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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1950
Page
2
Public notice states subscription terms for Bath readers with a one year and a six month option priced at $1.00, and indicates mailing at second class postal rates from the Bath post office.
City Council plans another budget meeting Thursday to adopt figures after public input. The editorial notes rising costs from modern needs such as schools and recreation, and urges support for officials managing a larger budget while resisting tax increases where possible.
Advertising Age lauds reduced dairy lobbying as public education on margarine grows. The piece notes decades of trials by housewives testing margarine, which then earned status as a strong butter competitor. The 1950 color controversy is deemed resolved as a false congressional charge.
The piece notes July 1 as the end date for taxes on colored margarine and the old barrier to sale will be removed. It contrasts public opinion about which option is best and cheapest, then references cautious pacifist sentiment amid nuclear fears.
Colleen Owen daughter of Mr and Mrs William Owen observed her first birthday Monday afternoon hosting friends at her Washington street home. Games awarded prizes to Dennis Belanger Harry Turner and Lorraine Turner. Pink and white crepe paper decorations brightened the room. luncheon served by Mrs Owen with help from Mrs Clinton Turner and Miss Janet Stilphen.
Morse High opened practice Monday at the Morse gym with 45 players for the 1950 season. Coach Bill Johnson brings back most of last year’s veterans as he shapes the lineup for the Androscoggin Valley league title chase. Captain Bobby Philbrick leads a cast including pitchers Dick Jackson Bill Wing Billy Haggett and others as the team prepares for early warm weather field work.
A Maine Central freight conductor from Bath says on the Center street siding the locomotive tops the track and a crew member starts warning lights by hand before the train crosses the highway. He notes trains on the siding do not auto start signals, and crew are required to stop and manually trigger the signals.
Miss Dorothy Mae Hart, daughter of Mr and Mrs Andrew B Hart of 21 Floral Street, hosted a supper and theatre outing Monday evening for her 14th birthday. Guests included Leilani Cannill Juliana Cummings Carol Gowell Mickey Sonia Alfred Smith Robert Arsenault and Billy Parks.
A Bath taxi driver alleges a Maine Central shifter nearly hit his car at the Center Street crossing Saturday morning. He says the automatic warning lights were not working and he narrowly avoided the tracks after noticing the approaching locomotive. He has witnesses to support the claim.
Mrs Harrison McCaffrey and her son Harry are confined to their home due to illness, with neighbors noting no other relatives are present to assist.
Citizens flood the meeting as the Board of Health and city departments seek funding. Discussions cover salaries, sidewalks on Washington Street, welfare payrolls, school phones, art and remedial teachers, police pay raises, water district charges, Kimball Field development, and potential tax millage changes amid calls to avoid higher taxes.
Eugene C Hart commander of Smith Tobey Post 21 American Legion urges Bath Independent readers to contact Washington lawmakers about the Hoover Commission on veterans affairs. He warns it could impose hardships on veterans nationwide and asks veterans to write Senators R Owen Browser and Margaret Baseman and Representative Robert Hale in Washington DC.
Mrs James Jordan of Pine Street visited and stayed with Mrs George Bartlett of Lewiston on Friday, sharing hospitality and conversation in a social visit.
Multiple Girl Scout groups including Peter Pan Brownies and Pine Tree Troop 1 held regular meetings at Grace Episcopal church and Lambert Park Community building. Dues, budgets, and badge work dominated the sessions with activities, songs, fundraising, and new appointments noted.
Winners at the Thursday night whist party sponsored by Ernest Edgar Kate were Mrs. Lillius Larrabee first place Mrs. Melvin Whittam second and Mrs. Helen Gagnon third. The next event is set for April 6 and a regular auxiliary meeting preceded the card party with election results to be announced at the installation. Rev. Dr. C Clifford Sargent attended Augusta District ministers meeting in August.
About 130 sixth to eighth graders from city schools attended the St Patrick's Day dance sponsored by the North-Center PTA Friday night at Huse school gym. Decorations matched the day with shamrocks and green hats. Proceeds support the North-Center PTA fund.
A successful St Patrick's Day Tea was held Friday afternoon at Beacon Street vestry under co chairs Mrs Jane Shea and Mrs Everett Lemont. The venue featured floral baskets ferns and ivy and a spinning wheel tableau. Mrs Murchie A Gordon and Mrs Irving Varney, W S C S president, poured. Hostesses included Mrs Clifton Tedford Mrs William Craft Mrs Edward St Martin Mrs Wilbur Crocker and Mrs Eleanor Leavitt. The program led by Mrs Lemont included piano accordion pieces by Winfield Lewis, his three harmonicas invention and vocal solos by Mrs Wanda Leavitt.
Mrs. Joseph N. Day presented two humorous readings titled An Old Lady Tells Her Troubles to the Doctor and Sally Jim as part of a program in East Brunswick. Edward Waters performed a medley of Irish songs while a film or show featured I Hear a Brown Bird Singing and Dear Old Irish Mother of Mine.
The Department of the Army proposes a regulation for the Richmond Dresden and Gardiner Randolph bridges over the Kennebec River. Bridges would not open to vessel traffic between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. without notice to drawtenders. Night openings require prior notification before 9 p.m.
The collier Berwindglen arrived Thursday with 7 500 tons of bituminous coal for Kennebec Wharf & Coal Co from Hampton Roads Va the first cargo by Berwind-White Coal Co since the miners strike Discharge began immediately Nelson C Smith executive VP of Atlantic Coal Co and Bath plant officials boarded the ship with pilot George Stacey to navigate to Bath from Pond Island at the river mouth.
Central Church League held its regular Monday meeting at the parish house with good attendance. A report on the recent St. Patrick's Day Tea by Mrs. J. Haviland Torrey noted the event was financially successful. Hostesses were Mrs. Arthur Pratt and Mrs. Rudolph McRae.
A themed crossword puzzle lists across clues from public vehicles to goddess of death with a long quotation by Longfellow. The cryptogram shows a substitution cipher where A stands for L and X stands for O among others guiding solvers to decode letters for the puzzle.
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