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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1965
Page
2
Mrs Elodie Renaud of High Street Biddeford has returned to her home from Springfield celebrating a safe journey and recovery with family and neighbors.
The Fremont Club and Auxiliary will meet at 8 tonight in Alfred Street Biddeford. The North Laco Junior Grange holds a baked bean supper from 5 to 7 30 p.m. Saturday at Buxton Road Grange hall. An Eastern Star chapter meets at 7 30 in Masonic Hall Saco with refreshments chaired by Mrs Ida Michie.
A series of religious activities and gatherings are announced. An Advent Christian service is set for Friday at 7 30 p m at the parsonage on Hill and Chapel Streets Biddeford. The Crusader Choir and Sanctuary choir plans rehearsals tonight. Higher Grade Cadets meet Friday at 8 30 p m. A baked bean supper to benefit the South Biddeford Methodist Guild is planned Saturday 5 to 7 p m in Siloam Hall Pool Road Biddeford. May worship times shift to 10 30 a m at School Street Methodist in Saco.
Biddeford School Building Committee approved a change order for an 18 inch bitumenous covered corrugated culvert pipe to drain water from a spring at the new 26 room West Street school. A 200 foot culvert was deemed necessary by the architects and Cimmino Construction Co. awarded the $1 242.78 contract. Plans for sewage bids and potential sidewalk were discussed. Safety factors prompted south side West Street construction from the school to Elm Street. Superintendent Raymond Kenneally was asked to study folding partitions costs for three large second floor classrooms. Attendees included Mayor Edward Gau lin City Council chair Rudolph Bergeron Clayton Cartmill Lucien Doyon Robert Hodge Herv e Poissant and Kenneally.
Old Orchard Beach reports that Cub Scout Pack 324 plans a bottle drive to raise funds for uniforms. The meeting at Harry Critchley’s home organized the event from 9 am to noon Saturday with Cubmaster James LeBrun guiding the 8:30 am morning assembly at Center Street, sons accompanied by fathers if possible. Attendees included Felix LaCasse Emile Aubé Robert Mason and Mrs Lillian Critchley Den Mother.
Students enrolled in the summer driver education program at Biddeford High School must pay their fees by May 14, per Superintendent Raymond Kenneally. Fees are to be paid at the high school, Kenneally stated.
Sincere thanks to Doctor Joseph Patane and the nurses of Notre Dame Hospital the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, and to all who sent cards and gifts during my recent illness. Priscille Demers.
Mitch Bissonnette two died yesterday at a local hospital. He was born April 8 1963 in Biddeford and is survived by his parents Joseph and Helen Pitman Bissonnette of Saco and by his maternal and paternal grandparents and several aunts and cousins. Services set for 9 a.m. tomorrow at Cote Funeral Home Saco with callers today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Third Degree members of Luke E. Hart Council in Biddeford will meet at 7:30 PM at the San Soucy Funeral Home 1 Stone Street to pay respects to Vitaline Pepin the mother of Alphonse Pepin a member.
Members of St. Anne's Sodality of St. Joseph's Church will meet at Sansoucy Funeral Home in Biddeford at 7 30 tonight to say prayers for Mrs. Alden Huot.
Funeral services for Grace Veilleux of Prospect Street Biddeford were held at St Joseph's Church Biddeford. A solemn Requiem High Mass was celebrated by Rt Rev Msgr Elie Hevey with Deacon Rev Sylvia Levesque and Sub Deacon Rev Norman Carrier. Interment followed in St Joseph's Cemetery. Bearers included Louis Laroux Joseph Loranger George Trottier Alex Bineau Roland Hevey and John Renouf. Out of town attendees included Mr and Mrs Roger Small Plainville Conn Mrs Kenneth Harvey Sr and Mrs Kenneth Hardy Sr and Mrs Skeffield Ayer of Portland.
Funeral services for Mrs Marie C Rodrigue are set for 9 30 Friday morning at St Josephs Church. Burial follows at 1 30 Friday in the family lot at St Francois de Sales Cemetery Waterville. Friends may call Boldue Funeral Home 291 Alfred Street Biddeford.
Donald Ducas, 26, of Rumford, sustained face and arm burns when the dust bag of a sanding machine exploded and caught fire. His condition was not believed to be serious. Police reported the accident occurred Wednesday as he was sanding bowling alleys at a recreation center. Cause of the blast was not immediately known.
Sebago-Moe Co plans a $300000 plant in Portland's Riverside Industrial Park employing 75 workers at start with potential rise to about 200. The firm currently employs 500 at its Westbrook plant and announced the expansion Wednesday.
