Local Biddeford and Wells Residents In Briefs
Personal Eddie Rabideau from Liggett's Boston headquarters visited Biddeford on business. Open house ceremonies at Augusta hospital today feature Raymond Phillips and Andre Lafargue. Mrs. Macora Moulton visits her husband at Togus VA center. Harold Hallissey and wife attend their son William Hallissey's wedding in Alabama. Kendall Adams returns to Vermont after visiting Gordon Phillips and William DeCourcey in Kennebunk. Warren Libby hosts grandson Warren Bisbee. mother Barbara and brother Charles visit from Gloucester. Mrs. Roscoe Upham attends the 50th jubilee for Rev. Sister Bernard in Quebec with Dr Louis Upham. Nancy Doran at UNH prom. returns Sunday then to Central Maine General Hospital in Lewiston. Michael S. Rozeff named to Harvard's Dean's List among Maine students. son of Joseph and Mrs. Rozeff of Wells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddie Rabideau
Liggett
Boston
Biddeford
Tighe-Beaudoin-Farley
Est
Elm Street
Augusta Hospital
Raymond Phillips
Bacon Street
Andre Lafargue
St. Mary Street
Macora Moulton
Kennebunk
Wells
Warren Libby
South Street
Warren
Chip) Bisbee
Gloucester
Mass
Barbara Bisbee
Charles
Roscoe C. Upham
Crescent Street
Quebec
Can
Michael S. Rozeff
Maine
Harvard College
Cambridge
Harvard
Rozeff
Wells High School
Joseph Rozeff
Post Road, Wells
Alberic Landry 81 dies after short illness in Biddeford
Alberic Landry a Biddeford resident for 60 years and former Boston and Maine railroad worker died early this morning after a brief illness. He lived with his son Patrick Landry at 20 Dupont Avenue and was a St. Joseph parish communicant. Survived by two brothers a sister four grandchildren and several nieces and nephews his wife Marie died three weeks ago. Funeral at St. Joseph church Monday at 8 am with calling hours at Bolduc funeral home today and tomorrow afternoon and evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberic Landry
Biddeford
Boston and Maine Railroad
Patrick Landry
Dupont Avenue
Marie
Marcotte) Landry
Paquetteville
P. Q
Jean Baptiste and
Octavie (Bisaillon) Landry
York
Bates Mill
St. Joseph Church
Bolduc
Alfred Street
Churches Family Day and Sunday services in area churches
Sunday observances include The Churches Family Day at 11 a.m. at Saco School Street Methodist with youth meetings at 6 p.m. and Official Board at 7 p.m. at the church. Goodwins Mills Methodist hosts a 9:30 a.m. Mother's Day service with special awards. Various youth fellowships and evening services follow at Advent Christian, West Kennebunk, Faith Tabernacle, Milo group, Saco Salvation Army, and Old Orchard Beach locations, capped by Church Family Night at Saco United Baptist with a 6 p.m. program and Condict family led worship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saco School Street Methodist Church
Goodwins Mills Methodist Church
Lyman
Goodwins Mills
Advent Christian Church
Young People’s Choir
Methodist Youth Fellowship Group
West Kennebunk Church
Youth Crusaders
Faith Tabernacle
Pentecostal Church
Atlantic Avenue
Third Street
Old Orchard Beach
Milo
Saco Avenue
Dorothy Hartlett
Salvation Army
Church
Saco United Baptist Church
T. Chubb Condict
Condict
Learn To Live With Inflation Says Noah Lesson
Roger W Babson argues inflation will demand preparation and savings. He cites rising living costs since 1947 49 and warns many workers have not kept pace. He urges diversification across stocks bonds land and antiques, with cash reserves to buy on market dips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noah
Funeral services for William A Thibedeau held in Saco
Funeral services Sunday at 1 30 p m for William A Thibedeau were conducted by Rev Harold McElwain of Portland at the Dennett and Craig funeral home in Saco. Burial took place in Dunstan cemetery with bearers from Preble lodge F and A M Sanford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William A. Thibedeau
Dennett and Craig Funeral Home
Saco
Harold McElwain
Portland
Dunstan Cemetery
Preble Lodge
A. M
Sanford
Funeral services for Mrs Hood in Saco
