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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1940
Page
5
Jim Kelly thanks friends for their kindness and support during a recent illness.
Louis Medeiros known as Duke, age 17, joined Navy at Newport Naval Training Station as a member of Company 86. He is son of Mrs Tina Medeiros of 43 E Street and a Colt Memorial High School sophomore who played football baseball and participated in CYO sports at St Elizabeth Church. He enlisted in early November and passed physicals at the U S Navy Recruiting Sub-station in Boston before reporting to Newport.
Collins and Aikman Corporation announced Christmas gifts of 25 dollars for employees across all plants totaling 140000 dollars. Executives will be excluded from the distribution.
Christmas music programs feature Wachs organ preludes and a senior choir led by Walter H Angell at 11 30 PM. St Michael’s Choir lists soprano altos tenors and basses with Nathaneil G Herreshoff Jr and Vernon A Gray. Masses are set for midnight and Christmas morning with soloists Phoebe Garcia and others under John Sylvester direction. The Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church listing includes Rev Joseph E Sorzana and Rev Emilio Donanzan with Junior and Senior Choirs performing carols and High Mass.
The Bristol Boy Scout Bugle and Drum Corps was honored at a testimonial dinner at the Colonial Hotel hosted by a Citizens’ Committee of local leaders. Prominent guests and former corps members, including Warren Boy Scout alumni, spoke on scouting’s value and the group’s achievements in 1940.
The article lists multiple choirs and organists at various services on Christmas Day. Rev Dor nan will officiate at 9 A M Mass, Rev Emilio Donanzan at 10:30 A M, with the Senior and Junior Choirs directed by Mrs Dora Iannuccillo and Christina Cadola respectively. Trinity Episcopal Church also presents a Midnight Mass with Rex John Beauchamp and Rex Chase Westman, plus a 8 A M Holy Communion featuring soprano Marjorie McCann and a Trinity Choir under Miss Helen W Church.
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