YMCA Fund Drive Progress and Bazaar Details
The YMCA reports $45,000 raised toward a $65,000 goal in its annual drive led by Clifford C. Thomas with support from Lawrence Whit’s committee. Final returns expected, campaign extends through November and local volunteers urged to donate. Also, Assumption School bazaar features dinners, tea, snacks, and Santa appearances, with Girl volunteers babysitting, plus Hadassah Bazaar at YMCA and a six-home building permit in Norwalk. The piece ends noting Greens Farms church events and a card party, and a historic note on the first airplane fight in 1912.
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YMCA
Clifford C. Thomas
Drive
Thumus
Lawrence Whit
John Landan
John McClure
Thomas
A Thankful Dollar Send a Gift to Chest Bridgeport
A local appeal solicits a donation drive titled A Thankful Dollar for Chest Bridgeport to support relief funds. Community members are urged to contribute small gifts to assist a chosen charitable chest in Bridgeport.
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Bridgeport
Firemen Slate Annual Meeting At Long Hill Firehouse
Long Hill Fire company No 1 schedules its annual dinner meeting for December 7 at the firehouse. Members to attend should notify Floyd Magnussen Thomas Kearney or Fred Barber. Firefighters nationwide support Muscular Dystrophy research through fund drives.
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Long Hill Fire Company No. 1
Floyd Magnussen
Thomas Kearney
Fred Barber
United States
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Long Hill Fire
Long Hill
St. Teresa
Bishops
War Relief Services
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Indo-China
Europe
Asia
Middle East
Chandler Chorus
Frank LaForge
Middlebrook School
Grace Episcopal Church
Russell Shaw
James Flaherty
George Stevenson
Kenneth Jones
Thomas Leigh
Ernest Winterburn
Ralph Hepied
Stephen Burroughs
Harry Lake
Bindover in Danbury forgery case for local youth
Danbury youth Donald Straitton, 18, of 40 Division, was bound over to Superior Court in a $1,000 bond on eight counts of forgery. Police say he forged checks for $259.23 using his mother Cynthia Straitton and Alphonse Thompson’s names, cashing them with local merchants. Straitton waived examination before Judge Louis George. bail was reduced from $2,500 to $1,000. He was arrested Nov. 15 while boarding a train to New York and faces additional forgery charges in Newtown Fairfield and Bridgeport.
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Danbury
Donald Straitton
Superior Court
Cynthia Straitton
Alphonse Thompson
Bethel
John Hunt
Bridgeport
Straitton
Louis George
City Court
New York City
Newtown
Fairfield
Polio Victim Snite Dies in Miami Leaves $50000 Estate
Frederick B. Snite Jr., who spent 18 years in an iron lung, left a $50,000 estate in his will filed in probate court. A $2,500 bequest goes to Leonard Hawkins, an iron lung technician who cared for Snite since 1936, with the remainder to his widow Teresa of River Forest.
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Chicago
Frederick B. Snite, Jr
Miami
Fla
Leonard Hawkins
Snite
Teresa
River Forest
Club To Conduct Dance Saturday For Local Teens
A pre college teen club plans a Saturday 6 p m dance and dinner at the Paneyko studio on Wilson road with fifteen charter members from Bassick Whittier Harding Bridgeport Roger Ludlowe Fairfield Laurelton Hall Fairfield Prep and Bullard Havens. Entertainment includes guitar by David Reed vocal by Jack Johnston and accordion by Michael Dugan. Peter Nelson chairs entertainment Winnie O Hara oversees supper. A large group of sponsors is listed and local high school students will attend a conference in Hartford with Governor Lodge as principal speaker.
