Deaths Harry E Coombs Sr in Kennebunk at 77
Harry E Coombs Sr 77 of Winter Street Kennebunk widower of Margaret Brown Coombs died yesterday in a Biddeford hospital. He was born October 3 1889 and worked for Rogers Fibre Co. Inc. He leaves ten daughters and several sons and siblings. Funeral Thursday at 1 30 p.m. Angell Funeral Home Kennebunk with Rev Fred Holmberg officiating and burial at Hope Cemetery. Friends may call today 2 4 and 7 9 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebunk
Harry E Coombs Sr
Winter Street
Margaret Brown Coombs
Biddeford
Frank H
Ellen Snow Coombs
Rogers Fibre Co. Inc
York Lodge
A.F
A.M
Harry J
Alice Smith
Angell Funeral Home
Dane St
Fred Holmberg
Christ Church
Hope Cemetery
Poitras, longtime Saco resident, dies at 76
Ovide Poitras 76 of 14 Franklin St Saco died yesterday in Biddeford hospital. Born in Canada Jan 19 1891 he was a former Saco fireman and police officer. He worked 51 years for Boston and Maine Railroad retiring four years ago. Survived by widow Roseanna five grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Funeral Friday at Notre Dame de Lourdes Church with calling hours today and Thursday at Cote Funeral Home.
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Ovide Poitras
Franklin St
Saco
Biddeford
Canada
John
Marguerite Laprerie Poitras
Saco Fire Department
Boston and Maine Railroad
Notre Dame de Lourdes
Roseanna Bouthillette Poitras
Leo Poitras
Willard Edge Comb
Edna Bloodgood
Hector Poirtas
Old Orchard Beach
Frank Lavigne Saco
Eva Morris
Dayton
Cote Funeral Home
Beach and
James Streets
Miss Margaret Lynch 91 Dies in Saco Home
Miss Margaret M Lynch 91 of 175 North St Saco died at home. Born January 28 1876 in Biddeford she was daughter of Michael and Margaret Lynch and longtime member of Most Holy Trinity Church Saco A nephew Patrick Cooney survives A requiem high mass will be held at St Marys Biddeford with burial in St Marys Cemetery Entombment in family lot Friends may call at Cosgrove Funeral Home Biddeford tonight and tomorrow evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret M. Lynch
North St
Saco
Biddeford
Michael
Margaret Stewart Lynch
Most Holy Trinity Church
St. Mary's Church
Miss Lynch
Patrick Cooney
St. Mary's Cemetery
Cosgrove Funeral Home
Elm St
Silver Tea Fundraiser Planned in Saco Biddeford Area
Saco hosts a Silver Tea fundraiser with Mrs Stacey as general chairwoman from 2:30 to 5 pm. Hostesses include Mrs John Roberts and Mrs Robert Perrin with decorations led by Mrs Paul Jones and guest book by Mrs William Searle. Board members from York County span multiple towns and include Miss Edith Scamman as life member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stacey
Stride
John Roberts
Saco
Robert Perrin
Edward Carp
Biddeford
Ralph Hutchins
Wells
Roger Walker
Alfred
Robert Wade
Auburn
Hewes
Paul Jones
William Searle
Howard Cushman
J. Ralph Larochelle
Robert Whittier
Lloyd Trecartin
J. Edward Whelan
Biddeford - Saco
York County
John A. Folsom
Charles Hermann
Phillip Hussey
Evelyn Smith
Kennebunk
Richard Pfeiffer
Kennebunkport
Gilbert D. Harrison
Paul Woodman
Warren Walker
Hollis
Roy Collins
Kittery
Everett Knight
Hannah Hayes
Funeral Directors and Mortuary Contacts in Saco Maine
Directory style note listing funeral homes in Saco Maine with addresses and phone numbers. Mentions Dennett and Craig 365 Main Street Shumway Funeral Service 35 Spring Street Philip H Gross Sr director Emond's Funeral Home and contact numbers. Names Frank X Emond and J P Conroy appear in fragmentary form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennett & Craig
Main Street
Saco
Maine
Dial
Shumway Funeral Service
Spring Street
Philip H. Gross Sr
Biddeford Democratic Women Host Supper Meeting
About 75 members of the Biddeford Democratic Social Club gathered at St. John’s Hall on Adams Street for a buffet supper. The birthday cake of the month went to Mrs Florida Ouellette. President Mrs Laurence Grover led the business session and a suggested item from last month was approved. A social hour followed with games and prizes awarded to Mrs Pauline Boutet, Mrs Alexandrine Gagnon, Miss Anna Binseau, and Miss Marie Ann Berthiaume. The club will meet again on Sept. 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford
Anna Bineau
Marie Ann Berthiaume
Grover
Sheridan Grant Camp Plans Memorial Day Flag Placement
Sheridan Grant Camp and its Auxiliary meet at 40 Temple Ave to plan Memorial Day exercises. Rabbi Boris Gottlieb of Biddeford is guest speaker with Mayor Lemire and City Council members attending. U S Rep Peter Kyros expected as guest of honor. About 500 flags to be placed on Civil War veteran graves. gathering at Woodlawn Cemetery May 26 at 6 p m.
