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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1957
Page
20
Concord reports weather conditions affecting McIntosh picking times create a favorable opportunity for shoppers with reasonable retail prices and varied sizes. Drops are in demand as apples reach prime eating quality for a short window, with two and one fourth pound lots typical and smaller sizes popular for family use.
Advice for home dressmakers on achieving a smart look by studying ready to wear details and applying them at home. Emphasizes fabric respect, cutting on straight grain, careful machine tension, and thorough pressing of darts for quality results.
County agents urge a good breakfast to boost morning productivity. They note that skipping or poor meals reduce early work output, while fruit start up salivation and cereal variety improve appetite and energy. Milk completes breakfast and supports sustained effort.
Sympathy extends to James A Patch of Bedford road for the death of his brother Ralph at Stoneham. Rally Day has passed and Carlisle Congregational Church now holds Sunday school at noon each week. Frances Whitman is superintendent. Buy U Savings Bond a.
Senator Kennedy plans an open competition to select candidates for the Naval Military Air Force and Merchant Marine academies with ten nominations for the Air Force and Merchant Marine plus Massachusetts nominees from each representative. Eligibility requires residency age constraints and single status with applications due by November 1 1957. After exams a selection board will interview top contenders. The process aims for fair impartial judging for applicants and parents.
The Concord Boston Center for Adult Education begins its 25th year on October 7 offering the largest course selection to date. Miss Francis Sherburne of Concord returns to lead a course on Enjoying the Great Out-Of-Doors. New fall offerings include painting, naval modeling, and whikiting registrations show record enrolment. Roger D. Swain of Concord serves as honorary director on the board.
West Concord Woman's Club members and friends will attend a luncheon from noon to 2 p.m. Tickets are handled by Mrs. W. H. Freeman. Luncheon and entree will be served at two Main Street homes and dessert at Central Street. The 2 p.m. card party starts at Mrs. Wheeler's home.
Carleton I Pickett of the Massachusetts Farm Bureau argues the legislature should pursue economy despite pressure from various groups. He cites the need for careful research, notes the Ways and Means committee handles spending with discipline, and defends the state legislature as the most democratic system despite its costs.
Concord The Concord chorus began rehearsals for the Bach Mass Tuesday at Assembly hall, Concord Academy. Nancy Loring conducts while Elizabeth Gage accompanies. registrations opened at 7:30, singing at 7:45, as Main street grills go on sale with vacuum crevice tools.
Concord selects Olive C Butman of Holden Wood Road to fill the recreation commission vacancy after Richard J Loughlin resigns to join the finance committee. The vaccine rollout begins for school and municipal staff as Commonwealth Avenue resurfacing progresses and key city workers prepare for inoculations.
Next in the choir rehearsals for St. Elizabeth's mission is set for Wednesday Oct 9 at 7 30 pm with Mrs Mary Sleeper as director and Mrs Helen Detsch as organist. A correction notes Mrs Benjamin F Clark is vice president of the Women s Branch Alliance at First Religious Society Union not Mrs George H Nobbs. Ida Martin and Katherine Phillips of Concord Street return from a three week vacation at Wells Beach and Ogunquit Me. Martin works as a nurse for Dr R Ful ton Johnston in Concord. Francis J Roderick of Arag Street presides Middlesex Sheep Association which will take part in the Northeastern Open Sheep Show at the 4 H fair grounds in Westford Oct 12.
Boston University now conducts a second consecutive year of off campus courses in Attleboro Massachusetts using the high school facilities to offer regular college courses with degree credit Four professors teach in the first semester with weekly Boston to Attleboro trips creating a close student teacher relationship The program aims to ease spiraling enrollments and expands higher education options in the community and at the distance from the Charles River campus.
A Bedford regular town selectmen meeting is set for Friday at 8 pm with Chairman William Walsh presiding. The Paul Revere Chapter C E S begins another season after a well attended church grounds food sale. The Bedford Community Chorus opens its fall season. confessions offered at St. Michael's Church. Parish board officers named. new pastor Rev. Robert Henry Holmes welcomed at First Parish Unitarian. A dessert-card party and social visits noted. births announced: a daughter Sept 14 at Emerson Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Bobciek. Mary Kimberly Evans born Sept 14, third child and first daughter to Lieut and Mrs. William A. Evans.
Mrs Samuel Paresi Mrs Oscar Pedersen and Mrs George Porter returned home last week after a Florida trip. Mrs Evelyn L Emery of Westford Street resumed duties at Veterans Administration Hospital Bedford after a two week vacation. Last week's sewing gathering of the First Religious Society Unitar ian was hosted by Mrs Alphone D Martin on Concord Street. Plans are under way for the annual fair next month.
The Concord orchestra announces rehearsal sessions led by Colin, inviting members to join for the year. Brahms Second Concerto noted, with full strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. Rehearsals are Wednesdays at 6. Invitations are being sent, with the annual concert planned for October or February depending on arrangements.
The notice invites the public to a Lincoln Fair at St. Church with a 12 o'clock start. Speakers include Mr. Woods and Mr. H. Gledhill. Various interests will be explored, and plans are outlined for attendance and participation.
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