City Government Reverses Action On North Primary School
City officials revisit plans to close North Primary School amid repairs and heating upgrades. A six to twelve month trial period and costs under $1,000 for a boiler are discussed alongside an $11,000 incinerator proposal to improve dump site conditions. Debate covers funding via short term bonds and potential savings from closing the building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Picance Committee
Edward A. Footer
Stanton
William Gildea
Duncan Co
Ufacturers
Miller
E. D. Bean
M. H
North
Stanley Hunter
Thaddeus Reed
Wiscasset
Hunter
Butler
Cooper
Loring R. Addison
Tardif
Chester McCabe
Alderman Butler
Alderman Cooper
Upper High Street
Poor Department
Board of Ee and Sewers
Charles W
Auto Co
Front Street
Police Department
Arrowsic Bridge Plans Consider Elevated Route to Woolwich
Representatives from Bath and Topsham discussed state plans to replace the aging Arrowsic bridge with an elevated route from Sasanoa Bluffs in Woolwich to Arrowsie shore. Advocates cited Reid’s Georgetown land offer for a state park and federal aid as potential catalysts, with a goal to start within a year if public interest grows.
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Arrowsic
Woolwich
Elizabeth Deering Moffatt
Bath
Roger Williams
Topsham
Rtment
Sasanoa Bluffs
Arrowsie Shore
Walter E. Reid
Georgetown
Kennebec
Sasanoa
Reid
Georgetown Seacoast
Seguinland
Sadie Drake
Indian Point Road
Little River
Reidare
Atlantic
Ndux
Wilder
State Highway Department
Invasion Ship Visit to Bath July 31
Navy recruiters announce the LST 512 will visit Bath on July 31 and be open for inspection August 1 to 4. The vessel, famed for D Day and Okinawa service, features a jungle tank deck scene and a Marine beach assault demonstration with guns tanks and captured equipment.
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Navy
LST 512
Bath
Anzio
Okinawa
John C. Stevens
USN
Cape Cottage
Normandy
D Day
England
United States
Mer
Pacific Islands
Third destroyer arrives at Bath Iron Works for SU
The USS Putnam, third of five destroyers to be berthed at Bath Iron Works, arrived Thursday with a crew of 16 officers and about 160 men. Built in San Francisco and commissioned in 1944, the ship is commanded by Comdr Louis Lefelar. Capt Walter Cord heads the Casco fleet destroyer division including Owens and Strong, with Strong due soon. Capt Ford will oversee all boats during the stay.
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Putnam
Bath Iron Works Corp
San Francisco
Bethlehem Steel Co
Comdr
Louis Lefelar
USN
Walter Cord
Casco
USS
Owens
Strong
Ford
Odd Ladies Field Day At Mrs Curtis Summer Home
The United Order of Independent Odd Ladies of Maine held a field day at Mrs. Curtis’s East Harpswell summer home with 100 attendees from most lodges except Waterville. Myrtle and Merrymeeting lodges staged stunts and a minstrel show, with prizes for oldest and youngest members, and plans announced for the Aug. Past Ladies club meeting. A 1947 field day venue was to be announced, Auburn-Brunswick bus party aided by Myrtle lodge members and guests from Maine, California, and beyond.
