20 Aug 1963
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Newspaper
Portsmouth Herald
Location
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1963
Page
1
Nominations for officers of the Port City Amateur Radio Club for 1985 will be taken at the Thursday meeting at 7 30 pm at the Health Center on Porter. Elections will be held September 12. interested persons are invited.
Brazzaville Congo Republic officials began an inquiry into the disappearance of millions of francs from a raffers project. Deposed President Youlou and several ex-ministers were questioned as the government seeks the exact amount, believed substantial.
In Orono Maine Gov Phil Hoff urged regional administrative units as towns and states drift apart. He told New England town and city managers that traditional town state government may be outmoded and that only broader regional units can preserve local government.
The Locke Family reunion will start at 10 a.m. in the vestry of Rye Congregational Church this Saturday. A fish chowder luncheon is served at 12:30 p.m. followed by a program arranged by Mrs. Esther Eastman. Current officers include Rev. Arthur C. Dewey as president, Hampton John L. Parsons as vice president and treasurer, and James J. W. Locke as secretary.
The Dolphin Navy Hospital Patient Wives Club met at 14 Watts Street with Mrs Roswell N French to discuss a membership drive at Tri County Osteopathic Hospital in September. They plan to elect officers October 1 and host an installation party, with a Sept 9 meeting at the clubhouse for Navy and Marine wives. proxies for the national convention in Chicago were discussed.
The Rev Walter Brockway of Seabrook leads thirty ministers and lay parsons attending a three day Second Quadrennial Town and Country Convocation of the United Church of Christ at Heidelberg College in Tiffin Ohio. A 1776 committee reports examining salpetre produced by Rev Dr Maven and weighing 300 pounds as sufficiently pure and dry.
Billy Rose, famed Broadway producer and financier, pursued a vast career spanning cabarets and columns while amassing wealth through Wall Street ventures. He now enjoys pigeon breeding on a Connecticut island estate and living in a five story Manhattan mansion with his terrier Jumbo.
The DAR hosted an Indian program at the home of Mrs William Carpenter with Miss Pauline Bartlett and others in attendance. Miss Schone presented on the American Indian. The next meeting will feature Miss Sohienck in New fields.
In York Beach Long Beach hosts the third annual Aga menticus Night Saturday at 8 pm. The Papiwa Tribe of Indians and Cub Scouts of Saco led by Norman Means perform authentic dances as more than 30 bonfires light the two mile beach along Route 1A. Before the bonfire lighting at 7:30 pm, men and boys from Long Beach challenge the Short Sands group in a tug of war for a year’s trophy.
Service News notes several young men from Newmarket Wadleigh Falls Road York Kittery and Portsmouth area embarking on nine weeks basic training at Great Lakes Naval Training Center. Included are Larry G Gowen Harold W Clark Jr Richard L St Hilaire Harry Fisher Denis Shevelin and others listed with parent names and hometowns. They join various assignments aboard ships and squadrons with conversion underway at Portsmouth Shipyard and San Diego based anti submarine squadron.
An Atomic Energy Commission official said on Monday the United States will disband its nuclear test base at Christmas Island soon after September 21. The island served as a U S testing site in 1982.
Hampton Beach kicks off a weeklong Mardi Gras with the longest parade in history. Fire departments from 54 towns joined antique equipment units, with Miss Cindy Chevalier crowned Hampton Beach junior queen on floats. Fire safety themes and regional bands highlighted the event.
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