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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1946
Page
37
Syracuse Herald Journal and Sunday Herald American reporters cover home town news in every community within the wide circulation territory of these newspapers.
Roy E Fairman’s daily roaming column is featured on page four. The item notes where readers can find his latest observations and local color in the newspaper.
Geneva residents seek municipal water service to boost fire protection and sanitation. A petition circulates proposing a project costing 185,000 to 195,000 dollars for about 300 residents along Border City, currently served only by private wells. The plan aims to extend service east toward Border City with improved fire protection, delayed by war and rising construction costs.
A double cabin owned by Mr. and Mrs. Truman Bells near Seneca Falls burned late yesterday with loss over 1500 dollars. A motorist alerted the Bells who called the fire department led by Chief Fred C. Forness. Firemen arrived as the structure was engulfed and worked to prevent spread to the adjacent restaurant and 22 cabins formerly known as The Lane Cabins.
John F. McCue, 82, a resident of Savannah, died Sunday after a short illness. He leaves no immediate family. Funeral services will be from Anna Carroll's home in Savannah on Wednesday at 2 PM with Rev. E. H. Vanscoy officiating. Burial will follow in Evans Cemetery.
Auburn lawmaker John Taber writes to President Truman and Attorney General Tom C. Clark urging removal and prosecution of Paul A. Porter for alleged propaganda paid with federal funds. Taber claims Porter violated Title 18 Section 201 and says a grand jury should examine the matter.
Auburn police court records show 54 year old Dan Netti pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated. He received a seven day Cayuga County jail term to be served on weekends and a suspended $100 fine contingent on restitution for damages to a Cayuga Omnibus Corporation bus and a car owned by George King. Netti’s license was revoked after the arrest at States and Water streets.
Newly elected mem bers of the Delta Sigma Rho national forensic society at Wells College are Dale Ely of Manhasset Martha Jane Miller of Harrisburg Pa and Judith Stolitzky of Brooklyn The two other active Wells members are Ann Stratton of Shreveport La and Audrey Forwards of Leonta Nd Associate professor Eleanor Luse of Wells and Northwestern Delta Sigma Rho will be absent next year on sabbatical She plans to finish her Ph D in voice science at Northwestern.
Auburn market master Jerry Stapleton said the public market on Lower Washington Street will resume twice weekly tomorrow with ample poultry and eggs. He noted plans to start midweek sales a day before Memorial Day to help families obtain their orders.
The Rev Robert Wells Youngs, former Seneca Falls First Presbyterian pastor and Navy chaplain, will speak on That You May Live at the Memorial Day program in Restvale Cemetery. A parade forms at 9 30 A M from the Legion home with local veterans groups and service personnel marching, followed by a procession including Wacs Waves nurses and various auxiliary units.
A public hearing on the 1946 47 Auburn city budget will be held at 8 P M tomorrow in Memorial City Hall. The budget totals 1 631 096 with 889 464 to be raised by taxation and shows a 11 103 reduction from 1945 46. The tax rate drops from 17 69 to 17 50 per 1 000, and council is expected to approve with little to no changes at the meeting.
Final plans for placing a memorial plaque in Cayuga County court house honoring men from the county who died in World War II will be discussed when Gold Star Mothers meet at 8 p m in the rooms of W Mynderse Rice Post 97 American Legion. Plans also cover participation in Auburn Memorial Day events at Fort Hill Cemetery with Mrs Gladys Holmes presiding.
ROMULUS A patient in Waterloo Memorial Hospital with injuries suffered when he slipped and fell from a roof on his home on Seneca Lake near here. William Alloway, 75, retired railroad employee, was reported considerably improving today. Alloway, a former resident of Ovid, is suffering from shock, a fractured left shoulder and fractured left hip.
City Manager George F. Train and Superintendent Ralph R. Knight arranged a matinee for 60 Cayuga Home for Children residents at Bailey Bros Circus Auburn yesterday. The event featured the children as guests under supervision of staff.
City Judge Joseph J. Rooney of Auburn will speak at Memorial Day exercises in Skaneateles. Local officials and residents prepare for the annual observance honoring veterans with a morning program at the town common.
