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Newspaper
Cambridge Sentinel
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1941
Page
4
Members discuss selecting a night for the formal opening of the Boardman School Recreation Center on Windsor Street which includes a branch library. Mrs. Brooks hints this may be their last public appearance for a while as tensions surface among officials at Cambridge Common and upcoming meeting plans loom.
Twenty five years ago Pearl Street undertaker Jos G Andrews faced serious illness as City Hall shifted tone under Mayor Rockwood. Henry J Cunningham served as Public Safety Commissioner despite the mayoral claim, with courts later confirming his back salary and resignation. Numerous police, civic and educational figures are noted, including reserve officers promoted, editorials on local posts, and references to Cambridge post office plans. Rev Fr Patrick J Lydon travels to Washington on a month long business trip.
Director Joe Smith recounts the 1921 founding of the Grammer School Basketball League in Cambridgeport with 45 teams across 3 districts. Each school fields 6th, 7th, and 8th grade squads and 689 candidates sign up for instruction ahead of inter-school games.
The Estelle Hatch Auxiliary Number 9 U S W V inducted new officers and honored active members. Pres Dorothy Hogan led a slate including 5th vice Mary McFaun J vice Ellen McGilvray chaplain Margaret Sheridan and other officers and color bearers.
Representative Henry D. Winslow introduces four zoning bills aimed at local billboard control and citizen enforcement of local zoning laws. Another measure consolidates the Metropolitan Planning Division with the State Planning Board as urged by Governor Saltonstall. The bills, drawn by the Massachusetts Federation of Planning Boards, have backing from the Massachusetts Civic League and propose a limited access highway managed by the State Department of Public Works.
The License Commission will hear Socony Vacuum Co owner and Packard Paint & Varnish Co prospective buyer on Monday January 27 1941 at 2 PM in City Hall Room 0 Cambridge. The plan covers storing and selling up to 127000 gallons of fuels oils varnishes alcohol turpentine and related products in underground and aboveground tanks at 110 Potter St and 212-26 Smith St Cambridge and to operate a two track garage.
A notice from Frobatie Court Middlesex invites interested parties to object to Michael N Mavroidogonas of Cambridge being named executor without bond. A written appearance must be filed by January 24 before ten in the forenoon, with John Seat Esquire as First Judge.
The Massachusetts Federation of Planning Boards introduces a note on Pleuromonas jaculans, the smallest known animal, described as two body lengths less than a thousandth of an inch and dwelling in ditches and pools, with support from the Department of Public Works.
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