Walden family witnessed Rome airport bombing tragedy
Walden residents Mr and Mrs Gino Farone and their eight year old daughter Donna were aboard a Pan Am jet adjacent to the bombed plane at Rome airport. As flames engulfed the other aircraft, passengers waited three hours on their own plane with a praying priest nearby. The Farones escaped unharmed, grateful for their narrow save from the attack that killed about 32 people.
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Geoffrey Vangl
Walden
Gino Farone
Rome
New York
Farones
Donna
Pan Am
Farone
Italy
Endowment Grows for Horton Memorial Kidney Unit Expansion
In Middletown a patient founded endowment for Horton Memorial Hospital Kidney dialysis unit, rising about 5 percent to $600 and boosted by a $300 publicity drive. Expansion aims at $25,000 to renovate rooms and add two dialysis machines from five to seven, funded by multiple local groups including the Minisink Kiwanis, Middletown Jaycees, Middletown Elks Lodge, and Middletown Lions Club plus a community coupon drive and private donations.
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Middletown
Horton Memorial ‘Hospital
Charles Bailey
Central Valley
Bailey
Polak Foundation
Betty Crocker
Lawrence Coddington
Accord
Joseph J. Micklas
Cornwall
Minisink Kiwanis
Kiwanis
Middletown Jaycees
Middletown Elks Lodge
Negligence suit near trial in Ellenville case
A $1 million negligence suit against the Village of Ellenville, its police department, and patrolman Frank G. Petrone moves toward trial after a pretrial examination. The Dolmans allege Petrone knew driver Eugenio S. Cruz was intoxicated and cite prior citation as contributing factors to a fatal crash on Rt. 209 February 3. State police charged Cruz with drunken driving following the collision.
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Monticello
Ellenville
Frank G. Petrone
Jack McBride
Albert
C. Lanstein
Kingston
McBride
Benjamin Dolman
Dolmans
Petrone
Eugenio S. Cruz
Dolman
Cruz
William Trapnel
Gurda Elected to County Agricultural Committee
Edward Gurda of Pine Island was named to the county Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation committee by delegates at Middletown. He has served as a county committeeman since 1968. term length is three years. Also elected were Arthur Cash and Kenneth Luft as other committeemen with three year terms. William Johnson and Victor Brooks were chosen as alternates. Committeemen take office January 1 and oversee locally administered federally funded farm programs including disaster relief and feed, grain, and wheat programs.
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Middletown
Edward Gurda
Pine Island
County
Gurda
ASC
Farm and Home Center
Wisner Avenue
Gurda Farms Inc
Arthur Cash
Unionville
Kenneth Luft
Goshen
William Johnson
Victor Brooks
Warwick
Former Newburgh man named ambassador to Mexico
Joseph J. Jova, formerly of Newburgh, was confirmed by the Senate as the United States ambassador to Mexico. A veteran diplomat, he has served with the State Department since 1947 and has led U S delegations to the Organization of American States. He was born in 1916 in Newburgh and is a Dartmouth graduate and Mount Saint Mary College trustee.
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Newburgh
Joseph J. Java
Senate
United States
Mexico
Jova
State Department Foreign Services
Washington
Organization of American States
Nixon
Brickyard
Juan Jacinto Jova
Roseton
mid-Hudson Valley
Grange County
David H. Popper
Chile
Stuart N. Scott
Portugal
Anthony J. Marshall
Kenya
New York City
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Mark Sienko
Mountain Ave
National Hockey League
Maple Hill Park Pond
Paul Updike
Charles Wolfe
Manny Fuchs
City Hall
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