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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1950
Page
1
Morse Opposes Columbia Valley Authority as Threat to Local Power
Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon opposes the CVA, arguing it concentrates broad administrative power in three presidential appointees, bypasses local self government, and erodes regional autonomy. He cites Hoover Commission ideas and warns nine authorities would centralize control with tax money and restrict freedoms.
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Wayne Morse
Oregon
Columbia Valley Authority
Morse
Pacific Northwest
CVA
Hoover Commission
TVA
Truman
New England
United States
Dorothea Dix Nominated for Hall of Fame at NYU
Dorothea Lynde Dix, a Maine woman famed for reforms aiding the poor, the insane, and prison inmates, is nominated by the National Committee for Mental Hygiene for the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University. Her work led to broad legislative reforms and international influence.
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Hall of Fame
New York University
Dorothea Lynde Dix
National Committee For Mental Hygiene
Ralph W. Lockman
Hampden
Maine
Boston
Miss Dix
Scotland
1. Islands
France
Italy
Reece
Turkey
Russia
Sweden
Remarkable Civil War Nurse Leader Dies in New Jersey
The subject, active in Norway Denmark Holland Belgium and Germany and in Japan, directed Women Nurses of the Union Army under Lincoln. Despite lifelong tuberculosis, she accomplished much before her death on July 17 1887 at Trenton New Jersey.
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Norway
Denmark
Holland
Belgium
Germany
Japan
United States
Lincoln
Trenton
N. J
Sagadahoc Rod and Gun Club names 1950 committees
The Sagadahoc Rod Gun and Skeet association announced its 1950 committees at a directors meeting. Committees cover conservation supper and entertainment field trial skeet club house and more with Col Harry B Carney and others as chairs. The board invites all members to attend meetings without meal tickets and discussed a card party food sale and Bay feed plans. The entertainment committee hopes Gov Payne will speak at a future meeting.
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Sagadahoc Rod, Gun & Skeet Association
Harry B. Carney
Charles I. Madden
Joseph Ciomi
Harold E. Brown
Theryl Robbins
Emery E. Freeman
Leslie B. Ferris
Nicholas S. Mihalos
Col. Carney
Woodbury
W. Bailey
Louis Mihalos
Donald King
Earl
Merrymeeting Bay
Frederick G. Payne
Corliss Street Troop 52 Bears Patrol Maintains Cup
The Bear Patrol led by Lloyd Coombs won all three events Steal the Bacon compass reading contest and observation game and kept possession of the silver cup. Eddie Howe transfers from Troop 57 and new recruits work on tenderfoot requirements. The Explorer crew led by Victor Lonn built a 25 foot signal tower at Scoutland and refreshed the troop cabin with fir boughs. Scoutmaster Arvid Anderson oversaw cleanup and tests as the Board of Review moves to Feb 3 at 7 p.m.
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Lloyd Coombs
Eddie Howe
Srsakion Savage
Everett King
Explorer
Victor Lonn
Scoutland
Arvid Anderson
Elwell
Johnson
Brown
Savage
Rush
Caton
Troop Board of Review
Municipal Court Fines For Traffic Stop Violation and Intoxication
Millard Green of Bath paid 5.00 fine and 4.70 costs after a Jan 28 guilt finding for failing to stop at High and Oliver streets. Officer Percy A. Kingsbury was the complainant. A local woman received one month probation to pay a 540.00 fine and 5.15 costs for intoxication and disturbing the peace. A Bath man was fined 5.00 and 5.60 costs after arraignment on intoxication. in lieu of payment, 30 days will be served in Kennebec County Jail.
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Kennebec County
Fresh Cabbage Grows in Window Garden at Bowman Street
Bernard E. Varnum and wife of 17 Bowman Street cultivate a home grown cabbage indoors. After discovering a stored cabbage sprout in their cellar they planted it in a flower pot in the window with other flowers. Now a thriving bright green plant promises a fresh head for a winter dinner.
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Bernard E. Varnum
Bowman Street
Varnums
Beacon Brotherhood Holds Wednesday Meeting at Vestry
The Beacon Brotherhood meets Wednesday evening at 7 30 in the church vestry with John M Howe Otis Card and LeRoy Lord on the program committee and Clifton Tedford Charles Anderson and James Steen handling refreshments. The Braves challenge the Red Sox for a return game.
