Concord Community Chest Opens First Annual Drive
Concord announces its first annual Community Chest fund drive from October 28 to November 11, chaired by A. Page Browne. Seven local charities will participate with an eighth awaiting approval, including Concord Visiting Nurse Association, Concord and West Concord Girl Scouts, Concord Boy Scout Sponsors, Emerson Hospital, the Salvation Army, and agencies under the Greater Boston Community Fund.
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Concord
Concord Community Chest
Browne
Ortcord Visiting Nurse Association
Concord Girl Scouts
West Concord Girl Scouts
Concord Boy Scout Sponsors, Inc
West Concord
Emerson Hospital
Eves Concord
Salvation Army
Greater
Greater Boston Community Fund
Boston Community Fund
Boston Charities
Boston Fund
Boston C Munity. Fund
Concord Chest Campaign Aligns With Boston Fund Drive
Concord communities plan a unified charity drive linking the Concord Community Chest with the Greater Boston Community Fund. The campaign coincides with the Red Cross drive in March 1948 and excludes a separate Emerson Hospital fund in Concord.
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Concord
Concord Chest
Red Feather
Emerson Hospital
Hoir” Hospital
Concorde
American Red Cross
Hest
Report Three Polio Cases in Sudbury
Sudbury reports three infantile paralysis cases in ten days. Richard Lloyd and two Titus children are under care at the Children's Hospital. Several more children are examined. all cases are mild. Public health measures include quarantining forty children at home.
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Sudbury
Richard Richard Lloyd
Titus
Children’s Hospital
Karlix
Whitney
Board of Health
Sudbury Public Health Association
Court Our Lady Meets Tuesday at West Concord
Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Daughters of America will resume fall programs and meetings on Tuesday evening September 9 at Odd Fellows hall West Concord. Regent Flora Clyne will lead after the routine business session with refreshments. The local court plans a busy fall and winter program meeting usually the second and fourth Tuesday each month.
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West Concord
Our Lady, Help of Christians
Catholic Daughters of America
Odd Fellows Hall
Flora. Clyne
Nurses extend deadline for Army Regular Nurse Corps applications
Concord reports the War Department extended the application deadline to September 30 for joining the Regular Army Nurse Corps. Major Charles E. Allen notes the peacetime corps includes career and reserve officers, with benefits similar to male officers and a path for advancement and training. Eligibility is 21 to 34, with marital or dependent children restrictions.
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Concord
War Department
Regular Army Nurse Corps
Charles E. Allen
Lowell Army and Air Force
Allen
Army Nurse Corps
Officers’ Reserve Corps
Regular Army
Major Allen
Army
General Hospital
Ex-WACS Must Rejoin Service by September 30
Concord veterans of the Women's Army Corps have until September 30 to reenter service, announced Major Charles E. Allen of the Lowell Army and Air Force Recruiting Station. The program, started February 11, 1946, has brought 2100 ex-WACs back in uniform and ends with pending WAC legislation. Re-enlistment requires a 12 month or duration of WAC AUS, whichever is shorter, with information at the Elks Building recruiting office.
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Concord
Charles E. Allen
Lowell
Army and Air Force
Elks Bldg
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