Budget Appropriations Considered at Bristol Town Meeting
Bristol taxpayers will gather Monday at 7:30 PM in Reynolds School for a town meeting presided by Moderator B. W. Wall. The call lists appropriations of 311,728.44 plus 10,000 and includes 2,000 for an Honor Roll form, 2,000 for mosquito control, 5,000 for ordinance codification, 1,000 for a tax book, 12,000 reserve for Post-War Projects, and reserves for fire apparatus 2,000 and other accounts. The Budget Committee report notes several salary-related variances in School and Police budgets and other admin costs. Copies of the budget report are available at Duffy's, Alger's, and the Town Clerk's office.
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Bristol
Reynolds School
B. W. Wall
Council of Defense
Farm Bureau
Duffy's
Alger's
Tax Assessors Clarify Salary Question and Funding Need
Francis P. McGovern, secretary of the Board, says the request was not for pay raises but for year round funding to maintain current tax records. He explains the need for a full-time clerk with a $450 appropriation to prevent reliance on sporadic, large special appropriations. The board members agree with the assessment.
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Board of Tax Assessors
Francis P. McGovern
Mr McGovern
My Govern
Town Beach Issue Discussed at Combined Meeting
At a joint Recreation and Salvage Committee session the fate of a Town Beach was debated. Lack of harbor space led to favoring an outdoor pool at Rockwell Park with post war planning. A woman supervisor for Rockwell Park and the Common playground was proposed with a $1000 budget for salary and equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YMCA
Tan M Walker
Rockwell Park
Recreation Board
Hubert F. Endl
Rotary Anniversary Committee Appointed
President A A Ednevonds appoints a committee of past Bristol Rotary Club presidents to plan the fifteenth anniversary events for June 29. Members include VT de Rocha Fo Reginald Dimond Dr Fredr enck Vo Martin Res Anthonys R Parshley and Brig Gen Sanmiel A Tall.
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VT de Rocha
Reginald Dimond
Fredrenck Vo Martin Res Anthonys R Parshley
Brown Univ Vice President Dr James Adams to speak at Y
Dr James P Adams vice president of Brown University will address Bristol Tuesday evening in the fifth of six winter YMCA Community programs at Rockwell Hall. He will discuss The Making Of Tomorrow highlighting war effort unity and postwar needs. Adams leads Rhode Island Russian War Relief and views it as international goodwill.
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Jas. P. Adams Brown
Univ
James P. Adams
Brown University
Bristol
Y.m.ca
Rockwell Hall
Dr Adams
Rhode Island
Reginald Dimond
YMCA
Bristohians
Adams
The
RWR
Union Lenten Service At Congregational Church
Rex Kenneth L. Cober pastor preacher at the community Lenten service to be held at the First Congregational Church on Sunday evening with Mrs Nathaniel G. Herrshoff Jr as soloist. The choirs of First Baptist Saint Michael’s Episcopal and First Congregational Churches will join for the service conducted by Rev Herbert D. Graetz with assists from Canon Anthony R Parshlex and Rev Arthur W Burdon. The program includes preludes hymns prayers scripture offertory solos and several hymns ending with benediction and postlude.
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Rex Kenneth L. Cober
Baptist State Convention
First Congregational Church
Nathaniel G. Herrshoff Jr
First Baptist
Saint Michael's Espiscopal
First Congregational
Herbert D. Graetz Wil
Anthony R Parshlex
Arthur W . Burdon
Senior Class Presents Jerry of Jericho Road
The Bristol Senior High School performed Jerry of Jericho Road in the Colt auditorium with a smooth opening. Director Mrs Theresa Donovan praised for guiding a cast led by Joan Doyle Eleanor Almeida Raymond Francis and Dominic Campanella with comic relief from George Pinhoro Lincoln Fiske and Cornelius Bean. A rope dance by Kathleen Brito and a Western melody group by the Ranch provided musical numbers. a second show is scheduled for tonight.
