Local personals note roundup from Biddeford area names many residents
A Biddeford area personals roundup lists residents in news including Armand Rousselle of Old Orchard Beach at Webber Hospital and Donald Emerson of Darien Conn returning home after visiting his mother in Biddeford. It covers improvements in Mrs Mabel Hooper of Saco, banking seminar attendance by William Deans of Saco-Biddeford Savings Bank at Brown University, and multiple visits, travels, and job placements among Biddeford, Saco, and nearby towns, including staff at the New England Telephone office and summer roles at Biddeford Pool Inn and with Emmanuel College student Miss Roseanne Perrault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armand Rousselle
Washington Avenue
Old Orchard Beach
Webber Hospital
Donald Emerson
Darien
Carol Perrin
Peter
Phyllis Cosgrove
Elms Street
Biddeford
France
Joseph Barra
North Woburn
Mass
Margaret (Hickey) Casavant
Barra
Lucille Guay
Dover
N. H
Roger Guay
Santa Fe
N. M
New England Telehone
Diane Davis
Booth Street
Deborah Allen
Fortunes Rocks
Lynn Carp
May Street
Darlene Berry
Elodie Renaud
Pike Street
Springfield
Elaine Menard
Roseanne Perrault
Biddeford Pool Inn
Oscar Perrault
St. Joseph College
North Windam
Joan Perreault
New England
Tel
Tel. Company
Emmanuel College
Oscar Perreault
South Street
Obituary: Eugene Cummings of Old Orchard Beach dies at 75
Eugene Cummings 75 of 44 Wesley avenue Old Orchard Beach died in a Biddeford hospital after a long illness. He was born December 23 1885 in Benedicta the son of Thomas and Mary Brennan Cummings a retired cabinet maker and longtime resident of Old Orchard Beach. He was the widower of Doris Davenport Cummings survived by his mother Mrs Thomas Cummings Sudbury Mass three daughters Catherine Blakley Sherman Station Eugenia Heath North Granby Conn Eleanor Lisica Saco one son Donald Cummings St Paul Minn four sisters Margaret Smith Sudbury Marie Robinson Benedicta Arlene Hogan and Susan Ross Sudbury Mass two brothers Hugh and Cecil Cummings Sudbury Mass and several nieces and nephews. The body lies at Bowers Foyere home Sherman Mills where friends may call Friday a high mass will be sung from St Benedict church Benedicta Saturday morning burial in St Benedict cemetery Arrangements with Emond and Conroy Funeral home Old Orchard Beach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Cummings
Wesley Avenue
Old Orchard Beach
Biddeford
Nedicta
Thomas
Mary Brennan Cummings
St. Margaret Church
Doris Davenport Cummings
Thomas Cummings
Sudbury
Mass
Catherine Blakley
Sherman Station
Eugenia Heath
North Granby
Conn
Eleanor Lisica
Saco
Donald Cummings
St. Paul
Minn
Margaret Smith
Presque Isle
Marie Robinson
Benedicta
Arlene Hogan
Susan Ross
Hugh
Cecil Cummings
Bowers
Legion and council meet tonight in Biddeford
The Tighe-Bezudoin-Farley post of the American Legion will convene this evening at the Post home on Elm Street at 8 o clock. The Biddeford council and K of C will also meet tonight at 8 at the hall on Washington Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tighe-Bezudoin-Farley Post
American Legion
Post
Elm Street
Biddeford
Biddeford Council
K. of C
Washington Street
Church Notes on Friday Meetings and Sale
Higher Grade Corp Cadets of the Saco Salvation Army will meet Friday at 8 30 p m. The Bible club of the Lyman Baptist church Goodwins Mills will meet Friday at 7 30 p m at the parsonage. A rummage and food sale will be conducted Friday from 9 a m to 1 p m in the vestry of the Ridgeford Foss Street Methodist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saco Salvation Army
Bible Club
Lyman Baptist Church
Goodwins Mills
Ridgeford Foss Street Methodist Church
Storm damage at Camp Ellis repaired and reopened
Surf street at Camp Ellis Beach and the seawall damaged in a northeast storm have been repaired. Street Commissioner Timothy Crowley announced Surf Street is reopened and the seawall rebuilt at a cost of 991.40 dollars. Boardwalks, beach stairways, and lifeguard towers have also been completed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Surf Street
Camp Ellis Beach
Timothy Crowley
Crowley
AFJudo Team To Give Performance At Town Beach
The Topsham Air Force base judo team will give a free performance Sunday afternoon at 2 at the foot of Old Orchard Street on the Beach. Town Manager ese Wardwell announced today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topsham Air Force Base
Old Orchard Street
