City offers land to widen Front street bottleneck
William F Mussenden offered to sell the city an eight foot wide frontage strip along the Pierce block on Front street for $10,000 to widen the thoroughfare and remove a long standing bottleneck. The proposal comes at a Bath city planning and redevelopment meeting where the Downtown Redevelopment Committee urged action to finance and widen Front street as part of broader downtown improvements.
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Front Street
William F. Mussenden
Pierce
Mussenden
City Council
Planning Board
Shaw's
Richard's
Woolworth
Front
Lombard Streets
Warfield
Bath Area
Chamber of Commerce
Bath
Bath Planning Board
Bailey
Edwin R. Andrews
Sewall
Center Street
John T. Blackwell
Boston
Blackwell
Arthur W. Gediman
Bath Iron Works Honors 76 Now In Old Timers Club
Seventy six BIW employees with twenty years of continuous service were welcomed into the Old Timers Club at Seguin Lodge Georgetown. Vice President Omar R. King praised the USS DuPont as the finest ship delivered to the Navy, with others noting pride in workmanship. The event honored both oldest and youngest members, with lists of eligible employees and multiple BIW officers attending the banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Iron Works Corp
Old Timers Club
Seguin Lodge
Georgetown
Omar R. King
U. S. S. DuPont
Navy
King
DuPont
John R. Newell
Bath Iron Works
William A. Niss
John M. Conley
Harold C. Hart
Bath
Thomas Back
Edward Gallant
Woolwich
BIW
John J. Preney
Paul B. Wilson
Harry G. Allen
Thomas W. Back
John E. Belanger
Alfred J. Coulombe
Walter O. Donnell
Arthur W. Hall
Hartley Hathorne, Jr
George E., Parshley
Lemuel C. Preble
Harry J
John H. Moore, Jr
Morris W. Potter
John F. Bowie
Orman L. Coggeshall
Charles E. Hewitt
Percy M. Hyde, Jr
Herbert L. Perry
Victor H. Pinkham
Louis E. Cameron
Alvin E. Jewett
Robert Colley
Lewis C. Leavitt
Willard F. Oliver
Albert P. Sanford
William&. Jane
Roxanne C. Merry
Niss Named Delegate to July BSA Council Meeting
Pine Tree Council will be represented by four delegates at the 47th annual National Council meeting in Philadelphia July 11 and 12. Delegates are William A. Niss of Bath Carleton G. Lane and George Champlin of Portland and G Cecil Goddard of Waterville. The gathering will include more than 1 500 adult leaders from 539 local councils representing 4 526 302 Scouts and 111 674 units. Kenneth K Bechtel presides. Dr Arthur A Schuck to present annual report.
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Pine Tree Council
Boy Scouts of America
Portland
National Council
William A. Niss
Bath
Carleton G. Lane
George Champlin
G. Cecil Goddard
Waterville
Sheraton Hotel
Philadelphia
God
United States
Valley Forge Park
Commonwealth of Pa
Henry Cabot Lodge
U. S
United Nations
Abram Leon Sachar
Brandeis University
Waltham
Mass
Kenneth K. Bechtel
San Francisco
Arthur A. Schuck
Short Hills
N. J
Cadets Junior Drum Corps Captures State Legion Championship
Cadets Junior Drum Corps won the State American Legion championship in Bangor with 83.9 points, defeating Caldwell Post Woodsmen and Harold T. Andrews Sabres by large margins. They earned a twenty inch trophy displayed in the Times office window and also received a cash award. Thousands cheered during the 40 8 parade as 1 400 spectators watched a concert after the march and an even larger crowd lined the four mile Sunday parade with over twelve thousand spectators in Sagadahoc County.
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Bangor
American Legion
Caldwell Post Woodsmen
Harold T. Andrews “Sabres
Portland
Times
Bath
Bangor House
Sagadahoc County
Bagerfield
Page Five
Bath Navy Group Attends Texas Tower Launch
The tripod foundation for Texas Tower No. 4 neared completion at Bath with Capt. Stanley M. Alexander named resident officer in charge of construction for the Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks. The christening occurred at South Portland with Lois Alexander and others attending the informal ceremony.
Newell Receives Navy Certificate at Bath Iron Works
John R. Newell, president of Bath Iron Works Corp., received a Navy Certificate of Appreciation from Capt. S. M. Alexander for outstanding service to the Navy Recruiting service. Lt. Cmdr. L. Hi Grove sent the certificate on behalf of the Portland Navy Recruiting station.
