Oswego Water Board Powers Upheld Over Hours
City Attorney John Conway issues opinion finding Oswego Water Board can fix employment hours and hire or dismiss Water Department staff within state minimum wage and Civil Service laws. The ruling ties superintendent duties to Water Board authority and cites 1902 charter amendments tied to a private water company purchase.
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Mayor Shapiro Plans Staffing Cut at City Pumping Station
The mayor announced a January staffing reduction at the city pumping station. Four operators will replace eight, following Water Board recommendations, while supervisory roles remain unchanged.
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Shapiro
Water Board
Labor Unions Full of Hope For New Year
Washington unions enter 1961 hopeful for a Kennedy era of stimulus and stronger labor gains. They seek pump priming, housing, minimum wage, education and health aid, plus better job security and raises. With a Democratic majority, unions anticipate cooperation with management to retrain workers and reduce unemployment around five million. Key tests include auto industry bargaining and Hoffa led Teamsters contract talks for 400,000 drivers starting February 1.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Congress
Repubblicans
Walter Reuther
Teamsters Union
James R. Hoffa
New York Critics Split on Best Film Award
New York film critics split their decision for best picture, naming both The Apartment and Sons and Lovers with eight votes each. Burt Lancaster voted best actor for Elmer Gantry, and Deborah Kerr chosen best actress for The Sundowners.
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New York
Burt Lancaster
Elmer Gantry
Deborah Kerr
Regulations For Church Parking Lot Meeting Discuss Plans
A special Traffic Advisory Committee session with Rev Francis J. Farfaro of St Josephs church will consider traffic bottleneck solutions at the church parking lot. A four hour meter proposal, one way entrances, and potential rent implications for the city and church are on the table with a January council report anticipated.
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Francis J. Farfaro
St. Joseph's Church
Richard EF. Bird
George W. Breitbeck
Breitbeck
Father Farfaro
Police Department
Sergeant Bird
Furfaro
Loses suit to recover taxes on trust funds
New York fed court ruled against 79 year old attorney Pi Jonathan Holdeen who paid 105000 in federal income taxes for 1946 after a three day trial. The jury found he exercised substantial ownership of six trust funds totaling about 3 million dollars, with beneficiaries including 27 grandchildren and several colleges and the American Unitarian Association. The decision follows IRS claims of 15 million dollars for 1951 to 1957 now before a tax court.
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Thomas F. Murphy
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Alabama
West Virginia Wesleyan College
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Internal Revenue Service
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Youth Conference in Chicago Labeled Communist Claim
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover labeled a Chicago youth conference Communist or Communist led though organizers deny that charge saying the gathering will form a left progressive and socialist youth group. Miss Alva Buxenbaum Daniel Rubin and Milton Anthopoulos rebut Hoover calling him paranoid and refusing to let communism be injected into their event which they expect to draw about 100 people and will be closed to the press.
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Daniel Rubin
Milton Anthopoulos
New York
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Anthopoulos
Man Receives Three Year Sentence For Threats To Eisenhower
In Memphis Tennessee a 58 year old man, Laurence G Thompson, who said he likes prison, was sentenced to three years in federal prison for writing postcards threatening to kill President Eisenhower. Thompson has about 30 prior convictions and nearly 40 years in confinement across his record.
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Memphis
Obituary of Rev Michael L Dacey
The Rev Michael L Dacey died unexpectedly Friday morning December 30 at Blessed Sacrament rectory in Johnson City. Born May 28 1217 in Binghamton he studied at St Patrick's School Mt St Mary's Emmettsburg and St Bernard's Seminary Rochester and was ordained June 5 1943 in Syracuse. He served at St Mary's Cleveland and Anthony's Endicott before directing Catholic Charities and CY O in the Triple Cities. Survived by his mother two sisters five brothers and was to be buried in Binghamton after a Solemn Pontifical Mass on January 4 at St Patrick's.
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Blessed Sacrament
Johnson City
Father Dacey
Binghamton
Theresa McGraw
St. Patrick’s School
Mt. St. Mary's College
Emmettsburg
St. Bernard's Seminary
Rochester
Triple Cities
Michael Dacey
Mary Hastings
Catherine Christian
Fayetteville
Robert
Watertown
Paul
Phoenix
Ariz
Joseph
Stuart
Edward
St. Patrick’s Church
St. Patrick’s
Oswego Barber Joseph A Gunther 74 Dies After Week in Hospital
Joseph A. Gunther 74 longtime Oswego barber of 119 FE Seventh St died in Oswego Hospital after a week as a patient Born June 20 1886 in Oswego son of William and Theresa Gunther husband of the late Rose M Gunther He operated a barber shop in Hotel Pontiac for 43 years active in Oswego Barbers Union Local 363 and a St Pauls Catholic church member Survived by two brothers William Norbert a sister Mrs Theresa Hanley and several nieces and nephews Services Monday at 930 am at the main funeral home and at 10 am at St Pauls Church Burial in St Pauls Cemetery Friends may call Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 pm
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Joseph A. Gunther
Oswego
Seventh St
Oswego Hospital
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Theresa Gunther
Rose M. Gunther
Gunther
Pontiac
Schildkraut to guest star in The Big Bankroll film
Academy Award winner Joseph Schildkraut, who had declined screen offers for two years, signs to appear as a guest star in the Hollywood production The Big Bankroll, per UPI.
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Hollywood
UPI
Joseph Schildkraut
Seeks Stiffer Penalties For Hit Run Drivers
Albany report notes a legislative committee proposes tougher penalties for hit and run drivers after veto objections. The bill would raise first offense penalties to one year in prison and a 250 dollar fine with license suspension, and a second offense to seven years and a 1000 dollar fine with permanent license loss.
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Albany
Edward J. Speno
Nassau County
Joint Legislative Committee On Motor Vehicles and Traffic Safety
Gov. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Lawmakers Consider Homicide by Vehicle Measure
A legislative committee proposed adding a homicide by vehicle offense to state statutes with a misdemeanor charge punishable by up to one year in jail and a $500 fine. The bill also aims to remove drug-impaired drivers from the road, addressing convicting challenges under the current felony standard for reckless or culpably negligent operation.
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