Market Dips Slightly in Uneven Early Trading
New York stocks eased in dull afternoon trading as the Associated Press average of 6 shares at noon fell 0.60 to 244.50 with industrials down 1.20 and rails and utilities steady. Losses in chemicals and nonferrous metals outweighed minor gains in tobacco and electronics as Dow slipped 0.75 to 685.34 and corporate bonds mixed while U S government bonds trended lower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Associated Press
Lockheed
Sperry Rand
Philco
Radio Corp
du Pont
Eastman Kodak
Texaco
Dow Jones
U. S
Stop Sign Violation Guilty In Saco Court
Robert A. Elwell, 40, of Gorham, paid a $10 fine in Saco Municipal Court after being found guilty of passing a stop sign at the Lincoln and Spring streets intersection. Associate Judge William F. Wilson Jr. oversaw the case, with Saco police as complainants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert A. Elwell
Gorham
Saco Municipal
William F. Wilson, Jr
Elwell
Lincoln
Spring Streets
Saco
John W Hopkins 78 longtime Old Orchard Beach figure dies
John W Hopkins aged 78 of 16 Francis Street Old Orchard Beach died in a local hospital after a long illness. Born in Blackburn England March 2 1883 he moved to Lawrence Massachusetts at age 12 and lived in Old Orchard Beach since 1930. He served as custodian on the Old Orchard Beach Pier former selectman and deputy sheriff. He owned Hopkins cabins in retirement. Survived by widow Lillian Wheeler Hopkins sons Herbert J Hopkins Frank Hopkins of Old Orchard Beach and one son Howard E died in World War II. Friends may call at Emond and Conroy Funeral Home Friday 2 4 pm and 7 9 pm. Private funeral from the funeral home Saturday at 2 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Hopkins
Francis
Old Orchard Beach
Blackburn
England
Lawrence
Mass
Hopkins
Lillian Weller Hopkins
Herbert J. Hopkins
Frank Hopkins
Howard E
Emond and Conroy
Adelaide Road
Funeral services for Miss Mabelle L Cummings
Funeral services were held yesterday for Miss Mabelle L Cummings of Sanford from Dennett and Craig funeral home in Saco. Rev. Warren H. Palmer of North Parish Congregational church in Sanford officiated and burial was in Greenwood cemetery in Biddeford. Bearers were Edward N. Cummings Lloyd Clark Raymond Fee and Arthur A. Roussin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabelle L Cummings
Sanford
Dennett and Craig Funeral Home
Saco
Warren H. Palmer
North Parish Congregational Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Biddeford
Edward N. Cummings
Lloyd Clark
Raymond Fee
Arthur A. Roussin
Portland Weather: Rain Ending Tonight With Clouds
The forecast calls for a cloudy day in Portland with showers possible this afternoon and southerly winds 10 to 20 mph. Tonight rain ends but skies stay mostly cloudy with a few brief showers and variable winds 10 to 15 mph. Temperatures range from the mid 50s to mid 60s across zones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Three Wells Scouts Earn Life Badges
Three members of Wells Boy Scout Troop 353 received Life Scout badges at the Wednesday Wells American Legion hall meeting. Recipients were William Byrnes Jr Larry Kent Alpren and Gerald A La Pierre. Scoutmaster Frank Milinski presented the awards as plans were made for a Troop baseball team with practice at the high school field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wells Boy Scout Troop 353
Wells American Legion Hall
William Byrnes, Jr
Larry Kent Alpren
Gerald A. LaPierre
Frank J. Milinski
Milinski
Roland Dufort
Gilbert Wormwood
Fred Palmer
Stevenson sees cautious unity despite Soviet risk and Cuba fears
The article reports that American governments are less stable and aware of a Communist threat but unable to act together against subversive activity. It notes sharper anti American sentiment after the Cuba invasion, which is subsiding. Stevenson favors substantial funding for Kennedy’s alliance for progress and notes stronger government focus on economic reform in taxes land use housing education and administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Stevenson
United States
Kennedy
Rutgers poet Kilmer's legacy linked to campus trees
The campus planning note asserts no tree will be chopped while the Student Forestry Club planted an acorn nearby. Kilmer, killed in action in France on July 30, 1918, was born here in 1886 and studied at Rutgers and Columbia University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Student Forestry Club
