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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1954
Page
3
Brandeis beat Sheehanmen in the Class Bb small all championship semi final at Brandeis on Saturday night. Concord advances to the final to face the winner of Randolph Athol, with Joe Sheehan and coach Boucnard scoring and leading late.
A high school girls game Friday produced a 30-21 score with Hool defeating Aeteam. Readable names include Joan Besco Bet Ol Coughlin Fay na Sepe Barbara Ansfield Barbara Y McCarthy and others.
The note appears as fragmented text referencing the Reds and starting players. No clear event, date, or outcome is discernible to form a coherent summary with specific entities or actions.
Ted Williams remains at Sancta Maria hospital after collarbone surgery. Doctors expect about two months before he can play regularly for the Boston Red Sox, sidelining him for roughly two weeks of the regular season, which opens April 13.
The Maine Boxing Commission declared the welterweight title vacant after Billy O Bayne relinquished it. O Bayne remains suspended pending a contracted bout with Babe Mc Carron of Bangor, which he failed to honor in Waterville.
Three Middlesex League rivals from Concord won first round games at Boston Garden on Tuesday. Lexington defeated St John’s 46 38, Winchester edged Methuen 56 54, and Belmont beat Newburyport 52 47. In the semifinals Winchester faces Belmont and Lexington meets Braintree, 45 44 winner over Matignon.
Concord reports that Vic Heyliger leads his team into the NCAA hockey championships at Colorado Springs this week. Other entrants include Michigan Boston College Minnesota and RPI. Heyliger has coached a championship team three times in four tries and is favored to perform well. Eddie Barry, ex Olympic star, will serve as referee.
Acton League leading Yank ees beat 12.09ers 4-0 to widen margin over last year’s Farmers. In Harvard, the Firemen won from Legion 3-1. Top high triples included Eddie Boyden 335 Sal Watkins 323 John Beach 314 Dick Scribner 303. leading singles Watkins 131 Beach 119 Pyrro 117 Mike Foley 113 Boyden 113 Steve Scribner 115.
Acton High girls lost 44 37 to Pepperell High in the Littleton tournament first round ending their title bid. Pepperell advances while Acton exits the championship flight.
Concord publishes a notice listing Roberta Locke heading to a BA in nursing at an area college, Elizabeth Gault studying nursing at Newton Wellesley Hospital, Claire Berube entering Fitchburg State Teachers College for elementary grades, Linda Joyce to Colby College, and Elmer Brovoks to the University of Massachusetts in business administration. The piece ends with well wishes and a comment on the value of education.
Bedford resident Joan W. Watson daughter of Dr and Mrs W M Watson 109 Old Billerica road has been initiated into Omicron chapter Sigma Kappa at Tufts College department for women. A 1953 Concord High School graduate she is in the freshman class.
Hope College Athletic Director Russell B. DeVette, 31, will join the University of Maine next fall as basketball coach and assistant football coach, succeeding Rome Rankin who has been Maine's interim basketball mentor and athletics director.
Sudbury High School will participate in the Class II division of the 7th Annual Cheerleaders Tournament. The event is set for April 2 at Spencer's Memorial Town Hall. Class I competition was held March 26 in Spencer.
Under Vice Principal Russell Fitz the annual science fair is organized with events planned for March 19 and 20. Many participants are expected and officials anticipate a successful show.
A quoted remark by Frances Rodman on marital dynamics noting that a wife resents a husband speaking while she interrupts. The witty observation centers on communication roles in marriage.
Hudson-David B. Williams of Concord, a member of the Governor's Executive Council, will guest speak at the Packard Street School Parent Teachers Association meeting. A 7:30 conference and 8:00 business meeting follow, with a silent auction and refreshments provided by the mothers of grade three.
The District Director of Internal Revenue Thomas E. Scanlon warns taxpayers that the March 15 1954 deadline for estimated income tax declarations is approaching. Penalties for late filing or underpayment include 5 percent per installment plus 1 percent monthly penalties up to 10 percent, and a 6 percent penalty on the total shortfall for substantial underestimation.
Hale High School will reopen its social season with a St Patrick’s Dance Friday at Stow Town Hall. The Four Kings of Hudson provide music while student committees handle decorations posters and refreshments. The Hale High honor roll for January February includes numerous students earning highest and high honors.
The text notes limits on shortfalls relative to 80 percent of tax, and for farmers a 6 percent limit but never exceeding the shortfall to 66 2 3 percent. It also includes a brief instruction to buy U.S. Savings Bonds.
Rep Howard S Russell explains the distinction between elected constitutional officers and appointed department heads. He notes Massachusetts has twenty departments headed by governors appointees, highlights Owen Kiernan as Board of Education chair and Roy Hawes as Agriculture Commissioner, and cites the broad scope of state education and public works agencies.
Concord locals are advised of the Channel 2 campaign to launch March 16 at a Boston Sheraton dinner to raise 1 053 000 for the new television station More than 500 volunteers officials and educators expected. Guest speaker Edward L Ryerson president of the Chicago Educational Television Association will attend.
Plymouth County authorities set random road blocks on highways to deter purginaries and automobile thefts. Motorists must show ID and account for themselves as officers from all 27 communities cooperate. The program continues indefinitely until crime rates drop.
Ten years after fleeing Soviet Ukraine and surviving Nazi labor, Wiroslaw Josa phat Snithurowycz became a U.S. citizen at a naturalization ceremony in Frankfurt. He is among 104 aliens from 34 nations sworn in as American citizens serving in Europe with U.S. forces under the citizenship law for servicemen. He marks the oath as an anniversary, noting he fled Ukraine on March 11 ten years ago.
Maynard Grange hosts a whist party at Mrs. George Creighton's summer street home on Tuesday March 16 at 8 p m. Middlesex Pomona Grange to meet in Lexington on Wednesday March 17. Maynard Grange regular meeting set for Thursday at 8 o'clock in Elks Hall.
The passage notes frequent appointments to unpaid boards and advisory groups to diffuse authority. It emphasizes that despite differing methods, most seem effective and that citizens care about practical outcomes and broad governance rather than structure.
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