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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1952
Page
15
The Woman's Auxiliary of Trinity Episcopal hosts a talk by Mr Fisher of Acton returning from Korea. The event outlines wartime relocation, confiscated belongings, and the Fisher family's postwar activities. Tea will be served.
Mrs John Bannon hosts a Sudbury Garden Club session at the Forthian Club with Dorothy Water and Harold McMurtry present. The meeting features a reading on Lincoln's birth and a Civil Defense film Survival, plus dancing and remarks on local veterans and Grangers.
Dr. Ernest M. Daland announced that a Boston man who is vice president and director of the National Shawmut Bank has been named state chairman of the 1952 cancer crusade for the American Cancer Society. April will be Cancer Control Month.
Sudbury resident Mrs Myron G Siegars seeks a three year term on the school committee. She has lived in Sudbury 12 years and helps at Pokonoket Kennels. A Wellesley alumna Phi Beta Kappa from Michigan, she has led the Cooperative Pre School and serves on PTAs and the 1952 school survey committee.
Mrs John D Copp hosted a luncheon in Sudbury to bring together displaced residents Mrs Vigrabs from Latvia and Mrs Miklos Vay from Hungary. The two spoke in German while meeting, joined by Mrs Viola Twitchell and Mrs James Barnett. Mrs Vigrabs resides with Mrs Irving Priest and Mrs Vay with Mr and Mrs Theodore Hardings.
In early 1852 engineers expect two large dredges to rise up the Orinoco River and create a ship channel to Puerto Ordaz for Cerro Bolivar. The open pit mine could yield ten million tons annually by 1960, fueling U.S. blast furnaces with high grade iron ore from Venezuela's Llanos and Gran Sabana frontier.
A Paris manufacturer introduces 10 denier nylon stockings named Exciting, weighing five grams and made from a 100 mile nylon thread. They are billed as the world's sheerest with claims of near invisibility yet durability, priced about $4.25 a pair and not yet widely on the market.
A North Korean girl admitted mining roads behind Marine lines in Korea. Captured by Korean Marines, she wore clean clothes and was well fed, unusual for the area. In a hut they found dynamite and she confessed to being a trained Communist demolition agent.
Mademoiselle Francoise de Talhouet, daughter of the late Comte Alfred de Talhouet and granddaughter of the Comte de Kervenoael, has joined St. Hubert's school in Sudbury. Previously a Cannes teacher, she visited the Huckels in France last summer, aiding plans for her U.S. appointment.
Superintendent Whitmah Pearson schedules special elementary conferences for February 6 at Acton High School to discuss the 1952-53 school year with Grade I to VI groups led by principals Darolana Berry Carolyn Douglas Julia McCarthy and Florence Merriam. Pearson and Maynard Superintendent Mary Doyle attended a Merrimack Valley meeting January 30 outlining two March Teachers College conferences. Nantucket High School girls and boys basketball visit Dracut and Groton as part of island ties to Acton’s long ago PE program begun by Pearson.
The record notes that only four motor vehicles were registered in the United States during the year 1895. The brief data point highlights early adoption of motorized transport in the U.S. prior to widespread automotive use.
Nancy Lee of West Acton and Nancy Winslow of South Acton are named valedictorian and salutatorian of the Class of 1952 by Superintendent Whitman Pearson. Lee holds a 90.25 average, with extensive extracurriculars, and plans nursing training. Winslow tied for top honors in science awards and will pursue home economics studies.
Rev. Dr. Alexander Szent Ivanyi of First Parish Church will address the Massachusetts Bar Association mid winter meeting at the Hotel Worcester Sheraton on February 15 and 16. The event includes symposiums by legal authorities and a formal dinner on February 15 with a member of the Hungarian Parliament.
The February meeting of the West Acton Woman's Club will be held next Monday at 2 45 PM at the club house Central street West Acton. Mrs Wilson D Sked conducts the business session. Invited guests include Acton Woman's Club members and the Ninth district director Mrs Rooney J Underwood. Miss Blanche Eames of the county extension service speaks. Hostesses are Mrs Allen Christofferson and Mrs Henry French.
Ronald E Brown, son of the Ernest Browns of Sudbury now Marlboro, was assigned to the U S Roanoke after training at Great Lakes Illinois and transfer to Brooklyn Navy Yard on December 22. He spent Christmas in Marlboro with family and Sudbury friends, then left January 8 for Naples Italy aboard the U S S Butner en route to join the Roanoke in Naples.
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Bartlett held an open house Sunday for their year old son John Pike Bartlett Jr. About 30 friends and relatives attended to pay respects.
Mrs Katherine Eaton Stover, widow of William F Stover, died at her mother's Sudbury home after a brief illness. She had lived in Sudbury and Winthrop, returning to Sudbury after her husband’s death. Services were at Memorial Congregational Church led by Rev John Dixon Copp with Ray Rayburn assisting. She leaves her mother and brothers Roland H Eaton and Chaunce Eaton.
Cars belonging to Francis J. Gilles of Hudson and Frederick W. Ehret of Sudbury were in a collision on Hudson road between Center and Young's store just after 6 p.m. The vehicles became hooked.
Acton residents and taxpayers left a special town meeting frustrated by the lack of a concrete plan for building an elementary or regional high school. A cross section of the town groups at homes to devise a budget-conscious classroom solution. One parent said the meetings helped them sift facts from rumors.
A single vehicle swerved to avoid a collision and struck a tree. No injuries were reported, but the Ehret car sustained damage.
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