List of Injured As Bus Plunges Into the Ditch
A bus accident left multiple injured with serious head, chest, and spinal wounds. Names include Burton Flagg 24 driver with fractured pelvis and hip, Mrs James Miller 26 spinal injury, Miss Muriel Poulit 15 wrist fracture, Miss Norma Small 23 with head injury, and several others from Bath Lewiston Woolwich and surrounding areas.
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Sahoorsel
Burton Flagg
Flagg
Cummings Street
Bath
James Miller
Western Avenue
John Malin
Bath Street
Lewiston
Mary Caswell
Woolwich
Harold Caswell
Frank J. Lehane
Robinson Street
B. W
William Carmichael
George R. Carmichael
Central Avenue
Muriel Poulit
Antonio Pouliot
Robinson Jane
Norma A. Small
Pine Street
William H. Ward
Court Street
Bailey Street
Francis J. Eastman
Harry Warner
Middle Street
Front Street
Bus Crash Kills Driver After Brunswick Train Run
An intercity bus returning from Brunswick to Bath plunged into a gully after a near collision near a fabrication plant. The driver was pinned and later extricated with ambulances aiding victims. Several passengers, including local workers, were treated at Bath hospitals. the accident prompted hospital-wide readiness and eyewitness praise for the driver.
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Maine State Police
Brunswick
Bath
Flagg
Bath Iron Works
Memorial Hospital
Portland High
Portland
Harry F. Morin
Joseph L Smith
Ubey
Temple named to lead Sagadahoc march of dimes drive
James W. Temple of Bath is named for a fourth year as chairman of the Sagadahoc County fund raising drive to fight infantile paralysis. Half the funds aid the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and half stay with the Bath county chapter run by Mrs. J. A. Gillies Jr. The committee hopes the President's Ball continues amid the pleasure driving ban. Mrs. Nostall will again serve as vice chairman directing coin cards and collectors to boost this year’s drive.
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Paul A. Dundas
James W. Temple of
Bath
Sagadahoc County
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis, Inc
J. A. Gillies, Jr
Still Alarm Sparks Chimney Fire at 1135 Washington Street
An earlier still alarm at 6 40 last Wednesday sent Engine 2 to 1135 Washington Street for a chimney fire in the Melvin H. Savage residence. Engine Four assisted with booster tank and chemical pony, extinguishing the blaze. Units returned to quarters at 9 30.
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Washington Street
Melvin H. Savage
Woolwich raid leads to fines and jail costs
In Woolwich Municipal Court a man and woman were arraigned after a raid Saturday night. They faced fines and costs totaling 464.20 or jail, with sentences suspended upon payment. Additional defendants faced various fines for liquor violations and probation violations, including juveniles.
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Charles W. Messenger
Woolwich
Um Municipal
Augusta
Huse Memorial PTA Plans Membership Drive and Dance
Huse Memorial P T A met at Huse school on Thursday to outline a membership drive and an upcoming dance set for January 28. Reed Bartlett led the meeting as a blackout interrupted program featured a quiz for student instruction.
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Huse Memorial P. T. A
Huse School
Reed Bartlett
Fred K Sturtevant
Edmund Ford
John E. Hayes
Albert Veilleux
Edward Briamblett
Hyde Park Terrace
Bath Plans Birthday Ball To Fight Infantile Paralysis
The 1943 steering committee approved Bath’s Birthday Ball as part of the tenth annual campaign for the March of Dimes. A dance at Morse High School is planned with tickets granting card playing privileges. Lloyd Rafnell’s orchestra to provide music. The event supports medical research, education, and epidemic aid, with service members invited to the U.S. O. dances at no charge.
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Bath
Shoe Leather Express
Morse High School
State Armory
Lloyd Rafnell
Rafnell
U.S. O
Andrew J. Danielson
James W. Temple
Sagadahoc County
National Foundation
Temple
Bath Box Co
Gillies
James A. Gillies, Jr
Spirit of Augusta urged for Army plane purchase
The Augusta Minute Women campaign for War Bonds and Stamps proposes the Spirit of Augusta Maine as the Army pursuit plane to be bought with $100,000 in bonds. The proposal came at a Friday meeting at the Augusta House called by Mrs. William H. Dalton, the Augusta chairman.
