New Cork County Teachers Elect Christine Armstrong President
Over 1,000 teachers met in Kennebunk to elect Christine Armstrong of Old Orchard Beach as president of the Cork County Teachers Association. Sidney Griffith of Saco is vice president, Martha Herrin of Saco secretary treasurer, with Raymond Kenneally and Frederick Welch named to the executive committee and Charles Puffer to supt. Hubert Redding chairs the nominating committee. Retired teachers Marguerite Eaton Celia Day and Hugh Conners were honored. Armstrong and Marion Moody also participated in ceremonies as membership delegates to national and Maine teachers associations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York County Teachers Association
Kennebunk High School
Mary Fallon
Old Orchard Beach
Christine Armstrong
Salem Rirk
Clyde Russell
Maine Teachers Association
Raymond Kenneally
Biddeford
Martha Herrin
Saco
Frederick Welch
Kennebunk
Carroll Ronco
Cornish
Sidney Griffith
Joseph Devitt
Maine State Department of Education
Sanford
Cork County Teachers Association
Charles Puffer
Kittery
Marguerite W. Eaton
Celia Day
Hugh Conners
Armstrong
Marion Moody
Moody
Iota Chapter
Delta Kappa Gamma
National Education Association
Churchill to Visit Eisenhower on First Jet Flight
Sir Winston Churchill flew to meet President Eisenhower in the United States marking his first jet flight at age 84. After three days with Eisenhower at the White House, he would visit New York to see Bernard Baruch, saying he felt very fine to reporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Winston Churchill
Eisenhower
White House
New York
Bernard Baruch
Churchill
John Hay Whitney
Sir Win
Canadian nun beatified as first Canadian to achieve beatification
Vatican City AP reports Pope John XXIII held an audience for about 1000 Canadian pilgrims at beatification ceremonies for Mother Marie-Mer guerite du Frost de Lajemmerais, founder of the Sisters of Charity in 1753 Montreal. In Carthage Tunisia AP notes an Algerian rebel minister warned the West that failure to press France toward peace in the Algerian war will push the rebel government to seek other options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vatican City
John XXIII
Marie - Merguerite du Frost de Lajemmerais
Order of the Sisters of Charity
Montreal
Carthage
Tunisia
France
Future King Acts Like Ordinary Boy At Local Pole Game
In London AP reports a 10 year old future king shows typical boyish pest behavior during a Sunday pole game between Ascot and Windsor Park. Prince Philip leads as Prince Charles father while Queen Elizabeth II, in a green raincoat, scarf, and low heels, travels from Windsor Castle to attend the match.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Engand
England
Ascot
Windsor Park
Prince Charles
Prince Philip
Windsor Castle
Onion soup contest crowns Zsa Zsa's mother judge
Mama Gabor presides as judge in a Riverside contest tasting seven onion soup recipes. The piece notes her chic remarks and provides the winning recipe with steps from onions to cheese toast. Included are quips about Jolie and $6.95 hat, plus household details from the judging scene in Palm Springs.
