Local Personal Notices From Biddeford and Saco Area
Herbert W. Dyer Sr. is a surgical patient at Webber hospital on Thorn ton avenue in Saco. Edward Lefebvre of Biddeford is a patient at Notre Dame hospital. Mrs Felix Vadnais of Biddeford its Elm Convalescent home in Old Orchard Beach. Elizabeth Murphy of Saco has returned home after three weeks at Maine Medical Center. Mrs Mederic Binette of Biddeford is a medical patient at Notre Dame hospital. Mrs Theresa Vandermeulen of Biddeford schools and Mrs Charlotte Potter of Saco schools attend the Maine Educational Secretaries convention in Portland. Sacred Heart League of St Joseph church will meet Thursday 7:30 p.m. at Emond funeral home Biddeford to say prayers for Albert Verville.
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Herbert W. Dyer
Thornton Avenue
Saco
Webber Hospital
Edward Lefebvre
Main Street
Biddeford
Notre Dame Hospital
Felix Vadnais
White's Wharf
Elm
Old Orchard Beach
Elizabeth Murphy
Maine Medical Center
Mederic Binette
Popl Street
Theresa Vandermeulen
Charlotte Potter
Maine Educational Secretaries Association
Portland
Sacred Heart League of St. Joseph Church
Emond Funeral Home
Hill Street
Albert Verville
Past Presidents Association of Biddeford VFW Auxiliary Meet
The Past Presidents Association of the Biddeford Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary will meet Thursday at 7 30 p m at Mrs Laura Dodges home on Adams Street Biddeford. The Biddeford and Saco Lodge of Knights of Piks will meet at the Elks Home in Saco Thursday evening at 8 with supper at 6 30. The Biddeford Council Knights of Columbus Auxiliary meets tonight at 8 at the hall on Washington Street.
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Past Presidents Association of
Biddeford
Biddeford and
Saco
Knights of Columbu
the Hall
Washington Street
Church Notes From Saco And Area Groups
Church notes list rehearsals for the Saco United Baptist chancel choir on Thursday at 7 30 p m and the Unitarian Universalist Youth choir at 6 30 p m in the Unitarian parish house. It also notes a senior choir meeting at 7 30 p m, cancellation details for reservations to the Portland District luncheon on October 11 at Thornton Heights Methodist church, Adah chapter degrees, and an Eastern Star meeting Friday at 7 30 p m at the Biddeford Masonic hall with refreshments hosted by Mrs. Elizabeth Emmons. The Crescent Prayers of the White church plan a Thursday 7 30 p m treasure hunt, hosted by Mr and Mrs Alfred Wilcox and Mr and Mrs Melbourne Means, with an open invitation to interested persons.
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Saco United Baptist Church
Unitarian Universalist
Unitarian
Unitarian- Universalist
Saco School Street Methodist Church
Portland
Thornton Heights Methodist Church
Adah
Order of the Eastern Star
Biddeford Masonic Hall
Elizabeth Emmons
Alfred Wilcox
Melbourne Means
Grease Fire Destroys Calais Restaurant and Offices
A grease explosion in the basement gutted Demont's Restaurant in Calais and destroyed the Fenderson Insurance Agency offices. Fire crews from St. Stephen and Calais fought the blaze, with no immediate damage estimate available.
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Calais
Demont
Fenderson Insurance Agency
St. Stephen
N.B
Paralytic Polio Cases Decline in Maine
Maine reports two paralytic polio cases last week in Naples and Portland reducing the year’s total to 31. The decline follows a 1960 peak of nine the prior week, marking the first time this year the total trails 1959 at the same point.
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Augusta i
Maine
State Bureau of Health
Naples
Portland
Young Sanford Hunter Dies at 19 in Trailer Accident
RANGELEY AP A 19 year old hunter from Sanford died from carbon monoxide inhalation in a home made trailer shared with a companion. Roland Demers died when a charcoal cook stove consumed the oxygen in the confined quarters. George Arsenault, also of Sanford, awoke dizzy and nauseated and drove a pickup toward help before crashing off the road. The pair were in Rangeley to hunt deer with bows and arrows.
Maine Court rules on architects and engineers in licensing case
The Maine Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a $300 fine against Melvin W. Beck of Waterville for billing himself as an architect without a license. The ruling confirms that while architects may be engineers, not all engineers are architects and Beck’s challenge to the law was rejected.
