Greek immigrant Despina Philipakos dies at 81
Mrs Despina Philipakos 81 of 260 Alfred St Biddeford died in a Portland hospital after a long illness Born in Laconia Yithion Greece on Feb 10 1887 she was a communicant of St Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church Biddeford a member of the St Fatini Society and the Sorority of Lacones Survived by widower Harry Philipakos son William daughter Priscilla Gaffney and brother Theodore Tavoularis New York Funeral at St Demetrios Sunday at 130 p m Friends may call Emond Funeral Home Biddeford today and tomorrow 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p m
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Despina Philipakos
Portland
Laconia
Yithion
Greece
Demetrious Tavoularis
St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church
Biddeford
St. Fatini Society
Sorority of Lacones
Nickerson Rites Held At Kennebunk Unitarian Church
Palmer R Nickerson 70 longtime Kennebunkport resident and former Baltimore attorney died after a brief illness in Portland. Born Newton MA July 14 1898 he was a WWI Navy veteran and longtime church trustee. Survived by Eleanor his widow two sons a brother and two sisters. seven grandchildren. Funeral Sunday 4 pm at Kennebunk Unitarian Church. Burial by Bibber Memorial Chapel. No calling hours.
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Kennebunkport
Palmer R. Nickerson
Cleaves Cove
Portland
Newton
Mass
Hiram C
Marguerite (Rice) Nickerson
Baltimore
Ken
Funeral services for Peter Morris held at St Demetrios Biddeford
Funeral services for Peter Morris aged 42 of Washington Avenue Old Orchard Beach were held Thursday at 1 30 pm from St Demetrios Orthodox Church Biddeford with Rev Alex Xanthakis officiating Cantor Peter Dalapas. Burial followed in St Demetrios Cemetery Biddeford Bearers included Nicholas Peter Charles Steve Spirounias George Ladakakos and Peter Spirounias A church hall luncheon followed for relatives and friends.
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Peter Morris
Washington Ave
Old Orchard Beach
St. Demetrios
Orthodox Church
Biddeford
Alex Xanthakis
Peter Dalapas
St. Demetrios Cemetery
Nicholas
Peter
Charles
Steve Spirounias
George Ladakakos
Peter Spirounias
Youth Sunday Observance Set At Saco Church
Youth Sunday at United Baptist Church in Saco features Junior and Senior High leaders guiding the 10:30 morning worship. Call to worship, responsive reading, scripture, prayers, children's talk, parish greetings, and offertory prayers are led by named youths and choirs. Rev. Stanley A. Bennett preaches on "Renewed Wisbe rry."
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United Baptist
Saco
Doard W. Bemis
Gail Linscott
Branda J. Wyman
Donald E. Renell
Diane A. Wilbur
Mark Audie
Kenneth Bissell Jr
Main
Jean Brown
Art
Marsh
Mary M
Stanley A. Bennett
Wiseberry
Troop 305 Boy Scouts Name Leaders
A Biddeford Troop 305 meeting hosted by Troop One Building Association at the hall on Mason Street. Scout Samuel Collins led the pledge with 25 scouts present. Roland Ferguson II received four gold bars and was named senior patrol leader with Eric Sheltra as assistant.
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Biddeford
Troop One Building Association
Mason Street
Samuel Collins
Roland Ferguson II
Eric Sheltra
Camp Ellis Firemen's Unit Meeting Notes Prize Awarded
Members of the Camp Ellis Volunteer Firemen's Auxiliary met at Mrs Ruth Stackpole's Ferry Road Saco home. A special prize was awarded to Mrs Elinor Emerson. President Mrs Pine Penny led the session with routine procedures by Chaplain Mrs Jeanine Pendleton, Secretary Mrs Stackpole, Treasurer Mrs Theresa Pendleton, and Sunshine Chairman Mrs Lillian Morris. Refreshments were provided by Mrs Regina Koster and Mrs Greta Greenier. Next meeting will be at Mrs Pauline Clegg's Ferry Road Saco home. Others present included Mrs Mary Pendleton, Mrs Patricia Nadeau, Mrs Joanne Larochelle, and Mrs Susan Gagnon.
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Camp Ellis
Biddeford Police Seek Man After Pursuit Incidents
Biddeford police are investigating complaints a man has chased women on Westfield Avenue and Prospect Street. A woman said she was pursued and forced into her home Wednesday night. no arrests have been made.
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Biddeford
Westfield Avenue
Prospect Street
Funeral Directors Spotlight in Saco Area
Funeral service information lists 35 Spring Street Saco and 365 Main Street offices with contact numbers 284 5611 284 5611. Directors include Philip H Gross Sr Dennis Craig and Emond s Funeral Home at 214 511 Frank X Emond J P Conroy.
