Vacationing locals and readers on leave in Biddeford area
A long list of residents and staff from Biddeford and nearby towns are on vacation or sick leave. Names include Leo Mullen at 9 Meeshall Avenue and Roland Laliberte of the Biddeford post office planning a July week off. Postmaster Willie Laverriere and family returned from Canada, while several postal workers including Ivan Menard, Robert Gosselin, Kenneth Cooper, Gerard Twomey, and Robert Libby take or resume leave. Other notes mention hospital stays, travel for multiple families, and community event planning at Goose Rocks Beach and Biddeford Pool with local hosts and visitors.
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Leo Mullen
Meeshall Avenue
Biddeford
Andrew Desmaraig
Foss Street
Webber Hospital
William Larkin
Goose Rocks Beach
Roland Laliberte
Ivan Menard
Gerard Twomey
Robert Libby
Marcelle Morin
Graham Street
York Savings and Loan Institution
Main Street
Portsmouth Hospital
Ortsmouth
N.H
Eleanm Murphy
Highland Avenue
Old Orchard Beach
Elizabeth Murphy
Old
Virginia Woodman
Isle Marjorie Murphy
Martha van Matta
Valley Forge General Hospital
Hugh Mullen
King’s Highway
Goose Rocks
Mullen
GRB Association
Joseph Potvin
Hector Girwerd
Asbestos
P. Q
Alfred Langevin
Pike Street
Edmond Elie
Hill Street
Henry Plamondon
Pleasant Street
Saco
Ernest Nolette
Omer Nolette
Mt. Vernon Street
Joseph Renault
New Britain
Conn
Mederic Binette
Pool Road
John Fecteau
Adrien Beauregard
Lewiston
William Marchand
Clarendon
Fecteau
Frederic Binette
Clara Labonte
Elm Street
Son Of Pool Man Drowns In Bay State
Edward Wigglesworth III aged 17 of Wenham died after falling from a dinghy into the water off Manchester Massachusetts. Survived by his parents a sister Sally grandparents and paternal grandmother. Funeral services will be held at the youth’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Wigglesworth, III
Wenham
Manchester
Mass
Wigglesworth
Edward Wigglesworth
Biddeford Pool
Cape Elizabeth
McKean Wigglesworth
Sally
Enham
Henry P. McKean Wenham
H. Webb Hyde
Dedham
Saco Rebecca Lodge to Meet at Odd Fellows Hall
Rebecca Lodge of Saco will meet at Odd Fellows hall Saturday night at 7 30. Members plan routine business and social hour after the session in the hall rooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saco Rebecca Lodge
Odd Fellows Hall
Rain Causes 14 Deaths Along Western Japan Coast
Heavy rains triggered landslides and floods along the inland sea coast of western Japan. Unofficial reports say 14 people were killed as eight inches of rain fell in about 12 hours at Iwakuni home to a U.S. naval air station.
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Tokyo
Japan
Iwakuni
U.S. Naval Air Station
Youth convicted for speeding must log highway deaths daily
A 17 year old found guilty of driving 100 miles per hour is required to keep a daily record of persons killed on Virginia highways. He must file a monthly report to Judge Francis Binford and may drive only on assignments from his employer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince George. Va
Virginia
Francis Binford
Fines Set for Late Campaign Expense Filers in Maine Primaries
Augusta based report says a legislative committee fined 100 candidates in the June 20 primaries for late or missing expense reports. 95 filed late or failed to report by July 5, with $1 per day penalties. 24 not heard from. Five others missed the June 17 deadline. No major-office candidates on list. Failure to pay could remove nominees from November ballots. The panel will reconvene July 27 to review accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Church Notes L Junior Band and Saco Salvation Army Meet
Confessions scheduled across Kennebunk and Wells on Saturday with times at St Monica St Martha Mary All Saints. Evangelist Henry Hutchins and Pastor Delbert Campbell are listed as speakers for Sunday at the Full Gospel assembly on Hill and Chapel streets Biddeford and West Buxton Baptist church respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Saco Salvation Army
St. Monica Church
Kennebunk
St. Mary Church
Wells
All Saints Church
Oguawit
Full Gospel Assembly
Biddeford
Delbert Campbell
Baptist Church
West Buxton
Hill and
Chapel Streets
Advent Christian Meetinghouse
Henry Hutchins
Greene
Advent Christian Church
Universal Towson Bride Plans With Trading Stamp Hoard
A 23-year-old secretary planning marriage reveals her hope chest includes 10 books of trading stamps, reflecting the era's coupon and redemption craze in Towson Maryland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Universal Towson
API
Portland Weather Outlook Mixed Sunny Warm This Afternoon
This afternoon mostly sunny and warm in Portland with west to northwest winds 5-10 mph and 10-15 mph onshore along the coast. Tonight partly cloudy with widely scattered showers and light westerly winds. Saturday fair and warm with temps near seasonal norms. extended forecast shows little change, rainfall under two tenths of an inch mainly Monday.
