Personal notices from Biddeford and surrounding towns
Multiple residents and relatives listed as surgical and medical patients at Webber Mercy and Maine Medical Center in Portland Saco Biddeford and Old Orchard Beach. Includes service members stationed in Turkey Colorado and Germany with Elks clinic notes and Army promotions and training updates.
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George Beaupre
Pine Street
Biddeford
Webber Hospital
Fernando Reardon
Saco
Mercy Hospital
Portland
Lawrence Rabida
Green Street
Ethel Psomiades
Laurel Avenue
Maine Medical Center
Chester Morris
Ferry Road
Lakeland
Fla
Ae William A. Lang
Biddeford Man Ernest Pothier 72 Dies Sudden
Ernest Pothier, 72, of 57 Cutt Street Biddeford, died suddenly Saturday noon at home. Born in Biddeford to Alexander and Georgianna Pothier, he was a longtime member of Court Champlain and a life member of Local 305 Textile Union. Survived by widow Emelie, two sons Roland and Raoul, two daughters Mrs. Robert Sevigny and Mrs. Conrad Beaudoin, nine grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral Tuesday at 8:30 am from St. Joseph church. viewing at Sansoucy Funeral Home. Portland cloudy with light snow this afternoon, warmer Tuesday. list of temperatures across cities.
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Ernest Pothier
Cutt. Street
Biddeford
Alexandre
Georgianna
Martin) Pothier
Court Champlain
Order of Foresters
Lafayette Court
Emelie Pothier
Roland
Raoul
Imperial Beach
Calif
Robert Sevigny
Glenndale
Conrad Beaudoin
St. Joseph Church
Sansoucy
Stone Street
Church and Salvation Army Meeting Notes
The Prayer Fellowship group of Lyman Baptist Church meets Tuesday at 10 30 a m at the parsonage Lower Grade Corp Cadets of the Saco Salvation Army meet Tuesday at 3 30 p m The Sunbeams of the Saco Salvation Army meet Tuesday at 2 30 p m
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Prayer Fellowship
Lyman Baptist Church
Saco Salvation Army
Home League Meeting of Saco Salvation Army
The Home League of the Saco Salvation Army will meet Tuesday at 7 30 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Saco Salvation Army
Girl Scout Troop 15 meeting announced at church
Girl Scout Troop 15 will meet at the School Street Methodist church on Tuesday at 3 30 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
School Street Methodist Church
Church Meeting Notes From Saco Area Announced
Brownie Troop 4 and 5 meet tomorrow at 3 30 p m at Saco United Baptist church. Biddeford Second Congregational church business committee to meet Tuesday at 7 p m in the small vestry. A supper and meeting for church set teachers and officers of Saco United Baptist church tonight at 6 30 p m at the church.
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Saco United Baptist Church
Biddeford
Saco United
Pastor Stanley Bennett to Headline Saco Church Reception
Rev. Stanley A. Bennett pastor of the Saco United Baptist church and Mrs. Bennett will be guests of honor at a church reception Tuesday at 7 30 p m. All church members and friends may attend at the church.
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Stanley A. Bennett
Saco United Baptist Church
Bennett
Inventor Glenn C Henry Dies at 55 in Otisfield
Glenn C Henry, 55, president of Glencraft Products Inc, died at his Otisfield home yesterday. Henry, a Nebraska native, was an electronics engineer and inventor with patents including a special book stand and a folding boat.
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Otisfield
Glenn C Henry
Glencraft Products, Inc
Henry
Nebraska
Mrs Louise T Robinson 76 Kennebunk longtime resident dies
Louise T Robinson 76 of Kennebunk Lower Village died yesterday after a long illness at a local hospital. Born in Kennebunkport she was daughter of Palmer and Frances Twambley and a former Melrose Mass resident. Survived by husband Ray L Robinson two brothers one sister and several nieces nephews. Funeral Wednesday 3 pm at South Congregational church Kennebunkport with burial in Arundel cemetery. Flowers omitted and contributions may go to the church flower fund. Visitation at Rubber Memorial chapel Kennebunk.
