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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1959
Page
8
CPS Cervice Wire offers Ocean Ave properties with two 40 by 60 foot house lots, winterized and remodeled with four rooms, bath, and fireplace. Also another lot 50 by 100 feet priced at 5 900 with many other listings across all areas.
Wanted ad notes five rooms or more and yard. Contact Trading Post at 45 Main St by phone 4-7054 between 8 and 12 morning or 5 and 10 evening. Cash paid for furniture tools and other items. Call 2-116 or 3-3438.
General Services Administration invites sealed bids to furnish materials and perform the New Oil Burner project at the U S Post Office in Kennebunkport Maine. Bids due by 3 00 P M EDT September 29 1959 in Boston Massachusetts and will be opened publicly. Specifications available from GSA or building custodian.
The college will have an enrollment of 152 this year, up from 104, with juniors and seniors in high school reducing space. The faculty grows to 19, adding seven members and five new Seabees to the St Francis staff. Students come from Maine Massachusetts Connecticut and New York while fewer arrive from New Jersey Rhode Island New Hampshire and Vermont.
Biddeford City council approved buying a 1959 four door police cruiser with a V eight engine for 2802 dollars and ten cents after an old car allowance. The net price equals 1502 dollars and ten cents with 50 amp generator and heavy duty suspension features. Additional transfers included 8425.69 from surplus to welfare aid to dependent children election expense and insane funds and 4000 moved from contingent to salaries. A municipal officers meeting authorized a special referendum warrant for October 12.
A going away party and family cook-out for Jacquelyn Stevens was hosted at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Adjutant as she prepares to leave for Farmington State Teachers College. Relatives included the Cotes, Bickfords, Kelletts, Stevens and Adjutants, with gifts and games following the event. Roy Paul has received his discharge from the U S Marines. Myra Towne visited Miss Frances Jones in Lewiston.
A 1950s profile traces Nikita Khrushchev's ascent from Stalin’s inner circle to top leadership. It notes purges, trials, and power shifts involving Beria Malenkov Zhukov Bulganin and Molotov, concluding Khrushchev stands alone at a lonely pinnacle with few true friends.
Real estate transactions reported by King Woodman include Peter E. Paul and Pauline G. Paul purchasing a single modern dwelling with private garage and land at 34 Paul Street Saco from George D. Flanders. Roy J. Sicard and Jeannette G. Sicard of Westbrook buy the cottage and land on Outlook Avenue Kinney Shores from A. E. Auger for their summer residence. Samuel C. Roberts and Dorothy F. Roberts of Arlington Mass acquire two cottages and land on Lower Beach Street Saco from Raymond Crown for their summer residence.
Frank Tripp reflects on a restless summer and yearns for simple contentment like his father’s peaceful, grounded approach. He laments excess news, social pressures, and the loss of self-reliant childhood, proposing an International Geohorsesense Year to restore balance and let God run the universe.
The new stamp features orange color and is set to go on sale November 20 in New York City. The item marks a postal rate update for international air mail and highlights a color emphasis on orange.
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