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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1955
Page
7
The article notes that night vision worsens with age, with parents often unaware they are less efficient than teenagers. It cites Kretschmar and AAA saying while glasses help, older drivers face greater night-driving risks as efficiency halves around age 55 and drops further past 70.
The event features food booths on Memorial Ball Field and a livestock show including cattle sheep and horses as strong outdoor attractions. A square dance on the baseball diamond will be led by Mr and Mrs Albert Weston. Prizes ribbons rosettes and cash awards will be given with cooperation from the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture. The Federated Church women will provide meals during dinner and supper. The next group meeting is August 24 at the town hall to finalize details.
A 200 pound man at the equator would weigh about 201 pounds near the North Pole because Earth's gravity is stronger at higher latitudes. The variation reflects geophysical gravity differences across the globe.
Unemployment claims in Massachusetts for the week ending July 23 total 63,636, down 24 percent from a year earlier. District offices show most declines, with North Adams down 86 percent and several others dropping 25 to 55 percent. Factory output in 1953 reached a peak value of 9.29 billion with major groups led by electrical machinery and textiles, while 1955 tax receipts declined 11.6 percent to 1.785 billion. Social security recipients rose to 292,110 by end of 1954, and consumer costs edged up 0.5 percent mid-July with housing and fuel leading gains, food easing. Ice cream production in 1953 reached 21.8 million gallons, with 1.4 million gallons of new ice milk.
The Financial Industrial Fund will pay the largest distribution in its 20 year history to all shareowners on September 15, 1955. The capital gain distribution from security profits totals 1,763,506 dollars, about 17 cents per share. A quarterly dividend of 3 cents per share will accompany the payment for roughly 10,375,000 shares. FIF assets totaled 40,102,014 dollars as of August 9, up 16,910,611 from the prior year.
Miss Maud Priest of 49 Summer street has returned from a month long vacation to Williams Bay Lake Geneva Wisconsin. She also visited relatives in Illinois and the Chain of Lakes region in upper Wisconsin.
Edith Nourse Rogers will speak at Hanscom Field on Saturday August 20 at 2:00 p.m. She heads the 89th Fighter Bomber Wing Reserve and will discuss The Importance of Reserves. Other guests include Rep Thomas P. O Neill and Lt Gen Leon W. Johnson as the event features band music, jet aircraft displays, and a retreat parade.
Marsha Jordan will headline the August Marsha Jordan Fashion Show at Shoppers World Framingham on Friday August 19 at 3 30 and 7 30 p m Classic fall to school fashions to be modeled by Jordan and nine council members from area high schools including Kate Ford Derry Knight Audrey Whelan Carol Santry Elaine Collins Carol Daley Paula Melanson Marsha Joyce and Lizbeth Miller The public is invited to attend.
Patricia McCarthy, 20, former Acton High School basketball star and daughter of Mr and Mrs T Leo McCarthy of 457 Great Road, is gravely ill with bulbar polio at Massachusetts General Hospital Boston. She has been hospitalized over a week and is the first local polio case reported. Miss McCarthy works at the Middlesex Insurance Partnership in Concord. Her father is a noted officer at the Massachusetts Reformatory in West Concord.
Route 3 opens on the outer Bedford fringe near the Burlington line replacing the former road and extending toward Nashua. Holy Day masses at Michael’s Church were celebrated Monday with pastor Rev Fr McDermott and curate Rev Fr Flynn in charge.
Ann Carolyn Luker and Charles Lawrence Mahoney Jr. wed in a nuptial mass at St. Bridget’s Church last Saturday. The service featured Fr. Sullivan, organist Morgan Foley, and soprano Joseph Colombo. A reception followed at Sudbury Inn for about 150 relatives and friends. The couple plans residence in Newton after a Canada and New York honeymoon. The bride is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Luker. the groom is son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Mahoney. She wore nylon tulle and lace with a cathedral train. he wore a navy suit for the trip. The bride attended Maynard High and Holy Ghost Hospital School of Nursing. the groom attended Newton High and Boston University. He works for Stow, Woodward in Newton.
The Concord School Committee will receive sealed bids for bus services for transporting school children within Concord. Four buses are involved. Bids must be received by 4 oclock Monday, August 22 and will be opened publicly at that time. Information is available from Superintendent Angelo Giaudrone at Stow Street.
In Chaplin Connecticut eight year old Bobby Prochorchik carried a 124 pound turtle into a post office for an official weigh in to address classmates questions.
Fort Carson Colorado reports a shift to tea through 260000 tea bags used monthly in the last two months. Colonel Curtis Miller notes 15 percent of soldiers prefer tea to coffee as mess halls convert coffee urns to hot water for tea. A young recruit quips the tea is cool and questions boiling water.
R K Maiden recovered a torn rotted wallet from a field he plowed in April 1953 and, after checking the contents at a bank, received $94 though he believed it held $90. The wallet's owner had previously lost it years earlier.
The article explains a method of lake fishing in British Guiana using a forest vine extract to stupefy fish, making them rise to the surface for shooting with arrows. The toxin’s effect lasts only a few hours.
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