Fremont Club And Auxiliary To Hold Supper
Fremont Club and its Auxiliary met at the Alfred Street Biddeford club rooms to plan a social and supper on November 9 at 6 30 p.m. and a public baked bean supper at the club the next day from 4 30 to 7 p.m. The November 7 social committee included Mr and Mrs Ludger Coulombe Mr and Mrs Leslie Duprey and Mr and Mrs Armand Ouellete with Duprey absent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fremont Club
Alfred Street
Biddeford
Ludger Coulombe
Leslie Duprey
Armand Ouellete
Duprey
Albert Allie
Leo Beaulieu
Andre Bergeron
Romeo Boucher
Royal Chretien
Norman Dubois
Muriel Duprey
Josephate Grenier
Patrick Guerrette
Raymond Gendron
Robert Guay
Robert Giguere
Gerald Lambert
Alfred Lantagne
Rita Leblond
Adrien Lamothe
Raoul Morin
Pauline Morin
Edmond Neault
Edward Neault
Paul Nadeau
Joseph Peloquin
Ernest Valliere
Antonio Mininni
Horace Beaulieu
Robert Nolette
Emilia Pepin
Albert Dutremble
Francis Perry
Mystery writer wins case of Christmas bonus mystery
Sacramento AP reports Erle Stanley Gardner, famed for Perry Mason, won a case involving a former office worker who quit after a Christmas bonus she considered too small. The state board denied her unemployment insurance claim, addressing tax implications for many former employees. The bonus amount was not disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Calif
Erle Stanley
Gardner
State Legislator To Address Beach VFW
Old Orchard Beach Maine rep Nicholas P. Danton will address members of the Old Orchard Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars post at a membership kick off supper at the Atlantic Avenue Post home. Danton will discuss Maine veteran and state veterans laws. Commander Mahlon Cressey notes a Lobster Stew supper with Maine lobster meat and Pine Point clams then music and dancing after.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Orchard Beach
Nicholas P. Danton
Old Orchard Memorial
Atlantic Avenue
Danton Will
Maine
Mahlon Cressey
Pine Point
Muskie Uses Plain Talk To Win Rural Voters
Senator Muskie campaigns with a Down East Yankee image, traveling by chartered plane and sleeping in his car to save hotel costs during the 1954 gubernatorial bid. He stresses honest toil and straight talk to rural audiences across states, warning of a coming snow job from GOP in the campaign’s final weeks. Meanwhile in Los Angeles, Bea Benaderet dies and her husband Eugene Twombley dies the next day in the same hospital, both attributed to natural causes after her pneumonia and lung cancer.
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Dent
Hannibal Hamlin
Paris
Maine
Lincoln
Muskie
Poland
Lincoln—Muskie
East Yankee
Texas
Missouri
New Mexico
Florida
Midwest
Pine Tree
Bangor
Los Angeles
Bea Benaderet
Eugene Twombley
Good Samaritan Hospital
Miss Benaderet
Petticoat Junction
There Are 92 Classifieds In Want Ads. Why Not Use One
A compact promotional note highlights 92 classified listings as a practical way to reach readers. It urges advertisers to use want ads for effective notices. The brief emphasizes reach, affordability, and quick results for local buyers and sellers.
Two Canadians Charged In Bay State Bank Robbery
Two Canadian men, Richard S. McLeod and Monty Patterson, were arrested at gunpoint at an I-95 roadblock in Wells Maine. Police say they were fugitives tied to a Newton-Waltham Bank and Trust Co robbery in Waltham Mass, stealing about 4400 dollars. A third accomplice awaited in a car. The suspects offered no resistance and are jailed for arraignment in Alfred.
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Newton-Waltham Bank and Trust Co
Protestant Father Defends Conscience In Vietnam Debate
The article recounts a Maine priest arguing against burning draft files and napalm, comparing the Catonsville Nine to biblical disruption. He criticizes violence, urges respect for conscientious objectors, and cites figures like Dr. Benjamin Spock and the Berrigan brothers while denouncing support for war over dialogue.
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Catonsville
Kennebunkport
Father Berrigan
Father Audibert
Baltimore
Vietnam
New England
Rudibert
America
Maine
Benjamin Spock
William Sloan
Daniel
Philip Berrigan
U Thant
Pope Paul
Muskie to Headline $100 Per Plate Fundraiser in Augusta
Senator Ed Muskie will be guest of honor at a $100-a-head reception raising about $50,000 for his vice presidential campaign on Oct. 25 at the 87 Winthrop in Augusta. He will speak at the Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner that evening at the Augusta Armory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewiston
Edmund S. Muskie
Democratic State Committee
Winthrop
Augusta
Muskie
Augusta State Armory
Onassis Rise From Refugee to Colossal Shipping Magnate
The article traces Aristotle Onassis from a 16 year old Greek refugee in Argentina with $60 to his name to one of the world’s richest men, controlling much of the oil tanker trade after buying six surplus Canadian vessels in 1930. It notes marriages to Athina Livanos and later to Jacqueline Kennedy, with high-profile guests aboard his yacht Christina and ties to the Kennedy family. It ends with a note that the Treasury will stop issuing new $5 United States Notes.
