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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1963
Page
2
Mrs Paul Edwards and Mrs Maurice Edwards of Old Orchard Beach visited recently at the home of Mr and Mrs Raymond Lizotte in Lawrence Massachusetts. Mrs Lizotte is the former Miss Theresa Dubois of Biddeford.
AMVETS Post on Spring Street Saco will sponsor a Cub Scouts food sale at Bagley’s Market on Storer Street at 9 a m Friday. THS Future Homemakers of America will hold a Halloween party at 3 45 today for brothers and sisters of members. Attendees are to go to the home economics room.
Mid week prayer meetings are slated for Thursday at 7 30 p m at Bible Baptist church 144 Ferry road Saco First church Ocean avenue Orchard Beach hosts a prayer and Bible study at 7 30 p m Thursday venue First Assembly of God church of Saco Ahtepa home 22 Pleasant street The Saco School Street Methodist Junior choir rehearses Thursday at 3 15 p m at the church Youth from Biddeford Saco churches join Trick or Treat for UNICEF Thursday evening at 6 followed by refreshments and social hour at Salvation Army hall Saco
Mrs Olive Petit 90 of 64 South Street Biddeford died this morning after a long illness. Born October 17 1873 in St Robert Canada she was the daughter of Joseph and Marie Ayotte. She belonged to St Anne Sodality at St Josephs Church. Survived by three daughters Mrs Albert Collard Mrs Arthur St Ours and Mrs Wilbred Descoteaux all of Biddeford four sons John B Petit Ovide J Petit Henry Petit of Biddeford and Wilfred Petit Pasadena Calif 48 grandchildren 52 great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Funeral from St Josephs Church at 8:45 a.m. Saturday. Visitation at Sansoucy Funeral Home 1 Stone Street Biddeford this evening 7 10 p m Thursday and Friday 2 4 and 7 10 p m.
Funeral services for Mrs Estelle Lord Sands of Bay View Saco widow of How T Sands were held yesterday at the First Parish Church Saco with Rev Paul K Weimer officiating. Interment followed in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Byron Dolby announces public hearing set for November 7 at 7 30 PM in Saco Municipal Court Room on a permit to open a used auto parts lot on Portland Road. Applicants are Emily and Armand L Ouellette. The site lies between Red Cliff Motel and Saco Transmission Co garage.
Massachusetts woman Elsie Rowe, 27, of Wilmington, driving alone on the Maine Turnpike, left the road near the New County Road overpass in Saco at 2 19 p m. Her car veered onto an embankment and struck the overpass abutment after she dozed at the wheel. She was treated for bruises at Webber Hospital after ambulance transfer.
Town clerk Esther Crowley reported nomination papers taken out for town meeting member by Harry Rowell and Cora Keene from District Two and James Vakas from District Five. She also noted John Migner of Union Avenue has taken papers to seek the post of park commissioner.
Arun del Council of Churchwomen will observe World Community Day on Friday November 1 at West Kennebunk Methodist Church. Morning coffee at 930 am service at 10 am with Milton M Silva Nas san College Springvale guest speaker from Azores Portugal majoring in government. The program titled Nation Building and the U N features women from 11 member churches. Donations of yard goods Jayettes new clothing and wash cloth kits will be given to church institutions and needy areas.
Habitual readers are urged to check the classified pages for bargains and notices. The column offers a steady stream of ads, sales, and pertinent local notices that help shoppers find value.
Thomas Quelette of 7 Gove Street Biddeford held a 9 am requiem at St. Andre's Church. Msgr. Aime Giguere led the solemn high mass with Rev. Bernand Nicknair as deacon and Rev. Edmund Hache as subdeacon. Burial followed in St. Joseph's Cemetery with committal prayers by Father Nicknair. attendees included out of town visitors from Connecticut and New Hampshire.
Saco Mayor J Edward Whelan and the city council with the Planning Board will meet tonight in City Hall to discuss expanding the industrial zone and other planning matters.
The council approved restoring the diaconate as a permanent rank, with regional bishops allowed to decide if married deacons are permitted. It also backed using native music in Roman Catholic services in Africa and Asia, and approved related theological schema reforms.
Camille Bedard, Saco representative to the state legislature, spoke at a Saco Democratic Social Club meeting in the G A R Hall. He discussed the state referendum questions from a legislator's viewpoint while Frank Jones presided. Refreshments were provided by William Buckley and Phyllis Deschambeault.
Afternoon snow or flurries end this evening with 2 to 3 inches of accumulation. Windy yet cool with highs in the low 30s and northwest winds 15 to 25 mph, gusts higher at times. Tonight cloudy and cool with lows near 30 and diminishing northwest winds. Thursday partly cloudy and warmer, northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
The excerpt lists tide times for October in Eastern Standard Time with highs and lows. It presents high and low water at specific hours and minutes on dates 30 and 31, indicating morning and afternoon values.
