King and Queen Crowned at Morse High Mohiba Ball
Julie Cummings, 18, senior and daughter of State Senator Charles F. Cummings, was crowned Mohiba queen at Morse High School as Richard Thompson named Mohiba king. Marilyn Brown crowned last year and Margaret Hanson runner up. festivities featured Mardi gras colors, decorated gym, and a Morse faculty procession. Scenes from Mohiba to be shown on WCSH TV Monday or Tuesday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orlean
Julianna Cummings
Charles F. Cummings
Marilyn Brown
Margaret Hanson
Morse
Bath Zoning Committee Sets Tentative Zone Limits
Bath's Zoning Committee in City Hall reviews land use maps and drafts tentative limits for industrial and general business zones. Members include Councilmen Brewer Oliver Oulton and others. They map industrial waterfront zones and central business area. parking will be addressed by a Parking District later. Further zones remain under study with height limits proposed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
City Hall
Robert Brewer
Philip Oliver
Ronald Oulton
Sam Prawer
H. Rodney Brooke
Harold J. Rubin
Nathan C. White
Ken Schroeter
Bangor
Soning
Maine Central Railroad
High Street
Oak Grove Avenue
Washington Street
Vine Street
Commercial Street
North Street
Kelley-Spear
Middle Street
Center Street Hill
Union Street
Pine Street
Front Street
Leeman Highway
Schroeter
Grenade Catches Bandit During Ilocos Raid
A bandit gang raided a home in a small Ilocos Norte village. One raider carried a grenade. as he fled through a window the pin was pulled accidentally. The victim’s mutilated body has not yet been found. Cards arrive from Mr and Mrs Fred J Higgins of Lincoln Street West Palm Beach Florida reporting their winter plans and Florida visit details.
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Anila
Ilocos Norte Province
Fred J. Higgins
Lincoln Street
West Palm Beach
Fla
Gardenia Street
Bath
Tabaand
Maine
Youth Night Observed by West Bath Grange
West Bath Grange held Youth Night with officers and members from multiple granges in attendance 133 total with 48 guests. Content included lectures, musical numbers, a penny march, and a planned Christmas party and dances, plus degrees for new members and upcoming grange events.
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West
Bath Grange
Ronald Riendeau
Topsham Grange
Muriel Bragdon
New Gloucester Grange
Wallace Bragdon
New Gloucester
Clyde Bailey
Woolwich Grange
Dana Sullivan
Enterprise Grange
Orland Knight
Wescastigo
Robert Cressey
Dirigo
Mary Lebel
Alfred Palmer
Merriconeag Grange
Jackie Chubbuck
Ceres
Audrey Billington
Pomona
Betty Doughty
Flora
Charlotte Hinckley
Robert Wallace
Progressive
Frederick Morse
Bodwell
Harold Emerson Stewart
Topsham
Madelyn —Holbrook
Dromore
Alberta Bailey
Woolwich
Doris Doughty
West Bath
Beverly Crocker
Anne Snow
Togrange
Dorothy Wallace
The
Riverside
Harmoniers
Dirigo Grange
Thethny
David Babson
Dick Sullivan
Bob Vottie
Bob Cressey
Reading
Rose Hathorne
Penny March
Helen Caton
Edward Emery
Alex Burgess
Grange
Calvin Taylor
West Bath Grange
Hudson Grange
Frances St. Martin
Carver
German exchange student speaker at Colonial Club
Bowdoin College guest Otto G Rau, a Bright Scholar, spoke to Colonial Club members about life behind the Iron Curtain. He described five escape attempts from East Germany, harsh conditions, restricted labor, and propaganda, noting nearly 300 to 400 refugees cross the line daily and that two million have done so since WWII. He contrasted diets and living standards, discussed Delta agreement transfers, and praised short-wave radio as hope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowdoin Colle
Germany
Colonial Club
Otto G. Rau
East Germany
Young Rau
Young Ray
George Patton
U. S
U.S.S.R
Rau
Communistee
United States
Manhattan Club
Reds
Communist Party
Bowdoin
Ear Strout
Governor Elect Muskie Praised by Maine Democrats
Maine Governor elect Edmund S. Muskie, Waterville, addressed a dinner at the South End P T A hall with over 100 attendees. He outlined plans to assess state problems before inaugural budget talks, emphasizing education, state institutions, and highways as top priorities and urging public cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Edmund S.muskie
Waterville
South End
P.T.A. Hall
Meet Muskie
Saga
Ahoc County
Muskie
Sid
Pownal
State School For Boys
Augusta State Hospital
Smog blamed for four thousand deaths in London
December 1952 smog over London blamed for about 4000 deaths, with officials citing severe air pollution as the primary cause and prompting calls for stricter pollution controls and public health measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Man sustains severe burns in candle centerpiece accident
County Attorney George M Carlton Jr of Woolwich suffered severe burns on his right hand when a table centerpiece, a small artificial Christmas tree, exploded into flames after a candle was blown out at a relative's home Tuesday night. He received care at Memorial hospital this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George M Carlton, Jr
Woolwich
Memorial Hospital
Carlton
Bath Brunswick converts to dial telephone system
The Bath and Brunswick telephone service switches from manual operators to dial phones in a two minute cut over at 12 01 a m Sunday. After years of planning dating back to 1941 the project culminates with the New England Tel and Tel building on High street the site of the conversion and testing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Brunswick
New New England Tel
Tel
High Street
New York
Bangor
Bath-Brunswick
Harpswell
Planned shopping center sparks little Bath concern
Bath merchants show indifference to a proposed 750000 shopping center on Route 1 between Bath and Brunswick as Christmas shoppers occupy focus. Brunswick merchants consider self protection options, while The Miller Company touts a terrific response and aims to keep shopping money local. Local owners urge street lighting parking and storefront improvements to attract customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Brunswick
Times
John P. Allen
J. H. Miller, Inc. Bath
Theberge Brothers
Constance Ring
Naval Air Station
Bath- Brunswick
Brunswick Road
New England
Miller Company
Allen
Portland
Lewiston
College Town
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Linwood A. Abbott
Phyllis M. Wright
Miss Cummings
Constance Gray
Patricia White
Carol Bartels
Carol Henderson
Joseph Avery
Loring Addison
Raymond Farnham
John M. Conley, Jr
Bruce Wright
Linwood Abbott
Austin Miller
Louise Mayo
Margaret Flaherty
Clinton Owen
Adelle Rubin
Peter Owen
Mohiba
WCSH
Julie Cummings
Ane Thompson
Bath Zoning Committee
Grenade
Iron Curtain
Frank T. Coffin
Democratic State Committee
Edwin H. Pert
Coffin
Pert
Louis Tarr
Carrie Lehane
Minnie Golder
Women's Democratic Club
Edward McMahan
E. T. Lothridge
Richmond
Edmund St. Susie
Junior Hospital League
Eugene P. Eberhard
Frederick W. Robie
William F. Mussenden
Harold W. McElman
Eleanor L. Wilson
William A. Niss
Leslie C. Shu
H. H. Fisher
Merritt A. Mitchell
Bath City
East Brunswick
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