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Newspaper
Oswego Palladium Times
Location
Oswego, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1972
Page
2
The Onondaga County Legislature unanimously approved changing MWB rules to permit selling water to four Oswego County towns. The action opens supply from MWB twin pipelines to the neighboring communities.
Bill Baird, noted birth control and abortion rights advocate, will address State University College at Oswego on December 7. He will discuss his views in Hewitt Union with an 8 p.m. main address, following an informal 3:30 p.m. discussion, both free to the public.
Dorcas Circle of the Church of Christ First Congregational meets December 12 at 8 p.m. at Mrs. Gordon Tappan's home with President Connie Gorthy presiding. Secret pals are revealed and officers for the year announced. A family night supper follows on December 17 at 5 p.m. before the 7 p.m. Sunday school Christmas program. A junior youth hake sale will be held at the church during and after the dinner and program. Adult leaders are Lawrence and Connie Gorthy and Walter and Mrs. Bower.
Yogi Berra, coach of the New York Mets, anticipates watching football as his son Timmy plays flanker back for the University of Massachusetts. His other son Dale is Montclair High School quarterback, while Larry, 22, ends his baseball career after a knee operation with the Marion Mets in the Appalachian League.
Five sororities will compete in the inter-sorority Christmas Sing at the Hewitt Union snack bar, State University College at Oswego, on Thursday December 7 at 7 p m. Phi Omicron Xi sponsors a traveling plaque. Phi Lambda Phi won last year. Each sorority performs three holiday songs and then all join in carols. Three college faculty members will judge the event, which is open to the public free of charge.
A Food Co op meeting is set for 8 tonight at the Teen Center in the od church corner of West Fourth Street and Oneida. The newly formed steering committee will report on site search fundraising and membership drive as the group plans to run a wholesale price store with voluntary members and a small monthly fee.
Cianfarano and his German Shepherd placed first in the Snow Valley Dog Training Club obedience graduation at the Middle School. Ronald Brown was second and Gay Six the English Springer Spaniel third. Other graduates include Aldo Donanto Doberman, Leslie Leighninger Samoyed, Sigurd Nelson Airedale, Adelia Pearson Boxer, Lisa Snyder Poodle, and Joseph Weigand Mixed. Dale Lathrop earned honors with a Weimaraner. Class trainers were John Bond and Gloria Panken Car.
Principals at Elks Memorial Sunday Oswego Lodge 271 led by Michael Potter exalted ruler Daniel J Capella leading knight and chairman Rev Robert E Hall pastor St Marys Church who gave the oration and chaplain Joseph Lupa tribute paid to deceased lodge members who died in the past year.
A southbound tractor trailer overturned into a ditch on Route 81 near Central Square at 4 40 a m. The Smith Transtation Company truck, hauling 40 000 pounds of paper, will require unloading before righting. Police expect lane closures for most of the day as rigging equipment and patrols assist the recovery.
LCDR Harold R. Freeden is named commanding officer of Naval Reserve Surface Division 3-102 in Watertown. He leads a 125 member unit praised for regional and national rankings and brings long service, education, and school administration background to the post. Freeden, a Syracuse SUCO alumnus, lives in Oswego and is the Pitcher Hill Elementary principal.
Francis O Smithers 56 died unexpectedly Monday night at Oswego Hospital He was born January 19 1916 in Robbins Tennessee son of George and Cora Ellis Smithers A WWII veteran he served as Technician Fourth Grade Battery A 170th Field Artillery Battalion Part of enlistment spent in Germany He retired as a custodian from Mexico Academy and Central School Surviving wife Velma DuBois two sons Allan Mexico Randy Pease Air Force Base New Hampshire five brothers Keith Kenneth Boise all of Clay five sisters Marcel Finn Oswego Mabel Lawrence Celina Ohio Violet Dotson Velma Chambers Robins Tennessee Geneal Davis Lindsyville Kentucky and two grandchildren Services Thursday 2 pm Gibbs Funeral Home Rev Bertram Croop officiating Burial Village Cemetery Calling hours Tuesday 7 9 pm and Wednesday 2 4 and 7 9 pm
An AP report notes that wind damage injured over 800 buildings in Britain from 1962 to 1969. The building research survey estimates 56 million pounds spent on repairs and replacements could have been reduced if 1970 wind safety standards had been in force earlier.
The mesquite plant supplies beams eaten or used by Southwest Indians and valued as firewood. Its chucata gum yields chewing gum glue and coloring materials.
Memorial services are planned for George R. Brownell 72 of Lakewood New Jersey at First Congregational church Pulaski. He died Saturday at St Josephs Hospital. A Syracuse resident for months he was a retired Consolidated Edison distribution engineer after 41 years. He served as Army Lt Colonel in the Army Reserve and was a World War II Signal Corps veteran. He leaves wife Elsie two sons David and Frank a daughter Margaret a brother Zachary and 13 grandchildren. Contributions to cancer society or health building inc. Funeral home Greenleaf Syracuse is arranging.
In Oakland Yogi Berra, manager of the Mets, tells former teammate Charlie Silvera he knew he would make it. Silvera now coaches for the Tigers and once caught behind Berra in 1949. Ed Loaap, pitching teammate that year, attends as a special scout for the Expos. Silvera gives Berra a column from a San Francisco paper. Silvera lives there in the off season.
Mrs Elsie Maekings wife of Norman Wings of Minetto will have funeral services Wednesday at 10 30 a m at Scoville Funeral Home Rev Frank I Smith officiating. The body will lie in the Riverside Cemetery receiving vault awaiting burial later. Visiting hours today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9.
A Mexico man 26 year old Charles McDougal fell 25 feet from a scaffold while setting a beam at Pyramid Mall construction on Kinne Street DeWitt. He was taken to State University Hospital with possible leg fractures and internal injuries. Cause under investigation by Officer W A Tscherniawski.
A two car crash at Route 3 and County Route 8 in Granby Monday at 3 30 p m left Clifford J Holmes 62 Fulton RD 4 and Ronald A Dexter 17 Fulton RD 1 involved Dexter failing to yield at a stop sign. Dexter received a summons and will appear before Justice Dennis Hawthorne later. State Police trooper D I Vanhout investigated.
Navy Seaman Kenneth A. Fenske, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard I. Fenske of Oswego New York, serves on the USS William C. Lawe in the Western Pacific. He is a 1971 Oswego High School graduate and is stationed aboard the Mayport Florida homeported destroyer.
Alcan Aluminum Limited chief Nathanael V. Davis told the Toronto Society of Financial Analysis that aluminum use rose sharply in 1972 across Canada the United States Europe and Japan. He cited near record North American sheet and plate mill activity a near 11 percent rise in total consumption and a wait for stronger prices due to lagging market improvements.
The residence of Puerto Rico’s governor in San Juan is noted as the oldest governor’s mansion flying the United States flag.
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