Professional belly dancer coming to Greek-American dance in Claremont Opera House

1978

CLAREMONT

More than 100 worms have been registered for the first Greater Claremont International Invitational Annelid (Worm) Race sponsored by the Fiske Free Library. The latest weather reports are very favorable with the skies expected to cloud over blocking the fatal ultraviolet rays of the sun, protecting the vulnerable and highly-strung race worms.

One of the earliest social events of the fall season is a Greek-American dance for the benefit of the Claremont Opera House Sept. 30. Under the aegis of entrepreneur Angleo C. Nestor, the affair is expected to exceed the very successful Greek-American Dance in Newport a couple of years ago, also the work of Nestor. “A really professional belly dancer will be here,” said Nestor.

A convincing presentation that the old Guimond Farms building on Lower Main Street was unsuitable for other than commercial use sold the zoning board Monday night on Al Johnson’s plan to convert the vacant building into a wholesale heating outlet. Johnson, of Johnson Oil Inc., had been turned down once before by the board in his bid to move his business from 38 Main St. to the Guimond building primarily due to staunch neighborhood opposition.

Advertisement—Claremont Arms Apartments featuring large proportioned rooms, appliances, AC unit, wall-to-wall carpeting, dishwasher and all utilities included, one bedroom from $198-$216, two bedroom, $249.

The Greater Claremont Chamber of Commerce Thursday took an official stand giving “full support” to Police Chief Joseph R. Devine’s stepped-up enforcement of the city’s loitering ordinance. Frank Wisinski, director of the chamber, said the group also supports attempts being made by the police department and the Community Youth Advocates agency to open lines of communication between the young people in the city who gather on the sidewalks, and the police department.

NEWPORT

Selectmen accepted bids on installation of a sprinkler system in the town hall and on electrical wiring in the old county courthouse Monday. Carpenter Sprinkler Corp. of Concord will install the sprinkler system for $21,726. Herman Mann, an electrical contractor from Sunapee, was the only bidder for the task of rewiring the old county courthouse. Through $11,700 in town, historical society and state funds that are available, the job will only cost $3,575.

Newport selectmen received resignations from two town officials Monday night. Lindy Blake, assistant director of the recreation and parks department, resigned for personal reasons. Parks and Recreation Director Jay Harvey is considering several local people for the job and says a new assistant director will be selected within a week or two. Paul Skarin resigned from the Newport Zoning Board of Adjustment because business obligations prevented him from attending many meetings.

It seems the county is close to making a decision on the solid waste incinerator project. Monday night, Newport Town Manager James Hannigan said the county was planning to study the possibility of a regional solid waste disposal incinerator and he suggested the Newport Selectmen hold up a decision on the town’s own solid waste disposal study project until the county finance committee meets Aug. 20.

Advertisemet—5 room, 3 bedroom home in Newport; nicely located on large lot with town water and sewerage, this property is new to the market, $24,900 will buy this. Hurlbut Real Estate, Newport.

SUNAPEE

Airman Karin M. Wilkins, daughter of Mrs. Carolyn M. Gallup, Sunapee, has been assigned to Wurtsmith AFB, Mich., for duty in the U.S. Air Force supply field. The airman recently completed basic training at Lackland AFB, Texas.

CHARLESTOWN

A new school will open its doors this September in Charlestown. Earlier this summer, the Fun Factory Playschool Inc. was only an idea. But it now has a staff of three, is licensed by the state and has a tentative opening of Sept. 5.

Charlestown residents are facing increased water and sewer rates this year, and most likely rates will also go up next year. Rising costs caused by the new sewer treatment plant soon to go into operation, an increased number of residents using the system and federal and state regulations concerning clean water are responsible for the increasing costs.

ALSTEAD

An early-morning fire today destroyed the Alstead Post Office and adjoining Cold River Market. The fire broke out shortly before 3 a.m. Alstead Fire Chief Ralph Moore said the clock in the post office was stopped at 2:37 a.m. and that alarms came into his department shortly after. The post office and general store were destroyed.

CORNISH

The annual Cornish Fair has grown from a small event attended by less than 100 people to a two-day affair attended by thousands. Fair officials counted about 13,000 paid admissions to the 29th fair, which drew to a close Saturday night. LeAnn Leavitt, Meriden was crowned “Miss Cornish Fair” Saturday night by Karen Gowen, reigning queen.

NEW LONDON

Alf Jacobson says he is New Hampshire’s Republican U.S. Senate candidate with a difference, the only moderate, the only true blue Republican and the one campaigning on foreign policy issues. The two-term Senate president says the other three candidates—James Masiello, Gordon Humphrey and Carmen Chimento—“are trying to outconservative each other.”

