Election Watch As Ward Caucuses Set For Next Month
Republican committee met to plan ward and mayoral caucuses for next month. City faces another municipal election amid war workload. Possible contests in several wards. Mayor Walter C. Rogers’ potential candidacy uncertain but favored by many if he allows his name. Democratic activity unclear but possible. Time will reveal candidates and nominations for mayor and city seats.
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Republican City Committee
Walter C. Rogers
Rogers
Bath Memorial Hospital Faces Investigation and Reforms
A special investigation into Bath Memorial Hospital reveals long standing concerns about efficiency and management. The report recommends closer trustee oversight and removal of staff friction to secure better outcomes for the hospital and Bath area.
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Bath
Bath Memorial Hospital
Winter Weather Report and Candlemas Watch
The piece notes a milder December and variable January with more sun and less severe cold. Candlemas Day arrives in about a week, midwinter shadow hopes linked to the groundhog. Lengthening days bring sunrise around 7.6 and sunset near 4.37 EST, reflecting war time adjustments.
York County Girl Is State Champion 4-H Gardener
Georgina Bennett, 20, of Hollis Center, York county, won the 1944 Sears Roebuck Foundation 4-H Victory Garden Activity state title. She earned a $25 War Savings Bond after raising 2860 pounds of string beans, 350 bushels of tomatoes, 15 bushels of dried beans, and 20 bushels of potatoes on a two acre plot. Seven state co-winners also received $25 bonds.
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Georgina Bennett
Hollis Center
York County
Sears Roebuck Foundation
Kenneth C. Lovejoy
Georgina
Reta Carr
Ellsworth
Jean Bagley
Albion
Marjorie Plaisted
Laundry Fire at Bath Iron Works Area Causes $10,000 Loss
A fire in a city laundry, the sole commercial facility serving Bath Iron Works Corp. and nearby hospitals, caused about 10 thousand dollars in damage. The blaze threatened parked cars at Small's garage and drew Iron Works guards and police to manage heavy traffic as packing materials and cleaning rags were destroyed and bedding from local Summer cottages saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Iron Works Corp
Hyde
Small
Iron Works Empyes
Iron Works
Scrap Paper Drive Sponsored by City School Children
Householders urged to save every bit of paper and place it in tied bundles ready for pickup. Cardboard and cartons to be tied separately from newspapers and magazines. bundles should not exceed 25 pounds and are placed on sidewalks for collection by school children to carry to the schools.
Silva Dunton Couple wed in Bangor area ceremony
Ellery L. L. Silva and Gwen Dolyn M. Dunton were quietly married Saturday evening at eight o'clock at the officiating clergyman Rev. Dr. David L. Wilson’s residence. The single ring service was used with bride’s attendant Mrs. Beatrice A. Allen and best man Frank G. Allen. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Silva of Bangor and the bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Sherman of Boothbay.
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Ellery L. L. Silva
Gwendolyn M. Dunton
David L. Wilson
Beatrice A. Allen
Frank G. Allen
John Silva
Bangor
Roland Sherman
Boothbay
Legislator Seeks Fox Hunting Bill Across Territory
Senator Charles C. Clements of Winterport introduces a bill to permit fox hunting any day except Sunday in organized territory and fox trapping anytime on private land within 100 yards of poultry shelter. The measure appears amid a year with many bills filed by lawmakers.
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Charles C. Clements
Winterport
News of Our Men and Women in Uniform
A Bath area roundup highlights Sgt Henry J Grimard son of William and Mrs Grimard serving with the 15th AAF in Italy after 11 months overseas. He logged 500 missions as an aerial photographer gunner on a B 24 Lib detonator group over Vienna Munich Innsbruck and Lenz earning the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters. Other locals include Cadet Harry L MacNeil Jr at the Naval Air Technical Training Center Memphis Tenn and Walter K Morse Ph M 2c USN at Newport R I who just returned from ten days leave. Pvt Lawrence McPhee of Old Town visits during furlough from Camp Gordon Johnston Fla while Alva Black inducted into the WAC at Lewiston and set for Fort Des Moines training. Donald G Williams reports to Fort Devens after enlisting in 1944 and balancing school duties at Morse High and Bath Iron Works.
