Pepperell Vestibule Training Reactivated at Pepperell Plant
Pepperell Manufacturing reactivates the vestibule training program the first time since World War II. Six trainees have started, learning job fundamentals and building rapport with management in a one week course of two four hour shifts daily. Trainees rotate to actual spinning department work under regular staff supervision and may continue indefinitely as openings arise.
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Pepperell Manufacturing
Epperell
Maurice C. FE. Roux
Vocational Textile School
James R. Harrison
Harrison
Roux
Pepperell Manufacturing Company
Pepperell
Jean M. Nolette
David R. Cyr
Norman Duprey
Ralph King
United States Mock Aerial War Exercises Sky Shield II
A phased mock air war over the North American continent involved hundreds of jet interceptors and strategic bombers, with no actual missiles fired. Air defense systems and radar nets tracked intruders while the public was kept largely unaware as the exercise ran from noon to midnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
North American
United States
Canada
Laurence S. Kuter
North American Air Defense Command
U.S
Colorado
Rn Colo
Kuter
Strategic Air Command
First Hand Fire Station Tour For Fire Prevention Week
Second graders from Young School toured the Saco Fire Department yesterday as part of Fire Prevention Week. Capt. Roscoe W. Perkins led the group with students from Miss Barbara Hooper's Grade 2 class including Roger Berry Edward Lovejoy Phyllis Leach Maureen Cressey Kenneth Winchester Hugh McDonald and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saco
Roscoe W. Perkins
Roger Berry
Edward Lovejoy
Phyllis Leach
Maureen Cressey
Kenneth Winchester
Hugh McDonald
Donna Bryant
Randall Sargeant
Kathy Allen
Irene Parker
David Coney
Patrick Martel
Barbara Hooper
Marc Boutet
Diana Bowley
Barbara Brandt
Charles Casey
Joyce Cope
Ann Dalton
Ellarene Ellis
Fred Grondin
Richard
Almanac Gains Urban Readers With 1962 Edition
The Farmers Almanac selling 1.6 million copies in 1962 marks its largest printing in 145 years. Although urban readers predominate, the booklet keeps its country flavor with weather predictions, zodiac signs, and home hints. Editor Raymond Geiger notes city farmers love soil lore, and the almanac is distributed by firms like banks and insurers as goodwill advertising.
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Lewiston
New York
Miami Beach
Ben Franklin
Richard Almanack
Almanac
Raymond A. Geiger
Geiger
Notre Dame
David Young
Art Linkletter
Gayland Drake
Ann
Chuckle Boss Mocks Miss Smithers on Versatile Aptitude
An exchange in a corporate setting parodies versatility as a critique of Miss Smithers. A speaker remarks on her wide range of skills with a playful jab about efficiency, reflecting office humor about competency and adaptability.
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Miss Smithers
Biddeford To Get Survey Money From US Soon
Federal funds toward conducting a planning survey for Biddeford are expected within two weeks. Mayor Clement Deschambault was informed. Sen. Muskie’s office said $16,875 in federal funds under bill 1701 are nearly cleared. The project totals $22,000 with $5,625 local funds, and will be run by Sewall Co. to study residential, business, and industrial areas over about a year.
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Biddeford
Clement H. Deschambault
Edmund S. Muskie
Washington
Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency
Sewall Company
Old Town
Maine Department of Economic Development
Sen. Muskie
Deschambault
Ralph Binette
Daniel P. Cantara
Richard E. Moore
Joseph S. Audie
Bairman
Vito Mininni
Harry M. Wooster
Martin J. Rielly
James Dragzgitis
Lewis K Marshall
York County Area Redevelopment Committee
Hugh Marshall
Clayton W Cartmill
Biddeford-Saco
North Saco Grange Elects New Officers
North Saco Grange gathered in the grange hall electing officers for the upcoming term. The slate includes Lester Harris master Willis Sylvester overseer Mary Campbell lecturer Judy Nason steward Thomas Johnson assistant steward Cecil Fecteau chaplain Gerald Nason treasurer Carol Soule secretary George Campbell gate keeper Edith Harris Ceres Alice Sylvester Pomona Ellen Soule Flora Patricia Sinnott iedy assistant steward Betty Deering executive committee member. Officers to be installed November 9 with plans for seventh degree work in Worcester November 17 and 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Saco Grange
Lester Harris
Willis Sylvester
Mary Campbell
Judy Nason
Thomas Johnson
Cecil Fecteau
Gerald Nason
Carol Soule
George Campbell
Edith Harris
Ceres
Alice Sylvester
Pomona
Ellen Soule
Flora
Patricia Sinnott
Iedy
Betty Deering
Leslie Adams
Lorenzo Roberts
Carlton Ross
Alta Jose
Berry
Navy Puts Torpedo To Submarine Guardfish
The World War II submarine Guardfish is sunk as a live test of a newly developed torpedo fails. Dogfish and Blenny fired the torpedo while Guardfish was towed, her crew removed, ending a famed career that included sinking 19 enemy vessels and earning two presidential unit citations.
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Groton, Conn
Navy
Guardfish
Solomons
Robert To Head Staff At Webber
Dr. Roger Robert was elected president of Webber hospital medical staff at the annual meeting. Others elected were Dr. Thomas Anton as vice president and Dr. Maurice Ross as secretary treasurer. Presiding was retiring president Dr. M P Houle as Carlton Davis welcomed the new leaders.
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Roger Robert
Webber Hospital
Thomas Anton
Maurice Ross
M. P. Houle
Carlton Davis
Community Chest Parade Planned for Monday Night
Four divisions will take part in the Biddeford Saco Community Chest parade Monday night at 7 30. Officials, police, bands, firemen, Chest officials and agencies, National Guardsmen and floats from both cities will join the procession. Formation points include Beach Main in Saco and Middle Beach streets with aides named. The parade moves along Main Jefferson past the Universalist church to Adams in Biddeford, with weather postponement plans and radio WIDE announcing changes.
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Biddeford-Saco
Alcide Villandry
William McKenney
Middle and
Beach
Burns School
Middle
Beach Streets
Middle Street
Herbert Shipley
Aide
High
Division Four
High Street
Fernand Audie
Main Street
Jefferson Street
Universalist Church
Adams Street
Biddeford
WIDE
Senator Smith Predicts Scandal Over M-14 Rifle Contract
Sen Margaret Chase Smith stated a full blown scandal would emerge about a 15 million Defense Department M 14 rifle contract. She accused the White House of steering work to a West Virginia firm she deemed unequipped, while the Kennedy administration noted the Ohio firm secured the contract after deeming the WV company unable to deliver.
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Cundy
Khrushchev
Margaret Chase Smith
Defense Department
Maine
Pierre Salinger
Kennedy
West Virginia Ordnance Company
Ohio
Conference Of Catholics In Session
PORTLAND AP Priests were urged to emphasize lay responsibility to Christ over altar rituals at the opening session of the 15th New England conference of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Father Mederic Roberts of Worcester warned that without understanding Christ’s life and death the church becomes merely a building and ignorance is the greatest evil.
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Portland
Mederic Roberts
Worcester
Mass
New England
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
Father Roberts
CCD
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Ernest Burleigh
Eleanor Merrill
Grang Hall
Story
Weather Bureau
Carla
Gulf Coast
Avs
Fea Corp
Robert
Webber
Robert Grabow
California
Gordon Wilkins
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Grabow
Sen. Smith
Army Rifle
Conference of Catholics
Portland Sea Hawks
Murphy Club
New Bedford
St. Louis
Thornton Library
Biddeford-Saco Lions Club
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