Defense Cut Hits Maine Snark Base
Presque Isle residents brace for economic impact as the Snark missile base closes. Payroll last year reached 3.45 million dollars with 2.5 million spent locally. About 1,250 service members and 250 civilians live on base, supporting restaurants, grocers, and jewelers. Some fear sharp drops in daytime and nighttime trade, while others expect housing costs to ease and rents to surplus. The GSA will dispose of most base property, though housing stays for Loring personnel. Activation began September 15, 1941 with the 94th Air Base Group.
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Presque Isle
Chamber of Commerce
Loring Air Force Base
SAC
Limestone
General Services Administration
Loring
94Th Air Base Group
Air Trans
Lizs Medical Bill To Be Over Fifty Thousand
Hollywood reports Elizabeth Taylor's illness cost over 50000 with bills still arriving. She suffered double pneumonia in London and is recovering in California. Eddie Fisher says doctors were the finest and recalls her intense fight for life as they plan a Beverly Hills home and a Palm Springs vacation before the April 17 Academy Awards.
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Hollywood
Elizabeth Taylor
London
Great Britain
Miss Taylor
California
Eddie Fisher
Fisher
Beverly Hills
Palm Springs
Congress Set To Spend Easter Vacation At Home
Washington AP The Easter recess keeps Congress at home to gauge public sentiment on Kennedy's New Frontier programs. Only three of 16 top priority bills on the February list have passed. progress on education funding, health care for the elderly, and reorganizing authority remains uncertain as debates continue. The House moved a 394 million aid program for distressed areas toward the White House, while wage bill politics and other priority items face ongoing negotiations.
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Washington
Congress
Kennedy
Senate
U. S
Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development
House
White House
Faith Tested In Church With Only Five Bucks
A lighthearted note reflects on a person facing a test of faith when they attend a church service with just five dollars in their wallet. The column jokes about budgeting, temptation, and the value of faith in everyday life.
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Gen
Fea. Corp
Paraday Claims Pepperell Park Site Illegal for School
Dr Thomas Paraday told the Saco Taxpayers Protective Association that building a school in Pepperell park is illegal since the land does not belong to the city. Parady cited a lawyer's findings that the land belongs to the state and the Congregational church in Saco.
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Thomas Paraday
Saco Taxpayers Protective Association
Gar Hall
Pepperell Park
Atorney
New School Building Committee
Pepperel Park
Congregational Church
Saco
Hilary F. Mahaney
Paraday
Legal Affairs Committee
Augusta
Cote Explains 1960 Withholding Taxes and Sanitary District Funds
Mayor Charles R. Cote of Saco answered two Budget and finance questions from the Saco Taxpayers Protective Association. He said $12,899.85 in withholding taxes for Oct Nov Dec 1959 were not due until Jan 31 1960. He added $3,614 remained in the Sanitary District account when the 1960 administration began, and $83,468.75 in interest was paid to the Merchant's National Bank of Boston on the Sanitary District bond with $145.25 transferred to general cash to close the account.
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Charles R. Cote
Saco
Sanitary District
Merchant’s National Bank of Boston
General Cash
Kennedy wins on area relief despite party rift
President Kennedy has a congressional victory on the low in spirits areas program but faces intraparty quarrels before passage. Both House and Senate approve a $394 million loan and grant plan to spur factory work in regions with high unemployment. House vote 250 to 167 after defeating a Republican substitute 291 to 125. Differences remain between chambers over loan structure and funding.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
House
Senate
Good Friday Hours Listed in Biddeford and Saco
Biddeford and Saco retail stores close 1 to 3 tomorrow for Good Friday. Public schools dismiss early with Biddeford at 11 30 and Saco at 12 15. City offices shut 12 to 3. banks and post offices keep usual hours per city officials.
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Biddeford
Saco
Clayton W. Cartmill
Biddeford-Saco
Park land ownership questioned in Saco Pepperell Park case
Attorney Hilary Mahaney cautions the city of Saco and the new school building committee that Pepperell Park deeds may not grant valid title for a new elementary school. He notes Pepperellborough’s historic parish status and 18th century land grants clouding current rights, urging transfer and clear delineation before any sale or construction.
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Atty
Hilary Mahaney
New School Building Committee
City of
Saco
Pepperell Park
Mahaney
Pepperellborough
Scamman Sentenced for Income Tax Evasion in Portland
Philip R. Scamman of Saco was sentenced to four months in prison and fined $15,000 for evading more than $20,000 in income taxes in 1954 55 56. U S District Court Judge Edward T Gignouyx condemned the "flagrant evasion" that aided his large estate at the expense of the United States tax system.
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Portland
Philip R. Scamman
Saco
U. S. District Court
Edward T. Gignouyx
United States of America
Scamman
Supreme Court urged to overturn Vermont school funding ruling
Former Democratic chairman Paul M. Butler asks the U S Supreme Court to reverse a Vermont Supreme Court decision that state funds may not be used for tuition to sectarian high schools. He argues the ruling could shape federal aid debates for parochial education and warns of lasting constitutional limits on Congress.
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Washington
U.S. Supreme Court
Vermont Supreme Court
Democratic National
Paul M. Butler
Butler
High Court
Vermont
Vermont Court
South Burlington
State Department of Education
Congress
Kennedy
Supreme Court of Vermont
Kennedy Family Easter Visit to Florida
President Kennedy flies to Florida for a five day Easter vacation with a constant White House briefing line. He left Washington by helicopter for Andrews and then a jet to Palm Beach, keeping a standby jet on hand and an around the clock White House detail for Laos alerts. The trip marks his first vacation since becoming president as Mrs Kennedy is set to visit Worth Avenue for an Easter parade and egg hunt.
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Washington
Kennedy
Florida
White House
Andrews Air Force Base
Maryland
Air Force
Palm Beach
Laos
Russia
Famous Worth Avenue
Quadruplets Born To Massachusetts Couple
A Holyoke mother Mary Feyre 35 and father Raymond J. Feyre 38 welcomed four premature quads into a family of ten. The quads two girls two boys born seven weeks early at Providence Hospital are in incubators awaiting first feedings as doctors expect weight to reach five pounds in about two months. Hospital staff note the Catholic Sisters of Providence run the facility and the room contains seven plants and a brass maple trophy while the couple plans time off work to tend to their expanding family.
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James Calogero
Holyoke
Mass
Providence Hospital
Mary Feyre
Raymond J. Feyre
Donald Giroux
Catholic Sisters of Providence
Feyre
Congressmen optimistic about textile situation
A group of Congressmen led by Rep Carl Vinson met with President Kennedy to urge action on textile woes. They pressed for import quotas by country and category, arguing imports hurt domestic mills and jobs. Kennedy will await Cabinet committee recommendations before any move.
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Washington
Congress
Kennedy
W. J. B. Dorn
Joseph W. Martin Jr
R-Mass
White House
Luther H. Hodges
Clifford G. McIntire
Maine
Albert Rains
Dala
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Lizs
Landry’s Laundry
Pool Street
Katie
Fred D. Knight
Sunset Drive
Old Orchard Beach
the Taxpayers Association
Camille Bedard
Douglass
Bear Brook
Hir
Cote
Treasury
William Pepperell
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Congregation Church
Gift of Japan
Empire of Japan
Palm Beach, Fla
Massachusetts
Associated Press
C. K. Burns School
Sandy Zaitlin
Leslie Anderson
Gayle Spears
Candy Swett
Sharon Cyr
Maureen Brenick
Cynthia
Merchants Committee of the
Day’s Jewelers
Main Street
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