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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1952
Page
4
Public forum drew small attendance as Bristol prepares for a Monday ballot. Voters will choose nine of thirteen charter commission candidates and two questions about forming a commission and funding $2500 for its expenses. Final approval rests with the people.
Three Bristol Boy Scouts were awarded prizes for the R F Haf fenreffer Indian Lore essay contest. The winners earned recognition for knowledge of Native American culture and heritage.
An Indian pow wow at Nathanael Greene Junior High School Providence featured Bristol award winners Carlton Pinheiro Manuel G Pimental Jr and Walter D Young. Awards included gold silver and bronze medals plus Indian relic boxes from the King Philip Museum. The Indian Court of Awards sponsored the event with musical dance skits and the induction of Narra gansett Scout Tribe members.
On Wednesday eleven Girl Scouts toured the Historical Society’s World Wars I and II souvenirs exhibit at the society’s new Rogers Free Library headquarters. A society member explained each display. the troop thanks the society for the opportunity and Mrs Norman Vermette for accompanying them, by Patricia Phillips, scribe.
Community calendar items list a birth at Ly ing In Hospital Providence, church hymnsing and business meeting, a chest X ray clinic, and a talk on With Patton in Germany. Local groups plan dances, fundraisers, a Washington observance, World Day of Prayer, and a 4 H gathering. civic officials attend events in Bristol.
Engaged Mr and Mrs Manuel P Oliver of Case Farm Poppasquash announce the engagement of their daughter Gerladine R Oliver to Michael J Morra TM3 USN son of Caroline M Morra 161 Franklin street and the late Carmine J Morra Miss Oliver a Bristol senior high school Bristol Johnson & Wales Business School Heritance 18 and local high school graduate attends USN Torpedo School in Newport. Also at the meeting funds totaling 9150 to YMCA 3250 to Bristol District Nursing Association 1121 to Girl Scouts and state agency gifts including 876 Boy Scouts Narragansett Council 1180 Children's Friend and Service 212 Lakeside Preventorium plus Armed Forces donation. Also Thomas D Jansen elected vice president and Mrs Adele Sturdevant secretary.
Frederick T Goff was elected successor to Harry W. Munro as treasurer of the Bristol Community Fund Inc at the YMCA building last Friday night. Munro, now a Warren resident, had served since 1943 and retires to allow a Bristol representative. Goff led the Red Feather drive, which raised $17,325, surpassing the quota.
Mrs Beatrice Mullaney Fall River attorney urged stronger parental guidance and home influence at the Rotary Club Ladies Day program at White Rail. President William M Orouke announced a March 19 welfare auction and noted wives’ cooperation would aid success.
Feb 23 food sale at St Marys Guild Trinity Church. Feb 26 Penny Social by C and A Girls Club Thames Street Club Rooms 8 to 10 pm. Feb 26 Turkey Sup per Congregational Womens Guild DeWolf Memorial room. March 11 Annual Bridge Bristol Branch International Sunshine Society Midway 8 pm. Mar 14 Food sale C and A Girls Club Ferris Dry Goods Store Hope Street 12 to 5 pm. Mar 21 Food sale Mt Hope Chapter Order of the Eastern Star Barrs Hardware Store 1 to 4 pm.
A speaker exhorts readers to improve conditions at home and abroad through personal participation. She urges club and political group members to raise their voices, use their ballots, and have courage to challenge others, noting a single voice may light the candle in darkness.
The family of the late Francesca Ruggiero expresses appreciation to relatives friends neighbors firms and organizations for kindness and sympathy during bereavement and for floral offerings and spiritual bouquets from Holy Rose Society Altar Society and Senior Choir Our Lady of Mount Carmel Firestone Rubber Co Fall River UR C 1 P W A CIO Local 261 Fall River R I Lace Works Barrington Weco Club Westinghouse Cambridge Frances Serpa and Girls ending Dept Cambridge Rego and Sons Bristol Republican Town Committee Bristol Women's Republican Club DeFelice Florist Bristol Police Dept Bristol Highway Dept.
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