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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1950
Page
15
A May program at St. k place featured Disney film dances and vocal numbers by students including Miss Tuck-Frothingham and Marie-Louise, with costumes from Cannes brought by families. Guests heard violin performances and songs while rain paused outdoor events. a torch ceremony replaced the planned finale.
Ruth Armour is elected president of the Sabra League with Ethel Young as vice president Grace French as secretary Janet Hekkala as treasurer Gladys Peterson as chaplain and Mabel Cuttell as organist at the Maynard parish hall meeting The retiring president was Anne Ruffead after a one year term The group ends its year with a June 21 dinner at the Sinclair House Framingham.
One hundred forty two Boy Scouts from Sachem Council districts gathered at Camp Oak Bedford on June 3 and 4 for a council wide overnight campout. The 22 leading patrols winner camporee competed with eight Scouts per patrol cooking and planning without adult instruction.
The Maynard Chamber of Commerce will hold a meeting at Russo's Restaurant on Thursday June 15 at 6 30 p m The agenda includes consideration of proposed by laws and other matters The president Ralph Whitney urges strong attendance Also includes a note to buy U S Savings Bonds.
A Concord Academy class of 18 graduates was celebrated last Monday with nine local girls among them. Diplomas were awarded by head mistress Mrs. Livingston Hall. Rev. Dr. A. Grant Noble gave the principal address. Rev. Robert H. Barber delivered the invocation.
Miss Hilda Dalke drives a new green jeep bearing New Jersey plates bound for India with a missionary group. The vehicle named Dorcas by a neighboring state preacher will tour churches in the U S before departing for Los Angeles for shipment. Dalke, partly supported by the Evangelical Free Church of Concord, stayed with Mr and Mrs Robert Carson during her visit.
At her seventh birthday celebration at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Zance Marie Ann Maynard was presented with her first Holy Communion as part of a St. Casimir’s church class. The event also marked the couple’s eighth wedding anniversary with guests including Mrs. Zance’s father Alex Lysk and John W Lysz with son Larry, from Erie, Pennsylvania.
Newark reports the Communist party of America states US membership fell since 1945 with current estimates not greatly above 47,000. FBI agents are said to be active within the party as it faces ongoing prosecutions and fundraising milestones.
Britain’s voluntary Euthanasia Society asks parliament to legalize mercy killings and promote a joint petition with the American Euthanasia Society to the United Nations. The request seeks to include the right to euthanasia for those dying in pain in the human rights declaration.
A Midwest survey near Milwaukee shows chain stores now hold 35.9 percent of area food sales, down from 53.9 percent for independents in 1939. Independents total 31.2 percent, with groups accounting for the rest. Friday purchases rise to 50.5 percent, while margarine sales fall to 33.4 percent.
Detroit reports pediatrician Dr John C Montgomery argues against spanking young children He says many children are spanked before age two with little effect and notes spanking masks parental tension He cautions that children misread disapproval of conduct as disapproval of the person.
Joe Dickman, a Pittsburgh area coal miner expelled from the United Mine Workers for calling John L. Lewis a dictator, apologized at a district five executive board meeting. He said a Pittsburgh newspaper letter showed his error and he may soon return to work.
Will graduate at the 129th commencement of New Hampton School New Hampton New Hampshire on June 10 Cerasuolo son of Mr and Mrs Cerasuolo and William Dreyer of Staten Island will present the class will He participated in many sports served as reporter for the school paper and earned a varsity baseball letter at the Spring Sport Banquet He plans to enter Brown University in Providence in the fall The piece also notes the largest seamless steel pipe size being two thousand times the smallest hypodermic needle tube size.
Seventy six students were surveyed with thirty nine in favor of an honor system while forty eight said they would not report a student seen cheating in class.
A gasoline station in Tawas City Michigan burned on Monday March 13 at 6 30 am, mirroring a blaze that struck the same station six years earlier on the same date and time.
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