Bath City Council approves tax club and daylight saving time
Bath Maine city officials at the April monthly meeting approved continuing the tax club with a one percent discount for payments before July 31 and set daylight saving time from April 26 to October 25. Police reported 45 arrests last month with 22 traffic violations and 224 total cases investigated. Building permits totaled 12 for 10,632 dollars. fire department had 14 alarms and one fatality.
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Bath
Stanley W. Judkins
Eva L.kingsbury
Judkins
March Manager's Report Details City Operations
The manager's report for March covers Police arrests and incidents including 45 arrests and 224 general complaints, 5 non fatal crashes, 3 ambulance calls, and 81 unlocked entrances with 110 street lights out. It lists parking meter revenue, fire alarms, and building permits totaling twelve. Cemeteries staff handled twelve entombments and grave removals, while parks operations included cleanups and tree removal. Highway work notes snow control, street sign replacement, crosswalk painting, and material hauling. Recreation reports 26 center days, 125 average daily attendance, 508 members, and three rummage safes plus six clue meetings. Public welfare aided 73 people with 306 and 192 hours of labor to highway/sewer and parks respectively. Health notes March communicable disease cases and inspections totaling twelve cases, 15 complaint inspections, and 36 officer-initiated inspections.
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Highway & Sewer Department
Goddard's
Center Street
Public Welfare Department
Highway and Sewer Department
Cemeteries and Parks Department
Health Department
Bath Names Lt Wagner Police Chief After Gaudreau
The Bath City Council approved Lt Robert E. Wagner Jr. as chief of police, effective May 2 upon Chief Edward L. Gaudreau’s retirement. Wagner, a 10 year force veteran and former deputy sheriff, has led as lieutenant the past four years and organized the Police Reserve unit. He is a World War II Navy veteran and holds multiple law enforcement training credentials.
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Bath
Stanley W. Judkins
Robert E. Wagner, Jr
Edward L. Gaudreau
Wagner
Bath Police Department
Lt. Wagner
State Police
F.B.I
Camp Keyes
Morse
U. S. S. Riley
Examination dates set for Bath fire and police vacancies
Bath secretary W D Skelton announced examinations to fill fire and police vacancies. Fire department driver exam May 6 at City Hall 7 30 pm for three openings with salaries 60 54 to 72 54 for a 78 hour week. Patrolman exam April 29 at 7 30 pm in City Hall. applications due by June 29.
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Police
W. D. Skelton
Bath Personnel Service Commission
Reed Seeks Democratic Nomination for State Representative
Carlton Day Reed Jr a 29 year old Woolwich bridge contractor has announced his bid for the Democratic nomination to represent Arrowsic Phippsburg Topsham West Bath and Woolwich Reed who nearly unseated incumbent John L Jack in 1956 is Bath born and active in Colby athletics He is married to Elizabeth Cummings of Bath and they have four children Reed belongs to the Elks Maine Good Roads Association and the Maine chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America
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Carlton Day Reed
Woolwich
Arrowsic
Phippsburg
Topsham
West Bath
Reed
John L. Jack
Colby College
Colby Vrid
Edmund S. Muskie
Elizabeth Cummings
Bath
The
Elks
Maine Good Roads Association
Maine
Associated General Contractors of America
Phippsburg Schedules Two Special Town Meetings This Month
Phippsburg plans two special town meetings this month. On April 16 at 7:00 PM a three article warrant will consider borrowing money in anticipation of taxes, funding civilian defense or vaunization, and laying out Monks road in West Point. A second meeting on April 26 at 1:00 PM may include three articles. Citizens’ committees back Roberts Rules of Order adoption and repeal of a building ordinance, plus a petition for secret ballots on future articles after public discussion.
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Phippsburg
Monks Road
West Point
Citizens’ Committee
Roberts
Selectmen
Board of Selectmen
Maine Council Of Young Republicans Here Saturday
The Maine Council of the Young Republicans will hold a special meeting at the Sedgwick Hotel at three Saturday afternoon. Representatives from clubs across Maine will meet to plan the Bangor convention May 2 and 4 and to hear Robert Welch speak on the Communist menace. Welch, Belmonton, Mass., author and lecturer, will also speak at a 7 pm public dinner. tickets available at the door.
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Maine Council of the Young Republicans
Sedgwick
Maine
Bangor
Robert Welch
Belmont
Mass
Welch
National Association of Manufacturers
John Birch
Sailor Freed After Sebasco Shooting Affray
Robert E. Anderson a 20 year old sailor stationed at Brunswick Naval Air Station was released by Bath police after overnight detention following a shooting at Sebasco in Phippsburg. He says four men had been bothering him and he fired after they approached his vehicle. Robert MacDonald 20 West Bath was wounded in the right thigh. he was taken to Bath Memorial Hospital in good condition. Three other Bath youths face disorderly conduct charges as police continue a related warrant and investigation.
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Robert E. Anderson
West
Anderosa
Phippsburg
Anderson
MacDonald
Bath Memorial Hospital
Edward L. Cummings
Robert Borski
Wallace York
Bath
Lower Washington Street
John Lowery
George Brctte
Robert Coombs
Cummings
Borski
York
Lt. MacDonald Of Battery B Raised To Captaincy
Lieutenant MacDonald of Zath's Battery B 703rd AAA Battalion was federally recognized as captain effective Jan 20 1958. He has commanded since Nov 6 1958 after succeeding Capt Edwin Hartquist of Boothbay Harbor. Married Bath native Priscilla Garside, Morse High 1948, with two children.
