N. NORTH CHELMSFORD, Feb. 7—Members of the Firemen's as- ' sociation affiliated with the fire company in the various sections of the town are in the process of delivering to each home a copy of the new fire alarm di- rectory. This project is spon- sored by the firefighters them- selves and the proceeds derived from the advertising are deposit- ed in the association treasury of its respective fire company. In co-operation with the Civil Defense committee, a "Revised Civil Defense Air Raid Instruc- tions" card is inserted in each fire alarm directory. Residents who have not as yet received their directory and CD card will do so in the near future.

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Members of the Firemen' s As- sociation affiliated with the fire company in the various sections of the Town are in the process of delivering to each home a covy of the new Fire Alarm Directory. This project is sponsored by the firefighters themselves and the proceeds derived from the advertising are deposited in the association treasury of its respective fire company. In cooperation with the Civil Defense Committee a 'Revised Civil Defense Air Raid In- structions' card is inserted in each Fire Alarm Directory. Residents who have not as yet received their directory and C.D. card will do so in the near future. - C_ The Lowell Sun Thursday January 3 1957 Chelmsford 1r' Fire Damages Home; Listing Work Starts CHELMSFORD, Jan. 3—An at- tempt to thaw a lock on a trunk caused considerable smoke and slight fire damage at the home of Martin Tymowicz, 45 Wood-, p. m. bine street, in the Westlands, last;, Engines 1 and 8 responded on night. a call yesterday for a chimney Engines 1, 7 and 8 in charge of. fire at 120 Concord road. There Chief Allan Kidder, responded on was no damage. an alarm at 8:20 p. m. and found a brisk blaze in the basement of the house, which they quickly, extinguished. Fire damage was limited to the basement and some clothing there, but smoke seeped through much of the house. Chief Kidder reported the fire At 6.3k aim. today firemen started when gasoline being used , were called to 84 Tyngsboro road for cleaning a can preparatory to to extinguish an oil burner fire. . thawing a frozen trunk lock The smudge was quickly extin• spilled and burst into flames. guished and damage was not Yesterday afternoon Engines 2 heavy. and 3 responded on a call for an oil burner fire at 11 Columbia avenue, in North Chelmsford.

Chimney Fire Yesterday at 9:20 a. m., En- gines 2 and 3 responded on a call for a chimney fire at the 1- ossette home on Shore Drive, "sa' C in the North Chelmsford sec-; tion. The Lowell Sun Tuesday January 15 1957 Chelmsford Appeals Board Grants Variance; Kiwanis Installs CHELMSFORD, Jan. 15—The worst cold wave in 10 years or more held the town tight in its Fire Sweeps grip again today, after the sec- ond night of temperatures rang•, ing from 15 to 20 degrees below 'Small Cottage zero in various sections of the town. The cold is supposed to let up a bit today with snow to follow, In Chelmsford: so old' and new residents alike Drives Occupant question if the remedy will be tr, much better than the illness; for From Bed Out Into 3 the snow is banked high through- Zero Temperature if out the entire area. CHELMSFORD — Fire last It was -15 at the Center fire night swept through the small station, .19 on Westford street on farm cottage on the T. W. Emer- the same thermometer which . son farm on North road, in the yesterday recorded a -15 low, but Center, driving the occupant, reports of temperatures near the Ernie Burton, from his bed out 30 below mark, heard frequently into the zero temperature, yesterday, were not coming in The cottage is located near the today, possibly—as one town hall . large Emerson barn and, as punster put if—"because even] flames burst through the win- the "phone wires were frozen." dows, many believed another serious barn fire was in progress. Engines 1, 7 and 8 from the Center station, which is almost directly in front of the cottage, responded on the alarm at 8.23 p. m. and firemen with booster lines kept the flames from break- ing through the. roof, although the interior was gutted. Fire Chief Alan Kidder, whose home also is but a short distance ,from the cottage, was in charge of the fire-fighters and he re- :ported the fire to have started apparently from an overheated stove. No estimate of the damage was made. Mr. Burton lost all of his personal belongings, having been awakened by the flames and forced to dash out into the cold without a chance to save any of his property, and the in• terior of the cottage was com- pletely ruined. •• r• 14 time, and it was accepted. CHELMSFORD FIRE CHIEF Chelmsford Chief "Realizing that something concrete had to be inaugurated Seeks Two Pumpers in regard to purchasing new ASKS FOR TWO PUMPERS Continued equipment, I offered a plan to Would Replace One Already Out of Service has shown very clearly this past all present. year that we definitely need both and Another Bought Some 31 Years Ago "It being a fact that for many new equipment, and more men years taxpayers have not been CHELMSFORD, Jan. 19—The to provide the town with ade- called upon to make any effort quate fire protection. purchase of two new fire pump- to carry their share of the bur• "However, as / feel that it is den to purchase fire apparatus, ing engines is held a "must" for out of the question to request I recommended the following: this year if the fire department both new equipment and more "The a sum of money be bor- is to function satisfactorily, Fire men at this tithe, and as the more rowed immediately to cover the Chief Allan Kidder tells the important of the two right now cost of apparatus broken down, board of selectmen in his report is for the town to purchase a plus apparatus which is of an today. minimum of :wo' new 750 GPM age and condition that it cannot The apparatus purchase is so Gtp, pumpers, I hive recommended be depended upon. This stim to necessary, the chief declares, that again this year, as r have for be paid off in equal payments he has sidetracked his need for 70-44 / 41 051 the past three years, that . an over a period of five years. That extra men in the department for article be inserted in the annual also at the same time a fund the current year in order to con- warrantarrant for the purchase be started, (known as Apparatus centrate on the need for the of these trucks. Depreciation Account), into pumpers. cannot stress too strongly which a given amount shall be One of these pumpers would the Deed of both of these pump• placed each year, through taxa- replace a fire engine 26 years ifs at this time, rather than pur- tion. old that is broken down to such chasing just one of, them. One "This plan would accomplish an extent it would be foolish truck will replace a pumper three things; first, ft would fur• to spend the amount needed to which is now 26 years old, and nish the town at once, with the repair it, and the other is 31 btoken down to the extent that apparatus that is so greatly years old and beyond the de- both the board of selectmen and needed, and I believe, carry us pendable stage. r'agree that it would be a waste for the next five years in a safe The fire chief, in the following of money to repair such an old condition. Second, at the end of report outlines his needs and the truck, plus the fact that we would the five year period, when our needs of the town for fire safety: have no assurance that we could apparatus debt would have been "The increase in the number depend on this truck to continue paid off, we would have a fund of new homes, and the fact that in service. The other truck which available to start a replacement we can expect a great deal of we would replace is an even older program of apparatus, which future development in Chelms- one, 31 years old, which we cer- will then be at best 27 years old. ford, together with the increase tainly cannot depend upon, and Finally, the plan would accom- in automobile fires and accidents, Which it no longer suitable for plish the important fact of all modern day fire protection. taxpayers, every year, carrying Continued on Page Fourteen "With two new pumpers in the burden equally for proper service, we will then have a de- fire protection. pendable truck in each section "At a subsequent date I was Of the town: although even then requested to meet with the we will not be up to the recom- Board of Selectmen and mem- inendations of the New England bers of the Finance committee. "I shall also be more than Fire Insurance Rating associa- and two evenings were required pleased to discuss the Fire de- tion, as printed in their report of to accomplish all that was de- "On or about Aug. 15, 1956, I partment problem with any tax. sired. I was finally asked to pass payer, should more facts be de- • Aug. 11, 1954 at the completion attended a meeting of the Board of their survey, which was re- judgment as to how few pieces of Selectmen together with two sired. of apparatus I felt we could The following is the Fire de quested by the board of select- members of the Finance com- men. buy at this, time, and still be mittee. At that meeting it was partment records for 1956: assured of proper fire protec- Auto accidents, 8; auto fires, With the purchase of only unanimously agreed that no one new pumper, we would have tion. My answer was as follows: money should be spent on the 11; building fires. 65; dump If we only have one fire at a calls, 32; false alarms—mali• to use an obsolete and unde- opafatus that was out of serv- time, we would dispatch two cious, 3; false alarms—accidental pendable truck (31 years old) in ice because of a major break- companies to each building fire, 6; grass and brush fires, 152; in• some section of the town, and I down. I informed the selectmen as is recommended by all stan- vestigations, 25; out-of-town aid feel that all sections are entitled that a piece of apparatus could dards, are able to be returned given, 10; out-of-town aid re- to ,equal protection. Each tax- be borrowed, at no cost to the from a call and made ready be- ceived, 1; resuscitator calls, 9 - payer has the right to the same town, fora reasonable length of fore we have another call, then miscellaneous calls, 29; permi• amount of protection for his for fires in the open issta home and family as any other. the least number of pieces of 4490. Fees collected and Many More Calls apparatus we should purchase at posited with the town treas "The past year, as in other once would be two 750 GPM pumpers.- That, of course, would ' r oil storage, LP• gas years, has shown a great in• acting permits totaled crease in the number of calls be eliminating one piece of ap- "The followinft, amounts c answered by your fire depart- paratus, (a forest fire truck), ment, s and with the additional from my original plan. If that duties assumed by the firefight- course were to be followed, ers besides actual firefighting, money would have to be made such as fire station and apparatus available to recondition our pres- maintenance, alarm maintenance, ent forest fire truck. oil burner inspections, office "In conclusion I feel that to work, arills,.fire prevention, and furnish fire protection to all sec- so on, your fire department is tions of the town equally, it is now having trouble keeping up imperative that the taxpayers with the demands for its , serv- purchase at least two pumpers ices, and it is certain that the at once. demands will continue to in- crease in the future. Chelmsford The Lowell Sun Thursday February 7 F957 . Woman Saves Chelmsford Immunization Clinics; Her Twin Sons " New Fire Alarm Cards )-7._;-3.7 CHELMSFORD, Feb. 7 — Im- Carries Boys From munization clinics for pre-schoolj Chelmsford House, Suffers Burns children, will be held tomorrow Fire Damages Bray Home; at 9 a. m. at the Center 'school, Battling Kitchen Fire One Patrolman Named and on Feb. 13 at 9 at the North WEST CHELMSFORD—Mrs school and at 10:30 a. m. at the CHELMSFORD, Feb. 8—The Lillian Demers carried her 18. Westlands school. home of James E. Bray at 104 month-old twin sons to safety All Cub Scouts of the Center! Turnpike road was damaged yesterday afternoon when fire will observe Scout Sunday this quite extensively yesterday after- broke out in the kitchen of their coming Sunday. Those who will noon by fire which gutted a first home at 146 Main street, dashed attend St. Mary's will meet at floor bathroom, badly scorched back into the house- to try and the town hall at 8:45 a, m. and the living room paint and smoked extinguish the blaze and suffered march to the church, while those up the entire premises. second degree burns to both who will attend All Saints Epis- Mr. Bray discovered the fire hands that required hospital copal church will meet at the and an alarm was sounded by treatment. town hall at 9 a. m. and march to telephone, and Mr. Bray suffered - The fire, according to Chief that church. burns • about his hands as he Allan Kidder of the fire depart- New Fire alarm Cards battled the flames, having con- ment, apparently • started when Members of the firemen's as- tained them when firemen of window curtains came in con- sociation affiliated with the fire *3. Engines'1, 7 and 8 arrived. tact with the flame of a stove. companies in the various sections The fire was I quickly extin• I The twins, the chief reported. of the town are in the process of Cn41 guished. were having a nap at the time and Mrs. Demers carried both of delivering to each home a copy Later, firemen were called back them to safety and then returned of the new fire alarm directory. to the house when someone This project is sponsored by the thought they saw smoke, but an to .attempt to battle the fire. Several telephone calls were firemen themselves and the pro- Investigation showed that there. ceeds derived from the adverts- was no fire. received at the fire station at • ing are deposited in the associ• about 2:25 p. m. and Engines 2, ation treasury of the respective No estimate of the loss was 3 and 7 responded -with Chief fire company. In co-operation made by Chief Allan Kidder, and Kidder. with the Civil Defense committee the cause was not immediately( The fire was quickly extin- a "Revised Civil Defense Air determined. . guished and fire damage was Raid Instructions" card is in• limited to the' woodwork and serted in each firm alarm dire• ceiling of the kitchen. but smoke tory. Residents who have not as Grass Fire added to the loss throughout the yet received their directory and Engines 2, 3 and 7 with Chiefl entire house. CD card will do so in the near Allan Kidder responded on an Mrs. Demers was taken to St. future. alarm at 2.26 p. m. for a fire on Joseph's hospital by Officer Win- Church street, near St. John's slow P. George and was dis- rectory. At first believed to be charged after treatment for the hand burns. 18' a building fire, it was found on. 7 arrival that it was a grass fire I that had come close to setting Chelmsford fire to a barn owned by Walter; Grass Fires a Threat; Vinal. 2 -2_a-S7 Grange to Meet Minor Fires CHELMSFORD, Feb. 21—The NoneFiremen of thesterday y responded1 long spell of dry weather this on two calls for brush and grass fires in North and South Chelms- , month, plus the disappearance 1 of stiow from the fields, has cre- ford, and on Saturday they re- ated a grass fire situation that sponded to five similar calls.) usually doesn't occur until late he fires was seriousi March or early April. and all were extinguished quick- • Yesterday afternoon, firemen l ly. Residents are warned once were called to a large field off more to call the fire station and Lowell Turnpike near Steadman get permission before starting a street, where more than two fire. in the open, to avoid violat- acres of grass and brush were ing a state law. burned over before the blaze could be extinguished. This morning at 6:05 o'clock, firemen responded on a call for a minor fire in a truck on Bib lerica street. Damage was slight. 21) VOL. I PUBLISHED BY THE SO,..ChELMSFORD V.I.A. No. 10 Feb-zuary, 1957 FI,ASH; bUiA.PE DANCE Here is Ann Giers' comment on Bob Trey will be calling at our telephone conversation at the a Square Dinnoe to be held on Sat- last L^_:=. =tin urday, Iebrulry 23, 19F7 at Lib- low wonderful it was to hear et tiz30 k, E., so come your voices 1Pst night. It was one and all: For those people such a surprise and we loved it: who would like to sttend but have recently been trying to don't know the steps, the first decide whether it was worth it to part of the evening is given to leave everyone and everything in instruction. It lots of fun- Chelmsford. Well, that telephone for both young and old, and the call helped us decide -- we've more, the merrier; decided to come bank to Vass. and to Chelmsford if possible - South that is. We have no definite piens yet but our decision is STUNT NITE: made. "17;e stayTed up quite late A "Stunt Nit:,;" is being last night talking - we got quite planned by the Activities Com- excited by the call and it was mittee for the spring and they hard to get up this morning." axe locking for both talent and Our Comment: Hurry back, We know that our mem- kids, we can hardly wait. beichip has an abundance of both, so please do not be ba.1.11- PENNY SALE - FEBRUARY 21 ful, but contact any one of the committee in order that the A Penny Sale will be held evening will be a successful Thursday, February 21, 1957 at one. The committee consists Liberty Hall at 7:30 P.M. The of. Dot Caffelle, Alice Armi- committee in charge will be Ann stead, Howard Mooney, Joan 0'77rien, Alta Field and Ann Emerson, Mark Lurvey, and Bxown. Postcard reminders will Evelyn Philbrook. be sent to VIA members. This month's committee holes * * -7‘ * * * to have as mnny contributions as were at the last Penny Sa.le. It APE YOU MISSING SOMETHING? was quite a sight to see the table so heavily laden with Food You are if you haven't tried things to eat. the candy which the is To rereat ourselves, it's one selling; It'c delicious. It is of the easiect ways we know to the kind that you can t. stop eat- make money in a very short period ing, It comes in a can with a of time and a minimum of effort s:pecial moic-•ture regulator in on everyone's part. the bottom and if you keep it in the can i.411 not lose its crisp7 necs. Tt may be obtained from Alice Der ',Tdon at her home or at NO DUFS NO VOICE NEXT MONTH; any meeting of the V.I.A.

