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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1951
Page
4
Bath residents and visitors populate the week with dinners, hospital stays, travel wrapups, and social gatherings. Highlights include Hazel shell Bird’s honors, Merton Doyle and Martin Doyle family reports, and multiple absences to Florida, Washington, and New York.
Captain Edward Hanson U S Air Force son of Mrs Maurice J Foley arrives at MacDill Air Force Base to join his wife and three children in Tampa Florida He served in Korea for ten months and has ten years in the Air Force Mrs Frank Reed of Mechanic Street resumes Summer at home after returning from Saco where Winters with her daughter and son in law How ard P Hill visited her grandson Donald Hill in Massachusetts Arch ie Joseph McDonough and wife at 327 High Street greet the arrival of a daughter Cynthia Ann born at Memorial Hospital on April 29 weighing five pounds and 15 ounces
Mrs. Louis A. Dole Mrs. Granville Colby Mrs. Maurice Hutchins Mrs. Daniel H. Matter Mrs. Charles T. Small Jr. and Mrs. Joseph I. Smith attended the annual convention in Lewiston on Thursday.
Mrs. Barbara Tetrault of Portland was a guest of Mrs. Sadie Sarkis. They returned to Portland Saturday for a short visit after Mrs. Tetrault’s recent trip to Vienna, Austria.
Mrs. David L. Wilson returns to Washington street home from Melrose Massachusetts after visiting her son Blair C. Wilson and family while Rev. Dr. David L. Wilson attended the Grand Lodge of Masons in Portland and was a guest at Hotel Eastland.
Mrs John McInnes entertained the Monday Contract club at her Washington street home with luncheon Monday afternoon.
Miss Beverly Denham returns to Bangor after a weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs A P Denham Jr of 32 Corliss street. She is in the Maine Eye and Ear infirmary class and affiliates at Bangor State hospital. Mrs John Beebe Jr and Gretchen Beebe of Wakefield Mass spent the weekend at the Beebe cottage at Popham Beach. Sadie Armstrong reports a pink magnolia tree in full blossom on Tru fant street ready to reach peak beauty in days.
Arthur Johansen and family in Virginia Beach for a 15-day leave with his mother. Mrs Ellsworth Chandler learns her brother-in-law Robert Reeder is bound for Elgin Air Force Base in Florida. Edwin Berry departs for Great Lakes for 14 weeks of Enginemen school after 9-day home leave. Robert Hutchins serves aboard USS Tarawa on a Caribbean cruise after enlistment in 1946. Louis Mihalos returns to Norfolk from a Cuban voyage aboard USS Missouri with Bath, Maine connections. He plans to be in New York City during Armed Forces Day weekend.
Pvt Robert E Dow Jr U S Air Force recently joined the service invites friends to write him at Sampson Air Force Base Geneva New York Sgt Chester E McMahan son of Mrs Margaret McMahan Five Islands and Chester McMahan Woolwich arrived in California April 26 from a Tokyo Army hospital now at Fort Devens MA and glad to hear from friends Pfc Robert L Rowland son of Mr and Mrs Cecil V Rowland 24 Academy Street passed a 10 day furlough after radar school at Keesler AFB MS He attended Ricker College Houston for one year and Morse High School class of 1949
Pvt Henry J Albert Jr 17 son of Mr and Mrs Henry J Albert of 22 Walker Street enlisted in the U S Air Force May 2 and will report to Sampson Air Force Base New York after Morse High School. Pvt Scott E Pearson 19 son of Mr and Mrs Edward S Heald of Woolwich and Pvt Richard R Wright 17 son of Mr and Mrs Herman N Wright of 40 Summer Street enlisted May 2 and will report to Fort Devens Massachusetts for basic training. Pearson attended Morse High School and has a brother Leroy in the Army. Wright has brothers George in the Army and Robert in the Navy.
Cpl Eugene E Herrin of Bath Battery B 703rd AAA Gun Battalion Camp Stewart Ga was promoted from private first class to corporal last Tuesday He is the son of Mr and Mrs John C Herrin of West Bath Sgt Ernest A Hamblett US Air Force has reached Travis Air Force Base California He is a weather observer fly ing with planes and was on assignment last weekend flying to Tennessee Omaha Neb and back to California He is a son of Mr and Mrs Edward B Hamblett of 23 Pratt Street
Fisherman Mr Wallace starts moving a building to Popham Beach to serve as a lunch room. Local trucks from Crocker & Simpson and utility crews follow with supplies and wires. Muriel's Variety Store and several Sebasco residents donate food and support. Harriett Wallace and Mrs Gessner will cook and wait, with a parking area for customers.
Etta Bartlett of Hartford visits her parents Mr and Mrs Elijah Bartlett in Ashdale. Several residents like Leo Hamel and Raymond Gilliam return to Hartford and West Point for work and fishing. Rev Frank Bevan and family visit their summer home at the Basin while Rev Bevan attends a Bath Methodist Conference. Nearby, Mrs Margaret Coffin and Elroy Jr call on Mrs Jerry Bartlett as others travel between Bath Portland Sebasco and Winnegance for summer work and nursing duties.
West Point residents Sarah Gilliam and Betty Wallace organize 18 volunteers to check elementary students’ safety during daylight hours through the week and on weekends when school is out. The list for May 7 includes May Gilliam, Maureen Wallace, Vida Gilliam, Jane Gilliam, Marjorie York and others from local families.
Cpl John R Quinn son of Mr and Mrs John Quinn of West street serves with a military unit in the field. His family is listed as his next of kin and he is stationed overseas awaiting further orders.
Cpl. Quinn of the 23rd Infantry Regiment in Korea writes home about life above the 38th Parallel and predicting a return home in about two months if the rotation schedule holds. He has served over two years in the Army, including time in Korea since August. The May 5 issue of the Saturday Evening Post features an article on the French Battalion with the 23rd Infantry Regiment.
Morse erupted for 14 runs as Jack tripled with two on to spark a big fifth inning. Oliver relieved Haggett and held St Dom’s to seal the win as Morse piled up 11 batters reaching base in the final frames. Key hits included Munsey and Jack driving in runs, with Stover, Carmichael and Turgeon contributing RBI.
Morse High placed second in a three team meet at Brunswick with 36.42 points. Rockland won with 46.58 points and Brunswick scored 34. Reed Beaton won the 100 and 220 yard dashes and Perry Hooper captured the javelin.
Morse exploded for six runs in the fifth and three more in the sixth to rout Brunswick High 11-1 at Kelley Field. Sonny Munsey starred with three singles and three stolen bases, scoring four times, as Morse moves into a third place tie with Stephens High of Rumford in the Androscoggin Valley league.
Bar Cross R and Hatch meditor entries appear with height 5.2 percent and notes on the ogee R and Oe jump. The fragment references a height specification and Italian style meditor details.
English explorer Captain James Cook is credited with discovering the Hawaiian Islands in 1778 and naming them the Islands.
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