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Spot Way Funeral Service
Spring Street
Saco
Philip H. Gross Sr
Dennett & Craig
Main Street
Maine
Emond
Frank X
P Conroy
Oil Drums Banned As Trash Barrels In Biddeford
Public Works Superintendent Richard Potvin announced that 55 gallon oil drums may no longer be used as waste containers in Biddeford. Trash left in them will not be picked up in the future, and injuries have been reported from lifting the barrels. Other containers must be covered to prevent ice buildup in winter.
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Biddeford
Public Works
Richard Potvin
Potvin
Brothers transform Maine wilds with lakes and cottages
The two Farmington, New Hampshire brothers left landscaping for a wild Waterboro venture. They dammed mill sites to create three lakes totaling 21 miles of shorefront, built nine miles of road and fourteen summer cottages, and developed a pine spring fed retreat they now call a Yankee ingenuity example.
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Farmington
N. H
A. J
Maine
Kittery
Portland
New York
Virginia
Waterboro
Cameron
Pine Spring
Medical patients and surgical cases at regional hospitals
Vernon Mollack of 46 Union St Biddeford Annette Frechette of Pool St Biddeford Mrs Gladys on 4th Biddeford Pool is a medical patient at Webber Hospital Marie Anna Boisvert 41 Middle St Biddeford is a medical patient at Notre Dame Hospital Melvin Marshall of 18 St Johns St Old Orchard Beach is a surgical patient at Veterans Hospital Togus Gerard Blais 111 May St Biddeford is a surgical patient at Maine Medical Center Portland Annette Lamontagne 130 Cleaves St Biddeford is a medical patient at Webber Mrs Yvette Plamondon 100 Pleasant St Saco is a surgical patient at Webber Hospital Biddeford
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Vernon Mollack
Union St. Biddeford
Webber Hospital
Annette Frechette
NA Pool St
Biddeford
Webber
Gladys Aon
Biddeford Pool
Marie - Anna Boisvert
Middle St
Notre Dame Hospital
Melvin Marshall
St.John’s St
Old Orchard Beach
Veterans
Veterans Hospital, Togus
Gerard Blais
May St
Maine Medical Center
Portland
Annette Lamontagne
Cleaves St
Yvette Plamondon
Pleasant St
Saco
St Mary's Women's Club to Meet With Guest Speaker
Members of St Mary's Women's Club will meet Tuesday at 8 p.m. in St Mary's School hall. Rt Rev Msgr Vincent Tatarczuk of Portland will be guest speaker. A Delta Alpha on meeting is set for Monday at 7 at the home of Mrs Nailow on Stacy Street in Saco.
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St. Mary's Women's Club
St. Mary’s School Hall
Msgr
Vincent Tatarczuk
Portland
The
Delta Alpha On
Kennebunk Community Notes and Local Elections
Kennebunk MRS Edmund Cashen reports on district budget planning with a February 25 district meeting at Ken High School gym. Albert Dion and Louise Pilon wed in Montreal on December 27 and now reside in Biloxi as Dion serves in the U.S. Air Force. Maine news include a hospital visit for Marcia Golf after a fall, American Legion activities and meetings, a Park Street School field trip to Gorham State College, and local police and civic club events. Town Clerk Gordon reminds voters to sign nomination papers exactly as on lists and to endorse only one candidate per office for the March meeting.
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Superintendent of Schools
A Dion
Arundel
Albert Dion
Louise Pilon
Montreal
Canada
Dion
Kenton
Biloxi
Miss
U.S. Force
Marcia Golf
Maine Osteopathic Hospital
Portland
Webber - Lefebvre Post
American Legion
V.F.W. Hall
Fletcher Street
Arnold Truscott
York County Council
Saco
Frederick W. Perkins
Joseph Forest
Alva Fleming
V.F.W
American Legion Auxiliary
American Legion Post
Robert Harvey
Park Street School
Museum of Man and Culture
Gorham State College
Robert Towne
G.S.C
Walter Whitten
Edmund L. Cashen
Douglas Welch Sr
Lower Brown Street
Webber
Sylvia LaPierre
Norman Wills
Dorothy Shibles
Summer Street
Shirley Gordon
Portland Weather Update After Snow Chance
Portland area forecast shows cloudy skies with a slight chance of light snow tonight and temperatures in the teens in the north and in the 20s in the south. Saturday remains cloudy as temperatures slowly rise through the day.
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Portland
Skyslide Approved By Saco Board
The Saco Zoning Board of Appeals approves a four story skyslide to be built for Funtown on Route 1 in Saco. Kenneth Cormier and Andre Dallaire say the fiberglass slide will be unique in northern New England, standing 35 feet high and 45 feet wide at a project cost of 49500 dollars FOB California.
