Bath Honors Its Dead Of All Wars In Observances
Memorial Day observances in Bath featured Captain Stanley M. Alexander urging citizens to meet the nation’s high traditions with resolve. The day included early morning ceremonies, a Grand Army monument service, a sea-service observance, a colorful parade, wreaths at the Soldier’s Monument, and a memorial service at City Park led by C Lloyd Hooker with music by Morse High School band and prayers by Rev. John F. Bellefontaine.
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Bath
Stanley M. Alexander
U.S. N
USN
Naval Inspection of Ordnance
City Park
Alexander
Center Street
T. W. Hyde
No. 46
Sons of Union Veterans of
Oak Grove Cemetery
Bath Water District
Admiral Hughes
Navy Club
USS
DuPont
Air Force Control and Warning Squadron
Rnas
Drum and Bugle Corps
Smith- Tobery
Post American Legion
Hughes
Navy Club of America
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Washington Street
North Street
Old Ladies Home
Bath Cadets
Grand Army of the Republic
Battery B
Morse High Band
Linden
War Memorial Monument
C. Lloyd Hooker
Department of Maine, S. U. V
Gregg Jenkins
Bicycle Rodeo At Huse School Saturday
About 115 Bath area youngsters attended the bicycle rodeo at Huse Memorial school conducted by the Sagadahoe County Safety Committee a unit of the Governor's Highway Safety Committee. Calman Perry 8 of 6 Bridge street Mitchell school won the bicycle donated by Rotary club with other prizes awarded. State Trooper Herman Boudreau explained safety rules and driving tests were set up in the rear to teach stopping signals and crossing awareness.
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Bath Area
Huse Memorial School
Sagadahoe County Safety Committee
Governor's Highway Safety Committee
Calman Perry
Bridge Street
Mitchell School
Rotary Club
Huse School
Herman Boudreau
State Police Safety Division
Charles Coombs
Elizabeth Moffatt
Edward L. Gaudreau
Bernard FE. Varnum
Boudreau
Brown Speaks To Morse High Group At Baccalaureate
Morse High School held its annual Baccalaureate service with seniors in royal blue gowns and white, as Herbert Brown of Bowdoin College spoke on student potential and responsibility. Clergy from Beth Israel Congregation Central Congregational First Baptist and Nazarene led prayers and readings, with a Baccalaureate choir and pianist Miss Jean Fleming.
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Brown
Morse
Morse High School
Herbert Ross Brown
Edward Little
Bowdoin College
Abraham Kramer
Beth Israel
Craig H. Richards
Central Congregational Church
Charles R. Sims
First Baptist Church
J. Lyal Calhoun
First Church of the Nazarene
Ter
Robert Merrill
Woolwich
Adelle Rubin
Harold Rubin
High Street
South Sea Island
Priscilla Marble
Charles Marble
South Street
Sandra London
Kenneth London
Middle Street
Patricia Mullaney
Joseph Mullaney
Michael Freeman
Oscar Freeman
David Newcomb
Heyward Newcomb
Finn Street
Morse Highland
Cecil V. Rowland
Francis Bennett
Jean Fleming
Carol Anne Bartels
Roberta Waab
Harvey Prawer
Cynthia Osgood
Peter Crocker
Judith-Ann Boyce
Bath Scouts Attend Down East District Camporee at Topsham
Bath Boy Scouts joined the Down East District camporee at Topsham fair grounds for a three day event with Saturday hike to Mt Ararat and an afternoon adventure trail. Protests church services were held Sunday. Troops 52 55 57 53 99 93 and Woolwich participated with several merit recognitions awarded at the campfire including a gold palm for Donald Nadine and a star for Alden Green. Bath Troop 57 finished third with 140 points in Saturday’s competitions.
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Bath
Down East
Topsham Fair Grounds
Mt. Ararat
Order-of-the-Arrow
Richard Arnold
Beacon Street Methodist
Truman Wallace
Donald Nadine
Roy Lutz
Scott Alexander
Stewart McAllister
Brian Fowle
Craig Ayer
Truman Wallace, Jr
Harvey Rowe
Mike Dodge
Francis Nickerson
Cliff Legard
Harry McCaffrey
Malcolm Carey
Woolwich
Oakley Smith
Donald’ Nadine
Alden Green
Freeport
Camden
MecCole Cochairs Pinehurst Foursomes Event at Bath Club
The second 1957 Pinehurst Foursomes will be held at Bath Country Club this evening with Mr. and Mrs. John MecCole serving as co chairmen for the event.
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Bath Country Club
John MecCole
Polio Clinic Set At Bath Armory On June 13
A polio clinic will be held at Bath armory June 13 from 6 to 9 p.m. for residents of Bath and nearby communities from infants to age 60. Those up to 20 receive free shots. older individuals pay $1 per shot. The State Health Department and Welfare provides vaccine for youths. The City Health Department, aided by the Public Health Nursing Association, conducts the event with volunteers. A second clinic will follow in July and a final one about seven months later. Those planning to attend must apply with the city manager by June 10. application forms to be published in The Times.
