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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1961
Page
6
Classified real estate listings for Biddeford Saco and Old Orchard Beach cover eight room dwellings with features like fireplaces oil heat and garages plus several 8 room homes on various streets. The document also lists numerous Maine legislative bills, committees and topics including university buildings, public works and taxation with session schedules.
A Maine probate court in York County orders published notices for the estates of Wells Sanford Kennebunk Sanford and other locals. It lists appointment petitions for administrators executors and guardians and requests hearing dates and bond waivers. The document notes first accounts and distribution petitions and includes name changes for a adopted child. The entry ends with a zoological fact about jellyfish orientation via an ithocyst.
The Biddeford Maine assessors announce sessions from April 1 to 10 at the City Building to revise poll and estate lists for taxation. Residents must bring truthful lists of polls and real and personal estates as of April 1, 1961, and executors or administrators must notify changes in estates. Noncompliance bars tax abatement requests. blank schedules are available at the Assessors' Office.
Mrs Katherine Slowik of 24 Dearborn Avenue Biddeford asked Biddeford firemen to clean her chimney this morning. A misheard call led firefighters to respond with sirens. they soon learned it was a routine cleaning and booked the appointment for tomorrow.
The piece notes high ages in Kennedy’s administration and Congress with leaders Dirksen 65 Halleck 60 McCormack 69 Rayburn 79 Mansfield 58 Johnson 52. It contrasts youth in the Supreme Court where ages range 46 to 78 and Chief Justice Warren near 70 with justices Frankfurter 78 Black 75 Douglas 62 Clark 61 Harlan 61 Whittaker 60 Brennan 54 Stewart 46.
Showmen outline live audience program at 8 15 p m in New York with Cerf as moderator on a privilege granted by Paar. Sullivan had suggested Hugh Downs but NBC rejected him as neutral. Downs will open the program and the debate starts 15 minutes later. If finished before closing time Paar and Sullivan will exit together and Downs continues the show.
The Kennedy administration plans to ban the last U S imports from Cuba, about 64 million dollars annually, targeting tobacco, molasses, fruits and vegetables. The embargo could be announced early this week as a blow to Fidel Castro's regime.
John A. Hayes 45 of 74 Atlantic Avenue Old Orchard Beach was sentenced to 30 days in York County Jail Alfred on assault and battery by Judge Hilary F. Mahaney in Saco Municipal Court. Hayes pleaded not guilty to assault and battery on Paul House of Old Orchard Beach with intent to appeal to May term of York County Superior Court. Other actions: Robert M. Shagoury 17 Boston fined 10 for speeding 80 in a 70 zone. Clifford Levesque 18 Old Orchard Beach fined 10 driving without a license. Edward E. Brackett 17 West Buxton fined 10 with 5 suspended for passing a red light in Saco.
Saco mayor Charles R. Cote said he will not go to Washington Wednesday to confer with Senator Muskie on urban renewal for Saco. He noted meetings last month with Gov. Reed, Senator Muskie, Representative Garland, and a Federal urban renewal official provided necessary information. Additional data could be obtained by calling Muskie or Garland, and Augusta meeting recommendations have been sent to the Saco Planning Board.
The St Francis Guild held a third in a series of whist parties yesterday at St Francis college. Winners of special prizes were Mrs Lillian Gervais and Mrs Rita Sevigny. other winners included James King Mrs Simonne Green Mrs Pauline Belair Roland Villemeure William Labonte Jeannine Collard Rose Daigle Robert Bellefeuille Marie Rose Goulet Robert Shauck Florida LaBranche Gerard Beaudoin Aldoric Soucy Marie Anne Moreau Jean Marc Vachon Euclide Chalout Claudette Lambert Norman Taylor and Leslie Burke.
Edward F. Galli aged 64 and his brother Ernesto aged 53 met Sunday for the first time in 41 years. They had not seen each other since Edward left Italy in 1920. Ernesto sold his tailor shop in Scala and will live with Edward, a city mason in Portland.
FBI says Morris Kroger and wife Lola plus Harry Houghton and fiancee Ethel Gee, both British civil servants, and Lonsdale formed a ring that stole secrets from the British Navy base at Portland and relayed them via a Kroger home transmitter. Trials may run a week with penalties from three to seven years.
The message to Congress on Tuesday will spell out his program for Latin America and is expected to disclose plans to administer a special 500 million dollar Latin American aid fund.
A dealer offers a pack of classic cars from 1955 to 1950 many with R H power steering hydraulics and automatic transmissions. Models include Buick Mercury Chevrolet Ford Plymouth Pontiac Chrysler and Dodge in colors white black blue and green with features such as heater radio and dynaflow. Terms offer $5 down and $5 weekly payments with good credit and emphasize low mileage and immaculate condition.
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