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Jerry of
Jericho Road
Bristol Senor High School
Colt Auditorium
Mo Theresa Donovan
Joan Doyle
Geraldine Banks
Eleanor Almeida
Sandy Banks
Raymond Francis
John Drayton
Domennc Campanella
Alan O'Day
Partswell
George Pinhoro
Amos Bank
Lincoln Fiske
Cornelius ‘Bean
Kathleen Brito
School Committee Ends Debate On $100 Teacher Bonus
The School Committee backed a $100 cost of living bonus for all full time staff, noted by Supt. E. S. Mapes in his annual report. He cites lower Bristol teacher salaries in 1928-29 and ongoing postwar job gaps, urging local partnerships with industry to provide work experience through vocational programs to bridge school and first jobs. Copies of the report will be available at the Town Meeting and offices.
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E. S. Mapes
Bristol
Mapes
Rhode Island
CCC
N.Y.A
Iocal
Washington
NYA
Final report on Bristol town lands sale outlined
Town Committee on Town-Owned Lands urges court action and an engineer survey to fix boundaries for lands to be sold. It recommends a board of three to five appraisers with knowledge of local school lands and notes Chapter 1288 of 1943 enabling act approved by the governor. Title policies require court action before sale can proceed this year.
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A A Edmonds
Lucien Capone
Capone
Bristol
Financial Town Meeting
Rhode Island
Title Company
Young Women's Club Plans St Patrick's Dance
Invitations to the St Patrick's Day dance will be given next Wednesday evening by the YMCA Young Women's Club. Servicemen from Melville Prudence Island Fort Adams Camp Church and Newport have accepted. Claire Partington chairs the committee with Virginia McLaughlin Catherine Hammill Irene Sousa Mary Aiello and Helen Preble assisting. A basketball game with a Fall River girls club was tentatively planned at the Wednesday club meeting.
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YMCA
Melville
Prudence Island
Fort Adams
Camp Church
Newport
Claire Partington
Virginia McLaughlin
Catherine Hammill
Irene Sousa
Mary Aiello
Helen Preble
Fall River
Bristolians Meet For First Time in South Pacific
Word has reached this office that Lt Raymond J Makowsky son of Mrs Eva Makowsky and Francis G McGovern son of tax assessor and Mrs Francis P McGovern met recently somewhere in the New Hebrides Islands. Although the men are Bristolians they had never met before. Also at APO 708 is Major Allen Thayer nephew of Miss Catherine Levere of 38 Union street with whom Makowsky and McGovern had dinner one evening.
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Raymond J Makowsky
Eva Makowsky
Francis G. McGovern
Francis P McGovern
New Hebrides Islands
Leutenants
A.P.O
Major Allen Thayer
Catherine Levere
Union Street
S T. Makowsky
McGovern
Soldier Fire Eaters in Naples Uphold Naples Firefighting
In Italy the Army Engineer Composite Platoon FAFC runs firefighting units under Major Kenneth Engel. GI firemen, organized since the Louisiana maneuvers, handle blazes from fuel mishaps and air raids. They cooperate with British and Italian services while recalling earlier campaigns in North Africa and at Mers Kebir.
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Army
Italy
Engineer
FAFC
Fire Administration
Naples
Kenneth E. Engel
San Antonio
North
Africa
North Africa
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Rotary Anniversary Committee
Alice Faye
Carmen Miranda
Cartoon
the Batman
Iraq
John Loder
Allan Jones
June Vincent
Jerome Cowan
Betty Keane
Mae West
Victor Moore
William Gaxton
Charles Starrett
LAW OF the Northwest
Congregational Church
Jack Carreira
Mason Contractor
TEL
Young Women’s Club
St. Patrick’s
Bristolians
South Pacific
Stars and Stripes
Cpl
Sal Palumbo
2Nd Aux
Surg
Air Corps
A.C
Set
Arthur Kleinar
Brooklyn
John B. Baker
Edgarton, Minn
Luther E. Brown
Antigo
Wisc
Mers Kebir
Oran
Brown
Engels
Vesuvius
Cassino
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