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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1954
Page
1
Local notices report the annual Community Chest drive and Harvest Day events, with calls to donate and participate. School buses, fall highway caution, and autumn activities at Emerson Playground appear alongside hospital, police, and fire updates.
Dr. Charles A. fs of the Bedoord Hospital attended a Rotary meeting with Mord Rotarians. Dr. Earle of West Concord led the discussion. The club showcased Rotary International links and announced Ladies Night set for October 18 at the Sportsmen's Club.
A Monday service schedule for Watertown honors community members at the Rockwell center with local officials and clergymen in attendance. The event marks a remembrance in the city.
Mrs. Gormely is reelected as Wave auxiliary head while Whitey Meehan is chosen to follow Michael Gormely Jr. The Middlesex County Legion and auxiliary prepare a full installation lineup led by Governor Williams as master of ceremonies with 23rd Infantry Band providing music.
Concord artists display at the Gallery of the Free Public Library in Concord. The annual, begun in 1950 by the Woman’s Club under Mrs William Wadsworth, highlights works from Newcomers and longtime residents with oils pastels and watercolors. Notable pieces include DePaolo’s bagpiper portrait and works by Nancy Baldwin and Alice Moulton.
Concord Lions Club resumes its house to house sale of 1500 bulb packages from the Mill Dam area on Saturday morning. The station wagon again serves as a sales point and many local firms are cooperating, with the AE coupon running in the Enterprise.
The Army Signal Corps conducts main laboratory photographic work both in the United States and abroad, supporting military operations with imaging and reproduction tasks. This summary notes the scope of their lab activities and overseas presence.
A youth dance at the State Armory from 7 to 8 p m on Saturday offers singing and dancing under Duncan Hay with Philip A Davis Jr in charge. Refreshments sold. a senior celebration follows at 8 p m. film The U N at Work will be shown in Concord schools during UN week.
Concord Council Knights of Columbus will observe Christopher Columbus birthday with a fall communion. Ocoee members meet Monument Hall at 8 15 for an 8 30 mass at St Bernard s Church led by Grand Knight John B Sheehan. Breakfast at Monument Hall by Leo White. Guest speaker Rev George McCabe S J of Western College will lecture on Training of a Jesuit.
Deer season started early in Concord with three deer killed by motorists in one day. Patrolman James E. Finan Jr. shot one on Monument Street. The game warden will distribute the meat to veterans hospitals.
Mr and Mrs W Percy McWilliams of 3 Central Street celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary with open houses from 3 to 5 PM and 7 to 10 PM. Longtime residents they are active locally with McWilliams a World War I veteran and retired telephone company repairman, honored by relatives and friends and presented with many gifts and messages.
Concord and George S Lawton resign from municipal light plant board and coordinating committee. He cited health reasons and a wish to focus on private business after months of illness and a recent return to work.
Fire crews from Central and West Concord stations responded to a mattress fire at the Mauro residence on Water Street around 2 15 a m Sunday. Believed started by a cigarette, damage was slight and this marked the 219th fire alarm of the year.
Concord hosts its annual Police Ball and concert at the State Auditorium drawing about 2,000 attendees. Jimmy Mosher’s Orchestra from Boston provided music and dancing continued past 1 AM. The event, sponsored by the Concord Police Relief Association, featured a grand march led by Chief Robert Kelley and Mrs Hope Chase with many local officials and spouses in attendance.
Concord’s annual Concord League of Women Voters meeting opens on Wednesday October 20 at 9:45 a.m. at the Masonic Temple with Shijuro Ogata of Tokyo as lecturer on U.S.–Japan relations from a Japanese perspective. Ogata, LL.D., is a Fletcher School student and Bank of Japan official, here on an USIA grant. Japan seeks UN membership but its bid is vetoed by the USSR.
The Concord Community Chest plans a 1954 campaign targeting $71 085 to support nine agencies including Emerson Hospital United Defense Fund Red Feather Boy Scout Sponsors Girl Scouts Salvation Army Friendly Aid Society Visiting Nurse Association and Sachem Council of Boy Scouts. General chairman Attorney Charles B Hall heads the drive with vice chairman Donald B Wilson and a large volunteer staff coordinating house to house solicitations across sections 1 2 3 5 6 and 8 with captains and committees named.
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