Budget Committee Favors Engineer for Bristol Sewage Study
The Bristol budget report proposes a $2500 appropriation to hire a Consulting Engineer to aid the Town Engineer in a study of the Sewage Treatment Plant. The plan seeks methods to reduce resident complaints, assess operating costs, and determine how much of the system the plant can handle, with a full findings report due by January 15, 1959.
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Bristol Sewer Commission
Sewer Commission
Bristol Town Clerk
Tony Abbott Signed For Ball For Fourth of July
Tony Abbott and his orchestra will provide the music for the Fourth of July Ball to be held the night before the Fourth at the National Guard Armory. Al Mann, star of radio and television, the Meg-tones, and a Show Within The Band will perform. The committee hopes the revival of the Ball will be a highlight of the 1958 celebration.
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Tony Abbott
National Guard Armory
Abbott
al Mann
Meg-tones
Edward J Newbold
Cancer Drive Workers Named
Additional volunteer workers for the cancer drive house to house canvass were named. The list includes Mesdames Sousa Almeida Manuels Ia siello Savino Desilets Massa and Misses Miranda Securo Securo Babbitt Head Rinaldi Nappi Newman Karolj DiPalma Marshall Ferris Goglia Emerson Babbitt Vorro Ruggiero Sicignano Carmone Nenna Machado Sansone and Harold Tucker. Coin containers have been placed throughout the business district by Regina Farley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cancer Drive
Mesdames Ane Sousa
Frank Almeida
Madelyn Manuels
Anthony Iasiello
Gabriel Savino
J. Oliver Desilets
Salvatore Massa
Diane Miranda
Nancy Securo
Virginia Securo
Jeanne Babbitt
Lynda Head
Pauline Rinaldi
Patricia Nappi
Mary Newman
Jean Karolj
Beverly DiPalma
Betty Marshall
Judy Ferris
Con
BTA Officers Attend New York Ceremonies on Patriots Day
Col Philp T Bodell and 2nd Lt Marco Troiano joined the Bristol Train of Artillery in the 137th Old Guard installation on Governors Island New York. A nine member delegation led by Lt Col William I Baker joined Patriots Day observances in Lexington Massachusetts with Edward J Fitzgerald among observers.
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Philp T Bodell
Bristol
Bundles Davy clothing drive nets 850 pounds
Approximately 850 pounds of clothing were collected by local public school pupils in the Bundles Davy drive, sponsored by Save the Children Federation. Superintendent Edward J. Fitzgerald said the project taught students to care for others and to appreciate their own advantages while promoting world friendship and humanitarianism.
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Davy
Save the Children Federation
Edward J Fitzgerald
Coast Guard Alerts For Yankee Arrival
Coast Guard units along the New England coast have been alerted to locate the brigantine Yankee returning to the United States after an 18 month world cruise. The 85 foot sailing vessel commanded by Capt. Irving Johnson is due at Gloucester Massachusetts at 1 p.m. on Sunday May 4. Johnson is known for predicting his arrival time.
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Coast Guard
New England
Yankee
Irving Johnson
Bristol
Johnson
Gloucester
Mass
Charter Chairman Discusses Changes
Charter chairman Anthony DaPonte outlines changes in the proposed charter. He describes department heads reporting to the town council, power aims, off year elections, and two year term appointments. The town clerk would be elected, school committee nominees require 50 signatures, and filing order would be by filing time rather than alphabetic.
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Anthony DaPonte
Charter Commission
DaPonte
Department of Public Works
Board of
Fifth Veterans Organization Planned in Bristol
A meeting in Lincoln Hall Thursday night will discuss forming a Portuguese American Veterans organization in Bristol. Ernest Prenda Jr said a representative from Fall River Post 1 will attend, Henry Camara is post commander. All veterans of Portuguese extraction are invited to attend starting at 8 p.m. Prenda can be reached at the Rhode Island Veterans Home or at CL 3 8000, or at his home CL 3 9697 for more information.
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Lincoln Hall
Ernest Prenda
Veterans’ Organization
Bristol
R. I. Veterans Home
Coast Guard Eyeing Bristol Parking Solution
The US Coast Guard plans to buy adjacent land to relieve Bristol parking near Constitution Street but cannot fund immediate action due to current operational needs. A 1958 letter from Vice Admiral A C Richmond notes efforts will proceed once funds are available, identifying the old railroad depot and Williams property barns as potential lots.
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US. Coast Guard
Constitution St
Theodore Francis Green
A C
Richmond
US Coast Guard
Wahington
D C
Hezekiah W Church
Coast Guard
Bristol
R 1
Thames St
Williams
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Budget Committee
Paul Bruno
Budget Board
Ball
B.T.A
N. Y
Fifth Veterans’ Organization
R. J. Rocket Society
Providence
Lions of Rhode Island
Bristol Group
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