Rhode Island Women Club Members Attend 63rd Annual Meeting
Local club members attended the 63rd annual Rhode Island State Federation of Women’s Clubs meeting at the Viking Hotel Newport last Thursday. About 200 people heard speaker Chloe Difford discuss guiding world peace and how women’s clubs can help health and welfare at home and children. The federation highlighted CARE packages for the Philippines and noted Rhode Island’s 100 percent participation in the Community Achievement Contest, with $30,000 awarded to the state federation. Thirty-three clubs entered. judging requires written reports by March 1, 1960 detailing activity from June 1958 to June 1960.
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Roger Dietz
George IouPont
Earl G Sturdevant
Rhode Island State Federation of Women Clubs
Viking Hotel
Newtert
Vitous
Newport Indheons
Misa Chloe Difford
General Federatano of Womens Clubs
van Washington
Philippines
Rhode Island
General Federation of Womens Clubs
Sears- Roebuck Foundation
Kenneth Bowen
Bristol Women's Club
Dietz
DuPont
Sturdevant
Edward J Roth
Providence
Bristol Public Schools Band Concert Tonight May 11
The combined Bristol bands will give a concert on Thursday evening May 11 at 8 pm in Guiteras auditorium. Proceeds will be shared by the band fund and the PTA. Tickets available from band and PTA members or at the door.
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Bristol Public Schools
Guiteras Auditorium
Band Fund
PTA
Reckless Polio Vaccine Uptake Echoes Trestle Dare
A 1960s editorial compares risky defiance of safety to public neglect of the Salk polio vaccine. It notes vaccine safety and cost decline, cites 1955 introduction and 44 percent rise in paralytic cases in 1958, with outbreaks in Detroit New Jersey and West Virginia. It warns that many children remain unimmunized and urges vaccination.
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Detroit
New Jersey
Western Virginia
West Virginia
Bristol High Hosts Tri Town Debaters In Education Match
Local duo Frank Caizzi and Mattie Ann Capone defeated Barrington debaters in a Bristol Senior High School assembly on Thursday. English coordinator Dr. Paul F Fletcher opened the event and urged more debates between Warren Barrington and Bristol. Judges Ferdinand Bruno and Frank T Canario presided with Everett Southwick as club president and Suzanne Hazen and Nancy Bullock as timekeepers.
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Frank Caizzi
Mattie Ann Capone
Barrington
Bristol Senior High School
U.S
Paul F. Fletcher
Warren
Bristol
Ferdinand Bruno
Frank T. Canario
Everett Southwick
Suzanne Hazen
Nancy Bullock
Miss Parisi Wins New England Regional Scholarship
Anne L. Parisi, daughter of Michael Parisi of 118 Church Street, earned a Bryant College tuition scholarship in Providence awarded by Dr. Henry L. Jacobs. The award ranges from 200 to 600 dollars based on course, granted after April exams amid competitors from 100 plus high schools in New England and the Middle Atlantic. Parisi is a Bristol High School senior.
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Anne L. Parisi
Michael Parisi
Church Street
New England
Bryant College
Providence
Henry L. Jacobs
Middle Atlantic States
Parisi
Bristol Senior High School
Lt Col Ascoli Promoted to Col in U S Army Reserve
Lt Col Lawrence Ascoli has been promoted to colonel in the United States Army Reserve. He began as a second lieutenant with Bristol's Battery C, 243rd, RING in September 1940 and later served overseas in both European and Korean wars. He now commands the Intelligence Agency for the Quartermaster General in Washington. He is the son of Mrs A M Ascoli of 17 Verndale Circle, Bristol.
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Lawrence Ascoli
United States Army Reserve
Col. Ascoli
Bristol
Battery C
243Rd
Ring
He Is
The
A. M. Ascoli
Verndale Circle, Bristol
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Fred Mello
Defiance
Joe Vargas
Firemen’s
Ever Ready
Board of Engineers
Harry Gray
Tony Goulart
William Butler
Quartermaster General
Washington
Lobster Kelsey & Cechlster
Narragansett Bax
Maine
Nova Scotia
Thames
Co. F. Mulholland
Lockwood Street
State Street
Middletown Motors Dietown, R. I
West Main Road
Safeco
Richardson
Sii Maia
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