Record Births in State and Nation Set to Top 1954
Massachusetts will tally a record number of births in 1954 as the Vital Statistics registry finishes last year’s counts. Cronin notes a likely record low death rate nationally and in Massachusetts, with births outpacing deaths by about 2 to 1. 1953 figures show 105,136 births and 52,553 deaths.
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Massachusetts
Edward J. Cronin
Bay State
Cronin
National Office of Vital Statistics
Unemployment Claims Show Little Change at Marlboro Office
The Mass Division of Employment Security reports 136 new claims last week up from 126 prior. Total claims 886 with 750 continued. openings 28. placements 21. 71 new applications. eight counseling interviews, versus 34 openings and 12 interviews the prior week.
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Marlboro
The
Mass
Division of Employment Security
William H. Finn
Comparisson
Card of Thanks for Notable Bereavement and Events
The family of the late David C. Clemens thanks friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during bereavement. Mr and Mrs Frank Rowe Miss Alice Rowe express thanks for support from neighbors friends and relatives. Guyer W. Fowler thanks friends for flowers cards and visits during illness. Mr and Mrs Calvin Swain thank everyone who helped with a recent house warming.
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David C. Clemens
Frank Rowe
Alice Rowe
Phillips House
Boston
Guyer W. Fowler
Calvin Swain
Adv
Thanks for the flowers gifts and cards
Mrs. Herbert Docl expresses sincere gratitude to friends and neighbors who sent flowers gifts and cards during hospitalization and after returning home.
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Herbert Docl
Adv
Fat Girls Anonymous Candy Bar Sale Stirs Local Theater
In Memphis Tennessee Mrs Hazel Xiques president of Fat Girls Anonymous runs a candy bar sale in a theater lobby drawing attention to the weight reducing club and its activities.
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Memphis, Tenn
Hazel Xiques
Fat Girls Anonymous
Help Wanted Ad Seeks Woman With Car and Personality
Classified style notice invites a woman to interview with Mr. R Sherman at 15 Mayall Rd Waltham. Promises weekly earnings of 75 to 100 dollars and suggests leadership in the community. Includes a contact phone Wal tham 5 4617.
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R. Sherman
Mayall Rd
Waltham
Sudbury Woman's Club Play Day at Town Hall
Sudbury Woman's Club members and friends gathered for an annual Play Day at the Town Hall. An original skit featured humorous costumes and a wedding parody with a pantomime, a gag wedding, and a mock reception. A closing note mentions three great rock types shaping earth’s surface: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.
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Sudbury
Town Hall
Sudbury Woman’s Club
John E. Childs
Harvey N. Fairbank
Webster
Walter Piper
Elwin C. Williams
Merle Hamilton
George Silva
George Donald
Stephen Whittlesey
Wilfred Allen
Reginald C. Purdy
Frank Bautze
J. Fleet Cowden
Francis Raynor
Elwin Williams
Boxboro Selectman and Officials Recalled in Town Election
Boxboro voters chose John F. Dunlap Jr as selectman for three years with 185 votes over Roger Morse. Burpee Steele was re elected highway surveyor and tree warden for one year, while Sven E Simon won five year planning board term. The town approved a high budget but rejected a $3900 fire station and created a regional high school district committee with five members to meet Acton officials.
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Boxboro
Selectman
John F. Dunlap, Jr
Roger Morse
Burpee Steele
Peter Cann
Sven E. Simon
Bernard A. Joyce
Acton
Bedford Cold Spot as Town Race Poll Nears
Bedford recorded two below zero as a cold snap grips the area. Final day to register for the March 7 town election is Tuesday February 15 at Town Hall with registrars on duty until 10 o clock.
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Bedford
Greater
Boston
Board of Registrars
Oconomowoc Man Gets Suspended Sentence for Old Check
Waukesha Wisconsin report says an Oconomowoc man received a one year suspended sentence in municipal court after cashing a twenty five dollar check drawn on a Kenosha bank that has been defunct for about thirty years.
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Waukesha
Wis
Oconomwoc
Kenosha Bank
Escape device installed on Utah Gateway Canal siphons
The Bureau of Reclamation installs an escape device at siphons on the Gateway Canal in Utah to skim men or animals from the water surface before they are drawn into the tunnel-like siphons.
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Big Gateway Canal
Utah
Bureau of Reclamation
Two Cars Collide in Sudbury Injuring Several
A collision at the intersection of Concord road Union avenue and Old Lancaster road in Sudbury sent multiple occupants to Concord Hospital. Mrs Marion Snow and daughter Mrs Wesley Teich with two children endured facial injuries and a broken ankle for Mrs Teich. Robert Hadley and Mrs Hadley sustained facial injuries and a fractured ankle. The Hadley children suffered a dislocated hip while the Snow child remained injured. Both cars were badly damaged.
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Sudbury
Emerson Hospital
Concord
Concord Road
Union Avenue
Lancaster Road
Concord Hospital
Marion Snow
Wesley Teich
Robert Hadley
Hadley
Snow
Tetch
Massachusetts Litter Law Enables 30 Day License Suspensions
Massachusetts enacts an anti litter law permitting a 30 day driving license suspension for trash tossing offenses and allows the same suspension for the vehicle owner if implicated. It remains unique in this provision.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts Tree Wardens Hold 43rd Annual Convention
The Massachusetts Tree Wardens and Foresters Association and affiliated shade tree groups held their 43rd convention at Horticultural Hall Boston on February 2 and 3. Officers for 1955 were elected led by President George M. Dolan with talks on hurricanes quarantine inspection poison ivy Dutch elm disease and gypsy moths. Sudbury tree warden Michael Hriniak attended the sessions.
