Pleasant weather forecast for New England region
Fair Portland to Boston forecast shows mostly sunny days with gentle westerly winds and cool nights. Extended outlook expects five day average temperatures 2 to 4 degrees below normal, with over half an inch of total precipitation and periodic showers across Massachusetts Rhode Island and surrounding areas.
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Portland
Boston
U. S. Weather Bureau
New England
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Fold Notice of Newborns at Local Hospitals
Welcome to the Fold records births from June across Biddeford Saco and Portland. Cynthia Cheryl Woodman and William Ralph Guilbeault are born June 29 30 to new parents with extended families listed, Catherine Ann Doyon born June 30, Peter Borodine noted as second son, Deborah Sue Hoffman born June 8 in Suffern New York, and a daughter for Edward Goldman at Maine Medical Center June 17 with full parental and grandparent details.
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Ralph Guilbeault
Chadwick Place
Biddeford
William Ralph
Guilbeault
Dolores Langevin
Clement Doyon
New County Road
Saco
Catherine Ann
Doyon
Carolyn Doe
Bernard Doe
Dayton
Adrien Doyon
Hubbard Street
Pierre G. Borodine
Williamstown
Mass
Peter
Borodine
Margret Ann Stebbins
Walter FE. Stebbins
Summer Street
Antoine Chabert
Bergerac
Dordogne
France
Gerard Hoffman
Arlene Small
Nanuet
N. Y
Deborah Sue
Good Samaritan Hospital
Suffern
Harold Small
Kennebunk
J. Hoffman
Westwood
N. J
Edward Goldman
Jeanne Street
Portland
Maine Medical Center
Israel Goldman
South Street
Rose Hecht
Personal notices from Biddeford and Saco area
A collection of local personal notices lists visits and travels among residents. Atty. and Mrs. Edwin Walker of Saco host guests from San Francisco. Ernest Lemieux of Biddeford is hospitalized in Webber Hospital. Mrs. William McAuley and son Robert visit Mrs. Grace Roberge in Saco. several Biddeford residents plan vacations or return home from trips. Pfc. Paul F. Beane visits his family in Fortunes Rocks after two years apart. Ralph C. Petrin Jr. is promoted to corporal at Fort Gordon. Goose Rocks Beach hosts guests for the Fourth with a lobster bake and fireworks. Warmer family from Saco hikes Mount Washington with relatives from Pennsylvania. multiple residents are noted for travels to New York, Boston, and Hawaii as part of summer visits.
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New England Post Hospital
Boston
Eugene Gaudette
Lincoln
R.I
Walter Stebbins
Biddeford
Gaudette
Mary Stebbins
Newton Stevens
Goose Rocks Beach
Fred Fowler
Fowler
Barbara Stevens
Guy
Michael Cantara
Mass
Saco
Eva Cantara
Ludger Caron
Locke Street
Chester Lessard
Lewiston
Deborah
Neacy
Jacqueline
Leo Ruel
Oak Place
Paul FE. Beane
Hawaii
Fortunes Rocks
Ralph C. Petrin, Jr
Ralph Petrin
Fort Gordon
Summer Street
Biddeford House
Proctor Cottage
Goose Rocks
Arnold Hill
Alan
Sandy
Cochrane
Mount Washington
Tuckerman’s Ravine
Lion's Head Trail
Fred F. Prucha
John Doering, Jr
Pennsylvania
Ptucha
Mrs. V. Padorovny
Beach Street
Obituary Notice for Elmer C. Oxton in Biddeford
Elmer C Oxton 54 died suddenly in Portland while viewing July Fourth fireworks. He lived at 11A Summer street Biddeford. born in Rockport was son of Herbert and Elizabeth Oxton. He was a truck driver for Biddeford city. member of Biddeford Democratic Club and St. Mary church. Survived by widow Mary Oxton four sons Richard George Herbert and Lawrence. daughters Mrs Philip Roy Mrs George Murphy and Nancy. sisters Mrs Melvin Wood and Mrs Franck Hatch. 11 grandchildren. Funeral at St Mary church Friday at 9. Visitation Bolduc Funeral Home this evening after 7 and Thu 2-4 and 7-10.
