Columbia Markets of Portland expands to seven stores
Columbia Markets of Portland, a multi million dollar supermarket chain, has acquired Edward's Market on Elm Street and Edward's Discount Center in Rochester New Hampshire. The expansion makes seven supermarkets with 425 employees.
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Biddeford
Edward’s Market
Elm Street
Columbia Markets
Portland
Maine
Columbia
Rochester
N. H
Herbert Smaha
Smaha
Oldolumbia
Forest Avenue
Bangor
Pine Tree
Lewiston
Albert Smaha
Gerald Turner
Roger Moody P
Gerry Willamson
Richard Brooks
Turner and Brooks
Williamson and Moody
Sisters tour ends after 15,000 miles for GIs
Sister Mary Xavier and 12 troupe members from Dubuque completed a 50 day tour covering 15,000 miles entertaining GIs in Iceland Greenland Labrador and Newfoundland. Suellen Siliskar 20 of Clarke College described the group as a Coffee House Theater troupe.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Mary Xavier
Dubuque
Owa
Iceland
Greenland
Labrador
Newfoundland
Suellen Siliskar
Clarke College
Women's Group To Sponsor Rummage Sale
The Women's Fellowship of Christ Congregational in Biddeford will sponsor a rummage sale on October 13. A Calendar Supper is planned for October 21. Circle activities ranged across Circles A C and D with meetings at various homes led by circle leaders and attended by members including Mrs. Annie Phillips Mrs. Ruby Packard Mrs. Mark Horne and others.
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Women’s Fellowship of Christ
Congregational
Biddeford
Circle A
Annie Phillips
Main St
Saco
Ruby Packard
Mark Horne
Alfred Stimpson
Orville Pollard
Reginald McAdoo
Warren Libby
Libby
Circle C
John Moeckel
Clayton W. Cartmill
Elm Street Biddeford
Paul Larrabee
Carleton F. Foss
Robert Montgomery
Moeckel
Leo W. Pratt
John H. Miller
Army plans joint civil disorder action with National Guard
Gen. Ralph Navies Jr says the Army will map plans with National Guard units to handle civil disturbances in cities. The approach includes pre staged maps, aerial photos, defined sectors, police coordination, rules of engagement, and supply storage. Separately protests target draft offices and welfare advocates press Senate for welfare bill revisions.
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Associated Press
Washington
Detroit
Ralph E. Navies Jr
Army
National Guard Association
Guard
Selective Service
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Russell B. Long
D-La
Long
Capitol
Festival Scrolls and First US Gravure Stamp Issued
Israel releases a five stamp Festival set featuring Torah Scrolls for Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur with agorot values 12 15 35 40 and 80. The US print marks Eakins painting The Biglen Brothers Racing with first day ceremonies in Washington.
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Associated Press
SYD Kronish
Israel
Israel Philatelic Agency
United States
Thomas Eakins
Biglen Brothers
Schuylkill River
Philadelphia
National Gallery of Art
Washington
Washington, D.C
Tunisia stamps honor Mediterranean Games with athletic designs
Tunisia issues commemorative stamps for the Mediterranean Games in Tunis. Denoms range from 5 to 75 millimes and depict the stadium arena pool and tennis court with stylized athletic figures. The set also features English and Chinese inscriptions alongside a world map background.
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Tunisia
Tunis
Bridge Club Opens Fall Session at Camp Beach
Old Orchard The Tuesday Afternoon Dessert Bridge Club started the season with an outing at Camp Beach Swan Pond the Bean camp. Mrs Elizabeth Garland received a surprise birthday cake as dessert and high score went to Mrs Jones.
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Old Orchard Beach
Bridge Club
Camp Beach
Swan Pond
Herbert Bean
Mrs. Bean
Thure Anderson
Elizabeth Garland
Donald Briggs
Howard Slaney
Wesley Mewer
Donald Skilling
Donald Jones
J. M. Court
Arthur Dickson
Helen Fitzgibbons
Clement Wight
Jones
Anderson
Art Association Announces Classes in Old Orchard Beach
The Old Orchard Beach Art Association held a business meeting at Jameson School with President Mrs. Alice Murphy presiding. Joseph Bay reported on the Art Festival. Frank Handlen of Biddeford Pool will teach starting Tuesday Oct 3 with classes on the first and third Tuesdays each month.
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Old Orchard Beach
C. Paul Wight
Joseph Bay
Josephine C. Bay
Almonza Souliere
Ardis Wortman
Alice D. Leavitt
Adrienne Binette
Charles Swicker
Evelyn Monier
Marion G. Banks
Beatrice Bernard
United States to Need One Trillion Gallons Water Daily by 2000
A Worthington Corp study predicts national water demand reaching a trillion gallons per day by 2000. It says water will be recirculated through factories multiple times before reaching customers, with rivers increasingly returning to the sea after ten or more reuses.
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Harrison, N.J
United States
Worthington Corp
Teeland Largest Section of Mid-Atlantic Ridge Above Sea
Teeland is described as the largest exposed portion of the 10 000 mile Mid Atlantic Ridge the longest undersea mountain chain spanning from Arctic to Antarctic and rising above sea level in the region.
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Teeland
Mid - Atlantic
Arctic
Final Plans For Fourth Degree Are Completed
Discussion of final plans for the exemplification of the Fourth Degree took place during a Knights of Columbus meeting in Biddeford. Plans cover the ceremony at St. Joseph's Parish Hall and a banquet at the Rochambeau Club with out of town guests staying at Edgewater Motel.
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Biddeford
Luke E. Hart
South Street
Roland Millette
Edgewater
Old Orchard Beach
Irene Bouffard
Muriel
Donald Boissonneault
Doris Millette
Bouthillette
Albert Carrier
Wilfred Roy
J. Philip Masse
Roy
Urbain Langevin
St. Margaret’s Church
St. Mary’s Church
Leo Nolette
Refuses To Be Led Astray In AA Meeting Tale
A Joplin bartender reports a man walked in ordered a beer then another. When reminded he had not touched the first drink the patron said he had attended an AA meeting the night before and was told to be wary of the first drink.
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Joplin
Fourth of July cannon salute by U S military installations
Each July 4 the U S military stations fire a cannon salvo equal to the number of states. The tradition marks Independence Day with a ceremonial display.
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U.S
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