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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1946
Page
5
The Mead social notes describe a dance by Snipe's orchestra with gifts and a tree lighting creating a festive mood. Community members attend from Center and Cranberry Point, with a P T A planning another dance soon.}:
Edward Thomas was in Bath Wednesday night to visit his son Frederick at Bath Memorial hospital. Frederick will return home Friday. Mr and Mrs Bob Mooroe and Edwin Hill were in Lewiston Thursday. Lieut Kenneth Goodwin USCG, son of Mr and Mrs Martin F Goodwin, has been tran
The third annual event by Bath Memorial Hospital auxiliary posted a profit of 3654.27. Final Ye Olde Tyme Faire committee meeting was hosted by Duncan McInnes. John Parker and Mrs. Charles B. Doyle reported full finances. Hobby display winners were Mrs. Arthur Sewall and Irald Barter, with prizes of stockings and a necktie.
Pfc. Charles Godfrey of the U S Army, stationed at Scott Field Illinois, arrived Sunday to spend the holidays with family after attending school there.
About 10 people from Parker Head to Sebasco Point performed a village church pageant “Unto Us Is Born” with narrators, shepherds, wise men and a choir. Various local groups held parties and carol singalongs at Small Point, Parker Head, and Phippsburg Center, plus 4-H and PTA events and a long list of Personal Items and visits.
Friday's storm damaged Ernest Spinney's house with roof leaks and ruined ceilings while surrounding areas saw no beach damage due to strong winds. Popham Circle prepared for a Christmas party at the schoolhouse as residents decked the town with lights, wreaths, and evergreen decorations.
Shipping lobsters by air increases. Live lobsters can be flown surface transport up to a thousand miles with high mortality, yet coast-to-coast flights show negligible losses due to fresh food and rapid transit.
Aristophanes references luxury oriental rugs from Miletus in Frogs dating to 400 B C. The Greek comedy depicts a character lounging with a dancing girl on these rugs famed across Asia Minor for millennia.
A report notes over one million miles of rural roads and 95 710 miles of state controlled highways without all weather surfaces. It also cites about 75 000 miles of city streets and alleys lacking year round concrete asphalt tar or gravel surfaces.
The Weeks Street school presented a December style program with sixth and seventh grade acts. Performers included Jean Graham Jeanne Berger Kathryn Crocker Artemis Wood Nancy Brown Geraldine Pearson and Mary Pagurko among others. The afternoon featured Christmas trees gift exchanges and perfect attendance by several sixth graders.
A discussion notes that Philippine mahogany is not a genuine mahogany and comes from trees unrelated to the true mahogany, unlike Cuban Honduran Mexican Amazon African and Peruvian varieties.
Newell tells club audience the bomb was intended to simplify atomic theory for average minds. He cites air and underwater tests off Bikini atoll, describes blast effects, and notes ships damaged including the USS Hughes.
St Marys church gleams with elaborate decorations for Christmas night Mass. Candles, evergreen wreaths, red carnations, and poinsettias adorn the altar as sisters, with Eugene Hart, arrange the scene. A Blessed Sacrament mass sung by a mixed choir under Sister Elsa features clergy and Knights of Columbus members assisting.
Meteorology notes that the lower edges of the aurora borealis occur roughly 50 miles above Earth, suggesting a high atmospheric layer. This estimation informs early observer records of auroral displays and their altitude.
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