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Hood
John M. Howe
Otis Card
LeRoy Lord
Clifton Tedford
Charles Anderson
James Steen
Braves
Red Sox
Help Given Victim of Poli o
A Portland wife writes to Mrs. James A. Gillies praising the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis for aiding her polio-stricken husband Frank N. Wells Jr. since September 1949. She notes he relies on a respirator, three nurses, and daily therapy, crediting immediate Foundation support for his care and progress.
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James A. Gillies
Sagadahoc
National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis
Frank N. Wells, Jr
Portland
Gillies
Frank
Betty S. Wells
Genesta O. E. S. Installation Observed in 1949 Gathering
The Genesta chapter held its 1949 installation with Worthy Matron Dororthy Wood receiving a silver teapot and officers gifting peers. Kenneth Wood and Harold Cutting received past patron and gift honors while Mrs. Pride’s installation work earned thanks and a gift from Genesta. The event featured past matrons and patrons, a white gavel, and a banquet with dancing to a surprise Esquire orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Fortin
Kenneth Wood
David Y. Alkazin
Ertrand
Kathryn Smith
Bertrand
Samuel Lancaster
Kora Shrine
Smith
Dorothy Wood
Olive Corliss
Carolyn Thompson
Ada Deering
Sarah Shaw
Grand Chapter
Maine
Mae Ward
Mabel Merrill
Doris Aikenhead
Elsie Pinson
Mabel Nelson
Olive Tait
Katherine Leonard
Evelyn Morse
Viola Osgood
Doris Pride
Rachel Fortin
Jason A Merrill
Paul G. Bagdikian
John Wishart
David Rich
Cecil Fullerton
Donald Young
Harold
Girl Scout Troops Meet in January Activities
St. Mary's Troop 8 plans a Nature Book and Valentine party with boys invited and box lunches. Robin Hood Brownies Troop 16 report cookies and doll-house crafts, while Peter Pan Troop 11 and Oak Leaf Troop 14 tally dues, create pins, and play games. White Clover Intermediates and Blue Bird Brownies hold songs, slides, and crafts as they meet at churches and community halls.
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St. Mary's Girl Scouts
James I. Nostall
Jacqueline Bergeron
H. L. Baker
Arrowsie
Robin Hood Brownies
Ellen Low
Patty Guynn
Promise
Linda Bell
Laurie Hamlin
Donna Johnston
Dorothy Johnston
Christie McLeod
Joan MacGregor
Judy MacGregor
Patty Munroe
Toni Plant
Henrietta Rogers
Marilyn Temple
Toinette Lakin
Grace Church Parish House
Susan Bates
Janice Card
Shirley Ames
Lorraine
Carmen Cormier
King on probation for cruelty to animals
Oscar King of Brunswick pleaded no contest in Cumberland morning to cruelty to animals and was placed on two years probation. He faced a $100 fine and costs from a Brunswick Municipal Court sentence appealed, related to a pig placed in a scalding pot during butchering before death.
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Oscar King
Brunswick
Cumberland Morning
King
Birthday Party at Haskell School Delights Local Children
Children at Haskell Memorial School enjoyed a January birthday party with Marion Holmes Wayne MacBeth and Olive Farley as guests of honor. Visitors included Mr. and Mrs. James MacBeth and Mrs. Arthur Holmes. Ice cream and cake, maple sugar on snow, and games such as musical chairs predicaments and fox and geese were played. Miss Audrey P King visiting from Colby College spent the week with her parents on Edgett Street.
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Haskell Memorial School
Marion Holmes
Wayne MacBeth
Olive Farley
James MacBeth
Arthur Holmes
Martha
Leah
Audrey P. King
Arthur W. King
Edgett Street
Colby College
Waterville
Huse P T A Plans Evening Card Party
Huse P T A schedules a public card party for Monday evening February 13 at Huse school. Dessert at 7 30 then cards with table games including contract auction canasta sixty three pitch and whist. Mrs Loring Addison chairs the committee assisted by Keith Crockett and others. Card table reservations handled by a list of volunteers.
