Biddeford Announces Bicycle Safety Week Activities
Biddeford outlines Bicycle Safety Week with programs for youngsters across the city. Highlights include a safety film at Central theater, a school poster contest, bicycle testing and registration, and a Saturday road to climax. Trooper Herman Boudreau will show a new film, with staggered showings for city and St Mary, St Joseph, St Louis, and St Andre students. Raymond Kenneally directs the poster contest. entries assessed Friday noon by a Biddeford safety group committee led by Mrs. Robert Johnson. Alden Jacobs heads the bicycle testing and registration with auxiliary police and students from St Louis and Biddeford high schools assisting.
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Biddeford
Biddeford Highway Safety Committee
Central Theater
Herman Boudreau
St. Mary
St. Joseph
St. Louis
St. Andre Grammer
Raymond Kenneally
Biddeford Safety Group
Robert Johnson
Biddeford Committee
Civil Defense
Alden Jacobs
Biddeford High Schools
Biddeford Young
Paris Rail Strike Halts Suburban Traffic
A 24 hour strike by railway engineers largely halted service between Paris and its suburbs. Commuters faced traffic jams as many rode buses cars motorbikes and walked. The union seeks a 40 hour week with higher bonuses and a post retirement plan.
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Paris
Union of Locomotive Engineers
Wise Money On Astaire To Cop Emmy Handicap
Hollywood AP television awards night looms. Fred Astaire is the betting favorite for multiple Emmys in three major categories amid a crowded field. The program. a stopwatch man and Western and private eye actors contend for best dramatic series actor as the TV academy honors top names.
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Hollywood
Sion
Fred Astaire
Astaire
Vine Street
Asteire
Television Academy
Dinah Shore
Jack Benny
Ed Sullivan
Shirley Temple
James
Arness
Richard
Boone
Maverick
Garner
Raymond
Perry Mason
Burr
Craig
Peter Gunn
Stevens
Efrem
Sunset
Zimbalist, Jr
Togetherness in modern family duties humor
A humorous sketch on family roles as Pop washes dishes before building porch furniture while Mother handles PTA calls and Scout drop offs en route to a textile painting class. Capr. Gen. Fea. Corp.
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Pop
Junior
Capr
Gen
Fea. Corp
Lightning Club elects new officers and board members
In Biddeford at the Lightning Club headquarters on Mason Street, Louis Caron was reelected president at the second annual board meeting. Carl Hunter became vice president, Joseph Caron was elected secretary, and several directors were reelected or newly named, with lifetime honorary memberships awarded to three absent directors and Sedley Walls noted as a longtime member.
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Louis Caron
Lightning Club, Inc
Mason Street
Biddeford
Carl Hunter
Arthur Mondville
Joseph Caron
Albany Bergeron
Roland Simard
Edward Maxon
Raymond Trottier
Robert Krasko
Raymond Gagne
Norman Huot
Benoit Dallaire
Roger Provost
Richard Verrier
Armed Services
Roland Rousselle
Sedley Walls
Sign on City Property Sparks Civil Dispute in Saco Court
Benson of Lafayette Street charged Saco officials with pressure in a Municipal Court session over a no trespass sign on city property. Antonio Lamontagne stated the city only wanted the sign removed. sign had allegedly been moved from a pole on city property and was on the Merrill estate. The matter became civil between the Merrill estate and Benson as Chief Kerry and City Solicitor Brickates noted prior city actions.
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Frank Benson
Lafayette Street
Saco
Benson
Raymond Kerry
Antonio Lamontagne
Cie
Board of Aldermen
Lamontagne
Kerry
Merrill
Journal
George Brickates
Police Department
Flowers Debate National Flower on Capitol Hill
A suburban garden club in Fels Church, Virginia sparked a mock Senate hearing on the U.S. national flower. Three senators and a House member debated carnations, corn tassels, marigold and roses amid floral displays, each championing a distinctively American choice and trading jibes about gender and tradition.
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Washington
Senate
U.S
House
William H. Ayres
Onio
Paul Douglas
Ill
Thruston Morton
R-Ky
Hugh Scott
R-Pa
Morton
Scott
Fels Church
Girl Scout Leaders At Saco Elect Officers
Saco Girl Scout Neighborhood committee elected officers at Hamilton Memorial hall. Chairman Mrs. Stanley Brown, vice chair Mrs. Lawrence Lamb Jr., secretary Mrs. Patrick Lunetta, troop organizer Mrs. Harold Hanson, Brownie Consultant Mrs. Hilton Lamson, intermediate consultant Mrs. Gerald Van Fleet, and Juliette Lowe fund chair Mrs. Wilbrod Bedard. Announced campouts, May exhibit at Brick Store Museum, play day at Camp Laughing Loon, Memorial Day parade participation, and a season finale banquet.