Funeral services for Mrs Eliza beth O Hood of Dayton were held Thursday afternoon at the Shumway funeral home 35 Spring Street Saco Rev Norman J Langmaid pastor of School Street Methodist church Saco officiated Attending groups were from Goodwins Mills Grange York Pomona Grange and Union chapter CBS of Goodwins Mills Bearers were Lorenzo Roberts Bernard Harris Russell Charles and John Appleson Burial was in the family lot at Buxton Lower Corner Cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth O. Hood
Dayton
Shumway Funeral Home
Spring Street
Saco
Norman J. Langmaid
School Street Methodist Church
Goodwins Mills Grange
York Pomona Grange
Union Chapter
CBS
Goodwins Mills
Lorenzo Roberts
Bernard Harris
Russell Charles
John Appleson
Buxton Lower Corner
Westbrook Pegler to Wed On Monday
Westbrook Pegler a 65 year old New York columnist and Pearl W Doane 47 obtained a marriage license Friday and plan to wed Monday in the Park Avenue apartment of Dr and Mrs Thomas C Case mutual friends Pegler lives in Tucson Doane in New York City Pegler's first wife Julia Harpman died in 1955 Doane had two prior marriages ending in divorce one in 1933 from Ernest Rue in Muskogee Oklahoma and in 1953 from James Doane in Glendale California
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Im — Westbrook Pegler
Pearl W. Doane
Park Avenue
Thomas C. Case
Pegler
Tucson
Quiet in Saco Reports No Police Incidents
No accidents or thefts were reported to Saco police headquarters last night or this morning and police said no arrests were made. Zanzibar is an island off the east coast of Africa co ruled by a sultan and a British official.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saco
Zanzibar
East
Africa
Partly Cloudy Portland Temperatures Rising This Weekend
Partly cloudy conditions in Portland bring a warmer afternoon followed by fair and milder tonight. Sunday forecast shows continued partly cloudy skies and a further uptick in temperatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Testimonial Planned For Oliva Bolduc
A testimonial dinner for Veterans Affairs Officer Oliva Bolduc is set for tonight at 6 30 in the Owen-Davis post American Legion home Beach Street Saco Tickets are sold by local veterans groups or at Con's Variety Water Street and D and H Sundries Biddeford Laurier Lamontagne mayor of Berlin NH and a national officer in the DAV will be the principal speaker Biddeford Mayor Clement Deschambault and Saco Mayor Peter Garland have issued Oliva Bolduc Day Today. Bolduc a World War II veteran has served as a veterans affairs officer since 1942 and remains active in local affairs since 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veterans Affairs
Oliva Bolduc
Owen-Davis
American Legion
Beach Street
Saco
Biddeford-Saco Veterans Council
Con’s Variety Store
Water Street
D. and
H. Sundries
Biddeford
Laurier Lamontagne
Berlin
N. H
DAV
Clement Deschambault
Peter Garland
Bolduc
Tighe-Beaudoin- Farley Post, American Legion
The
Disabled American Veterans
Club Calendar Public card party in Cape Porpoise
A public card party is slated for Monday at 7 30 pm at the firemen hall in Cape Porpoise sponsored by the Kennebunkport Memorial unit of the American Legion auxiliary. A Wednesday 8 pm auxiliary business meeting will be at the Legion home on Maine street Kennebunkport. The E and L club of the School street Methodist church in Saco meets Monday at 7 30 pm with Mrs Ethel Cobb Ferry road Saco. The assistant hostess for the ros will be Mrs Meribah ne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saco
Saco School Street Methodist Church
Firemen's Hall
Cape Porpoise
Kennebunkport
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Home
Maine Street
School Street Methodist Church
Ethel Cobb
Ferry Road
Meribahne
Teacher Cited For Heroism On Monhegan Island
Miss Estelle Hoffman of Elizabeth New Jersey, a 30 year old teacher, drowned last summer at Monhegan Island while attempting to rescue a child swept to sea by heavy surf. The Carnegie Foundation honored her Friday night, presenting her father Louis Hoffman with a heroism medal. The rescue effort also claimed the child’s mother who perished in the attempt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monhegan Island
Estelle Hoffman
Elizabeth
N. J
Carnegie Foundation
Louis Hoffman
Tina R. Hilko
Herter Heads to Geneva for Summit Talks With Soviets
