Beach church hosts rummage sale plan brief
Aimmage Sale Is Planned By Beach WSCS at Old Orchard Beach outlines next weeks sale in church vestry with articles to be dropped at Elizabeth Garland’s Imperial Street or church Thursday after noon. May 21 meeting set at Florence Benson’s Atlantic Ave with hostesses assisting.
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Old Orchard Beach
Woman's Society of Christian Service
The
Methodist
Jean Cooper
Washington Avenue
Mattie Bliss
Florence Benson
Plymouth Congregational Church
Whittier
Calif
Saco
Elizabeth Garland
Imperial Street
Atlantic Ave
Retta Sait
Alice Dunn
Wells Chamber of Commerce Dinner Tuesday
Wells hosts its annual chamber dinner for members and prospective members on Tuesday May 12 at a local venue. Organizers invite attendance to network, share updates, and recognize community efforts.
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Wells Chamber of Commerce
Wells
Mothers Club Plans Activities At Kennebunk
An all day Mothers Club meeting at Kennebunk Lower Village clubhouse featured president Mrs. Kay Baum presiding. Highlights include a summer fair drive, guest speakers State Senator Ralph Lovell and Bernard Johnstone, plan to print a cookbook, and a fall meeting after May 20 with reservations due by May 15. Also noted was a memorial birthday card to Effie Chase who turns 93. Ron Fairly was the Dodgers’ lone pinch hitter in the 1963 World Series, drawing an intentional walk.
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Kennebunk
Mothers’ Club
Kennebunk Lower Village
Kay Baum
Geneva Neil
Howard Johnson
U.S. Route 1
Ralph M. Lovell
Sanford
Bernard M. Johnstone
State of Maine Publicity Bureau
Chamber
Robert Wentworth
Wells - Ogunquit Area
Men's Club of
Kennebunkport
Shirley Schmidt
Peggy Nunan
Marjorie Strickland
Grace Gunn
Effie Chase
Grove Street
Chase
Baum
Mae Collins
Mothers’ ’Club
Ron Fairly
Los Angeles Dodgers
Drew
Church Women Elect York President in Kennebunk Meeting
Mrs John W York was elected president of the Women's Fellowship at Christ Church Kennebunk during a last night meeting. Officers include Mrs Earle Grames vice president and Mrs Raymond Belyea secretary with many season chairmen named. Howard Stickney of Belmont Mass spoke on Revere Bells with slides and recording. A buffet dinner followed served by Circle Nine.
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Women’s Fellowship of Christ Church
Kennebunk
Clarence W. Lombard
John W. York
Cranston Folley
Earle Grames
Raymond Belyea
George LeBarge
Area Youths Pay Fines On Larceny Counts
Kennebunk Biddeford youth Sherman Thyng and local Richard Hildebrandt were fined 50 dollars or ten days for larceny of an automobile transmission in Municipal Court. Both pleaded guilty and paid the fines, with probation for a year and restitution. David Tufts of Biddeford had his license offense case continued for sentencing after a guilty plea. Oliva Letourneau of San-i was found guilty after pleading innocent.
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Kennebunk
Biddeford
Sherman Thyng
Richard Hildebrandt
David Tufts
Oliva Letourneau
San-i
Three Injured In Car Train Mishap At Crossing
EAST WILTON AP Three Dryden residents were injured Thursday night when a car struck a train at a grade crossing near the Forster Manufacturing Co. plant. Harvey Searles 31 sustained a head concussion Judy Melendy 20 shoulder injury. Searles wife Salome treated for minor injuries and released. In separate court actions Ford appealed to the September term and posted 200 bail for DUI. Donald Nazaroff Lewiston pled guilty to driving left of center and was fined 25 with 10 suspended. Carmela Sita Norwood Mass paid 35 for speeding 60 in a 25 zone.
