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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1957
Page
9
An Acton Emer food sale is planned for April 27 at 3 p.m. at Exchange Hall West Acton to raise funds for the Middlesex Jeaners Store. Mrs. Peter Downey hosts with special cakes and door prizes. proceeds support a local cause amid community efforts.
Westboro hosts the Red Barn Theater opening its 20th season on Route 9. The production Bus Stop stars Dolores Fuller Jim Parker Robert Palmer and Shirley Matson directed by George Boolasta with sets by Francis Madard Jr. Curtain at 8 20 p m. Reservations at Westboro Forest 6 2345.
The Community Choral Society of Framingham presents the Verdi Manzoni Requiem with a 150 member group from 20 communities. The concert is Monday evening, April 29 at 8 o clock in Nevins Hall Framingham and features soloists soprano ores es Baldyga contralto El ling tenor Carl Nelson bass Robert Mesrobian with a symphony orchestra.
The Bedford Club postpones its meeting by one week to May 2 to avoid conflict with the Bedford Police Relief Association concert and ball. A member of the legislative committee studying penal law changes may attend the meeting.
Bed ford Grange at the Bedford Town hall hosted a Wednesday night program by Maynard-Phyllis L. Richards dance students. Loreen Pearl Gloria Jean Finan and Sandra Vanzini performed roller skate tap classical toe ballet and aes tap to much applause for their outstanding performance.
Concord Lions Club announces a pancake breakfast on Saturday May 18 at Monument Hall. New and existing committee members include Kenneth L Creighton chair Past President Robert B Lortz William H Kemp William M Lawrence Harold Keizer Robert Williams Everett Broughton Robert E Sheehan G Donald Lawrence N Blanchard Maxwell E Lawrence and Oscar M Jones with Kemp and Lawrence as chefs. Admission is nominal and tickets will be available soon.
Concord-Robin Allen daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles W Allen a senior at Principia College Elsah Ill served as chairman. More than 100 faculty and student delegates from 80 colleges attended. The conference focused on United States Foreign Policy and featured key note speaker William Elliott LeRoy Williams professor and assistant to the director Office of Defense Mobilization.
The Midd County Extension Service offers furniture refinishing classes in Concord and Billerica. The program runs in morning and afternoon sessions starting in May with three consecutive Thursday or Tuesday dates. Participants will work on actual furniture under the guidance of a home demonstration agent.
Waterbury Housing Authority reports a cinderblock office building that stood on the Peter Homes Housing project site has vanished. Only jagged blocks remain and officials cannot explain the disappearance or whereabouts of the missing structure.
Concord area table egg producers in western Middlesex and Worcester counties attend a workshop series in Fitchburg on egg quality. Sessions run weekly Wednesday evenings through April and the first Thursday in May with varied poultry management topics led by Robert M. Grover, Middlesex Extension Service agent.
Bedford Joseph W Brine Jr on the committee organizing a memorial for the late Prof. Ray M Koon of the Waltham Field Station. An oak tree will be planted at the field station on Arbor Day Friday in his memory. First Unitarian Church rummage sale May 4 10 am to 3 pm at Union School cafeteria. Donations accepted by Mrs Robert Dodge Mrs Donald Sands Mrs John Devereaux. Bedford common hosts the annual First Parish plant fair May 18.
Three Grand Rapids men listed as killed in action on the city's temporary World War II memorial received bronze plates bearing their names. The memorial also listed men missing in action as being in prison camps.
Lieut. Comdr. Edwin Cantelope announces that Naval Reserve drilling unit members reduce active duty risk for Ready Reservists during partial mobilization. He notes 17 to 26 year olds face six year service with five in Ready Reserve under the 1955 act. Training center at Lowell cites value of drills and instructor potential. members receive full day’s pay for two and a half hour drills.
The page lists upcoming events and ceremonies: a Boy Scout camping trip to Tyngsborough on Saturday April 27 with a court of honor on Friday May 3, two spring weddings in Concord and Maynard on April 28 and May 11, a Concord Woman’s Club spring show at the Concord Free Public Library ending after four weeks, a midweek church gathering May 1, a rummage sale by Emerson Hospital on April 27 with sale day May 11 at the State Armory, and a delivery day for rummage donations at the Newbold barn.
During the 1940s and 1950s American society saw more marriages and divorces and births than any previous decade, reflecting demographic shifts after World War II and into the early Cold War era.
Stow Grange No. 103 hosts a Spring Fair and Hobby Show at the Town Hall on Saturday May 4 starting 1 pm. Exhibits by Stow Cub Scouts Girl Scouts 4 H and art students. plant and shrub donations welcome contact Fred Jones or W Pek. Aprons candy and food under volunteers M Hunter Phyllis Connington Hazel Stow R Comington. Roast beef supper at 6 pm chaired by Myron Curtis. Dance afterward sponsored by the Stow American Legion.
More than 150 courses under the United States Army Technical School Program are open to high school graduates under a three year enlistment plan. Master Sergeant John Furdeck at the Army Recruiting Station Maynard Town House may be contacted in Lowell at Glenview 9 9300 for details. Electricity 5 E 5 trains personnel to install inspect and repair electrical systems for military installations and structures. Carpenter 5 E 32 trains personnel in construction and repair of wooden structures including bridges wharves and stairs. Prerequisites include standard scores of 90 or higher on Aptitude area IX and BUY U S SAVINGS BONDS.
Concord becomes the focus of the Easter Seal drive with treasurer William K Walters reporting about $1723 raised, or 86 percent of the 1957 town quota. The statewide total stands at roughly 285000, and donations can still be sent to Walters at the Harvard Trust Company on Main Street.
About 120 fifth graders from Howard Street and Proctor schools Northboro will tour Old Sturbridge Village to learn how early Americans lived during the first fifty years of the nation. The 200 acre site features 30 buildings with craftsmen in period dress, an early New England grist mill, blacksmith shop, tin work, pottery and more.
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