YW Club to Stage Fashion Show at YWCA
Frilora club of the YWCA will host a fashion show and dance Saturday at 8 pm in the YWCA assembly at 263 Golden Hill street. Mrs. Laura Holmes chairs assisted by Mrs. Irving Mitchell, Mrs. John Jones, Mrs. Luke Forte and Mrs. John Curtis. Commentator is Mrs. Francis Brooks. Dressmakers include Mrs. Ward and others. hair stylists listed. the Friloha dora Girls will perform. orchestra to play after the show.
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Frilora Club
YWCA
Ywca Assembly
Golden Hill Street
Laura Holmes
Irving Mitchell
John Jones
Luke Forte
John Curtis
Francis Brooks
Frederick Ward
Tiner Jones
Dorothy Parker
Beatrice Walker
Sewell Palmer
Bertha E. Brown
Myrtle Carter
Yale eye surgeon Dr Leonard C Whiting dies in New Haven
Dr Leonard C Whiting 66 prominent Yale eye surgeon and Masonic figure died at Grace-New Haven Community hospital He was born in Hamden trained at Maryland Medical College class of 1912 and served as ophthalmologist at Yale School of Medicine He was a major in the Connecticut State Guard in World War II and former national vice president of the Exchange club He is survived by his wife two daughters and four sons and eight grandchildren Services are set for Tuesday
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New Haven
Leonard C. Whiting
Yale
Grace-New Haven
Hamden
Whiting
Maryland Medical College
Baltimore
Yale School of Medicine
Connecticut State Guard
Exchange Club
Rhoda Andrews Whiting
Grace Whiting Robnsin
Charles
Woodbridge
Leonard C. Whiting, Jr
Columbus
Ohio
Romans remakes Romanian grammar to Soviet pattern
Vienna reports Bucharest newspapers reveal that Romania has remodeled its grammar to Soviet pattern breaking from Latin tradition. The change aims to curb cosmopolitanism and introduce Marxist teaching. Earlier this year spelling was revised to simplify and remove over 10 000 French and Latin sounding words.
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Mark
Moscow
Vienna
Romania
Bucharest
Rent's Mighty High at Army-Navy Club
Manchester residents report the Army-Navy Club owes ten years rent after leasing from the town. The lease set a yearly rent of 1 dollar, but no one tracked the agreed price after signing.
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High Manchester
Army-Navy Club
Keep Out Door Blamed For Television Station Shutdown
Aldo DeDominicis, general manager, inspected new transmitter equipment in New Haven on September 25 AP. He opened a door marked KEEP OUT and all receivers at the station went blank. A safety device shuts off power when the door opens.
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New Haven
Aldo DeDominicis
General Manag
DeDominicis
Legion Renames H B Johnson Commander at Annual Meet
H Bradford Johnson reelected commander of the Charles L. Roman Post American Legion at the recent annual meeting. New post and auxiliary officers were slated for installation including Crossman as first vice commander Reppucci as second vice commander Logan Jr. as adjutant Thorn as finance officer and Marlin as historian. Committees named cover Americanism Boys State child welfare Graves registration and membership with 1954 55 appointments by Commander Johnson.
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H. Bradford Johnson
Charles L. Roman
American Legion
House
Wiliam A. Crossman
Francesco A. Reppucci
Charles H. Logan Jr
C. William Thorn
Franklin E. Marlin
Harold Candee
Mary Johnson
Ethel Marlin
Mission Aid Society
Arthur A. Donofrio
Ridgeway
Scouts
Boy Scouts
Parish of Christ's Church
William H., Farr
William H. Angliss
Willard H. Bullis
S. Sanford Burroughs
Bruce Farr
Ned B. Gilliland
Reformatory Chaplain to Speak At KC Meeting Tomorrow Night
The Rev. Robert G. Keating, chaplain of the Connecticut Reformatory and the Connecticut School for Boys, will speak at St. Teresa's council Knights of Columbus meeting tomorrow at 8 30 p.m. in the Hickory street clubhouse. The event is led by Grand Knight John Turineill with Frederick W. Zwierlein Jr. as chairman. a 1954 Broadway Variety Show is planned for Oct 22 at Middlebrook school with Owen Hurley handling tickets and Sylvester Minutola as program chairman.
