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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1957
Page
2
Dr Nathaniel J Hasenfus unveils August 24 28 for the annual Five Islands Art Show and Exhibition open 10 am to 10 pm Saturday through Tuesday. Professionals and amateurs compete in oil watercolor casein painting pencil pen and ink pastel drawing sculpture and ceramics with People’s Choice awards. Entries due by August 10.
The piece notes the long Memorial Day weekend and its mixed effects, with a focus on littering along highways. It credits Keep America Beautiful and civic groups for reducing litter, cites state gains in Ohio Connecticut and Washington, and argues public responsibility, litterbags, and anti-litter laws can further cut costs and improve safety.
A vast share of U S stock owners are housewives or unemployed women, over 34 percent. Virginia Kachan notes women invest with smaller sums, brokers welcome small accounts, and the Monthly Investment Plan lets people build holdings pay as you go.
The Times reports the Public Housing Administration will not sell the two Bath projects soon. Locally, City leaders and tenants favor continuing current arrangements with no city purchase planned. Sale to private buyers seems unlikely as the housing still serves a need and may be needed for some time.
The Bath area business group calls on citizens to join and support its first collective effort in years. The Times highlights a year of accomplishments and urges public backing to sustain progress and city improvement through united groups.
In Georgetown, Rev. Warren Harris preached on The Psalmist's Spirit of Praise at First Baptist Church. The column reports on weather, garden tours, visits from out of town, gatherings at Central school, the Lemon club, and local social events with many named residents and nearby towns, plus a long list of weekend visitors and birdwatching notes.
Warren Junior High graduates from Warren spent a Friday evening at teacher Ray Cate’s Dresden Mills home following a daylong trip. Stops included Lincoln County museum, Bowdoin College, Brunswick Naval Air Station, SAGE Topsham, and a Bath lunch before returning at nine.
North Bath residents welcomed Monday rain aiding wells. A new fence is under construction at Whiskeay. George Lawrence, son of Mr and Mrs Harry Higgins, visited from Orono for the weekend. The Wing family from Westbrook spent a recent weekend with relatives. Mrs John DeGroot and Mrs Rose Lee Higgins visited in Portland Friday. Mrs Gladys Cothran of Bath joined her mother for Sunday dinner.
About four thousand visitors toured Bath Iron Works on Armed Forces Day open house. Officials called the event highly successful with the largest single-visit group in memory. Guid ed tours began at 1 p.m. from the main office, moving through the assembly building and machine shop to inspect the destroyer DuPont.
Percy of 23 Oak Street and Miss Patricia Ann White of West Bath filed their marriage intentions at the City Clerk’s office, Harry E. Ring Jr., as part of the city’s formal ceremony process.
Jean Ann Gaudreau four year old daughter of Mrs Mary Gaudreau Center street is a patient at Memorial hospital where she submitted to an appendectomy May 14.
J Fred Tobey Jr 63 of 278 Middle Street Bath was found dead Saturday under his car in the yard. Funeral services were Tuesday at 11 a m from A F Mayo Son Funeral residence with Rev Martin V B Sargent officiating. Burial in Oak Grove. He was born April 4 1894 in Bath and worked at Bath Iron Works mold loft Hardings Faust Brunswick. Survived by widow Edna Nash Tobey a son Norman Tobey a daughter Shirley Rich three brothers and three sisters two grandsons Norman Dwight Rich and Marshall Howard Rich.
John Ed ward Burns 59 died suddenly after illness at home on Varney's Mill road North Bath. Funeral held at A F Mayo Son residence officiated by Rev Martin Sargent. Burial Oak Grove cemetery. Survivors include widow Beatrice Burns three stepsons two stepdaughters and several siblings. Burned was born May 14 1898 in Wisconsin and formerly a Sagadahoc Real Estate fireman and Dromore Grange overseer.
