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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1964
Page
2
Miss Jo Ann Stansberry daughter of Mrs Betty Stansberry 493 Elm St Biddeford has returned home after a seven week space science course at Bridgeport University Conn A graduation ceremony was held for 61 graduates in the group
A Biddeford Saco Lodge of Blks calls a meeting for tomorrow at 8 PM at the Biks Home on Portland Road Saco to finalize field day plans and outline the fall and winter program A chicken supper at 6 30 precedes the meeting Also the Past Presidents Club of Biddeford VFW Auxiliary meets tomorrow at Mrs Bea trice Stone s home Union Street Saco and the Fremont Club and Auxiliary meet tomorrow evening at 8 at the hall Alfred Street Biddeford
Mid week prayer meeting set for Thursday at 7 30 p m at Bible Baptist church 144 Ferry road Saco A prayer and Bible study planned for Thursday at 7 30 p m at First Baptist church Ocean avenue Id Orchard Beach Prayer meeting Thursday at 7 30 p m at First Assembly of God church of Saco Ahepa home 22 Pleasant street
President Johnson holds labor endorsement but loyalty questions linger among unions. Rommey posts strong renomination margin signaling implications for Congress. Maryland, National Guard plan for Baltimore riots amid racial tensions. A 3-year-old rescued from an abandoned well, reported in good spirits. Space kids tout exercise over leisure, headline tone. Lt. Klusmann reported in good condition after downing in Laos. Communists eyed South Vietnamese political turmoil. Soviet China border dispute grows. Washington Senate nears health care showdown while Bobby Baker probe requests resume into $25,000 1960 campaign payoff.
Biddeford public schools urge all new pupils to register at once with Superintendent of Schools Raymond Kenneally in the city building. A School Union Four meeting for principals and vice principals is set Friday at 7 p.m. A teachers meeting follows Tuesday at Biddeford High School at 9 a.m. Classes start September 9 with staggered start times at 8 to 8:30 a.m. The hot lunch program begins September 14.
Dr. Salvatore Dellolio of New York City reported to local police that his car was side swiped by a hit and run driver while parked on East Grand Avenue late yesterday. The left side showed scraping and traces of dark red and blue paint were found.
Fire Chief Arthur King reports Biddeford ambulance crew answered 41 calls in August, down from 44 in July per fire officials. The figures track monthly EMS demand for the city.
Mrs. Nancy Brady 75, born in Ireland April 24 1889, died in Pendleton at her daughter Ann Mabrys home. Widow of Francis J Brady she leaves a son Francis J Brady Jr of Kennebunk and five grandchildren. Requiem Mass Saturday 9 from St Monica’s Kennebunk with burial at St Marys Biddeford. Visitation Friday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Bibber Memorial Chapel Kennebunk. Prayers Friday 7:30 p.m.
Funeral services for Oliva Bolduc of 78 High St Biddeford were held at St Andre Church Biddeford this morning. Rt Rev Msgr Aime Giguere celebrated a solemn high mass assisted by Rev Edmund Hache deacon and Rev Bernand Nicknair subdeacon with St Andre choir directed by Charles Proulx and organist Mrs Laura Proulx. Delegates from veterans groups attended. Honorary and active bearers named from World War I Barracks VFW American Legion AMVETS and DAV. Firing squad from Pease Air Force Base with Arnold Ballard as bugler. Burial in St Josephs Cemetery with committal by Msgr Giguere. Out of town attendees listed.
Funeral services were held at 9 this morning from St. Andre's Church Biddeford for Renald Danis who drowned last Saturday. Rev Edmund Hache celebrated a solemn high mass of requiem assisted by Rev Arthur St Pierre as deacon and Rev Bernard Nicknair as subdeacon. Choir sang under Charles Proulx with Mrs Laura Proulx at organ. Bearers listed. Among out of town relatives attending was Mrs Marie Anna Gregoire of Salem Mass.
New York reports a Paris adaptation of Broadway hit Enter Laughing based on a Carl Reiner novel. Jean Cosmos handles the adaptation after preparing A Thousand Clowns for the French stage, with plans for a spring debut in Paris.
New York, AP says director Arthur Penn will adapt the film property Mickey One into a stage exhibit about two years after the movie. The chase comedy stars Warren Beatty and Alexandra Stewart in the cinema version.
In Jamestown North Dakota student pranksters secretly reversed all heavy oak pews in the college chapel. Officials, unfazed by the stunt, held services the next day from the rear of the chapel.
Olympia Washington. The Washington State Patrol reports only twenty applications after a week of recruiting for male applicants aged 21 to 28 with a high school education and at least six feet in height. The department notes the challenge of attracting tall candidates for its force.
Portland forecast shows mostly sunny conditions this afternoon with low 70s and north winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight will be clear and cool with lows in the low 40s and some valleys near the upper 30s, winds 5 to 10 mph diminishing to calm. Thursday brings more sun and a slight warmup, coast winds shift to 10 to 15 mph after morning calm, otherwise north 5 to 10 mph inland.
Dora, the season's fourth tropical storm, grows bigger on warm Atlantic waters and is expected to become a hurricane by Caribbean entry. Peak winds hit 70 mph within hours of discovery, about 1,200 miles east-southeast of San Juan. At 6 a.m. the center lay over 2,000 miles east-southeast of Miami, moving west-northwest at 17 mph.
Three men faced Trail Justice Wesley Mewer for imprudent driving. Rene Gilbert 26 of Montreal paid 30 dollars. Dennis Burnside 18 of 67 Temple Street Saco paid 40 dollars and received 10 days license suspension. Charles W Binette 18 of 220 Ferry Road Saco was guilty and fined 10 dollars. David Garside 19 of Ferry Road Saco pleaded guilty to operating beyond restriction and received a 25 dollar fine plus 10 day license suspension.