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John Turineill
St. Teresa’s Council
Knights of Columbus
Hickory Street
Robert G. Keating
Connecticut Reformatory
Connecticut School For Boys
Father Keating
St. Peter's Church
South Pacific
Frederick W. Zwierlein, Jr
Middlebrook School
Owen Hurley
Sylvester Minutola
Nichols Methodist Church
Thomas E. Lewis
Paul Miazga
Raymond Cable
Norman Stanley
Thomas Burkhard
Lester Nothnagle
Trinity Episcopal Church
Victor Laustsen
Charlies Roth
A. M. Fenwick
Donald Smith
William Weitzel
Howard Dimon
Yale
Post 65
Bradley Hall
Long Hill
Trumbull
Center School
Long Hill Garden Club
Grace Episcopal Parish Hall
Edison School
Long Hill Library
St. Teresa
Long Hill Methodist Church
Town Leaders Association
Camp Trefoil
Center Fire House
Exchange Club
Toll Gate Inn
Stepney
Mothers’ Circle
Trumbull Library
Nichols Library
St. Teresa’s Cyo
Hall
Police Benevolent Association
Harvard Kinnie
Nichols Fire House
Center Firehouse
Nichole Men's Club
Chandler
Everett Zissell
St. Teresa's Church
Trinity Episcopal Parish Hall
Our Lady of Fatima
St. Teresa’s Church
St Teresa's Hall
Merrill Club slate named at Manning Maxwell firm
Miss Carmella L Riccio was elected president of the Merrill club for women employees of Manning Maxwell and Moore Inc. Other officers include Mrs Mary Loso vice president and Miss Anne Karpenko corresponding secretary. The board includes Miss Bess Erhardt chairwoman and a list of directors and committees with numerous members named.
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Carmella L. Riccio
Merrill Club
Manning, Maxwell and Moore Inc
Mary Loso
Mary Miller
Anne Karpenko
Peggy Moriarty
Bess Erhardt
Julis Nechols
Betsy Rasmussen
Marge Lapinski
Edith Fenske
Laura Riccio
End of an Era as Pittsburgh Dismantles Last Trough
Pittsburgh officials announce the midtown horse watering trough will be dismantled. The move follows the disbanding of the mounted police unit nine months earlier, with officials citing a lack of horses to justify keeping the trough.
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Pittsburgh
Labor Day
Midtown
Flim-Flam Ring Reported in Honey Path TV Repairs
AP reports a skin game in Honey Path South Carolina as a man claimed to repair a TV set for R L Beasley Jr and removed the set. Beasley and his wife were at work. the missing man has not been seen since.
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Honey Path
S. C
R. L. Beasley Jr
Jewish High Holy Day Services Set in Stratford
Stratford Jewish Community group will sponsor High Holy Day services at the former Red Men’s hall Church Street Monday Tuesday and Wednesday with Cantor Dr Simon Baron and reader Nathan Sheinhoff. Services begin 5 30 pm Monday 7 30 am Tuesday 10 am to 12 30 pm Tuesday family service 5 to 7 pm Tuesday 7 30 am to 12 30 pm Wednesday 5 to 7 pm Wednesday 7 30 am to 12 30 pm. Tercentenary celebration noted. Committee includes Louis Ashen Sidney Schneider Alexander Simon Alton Torgan Murray Weinstein Theodore Blumenthal Irving Friedman A A Gordon Sol Katzman Adolph Mermelstein Dr Sidney Penner Dr Samuel M Rood. The Most Rev Lawrence J Shehan to administer Confirmation to class of 90.
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Jesse Lee Methodist
Chester A. Hull
Grange Hall
Grange Boosters
Grange
Well Child
Townst Hall
Mission Aid Society
Arthur A. Donofrio
Ridgeway Road
Nimble Thimblers
Dorothy Keller
Adams Road
Congregational
St. Mary’s
Notre Dame
Union Cemetery
Town Hall
Congregational Church
Parish of Christ's Church
Staples Pta
Zoning and Building Commission
Jesse Lee Methodist Church
Board of Selectmen
Stratford Jewish Community Group
Red Men’s Hall
Church Street
Ira Fraenkel
Isidore Chaplone
America
Simon Baron
The
Jewish Education Committee of
Bridgeport
Nathan Sheinhoff
Mr. Frankel
Mr. Chaplone
Louis Ashen
Sidney Schneider
Alexander Simon
Alton Torgan
Murray Weinstein
Theodore Blumenthal
Irving Friedman
A. A. Gordon
Sol Katzman
Adolph Mermelstein
Sidney Penner
Samuel M. Rood
Gun smithing studies mark local youth career shift
Kenneth L. Berger of Long Hill enrolls at Trinidad Junior College Colorado in a two year gun smithing program. A 1954 Bassick High School graduate and former coach, he is a Housatonic Gun Club member and trap shooter with ties to St. Teresa's church and the Lordship area. Community notes include local meetings on Cub Pack 73 plans and public utilities discussions, a GOP outing with Gov Lodge, Legion and Auxiliary installations, Knights of Columbus events, and a library expansion groundbreaking with town officials and donors listed.