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Louise T. Robinson
Kennebunk Lower Village
Melrose
Mass
Kennebunkport
Palmer
Frances (Stone) Twambley
Kennebunkport South
Henry Twambley
Wakefield
Mary Hurd
Raymond
N. H
South Congregational Church
Kennebunpkort
Robert Howes
Emerson Curry
Old South Church
Boston
Arundel Cemetery
Rubber Memorial
Summer Street
Street
Kennebunk
Funeral services for Mrs Emma Frances Wakefield
Funeral services for 100 year old Mrs Emma Frances Cole Wakefield of Saco were held Saturday at 2 PM at Shumway funeral home. Rev H Lewis Cutler officiated. Entombment was in Greenwood cemetery Biddeford with spring burial planned at Cole's Spring cemetery East Rochester NH.
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Emma Frances (Cole) Wakefield
Saco
Shumway Funeral Home
Spring Street
H. Lewis Cutler
Biddeford Second Congregational Church
Greenwood Cemetry
Biddeford
Cole's Spring Cemetery
East
Rochester
N. H
Lafayette Court to Hold 7:30 Meeting in Biddeford
Members of Lafayette Court Catholic Order of Foresters meet at 7 30 tonight at the hall on Emery street Biddeford then go to Sansoucy funeral home 1 Stone street to offer prayer for Ernest Pothier
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Lafayette Court
Catholic Order of Foresters
Emery Street
Biddeford
Sansoucy
Stone Street
Ernest Pothier
Ste Anne Sodality Meeting for Mrs Noe Dupuis
Members of Ste Anne Sodality of St Andre church meet tonight at 7 at the Emond funeral home 72 Hill Street Biddeford to pay respects to Mrs Noe Dupuis
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Ste. Anne Sodality
St. Andre Church
Emond Funeral Home
Hill Street
Biddeford
Noe Dupuis
Funeral for Phemina Dallaire 64 at St Andre Church
Funeral services for Phemina Dallaire 64 of 5 Mitchell Lane were held at 9 this morning from St Andre church with a solemn High Mass. Msgr Aime Giguere celebrated assisted by Rev Robert T Martel deacon and Gerard Parent sub deacon. Burial followed in St Joseph cemetery with Father Parent saying prayers at the grave. out of town attendees listed.
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Phemina Dallaire
Mitchell Lane
St. Andre Church
Aime Giguere
Robert T. Martel
Gerard Parent
Laura Lauzon Proulx
Robert Nolette
Roland Nollette
Roland St. Onge
Norman
Man Injured By Ski Tow At Bond Mountain Ski Area
Everett Langley, 54, suffered a fractured leg and shoulder and other injuries when his clothing was caught in ski tow machinery at Bond Mountain. Officials believe he leaned over the machinery with an oil can, was pulled in, and ripped clothing. he was hospitalized in Sanford.
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Newfield
Everett Langley
Bond Mountain
Langley
Sanford
Berkeley Heights Toy Elephant Collector Denies Link to GOP
NON-PARTISAN BERKELEY HEIGHTS New Jersey tax collector Mrs Olga Hedlund Curtis says her hobby of collecting toy elephants has 170 pieces from around the world and includes two donkeys. She denies any connection to the Republican elephant symbol.
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Berkeley Heights
N. J
Olga Hedlund Curtis
Curtis
Welcome to the Fold Biddeford Saco baby welcomed
Marc i Edward Lemelin five month old son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Lemelin of 36 Clifford street Biddeford welcomed by paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Raymond Lemelin at 142 Cleaves street and maternal grandfather Wilfred Cloutier of 176 Pool street Great grandfather Albert Fecteau Sr Piersons Lane and great great grandmother Mrs Artemise Fecteau also of Piersons Lane Biddeford
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Artemise Fecteau
Piersons Lane
Biddeford
Algiers Unrest Grows As Rightists Hold University
French forces curb mutiny in Algiers with martial law after clashes that left eight police dead and 80 wounded. A rightist junta led by Pierre La Gaillarde seized a bank, while conspirators hoisted a tricolor atop a barricaded university building.
