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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1955
Page
3
Phippsburg hosts extension meeting in Auburn on Sept. 27 with Mrs Harold Seavey and Mrs Frank Cutting attending. The annual meeting is set for Nov. 4 at East Auburn Grange. Various church, PTA, and school activities are listed, including a teachers convention in Bangor, an arithmetic clinic in Wiscasset, and a Phippsburg P T A rummage sale at Riverside.
Bath official George M. Carlton Jr. received a county attorney promotion on Wednesday saying it was about 11 years too late. The Times had earlier mislisted him as a U S Army parachute infantry lieutenant in Germany in World War I. He clarified he was a plain infantryman and demonstrated a paratrooper hobble in City Hall.
The association will be elected at the next meeting. Walter Snipe has installed a street light across the street from his Center store at the Parker Head Small Point roads intersection. Personal items include Mr. and Mrs. Walter McCourt returning to their camp at Eustis and Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Blair visiting Cape Cod over the weekend. Eleanor Ball of Mapleton visited her daughters Mark Harrington and Stanwood Gilman. Totman and sons John Thomas and Owen spent Sunday at York and Wells. Allan Pye of the U S A, son of Ralph and Mary Pye of Small Point, returned from Hawaii on furlough. James Seavey of the U S C G stationed aboard the Chatham light ship spent leave at Center home. Stanley Doughty of the U S C G has been home on leave. Frederick Morse, in Europe five weeks on the National Grange Tour, arrived in New York aboard the S S United States with his father James L. Morse, visiting friends in the city.
Kennett holds four degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology including B S Civil Military and Automotive Engineering and M S Mechanical Engineering. He is married with four children Hoyt at West Point William Sally at Brunswick High and Robert at Brunswick Grade School. He will standardize state training procedures and advise counties and communities on their training programs.
The Peter Pan Brownies held their first Fall meeting at Grace church parish house. New officers were elected: President Toni Toothaker, vice president Peggy Kelliher, secretary Betsy Goldstein, treasurer Judy Footer, Juliet Low representative Donna Gurney. Assistant leaders named: Mrs. Donald Gurney, Mrs. Bertram Reed, and Mrs. John Crowley. A hike and reminders to bring registration fees and permission slips were planned.
Grace Episcopal Young People's Fellowship held a communion breakfast after Holy Eucharist on Sunday at eight. Officers elected for the year include Susan Bates as president Judith Stover as vice president Sandra Sinclair as treasurer Patricia Guynn as secretary and Mr and Mrs Alex Robertson as advisers. The group plans an active year and hopes to attract more members.
Five coastal towns form a shellfish council to pursue uniform laws. Harry Shulman of Brunswick chairs, Joseph Larrabee of West Bath is vice chair, Thomas Skelfield of Harpswell named secretary. Represented towns include Freeport and Phipsburg. The group plans one digger and one non-digger per community.
The week features a dog bite incident involving Harry Lewis, birthday observances for Miss Beatrice Wyman and Miss Roberta Wyman, and early fall activities. Boy Scouts begin the year at Town Hall, church meetings address resignations and delegate duties, and school programs include a new Good Grooming chart and fluorine treatments. Community plans cover PTAs, dinners, and upcoming teacher conventions with readied committees and dates.
National Fire Prevention Week will be observed Oct. 9–15 in Bath with a Sunday parade starting at 2 p.m. The route runs from Washington near Winter to Bath Iron Works lot. Local and nearby departments will display equipment and floats may be entered by merchants and groups. Fire Chief Richard J. Frates leads planning with a department crew. other activities will be announced later.
The City Manager received two bids to tear down Central Grammar School. Charles Marble offers 1600 dollars and Leavitt Wrecking Co of Mechanic Falls bids 3500 dollars. The vacant building may be razed to clear the site for a possible future Central Fire Station.
Mrs Edmund Gaudet was installed as president of the Women's Society of Christian Service at Beacon Street Methodist Church Monday evening in the vestry. Other officers named include Mrs Sherman Mitchell vice president Mrs Raymond Scott secretary and Mrs Loren Stiles treasurer. The Rev Richard Arnold spoke on Martha Without Mary. A rummage sale was set for Oct 17 and plans made for a Christmas sale and supper on Nov 30.
Mrs William McKellar of 26 Mechanic Street was guest of honor at a stork shower Monday evening hosted by Mrs Robert LaFerriere in East Brunswick. Gifts were presented and refreshments served. Attending were Mrs Richard Giberson, Mrs LaFerriere, Mrs Arthur Johnson, Mrs Stanley Coleman, Mrs Herbert Belanger and Mrs Keith Garside.
Wyman remains hospitalized in Bath Parker Head while friends sent gifts last weekend. Betty Anne Wyman visited Frances Plummer Dot Small and Roberta Alexander of Bath Sunday. Several local households hosted visitors from Windham Portland Yarmouth and Connecticut during the weekend.
