People and Events in a Maine Community
Mrs Carmen Ruel of 10 Oak ace Biddeford is a patient at Notre Dame hospital. Rose Shevenell's name was omitted from the St Joseph alumnae banquet attendees. Mabel Burroughs Chick of North Windham, formerly of Saco, was in the Twin City area en route to Plymouth New Hampshire for a class reunion and to attend New Hampshire State Teachers College. Donna Shaffer daughter of Mr and Mrs Howard Shaffer of Ferry Beach Saco performed a modern dance at a University of Maine pop concert with the Glee Club performing It Aint Necessarily So from Porgie and Bess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carmen Ruel
Biddeford
Otre Dame
Rose Shevenell
St. Joseph
Mabel Burroughs Chick
North Windham
School Street
Saco
Plymouth
N.H
Bhante
New Hampshire State Eachers College
Donna
Odd Fellows Lodge hosts IOOF and Legion meeting event
Saco lodge of Odd Fellows will host Olive Branch IOOF lodge of South Berwick at 7 30 p m at Saco Odd Fellows hall for the second degree. Fair and warmer conditions in most areas with a few showers in extreme north and scattered in extreme east. A state meeting of Alexander MacMillan Canadian Legion post and auxiliary is set for Sunday at 2 p m in Saco American Legion hall with drafting plans for pond state convention and a social.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saco Lodge of Odd Fellows
Olive Branch
Ioof Lodge
South Berwick
Saco
Alexander ‘MacMillan
Canadian Legion
American Legion Hall
Pond
Sunday church events fill Saco and area schedule
A long list of Sunday services and youth fellowships fills churches in Saco Wells Old Orchard Beach and surrounding towns. Activities include evening services at multiple churches Route 9 A Wells and Saco United Baptist youth meetings 6 pm and 6 30 pm and a Love of Christ film at the Saco First Parish Congregational church parish house with a discussion on the United Church of Christ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Full Gospel
Wells
First Baptist Church
Ocean Avenue
Old Orchard Beach
Junior High Baptist Youth Fellowship
The
Saco United Baptist Church
Saco First Parish
Congregational Church
United Church of Christ
Saco First Parish Congregational Church
Jesus
Bar Mills Woman Heads MMA Group
Bar Mills woman Mrs S Dunton Drummond was elected president of the Women's Auxiliary of the Maine Medical Association at the 12th annual luncheon and business meeting in Poland Spring hotel. Second vice president chosen was Mrs Thomas Anton of Old Orchard Beach. guest speaker Mrs William Mackersie. Detroit national auxiliary president attended. An all day session included officer elections and committee chair appointments, a reception for the national president, a style show and social hour after lunch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Dunton Drummond Bar Mills
Woman's Auxiliary
Maine Medical Association
Poland Spring Hotel
Thomas Anton
Old Orchard Beach
William Mackersie
Detroit
Mich
Combined Glee Clubs Guests At St Francis Concert
St Francis and St Joseph college Glee clubs held a joint spring concert at Fryehall Portland with a beach party at Hills Beach home of music director Clayton Eaton and a campus dance featuring Hal Lucas and the Blue Notes. The program included vocal selections and a mystery hour plus novelty numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Francis College
St. Francis
St. Joseph College
Fryehall
Portland
Clayton Eaton
Hills ‘Beach
Eaton
Hal Lucas
Blue Notes
St. Francois
North Windham
Sisters of Mercy
Pool Road
Biddeford
Cooper Leaves Over Million Dollar Estate Widow Inheritance
Actor Gary Cooper left most of his estate, worth over a million dollars, to his widow Veronica, daughter Maria, and mother Alice L. Cooper. His will, signed February 27 while dying of cancer, was filed for probate in Los Angeles Superior Court. He died at age 60 last Saturday. The will also provides leg's of 5000 to brother Arthur and nephew Howard, 1000 to Our Lady of Gethsemane Abbey, 10000 to the Motion Picture Relief Fund, with the remainder in trust for his widow, daughter, and mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Gary Cooper