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Forum Hill
Echo d‘Alger
Alain de Serigny
Algeria
de Gaulle
Algiers University
Rue Michelet
Maurice Challe
Algiers
Paris
France
Pierre la Gaillarde
la Gaillarde
Joseph Ortiz
National French Front
Jacques Susini
Ortiz
Susini
Algerian Home Guard
Election and officer installation at Hibernian Auxiliary
The Hibernian auxiliary will hold its election and officer installation Tuesday at 8 p m in Hibernian hall at Main and Elm streets Biddeford.
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Hibernian Auxiliary
Hibernian Hall
Main and
Elm Streets
Biddeford
Legion banquet postponed to be announced later
The Past Commander and Past President banquet scheduled for January 30 at the Owen- Davis American Legion post home on Beach Street in Saco has been postponed. A new date will be announced later.
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Owen- Davis American Legion
Beach Street
Saco
Legion Auxiliary Meeting in Saco This Wednesday
A meeting of the Owen-Davis unit of the American Legion auxiliary is planned for Wednesday at 8 p m at the Legion home on Beach Street in Saco.
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Owen-Davis
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Home
Beach Street
Saco
Biddeford Post Auxiliary Meeting Tonight at City Building
The Biddeford Post auxiliary unit will hold a meeting tonight at 7:30 in the City Building. Members are urged to attend and discuss upcoming community events and volunteer opportunities.
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Biddeford
V. Auxiliary
Musics Coffee Benefit by Olympian Club at Clubhouse
The Olympian club of Kenne bunkport sponsors a music coffee at the clubhouse on Wednesday at 10 a.m. for the March of Dimes benefit.
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The
Olympian Club of
Kennebunkport
March of Dimes
Biddeford Civil Defense members meet in blue uniforms
Members of the Biddeford Civil Defense and Public Safety Association report to 114 Main Street tonight at 7 30 wearing the military style OD uniform Local Director Alden Jacobs requests those who have not received their issue may wear the blue uniform.
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Biddeford
Biddeford Saco Toastmasters Meet January 27
The Biddeford Saco Toastmasters club will meet January 27 at the Wonderbar steak house with dinner at 6 30 p m and the business session at 7 30 p m.
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Biddeford-Saco
Wonderbar
Biddeford Public Health Nursing Committee Meeting
The Biddeford Public Health Nursing committee will meet tomorrow night at eight in the nursing rooms at City building.
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Biddeford
Accident In Farmington Injures Teen in Accidental Shot
William A Oliver a 17 year old Farmington youth was wounded in the stomach when a 38 caliber revolver discharged while he admired it Sheriff Glendon C Rowe said Leroy Gordon Jr 17 admitted the weapon went off accidentally and he did not know it was loaded The incident was reported yesterday by authorities
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Farmington
William A. Oliver
Glendon C. Rowe
Leroy 0. Gordon, Jr
Rival Spurs Speed Burst in District Court Case
Bertrand R. Duhamel of Woonsocket faced a District Court judge Sunday for driving 100 miles per hour. He testified he was outraged by a rival suitor to the woman he loves who slowed to 10 mph in front of them. State troopers stopped the high speed chase and Duhamel received a $10 fine.
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Central Falls
R. IL
Woonsocket
District Court
Duhamel
Brown Faces Assault and Robbery Charges After Maine Picnic Shooting
Brown, just back from Cincinnati, faces assault and robbery charges in the Couture shooting at an Old Orchard Beach picnic grave on July 9, 1959. Kenneth F. Chenette, his alleged partner, was sentenced to 50 to 100 years last September. Brown appeared calm in court and was arrested in Cincinnati earlier this month by FBI agents after being added to the department's 10 Most Wanted list.
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Page One
Cincinnati
Couture
Orchard Beach
Brown
Kenneth F. Chenette
FBI
Department
Kennedy Says Democrats Must Choose Their Leader
Kennedy argues the Democratic party must provide leadership for the coming decade not accept a preselected nominee. He warns that electing Richard Nixon could set the country on a path he believes would lead to Nixon's likely reelection in 1964, and opposes handing over leadership to that outcome.
