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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1948
Page
5
The final senior year baccalaureate at Middlesex School will be conducted at 7 o clock tonight. Principal T Pomeroy and First Parish will lead exercises with remarks from trustees president Lawrence Terry. Student speeches will honor sixteen graduates including Herbert Gezork and Newton Theo.
In Concord District Court Judge Pierre A Northrup arraigned James E. Cummings 17 and Ralph Nielsen 21 of Charlestown on breaking and entering at night and larceny. Lexing ton Police alleged the pair with two juvenile girls broke into Paul Marashio's cottage in Lexington and stole 200 dollars in cash a radio a clock a shotgun and more. The youths were held for continued hearing next Monday morning. The girls were returned to their parents after arrest early Monday in Burlington.
The valedictory address will be given by Chase N Peterson of Logan Utah. The announced speaker is a student set to graduate and deliver the farewell remarks at the ceremony.
Constance Joannes, a model, discusses balancing glamour with cooking. She shares her favorite dish American Lobster recipe using three lobsters, onions, tomatoes, and olive oil, noting thrift and waste avoidance in kitchen practice.
At its regular meeting the Willie Allen Pekkala Post 8074 VFW appointed a committee to plan a lawn party to be held early in July at the Town Hall. The committee will report at the next regular meeting on Wednesday June 9 at the Town Hall.
Rev Fr Joseph F Geary curate at Our Lady Help of Christians Church transfers to St Joseph s Ipswich effective yesterday. Transfer noted at last Sunday masses. He served as assistant since May 19 after ordination May 6 by Archbishop Richard J Cushing, succeeding Rev Joseph W Sullivan who moved to Cambridge parish.
Concord firemen reported 82 alarms in the first five full months of 1948, below the previous year's pace when a record 238 alarms were sounded in the 12 months.
Universal Bor ing Machine trounced the Fire Department team 13 to 1 in a Riverside Park practice game last evening. Lambert and Howard led the victors at the battery, while Long and Walsh faced the loss for the Fire Department.
Stow Memorial Athletic Field hosted Stow High School vs Littleton High School as Harvey Croft of the Hale High Stow team pitched a no hit game in a 7 to 0 victory. Miss Priscilla Lewis and Leland Lewis, children of Mr and Mrs Donald Lewis, spent the holiday weekend in Stow visiting relatives.
Stow town hall to host the next regular American Legion Post 272 meeting on Monday evening June 7. Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary from Stow Post 8074 as well as several named volunteers attended Memorial Day activities in May.
A Yale scholar reports the discovery of a pre Hammurabi law code from Bilalama king of Bahnun ha on the Tigris east bank near Bagdad. The tablet shows eye for an eye style penalties and price control provisions dating about 2000 years before the Christian era.
A Cornell assistant ex forester Prof Fred Winch Jr cites a machine to ease tree planting and notes several commercial planters are on the market. Simple wheel driven blades cut holes while dirt is tamped, but high cost limits adoption for small growers.
Texas City rebuilds decades after America's worst peacetime catastrophe as sections of the port and city show renewed vitality. The article recalls the 1947 explosions of two freighters loading ammonium nitrate fertilizer and notes the resilient community, fire insurance, and determined residents driving reconstruction.
A recount of Tom Davenport, a Black inventor who traded his brother’s horse for cash to buy an electromagnet and built the first battery powered electric motor. A 1886 patent office fire destroyed his model, yet he rebuilt and earned recognition in 1837 for his pioneering work.
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