Estelle Parsons Brightens Today Show With Wide Duties
Estelle Parsons on Dave Garroway’s Today program handles weather reports from the weather bureau, gathers news tidbits, lines up author interviews, and even models on air. She travels 6:30 a.m. to the studio, digs through papers and teletype items, and marks weather maps with high and low indicators.
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Dave Garroway
Estelle Parsons
Morni
Jim Fidler
Weather Bureau
Washington
Garorway
Lescolie
Garroway
Estelle
Incinerator Return to Minturn Favored in Town Meeting
The committee weighed incinerator options at a highway department meeting. They revised projected disposal to 50 tons daily and discussed Minturn Farm as a possible site while noting the Wardwell area is largely used. Newport and Bristol incinerator data were reviewed along with private vs public operation concerns.
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Minturn Farm
Jeremias Andrade
Reynolds G. Northup
Northup
Andrade
Newport Public Works Department
Bristol
Newport
Francis Signs Up For Paratroops
Bristol soldier Pvt. Leonard R. Francis has volunteered for duty with the U S Paratroopers. He entered the Army at Camp Kilmer on September 30 and will begin jump school after basic training at Fort Bliss Texas. Francis is the son of Mr and Mrs Manny Francis of 5 Harker Avenue. He served as a bass drummer with Scouts and as a member of the Kingsmen and Rangers Bugle and Drum Corps. He is stationed with Battery D 19th Training Battalion A A A RTC Fort Bliss Texas.
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Bristol
U. S
Leonard R. Francis
Manny Francis
Harker Avenue
Francis
Camp Kilmer
N. J
Ft. Bliss
Texas
Kinder Bros
Kingsmen
Rangers
19Th Training Battalion
A.A.A. Rtc
Joint meeting to study attracting industry in Bristol
A joint town council, zoning and planning board session will review Jerome Donovan proposals to lure diversified industry. The group will gather data on available buildings, labor force, and industrial zones and forward findings to the U L Development Council.
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Jerome Donovan
Bristol
U. L Development Council
Bruno
GOP seeks civic charter aid amid intra party tension
The Republican Town Committee fails to gain signatures for its Lobster Claw charter drive while pledging to seek aid from the R I Home Rule Association and civic groups. Mayor Dean Lewis of Newport, a 1954 GOP gubernatorial hopeful, urges united action and criticizes non partisan election provisions and off year contests as he addresses the crowd.
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R. I Home Rule Association
Dean Lewis
Newport
GOP
Orlando Bisbane
Lewis
United Action
Blackstone Valley
Bristol
R. I. Press Club
Newsmaker
Coleman
Woonsocket
New Charters
Bruno Sets Police Meeting On Hunt Season Menace
Town bans hunting in areas between Hope Street and Narragansett Bay with a November 1950 council vote. The map runs from the Narragansett Bay shore to Mt Hope Bay including Hope Chestnut Sherry Metacom Wood Griswold areas. Property owners outside posted zones must post lands to prohibit hunting.
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Hope Street
Narragansett Bay
Bristol-Warren Town Line
Hope and
Chestnut Streets
Chestnut Street
Sherry Avenue
Juniper Hill Cemetery
Metacom Avenue
Woodlawn Avenue
Wood Street
Griswold Avenue
Mt. Hope Bay
Opportunity Seen in Road Network for New England South Shore
The 75 million dollar express road plan would link New York to Cape Cod via a 202 mile route passing Rhode Island towns including Bristol Newport Portsmouth and Jamestown. Governors from Connecticut Massachusetts and Rhode Island announced the proposal to boost travel and industry with a bridge between Jamestown and Newport under consideration.
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New England
South Shore
Cop
Connecticut
Jamestown
Newport
Rhode Island
Immigrant Matriarch Builds Real Estate Empire in Bristol
Mrs. Del Toro arrived in America with 700 dollars after leaving Amalfi Italy at 18. She parlayed the nest egg into 11 Bristol properties with rental units all owned outright. Twelve of her children are living, many involved in family busi nesses including real estate, produce, and groceries. Her late husband Biagio started the fruit and produce business now carried on by sons. One son served in Korea.
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Amalfi
Bristol
Herusband
Biagio del Toro
Andrew
Korea
Clery’s Sermon Denounces Delusion on Juvenile Delinquency
The Rev. Frederick Drittmier warned that juvenile delinquency stems from a moral problem in an increasingly unmoral secular society. He urged moving beyond two dimensional views and called for a third dimension of moral height to guide children.
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FredericktsFy
Drittmier
Spe Ristel County
Nique
Kinsey
Council chief orders force meeting on hunting law enforcement
Council president Joseph F. Bruno instructs Police Chief Ferrara to assemble the entire force at 2 PM to address alleged hunting regulation violations. He cites a dangerous situation with the opening hunting season and notes off limits areas like High Beach Terrace Bayside Shores and Ferry.
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Council
Joseph F. Bruno
Ferrara
Bruno
Bien
Ash
Ruho
Iikdé
Ehident
Bayside Shores
Poppa
Rejuvenation of Textile Hope Aided by Bristolian
In Lawrence Massachusetts J Norman Red Anderson Bristol native and Textile Shield Company president built a long career from early bluffing into part ownership of a building thirty six years ago. Now 72 he leads a firm supplying 90 percent of bobbin fittings for US and Canadian textile industries. He grew up in Lawrence with parents James and living on High Street and Court Street.
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Lawrence
Mass
J. Norman
Red) Anderson
Bristol
Guiding Light
Textile Shield Company
U. S
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Adlai Stevenson
Adlai
la Guardia
F. D. Roosevelt
Dave
Minturn
Highway Department
Wardwell
Pvt
Leonard AR. Francis
Republican Town Committee
Mrs. Biagio del Toro
Mr. del
Toro
Cleri
Penech
Anderson
James Anderson
High
Court Streets
Callan
John W.W. Church
Soper
Sc i
Anderserson
Red
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