Rockefeller Signs Green Island Housing Bill
Governor Rockefeller yesterday signed legislation authorizing Green Island to form its own housing authority. The move enables the village to pursue future housing plans, with Mayor John J. McNulty Jr. having prior discussions with federal housing officials and preparations to consult state authorities once the board is appointed.
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Rockefeller
Green Island
al Housing Authority
John J. McNulty Jr
Fire battalion chief Moore plans retirement after 30 years
Battalion Chief Edmund T. Moore of 349 Seventh Ave. completed three decades of service with the Troy Fire Department on March 25. His retirement is expected to become effective in May.
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Troy
Edmund T. Moore
Seventh Ave
Fireman Moore served as acting chief and leader at City Fire Dept
The obituary notes Battalion Chief Moore a son of a fireman, served as acting chief and drove aerial trucks, rescue squads and pumpers. He joined the fire bureau March 25, 1837 and rose through lieutenant and captain ranks before becoming battalion chief. He filled acting chief duties during Chief William J. Smith's vacation, and the record lists notable fires including City Hall and the Sousie family blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moore
Tillerman
Fire Bureau
William J. Smith
Fire Department
Thomas F. Moore
Rankin Steamer Company
Federal Street
Jin
City Hall
St. Patrick's School
Germania Hall
Griswold Theater
Aetna
Sousie
RPI Honors Three Troy Postgraduates
Three Troy postgraduate officers in the RPI NROTC unit were named members of Epsilon Delta Sigma, an RPI management honor society founded in 1948. selections include Lt Cmdr Richard Lixeenan USN of 24 Oxford Circle, Lt Cmdr William G Hicks USCG of 274 Grange Rd, and Maj John K Cochran USMC of 2600 Lavin Ct.
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Troy
RPI
Epsilon Delta Sigma
Richard L.ixeenan
USN
Oxford Circle
William G. Hicks
USCG
Grange Rd
John K. Cochran
USMC
Lavin Ct
In Memoriam Owe Owe Rowe and Family Remembrance
In memory of David E. Rowe who died April 25 1965 at a young age. Mrs Simpkin remembers S/Sgt Wallace Simpkin who died April 25 1944 and wishes no special day is needed to recall him. Catherine Smith mourned 14 years since April 23 1933 with loving family signatures from Leo Donald and Eileen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandt
Harry Brandt
Harry JR
Carolyn
John
Thomas
William
J. Breen Sr
Mary
Hidley
Gordon F Hidley
Charles
Shirley Ann
Mary Holoduck
Resson Harry
Moloduck
Mothe
Jane
Edward Judge
Marguin
John Marguin
Nells
David E. Rowe
Mom
Simpkin
Wallace Simpkin
Haly
Richard
Catherine Smith
Tway
Leo
Donald
Eileen
Died Agnes Bielass and others in Albany area obits
Obituary notices list Agnes M Bielass of 21 Saxton Rd Rensselaer April 23 1967 funeral from W J Lyons Funeral Home and St Johns Rensselaer Indoor Sports Club Albany Chapter invited. Mae Dinan Britt of 35 Albany St Troy 1967 funeral from Campton and Sons 1215 Broadway solemn Mass Sacred Heart 9 30. Beatrice Vincelette of 74 Main St Cohoes April 24 1967 funeral from Ernest J Dufresne 282 Remsen St Solemn Requiem Mass St Josephs Church. Catherine Toohey Gennett Newtonville 1987 funeral Campion and Sons 166 Washington Ave Albany. victims in 1984 blaze Battalion Chief Moore and family details. other family notes include spouses and grandchildren.
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St. John’s Church
Rensselaer
Albany
North Carolina
Lillian LaCasse
Queens Village
Long Island
Mary St. Nemise
Cincinnati
Ohio
Hector Vincelette
Phoenix
Ariz
Thomas J. Morris
Itham
Ernest J. Dufresne
Remsen St
Cohoes
St. Joseph’s
Jennett
Catherine Toohey
Gennett
Newton Road
Newtonville
Wollert Ave
Menands
Victor L. Gennett
William
Mildred) Davis
Reginald
Catherine) Reichard
Troy
Victor R. Gennett
Campion and Sons Funeral Home
Wasiiigton Ave
Sacred Heart Church
Sacred Heart
Rosary Mother's Club
Two Hurt As Car Hits Parked Auto
Two people were injured when an auto carrying Roseann M. Machon and Barbara Miller struck a parked 1982 sedan owned by John H. Provost at 62 North Lake Ave. They were taken to Samaritan Hospital by Ambulance Service Corp. Machon 19 suffered lip mouth nose cuts while Miller 17 sustained a possible broken nose and mouth cut.