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George’ Hudak
Rosary Altar Society
St. Stephen’s Church
Novelty Booth
Arthur Collier
Helen Kachele
Donald Hartley
Arthur Dugas
Lee Rock
Doll Booth
Harold Keean
Joseph McNamara
Carrie Squinobal
Jean Bouton
Religious Booth
George Braychak
Stephen Kaffan
Wiliam Renna
Sugar ‘N Spice Booth
John Michel
Emil Michel
Jack Imrischak
Raymond Michel
Anthony Garrick
John McPartland
Paul
Wimley
Union Church
Monroe
East Village
Percy Chamberlin
East Village Methodist Church
Women's Service League
The
Congregational Church
Hans E. Dineson
Wheeler Road
Cub den No
Ralph Sturtevant
George Carris
Purdy Hill Road
Robert Schultz
Peter
Norwich University
Northfield
Vermont
Martin
Michael
Susan
Joseph Schultz
Bridgeport
Joseph Schultz, Jr
Harrison
New York
Edwarde S. Beardsley
Mainstreet
William Beardsley
Nancy
Stratfield
Donald Joyce
Dennis
Milford
Stanley
B. Joyce
Theron Dixon
Stepney
Richard A. Boyce
L. B. Humphrey
Linda
Sally
Stratford
John Boyce
Charles Nichols
Irme Nichola
Oscar B Plumb
Beatrice
Nichols
BE. Perkins Nichols
Fairfield
Allan H. Nichols
Janice
Martha
Wellesley Hills
Oscar J. Hall
Emil Haller
Norman
Margaret Haller
Frederick Lajoile
Newtown
Stephen V. Tingley, Jr
Crescent Place
Leonard Tingley
West Hartford
Scituate, Mass
Bion Tingley
Joseph
Boyce
Cindy
Robert H. Lewis, Jr
Diane
Tracey
Robert Lewis III
J. Kenneth Burr
Trumbull
George T. Spicer
Karen
Helen D. Bradford
Hanaine Damm
Judith
Barbara Burr
Paneyko
Wilson Road
Bruce Dehlin
Peter Nelson
Virginia Walker
Linda Mellen
Winnie O'Hara
Bruce Farr
Jay Casale
Marlon Sindra
Joy Kochiss
James Stark
Louis Toth
William Angliss
Virginia Barbier
Eleanor van Kovics
Bassick, Whittier and
Harding
Roger Ludlowe
Lauralton Hall
Fairfield Prep
Bullard Havens
David Reed
Jack Johnston
Michael Dugan
Frederick E. Silliman
Frederick O'Hara
James V. Casale
Alexander Nestor
William H. Angliss
Louis Broido
Dwight C. Wheeler
Lawrence Hoyt
Speaker Terms Israel's Foes Common to All Democracies
Norwalk learns from Rev. John Stanley Grauel that European fascism has spread to the Middle East and must be eliminated by Israel and Western democracies for lasting peace in Egypt and Arab lands. He cites fascism seeded by religious intolerance, criticizes Britain for Trans-Jordan, and calls for equitable peace backed by Western power. Rabbi Schwartz introduced him at the Jewish center luncheon.
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Norwalk
Middle East
Israel
Egypt
John Stanley Grauel
American Christian Palestine Committee
Jewish Center
West Avenue
Grauel
New England
Nazi Germany
Gravel
England
Trans-Jordan
Transjordan
Samuel Schwartz
Temple Beth el
Sol Deitz
United Jewish Appeal
Local Movers Welcome New Home On Austin Road
Mr and Mrs Harry E Gosselin of Austin Road announce their move into a new home. They are joined by Mr and Mrs Sherwood E Scott and the families of Davide Beott and Francis A who is serving in Korea and expected home before Christmas.
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Sherwood E. Scott
Rathie
Davide Beott
Harry E. Gosselin
Austin Road
Eoney R
Francis A
Kores
Danbury Man Jailed 117 Days After Balmforth Disturbance
Robert Cunningham, 28, of 94 West A Street, was jailed 117 days after causing a disturbance in a Balmforth Avenue apartment house Monday night. City Court Judge Louis George gave 60 days for breach of peace and added 57 days plus a $65 fine for violating probation and revoking a suspended sentence from October 23 for breach of peace resisting arrest intoxication and destruction of private property.
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Danbury
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Assumption School
Joseph Valeski
Friends of Assumption School
A. G. Hessel
Robert Anstett
Edward Wilson
William Murphy
Santa Claus
Hadassah
Westport Chapter
Ralph W. Holmes
Forbell Drive
Arthur A. Miller
Sterling Drive
Buena Vista Drive
Old Mill Beach
Edmund R. Strait
Green’s Farms Congregational Church
Hillandale Road
Greens Farms Volunteer Fire Department
Center Street
Shop AT & Kurtz & Sons Trumbell Center
Firemen Slate Annual Meeting
Danbury Youth
Snite Estate
Abe L. Wilson
Herbert R. Simonde
League of Women Voters
Hotel Statler
Hartford
Governor Lodge
Franklin H. Perkins
Marsh Road
Garden Club
Charles O Rauschkolb
Black Rock Turnpike
Thomas S. Silva
Ridgeway
Jiggs
Joan
Cheshire Prep
Pine Manor College
Wellesly
Brian O’connor
D. Joseph O'Connor
Pomfret
Donald Tague
Edward T. Tague
Suffield
Judith Pinkham
Doris
Dunbarton College
Washington D.C
Henry Herbring
Portland
Oregon
Bruce Dixon
Frederick J. Dixon
Manor Lane
Barbara. Engel
Cleveland
Ohio
Harvard
Smith College
Dixon
Bernhard Setzer
Kathy
Gail
Dixons
J.A. Hetrick
Brookfield Center
Ferris B. Chick
Sport Hillroad
Howard Shaff
Howard L. Shaff
Sport Hill Road
Shaff
Yale
Gunnard F. Wellner
Pond Road
H.F. Wellner
Smith Kistner
Glendale
Long Island
Sherman E. Whiting
Old Sport Hill Road
Southport Women’s Club
Easton Garden Club
Kistner
Berton Shook
North Park Avenue
Robert Tabot
Newburg
N.Y
Eric W. Zackrison
Arthur
Arlene
Walter Zackrison
Louwella van Every
Montclair
N. J
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