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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1955
Page
18
The Division of Employment Security in Marleboro reports a growing list of handicapped applicants available for work across skilled, unskilled and service occupations. The inventory follows National Employers Week for the Physically Handicapped and stresses hiring based on ability, not disability.
Maynard residents will see Concord Lions club members and Girl Scouts canvassing door to door on Saturday October 15 to raise funds for eye research. About 30 girls join 10 Lions in selling packed four 100 watt bulbs two 75s and four 60s with co chairs Mr and Mrs Leonard E Rae. Local beneficiaries include a 70 year old man and a five year old boy.
Concord Rainbow Assembly will meet Saturday at 7 PM in the Masonic Temple. Miss Laura Larsen of Carlisle will preside as worthy advisor. An initiation is planned and a report on the recent food sale will be given. Mrs Grace Smith continues as mother advisor.
South Acton Daniel Paul Saganich, first child of Mr and Mrs John P Saganich, formerly Betty Sexton, was baptized on Sunday at St Elizabeth of Hungary Church West Acton. Rev Daniel F Riordan officiated with godparents Margaret Theresa Sexton and Albert Saganich. A post ceremony party followed at Prospect Street South Acton.
The infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur Blanchette was baptized Sunday at St Elizabeth of Hungary Church West Concord by Rev Daniel F Riordan. The mother Ruth Beach and the father formerly of Maynard. godparents Rita Christian Maynard and Robert Dow West Acton.
Edward Ryan of Lynn Massachusetts on vacation in Maine stopped to pat a young heifer. The animal shied and he tripped on a stake, breaking his arm and ending his trip early.
The Alcott Parent Group in Concord will hold its first fall meeting on Wednesday October 19 from 745 to 9 pm in the Alcott school cafeteria. Kindergarten parents are the focus though new parents of older children are urged to attend.
Senora de Alonso, born in Montevideo Uruguay and trained as a teacher, joined St. Hubert's School after a career that included studying at Cornell University and teaching Spanish at the Abbott Academy in Dover Massachusetts. She later returned to Uruguay during World War II and has now returned to the United States with plans to give private Spanish lessons.
Holyoke Massachusetts. Harry W. Rogers 71 a street car motorman for half a century boasts he has not missed a Harvard Yale football game in 56 years. He plans to attend this year joining friends and fellow riders at the Yale game in New Haven Connecticut.
Few Royal Canadian Mounted Police remain on horses as automobiles and airplanes now serve as their steeds on field patrols.
Annie K M Hansen offers repairs on woolen garments and sweaters including tears burns and moth holes. Also blankets mended and bound at 15 Winter Street contact Tel 1185 W for May service.
Holy Name Society members observed Holy Communion Sunday at St Elizabeth of Hungary. A public whist party is set for 8 p.m. at the church hall. Masses and October devotions are noted, with fall waste paper collection planned for Sunday October 23 and the Odd Change Harvest campaign ongoing for the Catholic Guild for the Blind.
Rev. Dr. Edward P. Daniels of First Parish Unitarian Church delivered a Sunday sermon titled These Things Also. Music was led by Philip W. Trumbull. Concord schools resumed after Columbus Day. Mr. and Mrs. William F. McNally of West Concord left on a 10 day motor trip to Detroit with their daughter Anne. they will visit son William F. McNally Jr. and family in government service. Senior Youth Fellowship of Trinitarian Congregational Church met at the church with discussion leaders Joseph Regan, Thomas Regan, and Concord High School’s Thomas Dillon. Mark Crowell acted as moderator.
Friday night the Couples Club meets at Trinitarian Congregational Church for supper and a 7 30 gathering. Guest speaker Rev. Howard Kellett, noted prison chaplain, helped break up Charlestown's 84 hour prison rebellion last January.
Israel's merchant fleet now includes 31 ships with a total capacity of 200000 tons. At the state's founding seven years ago the fleet comprised 19 ships totaling 40000 tons.
The Emerson hospital September report shows medical 68, surgical 88, obstetrical 72, newborn 63 total admissions 291 discharges 294 in hospital counts 63 then 60 on September 30. Outpatients 399. deaths under 48 hours 4 over 48 7. stillborn 0. Major operations 28 minor 93. nursery 26 total 147. X rays 568 labs 1546 pathology 43. Accidents auto 13 others 101 total 114 daily average 1954 63.1 second daily average 1955 61.6. Largest patient count 76 smallest 47. male 106 female 184. adults 189 under 14 39 newborn 63. Private 51 semi-private 62 ward 115 nursery 63. Patient days private 317 semi 470 ward 658 nursery 403 total 1848. Medical-surgical days 1097 obstetrical 348 nursery 403 total 1848. In-patients Concord 76 Maynard 46 Acton 37 Bedford 36 Lincoln 13 Stow 7 Carlisle 7 Littleton 12 Sudbury 8 Harvard 4 Roxboro 5 Lexington 14 Hudson 4 Wayland 6 others 16 total 291 in 399 out.
National Pharmacy Week highlights 100000 pharmacists across 50000 drug stores, labs, manufacturers and health facilities. The article traces pharmacy's origins, from ancient times to modern practice with new drugs and 24 hour on call service.
Sudbury Fire Department attended the dedication of the new Maynard Fire and Police Station on Sunday with Fire Chief Albert St. Germaine and officers James Greenawalt David Baldwin Joe Frost and Howard Kelly present. A car fire near Union Avenue reported by Mrs. Alfred Crowley involved a brake overheat setting a rear tire alight. a passerby used a extinguisher and firefighters cooled the wheel with water.
Concord judge David B Williams announces Col Edward J Higgins of South Acton as chairman of the DAV annual military plan to be held October 15 at 8 p m at the Sheraton Plaza Boston. A listed committee includes Troy Lydon Conrad Ginsburg West and others. Also named at the State House meeting are Brig Gen Otis M Whitney and George A Wells to senior posts.
In Ansonia Connecticut a burglar entered Gilmore Clark's residence and stole an electric fan and a fur coat. Police urge witnesses to report any information leading to the culprit's capture.
Mrs Dorothy Lowden Hyde expresses sincere appreciation to neighbors and friends for flowers sympathy cards and kind acts during the bereavement in the loss of her husband. Adv.
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