Frederick E Drake Jr Installed Exalted Ruler at Bath Elks
Frederick E. Drake Jr was installed exalted ruler of the Bath Lodge of Elks after an installation dinner at the lodge home. Grand Lodge officers from Rockland Lodge No 1008 led the installation with several Bath officers also sworn in. The installation ball and open house event were planned with music by Mal Larys from Portland and a buffet supper to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick E. Drake, Jr
Bath Lodge of Elks
Lodge
Grand Lodge
Blake Annis
PBR
Gilbert Barker
Per
Edward Manseau
Carl Blackington
Kenneth Legage
James Burns
Charles MacIntosh
Arno Knight
James Shannon
Carl Nelson
Thomas Anastascio
Ernest Witty
Harry Fitzgerald
Rockland Lodge
Joseph F. Desmond
Donald J. Emero
Edgar G. Hancox
Joseph H.mullaney
Harold D. Perry
Timothy B. Wagner
Gilbert A. Hughes
John E. Sturtevant
Esquire
James F. Feeney
James E. Thorpe
Raymond D. Vachon
Percy W. Kingsbury
City Hall
Mal Lary
Portland
Ellis
Brian M. Jewett
Donald T. Burkhardt
Leslie C. Shumway
Ron
Bath selects fall replacements for resigning teachers
Five Bath teachers resign effective spring. five replacements were announced by Superintendent Loring R. Addison for the fall term. New hires include Bessie Singer English social studies eighth grade, Glenn Martin junior high, Mrs Glenn Parsons Martin, John Watson English math ninth grade, and Jane Brown North Grammar. The board also adjusted the budget with a 156.22 unexpended balance, cut window work, and approved a dishwasher funded from lunch funds. ungraded class housing shifts to the high school and John M. Conley Jr. to present diplomas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Loring R. Addison
Board of Education
John Fahey
Erland Penley
Moody Flint
Ella Bates
Marjory Oliver
North Grammar
Bessie Singer
Glenn Martin
Sebago
Gorham State Teachers College
Penley
Glenn Parsons Martin
Gorham
Scarborough
Flint
John Watson
Mexico
Farmington
State Teachers College
Jane Brown
Wiscasset
Oliver
North Grammar School
Washington
Huse
John M. Conley, Jr
Bath school calendar for 1955-56 announced
The Bath Board of Education released the 1955 56 school year calendar details with 182 total instructional days. Key dates include labor day September 5 classes begin September 7 and term breaks for Columbus Day Armistice Thanksgiving Good Friday and Memorial Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Board of Education
Loring R. Addison
Frank Torrey To Direct YMCA Day Camp This Summer
Frank Torrey will be the director of the annual YMCA Day Camp this summer, announced from the local Y office. He is the son of Mr and Mrs J Haviland Torrey of Cobb Road, married with one child, and lives at High Street. Torrey is Morse High School graduate of 1950 active in baseball.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Torrey
Bath's New Police Reserve Will Get Diplomas Tonight
Forty seven members of Bath's new police reserve unit will receive diplomas and badges at a 7 30 p m dinner at Wesley Church. City Clerk Harry E Ring Jr will swear them in as special officers. Col Harry Mapes will head the guest list with Maine Civil Defense officials and local dignitaries to attend the diploma and badge ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Wesley Church
Harry E. Ring
Harry Mapes
Augusta
Maine Civil Defense Department
Ralph Price
Maine
Mobile Police
C. Bruce Wright
Stanley R. Judkins
Gardiner R. Deering
Edward Gaudreau
Loring D. Small
Robert E. Wagner, Jr
R. Clinton McFadden
Mapes
Wagner
Order of
Dennis Wetherington
Masonic Temple
Jack Warren
Nelson Harrison
Ted Bryant
Round Table
Topeka
Kan
Brunswick Naval Air Base
Biddeford
Dad
Frank Harvie
Linwood Temple
University of Life
Garrison
Wiscasset
Bath Police
Wesley Methodist Church
Byron Clark
John Kelliher
Hollis Kennedy
Edwin H. P. Lowell
Maine Civil Defense
CD Mobile Police
Robert E. Wagener, Jr
Harry E. Ring, Jr
Bath CD
Norman A. Adams
Clyde Ambrose
Raymond Berry
Arthur Boulay
Nicola Ciccarelli
Kenneth L. Wood
Frederick J. Worden
Robert W. Young
Parish Children Attend Mite Box Service at St Luke's
More than 70 children and adults from Grace church joined 800 attendees at the annual Mite Box Presentation Service held at 5 p m in St Luke's Cathedral Portland. The Very Rev Leopold Damrosch welcomed participants. Continued on Page Six.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Street