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Henry J. Grimard
William Grimard
Federal Street
Grimard
15Th Aaf
Italy
AAF
Atlantic City
N. J
Vienna
Munich
Innsbruck
Lenz
Skowhegan
Torrey Roller
Harry L. MacNeil, Jr
James R. MacNeil
Pine Street
Naval Air Technical Training Center
Memphis, Tenn
Pvt
Lawrence McPhee
Guy McPhee
Old Town
Camp Gordon Johnston
Florida
Army
Navy Department
USC
University of Maine
McPhee
Alva Black
Middle Street
Women's Army Corps
Lewiston
Helen L. Peae
Pvt. Black
Bath Iron Works
Francis Nadeau
Lawrence Nadeau
South Pacific
England
Black
Fort Des Moines
Iowa
Donald G. Williams
Harry E. Williams
High Street
Fort Devens
U.S. Army Air Corps
Bath Kon Works
Morse High School
Donald
Bath
Corliss Street Church
Earl A. Young
Washington Street
Berlin
N. H
Shirley M
P. F. C. Warren Bartlett
Harry E. Bartlett
Maple Street
Miss Young
St. Louis Hospital
Bartlett
Hyde Windlass Co
U.S. 87Th Mt. Infantry
Kiska
Foreign Service
Woolwich
U. S. Army
USO
Paratrooper Trainee Earns Boots and Wings Title
Pvt Edward T Stewart husband of Mrs Edward T Stewart Bath is awarded the right to wear Boots and Wings of the United States Army Paratroops after four weeks of jump training at Fort Benning Ga. He completed five jumps including a night tactical jump addressing a combat landing problem as American Paratroopers advance in training.
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Edward T. Stewart
Bath
United States Army
Parachute School
Fort Benning
Parachute Training and Army News Across Bath Area
Military notes show parachute specialist training and airborne skills taught to qualified men in communications demolition riggers and parachute maintenance. Promotions, leave, and new assignments are reported for several local service members including Lt. Watson and Ensign Wilson. Engagements and nursing training accompany updates on families connected to Bath and Berlin New Hampshire.
Promotions and transfers among WAC and Army units abroad
Promotion milestones for Ellen Doyle and other officers are noted, including Doyle’s first lieutenant promotion in 1942 and captaincy in 1943, her marriage in 1948, and her recruitment liaison role for Maine. Other items report Sgt. Ernest Robichaud’s return from overseas duty to Lake Placid for processing, plus transfers of Blanche Moody to Portland Recruiting Office and Keneth Shaw heading to Camp Parks with leave and travel plans.
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Ernest J. Robichaud
RMD 1
Foster Point Road
Maine
Joseph P. Robichaud
Army Ground and Service Forces
Lake Placid Club
New York
Robichaud
Maine Warden Merle Hoar Retires After 25 Years
Warden Merle Hoar ends 25 years with the Maine Forestry and Fish and Game departments to rest and attend personal matters. He was noted as a conscientious officer who arrested many game law violators and left a strong impression on colleagues and judges. The piece also reports beaver trapping growth in Maine, aided by the department’s propagation program that repopulated the state with beavers from existing families to depleted areas.
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Maine Fish Game Department
Lloyd Clark
Merle Hoar
Maine Forestry Department
Fish and Game Department
Merle
Maine
Inland Fisheries and Game Department
York County
George J. Stobie
WAC transfers Captain Beth Doyle to Manchester NH
WAC Recruiting Headquarters in Portland announces the transfer of Capt Beth M Doyle to Manchester New Hampshire effective January 25 She previously served as Lt Beth M MacArthur and was stationed in Maine from October 1942 to August 1 1944 as District Commander in charge of WAC recruiting activities.
