Summer recreation for Biddeford Saco Old Orchard youths
Area children face active summer with multiple programs. George Wells leads Biddeford Memorial Field activities, Harvey Lamontagne Jr. runs Saco Memorial Field, and Bill Pawlikowski oversees Old Orchard Beach day camps. Leagues in Biddeford and Old Orchard Beach, plus summer basketball, keep youths busy with softball, baseball, tennis, golf, and crafts. A rainy weather program operates at the Saco Recreation Center on Pleasant Street.
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Biddeford
Saco
Old Orchard Beach
Memorial Field
Bill Pawlikowski
Pepprell Park
Saco-Old Orchard Beach
Biddeford Memorial Field
May Street
George Wells
Saco Memorial Field
Harvey Lamontagne, Jr
Half Way
Saco’s
Recreation Commission
Pepperell Park
Sweetser School
Pleasant Street
Chuckles Turn Doom Into DIY Elf Project
A playful social note frames humanity’s end as a humorous, self aided craft idea. The joke pivots from apocalyptic wrath to cheerful holiday creativity, crediting Gen. Fea. Corp. as source.
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Gen
Fea. Corp
Same Flag To Be Raised In Maine Hawaii July 4
Maine and Hawaii will share the same 30 star flag on July 4 in a coordinated effort. Two Portland men plan a dawn flag-raising at Poland Spring, Maine, then ship the flag 5,000 miles to Honolulu to raise it 17 hours later. MSgt William Duggan and Richard Oransky organize with the Air Force to conduct ceremonies and Gov. Quinn confirms Hawaii’s participation. An Air Force WAF will raise the flag on a historic flagpole. the flag will travel by amphibian plane to Boston, then onward.
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Portland
Maine
Union
Hawaii
Poland Spring
Honolulu
Msgt
William Duggan
Air Force
Richard Oransky
William F. Quinn
Oransky
Boston
Range Lake
Five Bodies Recovered From Newry Plane Crash
Five bodies were recovered after a Newry plane crash. All five crew members were killed, according to early reports. Rescue teams continued surveying the wreckage for remaining traces of passengers and confirming identities.
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Newry
Kennedy Bid Signals Shift At Governors Meet
Four governors meet at Glacier National Park while 200000 voters go to the polls in North Dakota, shaping Kennedy’s path to the Democratic nomination. Governors Meyner Loveless Brown and Docking hint at broad support beyond Kennedy to avoid a first-ballot win, while North Dakota voters choose a Senate candidate amid farm policy questions.
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Associated Press
Montana
North Dakota
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Glacier National Park
Los Angeles
Herschel C. Loveless
Iowa
Edmund G. Brown
California
Meyner
Loveless
Brown
George Docking
Kansas
Kennedy
John E. Davis
Quentin N. Burdick
Senate
William Langer
Ezra Taft Benson
Benson
Kenned
Abraham Ribicoff
Connecticut
New York
Five airmen die in KC97 crash on Newry mountain
In Newry Maine five airmen died when a KC97 tanker exploded and crashed on Jonathan Smith mountain. A 30 man Dow Air Force Base team recovered the bodies and moved them toward Route a at the base of the peak. Names of victims were later to be released.
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Newry
Maine
Jonathan Smith Mountain
Carl E. Rice
Rice
Dow Air Force Base
Bangor
Berlin
N.H
Plattsburgh Air Force Base
N.Y
New Hampshire
Joseph Perry
Bethel
Wilbur Libby
Libby
Churchmen accuse Soviet Baptists of propaganda
US and Brazilian Baptists at the Baptist World Alliance congress in Rio de Janeiro urge rejection of peaceful coexistence with the Soviet delegation led by Drs. Zhidkov and Karev. They accuse Soviet clergy of being tools of communism while the Soviets and outgoing president Theodore Adams defend the delegation and praise Russian Baptists.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
U. S
Baptist World Alliance
Jackov Zhidkov
Alexander Karev
Churches of the
Free World
Alliance
Theodore F. Adams
Richmond
Adams
Soviet Union
Special Beach Election To Fill Shorey Vacancy
Old Orchard Beach will hold a special election to fill the vacant selectman seat after Donald W. Shorey resigned to become acting postmaster. Percival Wardwell says date is not set. Charles D. Peckham Jr. was named temporary chairman and longs its board service in town roles.
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Old Orchard Beach
Board of Selectmen
Percival Wardwell
Wardwell
Donald W. Shorey
Republican Town Committee
Shorey
Reed Motor Company
Board of Select
Charles D. Peckham, Jr
Peckham
Alberton W. Vinal Post
American Legion
Chelmsford
Mass
Old Orchard Lodge
A. M
Maine
Mystic Order of the Shrine
Lewiston
Saco-Lowell Moves International Division to Easley
Saco-Lowell Shops announced a July 1 move of its International Division from Boston to Easley South Carolina to better coordinate with Carolina plants and improve customer service.
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Boston
Saco- Lowell
Easley
S. C
Carolinas
Liberal Upset in New Brunswick Elects Young Premier
In Frederickton New Brunswick voters ousted the Conservative government electing Louis J Robichaud 34 as premier ending eighty years of Tory rule He led the Liberals to 31 seats to 21 for the Conservatives Robichaud first Acadian premier and four of Flemming’s cabinet members defeated The campaign pledged hospital tax relief while Conservatives warned of tax increases
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Frederickton
N. B
New Brunswick
Canada
Louis J. Robichaud
Hugh John Flemming
Progressive Conservative
John Diefenbaker
Ottawa
Quebec
Robichaud
Flemming
Tornadoes, Storms Lethal Across Plains and Midwest
Thunderstorms lashed the northern Plains as tornadoes struck Colorado Nebraska and North Dakota causing deaths and farm destruction. Two men died when cars were hurled near Holyoke and Sidney. Widespread hail damaged fields near Gurley Venturia and severe weather extended toward the Great Lakes.
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Associated Press
Plains
Holyoke
Colorado
Nebraska
North Dakota
Sidney
Gurley
Venturia
N.C
Bismarck
Misses Valley
Great Lakes
Jackson
Tenn
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Chamber
Deshates
Biddeford and
Newman V. Bagley
Martin J. Rielly
Horace
Nichols
William A. Soule
Wayne B. Hutchins
Clayton W. Cartmill
Stuart V. Flavin
Albert F. Deshaies
Chamber OF Commerce
Cascade Lodge
Albert F. Desholes
Archie B. Maxwell
Wayne B. Maxwell
Harry M. Wooster
Robert E. Meyner
New Jersey
White Mountain National Forest
N. Y
Plattsburgh
Dow
Saco-Lowell Moves Unit
Geneva
U.S
Italy
France
David Ormsby-Gore
Britain
Berne
Liberals
R. C. Lamarre
Adams Street
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