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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1947
Page
15
Arc welds and scrap-metal reuse transform farm equipment on methods to speed repairs and field tasks. Farmers adapt machinery with welding skills to build from scrap parts including tractors, milk cans, bars, and hitches, saving time and labor while improving field work and pest control strategies.
Millard Wright, 38, an oft convicted burglar, had a prefrontal lobotomy performed at his own request to curb criminal tendencies. The operation was declared a surgical success, with mental results to be evaluated later. Wright awaits sentencing on multiple burglaries, facing possible life under the habitual criminal act.
Joseph Giknis a 40 year old Brooklyn coal company mechanic wedged himself into a molasses tank car to retrieve a dropped monkey wrench. After two hours and a boatswain’s chair rigged by police the man was hauled free by six officers.
DETROIT police say William H. Mathewson about 60 burned himself to death in Palmer Park. Two boys and a woman cried for help as flames rose six feet from a circle of gasoline. A landlady and youths describe him as despondent and self-destructive.
Pistol Packin Patricia Hoffman Nickerson Hoscheid of New York social register was fined $50 after pleading guilty to carrying a concealed weapon in police court. Judge Guy Watts set $50 or 25 days. attorney John Halley paid the fine. The 23 year old socialite, recently divorced from Clark Nickerson and married to a Kansas engineer, waved a pistol at a Boston night club two weeks earlier.
In Fairbanks Alaska a paratrooper whose chute collapsed at about 100 feet was saved by fellow trooper Pfc. Raymond Kenyon of Greenwich Rhode Island who grabbed the other man’s silk shroud and rode to the ground two miles north of the city. The incident near April 1944 marks the second parachute rescue on record following an April 1944 event over Long Island New York.
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