Porter longtime Yankee Division veteran dies at 87
Tl of Auburn a former national commander of the Yankee Division Veterans Association died Thursday at Rocky Hill Conn Veterans Hospital. An Army veteran of World War I he served as a conductor for the New Haven Railroad 44 years until retiring in 1961. Funeral 10 a.m. Saturday Wallace Funeral Home Auburn. He leaves his widow Maude three daughters a stepson and two stepdaughters.
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Auburn
Yankee Division Veterans Association
Porter
Rocky Hill
Conn
Wallace Funeral Home
New Haven Railroad
Maude
College students deny generation gap exists study says close parental ties
In Los Angeles 300 USC undergrads show 80 percent report close relationships with parents. They say the generation gap is not in their families though they believe it exists broadly. Local coverage notes this AP summary of the survey.
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Associated Press
LOS Angeles
Vern L. Bengston
University of Southern California
Salisbury
Rhodesia
Jan Smith
Britain
Boston
Massachusetts
Ralph Nader
Biddeford Woman Pledges Phi Mu Sorority
Ethel Tousignant of 265 Alfred Street Biddeford daughter of Mr and Mrs D Patrick Tousignant pledges Phi Mu Sorority at the University of Maine as a sophomore majoring in education.
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Ethel Tousignant
D. Patrick Tousignant
Alfred St., Biddeford
Phi Mu Sorority
University of Maine
Miss Tousignant
Federal fringe parking plan eyed by Congress
Washington proposes 75 percent federal aid for fringe parking tied to mass transit to ease urban congestion. Projects must adjoin federal aid highways in cities over 50 000 population with outcomes seen in New York Cleveland and Milwaukee. Police in Boston arrest a Providence man on a warrant and seize two 38 caliber pistols in his luggage.
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Washington
Secretary of Transportation
Alan B. Boyd
Congress
House Public Works
Boyd
New York City
Lowell K .Bridwell
Cleveland
Milwaukee
Boston
Providence
Massachusetts
Gerald Harriman
Park Square
Concord
N.H
Harriman
Hughes expands Las Vegas holdings with 23 new acres
Las Vegas billionaire Howard Hughes adds 23 acres on the strip for an estimated 2 million dollars. The land sits between the Castaways and the Frontier, part of Hughes six-hotel portfolio built in 18 months in Las Vegas. Hughes also owns a TV station a ranch and two airline terminals with holdings reportedly totaling 150 million dollars.
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Associated Press
Las Vegas
Nev
Howard Hughes
Las Vegas Strip
Hughes
Castaways
Frontier
Biddeford Home Sold in Transfer to Local Couple
The property at 119 Foss Street Biddeford owned by Mr and Mrs Paul E Moreau Scarborough was purchased by Mr and Mrs Donald Le doux 7 Harrison Ave Biddeford. The seven room house with garage sold through the Edgar Morin Real Estate Agency Biddeford.
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Foss St
Biddeford
Paul E. Moreau
Scarborough
Donald Ledoux
Harrison Ave
Edgar Morin
Radio distress signals CQD to SOS change
The distress signal shifted from CQD to SOS for easier wireless transmission. SOS consists of three dots three dashes and three dots.
Bird's Nest Soup Trade Noted in Encyclopaedia Britannica
The nests of swifts are prized as food in the Orient and a soup is made from them. The Encyclopaedia Britannica notes that nests are packaged and sold in markets across Occidental cities.
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Orient
Occidental
Encyclopaedia Britannica
New Staff Member Joins Emond Funeral Home Biddeford
Roger E Paquette joins Emond Funeral Home at 72 Hill Street Biddeford as a new staff member. He is the son of Albert and Mrs Paquette of 165 Cleaves Street Biddeford. Paquette is a graduate of the New England Institute of Anatomy Boston and St Hyacinthe High School Canada. He attended the University of Montreal and University of Ottawa. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus Eagles and a communicant of St Andre's Church. He is married to Rachel Hebert of Biddeford and they have one son.
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Emond Funeral Home
Hill St
Biddeford
Roger E. Paquette
Chapel St
Albert Paquette
Cleaves St
Paquette
New England Institute of Anatomy
Boston
St. Hyacynthe High School
Canada
University of Montreal
University of Ottawa
Knights of Columbus, Eagles
St. Andre’s Church
Rachel Hebert
Camp Ellis Firemen Unit Plans June Banquet
Camp Ellis Volunteer Firemen’s Auxiliary announced plans for a June 6 banquet at Valle’s Charterhouse in Portland. Members will meet at the fire station at 6 p.m. for the event with several officers and attendees noted and the group not meeting for two weeks.
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Valle’s Charterhouse
Portland
Camp Ellis
Phyllis Labbe
Susan Gagnon
Ruth Stackpole
Theresa Pendleton
Wells Church Group Plans Memorial Sunday Activities
Wells Congregational Church members and local patriotic groups will observe Memorial Sunday May 26 with a 10:30 a.m. service led by Rev. W Vinton Murphy at the Wells church and 11:30 a.m. dedication and open house at the new parsonage on Ocean View Avenue. Memorial poppies will be distributed in the area by the American Legion Auxiliary.
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Wells Congregational Church
Mystic Seaport
Mystic
Conn
W. Vinton Murphy
Eloridge and
Leroy Hanson Post American Legion
Abraham Lincoln Women's Relief Corps
Wells Memorial Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Ocean View Avenue
Wells High School
Ladies Benevolent Society
Fisherman's Pier
Portsmouth
N.H
Noe and
Ogunquit
American Legion Auxiliary
Elmer C. Hutchins
Modernized cow feeding on Borders farm
In York South Carolina a farm operation uses push-button mechanized feeding. Each dawn one brother starts augers that blend high moisture corn, concentrates, minerals and silage into troughs for the cattle.
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York, S.C
W. J
Henderson
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Jay” Rockefeller IV
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