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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1959
Page
3
Local families travel between Kennebunk and Meriden and revisit kin. Open houses will welcome visitors at all Kennebunk and Kennebunkport schools Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m. Officials will greet guests and provide tours of improvements from the summer.
George Love of Saco, ex-exec of Saco-Lowe shops, spoke at the Old Orchard Beach Kiwanis dinner at Robinson Memorial Masonic hall. He shared International Trade Fair experiences in Poland with color slides. Guests included Kiwanis members from Massachusetts and New York.
Pete Bojinoff of Fort Wayne Indiana preserves a magnolia tree pod from a White House lawn visit two years ago. A White House guard handed him the pod and it now grows into a two foot tall magnolia in his yard.
Pack 305 host Cub Circus on October 24 at Mason Street Scout Hall. John St Onge announces monthly meetings on the fourth Tuesday. Philip Hatch distributes yearly pack programs. Theodore Caouette to continue building hall funds. Repairs this summer aim for heating and enlarged quarters. Attendees include John St Onge Raymond Letellier Philip Hatch Theodore Caouette John Hudson Paul Lerman James Benson and den mothers Marion St Onge Olive Proulx Jean Hudson.
Sunday church service announced an all day sewing meeting at Mrs. Lillian Smith’s home to stuff toys for a October sale. A Friday food sale at Haskell's Trailer Camp East Lebanon at 2 pm was led by Mrs. Lillian Smith and Mrs. Richard German. September 9 is the next Extension meeting for North Lebanon women at the church vestry to discuss Consumer Credit and Your Family.
Roland Pike visited his brother Raymond in Rochester New Hampshire last weekend. Lydia Myers of Greene visits at her daughter Mrs David Gale. Estella Chamberlin hosts Sadie Welch Phil O Wentworth Somersworth and others from Sanford Malden Mass. Lieutenant Charles Seargant and family of Rochester visited Roger Lunt. Ralph Stillings returns from a week at Schroon Lake Word of Life Camp.
Mrs. George Coe hosted a dinner at her West Surf street home in Old Orchard Beach to honor her mother Mrs. Etta Palmer. Attending were Mr and Mrs Harold Schillinger Springfield Mass Mr and Mrs Ernest Wood Toronto Canada Mr and Mrs James Walsh Montreal Canada Mr and Mrs William Duff Jamaica Mass Mrs Marion Gates Chelsea Mass Miss Helen McBurney Wollaston Mass and Edison Wicker Wakefield Mass.
A rummage sale will be held by the Moody League on Saturday September 12 at the old Moody school house. Doors open at 8 a.m. Mrs Evelyn Lewingdon is the chairman assisted by Mrs Colleen Coombs. Albeo G LaPierre and children Gerald and Mary of Wells attended the NH Electric company outing at Lake Sunapee State Park NH. Larry Kent Alpren son of Mr and Mrs Harry Alpren Wells has returned after two weeks at the YMCA camp East Winthrop.
Maine farmers must maintain precise input and output records for the five year census to begin October 21. U S Bureau of the Census conducts the 1960 enumeration with mail questionnaires sent two weeks prior. Extension Service specialist Lewis E. Clark urged accurate, prompt completion to aid the nationwide effort involving more than 30,000 census takers visiting over four million farms.
Playwright William Gibson plans an autumn with two scheduled productions. The Miracle Worker, a Broadway entry about Helen Keller, and Dinny and the Witches, an off Broadway fantasy about a jazz musician. His prior stage hit was Two for the Seesaw.
Congressman James C. Oliver of Maine urges changes to old age assistance laws to require more federal support. He notes the current Maine maximum of 60 dollars per month and asks the new director of the Bureau of Public Assistance for a recommendation on legislation to fix long standing inadequacies.
In Henryetta Oklahoma two young brothers rode a metal wheeled table down a hill drawing a crowd. To halt the run they tied a 20 pound cement block to a rope and tossed it to the ground like an anchor.
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