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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1957
Page
6
Forty years ago in Bath reports detail Bath Iron Works activity with torpedo boat destroyer No. 75 keel and boats 76 717 and 78 under construction. Veterans travel and local youths enter aviation Navy effort and Harvard ROTC. Public notices include excursions to Popham Bay Point and transport schedules.
July 11 1917 Mrs Mark W Sewall returns from Montclair N J guest of Mr and Mrs C M Lincoln visits son Donald Sewall in Portland Ambulance Unit No 23 in training Arthur E Bishop in Harpswell on business Frank Curtis of Salem Mass visits Rupert Baxter motor trip White Mountains James Patten Hyde former New York city mayor joins U S Marines in Philadelphia training Assist Paymaster John P Reynolds Fourth Section U S N R F on business trip to Boston
John B. Browne of the U S N R F is on duty aboard the patrol boat Hipocampus based at Rockland. Ralph Dunton of Portland formerly Bath visits en route to his Riggs ville cottage. Supt. M A Haraden of Kennebec Division Eastern Steamship Lines travels to Skowhegan on business. Mrs J Otis MacDonald and son Otis Jr of Quincy Mass are noted in town.
The ocean-going yacht Isabel 5 was handed to the Navy Department by Mr. Willys last week. Intended for North Willys of Willys-Overland, it would have been the fastest yacht afloat. George Thompson and family occupy the Arnold cottage at Popham Beach for two weeks. Bath Iron Works to extend its main machine shop by 72 feet on the west end.
July 15 1917 motorman Willett and conductor Welch led a private party of New York and Philadelphia bankers aboard a special car. Medical and naval officers including Captain John M Edgar and Dr William M Bryant inspected Baths First Naval District HQ. Social notes mention Helen Crosby hosted a Thursday party on High Street and a Baptist summer service by Harry Taylor at People’s Church.
The program begins next Wednesday July 24 and runs every Wednesday through the season with children required to wear life jackets. Also notes trees may reach maturity or cutting age in 50 years.
Bath firefighters battled a mattress fire at 10 North Street early Sunday, saved none of a drifting 18 foot boat after a gas line rupture, and handled two gasoline leaks on Front Arch and Lombard streets with Engine 4. No injuries reported.
Henry Morgan, radio and TV comedian, headlines the Lakewood Theatre in Skowhegan for the week starting July 22 with the comedy Father of the Bride. Morgan, star of Ive Got a Secret, will perform after earlier Summer circuit roles and as Benny's summer replacement.
Antique autos arrive at city park and a Lobster bake at city park with a parade of antique autos. Five Islands hosts a Five Is Lands Art Show from Saturday through Tuesday. Bonfire at Longley’s field on Leeman Highway in the evening Saturday.
Mushrooms appear more attractive when cap and stem halves cling together after slicing. The visual effect emphasizes the mushroom’s texture and shape, enhancing culinary appeal.
The Town of Phippsburg Maine invites sealed bids for general construction of the elementary school. Bids due July 30 1957 with opening at Town Hall Phippsburg at 7 30 pm DST. Plans and specs available from Architect Maurice E Witmer for 25 dollar set refundable on return. The town reserves right to reject bids and requires 5 percent bid security.
Sixteen year old Gary Meister of Morse High has toured Maine with country and western acts and appeared on radio and TV stations. He joined the Little Maine Ramblers and later Bailey Brothers groups, then shifted toward rock and roll before returning to western music. He plans to join the Air Force after high school and later become a teacher.
Lt Jack M Stevens of Patrol Squadron 26 at Brunswick Naval Air Station began giving an Arctic slide and movie presentation as a joke for a Bath Grace Episcopal Church group. The talks, built on his 1956 MSTS Arctic Operation flights above the Arctic Circle, have been repeated 17 times in Bath and up to 102 miles away. He is married to Frances Real of Kerrville Texas and lives in Bath with their three children.
