City council weighs parking meter supervision plan changes
At a special meeting the council discussed shifting meter maintenance and enforcement to a dedicated city staffer led by Burns. An extra police patrolman would handle meter collections and upkeep while janitorial duties shift to Burns. Auditorium use would incur a janitor charge, with a separate rate for extended meetings, and back room use to carry no charge. Pending approval, both plans proceed soon. A Plummer Home lease study continues with progress noted and more time requested.
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White
Theodore A. Burns
Burns
Ee Schorr Rge
Manarte
Wren
Plummer Home
Bruns wick Naval Air Station to Spend 4 Million on Facilities
About 4 million dollars will be spent at the Brunswick Naval Air Station on new facilities this fiscal year. Plans include radio communications and an additional hangar, though a Congressional cut reduces the size. Other work covers 270000 square yards of paved aircraft parking, 2.8 million for communications, 1.379 million for a new central heating plant, 542000 for ordnance, and 300000 for utilities.
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Brunswick Naval Air Station
Solar Lodge Masons Hold Special Meeting and Plans
Solar Lodge Masons held a special meeting Monday evening and completed the first degree. The next meeting on Oct. 5 will cover regular business and work in the second degree with refreshments. A Lisbon Falls school of instruction is set for Oct. 26. transport help is available from Secretary Rancher Jackson. Since Monmouth Park opened in 1946, fans have not collected 235,655 in cashable tickets.
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Solar Lodge
Masons
Lisbon Falls
S. Jackson
Monmouth Park
Union Members Vote to Strike at Bath Iron Works
Union and Bath Iron Works faced a near unanimous vote to strike after a breakdown in negotiations over wages and general terms. A 1,477 to 191 ballot approved strike action for Friday, with 88 percent of eligible workers voting. The dispute centers on standard mechanics pay of about $2.10, vacations, holidays, and arbitration, amid ongoing mediation efforts led by Harry L. Smith.
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Bath Iron Works Corp
State Armory
Lincoln Street
Alonzo Young
International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers
Baltimore
Bath
Young
Moran
Harry L. Smith
U. S. Mediation and Conciliation Service
Smith
Senator Smith Warns Spirit of Freedom Faces Peril
Senator Margaret Chase Smith addressed over 100 Lions at Sedgwick Dinner focusing on spiritual struggle against communism. She warned that freedom requires moral strength at home churches schools and daily life to deter Soviet aggression and safeguard Free Europe amid hydrogen bomb advances.
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Free World
Soviet Bloc
U. S
Margaret Chase Smith
Sedgwick
Eisenhower
Smith
Maine
NATO
United States
Europe
Russia
Harold J. Rubin
the Lions
Rubin
Sagadahoc Rod and Gun Club Meets Thursday
The Sagadahoc Rod Gun and Skeet Association will hold a 7 30 p m meeting at the North Bath clubhouse announced today by President Kenneth Jaquith A short business meeting will be followed by refreshments and the viewing of Haunts for the Hunted an official U S Department of the Interior film showing wildlife habitat maintenance and species such as ducks geese the trumpeter swan and the whooping crane
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc Rod, Gun and Skeet Association
North Bath
Kenneth Jaquith
U. S. Department of the Ince
Four Lane Expressway Nears Brunswick Portland Start
Maine road project underway as 4.4 miles from Yarmouth to Freeport pave by mid October with air entraining cement. Next steps include a nine mile span to Brunswick in 1954 and links to Falmouth and the Maine Turnpike. Sawed joints aim for ultra smooth ride and long service life with nonreinforced plain concrete.
