Town department costs for 1945 are made known
Town budgets for 1945 total 342681.50 with 311097.31 raised by tax and 10000 from beverage license fees. Increases include Highway Welfare Police and taxes accounts. decreases cover Fire Building Maintenance and other items. Resolutions seek shifts from General Funds and State beverage fees to capital reserves.
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Phoenix
Highway Department
Board of Assessors
Farm Bureau
Welcome Home Fund
Beach Committee
Veterans’ Center
OPA
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Pvt Frank Abate Wounded in Philippines in World War II
Pvt Frank A Abate son of Mr and Mrs Andrew Abate of 45 Catherine Street has been reported seriously wounded in the Philippines. He is being treated in a Manila hospital after 18 months overseas with the 37th Infantry division. He enlisted in March 1943 and earned the Silver Star on Bougainville Island for gallantry in action.
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Pvt
Frank A. Abate
Andrew Abate
Catherine Street
Philippines
Pvt Abate
Manila
Bristol Senior High
37Th Infantry Division
Bougainville Island
Rev Carl B Bare To Speak At Lenten Service
The Rev Carl B Bare DD pastor of United Congregational Church Newport will speak at the fourth Community Lenten service Sunday evening in First Baptist Church. Music will be by a double male quartet. The Rev M Bare previously spent ten years as a missionary in India and recently led the Congregational Church in Manchester NH.
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Carl B Bare
United Congregational Church
Newport
First Baptist
M. Bare
India
Congregational Church
Manchester
Medal Awarded to Hibbert for Missing Son in WWII
George Hibbert of 240 Hope Street received the Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster with a citation for his son Staff Sgt Alan Hibbert missing in action over the Marshall Islands since January 20, 1944. The ceremony at Hunlsgrove Army Air Base noted Alan Higbert’s meritorious service as a bombardier over Nauru Tarawa and other Pacific targets.
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George Hibbert
Hope Street
Alan Hibbert
Marshall Islands
Hunlsgrove Army Air Base
Hibbert
Nauru
Tarawa
South Pacific
Private Manuel Fernandes Killed in Action in Germany
Telegram reports Pvt Manuel Fernandes Jr 30 killed in action in Germany on February 24 His wife Mrs Mary Alegria Fernandes receives the notice He had served three years with 14 months in Africa and recently joined the Infantry after Coast Artillery transfer Born in Madeira Islands he lived in Bristol and worked for the Carrier Corp before enlistment
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Manuel Fernandes, Jr
Germany
Mary Alegria Fernandes
Dixon Avenue
Fernandes
Manuel Fernandes
Shaws Lane
United States
Coast Artillery
Infantry
9Th Army
Madeira Islands
Bristol
The
Carriig Corp
Matthew Maetoza Jr Answers Coast Guard Call
Matthew Maetoza Jr son of Mr and Mrs Matthew Maetoza Sr of 50 Thompson Ave Bristol Rhode Island answered the Coast Guard recruitment call for seventeen year olds He was sworn in at the Coast Guard recruiting office located at 29 India Street Boston.
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Matthew Maetoza, Jr
Matthew Maetoza
Thompson Ave
Bristol
Rhode Island
Coast Guard
India Street
Boston
Sgt. A DiPierro Receives Purple Heart for European Wounds
Anthony DiPierro, husband of Mary Florenzano DiPierro of 14 Mason Avenue, was awarded the Purple Heart for leg wounds from shrapnel in the European Theater. He already holds the Silver Star and Combat Infantry Badge and has returned to action in Germany.
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Anthony DiPierro
Mary Florenzano DiPierro
Mason Avenue
DiPierro
Sgt. DiPietro
Germany
Red Cross Urges Donations Report From Workers
Red Cross workers are urged to report donations as the 1945 banner appears in more windows and store fronts. Back a man for one year with $12. reports to Mrs Brightman at Holmes House 399 Wood Street. A first campaign meeting will be held in Providence next week with a weekend reporting push to Bristol. Senator Green endorses the drive and emphasizes the value of small gifts for service members.
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Red Cross
Brightman
Holmes House
Wood Street
Providence
Bristol
Roswell S Bosworth
Theodore Francis Green
Rhode Island
Armed Services
Rhode Islander
Henry B Rohrman Killed in Europe During World War II
Pvt Henry B Rohrman of Bristol reported killed in action in the European theater on June 19 after his LST struck a mine while crossing the English Channel. He served in the Army Engineer Corps and previously worked as a civilian for Merritt-Chapman & Scott George A Fuller. He leaves a wife Bridget and daughter Emily Mary, with parents and siblings in Bristol.