Secretary of State Christian Herter sails for Geneva to meet Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko amid high stakes over Berlin and Germany. Western terms demand reunification, possible arms controls, and a free Berlin, while the Soviets seek troop withdrawal and a peace treaty. If talks fail, tensions could rise substantially.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press News
Washington
Christian A. Herter
Geneva
Nikita Khrushchev
West Berlin
Herer
Aganda
Eisenhower
Khrushchev
Herter
Soviet Union
Paris
Businss
Gromyko
Germany
Europe
Berlin
East Germany
West Germany
Superior Court To Hear Appeal Of Probate Case
York County Superior court will hear 25 new civil docket entries including the appeal from the decree of Judge of Probate John B. Roberts of Annie Goodwin York Harbor seeking to overturn the will of E Everett Goodwin York and alleging testamentary incapacity undue influence by the decedent s attorney Ralph W Hawkes and others with co executors Robert S Tracy and Community Trust company stock beneficiaries referenced in the challenged will dated September 22 1948 filed February 12 1959.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York County Superior Court
Alfred
Charles A. Pomery
John B. Roberts
Annie
York
Miss Goodwin
E. Everett Goodwin
Ralph W. Hawkes
Robert S. Tracy
Community Trust Company Capital
Shortage Found At Union Bank in Augusta Branch
Vice President Mark Roberts of Depositor's Trust Co reports a 51200 shortage at the Union bank branch in Augusta found during a routine audit. State officials withheld who is responsible. Loss occurred over years. audit will continue to verify all accounts. loss is bonded. Doris M. Payson, 58, of Union, managed the office when Knox County Trust Co ran it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algusta
Mark Roberts
Depositor's Trust Co
Findlay
Union
Knox County Trust Co
Roberts
Saco to Keep Polls Busy with Possible Four Elections
Mayor Peter A. Garland of Saco says the city may hold four elections this year. A December city election, last January's city vote, and two state referendums could trigger specials in Saco. If four elections occur, total during his administration would be 15. Past years saw four in 1956, three in 1957, four in 1958. each election costs about $1,500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter A. Garland
Saco
Garland
Maine
Justice and Innocence Named Jurors In San Diego Venire
In San Diego California an AP report notes a municipal court venire summoned two jurors with unusual names Justice and Innocence. Both names appear among the summoned panel. The item highlights unusual monikers in the juror pool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Calif
Liz To Marry Eddie Tuesday
LAS VEGAS Nev Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher will wed next Tuesday in a quiet religious ceremony with friends. Jewish rites at Temple Beth Sholom to be performed by Rabbis Max Nussbaum and Bernard Cohen. Nussbaum converted Miss Taylor to Judaism last March. Fisher plans to obtain his divorce from Debbie Reynolds Monday after the six week Nevada residence requirement is met.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Vegas
Nev
Elizabeth Taylor
Eddie Fisher
Liz
Eddie
Temple Beth Sholom
Max Nussbaum
Bernard Cohen
Nussbaum
Miss Taylor
Fisher
Debbie Reynolds
Nevada
Cubs Receive Awards In Saco Burns School Pupils Take Trip
Sixth and seventh grade pupils from Burns School in Saco toured Boston sites including the Museum of Science and the Paul Revere House as part of a field trip arranged by teachers Miss Nancy Tarbox and Mrs. Phyllis Barden. Cub Scout Pack 310 held its final meeting with awards for Bobcat to David Burgess and George Paras, Wolf to John Cote and Michael Willett, Bear to Derrick Moore Ronald Ayotte and Robert Irish, Lion to Thomas Vining. Silver Arrows to Thomas Lamb Alan Savage Ronald Vose Wayne Whitney. and multiple arrow awards to other scouts. Mothers attended as chaperones and a program featured songs, a skit, and Alaska lecture. Retiring Cubmaster Walter McKenney welcomed new leaders Thomas Ving and Donald Allen for 1959-1960.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graces
