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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1955
Page
6
The Army plans to draft 17 to 19 year olds for a8 year reserve. Taylor urges volunteers but supports a draft if volunteer numbers fall short. Pentagon witnesses press for restoration of the 17 to 19 age bracket and eight year reserve service.
A town ceremony honored retiring Probation Officer Wilson who served with the court police for years. Robinson, a Concord native and Bowdoin graduate, will assume the post August 1 as his successor. He is married with three children and has eight years as welfare agent plus World War II service.
Concord notes the recreation commission launched a fund drive to support a play group for retarded children. By week’s end the goal was met and the group began meeting three times weekly at Alcott School with Mrs. Robert E. Kelley guiding games music and free play tailored to the children’s needs. The committee thanks all contributors for the successful effort.
The Dow family of 139 Commonwealth Avenue West Concord vacationing a second week at Provincetown. Dr Edmund C Dow a dentist at the Massachusetts Reformatory Firemen responded to Box 63 Sunday afternoon during the storm. It proved to be in Carlisle in Bedford Street Concord marking the 181st alarm of the year.
Advertises part time opportunities to represent a new toy line with training and supplied materials. Messages readers to write RoJan Home Presentations Box 121 Bedford Massachusetts to book parties and start a business selling at normal prices.
Boston Senate moves from a study order to a strict penalty bill targeting offensive literature. Substitution by Sen Fleming would jail offenders for up to two years or fines up to 1000 dollars for selling such material, with harsher penalties for repeats. An amendment by Sen Inne would limit penalties to sellers targeting minors.
Town Clerk Francis Warren announces a special session for voter registration on Tuesday July 19 from noon to 10 pm at Town Hall. Voters will choose a new selectman in the Special Election Town Meeting on August 8. George P. Schultz leaves post to join Eisenhower administration. Grandparents welcomed a daughter born last week to Mr. and Mrs. John Wetherbee.
Mr and Mrs Richard Herrick of Packard Road announce the engagement of their daughter Ann Evelyn Herrick to Ronald Lee Keim son of Mr and Mrs Glenn Keim of Council Bluffs Iowa. Herrick is a Hale High School graduate 1953 and trained in airline work in Boston later with Eastern Airlines in New York City. In November 1954 she joined United Airlines in Denver. Keim served in the U S Air Force and studied at the University of Omaha before also joining United Airlines in Denver. The couple plans to marry here in November and reside in Denver.
Miss Lottie J. Parker of Westminster, famed among Stow’s elders, recently marked her 90th birthday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter with family and neighbors in attendance.
Cpl and Mrs Roger Derby are visiting their parents in Stow while awaiting reassignment to duty in Maine. He has been stationed in Mississippi.
The House Ways and Means Committee rejected an administration plan to raise weekly jobless benefits from $25 to $35. Five Republicans dissented while recommending boosting benefits to $35 in the report. The House is expected to act midweek, but a deadlock with the Senate seems likely unless a conferees’ agreement is reached.
The first U S Army bayonet fencing manual appeared in 1852 authored by Captain George McClellan who later gained fame as a Civil War general.
A religious exhortation praises the president’s trip to Geneva for peace talks. It urges faith and unity, praying for divine guidance so wars cease and freedom spreads, expressing hope that prayers will be heard and peace will prevail globally.
Massachusetts seeks a prosperity based increase in old age assistance through a Senate Ways and Means bill. The measure adds a prosperity clause tied to per capita disposable income, with up to two upward adjustments annually, costing about three to four million dollars yearly and funded by state federal and local governments.
Col FitzGerald to receive a ceremonial review at Hanscom Field as Sgt Richard P McLean retires after 22 years of service. The event begins 9 30 a m with Col James F Starkey and Maj Ernest Mack assisting. McLean, of West Concord, will be honored on the reviewing stand with Col and Mrs FitzGerald.
News room modern automatic gas heat hot water stove. Immediate occupancy. Call Col. 3-4455 afternoon and evenings.
Local arrivals at Emerson Hospital this past week include a daughter to Mr and Mrs John H Wetherbee of West Concord on July 4 a son to Mr and Mrs Thomas Hayes of Belknap Street on July 6 and a son to Mr and Mrs James Robinson of Nashoba Road on July 10 Sinclair Weeks Jr of 2 Simon Willard Road is listed with the July 6 birth as well.