Miss Helen Lutz, a fictional principal figure, performs a daring roadside repair in Front Street. A woman removes, repairs, and reseats a carburetor while gasoline is poured, then drives away. The scene echoes a recurring, comic transit mishap noted in Halifax and Nova Scotia reports.
The USS ALBACORE, famed for speed, showcases aircraft like controls and instruments. Operators steer through gyrations dubbed hydro batics, demonstrating flight geometry on a submarine platform under nar flight conditions.
Maine public notice closes shores and flats of the New Meadows River in Sagadahoc and Cumberland counties to harvesting of clams quahogs and mussels. The order cites Augustas authority under Chapter 38 and provides fines 10 to 30000 plus costs and up to 90 days imprisonment for violations. Ronald W. Green signs the notice dated July 15 1957.
A feature discusses the submarine’s small footprint yet vast systems. It notes a crew of 80 to 90, a control motor, fuel and water tanks, 252 battery cells each over a ton, and its status as the most compact warship concept to date. The piece also records local visitors Mr. and Mrs. Merle Day at Wet Port Island cottage, and Dr and Mrs Sprague Curtis at Old Hundred in Longmeadow for a three week stay, plus other social callers in Wiscasset.
About 400 bears inhabit Glacier National Park in Montana. A few bold individuals overcome shyness to beg food from visitors, while the rest keep distance, feeding mainly on natural forage. The note mentions Greenland's icecap spanning 700 000 square miles, nearly a quarter the size of the United States.
In the probate records Barbara L L Brewer lists executors administrators and conservators named in several estates with appointment dates in 1957. James P D Murphy administrator for James P Murphy late of Bath Thomas J Fuhex administrator without bond July 2 1957. Harry F O Bragdon Alice E Hrasdon executor July 2 1957. Frank P MacFarlane administrator June 4 1957. Leslie C Shunway administrator June 28 1957. Carl E Albee administrator June 4 1957. May E Porter Mabel M Saule administratrix without bond July 2 1957. Barbara L Brewer register.
Barbara J. Brewer Register of Probate lists appointments in Bath and surrounding towns. Frederick J. King Lilian Terrell Hime Alice May McLean Willard L. McLean Susie A Tarr Georgia Fe Fox Varney George H Fox receive executorships and administrations with or without bond on specified dates in July 1957.
The six masted Bath schooner Eleanor A Percy built by Percy and Smith of Bath carried 5500 tons of coal and acted as a screen during a German submarine raid at Funchal Harbor on Mathera Island. The U boat sank the French torpedo boat Surprise the British cable ship Daga and the submarine tender Kangaroo. Thirty four crew members aboard Surprise died. The German sub shelled the town for two hours before departing.
Katherine Conley reported bids from Ray S Snyder Co of New Jersey for double-tier lockers at 9.47 each opening. Mainco Trading Co offered classroom chairs at 7.55 each. Milton Bradley of Boston won for 100 steel folding chairs at 3.77 each and Hall Knight of Lewiston for 200 combination key controlled locks at 1.30 each.
Court in Bath, Saradahoc County orders publication of notices for probate actions. Executors, guardians, and administrators named. licenses to sell property and widow’s allowances sought. Hearing set for August first at ten in the forenoon. names include Albert Nelson King, Ernest P. King, Nether Demjanovich, Annie F Pennell, Jobo Ford, Harriet Scammon, Harold F Cothran, Grace Blair, Camilla Sewall, Arthur Sewall, Miriam Potter, Anne Williams Winter, Bradford Sprague, Raymond Osier, Maurice Skillin, Ralph Warren, Joan Warren, Joan Huntington, and others. Judge Harold J. Rubin presiding.
A Bath court orders notices for probate actions on the wills of Leon F Rates and Haroud Robinson, appointing executors and executrices Mary Tibbetts and Myra Tibbetts, with probate hearings set for August in Bath County. The orders require publication in Bath Independent weekly for three weeks.
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