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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1959
Page
6
SUMTER, C. Artis Rucker is a hard running 205 pound guard on Lincoln High’s football team. He plays with a wooden leg weighing 18 pounds and still clocks a 13 second 100 yard dash in full gear. Rucker hopes for better legs but prefers wood over plastic.
In the game Jenkins repeatedly adjusted his guard's leg and attempted a tape patch that would not hold. Lincoln played without Rucker, who left the court. Rucker, age seven, lost his leg after failing to hear a train while searching for coal along the tracks.
New York AP report reviews CBS remake of The Bells of St. Marys from 1945, noting closer intimacy and more closeups on television. Film stars Crosby Bergman replaced by Preston Colbert. story of Father O Malley and Sister Benedict saving a school building. Also covers Murrow missile biography and TV specials featuring Lawrence Gorme and Burns voicing a vaudeville tribute with Jack Benny Cantor and Jessel.
The Biddeford Sac lodge Elks host a football night honoring principals, coaches, managers and members from Biddeford Old Orchard Beach St Louis Kennebunk Highs Thornton academy and St Francis college. The event at the Elks home in Saco on November 17 includes an entertainment program and refreshments. The Biddeford High School band, led by Horace Killam, will perform.
Rosemead California report says Charles Coltons faced 200 letters after their boxer Friskie and Cindy had 30 pups last week. Three died. 27 remain bottle fed as buyers await their turn. The Coltons plan to ship pups to new owners once ready.
Irene Day Horvath, 72, elected homecoming queen of Oceanside Carlsbad College after a landslide victory. She defeated nine teenagers Tuesday, receiving 270 votes to 300 for her rivals.
About 40 University of Mississippi students were evacuated from their dormitory rooms after a flash fire Tuesday night. Fire Chief David Neilson Jr. said the blaze began in debris piled beside the dormitory.
Hollywood veteran Dick Powell says the film business must emphasize youth to endure. He notes producers and actors should take chances, and praises Four Star Television for hiring young talent and sharing profits to keep stars and directors motivated while expanding to about 500 half hour programs this season.
Maine Highway Safety committee chairman Arlyn E Barnard warns parents and children about Halloween hazards. Children in dark costumes can blend into traffic and be hard to see while masks reduce vision. The panel urges light colored costumes or reflective strips and cautions against masks unless vision is unhindered.
The message urges motorists to share responsibility for a safe Halloween by driving slowly and carefully and watching for children near schools parks and in neighborhoods. It ends with a warning against fatal mistakes and a call to be one’s brother’s keeper.
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