Right to Speak Questioned Over Government Advertising Rules
An editorial argues agencies tax or bar corporate public affairs ads, citing IRS rulings on utility and Timken advertising as nondeductible. It recalls Boeing defense-contract ads targeted by the Renegotiation Board and urges defense of free expression against taxation.
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Internal Revenue Service
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
Timken Roller Bearing
Renegotiation
Boeing Airplane Company
Zoeing
Timken
85th Congress Praised for Transportation Act 1958
The 85th Congress deserves praise for passing transportation legislation after hearings. It repealed the WWII freight excise tax, saving shippers about 500 million dollars annually and aiding consumers. It approved the Transportation Act of 1958 and called for an expert panel to study remaining transportation issues and policy.
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Association of American Railroads
Congress
Association
Post Office Raises Rates to Curb Deficit and Boost Pay
President Eisenhower defends higher charges for first, second, and third class mail to fund a long overdue pay raise for postal workers. The increase aims to hold the vast post office deficit in check, with parcel post still operating at a deficit and needing self sufficiency as Hoover Commission studies urged.
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Hoover Commission
Scholarship Guide Presented To Morse High And Library
Smith Tobey Post American Legion Auxiliary presented a revised 76 page Scholarship Guide for 1958 59 to Morse high school and Patten Free Library. The Need A Lift guide lists veterans family scholarships and general aid and notes War Orphans Educational Assistance up to 110 monthly. Beatrice Leavitt urges early planning and applying. over 250000 copies have been distributed since 1951.
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Morse High School
Patten Free Library
Smith Tobey Post
American Legion Auxiliary
Beatrice Leavitt
Auxiliary
Leavitt
American Legion
Letters Express Interest In Kennebec Steamboating Series
The Independent reveals reader letters about Kennebec steamers and river life. Mrs Robert R. Coombs recalls childhood rides on side wheelers between Bath and Boston and ferry fares of 3.50. Frank ID Harris, now in Wilder Ohio, praises weekly photos of old steamers and recalls summers blue berry picking, river trips, and riverbank escapades with names of boats and shipyards.
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the Independent
Kennebec
Robert R. Coombs
West Bath
Thermall
Here
Boston
Five Islands
Boothbay
Frank ID Harris
Bath
Wilder
Ohio
Poston
Kennebec Ransom
Fuller
Adelia
Seguin
Benjamin Morse
Wiwarna
Island Belle
Virginia
Duke
Woolwich
Bath Iron Works
Georgia
Iron Works
New England
What
Kelley & Spears
Old Rogers
Thorne
Return From Dancing Studies In New York
Miss Fay Pye Mrs Clyde Pye and Miss Paula Lessard return from a two week vacation in New York City and Philadelphia Miss Pye studied with Joe Harkovy and local teachers while Miss Lessard took tap courses at the June Taylor studio She was named for special mention at the Boston teachers convention for her dancing and the pair appeared on American Bandstand in Philadelphia as guests of a pop singer.
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Fay Pye
Clyde Pye
Paula Lessard
New York City
Philadelphia
New York
Miss Pye
Joe Harkovy
Miss Lessard
June Taylor
Joe Price
Pye
Christianity Walks Around Sermon At First Baptist Georgetown
Rev. William Ricker of Wales preached at the First Baptist church in Georgetown on Sunday morning, urging Christians to let their light shine and serve others with humility. After services he returned to Wales. Local politics saw Republicans ahead in Georgetown with Payne 98, Muskie 73 for senator. Hildreth 114 to Clauson 57 for governor. Hale 110, Oliver 66 for representative.
