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Large state mental institutions are still around. Several ring the Boston metropolitan area: Boston State Hospital, Westboro State Hospital, Metropolitan State Hospital and Bridgewater State Hospital. After 125 years of development, they still fail miserably to meet the needs of their patients. Westboro, for example, has only four doctors for approximately one thousand patients. Since 1955, though, a desperately needed alternative to despair without help or stagnation in a mental institution has developed for people who cannot pay for private therapy: networks of community mental health programs...
Companies that have adopted the four-day week have been rewarded by easier recruiting, lower turnover of scarce skilled workmen and less absenteeism. At the George H. Bullard Co. of Westboro, Mass., average absenteeism dropped from 6% of the work force to less than 1%. Says Jerry Goucher, a wheel finisher: "I don't have to lose money by leaving work to fish on opening day like the other guys have to do. Lately, I've been cramming in everything on Friday-dentists, doctors, shopping. Then we have Saturday and Sunday to go somewhere." As Jack Peterson...
...public hearing will be held Friday April 11, at the Fish and Game Field Headquarters, Rt. 135, in Westboro, at 8 p.m. Under consideration will be changed in the current trapping regulations as proposed by the bay state trappers association and an experimental youth upland game season as proposed by the Division of Fisheries and Game...
Phillips Brooks House will provide 12 volunteers to the Massachusetts Youth Service Board next week to work with delinquent boys recently released from the Lyman School, a correctional institution in Westboro...
RUTH WADLEIGH Westboro, Mass...