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Palm Springs
Calif
Meena
Mama Galbor
Mama
Jolie
Edmond Szigetti
George Ringwald
George
Riverside Press and Enterprise
California
Zsa
He Hayes
Hal Hayes
Julie
Agen
J. H. Carley
Banning
France
Chuckle: What Men Want From Wives Is Affection and Admiration
A humorous quip notes most men seek affection admiration encouragement and the ability to live grandly on an inadequate income. The line is attributed to Gen Features Corp. copyright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen
Fea. Corp
Memorial Field Program Opens at Memorial Field
The Biddeford summer recreation program opens today at Memorial Field under Director George Wells with William Baker and Charles McKenna assisting. Hours are 1:30 p.m. to dark on school days and 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays. closed Sundays. Activities include basketball softball tetherball whiffle ball tennis handball and horseshoes with swings slides seesaws and a merry go round.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford
Memorial Field
George Wells
William Baker
Charles McKenna
Wells
Arms pact facilities eyed for mutual help
Officials from Harrington & Richardson in Worcester and Saco-Lowell Shops in Biddeford indicated they could share manufacturing facilities to produce rifles and machine guns. Leaders met Maine members of Congress to discuss subcontracting for the Biddeford Saco area tied to H R’s M 14 contract worth over four million dollars and Saco-Lowell’s M 60 contract of 2.7 million. They stressed reciprocal arrangements to leverage surplus capacity and improve efficiency, with subcontracting policy cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harrington & Richardson Inc
Worcester
Mass
Saco- Lowell
Biddeford
Maine
C. Edward Rowe
Worcester Concern
James P.W. Davidson
Busines
Saco-Lowell
Congress
Margaret Chase Smith
Rmaine
Rowe
Harrington
Etc
Judge Blasts Pool Halls Three Hurt In Crash Of Car At Saco
A Route 112 crash in Saco yesterday left three injured and three others unscathed. Injured were Donald Cote 17 Brenda Pelletier 17 and Dale Pelletier 14 all treated at Saco hospital and discharged. Biddeford residents Albert Silver George Lamontagne and Michael Gagne escaped injury. On the same day Biddeford Municipal Court Judge Simon Spill called for a pool hall crackdown after a proprietor was fined for illegal gambling device possession and license suspension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saco
David Sheehan
Donald Cote
Prospect
Biddeford
Brenda Pelletier
Dale Pelletier
Saco Hospital
Albert Silver
George Lamontagne
Michael Gagne
Cote
Simon Spill
Main Street
Robert N. Boucher
Sullivan Street
Richard A. Hebert
White's Wharf
Boucher
Soviet Attache Fights Escape Attempt in Rangoon
In Rangoon Burma a Soviet military attache Colonel Mikhail Strygaine, reported to seek asylum, leapt from a hospital window and was flown out on a Communist plane. Soviet guards roughed newsmen at the scene while his wife, a Soviet nurse, and two guards accompanied him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rangoon
Burma
Mikhail I. Strygaine
Kunming
Peiping
Strygaine
Soviet Union
Col. Win
Alexi D. Shiborn
Foreign Car For Sale 1957 Renault Dauphine
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Break Case Is Continued To Tuesday In Biddeford Court
The Biddeford juvenile case involving three boys aged 16, 16, and 15 was ordered continued to Tuesday in Biddeford Municipal Court to allow Chief Sevigny to appear. Sevigny has left for Ft. Dix to bring in a local youth who joined the Army last week. Readily admitting entries to four cottages at Biddeford Pool, a Bay View home, St Louis High, and several Biddeford shops, the youths reportedly caused extensive damage but little theft. They allegedly sold two pairs of binoculars from the Saco break and cast a radio and other loot into the river. In separate action, Frederick Theroux, about 30, of Lyman, was acquitted of breaching a plate glass window at a Biddeford filling station after a quarrel over a business matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford
Saco
Simon Spill
Edgar Sevigny
Sevigny
Ft. Dix
N. J
Biddeford Pool
Bay View
St. Louis High School
Lyman
Frederick Theroux
Roger Millette
Theroux
Spill
Theroux Wees
Atty
John Harvey
Bill to Alter Saco Voting Date Signed
Governor Clinton A. Clauson signed a bill to move Saco election day from the second Monday in January to the second Monday in December. Senator Andrew J. Fournier announced the change, backed by the Saco Republican party, with no referendum. The measure takes effect nine days after adjournment. Mayor Peter A. Garland supported the shift to give new administrations a full year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saco
Clinton A. Clauson
Andrew J. Fournier
Fournier
Saco Republican Party
Peter A. Garland
D 4 Republicth Democrats
Jeans
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Future King
Mama Gabor
Hubbard Keavy
WED
Stamps
Biddeford K. of
C. Hall
Harold Carroll
Red
Mark
James Prendergast
Judith Joncas
Conrad Hebert
Matthew Regan
Arnold Morin
Danse
Denmark
Potters
Edward
Porterhouse
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