Personal notices from Biddeford area and nearby towns
Local notices list residents in Kennebunk Biddeford Saco and Old Orchard Beach. Individuals include John Geary Ernest Garceau Mrs Andre Cote Mrs Oscar Boisvert Mrs Edward Frechette Lucille Guay Roger Guay Thomas LaMarre James Bain Narcisse Proulx Diomede Boissonneault Pvt Robert Pombriant Joseph Mokarzel Konstantine Karvonides Theodore Cote Richard Couture Armand Couture and Philip Bundy. Notes cover hospital stays promotions dean’s list and military service.
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John Geary
Pleasant Street
Kennebunk
Notre Dame Hospital
Ernest Garceau
Main Street
Biddeford
Andre Cote
Belmont Street
Webber Hospital
Oscar Boisvert
Piergon Lane
Edward Frechette
Summer Street
Weobver Hospital
Lucille Guay
Roger Guay
Santa Fe
N.M
Thomas F. LaMarre
Graham Street
James Bain
Ferry Road
Saco
Narcisse Proulx
Elm Street
Diomede Boissonneault
High Street
Robert P. Pombriant
USMC
Therese Pombriant
Gore Street
Camp Lejeune
N. C
Joseph Mokarzel
Old Orchard Beach
New England
National Bohemia Brewing Company
Baltimore
Mokarzel
Nicholas Karvonides
Beach Street
Paris
Franklin Stret
Constantine Karvonides
New York City
Theodore Cote
Pine Street
J. MacDonald
St. Francis Xavier University
Nova Scotia
Richard
Armand R. Couture
Emile A. Couture
Fernando Street
Third Marine
Okinawa
Philip L. Bundy
Ruth E. Cannell
School Street
Kennebunkport
Palmer C Perkins 66 Ogunquit dies at home
Palmer C Perkins 66 of School street Ogunquit died this morning at his home. Born June 3 1894 in York he was a plumber by trade. Survived by widow Susan Morse Perkins brother Nelson Perkins sister Bertha Clark and several nieces and nephews. Funeral Sunday at 2 p.m. from Roger K Lucas Funeral Home York with calling hours Saturday afternoon and evening.
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Palmer C. Perkins
School Street
Ogunquit
York
Jeremiah
Dora (Bridges) Perkins
Susan ‘Morse’ Perkins
Nelson Perkins
Bertha Clark
Kennebunk
Roger K. Lucas
Biddeford Flags at Half Staff for Former Councilman
The Biddeford City building flag was placed at half staff yesterday in honor of Ernest J. Desmarais of 11 Congress Street a former city councilman. Desmarais was a retired barber who died yesterday morning.
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Biddeford
Ernest J. Desmarais
Congress Street
Desmarais
Funeral services for Frank Roscoe Fowles
Funeral services for Frank Roscoe Fowles of Cornish and Portland, formerly of Saco, were held yesterday afternoon at 2 from Dennett and Craig Funeral Home in Saco. Rev. Thomas Cornish of the Federated church of Cornish officiated. Burial followed in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Saco.
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Frank Roscoe Fowles
Cornish
Portland
Saco
Dennett and Craig
Main Street
Thomas Cornish
Federated Church of Cornish
Laurel Hill
Our Lady of Fatima Circle to Meet for Prayer Vigil
Daughters of Isabella Our Lady of Fatima Circle will gather at seven thirty tonight at Emond Funeral Home in Biddeford to say prayers for Ernest Desmarais, brother of a circle member.
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Our Lady of Fatima Circle
Daughters of Isabella
Emond Funeral Home
Biddeford
Ernest Desmarais
House Debates Constitutional Posts and Portland Surplus
Rep William R Dennett backs keeping seven Portland seats in reapportionment while opposing tampering with the constitution. Dissenters Dostie Noel argue for appointing the agriculture commissioner by the governor. Edwin R Smith proposes distributing the Portland surplus across counties to spread wealth, with speakers noting Portland’s undercount in representation.
