Health Of President Best Ever
President Eisenhower completed his annual checkup at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and a physician called the results the best the President ever had. Eisenhower told reporters he would like to go back oftener as Lt. Gen. Leonard D. Heaton said, Very good, very good. Weather cooled a round of golf.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Leonard D. Heaton
Army
Heaton
Walter Reed
Police Rush To Bel Air Home Of Upset Star
Los Angeles police rushed to the Bel Air mansion of actress Pier Angeli on Friday night after a call from her ex husband Vic Damone alleging she was deeply upset. Damone said she asked about press accounts linking him to another woman and began crying. Police determined no suicide attempt occurred. Damone explained he worried about her but said they are still estranged after a December divorce and a brief reconciliation last summer.
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Los Angeles
Bel Air
Pier Angels
W. H. Bertsch
Vic Damone
Fresno
Calif
Damone
Sol Branker
Sentencing Of Doyon Put Off Indefinitely
Vincent G. Doyon was found guilty of murdering his ex wife Alice amid alimony conflict in Augusta. The jury returned a murder verdict with sentencing deferred indefinitely. Maine law mandates life imprisonment. Defense may appeal while prosecutors described the act as deliberate. a note claimed suicide was a hoax. Nancy Doyon testified as a witness. Jean Doyon, the defendant’s wife, cried during the verdict.
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Augusta
Vincent G. Doyon
Alice
Doyon
Maine
Nancy
Portland
Jean Doyon
Western Village at Saco Barred by Board
The Saco Zoning Ordnance Appeals board denied permission to build a Western village replica on Portland Road. Chair George Love announced the unanimous ruling, noting the site would injure nearby businesses, though a replica could be pursued at a more suitable location. Mercier and Blitzer had sought a hearing on purchasing Burnham property to erect the village.
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Ordnance Appeals
Board of
Saco
Portland Road
George Love
Love
Appeal
Include Love
Wilbrod Bedard
L. B. Trecartin
Robert Mercier
Martin Blitzer
Burnham
Scarborough Line
Watch Out For Children Halloween Warning by Biddeford Police
Biddeford Police Chief Edgar T Sevigny urged motorists to be cautious as hundreds of costumed children, from goblins to ghosts, fill the streets this Halloween. He urged safe driving and warned against malicious mischief, with regular officers and many Civil Defense volunteers patrolling residential areas tonight.
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Biddeford
Edgar T. Sevigny
Sevigny
Maine teachers discuss dual convention plan at Lewiston
Western and southern Maine teachers wrapped up their annual convention with mixed views on future meetings. Some approved splitting the state into two conventions, one in Bangor and one in Lewiston, while others preferred a single gathering. Next year the western convention will be held in Portland.
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Lewiston
Maine
Bangor
Portland
Giant search fails to find downed Piedmont DC-3 near Charlottesville
A Piedmont Airlines twin engine DC-3 carrying 27 aboard vanished after declaring landing instructions near Charlottesville Virginia. Civil Air Patrol and state police led a wide rain swept hunt with four helicopters and several planes but found no sign of the craft or its occupants. The plane was six minutes from Charlottesville on a Washington to Roanoke route when it disappeared scoring unconfirmed reports of possible explosion sounds. Weather allowed the search to continue while authorities withheld passenger names pending kin notification. The incident drew CAP teams from multiple Virginia counties to sweep Ruckersville area.
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Charlottesville
Piedmont Airlines
College City
Washington
Roanoke
Charles A. Rausch
Civil Air Patrol
Central
Virginia
Associated Press
Rausch
Ruckersville
Washington, D.C
Piedmont
CAP
Beach Seawer Plan Approved At Old Orchard Beach Meeting
Old Orchard Beach voters approved six of seven warrant articles to begin sewer work with the first step toward making the beach "the cleanest in the world" by July 1. Herman Gerrish said engineers will meet soon to finalize plans and bids will be let ASAP. Total project cost nears a million dollars with federal and state aid sought.
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Old Orchard Beach
Old Orchard Beach High School
Herman
Gerrish
Board of Selectmen
New England
New York
Canada
Water Improvement Commission
Adelbert M. Jakeman, Sr
Auburn Man Dies in Home Fire After Oil Burner Blast
James Harrington, 75, was killed when an oil burner exploded in his two room dwelling. Firefighters rescued his sole companion, a pet dog, from the flames yesterday.
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Auuburn
James Harrington
Life Is Ghastly For The Ghostly In Modern Times
The piece humorously argues that modern comforts ruin haunt life. Ghosts face practical problems from carports and grills to noisy stairs and cluttered basements. Detergents and gadgets erase scares as spirits struggle to hauntingly exist in today’s overfurnished homes.
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Jhis
Headless Horseman Sightings Stir Hudson Valley Kids
Kinderhook residents claim Irving based Legend of Sleepy Hollow characters on local people and sites. Halloween lore centers on haunted hills, bridges, fields, and the famed Headless Horseman said to roam near the Hudson River as Ichabod Crane encounters linger in local folklore.
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Kinderhook
N.Y
Hudson Valley
Hudson River
Washington Irving
Sleepy Hollow
Irving
Tarrytown
Ichabod Crane
Katrina van Tassell
Ichabod
Three Men Held In Heavy Bail At Bangor
In Bangor three men Ernest Bostic William J Clevett and Daniel McKenzie are held on $30000 bail each after Belfast arraignment and transferred for maximum security. They face aggravated assault on Ruby Chamberlain of Prospect with a broken jaw and robbery of $23 from George Thorndike of Frankfort. Bostic pleaded innocent to assault and guilty to robbery while Clevett and McKenzie pleaded guilty to assault and innocent to robbery.
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Bangor
Prospect
Frankfort
Ernest Bostic
William J. Clevett
Presque Isle
Daniel McKenzie
Millinocket
Belfast
Hoell Sanker
Ruby Chamberlain
Prosipect
Sanker
George Thorndike
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Frederick Small
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Jeanine Landry
Lucien Landry
Goodwins Mills
Saco Lowell
Union Hall
Frederick Cantara
Bert’s
City Theatre
Foss Street Methodist Church
Arlene Johnson
Virginia Henderson
Arlene Rhames
Roy Edwards
Milldred Gledhill
Francis Spencer
Esther
Maforme Mnle Tabathine
Spock
Notre Dame Hospital
Harold Carroll
Elmsstreet
Sion
M. Christine Cosgrove
St. Mary Parish
Carroll
Henry P. Ross
F. W. Woolworth Co
J. C. Penney Co
M. H. Fishman Co
T. J. Murphy Co
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