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United Order of Independent
Odd Ladies of
Maine
Gert Stewart
Myrtle Lodge
Brunswick Lodge
Nellie Hunt
Lucelia Blake
Ladies Club
Frances Clark
Alice Dunning
Brunswick
Curtis
East Harpswell
Minnie M. Moore
Fernlodge
Portland
Merle Norton
Merrymeeting Lodge
Bath
Anna E. Hughes
Fern Lodge
Mar- Nelson
Einian Goodrich
Myrtle
Merrymeeting
Bertha Cullinan
Government of
Velma Neilson
Hilda Souci
Hope Ward
Alice Smith
Sioux City
Auburn-Brunswick
Mary Curtis
Lizzie
B. C. Chaney
Jennie Oliver
Jennie Cameron
Lizzie Hargett
Zeuleika Kingsbury
Emma Daley
Margaret Nelson
Elsie Higgins
Annie Oliver
Mabel Shepard
Louise Rogers
Annie Lemont
Gertrude Stewart
Harriet Wright
Lucy Pike
Palo Alto
Calif
Hardings
Harold E. Brown
Gardiner
Madelyn Marsh
Joan
Judy
City
Rain Saves Parched City Gardens After Weekend Drought
Sunday's rain began about 5 a.m. and dripped through most of the day, reviving parched lawns and gardens while some are said to be beyond saving. A weather drop followed near 90 Saturday to 60s by night, staying cool through Sunday.
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Mercury
Veteran Cmdr Broyderick Leaves Bath Navy Office
Lt Cmdr Norman L Broyderick USNR departs the Bath shipyard after five decades in service to join the Officers Separation Center in Boston. He helped grow the Maine Navy office from four officers to about 36 and praised the civilian workforce and inspectors who built destroyers. He plans to become marine superintendent for the US Army in New York City after separation and holds WWI and WWII ribbons along with Pearl Harbor and defense awards.
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Cmdr
Norman L. Broyderick
USNR
Shiebs
Maine
Bathorks Corp
Boston
Naval Reserve
Bath
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Broyderick
Navy Office
Bath Iron Works
E. L. Cochrane
USN
Bureau of Ships
United States Navy
Philippines
Lynn
Mass
United States Army
New York City
Army
New York
Merchant Marine
Fort Wright
N. Y
Detroit
Tornado Wind Speeds Recorded At 400 Miles Per Hour
Meteorologists note that tornado wind velocities can exceed 400 miles per hour. The figure illustrates extreme air movement within violent storms and informs safety thresholds for warnings and structural design.
Fine swimming pool completed at summer home
Col and Mrs William Tudor Gardiner of Maine unveil a new 50 by 35 foot salt water pool at their Sasanoa river estate on Phipps Point, fed by river water when a three quarter tide submerges underwater sensors. The project followed wartime material delays and adds a scenic coastal amenity near Pride's Crossing and the University of Maine connections.
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William Tudor Gardiner
Maine
Phipps Point
Hotkomock Bay
Sasanoa River
Col. Gardiner
Eighth Air Force
Sylvester
Armored Infantry
Gardiner
Margaret
WAC
University of Maine
Orono
Tudor
Field Artillery
Harvard Law School
Thomas
Pride's Crossing
Diving Board
Bath Iron Works Employes File Suit in Court
In Portland, sixty Bath Iron Works employees and others filing, allege unpaid overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 for time spent checking in and out of the destroyer plant since Oct 29, 1938. The suit names Thom as M. Byrne and 59 other similarly employed men, with claims extending to two to ten thousand workers. John P. Carey of Bath is mentioned in relation to the filing.
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Bath Iron Works
Portland
United States District Court
Bath Iron Works Corp
Thomas M. Byrne
John P. Carey
Bath
Bath earns title as Maine's largest fish packing plant
Bath Canning Co. advances a $125,000 project creating Maine's biggest fish packing facility. About 100 workers, including carpenters and engineers, craft the new plant in the former Texas Steamship Co. layout shed. Construction features a cement ground floor and two steel floors with packing, flaking, and drying rooms. A 500 foot sluiceway carries fish from the wharf into brine tanks, then through a flaking process and steam boxes before final cooking and lift to the second floor.
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Bath
Bath Canning Co
Texas Steamship Co
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Committee On New Streets
Tarbox Street
Board of Aldermen
Melvin Cormeau
Craft
West Harpswell
Tudor Gardiner
Thomas Gardiner
Margaret Gardiner
Pvt
Sylvester Gardiner
Texas
Desoto
Plymouth
Bath Auto
Bath Auto Co. Co. F.ree
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