Portland Press Herald from Portland, Maine • 14

Portland Sunday Telegram And Telegram And Sunday Press Herald Portland- Maine August 7 tft49 Hallowell Plans New England's Biggest Bean Hole assisted by Lean Wood aide postfkponslble for the bean hole bean commander Larry Alter Is re-isupper-- S' Back Jo School Special Regular $450 OIL Permanent Hallowell Aug I Saturday will play host to all who want a real okl fashioned bean hole bean supper as part of the annual Day celebration Although It may be known as the smallest city In the United States Hallowell will have the biggest bean hole in New Eng-and dug IMday In preparation or the supper The secret of preparing and baking bean hole beans Is known rrVs-T -v yry ed In It win be an expected 60 floats entered by local merchants A concert by the Hallowell Community Band will follow the parade Regaled with music prospective bean eaters should be at Muster Field at 530 to get their share of beans The first plate will be dUned out by Mayor Frank Babbitt Sponsors of the event promise everyone the beans you can so come hungry 1 During the afternoon many of HaUowelTs old homes some dating bock 150 years will be opened to the public Harold Tibbetts Is handling this phase of the program After the supper HaUoweU win resound to a mammoth street dance and numerous other activities aimed at entertaining visitors to the city HaUowelTs V-J Day program will be directed by Jesse Lewis to only a few Mr and Mrs Arslan Farar of West Sumner experts at the art will prepare HaUowelTs beans A big ten feet long by four feet will be dug Friday Huge stones will spend the day in roaring blazes Then toward dusk the stones will be put Into the hole along with the beans and pork In Iran kettles Hie entire hole Is then covered with earth and the beans and pork let simmer for 36 hours The bean hole works on the some Idea as a pressure Indian style People around 'Augusta and Hallowell will know beans are cooking since the aroma will per' meate -the ayes for miles around The festivities sponsored by the Hallowell Board of Trade and the Goodrlch-Caldwell Post AL will get underway In -the afternoon with a big parade Includ Regular $750 Cold Wave ftft Machine or rWV BEAUTY SALON il'" 547A CONGRESS ST DIAL 3-2241 i CmpIfU Machineless official bureaucrat with stpp-and-go signals these newest eras are right or wrong 'security which eliminates the risks of life also kills the joy that lies in competition in Individual adventure new undertakings and new achievements These contain moral and Intellectual Impulses more vital than even profits' For from them alone come national progress Stetson Pi Fourteen State Florists 1 Plan Meeting Beethbay Harbor Aar 6 The UsSzw State Florists' Association min hold its annual meetlnv at The Greenhouse here Wednesday with harbor tells a shore dinner election of officers and a special perform vice of the ploy Voice Of The Turtle among the day's scheduled activities Fat Patterson of Augusta Is chairman of the affair assisted by Carl Greenleaf of Lewiston Harry Small of Auburn Walter blorse of Rockland and Professor Roger Clapp of the University of Maine Members of the Northeastern Florists' Association will be guests of- the Maine organisation for the day Harbor sails are planned for the morning with a shore dinner scheduled at 1 at Brown Brothers Wharf Following the dinner the annual business meeting and election of officers will be held A special performance of The Voice Of The Turtle will -be presented at 3 at the Boothbay Playhouse i The annual Maine Tuna Tournament will be' In progress at the time of the-meeting and arrangements have been mode for members of the association to attend the colorful weighing In of the fishermen's catch and the like If they so desire Betty Grable Is Tops With Apache Indians Hollywood CAP) Twentieth Century-Fox plans to screen movies nightly to entertain 1700 Apache Indians from a reservation near the Sedona Basin Arts location site of The Arrow The studio polled the Indians to learn their favorites and the Apaches voted: (I) Betty Grable (21 cartoon comedies: (31 travel shorts 4 early rday Shirley Temple -movies (Si westerns In which Indians aren't portrayed as heavies 'I Open all day Saturday as usual A N5 AST TO RE -WIDE at t- -v i I Wide World Photo EX-PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER shown when he testified before the House armed services committee In Washington June 29 1949 to recommend revision- of the armed services unification law: Still a hard-working public official the Nation's only Uvlng: vgx-president will celebrate his 76th birthday Wednesday Herbert Hoover fTo Be 75 Years Old On Wednesday Pardon our enthusiasm but a sale event worth getting excited about 3 huge 'floors of Lancaster quality home furnishings at savings up to 65 Many one-of-a-kind items Some odds and ends and others that are -s just plain odd v- out they go priced for quick disposal -all sales final Doors 'j open 9 A Tomorrow! HAMILTON WATCHES By- Cynthia Lowry -AP Newsfeature Writer The Nation's only lljrlng exr President arrives at jthe three quarter -century mark Wednesday still a hard-working public official' At the moment Herbert Hoover ls eftjoylng a brief respite from his 18-hour-a-day Job -His birthday finds Hoover-in the surroundings he loves best: the campus of his alma mater Leland Stanford University with time for a little fishing with his children and grandchildren For some years he has declined personal interviews and has made