The Hungarian Uprising and the Death of Communism
The 1956 Hungarian revolt showed courage in pursuit of freedom and exposed communism’s failings. It spurred doubts about communist parties abroad and highlighted the harm of Soviet oppression. The piece argues for defending liberal democracy against centralized, all powerful rule.
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Hungary
Kremlin
Red Army
Kurt S. Lachmann
Europe
CUS News & World Report
Mr. Lachmann
The Hungary Pledge Gathers Signatures For Boycott
The American Friends of the Captive Nations unveil The Hungary Pledge seeking signatures from diverse leaders to boycott the Soviet regime. Pledge commits to no economic social political or cultural relations with the Soviet Union or its adherents until Soviet troops leave Hungary. Signatures urged to be sent to 62 W 45th St New York 36 NY.
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Friends of the Captive Nations
Hungary
Soviet Union
American Friends of the Captive Nations
W. 45Th St
New York
N. Y
Keeping up with the Jonses as risky hill pass
A lighthearted or tongue in cheek remark notes that chasing high status rivals on hilly terrain presents more danger than social competition. The line uses the Jonses as a metaphor for competitive living and risky maneuvering.
Georgetown church sermon and town updates mix with local notes
Morning sermon at First Baptist by Rev Warren Harris revisits prayer and scripture Luke 1.1-13. Georgetown Center reports four Sunday services and evening hauls at the feeding staton. Socials include Working League hosts and PTA meeting. many residents visit Bath, Damariscotta, and Portland.
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First Baptist Church
Warren Harris
Massachusetts
Gordon Divinity School
Beverly Farms
Five Islands Baptist meeting elects officers and notes activities
The Five Islands Baptist church held its annual meeting with many attending. Officers elected include Moderator Mrs. Vesta Rowe and Clerk Mrs Aurelia Pinkham. Committees chosen cover finance building and pulpit duties. Other updates mention classes, clubs, and community visits.
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The
Baptist Church
Tast Creek
Vesta Rowe
Aurelia Pinkham
Addie Gray
Edith Murr
Elaine Stevens
James Stevens
Luva Gray
Christina Stevens
Georgetts Pinkham
Cora Pinkham
Franklin Pinkham
Harold P Okham
Lloyd Pinkham
Jiannes
Albertina Pinkham
Beulah Milter
Shirley Pinkham
Edith Murry
Flower
Marion Watsons
Liiva
Gray
Edth Murr
Harold Pinkham
Victor Pinkham
Gloyd Pinkham
Orville Rowe
Murr
Victor Pintiham
Rees Ladies’ Bible
Harlan Pontiham
Farland Moore
Good Neighbor Club
Philip Pinkham
Little Barles
Thomas Watson
Frankie Pinkham
Janice Pinkham
Maury Proctor
Gordon Pinkham
Wat Son
Syracuse and Penn State Football Rivalry History
The Syracuse and Penn State football rivalry began in 1922 and has met each fall since, except 1944 when Syracuse suspended football due to the war.
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Syracuse
Penn State
Solar Lodge Elects Its Officers At Annual Meeting
Roy I. Lawrence was elected master of Solar Lodge F. and A. M. at the annual meeting Monday evening at Masonic Temple to succeed Donald T. Page. Other officers elected include Roswell C. Haskell senior warden Linwood E. Temple junior warden Past Master John W. Gillesme treasurer Past Master Karcher S. Jackson secretary Ralph H. Card senior deacon Frank G Allen junior deacon. Past Master Herbert R. Morse was chosen for the house committee and Past Masters Edwin H. P. Lowell Harry E. Ring and David C. Dickson to the guardians committee. Installation is set for January 14 with Lowell as installing officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy I. Lawrence
Solar Lodge F. & A. M
Masonic Temple
Donald T. Page
Roswell C. Haskell
Linwood E. Temple
John W. Gillesme
Karcher S. Jackson
Ralph H. Card
Frank G Allen
Herbert R. Morse
Edwin H. P. Lowell
Harry E. Ring
David C. Dickson
Committee of Guardians
P. M. Edwin H. P. Lowell
City Manager reports December municipal activities Bath
City Manager Stanley W. Judkins presents December 1956 activities across departments. Police logged 35 arrests, 21 non fatal crashes, 202 complaints. ambulance calls eight. Parking meters netted $602.52 with $171.25 from Water Street area. meters and fines totaled $164.50. Fire alarms numbered 15. Building permits issued for $575. Highway and sewer crews handled 249 catch basins, 1,796 cubic yards of sand, and snow operations for nine storms. Cemetery work included evergreen covers, tree removal, and hedge trimming. 11 burials at Oak Grove, 1 at Maple Grove, 10 entombments. Public Welfare aided 55 people. polio clinic immunized 502 children. Health department logged 14 chickenpox, 1 TB, 1 mumps, 1 streptococcal case. nine cases investigated. Recreation Center ran 25 days with 542 members. skating rinks opened December 19. four skating days supported by snow removal. Sewer work on High and Getchell Streets completed, resurfacing planned next spring. Sandown figures show 1,020 of 7,045 weights inaccurate.