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Aristotle Socrates Onassis
Avgentina
Jacqueline Kennedy
Smyrna
Argentina
Onassis
Greece
Buenos Aires
Canada
Athina Livanos
Eugenie
Stavros Niarchos
Christina
Winston Churchill
Maria Callas
Metropolitan Opera
Alabama
Kennedy
Jacqueline
Princess Lee Radziwill
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Congo territory and coastline measurements stated
The Democratic Republic of the Congo covers about 906000 square miles with a coastline roughly 25 miles wide.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
York County Salon 257 Meets In Saco Home
York County Salon 257 Eight and Forty meets at Mrs Muriel Forests Saco home. Members pay dues and donations, secretaire report read, reception planned for Departemental Chapeau Flor ence Lewis at Owen-Davis Post Saco. Donations requested for money tree and gift table. Next meeting Nov 21 at Mrs Gertrude Johnsons Ferry Beach Saco.
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York County
Muriel Forest
Mabel Avenue
Saco
June Tarbox
Florence Gagne
Secretaire-Cassiere
Martha Beaudoin
Florence Lewis
Owen-Davis Post
American Legion
Beach Street
Rose Sullivan
Ferry Beach
Gertrude Johnson
Lewis
Gagne
Doris Taylor
Priscilla Hooper
Alice Leach
Germane Grant
Alice Milen
Texas man Freddie McKenzie sentenced to death for fire bombing
In Fort Worth Freddie McKenzie 27 was found guilty after short deliberations and sentenced to die in the electric chair for the fire bombing that killed eight people including Willie C Davis. McKenzie an employee of a concrete company faced murder charges in Davis death as part of the May 5 incident.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Freddie McKenzie
McKenzie
Willie C. Davis
Area Bank Women At State Meeting
A statewide gathering of the Association of Savings Bank Women of Maine met at Lost Valley Ski Lodge in Auburn. Speaker Carol Nash of Boston discussed business women’s appearance and manners, joined by Tom Russell of WEEI TV. A buffet supper followed the program with attendees from Saco-Biddeford Savings Institution and York County Savings Bank named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn
Association of Savings Bank Women
Maine
Lost Valley Ski Lodge
Carol Nash
Model Agency of
Boston
Tom Russell
Weei TV
Saco-Biddeford Savings Institution
Arlene “Ove
Jean Kimball
Louise Sanborn
Virginia Lummis
Josephine Hanson
Violet Poirier
Elaine de Grace
Mary Savage
June Clark
York County Savings Bank
Alice A. Bradsley
Muriel Twomey
Priscille Nolette
Barbara Pierce
Irene G. Auger
Fire and ship tragedy claim fifty lives in 1956 era case
In 1956 the Andrea Doria disaster and a nightclub fire at The Grave are cited with fifty deaths. Prosecutors charged McKenzie with throwing gasoline through the club front and igniting it with a match.
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Andrea Doria
McKenzie
St Francis Chemist Named Maine ACS Chair Elect
Dr James R Young assistant professor of chemistry at St Francis College was chosen chair elect of the Maine section of the American Chemical Society at its first annual meeting at Bates College Lewiston He aims to boost industrial membership in a region with about 200 chemists and engineers He earned a BS from Rhode Island School of Design and a PhD from the University of New Hampshire He previously taught at the American College for Girls in Istanbul He and his wife Diana and their three children reside in Biddeford Pool
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James R. Young
St. Francis College
Maine
American Chemical Society
Young
Bates College
Lewiston
ACS
Dr. Young
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence
University of New Hampshire
Durham
St. Francis
American College For Girls
Istanbul
Turey
Diana
Biddeford Pool
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Dolores Boisvert
Mand Vachon
Elizabeth Ready
Robert Cyr
Denise Rondeau
Volkswagen
King’s Motors
Bidde
Arundel
Hunters Insurance
Raymond O. Audio Insurance Agency
Elm Street
CALAN
E Emery-Mapes Oil CO
Main St
B. F. Emery Co
Biddeford Pool — Hill's Beach
Biddeford Pool — Hill's
Hills Beach
P.M
Portsmouth
Manchester
Nashua
Hudson
Dover
N.H
Lynn
Lawrence
Lowell
Mass
City Square
Goldthwait’s Garage
Goldthwait’s Bus Line, Inc
York County Annual Report
George W. Garnache
George V. Garnache
Beach
VFW
Sen. Muskie
Bay State
Roszel Thomsen
Supreme Court
THE
Associated Press
Washington
Treasury Department
U.S
Biddeford High School
John F. Kennedy
Area Bank
State
Daly Bros
Biddeford-Saco Coal & Oil CO
Cleaves St
Biddeford Savings Bank
A. H. Benoit & Co
Maine Hardware
George’s & Lemire’s
Langevin
S & Boys
Lord’s Flowers
Potter’s Furniture
York Savings & Loan Assn
Youland’s Dept. & Jewelry Store
Bioperorp Savings Bank
Main Street
F.D.L.C
Biddeford, Maine
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