Assessors Raise Minimum Auto Valuation to $150
Francis P McGovern announced that all autos now valued at 100 will be raised to 150, aligning with higher town appropriations and more veteran tax exemptions. He cited access limits at meetings and urged veterans to file for exemptions with discharge papers. The change implies about a 1.25 increase per vehicle at a 2.50 tax rate.
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Board of Tax Assessors
Francis P. McGovern
Secre
McGovern
Warren
Barrington
Zoning Board Delays Action on Thames Street Petition
The Zoning Board of Review deferred decisions on the Fanara request to rezone Thames street land from Commercial G to Industrial H until Monday. Adjoining-owner petitions and town solicitor input were sought, while Dr. Pine opposed the change citing possible coal yard use. A separate delay affected Borges’s zoning exception on Hope Street and Colonial Road for an engineered drawing.
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John
Stella Fanara
Thames Street
Zoning Board of Review
Fanara
Elmer E. Angell
Frank M. Dimond
Lucien Capone
Joseph Pine
Joseph Borges
Hope Street
Colonial Road
Edward L. Leahy
Borges
Roger Pigeon
Otis M Bailey
Pigeon
Pasquale Malafronte
Bradford Street
Rural Library Service Extended in Rhode Island Plan
Miss Edna Thayer announces Sallie E. Coy of Westerly Public Library as co-ordinator for expanding rural library services. The program aims to rally support for the Hill Douglas Public Library Demonstration Bill in Congress, which would grant 25000 dollars to bring books to rural residents.
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Edna Thayer
Rhode Island Library Association
Sallie E. Coy
Westerly
Rhode Island
Hill-Douglas Public Library
Congress
Stuart C. Sherman
Providence Public Library
Thayer
Grace M. Sherwood
Engagement announced for Emily Sousa to Manuel Oliveira Jr
Mr and Mrs Uriel Sousa of 14 First Street announce the engagement of their daughter Emily to Manuel Oliveira Jr son of Mr and Mrs Manuel Oliveira of 81 Dublin Street Somerset Massachusetts. No wedding date has been set.
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Uriel Sousa
First Street
Emily
Manuel Oliveira Jr
Manuel Oliveira
Dublin Street
Somerset
Mass
Veterans Housing relief plan eyes private land leases
The Vet Housing Committee renews the relief project by considering leasing two undeveloped private sites for three years to build roads sewers water and gas mains. Town would remove housing after the period. debate centers on casino-adjacent land and private property versus town or state owned sites.
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Veterans Housing Relief Program
Beach Terrace
Salvatore Rossi
Gooding Avenue
Defiance
R. I. Soldier's Home
Clements J. France
de Leo
Ralph de Leo
Preaching Service at St Michael's Sunday Evening
A preaching service with special music is held at 7 30 Sunday at St Michael's Church. Dorothy Place plays harp pieces and offers a harp solo for the offertory while Rev John F Kolk of Christ Church Lonsdale preaches after returning from four years as a Navy chaplain. A social hour follows at the parish house. Esther Madelyn Luther and James Leslie Campbell announce their engagement. Campbell is from Sunbury Pennsylvania and recently discharged from the U S Navy.
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St. Michael's Church
Dorothy Place
John F Kolk
Christ Church, Lonsdale
Kolb
George E. Luther
Esther Madelyn
James Leslie Campbell
Sunbury, Pa
U. S. Navy
Leslie Campbell
Bristol Notice of Evening Voter Registration
Town residents must register to vote at the Town Clerk's office in Burnside Memorial Building on May 8 and May 10 1946 from 7 to 9 PM. Town Clerk John W. Church oversees this registration window.
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Burnside Memorial
John W. Church
Special Town Meeting May 20 To Consider Vet Housing Plan
Town Council orders a May 20 special meeting to decide on a veterans housing relief program using Army barracks or Quonset huts. The Veterans Housing Committee will supply cost estimates to set a maximum appropriation, while legal questions about town authority are debated.
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Veterans
Veterans Housing Committee
Capone
Ralph DeLeo
Henry F Serbst
Serbst
Boston
de Leo
Wiley
FPHA
Bristol
J Floyd Huestis
Housing Committee
Boy Scouts To Conduct Paper Drive In Bristol
The Bristol Boy Scouts plan a town wide waste paper drive on Sunday May 12 starting at 12 30 PM. Four annual collections are planned under National Headquarters directives with routes to be mapped by scoutmasters. Residents should bundle paper and magazines separately and place at curb for pickup by volunteer workers with six trucks needed. Proceeds from paper sales fund troop equipment and camping needs.
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Bristol Boy Scouts
Metacom Avenue Bus Line Endorsed by Local Groups
The Rotary Club Board of Directors voted Wednesday to endorse the Metacom Avenue Bus Line project. Last week the Planning Board also voted to endorse the proposal.
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Metacom Avenue
Rotary Club
Parshley to Explain Rhode Island College Plan
Canon Anthony R. Parshley chair man of the Sponsoring Committee will explain details of the Rhode Island State College Bristol County Center educational project at a HI Y Club meeting at the YMCA Monday evening at 8. Mrs Janet B. Clark secretary will also address the Club.
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Canon Anthony R. Parshley
Rhode Island State College
Bristol County Center
YMCA
Janet B. Clark
Newspapermen aboard Roger Williams train trip to circus
A group of journalists from Providence heads to New York on the Roger Williams with public relations host Arthur Brunner. They dine at Jansen's, tour the indoor Garden circus, admire Wallendas and flying trapeze, and return aboard the Commander around midnight after a full day with several New Haven officials.
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Roger Williams
Commander
Arthur Brunner
New Haven R.A
Charlie MacKay
Len Warner
Journal
Bristol
Charlie Utter
Westerly Sun
Clarence Roberts
Attieboro Sun
Roland Anderson
Pawtuxet Valley
Providence
New York
Jansen's
Grand Central Bldg
Arthur
John Ringling
Emmett Kelly
Mrs. Truman
Boston
Mr. Norris
New Haven
Biltmore
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Frank J. Murphy
Wood Street
Charles Dew Brownell
Herreshof Mfg Co
Vet Housing Committee
Robert Walker
June Allyson
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MR. Gregory
Edmund Lowe
Jean Rogers
Frank Reicher
Raffles
David Niven
Olivia Dehavilland
Gale Storm
Phil Regan
Robert Lowery
Doris Merrick
Eddie Quillan
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St. Michael's
Town OF
Sumner K. Wiley
Boy Scouts
A. R. Parshley
Highway Dept
Registry Voters
Town Cleck
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