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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1951
Page
2
Public notice from Tar Batu Sybreenvear indicating publication cadence every Thursday, with subscription terms in advance and postage handling details for mailing to readers. The fragment mentions pricing and post office routing.
The Bureau of ships announces 90 vessels under construction abroad including tankers cargo ships large passenger liners and one whale factory ship. Sea going vessels totals 15 of 249 452 gross tons and 14 of 153 370 gross tons for Great Lakes service.
Atlantic Iowa, a town of about 6000, earned top honors among 2 812 U S cities and towns for fire prevention efforts. The national recognition highlights the community’s proactive safety programs and municipal leadership in firefighting readiness.
An international committee of judges assesses fire-safety progress from records, scrapbooks and posters as 2,312 communities participated last year. The message urges every town, business and individual to join in a broader, more inclusive effort this year to fight the fire menace.
The committee reviews debt limits and proposes long range school expansion with options for Dike and Huse. Dike would add eight rooms and reduce transportation needs. Huse would add seven rooms, a cafeteria, gym access, and potential future expansion. Mitchell School additions are deferred due to funds. An ordinance to issue bonds is prepared, funds to be allocated after council choice. Building committee to be set when federal funds arrive. Signed by Stanley Hunter et al.
Probate court monthly session records multiple estates from Bath Woolwich Topsham and surrounding towns. Executors administrators guardians and trustees were appointed or accounted for including Frank L. Daley Allan Spear Elwood Legard and other named executors and guardians. Accounts were filed and some first and final accounts approved with bonds verified and inventories noted.
The first iron works in the New World was established by settlers at Falling Creek Virginia in 1622, marking an early industrial milestone in colonial America. The project signaled the beginnings of iron production in the English colonies and reflected early settler ingenuity and resource use.
A continued report on the March of Dimes drive receipts is promised for a later date. Mrs. M. Dean Shaw will present her coin box collection findings in a subsequent report. The article notes that clay tiles once used on German stoves in the 13th and 14th centuries still exist.
Fr. Maney marked 50 years in the priesthood with a Mass at St Mary’s Bath attended by parishioners who presented a Spiritual Bouquet and a token of appreciation. He praised his assistant Fr. Bellefontaine and reflected on a long, varied career from Bangor to Bath, Bangor, Rumford, Dexter, and South Berwick before settling at St Mary’s in 1926.
The committee reviews wage schedules and proposes a sliding scale for clerks patrolmen and drivers, notes highway hours and 48 hour pay, recommends adopting Social Security, and a 20 percent increase in city property insurance. Total increases about 9 834 with Social Security about 2 601 and insurance about 641.
Mr and Mrs Clifford J White of Hinckley street attended the ordination of eight young men to the Priesthood in the Society of Mary at Our Lady of Victories church Back Bay. The newly ordained priests trained at Marist Seminary Framingham include William Dunn Raymond Arsenault Gerard Pelletier Raymond Boulanger Robert Champagne James Kiley Narcisse Mayrand Agopiot Sanchez. They have many Bath friends who summer at Garnet and Foster's Point with cottagers attending mass at their church.
Bath residents protest alleged misallocation of city funds from the Fire Department to raise the city manager’s salary. They dispute the manager’s 1951 pay goals and urge higher firefighter pay, urging fiscal restraint and opposing “Russian methods” in Bath. The letter is signed by Ed Brown of 32 Lemont Street.
Postmaster Edward N. Hart announced Friday that normal mail service has been restored as of 12 noon today. The information came by telephone from Portland and confirms mail operations returning to standard procedures.
After a satisfying overseas visit, Fr Maney returned home confident in the nation’s greatness. In Brunswick he received a complimentary banquet from local Eagle members and a generous outpouring of congratulatory messages from friends in and beyond the state on his Golden Jubilée.
Winter Street church lights were relit on Ash Wednesday signaling Lent. The lights will illuminate each evening through Easter, continuing Advent season practice by Prudential near the church. Walter McNaughton installed the lights. The Nason Foundation for Visible Paralysis was founded in 1938 by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Akron sits about 1,000 feet above sea level.
Sam Prawer, a Bath fruit and grocery dealer, expects a carload of United Fruit bananas in New York and describes how a railroad strike delays shipments. Bananas stored in three temperature controlled rooms at 55 60 and 65 degrees ripen at different rates, with shipments likely delayed for days to weeks. Stock will last only through the week before ripening restarts, extending the wait for ripe fruit in Bath.
Mont sweag Apple Farm owner and operator Ray Dunkling pleaded guilty at Bath municipal court to receiving stolen goods. He was fined 10 dollars and 4.70 dollars costs after being arrested on a warrant for buying two chickens valued at 10 dollars from Harvey G. Chubbuck of Woolwich. Chubbuck, convicted of larceny in January, was bound over to Sagadahoc County Superior Court in June on related charges.
Richard D Brown of Lemont pleads guilty to a street offense. He faces a fine of $10 and court costs set at $4.70.
Two sections of Boy Scout exhibits shown in the windows of N Gratz Jackson, mounted by Troop 99 and Pack 99. The north display depicts Kennebec area cottages and boats. the south features ton bilge, crates, a Carrleton game, and a truck. Items arranged by Donald Page with Pack flags and den banners. Displays illustrate what boys aged eight to eleven can achieve with worthwhile tasks. The uniform loaned by Morris Povich. Boy Scout Week runs February 6–12.
Explorer Troop 52 set up a field kitchen and tripod table for a Saturday campout. Boys coordinated a varied Saturday noon menu, baked beans Saturday night, and Sunday breakfast of eggs and bacon. Sunday noon meals used foil wrapped meat and vegetables cooked on hot coals. Temperatures hovered near zero as the group slept in sleeping bags until 8 30 Sunday morning, broke camp at 1 30 and cleaned the grounds, with services led by Scout and church youth at Corliss Street Church. Arthur Stilphen served as Weekend Camping Advisor. Bowling is noted to have originated as a rite among early Christians in Germany.
A compact set of crossword style clues and partial answers covering across and down entries. Words include enclosure erase print orbiting around a mix of common terms and abbreviations with several incomplete phrases awaiting completion.
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