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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1953
Page
2
The oil industry promotes Service Plus with Oil Progress Week 1953, praising service stations as American institutions. Independent operators run about 95 percent of stations, serving communities with hotel, road, and local information while maintaining vehicle care like windshield wiping radiator checks and tire air refills.
A London wire service note on Britain's end to miller and baker controls after 11 years. The author argues government regulation harmed production and distribution, blaming labor policies and agencies like OPA and OPS. He asserts free enterprise has led to record production, ample store stocks, reasonable prices, and low profits, with stores illustrating the shift away from control.
The October term of Saga County Superior Court will convene on the twentieth day with Justice Francis W. presiding. The term includes names for Arrowsic to Woolwich and a traverse juror list featuring numerous Bath Bowdoinham Georgetown Phippsburg Richmond Topsham West Bath Woolwich residents.
The final committee met at Mrs. Dean Shaw’s home to finish arrangements for Bath’s 10th annual Hospital Fair. An Odd Fellows game is planned at their hall on Wednesday evening October 14 in conjunction with the fair. The Bath Iron Works Recreation hall opens Friday October 16 for the rummage sale at 2 PM and gates to the fair open at 7 30 PM. the German band of the Yarmouth Liong club performs Friday evening from 7 45 to 8 15. Special awards from local merchants and out of town businessmen await, with exhibits from Brunswick Naval Air Base including a parachute Mae West and seven-man life raft, plus Maine Food Plan items and local industry articles. The Church booth will showcase handiwork from Bath churches. items may be left with Miss Alice Johnson Mrs Carville Douglas or Mrs Albert Whitney by Wednesday night or they will call for them.
Charles B. Doyle Jr son of Mr and Mrs Charles B Doyle of the Old Brunswick road is reported in favorable condition at Maine General hospital still under observation after being stricken with polio Oct 7 He shows slight paralysis of his right arm and hand for which steam treatments are used Attending physicians expect paralysis to be confined to that area and to clear Doyle graduated Morse High School last June and is a student at Kents Hill Junior College preparing for college.
Mrs Itazet T Ent of Sarasota Florida visits her brother and sister in law Mr Clinton H Turner and Mrs Turner at 14 Deering Street. Mrs Elliott, former resident at 16 Meadow Way, once worked at Bath Iron Works office.
Frank Young announces Morse High second annual Patch Hop next Saturday at 8 30 in the gym with Katz orchestra. Admission is 1 per couple. Senior and French club activities, yearbook staff selections, and Morse Mentor plans are outlined, with awards and safety talk featured at Friday assembly.
The sixth annual meeting of the Maine Council of Church Women will convene in Bangor October 19 and 20 with Elsie D. Harper of New York City as guest speaker. Delegates from across the state attend, with sessions at the Bangor Y M C A and Hammond Street Congregational Church.
Mr and Mrs Ettore Sinibaldi travel Wednesday morning for New York City to see Mr Sinibaldi’s brother Horace and Mrs Sinibaldi who have just returned after two years in Australia. They plan to visit Bath before returning to their home in Berlin H.
Twenty four members and guests attended the Phippsburg PTA supper at Ridehall detailing Halloween decor and a program led by Rev Macy Whitehead. A State Department of Health welfare film on child behavior spurred discussion. Officers were elected for the year including Chairman Mrs John Rovers and Secretary Mrs Fart Lowell. Banquet preparations for the Dromore Grange annual Mother Daughter event are underway for October 26 with a long committee list and a deadline of October 23 for reservations. Town meetings and school closures due to county teachers meeting were noted along with various personal notes about residents and local activities.
In 1545 silver was discovered beneath an uprooted push at Potosi Bolivia. The find highlighted the rich silver mines that attracted explorers and shaped colonial wealth. Local chronicles note the moment reshaped mining and trade dynamics in the region.
Winnegance PTA met at the schoolhouse Tuesday. Students in grades 1 and 3 attend there, while grades 4 to 6 ride daily to Small Point. A suburb civic rummage sale raised about 25 dollars for the club, with donations benefiting Bath Memorial hospital. Local residents note rain, travel, hospital visits, travel from Matinicus, and hunting activity at Winnegance Lake and the old mill pond.
Mrs Blanche Lotke of Cummings Street has returned from a Bremen visit with a friend and Bradenton Florida. Mr and Mrs Harold Doughty of Cumberland Center announce the birth of Susan Rose on October 3. Doughty is the son of Estella Doughty of 17 Shaw Street and Harriett Barter of Falmouth is the mother.
The community notes a busy week with church visits, moose sightings, and weekend hunts. Weddings are announced for Norma Hathorne and Wesley Simpson at Winter Street Church, with a reception at the South End P T A hall. Columbus Day births, visits, and hospital efforts are also recorded among Bath area residents.
Cottage owners from across the state used the Last Fall holiday weekend to close summer homes at Popham Beach. A few duck hunters were out. Several out-of-town visitors including Frances McDonald of Gray and Raymond Campbell of Dromore joined locals at various cottages. Geese were seen overhead on Sunday.
Swampscott couples Mr and Mrs P J Lewis occupied their cottage last weekend. Spruceville guests included Mr and Mrs Lester Oliver at Birch Point. Boston and Chicago residents Mr and Mrs Richard B K McLanathan and Mrs M Johnson Fuller visited Brunswick. Carl S Lewis and daughter from Swampscott also stayed at their cottage. Mrs Sarah E Wilbur and Mr Edward P Thomas visited Brunswick, with Spruceville guests Alden P Denham of Bath and Barbara Harrington staying Friday with Beverly Sweeney and Ethel Moore.
The 43rd annual Past Masters Night of Solar Lodge F A M will be held Monday evening at the Temple. Worshipful Brother Paul M Holmson presides with a caallet at 6 30 and 7 30 the Past Masters chairing led by Paul M Holmsen and Charles S Bartlett in the lineup.
A garbled crossword style list presents numbered hints with altered letters and misspellings. Several entries appear scrambled or truncated like cross word cues and partial phrases.
A daily word puzzle shows one letter standing for another. In the example A represents three Ls and X stands for two Os. The clues include items like God of war and marble and describe how word length and shape guide substitutions. Each day the code letters change.
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