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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1956
Page
10
The Dennison Manufacturing Co announced a general 5 percent wage rise for all hourly and weekly paid workers at Framingham Marlboro and Maynard plants not bound by later contracts. The increase takes effect on payroll weeks starting June 25 1956. The last general rise was in July 1955.
Two Massachusetts Institute of Correction inmates faced Concord District Court on Monday for assault and battery against officers. Ray Rich, 20, was found guilty and sentenced to six months, to run consecutively with existing sentences. Robert J. Walsh, 22, had his case continued. Both victims Jean P. Berube and guards Hamilton and Sawyer testified.
Concord Out of town births at Emerson Hospital reported for the week include multiple newborns to families in Maynard Lexington West Concord Bedford Stow and Maynard. Listed parents include Ernes t Baritone Russell Kenyon Mahlon Schell Carroll Felitus James Carpenter Salvatore Salamone Edward Lewis Charles Povan Walter Saunders Speech Beecy Lloyd Cowen James Sims Albert Koch Ronald Edwardson and others with birth dates in June.
The Tender Trap a Broadway comedy by Max Shulman and Paul Smith opens at the Red Barn Theater Westboro with nightly performances through Sunday. New cast member Robart Koolman plays Frank Sinatra role and Jane Norvell joins from New York alongside Teddy McCall Douglas Wilson. Myles McAleer directs and Francis Madard Jr designs sets. Box office reservations available in Westboro.
The 30th New England Rural Church Workers Conference will meet June 25 29 at Ocean Park Maine under the New England Town and Country Church Commission. Noted speakers include Dr Charles Matthews Auburn Theological Seminary and Rev Walter Brockway Seabrook NH. Public sessions feature seminars on evangelism lay youth and preaching with a vacation Bible school for attendees children.
Pontiac Michigan report states a 90 second delay cost the city 1700 dollars as revenue bonds for off street parking went to the higher bid after the low bid was voided for arriving 90 seconds past the deadline.
The Concord Fourth public hearing at Thoreau School attracted about 40 residents debating Powder Mill road as a site for new classrooms. Seven Conantum parents urged favor for a plan to house 212 K.6 children, enough for an eight room school, amid town growth and land pressures at Nine Acre Corner.
Funeral services were held at MacRae Funeral Home for William Smith 82 of 4 Highland Street who died last Friday. A former Massachusetts Reformatory officer, he had retired 19 years ago and was active in Concord Lodge of Odd Fellows. Surviving his wife Minnie Smith are a daughter Mrs. John Cooner of Schenectady NY and two grandsons.
Concord expects about 40 alumni to attend the 50th reunion at the high school cafeteria Saturday June 23. The reception starts at 6 p.m. followed by a buffet supper and entertainment with Miss Gertrude H Rideout retired English teacher as toastmistress.
The standing committee of the West Concord Unitarian Church will meet at the Zann on Tuesday June 26 at 8 o'clock. Firemen report 130 alarms this year and 123 ambulance cases. Ward received from Frank L McCormack a retired deputy assistant superintendent of the Massachusetts Reformatory visiting from Long Beach California. He says he enjoys his Enterprise and the weather is beautiful.
A Gas Appliance Manufacturers Association forecast shows 134000 more New England homes will use gas by the 1958 59 heating season, an 81 percent rise. The shift stems from gas expansion, economy, and multiple fuel uses, with 104000 existing homes converted and 30000 new homes added.
Police in Mount Carmel Illinois search for a thief who stole four stove signs from street intersections, a flag from the sixth green at the golf course and a sweater from a parked car.
Mrs Hazel M MacGowan Roche age 56 of 1000 Main St North Acton died at home last Saturday after a lingering illness. Born in Brockton she lived in Concord 25 years and was a Brockton High School 1918 and Brockton Hospital Nursing School 1922 graduate. Survived by husband Lawrence C Roche son Norman L Roche daughter Mrs Warren Fogarty sister Mrs Lika Windle brothers Kenneth and Howard MacGowan. Funeral Tuesday at Woodlawn Chapel with Rev Kirby officiating burial in Woodlawn Cemetery Acton Center.
Concord couple Mr and Mrs Christian A Martinson marked their 53rd wedding anniversary at their home 36 Hubbard Street. The Norway born pair, longtime Evangelical Free Church members, have four sons four daughters 30 grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Scientists note New Zealand’s sightless tailess bewhiskered kiwi has nostrils at the tip of its bill and, though about the size of a chicken, lays the largest egg known weighing about one pound.
Across the nation churches labor unions and merchants associations join to halt Sunday retail expansion from drugstores to hardware and supermarkets. The Minneapolis campaign sees union resistances backed by merchants and churches, while New Jersey groups and Catholic Protestant efforts press for closures.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex probate court notices interest persons object to executor J Foley register reports first allowance presented for will of Elizabeth E. Hill deceased in said county. File written appearance before First Judge at Cambridge by June 15 in year 1900. June 21 28 July 5.
Long real estate notice lists waterfront and inland properties across Marlboro Hudson and surrounding towns. Includes houses with multiple baths and garages, acreages, ranches, farms, land parcels, and development sites with prices and contact prompts. Coords to East Main Street Sudbury Stow Maynard and more, calls welcomed.
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