Community Center Reopens For Fourth Season Tuesday
The War Memorial Community Center resumes operations on Tuesday with an expanded program for its fourth season. Eight new basement bowling alleys and a Saturday morning boys basketball league for about 100 participants are planned, with clinics guided by local coaches. A girls leaders corps will run baton twirling and cheer reading, plus tap dancing, crafts, sewing, archery, and golf. Industrial and business women’s basketball leagues may form from local firms. Adults will begin classes in sewing, art, rug making, archery, and more. The Youth center committee meets Friday for social and dance planning.
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War Memorial Community Center
William Swanson
Swanson
Natalie Hermandorfer
Hermandorfer
University of Connecticut
Barden’s
Frank H- Lee Co
Bard-Parker
Heli-Coil
Davis ‘& Geck
Sperry
Ferris Named To Fairfield County Farm Home Administration Board
Donald B Ferris of Newtown has been appointed to the Fairfield County Farmers Home Administration committee with Edward Rywo lt of Danbury and Victor Close of Brookfield. The agency makes loans to family type farms, offers special livestock loans, and grants emergency credit in designated areas. A county committee approval is needed for borrowing, and farm ownership loans require committee approval of the farm project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald B.ferris
Meadow Road
Newtown
Fairfield County Farmers Home Administration Committee
Dan. E. King
Edward “J.” Rywolt
Danbury
Victor E. Close
Brookfield
Cernter
Farmers’ Home Administration
Secretary of Agriculture
King
Farmers Home Administration
Postoffice
Thompsonville
James P. Brown
Carolyn P. Brown
Taunton Lane
Ellen Gifford
Millbrook
N. Y
Naval Reserve
Navy Reserve Officer Candidate School
Newport
K. M. McManus
USN
Naval Operations
Naval Base
Edward S. Pitzschler
Pohtatuck Grange
Grange Hall
F. Byron Tomlinson
Tomlinson and Hawley, Inc
General Contractors
Bridgeport
Willis F. Arndt
Philip Ameo
Robert K. Mitchell
Vincent P. Gaffney
Tomlinson
Mitchell
Libra
Donald H Hensel
St Peters Fair Adds Rides Zoo and Small Time Features
St Peters Episcopal church fair adds midget car rides a small time zoo tractor trailer rides and games for children. New exhibits include chinchillas parakeets bees and rabbits with judges named for produce flowers and garden entries. Visitors must register in guest book for prizes after the 7 pm fair supper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
William R. Ainley
Clifford G. Sherman
Bernard Lintzner
Lintzner
Sherman
Eugene Ll. Richards
Emil Kasperall
Carmen Browne
Monroe Country
Mother's Club
Consolidated School
PTA
Award night set for Little League in Community center
Tentative Oct 15 Little League award night to honor pennant winners Indies and Crescents and other trophies. Umpires provide sportmanship trophy. George Quadretti Memorial and Harold Zetterstrom Memorial honors. Jackets funded by donations. total now $124 of $300 goal. Funds sought from donors. meeting Sept 15 to plan. James Caprio won bid to build two dugouts at Riverview Park for $985.
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Ralph Malcom
George Martin
Hill Street
St. Vincent's Hospital
Bridgeport
the Indies
Babe DeFrancisco
Crescents
Tom Savarese
Milky Way
Pop Shortell
Bob Shatell
al Munson
Tom Hanley
Richard Kiley
George Quadretti
Harold Zetterstrom
James Regan
Rapp’s
Housatonic Lumber Company
Kyle's
Howe
Buccelly’s
Mendello’s
Premo's
Kazemir Pulaski Club
Bridge
Royal Restaurant
Harry Bassett
Leon Sylvester
William W. Bassett Co
Little League
James M. Caprio
Henry Anderson
Harry Erickson
Riverview Park
Caprio
Marne Taxis Honored in Paris 40th Anniversary
WWI veterans gathered in Paris to mark the 40th anniversary of the departure of the Marne Taxis. Some taxis attended, but only one carried the original army certificate from Paris’s 1814 fleet of 1,400 taxis. About 850 had been requisitioned to move reinforcements to the Marne front where German forces were halted near Paris. Most taxis have since vanished.
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Paris
Marne
Vacation Ends Wednesday For 7,000 School Children
Its back to school with a sad goodbye to the summer vacation Wednesday for more than 7,000 local youngsters. High school freshmen and transfers report at 8:25 a.m. in the auditorium, with sophomores and upperclass transfers following Thursday. Others report to assigned rooms after registration and begin classes the same day.
