Bath City Ends Fire Protection Contract With Phippsburg
Bath City terminates its fire protection contract with Phippsburg effective 60 days after notice. Bath will not respond to Phippsburg incidents after March 25 and declines a proposed new contract set to start April 1. Amounts due include a $398 bill for a Morse's mill fire and Bath cites nonassignment of outside-fire duties. A January 11 mill fire caused $15,000 to $20,000 in damage.
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Phippsburg
Judkins
Bath Fire Department
Harrington
Bath
City of
Bath West Bath group backs change in Sinclair bill
The Bath West Bath group supports a legislative change to the Sinclair act allowing a proposed Bath West Bath school district to have a budget voted by residents of both communities. The committee also eyed raising eligibility for construction aid from 700 to 300 pupils in grades nine to twelve.
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Sinclair
Bath-West Bath Group
Sinclair Education
Bath-West Bath
West Bath
Bath
Loring R. Addison
Harold J. Rubin
Legislative Committee On Education
Addison
Board of Education
Maine
Board of Education and Addiion
Mothers March Committee Plans Polio Campaign
Mothers March on Polio preparations discussed by local committee at the home of Mrs. Eugene Hunter. The event runs Thursday Jan 30 from 7 to 8 pm with ten fire-alarm blasts to signal start.
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Eugene Hunter
March of Dimes
Morse High School
Bath YMCA To Be Represented At Brunswick Meeting
Six Bath Y M C A Hi Y members plus advisor will attend the South Central District Tri Hi Y Council meeting at Brunswick High School Saturday. Delegates include Arlington Beal Ricky Clark and Joseph Coffill for Hi Y and Youland Kathy Holmes for Tri Hi Y from Bath and surrounding communities. Participants come from Auburn Augusta Bath Camden Portland Sanford Brunswick Damarscotla Freeport Gardiner Gray Lisbon Livermore Falls Mechanic Falls Richmond Waldoboro Winthrop Wiscasset Yarmouth with registration at 9 30 a devotional service to follow.
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Bath Y
Gardiner
Gray
Lisbon
Livermore Falls
Mechanic Falls
Richmond
Waldoboro
Winthrop
Wiscasset
Yarmouth
Wesley Church Official Board Meeting Highlights
Wesley Methodist Church held a special session of the Quarterly Conference and a regular monthly Official Board meeting Tuesday evening. Officers and committee chairs were elected, with Marc N King noting record attendance and John Coombs presenting a balanced budget and paid bills as finance chair.
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Wesley Methodist Church
Ic Cla
Frank Frink
Marc N King
Oliver W. Bell
Wesley Church
John Coombs
Merle Niles
John L. Jack Declines Reelection to Maine Legislature
John L. Jack of Topsham announces he will not seek another term as representative from Arrowsic Phippsburg Toyeham West Bath and Wool. A longtime insurance agent and public servant he held probate duties and local offices including trustee and Masonic member. Two Republicans from Topsham have announced candidacies Harry S. Mullen and Roger E. Williams with former seatholder Bailey previously in the state senate race. Rumors persist of at least one more candidate entering the June Republican primaries.
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John L. Jack
Topsham
Arrowsie
Phippsburg
Toyeham
West Bath
Woolwith
Jack
Sagadahoe County
Brunswick-Topsham
Maine
Williams
Frank R. Bailey
Woolwich
Bailey
Senate
Sagadahoc County
Charles F. Cummings
Bath
Former Huse School Principal Named State Education Director
Keith L. Crockett, former principal of Huse Memorial School Bath, has been appointed state school plant development director by the State Education Department. He will take the post in March after serving as superintendent of Union 72 schools in West Rockport. Crockett, a Gorham State Teachers’ College and University of Maine graduate, has led multiple Bath schools and organized band programs.
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Keith. L. Crockett
Huse Memorial School
State Education Department
Crockett
West Rockport
Farle McKeen
Colby College
Gorham State Teachers
Bellows Falls
Bath
Huse
North Grammar
Central Grammar
Weeks Street
Morse High
Dunlap Commandery
Bath Teachers’ Club
Lincoln-Sagadahoe Teachers’ Association
Maine Elementary Principals’ Association
Telephone Bridge Postponed to February
The Cosmopolitan club postpones the telephone bridge from Monday January 20 to a February date to be announced soon. Players with tables scheduled for next Monday may proceed and report scores to the clubhouse on Washington Street. Prizes will be awarded for the first grand slam and first small slam bid, made and telephoned.
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Cosmopolitan Club
Washington Street
Bath Office Of MESC Feels Effects Of Statewide Unemployment
The Bath Maine Employment Security Commission office reports a surge in workload over the past 60 to 90 days as statewide unemployment rises. Bath area residents entitled to unemployment insurance should file promptly, bring 1956 W-2 forms, and later 1957 W-2 forms. The office covers Brunswick, Sagadahoc, and part of Lincoln counties.