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First Baptist Church
William Ricker
Wales
Ricker
Georgetown
Frederick Payne
Edmund Muskie
Horace Hildreth
Clinton Clauson
Robert Hale
Congress
James Oliver
Yankee Magazine
New England
Bay Point
Popham Beach
Lyman Owen
Georgetown Center
Old Fort Popham
Liars’ Club
Portland
Down East
William Zorachs
William
Marguerite
Mr. Zorach
Robinhood Cave
Earl Oliver
Waltham
Macs
Popham
Joseph Higgins
Wa Con
Paul Richard
Bay Point Road
Bath Memorial Hospital
Guy Pennell
Orr's Island
Florida
Guy Snowe
Raymond Harriman
Gardiner
Guy Snowes
Marrtown
Robert Graffam
West Georgetown
the Graffams
Sonia
Greta
Eric
Maud P. Thayer
Lucy Choate
Sedgwick
Thayer
Bay Point Improvement Association holds annual meeting
The Bay Point Improvement Association met Saturday August 30 at 7 p.m. Carl Keissling Jr was re elected president Harold White Jr vice president and Katherine Powers secretary treasurer for the year ahead Attendance was small due to hurricane Ella which did not strike Bay Point Boats were moved to safer places The town opened school at central grammar Maine State election was held September 8 at the grammar school Local residents and visitors from Portland Boston Bowdoinham Somerville and New Meadows were noted with several trips to the Navajo and Bay Point cottages The gathering included a steak dinner hosted by Madison Moore and son Madison Jr with friends and fellow Williams Brothers Humphrey Electric Co Central Wharf Towboat Co members in attendance.
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Bay Point Improvement Association
Carl Keissling, Jr
Harold White, Jr
Katherine Powers
Ella
Central Grammar School
Maine
Howard Pence
Portland
Kenneth Mcliver
Boston
Bay Point
Walter Delano
Bowdeinham
Leo Pertell
Arrowshift
California
Karl Hentz
Gilbert Head
Long Island
New Meadows
John Conley
Somerville
Mass
Nathaniel Hasenfus
Mitchell
Auburn
Beth Memorial Hospital
Harry Stone
Lewiston
Madison Moore
Madison, Jr
Sweeney
Emery Rideout
Bath
William Adams
Moosehead Lake
Medomak Garden Club Meet in Thomaston September 17
The Medomak Region Garden clubs meet at 10 a m September 17 in Thomaston. Bath Garden club members should notify Mrs Harold Stanton before September 12 for registration and transportation. Dinner at noon precedes the afternoon session with Harold Brooks of Brunswick as principal speaker. Also noted: three of four notaries in Atlantic City are women.
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Medomak Region
Thomaston
Bath Garden Club
Harold Stanton
Harold Brooks
Brunswick
Five Islands seasonal departures and visitors noted
The village records seasonal departures and weekend visitors among residents and guests. Ellsworth Reynolds and family return to Watertown after closing their cottage. Van Wynen family from Bath visited the Comeaus. Helen Cannon returned to Belmont. Freemont Rowe of Bath visited Mrs. Walter Moore. Hasenfus family left for West Roxbury after a summer here.
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Strom
Donna
Waltham
Mass
Robinhood
Europe
Germany
Spain
Dudley Allen
Leonia
N. J
Overlook
John F. Thompson
Elizabeth Thompson
Georgetown Center
Cecil Slocum
Raymond Reid
New York
Pierce Fuller
Norwell
Harold Herseys
Winthrop
Margaret
Madeline
Hilda Oliver
Fred P. Oliver
Wakefield
William A. Todd
Todd
Chester Dalrymples
South Lincoln
Kennebec Point
Mary Moore
Hallowell
William Stewart
Islands
Joseph Higgins
John Grindell
West Bath
Arthur S. Rowe
Belmont‘. Mass
Merrill Bowles
Bangor
Roy J. Campbell
Salem College
Winston-Salem
N. C
Reid State Park
Bailey Island
The
Square Deal
Ellsworth Reynolds
Watertown
George van Wynen
Bath
Comeaus
Helen Cannon
Belmont
Freemont Rowe
Walter Moore
Nathaniel Hasenfus
Hasenfus
West Roxbury
Reid Park
Arthur Marr
Malden
Kenneth Dell
Quincy
Parker Start
Richard
Caroline
Melrose
Marr
Richard Barter
Reginald Spinney
Kittery
John Winkley
South Hadley Falls
Winkley
Grover's
Fred Scheffer
Cambridge
E. M. Hatch
Cliftondale
Kenneth Vail
Saugus
Frank Blake
Blake
Victor Pinkham
Orville Rowe
Roy Clark
Seguinland
Peter Stevens
Dennise Moore
Roy Clark, Jr
Jackie
Joyce Young
Billy Kelley
Susan Dickens
Gilpatricks
Payson Brett
Jean Beal
Welchville
Esther MacPherson
Claude Chandler
Richard MacPherson
Bowdoinham
Ernest Leavitt
Topsham
Charles MacMahan
Georgetown
Ronald Richardson
Mary Leavitt
Portland
Ray Gilpatrick
Gerald Hersom
Woolwich
Elaine Stevens
Franz Stevens
Bath Boy Appointed Abrasive Engineer for Pacific Northwest
John H. Hartleb of Bath has been named abrasive engineer for Norton Company in the Pacific Northwest with an office in Portland Oregon. Hartleb formerly served as field engineer in Los Angeles and is a Bates College graduate with studies at Maine Central Institute Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Morse High School. He played varsity basketball at Morse and Bates and earned all Western Maine honors. The Norton Company is a leading producer of abrasives and electro chemical products.
