Kennebunk Notes From Local Legion Post and Beach Office Opening
Memorial Day kept the Webber Lefebvre post American Legion meeting from convening. Allan Haines returns home from surgery to Labonte Avenue Saco to visit daughter Priscilla Trougakos. Mrs Ruby Peaslee visits son in law and daughter Maynard Haskell Jr. at the Landing. Charles Freeman and family travel to Bol ton and Framingham for family visits. Kennebunk Beach summer office opens marking the season with hours through Sept 30. Mail for the beach shifts to Kennebunk post in winter. Kennebunk Fire Department called to town dump.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webber-Lefebvre Post American Legion
Allan Haines
Main Street
Webber Hospital
Priscilla Trougakos
Labonte Avenue
Saco
Ruby Peaslee
Blue Hill
Maynard Haskell
the Landing
Charles Freeman
Storer Street
Kennebunk
Real estate sales across Maine towns reported
The L. J. Descoteaux agency sold Edward Roy’s property at 20 Zion Avenue Old Orchard Beach to Leo Paul and Carmen Bertrand for a residence. Other transactions include the Verrier property at 17 Simard Biddeford now owned by Romeo L. and Germaine F. Boucher. Jon Milligan Kennebunk firm lists numerous recent transfers, including Thomp son on School Street Kennebunkport and Crowley family purchases in Kennebunk Beach and Lower Village.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Roy
Zion Avenue
Old Orchard Beach
L. J. Descoteaux Real Estate
Leo Paul
Carmen Bertrand
Romeo L
Germaine F. Boucher
Biddeford
King Woodman
Leonard A
Rita Verrier
Simard Cant
Boucher
Jon Milligan
Kennebunk
Kennebunkport
Albert Thompson
School Street
Othmar Naber
Gladys Anderson
Spencer Andrews
Sea Road
Anderson
John Crowley
Grove Street
Maurice Clark
Kennebunk Beach
Crowley
Hovey Street
Merton Mitchell
Arundel
Ummer Place
Summer Street
Theodore Plummer
Harry Blue
Quebec
Canada
Kennebunk Lower Village
Shoreline Nursery
Blue
CD Directors To Air Shelter Survey
The York County Civil Defense and Public Safety directors meet at the Alfred Court House at 7 30 p m Monday with Raymond F Reando announcing a major agenda item on the Government Shelter survey and related information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred
York County
Beach Lions Plan Officer Installations At Next Meeting
The Old Orchard Beach Lions Club will install officers next Thursday with Donald Peterson from Westbrook as installing officer. A social hour at 6 30 followed by supper at 7 at the Old Orchard house. Delegates Girard Ouellette and Richard Valentino will attend the District 41 L convention at Poland Spring June 8 9 10 with alternates Sumner Johnson and Alan C Radley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Orchard Beach
Lions Club
Taxpayers Association
Old Orchard House
Lions Hall
Hoffman Street
King Lion Girard Ouellette
International
Poland
Girard Ouellette
Richard Valentino
King Lion
Sumner Johnson
Alan C. Radley
Pvt Joseph R Couture Assigned For Fort Dix Training
Pvt Joseph R Couture aged 20, son of Mr and Mrs Bernard Couture of 48 Hill Street Saco, is assigned to I company 2nd Training Regiment Fort Dix New Jersey for eight weeks basic training under the 1955 Reserve Forces Act. After training he will do six months active duty training then transfer to Swist Ordnance company US Army Reserves Saco. Couture is a Thornton Academy graduate and attended the University of Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I Company
2Nd Training Regiment
Fort Dix
N.J
Joseph R. Couture
Bernard Couture
Hill Street
Saco
Couture
Swist Ordnance Company
U.S. Army Reserves
Pvt Couture
Thronton Academy
University of Maine
Mrs. Pettengill Feted At Surprise Stork Shower
Mrs. Robert Pettengill was guest of honor at a surprise stork shower hosted at Abbott-Verville AM VETS Post Home on Walnut street. A buffet lunch was served as gifts were displayed under the guidance of Mrs. Joan Tenan and Mrs. Claire Lariviere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Pettengill
Abbott-Verville Amvets
Walnut Street
Joan Tenan
Claire Lariviere
Irene Guarino
Albert Roberge
Mary Emery
Janice Provencal
Muriel Morse
Avonell Pettengill
Irene Mc
Locke School Pupils Tour Cole Farm Dayt on Day
