Veterans Rehab Pioneers On The Job Training Programs
The Bedford VA Hospital advances on the job experience for patients through the member-employee and community employment projects. Employers embrace early treatment plans and plan for reinstatement, with placements in engineering carpentry offices lab X ray and landscaping roles. Progressive companies like Evans International Concord Woodworking Acorn Houses Slid-A-Unit Finley Manufacturing Kenney Farms and Palumbo Farm partner to provide paid work experiences during rehabilitation.
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Carter
Bedford
Division of Employment Security
Veterans Employment Representative
Massachusetts
Bedford VA_Hospital
Evans International
Concord Woodworking
Acorn Houses, Inc
Slid-A-Unit
Finley Manufacturing Company
Kenney Farms
Palumbo Farm
Fragmentary OCR Traces of Political Debate and Lawmaker Quotes
Disjointed OCR fragment mentions General Truman, architecture, offices, bills to House, and arrest or jail context. Faint references to Brow and security or law. No clear event or named date emerges from readable text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neral
Whitney Orders Crackdown On All Cigarette Tossers
Boston AP State Police Commissioner Otis M. Whitney ordered a crackdown on motorists tossing cigarettes from cars near woodlands. Due to drought he ordered a special watch for offenders, who face fines up to 100 dollars and up to 30 days in jail on conviction.
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Boston
Otis M. Whitney
Woodlands
Polio rate down nationwide amid Salk vaccination push
Public Health Service reports paralytic polio cases at under half the 4.56 rate. Fifty new paralytic cases in the week ending July 20 bring 1956 year total to 780, versus 2,016 last year. Total polio cases (all types) for the week reach 252, with 1,995 since January 1 and 3,892 for first 29 weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Public Health Service
Athe
Preservation Plan Set for Sudbury River Stone Bridge
The Historic Stone Bridge over the Sudbury River will be preserved with a new nearby highway span for traffic. Built before North Bridge, it survived Hurricane Diana’s 1955 flood and will now be restored with pedestrian access only. Bids open August 13. project cost about 175000 dollars. completion by late May next year.
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Sudbury River
Wayland-Framingham
General Knox
Boston
North Bridge
Concord Battleground
Diana
Concord
Stone Bridge
State Public Works
Carl A. Sheridan
Worcester Gas Light seeks revised price adjustment
The Worcester Gas Light Company filed with the Department of Public Utilities for an updated price adjustment to take effect August 21. The increase, under four tenths of a cent per hundred cubic feet, raises the charge from 0.16c to 0.39c per hundred cubic feet as it passes through higher natural gas costs from the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company.
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Worcester Gas
Department of Public Utilities
Worcester Company
Tennessee Gas Transmission Company
Federal Power Commission
Tennessee Gas
Worcester Gas Light Company
Tennessee Company
Connecticut Factory Wages Rise to 84.45 in June
The average weekly wage for Connecticut factory production workers rose to 84.45 in June, up 61 cents from May. The average take home pay surpassed last year’s 80.56, and the average hourly rate climbed to 2.01. Printing and publishing led fields at 97.61.
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Hartford
Divorce Granted After 54 Years of Marriage
Carrie Harriger of Muskegon aged 83 was granted a divorce from Harriger 76 of White Cloud who had deserted his wife in 1928. The couple had been married for 54 years before separation.
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Muskegon
Mitch
Carrie Harriger
Harriger
Massachusetts Falls Far Behind in Public Higher Education Support
Massachusetts ranks near the bottom among the 48 states in per capita state funding for public higher education. The University of Massachusetts and regional colleges showed 47th in a prior study, with recent estimates placing Massachusetts last in state expenditure relative to all educational spending.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts Commission On the
University of Massachusetts
Lowell
Fall River
New Bedford
Bay State
Tom
John Powers Mallan
Research Agency
Free One Year Vacation Offered For Balding Twins
Boston reports a hair clinic operator offers a free one year stay in Italy for 40 sets of identical male twins aged 20 to 40 with receding hairlines. Lynn Akers, president of Akers hair clinics, says over 200000 will fund the study to test early treatment against baldness. Fifteen American twin pairs will be included under Rome genetics clinic supervision.
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Boston
Italy
New England
Lynn Akers
International
Genetics
University of Rome
Italian Medical Association
Akers
It Ain't Cricket: Weymouth Doctors Lose to Clergy
In Weymouth England doctors team forfeited their cricket match with the local clergy after their star batsman was summoned away to confinement.
