Naugatuck Borough Board Tackles Ill Real Estate Area Issues
Borough officials weigh complaints from Mortis Street and nearby properties about uneven street improvements and WPA legacy. Residents argue taxes fund uncompleted curbs while the board questions prior acceptance of streets and future development, with plans for maps and profiles to guide action.
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Naugatuck
Ete Board of Warden
Durpekses
Jeory
Kyser Powila
Maorvia Street
Ioyalxpirm
Waterbury
Elso
Johy
Alma
AKO and
Pointes
Lee Brophy
Charlier Daly
Foaily
Igide
Dropuy
Gofmretinn
Walden Heaphy
Mae Jane
Fulton Charles Curtis
Christmas Parties Planned by Local Departments Tonight
Workers from ANOU and LU S Pukbor Co attend Christmas festivities at Wide White Eagle Restaurant and the Miles Street area. A federal court case involves Jo Symonti of Tor om Wi, with sentencing set for next Monday after a not guilty plea.
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ANOU
LU. S. Pukbor Co
U.S
Ansevireo
Armagamants
UT Eags
Abba
Miles St of
Tennia Strichfaurtmert
Southtreet
Hettord
Xona
Symonti
Torom
Simont
Moedenatye
Christmas Gifts For Wounded Vets Being Received
The Naugatuck News reports community gifts arriving for wounded U S veterans in area government hospitals. The American Legion sponsors the drive to ensure no veteran is overlooked during Christmas. Additional donations are welcome at The News office or with Legion Post members and its auxiliary.
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Naugatuck
Christmas Seal Campaign Progress in Naugatuck
Mrs. Albert W. Holmberg reported the Naugatuck Chapter American Red Cross has received 1030.00 toward the 1944 goal in the borough and Beacon Falls. She urged residents to return seals promptly and said those needing more seals will have requests filled at the Red Cross chapter house or with any member of the committee.
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Albert W. Holmberg
Naugatuck
American Red Crogs
Benecan Falls
Holmberg
Messayre
Red Cross
Naugatuck Christmas Soul Committee
American Bombers Raid Nagoya and Fire Threat
United Press reports Nagoya, Japan’s third city and Mitsubishi hub on Honshu, was attacked by over 100 B-29s from Saipan, with further raids on Tokyo outskirts. News notes say official details will come at noon and Allied forces mass for Leyte operations as Chinese troops push south in Guangdong.
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United Press
Nagoya
Honshu Island
Talkyo
Japan
Tokyo
War Department
Philippines
Leyte Island
Radio Tokyo
Leyte
China
Mito Ikywangs
Yale director Geovee Parmly Day retires at month end
New Haven reports Parmly Day will conclude his term as director of Yale University operations at month end. He will serve as chairman of the governing board while Norman Donaldson is named to succeed him as director.
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New Haven
Dec
Geovee Parmly Day
Yale University
Ress
Day
The
Press
Norman Donaldson
Peter Paul Inc Zoth Anniversary Banquet Planned
Peter Paul Inc will observe its Sikh anniversary with a banquet Saturday at 8 p.m. at The Elton Waterbury Pres. Speakers include Calvin J Kazanjian Dr H Flint and John Taughan will MC. Employees 16 years or more receive recognition and an entertainment program followed by dancing with Wiesentein's Orchestra. The firm, a large coconut candy producer, has plants in New Haven Oakland Tampa and Puerto Rico and operates a Naugatuck plant invited by the chamber of commerce.
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Peter Paul, Inc
Elton
Waterbury
Pres
Calvin J. Kazanjian
H. Flint
Gates
John Taughan
Wiesengtein
New Haven
Flrre
J. M. Colline Dievision
Philadelphia
Peter Paul
Skazanjian
George Shamlian
Jacob Hagopian
Jacob Chouljian
Harry Nazanjian
New Haven Road
J. M. Caltins Co
Oakland
Tampa
Fla
West Indies
Puerto Rico
Opencad
Naugatuck
Orchard St Sailor Home From P 1 Invasion Front
Jack McDermott awaiting a day shore leave with his parents Mr and Mrs J William Meermott of Orchard Street He has served 16 months aboard a ship near the Philippines Seaman McDermott reports to the West coast after Liberty and Seaman Tailor has recently returned from the Pacific on the carrier His vessel cent actions.
