Owen-Davis Auxiliary installs officer slate at Saco banquet
Officers and committees named at the Owen-Davis unit American Legion auxiliary combined banquet and installation in Valle's steak house. New officers include Charlene Farnham president, Angie Cote first vice president, Gertrude Rankin second vice president, Gilberte Lavine secretary, Iva Sherman treasurer, Irene Parker historian, Lillian Hubert chaplain, Florence Gagne sergeant at arms, Frances Mullins junior past president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owen-Davis
American Legion Auxiliary
Valle’s
Scarborough
Martha Beaudoin
Frances Mullins
Charlene Farnham
Gilberte
Lavoie
Lillian Hubert
Florence Gagne
Gertrude Rankin
Angie Cote
Eva Sherman
Irene Parker
American Ion
Saco
Miss Farnham
Mullins
York County
Council
Gilberte Lavoie
Lillian Bobert
Florence Lewis
Priscilla Hooper
Cote
Lewis
Gagne
Rankin
Sherman
Beaudoin
Helen Blanchette
Juliette Rocray
Alice DeLaite
Rocray
Blanchett
Parker
Sunshine
Marilyn Rice
Lillian DeLaite
Annie Shaw
Libby-Mitchell
Nation honors war dead on Memorial Day around the world
Memorial Day observances span the altar of the nation on a pine-clad hill to Arlington National Cemetery in Washington where veterans will hear Sumner G. Whittier speak. In Honolulu the Arizona memorial hosts a service aboard the sunken battleship with 1102 names in Pearl Harbor. Children veterans and relatives place flowers on markers at Punchbowl Cemetery for about 17000 Pacific war dead including unknowns.
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Congress
Arlington National Cemetery
Sumner G. Whittier
Honolulu
U.S. Navy
Arizona
Pearl Harbor
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
Margaret L Clark to Receive Degree at College
Margaret L Clark a Scarborough High School graduate will receive a bachelor of arts degree at 7 college on June 8 She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs W Elle Clark of 11 School Street Old Orchard Beach A sociology major she has served as corresponding secretary and on the Alpha Delta Pi sorority executive board Co captain of the varsity cheerleading corps and a member of the Women's Athletic association and other student organizations
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scarborough High School
Margaret L. Clark
7 College
W. Elle Clark
Old Orchard Beach
Miss Clark
Alpha Delta Pi
Women's Athletic Association
Church backs birth control in United Presbyterians
INDIANAPOLIS AP The United Presbyterians join a line of Protestant churches approving birth control. The 171st general assembly says the proper use of medically approved contraceptives may contribute to the family's spiritual emotional and economic welfare. Romans Catholics oppose artificial birth control.
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Indianapolis
United Presbyterians
Landscaping talk at Kennebunk High School auditorium
Extension agent Lewis Bissell of the University of Maine outlined landscaping plans with before and after slides of homes. Mrs. Freman Grant of York County Home Demonstration described a Maine Extension farm and home improvement drive funded by Sears Roebuck Foundation with $100 per county. Prizes of 50, 30 and 20 will be awarded for best improvements with entrants submitting before and after photos and county agents visiting through summer. Bernard Pooler urged collective efforts to beautify towns as many homes and communities are attractive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Bissell
University of Maine Extension Service
Kennebunk High School
Freman. Grant
York County
Maine Extension Association
The
Farm Bureau
Sears-Roebuck Foundation
Maine
Bernard Pooler
Memorial Day Parades and Services Across Maine Towns
Old Orchard Beach and Kennebunk hold morning and afternoon parades with marches to memorials and cemeteries. Wells hosts dawn ceremonies at town hall, World War monuments, and Ocean View Cemetery with addresses, wreaths, taps, and band performances. Ogunquit ceremonies include re formation, bridge service, and town square dismissal.
