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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1950
Page
10
Unemployment claim year begins April 1 with March entries held for processing. New claims are expected to fall due to higher shoe production, while overall jobless figures show a historic low in state funds and ongoing layoffs in small plants.
New York tanners forecast milder winters and a growing demand for light weight pliable shoe leather. Admiral blue shoes expected for business fashion next year with other colors planned. production seen near 460 million pairs in the year ahead, per capita output below prewar peak.
A poem by Ethel Atkins laments salesgirls' toil and customer tyranny in shops, portraying a gray exhausted clerk and a fierce customer. The piece ends by noting reprints from the Boston Herald on automotive engineers and 1 500 design drawings for a new car body style.
Repair guide notes moth holes cigarette burns and fabric wear can be treated. Tips cover identifying damage spotting holes testing fabrics and methods to reinforce seams and restore wear to suits coats skirts and blankets.
Concord reports Sachem Council elects Henry Swaebe as president succeeding John Todd who moves to Chicago. Melvin King named cubbing chairman as 54 scouts join a 64 member quota for the second National Jamboree at Valley Forge. Parades planned in Lexington and Concord on April 18 with 400 scouts and leaders, plus upcoming rallies on March 18 and March 23 at state armory and Cambridge Armory.
Menu lists meals and desserts including pineapple juice hot wheat meal with milk or cream toast butter jam and coffee Welsh rabbit on toast. Raspberry gelatin dessert with 1% cups hot water 14 teaspoons salt red raspberry jam and cream whipped and folded then molded yields 6 to 8 servings.
A jumble of breakfast and lunch ideas includes half grapefruit scrambled eggs pork sausage toast and baked halibut with potatoes and spinach. The fragmentary text also mentions peach gelatin molds and a garnish of bananas and mint, yielding four to five servings.
Red, a Sinstek, is famed for arl buttermilk and spends his time at Patty's home in Hillsboro Texas. Patty, a 72-year-old neighbor, owns a cow and keeps Red near the dairy.
Trinity Church Concord invites the community to the third of four Lenten lectures on Obstacles to Faith by Rev. Rollin J. Fairbanks of Boston. Organ recital at 6 30 p m followed by box supper at 6 45 p m with talks at 7 45 p m on loneliness sorrow and anxiety in March.
Concord High hosted two conferences on March 6. Roland Darling spoke on employment paths after high school and the value of versatile training. Bernard White of Boston University contrasted high school and college expectations and study habits. The senior prom followed on March 4 with Johnny Arena’s orchestra and a Top Hat theme featuring paper toppers, hats, canes, black and gold accents, and refreshments.
Concord sympathy extends to Mrs. Mary A. Duggan of 27 Everett street for the death of her mother Mrs. Catharine F. Tuttle Shannon of Cambridge. The funeral was held last Friday.
Concord community notes cover Red Cross fund drive progress and local branches, upcoming Patriots Day celebrations, high school science fair, Good Government Day at the State House, town elections in Lexington and Lincoln, and local obituaries. Mentions community leaders, school events, and civic activities across Concord Acton Maynard Bedford and surrounding towns.
Malcolm Thompson of Concord among three Massachusetts veterans chosen to join 27 young Americans living in German communities as democracy models. Thompson, a Knapp destroyer gunner in the Pacific, Harvard 1941 graduate with a Fletcher School law degree, trains in language and culture for daily life in Germany.
Local officials attended a Cub Pack 36 ceremony in Concord. The event showcased new cubs and council leaders including Huston Cockroll as master and Alf Kar ford as field executive with den mothers Cothrill and Mrs Lois Marie Adr assisting.
A Concord event recap notes Mrs. Col speaking at Thursday noon, with remarks on the meeting and the list of officers and speakers including Jill as chairman and M. Wardwell among past presidents. The piece mentions missionary support and a focus on the tithe.
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