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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1939
Page
5
Fragmented OCR lists names such as Gene Kelly Henry Zamperelli and Don Fleet amid references to a Parker Club meet. The garbled text suggests a track or athletic event with heats, trials, and results but details are unclear.
Concord School football coach Albert Cook leads a squad of about 45 players with co captains Roy Johansen and Eli Flan. key players named include Paul Boyd Wil Anderson Woody Soberg Robert Voight and J Ryan as they prepare to face Belmont in Middlesex league play. A separate note reports Gleasondale resident Walsh recovering after an August 24 injury from a saw accident in Stow hospital treatment ongoing.
The Middlesex Yellow Jackets face the Leominster Lions under floodlights at Riverside Park tonight at 8:30. Charley Newton leads the Jackets with Nick Morris drilling the squad, while Leominster relies on speed and a clever passing attack led by coach Ed Tellier. Referee Bart Murphy, umpire Dick Drummond, and line judge Jack Shea will oversee the game as the teams present 22 players in black and yellow with heavy linemen and a quick backfield.
Concord's Nicky Macone and Jimmy Cullinane, ex Wenver high captains, come home after pro seasons with Nova Scotia. Cullinane is sold to Albany Senators in the Eastern League, moving from Class C to Class A and will report next year. Macone also had a strong season and awaits a potential sale to a higher level. Cullinane previously played for Beaver Falls. Macone's second pro year follows a debut with Wenver. Rabит Maranville, former Boston Brave star, is noted in connection to the era.
Mrs William M Shed den of the Concord Recreational Council will run a tennis tournament at the Emerson Playground courts on Saturday September 30 for girls and boys age 15. Semifinals are set for October 7 with matches and eliminations to follow. At the Concord Country Club this weekend the Mixed Doubles Championship will feature Mrs Rhedden and Alexander Cameron versus Mrs Charles G Edgertop and Kenneth L Hayes. The club then schedules Men's Singles and Women's Singles events.
A fragmented notice mentions bargaining, age, neighbor, and living in a locale labeled REALE. The readable text hints at a legal or civic dispute involving residency or age rules without clear details.
The Concord squad faces doubts about reorganizing with the Yankees and plans to play the season alongside Waltham. Bob Kelly placed fourth in a Dedham meet while beating Hawk Zamperelli who beat him in Lexington. Nick Macone won Cape Berton batting title at .333 in 47 games with 22 stolen bases. Gus Soffriti shone for Danville in a strong season and is expected home for a potential pro move. Jim Thompkins tested with the New York Giants and will finish school before signing. Arrigo Gus Soffriti maintains a .300 plus pace and may secure a promotion before next season.
Erie wrecks hold treasures not gold but coins and cargo lost since 1842. Immigrant funds, foreign coinage, and pig zinc lie in water depths around 70 feet to 100 feet near Dunkirk Erie Cleveland Point Pelee and Long Point. Rum runners dumped whisky during Prohibition while divers recover cases with diving helmets from island shores.
Greensburg area crash kills Peter Kodylak 13 and injures Joseph Voyers 15 as a plane with two men crashes into a swimming hole seven miles southwest of Greensburg. Pilot David Patterson escapes uninjured. Student pilot Nicholas Plevin sustains a bruised knee.
Modesto California police evicted Hans Hansen aged 77 from an underground burrow he had dug beneath a warehouse. He had lived there since 1929, subsisting on groceries, reading, cooking, and sleeping in the concealed space until discovery by warehouse workers.
James Furlong dean of Nickel Plate engineers retired after 51 years of service. Friends say he traveled a distance of about 2,000,000 miles on rails, roughly four moon trips round trip. The moon distance is about 238,857 miles per trip.
Albert J. Boudreau of the Marlboro Enterprise will launch a weekly aviation question column starting September 20 with help from Robert Carey, Marlboro Airport manager. Readers may mail questions to Air News Marlboro Enterprise Marlboro Massachusetts. Carey, leasing the airport from C R Spallianys, is a young licensed pilot with seven years’ experience who trains thirty five students with three planes including a Piper Cub and two Taylor Crafts.
Southboro report of Fayville Hall card party under Choate Post VFW Auxiliary. Mrs Flora Gelina led the event with prizes donated by Regis Collette. winners included Hoey Quinn Thompson and Gibeault, with consolations to Nellie Hoey and Andrew Cave. Next party set for September 18.
Chesterfield cigarettes features stars Ann Sheridan Gary Cooper and Fred Astaire in a coast to coast newspaper advertising campaign promoting the right combinations for more pleasure. The campaign includes point of sale displays and national radio broadcasts with Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians on NBC and Paul Whiteman orchestra on CBS, listed for evenings Monday through Friday.
Mrs. Anna Hmph rey Walker of West Main Street has finished WPA Recreation projects service. She plans to open a dance studio next month to offer instruction in dancing.
The funeral for Miss Annie J Kerrigan of 21 Walnut Street will be held from her home with a solemn requiem Mass in St Michael's on Friday morning at nine o'clock. She died yesterday at St Vincent's hospital Worcester.
An inspector from the State Division of Necessaries of Life led by John P McBride visited local stores with Ernest J. Holt to check rising prices and shortages of sugar and other commodities. The inspection will continue at various periods here.
Governor's Day begins a three day Middlesex County Fair organized by Acton Agricultural Society with the State Department of Agriculture. Weather permitting, the event features a renowned horse show, varied midways, and high calibre concessions, as leadership works to outdo past fairs.
Union Church West Concord presents Morgan Memorial activities on September 17 with a morning service at 10 45 featuring a speaker from Morgan Memorial Good Will Industries The evening program at 7 45 includes an illustrated lecture and stereopticon views of the organization’s work A Sunday school session begins at 9 45 The day includes a junior choir performance for the Deaconess Home and a brief Senior Young People meeting A prayer meeting is set for Tuesday at 7 30 p m A food sale is scheduled for Friday September 22 at 2 30 p m
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