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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1950
Page
16
Retail food prices remain largely steady despite a surplus of many foods. Government reports show egg output up 12 percent. producers may cut back, likely pushing prices higher after June. Coffee costs rose in some stores while demand slowed. wheat stocks exceed weekly consumption. Maine faces a large potato surplus.
Concord Recreation Commission met at the Town House to organize the coming year. Fenn School headmaster ger C. Fenn will again chair, Mrs. Anne Root McGrath secretary treasurer, and new member Mrs. Elsie Kennedy welcomed to fill the unexpired term.
Concord Woman's Club meets Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Girl Scout House for American Home Day with luncheon. Mrs. Clement S. Edwards will preside as speakers and a program follow. A joint meeting with West Concord Woman's Club is planned for March 27.
ConcordMiss Mary Rotondo daughter of Mr and Mrs Pasqual Rotondo of Bedford Street has been named to the honor roll for the second quarter at the Fay School Boston. She is enrolled in the one year executive secretiariat course.
Concord remembers Pauline Tibbetts Davock 40 a lifelong resident born in Biddeford Maine November 24 1909. She lived with her husband Navy veteran and her parents Mr and Mrs Arthur F Tibbetts in Concord. A sister Elizabeth Fairbanks of West Lafayette Indiana and brother William Tibbetts of St Petersburg Florida survive. Funeral services were held at Joseph Dee Son funeral home with Rev Robert H Barber conducting. Burial at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
Concord Lions Club will meet Tuesday night at Howard Johnson's for supper and a 6 30 program presided by President Maxwell E Lawrence. Past President Rothwell N MacRae will lead a film program and report on the Bowdoin College glee club concert set for March 23 at Concord Academy gym. For March 28 MacRae booked Ray Small to discuss Jet Propulsion.
William Henry Wells aged 65 of 2 Thoreau Street died last Thursday after a long illness at his home. A native of Shelburne Nova Scotia he lived in Concord 50 years and was a retired building contractor. Surviving are three brothers and a sister. Funeral at Mac Rae Funeral Home with Rev Robert H Barber officiating. Interment in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
Edgar F. Capell president of the Massachusetts Safety Council announces the 28th Annual Massachusetts Safety Conference and Exposition at the Hotel Statler Morris on March 20 21. The event features a safety exhibit and 250 sessions on industrial health highway fire prevention and child safety education. Governor Paul A Dever will speak at the Governor's Highway Luncheon with leading dignitaries in attendance.
The National Safety Council urges a spring safety check for the family car as one in three vehicles on the highway today needs repairs. In 1948 unsafe vehicles were linked to about 13 percent of fatal accidents, totaling roughly 3,700 deaths. Key points include brakes, lights, tires, steering, wipers, horn, glass and muffler.
A meeting of the Mr. and Mrs. Club will be held Friday at 8 o clock in the West Concord Union church. Hosts include Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Carter Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hart Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Allyn White and Dr. and Mrs. Earle Wheeler.
Dirty rats cause losses in the United States equaling the annual output of about 265000 farmers, consuming or destroying food supplies across the country.
The 79th New England Show of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society runs March 12 to 18 at Feenerie Building in Boston. The mammoth display features a Glastonbury Connecticut mill setting, a village blacksmith shop, an apothecary, and three floors of gardens with spring blooms, fountains, and exotic plants including Walké amaryllis.
Information booths staffed by expert horticulturists will answer garden questions free of charge. Afternoon and evening organ music programs are arranged with ample seating overlooking the village. A feature this year is unusually wide aisles for comfortable viewing. Morvich, the racehorse, won the Kentucky Derby but never won another race.
The funeral of George Tracy Pope 63 of 52 Old Marlboro Road West Concord was held Friday at MacRae Funeral Home Concord. Rev Bradford Hastings officiated with burial in Maplewood Cemetery Marlboro. Pope born July 10 1886 Marlboro lived Concord 45 years retired moving picture operator and 30 years at the Massachusetts Reformatory. Survived by widow Mabel Tracy two sons Clifton Gloucester and John West Concord daughter Mrs Vinal Ashe three grandchildren two sisters Miss Myrtle Pope and Mrs Christopher Place and brother Walter Pope Lowell.
During World War II General Marshall launched the L&E program to explain why soldiers fought. The effort extended to the Air Force Navy and Marine Corps with films posters weekly discussion pamphlets and correspondence courses. Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison Jr. heads the program and awards from Freedoms Foundation Ohio State University and the Academy highlight its impact.
Mrs Ruth I Wetherbee dates April 20 21 and 22 for a St Annes minstrel show at the Lincoln Town House to raise funds for St Annes church and Lincoln Post American Legion A cast of about 75 teens will perform three acts including an Olio with six end men and six end girls a dancing chorus and a male chorus Lincoln Legion members handle ads and William H Davis oversees tickets Edith Cullen directs dance routines Lucy Bygrave and Geraldine Todd arrange the Baby number
Concord Lodge of Elks schedules a meeting Tuesday night March 14 at 8 o clock with Exalted Ruler Arthur W. Parke presiding at the Main and Way Exalted Ruler presiding.
A National Safety Council campaign targets six bad drivers as dangers on March streets. The list includes the Gangway Gas man who lets courtesy vanish at the wheel, SID SCATBACK who sprints through intersections, and TOM T in business with a loud horn, among others.
Charles W. DeBay of Bedford a US Navy seaman on the destroyer USS Steinaker was hosted by Hamburg Germany mayor Max Brauer during a day long program in the British Zone port The visit included a tour of bombed areas Hamburg zoo and cathedral and a dinner Brauer a former American citizen who lectured against Communists and Nazis during the war later returned to Germany to aid denazification.
A popular Homemakers feature from A and P Service for Homemakers highlights modern shopping and diverse seafood offerings. The curry of noodles with shrimp serves six, followed by pineapple upside down cake and a beverage for dessert.
Stow residents Mr and Mrs James J O Grady celebrate the arrival of their third child a daughter named Kathleen born March 2 at Emerson Hospital Concord weighing nine and a quarter pounds George age six and Margaret age five are her siblings Grandparents are George Noonan and Mrs Elizabeth O Grady of Stow
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