World hunger solution urged by nutrition scientist
Dr Robert White Stevens argues through county agents that feeding the world must come from teaching nations to farm, improving soil and crops, and spreading knowledge. He cites two billion acres today, needing five billion acres for subsistence, and envisions Americans guiding others to self help rather than feeding them from US farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert White Stevens
Lederle Laboratories
Pearl River
N. Y
Stevens-White
America
White-Stevens
United States
We Have Cheap Power From Private Electric Utility
The article argues socialized power is unnecessary for low costs. It notes consumer electricity at 2.77 cents per kWh near an all time low, residential costs 8 percent below 1935 1939 base, and industrial power at 0.6 percent of product value down from 1.41 percent. It stresses electricity is among the smallest household and business expenses.
Eisenhower urges freedom to work after 65 in social security message
In a message to Congress President Eisenhower calls for allowing about ten million Americans to work after age 65 without losing benefits. He frames the proposal as grant of choice to retirees and cites budgetary considerations and labor needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Eisenhower
Where your ten dollars goes in retail sales profits
A report by the American Economic Foundation breaks down a ten dollar retail purchase. Costs of merchandise and overhead total 8.02, wages 1.31, taxes 0.38, depreciation 0.07, leaving 0.22 as store profit. In large stores only 14 cents of profit is paid as dividends, with 8 cents reinvested to meet competition. If owners earned no profit, consumer prices would hardly change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Economic Foundation
Land of Opportunity Tax Cuts Call
Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey argues for further tax reductions to sustain the nations land of opportunity. He contends restrictive taxes hinder youth and ambitious workers, urging public support for government efforts to cut costs despite personal financial pain. The message frames tax cuts as a patriotic test of American character and courage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Treaury
Humphrey
Bath man convicted in drunken driving case in municipal court
Gerald W. Watson, 22, Bath, pleaded innocent to drunken driving on Bull Rock road West Bath. Found guilty after brief hearing, fined 100 dollars and 11.82 dollars costs. He appealed and must appear at the June term Sagadahoc Superior Court. Frank and Jon Coffin of Brunswick pleaded guilty to fishing without licenses, each fined 10 dollars and 5.70 dollars costs. The Pacific Ocean covers a third of the earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardiner R. Deering
Gerald W. Watson
Bath
Bull Rock Road
West Bath
Loring D. Small
Watson
Sagadahoc
Frank
Jon Coffin
Brunswick
Bath Plans First Grade Conferences With Parents
A Bath school plan replaces written progress reports with teacher parent conferences for first graders. Over six weeks, 30 minute meetings will occur after school between 2 45 and 4 p m to discuss a child’s daily work and habits. Forms allow parents to choose meeting times. conferences may expand to all elementary grades if successful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Superintendent of Schools
Innocent finding in Sagadahoc drunken driving case
Eighteen year old Willis C. Colby Jr of Wiscasset was found innocent of drunken driving by a Sagadahoc county traverse jury in session here Friday. Colby was arrested August 5 1953 on the Old Brunswick road at North Bath charged with drunken driving. He had been convicted in Bath municipal court but appealed to the Superior Court. The trial consumed most of the day and the jury deliberated over an hour before the verdict. Colby was represented by Edward W. Bridgham and Harold J. Rubin both of Bath.
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Willis C. Colby, Jr
Wiscasset
Sagadahoc County
Traverse
Young Colby
Old Brunswick Road
North Bath
Bath
Colby
Edward W. Bridgham
Harold J. Rubin
Foods Class Visits the Oakhurst Dairy
Morse High School sophomore Foods class visited Oakhurst Dairy on January 21 under Mrs Ethel Wright with student teacher Miss Barbara Russell. Percy Marks led 22 students through the plant showing the can sterilizer bottling line and the water treatment. They observed jellies jams and mincemeat in production and learned butter fat testing twice monthly. The farmer is paid on butter fat content and the tour ended with ice cream cones and supplies depicting mill pasteurization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Ethel Wright
Oakhurst
Biarbara Russell Percy Marks
Bottle Drive by Morse High Freshmen Class
Morse High freshman class teams will canvass the city collecting bottles door to door. Telephone numbers will be provided later for residents who were not contacted.
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Morse Ijligh
Morse High Cheerleaders Host Saturday Fundraiser
Morse High Cheerleaders held a food sale at Rogers Hardware to buy Varsity megaphones. The squad unveiled an all blue uniform for the head cheerleader and announced five new freshmen cheerleaders Carol Cummings Carol Henderson Mabel Ashe Judy Lesier and Judy Boyce. They plan white sweaters and blue white skirts like JV squad. Yearbook plans underway with photos of class officers clubs and faculty. Freshman class presented a play with four scenes in a classroom featuring teachers and students. Judy Boyce and Mabel Ashe performed tap dances and Michael Freeman played marimba. Dramatics club under Mrs Phylis Wright continues yearly spring play with My Little Margie planned after Our Miss Brooks. Rehearsals already underway.