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Kenneth L. Berger
Long Hill
Housatonic Gun Club
Connecticut
New York State
Trinidad Junior College
Trinidad
Colo
Bassick High School
Berger
St. Teresa's Church
Russell F. Neary
Carl Tuthill
Lordship Improvement Association
Lordship Firehouse
Gray Line
Public Utilities Commission
GOP
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Fairfield
Fire and Police Commissioners
Thomas Murphy
Retirement Board
Murphy
Widow’s Pension Fund
Department
Sgt. Murphy
Sivert M. Ernstrom
Lions Club
Alberta Street
New England Baptist Hospital
Boston
Goldenagers
Howard Haag
South Benson Road
Goldenagers Club
Legion Hall
Japan
Rotary Club
Fairfield Inn
George N. Serre
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Steiner, Inc
Warsaw Street
Thomas and
Jeanne Lynch
Drive
YMCA
C. Virgil Calvin
Kenneth Kost
George Vincent
Wallace Downs
Howard Benedict
James Church
Cochairmen
Benjamin Webster
Barlow Plain Drive
Herbert M. Smith
John P
Mabel Johnson
Stephen FE. Butzko
Butzko
Atlantic City
American Public Works Conference
Eugene L. Lehr
Lehr
U. S. Public Health Service
Mrs
Grasmere Bakery
Post RD
Cor. Grasmere
Tel
Fairfield, Connecticut
John Pincain
Greens Farms
Walter G. Hensel
Ansco Film Corporation of New York
Woodhill Road
Westport
Frederick G. Peeter
Great Lakes Carbon Company
Hensele
William Cohn
Main Street
Legion
H. B. Johnson
Easton
Reformatory
Long Hill Nichols
Burton Lewis
Helen Hoadley
Henry Eisler
Almon Conrath
Philip Crandon
Monroe Blackman
Grace Episcopal Church Hall
Robert Reich
Kenneth Robinson
Thomas Roche
Girl Scout Leaders Association
Walter Rotzal
Hilda Farber
Frank Bunnell
Baxaar
Louis Dean
Dean
Paul Shuttleworth
Frederick Church
Austin Humphrey
Raymon Curtiss
Frank Anderson
Woman’s Guild
Alma
Eleanor Lundgren
Priscilla Hussey
William Holden
Edward Siebald
Edward Switzgable
William McLaughan
Blackhouse Road
Florence Smith
Mildred Machalowski
Martha Jennings
Katherine Knecht
May Peterson
Anna
Merrill
Ways and Means
Ruth Bene
Mary Saulnier
Laura Nielson
Eleanor Martin
Ruth Hebermehl
Margaret Michaels
Madelyn Pekar
Barbara Walsh
Helen Davis
Lois Buchanan
Hazel Plumb
Peggy Sweeney
Edna Little
Beatrice Mulhern
Marraret Miller
Betty Brisch
Gertrude Harrington
Jean Holm
Beatrice Maxwell
Jean Wallace
Margaret Zauner
Helen Michaelwicz
Sarah Swett
Rose Mary Konecky
Ruth Taylor
Patricia Mitchell
Dev Pagian
Stratford
Lawrence J. Shehan
Our Lady of Peace Church
Lordship
John F. X. Walsh
John H. Anderson
Nichols Avenue School
At & P.m
Charles Sala
London Terrace
Peter Sauer
Woodland Grove
Gov. Lodge
Edward Carpenter
Legion, Auxiliary
William Moran
Anderson-Dunn-Kochiss Post
George D. Baron
Knights
Daniel J. O'Connor
St. James Council
St. James Church
William Smyth
Board of Education
Edward J. Medvecky
Donald S. Sammis
Harold C. Lovell
Harry B. Flood
D. James Morey
Wellington C. Walker
Sammis
Kenneth L, Berger
State of Connecticut
Marine Insurance
Ocean & Inland
Couast
Prante
Fred Anderson
Warren Institute Business School
Fairfield Ave
Nichols & Trumbull
Charles O. Kishibay
Booth
Imart
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