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John H. Hartleb
Los Angeles
Norton Company
Worcester
Mass
Pacific Northwest Territory
Portland
Ore
Bath
Hartleb
Harvey H. Hartleb
Academy Street
Bates College
Maine Central Institute
Hartle
BIW Tool Room Employes Have Annual Clambake
Employes of the Bath Iron Works tool room enjoyed their annual clambake Saturday leaving Bath by boats furnished by Douglas Short and Harry Allen to Spectacle Island Boothbay. Attending were Clyde McKinnon Earl Morse Lewis Mihalos Lloyd Stinson Stanley Brown Everett Norton Howard Crocker Orrin Lewis Albert Seegars Ralph Dunton and Horace Morse Mr and Mrs Ernest Freeman Dike road have returned home from their Summer residence at Brigham's Cove.
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Bath Iron Works Tool Room
Bath
Douglas Short
Harry Allen
Spectacle Island
Boothbay
Clyde McKinnon
Earl Morse
Lewis Mihalos
Lloyd Stinson
Stanley Brown
Everett Norton
Howard Crocker
Orrin Lewis
Albert Seegars
Ralph Dunton
Horace Morse
Obituary for Mrs Edna A Shea of Orrs Island
Funeral services were held for Edna A. Shea 48 wife of Harold B. Shea of Orrs Island at the Orrs Island Methodist church. She died in Bath and was born August 8 1910 at Orrs Island. Surviving are her husband a son Byron A. Shea two daughters Patricia Adell Day and Shirley Ann Fuller a sister Alice E. Gilliam and two brothers Warren C. Richardson and George B. Richardson.
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Edna A. Shea
Harold B. Shea
Orrs Island
Orr's Island Methodist Church
Shea
Bath
Orr's Island
Edward and
Mary Kennedy Richardson
Portland
Silver Cloud Council of
Pocahontas
American Legion Auxiliary
Byron A. Shea
Patricia Adell Day
Knoxville
Tenn
Shirley Ann Fuller
Syracuse
N. Y
Alice E. Gilliam
Warren C. Richardson
George B. Richardson
California
Mrs. Stuart Hatch Dies in Bangor Car Crash
Mrs. Stuart Hatch aged 30, formerly Eileen Titcomb of Bangor, died after a collision between her car and a cement mixing truck at an intersection in Bangor. Born Dexter in 1928, she was daughter of Alfred Recks and Kenneth Titcomb. She leaves two sons, Stuart and Bruce, and several Titcomb siblings. Funeral arrangements will be announced.
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Stuart Hatch
Eileen Margaret Titcomb
Bangor
Dexter
Alfred G. Recks
Medford
Mass
Kenneth Titcomb
Sangerville
Hatch
Bath
Morse High School
Stuart
Bruce
F. Norman Titcomb
Harold Titcomb
Maldes
Louis Titcomb
New Britain
Conn
Neal Hatch
Varney Rites Held At Arthur Mayo Funeral Residence
Funeral services for Chester C. Varney were conducted at 1 30 p m Saturday at the Arthur F Mayo and Son Funeral Residence. The Rev Dr David L Wilson officiated with bearers Earl Cooper Antonio Carlton Napoleon Vachon Wilfred Vachon Leslie Dyer and Roy Lutz. Interment followed in the family lot at Oak Grave.