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Bath City Council
Water Street
Center Street
Leeman Highway
Oak Grove Cemetery
Oak Grove
Maple Grove Cemetery
Public Welfare Department
Health and Sanitation Department
Goddards and
Hyde Park
High
Getchell
March of Dimes Campaign Opens in Sagadahoc County
The 1957 March of Dimes campaign was launched at a Sedgwick dinner with state Rep. Donald W. Groeger as main speaker. Tag Days are set for January 18 and 19, Mothers’ March on January 30, with homes to be visited and cards left for inoculation status. Attendees included local chairmen and publicity leaders.
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Sagadahoc
Sedgwick
Donald W. Groeger
Portland
Philip Wyman
Sagadahoc County
Edgar Hancox
Bath
Walter Kennett
Ann Caouette
Topsham
Ronald Riendeau
Forrest Whitney
March
James Taggart
Bath Women’s Activities
Granville Colby
Bath Tag Day
Colby
Gordon Alden
Phippsburg
Mark Crowley
Woolwich
Carl R. Dearborn, Jr
Helen Hayes
Andrew Flaherty
Lindsey Dauphinee
Former Bath Resident to Head U V Graphics Division
At a December Vermont Board of Trustees meeting a Division of Graphics was created in the College of Technology at the University of Vermont. Victor H. Paquet, a former Bath resident, will head the division after seven years directing graphics within Mechanical Engineering. He is a Morse High School and Colby College graduate and has published on Perspective Drawing in Machine Design.
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University of Vermont
College of Technology
Victor H. Paquet
Bath
Mechanical Engineering
Paquet
Morse High School
Colby College
Waterville
Journal of Engineering Drawing
Band Boosters Plan Band Aid Day February 2
Morse High School band members led by Cecil V Rowland presented a program at the Band Boosters meeting. Band Aid Day plans were discussed at the February 2 event as president H Kenneth Smith oversaw the session.
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Morse High Band
Cecil V. Rowland
Morse High School
H. Kenneth Smith
Anna Lonn
Mary Baird
Dennis Ring
Earle Coombs
Mozart
Gretchaninoff
Mendelssohn
Schmidt
Hansel
Grettel
Humperdinck
Bert Lonn
Stanley Hunter
Obituary for Miss Alice J. Shaw 1877 79 Bath Portland
Miss Alice J. Shaw 79 a former Bath resident died Saturday at a Portland nursing home. Funeral 1 p m Monday at 749 Congress street Portland with Rev. Ernest Thorsell officiating. Buried Mount Pleasant cemetery Dexter in spring. Born Detroit she was daughter of Greenville J. and Jennie Luce Shaw. She lived in Bath many years then moved to Portland 16 years ago and worked as a hairdresser. A past matron of Genesta Chapter O E S and member of Twilight Rebekah Lodge and Madona Shrine Portland. She is survived by a sister in law Mrs. Sarah A. Shaw of this city.