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EDITORS CORNER THE VIA VOICE

You live in South Chelmsford. Published once a month by the You probably own your own hone. South Chelmsford Village Improve- You may have lived 'were ror a ment Association for Active, good many years, during which Associate and Honorary ITembers. time you have made improvements I to your property until now you Editorial Staff - Mary Cone h'.ve things exactly as you want Eleanor Maddox Or you may own a brand Dot Gardncr new home (your dream house) that Reporters - you have been planning for years. Laura Anderson Marguerite Waite You live in what you believe Althea Field Edna House is a modern, thriving cormunity. Thelma Wilson Dot Cook Your taxes are no higher than most but you face the fact that they will probably go up. Grow- ing towns face an expanding (Cont'd from first column) school system, an expanding po- living in a "dream" world, assum- llee and fire department and a ing that because we have hydrants mahrooming highway department. scattered around, we also have You believe that everything has adequate equipment and adequate to be paid for in this world and manpower to use them when the you don't complain as long as time comes? you got good service. You proba-' What good will a brand new bly never think of fire in your high school with the latest mod- own hone. Why should you worry ern conveniences do you, if you when you can glance out of your lose your home by fire? wj.ndow and see a reassuring fire Do you attend town meeting? hydrant facing you? If not, do youfeel you have the But - do you know that if you right to gripe about the deci- have a fire and call the fire sions made there? IiTErtment, the first piece of • Where does Village Improvement apparatus which will pull up to begin and where does it end? your door (if it gets there at n n n n n n all) will be 31 -7ears old with just 68 gallons of water on it, SIMPER COITITTEE which must last ur.til help ar- rLves from Chelmsford Center to The supper committee for next 1.•.y a hose line to that reassur- month's V.I.A. meeting will be: ing hydrant? Do you know that Ruth Hoxie, ch., Dan Hoxie, Rose 'North and West Chelmsford asList Clark, Evelyn Kroll, Ray Kroll, each other, that the Center as- Dot Carter, i\ax Carter, Alta sists both East and South and if Field, Paul Field, Gert Boisvert, there is a fire in at when you and Harold Boisvert. have your fire, you may wait longer than you care to think? Do you know that the South Chelms- ARTS AND CRAFTS ford fire department is complete- ly volunteer? If the firemen The Arts and Crafts Club will are in town. they come. Do you meet in Liberty Hall at 7:30 F.Y. know Ithat the Center has one per- on the ff;llowing 1;Tonday evenings: manent man available to help at Feb. 25, Ear, 11 and larch 25. a fire in South? Have we been We are now workThg on both jewel- (Centld - next column) ry and stencilling on fabric. Visit Fire Station Poodle-Saved Cub Scouts or pack 45 of the in Chelmsford Westlands school in charge of CHELMSFORD — Firemen Assistant Cub Master Howard Lawson, enjoyed a two-hour tour were called to. the rescue of the Central fire station Satur- yesterday afternoon, but it is day morning. The Cubs were was a pet poodle and not shown the manner in which S ice. human who was in danger. "'alarms are received and trans- Lj Chief Allan Kidder and Fire- mitted, dispatching of fire appar- man Allen Mello responded atus, the apparatus and its equip- on a call to a shallow pond ment, operating procedures at at the foot of Priscilla ave- fires and care of apparatus and nue and rescued a canine equipment upon returning from rn which had broken through alarms. The youngsters were par- the rotten ice. The rescued ticularly interested in the opera- animal did not stop long tion of the resuscitator. Assisting enough for firemen to get Chief Allan Kidder were Capt. any further information. Ernest G. Byam, Lt. Robert C. Spaulding and Private Allen C. Mello. Arrangements for the pro- gram were by FrederiCk B. Kay assisted by Gordon Sherburne, Warning is given again to resi- Bernard J. Sullivan, Wallace S. dents of the town that a permit Russon, Joseph H. Shultz and must be received from the fire de- George E. White. partment before starting any fires in the open, and there are strict penalties for violation of the law. To secure a permit, tele- phone the fire station and give ,Save Chelmsford the information requested. If weather conditions are not Boy From Choking termed dangerous, a permit will CHELMSFORD—Fire and be issued, but for that day only. police emergency units re- sponded last night and gave first aid to Andrew Dabilis 9. of 19 Dunstan road, who had swallowed a chicken bone which lodged in his thro.st and threatened to choke him. The boy was taken to the Lowell General 14 hospital for further treat- ment. The fire crew, headed by Lieut. Charles Jangraw, discovered a fire near St. Chelmsford Joseph's cemetery on the Cub Scout Exhibition; way to the Dabilis- house and Church Service Schedule radioed to headquarters to CHELMSFORD, March 22 — sound the alarm. Three companies from the Cen- ter station were given a run to the high school yesterday when a false alarm was sounded by a bulldozer. According to the report of Cap- A Firemen responded yesterday tain Ernest Byam, who was in afternoon for a grass fire off charge of the fire units, a bull- •31 222 Riverneck road. dozer working on the Billerica street reconstruction struck e cable and this, set off .}lox 149, ,at Billerica street and Wilson ,street. Chelmsford Has $5000 House Fire, $5000 House Water Main Break, at Same Time Fire in So. L' 9;?7 Flames and Smoke Cause.Heavy_Darnaste to Plum St. Dwelling—Hoe Smashes Water Pipe Chelmsford CHELMSFORD—A house fire Capt. Byam reported that the Home of Town and water main break in the same fire started near the heater, but Fireman Fred Reid to section of town created consider- the cause could not immediately able excitement yesterday after- be determined. Loss was esti- Badly Damaged noon and, because of the fire. mated at about $5000, mainly SO. CHELMSFORD—Fire early; the water could not be shut down due to heat and smoke, as the last night caused $5000 damage t 'in the area for more than an fire damage itself was limited to the home of Fred Reid, a hour. to the basement and living room. member of the Chelmsford fire The fire was in the home of Breaks Main department, on Park road. and James Payne, 17 Plum street, It was at about the same time would have caused far greater Vi and was discovered by a neigh. as the fire alarm was sounding damage but for the fight which bor, Mrs. Fred Griffin, as there when a back hoe being operated he waged before fire apparatus was no one in the Payne home at on the Billerica road construction arrived at the scene, according the time. project struck and broke an eight- to Chief Allan Kidder. $5000 Loss inch main on the Billerica road Engines 1. 7 and 8 in charge side of the Turnpike road inter- Mr. Reid, his wife and two of Capt. Ernest Byam responded section. nvs on Mrs. Griffin's call and found Water shot 40 feet into the signs of fire in the basement of air from the break and when $5000 House Fire in the Payne house and the entire Supt. George Stewart and his interior of the Cape Cod dwell- emergency crew arrived it was , South Chelmsford ing filled with heat and smoke. decided to leave the main open Continued from Front Page Firemen donned smoke masks until the fire on Plum street, less' children were watching television to enter the structure and ven- than a half-mile C..• way, was under shortly after 6 o'clock when he tilate, while others made short control. noticed the odor of oil smoke. work of the fire in.the basement. Once the fire was out, the '.Going down cellar, he found his i As the smoke cleared, however, main was shut off, a temporary oil-burning water heater ablage. it was found that the fire had fire hose line was brought into He attempted to telephone the burned through a partition and action to service the Turnpike! alarm but said he found his tele- was breaking out in the living area section, and a new piece of phone was out of order, so she room, and hose lines were main installed, with repairs be- ,, sent his wife and children next brought into action to check this ing completed before dark last door to sound the alarm and he blaze. F, night. - tackled the fire with a garden hose. He knockei down the fire about Police-Fire Calls Firemen yesterday responded the heater, then as fire apparatus' arrived it was found that the to two calls for three grass fires, flames had made their way into one off Chelmsford street and the flues of the ho•air heating ik the two others on opposite sides system and had spread to nearly -\ \ of Lowell turnpike near Billerica every room of the 21i.story house. 4 road. The fields dried quickly \ - after Saturday s unexpected Firemen traced each flue and \ _ snowstorm and Chelmsford was extinguished the fires which had only one of many towns in the started near the registers and area to have grass fires yester- Ott joints in the lines, and had day. their most difficult battle in the • living room, where a large divan had caught fire. Fife damage, except in the Minor Fires living room, was limited mainly Four engine companies were to near the heater flues, but heat called to the North dump at 3.58 and smoke added greatly to the yesterday afternoon when a fire loss. which started in the dump got 7 and 8 responded into the brush land and spread Engines 1, 5, over two acres before it was ex- with Chief Kidder in charge and tinguished. Firemen yesterday remained at the scene for more also answered calls for brush and than an hour before the last trace grass fires near 25 Moore street of fire had been extinguished. and 24 Worthen street. 57 rf

New Chelmsford Equipment The new 750 gallon pumper, Chelmsford's tus has a 500-gallon water tank and carries most modern piece of fire equipment, was 1500 feet of hose. Shown in front of the delivered to the Central fire station Friday pumper, left to right, are Leighton Maxim, by the Maxim company, which built it at a the builder; Fire Chief Allan Kidder, and cost of more than $19,000. The new appara- Selectman Daniel Hart. e0-1.47 tetSzs

EMERGENCY FIRE TRUCK — Face with a shortage of woods fire apparatus when one of his regular fire trucks broke down yesterday, Chief Allan Kidder of the Chelmsford department impressed a highway truck into service and equipped it with a portable tank, pump, hose and other equipment. Because of the "explosives" woods fire hazard, the chief didn't dare attempt to get by without the usual quota of equipment and the high- way dump truck had to serve as a substitute. Area Fire Hazard Seen "Explosive" Continued from Front Putt.. to set fire even to an incinerator in the open for fear that sparks might blow to open fields and set off a serious conflagration. Motorists also should exert special caution today and refrain from tossing lighted matches or burning "smokes" from cars, be• cause of the same danger. district as to the fire danger State conservation officers will which now exists and will until maintain a steady patrol of the a heavy rain falls. entire area and will clamp down - - on any found violating the fire plosives of all classes, stored in laws, as the situation truly is magazines in town of Chelms- ford are: Magazine No. 1, 41,850 critical. 50 Rain — not just showers — is pounds; Magazine No. 2, 47.3400 needed to lessen the hazard and de- pounds; Magazine No. 3, 4, until a good soaking rain comes arer pounds. Respectfully submitted, the emergency rules will remain and in effect. .50. ALLAN KIDDER, This area had several fires yes- f ex- Fire Chief terday with Tewksbury having to call in Wilmington, Andover and a state truck to assist, and Chelmsford had one that threat- ened but was held under control. Into Service In Chelmsford, Chief Allan Kidder impressed a highway truck into service as a brush fire truck, equipping it with a port. able pump, Indian pump cans and hose, when Engine 6 devel- oped transmission trouble and had to be put out of commission.. District Warden Arthur Hal- lenborg of the state conservation department has been on constant patrol in the area and has issued many warnings throughout the eEe ..-...ors r-3

LOWELL SUNDAVss S N COMPLETE NEWSPAPER — nifrd Pr.. — A °Hated Pre.. Wirepholo. Nem. Service — THE .1axneialrd P re.—Iniernational 80 Pages 15 Cents Lowell Mass. April 14 1957 SIX SECTIONS • • SECTION 3 8th Year No. 31

MOTORISTS SAVE LOWELL Boy Youth Buried in Collapse of Sand Bank Anthony Colombo, 13, Rescued From • Death in Chelmsford CHELMSFORD—The fran- tic efforts of two Cambridge motorists saved a 13•year-old Lowell boy from almost cer- tain death yesterday after- noon after he had been buried in sand when a bank on which he and a companion were playing had collapsed. Anthony Colombo, of 8G D street, Lowell, owes his 'life to the efforts of Bernaed Mol- loy of 209 HarVard street and Alfred Sims of 4 Flint street, both of Cambridge, and to his own foresight in pushing one arm up through the sand to permit a blt of air to reach his mouth. Emergency c re w a from Lowell and this town re- .sponded on a series of calls, but the rescue had been ef- •fected before they could reach the scene, which was .between Billerica road and ;t he new' Route ' 3.. The' shod bank is one that is being used to provide fill for construe- lion work on the Route 3 addi- tion. Police Sergt. RaYm on d Harmon, who responded with Officer Allan Adams, reported that the Colombo boy and his chum, Brian McHale of- 23 Hillside street, Lowell, were playing in the sand bank when it suddenly collapsed. The Colombo boy was buried. completely out of sight, but the McHale youngster rode down on top of the sliding sand. 4 Unabie to find any trace of his coin. panion. McHale ran towards Route 3 shouting for help. There he found Messrs. Molloy and Sims seated in their ear, and they ,peit 10 the sand hank while

. DINER FIRE GUTS CHELMSFORDNORTH CHELMSFORD—Flames roared through the frond --- section of the Paramount diner in Vinal square at 9:30 a, m. tociay,1 and gene% clouds of smoke not only made the work of the firerroen difficult.' btit practically "blacked out" the entire business area of the village. Loss was estimated in excess of $10,000. Fire Chief Allan Kidder called on Lowell at 9:40 a m. for add" . Clonal smoke ejectors, as the local . supply was unable . to cope with the: smoke, and Ladder 2 was sent with thls . equipment. Lowell Fireman Florand-Caiitiller, attached Ladder 2, was overcome by the dense smoke. He was removed from the burning atructuxe by his mates and was taken to St, Joseph's hospital where . he was treated for smoke inhalation, ' • ' • The fire, so far as could be learned, started In a ventilating fan and grill, and spread with amazing rapidity through the entire, diner section, which constitutes the front of the premises. Engine 2 responded on the first caU, with Chief Kidder and Engine 7 arriving shortly • afterwards. The chief immediately • called in Engine 3 and a number of hose lines were laid from nearby •hydrants and water was poured on the sections where flames were visible. The town's smoke ejectors were brought into action but the area was too large for them to completely handle It, and Chief Kidder called "or assistance from ',Cowell. .• Police Chief Ralph J. liulsiander and half a dozen officers also responded when the alarm was sounded and traffic through Vlnal square was halted because of the hose lines across the street and also because at the dense smoke. . • Tne diner is operated by Frank d'AmIcis and covers a large area, with a nioderr diner and office in the front and several dining halls for parties, etc., in the rem-.

