Drawings By Local Boy At Community Center
Wallace S. Jones Jr a Morse High School graduate showcases three large pencil murals at Bath Community Center The 12 10 and 15 foot works depict Buddy Kerr Chuck Bednarick and a basketball player all created in about four months with shellac preserved by the center supervisor Bill Miliken The artist hopes art school study pending Uncle Sam service and his work drawn from sports magazine images stands out for its lifelike lines and accurate stitching on a helmet
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Wallaces. Jones, Jr
Wallace S. Jones
Dummer Street
Wallie
Morse High School
Empire State Buildig
Buddy Kerr
Boston Braves
Kerr
Chuck Bednarick
University of Pennsylvania
Chuck
Sam
Bill Miliken
Bill
Joe DiMaggio
Els
Bednarick
Bill Milliken
Recreation Commission
Edward J. McMann
Wallie Jones
Wallace S. Jones, Jr
Chuck Bodnarick
Officers Named by North-Center P T A on Monday
Mrs Ralph Milliken was nominated president for the ensuing year of North Center P T A at its meeting Monday evening at Huse Memorial school. Others named to office were Lloyd Hooker vice president Mrs Harry Allen secretary and Merton Bradway treasurer. Mrs Isadore Singer introduced Mrs John Parker who oversees voting on State Legislature reports. Parker reported on the basketball banquet and Milliken on the P T A Council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Milliken
North-Center
P. T. A. Council
Parker
Harry Day
Sea Moss Plant at Small Point to Be Operated
Douglas Challis & Sons of Kennebunkport have purchased a large building at Small Point and leased beach space to resume sea moss gathering and processing. The firm, a major wet moss buyer, plans to use up to 5,000,000 pounds this year, supplying extract for chocolate drinks, ice cream, leather and wood sizing, shoe polish, and other products. Sea moss raking boosts local fishermen income, with pay around a dollar per hour during good tides and four to five hours of work per tide.
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Small Point
Douglas Challis & Sons, &Co
Kennebunkport
Brunswick
Marine Growths Inc
Challis & Sons
Visit of Mrs Smith to Mrs Small in Orono
Mrs Charles Smith of Orono arrived for a visit with Mrs Madelyn Small at her Granite street home.
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Charles Smith of
Orono
Madelyn Small
Granite Street
Paul Revere Bell To Ring On Patriots Day
The Paul Revere bell in City hall will ring at 12 noon on Patriots Day by request of the Paul Revere Memorial Association as part of their 150th anniversary activities. A postring program at City hall auditorium features D A R speakers, group singing, a flag pledge, a Morse High School biographical reading, and a reading of Paul Revere's Ride by a Morse junior.
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Paul Revere
City Hall
Joseph Warren Revere
Lexington
Association
Canton
Mass
Col. Dummer Sewall
City Hall Auditorium
Ralph W. Mittendorf
W. H. McGlinchy
Carl Swanton
June Labbie
Morse High School
John H. Labbie
High Street
William Haggett
Morse
C. Clifford Sargent
Wesley Methodist Church
Schulze Lays Foundations for Bath Crushers Venture
J William Schulze vice president of Bath Iron Works and president of the Pennsylvania Crusher Co led a Lions club talk at Hotel Sedgwick detailing why a shipbuilding company produces crushing machinery. He traced postwar planning from 1945 to 1947, the 1946 Pennsylvania Crusher Co purchase, and how cost cuts and new partnerships, including exclusive US Canada rights and Dixie Machinery of St Louis, expanded Bath operations into mining and materials crushing markets.
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Bath Iron Works
Pennsylvania Crusher Company
J. William Schulze
Pennsylvania Crusher Co
Lions Club
Hotel Sedgwick
Bill Cunningham
New England
Morse High School
U. P. C. Fund
Schulze
U. S
Newell
Bath
Charles Kettering
Pennsylvania
Hardings
Iron Works
Bath Destroyers
John Hayes
Pennsylvania Casher Co
Oakland
Calif
United States
Canada
Mississippi River
Dixie Machinery Manufacturing Co
St. Louis
Bath Iron Works exec and wife plan month abroad tour
J William Schulze vice president of Bath Iron Works Corp and his wife depart for a month in Europe with stops in England France and Germany. They will meet Mr. Newell of Bath and Mrs. Tiemer in London, visit Paris, tour German towns by auto, and return to New York May 23 aboard the S S America.
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J. William Schulze
Bath Iron Works Corp
Newell
Tiemer
Grosvenor House
London
British European Airways
Paris
Mrs. Schulze
Coulommiers
Chalons-sur-Marne
Verdun
Metz
Saarbruck
Manheim
Heidelberg
Neckar Valley
Stutgart
Reurlingen
Pliezhausen
Tubingen
Herrenberg
Freudenstatt
Oppeneau
Strassbourg
Strasbourg
Saverne Nancy
Toul
Signey
St. Dizier
Vitry
Sagadahoc GOP protests Truman action over MacArthur
Sagadahoc County Republican committee met at Bath City Hall to unanimous support for restoring General MacArthur and denouncing Truman. Telegrams were sent to Senators Brewster and Smith, Rep Hale, and National chairman Guy Gabrielson demanding reinstatement and removal of Dean Acheson, plus an investigation of the president.
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Sagadahoc County
Republican Committee
Bath City Hall
Harry S. Truman
McArthur
Owen Brewster
Margaret Chase Smith
Robert Hale
Chaiman
National Committee
Guy Gabrielson
MacArthur
Orient
Far East
General MacArthur
Dean Acheson
Truman
Couple Married at Memorial Hospital Amid Illness
Miss Anita Theresa Barter and Ernest A. Hamblett wed at Memorial hospital Thursday at 11 in a double ring ceremony performed by Rev Fr John E Bellefontaine before close relatives. It was likely the first wedding at the hospital. The bride, ill with a virus, had planned a church ceremony but could not leave. Hamblett, recalled to active Air Force duty, departs Friday for Travis Air Force Base in California.
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Anita Theresa Barter
Ernest A. Hamblett
Memorial Hospital
John E. Bellefontaine
Air Force
Hamblett
Forrest N. Barter
West Bath
Morse High School
Morse High
Edward B. Hamblett
Pratt Street
Panama
Chandler-Evans Aircraft Corp
West Hartford
White House conference praised by Mrs Smith report
Huse Memorial P T A held its annual meeting and elected officers for the coming year. Mrs Alfred A Parks Jr was named president with officers including Mrs Carl Dearborn Jr and Mrs Thornton Percy. May 10 installation and reports on spring activities were presented.
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Stanley B. Woods
Maurice Hutchins
Paul Watts
Stanley Hunter
Alfred A. Parks, Jr
Carl R. Dearborn, Jr
Thornton O. Percy
Raymond W. Farnham
Austin W. Miller
Richard Hersom
Ruth Trueworthy
Elizabeth Young
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P.T. A
Center Street
LIONS
Europe
W. S. Newell
Sagadahoc Gop
County Committee
M’arthur
Maine
George Blanchard
Donald Leavitt
Woolwich
Cleveland Curtis
Philip Nealey
Marand
Eugene Winslow
Sebasco Estates
John Jack
Millward Patten
Topsham
Florence Wheeler
Earl McPhee
Richmond
Justus H. Miller
Etta Thurlow
Anita T. Barter
Groom
Joan Giacobbe
William Deehan
Joseph J. Smith
White House
Huse P. T. A
Huse Memorial P. T. A
Chase
Keith Crockett
Huse
Loring Addison
Health Council
Phyllis Rolfe
Plymouth
DeSoto
Ford
Bath Auto CO
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