Superior Court
Cooper
Veronica
Arthur Cooper
Howard Cooper
Georgia C. Burton
Our Lady of Gethsemane Abbey
Kentucky
Motion Picture Relief Fund, Inc
Maria
Alice L. Cooper
Saco School Menu Week of May 22 26
Weekday lunches list for Saco schools from May 22 to 26 includes Monday corned beef hash creamed corn fruit cocktail bread and butter milk Tuesday vegetable soup chopped meat on roll peanut butter and marshmallow graham milk Wednesday chicken and gravy boiled potato peas and bread and butter milk Thursday baked beans cabbage and carrot slaw apple sauce bread and butter milk Friday corn chowder saltines peanut butter sandwich cheese crackers sliced pineapple and milk
Missionary Bothel to Speak at Saco Bible Conference
Rev Don Bothel, a missionary appointee to the Ivory Coast, will address the final session of four missionary conferences at Saco city hall Sunday at 7 PM. Pastor Rev John Fickett will lead the meeting. Bothel, a linguistics expert, trained at the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Grand Forks Dakota and the Kennedy School of Missions, also graduated Barrington College. He will be assigned by the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society to translate the Bible into the Senuf language of the Ivory Coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Bothel
Ivory Coast
Bible Baptist Church
Saco City Hall
John Fickett
Mr. Bothel
Summer Institute of Linguistics
Grand Forks
Dakota
Graduate School of Kennedy School of Missions
Hartford
Conn
Barrington College
Providence
R. I
Baptist Foreign Mission Society
York County TB Group Elects Officers Slate
The annual York County Tuberculosis and Health Association meeting in Kennebunk elected a board of directors including Mrs. Charles Boothby and Raymond H. Bradeen, elected officers Melvin Bacon as president and Royal N. Sheltra as vice president, with William L. MacVene Jr. as guest speaker on early TB treatment and respiratory diseases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
York County Tuberculosis and, Health Association
Kennebunk
Doris S. Locke
Carl E. Richards
Maine Medical Association
Raymond H. Bradeen
Charles Boothby
Shapleigh
Waterboro
William Bruce
Buxton
Raymond C. Burbank
Lyman
Melvin Bacon
Sanford
Royal N. Sheltra
Biddeford
Ward T. Hanscom
Emery S. Littlefield
Alfred
Raymond Bre
Maine Tuberculosis and Health Association
William L. MacVene, Jr
Logging camps keep old ways as new mills grow
The Irving timber holdings in Maine and Canada rival three Rhode Islands in size while St John mills process about 400 000 cords yearly worth around 10 million. Loggers earn roughly 100 a week. logging remains risky with drives timed to river floods or shoals. Foresters say timber is a steady crop, with horses still used to move logs before bulldozers take over.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irving Company
Maine
Canada
Rhode Island
St. John
Wanigan
Paul Bunyans
New Brunswick
Quebec
Pepperell Water Rights Tied to Saco River Mills
The Pepperell note explains water rights based on the Saco River. Sawmills and grist mills with machinery were needed before sale. Howard mentioned weaving room processes stopped soon after World War I and the two top stories of building 3 have remained unused since.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pace One
Saco River
Howard
Combined TA Glee Clubs Honor Mrs Daly At Adah Meeting
Mrs Helen Daly honored as longtime organist at Adah Chapter Eastern Star meeting in Biddeford with 17 organists from Districts One and Two in attendance. Guests included Mrs Alice Schwabenhausen and Mrs Shirley Parks served as officers. Also announced District One School of Instruction on May 24 and Adah to visit Annette on June 1. Thornton Academy Glee clubs performed a wide program at Saco City Hall under Mrs Helen Cropper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Daly
