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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1946
Page
7
Navy Day honors lives sacrificed for liberty and outlines observance plans. The Navy League promotes events including open houses aboard destroyers with Brownson visiting hours. Oct 27 marks the day chosen for naval remembrance connected to 1775 acts and Roosevelt’s naval policy push.
Bath organizers say the community concert project is ready to launch with local volunteers and performers. The effort aims to showcase neighborhood talents and bring residents together through a series of free public events.
Music lovers await the yearly Oscar critre parm while discussions on bringing artists to entertain during winter and spring continue. Sugar rationing worsens as the shipping strike reduces sugar shipments for an extended period. OPA promises no rent ceilings lift with potential new areas under control while landlords push for a 15 percent increase. Deer hunters expect record turnout in Maine as meat scarcity drives more trips to the woods.
Reporters overseas investigate how Goering obtained a poison capsule and secreted it to avoid execution. The inquiry centers on the method, timing, and location of the poisoning plan and whether it enabled a delay or escape from hanging.
Owners Frank A Quaglietta and Don LeFebvre finish Pegasus at City landing Scott's Boat Yard South Portland. Crew Andrew Cshoroz and Lawrence Hill assist as Levi J Scott christens the boat with soda. Value 4000 dollars with equipment, four berth sleeping, 95 horsepower Gray engine, top speed twenty knots, built in forty days, eight tons fish capacity, cedar hull oak cabin natural finish.
In Bath, Charles F. Johansen pleaded guilty to speeding 75 mph on Route 1 and paid a $10 fine plus $4.70 costs. Trooper Frank W. Powers was the arresting officer. Ernest Stinson pleaded not guilty to evading taxi fare but was found guilty and fined. One intoxication case was heard with a guilty plea and jail time suspended.
Guests from Brunswick Bristol Cumberland Mills Westbrook and Richmond attended a Friday chapter gathering. The event brought diverse community members together for fellowship and discussion.
Lloyd Beers agent for Union Mutual Insurance buys the two dwelling frame property at 24 Dummer Street containing nine apartments and a general grocery store. He will operate Dudley’s Blue and White Market as Beers Market and occupies one apartment.
Mrs. Fred E. Irish of Chesnut street and her brother Cedric Martin of Willow street left Tuesday on a motor trip to Beverly Massachusetts to visit their brother Chester Martin. They will later travel to Fitchburg Massachusetts to visit their sister Mrs. Harwood Keyes.
Mrs Lloyd Hooker hosted a fall decor filled post-nuptial surprise for Mrs Elihu Fullerton at 1009 as guests in a family gathering and farewell for Miss Molly Marwick of Parrsboro Nova Scotia. Guests included Mrs Clarence and many others with a decorated tea wagon and gift packages.
A neatly bound pharmacy handbook highlights independent college frontispiece portraits, welcome remarks by President William S. Barry and Dean Howard C. Newton. It covers administration, committees, scholarships, the Dean's list, and student life with fraternities, glee club, and a branch of the American Pharmaceutical Association. The college year began September 16 with commencement set for June 4, 1947.
The destroyer USS Brownson will host public tours Sunday from 9 to 11:30 am and 1 to 4 pm at Bath Iron Works. Commander William R. Cox and Lieutenant Commander T C Herbert lead the ship, flagship of Destroyer Squadron No. 10 with Captain Lewis E. Coley aboard. The vessel, built by Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, has 11 officers and 257 enlisted, and will sail soon once crewed.
The Thirty Fifth Annual Older Conference program for Morse High boys from Bath includes a 15-member Bath quota. William E Milliken will accompany the selected group. Registration closes November first with plans for banquets a dance and the total cost four dollars including meals lodging and programs. Saga dahoc county group will depart Bath November 15 to Auburn for registration before 2 p.m. and return November 17.
