville
Fla
Barbara_ Finlayson
Alachua County
Finlayson
Gordon
University of Florida
Robert Furlong
Sayin
Boston Sees Quake Risk Amid Past Shocks And Roads Threats
Leet recalls Boston earthquakes from 1925 1937 1940 and 1947 noting historic quakes. He warns many foes threaten more than temblors, citing Northeasters and traffic on the Southeast Expressway as greater dangers. London censorship cuts a Rosemary's Baby scene showing Mia Farrow nude and Satan.
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Leet
Boston
London
Mia Farrow
Satan
Roman Polanski
Britain
Funeral Directors and Homes in Saco Maine Listing
Funeral service providers in Saco Maine are listed with addresses at 55 Spring Street and 365 Main Street. Contact numbers include 284 5611 and 284 5511. Names mentioned are Philip H. Gross Sr. and Frank X. Emond with J P Conroy associated.
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Spring Street
Saco
Philip H. Gross Sr
Dennety & Craig
Saco, Maine
Emond
Frank X. Emond
J. P Conroy
Why Good Friday Got Its Name And Masters Four-Time Winner
The piece explains Good Friday’s name reflecting the faithful call to sinless living in remembrance of Christ’s crucifixion. It notes Arnold Palmer as the first winner to capture the Masters four times in 1958 1960 1962 and 1964. It also mentions the tongue as the most developed sense of pressure.
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Arnold Palmer
Biddeford and St Paul Residents Return from Hospital Visits
Personal notices list Loraine Page at Webber Hospital as a medical patient and Adele Demers at Notre Dame Hospital as a medical patient. Joseph Beaulieu, recently released from Webber Hospital after a week, returns home. Karl Sebesta and family return to St Paul after visiting Mrs Sebesta’s parents in Old Orchard Beach.
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Loraine Page
Main St
Biddeford
Webber Hospital
Adele Demers
Marial Ave
Notre Dame Hospital
Joseph Beaulieu
Elm St
Karl Sebesta
Shelley
Keith
Kurt Sebesta
St. Paul
Minn
Annette Chapter Pace Eastern Star Meets in Saco
Annette Chapter Order of Eastern Star in Saco will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Saco Masonic Hall. Refreshments will be provided by elected officers. The Biddeford Cursillistas will attend the 7:30 p.m. mass at St Francis College tomorrow followed by an Altreya.
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Annette
Order of Eastern Star
Saco
Saco Masonic Hall
St. Francis College
Local club meetings listed for Biddeford and surrounding areas
York County Sal on 257 Eight and Forty meets Thursday at 8 p m at Mrs Germaine Grant home Garfield St Saco Ang ie Cote to assist. St Andre's Home and Hospital Auxiliary meets tomorrow at 7 30 p m at Pool Rd Biddeford. South Biddeford United Methodist Church Guild meets at 8 p m tomorrow at Mrs Paul Peck Pool Rd Biddeford. Daughters of Isabella meet Greenville 7 30 tonight at St Johns Old Town Hall Adams St Biddeford. Portland attendees urged to report Rumford attendance Mystery Sisters to be chosen at the meeting. Montreal to Maine notes include cities and regions.
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York County
Germaine Grant
Garfield Street
Saco
Angie Cote
St. Andre's
Pool Road
Biddeford
South Biddeford
Bedford
Boston
Nantucket
Rhode Island
Providence
Connecticut
Hartford
New Hampshire
Concord
Lebanon
Portsmouth
Mt. Weshinges
AMONT
Burlington
Montpelier
Newport
Caribou
Our Lady of Fatima
C ‘Ele
Eastport
Daughters of Isabella
Greenville
St . John’s Old Town Hall
Adams Street
Portland
Rumford
Mystery Sisters
Montreal
Quebec
Maine
Weather Outlook for Portland Tonight and Wednesday
Partly cloudy conditions in Portland tonight with south areas becoming cloudy and a chance of snow flurries to the north and east, with lows in the 20s. Wednesday remains partly cloudy with a continued chance of snow flurries and little temperature change expected.
