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Biddeford Saco Journal

Location

Biddeford, Maine, United States of America

Date

May 04, 1964

Page

3

Dear Abby and AMVETS Highlight Local Honors

Dear Abby columns urge readers to thank mothers-in-law and face personal issues, including a letter from Oceanside, California. The piece also notes AMVETS and AMVETS Auxiliary select Glenna Sherman, 17, of Old Orchard Beach High School, as Miss Maine AMVETS for May 15 16 17 events at Elmwood Motor Hotel.

Arundel Post Amvets Glenna Sherman

Whist Party Aids Vocational Fund

A card party in St. Andre's Parish hall Biddeford raised funds for the vocational program. Prizes went to Mrs. Beatrice Grenier Mrs. Yvonne Lavoie Mrs. Yvonne Coulombe and Alcide Boucher. High score winners included Miss Cecile Brochu Mrs. Annette Smith Miss Juliette Parker and others. A follow up whist party is set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the parish hall hosted by parishioners.

St. Andre’s Biddeford Vocational Fund Beatrice Grenier Yvonne Lavoie Yvonne Coulombe Alcide Boucher Cecile Brochu Annette Smith Juliette Parker Joseph Morin Richard Boissonneault Camille Bouffard Donald Boissonneault

Johnson as a Great Scene Stealer in Public Life

James Marlow ranks President Johnson as the era’s top scene stealer, surpassing Khrushchev and De Gaulle for sheer television magnetism. The piece weighs Johnson’s public moments from garden speeches to the World’s Fair opening, contrasting them with war, policy fights, and foreign affairs.

Control Forgetfulness Through Learning Habits

Professor Nason argues forgetting speeds reflect how material is learned. Thoroughly learning one section before another slows forgetting, while linking ideas during study strengthens recall. Reading and listening improve through recall practice, rapid rereading, and mental associations, with ahead reading aiding lecture comprehension.

Two People Killed On Maine Highways

SIDNEY AP Mrs Evangeline M Templeton 60 of Greenville was killed when her car veered off Interstate Route 95 and hit a ledge. It was the second Maine highway death of the weekend. Earlier a Bangor boy Scott Tucker 3 was struck by a car while riding a tricycle. Templeton’s grandson Dale Smith 9 of London New Hampshire was in fair condition with a severe head injury at a Lewiston hospital.

Sidney Evangeline M. Templeton Greenville Maine Scott Tucker Bangor

Second Murder Trial Of Paul Pierce Begins Today

MACHIAS AP Today starts the second trial for murderer Paul David Pierce a 22 year old former Coast Guard cadet from Waterville tied to the August 1963 Jonesport blast that killed Larson N Kelley 77 a guidance counselor at Waterville High School and injured others The defense contends Pierce was insane and the trial will be longer with psychiatrists testimony and further use of the Durham rule versus McNaughton The state plans psychiatric evidence to show Pierce was competent to confess and faces possible new moves by the defense while witnesses recall the previous verdict and the couple's troubled marriage and ties to the coast guard commission loss.

Machias Paul David Pierce Pierce Coast Guard Waterville Maine Paul Larson N. Kelley Waterville High School James P. Archibald Houston Allen Saunders Augusta State Hospital Young Pierce Saunders Archibald McNaughton Washington County Francis Brown Frank G. Hancock Hancock Wayne Hollingsworth Brown Paul Pierce Jonesport Larson Kelley Alice Cynthia Academy

Goldwater leads as delegate picks set for multiple states

Seven continued from Pure Ones Goldwater with 209 of 513 votes in an AP survey, aiming to gain more support at the Delaware convention and GOP events in Michigan and Wyoming. Delegates will be chosen in Ohio and DC primaries. Democrats in Alabama, Alaska, Nevada and Wyoming. Goldwater won a strong, light Texas GOP poll with most of the field trailing. Henry Cabot Lodge finished distant second. Additional delegates were won in Georgia, Missouri and Tennessee. Maine Republicans pledged 14 votes to Margaret Chase Smith.

Goldwater Associated Press Delaware Michigan Wyoming Ohio District of Columbia Alabama Alaska Nevada Texas Henry Cabot Lodge GOP John M. Connally Ralph W. Yarborough George Bush Jack Cox Senate Georgia Missouri Tennessee Maine Margaret Chase Smith

North Brookfield Sues Over School Prayers Ruling

The town seeks Massachusetts Supreme Court affirmation to allow daily prayers and Bible readings in public schools. Justice Reardon had ruled such school sponsored prayers illegal, prompting a 5-2 School Committee vote to appeal.

Boston North Brookfield Massachusetts Supreme Court Paul Reardon Reardon U.S. Supreme Court Atty Edward W. Brooke Massachusetts Brooke State Supreme Court Supreme Court

Nearly Square Mile of Woodland Burns

A forest fire burned nearly one square mile of woodland near Mud Pond close to Oakdale Country Club, before firemen with bulldozer aid brought it under control Sunday night. The cause remains under investigation.

Mexico Mud Pond Oakdale Country Club

Science Shrinks Piles New Way Without Surgery

New York report describes a new healing substance Bio-Dyne now sold as Preparation H that shrinks hemorrhoids, stops itching, and relieves pain without surgery. In cases cited, reductions occurred with gentle pain relief and patients said piles ceased to be a problem.

New York, N. Y

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