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Huse P.T.A
Huse
Loring Addison
Keith Crockett
Ernest Freeman
Stanley Woods
Gerard Billington
Eleanor Danforth
Maurice Hutchins
Charles Small, Jr
Austin Miller
John E. Hayes
Donald Emero
Duncan Farrell
Norman Adams
Herbert Anderson, Jr
Marion A. Loeser
Annual Meeting and Election of Torrent No 1 Veterans
Torrent No. 1 Veterans Fireman’s Association held its January meeting at the G. A. R. hall on January 22 electing Frazier J. Haines as president and Harry Warner as vice president. Chester H. McCabe Jr. was named treasurer and A H MacCabe clerk. C H McCabe Jr. became foreman with Donald Hanscom as assistant. William Dwyer and Arden Coulter served as pipemen with Frazier Haines and Joseph Fortin as pipe and stream directors respectively. Melbourne Miller and Earl Legard were named flagmen. Eight masters are booked for 1950 with the Little Torrent slated for sixteenth 1950 races beginning June 17 at Berwick.
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Torrent No. 1 Veteran Fireman's Association, Inc
G. A. R. Hall
Frazier J. Haines
Harry Warner
Chester H. McCabe, Jr
A. H. MacCabe
C. H. McCabe, Jr
Donald Hanscom
William Dwyer
Arden Coulter
Frazier Haines
Joseph Fortin
A. H. McCabe
Melbourne Miller
Earl Legard
Little Torrent
Berwick
Stork Shower Honoring Mrs George McKellar At West ern Ave Home
Mrs. George McKellar was guest of honor at a stork shower hosted by her sister Mrs J Henry Marsh at 32 Western Avenue. Refreshments were served as attendees including Mrs Harold Avery Mrs Walter Kingsbury Mrs Elton Pinkham Mrs Walter Thayer Mrs James Young Mrs Everett Quimby Sr Mrs Everett Quimby Jr Mrs James Farnham Mrs Lillian Johansen Mrs Rachel Farnham Mrs Clarence Brown Mrs Edward McKenna Miss Barbara Largay Miss Anna Day Miss Gloria Johansen Miss Dorothy Johansen and Mrs Marsh attended with the honoree.
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George McKellar
J. Henry Marsh
McKeller
Western Avenue
McKellar
Harold Avery
Walter Kingsbury
Elton Pinkham
Walter Thayer
James Young
Everett Quimby
Everett Quimby, Jr
Seventh-day Adventist Pastor to Lead Portland Service
Elder S. B. Olney Home Mission Secretary for the Portland District will lead the church service at the regular prayer meeting Wednesday evening.
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
S. B. Olney
Portland
Committees Named for Topsham Grange Activities
Master Arthur Wing announces the Topsham Grange standing committees for the year with members across Entertainment Youth Finance Home Welfare Lunch Counter Legislation Reception and Harvest events. Cast lists for The Farmers Frolics of 1950 and a rehearsal notice appear among the announcements.
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Arthur Wing
Topsham Grange
the Grange
Frank Carver
Hall Graves
Sidney Holbrook
Post Office
Doris Wing
Cleora Tarbox
Hazel Carr
Frances Carr
William Eves
Florence Dunkley
Alfred Rackley
Joseph Barrigan
Harry Rackley
Roger Williams
Arthur Powers
Robert Chamberlain
Harold Atkins
Grady
Millward Patten
Maritta Wilson
George Blanchard
Merton Brackett
Howard Carr
Justice Ripley
Roscoe Hoskins
Goodrich
Harold Hildreth
Harry Smith
Topsham Fair
Harry Edgecomb
Ralph Patten
Edward Belanger
William Larrabee
Byron Harrington
Medeline Belanger
Jeanne Belanger
Bird A. Shellenbarger
Orsmandel Wilson
Peter Tennyson
Walter Larrabee
Alice Pennell
Carolyn Barrows
Constance Whittier
Blanche Cheetam
Jacqueline Alisio
Hazel Shellenbarger
Young Peoples
Elaine Rackley
Gertrude Farr
Ethel Willis
Gertrude Short
Lula Cunningham
Margaret Morse
Stella Kappas
Sally Kappas
William Littlefield
Victor Ponziona
Laurette Freeman
Nellie Blanchard
Doris Hennessy
Jacqueline Snipe
Nancy Whelner
Betty Lou Atkins
Mary MacNally
Vivian Graves
Donald Hinckley
Donald Wilson
Hiram Russell
Forrest Whitney
Peter LaChance
Charles Morse
Richard Andrews
Gerald Rackley
Francis Mendes
Elroy Hennessey
Grange Hall
Chamber of Commerce cites coal shortages in Bath
Bath Chamber of Commerce warns of an extreme coal shortage as a cold spell looms. It appeals to Gov Payne Senator Smith Senator Brewster and Rep Hale urging miners back to work and stock replenishment to avert a desperate fuel crisis.
