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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1949
Page
18
Battalion Chief's driver Donald Brust and Fire Department inhalation squad aided Roscoe Young, 36, of 10 Federal Street, after he was reported ill yesterday at 6 50 p m. Young recovered after treatment.
A major renovation of Albany's 66 year old State Capitol progresses as workers install scaffolding and mezzanines across the third to fifth floors. The $8,000,000 modernization aims to finish by the end of 1950, following begun work in 1946 after prior minor updates since 1883.
The plan reroutes and expands the New York State Capitol offices to ease crowding and update heating electrical and sanitary systems. Crews will install new floors and seals, construct mezzanines, and rework the Senate lobby and Assembly areas with a completion projected in 1950 depending on winter work stoppages.
Greenwich residents plan several social and cultural events including a dress review at Greenwich Central School for Home Demonstration Week, a tag day fundraiser by the Greenwich Free Library, and National Music Week activities at Greenwich Central School from May 1 to May 7 culminating in a spring concert on May 6. Local families visit Rochester and New York, while students prepare to host music classes and a choir rehearsal.
Plans for participation in the May Day parade sponsored by the Central Veterans' Committee will be made at a meeting today at 8 PM. Sgt. Howard Bacon Garrison of the Army and Navy Union will host at rooms 10 218th Street. Former servicemen and service women not in ex service groups are invited to attend the open meeting and participate in the parade, a demonstration against Communism.
Howard Darwin Beard, airman apprentice in the US Navy, has entered the Aviation Electronica Technician School at the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Memphis Tennessee for a 42 week course. Beard joined the Navy in December 1948 and completed basic training at Great Lakes Naval Training Center. He is listed as son of George H Beard of South Oakwood Avenue, Troy.
The National Safety Council reports 6160 traffic deaths in the first three months of 1949, up two percent from the same period last year. Council President Ned H. Dearborn criticizes rising taxes as he notes greater road use and travel as the likely cause of the increase.
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