City Hall Buzz Amid Quiet Week With Signals of Change
City Hall sees a calm week with a special committee meeting and chatter of possible candidacies. Ed Brandon and ex councilors are spotted in Boston as budget talks and army enlistments edge up locally. Health findings show most venues comply with health laws.
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City Hall
Jay O'Connor
U.S
Ed Brandon
Jay
City Mgr
Connie Murphy
John.l. G. Glynn
John Griffith
Hunt's
Boston
Grenadiers
John
Luock
U. S
Charlie Hurley
Dunnett Obsequies Held for Helen F Dunnett
Funeral services for Helen F Dunnett of 84 Cherry Street were held at Daniel F O'Brien Funeral Home on Thursday morning with a requiem mass at St Marys Church. She was the wife of Arthur Dunnett a son Arthur in naval training and a daughter Olive survive.
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Helen F. Dunnett
Cherry St
Daniel F. O’brien
St. Mary’s Church
Arthur Dunnett
Central St
Arthur
Olive
Yellow Cab Service Increases Rates
Frank P. Magann of Yellow Cab Service regrets higher operating costs compel a slight rate increase. Yellow Cab bills itself as the lowest taxi rate east of the Mississippi and notes 95 percent of its 200 employees live in Cambridge, the city where it first provided city-wide service.
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Frank P. Magann
Yellow Cab
Mississippi
Cambridge
Taxpayers Hold Annual Meeting in Cambridge Hall
Cambridge Taxpayers Ass'n reported a healthy financial condition at its annual meeting in Cantabrigia Hall. Acting treasurer Harry P. Kitfield delivered the report while Lee’y Paul Frank presented extensive figures to more than 300 attendees. The nominating committee read a slate of directors, and criticism of the School Department prompted calls to abolish several positions. Mayor Corcoran and City Manager Atkinson were greeted as discussants noted 44 percent of the local budget falls outside Cambridge control. Continued on Page 8.
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Cambridge
Cantabrigia Hall
Harry P. Kitfield
Lee'y Paul Frank
Ch. Stoughton Bell
Anthony ©. Shalma
Stoughton Bell
Harry Kitfield
Edwin R. Sage
Wm. G. Brousseau
David C. Dow, Jr
A. John Serino
Jas. P. Brennan
Wm. M. Mec- Nair
W. Alexander Cox
Arthur
Bennick
Jas. J. Lawlor
Jas. Mahady
Robert H. Davison
Thos. F. Sullivan
Stanley Fitch
Arthur Drinkwater
Jeremiah Downey
Chas. J. Wood
Frank FP. Scully
Frank T. Evans
Wm. D. Swan
Albert N. Murray
Chandler Johnson
Cox
Sedy Frank
Corcoran
Mgr
Atkinson
Ch. Bell
Long
Boston
Public School Proposal Defeated on Marrying In Service
Russell A. Wood urges support for a reform to permit teachers to marry those in service, arguing it would aid morale for those serving at the front. He notes the Fitzgerald proposal was defeated and warns against closing Gannett School, a low-cost Cambridge Street facility, unless parents demand a hearing.
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School
Ittee
Fitzgerald
Gannett School
Cambridge St
Cassidy
Jas. Fitzgerald E
Rusell A. Wood
Secretary Sought for New Defense Board
City Manager Atkinson opposes salaried officials serving on defense bodies fearing time overlap with city duties. Ex-Gov Counihan heads the new Atkinson board with Pres. Comstock of Radcliffe and Ralph Robart among members.
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Atkinson
Counihan
Hurley
Sennett
Atkinson” Board
Pres. Comstock
Radcliffe
Ralph Robart
Wm. M
Civilian Defense Demonstrates First Aid Readiness at Longfellow School
Civilian Defense staged a first class drill at Longfellow School last Sunday to show air raid first aid fitness. Joe Costa of Costa Ambulance led six ambulances with his sons Arthur George and Joe aiding, responding to alarms from all sections to transport injured to safety. The drill underscored preparation even if Cambridge may not face an air attack, inviting local businesses like the Costas to participate with available resources.
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Longfellow School
Joe Costa
Costa
Prospect St
Arthur
George
Cambridge
Costas
United Nations
Cambridge Visiting Nursing Assn Holds 8th Meeting
The 8th annual meeting of the Cambridge Visiting Nursing Association will take place at Phillips Brooks House on Monday at 4 PM. Dr Albert H Engleback of Cambridge Hospital is slated to speak.
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Cambridge Visiting Nursing Ass'n
Phillips Brooks House
Albert H. Engelbach
Cambridge Hospital
Cambridge Faces Water Choice With Quabbin Link
A letter urges Cambridge to vote by March first to end the city pipe line with the metropolitan system or otherwise become a Quabbin water customer. The writer frames the choice as a civic duty and notes financial implications of remaining connected to the regional supply.
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Cambridge City
Quabbin Water
Ensign John F. Tynan Graduates Navy Training
John F. Tynan of 490 Huron Avenue is commissioned as an Ensign after graduating this week from the First Naval District.
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John F. Tynan
Huron Ave
First Naval District
Police staffing plan tied to station closures
The text argues there is no immediate need for 51 new police officers certified by civil service if two branch stations are eliminated and officers reassigned to outside patrols. It frames the assertion as a neutral truth without political spin.
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Civil Service
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Dunnett Obsequies
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