26 Dec 1969
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Newspaper
Naugatuck Daily News
Location
Naugatuck, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1969
Page
1
A long readers forum offers thrifty household ideas and tips. Hints cover card reuse with postcards cut to size, sewing notions stored in a pail, using nail polish as glue, and thrifty storage tricks for spools and curler caps. Personal anecdotes from readers Mrs Armstrong to Donna Morrow accompany reflections on daily domestic tasks.
A humorous column notes a Boston visitor asking a hotel clerk if the Old Orchard hotel is truly a block from the beach and the clerk replies that the AtlanticOcean proximity requires lifeguards in every room. The piece cheekily previews Ring Lardner’s You Know Me Al and cites playful signs and ads from various venues.
United Press International reports the Harvey Bertin spring collection uses pale tones such as pineapple yellow clover pink bashful blue and moonstone. Adele Simpson says spring is a place and a reality not a calendar moment with clothes and fresh beginnings. Also in briefs a Scotland Yard ad bid for a house proved to be Kent police station Belvedere selling for 16200. Nearly 1.8 million foreign visitors came to Romania in 11 months, up 27 percent from last year.
Van Riper, longtime manager of general distributor sales at Anaconda American Brass Co., will retire January 1 after four decades with the firm. A native of Ansonia, he helped found AABC in 1929 and held posts in Philadelphia and New York before leading the Ansonia division and later the Atlantic Region. He has led Dartmouth alumni activities in Connecticut and served as president of the Ansonia Boy Scouts council, a Griffin Hospital trustee, and a director of the Ansonia Water Co and Savings Bank of Ansonia. He and his wife will remain in Oxford.
Frederick B. Beardsley president of Waterbury Rolling Mills will head the Initial Gifts Division of the Salvation Army Forward Fund Campaign the total $350000. Willard S. Martin announced the appointment Beardsley a longtime Waterbury community leader serves on multiple boards and clubs and resides in Middlebury. Remaining divisions will begin public contact after year’s start. Information at campaign office 24 Central Avenue. Chicago BM rugged Michigan Trash Pak helps solve garbage problem a 12ton compactor by Clark Equipment Co compresses old stoves and refrigerators for disposal in sanitary fills becoming landscape areas or construction sites.
Community column notes trash collection, library closure, and school vacation across Inside district. Cub Scouts Pack 116 held a Christmas party with Santa and gifts. plans for a joint Ecumenical Service on Boy Scout Sunday in February at St. Michael's Church. Open house hosted by Rev McAllister and Mrs McAllister on December 28. Also wishes for anniversaries and birthdays among local families. Manila flash reports six killed during a car theft at Clark Air Base by Filipino security guards with gunfire following the stolen vehicle.
New York UP I reports NBC will debut the American Rainbow series with seven one hour children's specials beginning December 27 and concluding June 21. Highlights include The Boston Spy Party with Jack Cassidy Panic Tripp and Frank Fontaine and other lineups. NBC cites 22 200 000 color TV households as of Oct 1.
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