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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1969
Page
7
Districts list weekly menus across Biddeford Old Orchard Beach and Kennebunk Public Schools. Entries cover lunches with items like spaghetti, soups, meats, vegetables, breads, desserts and milk, noting Monday through Friday offerings and occasional spelling errors or omissions.
The readable text outlines two meal plans for Thursday and Friday with items like mashed potatoes buttered carrots hot biscuits fruit Jello milk tuna pie cheese buttered beets rolls brownies and a partial lunch listing.
A reader blends a home life crisis with Abigails guidance. A desperate note asks for cooperation from a husband who ignores chores diapers and late night baby duties. Abby suggests ending the baby factory and cites parenthood as the core issue.
Mr and Mrs George Weyant purchase and move into a new home on Western Avenue Kennebunk. Mr and Mrs Lester Graffam Jr buy Cliff Brown home on Pine Street move in. Mr and Mrs Edward Levigne purchase Clarks Road Wells home and move in. Lasiane, self employed, and Mrs Samuel Goranen buy Robert Dennison home in Wells. Mr and Mrs Raymond Haines buy Dana Mayo home on High Street Kennebunk and move in. Mr and Mrs Ronald Graffam purchase Raymond Haines home on High Street Kennebunk. Theo Guilfoy buys land from John D Downing Agency in Arundel. All sales through The John D Downing Agency Inc. Realtors, Kennebunk.
A fragmented notice cites a Q and A about a red meat spit from an Angon word meaning point. It mentions CBS demonstrations on June 21, 1948 and discusses per man-hour output compared to 1850, noting a worker using an airplane and new technology.
A letter column clarifies how disability affects retirement at 65 and how wives and former spouses may qualify for disability, widow, or divorced widow benefits. It covers age requirements, marriage duration, and work credits, plus notes on Vietnam era survivor rules and earnings impact after turning 72 in 1968.
Argentine-born composer Lalo Schifrin, based on Beverly Drive in Hollywood, is lauded as the film music sensation of the moment. His Mission Impossible themes album earned two Grammys and a gold record, while Cool Hand Luke earned an Oscar nomination. He is scoring for Che and pursuing diverse projects including TV pilots, orchestral commissions, a string quartet, and a Captains Courageous musical.
Kennebunk event features the Trafton Senior Center Rhythm Band at Colomer North American Family Campers Association meeting. The group formed as a spring uses kitchen utensils as meal instruments. Supper at 6:30 p.m. at Christ Church Danes Street. Co chairs are Mrs. Carl Goldammer and Mrs. E L Hamilton. Colomer is the only York County camp. Monthly meetings are the third Saturday at Christ Church. Open to anyone interested in camping.
Richard Pate of Biddeford earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at Husson College during recent commencement exercises. The Maine Audubon Society notes the chimney swifts' wintering area was not found until 1943 after Indians in Peru shot birds banded in Tennessee years earlier.
Commerce Department notes new Spain packaging rules spark U S opportunities to sell plastic and paper beverage containers and related machinery as Spain bans bottle sales at public venues to reduce injuries. Mentions Spanish production shortfall to meet demand. In San Antonio a jewelry store theft suspect asks to call his mother. In Miami a laborer bites foreman Don Miller after dismissal prompting police involvement.
Sgt Richard Schmit of Klamath Falls Ore visits his parents in Old Orchard Beach on a W day leave before a three year tour of duty in Japan. The article notes two local meetings of Eastern Star and Pocahontas groups and mentions ongoing Mother's March of Dimes door to door canvassing delayed by bad weather.
Col. James A. Cross, Johnson's pilot in the White House, is set to become a brigadier general and commander of the 75th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing at Bergstrom Air Force Base, per the 12th Air Force. Dr. Denton A. Cooley in San Antonio discussed mechanical hearts, predicting artificial hearts could be body-contained in 10 to 20 years.
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