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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1950
Page
8
Thrifty summertime plan highlights serving soup as a first course to balance budget mains. Onion Soup Viennese Style mixes beer with onions, beef stock, water, and Worcestershire, simmered forty six minutes, topped with toasted French bread and Parmesan.
Our Lady Help of Christians church West Concord reports grand prizes at the outdoor penny sale held last Friday night. Winners include Marvin Wood and John E. McSweeney both of West Concord and Bertha Johnson of Westford among others as well as a lecture by Col Otis Whitney and Senator Richard I Furbush at a Waltham gathering.
Concords Summer Union Services commence Sunday June 25 with the Unitarian church Trinitarian Congregational church and Union church West Concord joining for services. Schedule lists dates June 25 July 2 9 16 at Union church West Concord July 23 30 August 6 at First Parish Unitarian Concord August 13 20 27 September 3 at Trinitarian Congregational Concord.
In Milwaukee’s Upper Peninsula a determined man phoned the sheriff seeking a lie detector test. He said his wife had agreed to submit to a test to prove her claim that he had been “out with the boys” the past few nights.
Miss Helen M. McCarthy of 76 Commonwealth Avenue West Concord is confined at home after injuries from an incident in Boston. Miss Mary C. Magurn, a Concord High School graduate, recently earned a nursing diploma at Whidden Memorial School of Nursing Everett, daughter of Mr and Mrs Francis C Magurn of 50 Sudbury Road.
Workmen uncover two Revolutionary War era burial vaults beneath St John’s Episcopal Church on Broad Street Elizabeth New Jersey. Plaques record the Morris Metfield and Matthias Williamson families. The Rev Harold Whitmarsh says the tombs will be left untouched and reburied under the new sanctuary floor.
Salinas California school trustees praised open bids for a new building until one bid appeared $127,000 lower than the rest only to be found as a bookkeeper error. The apparent bargain dissolved upon discovery of the miswrite.
Fifty in taxi meters are to be installed in police cars to test motorists suspected of drunken driving. The device, simple and accurate, can be used on the spot to determine the alcohol content of the blood.
Concord Miss Elmina L Snow administrator presents Emerson Hospital May 1950 totals. Admissions 229, discharges 220, outpatients 300. major operations 36, minor 82, nursery 13. deaths under 48 hours 3, over 48 hours 3. pathology 28. accidents 41. daily average 47.4. largest 55, smallest 38. beds by category and town patient counts listed with regional towns and transfers.
Architectural designers from the University of Illinois explain that a ground-floor layout avoids basement costs and hazards while enabling easier storage and better ventilation. A basementless home adds a garage workshop and more organized spaces for tools and seasonal items. The article notes broader storage stays with ground-floor design and mentions a Lourdes shrine visited by more than 200 000 people yearly on route 20 in New Lebanon near.
Public notices advertise free 160 acre homestead tracts in Iowa and other government lands on sale for as low as $1.00 per acre. For information send $3.00 to Northwest Land Service, 412 E Eighth Ave Anaconda Montana.
Ges tur Johnson assistant chemist at the Colorado A&M experiment station reports that Elberta peaches taste pink while Hale purple. He described extracting tannin like compounds responsible for flavor and testing them via ion exchange resins. The tiny dust of taste differed, pink for Elberta and purple for Hale.
Berlin allies blamed the potato bug invasion on the Americans and called on neighboring satellite states to join a Little Cominform for common defense. The move signals effort to coordinate responses across the eastern bloc.
The article notes an Indian native named Christian Rawley as the first known Native American to visit England about 1585, and his baptism into the Christian faith there.
Secretary of Agriculture Charles F Brannan urges farmers to join the Independence Drive and build a financial reserve with U S Savings Bonds. He frames independence around farm storerooms, rain days, and enduring liberty tied to bond holdings.
Detroit report notes a kindergartner at Lincoln school is listed as Peter Roy Rogers Arthur Godfrey Price but answers to Pete. The unusual multiple names appear in school records, with Pete Rogers as the child’s preferred name.
Los Angeles motorists have long faced stereotypes about their behavior. Dr. T W Forbes of the UC Institute of Transportation defends them saying there is nothing special about Angelenos beyond sheer numbers and urgency.
One hundred school building supervisors custodians janitors and engineers will attend a school plant care workshop at Columbia University's Teachers College this Summer under Dr Henry H Linn professor of education and director of the course. Static electricity in dry cleaning is caused by friction of clothes and solvent during washer agitation.
The article discusses claims that the occupation of Japan costs about 2 800 000 dollars daily and comments by George Thomas Forster of NBC’s Far Eastern Bureau. He warns against pursuing a Japan Switzerland strategy and predicts dangers if Japan is pressured to withdraw.
The Army programs large scale war games costing about 1.6 million dollars to train leaders for operations in rain forests and Arctic environments. Plans include a Panama Canal Zone jungle air head, airlifted battalion combat teams, and air support by fighters, with 1,260 US troops and 1,740 canal zone personnel. An Arctic orientation tour will take selected commanders to Alaska and Greenland this summer.
A garbled excerpt from the 8 Report references money, fleet ownership, and worker costs, noting shipments and miles from an unknown site. The text is incomplete but implies financial and logistical details about an office or fleet.
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