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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1956
Page
6
The Kingsmen Bugle and Drum Corps will conduct a townwide collection of waste paper magazines and old rags starting at 10 am tomorrow and Sunday. Bundles or bags, call CL 3-8824 for pickup. leave at Scout Hall if tied. Proceeds aid the Corps equipment fund. Corps members meet at Scout Hall 9.45 am. rehearsal Sunday at 2 pm.
Harlem Magicians Goose Tatum and Marques Haynes join the NY Olympics for a Saturday night game at R I Auditorium on December 8. Tatum, famed pivot scorer with 84 inch reach, and Langston University alum Haynes, touted as the world’s greatest dribbler, headline an lineup that includes Van Phillips Lester Burks and Freddie Pearson.
Funeral services for Margaret Magee, 77, who died Sunday, were held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at St Michael's Church with Canon Delbert W. Tildesley officiating. Ivy Guild members attended. Bearers: Clifford Weaver, Everett P. Church, William Lee McCaughey, Stephen Hopkins, Erik Bease, and William J. McCaughey. Burial in North Burial Ground.
The funeral of Domingo Pinheiro 84 of 175 Wood Street was held beginning with a 8 a.m. mass at Charles M. Connery Funeral Home and a 9 a.m. solemn high Mass of requiem at St. Elizabeth's Church attended by Holy Name Society members. Clergy included Rev Hyacinth Moniz celebrant and Rev John Medeiros deacon with Rev Henrique Rocha pastor as sub-deacon. Bearers were Joseph Oliver John Pine John Flores Joseph Sylvia Matthew Maetoza Manuel Correira. Burial followed at St. Mary's Cemetery with committal prayers by Father Rocha.
Pasquale Cicerchia died in Lemon Grove California where he had retired after running a greenhouse on Garfield Avenue. He leaves wife Christina Meani Cicerchia five daughters Kathry Buzby Virginia Bame Margaret Baker Mary Rich and Josephine Manchester two sons Albert of Dorchester Mass and Vincent of this town twelve grandchildren seven great grandchildren Burial will be in Lemon Grove California.
Massasoit Chapter of Bristol Warren opened R J DeMoley Basketball League play with a 35 to 34 victory at Hope High School Providence over Woonsocket Chapter. Dave Butch Carlson scored the winning basket in the final five seconds as Richie Cook led Woonsocket with 26 points. Wright Horton paced Massasoit with 14 and Collins added nine as Woonsocket led most of the game. Massasoit trailed 8 4 after the first quarter and 28 24 at the half. The Bristol Warren team is 1 1 in league play and will face Fidelity Chapter Cranston next Thursday.
In Spanish speaking lands the Three Wise Men bring Christmas gifts while in our land Wise Men give U S savings bonds as gifts that keep growing.
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