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Saco
Zoning Board of Appeals
Funtown
Route 1
Kenneth Cormier
Andre Dallaire
New England
California
Hickel Ethics Hearing Probed In Oil Land Claims Controversy
Senate leaders debate Hickel conflict of interest ties as Interior Committee prepares closed session to review his finances. Hickel insists he will divest from any committee deemed conflicting while testimony continues on oil industry links land claims and fishing policy during his governorship.
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Kennedy
Packard
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Charac Ln
Hickel
Interior Committee
Arthur Assisted Racial Equality Ruling in New York Transport
A court decision obtained by Chester A Arthur established that Negroes have had the same accommodations as whites on New York street railways since 1855. Britannica notes Arthur later became U.S. president.
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New York
Chester A Arthur
United States
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Endorsement Nuances in Multiple Paper Signings
A local comment notes that signing more than one paper for the same office can cancel endorsements for both candidates, highlighting cautious voter guidance and the effect on support dynamics.
Altar Society Of Wells Church Attends Mass
Wells Beach reports the Altar Sodality of St. Marys Church met at St. Marthas Kennebunkport for mass and installed the 1969 officer slate. A lobster dinner followed hosted by Rev. William J. Kelly. Officers include Dorothy Maynard Virginia Law president and several others. Next meeting is Feb 6 at Wells Beach fire station with plans for a games party.
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St. Mary’s Church
Wells Beach
St. Martha's Church
Kennebunkport
William J. Kelly
Father Kelly
St. Mary's Wells Beach
St. Monica’s
Therinner
King
Ither
Dorothy Maynard
Virginia Law
Marie Hamlyn
Rita Gagnon
Laura Laurel
Edith Hamel
Eva Tardiff
Mary Brackett
Patricia ‘Hladik
Marie Sevigney
Agnes Garthwaite
Patricia Wieczorek
Eileen Locke
Valerie Ranco
Rose Aragona
Sodality
Weils, Beach
Abelson and Schwartz Rise Through Westinghouse Ranks
Abelson and Schwartz, prominent executives, advanced through Westinghouse positions from engineering trainee to top corporate posts. Schwartz, holding degrees from NYU, taught at Rutgers and spoke at AMA seminars before rising to executive roles in market planning and consumer services. Abelson, a former Army captain, served as plant superintendent and held managerial posts across the Muffler Manufacturing division.
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Chicago
Muffler Manufacturing Ration
Cicero
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New York University
Rutgers University
American Management Association
Westinghouse
Edison
N.J
Columbus
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Consumer Services
U. S. Army
The
Society For Eehancement of Management
Soviet cosmonauts transfer in a self contained space suit
Tass reported Soyuz 4 crew capsule separated from the working quarters and both sections re entered separately. Recovery crews greeted cosmonauts as data was secured in the landing capsule. Tass described new self contained space suits with leg oxygen compartments and built in heating and ventilation enabling movement without the ship air hose.
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Tass
Pravda
Peace talks progress through steadfast Hanoi stance
Peace efforts in Paris progress as Hanoi endures eight months of talks and six months of wrangling to secure talks after North Vietnam demanded an unconditional bombing halt. President Johnson’s October 31 bombing halt opened the way for Saigon and Front delegations. Two more months of disputes over seating and speaking arrangements followed.
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P. One
Vietnam
Hanoi
Paris
North Vietnam
Johnson
Saigon
Front
Peak in Frauds: US Losses Reach 1.7 Billion During 1918 1929
Financial frauds peaked in the United States between World War I and 1929 with an estimated annual loss of about 1.7 billion in financial ventures, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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United States
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Quick Quiz Q and A on Child Prodigy and Free Ports
The Q and A reveal Shirley Temple as the youngest millionaire child with over $1 million by age ten. It notes Saint Pierre and Miquelon as France’s North American territory near Newfoundland and explains that a free port allows unloading storage and reshipment without fees, citing Singapore as an example.
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France
Saint Pierre and Miquelon Islands
Newfoundland
Singapore
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Hope's Christmas Special a TV institution on NBC
AP Television writer Cynthia Lowry notes NBC offers the Bob Hope Christmas Special with 19 pretty singing girls, jokes about travel to Asia and Vietnam, and scenes of relaxed service members. Ann Margret, Linda Bennett, and the Gold Diggers draw whistles, while Alan King headlines the later NBC slot. CBS debuts The Queen and I, a wacky naval comedy, not as successful as NBC specials.
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NEW York
Bob Hope
NBC
Hope
Japan
Thailand
Korea
Vietnam
Ann-Margret
Linda Bennett
Gold-diggers
Alan King
King
CBS
Larry Storch
Billy de Wolfe
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