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Old Orchard Beach
Fern Park
Old Orchard House
Clauson
Veterans Memorial
Robert H. Morse
Leon F. Jones
Kennebunk
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Narace
Main Street
Mousam
Wells Memorial Day
Town Hall
Wells Second Congregational Church
Route 1
High School
Charles Z. Ganellas
Ocean View Cemetery
Paul Hazlett
Ogunquit Baptist Church
Ogunquit
Bridge
Maine Clerk of Courts Harold Fuller Dies at 71
Harold C. Fuller, longtime Kennebec County clerk of courts since 1948, died Wednesday at age 71. The obituary notes his tenure and impact on county administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Harold C. Fuller
Kennebec County
Pacific War Dead Memorial Rising at Punchbowl
In Honolulu the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl will feature a new memorial to Americas war dead from World War II and Korea. The Garden of the Missing will bear marble panels listing about 26,000 names. Ernie Pyle is buried there. the memorial, built by the American Battle Monuments Commission, began in 1958 and aims for completion in 1962. The site covers 112 acres in the extinct Punchbowl crater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
America
Pacific
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
Punchbowl Crater
Boy Scouts
Punchbowl
Pyle
Ernie Pyle
Ieshima
Okinawa
Punchbowl Cemetery
Looledno
Thornton School Athletic Awards Highlight Ceremony
Thornton academy held a special assembly for athletic awards. Coach James McGaffin and Girls Coach Janice Ayer led the event with baseball honors to James Black and peers, track awards to Martin Sheehan and others, plus cheerleading pins and letters for seniors and juniors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thornton Academy
James McGaffin
Janice Ayer
James Black
Ernie Morrill
Daniel Donovan
Jeff Sneider
Bud Harriman
Dick Kerry
David Hanson
William Soucy
William Dumont
Robert Couture
Jeff Griffith
Martin Sheehan
Richard Clarke
Bart Roberts
Clarence Strout
Bruce Ruben
Rodney Record
Ken Lane
Merton Nickerson
Labor Control Bill Faces Rough Path in House Clash
The labor control bill, praised by the Senate, is seen as likely to differ in the House where hearings continue. Eisenhower and Mitchell push for tightening, while big labor and big business oppose. AFL-CIO NAM and Chamber of Commerce critique the measure, with Hoffa stirring further controversy amid calls for antitrust treatment and stricter bans on picketing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Marlow
Associated Press News
Washington
Senate
House
Labor Committee
Congress
Eisenhower
Mitchell
Afl-Cio
George Meany
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
National Assn. of
AFL
James Hoffa
Teamsters
Weekend Food Market Guide for Biddeford Saco Area
Lucy F Sheive offers a Maine Extension Service guide for weekend shoppers in Biddeford Saco. It lists stage cheese eggs ice cream milk, meats including turkeys ham and smoked shoulders, fresh fish like haddock and cusk, and a variety of vegetables and fruits with price and value guidance for the holiday weekend. Other tips note store closures Saturday and meal planning for indoor or outdoor dining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy F. Sheive
Maine Extension Service
Biddeford-Saco
Miss Jean Wright Given Shower in Ogunquit
Miss Jean Wright of Ogunquit was honored at a miscellaneous re bridal shower at Whit ock lodge Agamenticus road Ogunquit She will wed John Ladderbush of Moody Beach on September 19 Gifts were opened displayed and refreshments served by hostesses The attendance included many Ogunquit Moody Beach and Portland residents who contributed or sent regrets for the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Wright
Arthur Wright
Ogunquit
Joanne Tapley
Dorothy Ackroyd
Dorothy Wright
Nancy Jacobs
Ida Brown
Betty Keyes
Barbara Cope
Hilda Dannert
Florence Winn
Doris Clogston
Paul Sayward
William Ladderbush
Joan Ladderbush
Moody Beach
Marcia Thompson
Joan Thompson
Portland
Sue Perkins
Blanche Brewster
Betty Everson
Jennne Ramsdell
Mary Hutchins
Ethel Hutchins
Antigone Ganellas
Sylvia Hutchins
Beatrice Keene
Alyce Brooks
Eleanor Adams
Marjorie Sargent
Mary Littlefield
Ida Smith
Ruth Kemp
Winnifred Brooks
Theresa Hayes
Muriel Ramsdell
Ethel Littlefield
Mary Coggeshall
Jessie Bracy
Beulah Mclaughlin
Zana Littlefield
Madalyn Young
Doris Houston
Betty Mayo
Wells
James Wright
Patty Thompson
Charlotte Moody
Priscilla Galencia, Moody
Mother Daughter Form Law Firm in Los Angeles
Mrs Janie Hixon Courtright a former teacher becomes a lawyer and joins her daughter Dian Hixon to form a unique mother daughter law partnership in Los Angeles Their story notes Dian 26 who starred at Santa Monica City College will join the bar next June 10 and practice with her mother Clarice Courtright a former Hollywood schoolteacher who took up law as a hobby The duo claim to be the first mother daughter attorney team in the country with Dee Dee Dian’s nickname and initials reflecting a name she avoids using
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Janie Hixon Courtright
Ete
D. Dian Hixon
Queen of
Santa Monica City College
Diana
Hollywood
Clarice Courtright
Independence
Kan
Erle Stanley Gardner
Perry Mason
Invasion Of Normandy Recalled By Newsman
AP correspondent Don Whitehead recalls D-Day June 6 1944 aboard a landing craft. He describes brutal first hours storms rough sea German fire chaotic landings and the chaos of units landing misled and disoriented then the shift to grim resolve as troops pressed forward and the writer aids the effort surfacing amid a rare calm after fear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Whitehad
Normandy
D-Day
Invasion Diary From London To Normandy Front
Don Whitehead recounts meeting Ernie Pyle in London in May 1944 and preparing for D Day. He joins a reporters’ convoy, boards ships in Weymouth, and arrives off Normandy with the 1st Infantry Division as General Eisenhower commits to the invasion. The group travels through an air of gaiety amid blackout, then faces the perilous hours as they lead the assault with Colonel George Taylor outlining the plan and the opening push.
