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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1960
Page
11
Sudbury Regional High students will attend a special summer school program funded to aid promising seniors from Greater Sudbury. Principal notes participation does not come from Harvard and will include courses in French history and English along with an exchange commitment and related seminars.
Maynard H H Scott Inc introduces the improved 222B 30 watt stereo amplifier. Features include tape monitoring, separate channel tone controls, tape head inputs, aluminum chassis, 20 watt transformers, organ input, and a price of 144.95 east of the Rockies. A technical bulletin is available from 111 Powdermill Road.
An article by M. Bugayeva in Soviet Photo Magazine notes millions of camera enthusiasts in the USSR and 1,600,000 cameras made last year. It mentions school photo groups, active clubs, and a disputed claim of inventing flexible film before Eastman, which is dismissed as unfounded. Railroads also say they increased ties per mile to 3,020 from 2,640.
UPI notes corporate pension funds have grown to over 25 billion dollars with 7.71 billion invested in common stock. Last year stock holdings rose by about 1.7 billion, led by oil auto and communications sectors as funds increasingly favor equities.
Brig Gen Charles H. Terhune Jr. assumed deputy commander duties of the Air Force Command and Control Development Division at Hanscom Field. He previously served on the West Coast as vice commander of the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division and brings 22 years of service. Terhune, a Dayton native with degrees from Purdue and Caltech, is a former fighter pilot linked to WWII jet development. He is married to Beatrice Holcombe of San Marcos, Texas, and they have three children Donna Terry and Charles III.
New York columnist Jeanne Lesem notes summer soup best with cold weather and seasonal fruit. European traditions include Gazpacho Tarator and borscht while vichyssoise rose from Louis Diaz at the Ritz. US tastes favor tomato soup with 15 million families serving soup on a typical day.
Opening day September 17 marks the start of the 1960 Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield Massachusetts. Milking Shorthorn cattle from Durham England will headline the mammoth cattle show with judging by Wiemkin of Deans, Ohio, president of the American Milking Shorthorn Society. Entries for the cattle and sheep shows close August 20. A stray fact notes only two lizard species are found in North America.
Mrs. Irene Hermanson formerly of Berkshire County Extension Service will join the Middlesex County office on Aug. 15. She replaces Mrs. Barbara West who resigned to be a full time homemaker and mother of a baby boy. Hermanson will supervise group teaching and activities and assist Mrs. Anna Carey, residing in Maynard with her husband attending Northeastern University.
Concord reports district court fines for multiple defendants. Morgan L. Grant Jr. and Harold P. Coyle paid totals for speeding and registration offenses. Charles Danton Carol Doughty James Grady William Ha gerty George Hughes Vitty Lepovich John Tiernan Antonio Tosti also faced fines for speeding registration operating to endanger and related charges.
About 50 relatives gathered Sunday at King Street Littleton for the third annual Currier Fairchild family reunion hosted by Mr. and Mrs. George B. Caldwell. The event featured a picnic lunch and games with relatives from Littleton Bedford Concord Nuttings Lake Lynn Pembroke Revere Peabody in attendance.
Waltham district official urges 100000 housewives and household employers to verify earnings postings to social security accounts. Postcard forms for annual checks are available, with sessions at Marlboro City Hall Concord Post Office and Maynard Town House. A separate report from Dania, Florida details a deadly roach poison incident involving six siblings, three of whom died, attributed to parathion contamination.
Lincoln residents Mrs. John Peabody Monks announces the engagement of her daughter Olga Gardner to Thomas Merriman Kimball son of Mr and Mrs Robert Merriman Kimball of Waban. Olga studied at Concord Academy and National Cathedral School class of 1956. Kimball attended MIT and will graduate from Denison University next February.
Acton Acton Laboratories Inc marketed a miniature adjustable sequence timer Model 4.23 designed for rockets and satellites. It meets vibration and shock specs, offers 0.1 percent timing accuracy, 1 second to 45 minutes span, low current draw, and supports multiple switch closures during powered flight.
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