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Sudbury
Massachusetts Tree Wardens’ and Foresters’ Association
Horticultural Hall
Boston
Fred C. Basile
William E. Gullam
Richard T. Ferrara
W. D. Whitcomb
Melvin Guptill
Leslie Hebert
Gordon A. King
George M. Dolan
Massachusetts
Ray M. Koon
Waltham
John E. O’doherty
Arlington
Frederick C. Burke
Swampscott
No. Reading
Dedham
Charles F. Sweeney
Fitchburg
W. Leslie Hebert
Weymouth
Stoneham
Thomas M. Morley
Watertown
Middlesex County
John J. Connors
North Andover
Essex County
Warren Stewart
Quincy
Ralph C. Breed
Clinton
Worcester
Russell Lutz
Sharon
Norfolk- Bristol
Weldon S. Campbell
Greenfield
John L. Duffy
Hotel Kenmore
Michael Hriniak
Furniture Scar Aid Introduced For Damaged Wood Surfaces
A New York UP report describes a new furniture scar aid that fills and re blends damaged surfaces like a professional refinisher. The product comes in a collapsible metal tube with a no rub furniture wax included.
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New York
Lacy Cake For Lazy Ladies For Valentine
A quick St Valentine cake uses store bought sponge and a two ingredient chocolate filling. Semi sweet morsels melt with evaporated milk, sugar dusting finishes a lace design for eight servings.
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Valentine
Stow Ralph I Powell Candidate for Old Bolton Selectman
Ralph I Powell born February 20 1910 in Arlington Mass left New England at age two to grow up in New York. He worked from beokeeper to office manager at Nassau Suffolk Bond and Mortgage Guarantee Co of Mineola later in mortgage departments at The Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn and Franklin Square National Bank. He then moved to New York City to join Fifth Avenue Bank in mortgage trust, founded Graceington Studio in 1945 and Graceington Studio in Hudson since 1951 with wife Grace Ruth Arlington Mass a commercial designer. Powell is an active Rotary Club member and has returned to New England seeking public office.
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Ralph I. Powell
Old Bolton Road
Arlington
Mass
New England
New York
Nassau Suffolk Bond
Mortgage Guarantee Co
Mineola
Long Island
Dime Savings Bank of
Brooklyn
Franklin Square National Bank
Franklin Square
Powell
New York City
Fifth Avenue Bank
Rutgers Expands Field Service For Teachers In New Jersey
Rutgers University’s school of education expands a 25 year old field service course program to supply more and better teachers. From 429 students in 18 courses last fall, the program now offers 46 courses in 30 cities across 14 counties serving over 1,000 teachers with Rutgers instructors and local districts providing facilities.
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New Brunswick
N.J
Rutgers University
School of Education
New Jersey
Rutgers
Rural Postman Looks at Old Days in Williamstown Vermont
Robert Clogston, retired after 39 years as a rural mail carrier, recalls rough starts at age 21 with 4 a.m. farm chores and a 7 a.m. mail route. He walked behind sleighs through drifted snow on his 25 mile route. Automobiles later cut his daily time to a few hours, except brutal New England winters.
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Williamstown
Robert Clogston
Clogston
New England
Rhode Island Museum acquires Poussin painting Venus and Adonis
Rhode Island School of Design museum buys Nicolas Poussin's Venus and Adonis after it surfaced in a private English collection. Director Dr John Maxon says the work, once owned by Sir Joshua Reynolds who repainted it, has had the reworks removed and remains in unusually fine condition.
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Providence
R. I
Rhode Island School of Design
Nicolas Poussin
John Maxon
Poussin
Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua
Dr. Maxon
Liver Preparation Tip Reduces Shrink During Cooking
A cooking note advises removing the membrane from the outer edge of liver to prevent shrinkage during heat. The tip focuses on prepping the liver to maintain size and texture in dishes.
Navy plane shot down amid Taiwan strait clash and evacuations
Reports from Taipei say a U S Navy plane was shot down by Communist anti aircraft fire as it supported evacuation efforts near a Tach island. Lt (jg) W J O Heren is missing with two crewmen lightly injured, no retaliation planned by the Navy.
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Ernest Hobbrecht
United Press
Taipei
W. J. O’heren
Navy
Loy
Soviet Marshal Konev says Red Army more powerful
Moscow reports Marshal Ivan Konev asserted the Red Army is stronger than ever and would crush Western attacks with modern weapons. He hailed China as a comrade in a unified camp for peace and denounced US hydrogen bomb progress as lagging.
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Kenneth. Brodney
United Press
Moscow
Ivan Koday
Russia
Red China
Soviet
United States
Existence of Council of Elders hinted in Soviet reorg
Khrushchev cited a secret “Council of Elders” within the Soviet system as he outlined a broad government shakeup after Georghi drop. Western experts note the five word phrase signals a powerful, factional body tied to foreign policy and party central structure.
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London
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Geolkov
Khrushchev
Kremlin
Vyacheslav M
Cou
Council of Elders
Moscow
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