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Kennedy
Democratic Party
United States
Richard M. Nixon
Mothers March in Saco Seeks Volunteers and Funds
Saco volunteers are needed for the January 28 Mothers March on Polio announced by Mrs. Patrick Lunetta and Mrs. Howard Shaffer who organize the light campaign. The march aims to raise funds for polio patients and those with crippling birth defects and arthritis, supporting the National Polio Foundation. Campaigners may sign up with Lunetta at 54 Storer Street or Shaffer at Ferry Beach, Saco.
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Saco
Patrick Lunetta
Howard Shaffer
National
Polio Foundation
Communities weigh incentives to lure new industries
Officials discuss how towns cooperate on utilities and access to attract industry while avoiding tax exemptions. Bangor lost a plant to Brewer over building needs. labor pools and nearby moves to Lewiston are noted. Maine leaders urge local mortgage arrangements and state help from the Department of Economic Development as regional planners share ideas.
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Bangor
Brewer
Michael
Raytheon Company
Lewiston
Biddeford
Roderic O'Connor
Augusta
Industrial Building Authority
Lloyd K. Allen
Department of Economic Development
Jon Milligan
John Smith
Kennebunk
Nicholas P. Scontras
Saco
Howard Ingraham
Frank R
Influenza outbreak eases in Hartland area
Hartland area doctors report the flu outbreak fading with only one patient on the danger list. Dr Paul R Briggs Hartland's only physician notes nearly a thousand residents received shots last week after three infant deaths were linked to the outbreak.
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Hartland
Somerset County
Paul R. Briggs
Briggs
Column Writer Named Boston Publicity Head
Mayor John F Collins appoints Richard J Sinnott AP newsman as Director of Public Information and press secretary for Boston. Sinnott, 33, will lead licensing bureau coordination and a new radio TV news department, bringing a trusted, veteran media background to city communications. He is a World War II veteran and family man.
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Boston
John F. Collins
Associated Press
Richard J. Sinnott
Bureau of Licensing
Sinnott
New England
Collins
Philadelphia
Bryant & Stratton Business College
University of Wisconsin Naval Training School
Curry College
U.S. Navy
Guam
Iwo Jima
Saco Cited In Magazine Ad
An ad in the January New Englander urged industry to start the sixties on the Golden Mile. Placed by Saco Industrial, it promotes the 170 acre Saco Industrial park near the Golden Mile of the Maine turnpike as Maine’s best industrial site with quick access to major East markets. It highlights skilled local labor, fair pay, and a favorable business climate from state and local groups.
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New Englander
Golden Mile
Saco
Saco Industrial Corporation
Maine Turnpike
Maine
Bates Mfg locals back wage talks in Textile union vote
Two union locals at Bates Mfg Co mills in Swiston and Augusta voted yes yesterday to reopen wage talks under Textile Workers Union of America contracts this year. Delegates at a New York policy meeting Feb 6 were instructed to vote for the wage talks. Three other Maine locals approved a similar motion last week.
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Lewiston
Bates Mfg. Co. Mills
Swiston
Augusta
Textile Workers Union of America
New York
Maine
Buckfield Safe Found prompts police alert
Sheriff James Lassiter found a battered safe and contents with no theft reported near Buckfield. A Buckfield man located the safe and an all points bulletin led Lewiston police to Ed ward Grouse whose Lewiston apartment was broken into Saturday.
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Buckfield
Oxford
James Lassiter
Lewiston
Edward Grouse
Biddeford Youth Faces Three Traffic Violations
An 18 year old Biddeford resident, Guy M. Gagne of Hills Beach, pleaded guilty to three traffic charges including operating after suspension, failure to report an accident, and taking a motor vehicle without permission. He received fines totaling 400 with 120 days in jail, to run consecutively, after inability to pay. The case stemmed from a car theft and crash on River Road, involving Lemieux’s car and a group including Gerald Morin.
