Planning Board Backs New Taft School Move
The Bristol Planning Board voted to request the town council and the school committee plan for construction of a new Taft School building to replace the two room wooden structure in Bristol Neck. The Highlands Improvement Association urged timely action, noting the current facility cannot serve growing enrollment.
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Bristol Planning Board
Bristol Neck
Taft
Mervyn Clay
Bristol
Bristol Highlands Improvement Association
Planning Board
Roger W. Pigeon
Russell Bray
Taft School
Neck
Sthe
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Sdaa Aeds Res Eile
Brookside
Fabio DeChristofaro
Miss Margaret Blemker to Speak on Mission Work in Turkey
Miss Margaret Ruth Blemker of Boston former English teacher at the American Board School for Girls in Izmir Turkey will describe her work in Turkey in a Sunday talk at 7 o clock at the First Congregational Church in Barrington. She arrives this morning and will stay with Mr and Mrs W W Richardson at Humphreys Road. She will present colored slides at 7 30 and later visit church school departments to discuss her appointed role with the American Board for Foreign Missions.
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American School For Girls
Izmir
Turkey
Margaret Ruth Blemker
Boston
Pilgrim Fellowship
First Congregational Church
Guneras House
Miss Blemker
American Board For Foreign
Congregational Church
Sam Bruno Returns to Track Sets Speed Mark
Sam Bruno of Bristol returns to midget auto racing after a devastating crash at Seekonk three years ago. He builds a career in California as mechanic and driver, then owns a Meyers Ford midget named The Sandra. He reclaims speed at Culver City and Lewiston setting track records and sweeping events.
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Sammy Bruno
Bristol
Sammy
Seekonk
California
Mark Eet
Warner Brothers Studios
Moitor Exchange
Sandra
Culver City
Li Ee
New Pastor George H. Smith Welcomed at First Baptist
Parishioners of the First Baptist Church gathered for a reception in the church auditorium to honor their new pastor Rev. George H. Smith. More than 50 attendees included leaders from nearby churches and church staff. Musical offerings by Bertam Bullock Jr and Arthur Vitullo complemented floral arrangements by Bertram Bullock Jr and Harold Pedley Sr.
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First Baptist Church
George H. Smith
Charles R. Cooley
First Congregational Church
Daniel K. Davis
St. Michael’s Church
Thomas E. Little
Trinity Episcopal Church
Bertram Bullock, Jr
Arthur Vitullo
Bertram Bullock
Harold Pedley
Henry Luther
Annal Pierce
Dorothy Mott
Harold Pedley, Jr
Arthur Marz
Robert L. Powell
Charles Luther
Camera Club Meeting Sets Stage for June Salon
Bristol County Camera Club met at the Warren Community Service Hall to plan a field trip and June Bristol County Salon where members may enter prints. The group invited all interested in photo work and noted veteran Sam Sammy as a wartime Tech Sergeant with 83 missions. The next regular meeting is Monday at 8 p.m. at the Bristol M C A.
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Bristol County Camera Club
Warren Community Service Hall
Bristol County
Sammy
8Th Air Force
Bristol ¥.M
Rinehart Praises Bristol Senior High School Handwriting Dept
William L. Rinehart, handwriting expert, praised Bristol senior high school at a Rotary Club gathering saying he taught his system in many schools but never saw a better department cooperation or results.
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William L. Rinehart
Rotary Club
Bristol
Graduation speakers named for Bristol Senior High exercises
Frank R. Foje Jr and Jean M. Vermette named as valedictorian and salutatorian for Bristol Senior High School graduation on June 23 at the Andrews Memorial high school auditorium. The zoning board, in a separate action, denied the appeal against a De Leo Brothers steel warehouse on Doran Avenue after finding the three year lapse in appeal unreasonable.
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Frank R. Foje, Jr
Frank R. Foje
Easterbrook Avenue
Bristol Senior High School
John L. Burke
Jean M. Vermette
Norman J. Vermette
Hope Street
Andrews Memorial High School
Bristol Zoning Board
de Leo Brothers
Doran Avenue
Otis M. Bailey
Ralph M. de Leo
Frank M. Martin
Consel
DeLeo
Nes Leo
Peti
Benevolent Society Marks 100th Year at St Michael’s Church
The Ladies Benevolent Society of St Michael's Church celebrates its centennial with a parish reception next Tuesday in the Parish House. A committee prepared a review of the society's century of work to be read by Mrs Wesley A Armstrong. Canon Daniel K Davis will give the welcome and Mrs Frank A Rounds and her son Earl will perform organ and piano duo pieces.
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Ladies Benevolent Society
St. Michael’s Church
Wesley A. Armstrong
Daniel K. Davis
Frank A. Rounds
Earl
Church Holds 269th Annual Meeting in Garden Club Talk
The Bristol Garden Club heard Robert F. Munro discuss The Gardens of New Zealand as he announced his resignation as treasurer of the First Congregational Church. The church honored longtime trustee Charles F. Dimond as honorary trustee and elected new officers and committee members at the annual meeting in the DeWolf Memorial Chapel.
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Robert F. Munro
Frances E. Bates
New Zealand
Bristol Garden Club
DeWolf Memorial
Munro
Charles F. Dimond
Charles R. Cooley
Roswell S. Bosworth
Ruby M. Blaisdell
Herbert B. Burnham, Jr
Ass’t
Malcolm G. Clarke
Archibald F. Dunbar,Jr
Maurice C. Smith
James T. McCaughey
Fred N. Palmer
Raymond J. Gruenwald
Albert E. Newton
Arthur W. Kolle
Carl T. Carlson
George F. Phillips
Kenneth L.dunbar
Russell S. Bray
Ralph H. Hawkins
Howard L. House
William ‘J. McCaughey
Thomas D. Admas, Jr
Jalopies and jargon heat up car owners recall
The DMV's pre registration inspection rule drew protests from owners who disliked being called jalopies. The head of the department, Mr Lussier, accepted blame for the term while noting the auto trade's own language. A New York Times clipping is cited to illustrate the point.
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Department of Motor Vehicles
Lussier
New York Times
Livernois Avenue Used Car Slang From Detroit
Detroit traders describe a brisk buyers market on Livernois Avenue where terms like lo oker up junker cream puff original and itinerant person define the local used car trade. A $300 profit is noted from a cream puff sale as explainers outline city slang and common sales tactics.
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Livernois Avenue
Livernois
Detroit
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New Taft School
Joseph G. A. Riccia
Cedarcrest Shores
Southworth Avenue
Riccio
Bristol Business Civic Association
Ruth Blemker
Sam Bruno
Ponta del Gado
Lewiston
Sila
Grouig
Camera Club
Wn. L. Rinehart
Douglas Fairbanks. Jr
Lynn
Richard Greene
Helen
Bad Luck
Blackie
Randolph Scott
Anne Jeffreys
Robert Ryan
Return of the Badmen
Jack Parr
Frankie Carle
Leon Errol
Bing Crosby
Rhonda Fleming
William Bendix
Cedric Hardwicke
Virginia Field
Connecticut
Technicolor
Germany
Zoning Board
Bristol Cleansers & Dyers
Garden Club
Arthur H. Carr
Metacom Avenue
John [Palmer
Skinner
Parmenas Skinner
Falugo
Gand
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