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Engineers
Architects
Portland
Maine Supreme Court
Melvin W. Beck
Waterville
State Board of Architects
Beck
Ministers Hear Political Issues Aired At Meeting
The Arundel Ministerial association met at Second Congregational Church Biddeford with host Rev. H. Lewis Cutler. A panel on U S government systems featured Elmont Tyndale and Rep Jerome G Plante. Ministers from Biddeford Kennebunk Saco and Buxton attended.
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Second Congregational Church
Biddeford
H. Lewis Cutler
Arundel
Mr. Cutler
Mark McCullough
Samuel Ialamaras
D.L. Campbell
Buxton
Lloyd Osborne
Goodwins Mills
Robert Cumler
Fred Holmberg
Carl Bierman
Kennebunk
Mr. Butterfield
Kennebunk Lower Village
George Urban
Porpoise
Wiley Brown
Robert Howes
Port
Mr. Megert
Cape Ocean Park
Stanley Bennett
Norman Langmaid
Saco
Caron Leads Voltigeur Club Tourney Play
President Yvon Caron heads the three week old shuffleboard tourney as announced at a Voltigeur club meeting. A trophy display was shown for the winner. Jerseys must be returned for inventory. An officer installation of Dames Le Montagnard was invited for Lewiston on October 22.
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Yvon Caron
Voltigeur Club
Leo Lottinville
Paul Angers
Dames le Montagnard
Lewiston
Henry Roberge
Lucien Martel
Caron
Biddeford Fire Crews Battle Minor Blazes Tuesday
Biddeford firemen were kept busy with four service runs and two small fires on Tuesday. Tank 1 extinguished tires burning beneath a garage at 293 Main Street owned by Aurora Durant and filled by Joseph Pelletier, causing slight damage. A needless run to 161 Elm Street occurred, and a reported fire at Romeo Pimpare’s residence on Alfred Road, Arundel, was extinguished before arrival. Ambulance crew handled four service runs. Burma Road supply line to China extended 750 miles from Lashio to Kunming.
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Biddeford
Tank 1
Main Street
Aurora Durant
Joseph Pelletier
Elm Street
Romeo Pimpare
Alfred Road
Arundel
Portland Weather Brief Partly Cloudy and Mild
This afternoon in Portland appears sunny and mild with gentle southeast winds. Tonight and Thursday turn partly cloudy and warmer with a chance of a few brief showers early Thursday morning. Wind shifts from southwesterly to northwesterly Thursday afternoon. Temperatures vary by zone with readings from the low 60s to mid 40s and notable overnight lows listed for several towns.
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Portland
lCaribou
Eastport
Greenville
Old Town
Rumford
Mt. Wash
Concord
Halifax
Montreal
Boy Injured In Bike Car Collision At Hills Beach
Hills Beach youth Steve Garnache, 12, was struck by a car as he rode from his home on Hills Beach road about 7 20. Marcel E Francoeur, 12 Hills Street Biddeford, said he could not avoid the bicycle collision. Garnache was treated at Webber hospital for elbow lacerations and discharged.
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Hills Beach
Marcel E. Francoeur
Hillstreet
Biddeford
Hills Beach Road
Francoeur
Steve Garnache
George V. Garnache
Webber Hospital
William B. O'Sullivan
Alaska contestant enters National Cotton Picking Contest
Vernon Robinson of Sitka Alaska will compete Friday among about 100 cotton pickers for a $10 prize in Blytheville Arkansas. Robinson says he has been practicing by picking cotton in southeast Missouri and northeast Arkansas, representing Alaska in the event.
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Blytheville
Ark
Alaska
Vernon Robinson
Sitka
Robinson
Missouri
Arkansas
Loganair Electra crash claims Marine recruits and crew
The first fatal commercial plane crash at the coast guard airport claimed 10 Marine recruits en route to Parris Island among 67 aboard. Investigators began work as lawmakers urged action after Lt Cmdr Everett Cook and Cmdr Donald Regan described wreckage and survivors in grim detail.