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Brunswick
Portland
Maine
Freeport
Yarmouth
Royal River
Cousins River
Falmouth
New Brunswick-Portland
Pennsylvania
New York State
W.H. Hinman Company
Thomas Worcester Company of
Boston
State Highway Department
Lawrence Murphy
Augusta
Bath
Portland-to
Yarmouth-Freeport
State Highway Commission
Shipbuilding
Fires hit car on Deering street and home on Wak e Brunswick road
Engine 4 responded shortly before noon Thursday to a Chevrolet fire on Deering street with heavy interior damage. Earlier, at 7 55 Wednesday night Engine 2 responded to a home fire at Robert Wake on T Brunswick road caused by electric wiring with smoke and minor wall damage.
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Deering Street
Engine
Robert Wake
T . Brunswick Road
Wage and Hour Law Discussed at Rotary Club Bath
William McComb administrator of the Minimum Wage and Hour Law spoke at Bath Rotary. He explained rulings follow court decisions, note only five percent evades law, and that contracts over ten thousand dollars go to lowest bidder. The talk covered how public contracts and textile areas are affected and how the administration serves as a fact finding agency rather than lawmaker. Visiting Rotarians from multiple states joined the meeting.
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William McComb
Bath
Rotary International Club
McComb
George Sargent
Sargent
Mary Martin
State of Maine Department of Labor
Street resurfacing planned for Front and Oak streets
The project to blacktop Front street from Summer to Oak and Oak street from Front to Washington is slated to begin Monday morning. The O N Hinman Co of North Anson, which previously resurfaced most of the business district, will undertake the new work in the same construction style.
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Front Street
Oak
Oak Street
Washington Street
O N ' Hinman Co
North Anson
Bath Garden Club Meeting Highlights September Session
The Bath Garden club met Tuesday at the Mont Sweag Farm home of President Mrs Cornwell B Rogers with 22 members and four guests present. Reports covered hospitality, upcoming events, a large hospital service donation, a Maine wildpowers list, sales totaling 10658 since April, and new member votes. Further notes included dues reminders, regional meeting plans, bulb purchases for a winter project, and a darden design by Mrs Rogers.
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Bath Garden Club
Montsweag Farm
Cornwell B. Rogers
Earl Farnham
Wiliam W. Dennison
State Federation
John Parker
Maine
Augusta Native Club
Edward B. Hamblett
Ead
Hamblett
Clinton McFadden
Herbert Douglas
Rogers
Dennison
William Skelton
Bucksport
Belfast
New England
Providence
R 1
Frank Reinoehl
Move to Unseat Mn Mann Fails at Tuesday Meeting
City Council Recreation Commission meeting ends with failure to oust Edward J. McMann as temporary director. Motion to appoint William Milliken defeated by opposition from Temple Archibald Main and Hunter. ex officio voting rights debated with City Solicitor Rubin confirming full voting privileges.
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Edward J. McMann
Stanley R. Hunter
Recreation Commission
McMann
Commission
City Hall
George Perry
William Milliken
Helen Moses
Perry
Miss Moses
Lawrence Boardman
Milliken
Temple
Archibald M. Main
Hunter
Loring R. Addison
Harrd J. Rubin
Rubin
Savings Bonds Sales Jump in Sagadahoc County
Savings of U S Series E and H bonds in Sagadahoc County for eight months ending August 31 totaled 310 471, up about 76 000 or 32 percent from last year, says Daniel Williams of Bath, county chair of the Maine Savings Bonds Committee. He notes only 66 3 percent of quota reached and urges more sales to year end. Williams cites growing investor interest and the bonds’ stability against market shifts, with Series E and H providing semiannual interest and redeemable value at or above purchase price.
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U. S
Sagadahoc
Daniel Williams
Bath
Maine Savings Bonds Committee
Williams
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Naval Airport
Special Meeting
Senator Smith
ROD and Gun Club
Rotary Club
William M’comb
Homer Nims
Arthur Rhoades
Middletown
Conn
Tom Kongsgaard
Napa
Calif
John S Rodgers
Branford
al Sherman
Boothbay Harbor
G. Dudley Pratt
Honolulu
Hawaii
Stanley Hunter
Carl Kennedy
MN Mann
Kelley
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