John P Townsend former Bath man and outside machinist at Bath Iron Works during World War II died in Sarasota Florida after a brief illness. Born November 25 1888 in Elizabeth New Jersey he later ran a Portland garage. Survived by widow Elsie M Townsend four sons Clarence Edward Clayton James John Townsend Jr and five daughters Evelyn Richardson Barbara Simpson Jacqueline Drake Audrey Alston Beverly Lytton and one great grandchild. Funeral services were held in Sarasota.
Edward Ross McCabe 64 of Bath died Tuesday at his home. Born August 23, 1892 in Bath, he was a plumber for O. M. Redlon Inc and worked at Bath Iron Works during WWI. Survived by three daughters, a son, two sisters, a brother and eight grandchildren. Funeral at Curtis funeral home Thursday at 2 p.m. Memorials to Cancer fund.
Mrs Minnie E Packard 64 wife of Arthur M Packard of 17 Beacon Street Bath Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. Born Jay December 5 1892 daughter of Isaac and Angie Farrington Canton graduate and music teacher in Everett Massachusetts. Survived by husband one sister Mrs Ben Redden Somerville Mass one nephew Dr Oliver B Redden Needham Mass and several cousins Funeral arrangements by Shumway funeral service.
Funeral services were held at 2 30 Sunday afternoon in Canton with Rev Richard Arnold of Beacon Street Methodist Church officiating. Bearers were Ralph Oldham Durwood Oldham Bryant Oldham and Wilmer Oldham of Peru. Interment followed in Pine Grove cemetery Canton in the family plot.
Funeral services for Harry E. Peterson were conducted at 1 30 pm May 15 at Leslie C Shumway funeral home with Rev Dr Oliver W Bell officiating. Bearers were Joseph Oliver, Herbert Simpson, Melvin Comeau and Herbert Freeman. Committal followed at the family lot in Oak Grove cemetery.
Miss Helen Kacharo of Athens Greece and Miss Marcia Wallace of Springfield Mass both Nassan college students at Springvale were weekend guests of Mrs Willis Morse at 2 Cottage Street.
Mrs Lillian Terrell Hume 76 a retired school teacher died at her Bath home on High Street. Born in Bath March 12 1881 she was the daughter of George E and Addie Blaisdell Terrell. A Gorham Normal School graduate and former Boston resident she returned to Bath twenty years ago and belonged to Wesley Methodist Church. Survived by brothers Herbert Terrell Bath and George Terrell South Vallejo California.
Miss Martha S Wright of 488 Pine Street Lowell Mass died early Monday at Lowell General Hospital after a long illness. Born in North Bath she was daughter of the late Charles Elizabeilliams. She lived in Bath and Boston before settling in Lowell 25 years ago. Survived by sister Miss Effie Wright Bath brother Clarence Wright Miami Fla and niece Miss Theresa White Lowell who lived with her.
Clyde Wills of 4 Drummond Street is convalescing at home after several weeks as a surgical patient at Bath Memorial hospital.
Funeral services for James Fred Tobey Jr were conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Arthur F Mayo & Son funeral residence. Rev Martin V B Sargent of Winter Street Congregational church officiated. Bearers were Frank Sylvester David Vachon Randall Upham Loring Harting Anthony Dodge and Arthur Allen. Solar Lodge No 14 officers conducted a Masonic service.
Funeral service for Mrs Lilian T Hume was held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Curtis Funeral Home with Rev Craig H Richards officiating. Bearers were George Richardson Edward Jenks Vinal King and George Flint. Burial will be in the family lot.
Miss Lynne H. Clark of Harpswell, a Hodgdon High School teacher, was elected ninth grade English instructor at Hodgdon Junior High beginning in the Fall term. She succeeds William White, who resigned for a position out of state. A 1953 University of Maine graduate, she has two years of Hodgdon teaching and has completed summer courses.
Mrs. Albert Denaco returns to Libby Court residence after surgery at Memorial hospital.
A Maryland newspaper presents a mixed page with a crossword puzzle and a cryptoquote. The cryptoquote encodes IT IS FATAL TO ENTER ANY WAR WITHOUT THE WILL TO WIN IT MACARTHUR and is attributed to General Douglas MacArthur.
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