Lund Firm Eying New Quarters in Biddeford
The Lund Manufacturing Company of Five Points Biddeford is negotiating to buy the Chadwick Motors building at 366 Elm Street Biddeford. Reports say financing details remain to be settled with a purchase price near 880000. The business is owned by a local group.
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Lund Manufacturing Company
Five Points
Biddeford
Chadwick Motors Company
Elm Street
Saco
Bill’s Pizza
Parson Sentenced After Rape Case in Maine
Maine minister Rev. Arthur R. Macdougall Jr, known as the fishing parson, was imprisoned for 10 to 20 years after a Superior Court jury found him guilty of raping a 14 year old near Embden. He admitted helping the girl after she became pregnant but denied fathering the child. He surrendered to Thomaston prison amid an earlier bail appeal now dismissed by agreement. The Rev is married with four children and had led an anglers’ church program and written over 200 fishing stories.
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Rowhegan
Maine
Arthur R. Macdougall Jr
Maine Supreme Court
William L. Waldron
Macdougall
Thomaston
Francis E. Henderson
Embden
Steelworkers To Fight Taft Hartley Injunction Rally Kickoff
Steelworkers plan a nationwide drive against a Taft Hartley injunction with a state wide telecast kick off from Portland City Hall. Governor Clauson will open the program and local volunteers from Biddeford Old Orchard Beach and surrounding areas will participate. The drive supports four agencies as United Fund and Chest groups coordinate a seven area campaign broadcast on Channel 6. Proceeds aid the local band program and senior volunteers participate in the street solicitations plans.
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Biddeford and Co
Community Chest
Jerok
Eyrth Pene Oryd
Twin-City
Dent
Chest
United Fund
Biddeford
Robert Cote
Old Orchard Beach
Jerri Ann Upton
Graymorettes
Julian Nevice
Evergreen Street
Old Orchard
Miss Upton
Clauson
Portland City Hall
Jover
Six Treated After Morning Accident In Biddeford
Six people including a 12 year old boy were treated atWebber hospital after a collision on Elm street Biddeford involving a pickup truck driven by Benjamin F Skidgell 53 of Winterport a bicycle ridden by John Valliere 12 of Biddeford and a car driven by Aurene Y Morel 41 of Biddeford No one was hospitalized The Morel car rear struck the truck after the truck stopped and the road was slippery The Morel car caught fire briefly and was extinguished Muliple passengers were in the Morel car and in the truck
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Webber Hospital
Elm Street
Biddeford
Benjamin F. Skidgell
Winterport
Cole Road
la Boy
John Valliere
Summit Street
Aurere Y.morel
Green Street
Morel
Noella Joncas
Lamothe Avenue
Doria Morel
Margaret Skidgell
US Soviet China tension not easing says Herter
Secretary of State Herter said Khrushchev’s Peiping visit shows no visible easing of tensions between Chinese Communists and the United States. He noted a possible split in Soviet and Chinese foreign policy lines and hinted Mao Tse-tung offered no statements. Herter spoke after Khrushchev’s U.S. trip and Eisenhower agreed to peaceful settlement of outstanding questions. Berlin talks remain unsettled.
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Washington
Nikita Khrushchev
China
Christian A. Herter
Khrushchev
Peiping
Camp David
Mao Tse-tung
United States
Herter
Khrushenevy
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Berlin
West Berlin
Chuckle Wife Joke About Soup Boil Time
A humor caption features a wife scolding her husband for missing a boil over while he replies that he noticed at 11 45. The piece attributes the joke to Copt. Gen. Fea. Corp. and presents a light domestic exchange.
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Fea. Corp
Polio Cases Rise in Maine in 1959 Report
The Maine State Bureau of Health reported four paralytic polio cases last week, down from 15 the prior week. Through 1959, Maine has recorded 32 polio cases to date.
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Augusta
Maine
State Bureau of Health
Saco Voters Asked For Land Dispute Suggestions
The Saco City government asks voters for ideas on a Bay View land dispute. S. Dwight and Phyllis Howard were awarded $5,000 damages for land taken by eminent domain in 1955 for a city parking lot. The city offered $700 for the Howards' share. Assessed value of the Howards’ property at that time is noted.
