YMCA Eyeing East Side Site for Urban Renewal YMCA may build in UR area with pool gym and lodge
Urban Renewal Director Ralph Lester reported a YMCA committee explored a site about 100 by 200 feet near the railroad bridge west of East First Street for a building with a pool social rooms and a gym. Land pricing would depend on a federal appraisal and possible Board of Education land transfer. A chimney fire near Oswego Center caused no damage.
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YMCA
Ralph C. Lester
Prannsal
Tucker
East First St
Ming
Lester
Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency
Board of Education
Oswego High School
Tmne
Karl Ben Ot Pulaski
Urban Renewal Department
Ymca Committee
Priests Mark 35 Years Since Ordination at St Marys Cortland
Rev. George H. May pastor and Rev. John M. Quirk assistant of St Marys Cortland observe the 35th anniversary of their ordination on December 19. They were ordained December 19 1925 in Buffalo by the late Bishop William Turner. A silver tea and reception is planned December 18 from 3 to 5 p.m. in the St Marys school cafeteria with the Altar and Rosary Society inviting parishioners and friends.
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Altar and Rosary Society
Father May
St. Mary's
Oswego
Oswego High School
St. Michael’s College
University of Toronto
Grand Seminary
Montreal
St. Joan's
Utica
St. Paul's Parish
Blessed Sacrament Church
Syracuse
St. Therese’s
Mannsville
St. Catherine's
Vernon
St Loui French
Cortland
Father Quirk
St. Paul's Binghamton
St. Theresa's
Quirk
Decorations prize winners announced in Arethusa Eta House contest
Prizes awarded for decorations as fraternities sororities and independent living centers compete at State University College of Education Oswego. Sigma Tau Chi won fraternity honors with Christmastoons. Theta Chi Rho won sorority honors with Navigatin Nick. Johnson Hall won independent category with Going Out for Christmas. Heavy winds and cold hampered work but most entries remained intact.
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Santa Claus
Donald Duck
Popeye
Arethusa Eta
State University College of Education
Oswego
Sigma Tau Chi
Beta Tax Epsilon
Psi Phi
Nick
Theta Chi Rho
Phi Lambda Phi
Alpha Epsilon
Johnson Hall
Washington House
Loms Hall
Florence Cimador
Alan Bremmer
Richard Hall
Nelson Digregorio
Mirage Lake Vision Baffles Onlookers At Ontario Shores
Unusual atmospheric conditions turned Lake Ontario into a seeming miniature lake with distant shorelines and trees appearing in the clouds. The illusion lasted late morning into early afternoon before dissipating as skies cleared. In Orwell, a fire at 9:30 destroyed Paul Hamilton's home on Hogsback Road.
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Lake Ontario
Paul Hamilton
Hogsback Rd
Orwell
Former convict pleads guilty in judge and wife drowning
Floyd A. Holzapfel 36, an ex convict, admits drowning Circuit Judge Ch chillingworth and his wife Marjorie on June 14 1955. He and George Lincoln kidnapped them from home and were paid 2 dollars by Joseph Peel Jr. Peel pleaded innocent as a codefendant faces further court action.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Floyd A. Holzapfel
Chcuit
Curns FE. Chillingworth
Marjorie
Russell O Morrow
Holzapfel
Circuit Court
George Lincoln
Chillingworth
Oklahoma City
Lincoln
Joseph A. Peel Jr
Peel
Chitlingworths
Durante to Wed 67-Year-OldWidower and 40-Year-Old Singer
Jimmy Durante, widower for years, plans to marry Margaret Alice Little a 40-year-old former singer and showgirl in New York at St. Malachy’s Actors Chapel to avoid crowds in California. The couple's elaborate public moment drew reporters and fans as Little quipped about divorce if not wed. The ceremony will be led by Rev. Thomas de Luca of Troy.
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New York
Jimmy Durante
Durante
Margaret Alice Little
Conuc
Californi
Thomas de Luca
Troy
St. Malachy
Actors Chapel
Miss Little
Jimmy
Young
Soviet Trade Delegation Heads to Havana for Cuba Talks
A Soviet trade delegation led by Mikhail Kuzmin vice minister of foreign trade departed Moscow for Havana to negotiate 1961 trade plans with Cuba. Kuzmin has been meeting with Cuban official Ernesto Cuevara to advance economic cooperation.
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Havana
Moscow
Cuba
Tass
Mikhail Kuzmin
Ernesto Cuevara
Ohid
Children’s Christmas Party Brightens Mexico Parish
At St. Mary’s Star of the Sea in Mexico a Sunday afternoon party drew about 100 children. Carols, a Christmas tree with gifts, cookies, ice cream, and cartoon films entertained attendees, as Santa handed out presents.
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Mexico
St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Catholic Church
Santa Claus
David Hickey
James Kildea
James Fortier
Leigh Holliday
Kenneth Gates
Lee Memorial Hospital
George Rood
Oswego Hospital
Faulker Hospital
Boston
Mass
Martin Decker
Farmingham
Lisa Susan
Decker
Donald Dunn
Main St
Dunn
L. E. McWilliams
Edgar Cushman
North Mexico
Adams
Cushman
Ernest Lee
Clinton St
Stone's
Corner Main
Church Sts
Dick Beardsley
Chuck Grove
Duplicate Bridge Club
Beck's Hotel
Allen Bailey
Fred Gibbons
John O'Mara
Horace Wilson
Worth Dygert
Clifford Pasquale
Marion Brown
Verna O'Mara
Harold Dunning
Robert Gray
Wright
Service
Miner's Excavation
JoAnn
Diner
Smitty
Scriba
Mexico Express
Pat's Drillers
Scriba Town Tavern
Grandma Brown
Pat’s Drillers
Hastings on Hudson Principal Elected NYS Association President
Rowland H. Ross principal of Hastings on Hudson High School was elected president of the New York State Association of Secondary School Principals. Eight hundred principals attended the three day meeting which ended today.
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Syracuse
Rowland H. Ross
Hastingson-Hudson High School
New York State Association of Secondary School Principals
Oswego businessman injured in early morning fire blast
The Oswego automo bile service operator at Past Third and Cayuga Streets suffered head injuries when a fire exploded. He was reported in good condition at Oswego Hospital about 3 20 am.
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William V. Wallace
West Cayuga St
Oswego Hospital
Oswego
Funeral services for George Kirk set for Wednesday
Funeral services for George Kirk will be held at the family home in Sterling Center on Wednesday December 14 at 2 p.m. He was 87 years old.
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George Kirk
Sterling Center
Kirk
Obituary Item Noted Surviving Relative
The text indicates a deceased person survived by his wife and a sister-in-law named Miss Barbara A. Hunter who resided with them. Additional context is limited to those relations and shared living arrangements.
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Ws Geatn
Barbara A. Hunter
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