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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1946
Page
30
Concord Police Chief William G. Ryan urges a town bicycle registration law to curb violations. A registration fee of about 25 cents would finance plates. violators could have bikes impounded for weeks. He notes sidewalk riding and lack of lights as serious dangers and cites Lexington as a precedent.
Concord Cross Chapter asks 85 residents to sign as blood donors for civilian use after the Blood Bank closure. A mobile clinic planned by the Massachusetts Public Health Department aims to collect a pint from each donor. James M. Austin chairs a new Concord committee at Red Cross HQ. Attendees included Miss Elmina L. Snow and Miss Elizabeth Alexander with a State Laboratory speaker outlining civilian blood needs. Buy Victory Bonds and Stamps.
A group of aviation enthusiasts operating the Billerica Wilmington Airport seek to erect a small private-use airport in West Concord at Williams Road and Powder Mill Road. A public hearing is set for November 20 to hear interested residents. The proposal, not opposed by abuttors, would offer flight instruction and home garage space for private planes on a site smaller than Bedford Airport and must comply with five mile separation rules.
The Concord Draft Board No. 54 will move from the old Concord School to Waltham, later to be housed at the Waltham Public Library on Main Street. A new telephone number, Waltham 5181, is assigned. In Concord two registrars remain with another to be added.
Judge Edward B Caiger of Concord will continue as chairman with Robert M Morgan of Wayland as secretary and Harvey N Fairbank of Sudbury among the slate. The group also lists Guyer W Fowler Maynard Albert A Schaal Lincoln and J Sidney Stone of Wayland as government appeal agent.
The Rev John A Brigham pastor of the First Parish Unitarian Church Bil era resigns effective December 1 to take a new pastorate in Sioux City Iowa. He was born in Concord attended local schools and his family remains at Nine Acre Corner. During the war he led a farm camp at Fen n School for Unitarian Association aid.
Seven student nurses from the Household Nursing Association School of Attendant Nursing in Boston arrive at Emerson Hospital for a 14 month training program. The cohort includes Mary Babneau, Theresa Lane, Thelma Comeau, Doris Warden, Ida Jackson, Gertrude Cone, and Bertha Saari. Training covers economics and bedside nursing with free room and board plus a $200 cash allowance during the course.
Sudbury residents learn Mrs. Ernest Bowry is a patient at Framingham Union Hospital with favorable condition reported. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Walker Jr. have purchased the E. T. Hill property and will establish their home there soon.
Twenty two Concord Lions Club members led by President Leeman E Haines traveled to Somerville for the season opener district meeting at Hotel Woodbridge. Concord provided the largest club representation with a post-supper speaker program featuring several Lions officials. Attending from Concord were President Haines Leon J Moreau Lawrence S Kendall Richard P Sullivan Edwin F Crosby Dr Edward Nahigian Laurence F Peterson.
Fragments indicate a Concord club will hold a ladies night dinner at a Cambridge hotel on a November 8 at 7. Names include Dr Arthur P Everett and others with wives urged to attend. A birth notice mentions Charles born in Framingham to Clifford Wright.
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