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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1943
Page
8
Concord residents receive updates on servicemen from William J. Bulger Jr to Raymond Lawson and others. The notes list furloughs, transfers to Fort Devens and Camp Croft, training with the Army Air Corps and Marine base assignments, along with prior local ties such as Concord High and Tufts.
Thomas F. Fitzpatrick of 20 Fair-Mayn Road recently completed a five day furlough and returned to duty with the U S Navy at Newport. He was promoted to sea class upon return and began a new course at the gualte school in Newport after graduating from Concord high school.
Philip W Vanderhoof Jr of the U S Army Air Corps, on leave from a California base, visits his parents Mr and Mrs Lip W Vanderhoof of Barretts Mill Road.
Coastguardsman Thomas V. Finan from Willow at feet returned home on a short leave from his Boston base last week.
Word arrives that Charles P. F. Dee, formerly high school football captain at Sheppard Field Texas, has been transferred to Chanute Field Illinois after completing his course and receiving a promotion.
A Brooks family letter from Lt. Peter T. Brooks recounts Red Cross services during the Sicily invasion. It praises hospital ships, plasma supplies, and comfort efforts for servicemen, urging continued support to save lives and aid families separated by war.
Concord Miss Edna A Price superintendent reports Emerson Hospital statistics for August 1943 including 84 surgical cases and 34 obstetrical cases with 80 infants, 83 outpatients, 3 deaths, 101 operations, 14 accident cases, 2 auto incidents, 42 inpatients at month end, and daily averages. Laboratory tests and X rays performed with 133 patients in hospital at August start. Largest in hospital 50, smallest number not specified.
John Lowell Jr. born at Waltham Hospital on September 2 to Mr. and Mrs. John Lowell. The mother is Eleanor Trumbull, daughter of Walter Trumbull of Middlesex School.
Navy reports Lt Commander Edmund Billings 44 killed in action in the Pacific. He was last listed as missing since the Savo Island battle on August 9, 1942. Born in Boston, he attended Roxbury Law School and Harvard College class of 1919. Survived by widow Elise, daughter Elizabeth, three sons Edmund Jr Curtis and Robert, and sister Mrs Hamilton L Wood.
The Concord Lions Club holds its bi monthly meeting Tuesday evening September 21 at 6 30 at the Old Mill Dam tea room with President G Sherman Blair presiding. Dr James Goodwin and Elmer M Lantz attended the last gathering. The group plans its third trip to the Red Cross blood bank in Boston later this month.
Marlboro notes the engagement of Miss De Clarice Martel daughter of former mayor Amedeé A Martel to Lieut Francis Bird of the Army Air Force. Miss Martel a graduate and teacher at Mitchell High School and Coolidge College, awaiting wedding date.
Concord leaders announce the 1944 Emerson Hospital fundraising appeal with a $9 000 goal unchanged from 1943 despite inflation. House-to-house canvass runs October 9 through 18 with town chairs named in Concord West Concord Carlisle Acton Center South Acton West Acton and Bedford.
William E Lowe former member of Concord Company I Massachusetts Volunteer Militia died September 7 in Worcester. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon in Worcester. Lowe served with Concord Company I in 1898 for Puerto Rico and saw action in the Spanish American War. He was formerly well known in Concord.
Miss Beatrice McGettigan daughter of Sudbury selectmen chairman Francis L McGettigan and Mrs McGettigan and a 1940 Sudbury High School graduate has entered Burdett College in Boston.
Lieut Pease formerly of Marlboro Mass and Hillside School completed aerial bombardier and combat training at the Jo Forces Bombardier School. He is the son of Mrs Co G and married to the former Grape can of New Canaan Conn. He worked as a receiving clerk at H Sawyer & Son before joining the service and trained at Santa Army Air Base prior to this field.
Louis Loftus of Chicago visiting his brother Richard and mother joins Miss Karen Olson hosting a Thursday night missionary gathering on Laurel Street. Mrs Bernard Medher sister in Chicago noted among attendees.
The September issue of Friendly Cheer highlights Frank H. Hadley, the oldest citizen, with a centenarian feature and rhyme titled Tell Me. It celebrates his long life and community role while noting his memories and wisdom in the local magazine edition.
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