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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1950
Page
9
Community fundraiser held last Friday evening to support the Memorial Library scholarship fund. Junior class volunteers hosted a one story hour for children ages one through three, with proceeds aiding the library project in West Acton.
The Ladies Circle of West Acton Baptist church meets today with dessert at 1 30. An auction and business meeting follow. The Women’s Church Aid of Center Congregational church will be guests and provide the afternoon’s entertainment.
Acton 4-H clubs will hold a silver tea on Saturday May 6 at the Acton Woman's Club Acton Center from 3 30 to 5 p m. An exhibition of 4-H work will run concurrently. Tea hosted by Mrs George W Newton and Mrs Kenneth E Jewell. 4 H leaders listed include Mrs Cleon Phelps Mrs Daniel Sweeney Mrs Laurence Winslow Mrs Roger Myrick and Mrs Fred B Richards.
Sudbury Grange reports 112 dollars in profits from a rummage and food sale supporting the Scotchlite bicycle illumination project. Fifty four youngsters were taped last week under Mrs L Roy Hawes and helpers, with proceeds funding a future gift to the new school.
The Congregational Service League of the Center Congregational church meets this evening at 8. After the business session W Gordon Woodington of Acton will present pictures of historic Williamsburg. Saturday evening a telephone bridge and canasta party at the Acton Woman's Club will have additional hostesses Mrs Henry Doyle Mrs Harrington Moore and Mrs Albert Durkee.
Acton P T A will hold its annual meeting next Monday evening in Blanchard hall. Following the business session there will be dancing with a four piece orchestra. Dress is informal and Mrs. Gerald Hollis and committee are in charge of refreshments.
A U P dispatch reports 168 Tennessee couples wed in a month at a northern Mississippi Gretna Green. Among brides were a 13, 15, and 16 year old.
The Gerow family of West Concord thanks friends for support and expressions of sympathy after their recent loss. Mrs. George W. Gerow of West Concord expresses gratitude.
Furnished one room and kitchenette with semi private bath adjoining. Heat and electricity included. Separate entrance. Business person preferred. Telephone Acton 204.
Four German rocket experts and two American specialists at a space medicine symposium in Illinois outline major hurdles for manned space travel. They cite solar radiation meteors weightlessness and heat as key dangers with a July 1940s era three stage rocket concept by Wernher von Braun as a possible solution.
In Bombay a 45-year-old yogi Swami Ramdasji was dug out alive from an airtight cement crypt after 87 hours on a bed of nails and submerged in water. Disciples kept vigil with prayers and fire while laborers chipped away the cement. Ramdasji was revived by doctors who pronounced him well.
A northern Middlesex County Junior Baseball League meeting will be held Friday night at Breuster's Feed Store in West Acton. President Bob Cousins will announce managers, coaches, and the season schedule. Towns include Acton, Littleton, Ayer, Shirley, Tingsboro, West Concord, and Stow. A turkey dinner Saturday evening at the West Acton Woman's Clubhouse benefits the Acton Junior Baseball Club.
St Johnsbury Vermont police report high interest in the new "Let's take it easy" automobile tabs handed with traffic violation tickets. Officers said the tabs created extra work but drew wide attention as the public embraced the slogan.
Sudbury Woman's Club invites reservations for the annual meeting on May 3 at The Meadows. The event includes lunch a business meeting and officer elections plus a Petticoat Lane Shop fashion show with commentary by Mrs Thomas V Cahill. Retiring president Mrs Samuel J Goodhue will preside. Mr and Mrs Goodhue have leased Harbour Inn Marblehead and will run it seasonally.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Perkins spent Easter week visiting in Sudbury and Marblehead. They note a contrast between New England cold and brown fields and Kansas summer like warmth with 70 degree days and green grass. They also compare Mohawk Trail snow to Kansas blooming flowers and leafy trees.
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