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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1965
Page
11
The Cotton Blossom Festival minstrel show by Grades 5 and 6 under Judith Brazier plays tonight at 7 30 PM in Wells Elementary School auditorium. Proceeds go to the Wells Elementary School library fund.
The chacma or pig-faced baboon of South America is said to have instinctive water-detection powers. Locals joke about taming chacmas for water finding.
Old Orchard Beach reports that the Duplicate Bridge players will meet tonight at Odd Fellows Hall at 7 30 p m instead of Friday. Mrs Clement Wight hosted guests Leonard Jones and Emily Cedarfeldt yesterday. Everett Ellis is listed as a patient at Maine Osteopathic Hospital Portland.
Wells Chief of Police Elmer Hutchins and Officer Edmund L. Cashen led a visit to Hancock County law officers in Bar Harbor. They spoke on forming a Chapter of the Maine Law Enforcement Association and were hosted by Bar Harbor’s Chic Lyman Kane and Ellsworth Sheriff Merritt Fitch. They also met with Mid-Coast Chapter secretary Robert Barter in Boothbay Harbor.
Oscar Horne presides as chief of the Waldo County Chapter of the Association at Belfast.
Rebecca Emery Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will meet at 2 p m Saturday at the home of Mrs Elizabeth Garland Imperial Avenue Old Orchard Beach Miss Ethel Wight will be program chairman and hostesses include Mrs Garland Miss Dorothy Garland Mrs Ina Emery Miss Margaret Strout Mrs Ethel Tate Mrs Verna Sawtelle Mrs Victor Weeks Mrs Pauline Peacock and Miss Wight
Dr Edward A Huth will relinquish the chairmanship of Dayton universities sociology department to his daughter Dr Mary Josephine Huth next September. He will continue teaching in her department. The 66 year old says they get along well and she notes leadership need not mean bossing others. Mary Jo has been on the Dayton faculty since 1962 and he since 1939.
AP News analysis notes President Johnson pressed for public approval as he shifted tactics on Vietnam and the Dominican Republic. He televised multiple times, defended actions, and urged Congress to fund Vietnam fighting while stressing unity against communism.
The Rev. James J. Mullen K of C Auxiliary met at St. Margaret's Parish Hall and elected officers. New slate includes President Aurore Nolette and vice president Patricia Gervais with a May 19 banquet at Sherman's Restaurant.
The second Black Friday occurred on Sept. 19, 1873, as the New York Stock Exchange reported widespread failures that sparked the Panic of 1873.
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