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Portland
Church Prayer and Choir Schedules Across Coastal Maine
Youth Choir of Goodwins Mills, Mills United Methodist Church, will rehearse Thursday at 6 30 p m at the church. Junior Choir from Biddeford United Church of Christ meets at 7 p m. Prayer meetings every Wednesday at 7 p m at Advent Christian Church Biddeford Hill and Gp Streets. Faith Pentecostal Tabernacle Old Orchard Beach hosts Wednesday 7 30 p m prayer service and Bible study. Lyman Baptist Goodwins Mills holds Wednesday service 7 p m with Adult Choir at 8 p m. Biddeford Baptist church mid week service 6 45 p m. Kennebunk Dane Street Christological-Methodist service, Wednesday 7 p m. Advent Christian Kennebunk Lower Village hosts prayer at 7 p m. Ogunquit Shore Road hosts Community Bible Study Wednesday. Village Baptist Kennebunkport 7 p m service. Full Gospel Wells Route A mid week service 7 30 p m. Village Baptist Kennebunkport vestry Bible study 7 30 p m. }
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Goodwins Mills United Methodist Church
Lyman
The
United Church of Christ (Congregational
Biddeford
Pat
Advent Christian Church
Hill and
Gp Streets
Faith Pentecostal Tabernacle
Assembly of God
Atlantic Avenue
Third Street
Old Orchard Beach
Lyman Baptist Church
Goodwins Mills
Cao m
Biddeford Ited Baptist Church
Kewel
Kennebunk Lower Village
Village Baptist Church
Kennebunkport
Full Gospel
Route +A
Wells
Allied sweeps ease Vietnam ground fighting lull
Uprooted by Saigon and Da Nang operations, allied forces report a lull in major ground fighting. South Vietnamese troops near Pleiku kill 29 enemy soldiers guarding a munitions store, taking four mortar tubes 36 machine guns and 17 rifles with no South Vietnamese casualties. In Paris, Harriman bids farewell as US spokesman at the peace talks, stressing a limited war aims approach.
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Saigon
da Nang
City of
Pleiku
Paris
W. Averell Harriman
Anglo-American Press Club
U.S
Vietnam
Henry Cabote
Harriman
United States
New England Suffered From Bureaucratic Delays Over Machiasport Refinery
Sen. Muskie and Sen. Kennedy joined criticism of the Commerce Department for delaying Occidental Petroleum's bid to build a 145 million dollar refinery in Machiasport Maine. Officials said a final decision was due by January 1 and warned delays could raise fuel prices in the six percent of the U.S. population and 20 percent of national consumption in New England.
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New England
Hus
Commerce Department
Machiasport
Maine
Kennedy
Sen
Edmund 5
Muskie
D-Maine
Department
Senate
Occidental Petroleum
Occidental
Libya
Commerceretary
C. R Smith
Nixon Administration
Eugene P. Foley
International Ore and Fertilizer Corp
Commerce For Economic Development
Smith
Donald O'Hara
National Refineries Association
United States
U.S
Nixon
June Wedding Planned for Judith Milligan and John Andrews
Judith Ann Milligan and John Martin Andrews announce a June wedding. Miss Milligan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan David Milligan of Land's End Cape Porpoise, is a Kennebunk High and Wheaton College alumna and a University of Rochester graduate. She teaches at Enrico Fermi School in Rochester. Mr. Andrews is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Max H. Andrews of Westport Connecticut and Kennebunkport, and attends the Rochester Institute of Technology majoring in art and design.
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Judith Ann Milligan
John Martin Andrews
Max H. Andrews
Westport
Enrico Fermi School
Rochester
N. Y
Rochester (N. Y.) Institute
Wells Town Votes to Form Sewer District and Negotiate
About 250 residents gathered at Wells Junior High to vote on creating a sewer district and to amend the measure allowing a five member committee to negotiate with Ogunquit Sewer District for waste disposal. Moderator Arthur M. Perkins named five appointees to the committee and town officials answered questions on potential steps and funding.
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WELLS
Ogunquit
Board of Selectmen
Arthur M. Perkins
Alberta M. Wentworth
W. Vinton Murphy
Wells Congregational Church
Board of Trustees
Whitman Ogunquit
Barnett I. Shur
Maine Water and Air Environmental
Mprovement Commission
Howard Int
Crown
Shur
Perkins
Eldege J. Parent
Albee G. LaPierre
James S. Wentworth
Area Churches Set Unity Week Across Biddeford and Saco
The Biddeford Saco area launches the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity sponsored by the Council of Churches and local clergy. Events include a Sunday youth rally at Thornton Academy, an ecumenical Holy Communion service at Trinity Church, and a Thursday worship service at the United Church of Christ in Biddeford. The week ends with an ecumenical service at St Joseph’s in Biddeford with Rev Sylvia Levesque and Rev John Miller coordinating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford-Saco
Biddeford
Saco Council of Churches
Arundel
Richard Sanborn
Bradley Leach
Gerald E. Burtt
George, Marcil
St. Francis College
Bidde
Trinity Episcopal Church
Saco
Father Burtt
United Church of
Eek
Prayer For
Christian Unity
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Sylvia Levesque
Miller
Eli Hevey
ABCs New Special Sprint Tests Mix of Travel Sports and Drama
ABC aired four specials in one night including Cousteau nature film, a child adoption piece, Le Champion with Jean Claude Killy, and the Cosmpolis segment on city planning. The block drew mixed reviews with strongest effort in Cosmosopolis and its housing and urban design focus. Linda Christian's furniture was impounded by a court over unpaid fur coats. Albert Fall papers donated to the University of New Mexico library by his grandson C C Chase.
