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Portland Press Herald from Portland, Maine • 24

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i Portland Press Herald Thursday Morning April 14' 1949 Twenty-Four Portland IIium Late News And Social Events At Westbrook A 4f 1 I "5 1 'W i i 1 0') V' i': i I-'- u'' i- i 61 Seniors Set For Capital Trip South Portland April Sixty-one members of the South Portland High School senior class will leave Rlday April 22 on the annual Washington trip Miss Madallna Perazzl and Mrs Calvin Ollbert will accompany the group aa chaperones i Those taking the trip will be he Misses Dorothy Moron Janet naming Beverly Morris Marilyn Skinner Margaret Conley Marie River Joan Brown Barbara Seaman Joyce Hager Rita Packard Elizabeth Wallace Peggy Lnnt Suzanne Norton Eleanor Trufant rene Sokoloskl Carolyn Abbott Beverly Wlthee Constance La-Rochelle Jean Merrill Lois Tot-man Donna Rae Smalley Anne ley Bradstreet Marilyn Cronklte ean Dunton Geraldine King aullne Luce Joen' Matthews Carol Morris Doris Fisher Carolyn Fqgg Dorothy Rice Eleanor UcKay Margaret Libby Carol lafferty Helen Coggins Dolores ihaw Ruth Martin Jean Palmer Barbara Coffey and Joan Towle William Staples William Stevens Winston Jordan Warren Harthorne Chtpmkn stockford llehard Alley Keith Moore Fred Adams Thomas Price Donald ieny Donald Durost Ralph Stan-ey Bra Bowden Earl Mlleson Celth Dennison Jerome Daniels Benny Vamvaklax Wesley Virtue millp Cash James McBrady and Richard Seavey Calendar Junior Burns ClubMrs Gertrude Urban Woodford Street Portland evening Cape Elisabeth Grange nail Club Mr and Mrs HoUy Kler-stead Valley Street Portland evening Red bank Community Church community Building I Easter cantata Auxiliary to South Portland Post VFW progressive whist Mothers' Club South Portland Heights School afternoon -Sokokl Girl Scout Mothers' Club Mrs Lloyd Jordan Ocean Street evening Hilltop Guild First Congregational Church parish hall evening Mlneola" Council" DP VFW Hall degrees to be conferred social Spnrwlnk Club Mrs Frederick Hinnaford Fowler Road Cape Elizabeth Double Four ClubMrs Evelyn Coker Ocean House Road Cape Elizabeth evening Owl's Club Mrs Eleanor Berry Sherman Street Portland Lions Club high school cafeteria 615 supper Chatorso Club Mrs Ernest Rumery Munjoy Street Portland evening Gey Club Mrs George 8 Parker Devereaux Circle Redbank Villas evening A Club Mrs Edwin Woodsum Summit Street evening Chatk Club lln Lawrence Marshall buffet lunch following Easter cantata II Club Mrs George Milligan Sherman Street Portland His sermon win be The Second Last Word Of Christ Cheerio Club Meet The Cheerio Club met at the home of Bfrs Elmer Winshtp Haskell Street and voted to send Easter plants to farmer members Attending were Mrs Edgtr Cox Mrs Alfred Clarke Mra Harrison Andrews Mrs Earl Christensen Mrs Earl Wilson Mrs Roland Frazer Bfrs Irvins Finney Mrs William Hartley Mrs Ove Christensen and Mra Ilolgsr Christensen Mrs William Knudsen presided The May meeting wfll be with Mrs Earl Christensen Boothby Avenue Carol Holmes daughter of BCr and Mrs Whir ley Holmes Portland la a patient In the Westbrook Hospital Mra Nick Lie hats (Della Arsenault) Hartford Conn formerly i of this city la spending a week with Mr and Mra Frank Ferry Myrtle Street Easter music at the First Baptist Church will include the fol-' lowing numbers st the 10 a Sunday sendee: Organ preluda Resurrection Morn Johnston: organ offertory Bells of Easter Nolte anthem by the senior choir King Of Klnga Simper anthem by the united senior and junior choirs Christ Arose Lowry and organ postlude Unfold Ye Portals-' Oounod Boys and girls of the junior choir will wear the new robes for the first time There will also be a special music