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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1950
Page
16
Negotiations began this week between Hudson Worsted Company and Local 96 UTW FL for a new labor pact. About 600 employees voted yes to strike if concessions are not offered. The current three year contract expires August 1 with pension plan among key issues. Kenneth J Morin Local 96 president presided at the meeting.
Thirty three children aged four to twelve attend the Lake Boone day camp run by Mr and Mrs Frederick W Lippard. Activities include swimming crafts basketball drawing ballet and music from morning until 6 pm with transport in the Lippard station wagon. Instructors include Betty Ann Stokes Ellen Loftus Helen Granger and Nancy Roessler. Adults classes in swimming planned for August 21 with beginner and advanced groups. Earl Barker Jr home on weekend pass from Camp Edwards Cape Cod where he trains with his company.
A notice states shutdown from July 31 through August 7. Access will be restricted during the period and operations paused for repairs or scheduling. Authorities urge plan accordingly and note return of normal service after August 7.
A band concert on Stow Lower Common next Sunday July 30 from 7 to 9 pm features Willie Allen Pekkala Post 8074 VFW and the Maynard Community Band. Refreshments will be available during the evening.
Stow couple Mr and Mrs Carl Lund returned from a two week vacation visiting Johnstown New York to reconnect with World War I buddies and Derby Connecticut. They were joined by Mr and Mrs Alvin H Fletcher from Stow Center for a second week trip to Maine including Pemaquid Boothbay Harbor Sebago Lake Sheepscot.
A Stow group of seven Girl Scouts returned home Saturday after a two week stay at Camp Runels in Pelham New Hampshire. Attending were Sandra Herrick Ruth Johnson Ann O Tep Marie MacDonald Judith Allen and Linda Scott.
The Unity Club held a Saturday afternoon sale on the Unitarian Church lawn chaired by Mrs. Irene Donovan and reported as very successful. A similar sale is planned for August 26 on the church lawn. Miss Marjorie Gray, daughter of Mrs. Hazel Gray of Taylor road, left Friday for a three week visit with her grandmother Mrs. Blake Johnston in Nova Scotia.
A note from Warren Bud Peck thanks friends in Stow and elsewhere for cards and gifts during his hospital stay at Northampton.
Miss Mildred Mann visits sister Mrs Bernard King in South Woodbury Vermont and stays until Labor Day. Miss Gertrude Bird spends a week in Sheepscot Maine. Mr and Mrs George H Schultz return from two weeks motoring through the Berkshires. Thruston Hamner family move to Red Acre Farm. Philip Weinmann and family buy a new Red Acre Road house from Charles Fletcher. Mrs Walter Broad takes a Cape Cod motor trip. Paul Smith, son of Allison Smith, works at United Farmers of New England plant in Charlestown as a lab technician after graduating from UMass Amherst. Mrs Kalervo Fors of White Pond Road recovering well after major surgery. Helen and Larrie Thomas visit grandparents Al and Mrs Thomas on White Pond Road.
The Stow A relatives of Mr and Mrs John Hans Wanhatalo hosted a Tuesday evening family reunion at their Great Road home. Thirty two guests attended from Detroit Michigan Maynard and Stow. Guests enjoyed games and an outdoor weenie roast to cap the gathering.
Stow Woman's Association board members met Tuesday afternoon at Miss Gertrude Bird's Red Acre Village home. They reviewed the year’s program and noted the recent Rum mage Sale on Stow lower Common was very successful. A final board meeting will be held in August to complete plans before the season opens in November.
Funeral services were held last Saturday afternoon at the First Parish in Lincoln Center for Mrs. Charlotte Henriet ta Alcock Donaldson 78 wife of Robert Donaldson of Old Lexington Road Lincoln who died last Thursday afternoon at her home Rev Charles Marvin Styron officiated burial was in Lincoln Cemetery Mrs Donaldson born in Charlestown June 25 1872 had lived in Lincoln 50 years and celebrated the golden wedding anniversary last month She was active in Hawthorne Chapter Order of Eastern Star Lincoln Grange Lincoln Garden Club and First Parish church Surviving are her husband four sons Robert of Chicago Malcolm Lincoln Town Moderator Gordon a physician all of Lincoln two daughters Mrs Charlotte Donaldson a nurse in Middletown Conn and Mrs Chester Jean Peck of Provincetown 12 grandchildren and two brothers Samuel Alcock Belmon t and Daniel Alcock Los Angeles
Springfield Illinois. A state program to equip each of Illinois 102 counties with a man made lake has been dropped. State conservation director Leonard Schwartz called the plan ill advised misrepresented costly mismanaged and infeasible, a carryover from a predecessor.
Industry leaders say prolonged Korea conflict could unlock large war orders totaling billions. Local shoemakers and other factories may gain work as the government plans major defense spending and contractor opportunities, offering jobs in coming months.
James Sweet accuses his wife Mrs Sweet of improper relations with John Candy in response to her divorce suit filed in Knoxville Tennessee.
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