Portable respirator presented to Hyde Memorial Home
The Maine Odd Fellows and Rebekahs presented a $1,200 portable respirator with chest plates to the Hyde Memorial Home during a Wednesday ceremony. The campaign aimed to buy six devices for Maine hospitals, but oversubscription allowed 12 machines and one iron lung. The iron lung went to Fort Fairfield, aiding a child, with devices stored statewide for rapid deployment and powered by electricity or manual operation.
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Hyde Memorial
Maine Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
IOOF
Rebekahs
Maine
John W. Thornton
Lewiston
Odd Fellows
Fort Fairfield
Thornton
Hyde Home
Marie I. Preston
Pine Tree Society For Crippled Children and Adults, Inc
Doris Hardy
R. N
Bath
Hyie Memorial
Auburn
The
Association of Ladies Auxiliaries
Ellsworth M. Berry
Farmington
P. M
Bath City Council Votes To Buy War Memorial
The Bath city council approved emergency appropriations totaling 3145 dollars and rejected bids for the Plummer Home for the Aged. It also discussed a long term lease, a new heating building for the fire department, and a public war memorial dedicated to veterans. The memorial will be a 10 foot granite shaft to be erected in the city park with an Armistice Day dedication.
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WAR Memorial
Plummer Home
Bath
City of
Center Street
Center and
Middle Streets
E. Rodney Brooke
Battery House
White
Marius H. Page
George R. Perry Monument Co
Page
The
Recreation Commission
Parents refuse to abandon hope for missing Bay Point girl
The Tibbetts family clings to hope that three year old Sherry Ann Tibbetts is alive as hundreds search Bay Point woods and the Kennebec river bottom. Officials fear the child may have fallen into tidal water after a bloodhound repeatedly led to an old wharf. State Police, Sagadahoc deputies, Bath National Guard, Red Cross volunteers, and Brunswick Naval Air Station personnel assist the search. Sherry is described as 30 pounds, with dark brown eyes and blondish brown hair.
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Bay Point
Sherry Ann Tibbetts
Arthur Tibbetts
Kennebec
Sherry Ann
Tibbetts
Kennebec River
National Guardsmen
State Police
Sagadahoc County
Bay Point Wnarf
Navy goat mascot history and Bill XII presentation
The Navy goat has served as the academy mascot since 1890. The current mascot, Bill XII, was presented to the Midshipmen in 1937 by the Texas Centennial Exhibition.
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Goat
Navy
Bill XII
Midshipmen
Talk on Unions and Managerial Relations at Bath Club
Bath attorney John P. Carey spoke at the Bath Rotary Club on unions and employee manager relations. He defended Taft Hartley, traced labor history from England to America, and urged local bargaining grounded in common sense while noting Wagner and Taft Hartley acts shape employer and employee rights.
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John P. Carey
Bath
Bath Iron Works Corp
Shipbuilding Company
Carey
Labor Organization
England
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
The
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Committee On Industrial Organization
A. F. of L
Wagner
Old Type Fishing Craft Visits the New Meadows
The Gaspe peninsula built Victoria, a 36 foot two master schooner with a lug sail, visits the New Meadows river drawing curiosity. Owned by Robert Merriam of Cranston, it has sailed to Bermuda and Rhode Island and may be given to Mystic Marine Museum as a replica of historic New England fishing craft.
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New Meadows
Victoria
Foster's Point
L’anse A Beaufils
Gaspe Peninsula
Robert Merriam
Cranston
R.I
Halifax
Gordon MacDowell
Rhode Island
New England
Merriam
Bermuda
Mr. Merriam
MacDowell
Owen Wiliams
Maynard Lee
West Bath
Williams
Nova Scotia
Acadia
Bath
Torrey Roller Bushing Works
Mystic Marine Museum
Connecticut
Committee named to confer on lease for Plummer Home site
City Council Chairman Stan ley R Hunter named a committee to confer with Clarence Jeffrey on a possible long term lease of the former Plummer Home for the Aged on Oak Grove avenue. Members include Arthur Weediman Philip Oliver Ronald Oulton and Nathan C White. Jeffrey of Van Jeffrey Co Bath Brunswick seeks land for reinforced plastic boat building and related uses. bids of 2500 and 1500 were rejected as appraised at 5000. About 160000 tons cork used annually in the United States.
