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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1949
Page
6
Obituary notices list Browning, DeGraw, Goldberg, Groen, House, Lewis, Lindley, End, and Parkhurst families. Details include birth dates, surviving relatives, and funeral arrangements across Syracuse and nearby areas with services at local chapels and cemeteries, interments at Mt. Adon Cemetery and others, and visiting hours.
Jacob Engel of 726 Harrison Street dies after a week of illness. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 3:38 PM in the Birnbaum Funeral Home with Rabbis Fried man, Jacobson and Simon officiating. Burial will be in Frumah Fackard Cemetery. He is survived by wife Mrs. Bary Engel and five children among others.
NEW YORK ROBERT L Ripley world famous creator of Believe It Or Not cartoons is dead at 53 from a heart attack yesterday at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. He built a global brand with the Believe It Or Not feature used in 300 publications and expanded into books radio movies and television. Survivors include a sister and a brother. Col Hyland says the Ripley Enterprises will continue as an American institution.
A fragmented OCR listing shows multiple local funeral directors florists and monument firms in Syracuse area. Entries include Quinlan's Flowers Onondaga Street Ramseyard Florist Gri design firms and Lynch Florist with addresses and phone numbers, Hinman Boynton Memorials and Waller Granite noting longstanding business presence since 1340.
Funeral services for Mrs Grace Hult Henderson of 432 E Castle Street were conducted at 10:30 AM at Calvary Episcopal Church today. Exibers of Clan Douglas 232 served as bearers including George Berry Johnston Bell Joseph Hunter Robert Roberson Thomas Thomson and Thomas Heath. Body taken to Waterville for cremation.
MES BERNADENE Schleret Lindsley wife of Ruthford W Lindsley died today in Crouse Irving Hospital after a brief illness She was secretary at the Merrick School Mothers Club Surviving include her husband four daughters Judith Ann Janet Ellen and Linda Lindsley her parents Leonard Schieret a brother Leonard J Schieret two sisters Mrs Robert Manley and Mrs Richard Costello and her grandfather Stephen Schieret Funeral services will be at 345 AM Tuesday at Keegan Osbert Funeral Home and 930 AM in St Lucy's Church Burial in Assumption Cemetery calls 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 PM tomorrow and Monday Also services for John Andrzejewski at 720 PM Monday at John Giminski Funeral Home burial in Sacred Heart Cemetery He died yesterday at his home He was employed by the Nettleton Shoe Company Survivors include his wife Rose a son Stephen three stepdaughters Mrs John Trepa Misses Pauline and Susie Siemieikowski a sister Mrs Helen Szelugowski of Auburn and two grandchildren
City and county religious leaders are enlisted by the Red Cross to urge donations for the Syracuse Regional Blood Program. Clergy are asked to announce that blood is provided at no cost to patients in need, with donor days set and a goal of 100 pints per day, starting at the Warren Street center.
Mrs Ethel Whitfield of 214 shdale av was honored by Syracuse school officials on her retirement after 20 years with the Board of Education. Superintendent David H Patten presented her a purse donated by other board employees, praising her loyalty and outstanding work amid her 11 children and a son who died in World War II.
The second annual convention of the 22d Armored Division will be held in Albany on June 25 and 26 at the Scully American Legion Post. Organizers ask attendees to contact Stanley Mahon, Harold Post, or Philip Zimmer for plans and details.
Death notices from Syracuse area list individuals including Dr Milton H Tark age 82 in Auburn Geneva John Murphy 79 Oswego Mrs Clara M Curtis 71 Carrier Miss Catherine E O Connor 2 Sherburne. The fragmentary list names multiple residents with ages and towns, indicating a compiled obituary or death notice page.
The Sentinel Heights volunteer fire department near Syracuse hosts a carnival at the Nedraw Dus site on S Salina street and Lafayette road to raise 2600 dollars for a fire truck. Residents bake and sell food while a ferris wheel and merry go round operate each night. With receipts falling short, the department asks if anyone has an old red engine to donate.
Miss Irene Burke 30, a Manlius teacher, and her sister Matilda parked in the 300 block of Barrisons. After driving to Manlius they forgot a suitcase at the curb in Syracuse, and on returning the item had vanished, leaving Burke to report the loss.
Sylvester Adams 28 was freed on 500 bail after pleading not guilty to disorderly conduct in Police Court. Judge Truman H. Preston set disposition for June 7. Adams, from Rochester but giving 414 E Adams St address, allegedly slashed Eva Weiss 30 injuring her hip during a Washington Street encounter. Weiss was treated at Crouse-Irving hospital for a puncture wound.
