Biddeford Council OKs Record Budget Amid Tax Rate Debate
Biddeford to approve a proposed record 934,454 budget with an eight to nine mill tax increase over 43 mills. Mayor Deschambault cited department overspending previously and urged funding to meet needs, with new bond payments adding 15,800. City notes a $3 million valuation drop since 1957 but pledges the lowest New England tax rate.
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Biddeford
Clement H. Deschambault
Kennebunk-Kennebunkport-Wells
Ralph Binette
New England
Binette
Saco
Area Development Committee
Amour
Welfare Department
Democracy lets taxpayers choose payment method
A satirical note humorously asserts that citizens control tax payment options in a democracy, listing cash, check, or money order as acceptable methods. No specific people or organizations are named beyond a generic copyright tag.
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Gen
Pea. Corp
Kennebunk Boosters Elect Staff At Annual Meeting
Kennebunk Athletic Boosters elected Cranston Folley as president succeeding Llewellyn Perry at the annual meeting held last night at the high school. Maurice Clark is vice president with Edward Graham as secretary and Eugene Lewin as treasurer. Richard Hunt spoke on a possible summer basketball program for 25 plus boys and a series of benefit games to fund an outdoor court. A spring dance sponsorship and a winter athletes banquet planning were also established with several committee members named.
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Kennebunk
Cranston Folley
Maurice Clark
Kennebunk Beach
Edward Graham
Kennebunkport
Eugene Lewin
Cranston W. Folley
Hilton
South Portland
Stack
Thei
Kennebunk Athletic Boosters
Ganization
Llewellyn Perry
Edward C. Graham
Clark
Stuart Littlefield
Richard Hunt
Kennebunk High
Hunt
Fol
Edward Winston
Betty Seaward
Andrew J. Peterson
Theodore ©. Kingsbury
Ted Shields
Leon Severance
Lewellyn Perry
Frederick Shields
Biddeford High to Host Winter Carnival Coronation Ball
Biddeford High School hosts its first Winter Carnival on Saturday with outdoor winter sports at Waterhouse Alumni Field and a coronation ball in the gym. Co chairs Richard Friary and Shirley Randall lead the Washington Club with Principal Raymond Kenneally presiding. Events include boggan contests ski races a flag competition and a noon box lunch auction before skating at Long Pond and a balloon net coronation at 8 p m.
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Biddeford High School
Washington Club
Richard Friary
Shirley Randall
Waterhouse
Sopromores
Roderick Cyr
Raymond Kenneally
Long Pond
Biddeford Hichchool
Kenneally
Brian Pennell
Anthony Smith
Joan Ribbin
Miss Randall
Storm Clouds Veer as Snow Hits Maine Coast Hard
A northeast storm dumped eight inches of light snow on the area delivering the season’s second heavy fall. Traffic slowed, plows worked, and crews cleared streets while no major accidents were reported. Schools postponed exams and activities as Biddeford and Saco faced weather disruptions.
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Biddeford
Central Maine Power Company
New England Tel. and Tel. Company
Coast Guard
Fletcher's Neck
Antonio Mariello
Saco
Timothy Crowley
Crowley
Twin Cities
Biddeford High School
Raymond Kenneally
St. Andre High School
Sister St. Oliver
Virginia Crash Kills 50 In Fog Shrouded Norfolk Bound Jet
A Capital Airlines Viscount jet plunged into a swampy ravine near Holcroft Virginia in dense fog killing 50 aboard including 46 passengers and 4 crew. Rescue teams entered the wreckage after hours and recovered bodies as relatives mourned.
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Holdcroft
Here
Capital Airlines
Virginia
John Finnegan Jr
Richmond
Eugene Gilbert
New York City
Albert W. Rueff
Charles A. Truhn Jr
Ford Motor Co
Louisville
Mary Blanche O'Connell
Troy Woodall Durham
Cancellations Hit Local Meetings Delayed by Storm
The Saco PTA meeting at Thornton Academy tonight is cancelled. The York County Medical Association gathering at Hotel Thacher in Biddeford is postponed to January 26 due to the storm.
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Saco Pta
Thornton Academy
York County Medical Association
Thacher
Biddeford
Public Health Nursing Meeting Postponed to January
The Biddeford Public Health Nursing Association meeting scheduled for tonight in the nursing rooms in the Cold ing has been postponed to January.
