Rehiring Of Judkins Draws Conflicting Legal Opinions
Bath city council faced legal dispute over the rehiring of City Manager Stanley W. Judkins. City Solicitor Harold J. Rubin argued council appointing power rests in Section 230 and is not limited by the Personnel Service Commission, while Judge Gardiner Deering and Atty. John P. Carey urged submission to the commission. Hutchins sought court guidance but council rejected his motion 6-2. Temple opposed Judkins' rehiring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Gardiner R. Deering
Stanley W. Judkins
Arthur E. Hutchins
Deering
John P. Carey
Judkins
Personnel Service Commission
Harold J. Rubin
Rubin
Personnel Commission
Hutchins
James Temple
Temple
Times
Chamber of Commerce
Bath Planning Board
Council
Harold Rubin
John Carey
City Charter Committee
Gardiner Deering
Action Legal
Bath Republicans Shake Up City Committee Leadership
Bath Republicans replace top three city committee posts in a major shakeup as Eric Ross becomes city committee chairman and cites a political pendulum shift. New vice chairman is Mrs. Lillian Heal and Roger Luke becomes secretary treasurer with changes to by laws and an expanded executive committee to oversee finances and activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Mwureowr
Eric Ross
GOP
Lillian Heal
Barbara Sturtevant
Roger Luke
Vivian Hunter
Sturtevant
Hunter
Brunswick opens MESC pilot office for job interviews
The Bath Maine Employment Security Commission office launched a Brunswick pilot, with interviews held twice weekly at Brunswick City Hall auditorium from 9 AM to 12 noon on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Ralph W. Robbins, the Bath interviewer, said the program aims to improve services for the Brunswick Tops ham area. permanent status remains undecided. itinerant claims have been taken there for unemployed registrants prior to this move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Maine Employment Security Commission
Brunswick
Brunswick City Hall
Ralph W. Robbins
Robins
Brunswick-Topsham
Examination Set For Bath Patrolman Post
An exam for Bath Police Department patrolman will be held at City Hall on Tuesday August 25 at 7 30 p m. Applications must be filed by 5 p m August 19 with the City Clerk. Applicants must be Bath residents for at least one year. Salary ranges from 63 36 to 76 12 for a 44 hour week with two weeks vacation after two years and two weeks sick leave annually. Age limit 21 to 35.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Police Department
City Hall
William L. Skelton
Personnel Service Commission
Harry E Ring
Bath
Man Injured In Arrowsic Car Crash
Richard P Anderson of 4 Adams court was taken to Bath Memorial hospital after his 1949 Packard left Route 127 in Arrowsic between 3 and 7 am. He is listed in good condition. police say he may have fallen asleep or blacked out. Vehicle damage estimated at 100 dollars.
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Richard P Anderson
Adams Court
Bath Memorial Hospital
Arrowsic
Memorial Hospital
Bath
Anderson
John Herbert
Carol Mulligan
Herbert
Route 127
William Niss Named Head of Boy Scout Drive
Fred A. Clough Jr announces William A. Niss of Bath will head the General Solicitations Committee for the Pine Tree Council Boy Scout campaign starting October 20 in southern towns. Niss, Bath Iron Works VP and Pine Tree Council president, joins the training faculty. 1960 budget is 114,665 dollars to support 17,000 scouts and leaders. Niss recently received the Silver Beaver Award for outstanding service to boyhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred A. Clough, Jr
Bethel
Pine Tree Council
William A. Niss
Bath
Boy Scout Council
Nils
Bath Iron Works
Niss
Bath Leads Maine in Manufacturing Wages and Output
The Bath area posts a 1958 average manufacturing wage of 5085, up from 4537 in 1957, leading Maine communities of similar size. The regional value of goods hits 101.89 million, about 20 million above 1957, with Bath employing 3,280 workers. Statewide wages rise slightly while total output dips, and the Bath area gains recognition by the Chamber of Commerce as a distinct economic region separate from Brunswick.
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Bath
Maine
Rumford
Department of Labor and Industry
Kittery
Madawaska
Sagadahoc
Bath Area
Brunswick Bath
Portland
Lewiston
Biddeford
South Portland
Lewiston-Auburn
Brunswick Trails
Brunswick Trail
Chamber Victory
Rare Norseman Runic Rock Unearthed at Popham Spotlighted Again
Historic inscribed Runic Rock at Popham in Maine draws renewed attention. Articles by Willard H. Bonner and a Saturday Evening Post feature recount its discovery in 1941 by Lyman Oliver and the later scholarly verification of an 11th century dating. Nordic expert Olaf Strandwold translated the markings, noting a year near 1018 A.D., with documentation in Strandwold's Norse Inscriptions on American Stones.
