Acton Selectmen Approve Signs and Road Work Plans
Acton selectmen held their regular meeting considering highway matters. They granted a sign permit to Mass Hardware not exceeding 16 feet and approved 1962 Chapter 90 funds for Main and Central streets. The board also approved five joint petitions by Boston Edison and New England Tel for various streets and appointed special police officers for school traffic duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred K. Hanack
Acton
Main Street
Central Street
Richardson’s Crossing
Messrs. Dalton and Mayon
Boston Edison Co
N. E. Tel
Tel. Co
Richard Robbins
Lincoln
A Jensen
Parker Street
South Acton
Peter Smolees
Robert Graham
Sandra Howe
Town Hall
Police
Public Urged To Take Part In Civil Defense Effort
Townspeople urged to participate in civil defense planning with first public meeting set for October 4 at the regional school auditorium. Col. Mutty leads a steering group including C Waldo MacWilliams Rexford Daniels Benjamin L. Smith and Paul Cali to promote preparations and erase fatalist attitudes amid fallout survival estimates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Mutty
C. Waldo MacWilliams
Rexford Daniels
Benjamin L. Smith
Paul Cali
Mutty
Headquarters
Civil Defense
C D
Fall winds and plans tease a busy regional week
Weather shifts cool the area but storms loom as Atlantic gales threaten with rain. Civil defense steps up with fallout shelter plans while hearings touch school board races. Bedford and Concord discuss insurance, gas construction, and local meetings as October nears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Ind
Strawson
Shel- Man
Lions Survival Kits On Sale In Concord
Concord Lions promote eight day emergency life packs designed for food and water with proceeds reinvested in civil defense. Orders can be placed by phone or at local banks and stores. pickup at Civil Defense office, Wilson Lumber Co, or Dominic's Market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord Package Store
Cooperative Bank
Concord Medical Center
Lions
Concord
Emerson
Civil Defense
Col
John Mutty
Main Street
Wilson Lumber Co
Collins
Edward Teller
Life
John F. Kennedy
Vocational Show Committee Sets Next Meeting
The vocational and trade show committee will meet at 7 30 p m Tuesday at the Cooperative Bank. Members from Lions Club Rotary Club Chamber of Commerce and Junior Chamber of Commerce will report on interviews with professionals retailers and manufacturers. Several entries have been received and Chairman Casper J Jenney Jr hopes most exhibit space in the high school gymnasium will be spoken for.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Cooperative Bank
Lions Club
Rotary Club Chamber of Commerce
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Casper J. Jenney, Jr
Concord Town Appointees Fill Key Posts
Town manager Theodore M. Nelson accepts the resignation of Stedman Buttrick as chairman of the industrial committee. George S. Lawton is replaced on the personnel board by Robert A. Soderman of Alcott Road, with the term running to January 1. Mrs. Frederick H Klinck is renamed as UN chairman by the board of selectmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Theodore M. Nelson
Stedman Buttrick
Selectmen
George S. Lawton
Robert A. Soderman
Alcott Road
Board of Selectmen
Frederick H (Sylvia) Klinck
U. N
Columbia buys option on unwritten book for sequel plans
Hollywood brief states Columbia Pictures has bought an option for movie rights to a yet unwritten book. Mildred and Gordon Gordon will write a sequel to their book Operation Terror for Doubleday, which Columbia acquired to co star Glen Ford and Lee Remick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
UPI
Columbia Pictures
Mildred
Gordon Gordon
Doubleday
Columbia
Glen Ford
Lee Remick
DAR Chapter Receives Gift To Aid Minute Man Project
Capt. Isaac Davis Chapter D A R held its first fall meeting at Mrs. W. Stuart Allen’s home with a dessert. Members then visited Concord Antiquarian Museum. In Constitution Week observance the chapter posted Alaska as the 49th state and reminded the public to review copies of the U.S. Constitution. Brewster Conant, grandson of Luther Conant, donated funds for continuing the Minute Man project. Members walked from the captain’s home to the Old North Bridge in Concord.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acton
Isaac Davis
D.A.R
W. Stuart Allen
Concord Antiquarian Museum
Alaska
Acton-Roxborough
U.S
Brewster Conant
Luther Conant
Capt
Old North Bridge
Concord
Well Groomed Shoes in Small Space
A new shoe shine kit in a can saves locker space by combining paste polish sponge dauber and shine cloth in one compact container from Johnson's Wax Racine Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPI
Johnson's Wax
Racine
Wis
Residential Chairmen Name Aides To Lead Annual Chest Campaign
Concord selects a $300 000 loan for 39 days amid a 1961 Community Chest drive. Harvard Trust Co. offered the low bid at .93 percent plus $2. repayment to come by November 3. The campaign convenes meetings with team captains to organize solicitors and lay groundwork for the drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Edward Reynolds, Jr
Edward C. Browne
F. Gregg Bemis, Jr
Michael B. Gormely
Ronald F. Gardella
William O. Apthorp
Orrin G. Wood, Jr
Henry C. Nields
Keith Martin
Cornelia M. Lawrence
