Deaths Edmund R. Hobbins Biddeford longtime truancy officer
Edmund R. Hobbins 69 of 20 Bernard Ave Biddeford died unexpectedly yesterday morning in a Biddeford hospital He served as truant officer for Biddeford for three years and earlier worked at Saco Lowell and Sevignys Clothing He was born January 13 1899 in Biddeford son of John and Mary Harvey Hobbins a World War II US Army Corps of Engineers veteran He was a member of St Marys Parish Holy Name Society and former church choir member Surviving are his widow Mildred two stepsons John Larkin and Edward Larkin two nieces and two nephews Funeral services will be held at 1030 am tomorrow at St Marys Church Interment in St Marys Cemetery Friends may call today at Cosgrove Funeral Home Biddeford
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Edmund R. Hobbins
Bernard Ave
Biddeford
John and
Mary Harvey Hobbins
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
Saco- Lowell S
Saco- Lowell S . Biddeford, For 14 Years and Later Worked At Sevigny’s
St. Mary's
Holy Name Society
Hobbins
Mildred Hobbins
John Larkin
Lewiston
Edward Larkin
St. Mary’s Church
St. Mary's Cemetery
Cosgrove Funeral Home
Elm St
Pine Cone Temple to Hold Memorial Service for Celia Westcott
Pine Cone Temple Pythian Sisters meet at Dennett and Craig Funeral Home 365 Main St Saco at 7:30 tonight to conduct a memorial service for Celia Westcott a charter member.
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Pine Cone Temple
Pythian Sisters
Dennett and Craig Funeral Home
Main St
Saco
Celia Westcott
Three Act Play at Kennebunkport Tonight and Tomorrow
Kennebunkport Consolidated School hosts an eight o clock three act hillbilly comedy Headin for a W with cast led by Martin Kingsbury Robert Preble J David Pate and many others under Mrs Rachel Emmons guidance. Proceeds fund a scholarship for students entering college in June.
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Kennebunkport
Parent Teacher Association
Rachel Emmons
Old Orchard Beach
Martin Kingsbury
Robert Preble
J. David Pate
Betty Merrill
Warrell Kingsbury
Patricia Farnsworth
Norman Allen
Wilma Williams
Ruth Williams
Dorcas Zeiner
Kenneth Burns
Carol Hamalainen
Shirley Leech
LaVerne Preble
Naomi Burns
Civilians Gather For Riot Control In Major Cities
Chicago debates a 1000-man civilian posse with many volunteers to supply firearms. Detroit expands police reserves and transfers 200 desk workers to patrols. DC plans a 100-man armed civilian contingent and mobilizes city, National Guard, and Army troops to quell disturbances. Johnson confirms 15 000 troops available for civil disturbance duty and stockpiled riot gear nationwide.
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Chicago
Cook County
Joseph I. Woods
Woods
Detroit
District of Columbia
Johnson Administration
Pentagon
City Hall
Harold K. Johnson
Army
Congress
United States
Johnson
Funeral Home Contacts and Directors Listed
The text lists funeral home names and contact numbers in Saco Maine. SHUMWAY Funeral Service at 35 Spring Street, phone 284 5611. Philip H. Gross Sr. is noted as Director. DENNETT AND CRAIG at 365 Main Street, phone 282 0562. Frank X. Emond and J. P. Conroy are also named associated with funeral services.
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Shumway Funeral Service
Spring Street
Saco
Philip H. Gross Sr
Dennett & Craig
Main Street
Maine
Dial
Funeral for Edgar Morin in Biddeford Church
Funeral services for Edgar Morin of 20 Porter Street Biddeford were held at St. Joseph's Church. A solemn requiem high mass was celebrated with Rev Valmont Gilbert and deacon Rev Sylvia Levesque and subdeacon Rev Robert E. Lee assisting. Interment followed in Calvary section of St. Joseph's Cemetery with six nephews bearing the casket.
