Citizens debate Bath budget and new gym at hearing
The Bath budget hearing drew 41 attendees as Acting City Manager Ring and Council Chair Oulton read the 1955-56 plan. Edward J. McMann urged including funds for a chapel tent at the cemetery, while Maurice Warner pressed for restoring a $40 cut in the Memorial Day fund. Elford A. Stover proposed a bond-backed gymnasium auditorium at the junior high site, noting 534 petition signatures and potential voter support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hall
Harry E. Ring, Jr
Ronald C. Oulton
Edward J. McMann
Cemetery Department
McMann
Nathan C. White
Maurice Warner
Sons of Union Veterans
Council
Bath
Stover
Charles W. Dutton
Sam Lakin, Jr
Dutton
Lakin
Miss Greenblatt Installed as Cosmopolitan Club President 1955 56
Cosmopolitan club installs Miss Ada Y. Greenblatt as president for 1955-56 at the annual banquet. New officers named include first vice president Albert Whitney and second vice president William Bryant, with a full slate of trustees and standing committees announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmopolitan Club
Ada Y. Greenblatt
Albert Whitney
William Bryant
Daniel Matter
Frank Saunders
Alice B. Ramsey
Fred S. Summerton
Sumner Sewall
Roscoe P. McFadden
Vivian Brown
Charles T. Small
Ivan A. Trueworthy
John F. Leonard
Alice M. Nowell
Paul A. Marchant
Kenneth Colby
Miss Greenblatt
House
Alice Johnson
J. Arthur Burgess
Arthur W. King
Abbott Redlon
Alfred E. McCabe
John E. Hayes
W. H. McGlinchey
Gerard Billington
Isadore Singer
Richard Thompson
Louis Petlock
Donald Burton
Richard Sherwood
Linwood Boardman
John Parker
Ernest Bailey
George Hartsgrove
Elvira Bierney
Dallas Crabtree
Bernard Knight
Melvina Vachon
Granville Colby
William Dennison
Arthur Eseley
Methodist Beach Party At Beacon Street Church
Beacon Street church Methodist Youth Fellowship hosted an indoor beach party Friday night. Beach blankets inner tubes and beach gear set the scene. Fred Fox cooked hamburgers and hot dogs as Rev Dr Oliver W Bell Patty Gaudet Gloria Overlock Judy Crocker Richard Crabtree Joan Carver Diana Barter Walter Hunt Margaret Mitchell Butch Mitchell Ronald Bruce Haley and Alan Church attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Youth Fellowship of
Beacon Street Church
Fred Fox
Oliver W. Bell
Mr. Fox
Patty Gaudet
Gloria Overlock
Judy Crocker
Richard Crabtree
Joan Carver
Diana Barter
Walter Hunt
Margaret Mitchell
Butch Mitchell
Ronald
Bruce Haley
Alan Church
Lecture by former diplomat on survival in Asia at hospital hall
The Memorial hospital auxiliary sponsors a Thursday evening lecture at eight in Bath Iron Works Recreation hall by Harrison Lakin a former U S Foreign Service officer now resident in York He will discuss Key to Survival In Asia and reference other events in Europe Latin America and beyond His New England appearances include the Portland League of Women Voters He will be hosted by ex Gov and Mrs Sumner Sewall Tickets are available from the committee chairwomen and members with details continued on Page Two
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New England
League of Women Voters of
Portland
Foreign Service
Asia
Sun Yat Sen
Chiang Kaishek
Lakin
Russia
Bath
Sumner Sewall
Roger M. Luke
Melvin B. Henderson
Edward L. Kinder, Jr
Eastham Guild, Jr
Brian M. Jewett
Douglas Dear
Club 42 Tea and Fashion Show Aids Hyde Rehab Hospital
Bath hosts an early spring social: a tea and fashion show at the Sedgwick next Sunday at 3 PM. The 10th annual Club 42 benefit benefits Hyde Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital with fashions from local shops and nine local models.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Sedgwick
Club 42