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Popham
Willard H. Bonner
Kennebec
Saturday Evening Post
North Salem
N. H
William B. Goodwin
Runie Rock
Goodwin
Mystery Hill
Malcolm Pearson
Lyman Oliver
Pearson
Stone Goodwin
Olaf Strandwold
Strandwold
Oliver Farm
Atkins Bay
Sabino Hill
Popham Beach
Woolwich Ends Bi Centennial Festivities With Church Rites
Woolwich capped three days of 200th anniversary events with a capacity crowd at Nequasset Church for a service featuring period dress and a sermon by Rev. Charles T. Brown. Community leaders and hostesses participated as guests signed the guest book and a flower committee arranged arrangements. The celebration began with historic home tours, a clambake and town meeting, followed by a parade and fair, drawing residents from Woolwich, Bath and nearby towns.
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Woolwich
Pine Tree
Nequasset
Little White
Charles T. Brown
Stephen H. Sidebotham
William A. Sanders
Jay G. Bailey
James P. Bailey
Gerald Hersom
Anna Hawes
Wallace R. Ham
Charles E. Haley
Bertram Crocker
Samuel H. Kirkpatrick
Mary Dodge
Milton Thathorne
William Robson
Samuel J. Soule
Wilbur C. Presley
Roland S. Bailey
Marthew Doak, Jr
Everson C. Stinson
Frederick Gilmore
Jessie B. Spaulding
Reginald Stacy
Ossian A. Dodge
Clarence Baker
Edword Carter
Bailey
Frank R. Bailey
Wilbur Wwowe
Mareia M. Stinson
Matthew Doak, Jr
Ethweld F. Carter
Roland J. Ashworth
Day’s Ferry Congregational Church
Frederick N. Niles
North Woolwich Methodist Church
Moatsweag Baptist Church
Gerald J. Wersam
Woolwich Center Baptist Church
Woolwich Central School
Bath
Chester Leeman
Maxine Boyd
Frank J. Walker
Work Begins to Raze Ledyard Block in Bath Downtown
Workmen started razing the Ledyard block on Front Street in Bath after the Bath Downtown Redevelopment Syndicate purchased the property led by William Mussenden. C and C Trucking and Salvage Co. of Brunswick won the $3 900 bid to gut the 1834 block as plans call for a new downtown store. completion is expected in about 60 days with city plans to buy an eight foot frontage for parking and Front street widening.
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Ledyard
Bath
Pierce
Front Street
Bath Times
Broad Street
Bath Downtown Redevelopment Syndicate
William F. Mussenden
C. & C. Trucking and Salvage Co
Brunswick
Charles D. Prest
Salvage Company
Greenblatt
Mussenden
City
Front
Planning Board
Fall's Show
Richard's
Shaw's
No Decision Yet On Reopening West Bath Plant
Joseph R. Wilner and Charles G. Chason of Wilner Wood Products Co. say no definite plan exists for the West Bath wood flour mill, once owned by Bakelite Division of Union Carbide. The six acre facility, idle since last winter, underwent a $100,000 real estate transfer on August 3 as plans to reopen are developed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph R. Wilner
Wilner Wood Products Co
Norway
Charles G. Chason
West Bath Wood
Wilner Company
Bakelite
Union Carbides
CarbonCorp
Bakelite Corp
Lincoln Man Named Superintendent of Union 48
Earl F. Coates of Lincoln was named superintendent of School Union 48 in a two year appointment announced by Richard Higgins of the Wiscasset school board. The union includes Woolwich Phippsburg Arrowsic Georgetown Wiscasset Dresden and Westport. Coates’ appointment followed his resignation as superintendent of Union 110.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
School Union
Gilman
Earl F. Coates
Richard Higgins
Wiscasset
Union
Woolwich
Phippsburgh
Arrowsie
Georgetown
Dresden
Westport
Coates
C. Gilman
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Ton Lles Nty
Ida Urvet, Lily Wnda Ure
Ross
Hyde Windlass Co
House
State Senate
Augusta
Senate
Harold J. Carter
Carter
MESC
William Niss
Boy Scout
Art Wibbine
West Bath
McClure
Ferry Road
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