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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1949
Page
1
Bristol Cub Pack No 5 entertained families and guests at St Michael's Parish House with a minstrel show and pot luck dinner. Troop Five also participated in the celebration of their second Blue and Gold anniversary.
The Bristol Veterans Council recommended continuing the local retraining and employment office for one year and then transferring to veterans organizations. The meeting covered on the job training, insurance clarifications, and a move to relocate the town dump to Wood Street if court rules against Minturn Farm. Delegates from Narragansett Council attended along with town officials and residents, and a Wood Street Park Improvement group formed to push local projects.
Fitzgerald faces a critical shortage of teachers while town politics swirl around the Town Dump dispute and a Windblown rumor about Derby politics. Bristol Concert Association plans a Monday concert by Solveig Lunde at Colt Memorial Hall with a supper at White Rail Riding Club and membership renewals and drives commencing for 1949-1950.
The Bristol School system reports rising enrollment will outpace available classrooms. Plans call to reoccupy Burton’s Girl Scout room and renovate Reynolds basement as a temporary classroom while Byfield and Taft may absorb extra pupils.
Five Bristol Fire Department Emergency Rescue Squad members attend statewide training at the Rhode Island College of Education auditorium as the Governor's Fire Prevention Conference Rescue and Disaster Committee leads sessions through July. Captain Luke H White announces lectures on resuscitation devices and safety demos by Providence Fire Department rescue squad with speakers including Charles Quinn E Ralph Bonat and Carl Slader.
Seaman Daniel, chief commissary man USN and husband of Mrs Matilda J. Daniel of 11 Narragansett Ave, is serving aboard the destroyer Steinaker with the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Naval Forces under Admiral Richard L. Conolly. Leave is granted to the Steinaker crew when possible to visit Old World showplaces.
The Bristol County Council of Church Women will observe World Day of Prayer at Warren Baptist Church on Friday at 2 p m. The Rev Donald Thompson will speak on The Lord Is My Keeper. A film Road To Missions will be shown. All women in the county are invited.
Stanley Kuo of Shanghai recounts arriving in the United States and observing hats as he speaks at a Congregational Christian Church Men’s Club gathering in Fall River. Mara Whavinokiski of Poland and I Islam of Pakistan also share perspectives from Bradford Durfee Technical Institute.
The speaker discusses drinking water practices and recalls boiling water in Chile. He argues China cannot be controlled by Communists or foreign politicians, saying war could energize China and that only missionaries truly understand the country. He predicts China will steer its own fate away from Moscow.
The Polish visitor notes the hustle of New York as Americans rush and push in a busy scene. He senses a basic kindness amid the bustle and contrasts it with European nerves and disorder. He also says Americans appear cool and hard to break through at times.
He argues Americans undervalue their own benefits and laments parental submission to children's whims. He notes Durfee Technical Institute draws students worldwide and contrasts with old European cities where children avoid streets and public conveyances. He expresses a desire to become an American citizen soon.
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