37 Articles Due For Consideration At Town Meeting
Concord posts the town warrant with 37 articles for the March meeting. Voters will not mix the meeting with the election on February 24 to decide a town manager referendum. The list includes funds for a school study, firemen hours, a sewage pumping station, Veterans Housing funds, repairs to the Veterans Building, grading at Rideout playground, Saturday office closings, Christmas decor funds, road projects, by law changes on firearms and boat speed, and street acceptances as public ways. The 1953 tax rate remains undetermined but expected near $57.80.
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Lincoln
Concord
General Court
Veterans Housing Committee
Veterans
Rideout Playground
Department of Roads and Bridges
Lowell Road
Mainstreet
West Concord
Mass
Board of Selectmen
Selectmen
Selectmens
Voters face pivotal February 24 mass ballot decision
February 24 vote centers on a town manager government reform. Letters express mixed views while polls run 12 noon to 7 30 pm. Final registration day arrives amid snow as various local events and notices unfold. Massachusetts state assessor plans to visit next Wednesday to assist with tax roll, and Ernest B Smart returns from furlough amid military duty updates.
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George Finncord
Dom” DePaola
Elks
Igh
Massachusetts
Selectmen
Ex Carl isle Red Escape Speaker at Concord Lions Club
Rev. Ewald Mann of Rockport Estonian pastor to speak on Life Behind the Iron Curtain at Howard Johnson's in Concord. Meeting precedes supper with Leonard Rae presiding and Rothwell MacRae presenting. Mann once taught at Andover Newton Theological Seminary and formerly taught in Estonia.
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Concord
Concord Lions Club
Howard
Estonia
Andover-Newton Theological Seminary
Elks Lodge 1479 to Observe 25th Anniversary
Concord Elks Lodge No. 1479 marks its 25th anniversary with a dinner dance on February 21 at the new Elks home on the Concord turnpike. Dinner starts at 8 pm, with a program arranged by Exalted Ruler James E. ONeil and officers.
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Concord
Concord Lodge of Elks
New
Concord Academy to Phase Out Grades Four Through Six
Concord Academy trustees announce plans to drop grades four five and six starting September 1953. Enrollment trends show growth in grades seven through twelve while lower grades stay static, and capacity limits in facilities and administration prompt the gradual reduction. The plan notes possible expansion only by unlikely changes in demand.
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Concord
Concord Academy
Tarot Members Attend Sundey Shakespeare Event at Lincoln
Tarot members of ha Pilgrim Fellowship were invited to the Sunday afternoon presentation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at Lincoln last week.
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Ha Pilgrim Fellowship
Sundey
Lincoln
Concord Public School Pupils Exhibit Art Display
Concord celebrates a gallery showing from sixty two students across all grades in the public schools under art supervisor Mrs. Mildred E. Kingsbury. Works employ chalk, crayon, pastel, oil, scratchgraph, and paper collage with several landscapes and silhouettes highlighted. A Brooks School display follows on February 14.
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Concord
Concord Public
Concord Free Public Library
Mildred E. Kingsbury
Amazon
Henry LaCombe
Ian
Vesta Béeite
Henry Keyes
Concord Public Schools
Brooks School
Concord Red Cross selects campaign team captains
Concord-Charles S. Putnam announces the selection of the Red Cross fund campaign captains. The list includes Mr. and Mrs. Braley Cameron, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cobb, Beverly Nickerson, Mrs. Gordon Smith, Fred T. Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. Julian W. Tolman, John D. Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. David B. Arnold, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Putnam, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Baldwin, Mrs. Henry M. Keyes, Norman L. Scherer, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Larner, John B. Finigan, Mrs. Jack Line. Concord business chairman is John M. Eaton, Jr.
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Concord
Charles S. Putnam
Red Cross Fund
Braley Cameron
Robert Cobb
Beverly Nickerson
Gordon Smith
Fred T. Boyd
Julian W. Tolman
John D. Shaw
David B. Arnold
John W. Putnam
Stephen P. Baldwin
Henry M. Keyes
Norman L. Scherer
Chester Larner
John B. Finigan
Jack Line
John M. Eaton, Jr
West Concord Registration Draws Few Voters
At Harvey Wheeler School a public registration session added only two new names. The final chance to register before the February 4 election and March 9 town meeting passed with no further opportunities.
