Reduction And Delay Sought In Proposed Bath Water Rate Hike
Bath officials and water district representatives debated a proposed rate increase during a five hour public hearing. City Solicitor Harold J. Rubin urged a reduction and a delay in the effective date, noting potential capital expenditures and tax impacts. The commission took the case under advisement, planning to issue findings in a reasonable time.
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Bath Water District
Harold J. Rubin
Bath
Rubin
Stanley W. Judkins
Carey
John P. Carey
Water District
Judkins
Unanimous vote to build indoor YMCA pool in basement
The YMCA board approved a 45 000 pool project for the basement level of the current building. The 20 by 60 foot pool will require 18 months to complete with funds from a special pool fund and capital budgets, plus possible borrowing.
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YMCA
a_especial
Memorial Hospital
National Ymca
Four Teachers Named For New Consolidated West Bath School
Four teachers have signed contracts to teach at the new consolidated West Bath school which opens next Fall under Supt Loring R Addison. The staff includes Chester S Merrifield principal and eighth grade teacher, Leroy E Bailey assistant principal and seventh grade teacher, Gloria DePalma first grade teacher, and Charlotte Doyle fourth grade teacher. Vacancies remain for two more positions and the six room school will house grades one through eight with separate rooms for one and eight.
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West Bath
Supt
Loring R. Addison
Gorham State Teachers’ College
Chester S. Merrifield
Porter
Leroy E. Bailey
Bath
Gardiner
Gloria DePalma
Portland
The
SAGE
Topsham
Charlotte Doyle
Charles B. Doyle
Doyle
Farmington Normal School
Waterville
University of Maine
Surplus Commodities Distribution At Woolwich Central School
Butter cheese corn meal dry milk wheat flour and rice will be available next Saturday March 28 1959 from 10 00 a m to 12 00 noon for Woolwich residents receiving aid from Woolwich or Maine welfare departments or World War Assistance or certified as in need.
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Woolwich Central School
Woolwich
Town of
State of
Plans Completed For Fellowship Trip To New York
The Pilgrim Fellowship of Winter Street Congregational church announced final plans for a 4 day trip to New York City. Thirty youths will depart March 31 at 11 a.m. by bus from the church and return April 3 about 11 30 p.m. They will stay at the Congregational Christian Service Center at 110 East 29th Street and visit the United Nations Radio City Music Hall the Museum of Modern Art and other sites. Chaperones are Mrs. Edgar Leavitt Linwood W. Abbott and Rev. Martin B. Sargent.
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New York City
Pilgrim Fellowship
Winter Street
Museum of Modern Art
Music Hall
East Harlem
Cloisters
Union Seminary
Columbia University
Riverside Church
Paul Scherer
Staten Island
New York Stock Exchange
Bath
Edgar Leavitt
Linwoor W. Abbott
Martin v B. Sargent
New York
Peter Farrell
Bonnie Lie
Joyce Scanlin
David Abbott
Dean Bertrand
Harry Deering, Jr
Raymond Farnham, Jr
Alden Adams
Pauly Stinson
Carl Stinson
Pamelia Hanson
Alison Turpie
Katie Thorpe
Martha Rea
Karen Back
William Leavitt
Ralph York
Bruce Zimmerman
James Hanson
Kenneth Poole
Alden Green
Dian Farnham
Jewell Flint
Holly Hutchin
Boston
Congdon’s Express
Washington
D. C
Harrisonburg
United States
Highway
Highway Post Offices
Highway Post
Highway Post Office
Post Office Department
Sagadahoc Pomona officers serve at Woolwich Grange
Sagadahoc Pomona officers served as substitute officers at the Woolwich grange meeting led by James Royal as master and Ralph Stilphen as overseer. The group readied for a Sagadahoc Pomona gathering at Enterprise Grange on March 25 with supper at six and the fifth degree at 7:30.
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Sagadahoc
Pomona
Woolwich Grange
James Royal
Ralph Stilphen
Florence Stilphen
Clyde Bailey
John Howe
Eleanor Blanchard
Charles White
Maretta Wilson
Howard Carr
Mattie Collins
Ceres
Jacqueline Stilphen
Alberta
Hall Graves
Alton Collins
Charles Soule
Madelyn Belanger
Viola White
Marion Chubbuck
Sagadahoc Pomona
Enterprise Grange
Bath Boy Wins Honors For His Warning Device
Andrew H. Eliason a 14 year old Bath boy and Berwick Academy freshman won first prize in the Cumberland and York counties regional science fair for a tele matic warning device that relays a recorded message to police or fire departments when a switch is triggered. The device imitates dialing and broadcasts the warning after the alarm. 96 students from 12 high schools competed.
