Chest Drive Nears Goal As It Closes
Community Chest officials predict the final total will reach within five percent of the 1949 goal at tonight’s closing dinner. Volunteers collected pledges by phone from Hotel Syracuse and rushed signature cards to donors. General Chairman Philip R. Chase urged high participation to reach 100 percent of the goal. The drive funds the USO in Syracuse, adds about 75,000 to sustain 33 Red Feather agencies, amid higher costs and a growing population with more elderly, infant, and hospital needs.
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Red Feather Found Drive
Syracuse
Philip R. Chase
Onondaga County
Chase
National United Service Organizations
USO
Red Feather
Le Moyne College Students End Campaigns for Office
Le Moyne College students met in the college auditorium to hear five parties wind up their campaigns for student government elections. Party candidates included Jack Parkinson and Stan Germain for Student Action, Joseph Barry and James Slocum for Equality, William Topp and Leonard Fralick for Popular Party with John Bradley as treasurer, Edward J. Bamericlk and Fran Barclay with Joseph Lawler as treasurer for Ideal Party, and Arnold G. Cornwell for Cooperative Party.
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le Moyne College
Edward J. Bamerick
Ideal Party
Arnold G. Cornwell
Cooperative Party
William I. Topp
Popular Party
John J. Parkinson
Student Action Party
Joseph Barry
Equality Party
Lemoyne College
Jack Parkinson
Stan Germain
Peggy Corbett
James Slocum
Marie Carpenter
William Topp
Leonard Fralick
John Bradley
Edward J. Bamericlk
Fran Barclay
Joseph Lawler
Community Chest wind-up dinner in Syracuse tonight
Campaign workers expect over 400 Chest volunteers at the wind-up dinner in the Hotel Syracuse where Thad L. Collum will act as toastmaster with Mayor Frank J. Costello among the dignitaries. The event marks the final report night for the campaign.
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Syracuse
Thad L. Collum
Community Chest
Frank J. Costello
Laurence ‘T. ’ Hosie
Syracuse Council of Churches
State Cancer Group Meets in Syracuse
Members of the New York State Division, American Cancer Society, met at Hotel Syracuse for a one day session. John Pennington of Buffalo presided at a noon luncheon and a new slate of officers was to be elected this afternoon including a president three vice presidents and twenty directors. Judge James J Barrett, retired judge of the Court of Claims, was slated to be named president.
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New York State
American Cancer Society
Syracuse
John Pennington
Buffalo
James J. Barrett
Court of Claims
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Gabardines
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