at the evening service and the ordinance of baptism will be administered: to several candidates The senior choir of the church will rehearse at JO tn the sanctuary- Contributions' for a memorial Easter Lily are being received by Mrs Alex Henderson Miss Mary Kelley daughter of lie and Bfrs Joseph Kelley Blxple Avenue Is a surgical patient in the Osteopathic Hospital of Maine -Notice: Parker has 1000 sew summer 4resas is slock Select yews early and pay weekly at A dv for stylo quality thrift la Women's and Tees Ago fashions Easy credit Benon'a estbrook Adr Keys made 'for house and cars Edwards 4 Peters 925 Main St- Westbrook Phone SML-Adr WINS TOP SINGING HONOR Patricia GUI South Portland High School soprano who won first honors In an audition sponsored by the Portland Men's Singing Club at the high school Bliss Gill a sophomore was selected from a field of four to compete In a talent contest sponsored by the club during Its annual spring concert She la the daughter of Mr and Mrs Rands Gill 34 Carroll Street Personals And Briefs Soath Portland April 11 The Recta Unit of the Thornton Heithts Methodist Church will present the two-set comedy Our Church Fair In the church vestry at April 21 under the direction of Mrs Reginald Lombard Mrs Carl Harmon and Mrs Howard Mayo will hive the leading roles and others participating anil be Mrs Hazel Beety Mrs Edwin Ooodler Mrs Alll-aon Laberee Mrs Norman Penney Mrs Arthur Olasier Mrs Eugene A Garland Mrs Joseph libby Mrs Roger Waldron Mrs Oeneva Jackson and Mrs Warner Garland Mrs Helen Mayo Savage will present a reading- Edwin Ooodler la la charge of stage end properties and Mrs Herman Bishop and Mrs Lawrence Ga-han are co-chairmen of the Candy Committee Mrs Lombard and Mrs Victor Worthing are' in charge of reservations Mrs Roy Oarland Herford Avenue entertained at a personal shower honoring her sister Miss Margaret Marie Matthewe State Street Portland whose marriage to Leo Hinds of Portland will taka place April 29 In 6t Dominic's Church 1 Those present were Mrs Mary Flaherty Mrs John Matthews Mrs Emile Morin Mrs -Dorothy Crlbby Mrs Percy Thompson Mrs Everett Doughty Mrs Joseph Coyne Mrs John Sullivan Mrs John Riley Mrs Roy Adams Miss Mary Coyne Miss Mary Lou Sullivan Mrs John Redmond Mias Helen Hinds and Miss Evelyn Hinds The Rev John Oullck of St Albans Episcopal Church will conduct Holy Week service! Thursday and Friday The Day of Watch and Prayer will begin at I a Thursday with Holy Communion and a Litany and sermon at 710 ja Friday and Saturday at 9 a a morning prayer and ante communion service will be held and on Friday from 12 to 2 p- a preaching of the Passion will be held with a prayer and meditation service at 7J0 At 5 Saturday the lighting of the Paschal candle will take piece with the first evensong of Easter Mr and Mrs Albert Shorey Rochester have been guests of Mrs Jerrold Shorey McKinley Street for a few days They were celled here by the death of Mr father Will Hold Sapper The Men's Club of the Thom-ten Heights Methodist Church win meet st S4S Mdijr for Hippo1 HiMtinc with Elbert Kennedy Warren likes and heraaa imp on (lit SUlttee Cerleton Frnley win be in chsise -of the entertainment By Press Herald Photographer Curran CONTEST Winners in the annual Westbrook High School prize speaking contest sponsored by the Stephen Manchester Post AL Wednesday evening In the High School Auditorium Left to right are Robert Tuttle first prize winner Jean Bryant second Dolores Johnson third and James Welch post vice commander who made the awards of savings bonds and stamps Hiss Lysla Abbott Discusses Sooks Before Parents Teachers Webster Authorized To Borrow $36000 South Portland April 1 City Manager Harold Webster was authorized by the City Council