Local Briefs Highlight Saco Biddeford and Area News
Personal notices list Mrs Daisy Estabrook and Oscar Emerson as surgical patients at Webber Hospital and Maine Medical Center. Visits from C Paul Randall and son Steph en, of Churchtown Md, to Biddeford. students Douglas Sanborn and Alan Marston begin college life. Mrs Sylvia Johnson attends Maine presidents conference. naval member Robert Milliken attends Pacific festival in San Francisco. Beaudoin family returns from Canada after funeral. Alden Warner heads to Southern Illinois University. Sarah Speck funeral held at Trinity Episcopal Church Saco.
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Daisy B. Estabrook
School Street
Saco
Webber Hospital
Oscar W. Emerson
Oak Street
Biddeford
Maine Medical Center
Portland
C. Paul Randall
Stephen
Churchtown
Emily Randall
Elm Street
Biddefod
Douglas Sanborn
Union Street
University of Maine
Kappa Epston Fraternity House
Sylvia Johnson
Saco Teachers Association
President's Association Conference of
Maine
Augusta
Robert ¢. Milliken
EM 5C
USN
Clayton H. Milliken
Pool Road
Merrick
San Francisco
Alan D. Marston
William H. Marston
Glenhaven Circle
Emerson College
Boston
Thornton Academy
Placido Beaudoin
Summer Street
Canada
Eugene Beaudoin
Ste. Agapit
Illinois
Thy
William Warner
Stamford
Religious meetings fill midweek area churches
The region's churches list Wednesday activities across Kennebunkport Biddeford Saco Old Orchard Beach and surrounding towns. Classes prayer meetings Bible studies choir rehearsals and church services are scheduled at Christ Episcopal St. David Kennebunkport Biddeford First Universalist Lyman Baptist Advent Christian Village Baptist First Baptist Ocean Avenue Hamilton Memorial and Christian Science Society with reading room hours noted.
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First Baptist Church
Ocean Avenue
Old Orchard Beach
Kennebunkport
The
Christian Science Society
Hamilton Memorial
Beach Street
Saco
Rosh Hashanah Security Plan Upheld by Kennedy
World item reports Kennedy H his plan for Jewish policemen to swap tours with officers of other faiths to observe Rosh Hashanah without weakening city security. Wagner said Kennedy assured him no criticism of anyone’s religion. New York rabbis pressed for exemptions. Kennedy refused. Jewish officers could trade or swap duties if another member covered.
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Kennedy Hashlan Kennedy
Wagner
Kennedy
New York
Amateur Radio Stations Reach 179 In United States
At last count there were 179 licensed amateur radio stations operating across the United States, reflecting growing interest in citizen communications and emergency readiness amid expanding radio hobbyists nationwide.
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United States
Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret E. Jellerson at Most Holy Trinity
Funeral services were held this morning from Most Holy Trinity church in Saco for Mrs. Margaret E. Jellerson widow of Percy L. Jellerson. Rev Arthur St Pierre officiated the requiem high mass at the church and graveside rites at Woodlawn cemetery Biddeford with organist Miss Louise Welch contributing.
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Most Holy Trinity Church
Saco
Margaret E. Jellerson
Percy L. Jellerson
Woodlawn
Biddeford
Arthur St. Pierre
Louise Welch
Funeral services held for Samuel Bromley in Saco
Funeral services were held yesterday for Samuel Bromley of Old Orchard. Dennett and Craig funeral home of Saco directed the services with Rev. Thomas Know of Trinity Episcopal church, Saco officiating and burial in Plainfield cemetery, Plainfield, Connecticut.
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Sarah Jr. Speck
Charles P
Old Orchard
Trinity Loss Speck
Charles P. Speck
Thomas Krox
Copal Church
Saco
Laurel Hill Cemetery
Thomas Hooper
John Hill
John Burchill
Leon Jones
Philip Graves
Lowell Innes
Samuel Bromley
Dennett and Craig Funeral Home
Thomas Know
Trinity Episcopal Church
Plainfield Cemetery
Plainfield, Conn
Saco City Hall To Be Opened For Inspection
Saco opens city hall and street department garage for public inspection Friday 1 to 5 PM and Saturday 9 to noon. City Clerk Clifford A Purvis says the open house lets residents view changes in offices this year and see how tax money was spent. The new superintendent of schools office the new city courtroom GAR hall and the completed city garage will be open for viewing.
