Payroll Deduction Plan Extended for Community Chest Drive
Three more local firms Ed Deferge Baking JG Deering Lumber and Webber Hospital join the Biddeford Saco Community Chest payroll plan. Chest president Martin J. Rielly says the drive runs Oct 17 to Nov 3 with a goal of 33,943.69 supporting Boy Scouts Girl Scouts and multiple health and hearing centers among agencies. Local employers will solicit donations at offices and plants. no door to door drive.
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Biddeford - Saco
Martin J. Rielly
Ed. Deferge Baking Company
JG. Deering Lumber Co
Webber Hospital
Rielly
Biddeford
Saco
Pessimist Quip About Inch Measure Goes Viral
A humorous quip reads that a pessimist, if given an inch, would measure it, attributed to Copr Gen Fen Corp. The witty line highlights a blunt, dry style and remains a compact example of dry humor circulating in early media.
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Fen. Corp
Fleischer Declares Independent Bid for Biddeford School Board
Abraham Fleischer, of 120 Graham Street, Biddeford, announced today his candidacy for the Board of Education as an independent. A Biddeford High School alumnus and former railroad employee, he now runs a fruit and produce business and urges a more practical curriculum and better education for local boys without increasing taxes. His wife Agnes Benjamin died earlier. daughter Natalie Fleischer works for McGraw-Hill in New York.
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Biddeford
Board of Education
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Boston and Maine Railroad
New York Central Railroad
Elton Feeney
Steve White
Agnes Benjamin
Natalie Fleischer
New York City
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
Great Debate Resumes As Nixon Kennedy Clash Over TV Time
The Associated Press reports a third Nixon Kennedy television radio debate across continents. Nixon at ABC Hollywood studio, Kennedy at ABC New York studio, with Bill Shadel as moderator and a panel of Roscoe Drummond Douglas Cater Charles Van Fremd and Frank McGee. The show airs at 6 30 PM EST on TV with synchronized radio networks. A fifth debate proposal was floated for the period before the November 8 election.
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NBC News
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Henry Cabot Lodge
Khrush Demand for U N Apology Over U2 Spy Flights
Soviet Premier Khrushchev urged the United Nations to demand a formal U S apology for U2 spy plane flights, warning such acts could push world peace to the brink of war. He spoke as the General Assembly debated colonial freedom following a Soviet resolution, while the U S supported the measure.
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Soviet Union
Ior
United States
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Marsh Leading Job Aspirants for Chief Warden Post
Augusta Warden supervisor Maynard Marsh of Gorham topped an examination to create a candidate list for chief warden. Fish and Game Commissioner Roland H. Cobb announced today that Chief Warden Elmer Ingraham plans to retire in December 1961.
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Gorham
Fish and Game
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Cobb
Elmer Ingraham
Glacier heads to Antarctica on sixth Deep Freeze mission
USS Glacier, the Navy's largest icebreaker, sails from Boston on a sixth Antarctic voyage to support Deep Freeze operations. With about 240 crew, lead by Comdr. Philip W. Porter Jr., the ship carries enough food for a year and four daily meals, while guests and crew recount life in the frosty realm and warm hospitality from New Zealand.
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Glacier
Antarctica
United States
Philip W. Porter Jr
Higganum, Conn
Erwin A. McDonald
USN
Task Group 43
Ruggiero
New Zealand
Russians Like Our Products
Russian Premier Khrushchev and his party appear to favor American goods as they prepare to depart. Crates and baggage are loaded onto trucks from the Russian Park Avenue headquarters, with items such as automobile tires anti freeze and auto batteries visible to newsmen.
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Khrushchev
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