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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1942
Page
2
The Bristol Community Y M C A expands outreach promising broad appeal to all residents. Workers report strong summer activities and Bert Hill as secretary inspires efforts to fund a year round program benefiting men women boys and girls with recreation and social services.
Bristol residents report travel, births, and community events. Evelyn Rohrman sails to New York to join her husband while Garden Club plans luncheon table arrangements and awards. a shipyard worker enlistment, a barber closes shop for health, and a Navy enlistment at Camp Bradford is noted.
War Department seeks women to learn gun and munition handling replacing men entering service. U S Employment Service in Warren offers trainee posts at University of Maine Orono with rail tuition and dormitory housing, $120 monthly, eight weeks classroom plus factory visits. Promoted to Junior Inspector at $135 with possible advancement. training in trig and physics emphasized.
A list of individual and family contributions totaling 855 dollars to the District Nursing Association is documented. Donors include Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Rockwell, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Correira, Mrs Bernard J. Hogue, and others, with amounts ranging from one to seven hundred dollars.
A benediction service marked Benefactors Day at St. Columbans Seminary Ferry Road attended by about 400 people. Fr James Gilsenan led the rite with a clergy group, and John Kiggins sang Ave Maria as the seminary grounds were toured. A cablegram from Kiangshi Province, China reported all 30 priests and 7 or 8 nuns are safe, though fate of others in the Philippines remains unknown.
Government figures put U S armed forces deaths at 4 801 and wounds at 3 218 with 36 124 missing since Pearl Harbor totaling 44 143. National Safety Council estimates 30 000 worker deaths and 2 500 000 wounded from accidents, plus overall toll near 60 000 killed and 5 500 000 wounded.
Scouts of the First Bristol Troop held their annual hot dog roast at Camp King Philip on Mount Hope Bay. They hiked to the camp arriving after seven, built a fire under J A S M Daniel Rene, roasted frankfurts on green sticks, toasted rolls with mustard, and shared ample food. A swim preceded the meal and afterward they visited nearby camping groups.
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