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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1960
Page
2
Notes on multiple residents and staff taking vacations at Biddeford and Saco post offices and homes. Includes names such as Rita Dunton Gertrude Ayotte and Leo Cote, plus visiting families from Manchester and Syracuse and relations visiting Biddeford Pool.
Thomas Godard Jr. 83 of 5 Williams Court Biddeford died at Maine Medical Center Portland. Born February 125 1877 in Biddeford he was a loom fixer at Pepperell Manufacturing Co retired 15 years ago. Survived by widow Melena two sons Armand J. Biddeford Jovite A. Salem N H two daughters Mary Jane Breton Adeline Houle Woonsocket R I six grandchildren ten great grandchildren two sisters Matilda Godard Emila Hebert Biddeford Funeral services Tuesday at 8 30 a m at St Joseph church Biddeford calling hours today Sunday and Monday 2 4 and 6 10 p m Sansoucy funeral home 1 Stone Street Biddeford
The Methodist Youth Fellowship at South Biddeford Methodist meets Sunday at 6 30. The Foss Street Methodist church Youth Fellowship meets tomorrow at 6 30. The Junior High Baptist Youth Fellowship at Saco United Baptist meets Sunday at 6. The Senior High Youth Fellowship at Saco United Baptist meets tomorrow at 6. The West Kennebunk Methodist church vestry gathering is Sunday at 7 30. An evening service is at 7 30 Sunday at Lynn Baptist Goodwins Mills. Junior and Senior B Y meetings are Sunday 7 to 6 p m at Lyman Baptist church. The Goodwins Mills Advent Christian church Youth Fellowship meets Sunday at 7 p m.
The will of the late Samuel B Shepard of Bar Mills was allowed by Judge John B. Roberts of the York County Probate Court. Attorney Harold D Carroll was appointed executor without bond after a probate hearing on Tuesday.
Sincere thanks to friends and relatives who helped ease my sorrow after the recent loss of Mrs. Clara Petrin.
Pierre L Etoile 66 a Saco resident for 22 years died Thursday evening at his home 56 Oak Street He was born in Canada son of Rene and Emelie Sevigny L Etoile a woodsman and Notre Dame parish member Survived by sister Mrs Alice Fortin Lowell Mass Call hours Sunday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p m for prayers at Shawmay Funeral Home spring street followed by a requiem mass at Notre Dame de Lourdes Church Monday burial in Saco
Win Sawyer Winchester Sawyer, 88, dies at an Old Orchard Beach nursing home after a lengthy illness. He lived at 19 16th Street Old Orchard Beach and was a longtime member of Dalhousie lodge F and A M Newtonville MA. He is survived by his widow Bertha Stone a sister and a niece and two nephews. Services 2 pm Tuesday from Shumway funeral home Saco friends may call Monday 7 to 9 pm. Burial Evergreen cemetery Portland.
Mrs. Dorothy Strauss about 70 died in a fire at a seaside summer home. Her husband Berthold 73 was able to escape with smoke and flames hindering rescue. The couple had arrived from Elkins Park Pa for the season with grandniece Elizabeth Klebblr and maid Peggy Ann Jordan. The child and maid escaped. Elizabeth was rescued from a balcony with Mrs Strauss aiding. Cause of the blaze was undetermined.
Russell Rix of Glenwood and Old Orchard Beach filed nomination papers for the Old Orchard Beach selectman and assessor post. He is the third candidate joining William Allen and Sam Stroumbas. Filing deadline is Saturday noon August 6 with the special election set for August 22.
An accident at Main and Beach streets in Saco last night damaged three cars and involved four vehicles. Police estimate total damage at 250 dollars with individual losses of 125 to the French car 75 to the Davis car and 50 to the Paquette car. Hattersley car reportedly sustained no damage.
