Kennebunk to Hold Special Town Meeting Sept 18
A special town meeting in Kennebunk is set for Monday Sept 18 at 7 30 p m in Town Hall. Voters will elect a moderator and decide five articles including transfers from the Durrells Bridge Construction Account to the General Highway Account and from excise taxes to highways, plus funding for a fence around the Park Street Playground tennis courts and zoning map amendments affecting York Street area and apartment house permitting. The article mentions a 500 foot boundary reference and notes the Matterjack road marker story as a European running or walking road.
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Kennebunk
Durrell
Park Street
York Street
Swan Street
Branch Brook
Kennebunk - Wells
Jine
Tips For Teens From Elinor Williams
A teens advice column covers family friction with a grandmother who favors a grandson, urging kindness and shared effort. It also guides on dating information and oil control, recommending an astringent routine and library resources for sex education.
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Elinor Williams
Elinor
Association Press
Evelyn M. Duvall
Instrument Panel Stolen From Plane In Santa Monica Hangar
A thief removed the instrument panel from a light plane owned by William A. Jorgenson, parked in a hangar at Santa Monica Airport, with the loss valued at $10,000. The incident was reported by The Associated Press.
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Associated Press
Santa Monica
Calif
William A. Jorgenson
Preacher Offers Prayer as County Board Faces Tense Meeting
Samuel Kaauwai, a lay preacher at Kapaa Hawaiian Church, gave a voca tion prayer at a county board meeting. He hoped the dissension would yield richer understanding. The session dragged on with prolonged arguments until 6:50 p.m.
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Lihue
Hawaii
Samuel Kaauwai
Kapaa
County Board of Supervisors
World fair spotlights inventive shoes and edible pins
At the International Inventors and New Products Exposition in New York Robert Chymbur displays four foot long water shoes with louvers for traction while inventor Roger Shashoua notes most participants are first time creators. Other exhibits include a personal ashtray tube by Robert L. Thomas and a four by four automatic baker’s machine from Charles Downing that scales up small bakers to industrial output.
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New York
Robert Chymbur
Chymbur
Skeeters
Roger Shashoua
Patent Exhibits, Inc
Shashona
Chumbur
Robert L. Thomas
East Point
Charles Downing
Janesville
Wis
Downing
Titian Built Fortune From Masterpieces
The Venetian painter Titian, born Tiziano Vecellio, earned a vast fortune from his prolific career spanning more than eight decades.
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Titian
Tiziano Vecelli
Advent Christian Church Publishes Sunday School Bus Routes
Kennnebunk church lists two Sunday School bus runs effective Sunday. Bus No 1 departs Cooper's Corner at 8 40 a m with stops at Brown Street West Kennebunk Cat Mousam Road Main Street Park Street Summer Street Sea Road Heath Road Old Port Road and arrives at the church at 9 34 a m. Bus No 2 leaves Cooper's Corner at 8 55 a m with stops including Turbits Creek Wildes District Road Cape Porpoise Bradbury's Store Cluff's Town House Leach's Kennebunk Landing and arrives at 9 35 a m. For more info call 967 2202.
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Kennebunk
Advent Christian Church
Cooper's Corner
Brown Street
West Kennebunk
Boyden’s Market
Cat
Mousam Road
Main Street
Park Street
Summer Street
Sea Road
Heath Road
Old Port Road
Cooper’s Corner
Turbots Creek
McLean’s
Thief Steals Mail Sack From Post Office
In Cromwell Indiana a thief took a bulging mail sack from the post office. Authorities found the sack empty except for 19 additional empty mail sacks.
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Cromwell
Ind
Today in History: Khrushchev visit and world events
On Sept 15 1959 Premier Khrushchev began a 13 day visit to the United States. Other items note the 1989 name change to Department of State, Taft’s 1857 birth, 1935 Nuremberg laws, Chamberlain’s 1938 talks with Hitler, Adenauer as West Germany chancellor, U.N. condemnation of Hungary, Russian spies case, and Gemini 7/landing milestone.
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Associated Press
Nikita Khrushchev
Washington
United States
U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs
Department of State
William Howard Taft
Neville Chamberlain
Berchtesgaden
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Konrad Adenauer
West Germany
U.N. General Assembly
Soviet Union
Hungary
Justice Department
Atlantic
Waitress Returns Lost Purse After Theft Near Springfield
In Springfield Missouri a waitress helped return a purse containing 320 dollars after Mrs. Stevens left it in a cafe. A woman was seen getting into a car with the purse but claimed it was hers when asked, and drove off.
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Springfield
Robert Stevens
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Florida Development Commission
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Brooklyn College
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Joint Services’ Communications School
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