Romulus Central School plans a semi formal dance in the school gym tomorrow night. Miss Betty Garlick and Miss Juanita Pooamon lead arrangements. Decorating by Betty Olsowske Abce Hicks Lewis Poorman. Refreshments by Janet Carroll Elizabeth Garrison Robert Erhlick Davis Burrit. Faculty helper Mrs Catherine Parker. Chaperones Mr and Mrs Thomas Lotz Mr and Mrs Charles Pooman Mr and Mrs Grahan Gerlick.
The sixth annual memorial and military field mass will be at 9 A M on Memorial Day at Joseph's Cemetery Auburn. Rev Ralph E Neagle on terminal Army leave will lead the service with celebrant Rev John B Crowley pastor of St Aloysius Church. The Memorial Mass Association sponsors the event.
Auburn adds two new buses to Cayuga Omnibus routes with seating for 27 passengers each. A first new bus began service on the Owasco Street line. the two added today serve the Genesee Street east and west lines and the North Street line.
Durvis 44 of 1 Rome Street Rochester is hospitalized at Strong Memorial after a crash on Romulus Waterloo Road near Romulus. His ear injury resulted when the vehicle overturned in a field.
Broadcast grid lists programs and times from WMBO Auburn with host names and show titles including Captain Midnight Mutual Melody Hour News and various music and talk segments. The page reads as a daily lineup with scattered OCR quirks and corrupted characters.
Michael Hribick 33 of 206 Perrine Ave fell from a scaffold at the International Harvester Co plant and died en route to Auburn City Hospital. Cayuga County coroner Dr. N L Woodford ordered an autopsy. Surviving: wife Velma, son Michael Jr., parents Alexander and (Mrs.) Hribick, sister Helen Catle, brothers Andrew and John, all of Auburn. Funeral 8:30 a.m. from home and 9 a.m. at St Nicholas Church. Burial at St Nicholas Cemetery Half Acre.
Geneva church recalls Rev Lullus D. Bell for a third year as pastor after fourth quarterly conference led by Donald Do Hutchins. Salary increase approved as church reports nearly $20,000 raised for missions and church work.
Mrs. June Dent 81 of East Venice died Sunday at her niece Mrs Ray Mahaney's home in Auburn. Born in England she came to the U S as a young girl. She leaves niece Miss Mary Parmley and two great nieces. Funeral services tomorrow at 2 PM at Wade's funeral home with the East Venice Baptist Church pastor Rev Roland Hawver. Burial in East Venice Cemetery.
Three year old Birchard Peter Watkins of Lake Road Seneca Falls is in Seneca Falls Hospital in critical condition with a fractured skull and a compound fracture of the right arm after being struck by Ernest Gee 46 of Lake Road near his home. Gee reported the boy ran into the car traveling south. Gee and his wife took the child to hospital.
Richard Van Nostrand longtime Gould Hotel manager in Seneca Falls departs for New York City to work with the R M Grinstead Co. He involved in Kiwanis Rotary Chamber of Commerce and Pocahontas Lodge. He plans to summer at Tom's River with wife and two children. A successor has not been named.
DeSales High School senior class presents Life of the Party in Geneva High School auditorium tonight with a large audience expected. another show is planned for tomorrow night. Cast includes Mary Margaret Deegan Mary Jane Gingling Helen Walsh Ann Holleran Mary Allen Lynch Llis Hennessy Jean Knight Doris Updike Betty Jennings Ann Cook James Kane John Buckley Tumphrey Donahue Robert Hendrickson Richard Handlen John Lathrop John Lawler.
Lloyd S. Riford of Auburn New York was elected chairman of the board of directors of the American Feed Manufacturers Association at its 38th annual convention in French Lick Indiana. He warned the feed pipeline is nearly empty and poultrymen and dairymen face selling livestock due to lack of feed, with prospects of meeting only about 50 percent of northeast needs in June. Nearly 1000 feed industry leaders attended, the largest gathering in the association’s history.
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