Former Bath Boy Becomes Colonel in U S Air Force
Lewiston born George R Acheson rose from Morse High School Bath to Air Force officer. He earned Second Lieutenant in 1927, won the 1928 Mason Patrick Trophy, and advanced to Colonel by 1942 commanding officers of an RAF Wing with service in Hawaii England and the Third and Fifth Air Forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High
George Acheson
George
State Military and Naval Children's Home
Frank L. Staples
Bath
United States Army
Advanced
City
George R. Acheson
AAF
Col. Acheson
MacDill Field
Tampa
Fla
Lewiston
Acheson
Colonel Acheson
Morse High School
Army
University of Maine
Portland
Panama
Col
Mason Patrick
Los Angeles
Cal
Air Corps Armament Technical School
Hawaii
Secretary of War
Henry L. Stimson
Gen
Arnold
Fairchild
Third Air Force
England
Eifth Air Force
Youth Problems Discussed Sunday by City Leaders
The Pilgrim Fellowship of Bath held a Sunday forum at Central church parish house on youth issues with Mayor Rogers, Judge Deering and city officials fielding questions. Speakers urged recreation programs, noted girls’ needs, and called for cooperation and education to curb delinquency while planning next week’s discussion on health officials’ views.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pilgrim Fellowship of
Bath
Central Church Parish House
Walter C. Rogers
Gardiner R. Deering
Phillip Oliver
Stanley Hunter
Mary Lee
Filery Doyle
Esther Jakesy
Judge Deering
Deering
Rogers
Oliver
Hunter
Edward J. McMann
Ellery Doyie
Y.W.C.A
Uts
Pilgrim Fellowship
Paul Tourtillotte
Robert Rice
Betty
Linwood Haynes
Cosmopolitan Club Busy Session on Wednesday Night
At the February Cosmopolitan club meeting reports from secretary Christine Curtis and treasurer Eleanor Danforth were read. Notes on the paint and repair fund, garden and house committees, and a Governor Winthrop type desk purchase were discussed. The Garden club marked its 10th anniversary on Feb. 14 with a party invitation to the Mother club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmopolitan Club
Christine Curtis
Eleanor Danforth
Ada Greenblatt
Garden Club
House Committee
Governor Winthrop
Alice Johnson
Roscoe P. McFadden
Elizabeth Deering
Health and Welfare Department
House
Robert Pendleton
Dorothy Dolan
R. N
Leah Grant
Bernard Knight
Homer Johnson
Alexander MacDonald
Margaret Adams
Sarah Adams
Federation of Women’s Clubs
Augusta
Danforth
Granville Colby
Sumner Sewall
R. Owen Brewster
Melvin Howe
Brenda Burns
Colby
Wives Club
Emma Walker
Curtis
Genesta Chapter Telephone Bridge Proves A Success
Genesta chapter O.F.E. met Friday with new officers in view stations for the first time. Mrs Viola Osj00d welcomed members and guests, with Mrs Jason A Merrill installed as organist. The telephone bridge report by Mrs Evelin Morse noted 22 tactics and donations from nonplayers, and a banquet followed with skits and an acrobatic dance, prizes awarded for bridge and auction games.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genesia
O. FE. S
Viola
Cuvier Dolloff
Washington Street
Oscar Adams
Eva Kenney
Kathryn Smith
Harold Tobey
Fred Osgood
Ruth Fields
Eleanor Danforth
Frank Danforth
Martha Bertrand
Virginia Parker
Patricia Brown
Edmund Mocklar
Florence Troop
Joseph Oliver
David Rich
Burt Lonn
Pythian Sisters to Install Officers at Lowell Temple
Lowell temple Pythian Sisters met last Wednesday with a tacking and supper. Officers will be installed next week with Mrs. Ethelyn Gilman of Lewiston as installing officer. Other notes include Mrs. Gertrude Stewart winning the penny match and a tree-themed contest won by Mrs. Mary Knight. Edward McLellan celebrated his 82nd birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Chester A. Plant returned from Georgia where Pvt. Drake is on ten-day furlough at the Atlanta Ordnance Depot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowell Temple Pythian
Ethelyn Gilman
Lewiston
Past Chiefs Association
Lowell Temple
Gertrude Stewart
Sarah Potter
Marry Knight
Edward McLellan
The
Temple
Chester A. Plant
High Street
Georgia
J. Edward Drake, Jr
Hopeville
Pvt
Mrs. Drake
Atlanta, Ga
Ordnance
