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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1954
Page
3
A veteran and lawyer with WW II service and state ties seeks probate in Middlesex. The candidate, active with Kiwanis and local committees, is described as a Belmont resident and Boston University and Babson College alumnus.
Sudbury veterans plan a march to a memorial service at the hall with uniformed members. The group will transfer to the bus then proceed to the Goodnow Library for services and refreshments for participants including Brownies and Roy Ules.
Talented dancer Hudson-Sandra Vanzini will perform a jump rope tap routine on television next Sunday at 1 p.m. over a Boster station channel 4. She studies at Phyll L. Richards School of Dance and is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Mario Vanzini of 6 Assabet Street. She is believed the first Hudson child to appear on television.
The Massachusetts Division of Employment Security resumes an itinerant office in Concord at the Middlesex County Extension Service Building 19 Everett Street The Lowell division manager said the office serves Acton Bedford Carlisle and Concord for employment purposes only No unemployment claims are taken It will operate 9 am to 1 pm Monday through Friday in 1965
The Middlesex Milk Goat Breeders Association will sponsor an AMGRA show at Butterfields Grove Framingham on Sunday June 27. Register bucks of all breeds and ages with cross breed classes. Animals for sale will be on display. C Judd Farley of Acton is president of the Middlesex Association. Several local residents plan to enter bucks. the event is one of the season’s first.
Local arrivals at Emerson hospital report a daughter to Mr and Mrs William Martines of 171 Great Road on April 29, a son to Mr and Mrs Edwin Champney of 115 Pine Hill on April 30, and a daughter to Mr and Mrs Arnold on Dudley Road on April.
Concord notes the eighth grade confirmation class will gather Wednesday May 12 at Trinity Church at 5 15 PM. The adult group meets on Sunday at 8 PM, and a prompt reminder appears to buy United States Savings Bonds.
Concord outlines a Saturday event on River Street from 2 30 p m to 10 p m May 15 with motor boat rides pony rides book and toy booths balloons movies and dancing to Albert Haines orchestra The fair moves to the Veterans Building on Walden Street if rain stops the outdoor program enticements include square dancing and a grand march for all ages.
Concord announces the engagement and coming marriage of Mildred Evelyn Fultz of 48 Walden Street to Leo C. McKenna of 65 Walden Street. Mildred is a Concord High School and Wellesley College alumna working at the Concord Country Store. Leo is a Concord High School graduate presently studying at Dartmouth College. A late summer wedding is planned.
Juniors and seniors from Concord High attended a Harvard Club gathering at David Arnold’s Nashoba Road home to view the March of Time film about Harvard and hear from Dean Fran cis Parkman. Attendees included John Keith David Goodspeed Carl Hay Lester McDowell and Robert McWalter. The Jamestown birthplace of American industry near Jamestown Virginia hosts a 1608 glass factory site now targeted for national landmark preservation.
Concord-Den No 5 took inspection and honors and Den No 1 won the attendance emblem at last Friday’s pack meeting in Hunt Memorial Gym. Joseph Le Sage received his nébles badge and awards were given to many boys including Wolf-John Duckterlong John Whitehorn Ronald Rem paum Bear Paul Lavrakas Bradley Dewey Lion Finn Duckterlong William Kenney David Smith Craig Smith Walter Ramsey William Penney Jonathan Arke Prescott Smith Jonathan Parke William Comins and others. Den No 9 presented an original space men drama with puppets and scenery. the earth men won. The meeting ended after a film of B 24 production at Willow Run during World War II.
Sacramento California U P George Umberger superintendent of the Sacramento Yolo Mosquito Abatement District says only the female mosquito bites and she does, if only, to obtain the protein necessary to fertilize her eggs.
Mrs. Prescott A. Smith spoke at the Concord Rotary Club meeting about an overland 11 000 mile trip from here to Alaska and back in a station wagon with trailer. The journey featured color slides and maps of the family camping trip. A single flat tire on the Aiken Highway accompanied the voyage. President Charles R. Voigt presided at Howard Johnsons where about 105 000 Army men served as instructors for various training programs during the past year.
A home guidance piece extols ripe strawberries for jams and jellies. It advises using Certo fruit pectin to compensate for natural pectin deficiency, precise measurement of fruit sugar and lemon juice, and strict recipe timing. The method outlines crushing two quarts of ripe berries, adding four cups fruit, lemon juice, and sugar, boiling, then adding pectin and finishing with hot paraffin seals.
At the South Middlesex Association for Retarded Children meeting on April 26 Miss Mildred F. Brazier, principal of Walter E. Fernald State School in Waverley, outlined how children with mental retardation can learn and be trained for social acceptance. The program adapts to each child from pre nursery to 18 years, guiding transfers by age, mental age, and behavior to support a return to the community.
Miss Wade daughter of the late D Williams Wade of Brookline married Samuel Goddard Kent of Middle Street yesterday afternoon at Trinity Church Boston. Rev Theodore Parker Ferris performed the ceremony with bride given in marriage by her brother Leonard E Wade Needham. The couple had only the immediate family present.
Eugene Riley, 27, of Red Lodge Montana, offered to share his hotel room with a stranger who said his luck would change. The man drew a knife, took $10, and fled. In Portland a 63 year old grandmother Grace Wade braided a large rug in three weeks using 804 yards of material. The Mississippi River spans about 2550 miles from northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.
A cub reporter recalls Katrina known as Katy at The Coffee Cup. Katy mentors Margo Lynn and protects her from an abusive ex husband, while hiding her status as owner and royalty from staff, preferring American life. The tale hints a bigger backstory and a hot tip for the reporter.
West Barnstable report notes G M Girard's stationery bears the corded motto God blessed Ameri ca,. We'll protect it. The line reflects patriotic sentiment associated with wartime era and local sourcing of goods.
On May 3 the Maynard Garden Club met at president Mrs. Walter Carbone's home to plan a Flower Show Tea and Plant Sale set for May 8. Guest speaker L. Roy Hawes, Medford florist and Middlesex County Agricultural Commissioner, shared travel highlights from Europe and tulip time in Amsterdam.
The Golden Age clubroom is undergoing a makeover after John Kennedy spoke on Color. Members decided on color ideas while the selectmen agreed to buy paint. The advisory committee will paint it themselves, aided by William Johansen and a crew of men who offer the work as a gift.
The veteran's committee of the West Concord Woman's Club sponsors a desert bridge party at the Musketaquid Club on Wednesday June 2 at 1 30 p m There will be canasta and whist tables Tickets are affordable and available from Mrs Murdock MacLeod or Mrs Louis Audette
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