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Rogers’ Hardware Store
Marilyn
Tom
Ryouts
Carol Cummings
Carol Henderson
Mabel Ashe
Judy Lesier
Judy Boyce
Jack Henderson
Adele Rubin
Jean Fleming
Dillon Gillies
Michael Freeman
Dramatics Club
Phylis Wright
Teen age dance fills Huse Memorial auditorium
The Huse Memorial school auditorium hosted a well attended teen age dance Friday night from 7 to 10 for sixth to eighth graders. Laforest Coombs and orchestra provided music with William P. Mennealy performing accordion solos and collaborating with the group. Frances Plummer and Arlene Brown sang featured vocal solos. Patrons included Mr. and Mrs. Mennealy and others. A Valentine dance is planned for Friday evening February 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huse Memorial School
Huse P. T. A. Laforest Coombs and
William P. Mennealy
Frances Plummer
Arlene Brown
Mennealy
John Parker
Charles B. Doyle
Stanley R. Hunter
Robert Returns After Three Years Overseas Service
Robert, home on furlough after three years abroad, recalls wartime Germany and Africa. He visited Heidelberg Mannheim Frankfurt and Mainz and notes German views on Russians and occasional Communist sympathy. He mentions a 1952 return for his father’s death, 20 days in Tripoli, schooling in Echmege, and serving with one Maine fellow from Biddeford. He discharged November 13 and hopes to work in Bath with his mother. He attends Winter Street Congregational Church and spoke to juniors about his experiences, sharing photos and souvenirs.
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Worms
Robert
Maine
Heidelburg
Manheim
Frankfurt
Mianz
Tripoli
Africa
Echmege
Germany
Bath
Biddeford
Winte Street
First Federal Savings Annual Meeting in Bath
The annual meeting of First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Bath elected Edward W. Bridgham as president and Gardiner R. Deering as first vice president along with other officers and directors. Reports highlighted a near half million net asset gain over two years, 3 percent dividends, an open end mortgage plan, a bonus savings feature, and liquidity growth while noting the local economic benefit of funds invested in local mortgages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Federal Savings’ & Loan Association of Bath
Bath
Edward W. Bridgham
Gardiner R. Deering
Charles A. Shevard
J. Frank Hunt
Warren A. Higgins
Amelise Bourque
Charles B. Doyle
Abbott Redlon
Charles A. Sheperd
Edward D. True
Mr. Bridgham
I Association
United States
Hunt
First Federal Savings
First Federal
Cold Snap Grips Bath With Subzero Readings
Bath endured record cold the past week with thermometers dropping to 10 below zero in several spots Friday morning. Readings at the Watson home on Front Street and near the Kennebec river were among the coldest, while other locations including the Old Folks Home Memorial hospital Park Street and Bath Iron Works reported similar subzero levels. Across the river temperatures appeared warmer, according to the Times.
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Bath
Harry Watson
Front Street
Kennebec River
Old Folks Home
Park Street
Memorial Hospital
Forrest Putnam
Somerset Place
Bath Iron Works
Hyde Windlass Co
Arrowsic
Times
New Fish Ground Created by Dumping Beer Cases
Fire Island N Y. Schaefer Brewing Company and local boat operators sponsored a new bottom ground off Fire Island Inlet near the whistler buoy at 56 feet. About 5000 beer bottle cases were filled with concrete and dumped on a barge to form reefs, plus 15 bushels of mussels were added. The plan aims to attract barnacles and shellfish that feed sea bass, blackfish, and porgies, encouraging productive fishing within a year, with 8000 more cases planned later.
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Fire Island
N. Y
Schaefer Brewing Company
Fire Island Inlet
Army’s Corps of Engineers
Whistler
The
Brewing Company
Bay Shore
Green
Snowy Owls Migrating South Reported By Society
The National Audubon Society reports Arctic snowy owls migrating into northern and central states, with one landing on a Rangeley TV antenna. The bird movement, tied to lemming die-offs, is smaller than 1949 50, and most owls head north by March though a few reach Maryland or Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arctic
National Audubon Society
Rangeley
Verd Tibbetts
Society
New England
Dakotas
Maryland
New York
Florida
Campaign fund planning session stresses membership drive
Wilhelm Zeitler, Miss Ellen Jones, field representative for the Southern Maine District, with Mrs. Philp Wilder, field consultant, Southern Maine, and Mrs. Florence A. Hawley, Bath Chapter executive secretary, led a meeting with Sanford, Rockland, Damariscotta, Gardiner, Augusta, Brunswick and Bath chapter representatives. The session focused on Fund Planning for the March Campaign.