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Alice J. Shaw
Bath
Portland
Congress Street
Ernest Thorsell
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Dexter
Detroit
Greenville J
Jennie Luce Shaw
Morrell, Bath native, dies after long illness
Francis L Morrell 60 a former Bath resident died Saturday night at Pownal after a long illness Born in Bath May 15 1896 he was the son of Francis L and Margaret Worthly Morrell He lived in Bath 40 years before moving to Pownal 20 years ago His only survivor is half brother Holden C Wright of this city
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F. L. Morrell
Francis L. Morrell
Bath
Pownal
Francis L
Margaret Worthly Morrell
Holden.c. Wright
Franz B. Stevens 55 Five Islands dies after long illness
Franz B. Stevens of Five Islands died at Bath Memorial Hospital after a long illness. A Bath Iron Works former employee and Navy veteran, he was husband of Christania Pinkham Stevens and father to David F. Stevens, Cyril J. Stevens, Peter H. Stevens, and Christina E. Stevens. Surviving also are his parents James M. and Christiania Field Stevens and two nephews. He attended Georgetown schools and served 1919 to 1921. He worked on the yacht Hi-Es Maro, built boats, and last worked in the Tin Shop at BIW during World War II. He was a member of the Second Baptist Church.
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John D. Williams, Jr
Everett D. Stevens
Seguinland
Alvah C. Reyoulds
Georgetown Road
Carroll Powers
Robinhood
Williame
Lejeune
N. C
Georgetown Center
Charles McMahan
Rachel Dechine
Walter Beane
Roy Loeschner
Bath
Janice Powers
Scott
Gary
James Oliver
Kennebec Point
Harold Livingstone
Haverhill
Mass
Little River
Thomas Savage
Portland
Gilbert, Gunnell
Joseph Adshade
Waltham
West Georgetown
Harry L. Horne
William A. Todd
William Mains
Everett Stevens
Adolph Spear
Richmond
Charles Shain
Roy M. Newman
Shain
Carleton College
Northfield
Minn
Shan
Marblehead
New York State
Elizabeth Moffatt
Carroll
Anne
Bay Point Road
Holly Brown
Joyce
Michael Oliver
Janie Oliver
Buddie
Cathy Brown
Moffatt Place
Brenda Penley
Huse School
Brian Davis
Great Duck Island
Ralph Davis
Franz B. Stevens
Five Islands
Bath Iron Works
Bath Memorial Hospital
Christania Pinkham Stevens
James M
Christiania Field Stevens
Georgetown
U. S. Navy
Mr. Stevens
Second Baptist Church
David F
U. S. Army
Fort Benning
Cyril J
Peter H
Christina E. Stevens
Morse High School
Funeral services for Ernest H. Quinn in Gorham
Ernest Harold Quinn 72 of Sebago retired superintendent of a Rockland packing plant died recently. Born Machias June 18 1884 he led Underwood Packing in Rockland and worked at the South Portland shipyard during World War II. Survived by widow Sadie Bridges Quinn of Sebago two sons three daughters eighteen grandchildren and three great grandchildren. He was a member of the Masonic lodge in Rockland and the Order of Red Men in Machias.
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Ernest H. Quinn
Ernest Harold Quinn
Sebago
Rockland
Gorham
Machias
Mr. Quinn
Underwood Packing Company
South Portland
Sadie Bridges Quinn
Irving M
Machiasport
Ernest L
Bath
Harold M
Thomaston
Sarah Turner
Christine E. Rader
Dorothy I. Owen
Limestone
Pauline D. Ellis
Miami
Fla
Quinn
Masonic Lodge of
Order of Red Men
Frederick L. Hart 73 of Freeport dies at Bath Memorial
Frederick L. Hart of Allen Range road Freeport formerly of Bath died Thursday at Bath Memorial hospital He was born January 20 1883 in Bath son of Silas and Harriet Hart Survived by widow Margaret A Hart of Freeport son Frederick W Bath daughter Beatrice Grace Freeport two stepsons Charles R. Dorsey and Arthur R Douglas Connecticut stepdaughter Mrs Ethel Baird Massachusetts and several grandchildren He was for many years a short order cook and chef in...
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Frederick L. Hart
Allen Range Road
Freeport
Bath
Bath Memorial Hospital
Silas
Harriet Hart
Margaret A Hart
Frederick W
Beatrice Grace
Charles R. Dorsey
Arthur R. Douglas
Connecticut
Ethel Baird
Massachusetts
Mr. Hart
Norman H Drummond lifelong Arrowsic resident dies at 66
Norman H Drummond 66 longtime Arrowsic resident died Tuesday at Bath Memorial Hospital after two weeks of illness. Born May 12 1890 in Arrowsic he served as town treasurer and school board chairman and worked as a state fire warden and road patrolman. Survived by widow Emma two daughters Esther Hawley and Norma Rothwell a step daughter Alice Cote and granddaughter Frances Ellen Rothwell. Funeral Friday at 1 30 p m from A F Mayo Son with entombment in Oak Grove Family Lot.