1963

CLAREMONT

S.Sgt Leonard Hipwell is home on furlough after three and a half years of service in Okinawa. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hipwell of 30 Park Ave., he will return to duty Aug. 22 at Fort Meade, Md.

Photo caption—Claremont Scholarship Fund got a boost last night when the Claremont Jaycees presented a check for $232 to the Citizens Scholarship Foundation. The money was raised through the sale of tickets to the Midway Drive-In in Ascutney with the cooperation of the Drive-In manager, Rene Garneau of Windsor. From left, George Magnuson, Jaycee president; John Tucker, co-chairman of the club’s scholarship committee; Harry Rosenberg, Foundation president, and John Goodrich, co-chairman of the club scholarship committee.

The 1963 Claremont Hospital Fair netted $3,334, a record profit, it was reported yesterday by William Field, chairman. One of the largest returns was from the gondola train ride to Newport, which brought in $397.

Women are coming up in the Chamber of Commerce world, said Claremont Chamber executive secretary Mrs. Rowena C. Daniels this morning. Mrs. Daniels, who returned Sunday from a week-long Institute for Organizational Management at Syracuse University, said that women were very well represented.

S.Sgt. John F. Patrick, a member of the Claremont Army National Guard, has been appointed first sergeant of Battery B, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 197th Field Artillery. Sgt. Patrick has been a member of the Claremont National Guard for 15 years with his first enlistment on Feb. 9, 1948.

Lyn H. Rice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. Hamilton Rice of 252 Mulberry St., will be soprano soloist at the 10:30 a.m. morning service Sunday at the First Congregational Church.

NEWPORT

The annual summer tree maintenance program in Newport is in progress. Two defective maple trees were removed from the Newport Common, an elm tree was removed from near the Junior High School and two pine trees were cut down in the North Newport Cemetery. Men living in Guild removed three Dutch Elm diseased elms on their Common. This is part of their effort with the Newport Beautification committee to landscape the center of Guild.

Newporters may water their gardens only for one hour daily now, according to further restrictions established by Selectmen Wednesday. The new watering period is from 7-8 p.m. Newport has been allowing its residents to water for three hours during the drought. The reduction of watering time was recommended by Town Manager Alvin Heidner and voted into effect by Donald Conroy and Raymond Barrett, selectmen. Chairman of the board, Maurice Cummings, did not cast a vote, but when the other two agreed on the proposal, he said “so recorded” to recognize the vote as official.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Shultz and three of their four children spent a recent weekend with Mrs. Shultz’ sister, Mrs. Joseph Henault, Nashua. Their son, Howard, stayed with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Follansbee.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Dunbar have returned from Edgewater, Fla., and have visited Mrs. Ethlyn Patten.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pierce and their family have rented an apartment on Grove Street and plan to move in the near future from their Green Road residence.

GOSHEN

The Community Church Circle held a special meeting on Wednesday evening at which time it was voted to finance the repair work on the foundation of the church. Theodore Wirkkala of Lempster is doing the work and Shelley Stevens is assisting him.

CORNISH FLAT

Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Wheeler of Troy, N.Y., and Mr. and Mrs. John LaFlan of Bedford, Mass., were weekend guests of the Thornton family

CHARLESTOWN

After seven years of plugging away at the piano and scorebook, Hal Wetherell of this town hopes he has a gift. Mr. Wetherell, whose vocation is his position as a quality control inspector at Jones and Lamson Machine Company in Springfield, wrote the words and music for “Go Little Prayer,” which is included in the latest Eddie Arnold RCA album released July 31.

CORNISH

Leonard Smith, son of Mrs. Clara Smith, who has completed his training at Great Lakes and has been home, has gone to San Diego, Calif. He expected to make a stop in Illinois to visit relatives and friends.

GRANTHAM

Recent family visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Small were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Chandler and Miss Carol Jean Follansbee of Claremont, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Goodwin of Canterbury.

SUNAPEE

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Ramspott spent Saturday with Mrs. Ramspott’s grandmother, Mrs. R.D. Greenwood, Baldwinville, Mass.

GEORGES MILLS

Mrs. Katherine Morgan, a former resident, has returned to her home in Newport from a few days visit with Mrs. Helen Nichols.

1948

CLAREMONT

Miss Martha Ainsworth of Claremont Junction broke her hip in a fall while on a visit to the shopping district yesterday and is a patient at Claremont General Hospital.