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Biddeford
Guy M. Gagne
Hills Beach
Simon Spill
Francis B. Lemieux
Lemieux
Alfred
Hollis Dixon
Gerald Morin
Gagne
Hiram
Morin
River Road
Coyle Meserve
Meserve
Spill
Paul Frederick Trimm
St. Mary Street
Sanford
Alfred Road
Philip M. Murphy
Morning Street
Portland
Leo Cote
Murphy
Saco
Fred Cheney
Kennebunk
Main Street
Ulrica Berthiaume
Taylor Street
Berthiaume
Washington and
Jefferson Streets
Claudette Berthiaume
Oil furnace floods Saco home. no damage reported
Saco firemen rushed to 305 Bradley Street late Saturday to a flooded oil furnace at Mrs. Ernest Benson home. Fire crews reported no damage beyond the flood translates, and residents were safe.
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Saco
Ernest Benson
Bradley Street
Woodland Trail Walkers Find Pleasure in Long Treks
About 200 hiking enthusiasts in Clifton New Jersey meet as Woodland Trail Walkers. Many are ex servicemen who once swore off long treks but now enjoy trekking without the must of Army marches. Catherine Servas, club secretary, says the group finds pleasure in places they wouldn t otherwise see.
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Clifton
N.J
Woodland Trail Walkers Club
Catherine Servas
Legal Wrangle Starts Today In Finch Trial
In Los Angeles AP reports a key phase of the Finch murder trial opens with defense moves to block use of the preliminary hearing transcript. Carole Tregoff 23 testified amid self-incrimination questions as prosecutors allege she and Dr R Bernard Finch plotted to kill Barbara Jean Finch 36 at the Finch estate in West Covina July 18.
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Los Angeles
Finch
Carole Tregoff
R. Bernard Finch
Miss Tregoff
Barbara Jean Finch
West Covina
Las Vegas
Car Head Stricken Bangor
Thomas J. Crosby, 65, president of Crosby Buick Inc. in Bangor, died yesterday. A Boston native, he worked with General Motors Buick Division for 35 years and served six years as New England zone manager.
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Bangor
Thomas J. Crosby
Crosby Buick, Inc
Boston
Buick
General Motors
New England
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Napoleon Roy
Lamothe Avenue
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital
David Marshall
Ocean Avenue
Old Orchard Beach
Webber
U. S
Pee
Karamursel
Turey
Fernand M. X. E
Arthur J. Leson
Carl Sheltra
Conrad Fecteau
Bradbury Street
Fort Campbell
Ahe
101St Airborne Division
Laroche
Command and Control Battalion
Army
Fort Carson
Colo
St. Louis High School
Adrienne
Clarksville
Tenn
Dennis R. McCarey
Mary McGarey
Filmstreet
Richard C. McGarey
Army Quartermasters Signal School
Lenggries
Germany
317Th Engineer
Bad Hersfeld
Caribou
Eastport
Greenville
Old Town
Rumford
Mt. Wash
Concord
Washington
Miami
Chicago
New Orleans
Denver
Halifax
Montreal
Sunbeams of the
James P. Murphy Co
Lewiston, Maine
Rep
Roland Collette
Dial
Vermont
W. J. Provost
L. K. Joncas
Louise Robinson
Mrs
Emma Wakefield
Oran
Constantine
Our Lady of Fatima Circle
Daughters of Isabella
St. John Hall
Jefferson Street
Harriet Kaminski
Bremen
Syracuse, N.Y
Rival Spurs
Pat McLauchlin
Orlando
Strategic Air Command
Edmund Beaudoin
Sherburne Street
Springvale
Elaine Nancy
Paul Rene Lagarde
Ralph Lagarde
Prospect Street
Miss Beaudoin
Sanford High School
Stenotype Institute of
Pioneer Plastics Corporation
Lagarde
U. S. Navy
Sherwin-Williams Company
Nashua
Boston Publicity
Magazine Ad
Webber Hospit
Edward Blais
Baron Street
Francis Neault
Martha Ann DeBorger
San Francisco
Air Force
Arthur DeBorger
Fern
Thornton Avenue
Fenderson’s
Adler
St. Parking
Elm St
W. J. Fortier Insurance Agency
Bacon Street
Wrth Public Finance
Atlantic
J. C. Penney
Shumway Funeral Service
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