Hundreds of Bath Youths in YMCA Halloween Parade
Bath youngsters joined a large YMCA Halloween parade starting at the city park then touring the business district. The Torrent Fife and Drum Corps led with vivid drums and fires. Judges selected 14 standout costumes from more than 600 participants.
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Bath
Park
Washington Street
Oak
Middle
Winter Street
Y. M
Torrent
Ivy Ka Picken
Clarence A. Warner
Harry Stone
Elmer Moore, Sr
John Chaffee
Gardiner
Charles B. Doyle
George Musk
William Meneally
Brian Legard
David Petit
Emery Rideout
Dennis Blethen
Clifford White
Freddy Elwell
James M. Jackson Speaks at Rotary Luncheon
James M. Jackson son of the late N. Gratz Jackson and Mrs. Jackson of Bath was guest speaker at the Rotary Club luncheon. A Morse High and University of Maine graduate, he served as a captain in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He works with the Portland Adjustment Insurance Bureau, part of the General Adjustment Bureau with 280 branches, and discussed the growth of insurance from Babylon to today.
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James M. Jackson
N. Gratz Jackson
Jackson
Bath
Rotary Club
Morse High
University of Maine
Army Air Corps
Portland Adjustment Insurance Bureau
General Adjustmentureau
Babylon
British Insurance Company of Lloyds
London
Jim
William B. Skelton
Central Church Fish House
Morse High Auditorium
Central Grammar School
Carle
Manion Completes AF Basic Training at Lackland
Pvt. Edward W. Manion age 19 son of Mr and Mrs Frank A Manion of 25 School Street has finished his air force basic indoctrination course at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio. The training targets entry into technical schooling and specialized work. Manion is a Morse High School graduate who worked in the Times composing room before enlisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Manion
Frank A. Manion
School Street
Lackland Air Force Base
Air Force
Lackland
San Antonio
Air Force Base
Manion
Morse High School
the Times
Vermont student pursues languages and curator training
A University of Vermont student, Miss Bagdikian, plans studies after a weekend visit with her parents Dr and Mrs Paul G Bagdikian of Oak Street. She majors in languages while pursuing a course to qualify as a curator.
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University of Vermont
Paul G. Bagdikian
Oak Street
Room Mothers Committee Named At P T A Meeting
Mrs. Ralph Milliken chairs the North-Center P T A room mothers who select monthly committees across grades from November through May. The November 20 meeting at Huse School will discuss How Much Freedom Should We Know Our Children in home, school and community with four Brunswick guests including Prof. Burton Taylor.
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Ralph Milliken
Room Mothers
North-Center
P.T.A
Parent-Teacher Association
North Grammar
Armand Petit
Donald Perry
Harry Allen
Louis Annis
North
Harold Brown
Bert Osgood, Jr
Charles Lee
Victor Norton
Herbert Pierce
Frederick Drake, Jr
Theodore Bertocci
Donald Preble
Leland Green
Joseph Long
Central Grammar
Hollis Garey
Zylpha Richardson
Dwinal Cornish
Jesse Allen
North Primary
Thomas Aikenhead
Joseph Marquis
Elliot Hanson
Harland Brown
William Bryant
Hoeee Potter
William Ill
Huse School
Brunswick
Burton Taylor
F. Webster Browne
James A. Doubleday
William Scott
Change of Plea Ends Maine Court Case
In Sagadahoc County Superior Court Ralph G. Stetson Jr. of Bath pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the July 5 automobile death of Harold G. Babine. Judge Beliveau fined Stetson $1,000 plus costs and discharged him. The hearing followed a four day process with a traversing jury and testimonies from State witnesses.