Rescuers drilled within 62 feet of three miners entombed 259 feet underground in a flooded iron mine after a dam break. Eighty six miners escaped. 40 unaccounted for. The three trapped are Fritz Leder, 36, Emil Pohler, 34, and Gerhard Hausch, 45, in a pressure chamber awaiting rescue.
A medical doctor and an osteopath collided at Biddeford Tuesday noon when their vehicles, a 1958 Volkswagen driven by Thomas Anton of Old Orchard Beach and a 1963 Saab driven by Richard C. Pfeiffer of Kennebunkport, collided at Jefferson and South Streets. Police say steamed windows obscured vision. no damage estimate was provided.
New York stock activity shows sharp declines as profits are taken in a falling market. Dow Jones and AP average slide. Ford earnings trigger sell orders while IBM, U S Steel and several giants slip. Trading remains active with mixed bond performance.
President Wilfred Hughes announced the annual meeting will be held tonight at the club house at 8. Brandeis University's soccer team is represented by 13 foreign nations.
Roger M. Blough, chair of U S Steel, rejects using economic influence to shape Birmingham race relations. He endorses anti discrimination hiring and leadership by executives to break down barriers. The news conference followed a strong earnings report showing nine months profits of 149.6 million dollars.
Saco Mayor Dr. J Edward Whelan announced invitations are being mailed for a buffet dinner in honor of Maine Economic Development Commissioner Standish Bachman of Augusta. The informal gathering at Elks Home on the road will begin at 7 15 p m on November 6 with Bachman and wife arriving around 2 p m for a city tour and plant visits downtown and in the industrial park. Invitations go to industry representatives Saco Board of Trade city officials and their spouses.
The Webber Lefebvre Unit American Legion Auxiliary voted donations to the Leonard Wood Memorial and the Kennebunk Post. They planned to present a lift to Mrs Ruth Crab in Portland, named Persis Moulton as food sale chair, ordered 1000 poppies for Poppy Day in May, and announced a Veterans Day moved meeting to Monday Nov 18 with hosts Marion Cole Mary Day and Lois Whittier.
Mayor Willie Pom erleau announced federal approval for a $324,400 accelerated public works grant from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to fund Biddeford s sewage treatment plant. The grant, plus a $486,600 water pollution grant earlier, covers about half the $1,622,000 project cost with the state and city to match to about 50 percent and 25 percent respectively, leaving Biddeford to raise about $400,000.
The Biddeford Saco Community Chest shows 47 percent of its $33,534 goal after one week of solicitation. General Chairman Richard A Monmaney announced the second report meeting noting $15,674 pledged. He praised cooperation and said remaining households will be visited to secure contributions.
The sixth biennial French contest will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Louis Church hall in Auburn open to French-Canadian descent students. Six Maine communities entered with Biddeford contestants Rita Bellefleur eighth grade, Susanne Leblond and Sandra Poulin high school, all from Biddeford. Prizes awarded in three divisions. winners advance to Worcester finals. Each speaker presents a two minute French speech and faces a judges’ Q&A.
GREENFIELD Mass AP two suspects a former high school assistant principal Paul Lussier 30 and Clark University student Robert Cook 19 are undergoing mental tests in district court Judge Samuel Blassberg continued their cases to Jan 4 They pleaded innocent Oct 9 to larceny charges from a Vermont to Virginia museum theft ring arrested Oct 6 in South Burlington Vermont and Webster and Old Deerfield Massachusetts jurisdictions involved.
Marion testified he looted a dark house for hours before discovering anyone there. He described hearing a voice saying he would be shot, a shot being fired, and seeing Mrs. Turner on the balcony. He took the pistol from her, then wrestled it away, and hit her repeatedly with the gun as she moved with a cane or similar object.
In 140 miles southwest of Saigon Communist guerrillas overran a 120 man South Vietnamese task force and likely captured three U S Army advisers including two officers and an enlisted medic. The battle left 20 Viet Cong dead and 12 Americans missing or captured, with one Air Force pilot killed later. Local radio jammers hindered communications.
A 1951 sedan became stuck in wet sand as an incoming tide swept it toward the Atlantic off Mullen Avenue. Police say driver Wilber Emmons, 16, erred near the water. a wrecker and a town 4 wheel drive loader were sent, both becoming stuck before the car was towed away.
The FBI reported a series of complaints involving briefcases in Norwood Closter Fort Lee Paramus and nearby areas. A bespectacled man named Butenko, employed by International Electric since March 1960, was named in the investigation as part of the case.
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