tonight to borrow S36000 from the National Bank of Commerce of Portland i The loan to be paid back In six Installments of $6000 annually Is for payment of the purchase of equipment for the Pubic Works and the Fire Departments slides at the high school assembly Thursday Miss Natalie Rice Central Street Is a patient In the Westbrook Hospital The Cloudman Relief Corps will meet at 7J0 Monday In the vestry of the Unlversallst Church The annual dinner for the corps will be held In Eight Corners Church Scarborough April 25 Mrs Seth Morton or MlU Mildred Xngersoll are to be notified for reservations Franklin Emery was elected to represent the Westbrook Chapter AVC at the National Housing Conference In Washington May and 9 At the meeting tonight lif the American Legion Hall the club also voted money to equip the softball team that will rater the local league -Maleora Plummer warn appointed to the Athletic Committee and Philip Gouzle chairman of Ihe Rules Committee The next meeting Trill be a supper and social with the Auxiliary April 27 The Rev Frederick Niles wfll be the speaker at Oood Friday services -in the First Parish Church of Portland at 12J0 P- I 21ub Doings Blrs Knight Whitehall Avenue next week Miss Barbara Coffin Fifth Street will be hostess to the Club next week Plans were made when Miss Ruth Benson entertained Blrs' Leon Pinkos Mrs Michael Mllroae and Mrs Freeman Brown won souvenirs when the Tues day Ramblers met with- Mrs Edward McDonough recently Mrs Pinkos 'Danforth Street Portland will entertain next week 21 Members Initiated Into Caldwell Post Twenty-one new members were Initiated at the Wednesday night meeting of the Ralph Caldwell Post AL In the post home Raymond McCubrey was in charge Louis Marshall vice president of a local automobile concern discussed the Junior American ZiCfion baseball jtroaram et last rear Marshall's company last year sponsored the Caldwell Councilors To" Study $525 Grocery Fee South Portland April Two city councilors were appointed to study a protest made tonight against a $525 license fee for South Portland grocers -Xn a special hearing with Cape Tlty grocers who said that the fee was a heavy burden City Council Chairman Philip Willard' appointed himself and Councilor Lincoln Hue all to study the question further The grocers with Arthur Charles secretary of the Maine State Grocers Association as spokesman said that the city wu found to be the only one out of ten that taxes both a vletualer and malt dealer tosether The fee wee adopted in the Cape ordinances about year ago I ASK TOU SEE PAGE Westbrook April 12 Lysla Abbott school librarian of the Portland Public Library spoke on Children's Books before a group of teachers and parentis of pupils of the local schools this afternoon In the Walker Memorial Library Miss Abbott traced the history of children's literature from the Horn Book of colonial days to the publications of today She stressed the Importance of the dewberry Award given annually by the Children's Library Assocl- tlon to the author of the Most Mstlnguished Contributions to American XJterature and of the Caldecott Medal' awarded each year to 1 the Illustrator of the Most Distinguished Picture Book for ChUdren The second meeting of the PrestuuM District bsslc train Ing course for scout rs of Westbrook Oartiam and Windham will be held at 7SO Thursday In Dana Hall The Catholic Action Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps will prac ties at TJO Thursday Calanthe Temple Pythian 81s-tersr will meet at 7 JO Friday In Society Hall The Mizpah Club trill serve a Good Friday breakfast from 5 JO to 8 JO a In Masonlo Hall Townsend Club Meets The Townsend Club of the First Unlversallst Church met this evening with Mrs Herbert Weeks of Spring