Staff Writer
• Among the new enterprises that will be started soon in Washburn is a bank — at least the chances at present seem to point that way. • The ice went out of the Caribou Stream on Wednesday.
• X.A. Cyr of North Caribou has been elected superintendent of schools of the Plantation of Connor.
• The benefits already noticeable from the curfew ordinance are many. Young boys who had a practice of loafing on the streets are now under home influences. Policeman McMann is taking good care that the ordinance is enforced.
• Miss Evelyn Hussey returned to Boston this week after spending her Easter vacation with her father, C.P. Hussey, in this town. Miss Hussey is a student at the New England Conservatory of Music and will graduate this coming June.
• Maynard Greenier left Thursday for Connecticut where he is employed on a farm.
• Gilman and Richard Sullivan, students at Harvard, returned Saturday to spend the spring vacation with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. P.J. Sullivan.
• It will be interesting to see Sam Shellac and his flivver radio at the box social to be held on April 12, at the Grange Hall, under the auspices of the Caribou Grange. Ladies please bring a box lunch, which the men will be expected to buy. The proceeds are to be used in special work at the public library.
• Russell Getchell, who for some time has served very efficiently on the Caribou police force, has been hired as chief of police in Limestone and began his duties there Saturday evening.
• George Tracy from the Sawyer Road, lost a new milk cow this week from an attack of milk fever.
• Peter Kelley, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Kelley, is on a 10-day vacation from Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., He is vacationing with a classmate, Tom Piper at the Piper home in Pompano Beach, Florida.
• Twenty students from Caribou High School left for Houlton today to compete in the All-State Band and Chorus event.
• Tommy Cox, for the third consecutive year won first prize with his singing at the variety show sponsored by the Caribou High School Class of 1960. He was accompanied with guitars played by Gilbert Mauro and Roger LaPlante. The Phelan Trio with Leo, Sue and Penny won second prize and the “Three Mistakes,” a comedy act by Jim Blunt, Phil Peterson and Frank Hemphill took third place.
• Caribou Town Manager Charles D. Hatch announced yesterday that Sgt. Arnold Hale, who has been acting as police chief since the resignation of Chief Edward Tracy several months ago, had submitted his resignation to be effective April 21.
• Richard Winslow has returned to his studies at Bowdoin College after spending a 10-day vacation with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Russell Winslow.