Kilmer
France
Rutgers
Columbia University
Funeral for Mrs Florence Newman in Saco
Wednesday service held at Dennett and Craig funeral home in Saco for Mrs Florence Sarah Newman widow of Samuel Newman of South Portland Officiating was Rev Norman Langmaid pastor of School street Methodist church Saco Burial in Laurel Hill cemetery Saco
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennett and Craig Funeral Home
Saco
Florence Sarah Newman
Samuel Newman
South Portland
Norman Langmaid
School Street
Humphrey Announces New Look at Foreign Aid Plans
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey said the administration is reexamining economic and military aid abroad with revised programs likely to win approval for much of Kennedy's 4.8 billion foreign aid package. Sen. Fulbright postponed committee vote pending input from Adlai Stevenson and Dean Rusk as they prepare revised programs to address congressional criticism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Humphrey
Senate
Kennedy
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.N
Adlai FE. Stevenson
Dean
Lavertu Surrenders After All-Night Vigil
In Lewiston F thirty seven year old Jean Paul Lavertu of the old Lisbon road gave up to police about 9 am after his wife used an electric megaphone to call his name. Officers had encircled the small frame dwelling during an all night vigil. Laverty reportedly fired two shots from a .30 caliber British rifle as his 14 year old son Ronald fled unharmed. Laverty faced assault with a dangerous weapon and help for Municipal court.
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Lewiston
Jean Paul Lavertu
Lisbon Road
Lavertu
Laverty
Ronald
Eichmann Claims Madagascar Plan Was His Solo Action
Eichmann testified that the Madagascar idea was his first independent act and that all other deeds were done under orders. He said he was at the Gestapo Berlin headquarters against his will and insisted he acted under authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madagascar
Eichmann
Berlin
Gestapo
Khrushchev backs testing pledge at Kremlin rally
Khrushchev said the Soviet Union would resume testing nuclear weapons if the United States restarts tests, citing devices developed at home to improve atomic and hydrogen weapons. He urged allies to sign a German peace treaty and proposed a free status for Berlin without threatening its connections to the outer world.
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Khrushchev
Kremlin
Grand Palace
United States
Soviet Union
Jome
Berlin
C of C Supplies Daily Canadian Exchange Rates
Biddeford Saco Chamber of Commerce acts as a clearing house for daily exchange rates with Canada. Merchants and businessmen are urged to contact the chamber for current rates and stay in touch with banks. Fire teams responded to a Saco house fire at 10 Dyer Street. no damage reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford-Saco Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Biddeford and Saco
Biddeford- Saco Chamber of Commerce
Saco House
Saco
Wilfred Durant
Dyer Street
Goodall Tree Expert Sprays Saco City Dump
The Goodall Tree Expert Company of Portland completed spraying the Saco city dump on Cumberland Avenue. This was the first of two sprays planned for the summer, with a price of 250 dollars charged to the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saco
Goodall Tree Expert Company of
Portland
Cumberland Avenue
Goodall
Price
Biddeford Saco Aerie Ritual Team to Work Initiation
The Biddeford Saco Aerie Ritual Team of the Fraternal Order of Eagles will conduct the ritual at the initiation of new members in Westbrook in connection with the state convention starting tomorrow in Biddeford. An Aerie meeting at Birch Street hall last night featured Joffre Remillard presiding and honors for Lionel Gardner for his part in recent Sports Night and installation buffets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford-Saco Aerie
Order of Eagles
Westbrook
The
Aerie
Birch Street
Biddeford
Joffre Remillard
Lionel Gardner
Roland Sylvestre
Board of
Philip Perreault
Gerard Havey
Leo Martin
Schnectady
N. Y
FOE
Thomas Lewis
Washington, D. C
Kennedy Illness and Back Strain Amid Tokyo Visit
