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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1944
Page
5
A promotional notice touts GLO WAX and MARCO DIAMOND waxes with statements about durable wax protection, plastic content, water resistance, and pricing at 89 cents per quart and 2 dollars twenty-five cents per gallon. It invites customers to contact North 797 if their dealer cannot supply the product.
In Rensselaer County Surrogates Court Judge Edward J Donohue granted letters of administration on two estates. For James Gould of Grafton died April 11 the estate totals 300 dollars personal and 2000 dollars real with heirs Doris G Hamond Nellie G Cavanaugh and Arthur Gould. Mrs Cora A Baucus of Troy died in May 1933 leaving 1150 dollars to a single heir Ethel B Perry.
Ray Hofford, executive vice president of the New York State Association of Real Estate Boards, branded subsidized public housing as a gold brick and a fallacy that raises costs and hurts property values. The Troy Real Estate Board clinic included remarks by Arend, Ahern, Fazioli, Heer and O Hara, plus talks on depreciation, old houses appraisal and income property methods, with Fichter filing a trade name for The Brunswick Woodworkers.
Stillwater church groups held meetings at members homes electing officers for the coming year and planning fund drives. Circles chose pledges and monthly dimes, with May 7 to 14 marked as National Family Week and a congregation birthday party May 9.
Five workmen suffered injuries in a clinker shed roof collapse at the North American Cement Co. plant in Alsén near Catskill. They were saved by safety ropes and lowered by colleagues from a fifty foot fall. Injured are Thomas Law, 46. Walter Carroll, 30. William Sauerzopf, 43. Joseph Corbett, 42, all of Catskill. and Stanley Carle, 35, of Maiden.
Cambridge residents host visitors from Schenectady and St Petersburg Florida return from Washington D C. Women Society of Embury Methodist Church hosts a noon food sale. Coila Presbyterian Women meet at Mrs M B Patterson home with Belle Murdock leading. Troop 62 Boy Scouts collect waste paper 10 am curbside to fund Camp Wakpominee trip. Cambridge Valley Grange garden program features Victory Garden coordinator Charles C Stack with slides, singing and refreshments.
Tenderfoot pins and numerals were distributed and dues collected. After the meeting the Green Bar Patrol discussed the court of honor in Stillwater on May 5. Scouts sell minstrel show tickets in Mechanicville tonight and tomorrow to fund camp expenses.
Miss Eileen Kinsella regional social welfare supervisor and heir to a former brewery owner left for Montreal after Canadian authorities informed of a twin engine Royal Air Force crash. Five of her tenants properties in the commercial and tenement district were wrecked in the disaster. Her families had occupied the houses for years and she sought to aid survivors while on temporary leave from the state department.
A Royal Air Force Liberator crashed into a working class district of downtown Montreal near the St Lawrence River. Sixteen bodies were recovered, including 111 civilians and five crew members, with rescue teams continuing to search for one more believed trapped. The plane carried 600 pounds of freight and no mail or passengers. Three crew members were Polish airmen, one famed ace with over one million miles. Police Constable Philippe Lemiens died rescuing two elderly women. The Griffintown Boys' Club near the crash suffered roof damage and brief use as a first aid station.
A resident described feeling an earthquake like jolt when the back wall of her third floor home collapsed, inches from where she lay. She recalled the whole house shuddering and half of the structure seemingly disappearing in the incident.
Eyewitnesses reported a major crash with hundreds seeing flames and smoke. Some claimed the large aircraft exploded mid air while others said it only ignited after striking houses, with numerous differing accounts from onlookers.
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