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House
Eddie FE
Dostie
Lewiston
Joseph Noel
Waterville
Noel
Dennett
Irving D. Fogg
D-Madison
Portland
Edwin R. Smith
Bar Harbor
Loren EF. Kimball
Mount Desert
George D. Bearce
Bucksport
Smith
Cumberland County
Cumberland
Cuss In Notre Dame Thrift Shop Heads Group C Next Week
The Notre Dame thrift shop will be directed by Group C next week with Mrs Leo P Tailon serving as captain.
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Notre Dame Thrift Shop
Leo P. Tailon
Unemployment rises in many cities in January through March
A list shows numerous cities with unemployment already high and worsened, including Stockton New Haven Wilmington Tampa St. Petersburg Rockford Wichita Kalamazoo Lansing Saginaw Manchester Tulsa Kenosha Racine. A separate smaller-area tally growing from 152 to 194 indicates broader jobless increases across regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockton
Calif
New Haven
Thanking Friends for Flowers and Cards at Maine Medical Center
Mrs. Paul Shevenell expresses gratitude to friends and relatives for flowers and cards received during a stay at Maine Medical Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine Medical Center
Paul Shevenell
Beach Advertising Contract Signed by Simonds-Payson
The Simonds-Payson company of Portland will handle Old Orchard Beach's advertising this year and replace Frost of Boston as the town's advertising agent, according to Town Manager Percival Wardwell.
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Simonds-Payson Company, Inc
Portland
Old Orchard Beach
Percival Wardwell
Portland Company
Frost of
Boston
Port land man fined for driving left on curve
Eugene A. Hurteau, 56, of Portland, was fined $15 in Biddeford municipal court this morning on a charge of operating to the left on a curve. Hurteau pleaded innocent but was found guilty after a hearing. State police were complainants, Judge Simon Spill presided. The fine was paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene A. Hurteau
Portland
Biddeford
Hurteau
Simon Spill
Portland Weather Outlook With Snow and Cold Snap
This afternoon will be cloudy and colder with light snow and occasional rain, especially along the coast, north winds 5 to 15 mph. Tonight brings more light snow or rain, winds shifting to 10 to 15 mph. Saturday remains cloudy with showers and little temperature change. Temperatures today peak in the mid to upper 30s with overnight lows from the upper 20s to low 30s. Record cold readings include Greenville 22 and Mt. Washington 15, while Portland starts at 30.
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Portland
Caribou
Eastport
Greenville
Old Town
Rumford
Mt. Wash
Concord
Halifax
Montreal
Hair Style Show For Fatima Circle At St Jean Hall
More than 200 Our Lady of Fatima circle Daughters of Isabella members and guests enjoyed a hair style show at St Jean hall Biddeford. Armand Beauty academy of Saco organized the program with Mr Armand as commentator and stylist. Models demonstrated dressy and practical styles. Prizes included a permanent wave to Mrs Yvette Berzeron, a birthday cake to Mrs Yvonne Landry and groceries to Mrs Theresa Gonthier.
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Our Lady of Fatima Circle
Daughters of Isabella
St. Jean Hall
Adams Street
Biddeford
Mr. Armand
Armand Beauty Academy
Saco
Armand
Academy
Yvette Berzeron
Yvonne Landry
Theresa Gonthier
Carmen Ruel
Yvette Plamondon
Bergangere Millette
Flora Lambert
Paulette Loranger
Therese Sparkowich
Mary Peloquin
Anita Dart
Rose Eva Perrault
Annette Ross
Aurore St. Pierre
Marcelle Moreau
Rose Alma Salvas
Jean D’arc Bisson
Rita Bilodeau
Cochairman
Gabrielle Brackett
Blanche Lebel
Cora Gagne
Delia Laucier
Annie Normand
Irene Landry
Yvette Croteau
Vivian Hickey
Marcelle Duranceau
Antoinette H. Simard
Juliette LaBonte
Rita Simard
Lena Bilodeau
Martha Neault
Marie Rose Dion
Angeline Chretien
Alice Simoneau
Germaine Turgeon
Francoise Gendron
Alice Verrier
Diana Gregoire
Emeline Bellevance
Yvonne Mondville
Rose Cote
Pauline Lavigne
Mary Cyr
Lorraine Gagne
Jeannette Letourneau
Laura Neault
Evelyn Gervais
Church Notes Highlight Local Saint Services This Weekend
Local churches in Saco Biddeford Wells and Kennebunk schedule confessions Holy Communion and worship services this Saturday and Sunday Palm Sunday observances at Biddeford Universalist church join prayer and praise by Biddeford Advent Christian church and Women s Home and Foreign Missionary society meet at 2 pm at 100 Middle Street Saco.
