This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 21 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1954
Page
6
Town meetings wrap up with coverage of Maynard selectmen raises, Lincoln and Sudbury regional school votes, and local honor events. Notes on Easter seal drive, Armistice Day plans, and annual balls plus upcoming elections and tax reminders anchor a broad read of regional activity.
Funeral services were held for Arthur Frederick Betz age 62 of Overbrook Pennsylvania at Joseph Dee & Son Funeral Home. A World War I veteran and long associated with a Philadelphia firm, Betz died Sunday. The service was led by Rev William H Clark at Trinity Episcopal Carren with interment in Sleepy Hollow cemetery. He leaves his wife Evelyn Currier daughter and two grandchildren.
Bedford voters re-elected John Earl Dick as chairman of the Bedford School Committee for a third term. Dick has served as an attorney since 1934 and has lived in Bedford with a local law practice for 14 years.
Richard Jenney, noted Concord oval builder, underwent a second operation at Baker Memorial Hospital in Boston yesterday after transfer from Emerson last week. Tonight at 7 30 o'clock charter members and past presidents meet at the Co-Operative Bank directors room to revise membership regulations.
The West Concord-Court Our Lady Help of Christians CDA held a regular business meeting at the church hall Tuesday night with Mrs Ethel Dalton presiding. A report covered the recent 25th birthday party and Rev James H Connolly of St Bernard's Church was guest speaker. Coffee was served. In Du Quoin Illinois UP Benjamin Harrison Rogers was arrested weaving a baby buggy with his 18 month old son on a sidewalk. He pled guilty to drunkenness and was fined 15 dollars.
A Massachusetts bill to freeze all police chiefs under civil service protection was rejected by a State House civil service committee after a public hearing. Supporters argued it would remove politics from policing while opponents warned chiefs could become dictators under protection.
Vice President Richard Nixon said he will confer with President Eisenhower on his television reply to Adlai Stevenson next Saturday night. He will represent the Republican viewpoint and the President. Nixon noted he has not heard from Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and does not expect to, but will consider suggestions from other Republicans. He added the President is the party spokesman and will address Stevenson's charge of a Republican split.
Vatican sources say Pope Pius XII has recovered enough to take a daily stroll through Papal suites. He walked Tuesday with his doctor Prof Riccardo Galeazzi Lisi at his side, about 20 steps, signaling hope for a return to longer garden walks in time.
Concord police department sponsors a two week program for law enforcement officers. Concord Police Chief Robert E. Kelley and FBI Boston Special Agent in Charge Concord-Harvey G. Foster announce sessions from March 16 to March 30 with afternoon and evening groups at the District Court Building in Concord.
The Sudbury Cub Scouts held a father and son banquet at Memorial Congregational Church with 14 Den Mothers serving. theme Liberty Bell. Den Chiefs led pledges while awards were given to about forty cub scouts and a cake auction crowned the event with a $20 bid for Cub Heaven.
Sudbury area arborists are urged to attend the Massachusetts Tree Wardens and Foresters Association conference at the University of Massachusetts March 22 through 26. The program features registration, a Plant and Pest Identification Contest, sessions on tree care on highways, municipal tree problems, mist spraying, cross cut contests, and field trips with lectures by officials from the Springfield Park Dept and New England Tel. and Tel. Co. Banquet at The Lord Jeffrey Amherst closes events with talks on public utilities and private tree company issues.
Spencer F. Sullivan of Lowell Massachusetts will coach Portsmouth High School football next fall, replacing Art Blanchard who resigned. Sullivan has led Keith Academy football for ten years and previously coached at Dracut and Lowell High Schools in Massachusetts.
Sudbury resident Miss Emily M. Thompson Massachusetts State Chaplain opened the Massachusetts State Society Daughters of 1812 meeting at the YWCA in Boston with prayer and scripture. Mrs. Frederick S. Benson delivered a lecture with illustrations on historic houses. Hostesses were Mrs. Benson, Mrs. Charles S. Fuller of Dover New Hampshire, and Mrs. Harry A. Brown of Needham Massachusetts, the State President, who presided over the business session.
Sudbury residents attended the American Iris Society meeting at Horticultural Hall Boston last Saturday while Mrs Thomas Wiles presented Garden Tour Through the Orient. District Past Presidents Club leaders hosted a meeting at the Boston YWCA last Thursday. Mr and Mrs John E Childs joined a Pioneer Valley Association tour in western Massachusetts counties Franklin Hampden and Hampshire over the weekend.
Miss Edith N. Buckingham was mourned at S. Elizabeth's Chapel Sudbury with Rev Rollin J. Fairbanks and Rev W H P Hatch of Exeter N H officiating. Interment followed at Mount Auburn cemetery.
Jacksonville sailors from Naval Air Station built a model color jet and filled it with 44 bundles valued at 1 900 dollars each before dropping it at the Gorge Washington Hotel headquarters of the United Fund campaign.
The Concord Chapter of Order of DeMolay will hold its obligatory Sunday service at 11 a.m. at Trinitarian Congregational church with Rev. Robert H. Barber preaching. Maynard Chapter members and the Belmont district suite led by Warren Leslie will join. A 9 a.m. breakfast at the Masonic temple precedes the service. The group, for boys aged 14 to 21, aims to develop character and leadership. Concord Chapter, instituted in 1947, has about 100 members.
Sudbury Players rehearse For Love or Money by E. Hugh Herbert to be shown in Sudbury Town Hall on April 2 and 3 at 8 30 p m. Reserved seats go on sale from Mrs Arthur Grannis with proceeds aiding Friends of the Goodnow Library and a Sudbury High School scholarship for arts education.
Middlesex Soil Conservation District supervisors gathered at Herb Sweet’s Pepperell home on March 8 with guests Dr. Arthur Beaumont and Dr. Benjamin Isgur from the state Soil Conservation Service. Hans Van Leer, returning from the National Association convention in New Orleans, reported on speeches and ideas including district drills and fertilizer material plans.
Sudbury resident Mrs. Burton S. Lippard of Marlboro has taken the post of area treasurer for the 1954 Easter Seal Campaign. The Bay State Society for the Crippled and Handicapped plans fundraising statewide from March 18 to April 18 to raise 320000 for rehabilitation services for crippled children and adults. Sudbury residents are urged to support the effort.
Fragmentary OCR mentions individuals Bradshaw Keene Major General Thur Thomas and a visit in Philadelphia with accompanying people including William J C Georgetown and a Mr Marshal. no clear event date or outcome provided.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.