Bus Garage at Mechanicville High Nears Completion
The new two stall bus garage at Mechanicville Senior High School on Pruyn Hill is expected to be finished by August 31. Fortune Construction Co. of Mechanicville is the general contractor. Indoor work includes lift installation for bus maintenance. outdoor area is being prepared with gravel for a split foundation and black topping.
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Mechanicville Senior High School
Pruyn Hill
Board of Education
Fortune Construction Co
Mechanicville
Lynch
New Field Prepared for Mechanicville High Football
The Natural Bowl turf at Mechanicville High is ready for fall Red Raider games while practice shifts to the upper field north of the school. Bleachers from Earlville Co. Will cost 8320 with 1000 seats on the east side nine tiers high and 162 feet long. Pre season work starts August 24 with six coaches paid per a fortieth of salary. about 90 to 100 boys expected to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mechanicville High School
Earlville Co
Earlville
N. Y
Olesen Seating Co
Troy
Board of Education
David Millman
RR Retirement Man To Visit City
A representative of the U S Railroad Retirement Board will be in the conference room of the Railroad YMCA Mechanicville at 9 am Tuesday. The event, announced by district manager C W Griese, offers help on railroad retirement and unemployment acts.
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U.S. Railroad Retirement Board
Railroad Ymca
Mechanicville
C. W. Griese
US S. Post
Albany
Confessions Set For Today At Mechanicville Church
Confessions will be heard at 7 p.m. today at the Church of the Assumption Mechanicville ahead of the First Friday observance. Holy Communion will be dis tributed at 6:15 a.m. tomorrow with Masses at 7 7:30 and 8 a.m. Rev Dante N Girolami pastor announced senior choir rehearsal at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
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Mechanicville
Dante N. Girolami
U.S.A
Mrs. Carter Rites Held in Mechanicville
The funeral of Mrs. Sarah A. Carter of 81 Ellsworth Ave Mechanicville was conducted yesterday afternoon at T. L. Cassidy Funeral Home Mechanicville. Rev J Ralph Davie Memorial Baptist Church pastor officiated. Interment was in Hudson View Cemetery Mechanicville with bearers Douglas MacWhinnie James Waters Clarence Dart and Carleton Daugherty.
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Sarah A. Carter
Ellsworth Ave
Mechanicville
T. L. Cassidy
J. Ralph Davie
Memorial Baptist Church
Hudson View
Douglas MacWhinnie
James Waters
Clarence Dart
Carleton Daugherty
Bemis Heights Grange Hall Hosts Plan Card Party
A Plan Card Party sponsored by the service and hospitality committee will start at 8 30 p m Saturday at Bemis Heights Grange Hall Mrs Marion Campbell is chairman
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Service and Hospitalty Committee
Bemis Heights
Marion Campbell
Minor League All-Star Tilts Start Tomorrow
The Mechanicville Still water Little League All Stars meet the Stillwater Legion at Minute Man Field Mechanicville for the opener at 6 p m tomorrow with a second game set for Saturday at 12 30 p m and a potential Sunday 6 p m tiebreaker. Coaches Armand Laurenzo Steve Sally lead players including Bob Overacker Bill Ryan Ed Printy Jim Brown Ken Weber and others for Mechanicville Stillwater will be coached by Chuck Carpenter Tom Kinisky.
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Mechanicville-Stillwater
Stillwater Legion
Minute Man Field
Elizabeth Street
Mechanicville
Armand Laurenzo
Steve Sally
Bob Overacker
Bill Ryan
Ed Printy
Jim Brown
Ken Weber
Bob Murphy
Joe DePuccio
Dan Marinello
Kim Lenihan
Bob Dugan
Steve Sgambati
Art Medina
Paul Perrotta
Andy Macariello
George Arnold
John Roy
Chuck Carpenter
Tom Kinisky
Feast of the Assumption Observance in Mechanicville
Preliminary plans for the Feast of the Assumption festival in Mechanicville run August 13 to 15. The three day program features a street dance, band concert, church services at the Church of the Assumption, and a fireworks display attracting hundreds. Peter Clements is general chairman with a large committee assisting.
