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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1952
Page
20
John R Robertson argues day care is a widening problem as working women rise in numbers. He urges communities to study local conditions, assess needs and fund high standard day care to prevent neglect and delinquency, stressing shared civic responsibility.
Concord Rotary Club heard Robert E. Higgs president of the Belmont rotary and insurance manager speak on the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The talk was introduced by Albert M. Coffey the Concord March of Dimes chairman.
Concord Lions Club will hold its regular supper and meeting at the Howard Johnson restaurant on Tuesday night January 22 at 6 30 with President Charles Wear presiding. The club has events next week including a joint meeting with Woburn and Wakefield on January 24 at Town Line House in Woburn and a delegation attending the mid winter conference of District 33 in Worcester on January 26 led by President Wear and including several past presidents and their wives.
Bedford Robert H Sands of Old Billerica Road was named by the board of selectmen to serve on the road commissioners in place of Frederick W Backes until the town election in March. Backes resigned after moving to Harvard, creating two candidates for the office next election. Perfume usage note contrasts historical masking with modern fragrance for women.
Sergeant Cilla J O Hara and Corporal Mary T Killoran will recruit in Waltham every Wednesday starting the 16th at the local recruiting station, as Master Sgt Albert E Gilman states. The piece highlights expanding manpower needs, appeals to women aged 18 to 34 without dependents, and notes Anna Rosenberg's emphasis on service, with 40 000 women already in essential roles. Address: 103 Moody Street WA 5-3180.
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory C Coffin of Concord announce the birth of their son Gregory C Coffin Jr at Emerson Hospital. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. C V Stackpole of Marblehead and Mr. and Mrs. W Gregory Coffin of Marblehead.
Miss Della Prescott age 84 died after a long illness at a Lexington rest home. Born in Dover Foxcroft she was a Boston schoolteacher for 28 years retiring at 60. She belonged to the Congregational Church Dover Foxcroft Old Concord Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution and formerly the Concord Woman's Club. Funeral services were held at MacRae Funeral Home Concord with Rev Robert H Barber officiating. Interment Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Concord.
Concord Massachusetts announces Miss Mary Elizabeth Cullinane daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward J Cullinane of 4 Brooks Street to Pierre Carchedi son of Mrs Bruno Carchedi of Norwood and the late Mr Carchedi. Miss Cullinane a Concord High School graduate and School of Attendant Nursing Boston trained at Norwood Hospital now employed there. Mr Carchedi a Norwood native and World War II veteran. No wedding date yet.
Capt Humphrey a Lexington high school athlete and his wife Mary Cathy and Janet along with their three daughters have returned to Bedford on leave after overseas service in Korea and Tokyo. They stay with Mr and Mrs Harold Wellington on North Road and plan to visit relatives in Westford. Mrs Humphrey is Marguerite Willson a Wellington relation. The family left the United States for Japan in 1949 with further service and hospital treatment in Japan noted. A separate note mentions the Lower Rio Grande Valley lacking edible fruits and berries.
Rep Howard reports the 1952 Massachusetts General Court opened with Gov. message praising progress but noting factory closings. Plan to shorten the session with daily hearings. January 9 and 10 saw 161 and 120 hearings. Senate 122 proposed land acquisition in Sudbury River marshes for waterfowl conservation. local selectmen favor excluding near Concord road from taking. Also plans for Sudbury Valley mosquito control and other Valley studies upcoming.
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