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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1953
Page
3
Voters will convene Saturday at 10 a m to discuss a warrant authorizing an appropriation to rebuild the bridge and to borrow funds from the Maine School Building Authority for a consolidated school. Ballots will be cast by husham ballot with polls open 11 30 to 3 45. church and community notices follow including Grange Sunday observance and reports on local activities across Dromore and Sebasco areas.
Lakewood Players begin Monday with Tons of Money featuring Skedge Miller as a well meaning impostor. Next, for the week of June 29, Carousal with a New York cast comes from London's and Broadway runs, based on Liliom, reimagined on the Maine seacoast. Also notes a Bedford street visit by Mrs Voorhees and family to Mrs MacDonald and relatives in Bedford Street Bedbeek N S.
Parker Head closes village school Friday and will reopen eight, with Mrs. Pam Lowell as teacher. Gray wins Misetty prize. Anne Wyman runner up in observation contest. Robert Gray resigns as janitor. Arthur Barkalow to replace him. Guests include Mrs. Leslie Logan and Miss Billy Hodgkins. Children’s Day services held. Francis riding led by W Whitehead. Awards presented after the service. Kenneth Gilmore of New Brunswick Bible Institute spoke at morning service. Missionary meeting in vestry. annual Sunday school picnic at Reid State Park Georgetown. Parker Head children attend include Mary Anne Wyman Linda Doughty Warren Doughty Peter Claudia Robin Leroy Hutchins James Martha Ross Judy Hamel. Chaperones listed. attendees from Sebasco Small Point Phippsburg Center. All under Rev H M Whitehead. Special town meeting Saturday at 10 a.m. to discuss a new school and borrowing for bridge at Center Pond Causeway. Several locals travel to Boston for events. discussions of hospitality duties. funerals and hospital visits noted. Many local families named with whereabouts and week’s activities.
Sunday guests included Misses Nancy Jee and Helent Lemont along with Mrs. Lemont Neil Buddy Watson Bobby Hughes Jo Anne Brewer and three children at the Libby home. Mrs. Earl Hamel remained home ill. Miss Sandra Erickson visited grandmother Mrs. William Hodgkins as parents plan Summer at Logan cottage. Capt and Mrs Donald Logan and family visited Leslie Logan. Charles True and Leston Harrin Jr called at Parker Head. J Frank Mezenski completed 19 and a half years in Navy on May 24 and is now stationed at Brunswick Naval Air Station.
Notice to families to provide names ranks and addresses of servicemen for Times Service Men's column. Gerald C. Lindsey, assigned to the 44th Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, is in Battery B, 223d Field Artillery Battalion. Pvt. Fred E. Fox serves in Germany with 28 Div. at APO New York. First Lt. Leslie Higgins, Morse graduate, completed infantry communications course at Fort Benning and serves with the 5th Infantry in Korea. Reginald Callahan Jr. advances to Engineman Third Class aboard USS Sard a. Army Capt. Andrew Morin, wife Yvette in Bowdoinham, serves in Korea with 92d FA Battalion.
Miss Mary Arik of Portland visits Bath to attend the Bowdoin College graduation Saturday for her nephew Edward Cohen. She plans to contact many Bath friends during the trip at Mrs Morris Cohen’s Old South Place home.
Community events at Small Point church include Children’s Day with Oliver family attendees and a committee meeting moved to the Pye home in Phippsburg Center. A new teacher Frances Charrier joins Summer church school, tax bills filed by Bernard Henderson, and many out of state summer residents return to cabins and cottages as season opens.
State wardens from Sea and Shore Fisheries surveyed the clam flats on the Kennebec River on Monday while LST 1158 departed the river for Boston last week. Other river activity followed in the report.
The page records numerous visits and weekly movements. Families from Wollaston, Bath, and East Lynn visit cottages and relatives in Maine and Massachusetts. Dromore Extension Group held an all day meeting at the grange hall with crafts instruction by Addie Seavey. A Young Republicans convention in Rapid City featured an address by President Eisenhower at Mt Rushmore.
Charles A. Fisher son of Mr and Mrs M C Fisher Ches hire Conn and longtime summer resident of Maine graduated from Bates College with a BA in history He wrote a thesis on Exploration and Colonization of the Maine Coast Prior to 1620 He played varsity baseball intramural basketball and freshman football at Bates In 1950 he played first base for the Bath Iron Works Casco Bay league and pitched He is a member of the Augusta Naval Reserve unit and did practice teaching at Edward Little High School Auburn last year.
First hand account recalls the 1938 wreck of the British liner City of Salisbury off Boston in fog, with a million and a half dollar cargo for a New York zoo. The ship struck an uncharted rock, broke in two as hull plates failed, sparing captains and few crew who were rescued. salvors and a buoy were later placed to prevent repeats.
The State Armory will host an open house next Tuesday from seven to nine p m during a Bat tery B 703rd AAA Gun Battalion drill. Visitors may view the battery at work and see equipment displays including a 90 mm anti aircraft gun firing simulation, Army underwater vehicles with explanations, ground communications demonstrations and a director demonstration. A 50 caliber machine gun will also be exhibited.
Correspondence and ordered stationery for the club's use conclude with a closing report by Olive G. Perry as secretary. The note extends thanks to the Suburb Civic Club for its ongoing support and expresses hope for continued excellence and cooperation.
The Morse High School 1918 class hosted guests including Mr and Mrs Bruce H M White and Mary Baxter. The group battles a coffin graeek of Be as a spec the occision while planning their 40th reunion.
Hazel Warner presented the junior prize and delivered speaking parts during the alumni reunion. The evening closed with dancing to Joe Avery's orchestra as attendees enjoyed the program.
The Postoffice Department announced increases in box rents to reflect higher costs for programs equipment and maintenance. New rates are $1.10 for size 1 boxes $1.50 for size 2 $2.25 for size 3 and $3.00 for size 4.
In Charlotte on Thursday evening the program includes the professional team 1 and Annabelle who opened last season with a smash comedy act. This year they perform a torrid South Sea Island number for the audience.
Mrs Alex MacDonald of 46 Dummerstreet has returned from the New England Hospital in Boston where she was a medical patient for several days. She was accompanied by her husband and her mother Mrs Lucelia Blake.
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