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Biddeford
Bus Issue Protested By Council
PORTLAND AP The Great er Portland Council of Churches joined Protestant groups opposing a proposed public transportation program for private school pupils. Rev B F Wentworth chair of the councils social education committee said more than 1000 has been raised to oppose an enabling act to be introduced at the Legislature special session opening today.
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Portland
Greater Portland
Cole Heads Webber Hospital Board at Dinner Meeting
Robert W. Cole was elected president of the board of directors of Webber Hospital association at the monthly dinner meeting last night. He has served as vice president since November and will fill the vacancy from Carleton F. Davis who recently became hospital administrator. Cole owns the Cole Farm dairy and has been a director for over six years.
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Robert W. Cole
Webber Hospital Association
Cole
Carleton F. Davis
Cole Farm
Biddeford Saco Civil War Centennial Commission Organized
Representatives from patriotic, religious and Boy Scout groups met at the G A R hall to form the Biddeford Saco Civil War Centennial commission. David E Grindle was elected chairman with Robert Norton vice chairman and William W McKenney as secretary. Trustees include Joseph T Small Rev Mark M McCullough and Rev Sam J Kalamaras. The group plans observances of Civil War events with ceremonies in memory of Lincoln era service. The commission is in force through 1965 with annual January meetings.
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G. A. R. Hall
Biddeford
Biddeford-Saco
Robert Libby
Disabled American Veterans
Robert Norton
David E. Grindle
The
Sons of the Union Veterans
William McKenney
Biddeford Post
Representative
Atty
Wil
Gar Hall
Biddeford Vfw Post
Arthur A. Lavoie
Owen Davis
American Legion Pot
Saco
Joseph T. Small
Troop 305
Boy Scouts
Mark M. McCullough
Christ Episcopal Church
Sam J. Kalamaras
St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church
Grindle
Hearings Set to Precede Passamaquoddy Tidal Vote
The International Joint Commission will hold public hearings in Maine and New Brunswick before ruling on the Passamaquoddy tidal power proposal. Dates to be announced. An engineering board says spending up to 550 million dollars would be economically justified if tidal power is used with an auxiliary source.
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Washington
International Joint Commission
Maine
New Brunswick
Passamaquoddy
U.S
Boston
Local Woman Victim of Fraud Ends in Jail Sentence
In Montreal, 30 year old carpenter J C Carreau was sentenced to two years in jail for defrauding Valera Nadeau an insurance agent from Biddeford Maine. Nadeau testified she loaned Carreau 10000 in June 1957 after he claimed to own pledged property. She recovered 3000 after investigation, but Carreau declared bankruptcy as fraud charges were filed.
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Montreal
J. C. Carreau
Valera Nadeau
Biddeford
Maine
Miss Nadeau
Carreau
Hostess Is Maine Girl Hostess Is Maine Girl
Miss Diane Margaret O'Donnell 26 a Capital Airlines Viscount hostess was among the crew when the aircraft crashed near Holdcroft Virginia last night She had been with Capital a year and a week and normally based in Chicago She graduated Searsport High in 1951 attended University of Maine worked in a Boston department store and later took airline training Her father Patrick C O'Donnell is a Searsport druggist The family includes Richard C Searsport David Maine Maritime Academy student on a Panama cruise and sister Carol Wood of Chicago
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Searsport
Diane Margaret O'Donnell
Capital Airlines
Holdcroft
Searsport High School
Capital
O’donnel
Patrick C. O'Donnell
Miss O’donnell
University of Maine
Boston
Bangor
Richard C
David
Maine Maritime Academy
Panama Area
Carol Wood
Chicago
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Free World
RFE
Crusade For Freedom
Advertising Council
Bas
Deborah Fournier
Pepperell Square
Lorraine Boissonneault
High Street
Robert
Capital Flight 20
Norfolk
James B. Fornasero
Webber
Local Civil War Commission
Liam Wilson, Jr
Owen-Davis American Legion
Harold Strout
Boucouvalas-Dupuis Amvets
Saco Legion
St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox
Roland St. Michel
Tighe-Beaudoin-Farley American Legion
Alfred Street
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