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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1957
Page
9
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C E Lee vice president Beacon Milling Company outlines new three feeds aimed at meat strain birds, hatching egg producers, and growing replacement pullets. The program covers calorie protein vitamin mineral ratios, both medicated and unmedicated options, in mash and pellet forms with standardized feeding schedules.
The State Department invites high school graduates aged 21 to 35 to apply for foreign service jobs at 270 embassies and consulates in 78 countries. Interviews run August 19–30 at the Massachusetts State Employment Service in Boston. Salaries range from 3390 to 6700 annually with housing, cost of living allowances, and post differentials. positions include secretaries, stenographers, communications code clerks, and general clerical staff with required typing and shorthand speeds and at least three years of office experience.
The Census Bureau will add polio immunization questions in the August Current Population Survey to estimate how many have received shots and how many will later receive them. This effort, coordinated with the U S Public Health Service, targets persons under 59 including children under 14 and runs alongside usual employment questions. Local data collection will occur the week of August 19 by census enumerators.
Workers returning to the States take six weeks of home leave before overseas assignments. The Department of States in Washington offers typist and stenographer jobs with starting salaries from 3175 to 3415 a year. Applicants must be 18, typing 40 wpm. stenographers need 80 wpm shorthand. For more details call LAfayette 3-4525.
Rep James DeNormandie criticizes House delays after tax defeat and calls for clearer leadership. He notes concern over mental health hospital death rates, stresses adequate basic care, and warns against reckless charges. He urges careful scrutiny of the Framingham Reformatory reform debate and rehabilitation aims.
In a decade West Germany plans a vast program spending about forty billion dollars on road building. The initiative includes construction of about 20 000 miles of autobahns to improve national transportation.
The Bedford Woman's Community Club ways and means committee hosts a Yankee auction cookout Saturday from 4 to 4 at Hanscom Field Airpig picnic ground. Mrs. James M. Tuttle Jr. leads, with Mrs. Clarissé Mller of Lexington as auctioneer and Mrs. Raymond Doer guiding arrangements. Members urged to reserve the date and donate auction items.
Mr and Mrs George La Bounty of Elm Street West Concord and their son John return from a trip to Camp Porpoise Missouri where they meet a resident from a fishing village who once worked for Mrs LaBounty s father in England Patrolman William J Costelito of Concord police is on vacation this week
Prize winners at the recent V. F. W. event in Littleton include Mrs. Theresa M. Alexander Mrs. Esther Collins Mrs Minnie Campbell of West Concord and Alphonse Janus kie kwicz Maynard.
Alexander F MacEachern presided over an organizational meeting Monday evening in Ayer for the Nashoba Valley Holy Name Societies outlining plans for the coming season. Parishes in the district include West Concord Concord Maynard West Acton Littleton Shirley and others.
The advanced Red Cross first aid class is offered to medics and those who completed the beginner course are urged to enroll. Sign up by sending a card to C.D. director Ralph Powell Box 101 Hudson. Two or three persons needed for a Radiac course in September with no charge. A year of college level physics chemistry engineering or equivalent is required.
Stephen E. Eliades announces Worcester FHA designates three counties including Middlesex as disaster areas. Emergency 3 percent loans help farmers buy feed replenish damaged hayfields crops and cover drought losses. Applications reviewed by the local County Committee. apply at 308 Federal Building Worcester.
Mrs Annie Oulton Gookin aged 68 of 103 Main Street died Saturday after a long illness. Born in Little Sh mougue New Brunswick May 19 1869 she lived here 20 years. Widow of Augustus Willard Gookin she leaves two daughters Mrs Fred A Tower and Mrs Thomas Sanbornand one granddaughter. Services were at High Street Cemetery New Hampton with burial in the family lot.
Acton youth Jackie Kennedy son of Mr and Mrs John Kennedy of Roxborough will exhibit his prize sheep Juniper at the Westford 4-H fair this weekend. Mrs Marion Jewell of 41 Newtown Road Acton Center will join the Littleton school faculty next year to teach home economics.
Acton town building committee invites bids for grading loaming and seeding of the Blanchard Auditorium at the Julia L. McCarthy School. Contact Porter G Jenks 396 Central Street West Acton. Bids due by 8 p.m. Monday August 26.
Mr and Mrs George Huntley Farrar and their daughter Mrs Allston W Riley with granddaughters Joye Huntley and Janet Moody joined a weekend motor trip to Palmyra New Jersey for the Huntley family reunion. Over 100 members from the United States and Canada attended and a decision was made to hold next year’s gathering at Kentville Nova Scotia. Mr and Mrs Henry Warner Lincoln road have pi at from a vacation at Mattapo.
Mrs. Harold T. Ashworth and son Douglas enjoy the Ossipee New Hampshire summer home. Mrs. Morrie Robinson and son David from Lincoln road returned from a vacation at Island Falls Maine.
Concord vice president Chester Smethurst told Rotarians the next weekly meeting would be a cookout at Musketaquid Club at 6 30 pm Visitors came from Bedford Hudson Lexington and Somerville Guillaume Loy alty Islands chief William T Wyman spoke on his march from the 182nd Infantry to a Pacific task force His 48 day trip included Melbourne and New Caledonia where island native labor was coordinated His talk noted changes Americans brought to customs furniture and living conditions and a form of civilization introduced. the session closed with remarks on Lifou Island life. Tractor accidents kill about 1100 farm people each year.
A public service notice appears in cooperation with The Advertising Council outlining community information and civic guidance for residents. The message emphasizes cooperative action and informational resources available to the public.
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