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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1954
Page
11
The Petits plan a Florida coast trip with Mary Helen and Tommy to visit farms and friends. Night camping under stars turns tense as Tommy's asthma flares, but a stray horse interrupts worry, easing the moment as mother laughs and rest continues.
Researchers detail a single engine jet in flight with a fuel transfer sequence. The report mentions fuel filling, valve operations, and tank equivalence, suggesting similar capacity across tanks.
The Republic F-84 fighters equipped with the new system complete their entire fueling in two and a half minutes marking a first for U S Air Force fighters. This development makes the aircraft capable of in flight refueling extending range and operational time.
The U S Eighth Army uses about twenty seven thousand Korean civilians in Korea, reducing American troop needs and cutting transport and maintenance costs. Koreans perform labor to skilled work across ordnance, quartermaster, signal, and engineer tasks, with on the job training and English interpreters aiding operations.
The message urges saving for a child’s future through United States Savings Bonds and the Payroll Savings Plan. It emphasizes starting early to finance education and explains bonds paying more at maturity, with automatic bond issuance once funds accumulate. It promotes employer payroll deductions and long term benefits.
Way ne Simmons ten year old said he ran home for dinner after being hit by a car while watching television. Deputy Sheriff John Drake noted the driver was exonerated.
Billy Melton, 12, fled his Fort Worth home claiming he disliked girls and called them tattletales. Police found him. he is the only boy among five sisters in his family.
Olympia notes a rising menace to replanting forests as black bears raid saplings in western Washington timber areas. Four bears per 160 acres plague stands 20 to 30 years old, harming seed sources. Farmers push a campaign to wipe out the population with guns and poison.
Scott William Anderson 54, father of nine and grandfather of 13, earned magna cum laude from Willamette University in Salem Oregon. He majored in religion after transferring from Los Angeles Valley Junior College and posted a 3.75 GPA. He and his wife then visited a son graduating from the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston reports that New England business activity leveled off in the second quarter with improvements in some sectors. Manufacturers saw higher new orders in April to June while raw material inventories fell but finished goods rose. Employment continued to decline, though the rate slowed.
Acton Center student Acton ninth grader Knippel son of Mr and Mrs Ernest Knippel has earned honorable mention in Ford Motor Company 1954 industrial arts competition for a Tesler Coil the project will be exhibited at Chicago Museum of Science and Industry from August 16 to September 30 and he will receive a cash prize a gold watch and a certificate.
Lincoln Grange P. of H. No. 129 held a lobster cookout at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Allston W. Riley on Concord road. Election of officers will occur at the next meeting on September 7.
Green Bay Wisconsin. Gus Ernst expected a one-cent tax refund and planned to share a joke with friends. The IRS replied that the mileage allowance was calculated incorrectly and requested an additional twenty dollars.
Charles J. Insalaco, 23, escaped injury when his car skidded and overturned in Willimantic Connecticut. While exiting, he fell and sprained his wrist in the accident reported by United Press.
Richard P. Bank 35 of Marlboro has been appointed an Aeronautics Inspector for the Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission with offices at Logan Airport Boston. He will join Chief Inspector Frank Sweeney to inspect and license airports in the state and support patrols, crash investigations, and search missions. Bank topped a Civil Service list of about 35 eligible candidates and has a long aviation background including World War II training and service, flight instruction at Boston Airport, and leadership roles in local organizations.
Joseph S. Matthews, 92, the oldest Dartmouth graduate, attended this year’s commencement. The retired associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court is president of the class of 1884, which now has only two other living members from an original 83.
In Standish Maine caretaker Bert Chaplin says 41 discarded eggs hatched under the summer sun and the baby chicks are thriving. The find was made at the town dump and the operation is described as successful.
Annual Grangers cookout for Carlisle Grange P of H No 402 will be held next Wednesday evening August 18 at Lawrence Blanchard home on School Street Blanchard a Concord florist Regular meetings resume in September under Mrs Marion Pedersen master
In Salerh New Hampshire the safe at Arthur Shugrue's filling station has been cracked eight times in two years with no theft. After the latest break the safe is beyond repair and Shugrue told burglars there is no money left, only papers.
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