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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1955
Page
17
A teenage narrator and his younger brother George coax an injured freight engineer to safety after a suspected train robbery. They drive the locomotive a short distance to Shelbyville, avoiding danger, then help Monty recover and earn George a free express train pass.
In New Haven, the Yale Peabody Museum of History challenges the notion that museums are mere warehouses for dead relics. The article shows how museums serve as educations in three senses, engaging both public and private colleges and universities in active study.
Silies come to the museum for study of exhibits and change them every few months. Peabody's service department provides instructors for class groups turning the museum into a classroom. Among the displays is Gargantua the circus gorilla skeleton showcasing a lighter side of American history.
The 1913 identification of Vitamin A by Dr. E V McCollum in Wisconsin spurred nutrition research that solidified milk and dairy products as key human nutrition sources. The note cites forthright views on morality and the tension between thieflike frankness and polite smugness in public discourse.
Donald W. Parker was named assistant cashier at the Maynard Office of the Middlesex County National Bank announced by Oliver T. Bergstrom after the bank’s annual meeting. A graduate of Ayer and Lowell schools, Parker joined Appleton Office staff in 1946 and later held roles in Everett Malden and the Magnate office before the promotion. He resides in West Acton with his wife and son.
Irene Woods of Burbank lives with six single births aged from 3 months to nearly six. She places her kids before housework and says schedule is impossible with her husband’s varying restaurant hours. She manages two laundries daily and buys enough milk for the family while budgeting tightly. A wartime note follows about German rebuilding of U S tanks and trucks for NATO in Europe.
Annie K. M. Hansen at 15 Winter St offers mending for woolen and worsted garments. Services include repairing moth holes tears and burns and binding blankets with prompt attention. Tel Mayn 1185-W.
Janet Roth of Acton High School is the 1955 winner of the Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award for top science scholastic record. Only award winners are eligible for University of Rochester science scholarships, with up to four thousand eight hundred dollars total. Selection hinges on science achievement and leadership.
Rosemary Clooney’s Hey There crosses the million mark this October while This Ole House helps drive sales. Other Broadway tunes on the cusp include Stranger in Paradise with Tony Bennett and Perry Como’s No Other Love. Patty Andrews pursues solo work in Las Vegas after a family rift and a contract expiry in January. The Four Lads at Columbia push Dance Calinda backed by Two Ladies in De Shade of De Banana Tree. Felicia Sanders shines on How Long Has This Been Going On with a Nine to Five flip. Guy Mitchell adds I Met the Cutest Little Eyeful at the Eiffel Tower and Gee but You Gotts Come Home.
The Public Health Service reports life expectancy in the United States has risen to a record 68.5 years, up nearly four years in a decade. Women born today can expect 71.8 years, men 65.9 years, as the nation joins the March of Dimes.
Master Sergeant William D. O Connell of the 52nd Anti Aircraft Artillery Brigade's 12th Battalion leads continuous 24 hour vigilance over New York City during the holidays. O Connell is first sergeant in the battalion's Headquarters Battery and entered the Army in 1948.
The article notes American dogs number about 22.5 million in 17 million families with roughly 200 million dollars spent on feeding. It humorously mentions a spaniel and a mastiff arriving on the Mayflower. It also states Texas crude oil production accounted for 43.4 percent of U.S. total in 1953.
The 33rd school of international relations, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts with Radcliffe College, runs January 26 27. Joseph E Johnson president of the Carnegie Endowment will speak on Security at Home and Abroad and a panel on healthy trade policy features Prescott C Crafts Jr Arthur Uipgren and Morris Rosenthal. A number of Concord members plan to attend.
Massachusetts vegetable prices stayed at record lows in 1954 with cabbage at 77 cents per box down from 1.00 in 1953 and total receipts dropping from 353 000 to 216 000. Carrots fell to 1.86 from 2.14 a box while cucumbers and iceberg lettuce also declined. sweet corn and spinach showed modest gains amid reduced supplies.
NAM chief says tax relief could unleash a 5 percent rise in output over 1954, with more jobs and higher take home pay. He outlines five conditions for prosperity including tax reform, reduced federal costs, less government control, end of government competition with business, and public understanding of economic policy.
From Mrs Jessie Bush Wriedt of Mesa Arizona the memoir recalls 1892 moves from Southern California to Gila Bend and Phoenix with early frontier life. Describes water from a salty ditch Indians and animals in a sheep pasture ram guarding figs and a memory laden trip to a 20 acre home. AAA safety tip urges careful driving during holidays.
In Hartford Connecticut three boys who raised ten dollars for a church fund admitted they spent it at a corner drug store on ice cream and candy. The item also notes the blue whale as the largest known animal and Dicomonas as a minute one celled freshwater and marine organism about a fiftieth of an inch long.
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