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Chester C. Varney
Arthur F
Funeral services held for Mrs Agnes Stilphen
Funeral services for Mrs Agnes M Stilphen wife of Irving L Stilphen were held at 2 p m Saturday at Leslie C Shumway 638 High Street The Rev Richard B Adams of Grace Episcopal Church officiated Committal services followed at the family lot in Oak Grove Cemetery
Funeral services for Eileen Hatch
Funeral services for Mrs. Eileen Hatch, who died Monday after an automobile accident in Bangor, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Arthur F. Mayo & Son Funeral Residence. The Rev. Martin V. Sargent of Winterstreet Congregational Church will officiate. Interment will follow at Oak Cemetery.
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Eileen Hatch
Bangor
Arthur F. Mayo & Son
Martin v. 8. Sargent
Winterstreet Congregational Church
Oak Grove
Mrs Agnes Stilphen Dies In Bath At 60
Agnes M Stilphen 60 died Thursday morning at Bath Memorial hospital after a 10 day illness. Wife of Irving L Stilphen a Bath resident for 40 years she lived at 60 Richardson street Born Dorchester Mass March 8 1898 daughter of Edward W and Mary Kennedy Richardson She moved to Orrs Island as a child was a practical nurse and store clerk member Grace Episcopal church St Marys Guild and former Orrs Island Pocahontas. Survived by husband two daughters Martha Vachen and Mary Elliott both of Bath one son Edward E of Bath two sisters Olive E Gilliam and Edna Shea Orrs Island two brothers Warren C Richardson Bath and George B Richardson Bath six grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
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Agnes M. Stilphen
Bath Memorial Hospital
Irving L. Stilphen
Bath
Richardson Street
Dorchester
Mass
Edward W
Mary Kennedy Richardson
Orr's Island
Warren C. Richardson
George B. Richardson
Mrs Blanche H Robie 80 Dies in East Andover Home
Mrs Blanche H Robie aged 80 mother of Mrs John G Morse Jr of Phippsburg Maine and Mrs Maurice Richards of East Longmeadow Massachusetts died suddenly at her East Andover New Hampshire home. Born September 39 1877 in Hill New Hampshire she was daughter of Benjamin and Mary Eastman Hersey. She had lived in Andover most of her life. Survived by Robert Robie two daughters one son seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral at 2 p m Thursday at the East Andover Congregational Church.
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Blanche H. Robie
John G. Morse, Jr
Phippsburg
East Andover
N. H
Hill
Benjamin and
Mary Eastman Hersey
Andover
Robert Robie
Maurice Richards
East Longmeadow
Mass
Morse
Bernard H. Robie
Laconia
Fast Andover Congregations Church
Miss Annie McGovern Former Bath Resident Dies at 78
Miss Annie McGovern, 78, a former Bath resident, died Sept. 3 at a Portland hospital after a long illness. Born Jan. 14, 1880 in Portland to George and Martha Phillips McGovern, she lived in Portland Gorham and Bath and ran a hairdressing business from Boston to her last illness. She was a member of State Street Congregational church. Surviving are three cousins, Mrs. Chester Pierce and Mrs. William M. Pennell of Portland and Frank E. Phillips of Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Annie McGovern
Bath
Portland
George
Martha Phillips McGovern
Gorham
Boston
William M. Pennell
Frank E. Phillips
Worcester
Mass
Hawley Funeral Held at Grace Episcopal Church
Funeral services for Warren F. Hawley Jr. were held at Grace Episcopal Church at 2 p m with Rev Richard B Adams and Canon Charles M Tubbs officiating. Bearers included Rodney E Ross Jr Richard R Raven Matthew Doak Jr Converse G Fenn J Edward Drake Lyman Poole Donald Conroy and Frank Talbot. Burial took place at Oak Grove.
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Warren F. Hawley, Jr
Grace Episcopal Church
Richard B. Adams
Charles M. Tubbs
Rodney E. Ross, Jr
Richard R. Raven
Matthew Doak, Jr
Converse G. Fenn
J. Edward Drake
Lyman Poole
Donald Conroy
Frank Talbot
Oak Grove
Word to the Wise Cryptoquote Puzzle Facts
Cryptoquote puzzle and quotation by Franklin from 1958 King Features Syndicate. Includes the grid clues for across and down words and notes a thematic saying A WORD TO THE WISE IS ENOUGH AND MANY WORDS WONT FILL A BUSHEL.
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Franklin
King Features Syndicate, Inc
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