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Edgar Morin
Porter St
Biddeford
St. Joseph’s Church
Valmont Gilbert
Sylvia Levesque
Robert E. Lee
Diana Rousselle
Calvary
St. Joseph's Cemetery
Father Levesque
Father Lee
Donald Guay
Nelson Prince
Philip Belanger
Paul Lemay
Robert Richard
Gerard Thuotte
Brooke May Drop Volpe Backing As Nixon Challenge Looms
New England briefs report Sen. Edward Brooke weighing a possible shift from supporting Gov. John Volpe as the Republican race evolves. Brooke urges a Nixon challenge with Rockefeller as a likely candidate pending party mechanics. Volpe remains a personal political question to Brooke.
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Washington
Edward W. Brooke
R - Mass
Massachusetts
John A. Volpe
Brooke
Richard M. Nixon
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Volpe
Rockefeller
George Romney
Val
Sen
Nelson
Pelle tier couple returns from Florida vacation
Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Pelletier of Prospect Street Biddeford returned home from Florida last night after a two months vacation.
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Conrad Pelletier
Prospect Street
Biddeford
Florida
Local club meetings and social events listed in Biddeford and Saco
The Delta Alpha Club meets Monday at 7 30 PM at 272 Elm Street Biddeford led by Mrs Catherine Carter. Catholic Women's Club holds Past Presidents Social Monday 8 PM at Notre Dame de Lourdes School Hall Beach Street Saco. bring one white elephant for prizes. Our Lady of Victory Circle gathers Sunday 2 PM at Fremont Club room Alfred Street Biddeford. Rev Roland Couture as guest will show color slides.
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Delta Alpha Club
Catherine Carter
Elm St
Biddeford
Catholic Women's Club
Most Holy Trinity Parish
Saco
Notre Dame de Lourdes School Hall
Beach Street
Our Lady of Victory Circle
Fremont Club
Alfred Street
Roland Couture
Lyman Baptist and United Church announce Saturday meeting and service
The Boys' Fellowship of the Lyman Baptist Church will meet Saturday at 10 a.m. at the church. The second Lenten Sunday evening service at the United Church of Christ in Biddeford is at 7 p.m. in Fellowship Hall, with attendees asked to use the Graham Street entrance.
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Lyman Baptist Church
Goodwins Mills
United Church of Christ (Congregational
Biddeford
Fellowship Hall
Graham Street
Nation in the Future: Call to End Ghetto Segregation
The report denounces the racial divide and poverty fueling ghettos in America. It argues white society created and sustains the ghetto and urges fulfilling democracy’s promises to all citizens including minorities. It stresses urgency to address urban and rural disparities now.
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America
U.S. Vietnamese forces destroy three North Vietnamese trawlers
U S and South Vietnamese naval forces report their biggest day of the war, destroying three 100-ton Communist trawlers loaded with Soviet AK47s and ammunition along the coast. One trawler exploded by its crew. the others were set afire as troops and planes attacked. A battle on the beach near Nha Trang was still under way.
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Page Onesault
U.S
South Vietnamese
U.S. Navy
Coast Guard
Nha Trang
White House Fashion Show Opens Johnson Guests
Washington AP United States President Johnson attended a White House fashion show featuring 25 American designers. The event highlighted the garment industry under the Discover America program with a 600 foot white carpet runway in the State Dining Room. Governors spouses admired long evening gowns while miniskirts drew cooler reactions. Nancy White narrated the gala praising fashion as an invited guest for the first time at the White House.
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Washington
White House
United States
Johnson
Nea
Ohnson
Nancy White
Harper's Bazaar
Snow Warning For Portland And Coast Gale Alert
A heavy snow warning covers Portland with a gale warning along the coast. Temperatures drop to the 20s tonight. Snow accumulates 6 to 12 inches with clearing and no major temperature changes expected by Saturday.