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Ocean Park
Sheridan-Grant
Sons of the Union Veterans
Frank Whitten
Temple Ave
Herbert W. Buzzell Sr
Boris Gottlieb
Eir Chaim Synagogue
Biddeford
Leo Lemire
U.S
Peter Kyros
Woodlawn Cemetery
Windham Man Is Acquitted On Rape Charge
Justice Charles A. Pomeroy of the Superior Court granted a motion for acquittal freeing Larry D. Cobb Sr. of Windham of a rape charge involving a 14 year old girl after 12 days of trial. The defense witness testified the accuser admitted the charge was false.
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Alfred
Charles A. Pomeroy
Suprior Court
Larry D. Cobb Sr
Windham
Norman Rees
Portland
Cobb
Old Orchard Beach
Justice Pomeroy
Lester C. Horton
Oxford County
Traverse
Joseph R. Pinet
Gorham
Chicopee Road
Buxton
Justice
Biddeford Savings Bank 100th Anniversary Celebration
Leaders and residents praise Biddeford Savings Bank on its centennial in 1967. Gov Curtis and Sen Reay dispatched congratulations while Chamber of Commerce President Rielly presented a commemorative plaque. Attendees enjoyed engraved lighters and coffee mugs as keepsakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maxwell
Lemire
Garceau
Chamber
Kenneth M. Curtis
Paul Reay
Saco
Edward C. Donnelly
Donnelly Advertising
Chamber of Commerce
Martin J. Rielly
Biddeford Savings Bank
Biddeford-Saco Chamber of Commerce
Rielly
Clayton Cartmill
Wayne Hutchins
Maurice Roux
Lawrence Lamb
James Draggins
Biddeford
Local Patient and Armed Forces News Briefs
Mrs Irma Fournier of 31 Vernon Street Saco is a medical patient at Webber Hospital. Rene Roy Sr of Sunset Avenue Biddeford is a surgical patient at Webber Hospital. Mrs Maylia Cabana Hebert of 10 Vine Avenue Biddeford is a surgical patient at Mercy Hospital Portland. Donna Alexander a senior at Central Maine General Hospital School of Nursing Lewiston has been chosen to attend a pediatrics convention May 17 20 in Philadelphia Pa. After a seven day leave at home Spec 4 Dana D Albert of 81 Lincoln Street Saco has been shipped to Heig helsburg Germany He attended Thornton Academy before enlisting in the U S Army on Jan 31 1966.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irma Fournier
Vernon St
Saco
Webber
Rene Roy Sr
Sunset Avenue
Biddeford
Webber Hospital
Maylia Cabana Hebert
Vine Ave
Mercy Hospital
Portland
Donna Alexander
Central Maine General Hospital School of Nursing
Lewiston
Philadelphia
Levi Albert
Lincoln St
Spec
Dana D. Albert
Heighgelsburg
Germany
Thornton Academy
U.S. Army
Eastern Star and related orders hold meetings in Saco area
Annette Chapter of the Eastern Star in Saco hosts Adah Chapter from Biddeford at 7 30 p m in Saco Masonic Hall for conferring degrees. Luke E Hart Council Knights of Columbus Auxiliary has a 8 p m social at Our Lady of Fatima circle in Biddeford. Pythian Sisters meet at 7 30 p m in Pine Cone Temple Saco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annette Chapter
Order of the Eastern Star
Saco
Saco Masonic Hall
AnnetteChapter
Adah
Biddeford
Mary Savage
Luke E. Hart
Pine Cone Temple
Pythian Sisters
Lodge Hall
Pepperell Square
Main Street
Midweek and Thursday religious services listed in Biddeford area
Church notes list multiple services across Saco Old Orchard Beach Kennebunk Biddeford and surrounding towns. Prayer meetings at 7 pm Thursday and midweek services, plus various choir rehearsals at Foss Street School Street and United churches. A committee plans the May 28 vesper memorial service in Biddeford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford Foss Street Methodist Church
Biddeford’ ‘Methodist Church
Foss Street
Crusader
United Church of Christ (Congregational
Biddeford
School Street Methodist Church
Saco
Committee On Evangelism of the United Church of Christ
Congregational
Fellowship Hall
Fire destroys bath houses at West Grand Avenue
Two bath houses were destroyed and a nearby house damaged in an early morning fire on property owned by Irving H. McNayre at 90 West Grand Ave. Fire Chief Louis R. Wharff blamed the blaze on hot ashes dumped into a waste barrel.