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Biddeford
The
Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society
Teenager Returns Ring After Conscience Sparks Heist
An unidentified teen entered Day's jewelry store in Portland and handed salesman Thomas Delaney a $400 diamond ring, saying he had taken it earlier but returned it because his conscience bothered him. Delaney said the shop did not know the ring was missing.
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Portland
Thomas Delaney
Delaney
Birth Announcements From Webber Hospital Vital Dates
A sequence of birth notices lists families at Webber Hospital with newborns from March 11 to March 19. Entries name parents, street addresses in Saco Biddeford Kennebunkport and Old Orchard Beach, plus child names and weights ranging about six to ten pounds. Multiple deliveries appear across several Maine towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James E. Chadbourne
Beach Street
Saco
Steven James
Albany B. Lagueux, Jr
Bay Street
Biddeford
Ronald Bertrand
Rodger Guertin
Emery Street
Nancy Marie
James A. Vorias
East Grand Avenue
Old Orchard Beach
Nicholas
Wheel chair platform uses battery power with magnetic brake
Paralyzed inventor Schantz introduces a battery driven wheel chair platform used in Barnes hospital. The chair clamps to the device and reportedly outperforms conventional power chairs, with a magnetic brake that works in rain. He envisions helping hospital night supervisors who patrol long corridors by enabling safer, regulated mobility.
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Barnes Now
Schantz
Reed opens to other ideas on economy gram measure
Reed says he is open to other suggestions and repeats opposition to a Right to Work bill. He declines comment on a potential veto if the proposal reaches his desk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gram
Reed
Rebecca Emery Chapter Hosts 63rd Maine DAR Conclave
Rebecca Emery chapter DAR of Biddeford-Saco hosted the 63rd Maine State DAR conference at the Le fayette hotel in Portland March 22 23 with 134 officers and delegates registered A memorial service featured carnations for deceased members and Paul Brown of Saco provided organ music A prize essay winner Deborah Allen received a $100 savings bond Miss Louis Ketchum Old Town and nursing student noted for future Army nurse corps enrollment The program included a Civil War retrospective by Richard Hatheway Bowdoin College and a National Defense breakfast led by Mrs George Davis Further meetings were scheduled in Dexter It concluded with adjournment by state regent Mrs Harry M Grover Attendees from Rebecca Emery included regent Mrs Harold Clark vice regent Mrs John Tarbox and other chapter officers and members
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Rebecca Emery
Dar
Biddeford-Saco
Lefayette Hotel
Portland
Harold A. Clark
Mayfair
Paul Brown
Saco
Aso
Ina N. Emery
Good Citizen
Deborah Allen
Biddeford
Louis Ketchum
Old Town
Ketchum
Mercy Hospital School of
Harry M. Grover
Gardiner
Harold Clark
John Tarbox
Alice Hurd
A. Florence Crowley
Ina Nemery
Grace FitzPatrick
Doris FitzPatrick
Alma W. Kittredge
Edna Rollins
Elizabeth Garland
Ethel Wight
Catherine Hutchins
Ella Luman
Ruby M. Irish
Gertrude Farwell
Dena Floyd
Ithel Ballard
Margaret Strout
Highway contracts awarded for Maine Interstate project
The Maine Highway Commission awarded six more contracts to low bidders on Wednesday. The largest project calls for 1.3 miles of Interstate Highway between the Royal and Cousins rivers in Yarmouth, awarded to Frank Rossi & Sons of Gardiner for 81 million four hundred ninety thousand eight hundred forty dollars.
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Augusta
Maine Highway Commission
Royal
Cousins Rivers
Yarmouth
Frank Rossi & Sons
Gardiner
Crocus Bloom At Saco Home
Signs of spring appear in Saco at 307 Main Street where neighbors report two croci in full bloom at the home of Mrs. Paul E. Willson.
