Sunshine Honeymoon For Armstrong Joneses Sets Sail
London reports that Antony Armstrong Jones and Princess Margaret sailed the Britannia toward a Caribbean honeymoon after a royal wedding marked by pageantry. Fans across Britain and Western Europe watched or heard Westminster Abbey ceremonies with about two million cheering crowds.
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London
Antony Armstrong-Jones
English Channel
Caribbean
Royal Yacht
Britannia
Princess Margaret
U.S. Gulf
New Orleans
Florida
Britain
Western Europe
Westminster Abbey
Water Plant Sites Scanned narrowing choices
Interior Department has narrowed to 13 cities for an Atlantic Ocean salt water conversion plant using a freezing process. Final site selection rests with Secretary Fred Seaton. Remaining contenders include Gloucester and Dartmouth Massachusetts and Portsmouth New Hampshire. The plant would cost about 1.5 million dollars and produce 250000 gallons of fresh water daily.
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Washington
Interior Department
Atlantic Ocean
Clifford P. Case
R-Nj
Office
Pine Water
Secretary of the Interior
Fred Seaton
Case
Gloucester
Dartmouth
Mass
Portsmouth
N.H
Khrushchev Says Captured U.S. Pilot May Be Tried as Spy
Khrushchev told the Supreme Soviet that Francis Powers the U.S. pilot shot down while on a spy mission across the Soviet Union is alive and may be tried. He cited diaries of alleged weather survey work and said the American statements were fabrications. The remarks heightened tensions as Washington sought more details before responding ahead of the May 16 Paris summit.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Supreme Soviet
Parliament
Soviet Union
Soviet An
Khrushchev
Francis Gerry Powers
Air Force
Centra Intelligence Agency
Sverdlovsk
Urals
Pakistan
Norway
Ural
Archangel
Murmansk
Krushchev
Powers
U. S. State Department
Francis G. Powers
Pound
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Washington
Wvu. S
Eisenhower
State Department
Lincoln White
Khrush
Russia
U.S
Turkey
Richard M. Nixon
Paris
United States
Biddeford Boy Chosen for Lourdes Pilgrimage Flight
Norman Cantara of Biddeford named by Cardinal Cushing to join the 1960 American Children's Pilgrimage to Lourdes. He is among 25 selected at St. Coletta School and will travel from Boston via Pan American Airlines with sponsors Mr and Mrs Winslow of Weymouth. The trip includes Ireland and returns to Boston before final homecoming.
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Norman Cantara
Biddeford
Cardinal Cushing
Boston
Lourdes
Continent
Francis Cantara
Alfred Read
Cardinal
France
St. Coletta School
Hanover
Mass
Charles Winslow
Weymouth
Pan American Airlines
Dublin
Medical Missionary Sisters Hospital
Drogheda
Ireland
Mrs. Winslow
Eisenhower to Resume Underground Nuclear Tests
President Eisenhower announced the United States will resume underground nuclear tests, possibly by year end, using non weapon devices. White House secretary Hagerty said knowledge gained could have military applicability and noted a major expansion of research and development to improve detection and identification of underground explosions.
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Gettysburg
Eisenhower
United States
James C. Hagerty
White House
Hagerty
Women’s Educational and Industrial Union re elects officers in Saco meeting
Mrs. Kennth Stackpole was reelected president at Hamilton Memorial hall Beach Street Saco along with re elected senior officers Mrs. Robert King first vice president Mrs Donald Libby second vice president Mrs Everett Ladd treasurer and Mrs Harold Waight secretary New officers named include Miss Emma Kearney collector Mrs Philip Graves Mrs Ernest Woods worth and Miss Mary Stearns directors for three years Annual reports praised membership growth and community giving with a $150 Thornton scholarship as well as donations to local health and welfare programs The session included a memorial for five members a Mothers Day tribute and a spring bouquet for Mrs Frank Lacy
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The
Women’s Educational and Industrial Union
Hamilton Memorial
Beach Street
Saco
Philip Graves
Kenneth Stackpole
Ernest Woodworth
Kennth Stackpole
Women's Educational and Industrial Union
Hamilton Memorial Hall
Robert King
Donald Libby
Everett Ladd
Harold Waight
Emma Kearney
Ernest Woodsworth
Mary Stearns
A Thornton
John Locke Fund Committee
Saco Red Cross
Biddeford-Saco
Frank Lacy
Eugene Hill
Stanley Perkins
Harold Hanson
Gordon Murray
Youth Indicted for Shooting Trooper and 17 Other Indictments
York County Grand Jury returns ten public indictments and four secret ones. Henry Martell of Limerick faces murder charges alongside 17 other indictments. Adelbert Littlefield Jr of Belfast is indicted for assault to kill Trooper Hall and larceny of a $1,000 car. Elmer Ellsworth of Harrison charged with uttering forged instruments. William Stanton of Saco, Roger Crepeau of Biddeford, Franklin Marshall of Kittery, and Raymond Marshall Sr of Hollis face breaking and entering plans. Theodore Webber of Sanford and Charles Task Sr of Limerick each face multiple indictments including indecent liberties. Other defendants include Robert Knight of Kennebunk and Terence/O’Donnell cottage entries in Kennebunkport and Kittery cases.
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York County Superior Court
Henry
Pete) Martell
Limerick
Alfred
Adelbert R. Littlefield, Jr
Belfast
William Lawrence Hall
York
John Bonney
Elmer H. Ellsworth
Harrison
Dixie Berube
Saco
First National Bank
Francis A. Martin
Pine Street
Harry Z. Miller
Theodore Seymour
Biddeford
William M. Stanton
Politimi Boucouvalas
Kennebunport
Marshall
Kittery
Lobster Jpound
Robert L
Thelma ‘Witham
Hollis
Hollis High School
Robert L. Knight
Kennebunk
Gertrude Hill
Theodore A. Webber
Sanford
Charles Task
Webber
Methodists Relax Rule On Divorce For Remarriage
The United Methodist Church voted to remove the requirement that an innocent spouse be proven for remarriage. The new rule bases eligibility on improved attitudes and genuine readiness for a Christian marriage after extensive premarital counseling.
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Methodist Church
John W. McKelvey
Lansdowne
George L. Poor
Chimacum
Wash
Ben F. Lehmberg
Colorado Springs
Colo
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Louise Merryman
Mildred Booth
Mary Means
Barnes
Hazel Beety
Alfred Street
Thornton Academy
Peter Gordon
Ann Clark
Gladys Gowen
Wells
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Shirley Barker
Marguerite Morris
Ann Kearney
Grace Williamson
Josephine Seidel
Gowen
Katherine Gallards
Phyllis Maling
Iva Simpson
Harold V. Gowen
Kittery Navy Yard
Armstrong-Joneses
West Indies
Trinidad
Margaret
Fea. Corp
Trip
E. and
I. Union
Burns
Carl Friedman
Richard Bissonnette
Carlton Pendlete
Bruce Burns
Mary MacDonald
Cherrise Racicot
Linda Rocray
Shirley Coffin
Ruth Perrigo
Mary Burke
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