Mrs. Bertha Chase Kinney 36 of 124 Blaine Street died suddenly in Crouse Irvine Hospital last night. She is survived by husband Fred S. Kinney a fireman at Hotel Syracuse a son Kenneth H five a daughter Barbara R six her mother Mrs. Nancy Chase of Binghamton two brothers Floyd and George Chase of Binghamton and sister Mrs. Lester Aldrich of Vesper Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Additional borings at the site of the proposed Veterans Administration Hospital are being made under the direction of Thomas Cannon, VA construction engineer. The hospital will face an extension of University Place rather than Irving Avenue, shifting stress points and necessitating eight borings.
Eastern New York remains partly cloudy and cool with scattered frost tonight. Tomorrow brings fair skies and warmer afternoon conditions, followed by increasing cloudiness and warmer Monday. Highs around 58 to 86 in listed readings, with record highs noted in 1914 and lows near 44. Relative humidity down to 15 percent today, 55 percent at 8:30 PM.
Weather summary notes scattered showers across the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys the Plains States and Northern Rockies and Northern Pacific States with generally fair conditions elsewhere. Little temperature change expected except in the Northern Plains Upper Mississippi Valley and Southern Atlantic States where it will warm. Isobars show pressure patterns. fronts defined. daily forecast from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M. in Syracuse area.
PHOENIX Ariz UP Navajo Reservation in Northeast Arizona may become the nation s top uranium source says Charles H Dunning state mineral resources director after a survey The Vanadium Co of America operates five mines on Navajo land and has signed 30 more leases The Atomic Energy Commission will explore the reservation extensively in 1951 He notes uranium is vital to atomic energy and predicts no shortage for many years The Navajos who have long endured poverty could become wealthy if uranium development continues
JOSEPH C. RICHWAY, 23, of 113 Green St, is in St. Joseph's Hospital with a possible fractured right shoulder. He faces a charge of driving with out a license after a wreck on Highbridge Rd in Fayetteville. Richway said another car forced him off the road. his vehicle overturned several times. He must appear June 1 before Justice of the Peace Tom Davis.
Deputy Sheriff John Bond said a caretaker at the Pure Food Building reported 192 Army blankets stolen from the State Fair Grounds. Each blanket valued at 8 dollars, taken within the last two weeks and discovered missing yesterday.
Alien C. Ritz, comptroller of Railway Bearing, Inc., spoke to the Central New York chapter of the Empire State Association of Public Accountants about using comparative financial statements to guide management through current trends via ratio analysis. William C. Luffman of Schenectady, state association president, addressed the group and oversaw the installation of new officers Herman May as president Howard L. Teall as vice president Bernard F. Moynihan as secretary and Thomas Nolte as treasurer.
Evangelist William Knudsen of the High School Evangelism Fellowship New York City will speak at an interdenominational youth rally Friday June 3 at 1 30 PM in Pilgrim Congregational Church auditorium A covered dish supper precedes at 6 30 PM The Central New York Christian Crusaders sponsor the event representing about 59 to 60 area churches and youth groups Knudsen a Long Island University graduate has spoken across the East on New York juveniles and is assigned to the Camden South Jersey sector
Firefighters battled a blaze at the Amersi clubrooms on 123 St Clinton shortly after midnight. Members found the storeroom fire, door and wall damaged as members of Fire Engine s Company aided.
Kenneth A. Van derpool a construction engineer of 349 Rich St Syracuse filed in U S District Court a bankruptcy petition stating he has no assets and debts of 1726 dollars. Bills mainly arise from his wife illness and death. Petition filed through Kelly Brewster Regitano. Previously resided in Watertown and was a U S Marine Corps member.
Federal warrants served on three Canadians in a downtown Syracuse hotel amid a routine theft probe. Alfred Goldfinch 28 faces U S embezzlement charges after two deportations. Alexander MacDonald 20 and Harry Deakins 21 charged with failing to report criminal convictions. Police say the trio used assumed names and listed Buffalo as home.
Employees of Ged & Garvan Yarn Co. rejected the United Textile Workers Union in favor of the Ged & Garvan Employees Association. An NLRB election yesterday resulted in a 41-32 win for the independents, ending a four month factional dispute sparked by the independent petition for certification. The company had refused to negotiate a new contract with the previously certified CLO union pending the petition’s outcome. The CLO union went on strike May 12 and returned to work after the NLRB arranged the election yesterday.
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