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Henry B Rohrman
Bridget
Friel) Rohrman
Collins Street
John B Rohrman
War Department
Rohrman
Pvt
Army Engineer Corps
Merritt-Chapman & Scott
George A Fuller Corps
Northern Ireland
Bridget Friel
Innisberrar
Derrybeg
County Donegal
Camp Belvoir
New York University
Pvt Rohrman
Red Cross
Little Famly
Colt Memorial High School
NYA
Quoddy Village
Providence
Emily Mary
John M Rohrman
Texas
William
Borges Brothers Reunite in England After Three Years
Edward R. Borges a Navy seaman first class and Joseph R. Borges a staff sergeant in the Air and Army respectively met in England last month after three years apart. Edward arrived on his fourth crossing and connected by phone with Joe who took a three day leave to visit his brother aboard the ship. Joe had entered the Army on January 24 1942 and spent two hours with family before overseas deployment. Edward joined the Navy July 1943 and serves in an armored guard.
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Edward R. Borges
Joseph R. Borges
Antonio R. Borges
Thompson Avenue
England
Edward
Navy
Joe
Air Corps
Sgt
Borges
Seaman Borges
Purple Heart Awarded to Lt Edgar H Hughes
Lt Edgar Hamill Hughes, 23, US Army Air Force, awarded the Purple Heart and awaiting further assignment in the United States. Bristol native, son of Dr. Edgar H Hughes of Brooklyn, grandson of Mrs John J Hughes of this town. Enlisted at 19, served as instructor, then overseas. also holder of the Pre Pearl Harbor Medal, American Defense Medal, Atlantic Medal, European Medal with 5 stars, Air Medal with silver Oak Leaf Cluster and 4 bronze Oak Leaf Clusters.
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Edgar Hamill Hughes
US Army Air Force
Hughes
Bristol
Edgar H. Hughes
Brooklyn
John J Hughes
Pvt John W Budarz Receives Combat Infantryman Badge in Italy
Pvt John W Budarz of the 361st Infantry Regiment 91st Power River Division is awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge for actual combat on the Fifth Army front in northern Italy. His wife Maria Budarz resides in Bristol Rhode Island. The badge features a silver rifle on infantry blue within a silver wreath.
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Fifth Army
Italy
John W. Budarz
Maria Budarz
Bristol
Rhode Island
91St “Power River
Bristol Coast Guardsman Serving On Pacific Invasion Support
Coast Guardsman Seaman First Class Frank A. Scolaro of Bristol is aboard a Coast Guard tanker delivering supplies and fuel to Pacific invasion forces. His brother Dominic serves in the Army. Engaged couple Jennie E Vargas and Louis V Costa announce Costa's engagement to Vargas and Costa a Navy Adm. 3c. Costa, on a 20 day leave at home after 19 months aboard a South Pacific destroyer, will report back to Seattle for reassignment.
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Coast Guardsman
Frank A. Scolaro
Theresa Scolaro
Franklin Street
Bristol
Rhode Island
Coast Guard
Dominic
Frank G. Vargas
Fox Hill Avenue
Jennie E
Louis V. Costa
Adm
Joseph Costa
Charles Street
Radarman Costa
South Pacific
Seattle
Washington
Storm Tells Fury of Carrier in Pacific Typhoon
John Beaufort recounts aboard a carrier caught in a brutal typhoon. The ship pitched and rolled, planes were jettisoned, fires battled, and three escort ships moved to rescue survivors as the storm raged.
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John Beaufort
Monitor
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Set Hibbert
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Barney Bears
Polar Pest
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Ski Whiz
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Donald Barry
Miss Bobby Socks
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Lynn Merhick
Louise Erickson
Venus
Billy Gilbert
Ann Savage
Hugh Herbert CO
Mark OF the Whistler
Richard DIX
Janis Cariee
Porter Hall
Paul Guilfoyle
Seaman Maetoza
Manhattan Beach
Bristol Y.M.C
Sgt. A. DiPierro
Purple Heart
Henry B. Rohrman
Europe
Bristol Coast Guardsman
Pacific
Shisana
Hanan
Beaufort
E.O
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