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North Lake Ave
Samaritan Hospital
Ambulance Service Corp
Roseann M. Machon
Roosevelt Ave
Barbara Miller
North Lake Avye
Selvatore Mauriello
Louis J. Cochi
Radio Patrol
North Lake Avenue
John H. Provost
Shadrach Woods To Present RPI Lecture
Shadrach Woods, architect and planner, will deliver the Alcoa Lecture at Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute Thursday at 2 p.m. in Room 115 Greene Building. His topic The Man in the Street is open to the public free of charge. Woods previously worked with Le Corbusier in Paris and Marseilles from 1948 to 1951 and now runs a Paris practice with Georges Candilis Aleksej Josic and Paul Dony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shadrach Woods
Alcoa
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Greene Building
Woods
le Corbusier
Paris
Marseilles
Georges Candilis
Aleksej Josic
Paul Dony
Death notices from New York area including Ham mond Knowlson and McLoughlin
Multiple obituaries and funeral notices dated April 1967 from Troy Schenectady Watervliet and Waterford New York report survivors and service details for Edna Sterner Hammond Mary Lillian Nowlson Marion C McLoughlin Edith M Palmer George B Rasmussen and George Rasmus sen among others with service times burial locations and memorial donations requested in lieu of flowers
Unseasonable Troy Area Snow Flurry and 50s Forecast
Yesterday brought a brief snow flurry to parts of the Troy Area with others seeing only rain. The forecast calls for considerable sunshine today with highs in the 50s and overnight lows in the upper 20s. Tomorrow looks cloudier but again in the 50s. Historical notes recall late April snows and earlier May accumulations in the region.
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Troy
New Volumes On Display At Library
Troy Public Library adds twenty one new books to its collection with a weeklong display before circulation. Nonfiction includes Duty Honor County and other works by Ambrose Cassatt Coogan Davis Read Wiesel. fiction features Partnership with Death Cruel Coast Beyond the Mountains To the Precipice and more.
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Troy
R. B. McKay
L. A. Paul
Sir H. E. Read
Saturday Evening Post
Eliezer Wiesel
Art Game
Robert Wraight
Clifton Adams
W. H. Gage
Alexander Ramati
Judith Rossner
M. J. Russell
Kircher Albany supervisor dies at 78
Louis H. Kircher longtime Albany County supervisor from the 11th Ward died after being stricken at his Albany home. He retired from the Bureau of Streets as a foreman after a 25 year service. Survivors include his wife two sons two brothers two sisters and 12 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at McVeigh Funeral Home and Our Lady of Angels Church with interment in Our Lady of Angels Cemetery Colonie.
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Louis H. Kircher
Albany County
Albany
St. Peter's Hospital
Beverly Ave
Kircher
Bureau of Streets
Joseph Fagan Post
American Legion
Elsie M. Sheehan
John A. Kircher
Los Alamos
N.M
Donald L. Kircher
Walter
Philip Kircher
Irene, Kircher
Wallace Scoville
West Sand Lake
McVeigh
N. Allen St
Our Lady of Angels Church
Our Lady of Angels Cemetery
Colonie
Multiple Obituaries From Hoosick Falls Area in 1967
Obituaries list for April 1967 include Mrs Jessie Russell Valentine of Hoosick Falls with several children and relatives from multiple nearby towns. funeral planned at Leo J Mahar Funeral Home with interment at Dunning Street Cemetery. Also Mary E Waters of Wat ers, sister of Willem J Waters, with funeral at Joseph A O’Bryan Funeral Home and St Patrick's Church. George W Welch Jr of Mechanicville dies suddenly, with service at Cassidy Funeral Home and St Luke's Church, burial at Hudson View Cemetery. donations requested to All Souls Fund of St Luke Episcopal Church.
