Kelley Field plans move forward with $400 funding
The city council unanimously authorized City Manager Mittendorf to prepare working plans for a new Kelley Field football field and to repair the baseball infield. The body also eyed an emergency appropriation for the project and discussed staffing, loading zones, and wage petitions as part of a wide meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph F. Mittendorf
Kelley Field
Police Department
Personnel Service Commission
Committee On Traffic Ordinances
John P. Carey
Recreation Commission
Kimball Field
Council
Rodney E. Ross, Jr
Mittendorf
Carey
Crooker
Crocker
Ross
Morse High School
Edward J. McMann
McMann
Arthur E. Hutchins
Ward One
Etta Thurlow
Huse Memorial School
Kimballeld
David C. Dickson
Hunter
Kimball Field Fund
John R. Newell
Hutchins
Arthur E. Sturtevant
Arthur W. Gediman
Raleigh I. Glynn
Bath Memorial Hospital Auxiliary reports detail six months of work
The Bath Memorial Hospital Auxiliary held its semi annual meeting at Central church par ish house. Officers presented reports detailing mailings and purchases for the hospital. Downtime topics included Bandage and Cozy Corner activities and hours donated by many members and local ministers. The event highlighted the upcoming hospital fair and a staged play to raise funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Memorial Hospital
Central Church Parish House
James A. Gillies
Omar King
Charles B. Doyle
Roger Luke
Dean Shaw
Eastham Guild
Junior Hospital League
Joseph Mullaney
Cozy Corner
W. Dayton Hill
Auxiliary Sewing Committee
Grace Church
Wesley Church
Women’s Civic Club
Central Church
West Bath
Corliss Street Church
Laurence G. Katz
Bath Times
Harold Avery
C. C. Sargent
Sargent
W. S. Voorhees
William Kelley
E. D. True
Stanley Hunter
Curtis Stanley
Laforest Hodgkins
Arvid Anderson
C. M. Tubbs
Charles Sims
Louis Dole
James A. Gillies, Jr
Charles Hoebel
Ways and Means
Hoebel
Morse High School
F. Winchenbach
Daniel F. Hanley
Brunswick
Hanley
Formosa
Bath Iron Works Signs Labor Pact With AFL Union
Bath Iron Works, on Friday morning, signed a labor agreement with the AFL affiliated International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America. The pact covers about 1,100 production and maintenance workers, includes a 4 cent hourly raise, five paid holidays, three year layoff seniority retention, and a paid vacation system. An NLBR supervised union shop election is set for Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Iron Works Corporation
Ba’ Iron Works Corporation
Paul M. Hovey
Internati
A.F.L
City
BIW
Young and Hovey
N.L.R.B
Hovey
Young
Atlantic Coast
Bath Iron Works
Hovey and Young
Hovey, Young
Walter W. Grover
Kenneth Snowden
Robert Donnell
Hall Graves
Lawrence Towle
John E. Mullaney
John R. Newell
Bath Independent News Reaches Sailor Dale Harper Aboard
Sailor Dale Harper aboard the U S Naval Transport Gen Hugh J Gaffey reads the Bath Independent, described as the greatest little paper in the world, mailed weekly by his family. He is the son of Mrs Edward G Hawkes of Phippsburg and a Morse High School graduate class of 1947. Continued on Page Eight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale Harper
Bath Independent
U. S
Hugh J. Gaffey
Inchon
Korea
Independent
High Seas
Dale
Edward G. Hawkes
Phippsburg
Morse High School
Page Eight
Woolwich couple marks golden wedding anniversary
Capt and Mrs Frank Jewell Walker celebrated 50 years of marriage with an open house at Pinecroft above Day's Ferry. The pair, both active locally, were married Oct 3 in Richmond. They journeyed across much of the United States this summer with their daughter and son-in-law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Jewell Walker
Pinecroft
Day’s Ferry
Woolwich
Bath
Walker
Russell J. Boyd
Swampscott
Mass
Georgie Reed
John Gilmore
Clara Morse Reed
North Bath
Maine
Arrowsic
Georgetown Center
Boston
Portland
Captain Walker