Harvard Trust Co
Community Chest
Nut Meadow Crossing
Laurance A. Clement
Samuel E. Cutter
Lowell Road
Curtis Billings
Monument Street
Martin K. Bovey, Jr
Barnes Hill Road
Donald L. Gillespie
Clifford A. Bean
Mcnsen Road
Charles A. Morss, Jr
Independence Road
Jerome A. Stone
Hawthorne Lane
William M. Siebert
Martha's Point Road
Old Marlboro Road
Oddar Solstad
Dean E. Comeau
Baker Avenue
Russell S. Hatch
Hayward Mill Road
John J. Higgins
Laws Brook Road
William A. Thoreson
Commonwealth Avenue
Russell F. Jackson
Central Street
Thomas F Jameson
Hillside Avenue
James V. McMullen
Main Street
Reed O. Beharrell
Harrington Avenue
Frank Croft
Old Road
Nine Acre Corner
Nimrod Drive
Fabian Friedman
Leo S. Cavalier
Laurel Street
S. E. Wicher
Hubbard Street
Thomas M. Porter
Devens Street
Freelon Morris
Southfield Road
Myles Standish Ill
Albere B Williams
Sudbury Road
Harold F. Chevalier
Middle Street
Thomas F. Brown
Belknap Street
Frederick W. Eaton
Nimrod
Duncan Bruce
Wood Street
Charles
Bedford Fireworks Friday Evening At Bedford Shopping Center
Selectmen grant merchants permission to display fireworks behind the Bedford Shopping Center this Friday at 9 p.m. A notice to install a pedestrian light at Fletcher Road and Great Road was referred to the district highway engineer for investigation by state traffic official Bernard B. Twombly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
Bernard B. Twombly
Fletcher Road
Great Road
Concord Next Board Of Appeals Public Hearing
The Concord Next board of appeals will hold a public hearing on October 18 in the court room. People wishing to file a petition must submit it to the clerk at the public works building by Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Board of Appeals
Public Works
Concord Meeting Takes Place Sunday at 7 PM
The Concord committee holds its next regular meeting in public ceremonies and celebrations at 9 Main Street, the office of Chairman Dr Francis C McDonald. Citizens from Concord and nearby communities are welcome to attend Sunday at 7 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Francis C. McDonald
Main Street
West Concord Man Given Jail Term
Walter A Page of Commonwealth Avenue was arraigned in district court on three charges two for motor vehicle use without authority and one for larceny of thirty dollars. He was found guilty and sentenced to 18 months in the House of Correction at Billerica six months on each complaint to run concurrently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Walter A. Page
Commonwealth Avenue
House of Correction
Billerica
Grant to expand cerebrovascular research at Bellevue Hospital
The National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness awarded 1,562,986 dollars for seven years to extend a research center on cerebral vascular diseases at the Bellevue Hospital Division of Cornell University Medical College, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPI
National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness
Bellevue Hospital
Cornell University Medical College
Civilian Defense Tour For Lions Improves Local Ties
Acton Lions Club hosts a tour of the Civilian Defense regional HQ at Harvard during a meeting at Acton Center Woman's Clubhouse. A. A. Morrissette, regional director, spoke and was presented by Chairman Robert Hayward with President Howard P. Hardin presiding. Notables from Concord and Switzerland attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acton
Civilian Defense
Harvard
Acton Lions Club
Acton Center Woman's Clubhouse
A. A. Morrissette
Robert Hayward
Howard P. Hardin
Z. C
John C. Collins
George W. Wilkinson
Harold Keizer
G. Donald Wade
Rudolph W. Currier
Concord Club
John Jocko
Switzerland
Z. C. Collins
P. P
Richard A. Gallant
George H. Allen
James Baker
H. Stuart MacGregor
New Tree Warden Named for Concord Town
Town Manager Theodore M. Nelson and PWD Superintendent John H. Robinson name Walter Carl Feldman Jr. as Concord tree warden effective Oct. 9. Feldman, 29, of Amherst, a 1949 Amherst High and 1956 UMass Stockbridge arboriculture graduate, comes from the university shade tree laboratory and will also oversee forestry duties. He is a Korea veteran, married with three children, and plans to move to Concord.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Theodore M. Nelson
P.W.D
John H. Robinson
Walter Carl Feldman, Jr
North Whitney Street
Amherst
Feldman
Amherst High
University of Massachusetts
Stockridge
Wil
Shade Tree Laboratory
University
U. S. Army
Korea
Charles F. Myette
Forestry Division
PWD
Down to the Sea New York Boating Boom on U.S. Waters
Americans spent record leisure time on water with 39 million in 8 million boats, according to the boating industry. Boats ranged from small imitations of bathtubs to elegant yachts as the trend grew nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPI
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Police Dept
Poles
Acton—Selectmen
Allen H. Nelson
John &. Mutty
Civil Defense Staff
O'Hara
Jane
O’hara
Elam Patter
Acton Way
Grimes
Bedford High
Maynard
Maways
Concord Lions
Dar
Joseph C. Regan
Caleb Wheeler
Andre Commeyras
Adrian Morse
Charles K. Yeremian
Theodore Hersey
Edward J. Bartlett
William Sharpe Jr
C.c.hls
West Concord
Mgr
Digital Personnel Office
Main St
Digital Equipment Corporation
West Concord Supermarket
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