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Bath
MESC
Maine Employment Security Commission
Augusta
Arthur L. Nason
Joseph FE. A. Cote
Bath Area
Maine
Cote
Brunswick
Carumberland County
Savadahoc County
Lincoln County
Nason
Bath committee to study teacher evaluation reports to Education Board
The Bath Committee on the Study of Evaluation of Teachers meets tonight at City Hall to outline work on a report for the Board of Education. The panel, formed May 8, will finalize its findings before the January 29 special meeting on the school budget.
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Bath
Board of Education
City Hall
Richard B. MacLennan
Loring R. Ad
Addison
Stanley W. Judkins
Bath Fire Dept Answers 225 Calls in 1957
The Bath Fire Department answered 225 calls in 1957, 186 by telephone and 39 by alarm. Woods and/or grass fires led with 45 calls, chimneys 27, oil burner floods 23, and 20 out of town assists. Other causes included false alarms 12, vehicle fires six, rubbish and cigarettes six, children with matches four.
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Bath Fire Department
The
Times
Rep Rod ey Ross Speaks on Legislative Procedures at BPW Dinner
State Representative Rodney Ross Jr. spoke on legislative procedures to Bath BPW members at Scotwick for a Tuesday dinner. He outlined his roles as floor leader, Republican platform committee member, and Legislature Activities chair. The club announced a statewide community achievement program to foster pride, culture, and growth in Maine towns.
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Rodney Ross, Jr
Bath Business and Professional Women's Club
Scotwick
Bath
House
Hazel M. Robbins
R. C. McFadden
Maine
Continuea
Bowdoin Prof To Head Maine Library Week Drive
Bowdoin College professor emeritus De Alva Hormell will lead Maine’s National Library Week program March 16 to 22. He was named chairman of the Maine Library Week committee to coordinate the national reading promotion within the state.
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Waterville
Orrin C. Hormeth Brunswick
Bowdoin College
State of Maine
Maine Library Week
John Ro McKenna
Maine Library Association
Cotby College
Hormell
de Alva
Stainwood Alexander
Bureau of Reesearch
Bowdoin
National Library Week
National Book Committee, Inc
American Library Association
U. S Junior Chamber of Commerce
Library
Library Week
American Book Publishers Council
American Booksellers Association
The
Children’s Book Council
National Book Committee
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Magazine Publishers Association
State Officers Are Honored By Woolwich Grange
Woolwich Grange honors State Deputy Clyde Bailey and State Juvenile Deputy at a reception during Thurdmwo ve Things meeting. Chief State Deputy Clarole Hardwich and others from Boothbay and Lincoln County attend as guests of honor. Members vote to support the March of Dimes and stage a public baked bean and covered dish supper. Past Masters and Lecturer Councils set a Dirigo Grange hall meeting with supper at 6:30 p.m. A program includes singing and a skit by Mrs Fulton and Mrs Young.
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Clyde Bailey
Woolwich Grange
Clarole Hardwich
Boothbay Grange
Richard Barker
Thintoon Hill Grange
Lincoln County
Marion Chubbusck
Chubbuck
The
Grange
Dirigo Grange Hall
Joe
Robert Fulton
Wiscasset
Isabel Young
Garrison Hill Grange
Ethel Reed
Bath Area Chamber Banquet Highlights Local Prosperity Talk
Bath area merchants and civic leaders gathered at Huse School for the Chamber annual banquet. Principal speaker Wil Tin T Grose urged swapping attitudes to keep dollars local, praised past gains, and urged aggressive yet calm actions to attract investment, industry, and tourism while keeping spending in the community.
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Blige
Felp
Mons
Chamber of Commerce
Sal Cuinisten
Uss Corp
Chamber boosts memberships with new category in Bath
Bath Area Chamber of Commerce announces a new membership class called Chamber boosters at the annual banquet held at Huse Memorial school. President T Tarpy Schulten says the program invites civic minded citizens to support community welfare with a ten dollar per person dues and mailed invitations.
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Chamber
Bath Area
Chamber of Commerce
House Memorial School
William H. Gove
Richard B. MacLennan
Howard W. Mayo
T. Varpy Schulten
MacLennan
Mayo
Bath Area Chamber of Commerce
Huse School
County payrolls valued high yet local merchants lag
Schualen notes Sagadahoe county area ranks among top counties for average industrial payrolls yet merchants’ scales are lower than expected. He warns thousands of dollars weekly leave the area, funds that could boost business and the community if kept locally.
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Sagadahoe
Schualen
Mair
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Hunter
Lloyd Pond
Warren Aliberti
John Choate
Carl R. Dearborn, Jr
Edward PD. True
Harold J Rubin
Paul B. Akeley
Lindsay J. Dauphinee
Bath Ymca
Dison
Special Committee On
Bath Fire Dept
Rep
Ross
BPW
Schulten
W Mayo
Schulteen
Aes
Lacaliy
Hin Js
Tate
Ac Ivi
Bee
Burt
Wigh
J. Horace McClure
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