Pupils from Locke school in Saco toured the Cole Farm dairy at Dayton yesterday. Grades 1 and 2 were accompanied by teachers and room mothers. Attendees included Marina Bellevue Ellen Shea Deborah Potter Dennis Hill and others with room mothers Mrs Dorothy Hawkins Mrs Elaine Haley Mrs Betty Wolfahrt and Mrs Vera Warner and teachers Mrs Madeleine Davis and Mrs Erma Croxford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cole Farm
Dayton
Locke School
Saco
Marina Bellevue
Ellen Shea
Deborah Potter
Dennis Hill
Audrey Rufiero
Geraldine Sawyer
Robert Hinkley
Peter Salvas
Susan Abbott
Lynn Brady
Pearl Brady
James Caras
Susan Field
Bruce Gains
Penelope Harriman
Pamela Hawkins
Mary Hobbins
Lori Lynn Kimball
Donald Leslie
Laura Nemet
Jay Nathanson
Mark Parisien
Catherine Salvas
Doreen Sawyer
Charles Scontras
Laura Stone
Michael Teale
Suzenne Thivierge
Hollie Jean Vail
Doreen Valley
Sara Whelan
Nancy White
Brian Haley
Susan Whittier
Peter Audie
Deborah Bean
Victor Blais
Debra Boutet
Patricia Boutet
Thomas Burke
Sue Ann Brown
John Chadbourne
James Crowley
Kahty Dionne
Nancy Emerson
David Gaines
Cynthia Harmon
David Hill
Donald Hurd
Bruce Milliard
Deborah McNabb
Alex Mouzas
Robert Murphy
Karen Peterson
British Ladies Call For Consumer Protection Ministry
London AP report says 500 Labour women leaders backed a demand for a new government department to protect consumers after Jeannie Buchan, age 35, recounted paying 16 shillings for a scratchy brassiere that failed to deliver. She returned it and received no relief, prompting calls for formal consumer redress mechanisms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Jeannie Buchan
Labor Party
Blackpool
Local Social Notes From Orchard Beach and Portland
Miss Katherine Whitman of Portland Avenue moves from Notre Dame Hospital to her cousin Mrs Stephanie Butler home on North Street Saco for a few days Rev and Mrs A Whylie Brown return to Ocean Park after a week in Philadelphia attending the American Baptist convention
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine Whitman
Portland Avenue
Notre Dame Hospital
Stephanie Butler
North Street
Saco
A. Whylie Brown
Ocean Park
Philadelphia
American Baptist Convention
Colored Gulls Color Coastal New England Study
Colored Gulls are being colored and banded along the New England coast from Cape Ann to Narragansett Bay to study gull populations, movements, and food sources. The project, funded by federal agencies, uses red green yellow and blue violet dyes on adult birds, with reports from the public crucial to tracking behavior and pollution impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Massachusetts Audubon Society
Optician
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Serviice
Federal Aviation Agency
Cape Ann
Boston Harbor
Narragansett Bay
Maine
North Shore
Narragansett
Logan Airport
Boston
Massachusetts
Wells Lodge Holds Midway Masters Night In Sanfield
Wells ALBEO G and LAPIERRE Dial MIDway 6 5689 announce a special meeting at Ocean Lodge AF and AM Highpine Masonic hall Sanford road Wells. The Master Mason degree will be conferred with supper at 6:30 p m. Tonight at 7:30 p m. The Wells High school band and majorette groups attend a picnic June 5 at the Higgins summer cottage West Newfield with transportation from Wells High School at 3 P M.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ocean Lodge
Highpine Masonic Hall
Sanford Road
Wells
Wells High School
Frank FE. Higgins
West Newfield
Wells Band Boosters
Avalanche roars down Swiss valley at 280 mph in 1898
An avalanche in the Vorder- Glarnisch region of Eastern Switzerland on March 6 1898 surged at an estimated 280 miles per hour across a two mile wide valley and climbed the opposite slope. A tropical weatherman can forecast with greater certainty while weather in the tropics often remains virtually unchanged for weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vorder-Glarnisch
Switzerland
Tropics
Wells Harbor progress report heard by town groups
A joint Wells meeting of selectmen, budget and harbor committees heard Jordan Engineering outline work done and remaining tasks for the Wells Harbor project. Attendees discussed funding, parking facilities, rest rooms, beach cleaning, and an interview for Wells Town nurse. A special police officer appointment was proposed for the next meeting. The next selectmen session is set for June 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wells Selectmen
Budget Committee
Harbor Committee
Wells Town
Wells Harbor
Edward C. Jordan
Jordan Engineering Firm
Portland
Robert Hunter
Roger Batchelder
Clarence Fenderson
James §. Wentworth
Robert P.ahern
