City of Troy Overspent 1949 Budget by 238,310 Dollars
The City Comptroller reports 1949 expenditures exceeded appropriations by 238,310 dollars. Original budget 4,346,500 with actual 4,084,519. Bonds rose to 5,219,925 from 2,388,075. Debt limit listed at 56,490,523.07. Overruns traced to Public Safety raises and utility tax changes, with deficits slightly improving from 1948. Population given as 70,000 from 1940 census.
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Cty of
Troy
Lawrence Collins
Comptroller's
Department of Public Safety
Police
Aremen
Department of Public Works
Public Works Bureau
Bureau of Motor Transportation
Archambesult pivots to Citizens Party support for reelection
Waterford Vincent Archambesult, reelection candidate for tax collector, announced he will accept support from the Citizens Party which has designated him for the office. He told Republican caucus members he hopes the Citizens Party will back him when he runs again on the Republican ticket. Funeral details and church notices follow with lists of local religious activities and meetings for Holy Week.
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Vincent Archambesult
Citizens’ Party
Archambesult
Citizens Party
Okinawa then and now remembered in green fields
Five years after the battle of Okinawa the landscape has recovered into green rice and vegetables. Foxholes and relics lie near Chocolate Drop while locals like war orphans and fishermen recount the island’s grim past. Detailed account notes battles, losses, and sites such as Kakazu Ridge and Shuri Castle with ongoing remembrance.
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Waha
Conical Hill
Chocolate Drop
Tom Lambert
Okinawa
Green Beach
Esater
Itoman
Naha
Ernie-Bee
Kadena Airfield
Japan
Inj
Kakazu Ridge
Shuri
Shurl Castle
Navy
Simon Bolwar Buckner, Jr
Tenth Army
Mitsuru Ushijima
Ie Island
Ernie Pyle
Reverend Ray mond Clee Opens Holy Week Services
Rev. Dr. Raymond Clee of the First Reformed Church of Albany will open the annual Holy Week union services at Second Presbyterian Church at noon today. Sponsored by the Troy Area Council of Churches, the service starts promptly at 12:10 PM and ends at 12:59 PM, with Clee previously filling in for unavailable ministers.
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Grace Episcopal
James W. Pennock
Trinity Church
Troy
Wesleyan Methodist
the Nazarene Church
Al|bany Street
Schenectady
Methodist
Carl Sorenson
Second
Baptist
Comeunion
Presbyterian Church
Women’s Missional Society
John House Memorial
Chester B. Parkis
Baptist and
Presbyterian Churches
St. Mars
Geog
Raymond Clee
First Reformed Church of
Albany
Troy Area
Old Berzen Reformed Church of Jersey
Crtr
Wil Dart
Harvard Professor Matthieson Death Shocks Boston
Harvard literature authority MATTHIESSEN, 46, died by suicide in a Boston hotel room. A note cited low spirits and support for international peace. He faced past left wing associations and served with Progressive groups while on leave from Harvard to work on a Dreiser biography.
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Boston
Francia Otte Matthiesson
Harvard
United Authority On American Literature
Pasadena
Cal
Matthiessen
Progressive Citizens of America
Massachusetts
Progressive Party
Samuel Adams School of Social Studies
Atty
Tom Clark
Beacon Hill
Matthiesen
Henry James
Theodore Dreiser
Murdock
Matthieven
Springfield
Harold G. Newbrant
Tarryton
Mattiessen
Yale
Oxford University
England
Princeton
Bills to Protect Wildlife in New York Signed by Governor
Albany UPI Two measures granting the Conservation Department greater power to guard wildlife were signed by Governor Dewey. One bill expands authority to close streams during droughts to prevent fish slaughter, effective July 1, 1950 to July 1, 1951. The second bill lets the department impose restrictions without public hearings.
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Albany
Goering's Fancy Bathtub Recovered
Regensburg Germany German workmen dug up a silver plated bathtub once used by Hermann Goering. Police said the tub was the most pretentious item recovered from a treasure hoard valued at 100 608 dollars found at Feldenstein Castle near Regensburg. The hunt led by the U S High Commission yielded six crates of cola gold plated candlesticks 160 bottles of cognac and numerous art treasures.
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Regensburg
Germany
Hermann Goering
Goering
Feldenstein Castle
Here
U. S. High Commission
New season rules allow hare and rabbit hunts through July 1953
A department spokesman explained that the new law, effective until July 1, 1953, authorizes seasons for hares or cotton ball rabbits in areas with low populations without prior public hearings. Previously hearings were required before any season restriction.
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Department
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