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Elmer Chapman Oxton
Portland
Summer Street
Rockport
Herbert
Elizabeth Annis Oxton
Biddeford
Rockland
Democratic Club
St. Mary Church
Mary
Bolduc
Alfred Street
Saco to Vote in State-Wide Referendum
Secretary of State Paul A. MacDonald alerts Saco City Clerk Clifford A. Purvis of a special state-wide referendum on Tuesday October 10. Four questions are on the ballot: a $6,000,000 highway bond. a $2,600,000 bond for se-liquidating student housing at teachers colleges. a proposed constitutional amendment on Maine State retirement funds. and a constitutional amendment enabling construction of industrial buildings. New election laws, revised and radical, are printed and available by the end of July.
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Paul A. MacDonald
Saco
Clifford A. Purvis
Maine
Teachers’ Colleges
MacDonald
Stocks Rally As Market Holds Gains In Morning Trade
New York AP reports a steady stock market rally with the Associated Press average up to 246.10 at noon and the Dow Jones industrial average rising 3.15 to 692.96. Gains spread across steels, motors, rubbers, utilities, coppers and chemicals as Honolulu Oil sinks 87 percent on asset sale questions.
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New York
Associated Press
Honolulu Oil
Justice Department
Commonwealth Edison
Jones & Laughlin
Saco Native Alice Hodgkins Dies After 38 Years in Kennebunkport
Mrs Alice Arvilla Hodgkins of Saco owned a Kennebunkport variety store for 38 years and died early Tuesday at Old Orchard Beach convalescent home. Widow of Herbert F Hodgkins she was active in South Congregational church Olympian club and Red Cross. Survived by sister Mrs George Bean Biddeford brother Jesse J Tellington Berlin NH and several nieces. Funeral Thursday at 2 pm from Dennett and Cal Funeral Home Saco with viewing today 2-4 and 7-9. Burial Laurel Hill Cemetery Saco.
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Alice Arvilla Hodgkins
Saco
Kennebunkport
Old Orchard Beach
Herbert F. Hodgkins
Frank and
Mary (Telington) Donahue
South Congregational Church of
the Port
Olympian Club
Good Cheer Club
Red Cross Chapter
George Bean
Biddeford
Jesse J. Tellington
Berlin
N. H
Dennett and Cal Funeral Home
Main Street
Laurel Hill
Cemetery
Requiem Mass for Arthur Sabourin Held in Miami
Funeral services for Arthur Sabourin were held Monday at Jesu Catholic Church in Miami with Rev. J A Sweeney presiding. Burial followed Tuesday in the family plot at St Joseph Cemetery Biddeford as Rev. Robert T. Martel led the committal prayers.
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Arthur Sabourin
Miami
Fla
Jesu Catholic Church
J. A. Sweeney
St. Joseph Cemetery
Biddeford
Robert T. Martel
Swans Gift From Queen Arrives En Route to Vermont
A pair of white swans gifted by Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Montreal from London in a cargo crate aboard a Canadian airliner. They will be quarantined in New York for three weeks before delivery to Gov. F Ray Keyser Jr. in Swanton Vermont for the town’s July 28 anniversary ceremony. The birds were captured at Hickling Broad in Norfolk and British officials hope they will establish a permanent swan population in Swanton.
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Montreal
Great Britain
Swanton
London
New York
F. Ray Keyser Jr
Vermont
Hickling Broad
Norfolk
Hurry Bugs On The Road Cause Grief And Collision
A call to control reckless driving highlights carelessness behind the wheel. It warns of drivers who cut in and out at intersections, rail crossings, and curves. The message urges drivers to follow safely and maintain distance to prevent accidents.
Man Killed In Collecting For Ten Cent Call
FRAMINGHAM Mass A tow truck attendant Donald Bernardi 22 died when a tractor trailer demolished the car he stood on after a Maine woman could repay a dime borrowed to call for a tow. The driver Mason C Britt 50 Lakeland Fla was held by State Police. The woman Miss Caroline Skofield 96 Gardiner Maine was aboard the disabled vehicle. Bernardi left two children.
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Framingham
Mass
Maine
Massachusetts Turnpike
Donald Bernardi
Bernardi
Chizen
Mason C. Britt
Michigan Ave
Lakeland
Fla
Caroline Skofield
Washington Ave
Gardiner
Unemployment checks issued by Biddeford MESC office
Francis M. Coughlin manager for the Biddeford office of the Maine Employment Security Commission reports that eight persons received unemployment checks for the week ending July 1, compared with 630 a year earlier. The note highlights a dramatic drop in claims.
