PTA Holds Installation of Officers in Biddeford High
The Biddeford PTA installed new officers in the high school auditorium with Mrs H Clifford Berry as installing officer. Officers include Raymond Kenneally president Mrs Fernando Bourque vice president Mrs Louis Spill treasurer and Rev Mark McCullough treasurer. Outgoing president Mrs Ben Remar received a past president's pin and thanks for her service. Reports were read by several officers and committee members including Margaret Chasse John Hudson Sabina Regina Leda Hadysz Chester Emmons Corinne Reay Eleanor Jacobs and Daniel Lemovitz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford
Parent-Teacher Association
H. Clifford Berry
Raymond Kenneally
Fernando Bourque
Louis Spill
Mark McCullough
Ben Remar
Remar
Margaret Chasse
John Hudson
Sabina Regina
Leda Hadysz
Chester Emmons
Ways and Means
Corinne Reay
Fleanor Jacobs
Daniel Lemovitz
William Deans
Local Veterans Honor Oliva Bolduc At Banquet
Veterans from across the area gather at the Saco American Legion hall at 6 30 p m tomorrow to honor Oliva Bolduc a long time veterans service officer In 1952 he began full time unpaid service out of the city hall Bolduc a disabled WWI veteran is described as modest and soft spoken The event is sponsored by the Iddeford Saco Veterans council with officials from major veterans groups attending Proclamations naming Oliva Bolduc Day were signed by the mayors of Biddeford and Saco Tickets are available from veterans leaders or local stores
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Saco American Legion Hall
Oliva Bolduc
Bolduc
Iddeford
Don's
Waterstreet
Dos Sundries
Main Street
Ridef
Biddeford
Army Air Service
Rochester
N. Y
Tighe-Beaudoin-Farley
American Legion
Today's Chuckle Bachelor: A man eager to wed
A humorous note defines the bachelor as a fellow who is crazy to get married and knows it, credited to Copt. Gen. Fea. Corp.
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Fea. Corp
Recreation Loan Bill Favored in State Government Committee
In Augusta the State Government Committee unanimously supported a measure by Sen. Shelton Noyes to extend Maine Industrial Building Authority Act loans up to 20 million dollars for recreational and manufacturing enterprises. The bill adds industrial parks and, if approved in referendum as a constitutional amendment, would take effect immediately, backed by state credit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Legislative
Shelton Noyes
R-Rangeley
Noyes
Truman To Be Honored At Banquet
New York AP reports a 75th birthday tribute to Harry S. Truman across 16 cities via closed circuit TV. About 50,000 guests attend a Walldorf Waldorf Astoria event with a 90 minute program, film biography Man of Decision, and performances by Jimmy Durante Jack Benny and Danny Kaye. A menu features lobster bisque filet mignon and a seven tier cake with 75 candles.
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New York
Harry S. Truman
Waldorf-Astoria
Grand
Dore Schary
Jimmy Durante
Jack Benny
Danny Kaye
Boston
Lyndon B. Johnson
Grand Jury Returns 27 Indictments in Biddeford and Sanford
The York County Superior Court Grand Jury returned 27 indictments this morning, 10 secret, naming Claude Boucher and others in multiple break in and larceny charges across Biddeford Parsonfield Shapleigh and Sanford. Indictments include larceny of pigeons rabbits guns and household goods, and assaults with intent to rob.
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York County
Gerald Vigneault
Biddeford
Richard Reid
Sanford
Leo
Catherine Owen
Waterboro
Reid
Franklin R. Sanborn
Limerick
Clifton Thompson
Parsonfield
Melvin E
Ruth L. Richardson
William Hurley, Jr
Shapleigh
Gordon H. Morris
Frank M. Remick
Sadie Hall
Randal Reeder
Gary McPherson
Pease Air Force Base
Newington
N. H
Frank Bland
Roker R. Lessard
U. S Treasury
Charles E. Nason
Errol T. Waterhouse, Jr
Ronald Marshall Croteau
Bidde
School Musicians Headed For Festival Auditions
Over 300 members from local high schools bands and choirs will audition tomorrow for the Western Maine Music Educators Association festival in Lewiston. A 2 p.m. parade leads to 3 p.m. band and drill performances at Lewiston High School athletic field with 130 Biddeford High participants. Buses depart Biddeford High at 7:30 a.m. chaperones include Virgil Hinckley and several Mrs. listed guardians.
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Western Maine Music Educators Association
Lewiston
Lewiston High School
Biddeford High School
Smoking Is Linked Again With Cancer
New medical report ties lung cancer to total lifetime smoking rather than duration. Over seven years and 500 victims studied by the U S Public Health Service and the American Cancer Society. Eight patients were nonsmokers and nineteen smoked pipes or cigars. Most cigarette smokers had smoked about nine thousand two hundred fifty packs in life, averaging a pack per day.
