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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1956
Page
9
The Bedford committee outlines a new training program tied to the school system, with votes on ventilation and attendance adjustments. Immanuel Bedford is noted for a theater project, while the school district approves several administrative appointments and bids from local firms for campus work.
Fernhame Sensation Nora a registered Holstein Friesian co owned by Farnham W Smith completed a 358 day production test in the Advanced Registry. Milking twice daily she averaged about 24 quarts daily during the test supervised by the University of Massachusetts and the Holstein Friesian Association of America at Brattleboro Vermont Athol Mass. J C Hill 80 a veteran newspaper man since 1896 has logged over 30 000 miles covering his beat for the Athol Daily News.
Sid Sawyer’s Red Barn Theatre in Westboro offers the satirical comedy The Solid Gold Cadillac for one week from Tuesday May 15 to Sunday May 20 at 8 20 PM. Shirley Matson stars as a timid elderly lady who disrupts a corporation’s annual meeting and gains proxy control turning the plot against big business and TV critics.
Concord reports a Monday evening event notice for a seminar on problems of mentally retarded children to be held Wednesday May 23 at 8 pm at the Trinitarian Congregational Church parish house with Mrs John May of Groton speaking on Your Child and the School. A separate incident notes Mrs May returning to her car in the depot lot to find the depot weather vane had fallen and smashed her windshield.
Wayland resident Doane, president of Roxbury Carpet, elected chairman of the SUASCO industrial committee at a Framingham luncheon on May 9. The panel aims to organize industry within the watershed to study flood control, with members from Lombard Governor in Ashland, Atkins & Merrill in Sudbury, Lund Products in Maynard, and others.
Leo E White a well known Yankee chef from South Acton has been signed to cater the Framingham dog show to be held in that town Sunday June 3 Some Concord and Acton entries are expected in the show Monthly meeting Nashoba Valley Court of Amaranths will be held Friday night at Town Hall Following the business session at 730 there will be a food sale Mrs Ann Ogilvie royal matron will preside Local parochial school pupils may take entrance exams for Rose Hawthorne Central Catholic High School Concord next year on Saturday at 930 o clock
Lincoln archaeologist Lincoln-Roland Robbins, noted for locating Shadwell Thomas Jefferson birthplace, returns from Monticello Virginia where he surveyed buildings tied to Jefferson era for restoration by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation. He now heads a Crown Point New York French settlement excavation and will return to Monticello to finish work. Robbins also discovered Thoreau’s cairn in Walden Woods and led the Saugus Iron Works restoration.
Dr and Mrs C Whittier Calkins have moved into the Lincoln road house formerly occupied by Mr and Mrs Frederick H Dominick Dominicks relocate to Concord Calkins is stationed at Fort Devens Lincoln Garden Club met at the deCordova Museum with Audubon Society on attracting birds to the garden Miss Marcia R Taylor of Trapelo Road Pembroke College Brown University was elected president of the class of 1957 a Northfield School graduate active in glee club hockey and basketball.
Mary Wilson returns to Fitchburg State Teachers College after a weekend with her parents Fire Chief Waldo D Wilson. Real estate transfer records show Ellis C Davis and wife to William H Shumway Jr and wife in Bedford road Lowell. First Religious Society offers smorgasbord Friday May 18 at church dining room 6 to 7 15 pm. Bruce DeQuoy and family stop in Carlisle en route to New Mexico. They visit Gordon Diment and family on South street. A 1913 Calumet fire alarm tragedy is cited describing 72 deaths on Christmas Day.
The VA sample of over a million WWII and Korean War veterans’ loans during 1954 and 1955 shows an average buyer age of 32, monthly income about 494 dollars, and home price near 11,800 dollars. VA guarantees reached 1.05 million loans while down payments varied, with many new homes bought without any down payment and typical long maturities 26 to 30 years. Liquid assets averaged around 1,865 dollars, with higher assets among those who made down payments. The data detail trends in costs, down payment rates, and housing expense as a share of income.
Lt. Col Willard E. Fawcett, Armed Forces Day project officer, says no unusual acrobatic flying will occur at Hanscom Field during the Armed Forces Day aerial portion due to public safety concerns. He promises a safe and varied flying show for the public.
Chicago report says Westinghouse Electric Corp introduces a food mixer with 20 speeds and no stalling. W B Massenburg of the appliance division states the mixer will whip eggs or stir heavy cookie shatter and the beaters detach with the touch of a button.
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