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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1956
Page
4
Lieutenant Parker Sr named acting sergeant at Concord base security after long service in police and wartime corps. Parker, with family ties and a background including five decades in law enforcement, leads a cadre of 100 men alongside Chief Foster and five special guards.
Fragmented OCR text discusses FICA and Social Security, employer contributions, and Old-Age Insurance. It mentions the Bureau of Old-Age Insurance, wage credits, benefits, and state and federal coordination. Names and precise details are unclear due to garbled source.
In Hartford the Ringling Bros circus tents burned on a July 6 1944 matinee killing 169 and injuring 682. Fire sparked by a cigarette caused a 560 foot canvas tent to collapse. rescuers aided survivors as morgues and hospitals rushed to handle the casualties. A seven year old girl known as Little Miss 1565 remains among the unidentified.
A special Lincoln town meeting is set for Monday July 23 at 7 30 pm at Charles Sumner Smith School to consider four articles including a 63000 appropriation and a 4000 transfer plus a water main project on Brooks road and Old Cambridge Turnpike. Wheat stocks in North Dakota on April 1 1956 stood at 70596000 bushels.
Miss Eula Sophia Taylor 74 of 29 Prospect Street Acton died at Emerson Hospital after a two week illness Born in Acton she lived there most of her life and was a retired schoolteacher She studied at Acton Cambridge Latin and Mount Holyoke College class of about 50 years ago She taught 12 years in Acton and 25 years in Marblehead She was a member of Magdalene Chapter O E S Meynard Captain Isaac Davis Chapter DAR and the Evangelical Congregational Church She is survived by a sister Grace E Taylor Funeral services were held yesterday at her home and burial followed in Woodlawn Cemetery Acton Center arranged by Fowler Funeral Service Maynard
Fireworks will highlight the Legion Carnival at Page Field from July 30 through August 4 presented by Anthony Hunt Hamilton Post 221 American Legion. The event features rides such as ferris wheel chair-o-plane and merry-go-round plus food booths. Nathan Genetti Orlando Palmieri co chairmen with a large committee.
Sudbury notices report Miss Florence Armes Hosmer shows a portrait sketch in the Exhibition of Island Artists at the Martha's Vineyard Art Association in Edgartown. Also updates on vacations, church service, tax office hours, and local health aid calls.
The Carlisle School Building Committee invites townspeople to a forum Wednesday evening July 25 at 8 at Town Hall. The meeting will discuss additions to the new school under construction on Spalding Park land off School Street.
Bedford plans a three day Summer Carnival at Hanscom Field sponsored by the Air Force Cambridge Research Center for the Air Force Aid Society. Proceeds aid airmen in emergencies and education of children of deceased personnel. Rides thrill all ages. top act is the death defying Three Miles with 140 feet high seats. Local escape artist Billy Neal from Revere headlines. Grand prize is a 1956 Buick Station Wagon with other prizes.
Bedford police report three boys aged 13, 14, and 15 arrested on Tuesday for alleged thefts at Hanscom Air Force Base. Rifles were said to be dumped in the Concord river. They are summoned to Concord District Court on Monday July 23 for juvenile session. Investigating officers include Trooper William Irving and Bedford Patrolman Francis Sullivan and Sergeant George Nickerson.
Mrs Elsie E Arnold returns to 4 Bedford Court after visiting daughter in Detroit Michigan. Concord town manager Theo dore M Nelson rooms at Cull Tourist Home Lexington road awaiting local housing within a week and planning to move two children from Northfield Vermont to Concord. Mrs John W Teele of 20 Monument Street helped lead today’s Cape Ann Garden Club garden tour in Gloucester despite rain.
The first tiger cubs born at Lincoln Park Zoo surprised officials as a tigress expected unexpectedly after a recently arrived tigress gave birth. Wool producers advised to use paper twine not binder twine for tying fleeces.
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