Hyde Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital
Edna Mae
Chic Shop
Murphy's
Lewiston
Brian M. Jewett
John Sylvester
Catharine Legard
Marie Smart
Shirley Smart
Peggy Hanson
Anne Amirault
Jinnifer Cummings
Donna Burkharat
Robert Pletts
East Brunswick
Fyerett Cooke
Milton Footer
Elliot Hanson
New Commander's Wife To Be Honored At Tea
Mrs. Lester B. Goldberg wife of Brunswick Naval Air Station s new commander will be honored at a tea Friday at 3 PM at Montsweag Road Wiscasset hosted by the Officers Wives club of the 65th AC W Squadron. The committee includes Mrs. Charles Olson president Mrs Errold Wynkoop vice president Mrs Bernard Byrne treasurer and Mrs Robert Kepple secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester B. Goldberg
Brunswick Naval Air Station
Bert Lutz
Montsweag Road
Wiscasset
Officers Wives Club
65Th AC & W Squadron
Charles Nicholson
Errold Wynkoop
Bernard Byrne
Robert Kepple
Emblem Club Installs Its Officers in Bath
About 150 witnessed the Bath Emblem Club No. 270 first annual installation after a banquet at Sedgwick. Mrs. Mary Ellen Schlosser of Cullen Ala. served as installing president with a large supreme suite and many officers from multiple states. Gifts were exchanged and community leaders praised the Emblem clubs of America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Mary Emero
Bernice Fortier
Mary Ellen Schlosser
Alabama
Bernadine Hancox
Jean Criterdom
Bessie Burns
Katherine Robinson
Dorothy Pecci
Natalie Theberge
Anna Grace
Diana Hart
Pauline Newell
Elizabeth Kurt
Gertrude Desmond
Hazel Perow
Patricia Smith
Arlene Wright
Katherine Fortier
Lorraine Penfold
Hazel Wakefield
Bath Emblem Club
Sedgwick
Cullen
Ala
The
Emblem Club
United States
Supreme
Gene Criterdam
Kathleen McHugh
Lynn
Mass
Alice Piteau
Augusta
Mary Pushard
Supreme Press
Mary Leoni
Elizabet Taylor
Portland
Doris Lerette
Supreme District
Helen Waller
Waterville
Ruth Murry
Sylvia Lombard
Edgar Hancox
Earl Fortier
Donald Emero
Joseph Robinson
Percy Kingsbury
Robert Fortier
William Theberge
Graydon Smith
Reginald Burns
John Wakefield
Bath appoints Stanley W. Judkins as city manager
Stanley W. Judkins was appointed Bath city manager on motion by Councilman John F. Leonard after a special session following a public budget hearing. Born in Andover and educated at Gould Academy and the University of Maine, he will assume duties around April 1. He has prior service in Auburn and Warren. The council also denied Bakelite Co. of West Bath an alarm line to the fire department and extended daylight saving time to end in October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Conley, Jr
Board of Education
Maine
Elford A. Stover
Ruth Murphy
Alice Johnson
Linwood Boardman
Paul Bagdikian
Bena Gokhalé
Suthanker
Bombay
India
Daniel Matter
Frank Saunders
John Leonard
Fred Summerton
Allan Noble
Ada Y. Greenblatt
Emerton Gross
Ernest Bailey
Albert Whitney
Sewall
Whitney
Progessive Union
William Dennison
Cosmopolitan Club
Florence Freeman
Good Will Club
Judkins
John F. Leonard
Andover
Gould Academy
Bethel
University of Maine
United States Army
Auburn
Warren
Will
Bakelite Company of
West Bath
Doctor Carey to Establish Hospital for Indians
Dr Vic tor R Carey of Bath will establish and supervise a hospital dental clinic at the Cherokee Indian Reservation in Cherokee North Carolina under the U S Department of Health Education and Welfare. He is a Fordham and Baltimore Dental College graduate and Maine Dental Association member. He plans to leave Bath around April 1 while Mrs Carey and their son Robert stay at 14 Allen Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor R. Carey
Bath
Cherokee Indian Reservation
Cherokee, N. C
U S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Fordham University