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East Wilton
Dryden
Forster Mfg. Co
Farmington
Harvey Searles
Judy Melendy
Searles
Salome
Ford
Superior Court
Donald Nazaroff
Lewiston
Carmela Sita
Norwood
Mass
Past Leaders of VFW Unit Honor Member in Biddeford
Mrs. Alden Racine received a gift for three years as a reporter during the Past Presidents of the Biddeford Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary meeting at Mrs. Almeria Proulx’s Biddeford home. President Jeannette Curro led, Chaplain Bertha Stone read the case, Secretary Blanche Small reported, and Sunshine Chairman Mrs. Proulx announced cards sent to members. Special prize to Mary Boisvert. mystery prize to Lucianna Roy. A buffet lunch was served. Next meeting June 4 at Mrs. Stone’s Attleboro? No, Union Street. Attendees included Stone, Boisvert, Laura Dodge, Curro, Small, Roy, Racine, guest Roy, and Mrs. Proulx.
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Alden Racine
Biddeford
Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
Almeria Proulx
Alfred Street
Jeannette Curro
Bertha Stone
Blanche Ou
Sunshine
Proulx
Mary Boisvert
Lucianna Roy
Miss Roy
Stone
Union St
Saco
Boisvert
Laura Dodge
Curro
Blanche Small
Racine
Church Class Plans Food Sale And Banquet
Eta Sigma Class of Biddeford United Baptist Church met at the home of Mr and Mrs Earle Lewis May Street Biddeford to plan a food sale for May 15 and the annual banquet for June 5 at Marshview Restaurant Scarborough The session opened with a prayer by Mrs Sylvia Beane and devotions by Miss Irene Dwelley It was voted to place flowers at Sunday service for Mothers Day Refreshments were served by Miss Marion Nason and Mrs Mary Dawn with help from Mrs Edna Wilson and Mrs Rowena Gardella Attending were Mrs Lewis Mrs Edna Thompson Mrs Lula Merrill Mrs Beane Mrs Minnie Henderson Mrs Hazel Clay Mrs Martha Souza Mrs Wilson Mrs Mary Grace Mrs Elsie Butler Mrs Esther Hunter Miss Eva Bowen Miss Marion Nason Miss Elizabeth Taff Miss Dwelley and Miss Adelpha McKeen.
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Marshview
Scarborough
Oest
Eta Sigma
Biddeford United
Marion Nason
Mary Dawn
Edna Wilson
Rowena Gardella
Lewis
Edna Thompson
Lula Merrill
Beane
Minnie Henderson
Hazel Clay
Martha Souza
Wilson
Mary Grace
Elsie Butler
Esther Hunter
Eva Bowen
Elizabeth Taff
Dwelley
Adelpha McKeen
Civil rights speakers urge unity and reinvention of identity
Dorothy Day and other civil rights figures spoke at a two day symposium on human rights. Day, jailed for her beliefs, urged living together to know each other while Dr. Allan Chalmers argued civil rights are a religious campaign and good for business. Dr. Leslie Fiedler urged redefining American identity beyond white and black, urging blacks to reinvent the American man.
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Dorothy Day
Miss Day
Biddeford Pool College
Allen Knight Chalmers
Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Jesse Morris
Jackson
Miss
John Doar
United States Justice Department
Civil Rights Division
Allan K. Chalmers
Leslie Fiedler
Chalmers
Kennebunkport
Boston University
Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc
Fiedler
Montana State University
Missoula
Mont
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Louis Brandeis
South
Chambers of Commerce
Dr. Feidler
Feidler
Early Swahili Literature Timeline in Script Use
The earliest Swahili literature used Arabic script and the Roman alphabet was not successfully applied until late in the 19th century.
Priceless mural by Los Angeles first graders recovered
At Los Angeles International Airport a 14 by 3 foot watercolor titled a trip to the Airport created by 28 second graders from Aldama Elementary was valued in discussion from $10 to $800,000. The mural was returned to the class and proceeds will fund new library books.
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Cary Grant
Jean Negulesco
Los Angeles
Grant
Negulescu
Los Angeles International Airport
Aldama
Bonnie Halfacre
Larry Guitierrez
Carol Plumb
Highland Park
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Aimmage
Beach Wscs
Bliss
Standish
Cooper
Florence Gray
Frances Johnson
Hazel Davis
Mothers Club
Chevrolet
America
ED & Frank Chevrolet, Inc
V.F.W
Cartel Ane Ower
Asec
Cental Maine “Power Company
Green Street
Augusta
Maine
Ten
Pabicas Corner
CMP
CHIC
Trusl Nursing
May Street
Mobil Flame
Kinmond’s Elm St
Federal Realty CO
U.S.A
American Discount
P. O
Fire Station
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