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Sagadahoc County Superior Court
Ralph G. Stetson, Jr
Bath
Harold G. Babine
Albert Beliveau
Stetson
Ernest L. Goodspeed, Jr
Augusta
Edward W. Bridgham
United States
Goodspeed
Harold J. Rubin
Beliveau
Philip Merkel
Justice Beliveau
Merkel
Bennie E. Merriman
Richmond
George W. Hunter
Topsham Farmer
Amanda Lachance
Brunsiick
Hunter
Joseph I. Smith
Foster’s Point
West Bath
Smith
Larrabee
Head Beach
Small Point
Raymond W. Wyman
Morse
Bridgham
Guest of honor flies to join husband in Alabama
The guest of honor attended a party hosted by Mrs. William Turpie and Mrs. Leonard F. Wetherbee at their homes last week. She left by plane Saturday for Mobile Alabama to join her husband, Sgt Troop, who is stationed with the Army there.
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William Turpie
Leonard F. Wetherbee
Mobile
Ala
Sgt
Troop
Army
Thirteen Not Unlucky for This Fine Sebasco Family
Mr and Mrs Henry Alexander of Sebasco celebrate a large Florida style family lineage and steady work at sea. The Alexanders married in 1917 and raised 13 children with eight grandchildren, all devout in the Nazarene church and rooted in New England fishing life.
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Sebasco
Henry Alexander
Old City Hall
Bath
Albert J. Grassy
Alexander
Stella McKinney
Phippsburg
Harpswell
Times
Fort Devens
Nazarene Church
Maine Coast Fisherman
Belfast
Estella A
Bath, Me
Candy’s
Boothbay
New England
Mrs. Alexander
Theodore Roosevelt
America
Calvin
Shirley
Arthur Murphy
Edith
Samuel Burgess
Ellsworth
Alfreda Louise
Arthur Pierce
Alfreda
Walter
Clyde
Lendall
Richard
Henry, Jr
Lois
Alberta
Cynthia
Coe P. McFadden
Henry Alexander of
Arrowsic Bridge Finally Closed To All Traffic
The old Arrowsic bridge ends a century of service linking Woolwich and Arrowsic as boats pass through the channel now. The draw opened and secured to allow water passage while the steel section will be reused elsewhere. Removal by W H Hinman Co will occur with the new bridge project continuing.
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Arrowsic Bridge
New England
Kennebec
Arrowsie
Augusta
Philip W. Day
Woolwich and Arrowsic
W. H. Hinman Co
Woolwich
Surveying Begins for Bath New Football Field
Chandler Barron Portland civil engineer and two assistants started surveying for a proposed Bath football field west of Kelley field. They will produce contour maps and working plans for bids if the city council approves, with outside work planned for two days and three to four days office work.
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Chandler Barron
Portland
Bath
Kelley Field
Barron
Ralph F. Mittendorf
Kelley
Two Destroyer Escort Ships To Be Brought Here
John R. Newell of Bath Iron Works said a small rise in local employment is expected as plans and material arrive to convert two destroyer escorts for anti submarine duties. Gibbs & Cox will prepare designs with Bath Iron Works to convert four ships, two at Bath, one at Mare Island, one at San Francisco. The Tweedy and Peterson (DE 532 and DE 152) are due from the Florida moth ball fleet in about a month.
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John R. Newell
Bath Iron Works Corp
Navy Department
Bath
Navy
Gibbs & Cox
New York City
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
San Francisco Naval Shipyard
Florida
Tweedy
Peterson
Newell
Bath Memorial Hospital seeks $16000 drive goal
Corporators meet to set November 13 opening for the annual public drive to raise funds for Bath Memorial Hospital. The $16000 goal matches last year as hospital leaders explain deficits from state aid losses and charity cases. William S. Newell is named general chairman again amid figures showing a projected $16000 operating loss for the year.
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Bath Memorial Hospital
William S. Newell
Archibald M. Main
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Carl Y. Kennedy
Oakhurst Dairy
George Poulos
Liberty Bottling Co
Harmon E. Eliason
Coastal Distributors
Dee’s Ice Cream Co
Lionel B. Berube
H. P. Hood Co
Glengarry Distributors
Coca-Cola
Lewiston
A. W. Hughes
Arthur D. Warner
Almeda Genthner
Richard Lenfest
Laura Ann Warner
The
Bath Y. M. C. A
Ned Manion
P. T. A. Meeting
North Center
Mrs
A. M. Main
Front Street
Bath Auto Company
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