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Norman H. Drummond
Norman H Drummond
Arrowsic
Bath Memorial Hospital
Melvin
Alice Hinckley Drummond
Drummond
Morse High School
Emma A. Drummond
Esther Hawley
Woolwich
Norma Rothwell
Worcester
Mass
Alice Cote
Arrowsie
Frances Ellen Rothwell
A. F. Mayo & Son
Oliver W. Bell
Wesley Methodist Church
Oak Grove
Harold A Brown 54 former Bath resident buried in Portland
Funeral held in Portland for Harold A Brown 54 who died Monday in a Portland hospital. Born Advocate Harbor Nova Scotia May 3 1902 he lived in Bath most of his life and worked at Bath Iron Works South Portland Shipyard and Walsh Holyoke Co on Texas Towers project. He was a Wesley Methodist member with a daughter Olga Lang Brown a Bath sister Sally Brown and brother Stanley M Brown of Bath and several nieces and nephews.
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Portland
Harold A. Brown
Bath
Brooklawn Memorial Park
Advocate Harbor
N. S
Harris H
Lucy Kelly Brown
Morse High School
Brown
Bath Iron Works Corp
South Portland
East Haven, Conn
Hart Funeral Rites Held At Local Home
Frederick L. Hart's funeral services were conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Arthur F. Mayo and Son funeral residence with Rev. James Baker of Freeport officiating. Pallbearers included Lewis Johnson, Robert Dorsey, Arthur Douglas, and Frederick Hart. Entombment followed at Oak Grove.
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F. L. Hart
Frederick L. Hart
Arthur F. Mayo and Son
James Baker
Freeport
Lewis
Funeral service for Franz B. Stevens held Sunday
Funeral service for Franz B. Stevens was conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. from the Second Baptist church in Five Islands with Rev. Warren B. Harris officiating. Entombment was at Oak Grove. Committal at Oak Cemetery in Georgetown will be held in the spring.
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Franz B. Stevens
Second Baptist Church
Five Islands
Warren B. Harris
Oak Grove
Oak Cemetery
Georgetown
Crossword Puzzle and Cryptoquote Feature
A newspaper page presents a large themed crossword with numbered Across and Down clues covering words from geography to music and science, plus a Cryptoquote puzzle and a quotation: I HOLD THAT MAN IS IN THE RIGHT WHO IS MOST CLOSELY IN LEAGUE WITH THE FUTURE by Ibsen. The page notes the puzzle is distributed by King Features Syndicate.
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Ibsen
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Ruby Dodge
Caleb
Joshua
Working League
J. Robert Blackie
Joseph F. Higgins
Paul I. Wren
Medford
Secretary of Treasury
Humphrey
Washington
Wren
Old Colony Trust Co
American Bankers Association
Tufts University
W. Randolph Burress
Georgetown P. T. A
Central School
Albert Moore
Farland
Moore
Woodrow Gray
Pamela
George Gray
Jerry Gray
Bainbridge
Navy
Tommy Burgess
Vernon Gray
J. G. Stevens
Marion Stevens
Exeter
Dee
David Stevens
Wao
Franz Stevens
Vernal Chaney
Linda
Flict
Cecil Stevens
Eugene Butterfield
Mark Hanna
Herman Barter
Laurence Perow
Elta Moore
George Delano
Clifton Matthews
Clayton Stevens
Phyllie Campbell
Kenneth Smith
Yarmouth
Lucien Tardif
Lulu Hanna
Clayton Hanna
Irving Hanna
Alan
John Clifton Little
Little
Graham Air Base
Mariana
Capt. Little
Littles
Robert
Solar Lodge
Getchell Streets
Stanley W. Judkins
Sandown
Isle of Wight
U. of V
Band Boosters Club
F. B. Stevens
Saar
Liberty Music Note
Tion
India
War Department
Fir
Zeuvnor
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