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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1956
Page
10
The text lists top students for the class of year including valedictorian and salutatorian. It notes the valedictorian is involved in engineering studies and a sophomore and freshman activities, with other honors and roles held by student leaders.
About 500 parents and students visited the open house at the high school. L McCarthy and village officials registered attendees as 32 guests toured a classroom and learned about new exercises and campus facilities amid discussions of improving inadequate additions.
Acton Salvatore Lipomi of Acton led the group at the Hotel Bradford in Boston for the second annual conference. Dr. John J. Desmond Jr. spoke on New Horizons in the special class field. Dr. Thomas A. Kelley discussed a parent and doctor view of mental retardation. Dr. Philip G. Cashman presented The Special Commission Report. Dr. Romaine Mackie analyzed national trends in educating exceptional children. James J. Hammond closed with Training Mentally Retarded Children for the Workaday World.
Acton High School issued report cards showing 10 students across grades 7 to 12 achieved A averages in the fourth marking period. Names include Bruce Bottomley Paula McPherson Priscilla Robinson Susan Roth Carol Abbt Carolyn Sweatt and others, with additional honors for many more students across grades 7 through 12. A separate note explains the shipworm teredo damages marine timber and wooden piles annually.
Sudbury welcomes Dr Morton V Ross an optometrist whose office on Post Road at South Sudbury will be in Dr Buttner's suite He practiced in Newton since 1950 and is a Pennsylvania State College of Optometry graduate He has served in World War II and is active in local and regional optometry groups and community organizations including the Sudbury Chamber of Commerce and Newton Lions Club He and his wife Anne have three children Leonard Susan and Marcia
Thirty three University of Rochester AFROTC cadets visited the Air Force Basic Flying School in Laredo Texas for three days. Three cadets hailed from the Boston area including Richard Ling of Sudbury Massachusetts. The trip aims to deepen Air Force operations understanding and provide jet trainer rides in the T 33. A sight seeing border trip to Nuevo Laredo accompanied by university officials and detachment officers.
Seams in synthetic fabrics should be finished to prevent fraying and ensure durability. Proper binding or edge finishing reduces wear and maintains appearance under laundering and use.
Massachusetts led with 1954 shipped cutlery goods valued at 56.9 million dollars and 3,158 cutlery workers. Cement shipments and new home building ranked high nationally, while factory orders in March rose 10.2 percent with varied industry gains and losses. Public school enrollment rose 22.4 percent over ten years, with 724,885 pupils in 1954–55 and low illiteracy.
Former President Herbert Hoover commends Senator John F Kennedy of Massachusetts for pushing the Senate government reorganization hearings. Hoover says Kennedy leads the commission on bills aimed at government restructuring and economies, as disclosed by the Citizens Committee for Hoover Report.
The gerenuk is a distinctive gazelle known for its remarkably long neck, earning it the nickname giraffe antelope among observers.
Sudbury Council of Churches plans Vacation Church School at Memorial Congregational Church South Sudbury from June 25 to July 6 except July 4. New facilities, program, and required director raise registration fees. volunteers urged to contact ministers or Sunday School superintendents for details.
A large oil refinery can process enough wax in one day to coat 6,110,000 milk cartons.
U P staff reports that James Dean's enduring fame outpaces his life as Hollywood faces a debate over his posthumous status. TV networks plan a Schlitz Playhouse rerun of The Unlighted Road with a never seen interview, while Nick Ray writes a book about their Rebel Without a Cause collaboration.
Two local sales contacts promote aluminum products including storm windows, doors, jalousie windows, and porch enclosures. Call Pat Lalli-Twincakes at 7-2316 or Carlo Mistretta-TW at 7-8146 for free estimates.
Record lows sweep six states as farmers battle frost damage. Massachusetts apple growers face about two million dollars in losses while beans cabbage cucumbers and squash lie covered or ruined. Smudge pots and flooded cranberry bogs attempt to save crops as temperatures dip to near 27 in Montpelier Vermont.
West Acton resident Dudley F. Howe has been promoted to assistant division manager in the ordinary policy department of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. He begins new duties after serving as contractual supervisor and has been with the company since 1934. Eskimos born near water often never learn to swim the National Geographic Society notes.
Concord High School seniors receive college acceptances as May letters arrive. Gretchen Engelhart is accepted by the University of Massachusetts, Joyce Nylor by the University of New Hampshire, Richard Loring to Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Harold Cahoon to the University of Oklahoma, and Mary Gail Fenn to Lasell Junior College for next fall.
Dr. Leonard N. Liebermann of UC Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla explores static as a source of data on global thunderstorm activity. Using special equipment, he can detect lightning strokes thousands of miles away.
South Dakota ranked third in durum wheat production in the United States for 1956. The report highlights state yields and national standings for durum grain across the farming year.
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