public statements only concerning his major interests notably the Republican Party and the work of the non-partisan Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of -Government of which he is chairman He Is In excellent health In good spirits and enjoys life The round-faced man who persists in lookln like a thoughtful cherub despite great personal dignity has come a long way In popularity since the day in 1933 he left the White House in defeat in the midst of a great depression After that he dropped from political sight for a couple of years From his New York headquarters he went to work on Jobs that interested him: trustee of a number of philanthropic organizations and directing work of sden tlfie and service groups Critic Of New Deal He fished a little and traveled a lot Eventually he emerged from his politdal retirement to become a forthright and highly i 400 TABLES 400 ON SALE a Some Marked Price SHOP SPEIRS i -f PHILCO UPRIGHT FREEZER WUk Site worth of frooea 1 foods at oo extra cost DINING ROOM TABLES CHAIRS SUITES Solid Mahogany Ext Table and 4 chairs v'-iV 12950 7950 Drop Leaf Dining Room Tablc v'j- 5950 34410 Modern Oak Dinette Set 6 piece set 1 7950 13950 Odd Dining Room Choirs OFF om um ms Genuine Mahogany Diningroom Suite Duncan Pbyfe Extension Table Buffet five aide and one host chair Full stye pieces: Reg 32950 (As shown) Sale 24956 uThe Busy Store Theses A Reason- Rines Bros: Rock Maple Dinette Table and 4 chairs 8950 6950 Mahogany Sheraton Buffet Floor sample 16950 9950 Open Slock Rock Maple Dinettes and Dining Room Choose the pieces you want and save 1 up loVi OFF vocal critic of his successor's New Deal particularly of government Interference In private business He-has been an lmportan speaker at his party's national conventions In Philadelphia lost year when the Republicans were certain they were about to return to power the spontaneous demonstration for Hoover was almost as loud and prolonged as the carefully planned whoop-de-do staged for men who sought the party nomination His position as party elder statesman is strong A visit -with Hoover In his New York home an apartment in the Waldorf Astoria is conduct for 'party men aspiring to Important position Herbert Hoover however never has been a political prototype The only political office he ever sought or ran for was that of President An engineer by training practice and aptitude Hoover-made his mark by his administrative skill Latterly he has used this and Is steering the work of the Hoover Commission in studying the executive branch of government to reorganize its sprawling authority It Is an Interesting sidelight pn the character of the Nation's 30th President (or 31st if you count Grover Cleveland twice) that there are few anecdotes concerning him to compare with the endless Cool-idge and Roosevelt stories The popular picture of thejnan is of a quiet thoughtful person long on formality and even shy in a poised way Horatio Alger Ilfs 7 His life la In the Horatio Alger pattern An orphan at 10 hi was self-supporting at 15 Using his savings Hoover was one' of the first students to matriculate at-Stonford Graduating in 1695 with a degree In mining engineering he went to work with a pick and shovel in the mines Estsbllshedln Australia 1 as an engineer he married the girl toe met at Stanford Lou Henry They went to China where Hoover was chief engineer for the Chinese Department of Mines Those were exciting years punctuated by the Boxer Rebel-ion He returned to the United States to set up an International engineering practice with offices over the world By 1914 he was a hugely successful man dlrect-ng railways mining and allied Industries which employed as many as 160000 men On a trip to London in 1914 he organized the repatriation of thousands of Americans caught ike himself In World War He headed the administration of re lef for thousands of Belgians and French President Woodrow Wilson appointed him food administrator when the United States entered the war and the word went into the-Amerlcan language After the war specialist Hoover was named to head the Allied Administration of Relief whose activities eventually brought supplies to S3 war-lm poverlahed countries President Warren Harding appointed him Secretary of Commerce a post he held for eight years Prom there he went Into the White House on a landslide of Republican votes during an unprecedented boom Boom Blew Up But the boom blew up Always a hard worker Hoover sometimes spent 20 hours a day at his desk in his efforts to halt the decline Nevertheless he caught the share of blame Aa his popularity waned his round face became grimmer and his manner more remote Even his cloest associates found him cold What people fondly called the Hoover" began to emerge couple of years after he left Washington People -started talking about his humor his friendliness real niche In the esteem of the people today however is his measured and thoughtful approach to the Nation's problems i He summed up his philosophy a few weeks ago in an address at Ohlq Wesleyan University (where he wits mode a doctor or human ltles his 75th honorary degree): new era of today 8 seems united In the Nation I that they have Just discovered real liberalism and that all previous eras are Hoover said modernistic school adds to this that life still may be a race but that each step must be dictated by some official or un- 7 LIVING ROOM SOFAS CHAIRS TABLES Chippendale Sofa Grey Tapestry 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