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Francis M. Coughlin
Biddeford
Maine Employment Security Commission
Recreation Director announces weekly sneaker hops at Saco courts
Saco Recreation Director Har vey Lamontagne Jr announced that sneaker hops will be held on tennis courts at Saco Memorial Field every Tuesday and Friday night from 8 to 10 p m.
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Saco
Harvey Lamontagne, Jr
Saco Memorial Field
Holiday babies born in two cities on July fourth
Three newborns arrived in the Twin City area yesterday. At Saco Osteopathic hospital a boy weighed eight pounds 12 ounces born to Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Couture of 41 Summer Street Biddeford with Dr. Donald Skilling attending. At Webber hospital a boy weighing six pounds 10 ounces was born to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Patterson of 8 King Street Biddeford with Dr. Carl Haas attending. A girl named Marion Frances Tellier was born at Webber at 9:85 p.m. to Mr. and Mrs. Roland Tellier of 99 Washington Street Biddeford with Dr. Germain Binette attending. This is the Couture and Patterson families' first child and Marion Frances Tellier is the seventh child for the Tellier family.
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Twin City
Webber Hospital
Biddeford
Saco Osteopathic Hospital
Saco Hospital
Donald Skilling
Lionel Couture
Summer Street
Couture
Jeanne Berthiaume
Dwight Charles Patterson
Carl Haas
Norman Patterson
King Street
Patterson
Roland Tellier
Washington Street
Germain Binette
Tellier
Head of New UM Post Named
Dr. Raymond Forer of New Brunswick New Jersey was named to head a new department of sociology and anthropology at the University of Maine. He will assume the post in September and comes from the Behavioral Science Department of the University of Kentucky Medical Center where he is an assistant professor.
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Orono
Raymond Forer
New Brunswick
N. J
Universiy of
Maine
Forer
University of Kentucky Medical Center
No-Run Nylons Predicted In The Fashion News
AP fashion writer reports nylon hosiery may remain costly and fragile. Market rep Jack Townsend notes no perfect no-run nylon exists. 30 denier mesh offers little relief. Consumers vary between sheer 15 denier slips and heavier weights, with care tips and ongoing experimentation by manufacturers.
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Jean Sprain Wilson
New York
Jack Townsend
Townsend
Especiilly
Biddeford Couple Wed At St Andre Church Sacristy
Miss Simone Deschambeault of 76 Birch Street and Donald Stevens of Jefferson Street Biddeford were united in marriage at St Andre church sacristy. Rev Fr Gerard Perent officiated with witnesses Mr and Mrs Alfred Guilmette. A shore dinner followed at Valle’s steak house before a Canadian honeymoon trip.
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Simone Deschambeault
Birch Street
Donald Stevens
Jefferson Street
Biddeford
St. Andre Church
Gerard Perent
Alfred Guilmette
Valle’s
Canada
St. Anne
License Count Dropped in Biddeford Court
Raymond E. Bill, stationed at Biddeford Pool Coast Guard station, faced a driving without a license charge in Biddeford Municipal Court, but the judge dismissed the case after a Massachusetts license confusion. A minor collision on Pool Street involving Gil les M. Fecteau sparked the inquiry. no injuries reported.
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Raymond E. Bill
Simon Spill
Biddeford
Bill
Biddeford Pool Coast Guard
Maine
Massachusetts
Noto
Automobile Division
Augusta
Pool Street
Gilles M. Fecteau
Guinea Road
Fecteau
Exploding Gas Tanks Endanger Richmond Area
In Richmond Virginia explosions at the Crown Central Petroleum dock unleashed flames rising about 200 feet. Over three hours and more than 300 firefighters battled the blaze. One man was seriously injured as six homes burned and about 30 people, including children, were evacuated to a nearby school. Crown worker P R Kirtley in an asbestos suit opened valves allowing gas to flow into the river. the tugboat towing the barge burned and sank as the vessel drifted.
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Richmond
Crown Central Petroleum Corp
P. R. Kirtley
Crown
Skeleton and parachute tell death story in Adirondacks
An unopened parachute lay beside a skeleton found near Route 9 in the Adirondacks. Airman S Sgt Pierre Maheux of Auburn Maine, 27, died from a fractured skull after leaping from a stricken B52 bomber December 9. Seven crew members parachuted to safety. the craft was based at Westover Field Massachusetts.