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Saco
Clifford A. Purvis
Purvis
Superintendent of Schools
GAR
Girls Harassed by Obscene Phone Calls in Saco
Saco Police Chief Raymond Kerry reported two girls in Saco have been harassed by a man telephoning since July. The caller uses vile language, refuses to identify himself, and hangs up. A $100 fine and up to one month in jail are cited for such misuse of the telephone. Police will investigate all reports and urge others to come forward.
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Saco Olice
Raymond Kerry
Saco
Kerry
Community group meetings scheduled across cities this week
A schedule of local meetings includes St Joseph alumnae at St Louis High Wednesday at 7 30 p m, World War I Widows Inc meeting tomorrow night at 7 30 in American Legion hall Saco, a Burns School reception for Saco teachers tonight at 8, and a Poe meeting of Saco P C A. Pack 309 at Biddeford K of C hall. Also Lady Royal Stewart auxiliary meets Thursday at Ahepa hall Saco and Blue Feather council of Pocahontas meets Thursday at Elm Street hall Biddeford with Elen Staples of Belfast visiting. Plans for Portland Great Council October 7 and 8 and refreshments provided. Biddeford Civil Defense and Public Safety Association meets tonight at 7 30 at MVets post home Alfred Street Biddeford.
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St. Joseph
St. Louis High School
Widows, Inc
American Legion Hall
Saco
Royal Stewart
Order of the
Ahepa Hall
Blue’ Feather Council
Elm Street
Biddeford
Elen Staples
Belfast
Great Council
Portland
Atlantic City Winds Harder Than Chicago’s Windy Claim
Atlantic City labeled The Convention City and Playground of the World hosts a wind comparison. The Weather Bureau reports Chicago’s Midway Airport average hourly wind speed at 3.8 mph, while Atlantic City records 15.2 mph, challenging the Windy City label.
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Atlantic City
N. J. Ip
Chicago
Windy City
U. S
Portland Weather Summary From Local Forecast
Cloudy with intermittent rain or snow showers this afternoon and cool air. North to northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight rain ends and skies clear by morning with little temperature change. Wednesday starts cloudy then becomes fair and warmer with Portland at 50s and nearby towns in the 40s to 50s.
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Portland
Caribou
Eastport
Greenwich
Old Town
Rumford
Mt. Wash
Concord
Halifax
Montreal
Ts Ae
Bay State Pair Enter Innocent Pleas In Court
Robert F. Newbert and Jesse James Davis of Lynn Massachusetts pleaded innocent to multiple indictments of breaking entering and larceny at York County Superior Court in Alfred before Justice Abraham M Rudman. They face charges from June 6 acts at Acton camps and a June 15 theft at the Collette camp. They were jailed awaiting further court action after prior guilty pleas in lower court following a sheriff’s probe into Acton camp breaks.
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Robert F. Newbert
Jesse James Davis
Lynn
Mass
York County Superior Court
Alfred
Abraham M. Rudman
Bangor
Neubert
Arthur Bottomley
Acton
Atty
J. Woodrow Vallely
Sanford
Donald Allen
Saco
Davis
York County
Robert McGowan
Grassmere
N. H
Green
Biddeford
James Besso
Arthur and
Alice Dubois
York County Parole and Probation Officer
Robert T. Randall
Cornish
Trinity Guild Lists Series Of Fall Projects
Trinity Episcopal Guild outlines a fall program with an October 1 benefit coffee hosted by Mrs Clarence Craig at 7 Summer Street and a rummage sale October 14 in the parish house. The guild will also serve a communion breakfast November 27 after the Men’s Corporate Communion Sunday for area church members. Officers and members present are listed. refreshments were served by Mrs VanFleet, Mrs Stackpole, and Mrs Goss.
