Much Traveled Newsman Paying This City Visit
Ralph Chapman foreign correspondent and writer for the New York Herald Tribune and his wife Mrs. Chapman are spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick E. Boudreau at 738 High Street. Chapman has a 20 year career in sports and general news and has traveled from Greece to Africa. He recalled wartime service as a GI, marriage to Evelyn in Australia, and work reopening the Tokyo bureau in 1946. The couple praised Maine scenery and hospitality, planning to return soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Chapman
New York Herald Tribune
Chapman
Frederick E. Boudreau
High Street
Florida Times Union
Jacksonville
Fla
New Jersey
Newshawk
The
Herald Tribune
Tokyo
Guatemala
Puerto Rico
New York
Cairo
Egypt
Mt. Sinai
Library of Congress
St. Catherine’s Monastery
Tribune
New Yorker
South Arabia
Somaliland
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
North Africa
Cyress
Israel
Middle East
America
U.N
Lake Success
Maine
Washington
Wash
Evelyn Hobbs
Washington Street
Chapmans
Battery Replacement at Portland Exchange
Workmen under Foreman Sylvester installed a new battery for the Portland exchange and toll equipment. This marks the first battery replacement in 13 years, comprising 16 cells weighing 300 pounds each for a total of 4800 pounds, with removal and installation completed quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvester
Portland Exchange
Bath Memorial Hospital Auxiliary Holds Monthly Board Meeting
The Bath Memorial Hospital Auxiliary directors met in the hospital auxiliary room with Mrs Eastham Guild Jr presiding. Reports covered treasurer and secretary duties, donation and supply tallies, volunteer hours, and upcoming fundraising events for the Fair and Lincoln County Concert Orchestra concert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Memorial Hospital
Eastham Guild, Jr
Omar King
Charles Doyle
Roger Luke
Earle B. Perkins
Perkins
Dean Shaw
W. Dayton Hill
Harold Small
Edward D. True
Rachel Nichols
Albert Whitney
William Edgett
Gannon
Ralph Dunton
Grace Block
Isadore Singer
Lincoln County Concert Orchestra
BSW
Red Men
Hockomock Council
Senator Smith to Speak at West Bath Grange Meeting
Senator Margaret Chase Smith will speak at a public meeting at West Bath Grange Hall on Friday October 26. The event follows an evening of junior degree work and choir performances with officials from the State andjuvenile deputies in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Smith
West Bath Grange
Margaret Chase Smith
Grange Hall
E. W. Haggett
John Howe
Persis Miller
Herbert Simpson
Carl P. Meister
Maude Haile
William Armstrong
Courtney Stover
Alton Collins
Lucy Armstrong
Ceres
Frances Clark
Pomona
Ila Day
Flora
Margaret Meister
Alice Lewis
Dora Collins
Ceres Court
Estella Doughty
Mattie Collins
Flora Thayer
Rose Doughty
Angelina Renshaw
Harvesters
John and
Thelma _ Sylvester
Bazin Lemont
Charlotte Doyle
Paul Lemont
Martha Crocker
Frank Donnell
Rita Mulcahy
Verl MecNelly
Dorothy Pecci
Charles Doyle
Elizabeth Young
Bernice McGlinchy
Joseph W. Larrabee
Reception for teachers at Huse School
The Huse School P T A held an informal reception for teachers with corsages as the first meeting of the year. Officers and guests discussed the upcoming P T A Council meeting on October 29 at Huse with speaker Mrs Berenice Colby and revised by laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huse
Alfred Parks
P. T. A. Council
Berenice Colby
Wesley Marco
Parks
Marco
Keith Crockett
Loring Addison
Christine Watts
Evelyn Percy
Alice Austin
Morse High School
Keith L. Crockett
Hope Hersom
Elizabeth Young
Lydia Hutchins
Charlotte Hilyard
Marion Murphy
Olive Crabtree
Eleanor Danforth
Laleah Snyder
Anne Thompson
Katherine Powers
Ruth Trueworthy
Phyllis Rolfe
Crockett
Anna Reed
Bath
Carl Dearborn
Two Boy Scouts Find That Honesty Pays
Billy Strube and Dickie Coombs of Corliss Street Baptist Church Troop 52 found a roll of ten dollars lying near Sam's Lunch. They advertised in Bath Times. a Boothbay plumber, Pau McDonald, identified the money. The boys were rewarded for returning the cash when it was claimed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corliss Street Baptist Church
Billy Strube
Dickie Coombs
Weeks Street School
Sam
Bath Times
Boothbay
Pau McDonald
Billy
Dickie
Delays Grow From Legislature Act on Mental Health
The 95th Legislature act deters admission of mentally ill patients, causing statewide confusion and local facility shortages. A Portland judge ruled emergency provisions violate due process, and Maine officials advised Bangor and Augusta hospitals to refuse such admissions pending court ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Maine
Bangor
Augusta
Carroll L. Chaplain
Cumberland County
Attorney General's Office
Law Court
Bath
City Hall
Bathman injured at Brunswick Naval Air Base
Donald E. Blake son of Clarence I. Blake and Shaw street suffered a painful injury Saturday morning while employed at the Brunswick Naval Air Base. He was struck by debris from a cement mixer plant and forced against a steel brace causing a badly cut left eye that required seven stitches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald E. Blake
Clarence I. Blake
Shaw Street
Brunswick Naval Air Base
Blake
Shell opens big terminal at Searsport Maine
