Town election preview lists candidates and polling details
The biennial town election is tomorrow with polls open 8 am to 9 pm. Republicans Independents and a rejected Democratic slate compete for Town Council School Committee and Sewer Commissioner posts. Several incumbents are unopposed. Voter districts and polling places are specified along with supervising election officials. John J Arrafal sends his Purple Heart medal home to his wife as he recovers from a German front wound and returns to active duty.
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Democrat Party
J. Floyd Huestis
Paul A. Herzig
Henry F. Serbst
Paul C. Millemaggi
John P. Marshall
Bristol
Aaron F. Usher
Joseph E. Goulart
Anthony Bisbane
Joseph F. Pannone
Joseph A. Souza
John Andrade
Earl P. Mathewson
Rocco Migliori
Anthony R. Parshley
Eileen Moore Pierce
Edward J. Ryan
Vincent Saviano
Andrade
Mathewson
Saviano
Donat J. Gladue
Henry Miranda
Louis Tortorice
Albert J. Flint Jr
Corporal Slim Roderick Returning Home From Pacific Service
Corporal Anthony M. Roderick son of Mr and Mrs Antone Roderick of 14 John Street Bristol completes three years in the Southwest Pacific with the Fifth Air Force. An airplane mechanic in the 90th Bomb Group known as the Jolly Rogers he worked on Liberators Eagle Beaver and Double Trouble and recalls a crash during a mechanical checkup. The unit has a noted combat record including blasting 404 Nip planes and damaging or sinking a half million tons of enemy shipping. He is a Colt Memorial High School graduate and was employed by Carr Manufacturing Company before service.
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Fifth Air Force
Southwest Pacific
Anthony M. Roderick
Antone Roderick
John Street
Bristol
Roderick
90Th
SWPA
Philippines
Colt Memorial High School
Carr Manufacturing Company
Destroyer action over Ormac Bay in Leyte raid described
Charles M. Young GM Ic writes from a Philippine campaign aboard a destroyer. He recalls a night raid on Ormac Bay with heavy firing at eight hundred yards, sinking a Japanese destroyer, damaging PT boats and planes, and hitting a troop transport and landing barge. He notes evasive maneuvers against torpedo runs.
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Ormac Bay
Leyte
Charles
Pagano Son Wounded in Germany Second Time
Pvt Frank Pagano Jr was wounded in action on February 12 in Germany, his father Pvt Frank Pagano of 31 Garfield Ave had received notice. He had previously been slightly wounded in Luxembourg on December 31. A separate report notes a YMCA break in. a small radio was stolen and a hospital address was provided, while a daughter Joyce Elizabeth was born to Mr and Mrs William E Magee at 5 Mark Avenue.
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Frank Pagano
Garfield Ave
Frank Pagano, Jr
Germany
Luxembourg
J. A
Adjutant General
Joyce Elizabeth
Rand
William E. Magee
Mark Avenue
Poard 5Th
Dence
First Report Made On Red Cross War Fund
The Red Cross War Fund tally reaches 1867.50 toward a 9000 goal as of this morning. Campaign chairman R S Bosworth urged workers to reach every prospect before Holy Week. Donations include a 750 Bristol plants gift from Collins & Aikman and contributions from clubs, residential and business divisions, and special gifts.
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Red Cross War Fund
R. S. Bosworth
Collins & Aikman Corporation
Bristol
Gladys M Brightman
Holmes House
Bristol Phoenix
Stuart Barr
Martha
Ruth Graham
James McKenna
John C. Mello
Waldron Company
Industrial Trust Co
B. W. Wall
Frank J. Murphy
William Paine
C. W. Haffenreffer
J. Winthrop DeWolf
Wm. H
State Chairmen Speak At DAR Meeting
Three state chairmen of the Daughters of the American Revolution spoke at a Bristol Chapter DAR meeting yesterday afternoon. Donations were voted to the Red Cross War Fund Drive and to a DAR national war project. Refreshments were served by seven hostesses.