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Wilhelm Zeitler
Ellen Jones
Southern Maine
Philp Wilder
Florence A. Hawley
Bath
Sanford
Rockland
Damariscotta
Gardiner
Augusta
Brunswick
Knox County Hawk Bounty Rules and Fines
The county offers a $1 bounty for hawk killers who present the bird with head and feet and a sworn county killer statement, while state law imposes a $64 fine for killing most hawk varieties. Whales nourish their young with milk.
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Knox County
Kennebec River Urged as Sewer in Maine Pollution Fight
A Boston firm proposes a 3 669 000 dollar program for Augusta to remodel sewer systems and curb Kennebec River pollution. The plan cites 6 000 000 gallons of waste daily from Augusta, warning against sending all industrial waste to sewers. Maine officials urge public support for longer term water projects while noting enforcement depends on public will.
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Kennebec
Boston
Augusta
Freeport
Maine
Portland
Kittery
Lewiston
Wells
Ogunquit
Wayne
Dean H. Fisher
Maine Bureau of Health
Fisher
Public Health Director Details Wilderness Waterways Study
The public health director said the commission is studying the problem through surveys and a deemcration of the waters state. About 5,000 miles of wilderness waterways were classified by last and the commission to ask classify Rec 100 000 miles at the next Tegis.
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Com
Service notes list local youths entering military service
Lat vee J Tardif son of Mr and Mrs Joseph L Tardiff of 1 Nichols street recently took a seven day rest and recuperation leave in Kobe Japan. A B Arthur W Richardson son of Mrs Zylpha Richardson of 452 Washington taking basic training with the Air Force at Sampson Air Base. Pvt Danny Holt son of Mrs Victor H Choquette Oliver street left Jan 21 for Fort Dix New Jersey for basic training following enlistment in the U S Army. Bechard arrived at March Air Force Base in Riverside California for duty after time at Hamilton Air Force Base. Robert T Lewis 17 year old son of Mr and Mrs Bernard B Lewis of 15 Cummings street has enlisted in the U S Army. Lewis attended Morse High School for two years. His brother Richard is serving with the Air Force.
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Army
Vee
J. Tardif
Joseph L. Tardiff
Nichols Street
Kobe
Japan
J. Tardiff
Korea
Zylpha Richardson
Washi
Air Force
Sampson Air Base
Arthur W. Richardson
Pes Air Force Base
Geneva
Danny Holt
Victor H. Choquette
Oliver Street
Fort Dix
N. J
U S. Army
Pvt
Holt
Morse High School
A. l E Bechard
March Air Force Base
Riverside
Calif
Greene Academy
Bechard
West Coast
March
Hamilton Air Force Base
Francisco
Robert T. Lewis
Bernard
Lewis
Cummings Street
U. S. Army
Richard
Bowdoin maps honor for civic leader and WWI veteran
The citation lauds a Bowdoin affiliated figure described as a descendant of seafarers, grounded in Maine, who exemplified gallantry in World War I and later became a diligent lawyer and civic leader. An honorary library member, he donated about a hundred first edition English plays to Pleasantville Public Library, following prior gift to Topsham Library Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Elijah Kellogg
Frost
Topsham Library Association
Pleasantville Public Library
Romans Burned Coal in Britain Reveals Ancient Industry
Archaeologists report coal cinders found in Roman-era ruins across Britain indicate Romans burned coal to some extent during occupation. The find suggests a broader use of coal beyond later industrial periods.
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Great Britain
CROSSWORD PUZZLE FACES LEXICON OF SHORT CLUES
A cryptogram style prompt shows a mixed crossword clue list with Cavalry sword mission and other short hints. It includes a cryptogram quotation and a hint about solving by substituting letters, plus a playful header about Longfellow and Milton.
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Ieee
Nichols
Pres
Tress
Ae. Webber
Egarmser
Land OF
Opportunity
Pacific Ocean
Morse
Lew Hershey
Savi and Loan Association
Mercury
Cortez
Montezuma
Mexico
Far North
Maine Water Commission
Water Board
Water Commission
Bowdoin
York
Hary Shire
Au Gas
Triers
Odd
Lair
Axydlbaaxr
Longfellow
JBLU
Milton
King Frevures Bradieary
Egypt
Mik IB
Su Tiel
Fey
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