$10,000 Chelmsford Fire Firemen are shown battling a fire which One Lowell fireman was . overcome by the ' swept the front section of the Paramount dense smoke which at times ''blacked out" Diner in North Chelmsford this morning, the Vinal square area of the village. causing loss that may exceed $ 1.0,000. 8

COUNTY NEWS Chelmsford I All Town Officers Are Reappointed CHELMSFORD, April 16 — Annual appointments by the board of selectmen were made at last night's regular meeting. and there were no changes. The meeting also featured a discus- sion between Fire Chief Allan Kidder and Chairman Daniel J. Hart on specifications for the new fire truck, with the board finally accepting the chiefs plan with one or two minor changes., Present were Chairman Hart. and Selectmen Edgar George and 'Robert F. Andrew. Jurors drawn at the outset of ; the session were Harold C. Per- ham and Joseph T." Fallon, for I the Cambridge civil session; and George W. Barris and George H. Upton for the Cambridge erim-t inal session. Chief Kidder appeared to dis. 1 cuss specifications for the fire truck, he having appeared a week ago to outline these to the members. Chairman Hart had a copy of Concord specifications and asked if some of these could DISTRICT FIRE CHIEFS MEET IN BILLERICA—Attending the district fire chiefs meeting held .11.1 not be incorporated and quoting . the Center fire station are, front, left to right: Lt. David A. Murphy, state fire marshall; Asst. the figure received there, which is lower than is expected here. Chief Albert Hardy, Billerica; Chief Allan Kidder. Chelmsford; Chief Paul Roper, Billerica: The matter was discussed at standing: Chief Anthony Obdens, Tewksbury; Lt. George Cushing, Wilmington; Albert E. Chouin- length with both stressing the erd, chairman board of fire engineers Tyngsboro; and Inspector Fred Reid, Chelmsford. need of getting the most for the money but after the chief had had an opportunity to go over the Concord papers and reported they were much the same as his, it was decided to use his with one or two minor changes con- cerning delivery and warranty. Bids will be called later this week. -o

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10 Chelmsford Firemen Kept Busy; Easter Church Programs CHELMSFORD, April 19 — Firemen were given a busy time yesterday answering seven alarms in the course of the day and night, with all but two being for grass and brush fires that threatened to get out of control and endanger property. These fires were near 70 Gor• ham street, 126 Main street, Rich- ardson road, 5 Beech street, at Route 3 and Old Westford road, with a call to help a person ac- cidentally locked out of his home and for a truck fire on Route 3 at Route 129 at 10:53 o'clock last night completing the list. Os 7 :-ire• NORTH CHELMSFORD-- A flash fire at 8.01 a. m. The Lowell Sun Thurs today caused considerable damage at the home of Ar- thur Patenaude, 302 Dunsta- 8 Chelmsford ble road. Cement which had Fire Causes ;500 Loss; been spread on kitchen counters preparatory to lay- Chelmsford I Holy Week Services ing counter-top material Firemen on Alert; CHELMSFORD, April 18 — A, spread fumes which were ; ig- Sports Night Program rubbish fire that got out of con-, nited by the pilot of a gas CHELMSFORD, April 22 —, trol caused about $500 damage• stove, and in a second the Firemen were kept on the alert, to a storage shed on property at whole cabinet area was here yesterday and, as a matter,. 116 Riverneck road, East Chelms- ablaze. Capt. Raymond Mc- of fact, quite busy with five calls ford, yesterday afternoon. Glinchey and Engine 2 re- .for brush and grass fires includi Fire Chief Allan Kidder re- sponded and doused the fire quickly.. _ lng one that just got started in! ported that the property is occu- the tree tops when they stopped, pied by Mr. and Mrs. Harry J.,' it, a building fire in North Russell and that rubbish along ' Chelmsford and the lining up of burned under supervision got a crew to send to Pepperell— away when Mrs. Russell had to Minor Fires with a truck ready to go just as answer the telephone, and it Local firemen responded on word came that the serious woods spread to the rear of the storage five calls yesterday and last night fire there had been checked. shed. for grass and brush fires. The The burning Index yesterday' Mrs. Russell discovered the first call was to Middlesex Turn- was at the top again, for the hot tire and, after taking her four , pike, Engine 8 responding. This summer sun, with temperatures children to the home of a neigh- fire was in Lowell and the city's well in the eighties, and a strong bor. called the fire department. Engine 2 took over. Alarms at and gusty wind, made conditions Engines 1, 4, 7 and 8 responded 1.09, 1.12. 1.46 and 10.04 p. m. ideal for a really bad fire situa-", and the fire was quickly extin- were for fires near 126 Proctor tion. Fortun&tely the town es- guished, but the rear wall of the road, 199 Main street, 179 Dalton caped serious damage' to its fields shed, which housed furniture road and 11 North road: and woods, but the situation re- and other material, was badly mains critical again today with burned. all fires in the open banned until a substantial rain falls. The five open air fires were off old Westford road, Park place. Coolidge street, off- Chelmsford street near the Lowell line, Park place again, when an electric wire The Lowell Sun Tuesday April 23 1957 had set a tree ablaze, and off ,Pine Hill road. The latter fire had swept across grassland and had just started in the tops of a large Chelmsford stand of pine trees when firemen Fire Hazard Continues; brought hose lines into action Westlands PTA Session and stopped it. CHELMSFORD, April 24—The House Fire burning index for outdoor fires Last night at 7:15 o'clock, En- remained at 100 per cent today gines 2, 3 and 7, with Chief Allan the fourth consecutive day, Kidder in charge, responded to: for Seventh avenue, in North Chelms- with no indication of any relief. ford near Crystal lake, where an No permits are being issued and unoccupied summer cottage was every "smoke" spotted by the afire. towerman at Robin hill is being When firemen arrived the rear checked by local firemen and wall of the building and much of , state patrols. the understructure was ablaze, ; Yesterday a highway truck be• and hose lines were brought into ing used as a rubbish truck drove action to knock down the flames. I up to Engine 2 in North Chelms- No estimate. of the damage was ford with its load afire and fire- made and Chief Kidder is con-1 of men on duty made short work tinuing his investigation today in t the blaze. Several "smokes" re- an attempt to determine the ported by the tower were checked cause. and brush and grass fires off Residents are asked to heed Middlesex street, North road and the ban on open air fires until Twiss road were extinguished. further notice and to co-operate The one bad one yesterday was in by notifying the fire department a private dump off Concord road immediately if a fire is discovered and firemen remained there from in fields or woods in their neigh- 6 to 11.30 o'clock last night, using borhood. their portable pumping equip- ment, to first extinguish the blaze and then to wet it down thoroughly. /tee )•`.. -J. Selectman '-‘f.2 The Board of Selectmen met 1 on Monday evening and had an extremely busy evening between making their appointments and opening bids couples with a $6000 Loss session with chief of the Fire Department Allan Kidder. The opening business of the in Chelmsford meeting was to draw jurors for Chelmsford r‘t.., the cambridge civil session with Harold C. Perham and Joseph T. Fallon being drawn; House Fire George W. Barris and George Fire Causes ia; Kitchen in Home of H. Upton were drawn for the Cambridge criminal session. Arthur Sullivan 9..2.y4 , Chairman naniel J. Hart of $4000 Loss Badly Burned - c....?. 1 the selectmen and Fire Chief Kidder had quite a lengthy Home of Arthur CHELMSFORD — More than discussion relative to the Nystrom on Main $6000 damage was done by fire specifications to be called lyesterday to the home of Arthur for in the bids for the new Street Damaged C. Sullivan, Lowell bank official, fire truck. There seemed to be WEST CHELMSFORD — The at 148 Main street, in the West some disagreement between living room of the home of Ar-I section of this town. Chairman Hart and Chief Kidder thur Nystrom at 171 Main street, 1• The modern kitchen of the with the Chairman constantly referring to a set of sp ecifi- was badly damaged bf fire short- •home was completely gutted by cations from Concord, where ly before 9 o'clock this morning the fire, while heat blistered the paint and damaged the other` they had just purchased a land Chief Allan Kidder estimated truck for less than is ex- the loss from fire, smoke and down-stairs rooms and the upper; ' part of the two-story house was pected to be paid for the water at about $4000. Chelmsford truck. Chief Kidder No one was in the house when damaged by smoke. Fire and water damage was confined to; explained that he had only the fire broke out, but one of the towns interests at heart family who had been working in the kitchen. / t' and for that reason had the a small building nearby, found ' Mrs. Sullivan and her two chil. ' dren were outdoors when she specifications written accord- the house filled with smoke when ingly. He pointed out that he he opened the door to enter. noticed smoke coming from the kitchen. Warning the children to; ' had made an extensive study Mr. Nystrom battled the flames on this matter and with a gardenhose until firemen stay outside, she entered the 1. after proper I consideration came up with of Engines 2, 3 and 7 arrived and , house and found a pile of clean; clothes ablaze. these specifications but that took over, and they made short he would abide by the boards Calling to a neighbor to sound work of the fire. wishes. Chairman Hart said he the alarm, Mrs. Sullivan coupled Chief Kidder reported that the favored getting good equipment a garden hose but it failed to woodwork in the living room was but that there was no need to charred considerably and the fur- reach the kitchen. She then at- mend all the money appropria- nishings were destroyed, while tached it to a neighbor's silcock,; ted. Selectman Robert F. Mc- the remainder of the house was but this was shut off. E`.4. Andrew suggested that Chief damaged by smoke and heat. He Firemen arrived and took oVer it Kidder take the concord speci- said the fire apparently was the fire-fighting job, making fications and compare them caused by a short-circuit in an short work of the flames, but not with his and report back to extension line from a wall plug. before the kitchen had been badly the board any parts he might damaged. - recommend changing. Chief Chief Allan Kidder estimated; Kidder returned later in the the loss as at least $6000, and ex- evening, after reading the pressed the belief the fire resulted, Concord papers, and compared when some of the clothes which' the two sets. He pointed out had been brought in from the several places where his outdoor lines shortly before the specifications were more prac- fire was discovered, came in con- tical for the needs of the tact with an electric toaster. town of Chelmsford. Chairman Hart pressed the other board members for an opinion and Selectman Edgar P. George stated that he felt that the members were not well enough informed on these matters to try to make changes on Chief Continued on Page 14

- ----.....-..- lrA ll.11- -r- es 15c-- 1---- Kidder' s recommendations after such thorough study and knowl- edge of these matters. It was agreed, with a couple of minor changes, to use the specifics- : tions drawn up by Chief Kidder I and the bids are slated to be 1 opened on May 1st. COUNTY NEWS lip ? urged consideration of the lowest bid and questioned the specifica- tion, in keeping the cost down. After some discussion the bids were taken under advisement. t Chelmsford Bids also were opened for fire CHELMSFORD, May 4—Fire- house in the 21i, 114 and 114 , men were kept busy for three inch categories, and the contract hours last night extinguishing a was awarded to J. L. Murphy, brush fire off the end of Jensen low bidder with prices of $1.44, street, in the Westlands, and 95 cents and 48 cents. then soaking the area to prevent Bids for a packer body for the; a recurrence. Earlier firemen rubbish truck were opened and' had responded to calls for a were: Curtis and, Dupuis, $5670; brush fire off Old Stage road Heil Equipment. $5470; Gar and for an overheated boiler at Wood, $5470; E. J. Blieler, $5740; 69 Riverneck. . road. W. F. Lahey and Sons, $5295, $5595 and $5870. The three selectmen, Chairman Ralph A. Knight, Hans H. Daniel J. Hart, Edgar P. George Schliebus and Harold Kiberd and Robert F. McAndrew,- con- were drawn for jury service at ferred with Judge John H. Valen- East Cambridge. tine, town counsel. on legal mat- The board approved the re- ters connected with the Billerica quest of the Legion and Auxiliary road reconstruction, to set aside May 24 and May 25 On the fire truck bids, which as Poppy Days. 8 were listed yesterday, Chief Al- Masses at St. Mary's church lan Kidder urged quick action Sunday will be at 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and spoke in favor of the Maxim. and 12 noon. Members of the Chelmsford inasmuch as that is the type used sodality will receive Holy Com- in town, because the price is the munion at the 8 o'clock mass and Selectmen Award lowest of those meeting specifica- then attend a Communion break- $53,200 Contracts tions and because of the service fast in Lowell. CHELMSFORD, May 7 — The given; while Chairman Hart All Saints church—Holy Com• R Q•11 anti 11 a Tri board of selectmen last night awarded contracts for a new fire truck at $19,745, a road grader at $20.825, a new rubbish packer body at $5470 and a new truck to mount the rubbish packer body Crown Fire j 9 - at $7160; a total of $53,200. Firemen in charge of Chief Al- There was no debate on the lan Kidder made a quick stop of fire truck award, as it was given a threatening woods fire yester- to the lowest bidder that met day off Smith street when with specifications, the Maxim Co. hose lines a blaze that had just Selectman Edgar George moved reached the crowns of pine trees the award, praising the service was drowned out. Firemen re- this company has given Chelms- turned there last night to wet ford, and Selectman Robert F. down "hot spots" and went back McAndrew and Chairman Daniel today to double-check the area. J. Hart concurred. The burning index yesterday was 120 and it will be higher to- day because of the wind.

Minor Blaze Firemen were called out at 4:33 yesterday afternoon to ex- tinguish a fire that had started in boxes piled at the rear of Skip's on Chelmsford street and which had started to burn the rear wall of the structure. Ray Richard's, working at Kydd's stand nearby, discovered the fire and sounded the alarm. Firemen made short work of the blaze, which could have been serious but for its early discovery. Pictured is a fire which took place at the home of Mr. 1 and Mrs. Arthur Sullivan, 148 Main street, West section, Tuesday afternoon. Police Chief Ralph ilul slander is shown crossing walk. (Pic. by Joe Larocque).

First Aid Scores Fire Record -1 - 2 The fire department first aid Three companies of the ire de- class under the direction of Ste- partment responded on an alarm phen Ashton, Red Cross director from box 129 yesterday after- . of first aid and water safety, noon. It was a false alarm proved its worth at the last les- sounded by two primary school son when one of the instructors age youngsters. collapsed. An alarm early last night According to Mr. Ashton, the called apparatus to 62 Hornbeam Man had no pulse when he Hill where an oil burner had reached his side, but the first aid backfired. There was no fire. trainees and other instructors Firemen were called to the put into effect their knowledge. town dump at 2 p. m. to exting- Chief Allan Kidder, who had the uish a fire there. emergency truck at a brush fire, "i sped back to the fire station with 4, the resuscitator, Dr. John Barry 'f• came speedily in response to an emergency call and the man was quickly revived. . Said Mr. Ashton of the affair: It proved how well worth while is first aid training, for this man was in serious condition and he, was revived without delay. GREATER-LOWEI I OFFICIALS ON THE ALERT FOR FOREST FIRES Hazardous Condit ions in THE LOWELL SUN Area Toda Billerica Fire TODAY'S INDEX Baffle Two Amussw.Its „JO, 31.0IIIIIIIS 3 Pe1111" II County News 'Today Bodo 311.1/61 1411.3119, 31,/1 n 41. • TV House Blaze. Pell Contlillss.. , . 11'Orn. Ptermin P, P — 30, 31 C1A.,111311 ....VI. 39'EdlIorl.os 11 8./1111/111e111111119 „ . I By Raymond ' Bat" COUNTY C3roies . , —31, 31 ID Se.r1. ... —30. 27 on Pages 23, 21 and 25 o'clock and Datis la . . II 1,0.1 211 Women . . ..17, II. IS LOWELL—• turd lac.1i 6 orature2 of rain, ware .INsorialrd Preen—International Sews Service — TOE COMPLETE NEIESPAPER — United Peres — Astocialed Pres. trirepholo. and drying-, v hme brought us ' 79th Year No. I10 Lowell Mass. Thursday May 9 1957 X 32 Pages 5 Cents (Lo