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Weymouth
England
Concord area real estate transactions listed for multiple pairs
Recent Lowell ton area deeds show transfers from Cree to Oliver on Piper road and from Hirsch to Davis on Windsor avenue. Additional transfers involve Sinnett on Hosmer street, Heroux on Oneida road, Mackine to Turnbull on Central street, and Willett on County road. Also listed are Anderson to Cozzens on Main street and Comeau on Bedford street. Over 300000 eye injuries occur yearly in American industry and most are preventable.
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Concord
Lowellton
Walter D. Cree
Donald W. Oliver
Piper Road
Arthur N. Hirsch
Lawrence S. Davis
Windsor Avenue
Jenky Homes, Inc
Robert S. Sinnett
Hosmer Street
Jenks Homes, Inc
Leon J. Heroux
Oneida Road
Patrick T. Mackine
Richard K. Turnbull
Central Street
Grace E. Taylor
Albert
Courtney Comeau
Bedford Street
Maurice McWalter
Louis J. Venti
Elsinore Street
John T. Obrien, Jr
Joan H. Powers
Elm Street
Alphonse J. Pakstis
William M. Payne
Main Street
Rotary Views Heart Film Greet Guests at Concord Luncheon
Concord Rotary Club welcomed Past District Governor Lester Cushing and visitors from Ayer Belmont Dedham Groton Lexington Lowell and Maynard at a Thursday luncheon featuring a heart film titled M Purport Takes Heart. The event announced a cookout for August and honored Francis Arnold a recent Concord High School graduate awarded a Rotary scholarship.
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Concord
al den Wheeler
Rotary Club of
Howard Johnson’s
Ralph A. Macone
Lester Cushing
Ayer
Belmont
Dedham
Groton
Lexington
Lowell
Maynard
Harry SS. Martin
George Wolman
Greater Boston
Massachusetts Heart Association
M. Purtp
Mr. Wolman
Win Collette
Bixby Shoemaker
John Walsh
Worcester
Arthur Desmond
Edward. J. Higgins
E. Wilson Bursaw
Acton
Warren A. Gratchen
A. Glenn Simm
Bedford
Harry Young
Riviera Beach
Fla
Robert Barras
Simm
Lester B. Whittemore
Frank 8. Esau
Joseph C. Wheeler
Samuel G. Kent
D. Edward Cleary, Jr
Springhill
Nova Scotia
Gloucester
H. Whittemore Brown
Boston
Eliot R. Howard
Boothbay
Preventing Mildew by Drying Clothes Before Hauling
To stop mildew growth always dry soiled clothes towels and wash cloths before placing them in the laundry hamper. Ensure items are fully air or machine dried to reduce moisture. This routine preserves fabric and reduces odor in storage.
Payroll Deduction Plan Faces Industrial Opposition
An industrial official argues a payroll deduction plan would impose greater burdens on employees and firms, increase costs beyond wages, and disadvantage local business versus plants in other states. He claims some tax dodgers avoid obligations while the plan misuses tax collection.
Maynard man fined in Waltham district court
Lynn D. Parry 24 was fined 175 dollars after pled guilty to drunkenness driving under the influence leaving the scene of an accident and no license in possession. Leonard Kendall 23 was found innocent of allowing an improper person to drive. A 1956 car crashed into a fence on Dix street with witnesses describing the path. Police arrested Parry at River and Newton streets on the afternoon of June 27.
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Kendall
Parry
Dix Street
Waltham
Maynard
Waltham District Court
Paul K Connolly
Lynn D. Parry
Leonard Kendall
Orchard Drive
Littleton
U. S
Tradition broken in Acton as town clerk changes
In Acton Massachusetts, for the first time in 101 years the town clerk is not a Tuttle. Harlan E Tuttle resigned at 53 and Charles M Macrae has taken over the post, ending a three generation family line.
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Acton
Mass
Abi
Tuttle
Harlan E. Tutstle
Charles M. Macrae
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Marlboro
W. R. Jackson, Jr
Leesville-Vernon Parish
W. D. Gooch
West Foster Street
Melrose
H. P. Smith
Framingham Building Wrecking CO. Inc
Pond St. Ashland
Tel
Trinity
Rotary Views
Hanson
Maynard Man
Ralph C. Erickson
Richard A. Anderson
River
Newton
Main St. Tel
Hudson
Main St
Main St. Maynard
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