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Portland
Looking Ahead At Weather Across Northern New England
The five day forecast from the Weather Bureau covers northern New England and Massachusetts including Island. Temperatures will be below normal with little variation day to day. Highs in the 20s to mid 30s, lows from near 10 to mid 20s, and total precipitation around one quarter to one half inch with snow likely Tuesday.
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Boston
Weather Bureau
New England
Massachusetts
Ah Island
Canadian
Saco Man Named To Student Post
Hartford Connecticut William S Searle Jr is named a junior advisor for the 1968 69 academic year at Trinity College. Searle son of William Searle Sr of 502 Ferry Road Saco Maine is a Trinity student senate member Dean's List and board director of Mather Hall student center. He helped found Trinity's Old Cave Cafe coffee house.
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Hartford
Conn
William S. Searle Jr
Trinity College
Searle
William Searle Sr
Ferry Road
Saco
Maine
Trinity
Mather Hall
Democratic Caucus Set In Biddeford
The Biddeford Democratic City Committee schedules a City Democratic Caucus for Tuesday March 5 at 7 p.m. in City Council Chambers. Seventy four delegates and seventy four alternates to the state convention will be elected. All registered Democrats in Biddeford may vote and be elected as delegates or alternates. City Committee Chairman Richard Dutremble urges participation.
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Biddeford
Democratic City Committee
Augusta
Richard Dutremble
Biddeford Fire Chief Details February Ambulance Calls
Biddeford Fire Chief Arthur King reports fifty four ambulance calls handled by city firefighters in February. January ambulance calls totaled seventy six. Firefighters responded to fifteen fire calls in February compared with twenty in January.
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Biddeford
Arthur King
Probable Cause Found In Grand Larceny Counts
Two New York women were jailed in York County after failing to post $1,000 bail each following probable cause in Saco on larceny charges. Anita Johnson, 37, and Ann Matthews, 34, were accused of February 20 theft of diamond rings worth $1,413.45 from Jack and Larry's jewelry store in Biddeford.
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New York
York County
Saco
Anita Johnson
Ann Matthews
New York City
Jack and
Larry
Alfred St
Biddeford
Jack Simensky
Robert D. Provencher
Alfred Street
Randall T. Drew
Concord
N.H
Joseph L. Marquis
Fairfield
Ernest J. Robichaud
Kennebunk
Forest St
Ralph P. Cote
Roland A. Lessard
May St
Joseph Pipinias
Bay Ave
Old Orchard Beach
Edward G. Simpson Jr
Moody
Cornelius Fitzgerald
Wallingford
Penna
Portland Men Charged With Larceny
Two Portland men Edwin Gaddas age 29 and Russell A Small age 25 were charged with larceny for stealing a type writer from Day s Jewelry Store 156 Main St Biddeford. Police alerted neighboring agencies and troopers detained them on Paine Road Scarborough later. They are held at Alfred County Jail awaiting bail.
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Portland
Day
Main St
Biddeford
Saco Police
Maine State Police
Paine Road
Scarborough
Alfred
Edwin Gaddas
Russell A. Small
News At A Glance Summary
The piece highlights the presidential commission urging major efforts to end urban racial turmoil, blaming White racism. Initial responses from Black and white leaders are mixed but generally favorable. Governors warn Republicans to get on a draft-rocking bandwagon. Nixon frames New Hampshire as a Johnson contest as Romney exits. Vietnam sees naval forces destroy three Communist gun-laden trawlers. Clark Clifford sworn in as defense secretary. McNamara absent. Senate liberals attack Dirksen over civil rights. Romania accuses Kremlin of Stalinist tactics and walks out of talks. Teachers strike disrupts classes in three states.