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WAC
Portland
Beth M. Doyle
Manchester
N. H
Beth M. MacArthur
Maine
McAr
Maine Hunters Struggle During Last Season
A six man party hunted ten days along the St Croix river in Maine and saw 40 deer, fired at 19, and missed all. Current Maine sportsmen pursue rabbits and foxes, and fish pickerel and smelts through the ice as the season continues.
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Maine
St. Croix
Lions Women Meet at Sedgwick for Program with Sicily Talk
The Lionesses met Thursday at the Sedgwick with Mrs. Albert White as program chair. Capt. Francis A. Winchenbach spoke on medical unit experiences in Sicily and Italy. All future meetings set for the Sedgwick. Members urged to sign the service register for 50 or 100 hours and to assist Cozy Corner profits at Memorial hospital CHS.
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The
Lionesses
Sedgwick
Albert White
Edward D. True
Memorial Hospital
Loren Jaffe
Alexander MacDonald
True
Harold Avery
Eugene Thebeau
Eric Anderson
Mrs Hitchcock to Address Red Cross in Bath
The Bath chapter of the American Red Cross will hold its annual meeting Thursday at Winter Street church rooms with a 6 30 supper. Mrs Russell Snow Hitchcock will speak on Life on Luzon, sharing insights from conditions among natives and her prior Bath talk on the Philippines. Many local members have sons and husbands in the region and will benefit from her message.
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Bath
American Red
Bailey talk to Morse High boys on coast guard enlistment
Motor Machinist's Mate 1c Albert Bailey of Cleveland Ohio, a Coast Guard recruiter on duty, spoke to Morse High School students about his D day Normandy experiences. An official film Task Force illustrated a full invasion sequence. The Coast Guard seeks apprentice seamen and info is at the Temporary Reserve office in the Custom House Bath from 10 to 1 and 4 to 6 daily.
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Albert Bailey
USCG
Cleveland
Ohio
Normandy
Coast Guard
Morse High School
Custom House
Bath
Nightingale Club Plans Annual Tea
Nightingale club held its dinner at Snow Park hosted by Mrs John Freeman. Members discussed the annual Memorial hospital benefit tea to be held January 31 at Central church parish house. Mrs James B Lemont welcomed a new member Mrs Alexander MacDonald and announced co chairmen for the event.
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Nightingale Club
John Freeman
Snow Park
Memorial Hospital
Central Church Parish House
James B. Lemont
Alexander MacDonald
Morse High Senior Receives 20 Letters From Fiancé in California
Miss Gladys Armstrong, a Morse High senior, was awakened by a early morning phone call from Walter E. Hogue, U S N, in California. Later the same forenoon the postman delivered twenty letters from him, surprising her.
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Gladys Armstrong
Morse High
California
Walter E. Hogue
Fire department battles multiple Alarms in Lambert Park and beyond
Firefighters rushed to a double house at 11 Office Drive Lambert Park where oil from a flooded kitchen range ignited. Damage limited to floor near the stove. Still alarms followed at 82 Western Avenue and other sites including a chimney fire on Libby's Court and a bus engine fire on Front Street.
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Office Drive
Lambert Park
Gerald Richards
Richard Frates
Richards
Western Avenue
Central Station
Libby's Court
Maine Central Transportation
Front Street
Hyde Park Terrace
Ralph Legard
North Street
Bath Schools Kick Off March of Dimes Drive
The Bath area launches a February to January fundraising drive for the March of Dimes Infantile Paralysis campaign. Folders go to all schools Friday, with collections due January 30 and campaign ends January 31. James Temple and Mrs James Nostall urge teachers and students to participate. last year Bath schools raised 1270 dollars.
