Hearing Reveals Opposition to Overhead High Tension Lines
Town hearing on Edison petition drew about 100 attendees in Wayland Concord and Sudbury. Opponents urged underground wiring citing marshland scenic value and potential land takings while supporters argued public utility needs and local service.
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Bury, Wayland
Concord
Thomas St. Carl
Gray Street
Arlington
Richard F. Piper
Rice Road
William Dickson
Edison Company
Electric
Curtis E. Harding
Pelham Road
Albert St. Germain
John Taft
League of Women Voters
Wayland
Sudbury
Edison
Commonwealth
Taft
Stanley Russell
Sudbury Conservation Commission
New England
Russell
Selectman
Lawrence B. Tighe
Tighe
Frank R. Sherman
Sudbury Committee
Michael G. Stratton
Stratton
Howard Russell
de Normandie
Acton Boards Discuss Pipe Trenches and Housing Plans
Acton selectmen, planning board and water commissioners met Tuesday to discuss digging and refilling water pipe trenches. Attendees included Water District members Harris Loring and Tuttle, Planning Board members Tinker Veazey, town engineer Hanack, and Paul Sweeney who sought permits for four two family houses on Arlington Street.
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Acton
South Acton Coal and Lumber Co
Planning Board
Concord Considers Redevelopment Authority Article
A suggestion to insert in this week’s town meeting warrant to form a Concord Redevelopment Authority to work with the federal government on urban renewal in the White Pond area. Arthur Stevenson asks the Concord Housing Authority to reconsider serving as agent, citing its elderly housing focus per town vote.
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Concord
Concord Redevelopment Authority
Arthur Stevenson
White Pond
Post Cane Award Presented in Acton for Eldest Citizen
Acton-Gold Post Cane awarded to the town's eldest citizen was accepted at the selectmen's meeting by Mr. and Mrs. Medville L. Clark representing Mrs. J. T. Stewart who has lived in Acton since 1945. Mrs. Stewart, widow of Frederick J. Stewart, turned 97 on June 26 1962 and has children Chester C Dover Mass and Mrs. Leo W. Higgins Quincy Mass. Her brothers John W. Cameron Framingham and Benjamin F. Cameron Framingham are in their eighties.
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Acton
Medville L. Clark
School Street
South Acton
Clark
J. T. Setwart
Dover
Mass
Leo W. Higgins
Quincy
Stewart
John W. Cameron
Benjamin F. Cameron
Framingham
Age at first marriage in the United States over time
The article cites the Statistical Abstract of the United States data showing American men and women married for the first time averaged 24.6 and 21.2 years in 1920, then 22.8 and 20.3 years in 1961 according to the Bureau of the Census.
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United States
Bureau of the Census
Colson To Speak On U S Physical Fitness At Action PTA
Ac ton Parent Teachers Association opens with guest Ralph H. Colson state supervisor of physical education and safety. He will discuss current adult and youth fitness and forecast how children may look in 5 to 20 years. Colson is a noted track and field expert with long service in education and athletics.
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Acton
Acton Parent Teachers Association
Acton-Boxbo _Regional High School
Ralph H. Colson
Mass
Colson
University of Pennsylvania
Harvard University
Everett and Dedham High
Fitchburg State Teachers’ College
Seventh Fleet
Manila
U.S.N.R
U. S. Olympic Development Committee
U.S.A
Russia
Moscow
London
Finland
Eisenhower
West Point
Kennedy
New England A. A. U
Board Appoints Fifth Member to Safety Advisory Committee
Concord selectmen appoint William D. Stone of Bedford Street as the fifth member of the safety advisory committee. The panel, now complete, is expected to meet Monday with the board. Other members include Stanley M. Howard, Alcott Road. David N. Reece, 92 Main Street. Robert Fulks, 110 Prairie Street. and Mrs. John D. Murphy, 4 Riverdale Road.
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Concord
William D. Stone
Bedford Street
Stanley M. Howard
Alcott Road
David N. Reece
Main Street
Robert Fulks
Prairie Street
John D. Murphy
Riverdale Road
Acton Choral Society Meeting Cancelled
The Acton Regular meeting scheduled for next Monday is cancelled due to the season’s first PTA meeting. The October 8 session will proceed as planned.
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Acton
Acton Choral Art Society
Town thanks Mrs Gladys T McLane for shrub donation
In appreciation the town acknowledges Mrs Gladys T McLane for donating additional shrubs and paying for their planting at the new building and library.
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Gladys T McLane
Regional plan eyed to include grades 7 8 with cost near 7 9 and a half million
At a Monday meeting the Con cvde angle Regional School D istrict committee and citizens council discussed a regional junior high for grades 7 and 8 at about 79 1/2 million dollars. Towns would vote on adding grades and site options include 36 acres at the regional site or expansion of the present junior high. State aid could reach about 50 percent under regional plan versus 40 percent under a local high school plan.
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Citizens Council
Conclvde‘angle Regional School
Serena Fe Stow
Haskell
Emerson
Stow Street
Superintendent of Schools
Concord
Carlisle
Carisle
Concord Town Considers Mosquito and Tree Spray Committee
Town Manager Theodore M. Nelson seeks volunteers for a new mosquito and tree spray committee. About six candidates have shown interest. panel to include three to five members. The group will report in coming months on sprays impact on nature.
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Concord
Theodore M. Nelson
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Utilities Commission
Potter
Coull
Primcommon
Ion
DeNormandie
Robert C. Wellman
Sudbury Women’s Club
James DeNormandie
Lincoln
Fifth Middlesex
Electric Company
Utilities
Concord Opposition
Charles Manion
Concord L. W. V
League
Francis Lowell
Garfield Road
Concord Conservation Commission
Sudbury River Valley Committee
Barbara L. Beddoe
Colleg of Liberal Arts
McGill Univrsity
Allen Beddoe
Hosmer Street
Barbara
Acton Teachers’ Association
Carol A. Schene
Arthur V. Schene
Alcott Street
Acton Center
Maynard
Orage
Dn Caldwell
S. Acton
Concord Lions
P.T. A
U.S
Ralph Colson
Graydon Smith & Co
West Concord
Maynard Municipal Building Committee
Greater Concord
DERBY
Stow Center
St. Isidore’s Church
High Holidays
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