Aldermen Debate City Playground Funding and Costs
City Aldermen heatedly debated the playground program funding, with Alderman Newell pushing a $1750 transfer from the city expense fund. Playground supervisor McMann explained payrolls, storage needs, and recent equipment arrivals as the board weighed whether the extra funds were sufficient to finish Central Grammar and other sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Aldermen
City Council
John R. Newell
Finance Committee
City Expense Fund
Committee On
Alderman Newell
Walter C. Rogers
Edward J. McMann
Rogers
Newell
Philip H. Oliver
McMann
Goddard Field
Donald D. Young
Central Grammar
Kimball Field
Young
Unidentified training airplane crashes near Parker Head
Witnesses sighted a single motor trainer plane crash into a tree in Wy mans pasture near Parker Head at about noon on Wednesday. Army officials took charge. pilots parachuted to safety per late reports as wreckage covered a 50 foot area and spectators gathered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyman Pasture
Parker Head
Army
Wyman
Bath Board of Health to Inspect All Apartments
The Bath Board of Health voted to inspect all city apartment houses and enforce state law requiring one sink and one flush per apartment. They will notify noncompliant owners to comply at once and pursue court action for violations. The board also addressed garbage dumping and trailer parking regulations and warned incinerators causing odors to stop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Board of Health
Joseph J. Smith
Front Street
Joseph Randazzo
Leroy Davis
S. Mathew L. Harrison
Independent Union of Shipyard Workers Local
Dr. Smith
Alvah Morse
Chester McCabe
City Hall
Twin Farm Bureaus Demonstration Day Planned in Greene
Twin County Farm Bureau members will hold a demonstration day in Greene at the farms of Cecil Gilbert E. E. Addison and Orland Field on Tuesday August 18 with a 10 30 am start at Cecil Gilberts Turner Center bridge. Speakers include County Agent C L Eastman W J Ricker Henry Anderson R E Keene and a Farmers Viewpoint with five minute talks. Miss Effie Hill and Miss Helen Aldus of Appleton were in Bath en route to Portland for employment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twin County
Farm Bureau
Greene
Cecil Gilbert
E. E. Addison
Orland Field
Turner Center Bridge
C. L. Eastman
W. J. Ricker
Androscoggin War Board
Henry Anderson
Triple A
Farmers
Twin County Farm Bureau
R. E. Keene
Effie Hill
Helen Aldus
Appleton
Bath
Portland
Dromore Grangers Meet On Tuesday
The Dromore grange held its meeting on Tuesday August 11 with 18 members present. Due to transportation challenges the group agreed to hold one meeting monthly on the second Tuesday through year end. A refreshment committee was appointed and program items included songs readings and a discussion on standard of grange life. The Ladies Aid group will meet August 18. prior gathering July 21 featured a supper and games at Quaker Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore Grange
Marion Rafnell
Annie Malcolm
Aletha Campbell
Frances Williams
New Teacher Named for Central Grammar School
Miss Violet F. Dyer of Mars Hill becomes sixth grade teacher at Central Grammar and will handle music department work. She studied in Caribou, graduated Mars Hill High School in 1938, and Aroostook State Normal School in 1941. Dyer has taught a year as teacher and music supervisor in Washburn and is noted as an accomplished violinist. Mrs Frederick Parkhurst and daughters Nancy Jane and Sandra Lee of Somerville Mass are visiting Mrs Estella M Comeau at 11 Spring Street, with plans to stay a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Violet F. Dyer
Mars Hill
Central Grammar School
Miss Dyer
Caribou
Mars Hill High School
Aroostook State
Frederick Parkhurst
Nancy Jane
Sandra Lee
Somerville
Mass
City council opposes new Bath Iron Works highway plan
August City Council meeting approved an alderman Newell order urging State Highway Department to reconsider the access highway to the Bath Iron Works amid fears over 24 homes removal. He proposed shifting 100 feet north would spare 10 12 houses but delay and broader impact kept debate alive. Officials urged postponement until after wartime needs and advised seeking federal aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Newell
State Highway Department
Bath Iron Works Corp
Newell
Highway Board
Sumner Sewall
Shepard
Mr. Newell
Andrew M. Butterfield
Philip H. Oliver
Hyde Park Terrace
Center Street
Bluff Road
Drayton Road
Lighting Committee
Finance Committee
Charles A. Thayer
Stanley Hunter
Bath-Brunswick Highway
Committee On Taxes
Bath Maine State Guard unit trains for guerrilla defense