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Mechanicville
Italian Fraternal Society
Viall Avenue
Fraternal Society
Society
Church of the Assumption
Hulin Heights
Peter Clements
Me chanicville Sons of Italy hold 50th steak roast
The Mechanicville Sons of Italy Lodge marks its 50th midsummer event with a steak roast at Plum Brook Fish and Game Club Farm Stillwater Center on Sunday August 21. Michael Fortune announces day-long plans with Meno Bango assisting as cochairman and a large lodge group helping.
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Mechanicville Sons of Italy
Plum Brook
Fortune
Meno Bango
Cochairman
Lodge
West Sand Lake Picnic Meeting and Barbecue
The West Sand Lake Fire Company Auxiliary holds its annual picnic meeting Monday at 6 30 p m at the summer home of Mrs Carl Wicks Burden Lake Reservations for the auxiliary and fire department chicken barbecue on Saturday closed today Servings offered at 5 and 6 30 p m on the firehouse grounds and in case of rain in the hall Also notes Mr and Mrs Richard Hastings and family and Mrs William Lowe and daughter Joane have returned from Cape Cod and Mrs Kenneth Van Valkenburg has come home from Samaritan Hospital
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West Sand Lake Fire Company
Carl Wicks
Burden Lake
West Sand Lake
Joane
Cape Cod
Kenneth van Valkenburg
Samaritan Hospital
Crusaders Assemble as Local Members Travel for Service
Hoosick Adam Breer lead the Crusaders meeting tonight with Mrs Marion Frost. John Stearns Douglas Wilbrant and Kenneth Baker travel to Amarillo Texas to bring back David Wilbrant in service. Mr and Mrs Ralph Philpott return to Florida. Mrs Anna Bradley of North Adams Mass visits her daughter Mrs Joseph Clancey with Michael Bradley. John and Thomas Clancy vacation with their uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Felix Beerman in Grafton.
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The
Crusaders
Marion Frost
John Stearns
Douglas Wilbrant
Kenneth Baker
Amarillo
Tex
David Wilbrant
Ralph Philpott
Florida
Anna Bradley
North ‘Adams
Mass
Michael Bradley
Joseph Clancey
John
Thomas Clancy
Felix Be ‘Man
Grafton
Ambulance Fund Drive Nears Conclusion in Stillwater
The Stillwater Ambulance Fund Drive ends August 16 as board members review canvass results. Volunteers urged to finish territories and deliver returns to Mrs. Frank Brett or Mrs. T. S. Ryan. Residents report good participation. uncontacted residents should call area chairmen for follow up. Funeral for Emerson Dalaba held at Dunn Funeral Home with Rev. Thomas S. Evans officiating. Interment Lake George Cemetery. Bearers named Flynn, Neilson, Elahout.
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Stillwater
Frank Brett
T. S. Ryan
Emerson Dalaba
Dunn Funeral Home
Thomas S. Evans
Card Party Planned in Bemis Heights Grange Hall
John Hayes Carl Schults and Wilson Henderson sponsor a public card party Saturday night at Bemis Heights Grange Hall. Pinochle and euchre will be played with prizes and refreshments. The Stillwater Fire Department holds its annual clamsteam at the Stillwater Rod and Gun Club picnic grounds Sunday.
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John Hayes
Carl Schults
Wilson Henderson
Stillwater Fire Department
Stillwater Rod and Gun Club
Frear Park to Light Up Night Basketball Courts
Frear Park basketball area near the golf clubhouse will host night games under lights starting next Tuesday. The site doubles as an ice skating area in winter and will see continued blacktop operations through today. Superintendent William L. Carley announced the plan.