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S. M. Alexander
U.S. N
U. S N
Naval
Bath
John R. Newell
Bath Iron Works Corp
U.S. Navy
Cmdr
L. Hi. Grove
Navy
Portland
Bath Iron Works
Bath Times
Navy Recruiting Service
Morton Retiring From Navy Post
Fred R. Morton, Supervisory Ordnance Equipment Inspector, who has headed the Ordnance Branch in the Inspection Department of the Office of Supervisor of Shipbuilding, U. S. N., and Naval Inspector of Ordnance, Bath, left the Navy on June 30 after 36 years. A gift was presented to him at a supervisors and staff meeting on his last day. He moved from Camden, New Jersey to Bath in October 1938 and has lived at 366 Middle Street with his family for 19 years, serving as a past president of the Colonial club and remaining active in civic affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred R. Morton
Naval Inspector of Ordnance
Bath
Navy
Morton
Camden
N. J
Middle Street
Colonial Club
Bath Teachers Club Is Praised At Convention
Miss Martha Shull, president of the National Education Association, praised Bath's Teacher's club at the NEA continental convention opening in Philadelphia. She cited 1956 57 activities including observance of American Education Week a Speaker's Bureau scholarship to a high school senior and publication of A History of Education in Bath Maine. Robert Carter president elect of the local club and Miss Helen L Hayes served as president.
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Bath
Martha Shull
National Education Association
NEA
Philadelphia
Shull
Maine
Bath Times
Helen L Hayes
Robert Carter
North Grammar School
Bath Anniversary Stamp To Be Issued On Aug. 15
The Post Office Department announced that the Virginia of Sapada hock stamp marking the 350th anniversary of shipbuilding in America will go on first day sale August 15 in Bath. Denomination and design to be announced later. Bath Area Chamber of Commerce sent two design ideas in June. Stamp issuance accompanies a month long Bath celebration with a special luncheon and many dignitaries invited.
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Post Office Department
Washington
Virginia
America
Bath
Bath Area
Stone House
Maines
William King
Arthur Sewall
Bath Democrats Plan For State Meeting Here
The Bath Democratic City Committee met to plan the Maine Democratic State Committee meeting on July 28 in Bath. John J. Keegan Jr leads the arrangements committee while a July 28 event is set. A July 28 planning meeting followed by a August 10 food sale in Bath is approved.
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Bath
Democratic City Committee
City Hall
Maine
Democratic State Committee
John J. Keegan, Jr
Harry W. Thebeau
Edmunds. Muskie
Keegan
Sagadahoe County
Democratic Club
Woolwich
West Bath
Rowsie
Sagadahoc County
John M. Warner
Phippsburg
Truman B. Wallace, Jr
Phyllis Warner
Miss Bath Busy Getting Set For State Contest
Carol Ann Bartels Miss Bath of 1957 daughter of Vir and Mers.ernest Bartels of Bath prepares for the Miss Maine pageant in Portland July 18 to 20. She won Miss Bath last October and faces strong rivals in the state contest. Bartels, a clerk at the Mademoiselle Shop, trains under Carl Meister who backs her bid for Maine and possibly Miss America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol Ann Bartels
Bath
Ernest J. Bartels
Maine
Portland
Carol
Atlantic City
Meister
Stry
Bathman
Miss Bartels
Bartels
Madmoiselle Shop
Governors' Day marked Bath Battery B encampment
The first half of Bath's Battery B 703rd AAA Battalion summer camp at Camp Wellfleet Massachusetts ended with Governors' Day. Governor Edmund S Muskie inspected Battery B and Maine National Guard troops as 18 men fired 30 caliber carbines with 13 qualifying. Temperature reached the upper 80s during the near 12 hour convoy trip from Bath.
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Bath
703Rd Aaa
Camp Wellfleet
Cape Cod
Mass
Edmund S. Muskie
State of Maine National Guard
Wellfleet
National Guards
Battery B
Camp Edwards
Army
Stone House Farm Near Whiskeay Hill A Photogenic 1808 Estate
Stone House Farm built about 1808 near Whiskeay Hill is a photographed Maine landmark. Once Governor William King’s county home, it blends fortresslike granite and cathedral windows with modernized interiors since 1916 when Mr. and Mrs. Sewall acquired it. The grounds feature formal plantings, a terrace greenhouse, stone steps, a green hedge border, vegetable plots, and a shallow pool shaded by trees, with rare long apple trees echoing King era orchards.
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Stone House
Arthur Sewall
William King
Maine
Carleton Bridge
Kennebec
Woolwich Selectmen Grant Junkyard Permit to McClure
Woolwich selectmen issued a permit to J Horace McClure Bath automobile dealer to establish operate and maintain an automobile junkyard on his property along Route 127 Woolwich. The permit includes detailed boundary lines a fence to obscure junk and sale only of saleable vehicles with revocation possible for breach of conditions or non compliance. The license runs until January 1 1958 following a six week public hearing at Woolwich Central School.
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McClure
Selectmen of
Woolwich
Tie Selectmen
J. Hor
Bath
Route 127
Old Town Road
Woolwich Central School
McCluré
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Edward F. Cox
Niss
BSA Council
Cadets
Bath Navy Group
Texas Tower
Texas Tower No. 4
Stanley M. Alexander
USN
Texas Towers
South Portland
Bureau of Yards
Lois Alexander
William D. Miller
Continental Copper & Steel Industries, Inc
J.g.) S. Poulos
L. M. Fermano
Steers
Morrison- Knudsen
New York
U. S. Air Force Ocean
Arduini
E. Foster
Newell
Bath Teachers’ Club
Democrats
Governor King
Rage Five
Horace McClure
Leeman Highway
Day's Ferry Road
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