Ocean Park booklet lists eleven cooperating groups
Ocean Park Association releases its 84th annual booklet detailing eleven unofficial affiliates that expand the Chautauqua style program. Key groups include the Free Baptist Woman's Missionary Society founded in 1847, the Educational Bureau dating to 1885, and the Ocean Park Religious Society. Adelbert M. Jakeman, association superintendent since 1940, coordinates the seasonlong schedule.
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Ocean Park
Ocean Park Association
Free Baptist Woman's Missionary Society
Ver
New England Baptist Conference
Royal Ambassador Boys’ Camp
Florida Club
Cheney
State of Maine Writers’ Conference
United States
Assembly
Adelbert M. Jakeman
Winners Named In Essay Contest From York County Schools
Freshman students from 17 York County high schools competed in the York County Extension Association essay contest on the theme How Will a High School Education Benefit Me. Winners included Jeanne Roberts Biddeford High Pamela Martin Old Orchard Beach Carol Roy St Andre's School Jeanine Vachon St Joseph's Ronald Guillemette St Serving on the judging committee was Mrs Adelbert Jakeman Jr Ocean Park. The event supported by University of Maine Discuss It Yourself public affairs series on education.
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York County
York County Extension Associations
Jeanne Roberts
Biddeford High School
Pamela Martin
Old Orchard Beach
Carol Roy
St. Andre’s ‘7
Jeannine Vachon
St. Joseph's High School
Ronald Guillemette
Adelbert Jakeman Jr
Ocean Park
University of Maine
Baskets Delivered To Nursing Home
In Kennebunkport May baskets were delivered to patients at Christian Haven Nursing Home Arundel by Mrs. Dorothy Stevens Miss Barbara Clark and Miss Jane Clark of Girl Scout Troop 318 A special basket was presented to Mrs Muriel Leach owner and operator of the home officials announced.
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Kennebunkport
Christian Haven
Arundel
Dorothy Stevens
Barbara Clark
Jane Clark
Muriel Leach
Area Schools To Be Closed Monday In York County
Students in Saco Biddeford and Old Orchard Beach will enjoy a long weekend as the York County Teachers Association meeting is set for Monday at Kennebunk. Classes resume Tuesday.
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Saco
Biddeford
Old Orchard Beach
York County Teachers’ Association
Kennebunk
Unemployed parents program aids eastern Kentucky cleanup
In Hazard Kentucky Rufus Neace and 29 others plant trees on an abandoned strip mine bank to stabilize land damaged by past mining. The project is part of a federal state unemployed parents program, offered to support families and beautify the region while providing work and fire-fighting readiness under Ralph Wells and Lyle Shoemaker.
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Bill Neikirk Hazard
Kentucky
Rufus Neace
Hazard
Neace
Michigan
Harold Sumner
Viper
Sumner
Ralph Wells
Forster Lyle R. Shoemaker
Turn Daydreaming Into Planned Thought For Child
Educational Q and A column by Leslie J. Nason discusses managing daydreaming in students. Advice covers planning study sessions, listening to assignments, and using purposeful study to maintain attention in junior high and high school.
Youth Group To Fund Trip With May Drive
United Church Youth group of Biddeford United Church of Christ will conduct a house to house drive on Saturdays in May starting May 9 to collect batteries metal pots pans rags newspapers magazines bottles and more to fund a June Bar Harbor trip. A May 4 all day Work Day offers lawn raking car washing and cleaning services for donations contact Rev. David E. Wigley.
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United Church
Biddeford
David E. Wigley
Weekly Rolloff Set At Pastime Lanes
The Pastime Bowling Center hosts the first in a series of weekly rolloffs this Tuesday at 8 15 p m open to bowlers with averages under 106 Entries will use final season averages for entry and the deadline runs up to the start time
Caution Urged On Outdoor Burning In State
Augusta AP State Forest Commissioner Austin H Wilkins urged caution in outdoor burning as a rash of spring grass and wood fires spread across the state. He spoke of more than a dozen fires driven by brisk winds into brush and trees, noting woods and fields are drying under warm sun and gusty winds.
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Augusta
Austin H. Wilkins
Wilkins
Congresswoman Attacks Administration Policy
Portland AP Congresswoman Charlotte Reid of Illinois criticizes the Johnson administration at the Maine Republican convention. She deplores lack of foreign policy, warns of centralized power, urges a national reawakening of responsibility, and cites waste and debt amid calls for party dynamism and accountability.
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Portland
Charlotte T. Reid
Ilinois
Maine
Young James Fenimore Cooper Enters Yale at Thirteen
The American novelist James Fenimore Cooper joined Yale at age thirteen as the youngest in his class. He was expelled in his junior year for a prank. Supposedly he boasted to his wife he could write a better book than a contemporary novel, inspiring him to write his first work, eventually contributing to Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Dr. Nason
E.M.S
Easton
James Fenimore Cooper
Yale
Cooper
Want Ads Work Wonders for Readers and Businesses
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Roger R. Collard
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Mass
Leslie J. Nason
University of Southern California
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Largo
Fla
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Calif
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Manuel Linson
Sonora
Mexico
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Kinmond’s Elm St
Bobby Baker
Billy Sol Estes
Reid
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Johnson
Washington
Encyclopaedia Britannica
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May Street
CHIC
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Bradley St
W. E. Frechette
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Washington Street
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Elm Street
Springs Island
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