President Kennedy is treated for a mild virus infection with antibiotics after throat symptoms and feverishness. He spent hours aboard the Honey Fitz with Prime Minister Ikeda, walked without crutches briefly, and continues crutch use. Doctors Travell and Burkley note a lumbosacral strain linked to Canada trip, with recent back issues not related to earlier surgery. Kennedy postponed Ikeda dinner plans and a Moscow-bound ambassador meeting while resuming limited activities aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
Salinger
Honey Fitz
Potomac River
Hayato Ikeda
Ottawa
Canada
Palm Beach
Fla
Travell
White House
Massachusetts
Wade
Florida
Ikeda
U.S
Llewellyn Thompson
Thompson
Moscow
Widows Chapter Ends Season With Sept. 20 Banquet in Saco
The Maine Chapter 9 Widows of World War I held its last meeting at the American Legion hall Beach Street Saco. Members reported on a wreath ceremony at the Cathedral of Pines Rindge NH and a shrine tribute honoring state governors. Gov Powers of New Hampshire attended. Members noted Memorial Day parade plans and received greetings from past and new national presidents. A mystery prize went to Mrs Welch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
American Legion Hall
Beach Street
Saco
Eva Desgutels
Cathedral of Pines
Rindge
N. H
Louise Jenkins
Gov. Powers
New Hampshire
Hazel Small
Biddeford
Edythe Fletcher
Welch
Nashua Man Seeks Jaycees Presidency in Atlanta
AP reports Nashua, New Hampshire resident Marshall W. Cobrain among 12 candidates vying for 10 junior chamber vice presidents in the 41st U.S. Jaycees election. Delegates caucus through the night as resolutions oppose federal aid to education and socialized medicine. Meanwhile Everglades National Park hosts bald eagles and the Great Barrier Reef in Australia harbors 100 shark species including eight man-eaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
U.S
Great Barrier Reef
Australia
Czech official protests U N action over two Americans
Attache Naevalac reports two U S intelligence officers in a New York restaurant tried to recruit him as a spy after he refused. The U N says he wished to defect and was ordered out. Washington claims he paid a Monterey Army Language School instructor for student information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Czechoslovakia
N. Secretariat
U.S
Naevalac
New York
U.N
State Department
Dag Hammarskjold
United States
Nacvalac
U.S. Army
Monterey
Calif
Army
Candid exchange on progress and poverty with Ikeda
A report notes a candid discussion where Ikeda urged stronger, united efforts to foster progress in less developed areas. He warned that solving poverty and disease alone cannot halt communist infiltration, even among workers assured of three meals a day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ikeda
Seven Killed In Separate Plant Blasts
Seven people died in separate blasts near Detroit and Mitchell Indiana. An oxygen plant at the Linde Division of Union Carbide in Ecorse Michigan exploded into a ball of fire, killing three men who were fathers of eight children. In Mitchell Indiana, a Lehigh Portland Cement Co. building under construction collapsed after a natural gas blast, killing four workers and a cleaning woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linde
Union Carbide Corp
Ecorse
Mich
Lehigh Portland Cement Co
Mitchell
Indiana
Mickey Cohen recounts gambling hall at Ambassador Hotel
AP reports Mickey Cohen testified at his tax evasion trial that he ran a major gambling operation in Los Angeles during the 1940s including an undercover casino at the Ambassador Hotel, earning up to 70,000 dollars in a single month. A Schine spokesman denied knowledge of past gambling at the hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Mickey Cohen
Cohen
Ambassador Hotel
Ambassador
Schine Enterprises
A _ Schine
Hitch-Hiker Victim Found Slain Near Tuscola Illinois
Frederick G. Robbins Jr., 51, of Austin Nevada, a former Maine school teacher, was hitch-hiking across the country to visit his father in Millinocket. His body was discovered by a country road ditch with bullet wounds after authorities learned he had left his car with relatives in California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuscola
Ill
Maine
Frederick G. Robbins, Jr
Austin
Nev
Millinocket
California
Ikeda urges Japan as middleman for U S aid plan
He warned that unrest and discontent may grow if people see no hope for a better future for themselves and their communities. Ikeda suggested Japan could serve as a conduit for U S economic development programs in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ikeda