Approximately 35 attendees at the Saco Lodge F and A M meeting in the Masonic Hall on Main Street saw the Entered Apprentice degree bestowed on two candidates under the Worshipful Master. Refreshments followed served by the senior and junior deacons.
Senator Gore says he supports the bill to accelerate fire power for Viet Nam servicemen but rejects broad approval of undeclared war. Senator Aiken explains his vote is not blanket approval and worries signals abroad about a possible misinterpretation.
Fencing resumed at Penn State in an intercollegiate program after a decadelong absence. The department revived the sport last year, marking a significant comeback for the university athletics lineup.
This afternoon in Portland expect mostly sunny skies and mild conditions with highs in the 60s. Tonight will be clear and cool with lows from the upper 20s to low 30s inland and mid to upper 30s near the coast, winds light and variable. Friday brings fair skies and continued mild air with cooler coastal sections.
A team from the Atomic Energy Commission monitored radiation from a pea size cobalt piece buried in rubble at South Portland Engineering Co after a general alarm fire destroyed the plant. Radiation levels were safe, with plans for removal, as crews from Portland Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth helped battle the blaze and assess damage including a damaged trawler hull and a nuclear submarine section.
Miss Joan Letourneau of Ocean Park Road Saco was guest of honor at a bridal shower hosted by Mrs. Margaret Bogdahn and Mrs. Patricia Graffam at 29 Roebuck Ave Saco. She will wed Norman Desormier of Manchester Conn on June 5.
Gov Reed prenominated Rex Varnum of Sebec as a producer member of the Maine Milk Commission. The Executive Council confirmed Reed's appointment of Sen Roger Snow Jr. of Falmouth to the New England Board of Higher Education and Wesley Mewer of Old Orchard Beach as York County complaint justice for the District Court.
York County Grand Jury returned twenty indictments for hearing in May. Names include John R. Smith and Paul Desmond of Saco with multiple breaks and larcenies in Kennebunkport and Saco, plus separate cases from Biddeford, Old Orchard Beach, and Wells. Other charges involve escape from jail, indecent liberties, keeping dead poultry, forgery, and an assault in Kittery.
Saco firefighters answered six calls for grass and woods fires. Indian tanks aided a woods fire on Hearn Road at 2 45 p.m. Engine 3 with three men assisted at the Hearn Road and Scarborough turnpike fire at 3 p.m. Four men fought a Central Maine Power Co. property fire on Factory Island using 250 ft booster line. A dump fire on Simpson Road was extinguished with a booster line. Old Orchard Beach covered Saco from 4 27 to 6 p.m. A Portland Road run at 4 55 p.m. checked a grass blaze. Booster lines were used against a Buxton Road fire and at 9 21 p.m. Engine 2 with 11 men covered Dunstan Scarborough. A noon call for a Boom Road woods and grass fire near Saco occurred today.
Firefighters from Central Fire Station answered a false alarm at Box 23 yesterday morning. Fire Chief Harrison Coleman said the cause is unclear with possibilities of user error or mechanical failure and will be investigated. Two pieces of apparatus responded to the call.
A brief note that the fathers of four U S presidents saw their sons assume office namely John Quincy Adams Warren G Harding Calvin Coolidge and John F Kennedy highlighting a historical lineage of political succession.
US Air Force jets hit a North Vietnamese ammunition complex 125 miles south west of Hanoi destroying eight bunkers and five buildings. South Viet Nam’s Armed Forces Council dissolved itself boosting Premier Phan Huy Quat as U.S. forces upgraded deployments including 178th Airborne Brigade shifts from Okinawa to Bien Hoa and Vung Tau.
The Saco School Street Methodist Church Woman's Society of Christian Service elected a full slate at a vestry meeting with 17 members present. Officers include President Wilma Griffith and Treasurer Stephanie Butler, along with several secretaries and committee leads.
U S officials released a list of 58 alleged Communists and Trotskyists linked to the Dominican revolt started by Juan Bosch supporters. Venezuela abstained on an Inter-American force resolution, while Caamano faced claims of meeting Communist leaders and promising them influence if he wins. Most individuals are Dominican nationals with ties to Cuba and the Soviet bloc.
Firefighters from ARUNDEL Biddeford and Kennebunkport Maine Forestry Service and local departments battled a woods fire near Route 1A Arundel that burned more than 100 acres of woods brush and fields. Firefighters fought for hours with shifting winds and limited access as bulldozers cleared a line to protect Proctor Road homes.
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