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North Hudson
N.Y
Adirondack
Pierre Maheux
Auburn
Maine
Thomas N. Heitzman
Albany
Hatch Pond-Basee Lake
Air Force
Maheux
Westover Field
Chicopee
Mats
Accused Murderer Vosburgh to Undergo Lung Operation
Abel Vosburgh, jailed on charges of murdering his wife and 11 children in a December 29 farmhouse fire at Noyan, is to be operated on Saturday for left lung cancer. The 63 year old, last seized at Bordeaux jail, was the sole survivor of the blaze and was moved to a local hospital after his attorney reported the plan.
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Montreal
Abel Vosburgh
Vosburgh
Bordeaux
John Gotlieb
Noyan
Maine Man Dies In Southern City
E Howard Bennett a 33 year old member of a Maine textile publishing family died on arrival at a Greenville hospital after an ambulance transfer from a hotel Police indicated the death was due to acute alcoholism Coroner George W McCoy said an inquest would likely not be held Bennett had lived in Greenville five years and was linked with Frank P Bennett of Kittery Maine Funeral services are planned in Kittery Maine
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Greenville
S.C
E. Howard Bennett
Bennett
George W. McCoy
Frank P. Bennett
Kittery
Maine
June L Douville Weds Normand L Roy in Saco Church
June Louise Douville and Normand Lucien Roy were married at Notre Dame de Lourdes church in Saco with Rev. Georges Plante officiating. Attendants included maid of honor Joyce Luce Douville and best man Archie Roy. The couple will reside in Saco after a New York wedding trip and Roy is a Coast Guard veteran.
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June Louise Douville
Normand Lucien Roy
Notre Dame de Lourdes
Saco
Georges Plante
Eva Carrier
Conrad Douville
New County Road
Archie Roy
Spruce Street
Biddeford
That's Asking Bit Too Much That's Asking Bit Too Much
A reader complains to the Wirral librarian that a desk he borrowed was erroneously stamped due for return the same day. He jokes that the book titled How To Speed Up Your Reading makes the situation ridiculous.
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Wirral
England
Biddeford City Council To Meet Tomorrow Night
Biddeford officials plan a regular monthly meeting tomorrow night at 8 after Monday’s session adjourned for lack of a quorum. Attending the brief session were Alcide Gagne James L Heureux John Cleary and Mayor Clement Deschambault.
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Biddeford
Alcide Gagne
James L'Heureux
John Cleary
Clement Deschambault
Khrushchev Arrives in Finland Stirs Moscow Broadcast
A Moscow radio segment lists four ten month old items led by Khrushchev’s arrival in Finland and welcome by President Kekkonen last September. Also cited are Ham marsk’s note on Kennedy General Assembly attendance, Belikangue’s Congo leader arrest, and Soviet Olympic golds in Rome. The BBC notes the old tape error.
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London
Moscow
Khrushchev
Finland
Urho Kekkonen
Dag Hammarsk
Jean Belikange
British Broadcasting Corporation
Employment In Country Jumps
Washington reports a anticipated jump in unemployment by at least half a million as teen years flood into the labor market. The surge involves many high school and college graduates seeking permanent work, expected to raise both total labor force and employment totals for June.
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Washington
Railroad Net Income Report Shows Drop
PORTLAND The Maine Central Railroad today reported net income of 24794 in May. The net income for the comparable period in 1960 was 76616. The railroad said freight revenues in May of this year decreased 48874 from May of 1960.
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Portland
Maine Central Railroad Today
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Notre Dame Hospital
Norman Woodman
Ferry Lane
Cynthia Cheryl
Woodman
Doris Arundel
King Woodman
Rosemarie Arundel
Edward Arundel
Biddeford-Saco
Barbara Jean Atwater
David Atwater
Common Street
Elmer C. Oxton
Alice Hodgkins
Paul A. Hebert
Vine Avenue
May Lia Cabana
Dorothy A. Hebert
MESC
Bette Davis
Gutter
Penthouse
Apple Annie
Crippler
J. Robert Cooper
Detroit
United Cerebral Palsy Assn
Cooper
New
UM Post
Biddeford Court
Richmond Area
June L. Douville
Normand L. Roy
Coos
Lucien Roy
Lee's Studio
New York City
Children’s Asthma Research Institute
Alfred St
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