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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1954
Page
1
Community calendar highlights include a science fair at the school on Friday, Lions Club and K of C events, a May program at Monument Street, and a football or basketball showcase. Police activity, town meetings, and editorial notes frame a week of local civic life.
A fragmented notice describes an annual meeting for players on March 21 at a building with supper at 6:30 and an afternoon session to check props and preparations. Names such as Robert D. and Carol Farns- appear in unclear context.
A Massachusetts court case involves a prison employee removal and several guards facing charges after an investigation. Endicott Street district court documents show guilty pleas and potential five year terms amid disciplinary actions.
Concord Lions Club to host the Bowdoin College Glee Club in a capacity-limited concert at Concord Academy gym next Thursday night. About 70 students arrive at 4 30 p m with host families sought for 50 members. tickets available from Lions members or at Snow’s and Richardson’s drug stores. The Meddiebemasters bring a versatile program blending barbershop and sacred works under Prof. Frederic E. T. Tillotson.
The Concord Garden Club met yesterday at the First Parish Church parish house. Guest speaker Martin K. Bovey of Carlisle spoke on the subject Birds.
Concord Academy girl artists from lower and upper classes present a two week exhibit at the Concord Free Public Library gallery ending March 26. The show blends mediums from montages to sculptures with ceiling mobiles, reflecting a fresh deCordova Museum approach and a lively range of subjects from Wizard of Oz scenes to tropical fish.
Concord Plan ning Board selects Smith of 21 Lexington road as new chairman to succeed Edward K. True. Lyman S. Wiles is named clerk. Other members include HH. Theodore Beharrell and Samuel G. Kent, re-elected for five years.
Funeral held for Peter Hrandakis 80 a former Battleground Cafe chef who died at Boston City Hospital. A native of Greece he lived in Boston after retirement and had fled in a few weeks. He was a resident of Boston and died in that city.
The Concord town report omitted the traffic safety committee members appointed by the board of selectmen. At town meeting Richard D. Elton urged an immediate survey of all thoroughfares to list sidewalks and safety needs with action recommendations, aided by roads and bridges, police, and the planning board. Members include Edward W. Sheehan, Robert E. Kelley, John T. Foster, Elmer L. Joslin, Harry E. Tuttle, Bernard E. Megin, Charles M. Byron, John C. Macone, John J. Sheehan, James J. Mansfield, and Av L. Post.
State Treasurer Foster Furcolo spoke to a combined Concord and Maynard Rotary Club meeting at Howard Johnsons. He urged recording individual votes and criticized committee chairmen for wielding too much power.
The Concord Red Cross is $6,000 behind its annual fund drive while urging local residents to contribute. Officials urge those not contacted by solicitors to donate as Herbert Brownell Jr. extols the Red Cross as embodying the nation’s heart and soul.
Concord selects Waldo MacWilliams of 10 Hillside Avenue West Concord as wines inspector to succeed Byrd D. Goss of West Acton. The appointment was announced at the board of selectmen meeting Monday evening with MacWilliams noted as deputy inspector.
Concord-Howard M. Hawkes head becomes sixth annual science fair judge at Concord high school with assistants Carl Bowman Acton high school David Allen Wayland high school Miss Alice Kennedy Newton high school Andrew M. Dawson Middlesex school Stewart Lindsay Concord Academy John Meegan Framingham high school Lions club Laurence F. Petersen and President Leonard E. Rae assist. Awards at 9 PM Saturday announced by Radcliffe Morrill Rae Donovan O Brien and Joseph P. O'Brien. Public welcome.
Five additional Concord High School seniors have been accepted at various colleges. They are Virginia Wilkie Chandler Secretarial School Frances Ryan Fitchburg State Teachers College Dean Soule Brown University John Kendrick University of Colorado David Kane University of Maine.
Seven freshmen girls Hildred Snelling Marcia Travis Emily Ridout Nancy Fiske Caroline Forbes Mary Jane Mayo and Sally Meade now work in the volunteer nurses aid program at Emerson hospital. After school classes will be offered again for interested students.
The Concord Lions Club sponsors the sixth annual science fair at Wells A. Memorial Auditorium Concord High School Friday and Saturday evenings. More than 100 entries compete for prizes including 15 first prize ribbons and awards up to 15 dollars. Top winners may enter the state fair at MIT later in spring.
The Concord Police Relief Association votes to revive the annual ball once held before World War II. The event will be hosted Columbus Day Eve Monday October 11 at the State Armory, reviving a fall social highlight. Also notes the average depth of U S underground coal mines at 190 feet.
Concord firemen report 60 fire alarms and 45 ambulance calls year to date, far beyond 1953 levels. Sunday they responded to a post fire behind the Veterans Building.
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