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Cynthia Lowry
Apvision
NEW York
ABC
Jacques Cousteau
Cousteau
Jean-Claude Killy
Killy
Britain
Reston Va
Columbia, Md
Washington, D. C
Locsaler
John Rooman
Rome
Linda Christian
Tyrone Power
Sede Eet
Albert B. Fall
Interior
Warren G. Harding
C. C. Chase
University of New Mexico Library
World Theatre films shown at Old Orchard Beach High
The senior English classes host documentary World Theatre films open to the public. Each film surveys a country through drama literature poetry music or dance and is shown in English with local cast members. Screenings include Greece The Inner World on Jan 17, Japan The Frozen Moment on Feb 4, and England Puritan vs Cavalier on Apr 5 at 9:34 a.m. in the Little Theatre.
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Old Orchard Beach High School
Greece
Japan
England
Little
Discussion Series Panelists Named In Saco
In Saco the Learning Services Hub presents a Family Life discussion with panelists Barbara Cheney and Roy Tibbetts guiding a session on individual and conjoint counseling at the Salvation Army Center Old Orchard Beach Thursday 7 to 830 pm. Cheney known as Barbara Allen has TV and theater credits and works in Portland advertising.
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Learning Services Hub
Saco
Barbara Cheney
Roy Tibbetts
Salvation Army Center
Old Orchard Beach
Cheney
Barbara Allen
Wcsh-Tv
Virginia Woolf
Portland Players
Portland
Tibbetts and
Misney
Hub
St Andre PFTA Plans Discussed At Parish Meeting
St Andre’s parish families and teachers met at the parish hall to map events for the coming month. An anniversary ball is planned for February with Mr and Mrs Paul Beaupre as chairs and a spaghetti supper on March 2 hosted by Mrs Noella L Heureux. A nominating committee was formed with Mrs L Heureux elected chair and members named.
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St. Andre's Pa
Paul Beaupre
Noella L'Heureux
George Neault
Adrien Boucher
Claire Gosselin
Yvette Loranger
Norman Racine
Claire ‘Racine
Paul Neault
Doris Lamontagne
Henri Camire
John Lessard
Lucien Ruel
Mother Of Year Named By Saco Churchwomen
Mrs. Antoinette Bari is named Mother of the Year by St. Ann's Sodality at Notre Dame de Lourdes Church in Saco. The group met at the parish school hall and planned a March 22 rummage sale with Mrs. Edmond Cote as chairwoman. The project to buy more books for the school was proposed by Rev. Joseph Carrier. Lunch was provided by a committee including Mrs. Gertrude Blanchette and others. February lunch chair is Mrs. Constance Vadnais.
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Antoinette Bari
St. Ann’s Sodality
Notre Dame de Lourdes
Saco
Beach Street
Edmond Cote
Joseph Carrier
the Sodality
Gertrude Blanchette
Dorothy Belisle
Jeanne Belisle
Therese Paquette
Marie-Paul Paquette
Baril
Madeleine Perreault
Dolores Levesque
Constance Vadnais
Marie-Anna Angers
Lavjrette Blais
Delianna Boissonneault
Yvonne Cote
Gilberte Warner
Lucienne Bergeron
Irene Morin
Dolores Cote
Laurette Cloutier
Wilfred Mandeville
Gedeon Bergeron
Jeannine Paquette
Philip
Xi Omicron Chapter Hosts Meeting At Daly Home
Xi Omicron Exemplar Chapter Beta Sigma Phi met at Mrs. Jerome Daly’s Daly home Adelaide Road for a notice on the New England convention to be held in Webster Massachusetts next June Additional Beta Sigma Phi dessert cookbooks were distributed by Mrs Helen Stansberry Letters of thanks arrived from Biddeford Public Health Nursing Association and Saco Public Health Nursing Service for Christmas donations by chapter members The next meeting is set for 9 30 a m January 22 at Mrs Richard Lalle’s home Arundel Others present included Mrs Thomas Daly Mrs Paul Reay Mrs James Nadeau and Mrs Phillip Scamman
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Old Orchard Beach
Xi Omicron
Beta Sigma Phily
Jerome Daly
Adelaide Road
New England
Webster
Mass
Beta Sigma Phi
Helen
Stansberry
Biddeford Public Health Nursing Association
Saco Public Health Nursing Service
Richard Law
Elle
Arunde
Thomas Daly
Paul Reay
James Nadeau
Phillip Scamman
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Tidy
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I Christ Cor ‘Eaucational - Methodist
Daneeet
Kennebunk
Hickel
Wells Sewer District
Hollywood
Wimbleton
Honolulu
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U. S. Pacific Forces
Riecaia
Tripler Army Hospital
St. Andre’s
PFTA
Churchwomen
Daly Home
Sears
Biddeford Shopping Center
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