Norman J. Nadeau of Salem found his two year old daughter Marcia floating face-up near Square Pond returning from fishing. He gave mouth to mouth resuscitation until a sheriff s deputy arrived with an inhalator. Marcia recovered and was taken to Sanford hospital for observation.
New York stock activity moved higher in a lively session led by General Motors and Chrysler near record highs yet giving back some ground as the day wore on. The Associated Press average rose 7 points at noon to 317.0 while the Dow gained 2.39 to 1846.39. Bonds were mixed and several sectors including aero space rails and chemicals posted modest advances.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first U.S. chief executive to serve two full terms, establishing a historic precedent for future administrations. He led during the end of World War II era, guiding Cold War policy and domestic recovery, with lasting influence on American governance.
Superintendent Raymond Kenneally unveiled the Biddeford school bus schedule for the 1964 year detailing routes and departure times from 7:25 to 8:05 a.m. across many streets and neighborhoods, with additional sub primary pickups and afternoon adjustments. The article also covers Operation Shoehorn at Elmendorf Air Force Base Alaska, describing C-124 Globemaster flights to DEW Line sites, crew details, and the hazardous, skillful nature of the missions.
Bowdoin College in Brunswick adopts a fall-in effect honor system developed by students and faculty. Student overseers will monitor, examinations proceed without proctors unless instructors stay, and a judiciary board will hear violations with penalties including at least one semester suspension.
In Portland Maine the coldest and warmest early morning minimums were both inside the city. The U S Weather Bureau airport posted an overnight low of 41 degrees tying the date record from 1949 while downtown Portland saw 54 degrees or higher. Other Maine stations ranged in the 40s except Millsocket at 53.
A permit issued by Saco City Building Inspector Byron F. Dolby to Shell Oil Co of Portland allows demolition of a house owned by Leon R. Knight and construction of a modern three bay service station with a sign at Ocean Park Road and Route 1. Start date not set. Estimated cost 19500 dollars.
Dr John I Parr of Linden Avenue Baptist Church says young people entering fulltime religious work is not driven by a single minister but by the churchs overall flavor. Volunteers who work with youths in church programs contribute to this atmosphere.
Washington AP Johnson secure d labor union backing for a first term though questions linger on rank and file support. AFL-CIO board voted unanimously and presented the news at the White House. Meany said members would vote per conviction, noting possible backlash but not predicting it. Goldwater condemned Civil Rights Act provisions as unconstitutional.
Francis Ranco is elected new governor of the Penobscot Indian island at Old Town succeeding Ernest Goslin who retires. Goslin loses to incumbent John Nelson in bid for the tribe’s state representative in the biennial elections Tuesday night.
Kennedy, hailed by supporters as he accepted the Democratic nomination, pledged to carry on JFK’s work in the Senate. His wife Ethel and seven of eight children joined the stage. he planned to resign as attorney general to President Johnson. He would begin the upstate campaign with a Syracuse stop.
Senator Johnson alleges a conspiracy involving Baker and Reynolds with $25,000 allegedly funneled to the Johnson Kennedy campaign fund of 1960. Williams shows a $109,205.60 check as an overpayment on a stadium contract, calling it a payoff or kickback. Baker resigned last Oct. 7 amid questions about outside dealings and testifying in a Senate inquiry.
Oak Park officers fined Julian 21 for watching a television program in a car. She was arrested in February for speeding and running a red light while reportedly staring at a six inch dashboard TV.
The Saco superintendent’s office announced that all late transfer and junior primary students may register at Fairfield School on September 10 during regular school hours, the day after the new term begins.
Indonesia launched an airborne attack before dawn landing 30 paratroopers in Johore Malaysia. A government spokesman said one battalion and a police field force fought the parachutists, killing one and capturing at least three. Sukarno canceled leaves for armed forces as tensions rose with Malaysia over Sarawak and Sabah claims.
Kennebunk Municipal Court heard numerous traffic cases. Guilty pleas led to fines from 5 to 60 dollars for offenses including speeding in various zones, left of center violations, red light running, and driving without a license or proper equipment. Several defendants failed to appear or had charges dismissed.
Lt. Charles F. Klusmann, a U S Navy jet pilot shot down by Laotian Communists, escaped from Laos to Thailand and boarded a U S Military Air Transport Service plane for the United States. He arrived at Clark Air Base after medical care at Udorn and was en route to an undisclosed final destination.
In Nashville the hospital reported Sgt Alvin York still breathing but barely, in a coma and not responding well to treatment amid a spreading urinary tract infection. The World War I hero, Medal of Honor recipient, remains under vigil at Veterans Hospital after transfer from his Pall Mall farm.
A three vehicle crash at Route 111 and 202 in Alfred sent one man to Henrietta B. Goodall Hospital in Sanford around 8:30 AM. Raymond Lachance 32 of Springvale and another driver were in cars that collided with a Portland man Thomas B. Sico 43. Fred Gabriel of Beverly Massachusetts drove a third vehicle. Gabriel, Lachance and a truck passenger were treated. Lachance credited with wearing a seat belt for avoiding serious injury. Deputy Roland Langlois assisted with traffic control.
In SEARSPORT, the body of 18-year-old Terry Lee French of Stockton Springs was recovered by a skin diver off Sears Island on Tuesday. He drowned Monday while trying to reach a drifting skiff during island work with another youth.
Firefighters were sent to St Louis High School after a false alarm as workers on the electrical system triggered it. In other items, sentencing continued in Salem New Hampshire. An appeal in a drunk driving charge was withdrawn by Harold C Pease of South Portland who paid a $200 fine after the withdrawal.
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