Community Chest Sets Bristol Quota for 1949 Drive
The Bristol Community Chest budget sets a 16887 target for the fall 1949 campaign after agencies submit budgets for analysis. Local committee members include Francois L. deWolf as chairman and other officials. A Red Feather drive committee has been appointed with Francis J. Murphy as chairman and five other members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Budget Committee of the Chest
Chest
Rhode Island Community Chest, Inc
Francois L. deWolf
FE. Wilbur Mason
Earl G. Sturdevant
Harry W. Munro
Red Feather Drive
Frederick S. Bartlett
Francis J. Murphy
Thomas C. Jansen
Stephen W. Hopkins
J. Foster F. Price
Thomas D Adams
Cup Defenders rise from Pawtucket club history
A Pawtuxet Valley group, founded in 1935 as the Cup Defenders, built a 40 by 60 foot club house and grew from 168 members in 1940 to about 250 today. Early leaders included Orlando Bisbano, Cosmo Marabello, and Michael Pasquarelli. Anthony Cupolo kept the group active through decades of social events and wartime service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine and
Wood Streets
pawtucket-Blackstone Valley
Thomas ‘Maiorano
Anthony Cupolo
Anthony Marabello
Orlando Bisbano
Michael Pasquarelli
Martin Mansi
Sandy Matrone
Anthony Ferrara
Antonio D’angelo
James Lanzire
Charles ©. Callery
Anthony Maisano
Carmine Maisano
Bristol
Cup Defenders
Orlando J. Bisbano
Wood and
Catherine Streets
Cosmo Marabello
Matthew Capone
Maiorano
Presid Capone
Ual
Bristol Girl in Japan Joins Teen Agers Summer Theater
Miss Jeanne Moren daughter of Master Sergeant A M Moren Bristol Rhode Island applies for Teen Agers Summer Theater Group membership. Recording details are Miss Barbara Spencer Technical Advisor and Lt Albert T Tovey Entertainment Officer. The group is a soldiers show for teen dependent spouses and is casting for the play Uncertain Wings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeanne Moren
A. M. Moren
Bristol
Rhode Island
First Corps
Newton Varvel
Trenton
Ohio
Barbara Spencer
Albert T. Tovey
Reduced Attendance Closes YMCA Day Camps
Joseph A. Margo announced after a YMCA Camp Committee meeting that the Day Camps for boys and girls have been discontinued for the remainder of the summer. Insufficient attendance in the first two weeks caused a loss to the YMCA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph A. Margo
Ymca Camp Committee
Dan Coggeshall 87 Celebrates Quiet Birthday in Town
Daniel Coggeshall a longtime state senator from this district turns 87 on Thursday. He reflects on a life of public service and a marriage he calls his greatest treasure, recalling a Truman birthday message two years ago and his deep roots in the town.
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Dan Coggeshall
Daniel G. Cogneshall
Harry S Truman
Coggeshall
Constitution Street
Dan
Church Street
Ulysses S. Grant
Bristol
Byfield School
Senator Coggeshall
Hydraution Company
U. S. State Veteran Firemen’s Association
Crescent Park
Hee Coward Ee
Hydraulion Company
Hydraulions
Hope Street
Boys Scout Hall
Woodrow W. Wilson
Daniel W. Coggeshall
Walter Coggeshall
High Street
First Congregational Church
Masons, Odd Fellows
Providence Lodge
Royal Arcanum
Ithe Hydraulion Fire Company
Wood Street Park Plans Offered to Town Council
Officials of the Wood Street Park Improvement Association outlined immediate and long term plans for the park to two town council members. The group seeks town aid to reshape a former dump area into a base ball field a loam cover and seed the southerly area and to develop an ice skating rink on land owned by Joseph Riccio who would lease it to the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wood Street Park Improvement Association
John O. Lawrence
Edward H. Holmes
Highways and Park Commissioners
Raymond DeLeo
Association
Joseph G. A. Riccio
Lawrence
Holmes
DeLeo
Financial Town Meeting
Doran Avenue
Boy Scouts End Week's Camping
Fifteen scouts and two leaders from the First Bristol Troop, Boy Scouts of America, completed a week at Camp Yawgoog in Rockville Rhode Island. They excelled in softball swimming and a track meet, with several earning second and first class ranks and CY emblems.
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Bristol
Boy Scouts of America
Yawgoog
Rockville
R. I
Sandy Beach
Board of Review
William Xavier
Manuel Silvia Jr
Anthony Motta
John Mello
Frank Bettencourt
Manuel Prenda
Joseph Vaccaro
Roger Pereira
Michael J. Flynn
Backwoods
Joseph Dutra
George R. Fish
Bristol Boy Scout Bugle
Bucklin Memorial Center
J. Harold Williams
Adm Hoover Joins Helena in Naval Tale from Pearl Harbor to Coral Sea
Sid Hathaway recounts Lieut Morris's account of Admiral Hoover arriving aboard the U S S Helena in a coal bag during wartime escort duty. The Helena fought at Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941 and later joined carriers in the Coral Sea, with Hoover famed for heroism and distinctive arrival.
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Helena
Pearl Harbor
Coral Sea
Capt. Hoover
Lieut
Morris
Quiet Before the Cape Esperance Clash
Lieut Morris recalls the looming Battle of Cape Esperance as two great fleets converge at night. Captain Hoover bears the ship’s fate while a Heléna–San Francisco communication seeks permission to fire and Admiral Scott orders restraint with a waiting stance.
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Lieut
Morris
Cape Esperance
Hoover
Heléna
San Francisco
Opening Fire Doubt Divides Naval Command
Capt Hoover seeks permission to open fire as opposing fleets close, stressing the first strike's strategic impact. He argues a well delivered opening could throw the enemy into confusion and shatter their resistance.
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Hoover
Misheard Signal Triggers Battle at Cape Esperance
A dramatic misinterpretation of naval signals led to the Helena opening fire after a signalman believed Roger meant permission to fire. Captain Hoover allegedly ordered fire, sinking a destroyer within 98 seconds and causing three more ships to go down that night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger
Hoover
Cape Esperance
Helena
Also Mentioned on This Page
Providence Community Fund
East Providence Community Fund
Woonsocket Community Fund
Bristol Community Fund
Pawtuxet Valley
Jacob Osofsky
Japan
U. S. Army
YMCA
Gene Kelly
Esther Williams
Frank Sinatra
Nelson Eddy
Susanna Foster
Claude Rains
Truman
Wood St
C.M.H.S
Hope Hardware Co
Boy Scouts
Tapa
Michael Flynn
Virgil Almeida
William Enos
Tribe of
Norman Riley
Coggeshall Home
Daniel
Albert
Chicago
Knickerbocker Hospital
New York
Sid Hathaway
the Spectator
Somerset
Mass
Adm. Hoover
Sid
U S.S. Helena
Lieut. C. J. Morris
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