Japan
U.S
Wells School Planning Board Meets In Wells Building
The first meeting of the Wells joint planning committee for new school facilities convened in Wells High School offices. Members named were Clarence Fenderso n Keith Moody Howard Littlefield and Robert Hamlyn with Fenderson as chair and Melville H. Johnson as acting secretary. A follow up session was set for June 27 at 7 30 p m with architect John Calvin Stevens present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wells
Wells High School
Wells ‘Board of Selectmen
Clarence Fenderson
Keith Moody
Howard Littlefield
Robert Hamlyn
Fenderson
Melville H. Johnson
Actling
Johnson
John Calvin Stevens
Portland
Gilbert Grant
Carl W. Perkins
Marshall Boston
Samuel B.stansfield
Alber G. LaPierre
French Police Halt Invasion Bid By Pacifists
French police stopped a second pacifist landing attempt in Le Havre as part of a San Francisco Moscow march protesting nuclear weapons. The group included 16 Americans among 25, plus Britons Swedes a German a Norwegian and a Finn. Police cordoned the ferry area and ordered the vessel to return marchers to England. One swimmer Robert Kingsley of Durham New Hampshire reached Paris last week but was blocked this time. organizer Rev Abraham J Muste 76 of New York said demonstrators unavailable for action under committee policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LE Havre
France
San Franciscco
Paris
Abraham J. Muste
New York
Committee For
Muste
Kingsley
Special Session on ETV Urged in Maine
CALAIS state representative Elbridge B. Davis urged Gov Reed to call a special legislative session to enact a state wide educational television network. The bill to create the network died late in the 100th Legislature. Davis asked the governor to enable ETV channels for eastern and northern Maine including Orono Presque Isle and Calais. Reed had no comment pending his return from a governors conference in Hawaii.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calais
Elbridge B. Davis
Reed
Davis
Maine
Orono
Presque Isle
Woman for development and utilization of manpower resources
The article discusses plans and studies aimed at developing and utilizing the nation’s manpower resources, highlighting how the findings are intended to stimulate action across various groups and sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pace One
Segregation delays restrict Jackson access to Saturday
Disturbing developments unfold as segregation holds up access to Jackson until Saturday while two Jackson court matters loom. U.S. District Judge Sid ney Mize is set to rule by Tuesday on a habeas corpus plea by Elizabeth Porter Wyckoff, a 45-year-old New York rider. In New Orleans, Chief Judge Elbert P. Tuttle notes a NAACP request for an order barring police action will be reviewed by a three judge federal panel on July 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
U.S. District Court
Sidney Mize
Trailways
Henry Schwarzchild
Chicago
J. L. Ray
Schwarzchild
Ray
Wyatt Tee Walker
Atlanta
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Theresa Ann Walker
Milton Reid
Petersburg
Virginia Christian Leadership Conference
Katanga Seizes Release Seen As Unity Gesture
Tshombe tried to walk out of a political conference as the central government released him to foster unity before the Sunday Parliament session. U.N. and Congolese leaders seek Katanga MPs’ attendance to end secession. Interior Minister Adoula pledged Tshombe’s release if it would coax Katanga members to attend. Tshombe is not an MP and could not attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.N
Cyrille Adoula
Tshombe
Accused stabber held in York court
Robert G. Kent of Portsmouth New Hampshire, 27, was held in five thousand dollars bond for Superior Court on a charge of attempting to kill his former wife. He pleaded innocent. His ex wife Mary Lou Kent testified in York Trial Justice Court. She said Kent stabbed her May 29 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stabber
York
Robert G. Kent
Portsmouth
N. H
Superior Court
Mary Lou Kent
York Trial Justice Court
Orient Express
Kent
Budapest
Bucharest
Ness
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DineTe
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Nashua
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Houghton Mich
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Sault Ste. Marie
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