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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1974
Page
5
Daily meal plans from Biddeford St Andre and Saco Public Schools list varied options each weekday including juices, soups, sandwiches, and hot entrees like American Chop Suey and Fishwich. Desserts, bread, butter, and milk accompany meals with occasional fruit and vegetables. some days note no school.
List of foods includes sliced French stick with butter tomato juice cold meat sandwich bologna cheese mustard buttered green beans sliced peaches milk grilled hamburger wedges green peppers no other selection homemade soup hot dog steamed bun mustard relish catsup baked beans celery carrot sticks sugar cookies milk and Suey with celery onions
The Gordon College drama group will perform The House By The Stable and Grab and Grace at United Baptist Church in Saco Sunday March 24 at 7 a.m. under Dr. G Lloyd Carr. The 18th season showcases religious drama alongside modern and ancient styles from Archibald MacLeish, Cole Porter, Moliere, and Aristophanes.
Capt William Groff outlines Salvation Army work at Biddeford Rotary Club Wonder Bar. The Old Orchard Beach unit provides 24hour aid, shelters families after disasters, supplies clothing and food, visits nursing homes and hospitals, and offers counseling and day camps. Officers are ordained ministers and aid is given based on need.
Members of the class of 1949 at Thornton Academy Saco met at Mrs Richard Clark's home to plan the 25th reunion. The event is slated for July 5 at Salmon Falls Country Club Hollis with further plans to be refined at the March 27 committee meeting at Robert Boutet's home in Saco. Attendees included Roger Parker William Kang Myron Campbell Robert Boutet and Mrs Cote.
Old Orchard Beach Schools week lunch menu lists Monday hot meatball sandwich with cheese on a school roll, green beans, Jello and milk. Tuesday offers orange juice, pizza, cole slaw, peaches and ravioli, milk. Wednesday features turkey in gravy, mashed potatoes, buttered carrots, biscuit with butter, banana and milk. Thursday serves pig in blanket, Spanish rice, buttered corn, dessert and milk. Friday presents chili, garden salad, French bread, butter, March birthday cake and milk.
Monday offers beef ogetti with green beans French bread butter and fruit cobbler with milk. Tuesday serves apple juice frankfurter roll mustard relish New England salad molasses applesauce cookie and milk. Wednesday presents baked chicken cranberry sauce bread butter ice cream and milk with a submarine sandwich including bologna cheese tomato lettuce buttered carrots and a brownie with milk. Friday features creamed tuna vegetables hot muffins butter fruit Jello and milk.
Monday features orange juice, frankfurters with mustard relish, Harvard beets, and gingerbread. Tuesday serves spaghetti with meat sauce, buttered green beans, French bread, butter, applesauce cookie, milk, corn, Waldorf salad, bread, butter, ice cream, and meatball rolls with carrots, fruit Jello, and milk. Friday offers fruit juice, assorted sandwiches, tuna egg and ham, cobbler with topping, milk, celery, carrot sticks, and fruit.
At Ross Center Monday, Punch, turkey pan pie, cranberry sauce, buttered green beans, hot sliced French bread with butter, chilled sliced peaches, milk, coffee, tea. Tuesday features Chilled Orange Juice and grilled hamburger on bread, with similar sides.
Sen. Harrison Richardson of Cumberland, Republican candidate for governor, will address the Saco Republican City Committee at Saco City Hall on Wednesday night March 27. He plans to discuss Maine's business climate, potential tax and regulatory changes, and field audience questions. He would shift primary industry recruitment to the governor's office and has backed a Maine Public Transit Fund to aid Biddeford-Saco area transit. He chairs the Public Lands and Veterans committees and sits on Marine Resources.
Mr and Mrs Fernand R Payeur of 177 Hills Beach Road Biddeford announce the engagement of their daughter Carol A Payeur to Kevin R Ferry son of Mr and Mrs Richard A Ferry of 5 Herring Ave Biddeford. Both are 1972 Biddeford High School graduates. Carol works at Pepperell Trust Co Biddeford. Kevin attends Southern Maine Vocational Technical Institute South Portland and works for General Electric Co South Portland. An October 5 wedding is planned.
Oroville California hosts a film crew led by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor for The Klansman a 4.5 million drama based on William Bradford Huies novel. Celebrities including Lee Marvin Cameron Mitchell Lola Falana Luciana Paluzzi and O J Simpson appear as locals visit the town square and watch a staged race riot while Burton comments on his five month marriage rift.
Miss Joanne S. Binette of Saco married Dale R. Voight of Cicero Illinois in a March 16 ceremony at Most Holy Trinity Church Saco. Joyce Binette served as maid of honor and Ronald Binette was usher. A reception followed at the K of C Hall Biddeford. The couple plans a Mexico wedding trip and residence on Elmhurst Street. The bride is Thornton Academy graduate. the groom a Morton East High School and Roosevelt University alumnus working as an accountant for the U D H E W in Chicago.
Mr and Mrs Richard J Morneau announce the engagement of their daughter Linda Irene Morneau to Philip Wayne Hussey son of Mr and Mrs Isaac Hussey of Biddeford. Both graduates of Biddeford High School. Miss Morneau works for New England Modular Homes and Hussey is employed by J D s Electric. A September 20 wedding is planned.
Rev. Burton Throckmorton of Bangor Theological Seminary urged statewide support for the University of Maine at Orono gay conference planned for April 19-20. He warned Maine could be labeled intolerant if efforts to block the event succeed, as protests from legislators and clergy mounted.
Miss Therese Pp. Dube daughter of Mr and Mrs Antonio Dube of 26 Western Ave Biddeford was honored at a bridal shower at the Fremont Club Alfred Street Biddeford Hostess was Mrs Ruth Inniss Miss Dube will wed Reuben Inniss son of Mr and Mrs George Inniss of Arundel on June 8 at St Josephs Church Biddeford Seventy guests attended the event and 25 shared in the gilt presentation but were unable to attend
A bridal shower for Miss Dolores Morissette daughter of Mr and Mrs Marcel Morissette was hosted at Mrs Irene Loranger’s Alfred Road Biddeford. She will wed Ronald Goulet son of Mr and Mrs Emile Goulet of Arundel on April 6 at St Philip's Mission Dayton and Lyman Goodwins Mills. Forty two guests attended with ten sharing in gifts.
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