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Frear Park
William L. Carley
Carley
Hold World Service Fair At Camp Van Schoonhoven
More than 200 campers and parents attended a World Service Fair at the YMCA Camp Van Schoonhoven during the second period. Each boys cabin built a booth totaling 12. Proceeds benefited World Service, aiding YMCA abroad. Activities included a Fenway Park trip and Paul Bunyan Day at Burden Lake with log rolling relay races and pie eating honoring the woodsman.
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YMCA
Camp van Schoonhoven
World Service
Fenway Park
Boston
Paul Bunyan
Burden Lake
Recreation area debated at Carroll's Hill youth site
The blacktop basketball court near Carroll's Hill was funded by Board of Education and school maintenance crews while the basketball standards were installed by city crews. Supervisor James Walsh supported creating a recreational area at the Carroll's Hill site.
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Carroll's Hill
Board of Education
James Walsh
R- 9
Carroll’s Hill
Kidnaped 12 Year Old Betty Farrell Found Alive
Vermilion County deputies report Betty Farrell a 12 year old from rural Danville was kidnapped from in front of her home. She was taken to a hospital after being held in a car with Nora Pridemore 8. Nora escaped near the Indiana line and named the suspect a pock marked man with black slicked back hair who threatened them with a gun and knife.
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Danville
Ill
Vermilion County Sheriff's Office
Betty Farrell
Betty
Lula Farrell
Farrell
Dixie Lee
Marilyn Ames
Nora Pridemore
Nora
Indiana State Line
Wine Kills Two Boys in Spanish Cellar Drinking
Two boys aged 4 and 5 died from alcoholic poisoning after entering a home's cellar and drinking wine excessively on Sunday authorities said. The incident occurred in Salomo, Spain, prompting investigations into the alcohol access and safety.
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Salomo
Spain
UPI
Britain Fights To Keep Pound Value In Postwar Era
The Associated Press reports Britain aims to prevent a pound decline after devaluation in 1949 and amid Suez and 1956 tensions. The Wilson government uses austerity penny pinching as its main tool to defend the pound while Britain plans decimalization and currency reform.
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Britain
Suez
Cones Observe 40th Anniversary in Bennington
Mr and Mrs Francis J Cone of 107 River Street Bennington Vermont marked their 40th wedding anniversary with a Mass of Thanksgiving at St Francis de Sales Church led by Rt Rev Msgr Francis B Flanagan. A family dinner followed at the Knotty Pine Restaurant. Mr Cone a longtime police officer and former chief of police in Bennington. The family included four daughters P A Leisinger and four children of Cincinnati Ohio James L Anglin and son of Jamaica Plain Massachusetts John Ahearn and four children of Bennington and Patricia Cone of Brighton Massachusetts.
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Francis J. Cone
River St
Bennington
St. Francis de Sales’ Church
Francis B. Flanagan
Knotty Pine
Cone
P. A. Leisinger
Cincinnati
Ohio
James L. Anglin
Jamaica Plain
Mass
John Ahearn
Patricia Cone
Brighton
Floods in Czechoslovakia Cause Large Damage and Fatalities
Official CTK report says last week's heavy floods inundated 148000 acres in Czechoslovakia and caused 35 million dollars in damage. Four people were killed in the disaster.
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Vienna
UPI
Czechoslovakia
CTK
Currency shifts in former colonial realms noted
The South African Republic outside the Commonwealth adopts land as its money unit replacing the pound while Australia moves away from the pound last year adopting the Australian dollar.
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South African Republic
Commonwealth
Australia
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Sons of Italy
Jeanne M. Bailey
Hoosick Adam
Breer
Ymca Camp Fair
Mr. Dalaba
Francis Flynn
Charles Neilson
Harry Elahout
Bemis Heights Grange Hall
Service and Hospitality Committee
Denby’s
Associated Press
Theghane
Fas
Percale
Fortress TM
Serene TM
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Morgan Jones Insulaire
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