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Nathan C. White
Fire Department
Kelley Field
Plummer
H. Martin Powers
Board of Education
West Bath
Bath
Theodore A. Burns
Stanley R. Hunter
Clarence Jeffrey
Oak Grove Avenue
Arthur Weediman
Philip H. Oliver
Ronald C. Oulton
Cty
Nathan C. White Jeffrey
van Jeffrey Co
Bath and Brunswick
Bulding
James A. Gillies, Jr
Militia joins search for missing three year old Sherry Tibbetts
Bath Maine National Guard Battery B with 37 members joined more than 100 volunteers and official agencies in a Bay Point search for three year old Sherry Ann Tibbetts missing since Thursday. Divers and bloodhound experts combed the Kennebec river mouth and wooded terrain near the old wharf as authorities press on with the hunt.
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Bath
Maine National Guard
Sherry Ann Tibbetts
Oceanside
Bay Point
E. A. Heartquist
Boothbay
Arthur Tibbetts
Heartquist
F. E. MacDonald
Sherry Ann
Bath Iron Works workers vote to authorize strike
Seven hundred forty two day shift workers at Bath Iron Works voted to authorize a strike if contract terms fail by September 25. A second shift vote stood 82 in favor with 12 opposed. Negotiations since July 28 show little progress on holidays pay vacations and grievance procedures. The company proposed a six cent raise for top mechanics to $2.00 per hour.
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Bath Iron Works Corp
International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers
Alonzo Young
Young
John M. Conley, Jr
Bath
Councilmen Visit Bath Schools For Summer Improvements
Only two Bath city Council members Wesley Marco and Philip Oliver joined a Board of Education tour to Bath schools to inspect summer work ahead of the fall term. Board members and Superintendent Loring Addison reviewed cleaning, painting, plumbing, electrical work, and repairs at Bath High, Huse, Dike, and various classrooms, with total efforts near 1000 dollars and extensive modernization noted.
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Board of Education
Wesley Marco
Philip H. Oliver
Ward
Marion Smth
John M. Conley, Jr
Robert J. Perry
Loring R. Addison
Huse
Bath
Morse High Announces Freshman to Senior Home Room Assignments
Principal Raymond W. Farnham releases room allocations for Morse High School. Total enrollment projected near 732 with 245 freshmen the largest entering class in school history. Assignments list by class and room numbers for freshmen sophomores juniors and seniors with names ranged across rooms 101 to 211 and 201 to 204.
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Morse High School
Raymond W. Farnham
Adams
Everett
Carr
Harry
Carver
Elizabeth
Fitzgerald
Duane
Fleming
Jean
Harrison
Barbara
Hart
Nancy
Libby
Marshall
Little
Edrel
Miller
Anne
Moore
Sandra
Staples
Shirley
Stevens
Elaine
Wallace
William
Weybrant
Bruce
Young
Akeley
Wayne
Blake
Patricia
Boudreau
David
Durgin
Richard
Edwards
Robert
Higgins
Charles
Roslyn
McDonough
Stanley
McDougal
Donna
Rowe
Alfred
Rush
Stephanie
Sylvia
Alexander
Jeannette
Cohen
Ann
Janet
Munsey
Clara
Clarence
St. Pierre
Joanne
Kathryn
Loeschner
Carol
MacDougall
Marcrett
Reay
Marion
Reed
Guy
Frank
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Ures
North Bath
Bath and
Brunswick
Bay Point Girl
Rotary Club
United States
Huse School
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