Street end the group made May baskets for the community fair to be held at the Legion Hall April 28 The hostess was assisted by Mrs Ivan Qulmby and Mrs Grover Barber The Bfaundy Thursday church fellowship supper trill be held In the church vestry at 6J0 and communion will be served at 7 JO In the sanctuary when new members will be received Bliss Patricia Gaudreau student nurse at the Mercy Hospital has left for further training in Baltimore and Washington after spending a vacation with her father Ernest Gaudreau lyman Street Whitney Osgood was named chairman and Mrs Edward Clark secretary when a repreeen-tative group of Parent-Teacher Association members held round table discussion of how to present the school district plan I to the public Other members at tending were Howard Stevens Wjrman Kemp Rudolph Berube Robert Jensen Fred Tucker Mrs Maud Bleke Mrs Lawrence Plummer James Coyne Taylor Mrs Kenneth Mox-cey Mrs Theodore Jensen and Stanley Maguire An alarm from Oear 531 waa turned In at 10 a few a brush and grate fire on Halidon Road Oeorge Barker student at Gar-ham State Teachers: College will present a lecture and cdlowd Westbrook Headauarters For 'Your Children? Easter Shttes Priced from Post junior team ml till do to again this year He was given a picture of the last year team by John A Clark post eaa-msnder It wu announced that the drum corps will -hold ladles' night May 9 Pinal plans were made for the post's annual minstrel show which will be held in Legion Hall Westbrook April 2L and 22 A luncheon wu saved and more than 5 attended Week Of April 18 Is Cleanup Week Augusta April IS (AP)-rGov Frederick Payne today set the week of April 17 as "Cleanup Week" to get Maine ready for the Influx tat summer tourists State trucks will afal many communities In collecting winter debris The Governor asked city ant town officials service clubs and Boy Scout troops to aid the 'drive All Sheet X-Ray Fitted SHOlTsTORE Inc 3 to 7 Bridge St Weetbrook Me TeL 324 Open Thursday Evening Till 9 South Portland April IX were made to meet ater In the month with Bliss Ruth Beecher Prince's Point Yarmouth when the Social six Club met with Ira Lewis Carle Providence Avenue Mrs Herbert 8 Dyer West Broadway will entertain the Kno-Name Club April 26 plans being 'e when the dub met with Olenys Dyer Philip Dearborn and Mn Kenneth Tucker wan btidae souvenirs st the meeting of a local contract club iltti Mrt Clinton Murray Ocean House Road Cape niuhtth Plane were "--to meet with Mr Stanley Jordan Wells Road Tuesday BCrg Vernon Brown entertilned the group recently for a buffet supper Mrs Wlnford Doan was guest at the meeting of the Double Four Club with Bln Arthur Ha-sey Kelsey Street Plans were made to meet April 26 with Mrs Robert A- Foster Massachusetts Avenue Portland Bln Mark Htyes Mn George Southeard and Bin Clair Savage won bridge souvenirs at the meeting of the Avenue Bridge Club with Mrs Herbert Ames Everett Avenue Plans were made to meet with Blrs Savage Everett Avenue next week Plans were made to meet Wednesday with Bin Roland A Bearor St John Street 'Portland when the Heigh-Ho Club me with Blrs Millard Tupper for sewing and a social Tuesday evening Flans for a supper party with Mrs Frederick Breene Grand View Avenue were made when the Tuesday Nighten met With Blrs William Rogers fpr games and a social recently Blrs' Gilman Davie Clinton Street Portland will be hostess to the Jolly Seven Chib April 25 for social Plans were completed when the group met with Mrs John Kane Boyd Place Portland Blrs Francis Maloney a member of the club is a patient In the Mercy Hospital Blrs Ralph Goodwin Mrs Priscilla Austin and Bin Seth A Moulton wan souvenirs et the meeting of the Soclalate Bridge Club with Mrs Turner Learn ard