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firemen fought' Mare at Ito . source, beating I lry - s Ilowherly mine. Burlington, wIlh a, pump,.. • I er attarliedlo a hydrant near A " field at Bicknell 'road. In DAP linginn. /Marked the finol•. Flom it ED WITH . ., ...,. . •r- . . "es ft, ...... Tr. .,. THREAT „,.• . Lowell Ready to Impose an on The daily average :tea . paid circulation of The; Needless Use Early,Next,Week Lout:ell Sun JO- .April ` Chelmsford Asks Voluntary Restrictions---? Firemen Baffle Fires in Several Towns • 1C(1.3 7 • ' LOWELL Continuance of the'. unpreceClented- 44.112 TODAY'S INDEX Spring, drought 'and 'the.' excessive , consumption, of.., . public' • o'clock and . • Amotemal3 ..32. 23 muss ,,Laso ...... ," 7 rooks • s . water due to the rash, of forest fires which have'struck this .. 11171/go 22 0.3111 3,11edle • TV County. News Today . Bob C...111...... 711:41 1013allen 231 P rrrrr ons . ..72. 21 • regiom'has brought forth warnings of a water shortage and (This is an all-titnn!:y, Cl..leed Drew P iglam /les . .. 7 possible curtailment of its use' In Lowell and. surrounding COUNTY It. It. 211. II CdIterlal. 11 135.11 • 17. IS - on Pages 15 and 16 Comfits 23. 22 rrr. 171W•nmes 111.w..11. 11 towns.. daily' . Among the contniunitles who have-either officially, - Associated Prees—internallonni Sewn Service — THE COMP•ETE. NEWSPAPER United' P re,. A,.. ei.r ed pre., 11, ,„ph oto. restrIcteci the use of water,. or askectfon'yoluntarpcuriali- ' ment, today, were Howell, chelmsford'and.BurlIngton.'Sup-, ' . ' The trevkly average a nt plies in other towns are.hard pressed„but so far no ban on:• 79th Year No. III Lowell Mass. Friday May 10 1957 ' X 24 Pages 5 Cent; the use of water has'been announced..-. • • ' • paid' rim :elation of the Hardest 11111.,:•.• ..• • ,•••• -^s spell - Thas , existed • and .:this.. Is • • Meanwhile•beleaguered lire. coupled , with the normal • heat men.,,contInued ,balging forest waves ,of• Mat : scasonOvp; eXpoct Brea in :,11pder.drywpoitlaticla a.'gretIt Pull "on , the ;nosier sup, Yesterday ' afternoon,' 'last-, night ply,' Cogger said todey.' and this, mOrning. , Hardest hit ffBut hardly..ever ha.s sitch a so 'far .was Billerica:. Other. serl. situation arisen even before mid. 01171' Mazes were" reported in cut. where 211 AMR were 'charred Chelmsford Acis' ' • t4-1 Ch 61:eel mnt:bfoat:d: wat t Ek s 'g and Chelmsford where. tour acres ""Ptne 1 3111 4.°1 were consumed.• which covers. Chelmsford. Center,. t-IrE '"j!1 ° e"g i the Westland:and. , .., " t4'2fi qimNWs;86-8-.°!! tig The fire threat this region Vest:Chelms N O1 2 1 5 also resulted In the ,Massachtt. ford 'and-. provides: all:• of.k the 'IgA: ROVILapp-111:gs setts :National, Guard establish. water '-lor South '-"ChelMsford Mg :emergency ,hendetiarters • In district and part of the East. Ms- A:;t:;44:%55.90"il Billerica yesterday afternoon.' A trier supply, .1s. running 'at ' an •• Ih] field . kitchen and network of alttlmn , record and '; today the t ' 25 'ItE-44.4:14;11:17qVi4,'3-1,1'LL'dy$14L1.1: OgtIOP officials; called on residents 'to tAcOsa27.4vg 1,. .7.a.N d ag.Coa communication were set up with s.131 0. . the cooperation • or, Billerlyit'S voluntarily, restrict use of water V -Arthur re toe lawns and . gartleiti. • • IA.,13 K,Uff4.!?..h-'1"6 13" ar.;',40 civil defense unit and C".2"1" ,!8xEA:ViEe Ilailenborg -deputy •, slate lire Yexterday::the . three• pumping ag o.tZbU %.„“i warden. 'This : emergency' crew stations aet"an., alitime" record s .41111 by ; pumping , 3,326.000.' Va.9 ^:rd. today stood by to :rush . Md . to •gallons, • g .E° Cg° g 0! 7%-4 any of the area's • communities but even this '.couldn't --keep the 000 te. - reservoir i 'full ' and ptessure tiirtH2i7;;' v,74. Instantly. ' ; , , , ' • - It 1.3=a dropped from 90 to 75 pounds 4. ., ' 4E r - t .v. —CO c.ri•be o w E ?•44 a gm: " ,;,2 1.-.0 . t 2t- 0 - ›,r— wag '4 E So uT.— " at the. co-. % r.f,. _.la.g .uE .4-a..!ae. :§IA- Most of the tire chiefs are of Centey'duriog the heavy ,r1 '-.9:..g.g,:10...,,E.:Vgg .4 the opinion• that: many,: ol the dralri.Pertod-6 to 9 p. m. TIlls 2 71 ,, t.o FE›,,zz. t3 .14:,, 14 gw was!. built ove1 , nIght,:.back 111,-,E .V0g.40Vg-E;;;,.;t 2 82, 5 irt. :". . gig;tt ! .,,atl.;;CAi"" E B, =;t7 ,. tires :is their, towns were de. • lberately !tel.:They - point .10 the to 90, but the slrainon the•wells MIL S '01:t1 V w a 7-. at. -. i 7.,4,.,...gg..p. vq-,74q , 04 ' 7V-....., .i,7, .c tls yo' fact that the most serious. blitzes Ia loogreat to be contInued. ,,' • :,„:.= E,v . _",“„EP.: gt4g11-.9.::..s.t.'45 d r- c .N.,.6 ,o. ..A-:„4 ,„,, q, :;3 5 have brokeii out the; Isle Unless relief ' comes througM al.°. g, . 3F; e0 0 ., h'iql".€1%aP-i,— afternoon, after the ' termination heavy rains within the next few. t.g,i.goc:„ , 61 -, t-2i EDV 1 4.•2- .N 4911., n ...1.17,15p0,4,-.4;0•ti... N X fir.; X of classes, 'in t., nearby schools. days„ oe. the Voluntary curtail. 30.F..V03.:' ment • Is.• an, , UnUsUsli'aurcess, Fri virr. o,,-. il ,,,,.. !:0:8,1194-1.tel:11-Y. 0. tt"r" Carelessly: discarded •eigsrets by ' 6 _a. . tggv '' : ''' VE% 1:1'-. .''' ''''''.1 4eq' motorists also contributed to sex. •' ennlInved P•vi•gle..n • r n i t. '," p 5",,7 .c'4 e .t a:p. g.A.5 ,6 Eg'' VI 'C',03'.. a ersrof the lire.. it witsreported: ltii-.14EA'"OH4N1i Y 2515? 1 Lal.v." L" Jut Lo•elf the,. water ',shortage `.41:C . 01 -. , gi4M52 ' ,,,,m was • termed ;!'inoat•svitIcal%.by Last. Works Pr.pcipitIti6n4;.„ Frit Weis ,1,..Cogger.'. -77"I '," ,• •,• ?'•• 'cilaM1 that KI•1:4..beks stitiCinais hue 8,000,000 -gallons; ' water - authorities today istaieri•-ilts a day .r are.• being, pumped from •],reelintatIon:',In •Lowell Lowell water ' sources: • ! . took place on 'April 9 when This Is mi "MI out 'pumping of 04 Inches of rain fell, AMOR, m.:.lre" be coil. hon. nun Inne t GIRL • IN NO. CHELMSFT LAKE Patricia Martin, .13;•Suffers.. Attack of Cramps Swimming.. Body Recovered by ToWn Firemen, Part Of Large Group of Workers at Scene NO. CHELMSFORD—A Lowell family's swimming party early lasrnight at Crystal lake ended In tragedy at 8 o'clock. when Pa. Inch Martin, 13.year.old daughter of Mr. and Rfre:,Andrew Martin of 44 Seneca street, apparently.suf fered. arviattssektollcrampeekstsd,7- drowned in about 5 In 8 feet of water only:40"fectlrom:the!shore • off Fri•ards beach. • "'• The beach was thronged when the : tragedy. •.occurred, for' all - who could . were seeking relief. from the .90-plus Aempera t u re, - but Lowell Girl even though•a score of 'good swimmers dove mpeatedly, the body, apparently was . 111dden by the deep marsh graii and .could•not he Drowns in Lake • --....—.....veroverecl In time lo permit any attempt at resuscitation: VrnmI rm.. ass Tuesday June 18 1957' X 18 . Pages. 7 Cents The body was vecayaIts 1 fercd any assistance possible. 10.30 p m by. local firemen, part By 8:30 there were, liver boats but no additional help was re- of the 'large group of workers In the water,..dragglien' the rutin, quired. which ineituled clews from a area, and. two . outboard craft Sending boats or grappling: halftiozen communities' In The Jollied at' theft .11,me•to •tow the equipment, or both. were the: new Middlesex-Essex mutual aid boats in order to make the drag• Carlisle. Tewksbury,. system, and pollee from several ging more methodical. t, ....- Tyngsboro and NVestford fire de- towns in the district.. some com- As the ' fire . depirtment radio partments; lighting equipment, ing with boats and grappling buzzed with calls -to' the.Center %Vest ford fire department; you er equipment, others with auxiliary and other station s, the various:, plants, Chelmsford rivil de- lighting plants and still others towns on the: mutual aid' net- fense; 111111 , 11V11iPl . lights. An. with underwater lights. work come lit nIth offers of help lover file department and the The alai lin family had gone to - including boat,: clews, ' gran. Dracut And NVointro pollee de• the heath after supper for a cool. piing irons and lighting equip- partments; while assist/owe also Ing 'swim, and Patricia was en. ment to supplement that of the ,teas given by Untold .1. Dario. flying the water with two girl ltan) 111^1,LTi merit. 11010 Ilie C4113110' sitetiff'a staff. friends, at the east end of the Aniong'the breal *men and The civil defense agent.)• also !milting men and only a relative- pollee officers who, manner) the provided a power megaphone ly shalt distance (loin hunts were Capt. liyam, Ralph with Charles Donaldson, liaison What happened Is nol dear, Abbott, Fred Reiti, James Robin, pincer, handling this apparatus. for Mere was a great deal of eon. son, George Dixon and Fred The beach men was roped off fusion' immediately after the Grant of the Aire department first cry for help. during the searching operations and relief officer Robert NieAts Eli Heath, of 50 Cambridge by the fire department. drew, and there were many vol•' street, Lowell, a Lowell CD n ttx• The parents of the drowned unteers as well,. Mary pollee officer, was swim. girl, grief sitieken and with the I ielree girls. Be When darkness, fell, the entire mother at the point of collapse. \I"-IING FOR BODY — Above is the scene at Crystal lake North Chelmsford, as dragging water area ',near the beach was .1i wasot withnew his and they tin. remained at the scene until all proceeded for the body of Patricia Martin of Lowell last night. '1,1 two gills apparently panic• Illuminated' by, the' auxiliary lighting plants, of ' the lire hope of rerosety in time to at• strielcen in the water. tempt resusitation had passed, Ile brought one of the two to partments and the' potter units •" and then went home. the beach and the other followed of the deli defense setup here • Ijilm in. The girl he assisted to were used as :Director • Bertram • -safety was Identified as Dorothy Needham and AssIstapt Director William Edge offeind.liverythipg„ * Sliver. 13: of 60 Lincoln street. Lowell. The other was not Wen. they had to 'assist. Underwater' lights- were .need." While. he :was. helping her In ed and . Andtiver:lire department safety, • idmefitieTon: lite- biaeh sent' theirs ISdith..iscinan -to7oper, ran to lite.Kirk residence near/IS' ale them. Dracut pollee also sent and reported to police and fire one and 'District Fire 1Varden headquarters that there had been Arthur Hallenborg of Billerica a tit oumittg at CI ystal lake. went to Woburn and 'brought l iindertsater equipment in I 1..,,,,.,.•„,„,,• „„..,..; ,,,,, ,,,, their 'y.57 8 • Chelmsford Fire Chief Thanks All Who Aided in Emergency 1151 CHELMSFORD, May 13—Fire Chief Allan Kidder expressed his 32 appreciation for the all-out co- operation given the fire depart- ment during the period of forest Chelmsford fire emergency last week. He was particularly thankful Firemen Get First to the people of the town who Aid Certificates co-operated so well by refraining CHELMSFORD, May 22—Mem- from setting fires in the open bers of the fire department who It during the dangerous days, to completed the recent first aid the selectmen for their co-opera- course were awarded certificates tion in authorizing emergency at a banquet held last night at a measures as needed; to the high- local restaurant. way department- and Supt. Fred In the course of the evening, Greenwood for keeping the North with Chairman Daniel J. Hart, dump under control in the face Edgar P. George and Robert F. of difficult conditions and also, McAndrew of the board of select-i; for the assistance given by the: men as guests, gifts were pre-r?. highway mechanic in keeping fire! sented to Stephen Ashton, Red apparatus and equipment Rine- I Cross director of first aid and tioning. water safety, and his assistant, He also thanked the civil de- Joseph Cheetham, who conducted! fense "committee and workers, the course. who co-operated all through the The awards were made to the period of extreme hazard, the po- 1, following: lice, who assisted in many ways Advanced certificates — Ernest and particularly in spotting and G. Byam, Clarence H. Dane, H. reporting unauthorized fires, and Edward Hoyt. Chief Allan Kid- , all of the regular and call men der. James 0. Robinson, Fred-, of the fire department, many of erick H. Reid and William H. whom gave many hours of extra Thayer. service during the three weeks Certificates—Ralph Abbott, A. that the woods fire hazard was Louis Bennett, Norman Bickford, r. critical. Chief Kidder also ex- Roger T. Calder, Arthur S. Cas- pressed his appreciation to Chief ter, Howard Christianson, Brad- Edward Lamson and the West- ford 0. Emerson, Charles G. Ful- ford fire department for the aid ler, Donald P. Gray, Fred E. given at the one serious fire local- Grant, Wallace A. Greig, Walter ly, and also the state forestry R. Hedlund, Charles E. Jangraw, division and Deputy Warden John R. Kydd, Jr., Roland E. Arthur Hallenborg, who also Marr, Francis G. Miskell, Thomas came here to assist. P. Miskell, Eugene Pudsey, Ed- The effort undoubtedly caused ward G. Quinn, Anthony Sousa, the department to spend more George F. Waite, Arthur Blom- than it had anticipated for labor gren and Asa Robey. at fires, the chief said, but there is a strong possibility that the state will reimburse the town in this connection. RECEIVES FIRST AID DIPLOMA—Donald Gray, center, accepts his diploma for successful completion of the American Red

Cross first aid course from Stephen Ashton, left, director of . safety services ARC, following a dinner for the 45 men who' took the course. Chief Allan Kidder awaits his turn to con-` gratulate the men who voluntarily took the course each week in the fire house. On the Alert Chelmsford Has for Forest Fires Two Woods Fires Continued from Front Page mated at several thousands of I Lowell and North dollars. 'Dumps Held to Blame Chief Roper stated the origin CHELMSFORD—Dump fires of the fire was still undetermined. gave town firemen a workout Shortly after 9 o'clock this yesterday afternoon, one when morning a telephone alarm was the North dump caught fire and sounded at the Billerica Center the flames spread to nearby fire station, sending firemen un• woods and the other when the der Chief Roper to a house fire Lowell dump flared up and sent, at 66 Concord road. flames spreading through the I Three-Hour Battle woods towards houses on Park-. Acton firemen fought grimly hurst road. for three hours before extinguish- ing the blaze at the Dewey and The first call came at 2:13, a' Almy Chemical plant, which box alarm, and Engines 2, 3, 6, 7i \ threatened nearby woods and ai;ci 8 responded to Groton road! and Swain road. The fire had highly flammable chemicals in started in the dump and spread Ithe structure. into the woods and about an, Night workers at the chem- acre of brush was burned. ical plant discovered the blaze While firemen still were at. and called the fire department. this dump, at 2:47 p. m. a call i Firemen battled the flames un- came from Parkhurst road that! til 4 o'clock this morning, laying the Lowell dump fire had spread; more than 1500 feet of hose to into the woods there and was' hydrants. They left the hose at heading towards the houses. the scene in case the flames Chief Allen Kidder took En. should break out again. gines 7 and 8 from the North Chief H. Stuart MacGregor di- dump to Parkhurst road and rected 35 call firefighters in the brought this fire under control three-hour struggle with the within a few minutes, before any flames. property damage had been . Today's conditions were so haz- caused. .5- 2C. f i ardous that many communities called in extra firemen to aid in guarding against any outbreaks that might prove disastrous. On Friday right, the Firefight- Meanwhile state conservation ers association held a demonstra- department tower observers tion of the use of a resuscitator alertly watched their territories at the firihouse before the regu- for the slightest signs of curling lar meeting. Many interested! smoke which would mean sound- townspeople were present and ing the alarm and sending fire- were impressed with the appara. men racing to the location. tus which was ably demonstrat. ed by Capt. Ernest Byam and , Michael Felix Come ate the Pvt. Edward Hoyt of the Chelms- first tomato in 1833 to prove ford fire department. Many of that the then called "love apples" the spectators were impressed„ were not poisonous. An Italian with the fact that the resuscita- artist, Corne's paintings are ex- tor is not as complicated as hibited in the U. S. Naval Aca- many people think. demy Museum. At the meeting of the fire- fighters which followed, it was voted to hold a campaign to raise funds to buy one for this town. It is hoped that within a week to have a resuscitator on exhibi- tion at the Dunstable post office. Dunstable now has a new lad. der truck which contains all the ladders necessary for any fire besides a tank and pump. Fire Chief Duff of Tyngsboro and Capt. Walter Parker of the Dun. stable fire department drove the truck home from Sharon. It is in fine condition and a good addi- tion to the fire fighting equip- ment.