The traverse jury for the October term of Sagadahoc Superior Court, Bath, includes Guy Nichols as foreman and Alice Dow Woolwich, Lloyd G. Daley Bath, Fred T. Hathorne Woolwich, Jude A. Hyde Topsham, Thelma Knight Bath, E. Emma Leonard Bath, Carl Randall Topsham, Cleora M. Rollins Bowdoinham, Emma L. Scribnerham, William J. Sullivan Richland, Everett Thompson Richmond. Exemptions granted for Earl H. Coombs Arrowsic and Clara Rice Bath. Supernumeraries: Ernest R. Avery Bath, John R. Blackie Georgetown, Barbara Collins Topsham, William H. Gilman Phippsburg, John W. Gilmore Bath, Edwin W. Haggett West Bath, Carrie E. Lehane Bath, Hazel K. Libby Richmond, Philip Neally Bowdoinham, Basil Small Bowdoin.
Miss Mary Stilphen, soon to wed David Elliott of Denver, Colorado, was feted Friday at Miss Mary Boardman’s Floral Street home. Guests included Dorothy Johansen Anna Day Thelma Kingsbury Bettie Jones Mary Brown Phyllis Curran Betty Robson and several adults.
Mrs. Charles Jewett of Revere Massachusetts, formerly of Bath, was traveling Tuesday toward Union to visit her parents Mr and Mrs Arthur Farris. Her return trip will include her daughter Dawn who has stayed with her grandparents while Mrs Jewett was hospitalized at Chelsea Memorial Hospital.
Leen William T. receives one of the first customer Seabee amphibians at Republic Aviation in Farmingdale. Mr. Gardiner, a WWI and WWII veteran and Boston area business leader, will use the four place aircraft for Summer commutes among Woolwich Maine Boston Mass and New York trips. He notes the Seabee’s land and water capabilities and claims it shortens the Maine to Boston run from four and a half hours by train to a little over an hour by air. The Seabee specifications include 215 horsepower, cruising speed 103 mph, top speed 120 mph, range 560 miles and a roomy interior with simple maintenance and a price rivaling a top prewar automobile.
Julius Grossman, president, announces awards for long service at the Congress Shirt Company plant on Middle Street. Eligible workers receiving a native Vermont turkey at Thanksgiving, with Christmas dinner and party at Hotel Sedgwick on December 19, plus annual vacation and cash bonuses.
A Bath student and Morse High graduate earned first honors at Maine Central Institute. Miss Carol E. Besse of Bath and Roy E. Peasley of Rockland attained an average of 85 percent across all subjects to receive the year’s top academic distinction.
A large class exhibit features 32 students showing handmade hooked rugs worth more than their face value due to fine workmanship. Rugs vary in style with a scenic piece by Mrs Landry and other designs including a colonial girl. The display room overlooks the Kennebec river and exhibits will travel to a 9 by 12 foot and 6 by 9 foot area.
September and is enrolled in the college preparatory course. She attended Chapel Hill High School in Chapel Hill North Carolina prior to this year. Miss Besse was elected a member of the Girls House Council earlier in the Fall. Peasley, at tending MCI in Be scene for admittance to the Universit Maine, was graduated to Morse High in June 1946. He was a member of the USMCA for 36 months prior to his discharge in 1945. While at Morse Peasley was active in athletics, winning letters in football and basketball. He was president of his class as a sophomore and president of the student council his junior year. At MCI, he is a fullback on the Preppers varsity eleven.
Arrangements are made for a special course at Bailey Evening School to study municipal government. Loring Addison announces the Bath Forum on Municipal Government to be run by the University of Maine Extension Service with Lawrence Pelletier heading the classes. Ten Monday meetings are planned with speakers from municipal affairs. registration is at the office of the superintendent of schools.
Out of town relatives attended the funeral Sunday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Edward RB Smith in Middle Street for Frank Smith. Relatives included his brother Harold H. Smith of Cumberland Maryland and other family members.
John Hayward of High Street is stationed in the Engineers Corps at Fort Belvoir Virginia after enlisting three months ago. He phoned his parents this week to say he likes the country and is enthusiastic about his work.
Mr and Mrs Walter Ellis of Nashua New Hampshire have come home after a summer at their cottage in Southport. Before leaving they paid a brief visit to Bath friends.
At the first chapel of the year Miss Louise Dole daughter of Rev Louis A Dole of Middle street was named among 75 members of the Wel lesley College class of 1949 who earned honors for excellent work in the freshman year.
Mr and Mrs Raymond Welch have closed their cottage at Southport where they spent the summer and returned to their home on Washington Street at the South End.
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