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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1942
Page
7
Two old houses opposite Hyde Windlass Co. plant on Washington Street are being removed to clear a site for a Windlass office building. North house nearly razed. south house reduced to a shell. Built by ship carpenters with wide studs and hand wrought nails, the rugged structures reflect their maritime origins.
The land once owned by early Bath settler Isaiah Crooker stretched from ak street to Robinson street and to the rivers. His Crooker Creek shipyard, noted in local memory, influenced the early homes at 568 and 574 Washington street built in the 1820s by his grandsons Charles and William D Crocker.
Reports say four room prefabricated trailer homes with built in furniture and full utilities will soon arrive in Bath and South Portland as wartime housing expands. The two 28 by 16 foot units ship in two halves on standard trailers, weight about 10 000 pounds, and fit highway rules.
Bath education staff will join the Maine Teachers Association gathering in Lewiston and Auburn for three days, with over 4000 educators expected. Sessions feature national and state education leaders, plus Bath officials in department programs and a Friday assembly at Bates College. A Bath couple welcomed a son at Bath Memorial Hospital weighing nine pounds.
The Bath Iron Works Corp. reports about 10 200 names on its payroll with 175 women in mechanical departments. Management praises the hiring of women as a drastic innovation that helps address a growing labor shortage while women perform competently and efficiently.
Bath receives four 28 foot extension ladders two 500 gpm pumps and hose reels under Civilian Defense aid while a promised new fire truck remains missing officials report conflicting reports of shipment status. Chief Engineer Richard J Frates says the city may be unique in the state to have received such material but the truck’s location is still a mystery.
Nightingale club members met at Mrs. Herbert S. Cavanaugh’s East Brunswick home for sewing and a business meeting after dinner last week. They planned fund raising parties and named Mrs. John Freeman and Mrs Harold E. Freeman as co chairmen for the annual hospital tea to be held in January at the Sedgwick.
Mrs. Percy Hodgkins passed Sunday in Brunswick. Her son Gerard Hodgkins has bought a home on Chamberlin Street. Kenneth and Diane Hodgkins, residing with Mr and Mrs Hodgkins on Drummond Street, will live with Mr and Mrs Gerard Hodgkins in Brunswick until husband finds rental in South Portland where he is employed.
Central Congregational church hosted a well attended parish meeting with about 180 members present after a parish supper. Officers were reelected including Judge Gardiner R. Deering as clerk and Senator Jackson as moderator, and the budget was approved with an eight percent increase.
A diverse group of women including grandmothers mothers and former professionals enroll at Bath Iron Works Welding School to learn arc welding and shipbuilding skills. About 25 students train daily showing strong motivation to aid wartime production and support loved ones in the service. The director praises the high quality of work with few failures and notes a shift toward women filling trades traditionally held by men.
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