Ray -Street Portland and plans were made to meet April 26 with Blrs Charles Merrill Hamilton Street Mrs Ivy Hughes Bln Howard Knight and Mrs Hilda Murphy won game souvenirs at the meeting of the Jolly Four Whist Club with Mrs Murphy recently ant plana were made to meet with daughter bom recently In the Mercy Hospital Brenda Maria The Hedbank Branch of the Woman's Sodality of St John the Evangelist Church will sponsor i public bridge tnd whist Wednesday evening In the Community Hall Mrs William' Moore Mrs Edmund Bliss and Mrs Nelson Jackham will be the assistants at the wellbaby Clinic to be held at Thursday by the South Portland District Nursing Association Plans were completed for the monthly meeting of the WSCS of the Elm Street Methodist Church at Thursday when the Executive Board metv with the president Mrs Angus' Merf-thew Plans vwere discussed for the variety show April 20 under the direction of Philip Yens The Dalphotf Unit will serve refreshments Miss Stella Barry RN director of the South Portland District Nursing Association will be the guest speaker Mrs Charles Knight wfll lead the devotional service and' William XL Anderson Jr will show pictures of the 50th anniversary celebration Mrs John Gordon was elected president of the Aid of the First Free Baptist Church when the group metrtoday for covered-dish luncheonbwlth Mrs Howard Maxwell v8purwlnk Avenue Cape Elizabeth Others elected were Mrs Alfred Preston vice-president: Mrs Roland Buck secretary Mrs Howard Maxwell treasurer Mrs Red Woods auditor and Mrs Charles Peterson Sunshine Committee chairman Plana were made to meet May 11 for Installation of officers vXUS Cub Scout Pack 7 Deni and 4 of the Thornton Heights Meth-edist Church will to on a hike tnd wiener roast Thursday to Wilkinson Park accompanied by Mrs Edward A Woodworth and Mrs ytoy Garland Members of the Woman's Sodality of 8t John the Evangelist Church win meet at 9 Friday at 15 Deermg Street Portland to say the Rosary for the late Joseph Jordan Plana were completed lor a dinner party at the home of Mrs Ernest HiU West Broadway April 28 When the Thalia Unit Snet with Mrs Merton Shew Stewart Morrill Unit AL auxiliary win meet at Friday Lester Blake department commander will talk on National Security Mrs Beatrice MacCor-snack win be In charge of the musical program and refreshments wfll be served by Mrs Malsie Foley Mrs Mina Haskell and Mrs Doris Dorla 7 Plana were made to" meet April SS with Mrs Mabel Davis Morse Street when the Wanda Sewing Circle met with Mrs Jane Snow Tuesday evening with Mrs Helen 1 Savage as the hostess Mrs Howard Johnson Tre-snoot Street Is confined to her heme by Illness -Mrs -Rank Breene and ao Frank Jr win arrive Friday from Sfingham Mast to past the week nd with Mr and Mrs Frederick Breene Grand View Avenue Third and fourth degrees will be roof erred by Cape Elizabeth Grange Saturday following the topper to be served at 6 JO Mr and Mrs John A Vassar Richland Street have named their All worsted gabardine Carefully tailored! BEsrammr- Tbc New Westinghouaci Lode of tnauivt magni ficencs that represents the finest la modern cooking! Gift Packages Packed with deluxe i meat of and dark big EASTER BASKETS IX up BUNNYS IX CmteUMd Crease BabMte and Easter Cream Eggs It TTy aw Peppermint stick Ice Cream DELICIOUS I 0THIR MODUS CRAFT only W1JH 45 AND ROME BCADB ICE CREAM 177 Mala ft Westbrook TsL 714 rut Vp with phatp Hast lag OSs sad Service PHILIP ft YERXA 875 Femf Ava -Dial 6-UlS-t-eSM THZ ST REGIS HOTEL IX MIDDLE IT American' A Italian Food ImklMu Itsliii rbM Dally Lunch eoa 45c Hk A vails far Frtnli Parttaa 175X1 Your favorite fabric eaty draping gabardine with a positive genius for long' wear! 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