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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1954
Page
1
Polls report summer heat easing while polio emergency surfaces with nine alarms from Mon ulance calls. Concord police and town officials discuss elections as July birthdays and local notices mingle with plans for a used car call and a public sale.
William Davis of nlainer Company spoke to the Concord Thursday noon gathering noting his 108 Paratroopers unit. Casper oversaw seating while Ben presided. Fire officials announced a new afternoon call at the Central Station for a minor incident and the Nine Acre Car event marked the 170th current year.
Concord pays tribute to Burleigh L Pratt 65 a prominent townsman and businessman who died suddenly while on vacation in Newport. Services at First Parish Unitarian Church featured military honors with flag draped casket and numerous local officials in attendance. Pratt led Whitney Coal and Oil Company for 40 years and held roles in banks medical and civic groups. He served in World War I and belonged to Rotary Lodge and other organizations. He survived by wife Ruth Allen two daughters and two grandchildren.
Concord voters may register for the upcoming special town election for selectman. Eligible residents may register at the town clerk’s office up to 5 p.m. or on the final day Wednesday September 8 until 4 p.m. when the board of registrars will be in session.
Mrs. Cornelia M. Lawrence town clerk reports 45 voters registered on the final day of primary registration. The total voters in Concord reach 4,863, up 192 from two years ago when 4,671 were registered as a national election loomed.
Concord week seven of playground classes ends with craft projects and Indian macassins by older groups. Rain cancels baseball and a trip to Ashby for 4 to 6 age group. Older youths visit Fenway Park to see a Red Sox Senator game.
Concord births recorded this week at Emerson Hospital include a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Cullinane of 175 Commonwealth Avenue West Concord born August 10 and a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Clough Vettdus of 14 Monument Street Concord born August 16.
The Association cites waste in 12 county owned cars used by employees for business and personal use without county seals. MacDougall says reimburse at seven cents a mile suffices. The group reports no records of mileage payments and estimates about $4,000 yearly in transport costs, urging public accounting of Middlesex Extension Service spending.
West Concord Mrs Olive Jensen Wood of Putney Vermont daughter of Mr and Mrs Gustaf Jensen of 9 Grove Street was awarded her master degree last Friday from Fitchburg State Teachers College. She has been teaching the last nine years in Brattleboro Vermont. Mrs Wood her husband and two children have been staying with her parents the past several weeks.
Concord Lions Club officials Leon J. Moreau and Rothwell N. MacRae and Rudolph W. Currier attended the Burlington Lions Club gathering at the Art Gallery on Monday night. A cookout was held and Moreau conducted an official visitation. Both Moreau and MacRae are former Concord club presidents.
Concord boards announce the special town election to fill the late Edward W. Sheehan’s vacancy will be held on Tuesday September 28 rather than September 14. Registration shifts to September 8 with extended hours at the Town House. Polling for both the state primary and the town election runs 7 30 a m to 7 30 p m. The changes may affect local and district candidate dynamics.
The Concord State Armory hosts a dress revue as part of the Middlesex County 4-H fair on Saturday August 28. Girls from 4-H clubs display dresses and clothing items throughout the day and are spotlighted in the evening program. Parade of dresses at 7 p.m. commentator is Mrs Alfred Lincoln from Sherborn. Mrs Norman Jones of Lexington leads the clothing department.
The union summer services move to the Trinitarian Congregational Church for three Sundays starting August 22. Rev. Robert H. Barber will preach on What Are You Saying To Yourself with Alan Miller as guest soloist singing Panis Angelicus and Consider and Hear Me. Whitredge Clark will play the organ and offer Karg Elert preludes. The service begins at 9 30 a.m.
Concord notices proprietor John H. Kennedy, 23, of Main Street, The Paint Pot, confined to Emerson Hospital under observation for a possible operation.
Mrs Jeannette L Morgan of 99 Main Street wife of renowned architect Reginald Morgan has been drawn for jury service in East Cambridge Superior Court. Her selection was announced after the August 9 meeting of the board of selectmen.
Under Supt. Elmer L. Joslin and Foreman David L. Nelson highway workers laid a new macadam surface on Route 62 in the Powder Mill woods area and near the Acton town line this week.
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