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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1973
Page
5
A 63 year old Rumford man, Thomas Harlow, died in a two car head-on crash on Route 2 in Mexico Maine Saturday night. The collision injured the driver of the other vehicle and another occupant. The incident marks the 20th traffic fatality in Maine for 1973.
Ceremonies dedicated the 24 million Biddeford High School addition and renovations in a new gymnasium with Dr. Carroll R. McGary and Supt. Andrew C. Frechette as featured speakers. About 1,500 citizens attended a tour of the locker rooms music and drama room science labs arts center language lab and offices in the basement. Master of ceremonies Raymond A. Kenneally and Mayor Gilbert R. Boucher presided as the project’s building committee members were listed and a commemorative plaque was donated by the architect firm Wordsworth Dimick Mercer and Weaterill.
The Stephens estate sells a 25 Wentworth St. Biddeford property to Armand and Armand A. Doyon who will live there Mike Renowned Sheltra firm completes the sale. A Dayton three quarter acre lot owned by Mollie Goodwin transfers to Wayne Cempobo and wife through Ed R. Morin Realty. A three apartment house at 77 High St Saco owned by Terry and Mrs Martel sells to Gerard Houde and wife via Gilberte Real Estate Agency.
In Augusta a Maine Senate vote is due today on a bill to restore Veterans Day to November 11, reversing a 1969 move to the fourth Monday in October. The House passed it 84-58 after broad veteran support and little public opposition, with the Maine State Chamber of Commerce as the main dissent.
In this column, readers share private marital strife and financial concerns. A couple’s divorce after a decade prompts friends to reveal alleged infidelities, while another man questions his wife’s beneficiary choice and an emoji chain-letter tale ends with a sharp rebuke.
Air Viet Nam DC4 crashed in the central highlands 18 miles from Ban Me Thout. All 55 aboard were believed killed with Japanese and others among the passengers. A US militiary unit and four helicopters near the site. Cause under investigation after several prior crashes by Air Vietnam.
Lawrence Jordan of Saco, corporation comptroller, named to the Chadwick-BaRoss Inc. board in Westbrook. He has served with the firm for 13 years. The American Kennel Club Stud Book registers more than 750000 purebred dogs annually.
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