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Portland
Caribou
Eastport
Greenville
Old Town
Portlana
Rumford
Mt. Wash
Concord
Boston
New York
Washington
Miami
New England
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Biddeford Firemen Respond to Two Blazes Yesterday
Biddeford firemen answered two calls yesterday. A torch used at William Dussaults home on Gore Street started a wall blaze requiring booster lines. A waste basket fire at Jeanne Hoopers beauty salon on Main Street, owned by Osher Realty, was out on arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford
William Dussault
Gore Street
Jeanne
Main Street
Osher Realty Company
Jeanne Hooper
Dark Haired Contestant Captures Miami Beach Crowd
Linda, barely out of high school, shines among 15 semifinalists at the Miami Beach pageant. Judges praise her poise and beauty as she leads in evening gown and bathing suit events, with a crowd of 6,000 applauding her. Mary Rodrigies is named first runner up. others include Gordon, Tarlton, and Wakefield.
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Linda
Miami Beach Convention Hall
New York
Mary Rodities
Port Jefferson
Marerretto Gordon
Birmingham
Ala
Lyndia Ann Tarlton
Wingate, N. C
Nancy Wakefield
Winter Haven
Fla
Congo refugees flee as Belgian troops deploy
Panic drives women and children from homes in the Republic of Congo as soldiers and Europeans direct refugees to shelters and schools. Abbe Fulbert Youlou forms a committee to aid them. Belgium plans send two more companies to Congo bases while thousands of white Belgian troops are already present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
French Congo
Abbe Fulbert Youlou
Republic of Congo
Belgium
State Department
Brussels
Gaston Eyskens
Congo
Kamina
Katanga
Kitona
Banane
Congo River
Soviets report 8000 mile bullseye in rocket test
Tass said the second firing of a new multi stage rocket hit about 8,000 miles, with Tuesday and Thursday launches into the Central Pacific yielding data to complete a carrier rocket design for further cosmic space conquest. The test series ended and 90,000 square miles of target area were open to shipping.
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Moscow
Tass
Central Pacific
Salute To Youth: Richard Chretien Chosen Leader at St Louis High
Madeliene Davenport profiles Richard Chretien, 1960 St Louis High School graduate and school president, named Salute to Youth for his plan to study education at St Francis Xavier Antigonish. He led as captain of the football team, served on prom and yearbook committees, and engaged in multiple campus activities. He plans to pursue a teaching career beginning this fall.
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Madeliene Davenport
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish
N. S
Canada
Richard Chretien
St. Louis High School
Royal Chretien
Center Street
Biddeford
Dirigo
St. Louis School
Chretien
Eagle
St. Lous High
St. Joseph High School
St. Andre High School
St. Francis Xavier of
St. Louis
Television Turns To Conventions Televison Turns To Conventions
Bernard Gavzer reports networks shift toward the Democratic convention in Los Angeles with pre coverage on Sunday. NBC ABC and CBS plan convention oriented programs led by Daly Cronkite Huntley and Brinkley as prime time coverage starts 6 or 7 PM daily.
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New York
Los Angeles
Onight
NBC
Larry Blyden
ABC
CBS
Miami Beach
Fla
Kansas City
Paul Butler
Senators Kennedy, Johnson and Symington
Joh Daly
Walter Cronkite
Chet Huntley
David Brinkley
Deshaies Heads Canadian Days Committee
Albert F. Deshaies named chairman of the Canadian Days committee within the Chamber of Commerce. Other members include Mrs. Irene Shevenell Ralph Simard James Draggins Roland Vincent and Clayton W Cartmill. Canadian days are set for July 14 15 and 16 with plans underway.