Off icers and men of Co. D Bath Maine State Guard train in modern guerrilla tactics as a potential city defense force. Established May 29 1941 and mustered Sept 7 last year the 51 member company seeks volunteers. Fully equipped with submachine guns and shotguns the unit is part of the 1st battalion under Col David E Hayes with several Portland Lewiston Sanford and Gardiner units nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co. D
Bath
Maine State Guard
David E. Hayes
North Windham
Portland
Lewiston
Sanford
Saco
Gardiner
Co. L. Rockland
Lions Visit Popham Recreation Hall Brightens Soldiers
President Arthur L. Pratt and Past President Henry O. Trowbridge led a Lions Club group to the new Popham recreation building built by soldiers with local help in Bath. The project nears completion with floors and woodwork to finish. Soldiers praise community aid, request chairs lamps and phonograph records, and plan to collect items via Pratt at 104200.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur L. Pratt
Henry O. Trowbridge
Lions Club
Popham
Lions
Messers
Pratt
Trowbridge
Bath
Bath Memorial nurse visits parents and seaside retreat
Miss Beatrice W Sinford, a student nurse at Bath Memorial hospital, is spending a month with her parents Mr and Mrs David L Sinford of Jonesboro. Mrs Omar Stevens and her sons Maynard and Winston are spending the week at Old Orchard Beach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beatrice W. Sinford
Bath Memorial Hospital
David L. Sinford
Jonesboro
Omar Stevens
Maynard and
Winston
Old Orchard Beach
No Federal Funds Block City Athletic Field Plans
Washington officials announced no federal funds will be available for a city athletic field on the Kimball property. Funds are limited to housing projects and only for facilities within those projects for residents, not for municipal-wide use. City leaders must pursue local development and adjust plans for water service, sewer expansion, and hospital wing additions while incinerator construction and school projects face further changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kimball
Washington
Bath
John R. Newell
Board of Aldermen
John P. Carey
Water Service
Wort
Memorial Hospital
Phippsburg
Manor Man Arrives for Month with Mrs Shaw Family
Manor N Y resident arrived Thursday to spend the rest of the month with Mrs. Shaw at her mother Mrs. Fred R. E. Deans home on Dummer street and with his father Fred P. Shaw on Green street. Shaw is on annual vacation from duties as director of the Museum of Arts and Sciences in New York City.
Bath Woman Hurt When Bus Leaves Road Near Lisbon
Mrs. Ethel M. Reed, 64, of Bath, suffered bruises and shock after a Lewiston bound bus left the road near Lisbon village Friday afternoon. She was taken to her daughter's home in Bath after being treated, with authorities noting she was unconscious briefly. The incident occurred when driver Charles Currier of Brunswick swerved to avoid Lisbon resident Roland Couture and the Bath bound I A Transit bus, with the vehicle veering off the highway and down a ten foot embankment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel M. Reed
Bath
Lewiston
Lisbon Village
Harold of
Boutin
High Street Court
Reed
Pascal Flint
Auburn
Tan
Maine Central
Charles Currier
Brunswick
Roland Couture
Lisbon
I. & A. Transit Co
Currier
Lewiston Physicias
Bath Company D Receives Federal Inspection Visit
Col. Edgar F. Miller and Col. David B. Hayes conducted a federal inspection of Bath Company D Maine State Guards in the Armory. They observed equipment, uniform, drill, and a defense exercise simulating a raiding party to Bath Iron Works. Miller praised Capt. David Y. Alkazin and officers for their efficiency. Mr. and Mrs Russell Kenney returned from Bridgton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co. D
Maine State Guard
State Armory
Lincoln Streets
Edmund St. Peter
Edgar F. Miller
U.S.A
District No. 1
David E. Hayes
David Y. Alkazin
John D. Croker
U.S. A
Service Command
Augusta
David B. Hayes
North Windham
Bath
Maine
Bath Iron Works
Col. Miller
Also Mentioned on This Page
McM
Coast Guard
Board OF Health
Twin Farm Bureaus
Dromore
Dummer Street
Whitmand & Howard
Ralph D. Millett
Ice, Iron, Etc Works Corp
Forrest C. Legard
Vine and
Water Streets
CO. D. Bath
Thompson and Reising
John D. Crocker
Harold J. Carter
George F. Harrington
Walter E. Oliver
William J Paisley, Jr
Keith Pierce
Louis E. Prentis
Linwood E. Temple
Kenneth E. Fleming
Archie M. Gilpatrick
Harlan L. Guynn
Joseph A. McDonough
Donald McKellar
Islac Carlton S Brown
James Clancy Kendall W Buttes
Wilfred J Lavigne
Frederick A. Libby
Ralph H. Nichols
Perley J
Federal Inspection OF
Bath Company D
Russell Kenney
Bridgton
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