Grace Church
St. Luke's Cathedral
Portland
Episcopal Church
Diocese of
Maine
Leopold Damrosch
St. Luke’s Cathedral
Morse Seniors Headed to New York on Four Day Trip
Morse High School seniors depart Sunday night for a four day trip to New York City with 92 of 124 graduates joining. They will stay at the Henry Hudson hotel and visit sights such as the Statue of Liberty Radio City Music Hall and the Empire State Building plus attend Perry Como and Ringling Brothers shows and a Broadway play The Seven Year Itch. Chaperones include Mr and Mrs Haggett Milliken and Hanson. They return Friday morning after shopping and baseball time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
New York City
Maine Central
New York
Henry Hudson
Statue of Liberty
Radio City Music Hall
Empire State Building
United Nations
Perry Como
Ringling Brothers Circus
Charles. Haggett
William Milliken
Elliot Hanson
Bath
Miss Maude Kemp Speaks at Bath B P W Meeting
Miss Maude Kemp district supervisor for Sagadaho Lincoln Knox and Kennebec counties spoke at the Bath Business and Professional Women's club dinner. She noted Maine Health and Welfare Department cares for 2300 foster children and aims to place under six adoption cases with eligible families under state supervision for a year. She said due process is required and law allows adoption without parental consent once the state commits a child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maud Kemp
State Health and Welfare Department
Sagadahoc
Lincoln
Knox
Kennebec
Bath Business and Professional Women's Club
Sedgwick
Johns Hopkins
Columbia University
Miss Kemp
Bath
Maine Health and Welfare Department
Kemp
Maine
Bath's National Guard Unit to Take Part in Operation Minuteman
Battery B 703d AAA Battalion of the Maine National Guard will take a major part in a spring one day test alert named Operation Minuteman. Captain Heartquist said the drill is for training and mobilization testing nationwide, with about 400000 Guardsmen in over 2200 communities participating. Public calm urged as exact date is kept secret and alerts coordinated from Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
National Guard
Maine National Guard
Army
Air National Guard
Edwin A. Heartquist
United States
Heartquist
District of Columbia
Alaska
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Edgar C. Erickson
National Guard Bureau
Pentagon
Washington, D. C
Adjutant General of
Maine
703D Aaa Battalion
Legion Auxiliary hosts Maine president with Girls' State update
Mrs Mira H Stevens president of the Maine Department addressed the Smith Tobey Post auxiliary in Snow Park. The group planned a rummage sale for the welfare fund and a covered dish supper on April 27. Girls' State delegates Dawn Newcomb and Stephanie Rush were named for Waterville Colby College event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mira H. Stevens
Maine Department
Legion Auxiliary
Smith-Tobey Post
American Legion
Delmar Bates
Snow Park
Donald Perry
Scott Kittredge
Frank Reinoehl
Crippled Children’s Society
Togus
Lawrence Young
Bath
Portland
Department of Maine
National American Legion Auxiliary
Stevens
Dawn Newcomb
Stephanie Rush
Morse
Waterville
Colby College
Miss Newcomb
Hayward Newcomb
Elm Street
Miss Rush
Marjorie Haab
Charles F. Rush
Washington Street
Hall
Karcher Jackson
Victor Carey
Charles Sytle
Maude Dowling
Carl Anderson
Myrtle Soule
Edgar Leavitt
Cedric French
Legislative Happenings By Rep. Rodney E. Ross Jr
A tentative Republican tax plan was adopted at a closed caucus and targets cigarettes liquor wine auto sales and corporate franchises with sales tax revenue up by 400 000 yearly to fund Governor Muskie’s budget aims not counting a 2 million annual capital fund. Annual session rules and a potential date limit sparked debate with a near miss on passage. Couture’s unemployment bill advanced to three readings raising benefits to 30 for 23 weeks with the income floor lowered to 300. Public hearings included Greyhound dog racing opposition from church groups and civic bodies over a projected 500 000 yearly state take, while Fernald Law faced repeal measures and export potential for power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haseen
Muskie
House
Judiciary
Greenleaf
Boothbay Harbor
Ceuture
Louis Couture
Couture
Denbow
Lubec
Washington County
Christian Civic League
