Searsburg Town Reports and Local Dispatches
Searsburg Town Reports show town clerk duties handled by Julia France with delivery to residents by Charles Dearcopp. Airman Harry Morgan of Searsburg returns on furlough from Jacksonville and heads to Norfolk then Guantanamo Bay for a year. he hopes to meet brother John Morgan stationed nearby. A separate note reports a San Franciso update on industrial safety tests and a visit to the Springfield flower show featuring gardens and seasonal blooms.
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Searsburg
Julia France
Charles Dearcopp
New Faces Seek Office In Lively Dorset Election
Dorset voters face a crowded slate of candidates for town selectmen and school director. Incumbent Harlan Coolidge battles James Stannard and Claude Dern for the three year selectman post while Russell Parks and James Beebe seek one year terms with other contenders from East Dorset and Dorset. The slate includes Claude Dern, past town official and varied professions, backing a town manager system. Mrs. Ada Towslee and Col. Robbins Crowell contest the treasurer post and the one year school director seat features Mrs. Ralph Gleason alongside incumbents Judith Huffman and Nathaniel Tyler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorset
Harlan Coolidge
James Stannard
Dorset American Legion Post 44
Elizabeth Byrnes
Claude
Robert
Board of Selectmen
Russell Parks
James Beebe
James Riggs
East Dorset
David Gilbert
Gilbert
Burr and Burton Seminary
Air Force Headquarters
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Washington
Ralph Gleason
Judith Huffman
Nathaniel
Terry
Dorset Boy Scout Chosen for Valley Forge Jamboree
Malcolm Cooper son of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Cooper was selected by Dorset’s Boy Scout committee to represent Troop 32 at the annual Boy Scout Jamboree in Valley Forge Pennsylvania in July. He holds the Star Scout rank earned before Christmas and recently became a senior patrol leader with Hal Coolidge.
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Dorset
Malcolm Cooper
Boy Scout Committee
Valley Forge
Star Scout
Hal Coolidge
Boy Scouts
Edwin Kinney
Milan
New York
New Jersey
Bryna Ivans
Seventeen
Newtown
Conn
Poet Untermeyer Speaks at Williams College
Louis Untermeyer will lecture on Play in Poetry at 8 p.m. in Jesup Hall Williams College. The event is sponsored by the Chapin Library and Williams Lecture Committee with a Chapin Library exhibit and a 5:30 p.m. reception. William Jay Smith will introduce him as they collaborate on the Suffield Writers-Readers Conference.
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Williamstown
Mass
Louis Untermeyer
Jesup Hall
Williams College
Chapin Library
Williams Lecture Committee
Untermeyer
Williams
William Jay Smith
London
Paris
Hamburg
Hoosick Falls Air Force Man Competes in Judo Tournament
Airman First Class Michael C. Burke of Hoosick Falls New York competed among 200 entrants at the Armed Forces Judo Association Tournament in Luke AFB Arizona. Burke 23 trained 12 days at a judo clinic run by Pan American Games team members and coached the United States team.
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Hoosick
Air Force
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Saint Mary’s Academy
Hoosick Falls
Emily M. Moore
Hoosick Falls Open House Awards Night featured in town center
The Hoosick Falls annual open house awards night at the Town of Hoosick Community Center will honor Junior Basketball and Midget League champions with team trophies and individual honors for sportsmanship and MVP. Ping pong finals drew 26 entrants. Local officials and clergy will present trophies. Lt. Lewis C. Watt, son of Mrs. Freemont Haswell, returned home for a two week furlough after 13 months abroad. He will train for flight duties in Pensacola.
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Lewis C. Watt
U.S. Marine Corps
Fremont Haswell
Pine Valley Road
Lewis Watt
Watt
Okinawa
Philippines
Korea
Japan
Formosa
China
Pensacola
Fla
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UPD
State Division of Industrial Safety
Leo Berry
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Chiles Pettiford
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Ivy League
Laura
Mae
Drysdale’s
New
Lively
Malcolm
Grimm
Robert B. Condon
Democratic
Lister
The
Lister's
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POLI
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Arizona
Continents
Hoosick Falls Central School
Kiwanis Club
Philip Leonard
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Michael J. Hogan, JR
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Joseph Carroll
Dewey
Joseph Higgins
Lyons St
Gloria Gil
McCall St
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Edith Beaumont
Philadelphia
Georgiana M. Peacher
Temple University Medical Center
Frank Cone
River St
Marian Cummings
Washington Ave
Elizabeth McGurn
Elm St
Lawrence Powers
Bennington Town
Democratic Committee
Milton Pinsker
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James Kinney
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James Sleeman
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Joseph Bruso
Green Acres
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