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Trinity Episcopal Guild
Sace
Clarence Craig
Summer Street
Gerald van Flee
Thomas Stone
James Ward, Jr
Gilbert Anderson
Guild
Joseph Cummings, Jr
Willis Hall
Milton Goss
Carol Deans
Craig
Fred Nelson
John Payne
Robert Mood
Ethel Berwick
Mary S. Foley
Paul S. Hill, Jr
Lowell Innes
Stone
VanFleet
Anderson
Ward, Jr
Alec Stackpole
John Hill
Henry Begley
Philip Graves
Linwood Nason
Barbara Mitchell
Stackpole
Goss
St Andre Association plans varied fall activities
The St Andre Parents Friends and Teachers association held its first general fall meeting in the parish hall approving a calendar of events including dedication ceremonies at the playground a silver tea a harvest ball and a bazaar The bazaar committee was formed with Joseph Flamendon Paul Beaupre Roland Gauthier Oscar Martel John Milley Mrs Claire Nadeau Richard Parenteau and Maurice Hebert Plans for October bazaar events were outlined along with a membership drive set for January and a Christmas party on December 26 The meeting featured reports from officers and committee chairs and guest speaker Joseph Fred Warner of St Francis College who spoke on The Catholic Philosophy of Education The social hour followed with refreshments served by a hospitality committee
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St. Andre
Claire Nadeau
Richard Parenteau
Maurice Hebert
Trasurer
Andre Fortier
Plamondon
Aime Giguere
St. Andre Grammar
Joseph ‘Fred: Warner
St. Francis College
Jobless Pay Claims Rise in Biddeford Area
Summer employment declines and temporary layoffs in the shoe industry are cited as the causes for a sharp rise in unemployment compensation claims. The Biddeford office of the Maine Employment Security commission reported 734 weekly claims, up 113 from the prior week but well below the 1,132 claims a year earlier.
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Biddeford Area
Biddeford
Maine Employment Security Commission
Social Club Will Meet Wednesday
The Biddeford Democratic Social club will hold its first fall meeting tomorrow evening at St. John hall on Jefferson street. A beef stew supper is planned for 6 30. Daniel Cantara Sr president said county candidates from Biddeford will attend. Plans for a large joint meeting with the women’s group before the November election are on the agenda.
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Biddeford
Firemen Called Out Twice But No Fires
Biddeford firemen were called out twice in nine hours during the night but there were no fires to extinguish. Tank 1 rushed to Alfred road at 8:40 but found no fire. At 5:40 in the morning they checked the automatic sprinkler alarm at Butler's Department Store on Main Street and again found no fire.
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Biddeford
Tank 1
Alfred Road
Butler's Department
Main Street
Nixon Faces Pressure as Communism Fights for Power
The report portrays Nixon as weak willed and indecisive while the Communist bloc presses the United Nations to march in lock step. Nixon Campaigned through northeastern Pennsylvania urging voters to resist being knocked off balance by Khrushchev’s UN visit.
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Nixon
United Nations
Pennsylvania
Khrushchev
U N Session Opens With New Nations Admission Hit
In Harlem at the Theresa Hotel the U N opens with 15 new nations to be admitted, 14 from Africa and Cyprus. Khrushchev seeks to split these nations to swing votes to communists. The West backs an Irish candidate, Frederick Boland, to succeed Peru's Belaunde.
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Harlem
New York
Africa
Cyprus
U.N
Khrushchev
Victor Andress Belaunde
Peru
Frederick A Boland _ dirt Nosek
Czechoslovakia
Ticket Taker King Is Dead at Biddeford City Theater
Bartholomew Murphy owner of the City theater in Biddeford mourns King the pet monkey who served as an usher for three years. An autopsy found death from indigestion caused by eating wood shavings after a daily routine of park visits and theater duties.
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King
Bartholomew Murphy
Graham Street
Biddeford
First National Bank of
Murphy
Largest grain shipment to Lipman Poultry Co
FARMINGDALE reports the Kennebec River carried a record grain cargo this weekend. The Lipman Poultry Co received 96,000 bushels of chicken feed, the largest single shipment and third since the river opened to traffic three months ago.
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Farmingdale
Kennebec River
Lipman Poultry Co
Speeding Fine In Saco Municipal Court Case
Ernest E. Guertin aged 50 of 451 Main Street Biddeford was fined $10 in Saco Municipal Court this morning by Judge Hilary Mahaney on a charge of speeding 50 mph in a 30 mph zone. Saco police were the complainants.
