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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1954
Page
19
Fashion notes predict a wide fall variety with cobbly tweeds in suits and coats, boxy jackets, slim gabardine dresses, and pleated plaid skirts. Jumpers, circular felt skirts with petticoats, and revival of the blazer keep teen wardrobes practical. Colors favor heather gray, egg-shell white, blues, and new purple. creases resist with rayon blends.
The Bedford Progressive club plans a Sunday stag outing at the Veterans hospital picnic grounds starting at noon. Activities include sports and games with refreshments and half the proceeds to the March of Dimes emergency campaign. Thomas McDonald is general chairman of the affair. The note on world population from 1650 to 1950 appears in the text.
Bedford town clerk Mrs Webber reports 147 new voters since last April 6 adding to the list. On the final registration day before the September 14 primary 74 names were added. Further registration dates ahead of the November 2 election will be announced.
West Concord Sympathy extended to Mrs. Lucy Fiske 2 Prairie street for the sudden death of her brother Austin McCarthy Jr at Middleboro. Funeral services were held last Friday. Mrs. Fiske widow of Richard H Fiske a former Concord telephone repairman.
Acton completes a five week reading improvement program with 40 pupils from third grade to junior high. Students were grouped by ability for targeted instruction in phonics reading and comprehension aided by a new Flashmeter. Progress reports and parent questionnaires were distributed. instructors were Maureen K. Conlon and Doris S. Santamour.
Scouters of the Musketaquid District in Sachem Council plan the annual Scouters Weekend at Camp Sachem in Antrim New Hampshire during September 1819. A full program of fun food fellowship and recreation is promised. A camp-out program was scheduled last night at Camp in Bedford.
The closing program of Camp Middlesex at Ashby marks the end of the season with Counselor Miss Caroline Livermore of Acton Center, a noted local 4H Club member, among the counselors.
The 23rd Infantry Band of Concord, sponsored by the local legion post, played its second Sunday concert at Nahant Beach. Directed by O. Harry Nielsen of Bedford, with manager Leif E. Stensby of Bedford Street, Concord, the band was invited to partake in Saugus’s September 18 anniversary parade and celebration.
416 children and babies completed eight weeks at Morgan Memorial Fresh Air Camp in south Athol returning to Greater Boston homes. Superintendent Henry E. Helms reports the youngsters gained over 1000 pounds in muscle and healthy weight from open-air living and balanced meals. Parents greeted the campers as mothers noted changes in height and color after the country program now in its 48th year with 15 separate age-group camps.
PFC Donald J. Mulcahy son of Mr and Mrs George D Mulcahy 18A Belknap Street Concord recently graduated from the I Corps Non Commissioned Officer Academy in Korea He is a mechanic in the 21st Anti Aircraft Artillery Battalion 25th Infantry Division Mulcahy a Concord High School graduate entered the Army in May 1953 and arrived in Korea last November.
Wesley M. Woodward son of Arline MacCulloch Sudbury re A fire direction computer with the 25th Infantry Division 8th Field Artillery Battalion. He received instruction in leadership of units map reading and other military subjects. Woodward entered the Army in November 1953 and arrived in the Far East last May from Camp Chaffee Arkansas where he completed basic training.
Funeral services for Mrs Ettalena Holmes Seiders 73 of 128 Great Road East Acton were held at MacRae Funeral Home Concord with Rev Edwin B Nylen presiding. Interment followed in Woodlawn Cemetery Acton Center. She was born August 20 1880 in Jefferson NH and died a day before her 74th birthday. Survived by four brothers Ned and Sam Holmes of Whitefield NH Wallace Holmes of Apthorp NH and Carl Holmes of East Acton.
Carlisle board of selectmen set to meet at Gleason Public Library on Wednesday September 1 with Chairman George W Foss presiding. The article notes the Taylors August 17 wedding anniversary and lists local officials including school building committee members and the town clerk reporting 513 registered voters after 33 new names.
Hundreds of entrants join the Trio Talent Search at Red Feather Headquarters begun two weeks ago. Three Bedford girls have already entered the contest Maureen Meade Dianne Porter and Marilyn Wiener with listed ages and street addresses.
Washington reports 255,700 initial unemployment claims for the week ended August 14, the fifth straight decline and the lowest since October. Regular benefits fell by 39,100 to 1,750,200, the smallest since December, though some drop reflects fund shortages.
In Cleburne Texas police respond to a downtown parking lot report about a shady character and identify the man as John Rodman a special officer and night watchman. Separately the army bans bare midriffs on bases in Germany prompting mixed reactions from young women.
Ruth Roe of Minneapolis-Honeywell suggests spelling errors spread by orthographic hypnosis from heavy reading of imaginative spellings. She notes assistants start fair spellers but quickly imitate unusual spellings like Sonny well Honeybuckets Minnapoulis and Minniesoda. Postmen are praised for delivering mail despite weather and odd spellings in addresses.
A two year old child, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thom son, wandered onto railroad tracks and was struck by a fast train near a station. The tragedy adds two deaths to the toll and highlights dangers at crossings.
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