Surgery cures heart deformity for Richard Gauthier
Richard Gauthier a 24 year old tool maker from Southbridge Massachusetts underwent open heart surgery at the West Roxbury VA Hospital to repair a heart with a septum with holes and a leaky valve. A VA cardiac team used a heart lung machine for 76 minutes to patch the holes and restore normal circulation. Since June he gained weight and height and plans to return to work soon expressing enthusiasm for life and even a joking interest in basic training.
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Southbridge
Mass
Richard Gauthier
Gauthier
Army
Fort Dix
N. J
Veterans Administration
West Roxbury VA
Richard Warren
Warren
Olney Town Glorifies Its Albino Squirrels
Olney Illinois protects a colony of about 700 white squirrels with a 1925 ordinance. A white squirrel has the right of way on any street and a $25 fine for killing or moving one outside town limits. Police and fire uniforms bear the animal’s outline. the colony was cited in Congress and bears local legend tracing back to 1902.
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Olney, Ill
Olney
Harry Hillis
The
Olney Daily Mail
George Shipley
Ill
Tom Tippit Jr
Tippit
Thomas Sr
Roosevelt Dam Renamed After Theodore in Bill
The Roosevelt Dam in Arizona would be renamed the Theodore Roosevelt Dam under a bill awaiting the President signature. The House completed congressional action on the bill Monday.
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Washington
Roosevelt Dam
Arizona
Theodore Roosevelt
House
Khrushchev Rise From Humble Beginnings to Top Power
The profile traces Nikita Khrushchev from early street work and a com missar role in guerrilla bands to formal schooling in Khar kov and Moscow. It notes his ascent under patronage, key positions in the party and army, Stalin-era purge activity, and his emergence into global attention by age 60, with a rapid recent transformation.
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Khrushchev
Rabfak
Kharkov
Ukraine
Lazar Moisevich Kaganovich
Moscow
Moscow Party
All-Union
Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Driver Fined After Mishap In Kennebunk
Robert I. Simpson, 25, of Bourne Street Kennebunk, was fined 100 dollars in Kennebunk Municipal Court for driving under the influence after his car left the curve near Kennebunk High School athletic field, skidded 317 feet rolled twice and hit a pole. He was treated at Webber Hospital then jailed in Alfred. The crash was investigated by Chief Frank Stevens and Reserve Chief Paul Wormwood. Another incident: Charles Weinhold of Methuen Mass. collided at Route 9 and 35 Cooper Corner with a 1954 car driven by Barbara Rouleau of Kennebunk Lower Village. Weinhold faces a traffic violation Friday evening.
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Robert I. Simpson
Bourne Street
Kennebunk
Simpson
Kennebunk High School
Webber Hospital
Alfred
Frank Stevens
Paul Wormwood
Charles G. Weinhold
Methuen
Mass
Cooper's Corner
Kennebunk Lower Village
Barbara Rouleau
Weinhold
Clarence Wildes
Saco Firemen Respond to Two Holiday Blazes
Saco firemen answered two holiday calls. A 1955 sedan owned by George Butler on Storer Street caught fire from a cigarette discarded in the rear seat. Another blaze involved a television at Doris Demers’s home on Storer Street with no damage noted on arrival.
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Saco
Storer Street
George Butler
North Street
Butler
Doris Demers
Miniwanca Chapter Opens Fall Eastern Star Meetings
The Miniwanca chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star held its first fall meeting with Worthy Matron Frances Murphy and Worthy Patron Roland Soderberg presiding. Officers present except Esther and Electa, with Past Matrons Gertrude Leonard and Helen Cummings substituting. The group reviewed fall and winter schedules, upcoming events, and invited visits, including an October official visit by the grand conductress and a plan to hire a 29 passenger Greyhound bus for a trip to Valleyfield Quebec for October 17 degree exemplifications. Memorial services were held for Harry E. Welch and Ernest F. Soule with charter draped in their memory. Sympathy extended to several members for losses in their families. A rehearsal and upcoming inspections were scheduled, with the Past Matrons outing planned for Sept. 16 at Kennebunk pond.
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Miniwanca
Order of the Eastern Star
Frances Murphy
Roland Soderberg
Esther
Electa
Gertrude Leonard
Helen Cummings
Juanita Sessions
Fadette
Dorothy Fessenden
York High School
Piscataqua
Longfellow
Grand Chapter Charity Fund
Masonic Hall
South Portland
Deering
Martha
Winneganee
Yarmouth
Beulah
Cumberland Mills
Ruth
Annette
Saco
Mizpah
Westbrook
Star of the Valley
Valleyfield
Quebec
Plansere
Greyhound
Old Orchard Beach
Mildred Nowell
Scarborough
Harry E. Welch
Ernest F. Soule
John Strickland
Alfred Swinborn
May Slaney
W. Warren Harmon
Winchester Sawyer
Saco Hospital
Doctor Is Business Tycoon
New York born Armand Hammer rose from medical student to global entrepreneur. He built Hammer Galleries and distilleries, then turned to oil, becoming president of Occidental Petroleum after turning a weak firm into a multimillion-dollar venture with successful well completions.
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Moscow
Lenin
United States
Ford Motor Co
Russia
Hammer Industrial Co
Victor
Armand
Harry
Hammer Galleries
New York City
Hammer
Marshall Field's
Chicago
American Distillery Co
Gimbel’s
Newmarket
M. H
Maine
Schenley Distillers
Shadow Isle Farms
Coltenick
N. J
Biddeford Plans National Child Safety Week Campaign
Biddeford schools open on Wednesday as the city joins National Child Safety Week September 8 to 15. Chief Edgar Sevigny urges parents teachers and motorists to teach sidewalks crosswalks signals and safety rules to reduce accidents and create a no accident community with police and civic cooperation.
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Biddeford
Edgar Sevigny
Department of Pace
Sevigny
PTA
Biddeford I
Youth pleads guilty in Woodmere intoxication case
A fifteen year old Woodmere New York youth pleads guilty to intoxication with the case filed by Judge Hilary F Mahaney. State liquor inspectors were the complainants in the case.
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Woodmere
New York
Hilary F. Mahaney
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