Burns School
Saco
Boston
Boston Museum of Science
Christian Science Museum
Franklin Park
Bunker Hill Monument
Logan Airport
Paul Revere
Museum of Fine Arts
Nancy Tarbox
Phyllis Barden
Grace
Betty Aportiia
Brian Arsenault
Robert Benson
Richard Boissonneault
Mary Burke
Bruce Burns
Marilyn Chelder
Rosemary Christie
Sandra Coates
Larry Celburn
Shirley Coffin
Dianne Cote
Nanone Crapser
Carl Friedman
Bernard Gaines
Althea Johnson
Paunt Lamirande
Susan Lamb
Mary MacDonald
Evai Mahaney
Wayne Norrad
Robert Noyes
Carlton Pendleton
Ruth Perrigo
First Parish Congregational
Walter McKenney
Ralph Lamb
David Burgess
George Paras
John Cote
Michael Willett
Derrick Moore
Ronald Ayotte
Robert Irish
Thomas Vining
Thomas Lamb
Alan Savage
Ronald Vose
Wayne Whitney
den I
Den 6
Alaska
Lincoln Price
McKenney
Donald Allen
Den 4
Den 3
Roosevelt’s death and Truman rise noted in Truman tribute
Eleanor Roosevelt recalls telling Vice President Truman of FDR’s death in April 1945. She commends his rapid weighing of hard choices and steadfast character. Adlai Stevenson urges Democrats to stay youthful and hopeful, ready for new ideas. Truman remains at the Waldorf Astoria dais amid tributes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleanor Roosevelt
Truman
Roosevelt
Chicago
Adlai Stevenson
Harry Truman
Waldorf-Asstorie
Elaborate Vehicle Test Underways in Major Road Study
The project began in 1952 with construction in 1956 and paving finished last summer. It features 10 lanes in six loops with one inactive to monitor weather effects. Pavement includes 836 seismic sections of varying thickness, split evenly between Portland cement concrete and asphalt. Test bridges, weights, and special recording trucks feed data into a mechanical brain for analysis. The Army Transportation Corps assigns 300 personnel to drive tests along fixed routes while engineers observe surface cracking and measure roughness and wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AASHO
Deta
Army Transportation Corps
East era man fined for no inspection sticker
Alexander MacNichols aged 24 was fined ten dollars in Bidder Municipal Court after pleading guilty to operating a motor vehicle without an inspection sticker. Chief Sevigny told Judge Spill the act was an honest mistake, Capt. Phil Lip Poirier testified MacNichols drove a friend to report an accident and the court suspended sentence as officers noted no further punishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander MacNichols
Sevigny
Spill
MacNichols
Phillip Poirier
Quebec Safety League honors 90 communities for no traffic deaths
The Quebec Safety League awarded 1958 achievement marks to 90 communities in the province for remaining free of traffic fatalities. The prior year 56 communities received the same honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Quebec Safety League
Church Thrift Shop Begins Fifth Year
The Little Red Barn Thrift shop of First Parish Congregational church in Saco starts its fifth year this month. It is open each Wednesday afternoon at the corner of North and Spring streets in Saco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Red Barn
Women of the First Parish Congregational Church
Saco
Spring Streets
Fires Extinguished In Two Apartments In Biddeford
Biddeford firefighters ended weeks of grass and brush fire fighting by extinguishing two apartment blazes. A kitchen fire at 36 Summer Street, likely from a basket near a stove, damaged Reynald Dumont’s unit. A chair fire at 8 Mount Vernon Street, possibly from a cigarette, affected Adelard Fredette’s apartment. No damage estimates were released. both buildings are owned by Adelard Loranger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford
Summer Street
Reynald Dumont
Mount Vernon Street
Adelard Fredette
Adelard Loranger
Lewiston Editor Heads Press Group
Lewiston Daily Sun city editor Kent Foster was elected president of the Maine Associated Press Editors Association, succeeding A Keith Glazier of the Portland Press Herald. Paul McCann of the Daily Kennebec Journal Augusta became vice president and Robert White of the Portland Press Herald was named secretary. conversations featured Maine Senate Majority Leader Alan Woodcock Jr. and Judge Sidney W. Wernick discussing press access and juvenile law redrafts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterville