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Ernest E. Guertin
Main Street
Biddeford
Saco
Hilary Mahaney
Saco Lice
WCTU Conclave Opens as Portland Hosts Conventions
A Saco group meeting planned fund raisers by selling dish cloths and holding a candy sale. The Maine State WCTU and National WCTU conventions convene in Portland at Immanuel Baptist church from Sept 23 to 27 with honors, youth events, officer elections, and a keynote by U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith.
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Maine
The
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Portland
Immanual Baptist Church
Paul Halladay
Nswelcome
New England i
Youth Temperance Council
Eastland Hotel
Edward Nelson
Glenn G. Hays
Rutherford L. Decker
Prohibition Party
U. S
America
Christian Action
Fred L. Tooze
Lucy
World War I Veterans Hear Hospital Treatment Report
About forty World War I veterans at York County Barracks I in Fremont hall Biddeford heard a speaker describe hospital care for veterans in the New Orleans area. Alfred Woodman a Biddeford native who moved south forty years ago gave an informative talk to his former wartime comrades.
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New Orlean
York County
Fremont Hall
Alfred Street
Biddeford
P.rley Woodman
South J
Lewiston Officials Tour Saco Snow Dump for Ideas
Lewiston officials toured Saco's Cumberland Avenue snow sanitary landfill to study waste disposal. Saco uses a piggery to dispose of waste and Lewiston praised how the system is handled amid Bangor area policing noting quiet conditions with no arrests or major incidents.
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Lewiston
Saco
Cumberland Avenue
Maine
Delegates Chosen by Barracks Auxiliary
Five new members joined the York County Barracks of World War One auxiliary at the Fremont Club hall Alfred Street. Delegates to the Miami convention October 9 to 13 are Mrs Delciarechette and Mrs Blanche Small with alternates Mrs Yvonne Bergeron and Mrs Mary Wood. Next meeting October 3.
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York County
Fremont Club
Alfred Street
Alma_ Sylvester
Florence Gagne
Rose Cantara
Elizabeth Small
Violette Begin
Miami
Fla
Delciarechette
Blanche Small
Yvonne Bergeron
Mary Wood
Delcia Frechette
$60 Fine Appealed To Superior Court
Benjamin M. Campbell Jr of South Portland appealed a $60 fine on charges of driving to endanger to the January term of York County Superior Court in Old Orchard Beach. Trial Justice Wesley M. Mewer heard the case, Campbell pled not guilty, bail set at $200, Old Orchard Beach police the complainants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin M. Campbell, Jr
South Portland
York County Superior Court
Old Orchard Beech
Campbell
Wesley M. Mewer
Mewer
Old Orchard
Beach
Blind girl Joan Cox runs Braille switchboard in El Paso
In El Paso Texas Joan Cox a visually impaired girl operates a Braille equipped telephone switchboard with aid from her seeing eye dog Jenny.
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Joan Cox
el Paso
Tex. J
Jenny
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Sarah Speck
Christ Episcopal Church
St. David Church
Brewster Doane
Ember
Christ Church
Religious Education Committee
Biddeford First Universalist Church
Lyman Baptist Church
Goodwins Mills
Advent Christian Church
Kennebunk Lower Village
Allstate
Paul R. Rousseau
Mearye
Margaret Jellison
Saco City Hall
Burns
Saco P. CA
C. Hall
Washington Street
Bay State
Trinity Guild
St. Andre Association
Speeder
WCTU
Saco Past Noble Grands Association
Mertie Meserve
Portland Road
Saco Rebekah Lodge
Madeline Brackett
Linnette Martin
Charlotte Crown
Meserve
Marion McAuley
Adelpha McKeen
Marion Kennedy
Lottie Kingsbury
Carrie Emery
Nanicy Rumery
Aldie Palmer
Evan Sherman
Georgianna Harriman
Herberta Harriman
Adams
Margaret Chase Smith
Saco Dump
Superior
Dennett & Craig, Inc
Saco, Maine
Canal National AN
First Bank
Bernard C. Brown
Edward C. Jackson
Veterans’ Square
Rupert H. Tavis
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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