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I .-«*»*~, /" The Wilmington Crusader VOL 18 NO. 29 WILMINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS — WEDNESDAY, JULY 2t, 1955 PRICE loc Little League Tournament Play SELECTMEN TO DECLARE HOLIDAY FOR WILMINGTON'S To Commence Saturday a 31 First Game at Wilmington - The Wilmington Board of The Little League Na- Selectmen have decided to THE .SELECTMEN'S tional Tournament Play declare an official holiday, MEETINU starts Saturday, when pick- in observance of the 225th birthday of t he Town of The threatened trouble, ed teams from each Little Wilmington, on September at Grove Avenue, has been League, in the United 25th. The decision was all cleared up. The Board States will play against made Monday night, in the of Selectmen met with Tho- other teams in an Elimina- Selectmen's meeting, with mas McQuaid, of Grove Ave., tion Tournament, to decide invitations to be mailed to Monday night, and when the the championship of the Governor Herter, Lt. Gov- discussion was finished United States and Canada. ernor Sumner Whittier, and everybody was happy. Mr. The games are arranged in Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers, McQuaid is the operator of .-. series of "Rounds," in member of Congress. Town a boat-livery for which the which winners of previous Manager Joseph Courtney Selectmen had threatened games face new opponents. was delegated by the Se- to revoke the license. The "Rounds" are about lectmen to prepare sugges- Selectman DeFellce relat- two days apart. tions for the observance of ed how he had inspected the Twenty six of the twenty the holiday, which has al- premises, and a parking lot seven teams in District 3, ready been set aside by adjoining, last Sunday, first of Greater Boston, (of the Rotary Club of Wil- alone, and then in the com- which Wilmington is one mington for a holiday car- pany of Mrs. Drew, Chair- team) will be playing next nival. man of the Board. DeFellce Saturday. The 27th team, Members of Wilming- paid high credit to the Billerica, drew a '<bye" ton's Veteran's Organiza- bea<:h and area, and declar- and will not start play un- tions, and other organiza- ed that it was a credit to til the Second Round, July tions in town are to be the town. "Baby Beach" as 26th. invited to participate in It is known, was stated by Wilmington's Tournament the events of the 225th DeFellce to be the cleanest Team will face the Tourna- birthday. and safest place at the lake, ment Team of Burlington, and he countered it to the The vote of the Select- area around the Town on the Wilmington field, on men was on a motion by Saturday, in a game that Beach, saying that the lat- E. Hayward Bliss, of Glen ter was a dfegrace. The tall is scheduled for 2 p.m. At road. the same time other Tour- weeds, a brokenfence gate, nament teams will be play- through which grass one MR. AND MRS. GEORGE ENGLAND, 55 YEARS MARRIED, WITH YOUNGEST WHEN IS A STRAIGHT foot high was growing, and ing in other towns, Tewks- LINE NOT STRAIGHT? cinders in the parking lot bury, for instance, facing GREAT GRANDCHILD, STEPHEN RUSSELL HUGHES, 10 DAYS OLD. When is a straight line SURPRISE PARTY drew derisive comment Chelmsford, and the Wo- not straight? The answer, from DeFellce, and a sug- burn Nationals facing the ! Still active and spry, he [land, of Winchester. There in WilmSngKcn, today, is 55th ANNIVERSARY gestion by Selectman E. Woburn Americans. goes to work every day, in | are 12 grandchildren, and when it happens to be a Hayward Bliss that the The winner of the Wil- Mr. and Mrs. George the . company which he 4 great-grandchildren. Town Boundary, laid out Town Manager take steps mington-Burlington tilt will England, 45 Main street, founded, the G. R. England The England's lived for in 1730. to determine the responsi- face the winner of the Wo- were tendered a surprise company of Greenwood, over 40 years in Medford, The firm of Wright and bility of the care of the burn-Woburn match, next party, Sunday on the oc- manufacturers and cabinet and sold their home to Pierce, who are making an casion of the 55th Anniver-1 makers. Town Beach area. Tuesday, July 26th, in a move to Florida. Not find- aerial survey of the Town of DeFellce declared that he game at Burlington, start- l the Wilmington have discovered ?"