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Bath Armory
Bath
State Department of Health and Welfare
City Health Department
Public Health Nursing Association
Times
Moose dents Bath man's car in Route 1 wreck
Kenneth H. Pickard of Ken's Auto Body Repair in Bath reports his station wagon was struck by a moose Sunday night on Route 1 near Chandler Field. Fender hood and bumper damage estimated at 250 dollars. The moose fled into a wooded gully after the collision as Warden Cecil Beane searched for it without success.
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Kenneth H. Pickard
Washington Street
Ken
Pickard
Route 1
Chandler Field
Bath
Brunswick
Strate
Cecil IL. Beane
Breakfast Honors Morse High Graduates at St Marys Event
The fourth annual communion breakfast for Morse High School graduates, hosted by St Marys Roman Catholic church members, was held Sunday at Mr and Mrs Bowen Torrey’s home on Washington street. Families, faculty, and church members attended, including graduates Mary Alice Lacey Roberta Haab Ruth Amirault and others, along with Rev John E Bellefontaine and Mrs Isabele Bryant among the attendees.
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St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church
Morse High School
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine of the Church
Bowen Torrey
Washington Street
Mary Alice Lacey
Roberta Haab
Ruth Amirault
Carol Boudreau
Michael C. Freeman
Dillon Gillies
Clifford
Helen L. Hayes
James A. Gillies, Jr
Isabele Bryant
Gladys DeWever
John Hayes
Eugene, Desmond
Anne Perry
John Dougherty
Loring R. Addison
R. Clinton McFadden
Torrey
Inmates at Ionia Reformatory Donate Blood in Record Sprint
In a two day drive at the Ionia State Reformatory, 1,024 pints of blood were collected for the Red Cross, as 1,500 inmates claim the title of world champion blood donors.
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Tonia, Mich
Ionia State Reformatory
Red Cross
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Landmark Details
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway hosts the 500 mile race on Memorial Day. It is a two and a half mile paved oval and also contains a golf course within its grounds.
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Class Day Exercises At Morse High Entice Large Crowd
Morse High School held its annual Class Day program Tuesday night with a large audience of parents, teachers, underclassmen and friends. The event featured a class prophecy presented on a national hook-up, a 50 year reunion style history, a changed will, joke gifts, and musical numbers led by the Morse High band.
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Morse High School
Judith Ayer
C. Harding Ayer
Washington Street
Cyrus Ashe
Center Street
Yvonne Crosby
Sherwood Crosby
High Street
Lois Merrill
Daugh
Northern New England Drum And Bugle Corps Contest Here Sunday
The Smith-Tobey Post Cadets host the Northern New England Drum and Bugle Corps Contest at McMann Field with 350 marchers in a parade and two competition classes for cash prizes. Maine and New Hampshire corps compete, plus a post‑contest Kingsmen performance.
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New England
Smith-Tobey Post
Drum & Buwle
McMann Field
Maine
New Hampshire
Portland
Huse
Bath
Cadets
Lincoln Street
Center, Center
Washington
Oak
Lincoln
North Street
Massachusetts
Newell to Receive Stevens Honorary Engineering Degree
John R. Newell, president of Bath Iron Works Corp, will receive an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree at Stevens Institute of Technology commencement in Hoboken, N J. A Massachusetts Tech alumnus, he rose from naval architect to BIW president in 1950 at 38 after a naval service and Bethlehem Steel tenure. He has led civic roles in Bath, including the council and aldermen presidency.
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Bath Iron Works Corp
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken
N. J
Releis
Stevens
Mr. Newell
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bethlehem Stecl Co
Bath Iron Works
Navy Bureau of Ships
Bath Common Council
Bath Board of Aldermen
Edward V Curtis to Receive Honorary Doctorate at Stevens
Edward V Curtis of Rochester and Small Point Summer will be awarded an honorary doctorate of science at Stevens commencement on Saturday. Curtis, vice president of Eastman Kodak Co., serves as special secretary to President Eisenhower and is studying air traffic problems.
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Stevens
Edward V Curtis
Rochester
Small Point
Melvin B. Henderson
Curtis
Eastman Kodak Co
Eisenhower
Edward Hamblett to Get MIT Master’s Degree
Edward B Wamblett Jr son of Mr and Mrs Edward B Hamblett of this city will be awarded a master’s degree in electronic science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 7. He has been elected to Sigma Xi and Eta Kappa Nu honorary societies and served as electronics supervisor at the U S Naval Air Test Center at Pawtuxent River. He is a Morse High School graduate 1939 and attended University of Missouri after WWII. His wife Miriam will attend the MIT commencement with him.