State Grange
York County
Kittery
Committee On Public Utilities
Bean
Winterport
Bath Man Buys 49 Shares in Sea Acres Corp
Stanley E Wallace of Bath purchased 49 shares in Sea Acres Corporation at Popham Beach for 4050 dollars. The auction at Phippsburg saw Earl Burgess of C L Farnham Lumber Co conduct the sale with Robert Stevens of Woolwich dropping out. Mrs. Burt S. Osgood owns the final share.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sea Acres Corporation
Popham Beach
Stanley E Wallace
Bath
Wallace
Earl Burgess
C. L. Farnham Lumber Company
Phippsburg
Robert Stevens
Woolwich
Popham
Sea Acres
Burt S. Osgood
Stevens
$1 Bill Blamed for Route 1 Auto Crash in Bath
State Trooper Hodgkins said a $1 bill waved by Carl Herrick led to a two car collision on Route 1 in West Bath Thursday evening. Four people were injured slightly including Henry Albert 50 of Bath taxi driver and Maurice Chamberlin 20 of Brunswick. Albert said the bill obscured his vision and caused the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Philip Hodgkins
Henry Albert
Bath
Carl Herrick
Memorial Hospital
Maurice Chamberlin
Brunswick
Charles L. Burgess, Jr
Hodgkins
Herrick
Albert
Chamberlin
Tratfie
Dullar
Bath Tron Works reelected directors and officers
At the Bath Tron Works Corporation stockholders meeting on April 18 1995 all directors were reelected Archibald M Main J Kenneth Hall Wadleigh B Drummond John R Newell G Baer Connard J William Schulze Andrew B Sides Charles F Adams Jr were to serve another year In a following directors meeting the incumbent officers were reelected John R Newell president William Schulze view president and treasurer William U Niss secretary and comptroller Wand leigh B Drummond assistant secretary and general counsel The American Music Conference estimates four million Americans play the guitar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Tron Works Corporation
Uoon
Joh Ro Newell
Archibald M Main
Wall
Archibald M. Main
J Kenneth Hall
Wadleigh B Drummond
John R Newell
G Baer Connard
J. William Sehulze
Andrew B. Sides
Charles F Adams
Bath Officials Praise Civil Defense Reserve Graduation
Maine's top Civil Defense officials attended the Bath Police Reserve graduation, the first of its type in the state. Col. Harry Mapes praised the graduates and urged ongoing training to prepare for emergencies. Diplomas and credentials were issued to twenty eight graduates, with remarks from city and county officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State C
City departments praised for spring repair work in Bath
The Highway and Sewer Department under Arthur Ro Avery and the Parks and Cemetery Department led by Walter Millett Avery receive strong praise from Bath residents for early spring repairs. Key projects include Washington street and Washington-Linden sector improvements, High street repairs, Leeman Highway cleanup, and park area tidying with concerns about motorists littering nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tate Fir
Highway and Sewer Department
Arthur Ro Avery
Parks and Cemetery Department
Walter Millett Avery
Bath
Washington Street
Washington-Linden Street
High Street
Millett's Park and Cemetery Department
Leeman Highway
City Park
Loretta Campbell Guest of Hockomock Council
Loretta Campbell Great Pocahontas of Maine attended as special guest with past Great Pocahontas Florence Vaughan of Yarmouth at a Hockomock Council meeting in Mechanic Falls. A chicken salad supper preceded the session, with awards, performances, cake walk, and social activities following the business portion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loretta Campbell
Great Pocahontas of
Maine
Hockomock Council
Frances St Martin
Ada King
Sophie McPherson
Marjorie Steele
Pocahontas
Royal Council
Yarmouth Council
Vaughan
St Wil
Etta Norton
Steele
Elfred Perkins
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ald C. Oulton
Howard W. Mayo
Warren F. Hawley, Jr
William A. Grevers
Richard H. Jenkins
Edward J. McMann
Theodore F. Burns
Nicholas Johnson
Roland H. Farnham
Walter P. White
Edward F. Newell
David E. Desmond
Edward F. Jones
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YMCA
St. Luke's
D‘molay
Rep
Rodney E. Ross, Jr
Bath Man
Sea Acres Corp
B.J.W
The
American Music Conference
Gaudreau
Park & Cemetery
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