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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1958
Page
1
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A local meeting chaired by Harold met Monday evening at 8 o clock to discuss the school budget. Mrs Laws Brook and Dr Pherson attended along with residents.
West Concord residents from Laws Brook road will meet the board of selectmen on Monday July 14 to discuss dangers from the dump including insects rats smoke and odors. Town Manager Theodore M Nelson has already hosted several conferences.
The Concord School Committee met last Monday in the superintendent's office with Mrs Spinney presiding. Attendees included Mrs Ernest Spinney Mrs Thomas McGrath Mrs E Cary Brown Dr Bruce Old and Dr Robert Ireland Dr Raymond Travis. They discussed pupil personnel services and elementary education with John Palmer and Virginia Biggy. The group also reviewed salary scales for clerical custodial and medical staff elected new personnel awarded a painting contract and adopted upcoming texts. The next meeting is set for July 28.
Concord selectmen call a public hearing for July 14 at 9 AM to consider The Fairway Restaurant Inc. amendment to add a three piece orchestra and dancing for patrons from 9 AM to midnight on weekdays. The hearing also addresses a transfer of location for a seven day common victualler license to sell all alcoholic beverages on Lexington Road, action deferred 10 days from publication.
West Concord merchants and town manager Theodore M. Nelson met with Boston & Maine Railroad officials to discuss correcting rail delays at the Commonwealth avenue crossing. The railroad indicated interest in selling for reasonable offers.
Funeral arranged for Robert who died in Concord with burial at Walnut Hills cemetery in Brookline. Service details recorded for family and friends in Brookline.
Concord reports a blank accident sheet for eight weeks, with no injuries or wrecked vehicles over the long holiday. In four weeks 167 people were booked for trespassing in the White Pond area, 33 summoned to Concord District Court and fined. Most offenders were nonresidents from Lynn Everett Acton Sudbury Maynard, as Chief Kelley says prosecutions will continue to curb traffic nuisance.
A Cambridge juvenile was arrested after being caught stealing a wallet from clothing at Walden Pond. After booking, he was released to his parents and will appear in court later to answer the larceny charge.
Early Sunday patrolman Sweeney arrested a West Concord resident and his female companion for drunkenness after a complaint about a noisy depot area. Officers found them uncooperative and locked them up for drunkenness as 4 a.m. surveillance ended.
An early Saturday night thief entered the vestry of Our Lady Help of Christians Church, opened a safe behind the altar and fled with $50. The theft was found Sunday morning when the church opened for masses. investigation is led by Lieut. Marshall J. Witherell.
A taxi driver reported a fare near Conant street and the cab was traced to Maynard after Firemen logged the plate. Police later found a West Concord resident intoxicated who confessed he was the supposed victim and was confined at home until sober.
Special Officer James Barrett Wood found a Roxborough citizen heavily intoxicated on the West Concord beat. Patrolman Robert Costello assisted, bringing the man to the station where he mumbled about his wife hating him and stated he would be happy to go to jail, leaving women and officers behind.
State Police from the West Concord barracks investigated a four car collision on Routes 4 25 near Route 128 in Lexington. A woman sustained serious injuries in the crash.
The Concord Board of Appeals chaired by Walter E. Dow schedules three hearings at 8 oclock in the court room of the House on July 1. Tompkins Farm seeks relief from frontage rules on Lowell road, Lantern Corp Lexington seeks a ruling that Garden Apartments won t harm neighbors, and Thomas J. McGrath requests continued gravel removal on Strawberry Hill road.
Mr and Mrs Robley C Conn er and family of 66 Central Street are on a two week vacation at Mrs Hilsinger s cottage at Lake Nabnasset Relatives announced James J Loughlin aged 21 Siow Street a retired insurance man celebrated a birthday anniversary with a party hosted by kin.
The Rebecca Sewing Circle of the Evangelical Free Church will meet on Thursday July 17 at 8 PM at the home of Mrs. Helen Vettrus for a gathering and sewing.
