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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1946
Page
2
The piece urges a real brotherhood among men of all faiths and races through respect not tolerance. It argues understanding and helpful action build unity, while acknowledging differing beliefs and upbringing, and stresses defending others' rights to their opinions.
Community column highlights visits and social items from residents. Readers are invited to share names of guests and mutual interests while noting courtesy and cooperation in the local network.
At the 11 o clock service the St Michael’s Church choir will perform I Do Not Ask O Lord. Mrs Arthur Servant of 88 Church Street was taken to Jane Brown Hospital last week and rests after surgery. Internal Revenue Office deputy collectors will assist tax returns at the Post Office February 27 from 9 am to 4 pm. Town Solicitor and Mrs Lucien Capone depart for Annapolis to visit their son at the Naval Academy. Cynthia McCaw daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur M McCaw of Constitution Street has honorable mention for scholastic achievement at St Mary’s College Raleigh NC. The Teachers Association meets Monday afternoon at Reynolds School with reports from the Salary Committee and delegates to the state teachers meeting to discuss a provisional Rhode Island teachers association.
Snow covers the ground and a 10 degree morning precedes a Sunday 11 o’clock service by Rev. Charles R. Cooley, former Meriden pastor and Navy chaplain, at First Congregational Church. Members will vote on extending a call to him after the service.
Lt Norman L Hibbert son of Mr and Mrs George Hibbert 240 Hope Street was discharged from the United States Navy February 15 at the Navy Separation Center in Boston Mass He served three and a half years with overseas duty of 30 months in the Asiatic Pacific Theater with a Construction Battalion A Brown University graduate he was formerly employed at the Panama Canal
Miss Helen Coriddn and Ben Hazen of the Bristol Teachers Association led delegates from Rhode Island to a Monday meeting at the Rhode Island College of Education. They backed raising pension minimum to 1000 and maximum to 1200 after 25 years and discussed forming a provisional Rhode Island Federation of Teachers Associations to strengthen teacher welfare efforts. Bristol participants included Miss Jessie Molasky Miss Margaret Murphy and Anthony Russo.
A reader from The Phoenix in 1946 proposes filling Mill pond for parking and buying Jamies Castle as a bath house with a town beach on Bristol Harbor. The letter notes it echoes a Providence Bulletin item about stopping Perry land use as a dump. The writer signs as an interested town resident.
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