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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1955
Page
3
President Eisenhower and Congress face a standoff over a federal pay raise and postal rate increase. Senate Democrats oppose a four cent stamp hike while backing a seven percent civil service raise, hoping to pass separate bills and avoid a veto with compensating postal rate changes.
A reunion for the Fourth Armored Division, known as General Patton's Warhead, will be held June 23 24 at the Hotel Statler in Boston. The event aims to rally more than 1200 veterans from the New England area with a preliminary meeting January 14.
The Rev. Herman Grove of Chebeague Methodist Church in Maine performed a do it yourself repair by painting the church steeple.
Massachusetts tuberculosis death rate has declined in recent years per Tuberculosis Facts and Figures published by the Massachusetts Tuberculosis and Health League. Yet new cases show no decline and experts warn the TB problem is growing due to more people living longer and needing rehabilitation services.
Sixteen Girl Scouts from Sudbury Troop 94 led by Mrs Terrence DeLucca join Bay Path Council’s first annual dinner in Framingham. Council president Mrs James Marr will oversee the meeting and officer elections. Sudbury participants include Mrs Cooper Harpin and Mrs George Mailley coordinating. A dramatization of Scout activities will follow dinner. tickets available through January 12. Towns in the Bay Path Council area include Sudbury Framingham Medway Southboro and Marlboro.
Sudbury PTA holds a January 17 meeting at Center School. Beginning 7 30 pm there will be teacher visitation for grades 6 through 12 followed by moderator led panels of three teachers per grade group. Panels start 8 30 pm with locations: grades 1 3 gym, 4 6 cafeteria, 7 8 H S business room, 9 12 home making room. Refreshments served.
Concord Roland Robbins of Lincoln, known for locating Thoreau cabin at Walden Pond, will speak to the Couples Club at Trinitarian Congregational Church on Friday January 21 at 7 30 p m. A covered dish supper precedes the program. Co chairmen are Mr and Mrs Charle Hanson. Robbins will present colored pictures of work in the restoration of the original iron works at Saugus. Up to 1845 six nations claimed parts of Kansas: Spain France England United States Mexico and the Republic of Texas.
A special town meeting will be held at Union Hall Friday night at 8 oclock to act on two articles about school facilities. Moderator Guy W. Clark Sr will preside. One article asks naming a new committee to study the facilities.
A grass fire on the Wilfred Rhoades property in Sudbury was put out by firefighters. Walter Ben’s 16th birthday party drew friends with his mother hosting Monday evening. Bobby, a Sudbury High freshman, is grandson to Mrs. Harlen Noyes who attended. Welcome Wagon opens in Sudbury with Ena Gillis of Littleton as caller, sponsored by Sudbury Shopping Center to greet new residents and civic groups.
Baking vegetables helps retain nearly all the food value and flavor, offering a practical method to cook produce while maintaining nutrition and taste.
Lincoln rites were held for James E. Park 32 of Lewis Street killed in a Yar nmouth train truck crash. The service at St Anne s Episcopal Church was conducted by Rev Morris R Robinson with burial in Lincoln Cemetery. Park leaves a wife Josephine K Rando and three children, his mother, four brothers and five sisters. Albert S Brooks Jr 24 remains seriously injured at Cape Cod Hospital Hyannis. Both men were with Rando Construction Co working in the area when struck by a Budd car.
Mrs Henry L Nelson will join forces with William E Downing, real estate and insurance broker of South Sudbury, as a real estate representative. Downing has eight years in Sudbury business and is current town treasurer. Nelson, active in PTA 4-H Girl Scouts and civic groups, recently moved to Sudbury and will be part of the local business scene.
Wayland prepares to dedicate the Parmenter Health Center on Cochituate Road as the nation’s first fully privately endowed hospital. About 300 officials and physicians will attend the January ceremony, with a two day open house for residents on January 15 and 16. The center will offer free ENT exams to the public, funded by a Parmenter endowment of roughly 650000 dollars, and overseen by Wayland trustees.
Pomona Grange and Sudbury Grange lecturer active on State Grange Home and Community Service Committee and Secretary of the National Grange Exemplification Committee serves as Salvation Army local chairman. Local friends wish her continued success.
Congratulations are due to Mr and Mrs James Goddard of Church street South Sudbury on becoming United States citizens Mrs Goddard is native of Persia and Mr Goddard of England They have long been associated with Sudbury community and have many friends Richard Eaton enjoyed a flying trip to California last week leaving Wednesday on a Northeast Airliner He was in San Francisco and Los Angeles visiting friends before returning to Boston
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