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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1948
Page
22
Bruno Salatia a war orphan and Italian representative at the Centennial visit toured the French Fort at Ononaga Lake. He inspected the wooden rooms and equipment with Mrs. Amadeo Bersani and noted a foot-pedaled bellows used by builders in Syracuse.
Auto agency R. & Robme Inc protests city sales tax on car rentals arguing rentals are not sales and mileage tax should not apply to out of city use. Attorneys will seek hearing. sales tax bureau to consider. case may go to courts. Also notes Syracuse adoption and charity case developments with Catholic Charities and orphan Bruno.
The page lists family reunions at Willow Bay and Slabsides, a Dog Show at Doll and Pet Show yestersville, and a picnic at Kirk Park. It notes lectures by Prof Elhan Snyder in Sims Hall and a State Production talk, plus a veterans group outing from Clinton Square to Willow Bay.
The city will place a new fire training tower, costing $110,000, in operation next week at State Fairclvd. The structure will enhance firefighting training and safety for local crews and residents.
The 48d annual convention of the New York State May and Grain Dealers Association opened with officers to be elected and a push for reduced freight rates. Francis P. Murphy became president, with William C. Tehmann and Andrew Jax among new officers. Directors Rupert Lyons and Harold Daily were named for three years. The group also urged adoption of federal standards on hay and cereals and pressed railroads to lower shipments to New England and the South. Mayor Frank J. Costello presented a centennial badge relic from Onondaga.
Four Syracuse Boy Scouts depart from the Greyhound terminal with Troop 64 members on a trek to the Philmont Scouting Ranch in New Mexico. Ernest M. Blanchard of the Onondaga Council notes a three-week adventure including leadership training, camping skills, horsemanship, and packing. Stops include Washington, D C, St Louis, and Islip, with final arrival in Syracuse around September 7 after a cross-country bus route.
Dr Champlin of Oneonta assumed direction of the newly created State Regional Health Office of Syracuse at a Hotel Syracuse meeting. The office will be located at 133 E Onondaga St and will replace the district state health office as supervisor and advisory unit. Regional offices were opened in Buffalo and Rochester, with plans for others statewide.
The Shriner Lion named Gosty arrives at Syracuse Zoo and is installed as a new resident. Mayor Costello was absent, but city officials welcomed the 700th shrine member in a truck delivery yesterday, as COSLY joins the local Shrine parade.
A L Saul prominent Syracuse area lawyer and former assistant attorney general died last night of a heart attack at Lafayette Country Club. Funeral service set for Friday at 2 PM at Temple Society of Concord with Rabbis Benjamin Friedman and Earl Stone officiating. Burial in Woodlawn Cemetery.
The July 19 violent death tally shows 19 deaths, up from 14 last July, per Bernard M. Heheil registrar of vital statistics. Nine were accidental falls, nine other causes include home life, railroad, auto, self harm, and cher ticience with varying counts and last year's figures in parentheses.
Central New York dairy group gathers at Evelyn Dennison's farm near Plainville for a Saturday noon field day. Luchsinger family will recount their travels to the Isle of Jersey in the English Channel and to Switzerland with illustrated moving pictures.
Byrne Construction Co led seven bidders with 17 234 for general work to build a women’s lounge at MacArthur Stadium. Deputy commissioner Fred Haag announced bids. Casey G Egan had the lowest electrical bid at 1 387 and David Manan & Son had 6 900 for plumbing.
A 70 year old former landlady was slashed in a hospital injury. Ivan W Crass pleaded not guilty at arraignment on second degree assault charges. He waived exam and was held for the grand jury by Judge Truman H Preston. Mrs Bihel Clark of 400 Clinton St is in Onondaga General Hospital with lacerations reported as good. Police say Crass admitted the attack and ownership of the knife.
Herald-Journal reports a second farm fire in the week near Oneida destroying a cow barn horse barn mile house hay and grain barn hen house and 125 chickens on the Fred Post farm at Augusta Center with an estimated loss of $20000 A few days earlier a large barn owned by Carl Fuess at Madison was leveled by fire.
A middle aged German woman describes women slave workers in Siberian coal mines forced to work naked for months on watery soup and bread. Surviving prisoners, many linked to the Nazi regime, returned exhausted with skeletal figures and deep trauma.
Marines Second Division stationed here pursues a beautification program begun in 1342. The base now features sloping lawns, landscaped terraces, 100,000 nonsea saplings, blooming towers, and a 20-acre Lejeune nursery supplying plants to other bases.
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