^ - • Must Get Permits Firemen were ordered out twice yesterday when the observer at Robin Hill lookout spotted smoke in two different sections of the COUNTY NEWS town, and the fires were found 20

to have been started without per whO • operated the nursery on ,! Chelmsford Dalton road, was working at the, Chief Allan Kidder of the fire Watt terrace fire with Lt. Robert' Cn department warns the people of Lightning Hits Seven Spaulding when the call came the town again that permits must Places—Honor Rolls concerning the fire at "132 Dal- be secured before open•air fires CHELMSFORD, June 20— ton road." Bennett recognized n may be legally started, and that Thunder, lightning, a bit of hail the number as his own place failure to secure a permit may and some heavy showers spear- and he and Spaulding got there result in prosecution. headed the arrival of a cool wave in quick time. An observer is on duty at the here yesterday aftrnoon, knock- Lightning also knocked out tower every fair day and he is ing the mercury down from 90 the fire alarm circuits in West and East Chelmsford, and re- compelled to report any smoke to 74 in approximately 20 min- work was started immedi• which he can see that appears to utes, and giving the fire depart- pair be caused by a fire, and the lo- ment one of its busiest after- ately, cal fire department must inves- . noons as the bolts struck seven tigate and report on its findings. buildings in the Center and West- lands section. Both the rain and the cooler weather were welcome, but the lightning was not as it bounded and flashed in rapid sequence from 3 to 4 o'clock, and again as a second storm struck the area at 7 o'clock. All of the damage here was 8 attributed to the first storm, which was a particularly "power- f ul" one. Chelmsford The fire department record fol- Minor Fires—Grange lows: 3:32 p. m.-5 Golden Cove road, Past Masters' Night smoking wires due to lightning CHELMSFORD, June 11—An hitting service. alarm at 7.45 a. m. today called , 3:40 p. m., 111 Warren avenue, Engine 1 and 4 to Manning road, electrical wires burning. where it was reported that a While at this fire an occupant tx house under construction was of 107 Warren avenue reported afire. Firemen on arrival found , smoke in her house and firemen pile of logs, in the rear of the found the wires burning there house, ablaze and made short too. work of the fire. 3:47 p. m.—Watt terrace. Light- Last night, firemen were called ning hit TV aerial, followed to Proctor road where a brush through to the basement, blew tire burned over about a quarter- thimble in the kitchen, scattering acre. soot over the room, and also hit the boiler. No one was at home at the time. 3:58 p. m., Bennett nurseries, 132 Dalton road, Lightning hit wires, burned out motor in the boiler room. 4:09 p. m., 191 Mill road, light- ning hit hen house in field, set- ting fire to one wall. 6:18 p. m., 9 Juniper street, Ap- parently lightning entered the house during the 3.4 o'clock storm and set wires in a wall burning. This fire smouldered until 6:18 and then broke out. Firemen made short work of the blaze but there was considerable smoke damage. An unusual coincidence was reported in connection with the fire. Call Man Louis Bennett, Driver Averts 6 Serious Fire Chelmsford Firemen "Double in In Oil Truck Brass"—Scout Honored ' Unloads Contents CHELMSFORD, July 9—Mem-' hers of Engine 8 of the fire de- As Rear of partment "doubled in brass" Vehicle Burns yesterday when two alarms were e sounded while they were out CHELMSFORD—Cool reason- painting poles. ing and action on the part of a The pole painting project is huge road oil truck driver averted designed to make it easy for a serious fire on the section of firemen to spot hydrants even F though they are covered with the Middlesex Turnpike now un- snow in winter and it consists of der reconstruction. Lowell Man painting a wide yellow band on James Cummings of Malden the nearest utility pole. had just brought his load a oil Fred Reid and William Thayer to the construction site yesterday were out on this assignment yes- Escapes Death terday afternoon when alarms afternoon when the rear of the were sounded for the North vehicle burst into flames. dump and a fire in waste from Realizing the danger if fire In Auto Fire a barn on Robin Hill road. reached the load of asphalt oil, Aime L. Poitras Notified by radio, the two fire- Cummings stayed with the truck men made the quick shift from ,*and spread the load on the new Jumps From Car painting togs to fire-fighting construction, while others sound- In Chelmsford togs and were on their way to ed the alarm. help put out the fires. Completes Delivery CHELMSFORD — A Lowell When firemen arrived the man had a narrow escape from truck, belching clouds of smoke, death yesterday afternoon when was completing delivery of the his car burst into flames as he was driving thwards Lowell on '' load of oil to the job and once House Fire in F-e the tank was empty the firemen the Middlesex turnpike. went to work. The fire was be- Aime L Poitras of 97 Powell No. Chelmsford tween the tank itself and the out- street, Lowell, was the driver. CHELMSFORD—A two-apart- side cover, and firemen had to According to information given ment house at 31 Gay street, in rip out layers of asbestos pack- Fire Chief Allan Kidder, Poitras ing in order to extinguish the was proceeding northerly on the North Chelmsford, suffered flames. heavy smoke damage and lesser turnpike when he suddenly saw water and fire damage at 9.30 Chief Allan Kidder praised the a burst of white smoke enter a m. today when a bed in an driver for his calmness in thu the body compartment through upper room burst into flames. emergency and his quick action the foot pedal slots. The fire was in the apartment in getting rid of the load of oil Poitras pulled his car to the of Robert Monette, who had left which could have caused a serious side of the road and jammed on the house several hours earlier. fire. the brakes. As soon as it stopped Theo fire apparently had been he made a hurried exit and had smouldering, for some time when no more than made the ground a neighbor saw the smoke and when the entire machine burst ran to the firehouse. Into flames. Engines 2 and 3 in charge of Sounds Alarm Chief Allan Kidder responded 7-1-k - 1 Another motorist drove to and made short work of the ac-  Chelmsford street to sound the tual fire. Captain Raymond Mc- alarm and Chelmsford fire com Glinchey of Engine 2 reported panies in charge of Chief Kidder that the upper part of the house Fire in Chelmsford responded. They could see the suffered considerable smoke smoke as soon as they reached damage and the lower apartment CHELMSFORD — An the turnpike and upon arrival suffered some water damage, alarm a few minutes after while fire damage was limited midnight today called fire found the vehicle burning from to the bed in which it started. apparatus to the home of •bumper to bumper. Hose and Eliot Remick, 219 Westford chemical lines were brought into street where an electric use and the fire extinguished. lamp had short-circuited and but the car was considered a smoked up a section of wall- total loss. ' paper. How the fire started could not be determined, but the speed at which it wread indicated that there was a gasoline leak. 16.11e111MSTOra taurant. A Chelmsford police I cruiser accompanied the truck Fire Department Limits and the police aided in traffic Open Air Fire Permits work at the fixe. Engine 3 cov- CHELMSFORD, July 20—The ered in at the North station fire department today announced while Engine 2 was at Tyngs- L that permits for fires in the open boro. will be restricted to burning in At 4:53 p. m., firemen were' incinerators. called to the Lowell turnpike Chief Allan Kidder reported Three Fire Alarms where tires of a low-bed trailer that the ground is so dry now that even a minor brush or grass Firemen answered three calls had caught fire. fire burns down into the organic yesterday afternoon and last The final call came at 9:18, matter in the soil for a consid- night. p. m. for a grass and brush fire erable depth and has to be The first was at 12:06 p. m. off Swan road in North Chelms- drowned out, using up much of when Engine 2 went to Tyngs- ford. .1-/I the water that also is getting boro to assist firemen of that more and more scarce due to the town in battling a fire in a res- lack of rain and continued hot ------water. All of the brooks in the wooded sections of the town, where the Asks Co-Operation •11-1 danger of a brush fire is the Fire Chief Allan' Kidder ,to- greatest, have dried up or have day appealed to the residents of been reduced to a trickle, and if the Center, Westlands and West a fire should break out it would —where use of water for garden Chelmsford be necessary to haul the waterl and lawn sprinkling is permitted Threatening Brush Fire; to the blaze—a difficult and ex- only between 6:30 and 8:30 p. m. tended task. —to shut off their sprinklers or Appeals Board Rulings hoses if they hear the fire CHELMSFORD, July 22 — The state lookout is on duty at More than 200 gallons of water the Chelmsford tower, on Robin whistle. Hill. and all others likewise are During this two-hour period, was used by local firemen late on duty throughout the state, the chief said, the water pres- yesterday in extinguishing what and every trace of smoke these' sure drops some 40 pounds or so, ordinarily would have been con- lookouts report is being investi- and the flow of water through sidered a minor brush fire off gated by the local fire depart-' some of the areas served by Park road, at the Carlisle line. ments in an attempt to prevent a small mains is reduced mate- The fire burned over less than a quarter-acre—or about the area, serious fire. rially - Yesterday the firemen an If a serious fire should occur of a house lot—but the ground swered one call, a minor brush, while this condition exists, and is so dry that it burned down fire off Beech street in North; in an area where the supply is as well as around, and firemen: Chelmsford. taxed by outdoor use, lack of had to soak the ground to make water might seriously impede the sure the fire was out. The continued heat is bringing responded record-breaking crowds to the work of the firemen. It is for Engines 5 and S beach at Crystal lake and to the this reason that he asks all resl- from this town and Carlisle sent! beaches at Baptist pond in South dents to keep alert during the three pieces of apparatus. Fire-, Chelmsford, and traffic towards two-hour period starting at 6:30 men were at the blaze for about, the resorts in New Hampshire p. in. and to shut off garden an hour. was heavy again this morning, hoses and sprinklers it they hear Firemen also answered a call: marking another exodus of those the fire whistle. to Beech street ,where a brush' seeking relief. ," fire had rekindled and this had / to be soaked again.