A well attended Concord Lions Club cookout took place Tuesday evening at Ray Harris’s Route 27 North Acton residence. Chairman William M. Lawrence presided over a brief business session led by Rudolph W. Currier. Past president Maxwell Lawrence and others received pins. Col. Edward J. Higgins and G. P. Bonfiglio attended as guests. The next gathering was announced for July 26 at Robert Woodbine’s Brook Street home in Acton.
The Massachusetts House approved a bill to raise the state minimum wage from 75 cents to 90 cents an hour, effective 30 days after congressional action on a similar measure. It would affect thousands of hotel restaurant and retail workers and allow apprenticeship wages as low as 75 cents. Tips and service workers would rise from 50 to 60 cents.
The Commerce Department reports the gross national product rose to an annual rate of 373.3 billion dollars in the first quarter, 5.3 billion above earlier forecasts and 6 billion above the prior quarterly peak set in 1953.
Regular Sunday services set for 8 and 11 at Trinity Episcopal Church with a vestry meeting at 7 p.m. Associate Justice David B Williams is presiding over Concord bench during Judge Pierre A Northrup’s vacation. Mrs Astrid Curran, clerk of the board of selectmen, returns from a week’s vacation. Henry A Laughlin and wife of Monument Street are touring Europe, visiting Ireland. Sympathy extended to Mrs Ralph Livingston on the death of her father Dr Edwin Porter Buchanan, 66, Pittsburgh surgeon, who died at his Beverly summer home. He is survived by his wife, a daughter and two sons.
The 500 mile long Kagera River system rising southwest of Lake Victoria is now recognized as the Wile River's true head stream according to the National Geographic Society.
Concord Corborg Little League all stars named to region playoffs prep in late July. Four managers picked team with Jimmy O Neil as manager and Frank Devlin as coach. Players include Bob Baker Dick Funkhauser Chip Elsner Kit Harris Bob Windheim Roger Mattison Jeff Rantilla Terry Taylor Jim Diskin George McDonald Don Forte Jim Grant Tom Berlied Pudge Gray. Alternates listed Chick Nickerson Walter Ramsay David Caplice.
The Braves won their 12th game of the year Sunday, dominating the Dodgers 9 to 0. Pitcher Chick Nickerson held the Dodgers to two hits while the infield turned a key double play. Dick Funkhouser homered, Elmer and Funkhouser each went 3 for 4, and seven hits produced six runs in the fifth inning. If the pace continues, they look uncatchable.
Acton Mrs. Doris Santa mour and Mrs. Carolyn Douglas report that in the first week of the remedial reading program fifty children from Grades 1 and 2 and forty five from Grades 3 through 10 enrolled. Teachers thank parents for cooperation in transporting students to Julia L. McCarthy Primary School.
Angela Bemis, first grade teacher, enrolls at Boston University School of Education for summer courses in reading improvement and remedial reading. John Winton also attends BU Summer School for administration and curriculum. Superintendent William O Connell attends Harvard Summer School Conference July 10 14 on Public Education and the Future of America.
Concord Mrs. John W Hut chinson and Mrs. Morgan K Smith Jr tied for low net honors in the medal round of the annual ladies invitation four-ball at Tedesco Country Club Swampscott Tuesday. They posted 84 and 73 respectively. Final round of 38 holes was scheduled yesterday.
Buffalo researchers say Grecian wedding canes baked with indigestion reducing ingredients were used to treat acid indigestion after overindulgence. The Arner Co. notes baked in compounds as a convenient remedy.
Fragmentary report notes Mayng CYO Scout feats and a match against Onville. Johny appears in a eighth grade context with a throwin and Wal involvement. Vichy next steps and plans with Do With It referenced.
Fragmentary OCR text lists several surnames including Sevra Bowes Kulevich Jones Forsythe Ferland Kavaleski Brooks Walsh Cassidy Crotty Mulcahy and others, with no clear event, action, or context readable.
The readable portion lists many individuals such as Walsh Luker Kulevich Jones Cassidy Martino Crotty Brooks Kavaleski Ferland Sevra Mulcahy Barber Bowse Troisi and others with scattered initials and dates. The text hints at expenditures and totals from 1791, noting averages and sums though many lines are cut off.
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