Thieves Crack Safe In Biddeford Break In
Biddeford police investigated two overnight burglaries at City Square Auto Parts and Charles Motor Sales. The auto parts store reported cash missing from a safe, likely under $1,000, after the safe and two filing cabinets were forced open. The adjacent motor sales business had a rear window entry with a safe and filing cabinet pried. no money was found. Police identified Chief Edgar Sevigny and other officers handling the case.
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Elm Street
Biddeford
City Square
Philip Scammon
Scammon
Charles Motor Sales
Charles Nanos
Nanos
Edgar Sevigny
Philip Poi‘rier
George Friary
Manuel DeSilva
Maine Legislature Sets Anniversary Celebration in Augusta
In Augusta the governors of Maine and Massachusetts and Maine Supreme Court chief justice will speak Wednesday at 10 45 a m in the House hall to mark the 100 legislatures of Maine. The event features a homecoming day with current and former lawmakers, an invocation by Rev John Brett Fort, a Maine National Guard band performance, taps for deceased legislators, and remarks by key officials including Gov John Reed and Gov John Volpe of Massachusetts.
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Augusta
Maine
Massachusetts
Maine Supreme Court
House of Representatives
House
Carl M. Stilphen
R-Rockland
195Th Army Band
Maine National Guard
Bangor
Taps
John Brett Fort
Robert B. Williamson
Vinal G. Good
R-Sebago
Senate
Earle M. Hillman
R-Bangor
John H. Reed
John A Volpe
British Actress Killed In Auto Crash In California
Belinda Lee, a 26 year old British actress, died when a station wagon blew a tire and flipped near San Bernardino. Her fiancé, director Gualtiero Jacopetti, was injured with a broken leg. two Italian crew members also hurt. The crash occurred about 150 miles northeast of Hollywood while returning from Las Vegas. Lee, born in Devon, had debuted in 1954’s Runaway Bus and was ranked a top British money making star in 1957.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Belinda Lee
Hollywood
Las Vegas
Ney
Miss Lee
Highway Patrol
Gualtiero Jacopetti
Barstow Community Hospital
Devon
England
Motion Picture Herald—fame
The
Movie Magazine
Maine Hosts National Home Demonstration Council Meeting Gifts
Extension units in Maine prepare fir balsam gift bags for delegates to the National Home Demonstration Council meeting in Orono next August. State committee members led workshops across Maine, grinding and drying fir to perfume the bags, aiming to assemble 539 gift kits with spruce cone trim and green ribbon.
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Maine
National Home Demonstration Council
York Extension Women Leaders
Saco Grange Hall
Esther Deering
University of Maine, Orono
Maine Extension Women State Committee
United States
Sarah Ricker
Lymen
Viola Pike
Cornish
York
Dorothy Roberts
Sanford
Hazel Milligan
Mildred Mitchell
Miriam Walker
Semnford
Belle Poirier Named Head of Auxiliary
Belle Poirier named president of Biddeford VFW auxiliary in city building election of officers. Also elected were Jean Nette Curro senior vice president Mary Gagne junior vice president Almeria Proulx chaplain Delcia Frechette treasurer Laura Dodge conductress Alma Beaudoin guard Dora Soucy trustee Blanche Small secretary Mary Wood Lucianna Roy Agnes Simard Dora Soucy color bearers Marie Boisvert instructor. District meeting set for Sunday night with Margaret Blake of Kittery in charge. Refreshments served by Laura Dodge and Blanche Small.
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Belle Poirier
Biddeford Post
VFW
Jeannette Curro
Mary Gagne
Almeria Proulx
Delcia Frechette
Laura Dodge
Alma
Beaudoin
Dora Soucy
Blanche Small
Mary Wood
Lucianna Roy
Agnes Simard
Marie Boisvert
Margaret Blake
Kittery
Ed Sullivan Refuses Paar's Court Fight Challenge
New York AP report says Jack Paar accused Ed Sullivan on air of lying about canceling their TV debate. Sullivan denied intending to sue and blamed Paar for backing out. Paar pressed for a courtroom truth on stage and insisted on audience access and mutual questioning in the NBC debate.