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Bath
James Temple
James Nostall
Addison
IRS Deputy Collectors Aid Taxpayers in 1944 Returns
IRS deputy collectors will visit Freeport Brunswick and Bath to help taxpayers file 1944 income tax returns due March 15 1945. Locations include Freeport Post Office Brunswick Court Room Bath Internal Revenue office with hours from 8 am to 5 pm and no charge for the service.
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Internal Revenue Service
Freeport
Post Office
Brunswick
Court Room
Bath
Internal Revenue Office
Mrs Anna Packard Returns From Brockton Visit
Mrs Anna Packard has returned to her home here after visiting Brockton Massachusetts.
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Anna Packard
Brockton, Mass
Rationing Reminders for Consumers Labeled Stamp Details
A compact wartime notice outlines red stamp values for Meat and Fats, Blues stamps, Aeroplane stamps, and sugar stamps in Books Three and Four. It notes validity periods, period designations, and restrictions on loose coupons and mail orders, with extensions through March 21 and into 1945.
Coal Shortage Delays Deliveries In City Markets
A citywide look at coal conditions shows a real shortage of help delaying deliveries. Dealers urge planning 10 to 14 days ahead, with heavy demand worsening delays. Hard coal stocks are low, soft coal outlook weaker, and some deliveries not expected until March. Holiday weather and snow storms cut output and transport. Substitutes exist but none can exceed 87 percent of last year’s supply. those with 15 days on hand cannot obtain more at present.
Dike PTA Plans Telephone Bridge for Parent Teacher Link
The Dike P T A chaired by Mrs. Sharkey discussed strengthening ties among parents teachers and students. A telephone bridge is planned for the week of Feb 12 and inquiries can be directed to Mrs. Crane 1711 M. A canned soup drive supported the cafeteria and a February 6 Founders Day silver tea will close February events with fifth grade moms providing refreshments.
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Addison
PTA
Sharkey
Hogan
Crane
Voltz
MacDonald
M. Deering
J. H. Labbie
Mrs Annie Haskell and Mrs Sarah Shaw Pass Away in Waterville
Mrs Annie Haskell and Mrs Sarah Shaw died Monday in Waterville in what local tributes describe as quiet passes. The two women were longtime residents and are survived by extended families and friends. Further details were not available at press time.
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Annie Haskell
Sarah Shaw
Waterville
WEEKLY CROSS WORD PUZZLE AND CRYPTOQUOTE
A large crossword puzzle list with across and down clues includes lineage, natives Mindanao, junction, Mohammadan leader, passager, grate, perform, Louisiana abbr and many more. A second cryptogram quote reads WHO OVERCOMES BY FORCE, HATH OVERCOME BUT HALF HIS FOE. MILTON. Distributed by King Features Syndicate Loc.
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Mindana
Junction
Louisiana
Texas
Milton
King Features Syndicate
Loc
Also Mentioned on This Page
Times Company
B. Nichols
Pres. and
Treas
Harry OC. Webber
NATIONAL EDITORIAL_ SSOCIATION A
Silva—Dunton
Walter K. Morse
USN
Newport
R. I
Morse
Charles H. Morse
Earl Mains
U. S. Coast Guard
Boston
Cpl
O.neil L. Soucy
Westover
Field
Mass
Air Service Command
Richard K. Watson
Theodore F. Watson
York Street
Germany
Watson
America
George S. Burgon
Davisville
Myra Burgon
Daniel Brady
Edmund Robinson
South Street
Harold Hart
Ralph Hart
Star Route 3
Keesler Field
Army Ground Forces
Hart
AAF Training Command
Ensign Newell J. Wilson
USNR
Elnora C. Mitchell
Lincoln Street
Hebron Academy
Phi Delta Gamma
Orono
Thut
Charles L. Doyle
Bass River
Doyle
Ellen B. Russell
Blanche W. Moody
George Moody
Highland Street
Rutland
Moody
Beth McArthur Doyle
Capt. Winchenbach
Sicily
Mrs. Hitchcock
RED Cross
Bailey
Nghtingale Club
Dike P. T. A
Per
Rome
Europe
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