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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1955
Page
2
A Bristol letter to the editor recounts a school committee session seen as secretive. The writer urges taxpayers to attend, questions a 475 484 dollar appropriation, and argues for open budgeting and more emphasis on classrooms over administrative hires.
Prudence Island advances post hurricane recovery with a new Sand Point Dock to open May 27 and its first Sand Point Coffee Shop run by Marjorie DelPapa. A reopened general store and a new gas station restart, while The Friendly Store will not return, and Pardon DeWitt's Bakery opens Memorial Day weekend.
At Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church Mothers Club meeting, a 125 donation to Catholic Charity Plan Appeal was voted. A Holy Communion breakfast is set for May 28 in the church auditorium, officers for next year were proposed, and prizes were awarded to members.
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