The Board Of Appeals has affirmed the buildit permit for the bowling alleys project. Chester D. Smethurst receives the upheld permit after two public hearings. Full story on page three.
Mrs Karl Nyren of Newton Highlands is named librarian of the Concord Free Public Library by library committee chairman John D Briggs. She moves from Auburndale branch of Newton Public Library and has prior service at Daytona Beach Public Library. She is a Boston University graduate with AB and AM degrees in American and French literature and begins Sept 1.
Carlisle Board of Selectmen to meet at Gleason Public Library on Tuesday July 15 at 8 oclock chaired by Roy V Cann.
Miss Helen Frances Gradeski, a teacher, married Dr Robert John Bruneau at St. Joseph's Church Lincoln in a silk organza gown with lace. The ceremony was led by Rev A Francis McLaughlin and included a reception at Marlboro Country Club with family and friends.
Town Manager Theodore M. Nelson reports new speed signs on Old Marlboro Road Old Road to Nine Acre Corner Old Bedford Road Virginia Road and Sandy Pond Road approved by the State Department of Public Works. Water mains near completion on Old Bedford Road before new construction and house services restored Tuesday evening. Twelve inch mains delivered for the Concord Carlisle Regional High School site off Walden Street.
Manager Nelson reports two water tests completed in the past week one at the Ripley School site off Old Bedford road and the other at the Hugh Cargill site Fr Daniel Linehan renowned seismograph priest will be consulted again for exploratory tests.
Two new parking zones off Church street and behind Main street business area have been paved but will not be lined or used until August to cure the hot top. Drainage work on Church street from Commonwealth avenue to Highland street nears completion. Afterward old street car tracks and ties will be removed and a new hot top surface laid.
The report notes faults in the fire alarm ground system and mentions pruning of trees and other measures underway to correct the faults.
Concord issued only 16 building permits in June with total construction value 71 755 dollars, including 56 400 dollars for new building. Four dwelling permits were granted to Beharre Brothers Revolutionary Road 19 800 dollars John J Flannery Bedford Street 12 000 Ruth Canty Lexington Road 9 400 Custom Colonials Edgewood Road 12 000.
Firefighters responded around 10 15 a m Tuesday to a vehicle crash at the West Concord dump. The 1955 Lincoln owned by Charles E Harmon of 155 Commonwealth Avenue went over the edge and caught fire causing extensive damage.
The annual meeting first organized in Concord in 1941 will be held at the First Parish Unitarian Church Meeting House this Saturday July 12 at 10 30 a m in honor of the 141st birthday of the late Concord naturalist and writer Henry David Thoreau.
Curtis Petersen 20 of Concord seriously injured when his car crashed into a power pole and overturned near Bristol Maine on Sunday. Two female passengers Gretchen Benner 14 and Gloria Miller 15 were killed. Craig Cleaves 18 of Darien Connecticut rode with Petersen and survived. Petersen is at Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta Maine in satisfactory condition.
Concord Rotary Club inducted its new officers at a noon meeting last Thursday at Howard Johnsons. Chester D. Smethurst becomes president succeeding Ralph A. Macone. Other principals include Harold F. Nicholas as vice president Thomas J. Byron as secretary Adrian W. Cleveland as treasurer and Charles B. Hall as assistant treasurer. Charles W. Dee serves as sergeant at arms with E Payson True as auditor and pianist Rev Robert H Barber as chaplain and Macone and Casper J Jenney as directors.
Concord marks the 71st anniversary of the Concord Home for the Aged at 32 Walden Street. The building, once the residence of Ephraim Wales Bull founder of the Concord grape, remains an abode for elderly ladies.
Concord council No 287 of the Knights of Columbus holds its annual family outing at Tyngsboro Country Club on Sunday July 13 at 1 30 pm. Past Deputy Grand Knight J Edward Finigan leads the committee and a fine program is planned with refreshments available on the grounds.
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