tirely upon the weather. Rain- Chief Allan Kidder estimates that Chelmsford fall is far short of normal .and 13.500 gallons was. ,used at a the water table is low as a re- brush fire off Route 3 two days Water Use Ban Pays sult, so it will take a great deal ago. Fortunately the fire was Off—Reservoirs Filled of- rain now to bring conditions near a•brook which had not dried! CHELMSFORD, July 24 — The back- anywhere near normal. up and most of the water was I ban on outside use of water al- With the reservoirs being held taken from this source. ready has "paid off" insofar as at top level, the fire protection . . the water district is concerned, question is under control for the for reservoirs are, being main- time being. tained at top level 'again and Consumption of water is run- pumping has been reduced. ning high and will continue to Commissioner Raymond Har- run high even without outside mon of the district board said use while the hot weather con- today that the water level at the tinues and there is no rain, but wells has risen slightly with the it is nowhere near the total that -.--reduced pumping, and this in was piled up daily when the use turn is making it somewhat of garden hose and sprinklers easier to maintain the supply was permitted for two hours without the danger of damaging daily. the wells. The fire department reported Lifting of the ban hinges en-no brush or grass fires yester- . day, the only alarm being at 9:44 last night for a minor chimney fire at 12 Evergreen street. As an example of how much water is used now to drown out a brush fire—as fires of this na- ture burn down into the ground due to the dryness of the soil— Fear 'Firebug' chief, Allan Kidder, has issued Chelmsford permits only for incinerator fires, but so long as the woods re- Ban on Fire Permits: Active in 7'4 51-- mained closed not even these Grange Holds Meeting fires are permitted, and the look- CHELMSFORD, July 23—The outs at all fire towers are on N. duty to report any trace of I Chelmsford action of state authorities in clos- smoke which requires investiga• Two Attempts Made ing the woods because of the drought, has ended, automatical- tion. to "Torch" House on ly, the issuance by the local fire Last night's shower barely wet department of permits to start the top layer of dust, but it was Brouillette Street fires in the open. welcome for all that as it was the CHELMSFORD — An investi- For some time now the local first rain in a long time and; gation by state police was asked brought with it somewhat cooler today by Fire Chief Allan Kidder weather. With more showers; into a cellar fire at the home of predicted for today, it is hoped! John Murphy at 22 Brouillette that the run of 90-degree days hus street yesterday and a- bulkhead been broken and that the advent fire at the same place the pre• of cooler weather may bring a vious day. break in the extended and damag- Yesterday's fire, discovered by ing drought. Mrs. Murphy, resulted in an Brush Fire alarm at 9.47 a. m., to which Engines 2; 3 and 7 responded. The fire department answered The fire was under a pile of one call yesterday, and this for lumber and was quickly extin-I a brush fire off Steadman street. guished. The alarm was sounded at 4.32 p. m. but firemen had to remain Chief Kidder was informed by : the family that the previous on the job until 6.57 before they , night a beam in a covered bulk- could call the job done. The fire head was discovered burning and covered a relatively small area that it was extinguished with- but the ground had to be satu- out firemen being called. rated in order to drown out the Sergt. Raymond Harmon and last tn.:72e of flames. / fs Officer Allan Adams assisted Chief Kidder in his investigation Firemen Busy in an attempt to determine the The fire department had four cause of the fire. calls yesterday afternoon and The Murphy's were unable to evening but none were for a think of anyone who might have serious fire. .1,4? a grudge against them. and this led the- fire chief to believe it I At 3.05 p. m. a call came for a Chelmsford grass-brush fire off Route 3 and possible that a firebug had forced Two Towns Baffle his way into the basement and the Chelmsford-Billerica line. En- . started the fires. gines 7 and 8 responded and, Fire—Drought Damage Lt. David Murphy of the state ',round the the considerably ovec CHELMSFORD, July 29—Fire- police, assigned to the fire mar- the line into Billerica. The local men from this town, Carlisle and shal's office, will take over the firemen assisted the Billerica Westford responded at 3.20 yes- investigation. crew briefly and then returned terday afternoon when the ob- as the fire was minor. server at the Robin Hill fire look- A call came at 4.06 p. m. that out spotted smoke at the point where the three town lines in- a boy was caught bi a tree near tersect in the south section of 24 BOston road, but when 9re• this town. men arrived he was on his way Chelmsford sent Engine 8 and down. Carlisle all of its apparatus, The third call resulted In a while Westford "covered in" for box alarm at 5.23 calling Engines the latter. 1, 7 and 8 to the Westlands Mo- The fire was found to be in tors on Chelmsford street where the cranberry bog area on the a• grass fire was threatening to Carlisle side of the line and it spread to the building. This was had just started to "crown"—get auickly extinguished. into the pine tree tops — when The final call in the series firemen arrived. came at 10.37 last night when Firemen quickly checked the Engine 2 responded on a re- spread of the fire, but they had' (west for a resuscitator for use to remain on the scene for three on4a heart case. hours before it could be thor- oughly drowned out. CHELMSFORD,' "Aug. 3 —Al-1 $5000 House though the woods ban has been Fire Damages lifted by the state, permits are being issued here only for incin. Fire in South erator and similar small con-I Chelmsford trolled fires in the open, with; none being issued for field burn- ing. Chelmsford . While no weather station is Toy Concern CHELMSFORD—Damage . that maintained here, it is reported SOUTH CHELMSFORD—Fire, may exceed $5000 was caused yes- from amateur meteorologists apparently caused by a defective terday afternoon by an oil-fed that rainfall during July amount- electric wall plug, flared up in fire in the home of Clifford ed to less than three-quarters of one corner of the paint room of Holmes of 163 Park road, South an inch of rain and came in such the Whalen Mfg. Co., Inc., at 26. Chelmsfard, which broke out minor showers as to have no ef- Maple road, just as. the pland, during the absence of the family. fect on drought conditions. opened for the day's work at Boys playing in the area saw Yesterday afternoon at 3.29 , 8 a. m. today. smoke coming from the cellar o'clock, Engines 6 and 8 respond- Automatic sprinklers, only re- r of the Holmes' residence and ran ed to a call for a brush fire in cently installed went into' to the House of a neighbor, who the swampy area at Route 3 and action as the paint fumes , sounded an alarm at 2:25 p. m. Riverneck road and had to pump practically exploded into flames,1 Engines 1,. 5, 7 and 8 of the water for four hours to drown and had the fire well under: local department responded on out the blaze. They reported the control when firemen of Engines the alarm, and firemen found the water available in this eraa has 1, 5, 7 and 8 responded on an cellar a mass of flames as they dried up considerably in two alarm sounded by telephone by arrived on the scene. weeks and they had to go almost plant employees. Booster and hose lines were to the brook itself to get a supply Fire loss, Chief Allan Kidder ; brouAht into action without dela, sufficient for battling the fire. reported, was slight, but water and firemen forced their way from the sprinklers soaked a into the smoke and flame-filled great deal of stock used in the cellar to keep the fire from manufacture and assembling of spreading into the upper floors wooden toys, doll houses and of the house. 3-1-,. / such material. When the flames were subdued Brush Fire Set Chief Kidder reported that an it was found that the cellar stair- FA). employee, Mark Burlamachi, was way and some of the floor beams inm Chelmsford 5,--. Centlaued on Page Eight had been burned, and the kitchen CHELMSFORD—A paint was badly scorched, but brush fire otherwise there was little fire that obviously was deliberately'' damage. set gave firemen of three local Fire Damages The entire two-story house, companies a long and hot work. , however, was filled with oily out late yesterday afternoon. The Toy Concern -smoke, which caused the greater fire way near the Chelmsford- Continued from Front Paige part of the damage. Carlisle line in the Park road plugging' an electric tool into a Capt. Ernest Byam of Engine section and was discovered by wall plug when the plug shorted 1, estimated that the loss would Walter Merrill, observer at the and the arc set off paint fumes be in the vicinity of $5000, but Robin hill lookout tower. in the room. No one was no figure could be definitely set The fire was started in brush pending the return of the Holmes injured. family. The fire is believed to in the middle of a large clump of Neighbors in the South section, have started from an oil-burning pines, but because of its early learning of the fire, offered their hot water heater. discovery, was contained quickly assistance and firemen, after by firemen in charge of Capt. mopping up the water in the Ernest Byam, who reported it as plant, moved all of the wood of incendiary origin. However, stock to the outside where the firemen remained on the scene neighbors took over the task of wetting down the area for several drying it as quickly as possible , hours, and to get water they had to keep the loss at a minimum. to set up a portable pump near President Edward Whalen of the cranberry bog and , lay 600 the concern was in Vermont and feet of hose. he started for home immediately upon notification of the fire, and no estimate of the loss will be available until he arrives and checks over the damage. Man Badly Burned in "Gas " Flareup in So. Chelmsford CHELMSFORD— A workman gaged in drawing off more gaso- suffered serious burns to both line to "prime" this motor when arms yesterday when gasoline the highly volatile liquid spilled 10 being used to prime the motor of onto the engine or battery and an artesian well digging outfit immediately burst into flame. flared after contact with the hot Chief Kidder was unable to Chelmsford engine, engulfing him and the estimate the loss, but said it Rain Aids Firemen outfit in flames. would run high as both the truck Douse Bad Brush Fire Firemen at the Center station and the drilling rig were badly 'CHELMSFORD, Sept. 17—Last received word that the artesian damaged. e. drilling rig was in flames and the -i7 t night's heavy shower came just operator burned, and Engines 1, in time to give firemen of five companies of the town's depart- 5 and 8 responded along with Of- ment a helping hand when it was ficer Allan Adams of the police most needed. department. Upon arrival, they found Rob- Engines 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8 re- ert E. Ogden, 24, of Essex street, sponded on a series of calls when Middleton, badly burned about a bad brush fire broke out in both arms and he was taken to the rear of the cemetery on Main St. Joseph's hospital in Lowell street, West - Chelmsford, nad, in the police cruiser by Officer fanned by a high wind, roared towards Kiberd drive. Adams. The blazing well digging rig The forest fire truck went into was set up immediately adjacent the woods to reach the head of to the homes of Charles Zouzas, the fire in order to check its 131 Proctor road, and firemen Spread and this crew had just turned their efforts to protecting swung into action, while other the house from damage, and in crews were battling up the side this they were successful. of the sizable fire, when the Flaming gas had ignited much heavy downpour came, and fire- men. credited the storm with a of the engine and drill equipment major assist in checking the roar- that would burn, and had spread ing fire. to the rear of the cab and to the The fire was, at the outset, rear tires when the blaze finally one of the worst that has started was extinguished with hose and here in the past month, but the chemical lines operated by the rain was of sufficient force and firemen. duration to help greatly in Fire Chief Allan Kidder report- drowning the flames and keep-, ed that the fire resulted from ing the fire from burning into gasoline spilling onto the hot mo- the ground. tor and battery of the drill rig. He said that so far as could be learned, Ogden had drained off sufficient gasoline from a tank to refill the rig motor, and was en- Seeks Asian Flu Vaccine For Chelmsford Fire Force CHELMSFORD, Sept. 7 — In is involved, the department and an attempt to get prOtection for its relief association will take care of this part, and that con- this men against a possible crip- sequently this need not cause kci pling of the department by Asian any delay. 4 influenza, Fire Chief Allan Kid- Unless the vaccine is secured,, bobs- der has requested the board of Chief Kidder said, he fears that health to take steps to secure a if and when the disease reaches \IN sufficient amount of vaccine, this area his fire-fighting force without delay, for the memberi might well be crippled to a point of the force. • where its effectiveness would be Chief Kidder took this action seriously reduced. after learning from national He bases this fear on reports health authorities that, while from areas where the disease has Asian flu is not the killer that hit, that it spreads like wildfire was World War I flu, it spreads among persons who work _as ; quickly and those stricken are closely together and in limited, apt to be bedridden for days be- quarters as do firemen, and be•! fore it completes its course. lieves that an ounce of preven-, The fire chief informed the tion now might well save the health authorities that if any cost town from a serious hazard later.' The Lowell Sun Tuesday September 24 1957 Dunstable Heart Attack Victim Sends Kelp Twice yesterday the Chelms- Saved by Firemen ford fire department was called DUNSTABLE, Sept. 23—The on for assistance and responded quick and efficient response of under the mutual aid plan. At the Chelmsford fire department 2:34 p. m., Engine 3 went to Bil- on Monday morning may have, lerica to cover in there while the saved the life of Elzear Dumont, Billerica department was tied up of Thorndike street. His son, at a major brush fire, and while Town Treasurer Leo M. Dumont, (\ there answered an alarm for a was called to his father's home p,.: similar fire on Alexander road. when a heart attack caused his ,w Last night at 7:50 o'clock, Engine, family alarm at about 3.45 3 covered in at Tyngsboro while; o'clock in the morning. Leo the latter department battled a Dumont called the Chelmsford house fire in Dunstable. Also t fire department and in 10 min- yesterday, Engine 8 extinguished', utes Firemen Edward Quinn and a brush fire off Route 3 near the George Dixon were at the home power line. and ready with their life giving Auxiliary Police Meeting resuscitator. They worked until Officer Vincent Kulikowski of the doctor arrived baout 15 min• the Lowell police juvenile delin- utes later. Rev. Fr. Marticho of gurney squad gave an interesting St. John's church in North talk at a meeting sponsored by Chelmsford was also at the home the Chelmsford auxiliary police in a very short time to ad- last night at the Center fire sta- minister the last rites of the tion on police work in general, Catholic church. After repeated with the accent on the juvenile injections and continued efforts problem. by the firemen, the doctor or- The officer was followed closely dered Mr. Dumont removed to by an audience of more than three-score police and auxiliary the Lowell General hospital police, firemen and interested where he has been on the critical public, and his description of the list for 24 hours. various phases of police work Should he recover, Mr. Dumont was of great value to the local feels that his life was saved by auxiliary group. the efficient work of the two Following his talk, a demon- North Chelmsford men. Hart's stration of the new rescue power , ambulance was called to trans- jack of the fire department was port Mr. Dumont to the hospital. given and movies on airplane Mr. Dumont suffered a similar crash rescue methods were attack earlier in the summer shown. and had been making good prog- Refreshments were served by ress. the auxiliary police to conclude the session and it was generally agreed that more meetings of the same type should be held. The program was arranged by the auixilary police with Chief Ralph J. Hulslander, Sergt. Basil Larkin, Liaison Officer Fred Me- han, Sr., and others of the group in charge, while Fire Chief Al- lan Kidder arranged for the dem. onstration and movies. 1 0 14/5-7

New Rescue Truck

The new, $10,703.71 Rescue company truck front of the vehicle, left to right, City Clerk for the Lowell fire department arrived here William H. Sullivan,- acting city manager; early yesterday afternoon, and was immedi- Emile H. Daigle, purchasing agent; John ately displayed briefly in front of the city Dukeshire, representing the mayor; Fire hall. The truck is modern in every detail and Chief Francis J. Kelleher. is of the completely-enclosed van type. In

ao • Chelmsford Smoky Fire in Glen 10 A Ave.—Ban on Fire Permits ti CHELMSFORD. Oct. 3— Chelmsford gmoke from NJ:ming rags -In the More Brush Fires; &Bar caused some damage to Church Service Schedule the home of James Howard at` il Glen avenue ,at 4:06 p. m. CHELMSFORD, Oct. 4 — Fire- men were called out last night testerday, but what fire there to extinguish a brush fire in a was was quickly extinguished wooded area off the end of Bridge ity members of Engine com- street. The fire covered only a mies 1, 7 and 8 :win) iesponded on few hundred square feet but fire- a telephone call. men had to pour water onto the Mrs. Howard put in the call area for 90 minutes to eliminate !Ur the firemen after her son, all of the "hot spots" where the Shortly after returning from fire had burned underground. school, had started down cellar Earlier yesterday Engines 2 and to get an apple and reported the 8 went to the North dump where cellar full of smoke. a brush fire was quickly extin- s. Chief Allan Kidder reported guished. Mat the rags apparently had been used in cleaning, ,brushes the day previously and had •start- Fire Chief Itllan Kidder has Ad smouldering earlier ye' sten banned the issuance of permits day. for fires in; the open betause of The only other call for the fire. the serious fire danger - through- out the area, • which has resulted then yesterday was a minor in the closing of the woods. A " brush fire off Oak Knoll avenue Members of the police and fire East Chelmsford. departments who aid not receive their Asian flu "shots" Monday night may do so Friday between 10:30 and 11 a. in. Dunstable 1c 4-5.7 9 51 Infant Is 140 Electrocuted Chelmsford CHELMSFORD, Oct. 15 — The DUNSTABLE—Ninemonth-old board of selectmen will hold its Sandra Dumont of Thorndike regular meeting tonight at 7:30 street was electrocuted when she o'clock in the town hall. grabbed an electric cord while be- Fire Chief Allan Kidder and ing bathed by her mother in the Selectman Robert F. McAndrew kitchen sink this morning. went to the Maxim plant in Mid- The child, daughter of Mr. and dleboro today to observe the Mrs. Leonard Dumont, could not Hoard of Fire Underwriters' test be revived following the electrical 'of the new fire engine under con- shock despite the efforts of struction for this town. This Tyngsboro police, Chelmsford series of tests is made just prior firemen and a physician. to the mounting of the trucks , According to a police report, body. the child was being bathed in the kitchen sink by her mother and uddenly reached out and grabbed an electrical cord which connected Fire Chief Allan Kidder and a coffee percolator to an outlet, -Selectman Robert F. McAndrew rendering the tot unconscious. went to the Maxim plant in Mid- ca Acting Police Chief William n dleboro today to observe the Doyle and Officer Conrad Sar- -Board of Fire Underwriters' test gent of the Tyngsboro police re- of the new fire engine under con sponded to an emergency call , struction for this town. This from Mrs, Dumont about 9.15 series of tests is made just prior;' to the mounting of the truck] a. m. and while Chief Doyle body. applied artificial respiration to the baby Officer Sargent fed oxygen to the tot from a tank which was brought it the cruiser. Engine 7 of the Chelmsford fire department arrived with Firemen Frederck Reed and Wil. Name Winners in Fire Prevention Liam Thayer who placed a respira- tor on the baby to continue the emergency methods seeking re- Contest Held in Chelmsford Schools vival. CHELMSFORD, Oct. 12—Win• neck road, renter, Quessy school. A doctor was summoned from ners of prizes in the Fire Pre. Stephen Murray, 191 North Lowell. and twice injected stim- vention poster contest sponsored ioad, Center, Quessy school. ulants into the baby while the by the Chelmsford Box Seven Harry Parkhurst, 89 Garrison revival efforts were being con- associates, have been selected by tinued by firemen and policemen, load, South Chelmsford, McFar- including two members of the the judges and will receive their lin school. New Hampshire state police and awards Monday at 4.30 p. m. in George Schneider, 70 Bridge a crew of the Nashua municipal Manchester, N. H., on a Channel street, Center, Quessy school. ambulance. 9 TV show. Donna Sweet, 176 Tyngsboro The revival efforts were con• All of the following winners tinued for more than two hours road, Noith Chelmsford, High- but the baby failed to respond. are asked to be at the Chelms- land avenue school. - ford Center fire station not later Carol Willis, 15 Crosby lane, than 3 o'clocK Monday afternoon: Center, Center school. Ronald Campbell, 24 Marinel Serving as judges were Mr. avenue, North Chelmsford, North Penny and Miss Daly, both art school. teachers in the Chelmsford school Kathleen Harrington, 12 Dart- system. " mouth street, North Chelmsford. The Box 7 Committee in charge North school. of the contest was headed by Carol Hough, 15 Columbia Chairman Walter R. Hedlund street, North. Chelmsford, High- and included Leon Pigeon, Brad- land avenue school. ford Emerson and President Bra"; `^"1 ,2 1, - c on. 11 River. Fred H. Reid.

