Bath Board Of Education Seeks 300 Increase For 110 Teachers
Bath Maine 1956 57 budget proposal includes a $300 across the board raise for 110 full time teachers plus hiring two more at Morse High School a full time band instructor and a guidance counselor for Bath Junior High School. The plan aims to raise Bath salaries into the Maine top 20 while adjusting wages for janitors and secretaries to reflect the larger teacher pay hike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Morse Highcchool
Loring R. Addison
Board of Education
Stanley W. Judkins
Addison
Addition
Maine
Morse High School
Elks Youth Leadership Contest Opens In Maine
The Elks National Youth Leadership Contest opens to boys and girls under 19 in Brunswick Sagadahoc and Lincoln counties with February 1 1956 deadline. Local winners advance to Maine state contest and national awards total 1000 for top youths plus 200 state prize. Local judges include A M Main Sr Lynn Bussey and Paul K Niven Brunswick with organizers Joseph Marchetti and Leon F Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elks
Frederick E. Drake, Jr
Bath Lodge of Elks
Brunswick
Sagadahoc
Lincoln
Maine Elks Association
Maine
Drake
Rath Lodge
Elks National Youth Committee
Brian M. Jewett
Joseph Marchetti
Marchetti
A. M. Main
Lynn Bussey
Paul K Niven
Morse
Grand Lodge
Order of Elks
Leon F Jones
Jones
Biddeford-Saco
Biddeford- Saco
Bath Area Chamber Of Commerce membership tops 100
Pledged memberships in the Bath Area Chamber of Commerce total 128, including 99 firms and professional offices, with dues over 4500 dollars. A Feb 14 board meeting at city hall invites all members, as committee work to expand membership and working capital continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Area
Chamber
City Hall
Portland
Sored
Maine Department of Commerce and Industry
Mrs John Parker Joins Pine Tree Society Staff
Mrs John Parker has joined the Pine Tree Society for Crippled Children and Adults and will tour the state from Bath to explain the rehabilitation program. She will assist Easter Seal committees and enlist Bath volunteers to assemble 150000 letters for mailing from the state office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Parker
Pine Tree Society For
Marie I. Preston
Parker
Bath
Motor Corps
American Red Cross
Woman's Division
Sagadahoc County
Garden Federation of Maine
Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania
Maine
Farm and Garden Association
American Association of University Women
Brunswick
Inner Wheel
Bath Garden Club
Cosmopolitan Club
Bath Council of Girl Scouts
Western Maine
Smith College Club
North-Center
Parent Teacher Association
Smith College
University of New Hampshire
Harvard University
Oxford University
Pine Tree Society
Ida M. Morse
Nineteen Divorces Granted At This Term Of Court
Nineteen divorces were granted Thursday by Justice F Harold Dubord at Sagadahoc Superior Court’s January term ending. Custody orders covered one or two minor children with mothers favored in most decrees. many cases list spouses and current residences in Bath and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Harold Dubord
Waterville
Sagadahoc Superior Court
Alice A. Stanley
West Bath
Thomas John Stanley
Mildred F. Stuart
John N. Stuart
Bath
Clara F. McEachern
Stewart McEachern
Norma Anne Greenleaf
Albert Greenleaf
Helena N. Ray
Portland
Donald P. Ray
Woolwich
Rita F.lafrance
Ubald LaFrance
Mary E. Groves
Lawrence R. Groves
East Brunswick
Joseph G. Fournier
Rita E. Fournier
Helen B. Smith
Richard P. Smith
Gardiner
Carrie E. Lehane
Frank J. Lehane
Frances L. Hatchell
Ollan H. Hatchell, Jr
Greta M. Labbie
John H. Labbie
Charlotte J. Pulaski
Delbert K. Pulaski
San Diego
Calif
Warren C. Curran