Charles T
Evangeline Hamm Walker
St. John’s Academy
Presque Isle
Mouse Island
Boothbay Harbor
Tremont
Linc Jewett
Charles P. Notman
Norfolk
Mallory Line
Georgetown
British Guiana
Republic Mining & Manufacturing Co
Frank Thompson
Moxie Company
Gloucester
Gertrude L. Thebeau
Montsweag Farm Bureau
Day’s Ferry Community Club
Wiscasset
United States
Pennsylvania
Meddiebempsters to Perform at Bath Hospital Fair
The Meddiebempsters the Bowdoin College choral group will give a concert in Bath on Friday October 20 as part of the Seventh Annual Hospital Fair. Directed by Prof Frederic E Tillotson they have toured Europe and performed at the White House. The event runs 8 to 8 30 p m at the Bath Iron Works Recreation Center with other features including the Westinghouse Oomphometer Maine films and a Voice Mirror. Authorities expect a strong turnout and note supportive rummage and material donations for the hospital fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meddiebempsters
Bowdoin College
Bath
Frederic E. Tilliotson
Bowdoin
Department of Music
White House
Washington
James A. Gillies, Jr
Fair Committee
Bath Iron Works Recreation Center
Maine
State Highway Department
State Department of Agriculture
New England Telephone and Telegraph Co
William P. Menneally
William W. Dennison
Eastham Guild, Jr
Howard W. Mayo
John Parker
Summer Street
Varied Weather Over Three Days Hits City
Over three days the city saw warm highs around 80, followed by a cool night, then a near hurricane wind and heavy rains. An electrical storm damaged a home on Palmer Street and triggered a fire whistle when a blown fuse was reset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice A. Libby
Palmer Street
Mrs Virginia Baker And Miss Ruth Reynolds Visit Portland
Mrs Virginia Baker and Miss Ruth Reynolds were business visitors in Portland on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Baker
Ruth Reynolds
Portland
Fall Meetings Open North-Center P T A Event
About one hundred people attended the first fall meeting at Huse school for the North-Center P T A. Mrs Isadore Singer presided. reports were given on committees and plans announced for prizes, talks, and future events through May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huse School
North-Center
P.T.A
Isadore Singer
Lloyd Hooker
Doris Babkirk
Arah Richmond
North Primary
Theo Hensinger
North Grammar
Moody Flint
Central Grammar School
Fred Thompson
Andrew Babkirk
Thomas Aikenhead
Camden
Merton Bradway
William Davis
Ralph Milliken
Singer
Wilbur Higgins
North Center
Marjorie Boucher
City Hall
Bate Department of Health and Welfare
Loring R. Ad Diton
John Parker
Charles B. Doyle
P. T.A
W. Scott Davis
Talbot
Green
Gertrude Prinn
Portland
Eastham Guild
Herbert Ross Brown
Bowdoin College
Local military chaplain and family visit longtime townsfolk
Lt. and Mrs. Lloyd Doty and their two sons from Newport Naval Training Station, R I, vacation with Mrs. Margaret Maass of Nequasset in Woolwich. They recently returned from the Marshall Islands and visited Arrowsic and Georgetown, recalling Lt. Doty’s past service as Methodist pastor in Arrowsic and Robinhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Doty
Newport Naval Training Station
R. I
Doty
Margaret Maass
Nequasset
Woolwich
Marshall Islands
Arrowsic
Georgetown
Lt. Doty
Methodist Church
Robinhood
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kelley Field Plans
N.T.C
U.S.S
Frank J. Walker
P.T. A
Elks
Elkdom
Joseph B. Kyle
B. P. O. Elks
Fife and Drum Corp
Torrent No. 1 Handtub Association
Katherine Pickens
Lombard Street
Hyde Memorial
Bath Lodge
Rock Hill Inn
Joseph W. Larrabee
Sanford
G.E.R. Kyle
Mr. Kyle
Order of Elks
Miami
Fla
Kyle
America
United States of America
John F. Malley
P.G.E.R
The
Elks National Foundation
Malley
Mark Sullivan
Elks National Service Committee
Sullivan
Front Street
Bath Auto Company
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