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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1967
Page
3
The Farm and Home Economics contest at the University of Maine features Mrs. Pearl S. Grant of Saco as co conductor. The event, part of Home Week, will be held in the Memorial Union main lounge on Wednesday in March.
A message announced Priscilla Stevens Great Pocahontas of Maine will visit the Blue Feather Council on April 20 at Le Foyer Biddeford. Carrie Whittemore Pocahontas of Nee Nah Council Old Orchard Beach sent thanks. A fund raising report was given by Josephine Burba with prizes won by Delvina Mathurin and Gertrude Wood. The next meeting is 7 p.m. April 20 with a buffet lunch served by Pocahontas Wood. A medical research team aims to tranquilize a whale to study it.
Wells Congregational Church offers the Right Hand of Fellowship during the 10 30 am Palm Sunday service in the Second Church edifice led by Rev W Vinton Murphy with the board of deacons. Special music features the adult sanctuary choir under Jacob M Kelley and Mrs Prudence D Murphy at the organ. Easter sunrise is planned for 5 30 am at Moody Beach followed by breakfast in the First Church vestry, with one Easter service in the Second Church at 10 30 am.
Reverend J Williams Dow and Mrs Dow were feted at Ogunquit Baptist Church as he ends four years as minister. An evening program featured solos duets and readings. a purse was given by Russell Hutchins. New pastor Reverend John B S Fitzpatrick from Yarmouth will assume duties April 2.
Final plans for a public bean supper to be held tomorrow from 4 to 7 p.m. are sponsored by the Fremont Club and Auxiliary at the Fremont Club on Alfred Street. Club President Adrien Lamothe led the session. Edmond Neault, recently at New England Medical Center, will return to his Sheltra Avenue home today.
Mr and Mrs Earl Witham of High Street honor Julie Witham of Auburn for her occasion. Guests include an other son and his wife Mr and Mrs William Witham and children William and Sally of Auburn and the Witham daughters Sheila Vicki and Gayle.
The ministers in Kennebunk and Kennebunkport announce Holy Week programs with separate Palm Sunday worships. From Monday to Friday Christ Church Dane Street hosts 7:40 am meditation and the Baptist Church on Main Street offers noon 12:10 to 12:30 services. A Good Friday community service March 12 at 7:30 pm at Christ Church features Rev. Robert Ross with the theme He Who Must Die. Easter sunrise on March 26 at 5 am前 Narraganset Hotel Kennebunk Beach, weather permitting, will move to South Congregational Church Kennebunkport. Easter breakfasts follow at both churches.
A Cuban hummingbird is cited as the smallest bird species with an adult length of about 2 percent inches, illustrating extreme diminutive size in avian life.
In Tiverton Dennis Costa wins a brief legal fight to require contractor staff to warn him before blasting near his dairy herd. The plan allows him to move cows to safety, reducing injury risk from nearby construction. In Philadelphia Gov Shafer signs a bill for a referendum on a constitutional convention set for May 16. The vote could authorize delegates to revise four constitutional areas. In Eugene Oregon, a summer archival administration course is announced to teach which public records to save or discard.
Miss Anne deF. Harrison daughter of Mr and Mrs Gilbert Harrison of Saco was named to the Dean's List for the semester ending in February at Endicott Junior College Beverly Massachusetts. She is a senior majoring in Liberal Arts.
Cushman Speik ing Co may close its Lynn Massachusetts operation and shift production to Portland where headquarters are. Robert T. Marshall says a final decision will come within a month. Lynn bakery employs about 350 people and sales staff would stay. Policemen unhappy about two plants.
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