03 Sep 1953
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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1953
Page
1
Community snippets report anniversaries and local appearances with names such as Mr and Mrs on their anniversary Nellie Nelson Emma Lyons and Barbara Spell. Mentions of Concord Me Medford Lawrence and Wells appear amid scattered lines about schools buses and a light plant with a casual, diary style tone.
Fragmentary report notes a police chief and officers involved in an incident at Emerson Hospital. Details are unreadable due to damaged OCR.
A regular meeting of Lancaster Council No 287 was held Tuesday evening. Grand Knight Piherbee presided. The installation of officers and an upcoming minstrel show were discussed with a supper planned for Sunday in September.
Concord gains a new $1 700 000 Rose Hawthorne Diocesan Catholic School opening next Thursday September 10 with about 530 pupils. Sister Irene Elizabeth new principal succeeds Mother Hugenia. Early sessions 9 to 11 30 followed by lunch options and a bus schedule under Leo R Dee.
Concord Free Public Library displays paintings from its permanent collection for six weeks ending October 9. Artists include Chamberlaine Emerson Noyes Hovey Pepper Wentworth Roberts Tolman, with notable works by Maj. Joseph Hosmer and others. The exhibit precedes the Concord Artists Annual by the Woman's Club.
Concord schedules a faculty luncheon on Tuesday September 8 at Howard Johnsons after a 10 a.m. meeting with the superintendent and admin staff at the Old High School Building. At noon all staff attend lunch and at 2 a.m. building meetings are held in the schools in preparation for the opening of school.
Concord school system custodians who renovated school buildings and grounds this summer were invited to a cookout Tuesday afternoon hosted by Supt. Radcliffe Morrill at the home of J. Almon Heyliger on the Cambridge turnpike.
Concord District Court on Thursday found poultry truck driver Edward T. Hughes guilty of driving so as to endanger after his vehicle rear ended a Concord police cruiser on Cambridge turnpike July 1. Hughes, 25, paid a $35 fine. two officers were injured and hospitalized, with one out of work six weeks.
Concord DeMolay Chapter and Rainbow Assembly announce upcoming regular meetings. DeMolay to meet Friday September 11 at 7 30 PM at the Masonic Temple under Master Councillor Richard Bowen. Rainbow Girls plan to meet September 12 with officer elections and an initiation to follow the business session.
Concord public schools director M Virginia Biggy has been elected vice president of the National Pi Lambda Theta Honorary Educational Association. Other officers include Beulah Benton Tatum of Johns Hopkins University and Grace Wilson of Colorado Star College of Education.
Carlisle Mr and Mrs Charles Poole of School Street quietly mark their 11th anniversary Their previous names Dorothy Campbell and fields Belmont Arlington Boston wedding September 3 1942 at Immanuel Church Boston They have one son Clark active in local affairs
Concord crews under Municipal Light Plant supervision start underground wiring from Monument square green to Lexington Road with ducts, manholes, and laterals planned. Coughlan Construction Company of Boston holds the $20 638 45 contract and will install to the D A R House fence near the Town House.
West Concord soldier VAL MUSCATO leaves Germany on September 10 for home and discharge. The former Notre Dame track captain has dominated races in international meets and hopes to join a shop for the indoor season.
Concord Massachusetts reports the drowning of 24 year old Indian exchange student Hatalkar from Bombay studying at Harvard. He was part of a 40 student group from the International Students Association of Greater Boston on a day outing at the Gordon Hutchins estate on Monument Street.
Concord appeals for blood donations for the Red Cross bloodmobile visit at First Parish Church on Wednesday from 1 30 to 7 30 p m with a goal of 150 pints. Co chairmen John J Flynn Jr and Mrs David B Arnold note frequent rejects and polio gamma globulin needs while outlining volunteers and contact details. Local notices include Concord Grange plans and a drowning death inquiry at a pond off Monument Street with a Cambridge student involved.
The 24 year old Indian native Madu kah Hatzelkar drowned at Hitchins pond Saturday. His body was moved from Emerson Hospital deep freeze to Joseph Dee & Son Funeral Home for an autopsy by a state pathologist. After storage due to heat and religious beliefs the body was sent to A E Lane Funeral Home in Cambridge for funeral arrangements once word comes from the Indian embassy.
Concord public schools announce several new staff hires across high and elementary levels. Elizabeth Pious joins high school social studies, Thomas Dillon teaches math and physics, David Sullivan leads auto mechanics, and Eleanor Wicher greets Alcott kindergartners.
Concord public schools outline daily start and end times for the 1953 54 term. High school runs 8 15 to 2 05, junior high 6 15 to 2 05, Alcott Kindergarten 9 15 to 11 45 morning and 12 30 to 3 afternoon, Peter Bulkeley grades four to six 9 13 to 3, Thoreau Kindergarten 8 45 to 11 30 and grades one to two 8 45 to 2 30, Harvey Wheeler grades three to six 8 45 to 2 30.
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