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London
Chelsea
Ernie Pyle
Don
Hyde Park
Dorchester Hotel
Ernie
Savoy
Addres
Jack Thompson
Chicago Tribune
Tex O'Reilly
New York Herald Tribune
Channel
Dheery
Weymouth
1St Infantry
Sicily
Eisenhower
Normandy
George Taylor
AMVETS Auxiliary Plans New Community Projects
Members of Merton Ira Staps Post AMVETS auxiliary adopted several new projects during the May meeting held in two sessions. The first session at Sweetser Children's home in Saco discussed room furnishings and a birthday celebration for a guest inmate, with gifts and cake. Departments officers joined later at the Post home in Biddeford to plan distributing 500 copies of the Code Of American Mother under the National Americanism program and other projects including donations to the National Legislative M program and sending school supplies to an arrangement in Pakistan via the People-to-People program chaired by Mrs. Conne Grenier. New member Mrs. Gertrude Jacques was welcomed. Participants included Mrs. E lth Binette, Laura Cookson, Clara Coux, Cecile Pyer, Rhache Binette, Ann Butler, Margaret Parsons, Gertrude Jacques and Conne Grenier. The next meeting is June 11.
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Merton Ira Staps Post Amvets
Auxiary
Sweetserdren
Saco
Belfest
Department
T J
Biddeford
Sion
Ananage
Pakistan
Conne Grenier
Gertrude Jacques
Portland
Eith Binette
Laura Cookson
Claracoux
Cecile Pyer
Rche Binette
Ann Butl
Margaret Parsons
Monne Grenier
Madisses Hold Annual Banquet At Pine Point
Thirty members of the Madisses of the First Parish Congregational church of Saco held their annual banquet and season finale at Lighthouse Pine Point. Mrs Bett i Roberge led arrangements with vice president Mrs Ru Meserve and secretary M Lois Currier among others. A social hour featured photo identification and a planned August picnic at Mrs Do Stackpole’s cottage with meeting time to be announced.
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Saco Atte
Pine Point
Betti Roberge
Ru Meserve
M Lois Currier
Doris Stackpole
Sipec
Do Stackpole
Army Announces Nursing Program for Student Nurses
Army offers financial aid and a reserve commission to third or fourth year student nurses who enroll in the Army Nurse Corps program. Applicants aged 18 to 28 must be American citizens in good standing and full time students. Upon graduation, they become registered nurses and are commissioned, serving two to three years. While in the enlisted reserve they receive pay and allowances to cover training costs. Applications are now open through September. Contact Capt. Doris E. McCraw at the Iron Army base for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A Corps
Roland Bisaillon
Ning
Army Nurse Corps
Doris E. McCraw
Iron Army Base
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Owen-Davis Auxiliary
Church
Pooler
Americas
Thornton
Inia’ Allen
Jeanne Pimpare
Pauline Belanger
Joan Boulfard
Girls Athletic Association
Sharon Anderson
Judy Bouchard
Joan Bouffard
Nancy Bogdahn
Ann Clark
Carole Cole
Pat Cole
Pauline Hardysy
Margo Johnson
Sandra Miner
Marge Mullen
Sylvia Ligertwood
State of Maine
Doris Bergeron
Merry Clark
Brenda Grace
State of Maine Girls Athletic Association
Donna Gallagher
Donna Shaffer
Weekly Food Market Guide
Miss Jean Wright
Belfast
Sweetser Children's Home
Merton Ira Staples Post
Amvets Auxiliary
Rita Potvin
Corrina Brown
Tage
Edith Binette
Shirley Levesque
Cork
Fnr
Red Beach
By Don Whitehead
Associated Press
Amvets Post
Madisses
Army
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