Weekend Market Guide Highlights Baked Beans and Fresh Produce
Lucy F. Sheive outlines traditional baked beans tracing New England methods from Puritan recipes to modern canning. The piece notes steady dry bean prices, Lentil season value, and current weekend produce trends with carrots, spinach, squashes, potatoes, turnips, lettuce, cucumbers, melons, fruit prices, and meat options like cuck roasts and smoked shoulders.
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Lucy F. Sheive
Cooperative Extension Service
University of Maine
New England
Florida
Maine
Florence opens census to count city trees by trunk
A Florence city hall office begins a tree census to record each trunk and species. Officials aim to map greenery and curb deforestation as part of protecting historic Florence’s environment.
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Florence
Italy
Congress Considers $10,000 Pay Raise for Itself
Washington reports House Rules Committee approved a plan to raise congressional salaries from $22,500 to $32,500, a 44 percent hike, aligning with increases for federal officials and supported by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Critics warn of broader costs and urge restraint. The measure also envisions more technical advisers and a new House office building, with some members opposing the rise.
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Washington
Congress
House Rules Committee
Supreme Court
Cee
Kennedy
Johnson
National Civil Service League
House
Wright Patman
D-Tex
House Banking and Currency Committee
Patman
J. Arthur Younger
R-Calif
Frank J. Lausche
Dohio
Senate
Capitol
H. R. Gross
Iowa
Kennebunk Lions Club Votes for Broom Sale
The Kennebunk port Lions Club met at the Kennebunk Inn with Ronald Robertson presiding. Members voted to hold a broom sale funded by products from the School for the Blind in Portland. The next meeting is planned for Tuesday March 117 after a short program.
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Kennebunk - Kennebunkport Lions Club
Kennebunk Inn
Ronald Robertson
School For the Blind
Portland
Harry Matthews
Bourne Street
Sanford
Ronald Welch
Ralph Barrett
Hall Street
Maine Osteopathic Hospital
Nancy Vetterline
Pleasant Street
York Village
Wells One-Act Play Competition Set For Friday
Wells High School hosts a state wide section with Biddeford Sanford and Thornton Academy at 7 15 p m in the junior high gym. Wells presents The Taming of the Shrew to honor Shakespeare's fourth centenary. Cast includes Marilyn Savelas Lane Phillips Kenney Bassett Wayne Emerton Daniel Laletta Terry Oliver Gary Grant Marilyn Jellison Linda Ducharme Dwight Boucher and Paul O'Brien under Miss Elizabeth Snow.
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WELLS
Wells High School
Biddeford and
Sanford High Schools
Thornton Academy
Saco
Shakspeare
Marilyn Savelas
Lane Phillips
Kenney Bassett
Wayne Emerton
Daniel Lauletta
Terry Oliver
Gary Grant
Marilyn Jellison
Linda Ducharme
Dwight Boucher
Paul O’brien
Taxed town property discuss and Route One meeting set
Town officials debated tax acquired property and announced action for a future date to orient new board members. A $3 price was approved for sale of voting lists and the local Republican town meeting room was set at the lower Town Hall on March. Town Manager Robert York spoke of a March 12 session with State Highway Commission representatives about Route One reconstruction and the Mousam River bridge. Attendees included Leech chairman Plummer Adjutant Ernest Brown York Down and Dean.
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Robert York
State Highway Commission
Mousam River
Leech
Plummer
Ernest Brown
York
Down and Dean
Two New Members Accepted By Legion Auxiliary
The Tighe-Beaudoin-Farley Unit American Legion Auxiliary held a Biddeford meeting last night.Mrs Muriel Lachance and Mrs Bernadette Poire were scheduled to be initiated later. Donations for Togus Veterans Hospital were approved and officers reported cards sent to members. The mystery package was awarded to Mrs Poissant and prayers offered by the chaplain pro tem. The next meeting is set for April 1 at Biddeford City Building.
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Tighe-Beaudoin-Farley
American Legion Auxiliary
Biddeford
Muriel V. Lachance
Bernadette B. Poire
Togus Veterans Hospital
Germaine Lariviere
Marie Jeanne Pelletier
Ellen Kelleher
Nellie Petit
Sunshine
Bernadette Poissant
Bertha Keigher
Anna Donahue
Biddeford City Building
Political Ambition and Betrayal in a Senatorial Race
A novelist portrays Killory entering professional politics guided by a persuasive speech writer and fundraiser. He imagines Means and Willis as rivals to secure the party nomination, but ambition tests friendships. Sally and Allen aid in resolving the crisis as Taylor blends journalism with fiction. Miles A. Smith notes the political backdrop mirrors real big league politics.
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Killory
Means
Willis
Killary
Sally
Allen
Taylor
Salary Hikes Approved At Kennebunk Board Meeting
Kennebunk town officials approved multiple pay raises and reappointments at the board of selectmen session. Julius Dean and Francis Dow joined the board, Lewis Burr named park commissioner, G Warren Cochrane Jr. building inspector, Philip Saxe on the town planning board. The Communication Coordination Committee was reappointed. Vacancies on Budget, Appeals and Historical Boards were deferred. Head operator gains 10 dollars weekly, other operators five dollars. head municipal office clerk up 2.50, assessors clerk up five. Pay scales to be reviewed.
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Kennebunk
Board of Selectmen
Julius Dean
Francis Dow
Lewis H. Burr
G. Warren Cochrane Jr
Philip Saxe
Frank Stevens
Harrison Coleman
George Noiles
Light and Power District
A. Wesley Leech
Robert York
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Weekly Food Market Guide
Southgate Motors, Inc
Jack Weiss
Clarence Tarr
George Spirounias
SUN
Avisco
Oxfords
Texaco Motor
Gleem
Claudette Labonte
Wilfred Labonte
North St
Norman Spaulding
Everett Spaulding
Temple St
Labonte
Spaulding
A. Petit, M.D
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Edmund Caliten
Elizabeth Snow
WHS
Biddeford-Saco
Legion Auxiliary
Miles A. Smith
Woolworth’s
Sanford Rd
Thriftiest Frigidaire
Lumaside Polycote Siding
Lumaside Polycote House
Polycote House
Polycote Siding
Adam
Roland L. Petit CO
Main Street
H. W. Thompson, Inc
Bert’s Corner
Alfred Street
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