*■ ?"»' S , J. ^f I Mrs. England, born Sadie ing Florida congenial, they had found no congestion ing at 530 p:.m. Thus it is time, of Mr England s 80th McLaine, is from the state moved to Wilmington four that the straight line, from near the parking lot, and possible that Woburn and birthday. Thirty-two guests |of MainC| ^d was educat- years ago. Mr. England has the Ipswich River to Salem that if anybody else called Wilmington will play each were present at the Silver ed m ^ s&ools 0f Augus- liked Wilmington from the Street, of the Town's him, to say there was, be other in Burlington. Lake home of the couple, ta. She married when she very start, but Mrs. Eng- bounds, is not straight It would tell the person to go The sites for Rounds 3, 4, who were married in Brigh- was 19 years old, and still land found that it took has been known for the past Jump In the lake. He had and 5 have not been an- ton on July 18, 1900. active, doing all her own time to like her new home. 20 years that the line was tried parking, along the nounced. The date for George England was housework. She finds it very nice not properly located at Con- road, on two occasions, and Round 3 will be July 28, born in Prince Edward Is- The couple have five chil- now, though. cord Street, but indications each time had been request- ■ Round 4—July 30th., and land on July 18, 1875, and dren, Mrs. Edna Hughes of He is a 40 year member from the work of surveying ed to move within 30 sec- Round 5 — August 3rd. has been a resident of the Mel rose; Mrs. Doris Ryer- now show that the line is onds, by a boy in the employ of the Mt. Hermon Lodge, not properly located at Park The winner of round 5 will United States since he was;^ of Saiem; Mrs. Thelma AF&AM., and she is a 40 of Mr. McQuaid. He thought play in the Woburn Tour- S d 1 ar nts Street, too. that the 14 boats, which Mr. UJ H M - S ? P * ' Thyson of Medford; Mrs. year member of the Royal Dana Perkins, Civil En- nament, for the New Eng- Mr and Mrs Robert Eng- Greta .prederich of Florida Chapter of the Order of McQuaid has for rental pur- a c elebrate gineer, discovered about 20 land, Maritime Provinces ! h «r ML A . .and Lawrence Russejl Eng- the Eastern Star. poses were a definite asset, and Quebec Championship, their 60th Anniversary. ' years ago that a house for potential life saving. and the winner of the Wo- ———-"—-—-—~————————~ whtch had always been be- McQuaid told the Select- burn Tournament will go lieved to be in Wilmington suit of his war experiences. I PONY LEAGUE Bankin, R. Cornish, W. was in North Reading. The men that the weekend of on to Williamsport, Penn- Horn In Boston, he is sur-lALL STARS TO PLAY July 4th may have been con- Ethier, E. Coste. A. Penny, house Is 'on Concord Street. gested, because he was sylvania, for the National vived by his wife, Elizabeth NORTH READING Sal De Pasquale, C. Ful- The changes which may re- Championship games. (Hlckey) Kelley, two daugh- THURSDAY ler, W. McFeeters, R. Eth- sult as a result of the seem- away, but on other occasions Players in Wilmington's ters, Mrs. Mary I Farrar of he kept very strick control. Tournament Team', as an- ier, R. Hoban and P. Kava- ing dlscreptaiicies on Park He proposed to erect a bar- West Sonierville, and Mrs. Wilmington's Pony Lea- naugh. ■ Street will not be as great nounced b y Wilmington Margaret E. Sweeney of gue is to have a game with ricade, which would be por- as the Concord street case, table, and would be placed Little League officials are Ashland, four sons Edward North Reading's Pony Lea- according to present indica- Peter Sciascia, John Mc- F. of Tewksbnry, John 6f gue All Stars, in North WATER MAINS LAID ON in position every night at tions. Members of the firm 9, to prevent late parking, Cabe and Kevin Field from Methuen, and Joseph S. and Reading, tomorrow morn- BIRTHWOOD ROAD of Wright & Pierce say that the Tigers, Guy Micallizzi, Arthur J. of Wilmington, ing, at 9. There is also a "only a few feet is involv- a suggestion which met the James Melzar, Edward Pa- and 16 grandchildren,. He is tentative game for Friday, 2200 feet of water mains, ed". approval of the Board. Mc- lino and Paul Kierstead also survived by a brother, against Tewksbury, with on Birchwood Road, have Quaid told the Board that from the Red Sox, Harold .Bernard, of Medford. return matches being sche- been completed by the Wa- he "allowed no roach stuff" Browne, Richard Mottola, Mr. Kelley was a member duled. ter Department, this week, FOR RENT and that he often cleaned up and Robert Ahearn from of the Lowell Lodge of the Playing for the Wilming- in compliance with the Town Water front room - by day broken glass from adjacent the Indians, and William Elks.