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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1956
Page
16
Economist Roger W. Babson told a Colorado speech that a proposed four day work week would create personal crisis for Americans. He argued such a move raises wages only to be offset by higher prices, retards production, and worsens inflation, stressing prosperity relies on increasing output.
The Concord Monthly meeting of the Musketaquid Boy Scout District will be held next Wednesday October 3 at the local insurance exchange. New chairman Robert McFarlane of Carlisle will preside, succeeding Lemuel A. Watkins of Concord. Buy U.S. Savings Bonds.
Miss Arlene Susan MacFarlane of Boston wed Dr William Norman Jones of Newtonville in Lincoln. The bride, daughter of the late Robert L MacFarlane and Mrs Edward G Haskins, and the groom son of Mr and Mrs Morgan E Jones of Anderson Indiana, both hold prominent roles in Boston medical circles. The bride holds a Smith College School of Social Work degree and works at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. The groom, a University of Chicago Medical School graduate, is an orthopedic surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and on the Harvard Medical School staff.
The state Public Works Department announced no new Concord projects with bids advertised. One project funds a Public Works foreman's garage on Elm Street Route 2 at an estimated 170000 dollars to cut rental costs. bids open October 3 and general bids October 9 in Commissioner John A. Volpe's office.
Mrs. Sarah Jane Laws aged 76 of 7 Southfield Circle Concord died Saturday at Emerson Hospital after an illness. Born September 15, 1880 in Leeds England she had lived in Concord the past four years formerly of Malden. She is survived by her husband Frank R. Laws a retired Boston Edison official for 35 years a daughter Ruth J Larsen of Concord and two grandchildren. Funeral services were held at MacRae Funeral Home Concord with Rev. Robert H. Barber officiating. Interment in Puritan Lawn Memorial Park West Peabody.
Fire Prevention Week runs October 7 to 13 with a call to cooperate with the Fire Department and practice prevention year round. It warns that first killing frosts will make fields and forests vulnerable to arson, and notes that open burning requires a permit issued only when it is raining or soon after rain. Call 2239 for permits, not the emergency line 2323.
Concord couple Mr and Mrs Wilbur F Smith formerly Caroline Parks of West Newton welcome their first child Roba Carleton Smith born in September Grandparents are Selectman and Mrs Robert D Parks of Concord and Mr and Mrs Herbert Ith of West Newton.
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