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Saco
Girl Scout Neighborhood Committee
Hamilton Memorial Hall
Stanley Brown
Lawrence Lamb, Jr
Patrick Lunetta
Harold Hanson
Hilton Lamson
Gerald van Fleet
Wilbrod Bedard
Juliette Lowe
Albert Ouellette
Brick Store Museum
Kennebunk
Laughing Loon
Farewell Reception Honors Rev David B Howe and Family
Reverend David B Howe and his family were honored at a farewell reception at United Baptist church vestry. Officials from local and regional Baptist groups spoke, and a purse was presented to the Howes. Reverend Howe expressed gratitude for the church’s meaning to him.
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Saco United Baptist Church
David B. Howe
Springfield
Mass
Mr. Howe
First Baptist Church
Adelbert Jakeman, Sr
Theaco United Baptist Church
Howe
David
Susan
Burton
John
Elizabeth K Wood
Rodney Watson
Watson
Adelbert M Jakeman
Maine Council of Churches
T. Chubb Condict
New England Baptist Conference
Richard Witherer
George Renell
Trudi Ann
Freeman
Gail Dyer
Barbara, Barth
Eugene Hill
Howes
Adelbert Jakeman
Hadassah Biddeford Saco Elects New President
Mrs Jon Nathanson was elected president of the Biddeford Saco Hadassah chapter at the annual meeting at Etz Chaim synagogue vestry. Officers include Mau rice Ross vice president Irving Remar recording secretary and Irving Saperia cor responding secretary. An installation planned for June 17 at 6 30 p m at the Lafayette Hotel Old Orchard Beach with co chair Jon Nathanson and Carl Haas chairing dinner arrangements. A rummage sale is set for May 13 14 on Main Street. delegates attended a New England Regional conference May 31 to June 2 at the Mayflower Hotel in Plymouth Mass.
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Jon Nathanson
Biddeford-Saco
Hadassah
Etz Chaim
Maurice Ross
Irving Remar
Irving Saperia
Joseph Zaitlin
Harry Zaitlin
Lafayette Hotel
Old Orchard Beach
Carl Haas
Main Street
Jennie Sandler
Ivan Aranovitch
Rose Aranovitch
Julius Wilensky
Allen Sneider
New England
Mayflower Hotel
Plymouth
Mass
Samuel Karlin
Bernard Shapiro
Sarah Shapiro
Israel Rosen
Israel Goldman
Western Electric offers phone guided sidewalk tour
In New York the Western Electric Co. has introduced a new sidewalk feature at its 31 story building site. Fifteen telephones placed along the sidewalk let passersby hear a taped voice explain the latest phase of the construction as the project progresses.
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New York
Western Electric Co
Churchill Visits Ill Friends with Eisenhower
In Washington a frail 84 year old Churchill accompanied by President Eisenhower visited two gravely ill old allies at Walter Reed Army Hospital. John Foster Dulles, ill with cancer, used a wheelchair for the meeting, while General George C. Marshall, recovering from strokes, received Churchill and Eisenhower with recognition. Dulles thanked Churchill, saying it was good for him to come.
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Washington
Winston Churchill
Eisenhower
Britain
Walter Reed Army Hospital
John Foster Dulles
George C. Marshall
Marshall
U.S. Army
Churchill
Dulles
England
White House
State Department
Sir Winston
Search Finds Wreckage Of Plane Carrying Hanover Doctors
In Lincoln New Hampshire today Dartmouth College officials announced the wreckage of a small plane used by two Hanover physicians who disappeared over two months ago. A conservation officer spotted the craft over Pemigewasset Valley and a ground crew moved toward the remote area. The plane vanished February 21 during a return flight from Berlin to Lebanon in a snowstorm. Aboard were Aaroh E. Miller 60 and Robert Quinn 32 faculty and staff at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover. Miller a pathology leader and Arctic expedition pilot had recently led a Dartmouth research team to Churchill Manitoba and helped organize the CAP in 1940.
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Lincoln
N. H
Dartmouth College
Hanover
Pemigewasset Valley
Berlin
Lebanon
Aaroh E. Miller
Robert Quinn
Ob Ore College School
Mary Hitchcock Menoelal
Maine House Backs One Dollar State Minimum Wage
The Maine House voted 69 to 65 to approve a one dollar state minimum wage bill while rejecting the Senate plan for an 80 cent wage. Debate featured Republicans and Democrats arguing over employment impact and moral obligations as lawmakers weighed the wage floor for small stores and chains.
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Augusta
Maine
Senate
Rodney Ross Jr
Bath
House
Ross
Peter ‘MacDonell
Rumford
MacDonald
Edward Miller
Portland
Harry Treworgy
Orono
Lucia Cormier
D -Eyes
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