Kent Foster
Lewiston Daily Sun
Maine Associated Press Editors Assae
A. Keith Glazier
Portland Press Herald
Paul McCann
Telegraph
Kennebec Journal of
Augusta
Robert White
Press’ Herald
Maine Senate
Alan Woodcock Jr
Maine
Sidney W. Wernick
Portland
Bart Candine and family face tragedy after fatal crash
Jo Ann Candine, widow of Bart Candine, reveals she is pregnant and will have another baby in three months as she tends to their two children Bart Jr. and Florence. Sadie Layton, driver of the vehicle that struck Bart, faces a pending civil action seeking $350,000 though not charged criminally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Candine’ Ther Cage
Bart
Jo Ann
Bart, Jr
Florence
Sadie Layton
Arundel Health Conference Set This Tuesday
The Arundel Children’s Health conference will be held Tuesday at Arundel Town hall from 3 to 5 pm under the health council. A physician and Public Health town nurse Miss Florence Poirier will attend. Smallpox vaccine polo shots and injections for diphtheria whooping cough and tetanus will be given. A special 4:30 to 5 pm session will offer oral polio vaccine to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arundel
Pine Tree Society To Receive Grant
Preliminary approval has been given for an $80,000 federal grant to Hyde Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital for a one story wing. The project, to be built at 122 by 65 feet, will house all therapy departments and a pre vocational evaluation workshop, boosting facilities for patients, visitors, and offices. Groundbreaking will occur once plans are finalized and the construction contract signed, says Pine Tree Society executive director Mrs. William H. Dalton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Hyde Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital
US Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Edmund S. Muskie
Pine Tree Society For Cripipled Children and Adults, Inc
Worshop
William H. Dalton
The
Pine Tree Society
Optometrists Prepare for New England Conference
The first New England Optometric Contact Lens conference will be at the Statler Hilton in Boston from May 10 to 12. Sponsored by the Contact Lens Association for Optometry, local registrants include Dr. Steven J. Polackwich of Saco, Dr. Leo P. Tailon, Dr. J. Edward Whelan, and Arthur L. Corriveau of Biddeford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Statler - Hilton
Boston
Mass
The
Contact Lens Association For Optometry
Steven J. Polackwich
Saco
Leo P. Tailon
J. Edward Whelan
Arthur L. Corriveau
Biddeord
E And I Members Named In Honor Luncheon List
The article lists attendees including Theodore Moldenke and many named ladies and misses. Luncheon was served by co chairmen Mrs. Leo Bouter and Mrs. Paul Hanson with assistance from several others, including Mrs. Harold Hanson and Mrs. Richard Googins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Moldenke
Harold A. Clark
Ted Schaffer
E. P. Johnson
Adelbert M. Jakeman, Sr
Leon A. Cole
Stanley Murdock
Clarence S. Holt
Herbert Jose
Edwin Weymount
Felix Sheltra
Clinton Underwood
George Goodchild
Harley A. Scammon
Janet Macmillan
Carleton Sanborn
Phillip F Graves
William H. Marston
Lester W. Pray
Frederick A. Skinner
Phillip Sneider
Cecil J. Cutts
D. Thea Dennett
R. W. Hawks
Stephen Taylor
Edwin R. Gowen
John W. Sweetsir
Elmer A. Anderson
Frank Lacy
Edward M. Cloudman
Mark B. Black
Ruby D. Pillsbury
Perley G. Davis
Marjorie Fogg
Carl Parcher
Howard T. Sands
Alfred Hall
Agnes Nichols
Florence Johnson
Myrtle Watson
Benjamin C. Shaw
Alfred R. Kennedy
Chester C. Pease
Alton M. Seavey
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Alberic Landy
Saco School Street
Saco Salvation Army
Roger W. Babson
Babson Park
Westbrook Pegler
A.M. P.M
A.M
Commies Office
Journal
David Roeland Bineau
Ernest Bineau
Clark Court
Alphonse Lefebvre
Dover
By James Marlow
Superior Court
Union Bank
Eddie Tuesday
Cubs
Church Thrift Shop
Lewiston Editor Heads Press Group
E and I
Leonard A. Verrier
Simard Ave
Dial
Kennebunk Inn
Kennebunk, Maine
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