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Valentine
Jessie Russell Valentine
Elm St
Hoosick Falls
George Valentine
George Valentine Jr
Frederick
William
John Valentine
Merritt Grogan
Genevieve
Irene Valentine
Donald Burdick
Pownal
Robert Knowston
Victory Mills
N.Y
Frederick Jones
Petersburg
David Duffney
Mechanicville
Leo J. Mahar
Main St
Dunning St
Maita
Waters
Mary E. Waters
Willem J. Waters
Joseph A. O'Bryan
8Th Ave
St. Patrick's Church
St. Joseph’s Cemetery
Welch
N. Y
George W. Welch Jr
South Second Avenue
George W. Welch Sr
Emma Sangit Welch
Misa Lola A. Welch
Mary Ares
George RK
Fort Edward
Cassidy Funeral Home
North Second St
St. Luke's, Episcopal Church
Hudson Vee
All Souls’ Fund
St. Wken Episcopal Church
Human Rights Unit Plans Youth Program for Troy youth
Troy's Commission on Human Rights met and outlined a summer youth program. They invited local agencies and churches to collaborate with the commissioners to coordinate summer activities for Troy youngsters. Rev. Mack Brandon Jr presided.
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Troy
Commission On Human Rights
Mack Brandon Jr
Medicaid enrollments in Rensselaer county near 42 thousand
Commissioner Wade reports 42,000 county residents may be enrolled in Medicaid by year end, about 30 percent of the population. Approximately 18,500 eligible for full Medicaid services, with 4,600 applications filed since May 1. Daily average of 50 applications processed. cost totals and service breakdowns show rising 1967 payments compared with 1966.
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Bob Brier
Rensselaer County
William P. Wade
Welfare Dept
Wade
Rensselaer
New York
Brunswick GOP Fund Drive Planned Dip Supper and Rally
The Brunswick Republican Club opens a fund drive with a Thursday 6 30 p m dip supper at the Brunswick Fire Hall. Mrs Donald Pitcher chairs the event with committee members handling tables reception entertainment kitchen parking awards and publicity. Ernest Facteau, club president, will be principal speaker. Richard Hudson will report on the June 3 auction at the end of the business session.
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Republican Club
Brunswick
Donald Pitcher
A. Frank Bentley
GOP
Carl Bulson
C. Gudtbrodt
Harold Wilson
Bentley
Cinema Art Program At Siena College Review
A special eight day international cinema art program runs May 9 to 11 and May 15 to 19 at Siena College in Roger Bacon Hall. Each screening lasts about two hours featuring films from France Russia the United States Poland Japan Sweden India and Italy with a tribute to Dylan Thomas among titles such as Night And Fog The Cranes Are Flying Ikiru Jules and Jim Mass The Creation Of Woman World of Apu and Rocco And His Brothers.
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Siena College
Roger Bacon Hall
France
Russia
Poland
Japan
Sweden
Jules
Jim
Mass
U.S. A
Joan of the Angels
Woman
India
Apu
Chicadee
Dylan Thomas
Rocco
Italy
Republic Steel to Close Lyon Mountain Mine by June 1967
Republic Steel will close the Lyon Mountain underground iron ore mine by June 30, 1967. The Troy plant operation remains unaffected, drawing ore from Mineville near Port Henry. Ore quality has declined, making the Lyon Mountain operation uneconomical and it has a 99 year history since 1868 with a failed 1983 reopen attempt.
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Republic Steel
Lyon Mountain
Troy
Peter M. Dereski
Republic
Chateaugau
Dereski
Buffalo
Mineville
Port Henry
W. A. Blomstran
Adirondack
Blomstran
Saranac River
St Patrick’s Girl Scouts Award Banquet Highlights Troop 498
St Patrick's Church school hall hosted the annual Junior Girl Scout Troop 498 awards dinner with merit badges for gypsy, needlecraft, home health safety and sign of the star. Mary Ann Eagan led the presentation. Rev Francis Whalen officiated, with Martha Hayner giving the invocation. Prizes for top cookie sellers went to Susan Clark Elizabeth Newkirk Jeanne Terry and Cheryl Barrow. Miss Holt delivered the farewell to junior scouting. Linda McGrath led the thanks ceremony. Camp Shoda opens May 26 27. a May 20 trip to Farmers Museum Cooperstown is planned. Readers were honored by Miss Eagan with year pins. Mrs William Roddy and others assisted.