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New York
U.S. Public Health Service
American Cancer Society
Maine Taxation Committee Backs 3% Transient Tax Plan
A majority of Maine's Taxation Committee backed a 3 percent transient accommodation tax and removal of the motor vehicle trade-in sales tax exemption. Most opposed the 1 cent cigarette tax increase and timber severance tax. Rep. Joan Baxter Jr. alone favored raising the general sales tax to 4 percent.
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Augusta
Legislative Taxation Committee
Clauson
Francis Rowe
Madawaska
Sidney Maxwell
Wilton
State Supreme Court
Joan Baxter Jr
Pittsfield
Hollis Wyman
Milbridge
Harry Rollins
Belfast
Britain to Send Jets and Tanks to Iraq to Bolster Neutralist Regime
London reports that Britain will supply a large number of jet bombers and tanks to Iraq to prevent Premier Abdul Karim Kassem's neutralist government from seeking Soviet military aid. The United States reluctantly approved the broader arms aid plan, with a Foreign Office spokesman declining to comment until a Commons statement Monday.
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London
Iraq
Abdul Karim Kassem
Soviet Union
de Kassem
Harold Macmillan
House of Commons
Panama Invasion Crisis Claims Cuban Detainees
AP reports Panama pulled back Caribbean coast troops during the invasion crisis with one Cubans still at large from a two week landing. Five of the six defectors were captured near Portobelo swamp, joining 85 held in Panama jail. Unclear whether to prosecute locally or return to Cuba for Castro authorities. Also from London Sultan of Johore dies in hotel suite at 65 after a two month illness, Maj Gen Sir Ibrahim ruled rubber state.
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Panama
Pamana
Caribbean
Portobelo
Panza We
Cuba
London
Johore
Sir Ibrahim
Malayan
Christ Church Fellowship Names Slate at Kennebunk
Police hunt continues for John Reynolds alias Jack Perkins believed to have cut from a county jail cell in Alfred. Sightings near Kennebunk and alerts across Maine New Hampshire Connecticut Massachusetts noted. Reynolds facing car theft and armed robbery inquiries while serving a 30 day concealed weapons sentence. church meeting notes elected officers and a one act drama by local students featured in the program.
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Women's Fellowship of Christchurch
Kennebunk
Hazel Johnson
Edward Travers
H. Willis Day Jr
Ernest Morris
Leslie Graffam
John Reynolds
Hartford
Conn
Harold Nason
Reynolds
Jack Perkins
New Hampshire
Nason
Maine
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Portland
Dorchester
Mass
Jeck Perkins
Arrow Injury to 12 year old in Lewiston
Doctors report Howard Lowe 12 suffered no brain or eye damage after an arrow struck him earlier this week in South Paris. He was poking his head above a hay bale used as a target by other boys when hit.
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Arrow South Paris
Howard Lowe
Lewiston Hospital
Donald Quarles Dies In Sleep
Washington AP deputy secretary of defense Donald A. Quarles died in his sleep. Born July 30, 1894 in Van Buren Arkansas, he had not been ill. Quarles led Western Electric and San dia Corp. and advised on weapons lab operations at Albuquerque for the AEC. He joined government service in 1953 as assistant secretary of defense for research and development.
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Washington
Donald A. Quarles
Quarles
Air Force
van Buren
Ark
Neil McElroy
Pentzton
Western Electric Co
New Jersey
Western Electric
Sandia Corp
Sandia Special Weapons Laboratory
Albuquerque
N. M
Atomic Energy Commission
Eisenhower
Defense
Ike Takes Stand Against Berlin Summit Threat
President Eisenhower vows to refuse attending a summit conference if Russia proceeds with its threat to turn East Berlin over to East German Communists, signaling a firm response to the escalating ultimatum.
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Washington
Eisenhower
East Berlin
Forecast Signals Rising Prosperity For 12 Months
Unofficial government forecast of rising prosperity for 12 months or more gains general support from top industrialists at a closed BAC session in Hot Springs Virginia. They cite two major uncertainties the possible summer steel strike and the impact of auto makers entering the cee field, affecting the 490 billion dollar annual production outlook.
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Hot Springs
Commerce Department
Business Advisory Council
Cee
BAC
Secretary of Commerce
Strauss
Washington
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David McCullough
Travers
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Maria Economos
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H. Willis Day, Jr
McGullough
Ernest Smith
Circle 1
Fred Holmberg
Day, Jr
McCullough
Kennebunk High ‘School
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