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America
Richard M. Nixon
New Hampshire
Johnson
George Romney
Gov. Romney
Vietnam
U.S
Washington
Clark M. Clifford
Robert S. McNamara
Pentagon
Senate
Dirksen
Soviet Bloc
Romania
Kremlin
50-Plus Club Celebrates February Birthdays in Kennebunk
The Kennebunk 50-Plus Club honored seven members born in February with corsages. The group unveiled a Good Ship 50-Plus symbol and recounted its charity projects including gifts to Leach's Nursing Home and Christian Haven Home. A 40-member dinner marked renewed morale as plans for a March flower show bus trip and a summer picnic emerged, with two new clubs planned in Berwicks and Limerick-Parsonsfield.
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Kennebunk
Jennie Currier
Shirley Bessey
Mary Millner
Mildred Boyden
Amy Clark
Alphonse Dion
John Hinkley
Leach’s
Christian Haven
Arundel
Hester Hooper
Saco
Fidelis Class Meeting Set at Saco Church March 2
The Fidelis Class of Saco United Baptist Church will hold its monthly meeting on March 2 at 7 30 p m. Members are invited to the home of Mr and Mrs Ralph Stickney on Buxton Road Saco for an inter class food sale. Miss Janet Nelson missionary speaker will give an illustrated talk.
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Fidelis
Saco United
Local Street Crews Clear Biddeford After Northeaster
Public Works Supervisor Richard Potvin said crews salted streets at 9 PM and plows began at 2 AM after last night's northeaster. All work followed schedule with no breakdowns or serious problems, leaving Biddeford streets clear with few exceptions.
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Biddeford
Richard Potvin
Potvin
Leap Year Wedding Brings Four Year Anniversary Rule
In Los Angeles bride Diana Zipkin and groom Philip Metzen wed on Leap Day. Metzen jokes he gains a bargain since anniversaries come every four years. she paid the $6 license. The ceremony followed by light remarks on the odd timing and cost.
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Los Angeles
Philip L. Metzen
Diana Zipkin
Candy Sale Plans By Camp Ellis Auxiliary
Camp Ellis Volunteer Firemen's Auxiliary announced a candy sale for April 12 at Shaw's Market in the Saco Valley Shopping Center. Chairwoman is Mrs. Lillian Morris. Mrs. Phyllis Labbe and Mrs. Jeannine Pendleton will lead as workers, with Pendleton presiding. Plans also included a Secret Pal reveal on April 4 and a refreshment committee for the next meeting.
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Shaw's Market
Saco Valley
Camp Ellis
Lillian Morris
Phyllis Labbe
Jeannine Pendleton
Morris
Ruth Stackpole
Theresa Pendleton
Susan Gagnon
Greta Greenier
Stackpole
Constance Collard
Gagnon
Regina Koster
Alfreda Pendleton
Elsie Buzzell
Dorothy Abbott
License To Preach Presented At United Baptist Church Saco
A certificate of License to Preach will be presented to La Forest G Robbins at the 1030 a m service at United Baptist Church Saco. Rev Stanley A Bennett the pastor will share in communion. Leon A Cole will present the certificate. The sermon series opens with The Contrasts of Jesus and Sunday's topic When the Unhurried Man Hurried. Senior choir Lawrence Woodward conducts and Mary M Hill plays organ.
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United Baptist Church
Saco
la Forest G. Robbins
Stanley A. Bennett
Leon A. Cole
Jesus
Lawrence Woodward
Mary M. Hill
Gas stolen from car in Saco Tanning Corp lot
Carl Goodwin of West Kennebunk told Saco police thieves took about a quarter tank of gas from his car while it was parked in the Saco Tanning Corp lot last night.
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Carl Goodwin
West Kennebunk
Saco
Saco Tanning Corp
Leap Year Babies and Invasion at Colleges
Connie Utley gave birth to an 8 pound 2 ounce boy on Leap Day and her son will not celebrate his fifth birthday until 1988. In Dubuque Clarke College students stormed the Loras College campus for Leap Year reasons, showering balloons and serenading the male students.
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Salt Lake City
Connie Utley
Utley
Russell D. Utley
Young Russell
Dubuque, Iowa
Clarke College
Loras College
Dubuque
Clarke
Loras
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