Clearing tonight and cooler with sunny spells and comfortable temperatures. Eastport to Block Island small craft warnings in effect with southwest winds 15 to 20 knots today, becoming northwest 15 to 20 knots by midnight. Scattered afternoon thunder showers possible, then clearing by midnight with some late night
Welcome notices announce newborns at various homes and hospitals. Names include Guy Joseph Gosselin born July 12 at Portsmouth Naval Hospital and Anne Marie Leonard born July 14 at Old Orchard Beach, Judy Ellyn Desper born July 17, Richard David Putney born July 13, Ricky Jay St Amand born July 18 in Milford Delaware.
Woodsmen near Trent in the Lares valley report two bears raided an abandoned camp, drank five 50 quart demijohns of north Italian wine, and performed a wild dance, attracting local townsfolk who heard tales of the event from custodian Prof. Peter Krott and nearby observers.
Pourers were announced for the silver tea and public reception honoring Rev. Sister Jean Maurice at St. Andre home and hospital on Pool road Biddeford. The visiting nun and Good Shepherd orders member returns to Basutoland South Africa for mission work later this year.
Gerald Daley, 28, of Brockton Massachusetts, became the first respondent in Saco Municipal Court this morning. Associate Judge William F Wilson fined him ten dollars after he pleaded guilty to intoxication in a motor vehicle.
Clint Harris operates a growing pet cemetery offering 3 by 6 foot graves for 25 dollars. Services include wooden boxes, caskets, headstones, and concrete vaults, with elaborate funerals sometimes featuring embalming, silk blankets, and multiple flower arrangements. Harris started the venture after being asked to bury a dog in a well kept grave at his kennel. He notes he provides burial services but no formal funeral service.
A diesel engine fire near North Street crossing in Tewksbury Mass delayed the Portland Maine to New York Boston & Maine train. Cars were uncoupled to prevent spread, another diesel was brought, and the train resumed, arriving three and a half hours late in Providence Rhode Island.
Two Belfast youths confessed to starting a blaze that destroyed three Maplewood Poultry Co buildings. Police estimate losses between 25000 and 30000 dollars after seven hours of fire department effort near Water Street.
Al Hoffman composer of Heartaches Papa Loves Mambo and Mairzy Doats died Thursday in the Hospital for Joint Diseases. He aged 58. Co writer Dick Manning is cited as a collaborator on several hits.
Correction lists Joseph E E Melancon 61 Main Street Biddeford and Pauline M Cloutier 27 Em ery Street Biddeford as marriage intentions. The notice confirms names and addresses without additional details.
Three area men join the first phase of a three part National Guard officer training at Camp Keyes Augusta The phase lasts two weeks at the Maine Military Academy with a second two week period next summer and a final set of ten weekend drills from August to May Staff Officer Specialist O Neill P Laurel from Kennebunk and cadets Robert A Herbert and Gerald W Small from Biddeford oversee the program After completing the 76 hour course the Maine Guardsmen are commissioned as Guard officers within the state.
Kennebunk Municipal Court, before Judge David W. Emmons, heard traffic charges from the Kennebunk Police Department and four cases from State Police. Pleas included guilty pleas and fines ranging from 10 to 50 dollars, plus a 30 day county jail sentence for reckless driving. Lobster possession charges resulted in fines and warnings, including a notable test of seed lobster rules.
Joseph Maloney of Middle Street Saco was reported in satisfactory condition at Saco Osteopathic Hospital after his car was demolished in a collision with a trailer truck on Portland Road. Dr David Sheehan said Maloney suffered severe lacerations below the chin and on the lower lip and was being X rayed for additional injuries.
Way Seen on page one keeps second place on the ticket as he says Nixon agreed to respect this decision. Some Republicans fear a convention surge toward a Nixon Rockefeller pairing though others think a substantial bloc of delegates may push for it due to aligned campaign issues. Rockefeller might be asked to join as vice president if Nixon wins the election.
Paris merchants and taxi drivers complain business is awful despite record tourist numbers. A travel agency official says all inclusive guided tours herd visitors between attractions by bus or limousine, reducing time for shopping.