Shell Oil inaugurates a new 11.5 acre marine terminal in Searsport to speed oil product flow across northern Maine. The facility handles gasoline, fuel oil, and packaged products with a heated warehouse section, palletized storage, electric forklifts, and a public address system linking tanker dock, tanks, and loading racks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Shell Oil Company
Searsport
W. D. Ramsey
Texas
New Mexico
Bangor House
Bangor
Rotary talk on Stonehenge draws Bath crowd
Rev Laforest Hodgkins spoke at Bath Rotary noon meeting on Stonehenge in Salisbury Plain, its purpose and race of builders. He noted Stonehenge as a Druidic worship burial ground and contrasted its age with the United States. The program included business remarks on attendance challenges between Bath and Damariscotta clubs, with plans for a joint dinner and an Inner Wheel visit scheduled for Friday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stonehenge
Salisbury Plain
Willshore
Bath
England
Central Church Parish
Laforest Hodgkins
France
Scandinavia
Hodgkins
United States
Menneally
Damariscotta Club
Reverend Canon Tubbs Resigns From Grace Church Bath
The Rev Canon Charles Myron Tubbs rector of Grace Episcopal Church Bath since 1921 announced at Sunday service his resignation effective Nov 30 after 30 years of service. He is a Dartmouth and Seabury Western alumnus formerly of St Peters Springfield and St Philips East Hampton and served multiple diocesan roles including president of the Board of Examining Chaplains and head of Christian Social Relations. He plans to remain in Bath and does not anticipate any reg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Myron Tubbs
Grace Episcopal Church
Bath
Gardner
Mass
Dartmouth College
Hanover
N. H
Seabury Western Theological Seminary
Evanston
Ill
Thomas F. Davies
Western
Massachusetts
St. Peter's Church
Springfield
Church of the Good Shepherd
West Springfield
St. Philip's
Easthampton
Canon Tubbs
St. Philip’s Church
Wiscasset
Christian Social Relations
Board of Examining Chaplains
St. Luke's Cathedral
Portland
Father Tubbs
Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity
Registration Night for Bailey Evening School
Registration night for the Bailey Evening School Winter session is Monday Oct 22 from 7 to 9 pm at Morse High. A minimum of 15 registrants and average attendance of 12 are needed to schedule a class. Principal Nath an Watson urges registration to meet quotas and notes most past courses will be reorganized with no tuition beyond materials and books.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bailey Evening School
Morse High School
Nathan Watson
Sagada Superior Court Opens October Term
Sagada county Superior Court opened its October term with Justice Percy T. Clark presiding. Grand jury impaneled. Ralph W. Bragg foreman and William J. Curran clerk, both Bath residents. The court heard indictments requests and naturalization and divorce cases after noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoe County
Percy T. Clark
Ellsworth
Richard J. Schaper
Clark
Ralph W. Bragg
William J. Curran
Bath
Harold J. Rubin
Edward W. Bridgham
Charles T. Small
John P. Carey
Lynn Bussey
John J. Keegan
John W. Quarrington
Ellis L. Aldrich
Robert Coffin
Clement F. Robinson
Leon Spinney
Joseph Singer
Brunswick
Benjamin Berman
Lewiston
Philip Chapman
Portland
Ruel Banks
Augusta
Modern Market Construction Begins on Swett Property
Ground breaking starts immediately for a large self service supermarket at 147 to 157 Front Street on the former Swett property. The Sampson Ripley Co of Skowhegan, owners of markets in Bangor Auburn Lewiston Waterville Skowhegan and Augusta, buy the lot from Richard W Sampson and William K Rivey. Completion sets a fourth store for the company with 150 by 150 feet floor space and brick block construction. Work on razing or moving current structures begins at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swett
Front Street
Esso
Mike Zoome
Richard W. Sampson
William K. Rivey
Skowhegan
Sampson, Ripley Co
Bangor
Auburn
Lewiston
Sampson Personnally
Waterville
Augusta
Sampson
Zoome
Aruba Plate on 1951 Mercury Sparks Maine Speculation
A 1951 Mercury with black Aruba license A 1646 drew attention on Front Street Tuesday. Charles R. Greene of Lago Oil and Transportation Co Aruba toured Maine with his wife and her parents. Greene, MIT graduate, has considered Maine properties after previous visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Front Street
Charles R. Greene
Lago Oil and Transportation Co., Ltd
Aruba
Netherlands West Indies
Greene
Rev Joseph O Purdue to be Installed in Dartmouth
Invitations go to Winter Street Congregational church for the installation of Rev Joseph O Purdue, formerly of Winter Street, at Congregational in Padanaram South Dartmouth Mass. The ecclesiastical council begins November 4 at 3 p m with examination and supper, followed by an installation service. Rev Arthur E Wilson of Providence R I will preach the sermon. A large delegation from Winter Street is expected.
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Winter Street Congregational Church
Joseph O. Purdue
Winter Street Church
Padanaram Church
South Dartmouth
Mass
Ecclesiastical Council
Arthur E. Wilson
Beneficent Congregational Church
Providence
R. I
Clinton D. Wilson
Bath
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Hull
Prince Philip
J. David Joanisse
Ottawa
Ontario
P.T.A. Council
Huse School
Istate
Bathman
Shell Oil
Mammoth
Eng
Grace Church
Superior Court
Bath Iron Works
West Indies
Island of
Popular Bath
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