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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1954
Page
5
Commissioner and Mrs Dalziel lead ten day Old Orchard Camp Meetings in Maine with a Montreal brass band and Toronto vocalist among featured performers. Open to the public with no admission charge. schedules include daily open-air services and weekend music festivals in August.
About 2000 clerics will attend the council led by Massachusetts church leaders at Conference Center in Boston. Public sessions are planned with reserved seating, featuring figures from Aberdeen Scotland and international church missions as delegates discuss World Council matters.
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Milwaukee Archbishop Meyer announced Pope Pius XII granted Americans permission to use English in baptisms marriages and extreme unction and in about 25 blessings. The National Conference on Catholic Liturgy said the change ends a century and a half of discussion.
The state reports polio incidence exactly matches last year at 127 cases through the week with six new cases yesterday including three in Weymouth. Victims include Eleanor L Glass 33 of South Weymouth and Terrance Winter 9 and Stephen Winter 6 of Weymouth area along with new cases from Wellesley Westport and Woburn. A stray laundry tip about washing ironing board covers is noted.
Ex president of the Chicago Evangelistic Institute Dr Harry Jessop will head Old Orchard Beach Camp Meetings from August 23 to 27 with daily 10 30 am and 7 30 pm sessions. The Provincial Ensemble will lead prayers as revival builds to a climax with Commissioner and Mrs Norman Marshall conducting events on August 28 and three Sunday services.
Acton Paul Anthony Coughlin died suddenly at his Main Street home in West Acton. Born October 1905 in Acton, he was a handy man, single, and member of the Holy Name Society at St. Elizabeth of Hungary. Surviving are a brother John F. Coughlin and three sisters Genevieve, Virginia Champoux, and Margaret Dallak. Buried in St. Bridget's cemetery Maynard after a funeral from his home and a requiem high mass at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church.
Concord Post Office shifts routing to South Acton directed by Postmaster John Ennequess after accident on Concord turnpike near Tracy's. West Concord state police investigate. two injured taken to Emerson Hospital for minor injuries. Soul mentioned in First Church sermon. Corinthian Lodge to open September 13 with Ralph G. Burstad as worshipful master.
Funeral services for Mrs Cora Larkin Fuller 79 of 32 Monument Street were held Friday at MacRae Funeral Home Concord with Rev A Barbor of Trinity Congregational Church officiating. Burial followed at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Widow of Bert Louis Fuller born July 4 1875 in Albany New York she lived in Concord since 1900. She is survived by daughters Lilian F Pelton and Nice L Smith.
District Supervisor Joseph F. Downey of the U S Census Bureau said a special part time worker section will be added to the August Current Population Survey. The study, conducted in the Boston area during the week of August 16, seeks data on part time work reasons and demand for full time jobs to improve national employment estimates.
Bedford sergeant first class John F Eikelboom is on a two week active duty tour with the Army Reserve at Fort Devens from August 8 to 22. He serves with the 1170th AIRASU from Boston Army Base and is a 20 year veteran who served 1935 to 1945 in the European Theater. In civilian life he is ports manager for Liese and Smethurst Auto Dealers.
The United States has over 450000 American Indians, either on reservations or government registered. Navajos dominate in Arizona New Mexico and Utah, followed by Hopis, Apaches, and Blackfeet in that order.
DaLe Carnegie describes a routine of calendar journaling to forecast worries a month ahead. She finds 60 to 80 percent of worries never happen and 15 to 20 percent resolve with little effort, leaving only 10 to 15 percent as real problems.
Concord residents Mr and Mrs Ernest W Burches of 31 Clarke Lane Waltham celebrated their 60th anniversary with a family gathering at their home last Sunday. Attending were Mr and Mrs George E Erickson of Barretts Mill Road with Mrs Erickson identified as former Marion Burches. The couple have six children and ten grandchildren including Leonard Erickson a former Concord resident.
Mr and Mrs Frederick S Bigelow announce the birth of a son on August 10 at the Richardson House Boston Grandparents are Mr and Mrs William M Horner Needham and Dr and Mrs Henry B Bigelow Concord.
The article notes mental deficiency, polio, epilepsy, hearing and speech defects as leading child handicaps. It cites 3,000 mentally retarded per 100,000 population eight polio victims and a broader six to seven percent in communities. It announces National Retarded Children's Week in November led by Joseph H. Rooney Jr. of SWARC.
Harvard biologist Dr. George Wald at Woods Hole predicts life could be produced in a test tube by assembling specific substances under proper conditions. He notes the process would yield a living organism not recognizable to laymen and may not reproduce, urging focus on molecule by molecule assembly and spontaneous generation questions.
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