In Copenhagen, Denmark, 700 delegates to the fifth international polio conference will have a fully equipped heat clinic in a room next to the main meeting hall after two prior conferences saw delegates die from heart attacks.
Rev Demetrios Michaelides formerly of St Deme trios Biddeford Greek Orthodox Church will co celebrate the Divine Liturgy at Christ Episcopal Church Biddeford with Rev Sam Kalamaras of Wheeling W V as guest pastor. Cantor P Calapas. Memorial service for Elias Bisios follows. Matins at 10 15 a m Liturgy 10 30 11 30 a m.
A Huntington New York couple on their honeymoon died in a head on collision near Concord New Hampshire. Carroll Duffy 19 and Charles Griffin 36 were pronounced dead at the scene and Mrs Duffy 20 was critically injured. Investigators said the crash occurred shortly before 4 a m along Route 4 seven miles east of Concord.
Democratic candidate for governor Rep. Frank M. Coffin of Maine assailed the Republican state platform as insufficient, arguing the Democratic platform offers 69 new statements on government problems not addressed by the Republicans. He likened the contrast to a sturdy wharf versus scrap lumber.
Theodore Teddy Green, a convicted bank robber serving 25 years at Alcatrax, asked Westbrook Maine Judge Francis Rocheleau for a status rundown. The judge says Green has three indictments and two warrants pending related to an $24,000 Maine bank robbery eight years ago. Green also sought Portland newspaper clippings about the Westbrook robbery.
Biddeford firemen battled brush and grass fires yesterday afternoon. A blaze on Root One Arundel near 3:48 p.m. followed by another along the Boston and Maine railroad tracks off Mountain Road from 4:20 to about 5:00 p.m. were fought with booster lines. sparks from a railroad engine were blamed for the second fire.
The Saco Red Cross swim program at the Royal Ambassador pool Ocean Park ended Friday with certificates awarded. Twelve classes totaled 112 graduates from Class A 91 from Class T and 68 from Class C plus 47 beginners who passed the test.
Denver Mrs Deana Johnson a 67 year old woman packs and repairs parachutes at Lowry Air Force Base she is the only civilian in the shop to do silk section replacements and serves about 1000 chutes for Lowry and the Air Force academy She recounts a wartime test when five men bailed from chutes she packed and returned to the highway with their chutes.
Rev Clarence Laplante announced that St Francis College earns a five year extension of approval to prepare secondary teachers in listed academic fields. Hayden Anderson of the Maine Department of Education confirmed the Maine State Board of Education voted to renew approval for another five years.
A herd of 19 mountain zebras from southwest Africa arrives in the Catskills aboard a New York shipment. Roland Lindemann’s game farm team brought the animals, the largest herd yet in the United States, with hopes to breed. Zebras, about two years old, spent two months in pens to acclimate after a voyage that included camouflaged pits and lassoing. The species, beige with distinctive horizontal rump stripes and dewlaps, differs in features from other zebras.
Carlton B. Driscoll, a Thornton Academy graduate and former Saco resident, won an assistantship in teaching at Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he graduated magna cum laude this June. He will pursue a master's degree and trains this summer in Georgia under ROTC before returning to WPI. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Carlton D Driscoll, formerly of Winter Street, Saco, now in South Carolina with Saco Lowell Shops.
Under FBI surveillance a U S owner provided the man with more than a thousand dollars and financed flying lessons for a photographer. He hinted the Soviets would buy a plane for further aerial reconnaissance, with photos showing U S Navy installations and other intelligence targets mainly along the East Coast. Officials did not identify the photographer or state potential actions.
Herbert Stinson twenty one of South Portland was sentenced by Trial Justice Wesley Mewer in Old Orchard Beach to 90 days in York county jail. He received 60 days for driving under the influence and 30 days for driving without a license. The case was appealed. Stinson was released on seven hundred dollars bail. In separate action Leonard Richard twenty of Sanford was fined fifteen dollars for speeding sixty mph in a forty zone.
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