Lodi Hosts Ham Operators Gathering at Townsend Hotel
More than forty Amateur Radio Operators and spouses gathered at the Townsend Hotel in Lodi, with attendees from Weedsport Dresden Phelps Auburn Penn Yan Moravia Rochester and nearby. Local reps included Alma Williams WB2NPM Interlaken and Charles Holmberg WB2NPL Ovid. Gordon Clinton K2MUI Trumansburg and Richard Bassett WB2IFW Interlaken were absent.
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Lodi
Townsend Hotel
Weedsport
Dresden
Phelps
Auburn
Penn Yan
Moravia
Rochester
Interlaken
Richard Blew
Ovid
Alma Williams
Gordon Clinton
K2mui
Trumansburg
Richard Bassett
Wb2ifw
Charles
Hilda Holmberg
Kenneth Roricks
Holmberg
Ovid Chapter
The
Eastern Stars
Lodi Firemen Elect Officers and Review 1966 Totals
At the Lodi Volunteer Fire Co annual meeting Eugene Huff was elected Chief with Robert Close and Harold Potts as assistants. Francis Hurd is President, Donald McCheyne vice president, Gorden Steen treasurer, William Colburn secretary, with Emmett Smith and Loren Grace named 3 year directors. The 1966 fire report shows 31 calls, 20 fires, 2 accidents, 2 demonstrations, 4 duck on Seneca Lake calls. losses totaled 20,848.50 with 16,250.50 insurance paid and 4,598.00 total loss. The unit logged 52 hours, 88 miles, used 3700 ft booster line and 2150 ft 11/2 in line. Eugene Huff elected delegate to Albany convention with H Potts as alternate. Norman Wells named First Aid Officer. Mrs. Viola Stevens a patient in Corning Hospital. Quote ends with a noted humorous observation by Leon W. Berry.
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Lodi
Lodi Volunteer Fire Co. Inc
Eugene Huff
Robert Close
Harold Potts
Francis Hurd
Donald McCheyne
Treas
Gorden Steen
Secy
William Colburn
Emmett Smith
Loren Grace
Seneca Lake
Albany
H. Potts
Norman Wells
Local Airmen Arrive at Watertown and Ovid Units
Airman Second Class Walter A. Troutman arrives at Watertown Air Force Station assigned to Air Defense Command after service in Japan. He is an administrative specialist and Romulus Central High School graduate who attended Ithaca College. Technical Sergeant William F. Tripp graduates from a C-124 flight engineers course at Tinker AFB Oklahoma. He is married to Betty Nicholson and a graduate of Ovid Central High School.
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Watertown
Romulus
Walter A. Troutman
H.douglas Troutman
RD 2
Watertown Air Foce Station
Troutman
Japan
Air Defense Command
Romulus Central High School
Ithaca College
OVID
William F. Tripp
David J. Tripp
RD2
Tinker Afb
Okla
Tripp
Ovid Central High School
Betty Nicholson
James Nicholson
Nicoma Park
Small towns keep old ways alive in modern America
A philosopher notes the price of speed is a generation’s life becoming the next era of art. Americans seek local life arts in exiled cultures. Europan echoes persist in one town’s Swedish festival with costumes, cheese, and dancing. Forgiveness, as divine love’s measure, follows God’s command.
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America
Switzerland
Middle West
Old Country
Jesus
Airlift assignment for Ovid native Staff Sergeant Hawkins
Assigned to the Military Airlift Command at Andrews AFB Maryland, Staff Sergeant Harold P. Hawkins son of Mrs Hazel Hawkins of Ovid arrived for duty. He previously served as an air policeman at McCoy AFB Florida and is a 1958 graduate of Ovid Central High School. His wife Karen is daughter of Mrs Rose Howell of 4320 Trentionan Court Orlando Florida.
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Ovid
Harold P. Hawkins
Hazel B. Hawkins
Andrews Afb
Hawkins
McCoy Afb
Fla
Military Airlift Command
Ovid Central High School
Karen
Rose Howell
Trent
Ionan Court
Orlando
Monitor subscription pitch ad with local newspaper appeal
The piece promotes the Christian Science Monitor as a sharp national and international news source. It touts a wide range of local and world coverage, a 2 world-wide staff, and incisive editorials, urging readers to subscribe via a mailed coupon from Boston.
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Christian Science Monitor
TME Monitor
Monitor
Capitol Hill
Main Street
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Ohio
Ken Rorick
Charles Holmberg
Ham
Viola Stevens
Corning Hospital
Leon W. Berry
Mt Adams
Washington
Sun
Ovid School
Jerry Sherwin
WGVA
M.C
BY Maggi
Plymouth Rock
Matt
Norway Street
Boston
Massachusetts
U.S.A
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the Interlaken Review
Free Press
Ovid Gazette
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