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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1959
Page
3
EK F Hutton argues in the Houston Chronicle that rising medical costs bring dividends: longer life, improved health, and shorter hospital stays. He notes life expectancy gains since 1940, hospital stays shortened, and that medical cost growth lags the general index, though valuing health in money is impossible.
The Lakeview Oregon Examiner-Tribune notes a clerk received a pay envelope with a blank check. The piece argues big government raises taxes as it expands, squeezing taxpaying individuals and firms, citing TVA and rope manufacturing as examples and urging readers to consider how long bureaucracy and socialism can continue without throttling personal opportunity.
The article notes that most federal income tax burden falls on modest earners rather than the rich. In a recent year total individual taxes neared 30 billion dollars with over five percent from the lowest 20 percent bracket and under 15 percent from the top 91 percent bracket. It argues increasing per capita exemptions would cut revenue and that tax reform would most aid families of modest means.
The Altoona Mirror notes Radio Moscow promotes a device that peels three quarters of a pound of potatoes in three to four minutes and makes a batch of cocktails in 90 seconds. The piece contrasts it with a manual model, joking that in the narrator’s view the only comparable unit here is a husband.
The patient taxpayer insists on results before storytelling and pledges continued support to defense funding. He believes a 6,000 mile ICBM is a feat, yet a missile that reaches 2,500 miles farther is even more impressive, despite experts' views.
Ernest Roberts preached at the Georgetown Nevada First Baptist on Romans 5 1 8 noting tribulation works patience and the need for daily wisdom and patience The town announces next Sundays Lord Supper a missions offering and PTA meeting plus a fall 4 H club gathering at Georgetown Central school.
Sunday services at Second Baptist church featured a sermon on Patience by Rev. Ernest Roberts. The town mourns the death of Mrs. Lena Boucher, former Auburn resident, in her seventies. Local Ladies Auxiliary dissolves after decades aiding Library Hall projects. A new Kay-Rene boat arrives for MacMahan brothers. Numerous visits, travels, and family gatherings mark a busy regional bulletin of social and civic life.
Mrs Frank Ray of this city was guest of honor at a stork shower Thursday evening hosted at Miss Footer’s home 666 Middle Street. Gifts were arranged in a bassinet and a buffet lunch followed as guests included Sadie Dowling Leilani Cahill Chris Medeiros Dale Hodgkins Freida Tyler Lester McNeil Edith Lemont Kerwin Butcher Richard Renshaw Roger Lisenbee Edward Footer Ferr Griffin Horace Lovell Frank Reinoehl J Carroll Davis and others with additional gifts sent by Edwin Powers Edward Simpson Amerise Bourque Norman Lawrence.
Miss Grace Cushing of High street stayed overnight with Mr and Mrs Guy Crowley at their Popham Beach residence.
Several thousand copies of the Bath Area United Fund 1959 campaign brochure were distributed by Boy Scout Troop 57 members at Bath Iron Works and Hyde Windlass Company as they reported for work. Scoutmaster Harvey V. Rowe and Lloyd A. Beers led the effort with 6:45 a.m. turnout. The brochure lists a $47,207 goal for 1959, Oct. 1–31 campaign dates, and agency details for Red Cross, Memorial Hospital, Public Health Nursing, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Mental Health, Salvation Army, USO and YMCA.
Thirty five West Bath residents attended a Tuesday special town meeting the first held in the new West Bath School. Voters authorized the selectmen to negotiate a three season snow removal contract, borrowed up to 400 for hydrant rental costs, and borrowed 125 to buy and install speed limit signs. Courtney E. Stover was elected moderator.
Residents and visitors filled cottages and hosted dinner parties in Bath and surrounding towns. Capt Alonzo Thibeau's guests included the MacMahans, Freeze, Jones, Oakley Thibeau, Painter, and Harford families among others. several trips to Plymouth and Exeter were noted, with hospital admission for Bath Memorial and Army service for Victor Pinkham Jr.
Charles S. Brown 78 a former state official and Bath native died Friday afternoon in Augusta after a brief illness. He served in multiple state roles including director of general relief during war years and state superintendent of buildings for nine years. Brown led fundraising campaigns for Augusta General Hospital and Central Maine General Hospital Lewiston. Survived by son Charles Jr and daughters Mrs. Henry R. Lawson and Mrs. James Lawrence and three grandchildren. Funeral was Monday at St. Mark's Episcopal Church Augusta.
Mrs. Jennie Cahill Jackson, 96, formerly of Bath, died Tuesday in Fort Myers Florida. Born August 23 1863 she was one of 13 children of Andrew and Mary Cahill. She lived in Punta Gorda since 1914 with her late husband who ran a grocery until his death in 1951. Survived by daughter Mrs Stanley W Hyde of Popham Beach and two granddaughters Mrs Barbara Hyde Bentley of Boston and Mrs John B Wilson Jr of Worthington. Funeral services at McLellan Funeral Home in Punta Gorda.
Walter Stone hauled in a 26 inch pike at Aquia Creek in Fredericksburg Virginia. The fish clamped a rubber gasoline line in its jaws and punctured it, shortening the fishing trip. The note adds that Oklahoma gained statehood in 1907, after Indian Territory.
Elizabeth P. McKay 64 longtime Telephone Co. operator dies at her home on 4 Dike Road after several months of illness. Born in Bath June 18 1695 she was daughter of Maurice and Margaret McInnis McKay. Survived by two aunts and two cousins. A member of the Telephone Pioneers of America funeral 1 30 p m Thursday Arthur F Mayo & Son Funeral Residence Rev Dr David L Wilson officiates Interment Oak Grove family lot
Funeral services for Rear Admiral Claude S. Gillette USN ret were held at 2 PM Wednesday at Winter Street Congregational Church with Rev. Martin Sargent officiating. Honorary bearers included Adm. Alexander Charlton, Adm. Aubrey Fitch, Capt. Russell Hitchcock, Capt. Stanley Alexander, and other naval officers. A color guard from Naval Air Station Brunswick assisted. Private committal follows Thursday at Oak Grove family lot.
Funeral services for Mrs Elizabeth M Rollins were held at 2 p m Saturday at Arthur F Mayo Son Funeral Residence with Rev Warren B Harris of Corliss Street Baptist Church officiating Members of Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge assisted Bearers were John Lowery Orington Haynes Edmund Hagan and Arthur Mayo 2nd Interment followed in the family lot at Oak Grove
Frank James Mosher Jr. infant son of Frank J. and Shirley Baker Mosher died Friday at his home in Woolwich. He was born in Bath June 21, 1959. He is survived by his parents two sisters Judy and Edith and two brothers Larry and Tony. Committal services set for Riverside Cemetery Woolwich at 2 p m Sunday.
Funeral services for Charles E Phillips were held at 1 30 P M Friday at the Leslie C Shumway funeral home 638 High Street Elder Carlton G Jackson of the Seventh Day Adventist Church Richmond officiated Interment followed in the family lot at Fairview Cemetery War Porn
Mrs Carroll Wakefield of Washington Street is a patient at Bath Memorial Hospital after a fall at her residence caused broken bones in one hand.
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