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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1954
Page
9
Miss Marion is appointed head of the fish department while English teachers receive information on student reading difficulties and achievement scores. The notes aim to help teachers understand individuals and tailor instruction. A cricket chirp is explained as either a mating call or battle challenge depending on entomologists view.
Stow Fr ancis A Hearn son of Mr and Mrs C J A Hearn of Barton Road Stow and Miss Margaret Cecilia Platts RN daughter of Mr and Mrs George H Platts of Elmwood Street Millbury were married Saturday October 23 in Our Lady of Victories Church Isabella Street Boston at ten o clock in the morning by Rev Fr Rondeau. The bride wore white silk taffeta with Alencon lace and a nylon tulle veil. She carried a cascade bouquet of white pompoms and orchids with ivy. The maid of honor wore rose pink taffeta with a headpiece of ivy and carried pink and white pompoms. Bridesmaids wore ice green silk taffeta and carried the same color bouquets. Best man was Gerald Gowen of Somerville. ushers A Gerald Platts and James Simpson. A reception followed at Hampton Court Hotel Brookline. The couple will reside at 100 Clay Street, Vicksburg, Mississippi after returning from a wedding trip.
Boston sources report Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks and Harold C. McClellan of the National Association of Manufacturers forecast a prosperous 1955 with lower unemployment and higher output. Weeks warns against overstating unemployment by critics urging socialism, while McClellan cautions that unemployment remains serious but is improving.
Framingham residents flock to the Gay Head dining room at the Framingham Motor Inn on Route 9 for reasonable prices and excellent cuisine. The kitchen cost 40000 dollars to install. The main room seats 140 with space for 30 more in a private room for banquets and gatherings. Luncheons run noon to 3 pm. dinners 5 to 8 30 pm. Sundays and holidays noon to 8 30 pm. Manager is R Joseph Fitzgerald and Milton Vigeant handles public relations.
A traveler critiques highway billboards for distracting drivers and hiding real road signs. He notes signs promise a grand destination like Joe's Place, only to reveal a modest stop at a crossroad, illustrating the mismatch between ads and actual travel experience.
Hartford Connecticut. The state supreme court held a physician is judged by the standard of local doctors. It rejected a malpractice suit saying a country general practitioner need not match the high skill of city specialists.
Concord NH will host Dr Charles S Huston who recounts his 1953 K2 ascent attempt and summer experiences with slide show and humorous insights. The talk on November 12 in the Veterans Building supports the Concord Woman's Club community services fund with tickets at Richardson's Drug Store.
Clarence Cheek, an 80 year old clam shucker at Cy Ellis Restaurant in Washington, discovers a message etched inside a clam dated April 2 1943 signed MOT UMI. The cryptic note perplexes Cheek and food broker Alfred E. Roldes who preserved the fragment while wildlife and authorities ponder the mystery.
The Frank H. Lahey Pavilion a four story wing of New England Baptist Hospital Boston will be formally dedicated Saturday. The fourth floor will be named the Dr Sara M Jordan Floor in honor of gastroenterologist Dr. Sara M Jordan and includes 23 patient beds. Dedication participants include hospital president Bradford C Patch John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Paul F Clark surgeon in chief Dr Richard B Cattell and others. A second note gives furniture finishing tips with linseed oil solution guidance.
The U S Army in the Frankfurt area employs 45 German dentists and 148 German dental assistants and X ray technicians in its clinics. Hiring natives for these posts enabled military personnel to be reassigned to other duties.
Acton-Mem bers of the Acton High School senior class prepare for The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come to be produced on November 4 5 and 6 Tickets are now on sale from seniors or faculty sponsors Winton and Vincent Gannon The senior play serves as a major fundraiser for the Washington trio fund and a challenging educational effort.
New York reports wholesale food prices rose 12 cents to 6.71 on the Dun & Bradstreet index for Oct 26, the sharpest gain since July 14, 1953. Of 31 commodities 16 advanced, 4 declined, 11 unchanged. the index stood 12.6 percent above the pre Korea level.
Police in East Grand Rapids were alerted to a missing 12 pound California desert turtle after a seven year old boy, David Hardy, reported the pet vanished. Later he said his father found the turtle. Hawaii is noted for producing 70 percent of the world’s processed pineapples.
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