UN swearing in of Dag Hammarskjold described
The writer details a UN visit first day coverage then day two interviewing Mr G H Janson of India and attending the historic General Assembly swearing in Dag Hammarskjold as secretary-general. Tickets were limited and the plenary crowded with interpreters and press observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G H. Janson
India
Weymouth
Ski Mapes
Bristol
Taft
First Avenue
Mathew Gordon
General Assembly
Trygve Lie
Dag Hammerskolde
Hammerskuld
Vishinsky
Hammerskolde
Request For Sewer Goes To Meeting
The town plans discuss a Wheeler Avenue sewer extension at the April 27 town meeting. Robert Weir seeks approval to build this summer as the sewer stops 50 feet from his property after delays by his father.
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Wheeler Avenue
Robert Weir
Constitution Street
Weir
Rego and Sons
Rego
C Brito Construction Co
Jerome Donovan
Joseph Sebastian
Manuel Marshall
Paul Ferreira
Joseph Nunes
Paul C. Millemaggi
GOP
Frank Campo
Hope and
State Streets
Ferrara
Highway Committee
Campo
Pembroke College selects Mary Louise Adams for Religious Embassy Week
Mary Louise Adams daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas D Adams of 22 Burton Street was elected Pembroke College chairman of Religious Embassy Week. She will arrange the February 1954 program focusing on religion in the Brown University community with services and panel discussions. A Pembroke sophomore seeking a BA degree, she is a Bristol High School graduate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Louise Adams
Thomas D. Adams
Burton Street
Pembroke College
Miss Adams
Brown University
Pembroke
Bristol Senior High School
Cunard Files Complaint With Civil Service Over Shellfish License
Everett S. Cunard former shellfish dealer denied a license by the state health department weighs filing a complaint with the State Civil Service Commission against Bristol sanitarian Joseph F. Maguire Cunard also filed a personal suit. Witnesses in the shellfish business ready to support him, while other dealers fear reprisal by the health department which controls licenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett S. Cunard
State Health Department
State Civil Service Commission
Joseph F. Maguire
Bristol
Health Department
Cunard
Maguire
Commission
Maguire Accused by Warren Shellfish Dealers
A Warren shellfish dealer and another dealer accuse Joseph F. Maguire Bristol supervising sanitarian of the state health department of blocking their licenses without cause and claim ongoing trouble for dealers along the Bay. They request anonymity for fear of reprisals and echo earlier denials faced by Everett S. Cunard who has been blocked from license discussion with Walter J. Shea.
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Warren
Joseph F. Maguire
Bristol
State Health Department
Phoenix
Maguire
Bay
Health Department
Everett S. Cunard
Walter J. Shea
Pay Hikes and Revaluation Promised in Town Budget Record
Bristol Budget Commission reports a record $781,000 town budget request with reductions of $58,377.86, salary increases about 10 percent for most town employees, and 8.3 percent for teachers. It rejects a full-time police officer for parking meters, instead proposing $2,000 for meter servicing and reallocating meter receipts to the general fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Financial Town Meeting
Bristol Budget Commission
28 Tubs For 4th Muster Suspected In Bristol
Bristol Fourth of July Committee weighs underwriting a 28 tub firemen muster costing about 1000 dollars after the Bristol Volunteer Veteran Firemen's Association proposes 28 tubs may be possible up from six last year and possibly sourced from Toronto. The Senior High School Band offers free services for the celebration and no Horribles parade is planned this year as Warren holds one in the afternoon.
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Bristol
Ralph G. McCaw
Bristol Volunteer Veteran Firemen’s Association
Toronto
Canada
McCaw
Warren
Drive Ready For Cancer Drive Wrap-Up at YMCA
The Bristol Cancer Drive plans a meeting tonight at 8 p.m. in the YMCA to finalize details of the drive aiming to raise 1700 dollars for the RI Cancer Society. Captains, workers, and citizens are urged to attend to hear Clarence H. Gifford Jr. and Robert F. Murphy.
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Bristol Cancer Drive
YMCA
R. I. Cancer Society
Clarence H. Gifford, Jr
Robert F. Murphy
John D. Moore
Plans for parade division and Mile of Pennies distribution
McCaw outlined plans discussed last night including a division in the parade featuring dress from native countries and inviting local or outside organizations to join. He also noted Mile of Pennies strips will be distributed the first of next week.
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McCaw
Dutch Textile Student Plans Family Mill Role After Education
Jacques J. Schellens of Eindhoven Netherlands studies American textile methods in a six month work program with Collins and Aikman. He observes plants in New York Bristol and Philadelphia and will return to Holland to manage a family mill after finishing textile school.
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Bristol
New York City
Collins and Aikman Corporation
Holland
Belgium
Jacques J. Schellens
Eindhoven
Nether
Schellens
America
Whitworth
Switzerland
New York
J. Foster Price
Philadelphia
Mrs Watson Denies Resignation From Town Committee
Ruth H. Watson says she never submitted a resignation and remains a committee member after a stormy GOP Town Committee meeting. Twelve members walked out as Orlando J. Bisbane’s leadership faced challenges from the anti Bisbane faction, which claims the session violated Robert's Rules. The faction vows to campaign to the next primary to field its own slate and challenge leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth H. Watson
GOP
Orlando J. Bisbane
Capone - Bisbano - Bernardo
Robert
anti-Bisbane
Republican Women Back New Leadership After Meeting
A faction of Republican Women in Bristol Highlands pushed for changes in the party after a Wednesday meeting. They passed a resolution of no confidence in the current Republican Town Committee and called for an immediate replacement by Dr. Jane. The action followed charges about the committee’s handling and vacancies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol Highlands
Eta
Republican Town Committee
Jane
Handsome Capt McCaw Subject of Many Poems
An old Bristol sea-dog rose from deckhand on a ferry run to Portsmouth aboard the Bristol to command a transatlantic passenger ship, Captain Harold T. McCaw. Retired in 1949 at Mount View, East Greenwich, he later aided relief work across the Bay amid an austere end to a storied career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladwyn Jebb
Every
Vishinsky
Capt.McCaw
Portsmouth
Harold T. McCaw
Bayon Mount View
East Greenwich
Bri
McCaw
Idiiz
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Russia
Tunis
Morocco
France
Beekman Tower
49Th Street
Frank Carpenter
UN Correspondents’ Association
Cunard Mey
Civil Service
Hose
Oth Ieean
Wardy
Waray
Budget Commission
Burnside
Rogers Free Library
Bristol District Nursing Assn
Colt Memorial Ambulance
East Burial Ground
Northern
R. J. Farm Bureau
Recreation Board
Nyc
C&a
Syd Luger
Europe
Mrs. Watson
Lave
Ana
Frank A
Abe Ralice
Ascom
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