Adah
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic Hall
Biddeford
Shirley Duross
Annette
Saco
Helen Parks
Lois Burnham
Alice Schwabenhausen
Corner Stone
Portland
Grand Chapter
Maine
Louise Harpoothan
Shirley E. Parks
School of Instruction
District One
Donald Fraser
Webber Hospital
Wendell Stackpole
Mizpah
Westbrook
Eve Rooman
Warder
Sentinel
Winneganee
Yarmouth
Hazel Noble
Gordon Day
Fadette
York
Esther
Martha
Bessie Day
Rena Woodward
Chrystila Emery
Doris Horsfield
Dorothy Peck
James Helms
Prescott Howard
Daly
Brunswick
Longfellow
South Portland
Madonna
Kennebunk
Tona
Miniwanea
Old Orchard Beach
Piscataqua
Kittery
Priscilla
Highpine
Wells
Andrew Wilson
Chicago
Shirley Tanner
Edna Stackpole
Thornton Academy
Glee Club
Saco City Hall
Helen S. Cropper
Haydn
Linda Zaitlin
Susan Willey
Deborah Osborne
Mary Lou Littlefield
Jeanne Cabana
Carl Rundgren
Thomas Keele
Peter Gor Jdon
Jeffrey Griffith
Schubert
Sibelius
Clokey
Hallelujah
iGirls
Greensleeves
Gilman Seaver
the Shears
Boys Glee Club
Deborah Osborn
Carmen Carmela
Boys
Thomas Keefe
Richard Smith
William Harrison
William Carvel
Alden Cole
Vermont
Lonesome Valley
Joshua
Jericho
Tschaikowsky
Goddard
Sharon Anderson
South
iPacific
Jeffrey Griffth
King and I
Ev'ry Mountain
The
Sound of Music
Elizabeth Jordan
Carousel
Oklahoma
Victor Herbert
Stone
Susan Perrin
Kathleen
McGovern
Steffe
Harlow Brown
Bruce Shaffer
Haweed Schaffer
Kathleen McGovern
Joyce Geddes
Howard Shaffer
Judy White
Rachel Turin
Charlene Bouchier
Barbara Thurston
Joyce Douville
Pamela Miles
Joan MacDouall
John Charest
Robert Bailey
Joanne Hobbs
Gloria Hubert
Linda Innes
Peter Burnham
Muriel Hubert
Clifford Howard
Richard Mailman
Mayors Back Hire Now Campaign in Two Maine Cities
Mayors Charles R. Cote of Saco and Clement H. Deschambault of Biddeford urged local employers to staff plants and businesses now to prove faith in the free enterprise system. Endorsed by Gov. Reed, the nationwide Hire Now drive aims to fill openings, create jobs, and boost payrolls and buying power as the economy shows signs of rising activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles R. Cote
Clement H. Deschambault
Saco
Biddeford
Maine State Employment Service
Reed
Maine
City Council To Consider Saco Traffic Plan
Saco City Council holds a special meeting Monday night May 29 to discuss Elm North Beach and Main street traffic issues. The state will fund construction and tree removal with right of way needed on Elm street. The Maine Highway Commission plans to run a path through Eastman Park and install a Main street traffic signal at an estimated cost of $10,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saco
Beach
Charles R. Cote
Elm Street
Maine Highway Commission
The
Highway Commission
Eastman Park
Main Street
Saco Youth Held After Legion Home Break In
Associate Judge William F. Wilson Jr found probable cause against Richard S. Clark 19 of Academy Ave Saco for breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny at the American Legion home in Saco Beach Street rear window forced police said he sought liquor from the Legion store a 16 year old juvenile with him also faced charges with case set for Monday Clark bound over to York County Superior Court bail set at 500 but not posted at press time
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Wilson, Jr
Richard S. Clark
Academy Avenue
Saco
American Legion
Clark
Legion
Beach Street
Wilson
York County Superior Court
Last Final Exams At St Francis High
Examinations for the Class of 1961 will be given at St Francis High School next week. Principal Rev Donald Nicknair OFM announced the school will close with commencement on May 28. Faculty will proctor in exam centers. schedule lists English and trigonometry, physics and chemistry, history, algebra and French, and religion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Francis High School