Pupils Raise 1270 For March of Dimes Drive
Bath school children collected 1270.09 for the Infantile Paralysis effort. Mrs James Nostall chaired Sagadahoc county women’s division with PTA members helping and teachers aiding. Contributions came from Central Grammar Mitchell Dike House South Street Washington North Grammar North Primary Center Street and Weeks Street schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
James Nostall
Woman’s
Sagadahoc County
Parent-Teacher Association
Vlacine
Mark Jackson
Weeks and
Mitchell
Scott Davis
North Grammar North
Central Grammar
Richard Sherwood
Washington
James Temple
South Street
Center Street
Cyrus Longley
Huse
Nottall
Central Grammier
Washington Street
Weeks Street
North Grammar
Sorority Helped Buy War Bonds At Opera House
Beta Sigma Phi women manned the Bond booth during the Fourth War Loan, with Club 42 taking over duties on alternating days. Miss Roberta Hathorne of Woolwich bought bonds for her brother, Cpl Raymond Hathorne, now in the South Pacific. Bond sales at Bath Opera House promise a sellout for the Madame Curie premiere on February 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Opera House
Club ‘42
Club “42
Roberta Hethorne
Woolwich
Miss Hathorne
Cpl
Raymond Hathorne
United States Air Force
South Pacific
Bath Opera House
Roverta Kathorne
Hew
Beta Sigma Phi
Bond and Stamp Sales Hit $6,000 at Bath Schools
For the second week in succession Bath school children surpassed the six thousand dollar mark with last week's total of $6,396.50 and a cumulative sum of $56,932.75 toward a $75,000 goal for an army fighter plane. North Grammar rebounded to second place as Huse School dropped to third. weekly and cumulative totals follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
North Grammar
Huse
Lions Club Party Plans Dinner and Dance at Central Church
Bath Lions and Lionesses committees in charge of the Fourth War Loan dinner at Central church parish house set a meeting for Wednesday at 7 30 PM in the Mayor's office. Tickets are selling fast and all members are urged to buy bonds if not yet purchased. Cecil Drew of Bath Iron Works was called home to Belfast by his four year old son Frederick's bronchial pneumonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold P. Small
Small
Lions Club
Roger M. Luke
John Newell
Theodore F. Watson
Edmund A. Rothwell
Roland B. Robinson
Bath
Harold J. Carter
Ward Five
Carter
Pilgrim Fellowship of Central Church
Rogers
Mary Lee
Roger Luke
Oliver
Joint
Standing Committee On
John Bowie
Edwin R. Andrews
Boy Scout
Boy Scouts
Progressive Union
Carl French
Bernard Knight
Warren Hawley
Melvin Howe
Eleanor Danforth
I. A. Trueworthy
Rachel Nichols
Arthur Easley
Ivan Kirkpatrick
David L. Wilson
Joseph I. Smith
Etta Thurlow
Jameson and
Reed of
the Waves
Stanley Brown
R. N
Beatrice Crocker
Virginia Leeman
Beulah A. Lunt
House
Charles Messenger
Albert Matter
Albert Grover
Elanor Duff
Portland
Naval Office
Bath Iron Works
Guy Thayer
Helen Weidman
Memorial Hospital
Cecil Drew
Belfast
Frederick
Itemized report on funds raised to fight disease at Bath
The 1944 President's Birthday Ball at Morse High School gym raised a net profit of 821.47 for the Infantile Paralysis Fund. Receipts totaled 1 113.42 with expenditures of 291.95, leaving 821.47 net. Citywide totals reach 2 577.97 with additional gifts from Bath and other towns including March of Dimes 1270.00 and Bath Iron Works 136.50. Rays Cummings, Bath post office carrier, spent Tuesday in Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Bath
Brotherhood of — Shipyard Workers
Hyde Windlass Co
Bath Iron Works
Also Mentioned on This Page
U.S. Air Force
Col George A. Acheson
Albert S. Owen
Thayer and
James Longhurst
Earl Freeman
Roger Lewis
Cosmo Club
Genesta
Pythian Sisters
Charles FB. Gale
Naval Trains Station
Newport
Rob
Gale
Bathalion Work Corp
Wavenock Counery Club
Burton BE. Goudy
Oak Street
Damariscotta
Times
Miss Stacey
Transportation Department
Bath Iron Works Corp
Accu
Mulative High School
N. Grammar
Lions’ Club Party
Ray Cummings
Income Tax Service
Thomas G. Booth
Front Street
Maine
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