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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1955
Page
16
The Commerce report shows 99 new industrial firms in Massachusetts last year with 147 manufacturers expanding plants or moving to larger quarters and 104 major additions. Growth touched 117 of 351 cities and towns including Marlboro. Average weekly earnings per factory worker reached 67.87 dollars in March, up 1.97 from a year earlier.
Bedford Patrolman Mario Palmeri was elected president of the Bedford Police Association. New officers include Vice-president Patrolman Donald Bunson and Secretary Treasurer Patrolman Charles J. Race who will also handle publicity. Regular meetings set for the first Mondays each month with by law and auditing committees named.
Detroit reports that GMC predicts 30 million trucks on the road by 1995 with annual sales three times current figures. P J Monaghan, general manager of the GMC truck and coach division, told newsmen the industry will see a surge in heavy vehicle demand.
U S flaxseed exports rose to 9,696,356 bushels and linseed oil shipments reached 220,775 short tons in 1954 marking a record year for the nation’s flax trade.
The West Acton Woman's Club sponsors a scholarship dance to raise funds at the new Blanchard Memorial Auditorium on Friday night from 8 to 11 p m. Robert Treyz of Roxborough will call the dances and George Markham's Lowell orchestra will provide the music. The public is invited.
Our Lady Henry of Christians Church CYO announces a Friday May 20 fundraiser at the church hall. The program includes a showing of Sally and St Ann and a social hour with refreshments, admission nominal. A committee was appointed at a recent CYO meeting to manage the event.
Use olive or salad oil to remove fuzz left by the protective wad from the dining table surface. Wipe with a soft cloth and do not use water.
West Concord May 27 8 pm the C Y O of Our Lady Help of Christians hosts a spring semi formal dance at Harvey Wheeler school auditorium All teenagers invited music by Seven Notes Tickets at door refreshments Coronation of the Blessed Mother will be featured.
The First Church of Christ Scientist in Concord featured a Sunday morning lesson titled Mortals and Immortals. Willow Rebekah Lodge hosted a Neighbor's Night program at West Concord Union Church on Monday. A mystery ride was announced for June 6. Mr and Mrs Robert L Bumford of Martin Road named their second son Robert Jr Mrs Bumford is the former Jean Phillips of Carlisle.
Concord and West Concord parishioners plan to attend the Thursday evening mass in Stoneham for the Feast of Corpus Christi. The June 9 ceremony gathers parishioners from the Holy Name groups in Concord.
Joseph B. Weiss a 65 year old retired railroad engineer says he traveled a distance equal to 62 times around the world during 48 years in railroading yet never left Michigan.
Bedford Charles Siekman is elected president of the Holy Name Society at St. Michael's Church and will be installed in September. Other officers include William J. Walsh Jr as vice president Edward B. Scheipers Jr as secretary Owen S. McHarg Jr as treasurer John J. Rodrigues as marshal Sylvester J. Farrell Jr as program chairman Thomas A. Davin as sick and vigil chairman J Arthur St Onge as publicity Charles P. Genetti as military chairman and Thomas J. McDonald on the decent literature committee. The text notes castor oil production once centered in southern Illinois, used mainly for lubrication not as a children's medicine.
Carlisle Miss Marilyn Dutton of Westford Street was installed as president of the Sagamore Christian Endeavor Union serving Medford Woburn Montvale Arlington Winchester Burlington Bedford and Carlisle. Virginia Wilkie East Main Street was installed vice president and Martha White Bedford Road was recording secretary. Reverend Stow is pastoral counsellor. Dutton also serves Middlesex County Christian Endeavor Union as treasurer and attended the State Leader Institute at Farrington Memorial in Lincoln.
Daniel A. MacInnis Jr of Virginia Road is named a permanent Lincoln police officer expanding the force to four led by Chief Leo Algeo. Tree warden Robert Ralston fills the vacancy left by MacInnis who resigned after losing the March election. Holy Communion is received by twenty children at St. Joseph's Church South Lincoln with Rev. Walter Donahue presiding.
On May 31 the St Ann's Guild will hold its annual banquet at the Wayside Inn in South Sudbury at seven o'clock. New members were honored at a tea held last week at Guild Hall in Wayland.
Pfc James Pallotta of the U S Marine Corps arrives at Camp Pendleton California after several months in Korea. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Henry Pallotta of Old Winter Street.
The Forty Hours devotion begins Friday morning at St. Joseph's Church with a 7 o'clock mass by the new pastor, Rev. Walter F. Donahue. The blessed sacrament remains exposed Friday and Saturday and services close with a high mass Sunday morning.
The Veterans Administration reports 44 percent of disabled Korea veterans in vocational rehabilitation aimed at professional and managerial roles, higher than the 25 percent of U S workers in similar positions. The program has trained over 26 000 veterans, with emphasis on accounting teaching and engineering, and contrasts with World War II trainees.
An 1855 Providence Journal advertisement touts Dr Morse's Invigorating Elixir as a patent medicine that banishes melancholy and begets strength, highlighting the period's marketing claims and health rhetoric.
White Sheep of the Family will be presented at Red Barn Theater Westboro for a week starting Tuesday at 8 20 p m May 22. Edward Everett Horton leads a cast with Dorothy Lee Tompkins Tom Rosqui in the title roles and Equity players Pat D Or Jean Steinert Joan Jaffrey John Woods Wilson Lafferty Myles McAleer in supporting parts. James Dyas directs with sets by William Harp.
Crestline, once a early railroad hub, houses a unique collection of carved model trains by the late Neld Reed. The figures, including locomotives and cars, were donated to the Crestline Shrunk Museum after his death. Railroads arrived in 1851 and Crestline now features a major Diesel shop and roundhouses.
Mrs Kenneth Motley of Glenvil Nebraska reports a hen that laid two eggs in three weeks each eight inches around. Each egg contained a complete normal egg inside. The remarkable eggs attracted local interest and puzzled farmers.
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