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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1973
Page
5
A new program in Old Orchard Beach schools aims to bridge the police department and youth. A Tuesday criminology course for junior and senior high students will cover laws and police procedures with guest speakers from state police and an FBI agent, plus field trips to prisons, courts, and training centers.
City department heads met with Mayor Berto K Braley to map energy saving actions. Each head must submit recommendations by week end aiming for a 15 percent overall reduction in energy consumption.
The Madisses of First Parish Congregational Church in Saco honored past presidents and greeted absent former leaders at a dinner held Thursday at the parish house on Beach Street. A new slate of officers was named, with Mrs. Louis Currier as president and Mrs. Patricia MacLeod as vice president. The next meeting on December 13 will feature the annual Christmas party with a covered dish supper.
The LeFoyer whist event at Pool and Foss streets in Biddeford awarded high score to Gerard Beaudoin. Other winners included Ronald Dumont Helen Dean Lina Lapointe Aurore Soucy Beaulieu Joseph Chouinard Emma Thibouthe Elizabeth Dube Joseph Viger and Annie Harmon. Door prizes were won by Alderik Soucy Helen Dean and Corrie Tapley. The committee announced another session for next week and noted plans for the annual lo party on Saturday night.
Chief Richard Lamb outlines a community relations program focusing on traffic and bicycle safety, good citizenship, and recognition of public servants including police, firemen, and the town nurse. He hopes local officers participate as part of broader department outreach.
Stoneham officials revealed voter apathy after an initial quorum miss when 300 dropouts were needed. The Independent offered two free turkeys as prizes and others added dinners and a large cake to lure turnout. About 450 voters attended but raffles concluded after the meeting.
Galesburg Augusta high school band in Kalamazoo Michigan shifts from candy to selling potatoes to raise funds for an international band festival trip to Mexico in April. The 83 members aim for 20000 and have already collected about 12000 to 15000 with two weeks of potato sales at four dollars per 50 pounds.
Kath leen Kennedy 22 oldest Kennedy daughter will wed David Lee Townsend 25 in a Holy Trinity Church ceremony in Washington. A reception follows at Hickory Hills in McLean Virginia. Kennedy is Radcliffe senior Townsend works on a Harvard PhD in American History and was her Radcliffe tutor.
Welcome notices from Biddeford Seo Journal greet Mark William Crepeau seven month old son of Mr and Mrs Donald R Crepeau of 602 A Elm St Biddeford Readers learn the child's maternal and paternal grandparents and great grandparents location details for a community welcome.
The group hired to curb welfare waste will relocate next month into a remodeled HEW suite costing 120000 dollars. SRS officials call the project a good investment to improve decision making in a 14 billion dollar policy area.
Biddeford Mayor Gilbert R. Boucher announced plans to place signs at every polling place in all wards to show voting hours and indicate where to vote. He credits a Journal report detailing access issues for spurring city action and hopes other communities follow Biddeford’s lead.
In Drake North Dakota the high school incinerated copies of Kurt Vonneguts Slaughterhouse Five and ordered destruction of Deliverance and Short Story Masterpieces. Parents clergy and teachers clash over alleged obscenity as locals defend free speech versus perceived moral harm.
Boston AP The director of the film Executive Action accuses two Boston TV stations WBZ and WNAC of censorship for refusing to air ads. David Miller says NBC cites excessive violence while Miller says a breach of contract suit for 1.5 million is filed against NBC. World War I reference noted.
Mrs. Lorraine Huot of 21 Simard Avenue Biddeford is listed as a surgical patient at Webber Hospital.
Britain reports its October trade deficit at 715.2 million dollars, the worst monthly shortfall on record. The Bank of England raises the minimum lending rate from 11.25 percent to 13 percent amid the deficit.
State police and Aroostook County sheriff’s department investigated a Canadian registered small plane wreck found by a hunter off the Allagash River near the Canadian border. Two bodies were in the wreckage, not yet identified, and the crash is thought to have occurred two to three months earlier.
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