Pittsfield Reservists Enter Training At Fort Dix And Parris Island
Reservists Ernest Weisberg and Joseph Roy join training programs under the 1955 Reserve Forces Act. Weisberg, 21, son of Mr and Mrs James Weisberg, begins eight weeks of basic training at Fort Dix NJ with E Company 4th Training Regiment and will serve six months on active duty before transfer to home duty with the 338th Engineer Company. He is a Pittsfield High School and Bryant College graduate. Roy, son of Mr and Mrs Alfred Roy, recently enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve for six months of training and reports to Parris Island SC for recruit training. Afterward he will complete the remainder of his obligation at the 42nd Rifle Company FMF USMCR and is a 1930s Pittsfield High School graduate who had worked as a truck driver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Weisberg
Ft. Dix
Ernest C. Weisberg
James Weisberg
Meleca Ave
E Co. 4Th
Weisberg
338Th Engineer. Co
Army Reserve
Pittsfield High School
Bryant College
Joseph A. Roy
Alfred 0. Roy
Wilson St
Marine Corps Reserve
Parris Island
S.C
Pittsfield
42Nd Rifle Co
FMF
USMCR
Roy
Real Estate Sales Across Dalton Lenox and Hinsdale
Henry Lussier transfers house and lot on Cherry Street to Joseph D. Furcinite Sr and Edmund T. Crown. James A. McCabe sells Linden Street property to the same buyers. Cahills sell Imperial Avenue home to Albert A. and Blanche M. Kiger. Goddeau sells corner of Virginia and California Avenues property to Manuel J. and Gloria M. Sylvia. George W. Hulland transfers Warren Avenue house to Charles H. and Diane H. Smith in Dalton. Chivers convey Braeburn Road parcels to Edward J. Foley. Adams Jr and Beverly Adams sell Mountain View Terrace home to Richard F. and D. Karen Pease. O’Donnell sells Goodrich Street house to Brice M. and Sally F. Cornwell Hinsdale. Lynch sells corner East Dugway Road and Sullivan Avenue property to Arthur B. and Elizabeth M. Phinney Lenox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Lussier
Joseph D. Furcinite Sr
Edmund T. Crown
Cherry Street
James A. McCabe
Linden Street
Robert E
Frances A. Goddeau
Manuel J
Gloria M. Sylvia
Virginia
California Avenues
George W. Hulland
Charles H. and
Diane H. Smith
Warren Avenue
Dalton
Frederick R. Adams Jr
Beverly R. Adams
Richard F. and
D. Karen Pease
Mountain View Terrace
James E
Fthelyn M. Lynch
Arthur B. and
Elizabeth M. Phinney
East Dugway Road
Sullivan Avenue
Lenox
Resources Push Is Urged for N Y Vermont
VERGENNES Vermont AP The New York Vermont Interstate Commission on the Lake Champlain Basin ends its annual meeting with a call for action to develop and protect the basin’s natural resources The resolution seeks a two state compact with committees from both legislatures and the Interstate Cooperation committee to work out provisions Assemblyman Grant W Johnson of Ticonderoga NY re elected chairman urged empowering the group to carry out recommendations Other proposals include bilingual highway signs at the Canadian border establishing an historic museum at The Old Post and building a third bridge across Lake Champlain at Plattsburgh NY New officers named John S Wild secretary and Robert Williams vice chairman Wild NY commerce department regional manager Williams Vermont deputy commissioner of forests and parks
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vergennes
New York
Vermont
Interstate Commission
Lake Champlain Basin
Committee
Grant W. Johnson
Ticonderoga
N.Y
Old Post
Plattsburgh Air Force Base
Lake Champlain
Plattsburgh
John S. Wild
Robert Williams
Wild
New York State Commerce Department
Williams
First gas gangrene surgery in pressure chamber at hospital
Sandra L. Olson, 17, of Worcester, underwent a pioneering gas gangrene operation in a hyperbaric chamber at Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston. Officials said oxygen pressure attacked bacilli. the procedure marks a historic surgical use of the chamber for this disease. Olson, an honors student, was in satisfactory condition after removal from the chamber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
UPI
University of Massachusetts
Europe
Olson
Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Northampton
Bulance
Miss Oson
France
North High School
Worcester
Knickerbocker Serves on Baptist Committee
Kenneth Knickerbocker of 97 Wendell Ave serves on the planning committee for a three day regional seminar of the Massachusetts Baptist Convention. The event will be held in Worcester Needham and Stoneham starting Oct 5 to develop an enlarged adult work program for Massachusetts Baptists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Knickerbocker
Wendell Ave
Massachusetts Baptist Convention
Worcester
Needham
Stoneham
Massachusetts Baptists
Kenyan Objects To Constitution
London Jomo Kenyatta urged Britain to alter Kenya's constitution, saying he would not feel bound by it after independence. He pressed to shrink regional and tribal powers while restoring central government authority, calling the constitutional issue the colony's hardest problem before freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Jomo Kenyatta
Kenya
Britain
Lancaster House
Keniya
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Scott's
Pittsfield Supply Co
North Street
Peter
Pitts
Fenn St
Jom A
Anna L. Cahill
Albert A
Blanche M. Kiger
Imperial Avenue
John R
Julia M. Chivers
Edward J. Foley
Braeburn Road
R. King O'Donnell
Brice M
Sally F. Cornwell
Goodrich Street
Hinsdale
Armstrong
Warrenter
South St
Dettinger Lumber CO
Knickerbocker On Baptist Committee
Herbits Travel Service, Inc
Lee, Stockbridge and
Great Barrington
Call Enterprise
Heating Oil & Burner
Leidengay
Lipton’s
South Street
RCA Pertante
Zenith
RCA
Cneeker
RCA Victor
P.O
Daytona
Ohio
Estey
Adams Super Markets
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