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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1961
Page
3
Senior Girl Scout Troop 32 of Kennebunk Kennebunkport will run a food sale Saturday from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Shermie’s Sport Shop in Kennebunkport. The sale is led by Diane Emery and Martha Bibber.
Ola Orchard Beach hosts an Easter lily with six blossoms at 56 Sea View Avenue in a garden backdrop of marigolds. District officers and staff, including Mrs Avis Briggs and Mrs Doris Ellin, install Forest Rebekah lodge officers at West Buxton. 20 Meni pe Old-age attendees listed. Saco Lodge installations scheduled Saturday. Nee Nah Council participants at Nokokim, North Berwick, include Mrs Priscilla Bibber and others. several members plan to attend Portland council meeting and Eastland hotel banquet.
Old Orchard Beach Lions sponsor a free glaucoma test clinic at the Portland YMCA on Wednesday October 18 from 8 30 to 9 30 p m for Old Orchard Beach residents. Transportation provided if needed. Tests by eye specialists as part of Lions Club state wide project.
Houston must beat Boston in Friday night AFL action to avoid falling deeper in the Eastern Division and to keep coach Lou Rymkus from likely dismissal. The week opens with three games including San Diego at New York and Dallas at Buffalo as contenders clash.
In Coalgate Oklahoma the noon clock in a cafe halted and was not restarted. The owner said passersby see the clock, get hungry, and stop to eat, explaining the halt as a psychological ploy to draw customers.
Airman Donald L. Benvie of Waterboro and son in law of Mr and Mrs Hartley Hutchins York street Kennebunk earned the Outstanding Airman of the Month for September while based in Spain. Capt P Altwaster maintenance officer announced the award noting duty performance loyalty responsibility and conduct. Benvie's wife Sandra Hutchins Benvie is with her parents during his overseas tour.
Wells ALBEO G LAPLERRE named substitutes for teaching staff joining Mrs Sandra Brown and Mrs John N Simpson with Miss Andrea Littlefield and Miss Diane Elkins as helpers. Freshman reception led by the Junior class set for Saturday at 7 30 in Wells High School auditorium. Harvest supper by American Legion branch will be served October 14 from 5 30 to 8 pm at Ogunquit Firemen's Hall School Street.
In Fort Lauderdale two men grabbed a cigarette machine from a grocery store, fled in a car with the machine in the back seat and sped away. The pursuit followed as police converged after a burglar alarm triggered by the jostling machine. The driver lost control and the pair fled on foot but were arrested as officers arrived. suspects are Joe Willie Perkins, 23, and Elijah Nelson, 29.
In Trenton Missouri an amusing miscommunication unfolds when a man identified only by initials H P tries to place an advertisement. The salesman asks him to repeat the letters and the man quips H P stands for hen pecked, prompting lighthearted banter in the local paper.
AP TV critic Cynthia Lowry notes CBS Reports filmed at Gettysburg features a candid Eisenhower interview with Walter Cronkite. The former president discusses temper, heart attack causes, and views on atom age tensions, in an hour praised as brilliant and enlightening.
New leaders of the FHA chapter at Thornton Academy were installed in candlelight ceremonies in the home economics department with members and guests present. Officers include Mary Cameron president Linda Wood vice president Sandra Dolby secretary Charlene Bubier treasurer Kathy Clarke parliamentarian Susan Dupuis reporter and Penny Jones Lorraine Davis Christie Clarke executive committee members.
New York AP reports welterweight Cecil Shorts 22, 19-7-1, 9 KOs earns Garden main event vs Jorge Fernandez after Bruno Visintin cancels. Shorts, underdog at 2-1, fights for a $4,000 purse in the ten round TV bout at Madison Square Garden. Fernandez, 25, rides five straight wins to 67-5-1 with 50 KOs.
The November draft call for 20,000 men, all ticketed for the Army, is the same as October. It compares with 25,000 drafted in September, issued Wednesday.
Officials in Ogden Utah report a bronze plaque in the Weber College Student Union Building lobby is being removed immediately. The inscription begins with Governor George D Clyde listed as governor on the top line.
AP report notes a street sign mislabels a Baltimore alley west of Hanover Street as curving, causing a parking restriction sign to read No Parking on Curve while the alley is straight.
Flora Harpootlian daughter of Mr and Mrs George Harpootlian 48 State Street Biddeford was guest of honor at a birthday party yesterday afternoon at her home for her 10th birthday Pink dahlias decorated the party with the birthday cake in matching hues Guests included John Hajdusz Michael Donovan Michael Nolette Lanny Whitten Edith Gavett Kathleen Beaulieu Nanette Curious Nora Beaulieu Linda Sevigny Karen Reggep Linda Ladderbush Mark Pelletier Mary Boucher Linda Herrick Daniel Labonte James Townsend and Flora Harpootlian
In Fostoria Ohio a gingko tree near the municipal building will receive a commemorative plaque. The plaque honors the tree given by Japan to Charles Foster a former congressman and Ohio governor and U S secretary of the treasury in 1891. Foster helped name the city and the tree has stood on city land for 71 years. The City Council authorized the plaque and a citizen offered to fund it.
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