/ 0 - 13-S1 Chelmsford Police Operate Own Two•Way Radio Unit CHELMSFORD, Oct. 26—The up as well as with the fire tower town's drive to have the best pos- on Robin's hill. The fire department also has a sible communications system for two-way radio unit constantly use under normal circumstances tuned to the state conservation and also to meet any emergency department radio system, in or- which might occur, took another der to keep informed of develop- long step ahead this week as the ments anywhere in the state and police department completed in- to receive messages from the stallation of its own two-way state director in time of fire radio hookup. emergency. The police radio operates un- CD Monitor • der the call letters of KCF-493 Also in the Center fire station and is on the same wave length is a state police radio monitor, as the Lowell police radio, and which goes into operation imme- both can be used without changes diately whenever the state police! , in any of the sets. In fact, send out air raid test warnings' should anything happen to Low- and alerts, and would do the ell's transmitter, the Chelmsford same if any CD emergency one could take over; and the arose. same would be true if Chelms- To complete this radio sys-I ford's should be put out of ac- tem, the town CD unit has a' tion as Lowell could continue to communications group which has serve the town cars as it has for its own receiver-transmitter at years. the town hall which can com- Purchased with the co-opera- municate with CD headquarters tion of the local civil defense at any time, and it has three CD, agency, the new two-way radio mobile units which can be taken has its transmitter located in the in the cars of any of the mem- police office in the town hall, bers and put into action any- and as soon as the work can be where in the town as the need. done a remote-control unit will might arise to provide two-way4' be set up at ,the fire station so communication. that messages can be received The CD headquarters also has and transmitted from this point. an inter-communication system' Best System with the fire department Center With the local police radio in station so that it can be informed! operation, Chelmsford has prob- of any messages on any other", ably the best communications radio network and also can keep system, of any town in the com- the center informed of anything, monwealth for normal and emer- reported by its mobile units or gency usage. its headquarters. In addition to the two-way po- Under this elaborate set-up, lice unit, the town also has a two- much of which has been secured way radio station at the Center with the assistance of the civil fire station which can communi- defense, the town is in an envi- cate with any of the town's eight able position, for its has eight fire trucks and receive messages fire trucks, three police cars and; from them, and it can also talk three CD mobile units which can' back and forth with any of the communicate with headquarters; 10 other towns in the North at any time from any spot where Middlesex-Essex county fire hook- an emergency might arise. CD Presents Generator Chief Allan Kidder, Chelmsford fire depart- left to right, William Edge, Charles Donald- mentt, accepts a new generator presented son, Charles Koulas and Bert Needham. on behalf of the town Civil Defense unit by, Chelmsford Firemen Build Trailer c15-7 For Large CD Emergency Power Unit 22 CHELMSFORD, Nov. 9 — A the 5000-watt generator out of its truly portable large-size electric funds, with the Civil Defense bearing part of the cost, and it Chelmsford generating unit has been provid- was located in the Center fire ed for emergency use in the town Cancel Demonstration; station. through the combined efforts of It is large and heavy, so it To Award MVP Trophy the Civil Defense committee and lacked the mobility of the small- CHELMSFORD, Nov. 25—Be- the town fire department. er units. cause of threatening weather': The unit is designed to provide In order to overcome this prob- yesterday morning and the low ample power to operate the town lem, Fire Chief Allan Kidder, teniperatUreS, the planned dem- hall in an emergency, and this Captain Ernest Byam and Fire- onstration of the fire depart- building has been wired so that man Robert Abbot decided that ment's-new Engine 1, a 750-gallon the change from regular to emer- they could pool their knowledge triple:combination fire truck, was gency power could be made with- and efforts and build a satisfac- cancelled. in minutes, but it also is designed tory trailer. for transportation anywhere in The work was started some town to meet needs which it time ago and now the trailer and could meet better than the small- generator have -been combined er portable units. • and the unit is ready for use The CD committee purchased when and where needed. Boy Rescued From Pond in 14 aelmsford Chelmsford Minor Fire—Selectmen CHELMSFORD — An 11-year- old youth was rescued from Hold Regular Session drowning in Devine's pond, off CHELMSFORD, Dec. 2—A fire Carlisle street, late yesterday by believed to have started from a two passing motorists who were fireplace set a playhouse at 243 attracted to the scene by the Westford street ablaze yesterday, shouts of the boy's playmates. but firemen responding on the Rescued was Joseph E. Mc- call made short work of the Shane, Jr., of 34 Asbury street, flames and the damage was rela- in the East section of the' town, tively slight. Engines 1, 7, and 8 and the rescuers were Ted Kiska kJ\ with Chief Allan Kidder re- of 381 Pleasant street, Dracut, sponded. and Rene P. Grimard of 60 Co- lumbia road, Lowell. From information gleaned by Fire Chief Allan Kidder, who responded on the emergency call with several companies of his department and the rescue boat, a group of boys had been playing on the ice of the small pond after school, when the ice suddenly Chelmsford Baby, Found gave way and the McShane boy 'fell into the water. While one of the boys ran to Unconscious in Crib, Dies . ' 1, the firehouse and sounded a bell alarm, bringing out Engines 1, CHELMSFORD — One-month- 4, 7 and 8 of the fire department, old Denise R. Davis, daughter of others went to nearby homes and Mr. and Mrs. G. Austin Davis telephone calls telling of a pos- of 156 Tyngsboro road, was ,,sible drowning tragedy brought found unconscious in her crib at 7 o'clock this morning and failed to respond to emergency treat• ment given by firemen and doc- Boy Rescued , tors at St. Joseph's hospital, be- ing pronounced dead at 8.20 a. m. From Pond The baby had been suffering Co of in ued from Prost Page additional rescue crews to the from a severe cold and her scene, along with the fire de- mother, checking the infant at 7 partment boat. o'clock, found that she was un- However, the shouts of the conscious. Members of the fami- ly immediately started artificial boys attracted the attention of respiration and a call for police Kiska and Grimard and they ef- and firemen brought Lt. Charles, fected a quick rescue, after which the Jangraw and George Dixon of boy was taken home, ap- Engine 2 and Officer Leslie parently none the worse for his Adams, Jr., in the cruiser. experience. Firemen used the resuscitator' at the home briefly, but, recog- nizing the seriousness of the baby's condition, took the child in the cruiser to St. Joseph's hos- pital, continuing use of the re- suscitator on the way and, under medical supervision, at the hos• pital. Treatment was continued until 8.20 a, m. when the baby I was pronounced dead by Dr. Cohn. It1

1 ti Chelmsford -. Chelmsford firemen Use Jack Hammer ' Firemen ini To Get at Blaze Under Fireplace Slab CHELMSFORD — Fir em e n water department's air compres- Safety Move,; lanswering a call to the home of sor and jack hammer and broke Frank G. Snook at 172 Proctor up the cement base under the CHELMSFORD, Dec. 14 — The road, in the South section, yes- fireplace. Chelmsford fire department mem- terday afternoon, had to use an As they opened up the base, bers again this year will spray air compressor and jack ham- flames shot well above the ex- Christmas trees with a fire re- mer, and also to dig deeply un- cavation and it was found that tardent material in the interest der the house before they could the fire was centered in an 8 x 8 I of public safety. extinguish the fire. carrying beam and several 2 x 6 Trees to be sprayed should be Chief Allan Kidder reported floor stringers. delivered to the Center fire sta. that the house was of the type The fireplace had not been tion, properly tagged, and may without a cellar, and Mrs. Snook used since Sunday and it is be- be picked up the following day. discovered smoke seeping lieved the fire had been burn- A charge covering the cost of through the floor boards in the ing since that time. materials will be made for the living room near the fireplace. Fire damage w a s relatively spraying. Firemen dug under the house slight, and so was the smoke Fire officials do not claim that near the fireplace and could see loss to the house, but the fire- the spraying makes the trees fire, which they drowned out, but place base had to be completely fireproof, but they insist that it they had no way of knowing if broken in order to make sure does make them more fire re- the flames were completely ex- that the fire was completely ex- sistant than they otherwise would tinguished, so they borrowed the tinguished. be. Trees may be left at the sta- tion from now on, and all are urged to get their trees there as quickly as possible to prevent de- Minor Fire lays due to a last-minute rush. Engines 1, 7 and 8 responded on an alarm at 6 o'clock last night to the home of Alden M. The fire department answered Doughty, 18 Golden Cove road, two resuscitator calls in the past where a divan was on fire. The 48 hours, to Littleton road and blaze was quickly extinguished North road residences. On the and fire loss was limited to the first call the ill person was re- divan and rug. vived sufficiently to warrant re• moval to a hospital, but in the second case the woman failed to respond. Skilled first aid certificate holders responded on both calls with the fire department's res- cue equipment, and this year this unit has been called upon more than ever, and with ex- ceptionally satisfactory results in most instances. j - 7 LOVIf ELL DIES IN CHELMSFOR CRASH Three Other Men Are Injured as Car and Truck Collide on Route 3 CHELMSFORD—A Lowell automobile salesman was almost with Sideman after the latter was born in Lowell, the son of instantly killed and three others, from Lowell, Dracut and Tyngs- had been extricated from the John J. Kelley and Mary Owens boro. were injured, in a station wagon-produce truck crash on truck cab. Kelley. He was a veteran of Route 3, between the Billerica town line and the Route 129 over- Exactly what happened is not World War II having enlisted on pass, late yesterday afternoon. known to police as yet, and they John J. Kelley Jr., 40, of 182 Stevens street, Lowell, was re- are hopeful of getting more de• Feb: 7, 1939, in the 'J. S. Army ported dead on arrival at the Lowell General hospital, to which tails from eye witnesses who and was inducted into federal he was taken in the Lowell ambulance. • left their names and then pro- service Jan. 16, 1941 as a staff A passenger in his car, Frank Cunha, 45, of 1181 Lakeview ceeded on their journeys. sargeant. He was commissioned avenue, Dracut, was taken in a passing car to St. John's hospital, Cunha, who was riding in the a second lieutenant on Oct. 20, Lowell, where he was reported as not critically hurt. station wagon, told police that Edward J. Picard, 34, of Picard avenue, Tyngsboro, driver of the vehicle went into a skid, that 1942, and wounded at Gaudalcanal the produce truck, was taken in the Billerica ambulance to the he didn't feel any bump until the on Jan. 11, 1943. Upon recovery LOwell General hospital for treatment of various injuries, none car went into the gully. from his wounds, he was commis- considered critical. Picard, driver of the truck, said sioned a captain and for two His passehger, Louis Sideman. 58. of 59 Bellevue street, Lowell, he was proceeding northerly on years was in charge of film dis- also was taken to the Lowell General hospital, for treatment of the highway when he felt a tribution for the First Service back and other injuries. "thud" in the rear of the truck command. He won the Purple The accident occurred at about 3 p. m., during the heavy rain. and the heavy vehicle went out Heart and two battle stars. An emergency call brought where it apparently had rolled of control and rolled down the Mr. Kelley is survived by his Sgt. Raymond Harmon, and Of- from the north-bound lane, and gully, spilling its capacity load wife, the former Marion L. Coo- ficers Francis Foster, Allan the station wagon was about 50 of fruit and vegetables on the ney; a daughter Ann Marie Kel. Adams and Peter Fitts of the lo- feet north of it, in the same gully. highway and on the grass along ley; three sons, John J. Kelley the roadside. 3rd; Laurence J. Kelley and cal police to the scene. They and it appeared that it also had John J. Kelley, Jr.' found one man trapped in the rolled. Both ,:vehicles were badly The station wagon was demol- Thomas Kelley; his parents John wreckage and called the fire de- damaged and. one man. Sideman, as it overturned and he was un. ished and the truck was heavily J. and Mary Owens Kelley; a sis- damaged. ter Rev. Sister Jean Marie GNH, partment emergency car, which was trapped in the cab of the conscious and near death. He was superior at D'Youville college, responded with Captain Ernest truck. placed in the first ambulance and It was hours after the accident Buffalo, N. Y.; two brothers, Ray- Byam, William Thayer and Wal- Capt. Byam and the other fire. before wrecking crews could get taken to the hospital where it mond F. Kelley and Robert L. ter Hedlund. The Lowell and men brought wrecking tools to was reported he was dead on ar- the two vehicles out of the gully Kelley; also many nieces and Billerica ambulances also re• the scene and quickly freed Side- rival. and towed from the scene. nephews. He was a member of sponded to the series of emergen- man, removing him from the Cunha stud PIcard were out Inspectors Joseph - Engstrand the Holy Name society, Order of cy calls. crushed cab through the wind. the car and truck When Sgt. and Ray Wintle of the motor the Purple Heart, Disabled Re- Sgt. Harmon reported that shield. Harmon arrived with the detail registry division of the state tired Officers association, PTA of ' when he reached the scene the Thrown from Wagon of police, and the ,former went joined local police in the investi- Keith academy. am;' 4$..member of produce truck wag in a gully on Kelley aparently had been with a passing motorist to the gation. the board of directors the Xi- the east side of the highway, thrown from the station wagon hospital, while Picitrd was sent The victim of the fatal crash wanis club. GLOBE—NOVEMBER 2, 1958 was Mr. and Mrs. George W. the scene of any large blaze Lawrence. He, a former Brock- and that also can be easilyi ton fireman (ret.), is 92 and Mrs. Lawrence is 81. * * * Emerson E. Glass, a member of the Marblehead Fire Dept. for 18 years, has been promot- led to the rank of captain by Chief John S. Adams, The new captain, who succeeds the late Nine Capt Herbert Burridge, will be in charge of the Franklin st. (maneuvered by hand if need has two new fire stations and a Station. be. This up to date departmentlnew rescue truck. * * * - — Capt Vincent Bolger of Lad- der Co. No. 12 Boston Fire Dept., and formerly of Ladder Co. No. 4, was the recent speaker at the regular meeting of the Boston Sparks Assn. at their quarters, 12 Dartmouth st. Firefighters' News st. By CAPT GEORGE W. * * * HUNT JR., W.F.D. Firefighter Richard W. Lynch of Jeffers st., Roslindale, at- Chelmsford / 9s-53 Quincy's Chief of Dept. tached to Engine Co. No. 13, Thomas F. Gorman speaking won the "Firefighter of the !before the William Lawrence Year" award given annually 'Men's Club of Christ Church, in conjunction with "Emergen- Resuscitator to stated "churches should give cies Don't Wait Week." serious consideration to install- The award of the trophy and Be Demonstrated ing automatic fire detection a $100 savings bond was made (systems. Installation of such by Richard Gray, state chair- CHELMSFORD, May 14 — A -Ir" devices would be sound fire man of E.D.W.W., in the pres- and economic protection to the ence of Fire Commissioner. demonstration of an entirely churches. Chief Gorman also Francis X. Cotter. Firefighter new type of resuscitator, de- called on residents to avail Lynch made two trips into a signed to meet current dayl themselves o the free home burning house on Shawmuf ay. needs, will be staged at the Cend spe..ction by m bers of the to save two children. ter fire station Friday at 7:30 Quincy Dept. Rev. hest * * * p. m., under the direction of P6ttius, rector of the •-Chelmsford Fire Dept. per- the ritoestant chapla F the l has constructed a trailer. Chief Allan Kidder. An invita- fire delrártment. -ok tion is extended to members of •iitaped with heavy stream the Lions and Kiwanis clubs and appliances that can be towed to to all others interested to at- tend. Avert Serious Fire in Chelmsford CHELMSFORD—Quick work on the part of employees pre- vented a possibly serious fire at the Westlands Motors garage on Chelmsford street at 9 o'clock last night. An automobile, pulling out of the filling station yard, knocked a gasoline pump over and a spark set the fumes afire. While one sounded an alarm, other employees put into use a CO.2 extinguisher and kept the flames under control until fire- men arrived and completed the job. _ g FIRE CHIEF / , 4:5G KIDDER DIES 'EMBER 6, 1958 dens' Assoc. He also belonged to William Sewall Gardner Lod- ge, AF and AM, of Lowell, and had served in World war II. "se- -- Calling hours at the Blake Memorial Funeral Home, 24 Wor- then street, are from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. today (Thurs- Kidder and Cora M. (Robbins) day), with funeral services Kidder. His survivors include conducted by the Rev. Cyril E. his wife, Ruth (Albers) Kid-. Bentley at the Central Baptist der, a son, David A.; his mo- Church on Friday at 2 P.M. ther, Cora M. Kidder; and a Friends are invited to attend. sister, Mrs. Roland Heald. All Burial will take place in Pine are Chelmsford residents. Ridge cemetery under the di- Chief Kidder had been ap- rection of Funeral Directors pointed a fire fighter in Cortlandt J. Burkinshaw and F. 1930; district chief in 1946; warren Johnson. and became chief in 1954. He had been widely and very fa- vorably known for his interest The town was shocked to hear and work in the local fire de- on Election Night it the sud- partment and in various or- r &kt rt den death of Fire "hief Allan ganizations connected with Kidder at his home 47 North fire protection. He was a mem- ir)p el f Road, Center section Town ber of the New England•Asso- elation of Fire Chiefs, of the Continued on page 4 Middlesex County Forrest war- LUMBER