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Saco
Paul E. Willson
Main Street
Laos Crises Prompt SEATO Unity and White House Resolve
Kennedy warned the U S must meet SEATO obligations if Laos aggression continues and act if necessary. SEATO ministers in Bangkok urged solidarity among eight nations to safeguard non Communist states as tensions with Pathet Lao persist. Harriman carried a Laos message to Nehru, who called it helpful but offered no details. Macmillan plans a 19 day trip to the U S Canada and West Indies starting soon. Khrushchev offered no public reaction.
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Pace
Kennedy
United States
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Laos
SEATO
Bangkok
Thailand
Pathet Lao
Tass
Moscow
Khrushchev
Siberian
Harold Macmillan
London
Canada
West Indies
Macmillan
W. Averell Harriman
Nehru
New Delhi
India
Kennedy outlines 1962 budget aims amid business slump
President Kennedy presents a two part civilian budget message focusing on prudent spending while defense needs rise. He cites increased civilian programs and a balanced 1962 budget of 83.2 billion in outgo versus 81.4 billion in receipts, with defense spending and taxes viewed as variables.
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Kennedy
Congress
Eisenhower
Agriculture Department
Commerce Department
Biddeford PT A reports 1000 books for new high school library
The book fund committee says about 1000 usable books valued at $5000 have been collected for the Biddeford high school library. Around 500 elementary and junior high volumes are donated, 400 to 500 sorted by Albert Pearce and Robert Butler. About $500 in donations and pledges have been received, with a goal of over 5000 volumes for accreditation.
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Biddeford
Parent-Teacher Association
Biddeford High School
Albert Pearce
McArthur Library
Robert Butler
Pearce
Joseph Audie
William Deans
Memorial Fund
Four Windham College students hike JFK fitness trek to New York
Four Windham College students from New York area left Putney Vt at 6 am to walk 220 miles to Times Square in support of President Kennedy's fitness program. They, Bruce Blasius Frank Ceapano Richard Murphy and Anthony Broom, planned 45 miles to Northampton by night and will rely on dry fruit by day with full meals in the evenings. They reached Brattleboro after ten miles in two hours five minutes as light snow fell and planned to continue via Route 5 through the Connecticut River Valley toward Greenfield Mass arriving around 1 pm.
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Putney
Windham College
Kennedy
New Yorkity
New York Area
Times Square
Bruce Blasius
Ramsay
N. J
Frank Ceapano
Huntington
N. Y
Richard Murphy
Anthony Broom
New York City
Walter J. Hendricks
New York
New England
Northampton
Mass
Braittleboro
Connecticut River Valley
Greenfield
Boston real estate leaders warn of 1961 demolition boom
At a Massachusetts real estate convention in Boston leaders forecast 1961 would be the peak year for demolition and relocation of commercial and industrial firms. A 100 acre government center project will force mass relocations across manufacturing, distribution and services, with 1962 and 1963 expected to accelerate as the Toll Road and Inner Belt begin.
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Boston
Lawrence
Fall River
New Bedford
John Ryan
Ryan Elliot & Co., Inc
Massachusetts Association of Real Estate Boards
Providence
R.I
Hartford
Maine bases receive funds in $800 million bill
The House approved an $800 million military construction bill with Maine allocations including Portsmouth Naval Shipyard 1,774,000 Dow Air Force Base 962,000 Loring Air Force Base 257,000 Brunswick Naval Air Station 211,000 and Kittery Naval Hospital 60,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Maine
House
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Dow Air Force Base
Loring Air Force Base
Brunswick Naval Air Station
Kittery Naval Hospital
Portland Man Surrenders on Assault Then Burglary Charge
Herman F. Howard Jr. surrendered to police on an assault charge and was fined 25 dollars in municipal court. Minutes later officers charged him with a 5610 dollar supermarket burglary. He had been sought since February 1 and was held in 2500 dollars for the grand jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Herman F.howard, Jr
Howard
Bangor Union Station Sold for Shopping Center Plan
Bangor Union Station was sold Wednesday to three Bangor businessmen who plan a shopping center development. The Maine Central Railroad said the buyers also acquired five adjacent acres and buildings. The purchase price was not disclosed.
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Bangor
Maine Central Railroad
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