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Jack McDermott
J. William Meermott
Orchard Streat
Philippines
Seaman McDermott
Seaman Tailor
D States
School Board likely to appoint four teachers at meeting
Borough schools face no severe shortage as four teaching posts may be filled three high school positions and no grammar school post. Substitutes cover vacancies while retired teachers could return for up to 30 days if needed, according to Superintendent Harold E. Chittenden.
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Lince
Harold E. Chittenden
Periah
State Teachery Retirement Board
Chittenden
Wauga
Holiday Buying In Naugatuck Brisk This Christmas Rush
Heavy gift merchandise demand is reported by Naugatuck stores during the Christmas rush. Shopping lines are brisk as customers shop early for wooden toys fabrics and pressed paper items. Clothing household goods jewelry and toilet articles are popular. Leading stoves stay open until 9 pm Thursday Friday and Saturday.
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Naugatuck
Mayors Elected In Two New England Cities
In Portsmouth New Hampshire Republican Ira A Brown won a very tight mayoral contest by eight votes over his Democratic rival. In North Adams Massachusetts incumbent Democrat Cornelius E B O'Brien won re election for a second term defeating his Republican challenger by more than two thousand two hundred votes.
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Boston
New England
Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Snow Storm Sparks Birding Plans and Civic Talks
A midmorning snowfall prompts locals to consider birding spots as first flakes fall. Warden Leo J. Brophy weighs a municipally supervised sliding place for Naugatuck children as forecasts hint at a real storm ahead.
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Akien
Leo J. Brophy
Annual Meeting And Election Of Evangeline Circle
The Evangeline Circle of Salem Lutheran held its annual meeting and supper in the church hall with 85 attendees. Mrs. Adolph Nelson presided, new president Mrs. Elmer Sanford elected, and four groups were named with officers and committee members listed. A scrap book and year-end reports highlighted a successful year and a donation to seamen's homes in New York and East Boston.
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Evangeline Circle
Salem Lutheran Church
George Fainter
Adolph Nelson
Harry Carlson
Elmer Sanford
Anthw—-Pearson
Ethel Salmangon
Agnes Anderson
Esther Anderson
Hilding
Olson
Robert Anderson
J. Louis Johnson
Vivien Anderson
Wm. RF
Frendberg
Esther Lundin
I. V. Olson
New York
Boston
Fridolf Nelson
Mildred Carlson
Edith Adamson
Milton Smith
George Johnson
Edith Hanson
Stephen Luskay
Pauline Pearson
Mra
WV. Olson
Walco Johnson
Carl Skoglund
Adolphe Nelson
Axel Carlson
Arthur Pearson
Adrian Olson
Eric Anderson
Ellen Woodin
Ethel Salmonson
Hilding Olsen
Edward Gerber
Willis Peterson
Andrew J. Anderson
Della Andeson
William R. Frendberg
Harold Woodin
Carl Salmonson
Ellen Anderson
Eimer Sanford
Miles Berry
Oscar Anderson
Nazis Claim Halt of Reds North of Budapest
Report says German forces stalled a Russian breakthrough north of Budapest as Soviet tanks and shock troops push into eastern Budapest suburbs. Hungarian army and remaining German units fight house to house while civilians are rounded for crisis defense and regular troops abandon the city.
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Budapest
Red Army
London
Wace
Vienne
Crxomad
Rohetmtelop
Wit
Goudealoe
Inaszeg
Capel Fnland
Danube
International
Europe
Rubber Co Promotes War Bond Sales at Footwear Plant
The U S Rubber Co footwear plant launches a six prize war bond drive led by Carl N Moore publicity director and the War Bond Committee. Prizes include a seven man inflatable airplane craft, a 125 merchandise order, a 100 50 and 25 war bonds and two other merchandise prizes. One chance per 50 bond purchase applies to all employees pensioners and those on leave. Committee members are Genevieve Pajeski John Wrinn and Stephen Knapik.