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Bath Chamber of Commerce
Bath
Frederick G. Payne
Margaret Chase Smith
Owen Brewster
Robert Hale
Harold P. Small
Chamber of Commerce
Small
Chamber
P T A Meeting Attendance in Bath and Harrison
Mr and Mrs Granville Colby and two others from Bath joined Mr and Mrs B M Davis in Harrison for a P T A supper. Mrs Smith spoke on the child and home, Mrs Matter on the district, and Colby demonstrated visual education materials for classrooms.
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Granville Colby
Joseph I. Smith
Daniel Matter
Bath
B. M. Davis
Harrison
Harrison P. T. A
Smith
Matter
Colby
State P. T. A. Bulletin
Mattor
Maine
Congress of P. T. A
Early church bell origins linked to Bishop of Nola
The article notes that the first bell atop a church is thought to have been placed by the Bishop of Nola around 400 A.D. This attribution highlights an early development in church architecture and ritual signaling.
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Nola
Morse High School Installs New Public Address System
The Morse High School Student Council purchased a portable public address system after trial use at recent home basketball games. It will be used at football and baseball games and in the auditorium for school activities. Mohiba fund receipts funded part of the purchase with the remaining balance to support non self supporting activities.
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Morse High School
Council
Public Card Party Aids Polio Fund At Cosmopolitan Club
Mrs Edward B Hamblett chaired a public card party at the Cosmopolitan club raising 41.50 for the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis through the Daughters of Isabella. Fifteen tables played contract auction canasta and whist with prizes to several members. total now to be turned over to the local chapter is 52.50.
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Edward B. Hamblett
Cosmopolitan Club
Isabella Treasury
National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis
Clifford B. Wilband
Walter White
Dorothy Desjardins
Agnes Wright
Delia Moody
Generous Bath Iron Works Club Donation to Pine Tree Society
The Leading Men's club of Bath Iron Works Corp donates 152.16 from its bank balance to the Pine Tree Society for Crippled Children. A check was presented to John R. Newell, president, by George Fitzgerald and Harry Stone on behalf of the club. The gift funds the society's expanding program.
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Bath Iron Works Corp
Pine Tree Society
John R. Newell
George Fitzgerald
Harry Stone
Weekly Crossword Puzzle Across and Down clues
A mixed crossword with across and down clues covering shapes colors and abbreviations plus a cryptogram quotation. The page lists many short definitions including arch pant broad bass and regional terms and ends with a cryptogram hint using a Longfellow quote.
Plan to Establish Rehabilitation Center in Portland
At a Pine Tree Society Medical Advisory meeting in Portland a proposal to create a rehabilitation center was discussed. Sumner Sewall presided. Mrs Marie I Preston of Bath would be executive secretary after touring centers to study staffing and plans.
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Pine Tree Society For Crippled Children
Portland
Sumner Sewall
Bath
John R. Newell
Marie I. Preston
Preston
New Hampshire
Boston
New York
New Jersey
Maine
Bernard Baruch
Thompson announces candidacy for county commissioner
Frank D. Thompson of Bath declared Saturday he seeks the Republican nomination for county commissioner and filed papers with the secretary of state's election division in Augusta. The post is vacated by Joseph H. Randlette of Richmond, who announced plans to seek renomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank D. Thompson
Bath
Augusta
Thompson
Joseph H. Randlette
Richmond
Divorce Granted in Sagadahoc County Case
Ruth E. Metcalf of Bath was awarded a divorce from Sydney Metcalf of Newark England by Justice Donald W. Webber in vacation from Sagadahoc County Superior Court on grounds of cruel and abusive treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald W. Webber
Auburn
Sagadahoc County Superior Court
Ruth E. Metcalf
Bath
Sydney Metcalf
Newark
Nottingham
England
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