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Augusta Minute
Augusta
Maine
Minute Women’s Committee
Augusta House
William H. Dalton
Blackout in Bath Thursday Evening Proves a Success
The statewide blackout test in Bath largely succeeds though lights on the Woolwich end of the Carleton bridge across the Kennebec river stayed on. Bath Iron Works blacked out for five minutes while Hyde Windlass Co kept production except for the office building. Traffic halted within a minute and citizens cooperated. a warden’s rope switch failed, leaving bridge lights lit.
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Woolwich
Carleton
Kennebec River
Bath Iron Works
Hyde Windlass Co
Bath children raise near twenty thousand in war stamp sales
Bath schools reported last week receipts for war stamps and bonds bringing the year to date total within 70 dollars of 20,000. The report lists weekly receipts and cumulative totals to date.
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BATH
Republican Meeting Called by City Committee
Fred W. Quimby, chairman, calls a Republican City committee meeting for Thursday at 8 p m in City Hall council room to plan the coming city election and handle any other business. Citizens have expressed interest in serving on the city council and a large attendance is hoped.
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Fred W. Quimby
Republican City Committee
City Hall
Quimby
Miss Kimball Leaves Infirmary for Delaware Visit
Miss Anne Kimball of Tincoln Street has returned from Portland where she stayed with her cousin Mrs Langdon T Thaxter after leaving the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary. She will depart the latter part of the week to visit her aunt Mrs George Henry Dole in Wilmington Delaware.
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Anne Kimball
Tincoln Street
Portland
Langdon T Thaxter
Maine
Auxiliary Police Attend Meeting Monday Evening
City hall hosted an auxiliary police meeting despite a storm. City Marshal Percy W. Kingsbury, on leave serving in the U S Army, urged maintaining the unit and discussed duties. Officials warned motorists to fully blackout headlights and use low beams in thickly settled areas. state police will check soon and issue warnings or actions.
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City Hall
Percy W. Kingsbury
United States Army
Auxiliary Police
Kingsbury
Boston
Cocoanut Grove
Grace Mealey Conant Featured in Life Magazine
Grace Mealey Conant of Richmond appears in Life Magazine January 18 as the second local person shown in consecutive issues. She is the private secretary to Congressman Robert Hale in Washington after previously serving Congressman Charles Kramer. Also noted is Richmond’s Capt. Lister Umbherhind Jr. pictured with a German prisoner in North Africa. Mrs. Frederick E. Drake hosted her contract club gathering at 1002 Washington Street.
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Grace Mealey Conant
Life Magazine
Richmond
Life
Tables Reversed by Charging Cost to Complainant
Municipal court arraigns three on assault and battery vexing harassment and intoxication before Judge Gardiner R. Deering. A tenant dispute over heat led to bail and a suspended sentence. The vexing charge was dismissed for want of prosecution with the complainant ordered to pay $13 in costs after failing to press the case. A patrolman booked a Black defendant for intoxication, who pleaded guilty and paid $5 fine plus $5.05 costs.
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Wyvermnn
Fernald
Rockland
Gardiner R. Deering
Augusta
South End
Ellis L. Aldrich
Justice of the Peace
City Hall
Walker becomes Augusta city hall secretary first appointee
Mrs. Marjorie H. Walker, longtime executive secretary of the Augusta Hallowell Chamber of Commerce, assumed the post as Mayor Levi T. Williams appointee and secretary in Augusta City Hall Saturday morning. She is married to Ellis Walker, a Democratic Ward Four Councilman, and replaces Shirley Millett who served during the late Sanford L. Fogg Jr. and Ralph W. Farris administrations.
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Marjorie H. Walker
Augusta-Hallowell
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Brunswick Road
Bath Hospital
Harding
Slight Aude
Julian Pomerleau
Raymond Court
BIW
Elmer S. Wallace
South Street
Grants Department Store
Center Street
Robbins Street
Larry Wold
Car J. Tamquay
Karcher S. Jackson
Charles A. Shepard
J. Frank Hunt
Franklin Wight
Karcher S Jackson
Oscar J. Tanguay
Ron Works Corp
Earl F. Moffit
Chieef
Eugene G. Hart
Bos 2 Ees
Mear Amusement
Bangors
OPA
Bangor
Huse Memorial P.T.A
Broad
Bath Savings Institution
Zina Hyde & Co
Henry W. Swanton
Swanton & Jameson
John Patten
Kennebec
N. Grammar
C. Grammar
Huse
Mitchell
N. Primary
Center
South
Marshal Kingsbury
Frederick E. Drake
T. G. Booth
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