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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1950
Page
7
The report lists staff including Dominick Fred T. Boyd Edward W. vice president and treasurer. It notes directors and committee assignments with re-elections and mentions a budget committee meeting to review bonds and ks.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a phrase likely from a religious or philosophical text about the nature of light and science. The readable portion names Frison, C.S., but no clear event or context is detailed.
Massachusetts citizens are urged to support House Bill 2404 to restore day work and modernize the 1879 indenture act at the Framingham Reformatory. The bill, favorably reported by the Public Welfare Committee, proposes a staff board to select inmate employment outside the reform institution under the Commissioner of Correction and fair labor standards.
Governor Dever supporters and Griswold Commission call for action on H 2404 prior to 1948. As of March 30 the bill sits with Ways and Means awaiting a budget impact opinion. Legislation aims to reform sentences for reformatories, with opponents of a prior bill to amend women offender sentences noted.
News brief from Valparaiso Indiana reports Mrs. Donald Fitch hung a spring coat and her husband's suit behind a screen door to be cleaned. Salvation Army officials misinterpreted it as an unwanted clothing drive and returned the clothes after learning the mistake. Rattlesnakes described as gentle by Arizona shepherds noting they strike only when provoked and warn before.
Delegates from Trinitarian Congregational Church Rev. Robert H. Barber Mrs. Barber Mr. E Russell E Davis attended the Massachusetts Congregational Conference in Fall River. Commencement exercises are planned at local schools including the high school Fenn Middlesex and Concord Academy. A mission service is held tonight at St Barnard s church at 7 30 with benediction to follow. Next week the mission will focus on the men of the parish. The West Concord Union Church standing committee met Tuesday night.
In last week's Enterprise story the name Mrs John Flannery was incorrect. The correct committee member assisting today is Mrs John T Foster as the event at West Concord continues.
Several residents of West Concord attended the marriage of Miss Margaret O Sullivan daughter of Mr and Mrs John O Sullivan of Lowell to James J Rivard son of Mr and Mrs Albert J Rivard of Lowell in Immaculate Conception Church Lowell with Rev Charles Bergstrom officiating after their wedding trip.
More than 100 employees of the Massachusetts Reformatory and invited guests attended the annual dinner held last night at Maynard Elks Hall. Vincent F. Rice of West Concord served as toastmaster and Harold Baker as general chairman. Notable attendees included Middlesex County Sheriff Howard Fitzpatrick, Correction Department Commissioner Elliot McDowell, AFSCME official William V. Ward, and Reformatory leaders John C. Dolan and John J. O Grady Jr. plus Ralph Sheridan and retired officers Frederick Lawton James Christian and Joseph Doherty.
Ed ward B Caiger prominent attorney of 5 Hubbard street has again been re elected president of the Concord Masonic Corp Robert F Charles of South Acton is chosen vice president announced by the organization
The couple will reside in Lowell. The bride works as a secretary at the Massachusetts Reformatory and the groom serves as a correction officer. He is a four year veteran of the U S Marine Corps with service in the South Pacific.
Francis Turco, 65, a retired Boston Harness shop worker and former West Concord resident, died last Saturday. The funeral was Monday at MacRae Funeral Home in Concord with Rev. Gunnar A. Gunderson officiating. Buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Survived by wife Maud B. Turco and daughter Florence Caldwell. Turco had lived in Tewksbury with sister-in-law. formerly of Wal tham and member of First Baptist Church.
Sen Frank Smith of Greenwood proposes a bill to make abandoning domestic cats or letting them roam at large a misdemeanor. In New Hampshire lawmakers debate an official state bird with poultrymen pushing the utilitarian chicken and bird lovers favoring the chickadee.
Gov Paul A Dever of Massachusetts will be the principal speaker at a joint Communion breakfast of St Bernard’s Church Ladies Sodality and Holy Name Society. Attendees to attend 8:15 mass, then breakfast at Monument Hall at 9:15. Tickets from Flora Clyne or Martin J Diskin and committee.
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