Marian S. Curran
Ronald A. Weeks
Bowdeinham
Cecilia C. Weeks
Seattle
Wash
Carl C. Hitchcock
Doris E. Hitchcock
Richmond
Richard Palmer
Topsham
Martha V. G. Palmer
Brunswick
Helen R. Lander
John Willy Lander
Jacqueline E. Ramsdell
Tops
Route 1 Improvement Planned From Freeport To Wiscasset
Route 1 in Maine from Freeport to Wiscasset will see major upgrades. Work underway includes a four and a half mile Woolwich segment and Brunswick district extensions, with a four lane upgrade toward Cooks Corner. Completion will ease bottlenecks and boost coastal tourism trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeport
Wiscasset
Maine
Woolwich
Brunswick
Causewsay
Pleant Cove
Nequasset Stream
Maine Central Railroad
Montsweag
Pleasant Street
Mill Street
Mill
Cooks Corner
Bath
State Highway Commission
Androscoggin River
Pine Tree Society Plans $8,000 Camp Repairs
At a Pine Tree Society for Crippled Children and Adults executive committee meeting, Duncan H. Farrell urged and the panel approved spending $8,000 on repairs and improvements before opening the Pine Tree Camp. President Mrs. William H. Dalton presided at Hyde Home, with 174 new members reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Tree Society
Duncan H. Farrell
Pine Tree
William H. Dalton
Hyde Home
South Portland Lions Club
Pierre
School of Beauty Culture
Brunswick
Marie I. Preston
Kentucky Society
Louisville
Lexington
Harold Meyer
Chicago
Dalton
Preston
Doris W. Hardy
Albert Beliveau
Converse Fenn
Eastham Guild, Jr
Dean Shaw
Herbert F. White
Jean Gannett Williams
A. E. Barnard
John P. Carey
Converse G. Fenn
Edward Myers
George L. Pew
Rodney E. Ross, Jr
Sumner Sewall
William Vaughan
New Girl Scout Leaders Inducted At Winter Street Ceremony
A candlelight induction for 14 new leaders at the Bath Girl Scout Council ceremony held January 18 at Winter Street Congregational Church vestry. Duncan McInnes led with Mrs. Aubrey Steen Jr in charge. Receptions followed as Mrs. Lewis Carter and others served refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street Church
Winter Street Congregational Church
Aubrey Steen, Jr
Duncan McInnes
Bath
McIinnes
Steen
Cyrus Ashe
Everett Fraser
Lewis Carter
Harold
Public Meeting In Woolwich On Route 1 Crossing
State Department engineers join Woolwich residents for a public meeting at Central School Friday at 7 30 pm to discuss safeguarding children crossing a new Route 1 section. The Woolwich PTA and First Selectman Dodge urge all residents to attend as officials outline crossing plans and safety measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Woolwich
Parent-Teacher Association
David B Soule
Board of Education
First Selectman
Anthony S Dodge
Bath Garden Club Meets Tuesday With Mrs. Torrey
Bath Garden Club met at Mrs. Bowen Torrey’s Washington street home for the first meeting of the year. With president and first vice president absent, the session was led by Mrs. Kenneth Francisco. A program titled New England Culling featured color slides from Esso Standard Oil, showing New England scenes. A California fruit basket from former member Mrs. A. Spiller was auctioned, and members voted to sponsor a quarter page ad in the Garden Club Federation of Maine anniversary year book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Garden Club
Bowen Torrey
Washington Street
Frank Reinoehl
John Parker
Kenneth Francisco
New England
Esso Standard Oil Company
California
West Coast
A. Spiller
Garden Club Federation of
Maine
Superintendent Addison Honored At Bath Reception
Loring R. Addison, new Maine Teachers Association president, was honored by 300 teachers and officials at Bath Junior High. Miss Helen Hayes presented a camera, the Bath Board of Education a billfold, and state and local leaders praised his leadership and anticipated improvements in Maine education in 1956.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Loring R. Addison