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Milford Women’s Club
Broadway
Wildemere Beach
John Cherniavsky
Donald Moffett
John W. Mullins
Paul Vance
Richard Halliday
Richard Collinburg
Marechal Clegg
Richard Paine
Eugene Ronshagen
Paul Stenberg
Harry Maurot
Ernest Dean
Fred Aronson
E. Perry Cummings
David Eicher
Milford Yacht Club
Grange completes program for fair plans
Farmill Grange fair committee and workers meet Tuesday at 8 p m in the Grange hall to finalize arrangements for the fair on Sept 11. Exhibits will be received 10 a m to noon and judged by groups. Church business committee to meet Thursday at 8 p m in the parish house. Mrs Kay P Rehnberg of Huntington street has returned from visits with her son and daughter in law Lt Cmdr and Mrs Kay P Rehnberg of Washington DC and viewed the American Legion parade. Gerald Gorgerson of Huntington street visited his parents on business from the Farrell Birmingham branch in Chicago IL. Domenic Saldemarco reports Huntington playground kids raised 27.85 at a food sale, with total in the Huntington White Hills area nearing 200 and more events to come.
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Red Cross
Connecticut
Elks
Red. Cross
Terrace Place
William Lucas, Jr
William Lucas
Ellsworth Avenue
Germany
Danbury State Teachers College
Lucas
Timber Trails Club
Sherman
Army
Leonard D. Ellingwood
Danbury
Navy
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
Harry H. Ellingwood
Center Street
Lieut
Ellingwood
Danbury High School
Bureau
Washington
DD. C
Fails Church
Farmill
Congregational Church
Rehnberg
Kay P. Rehnberg
Huntington Street
Washington, D. C
American Legion
Gerald Gorger
George Gorger
Farrel Birmingham
Chicago
Domenic Saldemarco
Huntington Playground
Huntington-White Hills
Walter Brown Injured in Swimming Mishap at Camp Mahackeno
Constable Walter Brown of Weston road proprietor of Walts Motor Mart sustained abrasions and contusions to the neck and head in a swimming accident during the Saugatuck River at the Police Athletic League picnic on the Camp Mahackeno YMCA day camp grounds. He was taken to Norwalk hospital by Westport ambulance and listed in good condition.
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Westport
Walter Brown
Weston Road
Walt’s Motor Mart
Brown
Saugatuck
Police Athletic League
Camp Mahackeno
Norwalk
Marines and Police Clash in Malta Injuring 30
In Valetta Malta on Sept 5 a street battle between British marines and city police left 30 injured after five hours of fighting. Police report 26 marines two officers and two civilians hurt. Mob of about 60 marines sang Rule Britannia and smashed shop windows before attacking officers with bottles.
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Valentia
Malta
Stree
Milford Auto Mishaps Injure Four In Three Crashes
Milford reports three separate accidents today injuring four people, none seriously. Ronald Brockenberry, 21, was cited for reckless driving and other violations after his car hit a pole on West River street. Mrs Etla Elliott and others involved, including a passenger, were treated for injuries. Police also charged Mrs Morann with reckless driving after a two-vehicle collision on Naugatuck avenue near Milford Point road.
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Milford
Ronald Brockenberry
Meadow Street
West River Street
Philip J. Rooney
Brockenberry
John McKeon
Etla Elliott
Alice Morann
Independence Road
Edward F. Fox
Noble Avenue
Bridgeport
Morann
Naugatuck Avenue
Russell Daly
Waverly Place
Milford Point Road
Milford Hospital
John Zientek
Frank. J. Slimak
Westye Assi Opens Plans for Columbine Area Church
A fragmentary report notes pending plans for a church opening in the Columbine area with comments from Father L and local officials. It mentions a dinner event in October and lists a few names connected to the project, including O. Krak and Gardocki. A separate item references a traffic incident where a driver received a bruised leg after a collision near Riverclit Black, involving a bus and an auto, with charges filed for the road incident.
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Assi
Columbi
G. M. Krak Wi
Zenue
Gardocki
Riverclit
Derlich
Mr. 'von
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VNA
Visiting Nurse Association
Tirs
Richard F. Burdett
Lovell
Jane
St. Peter's Fair
Holy Name Society of
Harold Lever
Old Zoar Road
John R. Morton
Woodside Avenue
May Bradshaw Hayes
WICC
St. Peter's
Monroe Green
Maurer
Donald. Maurer
Margaret Orissa
Bridgeport Hospital
Orissa Topps
William Topps
Barn Hill Road
Claude Maurer
Park Avenue
Shelton
Marne Taxis
E. Simms Campbell
Dienbienphu
Christian de Castries
Hanoi
Vietnam
Rene Cogny
North Vietnam
Gen
de Castries
Vietminh
Hollis Hugins
John Ferguson
Myrtle Beach
Jack Smith
Grange
Huntington
E. Kurtz & Sons
Trumbull Center
Weste
Bigelow
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