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West Concord
Concord
Harvey Wheeler School
Citizens Council Forms Bureau to Explain Town School Needs
Concord's Citizens Council, formed to study local school needs, adopted a progress report after its January 26 meeting. Members reviewed population data from census and preschool counts, school enrollments over a decade, and a Radcliffe report on current facilities while planning site visits.
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Citizens Council
Concord
Citizens’ Council
Radcliffe Eport
Morrill
Donald P. Mitchell
Harvard Center For Field Studies
Mitchell
Trinitarian Congregation Sees Record Year in Concord
The Trinitarian Congregational Church of Concord reports record 1952 activity with more members than ever, peak service attendance, and world mission giving of 3159 dollars. New junior choir and a young adults group launched. two church school sessions added. officers elected include Clerk Leif E. Stenshy and deacons Robert Pellandini Roger Allen.
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Concord
Trinitarian Congregational Church of Concord
Christian World Mission
Couples Club
Church School
Le‘f E. Stenshy
Robert Pellandini
Roger K. Allen
Gail Mathis
John H. Lambert
Wiliam Ellis
Marion Peterson
Concord Women Plan World Day of Prayer Service
The Women of the Tri nitarian Congregational church plan a World Day of Prayer service on the first Friday in Lent February 29 at 10 o clock. The program will be in cooperation with the National Council of Churches and coffee will be served.
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Concord—Women
The
Trinitarian Congregational Church
Councif
Whitney Unopposed for Republican Club Treasurer Post
Concord Brig. Gen Otis M Whitney of Elm Street is unopposed for treasurer of the Republican Club of Massachusetts at the club annual meeting at the Hotel Touraine Boston Saturday noon Other officers also unopposed New state officers led by Lt Gov Sumner Whittier will be honored John T Foster Jr a high school student showed movies at the retriever club dinner party at the Colonial Inn Thursday night
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Concord
Otis M. Whitney
Elm Street
Republican Club of Massachusetts
Touraine
Boston
Sumner G. Whittier
John T. Foster, Jr
Retriever Club
Colonial Inn
Voters May Join L W V Meeting Concord Town Warrant Session
Voters may attend an open discussion of town warrant articles on Thursday February 19 at 10 a m sponsored by the Concord League of Women Voters at the West Concord Union church. The meeting invites informed citizens to weigh arguments before town meeting.
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Concord
Concord League of Women Voters
West Concord Union Church
Concord Nominating and Executive Committee Revisions
Corrections indicate Mrs. John J. Fallon replaces Mrs. Ivan D. Servais on the nominating committee. Mrs. Regnwir A. Morgan joins the executive committee in place of Mrs. John Putnam. Mrs. Robert Bowsey joins the nursing committee.
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Concord
Concord Visiting Nurse Association
John J. Fallon
Ivan D. Servais
Regnwir A. Morgan
John .Putnam
Robert Bowsey
Will and codicil signing allowed any day of week
The document may be signed on any day of the week including Sundays and holidays, covering last wills and their codicils.
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Sas
Concord High School
Krist Andersen
Eugene Fanning
Registry of Motor Vehicles
Andersen
John F. Donovan
William J. Bulger, Jr
Concord High
Cor
Finance Committee
Dom Patter
Koffee Klub
Dinger A.m
Olcs
Ross Fund
Oro
Ernest B. Smart
U. Fis
Ernest W. Smart
Reth
Minnesota
W. Concord Citizen
Government of Concord
Ewald Mand
Carlisle Red
Lions Club
Iron Curtain
Arvard
Ember Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Academy
Red Cross
Dr. Brown
Fin. Com. Post
Gordon S. Brown
Heath's Bridge Road
Dan T. Smith
Nashawtuc Hill
Concord Finance Committee
I * Wellesley
Con
Pellandini
Allen
Plan Prayer Meeting
Victory Plastics Co
Hudson
Whitney
L.W.V
Cambridge
Harvard
Kirkland
Middlesex County National Bank
Billerica
Everett
Lowell
Malden
Maynard Medford Reading
Somervilles Stoneham
Federal Deposit Insurance
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