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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1948
Page
12
The Concord Lions Club held a Tuesday regular meeting at Howard Johnsons Restaurant. After supper and business, a program followed with Henry H. Gaffney, executive of the United National Appeal For Children, as scheduled speaker and World Federalists enthusiast.
Concord council of the Knights of Columbus announces the grand opening of its new rooms at Monument Hall on May 15. A 7 oclock supper will be followed by entertainment and dancing for Knights guests and their ladies. Past Grand Knight Charles E. Mera leads the committee with assistants Elmier E. Peachey William M. ONeill John T. OBrien Jr and William A. Hagerty.
Mrs. Ethel I Thresher announces engagement of her daughter Ethel Jean Thresher to Joseph W Yates son of Mrs Ernest Yates of Lowell Mass They both work at the U S Veterans Administration Miss Thresher a Lexington High School and Symes Arlington Hospital School of Nursing graduate Mr Yates a Lowell school educated war veteran The couple plans marriage in the fall.
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Massachusetts weekly wage averages rose to 51.43 in February up 4.30 from a year earlier and 29.00 or 129 percent from 1939. Confectionery makers produced nearly 90 million dollars of candy, employing about 11 thousand people. General Electric develops silicone golf ball center in Pittsfield. Public school spending averages 164.07 per pupil with towns without high schools at 201.42. Quabbie Reservoir site costs 19.92 per million gallons. Amesbury votes to reestablish planning board for municipal planning.
More than 300 members and guests attended the Minute Man Forest Protective Association banquet at the State Armory in Concord. Gov. Robert F. Bradford spoke praising the group for October fire work and urged statewide expansion.
Sheridan of Littleton, newly elected director of the Merrimac Production Credit Association, returned from a two day school for PCA directors at the Farm Credit Administration Building in Springfield. He said the event informs new directors of responsibilities and policies of the Production Credit system. Raymond Arnold of Fitchburg attended alongside former PCA directors from Maine, Rhode Island and New York.
Concord Woman's Union of the Trinitarian Congregational Church hosts a dinner at 6 30 p m with Rev Rollin J Fairbanks as guest speaker on the topic Understanding the Patient.
Bedford announces the engagement of Catherine Fraser to Sergeant Harry W. Jacobs of Conneaut Ohio. Catherine is educated at local Lexington High and the Lexington High School.
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