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Cation
Civil Aeronautics Board
Steven B. Derounian
R-N.y
Vance Hartke
Federal Aviation Agency
E.R. Quesada
Federal Aviation Administrator
Logan International Airport
Philadelphia
Charlotte N.C
Greenville
D.C
Atlanta
Marine Corps
Parris Island
S.C
Cmdr
Everett Cook
USNR
Winthrop Yacht Club
Donald Regan
Runaway plane crashes into hangar at city airport
A runaway plane crashed into a hangar at Municipal Airport on Tuesday and damaged two other airplanes. Norris Levine, 54, of South Portland, suffered a scraped knee while trying to stop the plane by cranking the propeller. Damages to planes and hangar estimated at 10 000 to 15 000 dollars.
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Plane Runs Wild
Portland
Municipal Airport
Norris Levine
South Portland
Nursing group to enter float in Chest parade event
Biddeford Public Health Nursing committee met October session to sponsor a decorated float for the Chest parade October 17 and a window display from October 17 through November 3. Window space donated by Youland store on Main Street. Nursing staff reports 2,372 visits April to September, including 1,100 bedside visits, with polio clinic planned for October 11 in schools.
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Biddeford
M. P .Houle
Frank Carey
Antoinette Hawes
Charles Thompson
David Shaw
Florence Hamel
Gladys H. Walker
R. N
Anne B. Cote
Breakdown Of Textiles Is Predicted By Senator Pastore
New York AP Senator John O Pastore warned at a United Textile Workers convention that the American textile industry is dying on its feet due to foreign imports. He urged US quotas on Japan and Oriental countries to protect domestic producers, saying leaders in Washington overlook the crisis.
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New York
John O. Pastore
D-R.i
America
Senate
United Textile Workers of America
Pastore
Japan
United States
Washington
Guns Stolen at Farmington store break
A break in at Pearson Sporting Goods in Farmington yielded about 1500 dollars in guns ammunition and clothing plus 200 dollars from a cash drawer. Police report entrance gained by breaking a lock on a side door.
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Farmington
Pearson Sporting Goods
City of Saco Pays Tax Anticipation Note Progress
City officials report a $100000 tax anticipation note was paid in full yesterday. City Clerk Clifford A Purvis said today that all but $75000 of the notes borrowed by the city have now been paid.
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Saco
Clifford
A. ‘Purvis
Purvis
Taxpayers Use Easy Pay Plan Setup In Saco
City Clerk Clifford A. Purvis says 30 Saco taxpayers use the new monthly tax payment plan. In its first month the plan has already collected 550 from next year’s taxes and placed in the bank. To qualify, current year taxes must be paid in full, with monthly installments pegged to this year’s rate. If next year’s taxes rise or fall, the final payment will be adjusted. A 1 percent discount is offered if the final payment is made by July 15.
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Saco
Clifford A. Purvis
Purvis
Menzies Attacks Communists Amid West-East Talks
The speech singles out the Communists as a threat and cites Australia’s stance as the sharpest confrontation by a non-Communist nation. It occurs during discussions on new East-West approaches toward a climate for negotiation and cooperation.
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Menzies
Health Horizons for Youngsters and New Remedies
Mothers worry over common childhood symptoms but recent medical advances reduce risks. Vaccines guard against whooping cough smallpox diphtheria typhoid measles and polio while new antibiotics shorten illnesses. New products include Soropon pediatric shampoo Actasal Drops and Senokot Granules offering tastier, easier remedies.
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George Bialkin
New York
Archives of Pediatrics
Man Seeks Spare Change Learns No Lesson
In Baltimore a man asked a soft drink supervisor for money. To teach a lesson Poist invented a sob story about financial hardship. Townsend in Memphis pulled a roll of $17 and offered $1 to Poist. Poist says he will keep it for life as a lesson. A German shepherd borrowed a library book on dog care and training and ate it.
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Baltimore
Lee Poist
Poist
Gestae
Memphis
Marlin
Townsend
LimeStone Capehart housing project breaks ground
Ground was broken for a $1,863,000 Capehart housing project at Lor ing Air Force Base. The plan includes 38 officer units and 76 enlisted quarters to accommodate personnel.
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Capehart
Loring Air Force Base
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Voltigeur
Burma
China
Lashio
Kunming
Yunnan Province
Australia
Health Horizons
Batts
Lavender
Pink
Aqua
Sizes S.M.L
Bateau
Bolduc
Ories
Funeral Home
Alfred St
Dial
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