Social Security Coverage Expands to 9 of 10 Families
Coverage extended to about 10 million more workers including farm operators and domestic workers. Benefits rise for current and future retirees and dependents. Rules allow dropping five years of low earnings and raise countable earnings to 4200 dollars. Self employed ministers engineers accountants and others added with age 72 rules expanded. Minimum payments up from 25 to 30 and maximum from 85 to 98.50 with July September notices.
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McLaughlin
Social security amendments boost benefits and coverage
1954 amendments raise maximum family payment to 200 and include automatic increases for current recipients. Starting 1955 covered earnings rise to 4200 yearly, new drop-out for low earners, and updated benefit calculations. Disability freeze rules allow nondisruptive benefit preservation, with eligibility rules and survivor provisions explained by Mr. McLaughlin at the Waltham office.
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McLaughlin
Social Security Administration
Waltham Social Security Office
West Concord Woman Lena Nolan Butcher Laid To Rest
Funeral services for Lena Alice Nolan Butcher age 38 died Sunday in Boston were held Tuesday at MacRae Funeral Home with Rev. Edwin B Nylen officiating. Burial followed in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. She was born December 1902 in Concord and resided in West Concord with husband William H Butcher, two daughters, one son and five grandchildren. Survived by sisters Hana LeBlanc Annie Sheehan Marie Hart and brothers Frederick Nolan Edward Nolan Andrew Nolan. Carl Nolan died in World War II.
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West Concord
Lena Alice (Nolan) Butcher
Harrington Avenue
New England
Boston
Edwin B. Nylen
West Concord Union Church
MacRae
Sleepy Hollow
Concord
Butcher
William H. Butcher
Mabel Haas
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Virginia Nyholm
Robert Butcher
Hannah LeBlanc
Annie Sheehan
North Andover
Marie Hart
Los Angeles
California
Frederick Nolan
Edward Nolan
Littleton
Andrew Nolan
Leominster
Carl Nolan
Bedford Airbase Sends 35 Planes as Hurricane Edna Approaches
Bedford officials evacuated 35 planes from Hansam Airbase to bases in Buffalo and Rome, New York, before Hurricane Edna's threat. Planes returned once the danger passed. Similar evacuations occurred at Westover and Camp Otis.
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Bedford
Hansam
Buffalo
Rome
New York
Atso
Westover
Camp Otis
Salton Sea Formation and Water Management Details
The Salton Sea in California formed when the Colorado River broke through a levee in 1907 and flooded the below sea level valley. Evaporation losses are offset by drainage from irrigation systems keeping the level steady at about 2 percent until 1960 with steps between 1960 and 1975. self employed individuals are taxed at 114 times the employee rate.
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Salton Sea
California
Colorado River
Card of Thanks for sympathy and flowers
We express gratitude to relatives neighbors and friends for kindness sympathy during illness and death. Special thanks to Dr Duston and Dr Holmes and to the families named Ned Patterson Russell Hayward Francis Stone and family for flowers.
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Duston
Holmes
Ned Patterson
Russell Hayward
Francis Stone
Bedford Air Policeman Leads First Pray for Peace Ceremony
Airman 1-c Louis Belardi and Airmen 2-c James H. Wilson Jr Alford Murphy and John Kelsey of the 6520th Air Police Squadron at Hanscom Field represented the Air Force in the nation s first Pray for Peace ceremony held September 8 at the Hatch Memorial Band Shell Boston. The three hour event featured clergy leaders state veterans officials and local dignitaries with a life broadcast and remarks by Senator Daniel Rudstein. The squadron maintains security for the Air Force Cambridge Research Center Test Support Wing and radar sites in the Boston Cape area.
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Bedford
Laurence G. Hanscom Field
Air Force
Hatch
Charles River
Boston
Louis
Belardi
James H. Wilson Jr
Alford Murphy
John Kelsey
Massachusetts
Gregor Shelkan
Temple Mishkan Tefila
Roxbury
Ralph Edwards
Daniel Rudstein
Ralph Gallagher
Holy Cross Cathedral
Cushing
Norman B. Nash
Massachusetts Episcopal Diocese
Samuel I. Korff
Temple Kehillath Jacob
Mattapan
Pratt Estate Left to Wife in Probated Will
Middlesex Probate Court in East Cambridge probated the estate of Burleigh L. Pratt of Concord, valued at least $100,000, left in trust to his wife Ruth Allen. Executors named were William F. Smith of Stow and the Harvard Trust Company of Cambridge. Pratt, 65, died August 13 while vacationing in Vermont. A vinegar rinse is advised to reduce static and dust on nylon curtains and plastic furniture.
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Concord
Middlesex
East Cambridge
Burleigh L. Pratt
Elm Street
Vermont
Ruth Allen
William F. Smith
Stow
Harvard Trust Company of
Cambridge
Pratt
East Acton Girl Weds U S Air Force Officer in Corded Ceremony
Miss Janet Lucinda Flagg daughter of Mr and Mrs Alden Flagg East Acton Brae Brook Homestead married Robert Lee Turley son of Mr and Mrs E Lee Turley Palmer at Trinity Congregational church Cord on Saturday Sept 11 at 4 pm. The hurricane did not dampen the ceremony with Rev Robert H Barber officiating and reception at the church parlor.
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East Acton
Janet Lucinda Flagg
Alden Clifton Flagg Sr
Esterbrook Road
Brae Brook
Robert Lee Turley
U.S. Air Force
E. Lee Turley
King Brook Farm
Palmer
Trinitarian Congregational Church
Concord
Robert H. Barber
James W. McKinster
Chevy Chase
Maryland
Lucy C. Roe
Dixon
Illinois
Bedford Woman Composes March for State Grange
Mrs. Leila M. Blake, organist and pianist for the Massachusetts State Grange, has composed the Gerry Mansfield March in honor of the current state master from West Peabody. The piece debuted at the recent New England Lecturers Conference last month at the University of Maine.
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Bedford
Leila M. Blake
Massachusetts State Grange
Grange Associates
Gerry Mansfield
West Peabody
New England
University of Maine
Anniversary Mass for Fr McCarthy at Our Lady of Help
A Mass was held at Our Lady of Help of Christians Church in West Concord for the late Rev Alexander J McCarthy who died in 1950. He served as pastor from 1947 to 1950 and was an Army chaplain in World War II.
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West Concord
Our Lady of Help of Christains
Alexander J. McCarthy
Lewis F. Kearn
Fr.McCarthy
Our Lady’s
Newton
Unclear Fragmentary Notice Involving Carlisle and Kell Plowden
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Carlisle connected to Mrs Kell Plowden and addresses in Denville Long Island and South Street. It references a class at Columbia and a Roosevelt York City link with a Baltimore event. A marriage and birth timing appear but text is garbled.
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Carlisle
Kell Plowden
Denville
New
James Lee, Jr
Long Islandence
Kirby
South Street
Class College of Pioeons
Columbi
Roosevelt York City
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