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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1951
Page
10
A narrator describes waiting at a railroad terminal with minutes to spare as the signal tower and telautograph confirm the Portland to Down East train on track 22. He explains why rail operations sometimes shift tracks to accommodate timing, delays, and switching moves led by the signal men in the tower.
Old Concord Chapter D A R holds its next meeting Saturday after noon February 3 at the Chapter House Lexington road. Regent Mrs Howard G Simonds presides at 2 45 pm Mrs Harry N Cohen state chairman of Junior American Citizens will speak A guest is Mrs W Alden Burrell state chairman of genealogical records West Concord members hostesses led by Mrs Robert A Torstensen
Police say eight boys aged eight to twelve used a method learned from a detective magazine to loot parking meters in Olean New York.
Funeral services were held at MacRae funeral home in Concord for Mrs Bes sie (MacLeod) Whitney 77 widow of John Henry Whitney who died Sunday in Miami Florida where she had lived the past two years. Interment at Sleepy Hollow. Survived by three daughters Mrs Elizabeth Sheldon Mrs Margaret Lamson and Dorothy Whitney a schoolteacher in Tenafly New Jersey one sister Susie MacLeod Nova Scotia and three brothers Archie McCarthy Grant MacLeod and Alexander R MacLeod Sr. all of Concord.
Mr and Mrs Angelo V Bartolomeo of 2 Elsinore street marked their ninth wedding anniversary yesterday. Their marriage was at St Bernard's church. Mrs Bartolomeo is formerly Mary Ann Woodlock. He is an officer at the Massachusetts Reformatory. The couple have two children.
The Morse Construction Co. of Easton, Maine won the Bedford Hanscom Airport project for replacing instrument landing system components. The U.S. Commerce Department awarded a $19,000 construction contract.
Boston Edison reports 1950 income of 7.73 million dollars or 3.13 a share, first time since 1932 earnings topped 3.00. Production topped three billion kilowatt hours with gross revenues of 69.34 million. Taxation rose sharply, with federal taxes up 24 percent and state local taxes up 14.5 percent.
A Bedford heart education committee formed by public health officials includes chair Vincent Conroy and secretary Mrs Frederick W Backes. Members listed are Mrs Everett L Gottschalk William J Beecy Harold I Wellington and Bedford Public Health members Mrs J Earl Dick Mrs Frederic A Jenks Mrs E Grove Smith Mrs Lewis G Webber and Miss Mildred Cogg in.
The coming week lists events in town including choir rehearsals at Mrs. Leila Blake’s home and the Church of Christ, a Ameri can Legion Post 221 meeting in Town Hall, and a United Workers meeting at 2:00 PM at the Church of Christ.
Albert Norton Bertelsen aged 40, Concord high school and University of New Hampshire graduate, died after a long illness at his home 34 Garrison road Hingham. He was a former marine engineer with the Coast Guard in Boston, a violinist and artist, survived by wife Grace and two children, with funeral held at Downing Cottage Chapel in Hingham Center.
Marjorie C. Moore youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter A Moore of Boxboro road wed Francis X Coleman of Cambridge on Saturday January 27 in Uxbridge. Rev Howard F Smith Jr officiated. The bride, a Hale High School 1944 graduate and Leominster Hospital Nursing School alumna, works at Brigham Hospital in Boston. Coleman, World War II veteran, is with Simplex Wire and Cable in Cambridge. They plan a honeymoon and will reside at 1307 Commonwealth Ave Allston after February 1.
Sudbury candidate Lincoln Lane resident William F Hellman files for the selectman race. In a letter to the editor and an interview he argues fresh blood brings new outlooks and urges voters to consider this before the March 5 annual election in Sudbury.
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