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The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Bristol
Dar
Charles Bartlett
William Mosher
Alice B. Almy
Red Cross
National Society
Malcolm McNaught
R. H. Blake
William Bell
C. A. Smith
Leon Coté
Charles B. Cole
Virginia Cole
Bristol Lieutenant Wins Air Medal in France
2nd Lt. Dominick A. Coppolino of Bristol Rhode Island receives the Air Medal for flying 30 missions with the Orange Tail Thunderbolt group based in France. He served with the First Tactical Air Force and Seventh Army, destroying German planes and bombing trains and targets during 1944 to 1945.
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First Tactical Air Force
France
Dominick A Coppolino
Bristol
R. I
Thunderbolt
Western Front
Seventh Army
Wartime Verse From The Men In Trenches Poised For Publication
A wartime piece notes poetry from service members amid mass production of planes and tanks. It highlights that the forthcoming Tent Poetry Anthology will include poems such as Lament I went for a War and War Makes Men, with accompanying drawings, and mentions authors like Tom Stack and Pfc. Henry B. Mackey and Pfc. C. C.
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Milton Lehman
The
Stars and Stripes
Mediterranean
N. Y
the Times
Tom Stack
Pfc
Henry B. Mackey
Fischer Named Chairman of Hall of Fame Committee
William M. Fisher, former Bristol resident and longtime secretary treasurer of the Excelsior Tennis Club, is named chairman of a committee to plan a Hall of Fame and National Museum of Lawn Tennis. The panel includes USLTA officers and has proposed sites such as Staten Island and Forest Hills.
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William M. Fisher
Bristol
Excelsior Tennis Club
Hall of Fame
United States Lawn Tennis Association
Staten Island
Forest Hills
Long Island
Chicago
California
Fischer
Baseball Hall of Fame
Cooperstown
Fisher
Eastern Lawn Tennis Association
United States
England
Tennis Maga
Eastern Lawn Tennis Ass'n
New York
No Argument and War Echoes in Dim Crime and Love Verses
A collage of verse fragments shows a comic plea for gifts mixed with gritty street humor and wartime reminiscences. It blends a Brooklyn boxer persona, a boxing tale, and a veteran’s postwar meditation on death revealing longing, pride, and guilt amid stark memory.
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Bertram W. Wall
Daniel G. Coggeshall
Francis P. McGovern
Benjamin F. Lindemuth
John W. Church
William H. Angevine
State Street
Bristol County Court House
High Street
John Post Reynolds
Margaret S. DuPont
Anthony Castro
Cecelia Marshall
James P. Fay
John Tufarolo
Mary V. DeRiso
Seraphine Pacheco
Bennie Mansi
Margaret W. Battcher
Marjorie B. Bertrand
James T Cruz, Jr
Victoria V. Vona
Elmer E. Angell
Frank J. Sylvia
Helen S. Hadfield
Norman E. Benard
Marguerite V. Walsh
Erminie Wood
Pfe
John J Arrafal
9Th Army
Newark
Bobby
Thompson Avenue
John J Arraial
Cpl. “Slim” Roderick
Pacific
Venus
Billy Gilbert
Ann Savage
Hugh Herbert
the Whistler
Richard DIX
Janis Carter
Porter Hall
Paul Guilfoyle
Geo. Coulouris
Osa Massen
Irene Dunne
Charles Boyer
Cartoon
Snooper
C. M. Young
GM Ic
Philippine
Charles M. Young
Icco Fpo
San Francisco
Pvt
Y.M.C.A
Hubert F. Hill
D. A. Coppolino
Coppolino
Salvatore
Coppoling
Pearse Avenue
Pee
Ndfers
Cu Yisen
Shisana TS Hat
Pfc. C. C
WM. M. Fischer
Tennis Hall OF Fame Comm
National Museum
Mr Fischer
Sweet Home
Alabama
Henry
Bud Arnold
Brooklyn
Moider, Inc
Hank Chernick
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