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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1950
Page
10
A 46 year old girl scout Ruth Aberle survived four days in a state forest after getting lost in cold weather with no food. Her training helped her find shelter and await rescue, underscoring the value of scout training.
The piece argues the life insurance industry has paid no federal income tax for three years under a nonbinding agreement, while Congress and the Treasury permitted a 3 percent net investment income formula to shield them. It notes vast holdings in government securities and mortgages, and highlights high lobbying salaries as pressure to maintain or reform the tax treatment.
A legislative committee on education will hold a 10:30 a.m. hearing in Gardner Auditorium to consider three bills aimed at blocking an initiative petition on parochial school transportation. Bills filed by Mason Sears Charles B. Rugg Harris S. Richardson and Charles Gibbons plus Joseph L. Murphy seek to guarantee transport for public and private pupils.
Massachusetts saw nearly twice as many new firms start as close between 1944 and 1948, netting a 23.4 percent rise. Industries with highest growth included contract construction and utilities, wholesale trade, and services, with farming and finance also noted. The Lawrence Experiment Station marked sewage disposal beginnings in 1886. By June 30, 1949 commercial savings banks held 7,148 million in deposits with loans of 2,205 million and government bonds 4,044 million. The ten industrial centers posted top weekly wages in November.
The article notes that hearsay about harsher winters is common while weather bureau records show no clear trend toward milder winters over the past century. It suggests people remember the extremes and dismiss the milder periods.
The Department of Labor and Industries reports average state wages at 51.59 with city by city figures: Norwood 64.03 Pittsfield 60.65 Gardner 59.75 Beverly 58.90 Lynn 58.74 Peabody 58.72 Chicopee 58.65 Framingham 58.55 Northampton 57.29 Everett 56.94. Easthampton votes 1,000 for a zoning plan committee to report at the March annual meeting.
Mattie Black and H. E. White were married in a ceremony at the Melrose Methodist Church in Melrose, New Mexico.
Conferees at a state conciliation conference announced a tentative one year contract for about 12 000 workers in northern Massachusetts. The agreement would keep wage scales, improve vacation and reporting time, and avert a strike. Ratification is expected by unions and most manufacturers though one or two plants might balk and trigger localized strikes.
Ipswich report recalls Oliver Wendell Holmes breaking his gavel half a century ago and Jim Bersted rebuilding it with special wood. The repaired gavel is now used by District Judge George H. Hayes who once practiced law in Holmes era courts.
La Junta Colorado U P Frank Frye a local mail carrier adds a new twist to postman holidays by collecting stamps on his day off.
A New York announcement credits chemotherapeutic work by Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories and Rhode Island Agricultural Experimental Station with carolate, a soil applied treatment to combat Dutch elm disease. The compound aims to prevent spread, boost vigor, and is suitable for experimental public use in limited quantities.
State House officials announce a public hearing January 19 on a toll road across Massachusetts. House Speaker Thomas P. O Neil Jr chairs the recess commission as the Public Works Department notes peak traffic would not arrive until 1970, making the $90 million project unlikely.
Edgar Allan Poe was scheduled to speak in Lowell Massachusetts in 1848 but the event was called off because of a political meeting headlined by Abraham Lincoln of Illinois.
The column surveys Evelyn Keyes in a gritty tenement scene, Paulette Goddard invited to Caribbean yachting, Jimmy Durante's dual role in a George Pal production, and Mary Jane Higby in a dual heroine. It also mentions Joan Davis as a tough waitress, and notes James Inston in New Jersey as Mr District Attorney. Richard, Ruth, and Julie London are cited in varied film plans. The piece reviews contracts, upcoming roles, and industry chatter about Hitchcock, Bette Davis, and Terry Frost amid a roundup of industry tidbits.
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