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Old Orchard Beach
Irving H. McNayre
West Grand Ave
Louis R. Wharff
Wharff
Public Hearing on School District Referendum Set
Superintendent Bernard Forbush announced a public hearing Friday night at 7 30 at Jameson School regarding the upcoming referendum. The referendum set for Monday May 22 will decide on a school district plan to fund a new junior high school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Orchard Beach
Bernard Forbush
Jameson
Two Zoning Appeals Scheduled Tonight in Biddeford
Biddeford's Zoning Board of Appeals meets at 6 30 PM in the city building. Two cases will be heard including Raymond La Fortune of 6 Harvard Street seeking to build a garage three and six feet from the lot line in an R-1A zone and Stanley B Hyde of Billerica Massachusetts seeking to add three feet to the lot line of an existing building at 7th Street Biddeford Pool in an R-LA zone.
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Biddeford
Zoning Board of Appeals
Roland G. Morissette
Raymond LaFortune
Harvard St
Stanley, B. Hyde
Billerica
Mass
7Th Street
Fair and Cloudy Forecast with Showers Possible
Variable cloudiness tonight with a chance of brief showers in the north. Lows in the 40s. Thursday improves to fair conditions with little temperature change.
May Tides and Times Noted in Almanac Snippet
A clipped line from an almanac lists tidal times and day parts in May. It records several intervals such as 2:20 and 6:08, with low tide windows and additional figures like 67:08 and 732.
Weather Outlook for New England Five Day Forecast
The Weather Bureau projects a five day sequence for northern New England Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Daytime highs mainly in the lower 60s with cooler spots in northern areas and Cape Cod. Overnight lows mid to upper 30s north and lower 40s in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Rain is expected Friday and again early next week totaling over half an inch.
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Boston
Weather Bureau
New England
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Maine
Cape Cod
Campus rally erupts in paramilitary crackdown and violence
Police intelligence officers surveil a student rally as 125 attendees hear a talk urging a candlelight protest at a city dump. Doug las Wayne Waller, 21, is arrested with a .22 revolver after a watermelon strikes a police car. The campus erupts in rock and bottle throws as riot units converge, shots are fired, and officers, 600 strong, clear dormitories amid injuries to two officers and a student.
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Negares
Blaylock
Douglas Wayne Waller
Waller
Handicapped Boy Scouts To Begin Meetings
The first meeting of Troop 337 is set for Thursday May 25 at the West Point Pepperell Vocational school in Biddeford from 7 to 8 30 p m. The new troop aims to serve physically handicapped boys and will meet biweekly with Clyde C Clyatt as district scout executive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Kimball
Donald
West Point - Pepperell Vocational School
Main Street
Biddeford
Clyde C. Clyatt
Clyatt
Clvatt
Paul Kimball
Dale Berry
Reny Remillard
Michael Boisvert
Roger Sevigny
Earl Goodwin
Donald Rochefort
John Larson
William Searle
Fred Blow
Robert ‘Sinnott
Ray Goulet
Jerome ‘Eaton
Rene Lafortune
Paul ‘Larose
Harold Boudreau
Rolland Perreault
Raymond Wakefield
Edward Berry
Albert Grover
James Benson
Robert Poire
Reny Remillard Sr
Legion Unit Past Presidents Plan Auction
An auction committee was appointed at a Past Presidents Parley meeting of the Owen-Davis Unit American Legion Auxiliary in Saco. The session led by President Mrs. Lavoie included prayers by Chaplain Mrs. Booth and reports by Mrs. Sherman. An anniversary banquet is set for May 238 at 6 30 p.m. at Marshview Restaurant Scarborough. A gift or plant will be sent to Mrs. Rocray. The next meeting is June 20 at Mrs Booths. Refreshments followed.
