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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1968
Page
3
Dame fashion defies ladylike conduct and shifts unpredictably from sun glasses to eyegear to purses. The piece traces changing trends from oversized accessories to bizarre shoes and belts while a mother notes her daughter’s skirts grew shorter as she did. The columnist laments fashion fickleness and recalls keeping old items that later return to style.
Joseph Martelle and Frank DeFrancesco named to managerial posts at Biddeford radio station WIDE. DeFrancesco will serve as station commercial manager and is a Boston native, former WSME Sanford general manager, and sports announcer. Martelle becomes station program manager, a Portland native and Cheverus graduate with prior broadcasting at WMTW TV and WCSH TV.
The Portland Chapter of the American Red Cross will offer a standard first aid course starting September 16 at 7 30 p m at headquarters 97 State Street. Officials said the class is open to the public and required for those wishing to join the ski patrol.
The Raoul and Pauline Nolette property at 26 Paul Street Saco was sold to Mr and Mrs Frank DeFrancesco of Saco. The deal was handled through Armand J Mercier Realtor Saco. The second sale covers 3 Sedgemere Drive Biddeford a seven room seven room home with garage on a large lot formerly owned by J Haley Booth and sold to Mr and Mrs Ele J Cormier Jr of Auburn who plan to move to Biddeford.
The Old Orchard Beach Little League hosts a cookout on Saturday Sept 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Ocean Park. Officers of Orchard Lane A F and A M will be installed at a semi public meeting at Robinson Memorial Hall. The Nee Nah Council meets Monday at 7 30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall.
The Institute for Strategic Studies says Soviet forces may face a harsher climate in central Europe, reducing their effectiveness. The study questions the rushed assessment that the invasion raises NATO risk and predicts lower Warsaw Pact reliability.
In Saco district court three St. Francis College students were charged with malicious mischief for taking a sign from St. Andre's Home and Hospital grounds in Biddeford. Several defendants faced traffic violations and theft charges with fines set, while others had charges dismissed or delayed to the November term of the superior court.
The Patriots push for a new stadium site near South Station to keep the team in Boston as officials warn the city tax burden cannot support such a project. Boston leadership and supporters urge legislative and booster backing to prevent relocation to Birmingham, Alabama.
Washington AP reports Senator Norris Cotton NH says the Senate approved paying 170000 to the estate of Capt John N Laycock of Derry for granting a royalty free license that let the federal government manufacture the steel pontoon used in World War II. Laycock retired 1946 and died last year in Derry. Gerald E Dupont resigns as St Michael s College president in Winooski Vermont effective after successor named. Boston Mayor Kevin White offers to help develop a stadium site but says taxpayers should not pay. talks with Hale Champion set, and a spectators tax and motel hotel tax revenue considered.
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