Carl Goodwin
Edgar Brooks
Harry C. Lord
John N. Simpson
Gilbert V.grant
UM Newspaper Workshop Panel Highlights Dr White
Dr David Manning White of Boston University School of Journalism will speak in the University of Maine summer session Newspaper in the Classroom Workshop. Brooks Hamilton heads the department and will summarize the week ending with a banquet at the Bangor house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine Daily Newspaper Association
Maine Department of Education
Maine
White
Boston University
Rhode Island Newspaper Workshop
Bangor House
Washington Street School Pupils In Holiday Programs
Pupils of the Washington Street School Biddeford performed holiday programs for Memorial Day observance. The program featured grades with songs, poems, prayers, flag salutations, and plays led by named teachers and students including Irene Bakler Roxanne Seward Danny Cote Jeff Goldthwait Freddy Hall and many others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Street
Biddeford
Irene Bakler
Roxanne Seward
Danny Cote
Jeff Goldthwait
Freddy Hall
Marc Guillerault
Robert Nemet
Robert Dube
Nancy Nolette
Elwin Baker
Charles Antonakos
Michael Laveririere
Teresa Marquis
Jonathan Haines
Raymond Maurice
Stephen Randall
Daniel Currier
Linda Huff
Sharon Clothier
Diane Bineau
Stephen Dow
Debra Hussey
Vincent Breton
Thomas Gionest
Mark Warner
Faye McInnes
Barry Small
Roy Slowick
America
Roger Blais
Margery Donavan
Linda Roberts
Suzanne Gagne
Richard Labelle
Jeffrey Levine
Bella Martin
Kathleen Mouzas
Jeanne Belanger
Nancy Lamb
Roy Brown
Thomas Perkins
Jan Parker
William Cantara
George Carés
Stephen Harter
Daniel Carey
Milton Throumoulos
Deborah Chasse
Elizabeth Nason
Flanders Field
Susan Lemovitz
Debra Be
Daniel LaBonte
Lanny Whitten
Linda Sevigny
Darlene Provencher
Linda Ladderbush
Mike Nolette
Mike Donavan
John Hajdysz
Don Drysdale Moonlighting Mound Ace
AP writer Bob Thomas profiles Don Drysdale Dodgers pitcher and actor. Drysdale balances baseball with TV work on Lawman The Millionaire Rifleman and Donna Reed Show and stars in Alcoa Theater roles. He notes acting training from baseball and recalls friends like Gil Hodges Casey Stengel and Wilfie Mays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Thomas
Hollywood (Ap
Don Drysdale
Los Angeles Dodgers
Drysdale
Donna
Gil Hodges
Don
Japan
Beating Egg Whites for Meringue With Mixer Tips
Beat egg whites at moderate low speed to start then raise to moderately high. This method helps create stable foam for meringue and achieves desired stiffness without overbeating.
Television Consumes Top Talent Fast
AP reports television risks talent as viewers fickle demand falters for returning stars. Lucille Ball eyes success in a new comedy while Jackie Gleason Sid Caesar and Jack Paar seek fresh formats. Roy and Dale Evans anchor ABC Saturday variety as Berle Allen Gobel linger on career uncertain paths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
Lucille Ball
Jackie Gleason
Sid Caesar
Roy Rogers
Dale Evans
Jack Paar
Lucy
Desi Arnaz
Imogene Coca
Caesar
ABC
Roy and
Dale
Milton Berle
Steve Allen
George Gobel
Bradbury Street School Observes Memorial Day Programs
Memorial day programs were presented by Bradbury Street School pupils. Primary and sub primary classes performed flag salutes, songs such as America and The Battle Hymn of the Republic, and readings about Our Flag and Flag Day included for students like Catherine Romprey Judith Nolette Robert McDowell and Bruce Provencher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradbury Street School
America
Catherine Romprey
Judith Nolette
Robert McDowell
Beverly Burnham
Edith Turcotte
Cynthia Bouvier
Roger Lachance
Gary Labell
Bruce Provencher
Robert Cyr
Wayne Gionest
Linda St. Amand
Carol Guillerault
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Edmund Cashen Dial
Tadad
Fenderson
Endicott-Johnson
Oxfords
Elm Street
Maine Linoleum CO
Alfred Street
The
Kennebunks
Qld
Orchard Beach
Albeo G
Lapierre
Claudette Levesque
Mark Allen
Roberta Green
Alice Roy
Porter Leighton
Brooke Thorner
Mrs. Green
Dorothy McGown
Dr. White
Casey Stengel
Wilfin Base
Ue Mays
Bradbury Street
Mark Holiday
Virginia Copeland
Jay Simard
Albert Simard
Maple Drive
Charles M. Copeland
East Haven
Conn
Copeland
St. Mary High School
New Haven
Trinity College
Burlington
Thornton Academy
St. Michael College
Winooski
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