Maine Teachers’ Association
Helen Hayes
Bath Teachers’ Club
Addison
Clyde Russell
Herbert G. Espy
Maine
Bath Board of Education
John M Conley
Congress
Board of Education
MTA
Noreen
Miss Hayes
Conley
Ronald C. Oulton
Edward McGuiggan
Bath Central Council of Parents and Teachers
McGuiggan
Stanley Judkins
Francis Bailey
Gorham State Teachers’ College
Sarah Cowan
Portland
Clinton Thurlow
Augusta
Emily Pendleton
Rumford
Albert Harjula
Thomaston
M T. A
Lawrence Bagley
Frank Hoy
State Board of Education
Hoy
Lewiston
Clinton Turlow
State
Cecile Daigle
Bangor
Angie Jackson
South Paris
Lemond Libby
Hamdyun
May Glasford
Mary Snow
Florus Addison
North Leeds
Ernest Additon
Greeny
Harry Lindsay
East Auburn
Mrs Fleming Reelected President of Bath Church Women
Mrs Clinton A Fleming of the Salvation Army was reelected president of the Bath Council of Church Women at Grace church parish house. New officers include Mrs William A Hill first vice president and Mrs Blanche Locke second vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton A. Fleming
Salvation Army
Bath Council of Church Women
Grace Church
William A. Hill
Corliss Street Baptist Church
Blanche Locke
Beacon Street Methodist Church
Daniel Matter
Winter Street Congregational Church
Thomas Aikenhead
Grace Episcopal Church
Charles Swearingen
Martin W. B. Sargent
Winter Street Church
Harold Allen
Amvets To Award Scholarships To Children Of Vets
Amvets announces a 2000 four year college scholarship for a son or daughter of a veteran who died or is totally disabled from World War II or the Korean Conflict. Commander Albert H. Oliver says the region’s grant is part of a national program now in its fifth year. Applications due February 20 1956 with exams on March 20 and coordinated by the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amvets
Albert H. Oliver
Amvets National Service Foundation
Washington, D.C
Oliver
Olivie
Burma
Presi l Esenhower
U Nu
United States
Amvets National Service
Foun_ion
Hiza School
Amvets Memorial
Mvay
Maxwell Street
Bath
Washington, D. C
Te National Association of Secondary School Principals
Lewiston Realtor Obtains 20 Year Bath Store Option
A Lewiston realtor gained an option for a 20 year lease on the former Woolworth Store at 47-49 Front Street Bath. The plan includes remodeling and potential subletting to one or two tenants with a May 1 start if Woolworth vacates. The option covers roughly 6,000 square feet on the ground floor and basement from Sagadahoc Real Estate Association with a 10 year renewal option.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Woolworth Co
Lewiston
the Times
Charles Levin
Bath
Woolworth
Levin
Front Street
Sagadahoc Real Estate Assocition
Ty Ilda
L Iso
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Kitchens
Edward W. Bridgham
Harold J. Rubin
Automobile Dealers
Bodwell Motor Sales
Remick Auto Co
Harold P. Small
Olympia
Shipbuilding City
Robert Livermore
Donald Freeman
John J. Keegan, Jr
Bertrand Reed
John Crowley
Bath Memorial Hospital
Hyde Me
Louise Mayo
Andrew Flaherty
C. Lloyd Hooker
Daniel Perry
Vida Burnham
Harry Rodick
Leslie Ferris
B.T.C
Raymond W. Farnham
Margaret Flaherty
Isabelle Bryant
A. Lincoln Anderson
Evelyn Stairs
Ruby Hooker
Berenice Colby
Lawrence Wright
Isadore Singer
William Cummings
Ruth Lary
Robert Carter
Charles Bartlett
Adena Smith
James Buzzell
Clara Hutchins
Nathan C. Watson
Nancy Gibbs
Arthur Berry
Louise Richmond
Marjorie Bartlett
Emma Cummings
Doris Wing
Anna Heine
Jacqueline Plummer
Phyllis Rolfe
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