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Bath
Andrew H. Eliason
Harmon E. Eliason
South Street
Berwick Academy
Eliason
Cumberland
York Counties
Congress
Falmouth High School
Ground Broken for Wiscasset Airport Project
Ground breaking in Wiscasset on Chewonki road launches a $200000 first phase for a turf landing strip 2800 by 250 feet funded by federal state Lincoln county and town grants. Completion expected mid August with 120 working days for contractor George Hemond of Minot.
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Wiscasset
Chewonki Road
Lincoln County
Brewster Doggett
Grand Master of Grand Lodge to Visit Maine
The Sovereign Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows will visit Maine from April 1 to 4 with official sessions in Saco. Most meetings are open to Odd Fellows Rebekahs and candidates. Bath members plan to attend the April 3 session in Augusta amid a supervising by Mrs Martha M Robinson with supper at 6 30 p m.
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Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Maine
Saco
Odd Fellows
Rebekahs
Bath
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Augusta
Martha M. Robinson
Rebekah Assembly of Maine
Redwing Blackbirds Seen at City Feeding Station
Clarence I. Lane at 151 Lincoln Street reported a flock of nearly thirty redwing blackbirds visiting the local feeding station Monday morning. Bird enthusiasts note it is rare for these birds to appear within city limits, as they are typically found in country fields and marsh ponds.
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Clarence I. Lane
Lincoln Street
Bath council rejects school budget cut restoration
The Bath City Council voted four to four on restoring 4800 for the school department budget, with Chairman John F. Leonard casting the deciding vote against the restoration. The panel also trimmed tax mapping funds and the contingent Planning Board fund, while approving a 350 pay boost for the city clerk and treasurer. A highway emergency of 1850 was approved unanimously to cover the rest of the fiscal year.
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Bath
Arthur E. Hutchins
Linwood Temple
Phyllis Rolfe
Rolfe
Planning Board
Morse High School
Frank Harvie
Merritt Mitchell
Hutchins
Council
John F. Leonard
Leonard
Temple
Highway Fund
Stanley W. Judkins
Highway Department
Judkins
William Turpie
Turpie
Arthur Gediman
Public Water District
Four Story Office Annex To Rise At Bath Iron Works
Bath Iron Works will replace a three story wooden block behind the Navy office with a four story brick annex costing about 350000. Groundbreaking planned for April 1 or after USS Somers delivery. Morton C Tuttle Co of Boston handles design and build. Demolition expected by April 21. new annex to relieve office overcrowding.
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Navy Office
BIW
John R. Newell
Newell
USS Somers
Morton C Tuttle Co
Boston
Harding
Another Teacher Engaged For West Bath's School
Miss Mary Huntley of Camden will graduate in June and has signed to teach at West Bath Consolidated School. She will teach grade two and part of grade three, becoming the fifth teacher assigned to the new school. A vacancy remains for one teacher for the fifth and part of the sixth grades to complete the staff.
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Ronald A. Hart
Bath Municipal Court
Executive Council
Hart
Clinton A. Clauson
Arthur D. Dolloff
3Eath
Frank Wood
Clausen
Harold T. Goss
Washington Street
Bath
Maine State Bar
Portland Law School
U.S. Air Force
St. Mary's
Greater Bath
Mary Huntley
Camden
West Bath Consolidated School
Loring R. Addison
Huntley
Inner Wheel outlines Chamber work and 1959-60 officers
Executive Secretary Edward F Cox outlined Bath Area Chamber of Commerce functions and its affiliations with the National Better Business Bureau. The Bath Retail Trade Board and Business Ethics Division were noted with plans to boost summer tourism as Bath is named a major state recreational area. Officers elected include Mrs Carl Albee as president for 1959 1960 and a July installation planned.
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Bath Area Chamber of Commerce
Bath
Chamber
Cox
Herbert Lemont
Carl Albee
Wyatt Albertson
Albee
Herbert R. Lemont
John Crowley
Kenneth Humphries
Albertson
Marius Page
Dwight Pierce
Chester Plant
Stanley Hunter
Eugene Desmond
William Skelton
Inner Wheel
Susan Robinson
Waterville
Morse High School
Loring R. Addison
Center Street
Warren Kershner
Ira Nadine
Used and rebuilt auto parts offered at low prices
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Day's Ferry Road
Woolwich, Me
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