13 Oct 1960
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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1960
Page
1
The text fragments reference a veterans building, meetings, a country club housing Sunday events, selling light bulbs, elections, registration, and World War II commemoration. Names and places appear loosely, including Main Street and Beacon Hill, with scattered references to candidates, dates, and civic activity.
Concord officials grant new hope for the Veterans Building as repairs totaling 725 dollars are completed. Citizens group and tenants including Legion and Concord Players funded the work, with 204 dollars raised locally. Selectmen reapply for a state license and may include fuel maintenance in next year’s budget.
Town clerk Mrs. Cornelia M. Lawrence reports 112 new voters registered on closing date. Concord's total rises to 6 535, a record, up from 5 700 two years ago and 5 947 in 1956 presidential year.
Concord police investigate damage after thieves entered Simon Willard School during the night. Doorknobs broken, windows and skylights damaged, petty cash stolen, and refreshments taken in the cafeteria. Similar break ins reported in Sudbury Hudson and nearby towns that night. The school sits on Powder Mill Road in an isolated area.
Concord town officials set a public hearing at the Town House Monday at p.m. to consider Beharrell Realty Trust petition to store 16 000 gallons gasoline 550 gallons fuel oil 550 gallons waste oil underground in steel tanks and 400 gallons motor oil 400 gallons antifreeze 40 gallons grease above ground at 320 Main Street.
Plans are in place for Sunday open house and dedication of the new Walden street police and fire station at 2 p.m. Town Manager Theodore M Nelson will host. Rt Rev John A. York and Rev Robert H. Barber will give invocations and benediction. Scouts will lead a flag-raising, and community singing plus a sound system will accompany remarks by Harold C. Smith. Tours and refreshments will follow.
Fire at a plant off Bradford and Maple streets prompted a first alarm at 10:45 a.m. smoke filled a basement while Acton and Maynard crews assisted at the scene. Firemen used masks. damage was about 100 dollars. A second alarm at 7:05 a.m. Friday saw sprinklers handle a second‑floor blaze, marking the third alarm recently at the plant.
Selectmen have not acted on the Mannos Mc Cracken gasoline station petition after a public hearing held ten days earlier. Attending the Monday meeting were Mr and Mrs Mannos Peter Mandriok for the supermarket attorney Endicott Peabody and attorney T Francis Garrity. Correspondence regarding gifts of realty companies and land transfers to the town was reviewed. The station would sit in the West Concord depot yard off Wealth Avenue.
Wages and salaries in Arkansas manufacturing increased by 14 percent from 1958 to 1959, signaling stronger earnings in the state’s industrial sector.
Concord selectmen met with New England Tel and Concord Municipal Light Plant to discuss pole placement on Powdermill road. The board got a request from the recreation commission to acquire Benjamin N. Smith land on Sudbury road for playgrounds. A TV station sought to halt a voter parade. no action taken. A new tree removal policy was adopted for right of way cases. A. Damon Marshall received a common victualler license for Nuclear Metals cafeteria.
The resignation of William B. Lockman of Hayward Mill road and Miss Agnes F. Collins of Main street is reported. In their places Mrs. Paul G Counihan of Holdenwood road and Leo C. McKenna of Court Lane have been named.
A false alarm was sounded from Box 426 in front of the Nuclear Metals plant on Route 2 in West Concord. Police cannot identify the culprits, believed to be youths, who pulled the box from a passing car. Concord reported several prior false alarms in recent weeks.
The 1960 campaign targets $110,350 to fund Emerson Hospital Concord Girl Scouts Minuteman Council Concord Family Service Society Visiting Nurse Association Walden Clinic of Mental Health Association of Central Middlesex Minuteman Association for Retarded Children Salvation Army Concord Chapter Red Cross United Community Services USO. Quotas are decided by budget review. goal up 2 percent from 1959.
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