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U.S. Rubber Co
Carl N. Moore
Moore
Breen
M. Freedman Co
Payrol
U. S. Rubber Co
Genevieve Pajeski
John Wrinn
Stephen Knapik
Post Office Prepares for Christmas Mail Rush
Naugatuck post offices ready for peak season with extra staff. Outsiders to assist begin Friday, full force by next week. Window service extended Saturdays and nightly hours next week. Incoming mail rising as people mail early. Special parcel station at Tuttie House from Friday. Christmas delivery set for Sunday December 24.
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Naugatuck
Frank Green
Green
Nash
Tuttie House
Tickets For Eagles Christmas Party To Be Ready
Joseph Neal of the Naugatuck Eagles announced tickets for the annual Christmas party will be distributed Thursday and Friday nights between 7 and 9 o clock. About 200 children are expected to attend the event at the setie rooms with a holiday program. On Sunday the Eagles will visit Meadowbrook home to present gifts and an entertaining program to inmates.
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Joseph Neal
The
Naugatuckatric of Eagles
Eagles
Meadowbrook
Roosevelt names Armour ambassador to Spain
President Roosevelt nominates Norman Armour chief of the State Department Latin American division as ambassador to Spain replacing Carlton J. Hayes. Lawrence Steinhardt named ambassador to the Czechoslovak government in London. Eight prisoners, four white and four colored, face execution in North Carolina's gas chamber December 29 after state supreme court denied appeals. Finnish radio reports delay of a contingent of Finnish war prisoners from Rusle due to transport difficulties.
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Waenington
Roosevelt
Norman Armour
State Department
Spain
Carlton J. H. Hayes
Lawrence Steinhardt
Turkey
London
Raleigh
North Carolina
State Supreme Court
Bevin Says U S Russia Approved British Greece Policy
British Labor Minister Ernest Bevin claimed the United States and the Soviet Union approved Britain's Greece policy. He said the plan involved stabilizing Romania with Russian help and that proposals were shown to President Roosevelt at Quebec. Bevin blamed the cabinet for decisions, not Churchill alone, amid a Greek civil conflict and a Balkan intervention debate.
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Ernest Bevin
Russia
United States
Greece
Imbor Party
Bevin
Britain
Churchill
Roosevelt
Quebec
Scobie
Laborites
Labor Party
ELIAS
Athens
American Seventh Army Reaches Alsace Border Near Siegfried Line
Wartime field reports say the 7th Army has moved to within gun range of Siegfried forts and nears the Palatinate gate. American forces push from south of the Haertgen forest toward Bonn while Patton’s Third Army reinforces bridgeheads along the Saar and Blics rivers.
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7Th Army
Siegfried Forts
United Press
Germany
Bonn
Haertgen Forest
Rhine
Cologne
Cobiens
Tmat
Roer River
United States
First Army
Tuyen
Roer
Nealern
Seventh Army
Seventh
Palatinate
France
Patton
Third Army
Saar
Blics
See-Saw
Yessil
Eisenhower
Sailors From Local Area Receive Three Day Shore Leave
Two Auguluck sons, Seamen 2c Joseph Mambrino and Nicholas Rado, earned three day passes after nearly 18 months aboard a U. S. Navy Battleship. They enlisted together in April 1942 and sail in the same division and bunkroom. Both are sons of local families, and have seen action from Leyte to South American waters with President Roosevelt as a guest aboard their ship.
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Ara
AuUguluck
Joseph Mambrino
Nicholas Rado
Leyte
Philippines
Fine
Mra
John Mambring
Scott Street
Charles Rade
Derma Arma
Iran
Franklin Roosevelt
South American
Sila
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BUDA
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Peter Paul Inc
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Coblenz
Rubber. Co
Post Office
PTA
Rusele
Bevins
U. S
Cambridge
Mass
Lexington
Lester Arbetter
Arbetter
Robert W. Wright
Bank Rey
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