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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1948
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR shows transfers involving Bath residents including Elia Lewis Nora Lawrence and Grace Bath with donors from Brunswick and Arrow M. Grindell. names and places are partially garbled and continued on page seven.
Mrs. Joan Newell Jones of the farm women speaks on rural urban interdependence. She highlights how farm women mobilize for better rural living, citing improvements in education and health facilities in Mississippi, including a drive to address doctor to bed shortages.
Woolwich P T A applauds Tuessic Hall as a new home for meetings and planned athletic and preschool activities. A modern heating plant will be installed before winter. The association aims to host home games and practices for town schools, an athletic program for girls, and a pre school age dental clinic planned with the State Dental School.
A tie vote emerges in the Sagadahoc Clerk of Courts race with Esther Brown leading early in Bath and Philip H Oliver of Bath narrowing as returns from county towns come in. Final tallies show Oliver closing the gap. county totals list 2842 for one candidate and 1562 for another with various town results and other races noted.
Eight residents of Bath and Woolwich received bachelor degrees at the eighty third commencement. Bath and Woolwich natives earned in mechanical engineering zoology English sociology and languages. Notable graduates include Jean Leslie Gowdey and Margaret Anne Gowdey both daughters of Captains, Lorna Fay Kramer, Rita Marie Snow, Martha Evelyn Leeman, Albert Edward Whitney Jr., George Frederic Hersom, and John Franklin Howe reflecting strong academic and extracurricular affiliations.
Bath voters went to the polls in record numbers on Monday to choose nominees for state offices in the September election. In Bath two thousand seven hundred fifty three Republicans and exactly one hundred Democrats voted, totaling 2853, a Bath primary record. Sunmer Sewall led in Bath for U S Senate, while state trend favored Margaret Chase Smith, leaving Sewall with a Bath margin of 308. Payne led for Governor with 975. Bishop led in Bath for Senate with 848. Frank O Dunton led for Congress over Robert Hale by 163 in Bath. Larrabee beat Moffatt and Cummings for State Senate in Bath. Brown led for Clerk of Courts in Bath with 1458 to Oliver 1181 countywide. Messenger was unopposed for Sheriff with 2403 in Bath. County Attorney Dale led over Small in Bath by 1806 to 758. Wright led for County Commissioner in Bath. (Continued on page Seven).
War Department receives notice that the Army Corps of Engineers considers Maine State Highway Commission plans for a new bridge across the Sasanoa River between Woolwich and Arrowsic Island. Decision expected soon as near-term action weighs department approval.
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