Donald Nicknair
OFM
Saco Valley Riding Club Planning Show
The Saco Valley Riding Club moves toward its June 24 horse show with President Wesley Seaward announcing special committees. Olive Bartlett will judge, Fred Sweasey will steward, J Osborne Tracey announced, and Carol King handles ribbons. The event, a Class C show recognized by Maine Horse Association and New England council, starts at 10 a.m. rain or shine. posters will be displayed next week and a work night is set for Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saco Valley
Seaward
Merrill Harper
Spring Street
Saco
Margaret Chamberlain
Gene Bloodgood
Col Kendall Camp Plans Memorial Day Graves Decor
Col Kendall Camp of the United Spanish War Veterans completed plans to decorate veterans graves and hold Memorial Day exercises at 1 30 p m on the lawn before Biddeford First Universalist Church City Square Veterans graves will be decorated on May 27 and 28 by Commander Ernest H Robbins and Senior vice commander Walter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Kendall
United Spanish War Veterans
Biddeford
First Universalist
City ‘Square
Ernest H. Robbins
Walter
Flooded oil burner prompts Saco fire call
Firefighters responded to 17 Green Street in Saco for a flooded oil burner at the home of Arthur E. Day last night. No fuel was used and no damage was reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saco
Arthur E. Day
Green Street
Textile workers vote to bar union at Eastland Mill
In Corinna Maine employees rejected a proposal to make the United Textile Workers AFL CIO the bargaining agent for workers at Eastland Woolen Mill by 303 to 59. Owner Louis Striar of Bangor said workers would have Monday and Tuesday off for a victory celebration without pay. Robbins and Junior vice commander Joseph Hurd were involved in the vote issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corinna
United Textile Workers of America
Afl—Cio
Eastland
Louis Striar
Bangor
Awards Made At Meeting Of Cub Pack 310
May meeting of Saco Cub Scouts Pack 310 at First Parish Congregational parish house. Den 1 led flag salute. John Scamman trumpet solo. New Bobcat inducted Dell Trecartin. Numerous boys received Gold Arrow, Silver Arrow points, Bear and Wolf badges, and Denner stripes. Den 3 performed Indian meeting and dance. group sang. more solos by Patrick Pierce. Memorial Day parade plans announced. tentative June 24 family picnic. outing chairman Conrad Hebert named. meeting closed with God Bless America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saco Cub Scouts
First Parish Congregational Church
Den 1
Philip Scamman
John Scamman
Dell Trecartin
Thomas Vining
Norman Means
Den
Wayne Whitney
Den 3
Donald Pierce
John Higham, Jr
Mark Winslow
Denner
William Donald
James
Devona
Jerry Carter
Norman Means, Jr
Kevin Savage
Steven Hill
Russell Leighton
Maurice Dew
Richard LaFortune
Brian Reay
Harry Smith
Patrick Pierce
Den 6
Conrad Hebert
Pack 310
Tommy Vining
den G
America
Women Twi Golf League Opening Play at Biddeford Saco
The Biddeford Saco Country Club ladies Twilight League opened with Team 2 led by Jo Gelbke beating Team 4. Leona Driscoll’s Team 3 defeated Team 4 4 to 1 to lead standings early. Ruth Wooster captained Team 3 edged Eve Prendergast’s Team 1 3 to 2 in the other match.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford- Saco
Daughters of Ruth Host Annual Fete at Cascade Lodge
Members and guests of the Daughters of Ruth of Biddeford First Universalist Church held the annual spring banquet at a Cascade lodge. The event featured a special committee, with attendees including Rev. and Mrs. Edmund Beal, Rev. and Mrs. L. G. Adamson, several local leaders and families. In Washington, Sen. Edmund S. Muskie met with Secretary Udall and praised his knowledge of Maine resources and willingness to cooperate on hydroelectric potential, park and recreation plans along the Allagash, and flood impacts on the St John River at Fort Kent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth