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Zath
N G
France
G MacDonald
Edwin A. Hartquist
Boothbay Harbor
South Portland
MacDonald
Bath
Capt MacDonald
Morse High School
Priscilla Garside
Green Street
Log Rolls On Man Breaks Leg at Bath Lumber Yard
Clinton Richardson aged 28 of Riverview Road was hospitalized Friday morning with a broken right leg above the ankle after a log rolled from the top of a pile while he was scaling logs at Frank Allegrin’s lumber yard on High Street in Bath. He was taken to Memorial hospital by police ambulance.
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Clinton Richardson
Riverview Road
Frank Allegrin
Lower High Street
Bath
Memorial Hospital
Crane crash narrowly misses cars on Bath bridge
A 37 year old man, Donald Wart of Lisbon, remained for observation after a crane toppled while moving a heavy concrete deck on the Carlton bridge. The 60 foot boom struck a car carrying Miss Luca Cromwell, her mother Mrs Guy Cromwell and granddaughter Susan Jane. all escaped unharmed.
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Donald Wart
Lisbon
Bath Memorial Hospital
Carlton Bridge
Luca H. Cromwell
Guy H. Cromwell
Suan Jane
Woolwich
Bath
Commercial Street
Cromwell
Vine Street
Seaboard Engineering Co
High Tide Floods Bath Waterfront Streets
A major Monday morning tide flooded Bath with eight inches of water on floors at Berry Oil and other stores along Front and Commercial streets. Washington Street saw depths near two feet, and King’s Deck reported over two and a half feet. Street closures and debris prevented traffic for hours as crews cleared timbers and warned residents.政府 tide charts anticipated a high but rainfall raised actual depths.
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Bath
A&p
Front Street
Commercial Street
Berry Oil Company
Arthur Berry
Washington Street
McCabe
King’s Deck
Upper
Young GOP Convention Set for Bangor May 2 3
Maine Young Republicans announce a convention in Bangor on May 2 and 3. The assembly aims to organize party activities, with regional chapters participating and leaders outlining agendas for the upcoming political cycle.
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Young Gop's
Bangor
Legard enters Bath GOP primary for State Representative
Forrest C. Legard, 67, becomes the fourth Republican candidate for State Representative from Bath. He filed nomination papers in Augusta and has a long career in city and state politics, including service in the 82nd and 93rd legislatures and a role in authorizing Bath’s council manager government. He lives at 15 Maple Grove Avenue and holds past leadership roles in the American Legion, Sons of Union Veterans, Knights of the Temple, and the Elm Street Baptist Church.
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Forrest C. Legard
Bath
Lepgard
Augusta
Lepard
American Legion
Sons of Union Veterans and
Knights’ of the Temple
Elm Street Baptist Church
Legard
Maple Grove Avenue
Wyman Seeks GOP Nomination for Register of Probate
Lawrence W. Wyman of Bath announced his candidacy in the June GOP primary for Register of Probate. He has nine years with Fred H. Thompson Insurance Agency, is married to Dorothy Thompson, has a daughter Jill a Morse High student, and is active in Polar Star Lodge North, Tabata Girls Club advisory board, and Central Congregational Church.
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North Atlantic
North Africa
Sicily
Far East
Bath Lodge of Elks
Smith Tobey Post
American Legion
Maine Law Enforcement, Association
Bath Rifle and Pistol Club
Robert E. Wagner
Central Congregational Church
Lawrence W. Wyman
Regenacl Cin
Weinan
Fred HW Thompson Insurance Agency
Thie
Dorothy Thompson
Jill TH
Morse High School
Polar Star Lodge Norld
Bath
New Postoffice For Bowdainham Planned Construction
The Postmaster General announced a new Bowdainham post office to be built under government specs by a private builder and leased to the Post Office. The facility, about 1442 square feet, will cost around $20,000 and is to be constructed within the next four to six months. Other new offices in the district will be at Wells Westboro and York Beach.
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Cogresemean
Robert Eilene Vifieed
Lice
Sis Muttly
Bowdanhon
Wells
Post Office
Post Office Building Plan Aims 905 Offices Nationwide
Bids will likely be let about 60 days before construction begins. The program calls for 905 post offices to be built nationwide by fall at an estimated cost of 40.145 million dollars. Postmaster Summerfield says the new offices are a good investment for taxpayers, improving mail service.
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Summerfield
Republicans Elect Oulton Chairman of City Committee
A packed Tuesday caucus in city hall elected Ronald C. Oulton as chairman to replace Harold J. Rubin. Mrs. Arthur E. Sturtevant and Mrs. Vivian Hunter were chosen as vice chair and secretary, with delegates and alternates named to the State and District conventions in Portland on June 25 and 26.
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Harold J. Rubin
Ronald C. Oulton
Rubin
Arthur E. Sturtevant
Vivian Hunter
Portland
Chamber Directors Oppose Bath State Store Relocation
Bath Area Chamber of Commerce directors formally oppose moving the Maine State Liquor Commission store from Front Street to Route 1 on grounds it would hollow out the downtown area. The board asked Executive Secretary Edward Cox to notify the commission with their reasons and to involve local representatives and the state senator.
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Bath Area
Cox
Nichols
Commission
Board of Directors
Xxx Iiis
Bath
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