Four men from the Claremont area were among 42 candidates who passed the New Hampshire Bar examination on June 23-25. They were Richard Duncan, Claremont; James Cleveland, New London; Francis P. Edes, Newport, and Francis Ayer of Alstead.

Major contracts and subcontracts of St. Mary High School’s new $200,000 gymnasium on Central Street to replace the gym destroyed by fire on Dec. 30, 1946, have been awarded, it was announced by the Rev. Frederick Gaumont, pastor of St. Mary Church. It is hoped that the new gym building will be ready to use sometime during the coming basketball season.

Mr. and Mrs. Alton B. Hilliard and son, Bryant, who have been spending two weeks at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Hilliard, left Friday for Caldwell, N.J., where they will visit his sister, Mrs. Randolph Harper and family and other friends.

Miss Mary Rule, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Sakovich of 96 North St., sailed today from New York for a year’s teaching assignment of the American Dependent School Program. A graduate of Stevens High School and Keene Teachers College, Class of 1941, she taught for two year in Grantham and Newport before going to Las Vegas, Nev.

Merton E. Thompson of 131 Myrtle St. is vacationing from his duties at the Peoples National Bank and is at Lake Sunapee with his family.

NEWPORT

Finding a parking place in Newport yesterday was like looking for that proverbial needle in a haystack and yesterday was not appreciably different than any other day during the summer season. The town of approximately 6,000 people is the shopping center for a considerable area, particularly for the Lake Sunapee resort region. It has no ordinances regarding the length of parking time along it broad Main Street nor does it have parking meters. Yesterday at 3 p.m. and Daily Eagle made an unofficial survey of cars parked along Main Street from the Little Common to the railroad tracks. Of the 125 cars counted, one in five of them were owned by merchants, clerks and professional men who park all day.

Local residents were asked today to cut lawn sprinkling and the watering of gardens to a minimum to conserve the town’s present water supplies. The action was taken by a committee appointed earlier in the year to study Newport’s water system. “We are not in desperate straits yet, but if the water level in the reservoir falls in the next week at the rate it has fallen during the last two weeks, we will be,” declared Leon E. Fitts, town manager.

The first reunion for the Towle High School Class of 1933 will be held this weekend with vice president Richard Parker, Mrs. Edward Karr, Mrs. Reginald Brown and Ilmari Kainu in charge of the program. Class members in the area are Mrs. Frances Cutting Blomquist, Mrs. Emily Condon Brown, Charles Barton, Mrs. Inez Puffer Cheney, Mrs. Grace Nelson Click, Mrs. Alfred Czechowicz, Raymond Emery, Mrs. Bernice Heuber Garneau, Christopher Haserlat, Mrs. Selana Dodge Holt, Ilmari Kainu, Mrs. Beatrice Kendall Hurd, Mrs. Madlon Pickett Karr, Miss Viola Mackey, Mrs. Effie Farwell Mills, Mrs. Ida Gintowt Nebrydoski, Fred Pariseau, Richard Parker, Joseph Perry, Miss Barbara Purmort, Mrs. Hazel Thurber Rich and Mrs. Lena Scribner Thompson.

CHARLESTOWN

On the Claremont Road Friday a car driven by Miss Katherine Hughamir of Wilbraham, Mass., and Canaan, hit a cow belonging to Julian Harvey, damaging the front of the car considerably, Chief of Police Ralph A. Willoughby reported.

Mrs. Edith Hartley of Pleasant Street is spending her vacation at home and Mrs. Edith Fike is taking her place in Claremont.

GOSHEN

Mr. and Mrs. John Pike Jr. and family of Rockford, Ill., and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pike and daughter of Miami, Fla., are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Pike Sr. John Pike Jr. has purchased a new Ford.

EAST UNITY

Fire of undetermined cause completely destroyed a barn and two-car garage on the Skyline Farm of Carl Currier here yesterday afternoon. The blaze was so intense that grass more than 40 feet from the barn was scorched and one corner of the Currier house sustained minor fire and smoke damage.

CORNISH

Clyde LaClair is cutting the hay on Mrs. Lizzie Rollins’ farm.

Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Carey were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturtevant of Jamaica, N.Y., Mrs. Ada McLaughlin and Mrs. Lizzie Weld of Claremont.

GRANTHAM

Plans have been completed for the annual Blue Mountain Grange Fair to be held Saturday at the local fairgrounds. Events include a 12-class horse show, cowboy stunts, horse pulling, an amateur contest, a hillbilly orchestra and the eleven o’clock parade.