Popham Circle met at the schoolhouse and served about 75 people at a public supper held at the library on September 28. Funds added $65.20. Out-of-town attendees included Allan Spear Dunlap Hatch H T Stevens Jane Stevens Edwin H P Lowell Bath Mrs Carl Bickford and Bruce Lisbon Falls.
Residents from Cranford New Jersey Wollaston Massachusetts and Bath Maine hosted and visited neighbors in a busy social week. The U S Coast Guard buoy boat patrolled the Kennebec River midweek and returned Thursday. Local families including Perkins Thomas Goodwin and Smith shared meals and visits across South Portland Sebasco Bath Wolfeboro and Small Point with relatives Howard Hayward and J William Goodwin noted in family gatherings and Sunday calls.
McFadden of this city is named Sagada hoe County Director of the 1956 March of Dimes drive announced by Harold J. Rubin county chairman of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. He has been publicity chairman for four years and will start the campaign January 1.
Sparrow is aptly named as a 6 foot 5 forward who joined the New York Knicks after playing baseball in Lake Charles Evangeline League and college basketball at the University of Detroit. He averaged 23 points per game last season and was the Knicks No 1 draft choice.
The Bath Public Health Nursing Association reviewed summer activities. Ruth Henry R.N. reported 282 visits in June to August, 272 children at the polio vaccine clinic, 157 at the school immunization clinic, 72 vaccinated with 54 DPT and 82 boosters.
Capt and Mrs Frank J Walker of Day's Ferry celebrate 55 years of marriage from a Oct 3 1900 Richmond ceremony. He worked as an engineer and later sea captain. she taught in multiple Maine schools and is active in local clubs. They are longtime Day's Ferry residents and prominent Republicans.
Mr and Mrs Herbert Griffin of 8 Adams Court announce the engagement of their daughter Mae Arlene to Richard Johnson Jr son of Mr and Mrs Richard Johnson of Middle Street Mae Arlene graduated Morse High in 1954 and works in the W T Grant Co office Richard Johnson graduated Morse High in 1955 and is an apprentice at Bath Iron Works No wedding date set.
Chapel Hill, N C. Four sophomores have a chance to quarterback the University of North Carolina team this fall. Len Bullock is the team's only letterman at quarterback.
Between 1932 and 1953 federal taxes rose sharply from roughly three percent of national income to more than twenty, marking a major shift in fiscal policy and government funding.
A 48 year old Phippsburg man Victor C Hughes was crushed to death when a truck dump body collapsed on him on Seely road North Woolwich while working under it to fix a hydraulic problem. He left a widow Sarah Wright Hughes and a son Robert in the U S Navy. Funeral arrangements briefed.
About 50 Morse High School parents gathered at the school to form an informal group led by Leslie C. Shumway. The aim is to back students with activities while staying nonofficial and unaffiliated, focusing on dances, safety, and interscholastic events for girls.
Kenneth Smith was named president of the Morse High Band Boosters at the October meeting attended by 16 members and eight guests. Officers elected include Mrs. Cecil Fullerton as vice president and Mrs. Cecil Rowland as secretary and treasurer. The group voted to invite four band members to each monthly meeting and approved dues increases from 50 cents to one dollar.
City Treasurer Evan Kingsbury announced ex 1956 tax blanks are ready and drivers may register early to keep their current license plate. Maine offers plate reservations with no extra fee if the same number is requested, but a $1 surcharge applies for a different number.
Harvie Ward of Tarboro North Carolina becomes the first southern golfer to capture the National Amateur championship since Bob Jones in 1930. Ward's victory marks a historic return of southern dominance in the event.
Sagadahoc Grange held an inspiring meeting with a humorous skit Something for Dinner by Mr and Mrs Guy Williams. A vocal solo by Mrs R Anderson of Lisbon Falls and a reading Poor Old Grandpa by Mattie Collins supported a program featuring many past and present lecturers and a closing tableau Soldiers of the Soil with Grace Coombs Guy Williams Charles Thompson Margaret Grant and others. Det 26 next Pomona meeting planned at Bodwell Grange.
Rotarians tour a base facility and observe a doughnut machine producing 350 dozen donuts per hour. Attendees include Robert Williams G Frederick Livingston and Frank Shaw visiting Rotarians plus Judge Gardiner Bo Deering and Leo J King. Moody W Flint, Bath Junior High principal, named guest speaker for Oct 2 at Central Church parish house.
In Warwick Virginia Mrs Sadie Martin found a belt on the floor in a bedroom and when she reached to pick it up the belt coiled. The two women killed the snake a non poisonous variety. The article notes about 40000 foreign students in the United States last academic year.
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