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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1956
Page
1
Disjointed text mentions Mary and elections, a 90th anniversary, birthdays in Lafayette, Concord civic notes, Doris Pauline and patrols, a hurricane Carla, and a reference to a 321st birth anniversary for the town. The garbled OCR yields scattered names and places with no cohesive narrative.
The record notes a Concord Club meeting held on October 22 with an elementary Jo leading the event. It mentions Musketaquid and a local report on the upcoming Monday.
West Concord man James Stewart aged about 37 was arraigned in Concord District Court on charges of malicious injury to property and attempted arson after allegedly admitting to setting the Finley Company fire last night He was held for observation at Metropolitan State Hospital for 35 days and had a prior lengthy record Police say another fire at the Klinck home remains under investigation with Stewart denying involvement
Concord reports 30 building permits issued in August totaling 128 000 dollars. Nine permits were for new homes led by Sterling Building Corp Nimrod road with several 14 000 dollar to 18 000 dollar listings and multiple one ten thousand dollar entries including Maxwell Lawrence 201 203 Main street and Umberto Fraticelli Potter street.
The wedding of Miss Margaret J. Flynn of 127 Main Street daughter of Richard Flynn Sr and the late Mrs Flynn to Edward L. Wright of 165 Brattleboro Street Arlington takes place at 10 o clock Saturday morning September 15 at St Bernard s Church.
Concord Evergreens reports improvements to the information center including a green door green shutters and portable parking signs. Contributions support landscaping by Larry Blanchard and Antonio Marabello with Benjamin Clark and Frank Owen donating eight yews. Donations from local businesses and groups continue.
Concord selectmen appoint a dedication committee for the reconstructed Old North Bridge ceremony. Members include Charles W. Allen Robert D. Parks Gladys E H Hosmer Ruth R. Wheeler Robert F Needham and Michael B. Gormely. The dedication is planned for September with the contractor given a September 29 deadline to finish the work.
Concord couple John Schoeff and wife welcome a daughter born September 4 at Emerson Hospital. West Concord couple Mr and Mrs John Wetherbee announce a daughter born in September at Emerson Hospital.
Concord private schools prepare to resume classes next week with Concord Nursery, Middlesex School, Fenny School, Concord Academy and Brooks School all set to return on Wednesday September 19.
The Salk vaccine drive resumes in Concord public schools this week with health board oversight. Friday sessions run from 8 40 to 9 30 a m at the high school cafeteria and 9 30 to 12 noon at the Peter Bulkeley School committee room. Earlier inoculations occurred yesterday at Harvey Wheeler and Thoreau Schools with other clinics on Tuesday at Rose Hawthorne and Monday at the Alcott School, including preschoolers at Alcott.
Concord reports the state primary Tuesday September 18 with polls 12 noon to 8 pm in three precincts. Hep. John M. Eater Jr seeks a second term in the 138th Middlesex District and Atty-Gen. George Kingod is unopposed for a third term.
The Concord Town Board will meet on Wednesday September 26 at 8 o clock at the Town House. Town Manager Theo Ore M Nelson reports.
A regular Concord Planning Board meeting was held Tuesday evening at the Town House. Chairman Edward K. True presided with Town Manager Theodore M. Nelson in attendance.
Manager Theodore Nelson reports a $2500 March appropriation to build a new sidewalk from the overhead railroad bridge along Main Street to Route 2 with work starting on the left in front of the Bunker residences and continuing to the Medical Center then on the opposite side where the current sidewalk lies. A sidewalk will also be built around the Town House this coming week. Snow removal funds are nearly exhausted with $110.33 left from 1956 and only $1000 of the $19,000 special appropriation for March storms remaining. A special town meeting may consider carrying over the current snow removal fiscal year. A November 1954 snow loader is badly worn and may require up to $1750 repair, or a new machine costing about $13,000.
A daughter arrived for Mr and Mrs Terrance Rooney at 28 Houghton Street Ford number 5 and a son arrived for Mr and Mrs Byron Sharpless at 243 South Road Bedford on September 6 both at Emerson Hospital in Concord.
The Homestake gold mine at Lead South Dakota the continent s largest produced eighteen million dollars worth of gold and silver in the past year.
Voting hours in Concord for next Tuesday run from 12 noon to 8 p m. Precinct 1 voters go to the State Armory, Precinct 2 to the Harvey Wheeler School in West Concord, and Precinct 3 to the Veterans Building.
West Concord hosts a two week mission led by Army chaplain West Cone Shultz a World War I Bronze Star recipient from Newton. He will conduct evening services for women Sunday with two daily masses likely and a later children's mission. Men’s mission starts the following Sunday September 23.
Concord Deputy Sheriff and Mrs. Arthur Bishop report 41st wedding anniversary for Corey and Bernice Adams Corey. Married in Marlboro, they’ve lived in Concord since 1930. They have three children including Donald Hall Corey in Long Island, Adel Barbara at home, and Virginia Graves of Somerville, plus five grandchildren.
The council announces a dance for Saturday September 15 in the gym. Past seasons show the first dance is well attended, and organizers hope for a large turnout again.
Gray says Concord Turnpike plans remain in study stage and not final. The route could be widened on the south side with bridges at Walden Pond Road Sudbury Road Old Rt Nine Acre Corner Rt 62 Elm Street and Barretts Mill Road. Interchanges planned at Walden Pond Road Sudbury Road Rt 62 and Route 2. Relocation aims to reduce property damage and town impact. Lincoln residents protest while Concord officials hedge. Possible federal funding if classified as a state highway.
A Concord youth spent the last two months at the National Rifle Match Camp Perry Ohio and Florida before receiving a B in Business Administration from University in 1954. He has been accepted in the Boston University School of Law.
Heating work is approved for a project labeled pre lane and p.m. to address wiring and pole connections from a Boston Edison manhole west of Edgewood reed. Work targets West Concord on Main Street toward the Concord Acton line as depicted in the plan on file with the town clerk.
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