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Albert F. Deshaies
Chamber of Commerce
Irene Shevenell
Ralph Simard
James Draggins
Roland Vincent
Clayton W. Cartmill
Oxford Paper Co Workers To Get Pay Boost
Union spokesman says United Mine Workers and Oxford Paper Co have agreed on a contract raising about 2,800 workers by nine cents an hour retroactive to July 1. The pact includes 35 pay upsteps and 21 improvements such as time and a half after eight hours.
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Rumford
United Mine Workers
Oxford Paper Co
William J. Foley
UMW
District 50
Oxford
Foley
Stocks edge higher in a cautious New York session
New York stock market shows a modest gain with moderate trading as leading issues post fractional advances. Polaroid rises about five points while Radio Corp and Motorola gain in electronics, major steels advance, and Dow Jones index sits at 645.68 at noon with the AP average up to 223.70 as bonds drift.
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New York
Polaroid
Radio Corp
Motorola
Zenith
Jones & Laughlin
U. Steel
Bethlehem
Republic
Studebaker-Packard
Chrysler
Associated Press
U.S
Workshop In Religion Ends At Ferry Beach
A week long Universalist church education workshop ends at Ferry Beach Park Association. Six families from New England attended as the first of ten programs on church activity. Dr Dorothy T Sweers lectured on child development while adults and children participated in sessions led by regional church leaders and educators.
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Ferry Beach Park
Russell Baker
Universalist-Unitarian Church
Waltham
Mass
William DeWolfe
Stoughton
James White
Stafford
Conn
Fred MacKaye
Robert Perry
Brockton
Richard Casey
Yale University
Emily Kitowski
West Hartford
Con
Burton Whitman
Turner
DeWolfe
Gayle Wetzel
Attleboro
Albert Robinson
Woonsocket
R. I
Hysterical crowd kept from Soviet embassy reception
About two thousand people crowded outside the Soviet Embassy in Vienna on Thursday night after phony invitations stirred anger. Austrian police said the mailed invitations targeted a broad group including hotel porters and prostitutes, prompting a mass turnaway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Austria
Sam Strombous Seeks Old Orchard Beach Board Seat
Nomination papers circulate for a fourth candidate to fill the Old Orchard Beach board of selectmen vacancy. Sam Strombous, 63, of 17 Washington Avenue, is expected to file soon. The vacancy arose after Chairman Donald Shorey resigned to become acting postmaster. A July 25 special election was tentatively set, but the date remains unofficial. Other candidates are Russell E. Rix, Josep Lamontagne, and William F. Allen.
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Old Orchard Beach
Russell E. Rix
Josep Lamontagne
William F. Allen
Overtime Parker Draws $25 Fine
Portland AP reports Municipal Court jailed Robert H. Lorrain 26, after he left his car overnight on Congress Street and ignored two warnings to pay a $1 ticket. Judge Murrell imposed a $25 fine, believed heaviest on record for overtime parking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Walter F. Murrell
Robert H. Lorrain
Congress St
Case Is Continued Against Beach Man
The assault and battery case against Robert B. Smith of Union Avenue Old Orchard Beach was continued 10 days by Associate Judge Gerald Nason in Biddeford Municipal Court this morning. Smith is charged with assault and battery on State Rep Jerome G. Plante of Old Orchard Beach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert B. Smith
Union Avenue
Old Orchard Beach
Gerald Nason
Biddeford
Smith
Jerome G. Plante
Bean Supper Planned by Camp Ellis Unit
Camp Ellis Volunteer Fire Department will sponsor a bean supper tomorrow from 5 to 7 p m at the Camp Ellis fire station. The group announced the plans at a Wednesday night meeting. They will also sponsor a first aid course, with dates not yet set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Ellis
Prof Spalding Links Management To Genetics Debate
The quote credits Prof R W Spalding of Cornell University who argues that better management matters more than genetics in improving outcomes. He emphasizes administrative factors alongside scientific insight in shaping results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. W. Spalding
Cornell University
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