Bidderford
Ethel Roberts
Ann Pierce
Harry Smith
Leonard Emmons
Albert Wentworth
John Tarbox
Paul McIntire
Ruthford Wilcox
Harry Gowen
Effie Burnham
Land
John Dickerson
Robert Fenderson
Washington
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Secretary of the Interior
Steward L. Udall
Udall
Muskie
Passamaquoddy Bay
Allagash
St. John River
Fort Kent
Traffic Cases On Docket In Local Court
Five traffic cases were heard by Associate Judge Gerald C. Nason in Biddeford Municipal Court. Russell W. Donnell, 28, Kennebunkport, charged with towing an unfisted vehicle without a permit. John H. Trecartin, 27, Lynn, Mass., awaiting hearing on a charge of passing on a grade. Robert L. Tarbox, 732 out road, Biddeford, charged with speeding 70 mph in a 55 mph zone on Route 1. Gray L. Littlefield, 26, Wells, and Donald P. Springer, 24, of 546 Elm Street, Biddeford, charged with speeding 65 mph in a 45 mph zone on Route 1. State Trooper Hollis G. Dixon of Biddeford was complainant in the Donnell and Trecartin cases, while State Trooper Sherwood K. Baston of Wells was complainant in the speeding counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald C. Nason
Biddfordd
Russell W. Donnell
Kennebunkport
John H. Trecartin
Lynn
Mass
Robert L. Tarbox
Out Road
Biddeford
Gray L. Littlefield
Wells
Donald P. Springer
Elm Street
Hollis G. Dixon
Sherwood K. Baston
Picnic Areas Along Highways To Open Today
The State Highway Commission will open 200 roadside picnic areas today as crews completed cleanups, fresh paint, and new equipment. Improvements include more fireplaces, cedar fencing, plantings, and additional toilets, with over half of sites to have facilities by season end. Maps and leaflets listing locations and amenities are available from the Commission in Augusta or local information offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Highway Commission
Highway Department
Maine
Augusta
Information Bureau
Havana Prison Deaths and Mass Detentions Spark Outcry
In La Cabana a major roundup after the April 15 bombing swelled detainee numbers to hundreds of thousands, with doctors scarce and a Havana lawyer dying of pneumonia after pleas for medical aid. Prisoners voiced doom for a regime they deem oppressive, while officers boasted of future imperialist victories abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Cabana
Havana
Enrique Guiralt
Hemisphere
Castro
G-2
Mexico
Venezuela
Boutot Fined For No Inspection Sticker In Sanford Court
Lucien P Boutot of Biddeford pled guilty before Judge Ward Hanscom in Sanford Municipal Court to operating a vehicle without an inspection sticker. He was fined 10 dollars with half suspended and half paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucien P. Boutot
Biddeford
Ward T. Hanslcom
Sanford
Hanscom
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Mousam Ioof Lodge
Bible Baptist Church of
Training Union
Methodist Youth Fellowship of
South Biddeford
Methodist Youth Fellowship of the
Foss Street Methodists
West Kennebunk Methodist Church
Ugne Repenien
Goodwins
Lyman Baptist Church
Youth Fellowship of
Goodwins Mills
Advent Christian Church
Commission On Christian Social Concerns
Saco School Street
Saco School Street Methodist Church
Harmon's
Scarborough
Bar Mills
MMA
Highland Grove
Joyce Dubois
Modern & Old Fashion Rts
Standish
Combined Glee Clubs
Saco School Menu
York County TB Group
Pepperell
CBS
Legion Home
St. Francis High
Saco Valley Riding Club
Associated Press
National League
W. II. Pet. G.B
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Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Milwaukee
Camacca Nee
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Angeles
Francisco
New York
Cleveland
Minnesota
Baltimore
Kansas City
Boston
Twi
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