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New York
Jack Paar
Ed Sullivan
Sullivan
Paar
Kennedy Seeks 600 Million Aid for Latin America
President Kennedy urged Congress to provide 600 million dollars as the first step in a 10 year cooperative aid program to lift living conditions in Latin America. He warned of grave danger as people may turn to communism without help, naming Cuba and the Dominican Republic as priorities and referencing a broader alliance of progress.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Latin America
Capitol
South of the Border
White House
United States
Cuba
Dominican Republic
U.S
Bogota
Colombia
Biddeford Physician 80 Today
Dr Joseph R Larochelle of Biddeford marks his 80th birthday born March 14 1881. He began practice in 1907 at Emery and Bacon streets later moved to Bacon street is a St Arsene P Q native graduate of St Anne de la Pocatiere Laval Harvard Paris postgrad physician on Notre Dame hospital surgical staff honorary Weber hospital member of Maine and American medical associations He received a 1957 Maine Medical Association medal for 50 years of service He delivered babies in nearby towns traveled by horse and buggy and still makes house calls with two sons in medicine.
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Joseph R. Larochelle
Biddeford
Larocchelle
Emery and
Bacon Streets
Bacon Street
St. Arsene, P. Q
St Anne de la Pocatiere College
Laval University
Quebec City
Harvard University
Larochelle
Paris
France
New York City
Notre Dame Hospital
Webber Hospital
York County
Maine
American Medical Associations
Association of
Maine Medical Association
Kennebunk
Kennebunkport
Saco
Old Orchard Beach
J. Ralph Larochelle
Guy Larochelle
Portland
Castro Threatens Exile Governments in Cuba Crisis
Fidel Castro warned of forming revolutionary governments in exile beginning with Puerto Rico if the United States sanctions a Cuban government in exile. He condemned Kennedy's Latin America plan as encouraging revolt and accused the U.S. of aggression, citing an armed ship attack on the Santiago refinery and denouncing U.S. policy while praising the Soviet bloc.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Puerto Rico
United States
Kennedy
Latin America
Society of Free Men
Castro
White House
Texaco
Santiago
U.S Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay
Naval Base
Havana University
Vedado District
Cuos National Bank
Aot
Alliance For Progress
Latin
America
Catholic Heads Press Federal Aid Plan For Private Schools
The National Catholic Welfare Conference urged a long term, low interest loan program to support private and parochial schools, while stopping short of demanding outright grants for all parochial schools. NCWC spokesman Msgr Hochwalt testified to a Senate education subcommittee as Abraham Ribicoff called for separate consideration of private school aid.
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Washington
United States
Kennedy
Catholic Church
Msgr
Frederick G. Hochwalt
National Catholic
Welfare Conference Department of Schools
Senate
NCWC
U. S
Abraham A. Ribicoff
Ribicoff
JFK's Sister Eunice Shriver undergoes appendectomy
Mrs. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 38 year old sister of President Kennedy, had an appendectomy today at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Dr Roy Heffernan performed the operation. A hospital statement said she would be confined 5 to 10 days. Shriver is a mother of three, and her husband leads the Peace Corps.
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Boston
R. Sargent Shriver
Kennedy
Eunice
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Roy Heffernan
Shriver
New
Peace Corps
Education Ups Budgets For Towns
Higher education costs were reflected in generally higher budgets approved by most communities at town meetings Monday. Farmington defeated fluoridation 933 to 102. Scarborough approved a 723,394 budget, up 85,000 from last year, not including funds for a 546,850 junior high school. Hallowell and Farmingdale voters authorized a new high school and remodeling into a junior high for School Administrative District 16. Hallowell approved 5 to 1. Farmingdale similar margin.
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Associated Press
Farmington
Scarborough
Hallowell
Farmingdale
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