New York City
Baltimore Dental College
Baltimore
Maine State Dental Association
Smith-Tobey
American Legion
Carey
Bath Police Reserve to Hear Col Price on Tactics
Col Ralph A. Price head of Maine Civil Defense Mobile Police will address Bath Police Reserve at City Hall Thursday at 7 30 p m. Lt Robert E. Wagner Jr will introduce him and Price will discuss police tactics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph A. Price
Maine
Civil Defense Mobile Police
Bath Police
City Hall
Colonel Price
Robert E. Wagner, Jr
Bath Police Department
Lynn M. Bussey
George M. Carlton, Jr
Herman F. Boudreau
Bernard Holdsworth
E. Parker Johnson
Bowdoin College
Hollis Kennedy
Byron Clark
John Kelliher
Edwin Lowell
Bath Garden Club Plans For Annual Meeting
Mrs. Duncan MelInnes hosted Bath Garden Club at 53 Pearl Street on Tuesday to map plans for the annual meeting on April 26 at the Cosmopolitan with luncheon at 1 p.m. Members discussed hosting the Medomak regional meeting with the Cosmopolitan Garden Club and a Morse High School flower garden project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duncan MelInnes
Bath Garden Club
Pearl Street
Sedgewick
George Sargent
Joseph Mullaney
Cosimopolitan Garden Club
Medomak
Cosmopolitan Club
Morse High School
Hawa
Frank Sparks
Arthur Burgess
Ibra Lawrence
Kenneth Humphries
A. M. Main
Tou
Mrs Williams Discusses Russia At BWP Meeting
Jean Gannett Williams, president of Gannett Publishing, spoke to the Bain Business and Professional Women's Club at Sedgwick about her European trip. She described Prague and Moscow as tightly controlled with scarce goods, Warsaw’s postwar rebuilding, and life under Communist rule, stressing VOA as crucial for Russians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bain Business and Professional Women’s Club
Sedgwick
Jean Gannett Williams
Gannett Publishing Company
Williams
Percy Robbins
Russia
Europe
Prague
Belgrade
Warsaw
Moscow
United States
History Of Local Rotary Club Feature Of Regular Meeting
A midday Rotary luncheon at Central church parish house featured a history of the Bath club formed May 2, 1918. Read by Eugene M. Desmond, the records cover early officers led by Langdon T. Snipe and the club’s growth from 18 to 60 members, with projects aiding Morse High graduates and the club’s moves from Knights of Pythias to King Tavern and the Carlton bridge area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary Club
Central Church Parish House
Marius Page
W. E. Kershner
Eugene M. Desmond
Bath
Scott Bailey
Bailey
Portland Club
Langdon T. Snipe
Culbert McGay
Charles Hooper
Harry C. Webber
Paul Harris
Morse High
Knights of Pythias Hall
Odd Fellows Hall
King Tavern
Carlton Bridge
Easter Eggs Reflect Sagadahoc Ferry Club Craft
Mrs. Percy Marston of Sagadahoc Ferry showcases about 100 Easter dressed eggs, a Good Will club project with lace ribbons beads and mini hats. Club members assemble faces hair and outfits, selling the novelties to fund philanthropic causes and aid needy people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy Marston
Sagadahoc Ferry
Good Will Club
Sagadahoe Ferry
Percy Bailey
Good Will Club General Fund
Also Mentioned on This Page
Miss Greenblatt President
Carville Douglas
Cosmopolitan Garden Club
Paul Marchant
Joseph Smith
Woodbury Bailey
Methodist Fellowship
Hospital
Hazel Peron
Percy W. Kingsbury
Bath Lodge of Elks
Emblem Clubs of America
Bath Club
Hancox
James L. Grant
Minnie Dell
Horatio Joliceur
Frank McHugh
Anthony Thomas
Roydon Maddox
Portland Lodge of Elks
Emblem Clubs
Dover
N. H
Fortier
Emeron
Emero
Stanley W. Judkins
Personnel Service Commission
Dr. Carey
Doctor Carey
Col. Price
A.P
Kremlin
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!