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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1955
Page
15
Police Chief launches annual Christmas safety campaign urging careful driving and sober handling of vehicles. Traffic accidents have risen about 6 percent this year due to heavier travel and holiday conditions. One fourth of fatal crashes involve a drinking driver or pedestrian, prompting broad civic and official cooperation from 160 organizations.
Concord area members of the Local Ladies Aid are named for the fund-raising effort of the International Student Association of Greater Boston chaired by Mrs. Karl T. Compton. The list includes Mrs. Neil Powell, Mrs. Charles P. Kindelberger of Lincoln, and Mrs. Franklin W. Hobbs III, Mrs. Edward Park Jr., both of Concord.
Concord Woman's Club schedules its next meeting for Monday December 12 at 1 30 p m in the Girl Scout House. President Mrs Harold Join Ames will chair the business session with guest Morna Crawford of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts presenting a Christmas Story in Art. A penny art fund collection will be taken. co hosts are Mrs Allan L Spurr and Mrs Edward B Thomas. This will be the last regular meeting of 1955.
Seven year old John Gehrig of Bolton Conn UK was treated in a hospital after rushing from a bee swarm. He escaped stings but cut his leg on a rock during the retreat.
Acton voters will hold a special meeting to form a four town at large and one school committee member building panel to plan adding six rooms to Julia L. McCarthy Primary School and propose financing. The town will also vote to raise funds for the committee and to buy a six foot engine powered street sweeper for the highway department.
Rhode Island residents are told by Attorney General William E. Powers that Massachusetts can collect income taxes from residents who work in Massachusetts. The AG calls the law unfair but constitutional, noting Massachusetts amended its tax to tax all workers in the state.
The corporation approved plans to expand the hospital from 60 to 85 beds and add a basal metabolism and electrocardiograph room, pediatric wing, recovery area, labs, physiotherapy, a blood bank, and future two extra floors. Gilbert M. Roddy leads the drive with Franklin Johnson as vice chairman. The 11 town campaign covers Concord Acton Maynard Stow Sudbury Bedford Lincoln Littleton Lexington Carlisle Boxborough, with a projected population rise to 54,000 by 1960.
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