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Helen Blanchette
Alice Milliken
Owen-Davis
American Legion Auxiliary
Saco
Esther Cobb
Temple Street
Gilberto Lavoie
Esther Booth
Eva Sherman
Sunshine
Cobb
Lavoie
Marshview
Scarborough
Juliette Rocray
Charlene Farnham
Martha Beaudoin
Florence Lewis
Biddeford Youth Corps Jobs Open for Summer
Biddeford Neighborhood Youth Corps invites applications for a June 26 to September 1 program with 40 job slots for youths aged 16 to 21. Open to both sexes with financial need as main criterion. applications available at the NYC office in Biddeford City Building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford
Norman A. Martin
Martin
N.Y.C. Offce
Protests in Houston See 64 Arrests at Dump and School
The article notes that protests in Houston had remained peaceful until today when police detained 64 people during demonstrations at a city dump and a public junior high school marking the largest action against protesters in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Biddeford High Students Run City Hall Session
Biddeford High School seniors acted as city officials for a day granting a petition to permit filling Etherington Pond for parking at Fortunes Rocks and tabling a 950000 bond for street maintenance while rejecting a tar on Buzzell Road and a police fleet expansion.
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Biddeford
Etherington Pond
Fortunes Rocks
Buzzell Road
Biddeford High School
Raymond Beaudoin
Constance Goulet
Celeste Nadeau
Claudette Boisvert
Benjamin Cyr
Jean Desroberts
Gerald Nadeau
Arthur Lerman
Susan Donovan
Sandra Perron
Cynthia Sexton
Richard Beaudette
Pat Desrosiers
Beaudette
Police Department
Nadeau
Perron
Saco American Legion Post Chooses Officers
The Owen-Davis Post in Saco elected officers for 1967 68 led by Robert Green as commander Arthur McKee as first vice commander Louis J Brann as second vice commander and Robert Morse as adjutant Also elected were Richard Dutcher as finance officer Philip Tarbox as historian Harry Townsend as chaplain Harry Rowell as service officer and Samuel Rankin as sergeant at arms The next meeting June 6 will install the state officers A $10 vote supported the Memorial for the Four Chaplains Morse reported on the York County Council meeting at Kennebunkport chaired by Commander Robert Janelle and chaplain Townsend led prayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owen - Davis Post
American Legion
Beach Street
Saco
Robert Green
Arthur McKee
Louis J. Brann
Robert Morse
Richard Dutcher
Philip Tar
Officer Slate Is Installed By Saco PTA
At Burns School in Saco the Saco Parent-Teacher Association installed its new officers led by Thomas Morrison. New roles include First Vice President Mrs Arthur Gannon Jr Second Vice President Robert Moody Recording Secretary Mrs Joan Cotsis Treasurer William Soucy Corresponding Secretary Mrs Jason Ramsdell Historian Mrs Bradley Leach Morrison opened with a flag salute and invited all to a May 25 silver tea for the YWCA Biddeford Saco branch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saco Parent - Teacher Association
Burns School
Saco
Thomas Haley
Thomas Morrison
Arthur Gannon Jr
Robert Moody
Joan Cotsis
William Soucy
Jason Ramsdell
Bradley C. Leach
Morrison
Burton
Ferry Road
Biddeford - Saco
Y. W.C.A
Esther ‘Emmons
Robert Reed
Reed
John Davidson
Fairfield School
Locke School
Louise Loughery
Barbara Hurst
Chamber Parking Group Meeting Reports on Downtown Parking Site
The Biddeford Saco Chamber of Commerce board of directors will meet tomorrow at 3:30 PM in the chamber conference room. President Martin J. Rielly says the gathering will hear a Parking Committee report on the Washington Street School site for a downtown parking area. Attorney Simon Spill will present the committee’s work and recent discussions with Biddeford city officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford-Saco
William Henry Harrison Early American Statesman
William Henry Harrison, ninth president of the United States, also served as minister to Colombia. The biographical note highlights his diplomatic role and presidency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Henry
Harrison
United States
Colombia
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Harry Coombs Sr
Margaret Lynch
Emond
Frank X
J. P
Conroy
Our Lady of Fatima Circle
Daughters of Isabella
St. John’s Hall
Adams Street
Bible Baptist Church
Salvation Army Hall
Union Ave
E. Terry Courtney
Knights of Pythias Hall
Advent Christian Church
Hill and
Chapel Streets
F. D. Kirkpatrick
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Wheeler Avenue
Herman Short
Welch
Boy Scouts
Legion Unit
Youth Corps
Biddeford High
City Hall
Saco American Legion Post
Saco Pta
Chamber Parking Group
Fleur Sias
Verona Sias
Good Housekeeping
Gotesanens
Amond
Youland
Jewelry
Main St
George's Cash & Carry
Alfred Street
Telephone
Jefferson Street
Canal National Bank
Robert E. Conroy
Nationwide Bell System
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