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Saco
Bay View
S. Dwight
Phyllis Howard
The
Howards
Power Rate Case Up For Study
Portland court hears Central Maine Power Company appeal from a Public Utilities Commission decision granting rate increases of about 800000 annually versus its request of 2.4 million. CMP argues the equity procedure is constitutional and not judicial rate making, while the PUC contends it seeks to bypass legislative rate setting. The Supreme Court took the case under study.
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Portland
Central Maine Power Company
Maine Supreme Court
Paterday
la Public Utilities Commission
PUC
Peter N. Kyros
Central Maine
CMP
Vincent McKussick
Supreme Court
Accomplice in Cleveland Bank Robbery Pleads Exhaustion
Alma Helen Stevens 26, an accomplice in the failed Cleveland Trust Co. bank holdup, tells detectives she is tired and glad it is over after a nationwide search. She was arrested in a fast-side rooming house after a loud argument. she had slept under a bridge and lived with a 39-year-old man since fleeing.
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Cleveland
Alma Helen Stevens
East 105Th St
Euclid Ave
Ansley
Two Youths Die In Head On Crashes Near Eastport
A double fatality untangles a night of crashes as John F. Rice and Bickford R. McLellan both 18 from Lubec die in a head on on Route 190 near Eastport. Rice’s brother Ray 19 is seriously hurt while 16 year old Austin S Humphries from Perry escapes with minor injuries. Police describe the Cumberland event involved Greely Institute students returning from basketball practice.
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Eastport
Cumberland
John F. Rice
Bickford R. McLellan
Lubec
Rice
Ray
Austin S. Humphries
Perry
Cumberland Pene Greely Institute
Van Rie Indicted For Shipboard Murder
Willem Van Rie, 30, a Dutch wireless operator, is indicted in Boston for the murder of Lynn Kauffman, 22, whose body washed ashore in Boston harbor. The case follows his arrest after intimation of a shipboard affair aboard the S S Utrecht during a 44 day voyage from Singapore. Cremation of Kauffman’s body sparked a legal wrangle with his family and defense lawyers calling it destruction of evidence.
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Boston
Willem van Rie
Lynn Kauffman
Chicago
Massachusetts
Superior Criminal Court
van Rie
New York
Miss Kauffman
Miss Kauffm
Quiz Show Probe Details Big Doublecross Scandal
Washington AP The House subcommittee on Legislative Oversight nears end of a TV quiz show inquiry into Twenty-One with reports of fix fraud and doublecross. Richard Jackman an ILGWU organizer testified to knowing crooked practices while James Snodgrass a New York artist described being guided to miss a question and lose a full month run in a Rockefeller era scandal.
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Washington
Dotto
New York
Snass
Albert Frin
Snodgrass
Herbert Stempel
Hadeen
Freedman
Hank Bloomgarden
Robert W. Lishman
Subcommittee
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Roland Bolduc
Richard Parker
Carol Burgess
Sidney Griffith
Academy
Linda Moraney
Pittsburgh
Uned Steelworkers
David J. McDonald
Nationale
USW
McDonald
United Steelworkers
Roger M. Blough
U.S. Steel i Board
Xi Omicron
Beta Sigma Sorority
Richard Sawtelle
George Angel
Highland Street
Sawtelle
Sullivan's
Amoco
H. Clifford Berry
Philip Scamman
Betty Stansberry
Robert Allard
James Throumoulos
Nathan Johnson
Ange
Story
Thornton Academy
Band Parents Club
Reilly’s Bakery
Main Street
Biddeford Dial
Paul Ruel
Vickie
Stevens
Herbert Fox
Fox
Frank W. Story
Abilene
Kans
Alma Malone
Billy Jean Carroll
Salina
Kaw
First Parish Congregational Church
Ferry Road
Gilbert Harrison
Harry Sawyer
Thomas Moore
Law
Rence Dearborn
Harrison
Lloyd Trécartin
Lloyd Anderson
Trecartin
Macies
James Snodgrass
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