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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1944
Page
13
Smith family expresses gratitude for flowers cars and kindness during bereavement Also thanks to Rev Lymen Talman and Rev Harvey W Cholt Mr and Mrs Arthur Smith Mr and Mrs Kermit Smith Wesco pa Ware St Onge Mrs Bessie St Gage thanks relatives friends and bearers for sympathy during bereavement
BORN announcements report four newborns in March 1944. Richard Alan Barnett born at Cohoes Hospital to Maurice and Clare Barnett. Slukey Ann Fodder born at Leonard Hospital to Oscar and Evelyn Fodder. Thomas Gerard Nead born at Troy Hospital to Thomas and Ruth Nead. Judith Louise Young born at Samaritan Hospital to Gordon and Ruth Young.
A string of death notices lists John J. Caldwell Sidney S Cooper Mary J Oates Dwyer Gibbons Holt Laesch Loeffler Carolyn Mackie Matthews Mebs Morris Oszarek Otto Stevens Wilkes with funeral arrangements and church services. Families invited to attend from various residences and cemeteries including St Peters St Josephs Sacred Heart Oakwood and New Mount Ida.
Congressman Deah P. Taylor of Troy announces intention to seek reelection. The 29th district now includes Rensselaer Saratoga Washington Warren Essex and Clinton Counties under a new redistributing law. Republican leaders anticipate his renomination while other party leaders plan organization timelines. Caswell may fill Brown’s vacancy in Troy government. Justice Bliss endorsement debate rises at county bar meeting.
The Troy Area Council will hold a Court of Honor in Lansingburg on April 21 to recognize Scouts advancing in 1944 and to award certificates and ribbons. Troop 43, First Methodist Church Cohoes, will conduct ceremonies. Special honors go to the troop with the highest advancement rate and top sales in the Fourth War Loan. Certificates for training, war bond sales, and commendations will be awarded. Movies and a speaker will finish the program.
Curtiss Ramsay of Corinth pleaded innocent to grand larceny in the second degree when arraigned before Justice of the Peace Harl Balcom at Corinth yesterday. He was committed to Saratoga County Jail at Ballston Spa to await action of the grand jury. Farnsey was arrested by troopers and Saratoga Springs police in Saratoga eight minutes after a car he was driving was reported stolen by its owner Albert Harrington of Stony Creek to police at Corinth.
The War Fund drive for the Rensselaer County Chapter American Red Cross will be reported at a noon luncheon at the Annex as 250 volunteers present the final tally. Leaders said progress was rapid and four branches Grafton Greenbush Poesten Kill Speigletown surpassed their quotas yesterday.
A blaze at 157 Fourth Street caused extensive damage to the second floor of a two story frame building owned by James Custe. The fire started from a faulty oil heater and also damaged the first floor which housed a grill. Firefighters used two booster lines after sirens at 6 40 pm. The second floor tenants Syrian Chib suffered fire and water damage and furniture was destroyed. The alarm came from Box 215 Congress and Fourth Streets. The first floor received water damage while the second floor was left uninhabitable.
The Tibbits Cadets held their 67th annual dinner at the Annex honoring the senior and junior companies now in the South Pacific. Maj. Al son J. Hull spoke on morale and wartime advances while Maj. W. Frank Leversee urged Guard recruitment and Camp Smith readiness. The event included musical tributes and remarks from local officials.
Mady Christians presented Shakespeare's Katherine at Russell Sage College Little Theater with dramatic monologues and explanations. Her dynamic Katharine suggested a retaming of Petruchio while Elizabeth of Elizabeth the Queen displayed regal poise and passion. The program also featured Dorothy Parker's The Waltz, Shaw's Candida, Romeo and Juliet, The Cherry Orchard, and O Neill's Anna Christie, concluding with a dramatic entrance scene and a bare stage design.
Mrs Marjorie Pauquette daughter of Mr and Mrs Lee Coddington Hudson Falls New York has enlisted as an apprentice seaman in the WAVES. She was sworn in at the Naval Officer Procurement Office New York and is on inactive duty awaiting orders to report to Hunter College New York for training. Her husband Charles Pauquette serves in the Marine Corps and is stationed in the South Pacific.
The 105th Infantry of the 27th Division marks the 26th homecoming anniversary with a banquet at The Hendrick Hudson on April 18. Veterans will recall battles near Ypres the Somme and Hindenburg Line, with Lieut. Col. George Mr. Searle as principal speaker and attendance promised by top officers and veterans from across the state.
Thelma Schriner daughter of Mr and Mrs Andrew Schriner of Eagle Mills wrote the words for Troy High School’s senior class song to the tune In My Heart There Rings a Melody. She has been in the choral group four years and played in the orchestra. printed copies will be prepared and the song will appear in the Dardanian yearbook.
Gov Dewey approves several measures: four Albany Port District Commission members reduced from 35000 annually to 325 per meeting, chairman fixed at 5000 yearly, others on per diem. A disability review requirement for state employees and a detailed maintenance rate schedule for state institutional workers are enacted. Savings and loan associations may act as agents to sell money orders and travel checks.
Weather favors a good trout season as streams remain clear and pre season stocking boosts supplies. Licenses running near last year but below pre war levels, daily creel limit ten and seven inch minimum apply in most waters. Opening day varies by county with Katherine Crees near Bath hosting a public observance by State Conservation Commissioner Joan A. White and guests.
Albany County reports that the American Labor Party delegates to the state committee split by district. The First and Second Districts elected left wing representatives while the Third District, including Cohoes, chose the right wing faction. vote tallies show left 62 to right 30 in District One, left 34 to right 19 in District Two, and left 40 to right 53 in District Three.
Thomas F. FitzGerald, Democratic city chairman, resigns from city and county party posts. A federal Hatch Act constraint may have influenced the move as he takes a position under federal service. Vacancies to be filled at the next county committee meeting. He previously served as public works commissioner and helped establish wartime city emergency services and blackout control.
Corinth Draft Board 364 notifies twenty men to report for induction into the Navy or Marine Corps and fifteen to report for Army service on April 8. The registrants listed include Charles R. Noel and Clifford A. Barlow for Army, and Lewis N. Cady and Hugh F. Hickey for Navy, among others from Corinth, South Glens Falls, Glens Falls, Saratoga Springs, and surrounding towns.
A 35 minute sound movie titled Radio at War will be shown at 7 pm Monday in the Troy High School auditorium. The film explains how radio coordinates land sea and air forces and was produced in cooperation with the Army and Navy for public viewing.
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