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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1960
Page
6
Keene New Hampshire classroom scene shows orderly students until a World Series TV interruption. Boston Fire Department radio system failed at alarm HQ triggering three alarms, reverting to Morse-code telegraph alerting firefighters. In Pawtucket Rhode Island John Pemental uncovers a hidden secret.
A grower reports producing oversized squash weighing up to 100 pounds. The crop comes in white and pink varieties rather than common yellow. The key to his success is watering the plants with milk.
A raccoon wandered through an auction, then moved toward the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Brown in Leominster Massachusetts. Mrs Brown fed the animal and it escaped after it jumped into the kitchen fridge and was coaxed outside.
Frank Leavitt of Island Falls Maine has never missed spending a birthday with his twin sister Mrs Lillian Sawyer. They live a few houses apart and last week she knitted him wool socks for a gift on their birthday. Mrs Sawyer quilts lace doilies and gloves while Leavitt finished his winter wood. They look forward to birthday No 95 together. Williams College students expect big earnings with more than 500000 dollars earned by 930 students in summer work with 91 above thousand. A senior stock broker earned 300, a junior tennis instructor 3226.
PRESQUE ISLE AP Leo S. Auby state liquor inspector resigns after being accused and acquitted of drunken driving. He had been transferred from Rumford to Presque Isle and demoted. he challenged the action but the Supreme Court upheld the Liquor Commission and State Personnel Board. Separate item notes a Duncan Oklahoma accident where a telephone pole pulled a switch causing a truck to overturn and a pole to fall into a passing auto.
Shirley Hobbs of Alfred will receive the Distinguished Service Award from the National Home Demonstration Agents Association in Chicago on November 9. She serves as assistant home demonstration agent for York and Cumberland counties under the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Service, honored after more than 10 years of service and dedication to the Extension Mission. The presentation will be at the Sheraton Towers Hotel with other state agents to be recognized. Born in Grafton, she is a 1929 graduate of Farmington State Teachers College and previously taught home economics at Gould Academy.
A former Carihou High School attendee spent one year at the school while serving as director of the Community Canning Center in Buckfield. She is married to Herbert L Hobbs and has a son and two grandchildren.
In Rock Springs Wyoming Mrs Tom Sneedon who was counting residents in a remote area about 38 miles east of the city spent the night in her car after it became stuck in a mud hole. A posse of sheriff s officers and highway patrols aided her rescue as dawn approached.
Two teenagers remain at large after breaking out of the State School for Boys Sunday night. Dennis Bucklin, 16, of Belfast and Bruce Robinson, 13, of Long Island, N Y, wore night shirts as they fled shortly before midnight. Both were committed for larceny of a vehicle.
Lee J. Farnsworth, a candidate for Crawford County attorney, advertised in a local newspaper in Denison Iowa.
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