One vote margins Adelbert M. Jakeman elected town moderator
Old Orchard Beach voters faced stormy weather as Adelbert M. Jakeman Sr edged Leon F. Jones 19 18 to win the town moderator post. Five selectmen and officials including constables town clerk and school committee member are to be chosen in today’s town meeting with 73 articles on the warrant. A railroad spur fund drive to attract a 500 job plant in Saco Industrial Park trails by about 11 740 dollars of the 59 000 goal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adelbert M. Jakeman
Old Orchard Beach
Jakeman
Leon F. Jones
Ark
Civil Service
Saco
Clifford A. Purvis
Maine Industrial Building Authority
Augusta
Charles R. Cote
Two Quit Jobs With Local 406
Ralph Lachance president of Local 406 Textile Workers Union resigns to become sub clerk at Biddeford post office. Willie Nadeau, Local 406 treasurer, resigns to work at Kittery Naval shipyard. Special meeting to nominate candidates for vice president and treasurer. Election set for March 30.
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Ralph Lachance
Textile Workers Union of America
Afl-Cio
Lachance
Biddeford
Willie Nadeau
Adrien Petit
Local 406
Michael Schoonjans
Fogg Avenue
Tornado In Tennessee Kills Three
Stanton, Tenn. A small tornado struck a rural Freedonia area near Stanton before dawn killing three people. Two houses were badly damaged as the storm moved through a line of thunderclouds. the State Highway Patrol listed no other serious injuries or details. The dead were all Negroes. Freedonia lies about 40 miles northeast of Memphis.
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Stanton
Tenn
Here
Freedonia
State Highway Patrol
West Tennessee
Memphis
Elizabeth Taylor gravely ill with pneumonia and anemia
London reports Elizabeth Taylor gravely ill with pneumonia and developing anemia. Her six man medical team led by Dr Carl Heinz Goldman says her blood is not good and she is receiving blood transfusions.
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London
Elizabeth Taylor
Carl Heinz Goldman
Midwest Storms Rake Regions From Coast To Coast
Storms sweep the Midwest with rain sleet fog and tornadoes. An 80 year old woman dies as a tornado hits Kokomo Indiana while Jerseyville Illinois also endures a twister. Heavy snow blankets Nebraska Iowa Minnesota and Wisconsin with dozens of cars stalled in Minneapolis Saint Paul. Pacific Northwest faces 83 mph winds and heavy snowfall at Mt Hood. Washington and British Columbia suffer downed lines. Ohio floods rise as Mobile River threats suspend L and N passenger service.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Kokomo
Ind
Miller Steel Co
Indiana
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Weather Bureau
State Patrol
Jerseyville
Ill
Gravois Arm
Lake of the Ozarks
Pacific Northwest
Cascade Mountains
Mt. Hood
Washington State
British Columbia
Washington
D. C
Ohio
Mobile River
Alabama
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Armistice Date Noted In Student Answer
A pupil answered a question with a quip about the Armistice being signed on November 11, 1918 and joked that, since then, there have been two minutes of peace each year. The remark appears in a classroom exchange cited humorously.
Jobless Bills To Be Aired In Maine Legislature
Maine Legislature hearings Tuesday will consider unemployment benefit changes. Proposals include raising the maximum weekly benefit from 33 to 35, altering calculations to raise some benefits while lowering others, extending eligibility from 26 to 39 weeks, and stricter rules against mass picketing that blocks supplies. Also on Tuesday, committees will review constitutional amendments on department head appointments and executive council elections.
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Augusta
Maine
Labor Committee
Ralph M. Lovell
R-Sanford
Prient
Raise
Paul A. Couture
D-Lewiston
Frank Bussiere
Nelson Hancock
Nobleboro
Executive Council
House
Senate
Catholics Warned Over School Integration Meeting
In Charleston Catholic parents planned a meeting at Simon Baruch Auditorium to oppose parochial school integration. Bishop Hallinan warned Catholics attending such gatherings against opposing the Church, while Save Our Nation Inc. in New Orleans offered to distribute segregation materials. Meanwhile, Maine faced foul winter weather with freezing drizzle, sleet and snow. A fatal head‑on crash on Route 125 near Durham killed 64-year-old Milda Goddard of Lisbon Falls as conditions snarled traffic and multiple towns reported several inches of snow.
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Charleston
S. C
Paul J. Hallinan
Hallinan
Simon Baruch Auditorium
New Orleans
Save Our Nation, Inc
Portland
Maine
Atal
Durham
Milda Goddard
Lisbon Falls
Sunay
Caribou
Millinocket
Greenville
Old Town
Rumford
Eastport
U.S. Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
End Of Private Railroads Is Predicted In Boston Speech
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad president John W. Barringer warned private railroad operation could end unless federal restrictions are lifted. He urged a 1961 10 point program including a highway user charge, tax discrimination end, repeal of passenger travel tax, and broader depreciation. He noted over regulation harmed New England and recalled his New Haven Railroad tenure.
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Boston
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad
New York Central
John W. Barringer
Railroad Community Committee of
New England
Eastern Railroads Presidents Conference
Barringer
United States
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New Haven
McCormack and Kennedy Split on Federal School Aid
Washington AP John W McCormack Democratic leader of Massachusetts disagrees with President Kennedy on federal aid to private and parochial schools He says constitutional questions are not involved in federal loans for construction or renovation and would support them Kennedy cites his stance aligning with church separation drawing both Protestant praise and Catholic hierarchy criticism
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Washington
House
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
Kennedy
McCormack
Gromyko Stevenson To Parley On Congo Crisis
United Nations dispatch states U S Ambassador Adlai Stevenson met with Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah to discuss Congo tensions and plan a meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Dag Hammarskjold to confer with Nkrumah as the General Assembly resumes after recess.
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United Nations
N. Y
U. S
Adlai Stevenson
Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah
Congo
Andrei Gromyko
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
Nkrumah
General Assembly
Peace Corps Could Help Home Front Says Kennedy
President Kennedy says the Peace Corps may serve at home as well as abroad. He notes study into using Americans willing to work in slums and education retraining locally, alongside overseas service. The remarks were made during a White House television discussion with Eleanor Roosevelt, televised Sunday.
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Washington
Kennedy
Peace Corps
White House
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Doris Sevigny
St. Mary Sodality Council
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St. Francis
Saco Park
Beach
Tennessee
Iness OF
Liz
Fea. Corp
Congo Halls
Leopoldville
The
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Matadi
Congo River
New Conservative Baptist Church
Saco City Hall
Robert Bell
South Portland
Harold Wheeler
Brunswick
Norman Brydon
Gorham
John E. Fickett
New Church
Byron Cressy
Lemonte O'Bleins
Malcolm Johnson
Leon Nevers
Robert Miller
Frank Bridges
Donald Robinson
Cape Elizabeth
Clyde Park
Hollis Center
Home Front Peace Corps
Sacred Heart League of Notre Dame de Lourdes
Arthur J. Lambert
Georges Plante
Norman Carrier
St. Joseph Parish
Fernand M. X. Cote
Donald Roy
Gerard Doyon
Raoul Paquet
Richard Danforth
Wilfrid Rouillard
Albert Caron
Joseph Levasseur
Clifford Monder
Armand Mercier
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