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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1945
Page
2
GM launches a $55,000 competition to inspire attractive and efficient dealer establishments. Surveys show 30 percent of dealers seek new facilities postwar, signaling up to $450 million in new construction. The aim is to blend beauty with function and boost community wealth.
The Senate debates food control as OPS is blasted as merciless by Oklahoma Senator Thomas. Mayor La Guardia’s plan for consolidating OPA and WFA gains traction. Farms face worker shortfalls with 50 thousand fewer farm laborers since 1944 and two million tons of steel prioritized for farm machinery in mid year.
Travelers on the briny deep in the post war era will find routes expanding as wartime disruptions ease. Shipping lanes and passenger voyages resume as nations rebuild and demand for cross ocean movement grows, easing former bottlenecks and stimulating tourism and commerce.
H Cresten Doner of Libbey Owens Ford notes war era glass advances will broaden peacetime ship design. New Tufflexa glass reduces glare and heat, enabling glass in areas once wood or metal. Delta line ships under Ingalls Shipbuilding use glass doors to link cafes to promenades and large sea view state rooms.
Last year children saved 100 dollars from a scrap paper drive and voted to start a pool fund. Citizens showed interest in a wading pool, but school opening and cold weather paused plans. The park pond once served kids but was closed for health reasons. residents hope city appropriation plus public subscription could fund at least one city pool.
The Dike school basketball team closed its season with a dance at Lambert Park Community House on Thursday evening. Twenty one couples attended the pre affair, enjoyed games, a dress up contest won by William Worden and Paul McDonald, and musical chairs won by Waur Luru. A box lunch and intermission numbers followed with teachers guiding the program.
Mr and Mrs Leonard Wetherbee of Washington Street hosted a casual gathering Sunday evening for Capt John Leeds US AAF and Mrs Leeds nee Mary Carroll. The couple left Tuesday for San Marcos Texas after a short visit with Leeds parents Mr and Mrs Harry Carroll High Street. They plan to visit Massachusetts and Chicago before settling in Texas where he will reside. Both served overseas with the Air Forces and the Red Cross respectively.
A Bath area column reports on Sgt. Francis R. Davis receiving his fifth bronze battle star for five campaigns with the 438th Troop Carrier Group on the European Front. It notes D-Day airborne drops, major operations over the Rhine, and multiple air evac missions. The piece also shares family news and service updates for local servicemen and veterans including Iwo Jima delivery, Oklahoma tornado experiences, and shipyard employment details.
Sgt. Carl Erlebach, held captive in a German camp for over two years, is reported safe with American forces. His mother in Bedford Street received a letter from Chaplain Richard C. Lipsey of the 9th Army saying Erlebach appears well and wishes to hear from her, and will write again soon. He was captured in North Africa and has been at Stalag No 7 near Munich.
Roland Smith Post welcomed seven new members including Miss Berniece Francis the first woman discharged from the WAC to join the post. Others are Harold Babine Clarence Dube Warren Higgins Reginald Saucier Elmer Moore and Kenneth Drake. The group includes World War II veterans and a WWI veteran. The Legion invites more servicewomen to join and to participate in Memorial Day events.
Nuts may enrich stuffing for poultry croquettes muffins or cookies. When adding to waffles and cookies use a fourth to a half cup of coarse chopped nuts.
An Iowa experiment station trial found cows given constant access to water drank 18 percent more, produced 3.5 percent more milk, and had 10.7 percent higher butterfat than cows watered at an outdoor tank morning and night.
A Bath area project moves the city dump from North street extension to the John Clark property on upper High street. Crews level the former site as engineers arrange rat control and gravel covering. A new road to the disposal area nears completion with dumping set to begin soon.
David Hodgkins son of Mr and Mrs Harold Hodgkins of 1291 Washington street celebrated his tenth birthday after school at the Dike school friends partied with decorations a decorated cake and May baskets. Mrs Hodgkins served supper at five. Prizes went to Anita Reeks and Annette Harmon. Guests included Anita Deering Althea Roberts Lorraine Allen Robert Footer Billy Lothrop Allen Werter Advah Reynolds John Reynolds Byron Hodgkins. Evelyn Goding and Miss Gladys Peter visited. Goding is engaged to Pfc Philip Wyman recently released from a German prison camp. Leonard Smith Seaman 2c USN was ordered to MATTC Norman Oklahoma with mail addressed to him there.
Mothers of Boy Scout Troop 57 attended a Mothers Day supper in the Lambert Park Community building. Archie Wishart received a gold Masonic ring from Earl Pride as toastmaster, and speeches and a candlelight investiture followed the meal with songs and a film program concluding the event.
About 200 pupils from seventh and eighth grades attended the second annual May dance at Huse Memorial school Friday evening. Bailey's Orchestra provided music and ice cream with cookies were served during intermission.
The 56th Annual Sagadahoc County W C T U convention met in Lisbon Falls Baptist church with Miss Estelle Bozeman of Evanston Illinois as guest speaker. Officers elected include Nella Stover Bath president and Blanche Cobb West Bowdoin vice president. Delegates Thistle Bath and Elizabeth Trott attended from Bath Union. numerous members listed.
Final returns of solicitors for the Boy Scout finance campaign will be presented Thursday at 7 30 p m in the Lambert Park Community building, announced John Parker general chairman. Scoutmasters completed outdoor training session in Sewall's woods under Alvah Hall with instruction in camping mapping tracking fire building and cooking by Merrill Williams Harmon Smith assisted by Commissioner Class. Attending scoutmasters included Archie Wishart George Hastings Roy Lutz and Alvah Hall.
The next city scrap paper drive will be held on Tuesday May 29. School children will collect paper from homes and transport it to the school buildings, following the same procedure as previous drives before the summer vacation.
Neighbors watch Algernon L. Eastman and his son Francis relocate 9,000 Caucasian bees from a small box to a rear-hive at his 366 Front Street home. The bees, sourced from Mt. Union Georgia and certified by Atlanta's Entomological Department, replace losses from a harsh winter and aid orchard pollination. Eastman, an outside machinist at Bath Iron Works, studies bee breeds for outdoor work and animal husbandry.
Troop 52 sponsored by Corliss Street Church met last Tuesday. Franklin MacNeil earned the Tenderfoot badge after passing tests. The troop grows to 18 members with an opening for South End boys 12 or older. Outdoor meetings on Lower High Street when weather permits. First baseball practice held at Goddard Field. Over half of the troop has signed for a two week camp at Camp William Hinds in Raymond.
A son named James David Jr was born Wednesday at Memorial Hospital to Sgt and Mrs David Yale. Mrs Yale is the former Marilyn Barthel emy.
Across clues cover caresses to mountain nymph and beyond with entries like agog water silks and country S Asia. Down clues include corn pone helps three cornered scorches body of water and more forming a standard newspaper cryptogram style puzzle. Yesterday’s Cryptoquote features a Benovolence in small things quote by Macaulay.
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