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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1962
Page
20
Gustave L. Opperman, active in the Concord unit, is among 13 people taking civil service examinations or appointments as deputy directors of civil defense. The group includes 10 Powers read.
Concord hosts a forest trees planting demonstration Saturday at 10 a.m. at the town forest on Walden street opposite Concord Carlisle High School near Route 2. Foresters from Extension Service University of Massachusetts and Massachusetts Department of Natural Resources will answer questions. If rain, the meeting moves to the following Saturday.
Carlisle Holy Week service times list mass at 7 p m on Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday Adoration of the blessed sacrament Thursday from 7 30 p m to midnight observed at St Irene's Church with parishioners invited to participate.
The Arctic tern undertakes the longest annual bird migration covering about 22 000 miles from the Arctic to the Antarctic.
Bedford residents Mr. and Mrs. Theodore B. Currier celebrated 25 years of marriage with a Saturday night party at their 6 Wayte Road home. About 75 guests from Bedford and nearby towns attended, sharing cards gifts and a buffet lunch. They were wed in Concord by Rev. George L. Thurlow and later lived in Houston Texas. The couple has two children Theodore Jr and Peter and two grandchildren with an older daughter Martha who died last year.
A Union Evangelical Church service club plans a Saturday 6 p.m. bean supper for members and the community. Menu includes beans frankforts salads rolls homemade pies coffee and milk. Tickets from Mrs George Banfield TW 7 2452 or at the door. Special price for children.
Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette G. Currier and family plan a Saturday move to a North Reading home as their current residence sells to James Stander. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Mead welcome a newborn son. The Bedford Council K of C planning group meets Sunday at 7 30 p m in the school cafeteria with Ralph Carr and John Perkins as officers. Dr Richard W Hale Jr ophthalmologist addressed a public L W V meeting last night.
St. Paul’s notes Sunday observance marks Holy Week start. Holy Communion services are at 10 am on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. Maundy Thursday falls on April 19 followed by Good Friday and Easter on April 22.
Paper consumption rose to about 14 billion dollars in 1946 with Americans using roughly 440 pounds per person and about 2 200 pounds per family. This compares with 254 pounds per person in 1940.
Hollywood veteran Charles Bickford says his memoir will cover his first 50 years in show business and his battles with studio executives at MGM. He plans to publish over 600 pages and is developing a TV series The House of Seven with three generations of detectives.
The Maynard Maynard High School Building Committee met at Green Meadow School to approve working drawings for the new high school. Town counsel Atty Leonard E Rae with bonding attorneys prepared an article and motion for a special town meeting on May 14. The committee voted to submit the article and motion to selectmen for inclusion in the Tiec on it upcoming meeting.
Combine puffed wheat with melted butter and parmesan cheese in a shallow pan. Add salt and mix lightly. Bake at 300 degrees for about 15 minutes to turn breakfast cereal into a snack or party food.
The Maynard Maynard St Casimir Holy Name Society held a communion breakfast at 9 am led by Rev F S Miaskiewicz D C L with no speaker. Prizes announced include two Red Sox season tickets to John Murphy a $50 defense bond to William Maguire a $25 bond to Louis Walker transistor radios to Ferdland Filiant and Holmes. Proceeds go to scholarship and charity funds. The group also planned attendance at a Lenten film and the annual archdiocesan bowling tournament at Boylston Bowladrome Boston next month.
A Palm Sunday service of music and the spoken word will be sponsored by Maynard Stow Council of Churches. Special music by the Hardy Sisters and a combined choir from local churches. organ accompaniment by Miss Marion L Jones. The service starts at 7 30 in Union Congregational Church and is open to the public.
The Maynard Frank J DeMars Post will show the film Operation Abolition at Green Meadow School on April 25 at 8 p.m. The public is welcome. Maynard Council K of C met Tuesday with Grand Knight Eugene L Charpentier presiding. They discussed Patriots Day dinner plans for April 23 in Boston and degree work.
Reverend Lawrence OBrien of Maynard Methodist Church will preach Sunday morning on Murder in the Cathedral. Junior high and senior high fellows join a union service at Union Congregational at 7 30 p m.
Concord Lions, Concord and Maynard clubs with Emerson Hospital and the Mass Division of the Blind sponsor a free glaucoma screening on Wednesday May 2 from 11 am to 9 pm at Emerson Hospital. Appointments are available for people 40 and over by calling EM. 9-3340, Extension 208.
The Acton Winona Rebekah Lodge met at West Acton Fire Station last Wednesday under Dorothy Smith and Marjorie Kennedy for an April Fools Night. A past noble grands night is planned for April 26 with Dorothy Smith and Alice Roberts in charge. A mystery ride is set for May 2 with Norma Smith in charge.
Mrs Mary UJ and daughters attend with son Stan Uglevich as part of a Lenten moving service. The event marks a church redecoration with acknowledgments to D Miaskiewicz.
The club will meet at 8 p m at the home of E Japp on Bedford road for a ness session. The session was Monday with Mrs Lawrence and Mrs Daniel Bickhoist and Mrs Japp mentioned. Date mage sale is April 9.
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