Fire Chief Continued from page 1 flags were placed at half-mast CATHAY yesterday. Chief Kidder suc- cumbed shortly after casting his vote on Tuesday. He had GARDEN been a local resident for most of his life and attended the Chelmsford schools. He was the son of the late Rothesay P. Only Four Years on the Lowell Business Scene and Enjoying Constant Growth—Serving the Finest CHINESE-AMERICAN FOOD • ORDERS TO GO • BANQUETS • PARTIES G L 4 - 6402 LOWELL-LAWRENCE BOULEVARD

3111mi. Is -1 . • Chelmsford Selectmen Ponder sr-9-58 Choice of New Fire Department Chief CHELMSFORD, Nov. 8—Fac- 750 GPM pumper will be re- though there are several others solar as an appointment is con- ing the board of selectmen at ceived to further add to the mod- who are considered as candidates cerned until the actual vote of the present time is .the duty of ernization of the department. for this important post, it ap- the selectmen is taken -end it is At the present time Capt. hoped that there will be no delay naming new fire chief to re- pears today that Mr. Byam will a Ernest L. Byam is acting as chief get the rod. on the part of the board in reach- place Allan Kidder, whose unex- of the department, and al- However, nothing is certain in- ing its final decision. pected death on election night came as a shock to the entire community. Under the statute adopted by the town, the fire chief does not come under civil service, but once elected he can be removed only on charges which can be upheld in court—so that tenure is practically automatic. The department has been un- der the direction of Chief Kidder ever since it was truly modern- ized, and he, with the boards of engineers in the post-war years, played a major part in this mod- ernization. With the abolition of the fire engineer board, Mr. Kid- der was named chief and held this title until his death, con- tinuing to build up the depart- ment year year.

ONLY WEEKS AGO a new rescue truck, bought with the funds raised by public subscrip- tion with the assistance of the Firemen's Relief fun—the drive being headed by Chief Kidder— was accepted by the town, and within another few weeks a new THE LOWELL SUN

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In Chelmsford BYAM NAMED FIRE CHIEF CHELMSFORD, Nov. 11 — By and had acted in this capacity department since 1931, serving Chief Byam is married and has only business other than the unanimous vote, the selectmen previously whenever the chief as a call man and officer for three children. He resides at 8 election of the new ::ire chief at a special meeting last night was ill or out of town. many years and as a permanent Perham street, in the Center. was consideration of the various elected Ernest B. Byam as fire captain for the past four years. The appointment was an- The special meeting of the street acceptance petitions which chief to fill the vacancy result- nounced by Chairman Edgar He has worked with Chief selectmen followed a welfare are slated for action at the next ing from the death last week. of George with he, and Selectmen Kidder. on many of the projects Allan Kidder. board session last night and the annual town meeting. Robert McAndrew and Raymond involving the modernization of The appointment was made J. Greenwood all voting in the department and has played as of last night. Mr. Byam had favor. an active role in all matters con- been serving as acting chief THE NEW CHIEF has been a cerning the department and its since the death of Chief Kidder, member of the Chelmsford fire work.

C t' New Fire Chief

Ernest G. Byam, named Monday night by the Chelmsford board of selectmen as fire chief to succeed the late Allan Kidder, is shown at his desk as he took over his new duties. He is a vet- eran of 27 years as a call man and regular in the town fire department, most recently serving as a cap- tain at Engine I in the Center.

NEW ENGLAND PRODUCT—This scene shows one of the best examples of the varied cargoes handled in the Port of Boston. One of four New England-made pieces of fire apparatus, ordered by the Republic of Korea, is lifted aboard the SS Pioneer Mart. Trucks were custom built by the Maxim Company of Middleboro.

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'FIRE TRUCKS F0a KOREA '1 Four new fire engines, custom built by the Maxim Co. of Middle- • boro for the Republic of Korea, will be loaded aboard the United dStates Lines' SS Pioneer Mart at 'East Boston this morning. , cLiik

Two-Year Course for Teen-Alters 4/111F- j, Train Young Fire Figh,ters

Twelve British teen-agers recently The Chief of the Manchester ' Fire began a rugged, two-year training Brigade explained that the boys will course to become "fireboys." not take part in actual fire fighting it is part of a growing British plan during the course. to prepare youngsters to become "There will be no operational risk trained fire fighters of the future. attached to this scheme," he said. Fire brigade life appeals to men "It is intended to recruit boys to who like the thought of public serv- bridge the gap between the time they ice coupled with action, and the leave school and the time they can promise of excitement and adventure.* • start—their full fire fighting training But, forgetting the glamour, it is a at the age of 18. job for physically and mentally alert "In a way it is similar to an ap- men who have an aptitude for han- prentice scheme." dling and maintaining mechanical In this way, the brigade hopes to equipment; men who are not afraid maintain a regular supply of well- of strict discipline. trained, tough firemen. • The course was started by the There is a need, too, for such men Manchester Fire Brigade. Manchester in an age when fire risk is great. Not is a big city in the heart of the indus- only must they fight fires that break trial northwest of England. out in big buildings, but a fire bri- The 12 teen-agers who reported for gade's prevention department must duty on the first day of the course inspect the buildings to advise on were told that the object is to give such things as water supply and them educational and physical train- ventilation. ing so that they will be well pre- To do this efficiently they must be pared by the time they are 18 (mini- able to read drawings and have some mum age) to join the brigade proper. architectural knowledge. Their course includes scholastic There are also new special risks in- subjects. volved in fire fighting today. Chem- On two days a week they take ical fires, for instance, are a major mathematics, English, science, en- hazard. gineering, drawing and automobile "Each chemical presents its own engineering as compulsory subjects separate problem," said a fire brigade at a technical college. Physical edu- spokesman. The best ways of dealing cation includes organized games, with radioactive materials•have also group tasks in open country, swim- to be studied by firemen. ming, and lifesaving. . It is expected that brigades Their training, of course, includes throughout Britain will adopt a sim- an introduction to the brigade's de- ilar scheme for the training of junior partments. firemen.

In Chelmsford Don't Call Fire Department Totheck on School Sessior4 CHELMSFORD, " Jan. 10—Fire sible for a fire call or other emer- Chief Ernest G. yam today gency message to get through, asks the people of Chelmsford the chief said. to refrain from calling the fire station on stormy mornings to THE DEPARTMENT, Chief ascertain it there is school. Byam explained, has but two The fire whistle is sounded at set times in the morning to give trunk lines leading in to the notice of "no school" in the ele- switchboard, and when these two mentary and high schools, and an- are tied up with inquiries about nouncements are made through school, fire calls cannot get various radio stations. through without the caller get- It is not that the firemen are ting the telephone company Oper- unwilling to give this informa- ator and stating that an emer- tion, but it is simply that the no gency exists, and this some4mes school calls block the department takes more time than the emer- switchboard and make it impos- gency permits. 11/,41/voy Reid Named Deputy Chief Of Chelmsford Fire Wept. CHELMSFORD—The appoint- Reid has been serving as a man in 1955 and who had served men of Frederick H. Reid as captain in the department. He as a call man previously. deputy chief of the fire depart- was appointed a regular mem- Named lieutenant is Donald ment, to fill the vacancy left by ber of the force in 1955 and had Gray, who has been serving as the death of Raymond N1cGlin- served prior to that time as a a private since his appointment chey, was announced by Chief call man. in 1957. He also had served prior Ernest G. Byam in a letter to Named captain to succeed to '57 as a call man. the board of selectmen last; Reid is Lt Edward Quinn, who night. also was appointed a permanent THE APPOINTMENTS were made by the chief, who is the sole appointing authority under the present fire department set- up. However he asked if the promotions meet the approval of the selectmen and they so voted. rr

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Council to Consider dig THE LOWELL SUN Borrowing $300,000 LOWELL--CouncilorI Lowell, Mass. • TUESDAY Raymond EVENING, NOVEMBER 24,L. 1964 Lord• 20 Pages, will10 Cents propose tonight that a loan or- . der be voted by the city council instructing the city to borrow S300,000 for the construction of a new activated carbon f liter. • - set'. • • A date for the necessary public hearing on the motion will probablybe Fair • City * , * during tonight's discussion. needed 88th Ye Lord filed his motion on Saturday, explaining that formal action is ing Historic Middlesex County SEP PAGE 3 EDITION to deal with the worsening taste and odor of the city's water. r ' ',- • Lord and Mayor Sampson at- tended a meeting last night at committee. Its purpose was to broke the deadlock In favor of - '- the CentralvItle Social club, press for action by the council the motion.• .• .• • called by the newly-formed in Improving the water. An es- • "Citizens for Clean Water" timated 30 to 90 were present. Another council matter to- Both Lord and Mayor Samp- night will be a decision to son committed themselves at finalize the appropriation . of ; the meeting to supporting the $2500 from city funds; to pay , loan order motion tonight, but for a Thanksgiving day parade. • the mayor said the money The counclt last week voted to,' should be held in escrow until sponsor the parade and - tdgive an exhaustive study had been the responsibility for It to Coun- completed to determine how cilor John Carney." At was: effective the activated carbon agreed to check', today and to filter would actually be. see how far the project' was Last night's meeting also pro- progressing and how much local , duced a formal organizational merchants were contributing•to - set-up of the lean Water com- it. If Carney felt:the parade,./.:1: mittee. Roger Coutu, 603 Lake- could be a reality with only a view avenue, was unanimously week's preparation,'' then: the elected president; Raymond council would decide' whether' . ' • • Brunet, 36 Llewellyn street, or not 'to advance •the • treasurer; Fred Melanson, Cen- tralville, vice' president; Mrs. 'Three public hearings on trot; - Georgette Desmarais, Pawtuck- fie ordinance, changes-will be etville, secretary; and Roland held at 8 p. m. as well.— One •• Desmarais, Pawtucketville, as deals , with- the "settincor- no:.. chairman of &special advisory parking limitations: on -Wilder- ' • ' committee. '„ „. . • street easterly from'Brosdway, . of Pawtucket street.;! A second THE MEETING then came to would establish no •• parking • , a vote on whether to go on rec- westerly on • Rolfe:, street ord requesting that 'the mayor twen the same two'striets.‘The and council support the loan third would erect stop 'signs' order motion at Its session to- at Endicott and West• night. The result was a tie vote, streets, at Newbury and Mem•: • • 16-to-I6. Coutu as chairman Ing streets and at Willie , and Rock streets. • - .• ter•

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WHERE 6000 CHICKENS DIED Chelmsford firemen are shown drowning out a fire that swept a large brooder house at Lupien Farms, Inc., on Westford street, early today, causing loss esti- mated at $10,000. (Item Photo: Smith) Fire Alert

Emergency alert stickers to identify bedroom windows vitch, project chairman„ Wilfred J. Charron, district of children and senior citizens for firemen and police fire chief, and William J. Mageary, president of the will be distributed in Lynn. Launching drive are, left Greater Lynn Jaycees. to right, Sidney Lipsky, co-sponsor, Stanley J. Abramo-

dangering the lives of firemen check the effectiveness of the and police by being misplaced. distribution program in Lynn. New Operation Red Ball He also requested that parents Firemen say the stickers help apply the stickers to their chil- to immediately alert them to the location of rooms where dren's bedroom windows with- their rescue efforts should be Aims At Fire Safety out delay to prevent mishaps. first directed. The sticker pro- REFLECT LIGHT gram is a nationwide safety ef- Lynn's senior citizens and children will soon be The stickers have been spe- fort conducted jointly by the able to enjoy the extra protection of emergency alert cially treated to reflect light in United States Jaycees and the stickers which will identify their bedroom windows for the nighttime. They are to be American Red Ball Transit Co. firemen and police. applied to the upper left hand Entitled Operation Red Ball, Western Ave., the main office corner of the window on the in- the Lynn program is being con- and all drop-in centers of the Side surface of the glass; the Lynn Council on Aging, includ- sticky side is the reflective side ducted by the Greater Lynn ing 58 Andrew St., 128 Chestnut and must face the outside. Jaycee with Lipsky Movers, the St., 571-R Boston St. and 26 Na- Rooms where more than one local Red Ball Transit Co. r hant Place; the Greater Lynn child is sleeping should have agent, as co-sponsor. Jaycees Lifeline Stations, in- two stickers in the window, side Stanley J. Abramovitch, Jay- cluding Market Square Exxon, by side. cees' chairman for the safety Munroe Drug Co. at Munroe and Posters to publicize the pro. project. said that the red stick- Washington streets and the San- gram and sticker distribution ers, four inches in diameter, born Camera Shop at 297 Union points will be distributed will be available to senior citi- St.; and the East Lynn SAND throughout Lynn by Jaycees zens and parents of small chil- Center, 374 Essex St. within the next 10 days. Abra- dren, beginning Monday. Abramovitch said that no movitch said that through the Distribution points are the stickers will be given out to assistance of the Election Fire Prevention Division of the children to prevent them from Commission the .Jaycees will Lynn Fire Department at 7251being used as playthings and en- be able to use census data to 7f5 `tn5 Ft7, Y.7,4 :ttt St!. n$ !ZS !f$ =1 !:73 It X.7! Xft DM! DMT rar-74

Now This Isn't Going To Hurt!"

Volunteer Fireman R a y Marchand doesn't look as though he believed the doc- tor's saying as Dr. Benjamin Blechman prepared to give him his Asian flu "shot" at the Chelmsford fire station. Firemen and policemen now have received their "shots" in the hope that if the flu hits with epidemic force in this area that neither of these vital agencies will be crippled. CHELMSFORD INDEPENDENT

Town Nurse Judy Dunigan, left, checks Fire Chief Frederick Reid's blood pressure while Janice Castro McHugh from the Chelmsford Water District looks on. Dunigan is coordi- nator of the Chelmsford Health Fair scheduled for April 13. (Garo Lachinian photo)

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Town Nurse Judy Dunigan, left, checks Fire Chief Frederick Reid's blood pressure while Janice Castro McHugh from the Chelmsford Water District looks on. Dunigan is coordi- (Garo Lachinian photo) nator of the Chelmsford Health Fair scheduled for April 13.