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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1959
Page
6
The piece criticizes Dean Acheson for attacking the administration while urging smarter diplomacy in a tense Cold War era. It argues that travel and talks matter but cautions against excessive caution and highlights the need for public approval and safety concerns near Bradford Street as a new high school plan moves forward.
Complaints rise about juvenile behavior near Hope Street as 25 children wait at Beach Terrace and Bristol Highlands before school. Observers note orderly scenes away from intersections turn chaotic near Pales Road, with kids running into traffic and buses halted in the road. Call for parental responsibility and sharp measures, possibly police involvement, to curb the hazard.
A reminiscence of Wallis E. Howe former Y.M.C.A. board president recounts a tie breaking vote on a liquor dealer member, club anecdotes with Percy Gardner and Theodore Francis Green, a yacht voyage past a fleet, and a Washington’s birthday misunderstanding with the admiral’s party. Subsequent tales promised for future installments.
A reader thanks the Republican town committee for its new chairman and credits the police department Sgt Henry Sylvia and Colt Ambulance driver Erasmo Mancini for fast medical help to Mrs James Banta of 99 Bradford St. at Newport Naval Hospital after a sudden illness. Dr Botelho also responded promptly to aid. Mrs Vasta Ruggiero expresses gratitude.
In February 1943 a Long Island City child born to Mr and Mrs Joseph Mittel was named Adolf Hitler Mittel. Upset letters urged the parents to change the name, which they did to Theodore Roosevelt Mittel. The youth later faced juvenile delinquency charges, spent months in a training school, and was held on $100000 bail in Queens Juvenile Court after robbing delicatessen and liquor stores with a gang. He claimed a plan to rob a policeman for his revolver but others stopped him.
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