Parade Opens Bath Hospital Fair With Spectacular Float Show
Bath hosts a three day Hospital Fair parade drawing 5000 spectators along the streets. Bath Iron Works wins best entry with a 130-destroyer model float marking shipbuilding’s 350th anniversary. D A R Betsy Ross float takes first prize. Torrey Roller Bushing Works lands second with two marine port lights.
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Bath
the Park
Bath Junior Legion Cadets
Dunlap Commandery Band
M. Tukios
Regent
Harold Stanton
Marriott Small
Roberta Jowell
Lucy Lee Smith
Elizabeth Lawrence Soaciety
Torrey Roller
Dorothy Cotton
Sharonurvey
Jacksonville
Fla
Brunswick Naval Air Station
Fair Grounds
Robert Savice
West Bath
Douglas McCobb
Bath Iron Works Corp
Virginia
Sagadahock
America
Sale Of Homes In Federal Projects Here Expected To Start Within A Month
Public Housing Authority representatives back city conditions for accepting Lambert Park and Hyde Park Terrace streets and sewers before possible sale of homes to private buyers. Sales likely begin within a month with occupant preference and phased code relaxations. Easements and dedication steps, plus prior priority for veterans and occupants, frame the disposition plan.
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Public Housing Authority
Lambert Park
Hyde Park Terrace
Stanley W. Judkins
Judkins
PHA
Council
City Council Plans Portraits for Chamber Wall
At a recent meeting Councilor Paul Merchant pressed for funding to hang photos of past chairs in the chamber. Chairman Merritt A. Mitchell noted cost influenced the absence of likenesses and Temple urged using contingent funds. The joke about hanging Mitchell underscored the mood as the council moves to honor former chairmen.
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Merritt A. Mitchell
Paul A. Merchant
Mitchell
Temple
60th anniversary of Bath Daily Times owner publisher
Nichols receives many congratulatory messages on his sixty years as owner and publisher of The Bath Daily Times. Eisenhower Muskie Payne Smith and AP officials send greetings along with Times Brunswick Record employees.
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Frank Barrett Nichols
the Times
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Edmund S. Muskie
U. S
Frederick G. Payne
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Associated Press
Frank J. Starzer
Brunswick Record
Eisenhower
Nichols
Payne
Bath Daily Times
America
Free Press
Muskie
Tam
Carl Ff. Milliken
Path
Bath Open House Showcases Seven Historic Homes
About 500 visitors toured seven Bath historic homes from 1 to 5 p m in Bath s first such event in years marking the hospital fair and the fifty year shipbuilding anniversary. Guests wore colonial costumes and praised the tour hoping for an annual event. Participants included homes on Washington street built in the 18th and 19th centuries and the former governor Sumner Sewall residence. Tea on the Henderson terrace and horse drawn wagon rides complemented the afternoon with programs detailing each site s history.
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Bath
America
Camden
Kennebunk
Bar Harbor
Maine
Aimee von Huene
Woolwich
Herold Mr. Sewall
Washington Street
John R. Newell
Vic
Toria
Sumner Sewall
Stone House Farm
Arthur Sewall
James A. Gillies
North Zath
Melvin B. Henderson
North Street
Henderson
Dr. Chase
Brunswick
Helen Fosdick
To Sorat
Barbara Sargent
Melvin B Henderson
Anne Kimball
Publisher Frank B Nichols marks 60th Bath Daily Times anniversary
Frank B Nichols 89, Bath Daily Times publisher, celebrated 60 years since purchasing the paper in 1897. The Waterville hospital treated cataracts yesterday and he plans a 10 day leave. He founded Brunswick Record in 1902 and has guided local papers while remaining active in civic groups and Maine journalism.
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Frank B Nichols
Bath Daily Times
Deen of Maine
Waterville
Nichols
Associated Press
Paul K. Niven
Brunswick Record
Maine
Bath
YMCA
Bath Savings Intitution
Bath Rotary Club
Central Congregational Church
Old Folks Home
Zeta Psi Fraternity
Maine Press Association
The
Times and Record
Paul Niven, Jr
CBS
Ella
Woolwich Church Marks 200th Anniversary with Past and Present
The First Congregational Church of Woolwich celebrated its 200th anniversary over a weekend with exhibits, displays, and a Sabbath service. Guests toured the Nequasset church, viewed relics from the era, and heard talks on the church’s early history and Rev Josiah Winship’s long pastorate. The event drew many descendants and visitors from nearby towns and beyond.
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First Congregational Church
Woolwich
First Congregational Church of
N Quasset
Bath teen critically injured in North Bath crash
A 17 year old Bath youth Joseph Fullerton is in critical condition at Memorial Hospital with internal injuries multiple lacerations a fractured jaw and possible skull fracture after a sportscar convertible sideswiped an embankment on Whiskey Road in North Bath Tuesday around 8 35 p m He was a passenger in a car driven by 19 year old David M Potter of Bath Potter reported a left rear tire blowout and the crash occurred near the embankment as the vehicle left the road continued on.
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Bath
Memorial Hospital
North Bath
Joseph Fullerton
Cecil Fullerton
Fullerton
David M. Potter
Potter
Hulls Launched At Bath Iron Works Saturday
The 3 500 ton U S S Hut slid down the ways at Bath Iron Works at 1 58 p m Saturday with Mrs Albert G Mumma sponsor for the 418 foot destroyer The rear admiral praised the yard calling Bath a leader and modern shipyard noting its role in the DDG program and the DLG project He cited continued shipbuilding plans and the 350th anniversary as a source of pride While praising past leadership he credited John R Newell and Pete Newell for sustaining BIW’s strong status
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U.S
Bath
BIW
Pete Newell
John R. Newell
Tinta Tater Ship Release Triggered by Mumma Family
After her end of active service, Albert G. Mumma Jr and his brother in law Captain B J Huarral USN activated the mechanism releasing the destroyer.
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Rs Tinta
Albert G. Mumma, Jr
Inlaw
B. J. Huarral
USN
McClure's Auto Parts Advertises In Woolwich Maine
J Horace McClure announces location on Day's Ferry Road Woolwich Maine offering used rebuilt and new auto parts for all makes. The ad urges savings and reliability with the slogan To Be Sure Save At McClure's.
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James W. Temple
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Valley Road
Dike Road
Harry Ring
Edward Gaudreau
City Council
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Ike
Frank B. Nichols
Dean of
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Mr. Nichols
Round Pound
Thomas
Augusta Barrett Nichols
Colby College
Cherryfield Academy
Rockland
Star
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Patten
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Edwold Carter
Hollis Leeman
Frederick Gilmore
Nequasset
Lemuel Preble
Days Ferry
Stanley Elwell
Charles T. Brown
Bucksport
John Anderson
Barnet
David L. Wilson
Leonard Lord
Maxine Walker Boyd
Lord
Josiah Winship
Boyd
Christens
Albert G. Mumma
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USS Hull
Bath Iron Works
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J. Horace McClure
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