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St. Patrick's Church
Mary Ann Eagan
Francis Whalen
Scout
Martha Hayner
Susan Clark
Elizabeth Newkirk
Jeanne Terry
Cheryl Barrow
Miss Holt
Linda McGrath
Mary Prytherch
Albany
Girl Scout Council
Bernadette Bayly
William D. Healy
Martin Tracy Coleader
East Greenbush
Farmers Museum
Cooperstown
Miss Eagen
George Eagan
Herbert van Franklin
John Westbrook
Noel Bomba
Healy
Bailey
Tracy
William Roddy
Arthur Fogarty
Peter’ Bomba
Amd
Noreen Healy
Mother and Daughter Hurt In Kingsbury Crash
A mother Catherine Scaily age 45 and her daughter Jerry were seriously hurt yesterday when their 1966 sedan left Tripoli Road two-tenths of a mile north of Vaughn Road and struck a tree stump. They were taken to Glens Falls Hospital by Potter's Ambulance. The mother was in serious condition and the daughter was listed in critical condition. Trooper J A Dyer reported the car traveled about 100 feet along the east shoulder before impact.
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Tripoli Road
Vaughn Road
Kingsbury
Catherine Scaily
RD 1
Hudson Falls
Jerry
Glens Falls
Potter's Ambulance
J. A. Dyer
South Glens Falls
Directors To Meet Of Rensselaer Mental Health Society
A board meeting of the Rensselaer County Mental Health Society will be held at Seton Hall St Marys Hospital at 7 30 p m tomorrow Rev Samuel Wheeler president will preside
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Rensselaer County Mental Health Society
Seton Hall
St. Mary's Hospital
Samuel Wheeler
Welding Unit Elects RPI Researcher as Vice President
Dr. E F Nippes director of research at Rensselaer Poly tech Institute was reelected vice president of the American Welding Society at its 48th annual Detroit meeting. A former NN Y section chair and national director, he has written over 60 welding papers and earned multiple awards including the Adams Lecture in 1958 and the 1965 Adams Memorial Award. He earned a BS 1938 MS 1940 and PhD 1942 in metallurgy from RPI, where he joined the metallurgical engineering department in 1938 and became director of the research division in 1965.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. F. Nippes
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
American Welding Society
Detroit
Mich
Nippes
New York
Adams
ASM
Samuel Wylie Miller
Soviet Union
National Academy of Sciences
RPI
Research Corporation
LBC Auxiliary Installs Officers and Plans May Events
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Lansingburgh Boys Club installed new officers for the coming year led by newly elected president Mrs Timothy J Fogarty. They planned the May 18 luncheon at the Boys Club and heard Joseph Lutz executive director discuss the May 25 awards dinner and program expansions in ceramics and photography to engage non athletic boys. The next meeting is set for Monday May 22.
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Lansingburgh
Timothy J. Fogarty
Joseph Lutz
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Conboy
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Watervliet
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Hammond
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Naknek
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Utica
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Schenectady
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Latham
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Loudonville
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Parker Bros
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Ellis Hospital
Schetady
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John E. Knowlson
Cropseyville
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Norman J. Knowlson
Joseph Murray
Oakland
Calif
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Bryce
Pawling Ave
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Marion C. McLoughlin
John F. Stoner
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St. Peter's Church
Hequiem
St. Peter’s Cemetery
Almer
Eden Park
Misa Edith M. Palmer
Waldron Ave
Leo J. Mahar Feneral
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Maple
Mr. Kircher
Rensselaer County Welfare ‘Dept
Ann Guinan
Margaret Barnes
Edward V. Girzone
Siena
Lyon
St. Patrick’s Girl Scouts
Anthony Miller
Oneonta State University
Camp
van Schoonhoven
George E. Day
Miller
LBC Auxiliary
2Nd Ave
109Th St
Trey
Jowsley
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