Old Orchard Beach hosts Canadian Festival Week lineup
Old Orchard Beach plans a gala Canadian Festival Week from August 10 to 16 featuring a parade through Portland Scarborough Saco Biddeford and Old Orchard Beach a Queen Micheline Bedard 1960 Queen of the Quebec Winter Carnival and a court of six Canadian duchesses plus Maine Industry queens. Highlights include a clam bake Casco Bay tours a Queen Ball shopping tours and a night at Scarborough Downs with a fireworks display and band concert.
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Old Orchard Beach
Maine
Atlantic Shores
Canada
Old Orchard
Micheline Bedard
Quebec
Micheline
Portland
Scarborough
Saco
Biddeford
Casco Bay
Father hoists a sly joke on son over larger allowance
The piece playfully notes a father telling his son Bill that his success in wheedling a bigger allowance could lead to a career as a professional fundraiser. The quip is attributed to Capt. Gen. Fea. Corp. and presents a lighthearted domestic moment.
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Bill
Fea. Corp
Canadian Days mark eighth summer salutes in Biddeford Saco
Biddeford Saco hosts a three day Canadian Days event for summer visitors with special sales across stores. Participating shops display red and white Canadian days placards and Maple Leaf banners. Gift certificates will be drawn Monday at 10 by the Canadian Days committee, with no purchase needed to enter. Local officials listed include Albert Deshais and others guiding publicity and plans reach 10 000 free copies of Summer Visitor distribution across coastal towns.
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Biddeford-Saco
Biddeford- Saco
Canada
Ery
Albert F. Deshaies
Irene Shevenell
Ralph Simard
James Draggins
Roland Vincent
Clayton W. Cartmill
Belgian Parachutists Rout Congolese at Leopoldville Airport
Belgian paratroopers cleared Leopoldville airport of Congolese soldiers in under an hour amid bursts of gunfire and grenades. One Congolese soldier died, one wounded. three Belgian civilians were wounded. Gen. Geysens claimed control of the airport as Congolese troops guarded refugees. President Kasavubu and PM Lumumba condemned Belgian actions as a colonial plot, while Belgium underscored its intent to keep troops to protect whites and restore order.
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Leopoldville
Congo
Geysens
Force Publique
Airpot
Staircase
Joseph Kasavubu
Patrice Lumum
Congo Republic
United Nations
Lumumba
Belgium
Elisabethville
Luluabourg
Matadi
Car Crash Takes Lives Of Sisters
Two Washburn girls Martha Rose Carmen age 6 and Carol Ann age 7 were fatally injured when their aunt's car crashed into a utility pole en route to Madison. Martha Rose died at Eastern Maine General Hospital Bangor and Carol Ann died there early today. Mrs. Marjorie Brasier 39 of Madison the driver sustained head and knee lacerations. The girls were daughters of Air Force S/Sgt. Philip Carmen stationed at Loring AFB. Police said the car went off Route 2 and struck a power pole.
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Costigan
Washburn
Madison
Martha Rose Carmen
Maine General Hospital
Bangor
Carol Ann
Marjorie Brasier
Air Force
Philip Carmen
Carmen
Loring Air Force Base
Limestone
Hurricane Abby Nears Jamaica
Hurricane Abby the season's first is near Jamaica bringing gale winds and heavy rain. It also threatens the Cayman Islands northeast Nicaragua and northern Honduras coastlines and the Yucatan east coast as the storm strengthens slightly with centers winds around 85 mph.
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Miami
Fla
Abby
Jamaica
U. S. Weather Bureau
Caymens
Nicaragua
Honduras
Yucatan Peninsula
Hes
Lightning Kills One As Storms Strike Maine
A lightning strike killed Evelyn B. Sanborn 35 of Cresco Pa at a Bremen summer house. Her parents and son witnessed the event as a small fire followed the strike. A separate blaze destroyed Maine Blueberry Growers Inc processing plant in West Rockport, causing about $100000 in losses and an annex at Dover Foxcroft home for aged women was heavily damaged with nine residents safe.
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Maine
Orth
Evelyn B. Sanborn
Cresco
Fred R. Hart
Concord
Mass
Christopher
Hart
Long Island
Sanborn
West Rockport
Maine Blueberry Growers, Inc
Dover-Foxcroft
End Of Hot Spell Sparks Showers In New England
The Weather Bureau sees the hot spell ending as showers move south from Maine into southern New England. A three day heat wave has increased water demand. residents in the Boston metropolitan district are urged to conserve water. Thunderstorms bring rain totals, including nearly three inches at Millinocket, and one death from lightning near Bremen.
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Boston
New England
U. S. Weather Bureau
Maine
Evelyn B. Sanborn
Bremen
Weather Bureau
New Hampshire
Vermont
Metropolitan District Commission
Maremont Auto supplies parts from blacksmith roots to industry
The long history of Maremont Automotive Products Inc began in 1877 in Chicago, evolving from a Canal Street blacksmith shop to a multimillion dollar supplier of replacement mufflers leaf springs and related parts. Expansion included plants across eight cities and a 31 million annual turnover with recent sales up 6 percent and stock dividends.
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Chicago
Maremont Automotive Products, Inc
Canal Street
Wells Fargo
American Express Co
Maremont
a_ University of Chicago
Atlanta
Atlanta, Ga., Los Angeles, New York, Harvey, Ill., Cicero, Il., Muskegon, Mich
Cleveland
Paulding
Ohio
Food Machinery and Chemical Corp
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William Mullen
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Leon F. Jones
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Arthur Loranger
Charles D. Peckham, Jr
Edward Smith
Dwight McLeod
Scarborough Downs
Kennebunk Beach
Los Angeles
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Adlai E. Stevenson
Kennedy
Associated Press
Nebraska
Minnesota
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Adlai Stevenson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Stuart Symington
Missouri
Stevenson
Dixie
South
Johnson
Senate
House
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Kesslen Shoe Co
Kennebunk, Maine
Linoleum CO
Alfred Street
The
Saco-Lowell
UNION
N.J
Michael Fekecs
Fekecs
Walter Léamy
Felecs
Highland Park
Middlesex County
Edward J. Dolan
North Brunswick
Elizabeth General Hospital
Franklin Township
George Dunham
John Lebed
St. Joseph
St. Louis High School
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