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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1957
Page
18
From The Independent Fuquay Springs North Carolina argues banning books sparks publicity and may fail to aid youth. The South Pasadena Review urges anger at rising crime rates and questions how moral erosion could threaten national values and future generations.
Special Selective Service College Qualification Test set for May 16 1957 for students who missed the regular tests on November 15 1956 and April 16 1957. Applications must be postmarked by May 6 1957. Cards available at local boards or the student’s institution. Give to the Cancer Fund.
Carlisle-Douglas Sloane Jr of 4 Concord Street will represent Highland School in the 17th annual Greater Lowell spelling bee at Lowell Tech on Friday May 10 at 8 30. He won the local championship and is an eighth grade honor student.
Acton teachers Anne Rimbach Bertha Packer and Helen Worrail joined a Massachusetts school lunch program spring workshop in Boston during vacation. The event showcased new equipment for school cafeterias and included a demonstration. The word giraffe is defined as the one who moves swiftly.
The article argues legible 24 hour road signs would ease cross country travel and boost tourism. It notes families seek relaxation but get lost on unclear roads, and urges posting clear signs at intersections with night visibility to help visitors and encourage return trips.
The fifth meeting of the disaster plan executive committee was held in the Emerson Hospital conference room on a Tuesday. Recordings of previous meetings were available for review and preliminary committee reports were presented. The TiTO will host its annual supper and service at Trinity Episcopal Church on Tuesday May 7 at 6 45 PM with Miss Estelle Carver as speaker. Sympathy is extended to Mr and Mrs Walter Flannery of Watertown on the death of their six year old daughter Judy Ann Flannery in a auto mobile accident. Funeral services were in Wal tham last Thursday with burial at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. The baby’s father is a Cord native. She leaves besides her parents one brother two sisters and a grandmother.
Boston reports two experts call Friday quake a good thing and a precursor of more, stronger quakes. Harvard's L Don Leet predicts more shocks in the next fifty years, possibly in populated areas, while Reverend Francis Linehan of Weston College Observatory sees it as a safety valve. Both timing recorded at 6 40 34 a.m. and place debated between off Yarmouth Maine and the New Hampshire mountains. A third reading needed to confirm the epicenter.
The Rebecca Sewing Circle of the Evangelical Free Church meets tonight at 8 at Mrs Melvin Watsons home 6 Winthrop Street West Concord. Two rummage sales were held in West Concord Saturday by the Women's Club at Harvey Wheeler School and by the Concord Emblem Club at Condon's Block. Emerson Hospital rummage sale set for Saturday May 11 at the State Armory doors open 10 AM. Public welcome and for last-minute rummage call EM 99466.
A report in Architectural Forum details a nationwide boom in resort land values over the past decade. Prices jumped up to 1050 percent, with Cape Cod, Chicago's Fox River area, and Florida beaches seeing dramatic increases. Projections and syndicate activity push sales of large tracts, with some properties rising from low to multi million dollar figures.
Slow germinating seeds dishearten new gardeners but knowledge of germination times helps. Flowers like ageratum amaranthus anthemis candytuft and zinnia germinate within five days while petunias and acroclinum show faster results. Knowing regional sowing windows prevents waste and missed sprouts.
A Forest Products Laboratory developed a one coat exterior finish combining weatherproofing with natural grain beauty. Described in Practical Builder it requires no varnish and lasts at least four years. Colors include cedar redwood and sienna. Process uses raw linseed oil mineral spirits paraffin and color in oil with caution around flames.
The Acton Roxborough Regional District School Committee elected Margaret Boornazian to teach business subjects at the high school. She returns from Silver Lake Regional School after heading the commercial department and replaces Christine Demetriou, who leaves May 1. Helen M Davis was also elected as full time librarian starting September 1957, bringing English teaching and librarian experience from Billerica and Colorado Springs High School.
A report from Iowa State notes hens in well insulated mineral shelters lay more eggs and eat less feed. Tests show hens in insulated housing produced about 16 more eggs while consuming 6.1 pounds less feed than birds in non insulated buildings.
The United Nations reduced sound in its auditorium by adding two walls of large wooden slats to absorb noise. The article suggests wood paneling in homes can serve a similar purpose to quiet noisy surroundings.
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