Maine Firms Land Government Contracts Boosts State Economy
A year after a Maine Department of Economic Development service began matching firms to government procurements, contracts to Maine businesses run about one million dollars monthly. Denis O'Brien and Mildred Whitney coordinate early alerts from Chicago listings to help small Maine industries bid on timely items or components, boosting local production without claiming credit for the contracts.
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Maine Department of Economic Development
Maine
Sacoyell
Denis O'Brien
Mildred Whitney
O’brien
Chicago
DED
Beal
Service notices and enlistment updates in New England area
Roland A. Lavigne of Saco enlisted in the United States Army at Fort Williams. He will attend Microwave Radio Equipment Repair school under the Armys Guaranteed Technical School program for high school graduates. Also noted are local family updates, hospital visits, travel, and personal milestones from Sanford to Dover and Rehoboth with several names and affiliations.
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ARMY
Roland A. Lavigne
Roland Lavigne
Buxton Road
Saco
United States Army
Fort Williams
Paul D. Cobb
Main Street
Biddeford
Lavigne
Thornton Academy
Movie stars offer Europe travel tips for summer trips
Hollywood reports share packing and touring advice from Anne Baxter Charles Laughton Lana Turner Debbie Reynolds and Bob Hope for Americans visiting Europe this summer. The piece notes Chartres drive options renting a car and embracing local hospitality while avoiding overbooking hotels and major restaurants.
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Europe
Anne Baxter
Paris
Chartres
Charles Laughton
Lana Turner
Rome
Sorrento
Debbie Reynolds
Bob Hope
Stockholm
Munich
London
Amsterdam
Maine Spuds Well Labeled Find Leads to Theft Clue
In Elizabeth New Jersey Theodore Pappas found two silver police badges and a wallet while emptying a potato peeling machine after dumping Maine potatoes. One badge belonged to an Androscoggin County special deputy sheriff and another to the Maine State Detective Association. The wallet bore Clyde Lowe Greene Maine’s name. The items likely arrived in a bag of spuds from Maine.
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Clyde Lowe
Greene
Maine
Pappas
Vacation plan for Lebanon church pastor July
Reverend Lee Carter will take a July vacation from his Lebanon church duties. The film Redeeming the Time will be shown during the Sunday School hour next Sunday. Daly Vacation Bible School reports an opening day registration of 143 children.
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Lee Carter
Daly Vacation Bible School
Cape Porpoise Girl Elected Governor at Dirigo State
Waterville reports 17 year old Jacque line Faye Nunan of Cape Porpoise elected governor of Dirigo Girls State defeating Pauline May Latty of Yar mouth, daughter of Nelson Nunan and Mrs. Nunan. Nunan attends Kennebunk High School with transport by Charles Grant.
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Waterville
Jacqueline Faye Nunan
Cape Porpoise
Dirigo
Miss Nunan
Pauline May Latty
Yarmouth
Nelson Nunan
Kennebunk High School
Mary Lafferty Honored At Supper In Rolling Hills
Miss Mary E. Lafferty of Green Leaf Inn Kennebunk and Philadelphia attended a garden supper in her honor at Walter H. Allcott residence Rolling Hills with 42 guests. She will study at University of Pennsylvania Hospital school of Nursing in September and vacationed with Barbara Creighton at Green Leaf Inn.
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Mary E. Lafferty
Green Leaf Inn
Kennebunk
Philadelphia
Francis Select School
Race Street
Walter H. Allcott
Rolling Hills
Episcopal Hospital
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Ale
Charlotte Bamford
Merle Philbrick
Warren Mood
Henniker
N.H
Marshall Baxter
David Potter
Goodall Hospital
Sanford
Henry Tufts
Olive Brooks
Waltham
Mass
Nova Scotia
Charles Grant
Sanford Sunddeen
Dover
David Peckhm
Rehoboth
Randall Home
Rachel Carter
Girls State
Fred Gale
Sanford Hospital
DON & Bob's Tv, Inc
Hill St
City Dial
Donald Beaudoin
Robert Lapierre
Paul
Alfred Street
Howe
Seaboard
Ig Company
Main ST
Hollywood
VIC Fleurent & Sons, Inc
Granite Street
Lebanon
Mariyn Dry
Mmons
Margaret Potter
Ruth
Long Island City
Bamford
Ardine Gale
Gertrude N.Y
Mary Lafferty
Mul
Fortuna
Butler’s
Gladys Wilcox
Miss Rachel Dubois
Ruth Cheney
Action
For Free Movement
Taupe
Oxford Gray
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