Bristol Town Meeting Approves Budget In Parts
At Reynolds School 160 taxpayers approved items in the Bristol town budget with a minor street lighting change adding 292.50 annually and a 3000 survey fund for the Washington street area. The session also funded a 7000 stamp to buy a new fire pumper for Defiance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reynolds School
Frank J. Sylvia
Bristol Planning Board
Wood Street
Bay View Avenue
Richmond
Washington Street
Arthur Manchester
Defiance Fire Company
Board of Fire Engineers
Fire Dept
B. W. Wall
Toto
Council
Budget Committee
F. L. Doran
Donat J. Gladue
Sewer Commission
Gladue
Bristol Red Cross closes surgical dressings rooms
Mrs Henry Wood, Bristol Red Cross Branch surgical dressings chairman, announced the March quota will be met by tomorrow noon. Workers are praised for completing the largest quota yet on time as the Bristol rooms close tomorrow afternoon and stay shut until April material arrives, likely after Easter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Wood
Surgical Dressings
Bristol
Bristol Town Appropriations For 1945 Approved
The Bristol town meeting approves several budgets including 200 for honoring local armed forces, 15000 to aid Northern Rhode Island Farm Bureau, 5000 for Veterans Welcome Home Fund, and funds for a proposed Town Beach survey, Veterans Retraining, War Rationing Office rent, sidewalk rebates, and highway notes. Resolutions also set appropriations for hurricane damage restoration and state license fees for the 1945 fiscal year ending Jan 31, 1946.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Rhode Island Farm Bureau
Down of
Bristol Eterans
War Rationing Board
Highway Department
State
Ceal
Rogers Free Library
Bristol District
Colt Memorial Ambulance
American Red Cross
Old East
School Budget Shrinks Due to Postwar Repair Delays
Supt. E. S. Mapes reports the 1945 school budget decreases mainly from cutting major building repairs, delaying renovations until war conditions ease. He notes curriculum gains in English, Reading, and Social Studies, a World History-Geography course for high grades, and added costs from closing Bristol training rooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supt
E. S. Mapes
Guneral
Bristol
College of Education
Byfield School
S Sgt A DiPierro Earns Silver Star in Luxembourg Action
S/Sgt Anthony DiPierro of Bristol Rhode Island earned the Silver Star for gallantry in Luxembourg on December 23 1944. He directed cannon fire from a forward position to destroy enemy emplacements while aiding riflemen of Cannon Company 328th Infantry Regiment. He is husband of Mrs Florenzano DiPierro 14 Mason Ave Bristol RI.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
26Th Infantry Division
Germany
Anthony DiPierro
Bristol
Rhode Island
Luxembourg
328Th Infantry Regiment
DiPierro
Sgt DiPietro
Florenzano DiPietro
Mason Ave
Red Cross Campaign Progress Reported at 67.5 Percent
Red Cross War Fund totals reach 4729.25 dollars, 67.5 percent of the 7000 goal, as announced by Chairman R. S. Bosworth and prepared by Executive Secretary Gladys M. Brightman. Division totals listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Red Cross War Fund
R. S. Bosworth
Gladys M. Brightman
Burns Twins Meet in Philippines on Brief Reunion
Ed Burns Jr and Steve Burns reunited in the Philippines after Ed located Steve during wartime service. They spent two days together and even organized a basketball game before Ed returned to a PT and Steve to an LST, hoping to celebrate again at home on 889 Hope Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burns
Pacific
Philippines
Charles E. Burns, Jr
Steve
William S. Burns
Leyte
Luzon
FBI
Hope Street
Town Meeting Notes On Tax Rise And Ledger Changes
Town officials report a tax rate increase of 2000 dollars this year despite reduced taxable property losses. Voters approve black form appropriations while more controversial topics await discussion. The new bookkeeping lumps expenses under other or maintenance, hindering detailed reporting. A deed to land once held by Ramon Guiteras and later sold to Gertrude Guiteras may be reissued after a lost deed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tax Assessors Board
Matanzas
Cuba
Ramon Guiteras
Gertrude Guiteras
Mediteranean War Hero Lt Brelsford Returns Home
First Lt Henry Brelsford Army Air Forces came back from eleven months overseas in the Mediterranean Theater aboard the U S Hospital Ship Seminole. He was treated at Stark General Hospital Charleston before transfer to Rhoads Hospital Utica New York. He wears the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters the MTO ribbon and the Purple Heart. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Thomas F Brelsford of 183 Wood Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Brelsford
Army Air Forces
Mediterranean
U.S
Stark General Hospital
Charleston
S. C
Rhoads
St. Brelsford
Air Medal
MTO
Thomas F. Brelsford
Wood Street
Cantata The Seven Last Words by Dubois Sunday Choral Concert
The Sacred Cantata The Seven Last Words by Dubois will be presented Sunday evening in the De Wolf Memorial Chapel by the combined choirs of three Protestant Churches. Herrmann L Wilbur is the director of the choirs and Mrs Core Shaw Anderson is accompanist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubois
de Wolf Memorial
Herrmann L
Wilbur
Core Shaw Anderson
Conversion Poem Born From War Night Review
Miss Frances Angermayer of Kansas City wrote the war poem Conversion in 1943 after a sleepless night. It gained wide distribution from Our Sunday Visitor, the Atlanta Constitution, and the Kansas City Star, with copies sent to servicemen overseas and in New Guinea, including 250000 sent to Jewish soldiers after a Hebrew Chronicle publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Angermayer
Kansas City
Our Sunday Visitor
Huntington
Indiana
The
Kansas City Star
New Guinea
England
Hebrew Chronicle
N. Y
Catholic chaplain recalls D Day amid dead and wounded
A French Catholic chaplain describes crawling among the dead and dying on D Day while tending to them and discovering 30 copies of a book titled Conversion. A Metz battle report mentions a Nazi dead with a German translation found, and a gunner pulled from a plane in England with a fragment of a hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Metz
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William T. Dwyer
Capone
Benjamin F Lindemuth
Beach Committee
Hubert F Hill
Rockwell Park
Haffenreffer
Herreshoff
James E Sullivan
Veterans Rehabilitation Committee
Fred MacMurray
Barbara Stanwyck
Edward G. Robinson
Jean Heather
Tom Powers
Byron Barr
Richard Gaines
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Hedy Lamarr
Paul Henreid
Sydney Greenstreet
Peter Lorre
Victor Francen
Gary Cooper
Teresa Wright
Disney Cartoon
Donald Duck and Gorilla
United States
Mapes
Sgt
A. DiPierro
Europe
the Burns Twins
Wm. H. Angevine
H. A. Brelsford
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