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Edward B. Wamblett, Jr
Edward B. Hamblett
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hamblett
M.it
Sigma Xi
U.S. Naval Air Test Center
Pawtuxent River
Morse High
Morse
University of Missouri
Eta Kappa Nu
Miriam
M.I.T
Boston
Two NY Life Agents Complete Pension Trust Course
Complete Course Two local agents of the New York Life Insurance Co. Charles Powers and Mark Crowley recently completed a six week course in Pension Trust given by the New York Life Insurance Co. at the Portland office.
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New York Life Insurance Co
Charles Powers
Mark Crowley
Portland
Dr Ardenne A Stott marks 50 years in Maine medical field
Local physician Dr Ardenne A Stott of 37 Park Street celebrates 50 years as a Maine Medical Association member and his 50th Tufts University School of Medicine reunion this spring. He will attend the Maine Medical Association annual meeting on June 24 at the Samoset Hotel in Rockland with his wife Mrs Stott. His daughter Mrs EF Bradley Carleton will join from Troy New York for Tufts 20th reunion. He began practice after Tufts graduation 1907 08 interned at Veterans Hospital Tous 1907 08 opened Woolwich office 1908 later moved to Bath 1931 continued practice here 26 years later with 117 Front Street. He served in US Navy World Wars two years with Halifax N S post 1917 explosion, held National Guard service, retired as US Navy Reserve Medical Corps captain. He is Tufts Medical School Honorary member cum laude and 26 year fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In 1955 he received a 50 year Mason medal from Good Samaritan Lodge in Reading Mass.
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Maine Medical Association
Tufts University School of Medicine
Ardenne A. Stott
Park Street
Samoset Hotel
Rockland
Stott
Tufts
EF. Bradley Carleton
Troy
N. Y
Jackson College
Tufts University
Tufts Medical School
Somerset
Boston
Stoth
Medical School
Veterans Hospital
Tous
Woolwich
Bath
Front Street
US Navy
Halifax
N. S
Navy
National Guard
Good Samaritan Lodge of Masons
Reading
Mass
County Republican Women Plan June 12 Meeting
The Sagadahoc County Women's Republican club will hold its annual meeting Wednesday evening June 12 at 7 30 at 13 Elsinore avenue home of Mrs Wendell B Heal. The agenda includes election of new officers and all members are urged to attend. A dinner planned with the session has been cancelled.
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Sagadahoc County
Bath Stamp Design Planned for 350th Shipbuilding Anniversary
Bath Area Chamber of Commerce forwards two proposed stamp designs to Washington for the 350th anniversary of American shipbuilding. The blue on white stamp features the Virginia of Sagadahoc and the USS Hull bow, with 1607 1957 dates and 350 years of American shipbuilding. A luncheon and first day cancellations are planned with dignitaries invited and the issuance penciled for August 15.
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America
Bath Area
U.S. S
Bath Tron Works
Virginia of Sagadahoe
Popham Colony
Bath
Post Office Department
A.M. Main, Jr
Washington
William Zaorach
George Cary
Richard B. Mackennan
Chamber
Destroyer 948
Eisenhower
Secretary of the Navy
Guenral Summerfield
Maine
Edmund S Muskie
Sub
History Club awards for Bath history project announced
David Huggins of Bath Junior High won the first Colonel Dimmer Sewall chapter award for compiling a Bath history. Judith Libby earned second prize and Linda Ames third, with more students praised for their efforts at a recent club meeting hosted by Mrs Catherins Owen in North Reduction.
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David Huggins
Bath
Colonel Dimmer Sewall
Db Alr
Marion Jaques Smith
Judith Libby
Linda Ames
Dirmer Sewall
Daor
Catherins Qwen
North Rduccomb
Prade
History of
Dummer Sewell
Aimp
Cys
Bath School Patrol Receives Certificates of Appreciation
About 150 Bath School patrol members earned certificates of appreciation at a city hall ceremony this morning. Supt. Loring Ro. Addison and State Trooper Herman Boudreau Addison presented the certificates and praised the students for an accident free record around schools this year.
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Bath School
Latty Patrol
City Hall
Supt. of Schools
Loring Ro
Additon
Herman Boudrea
Addison
Kennebec Art Club to Stage August Show
Roswell Co Waskell chaired arrangements for the 350th anniversary of shipbuilding in America and spoke at the Kennebec Art Club meeting. The event is planned for August with details continued on page two.
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Roswell Co Waskell
America
Kennebec Art Club
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Bath Man’s Auto
F. O. E. “Kingsmen
Fitchburg
St. Norman Prince
Milford
John R. Newell
Stevens Institute
Edward Hamblett
MIT
Harvard
F. C. E. Kingsmen
Fiteburg
Kingsmen
American Legion
Maine Medical Assn
Dr. Ardenne A. Stott
Republican Women
P. O
Charles M. Tubbs
Norman W. Howard
Benjamin H. Woodside
William A. Armstrong
Horatio L. Baker
Leonard F. Lord
Rovalboth Lawrence
Dummer
Thomaston
General Knox
Ray L. Erb
National Defense Committee
J. Horace McClure
Leeman Highway
Earey Meee Bath
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