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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1941
Page
2
U S O fundraiser reports $255 261 raised toward the soldier fund with greater gifts expected this year. Officials note 39 percent of the goal has been reached as campaigns continue.
Reported subscriptions reach 255 261 toward a 650 000 campaign total with 97 043 more added to date. Stewart F Hancock chaired a luncheon for executives and workers as 350 attended. Leaders urged bigger gifts to fund 32 Chest agencies and USO work while divisions hit various completion marks.
Canastota on Oneida Lake. Carl Hopseeker and his son Curtis anchored a mile from the south shore when their boat began to rock violently in calm water. The disturbance lasted over a minute and then faded toward the shore. The Hopseckers, fishing for 30 years, said they had never experienced such an event.
Miss Mary Kennedy daughter of City Finance Commissioner Thomas E Kennedy and Mrs Kennedy returns to Syracuse after attending the marriage of Miss Janet Prime to Howard Gundy in Clarendon Virginia. The ceremony at St Charles Church featured Miss Kennedy maid of honor and Onan Campion best man. Mr and Mrs Gundy then went to Albany for another wedding. Representative Clarence E Hancock of Syracuse hosted a prenuptial dinner for the couple.
G Graham Newstead, local secretary to the Civil Service Board of Examiners, said more men and women are gaining private industry employment. He noted that only 53 of 106 applicants appeared for the junior stenographer and junior typist tests, with four men among them. Vacancies are in Washington, typists at 1260 and stenographers at 1440 yearly. Albert Laws supervised the two examinations, morning and afternoon.
Justice D Page Morehouse Jr presided as nine women and three men received divorce decrees in the Supreme Court. Annullments and a dissolution of marriage were also granted to specified parties including Mrs Rita Johnson and Mrs Isabella DeMarco. A separation decree went to Gordon J Merriam versus Edith Merriam.
City health commissioner Dr. H Bur ton Doust announced three new poliomyelitis cases today, bringing city total to 28 since late August. Two Syracuse children were admitted to City Hospital as the 16th and 17th Syracuse residents struck, while a Fulton man was the 17th out of town resident treated there. The new patient is a six year old boy with paralysis. another Syracuse child, aged five, was less severely affected.
Mrs Carrie V Harrington wife of Robert H Harrington a fireman of Truck Company 4 sustained fractures of both wrists in a fall down the cellar stairs at 105 Alden Street She had just returned from the funeral of Charles T Graver a fireman of 113 Alden Street when the accident occurred.
Carl F. Kunz of Liverpool was struck by a car last night at West Genesee Street and North Franklin Street, suffering a severe injury to the right leg. A separate report notes a student, Dorothy Mandarino of 109 Lilac Street, at Central High School, reported a purse stolen from her desk.
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