ODT Offers Guidance for Employers in Automotive Maintenance
The Office of Defense Transportation releases guidance to help automotive maintenance employers recruit and retrain returning veterans. The Q and A sheet explains rights and responsibilities, aiming to place veterans in civilian transportation roles and urging all employers to use available veteran labor. Copies available from the Division of Information, Office of Defense Transportation, Washington 25, D. C.
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Office of Defense Transportation
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Perwonzel
Trstsport Pergsomnet
Maistesence Menpowar Committee
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Division of Information
Ofifice of Defense Transportation
Washington 25
D. C
Gardeners to Meet at Knickerbocker Playground Victory Garden
The garden committees of Knickerbocker Playground Victory Garden will meet tonight at 7 30 p.m. The meeting was called by Eugene Wiseman, chairman of the group.
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Knickerbocker Playground
Victory Garden
Eugene Wiseman
KR P Purchases Beman Park Property
The Troy Parkway Villa Site Co of Troy conveyed title to 21 vacant lots in the Fourteenth Ward near Burdett and Sage Aves to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Documentary stamps suggest a purchase price of about 3509 dollars.
Waterford All Stars beat Pickups 20 to 7 at playground battle
Waterford All Stars defeated the Pickups 20 to 7 as Batto pitched for the winners and Gabriel played for the losers. Shoven homered and had two singles with Batto collecting four hits. Play resumes Monday at 6 30 p.m. Captains Clough and Cassella led their teams. Also notes on local obituaries and church services appear in the page.
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All Stars
Waterford
Emisy
Wreterreré
Batto
Gabriel
Shoven A Hoomer
Pattegnani Wan Gest
Charles Clougs
Albert Cassella
Donald Brundige
Lawrence Ascenzi
Roderick O'Connor
Fred Shovah
Richard Barto
Ronald Dupree
Weerren Carter
Ned Reo
Reymond Dudden
Douglas Clark
Charles Horrocks
Robert Montgomery
Charles Clough
Local Churches Schedule Partial Closures and Service Updates
The Second Baptist Church remains closed through Sunday September 3. Mount Ide Memorial Presbyterian Church closes for August with services resuming on Sunday September 10. Rev. Robert B. Clark will lead the midweek prayer service at Third Presbyterian Church on Wednesday. Personal notes mention Jackie Knaupp and George Murray vacationing at Schroon Lake. Dinner guests at 60 Pawling Avenue included Mrs. and Mrs. Daniel Mennutt and Mrs. Alma Golden among others, celebrating Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Pawley’s 71st wedding anniversary with about thirty guests.
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Second Baptist
Mount Ide Memorial Presbyter Ltan
Robert B. Clark
Watertifet
Oak Park
Jackie Knaupp
Pawling Avenue
George Murray
Annie Street
Schroon Lake
Mary Cilles
Brooklyn
Daniel Mennutt
John Ferra
Mountain View Avenue
Ll. Pawley
Sixth Avenue
Fetra
John Tuccilio
Mechanicville
Robert Lasher
Robert
Richard
Ryderwood
A. A. Roseberry
Sterling Kline
Easton
Melville Powley
Watervilet
Alma Golden
Cohpes
Arthur Powley
Sunset Heights
Beverage Tax Refund Totals Revealed for Rensselaer County
Rensselaer County Treasurer Clifford C. Hastings reports county beverage tax refunds totaling 42,953.35 dollars for the period ending June 2. The City of Troy gets 22,736.12, Rensselaer 3,798.32, Hoosick 2,308.59, with listed shares for other towns including Brunswick 1,753.2 and Grafton 2,007.4 as part of the state distribution from New York.
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Rensselaer County
State of
New York
Clifford C. Hastings
Troy
City of
Rensselaer
Hoosick
Bertin
Brunswick
Ease Greethusa
Grafton
Messen
North Greerbush
Petersburg
Pivatown
Poesten- Kill
Sand Lake
Sehaghtioue
Schodack
Siaslg
Stepiestown
British Will Get More U S Tobacco
The War Food Administration said it will buy 469000000 pounds of tobacco for export to Great Britain and British dominions. Purchases cover fire cured air cured burley Maryland dark air and cigar filler and binder types, mostly flue cured for masking cigar atten. Exported portions for military needs under lend lease and civilian needs for cash. Purchases align with last year and will be channeled through existing foreign and domestic companies.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Great Britain
Maryland
Recapture of Three German Prisoners Near Filmore
Three German prisoners of war who escaped from the Letchworth State Park internment camp were recaptured near Filmore in Allegany County, about ten miles from the camp. The Buffalo FBI reported that Deputy Sheriff George Stekl formed a posse of four after a call, locating the men in a small wooded area where they surrendered without resistance.
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Buffalo CP
Letchworth State Park
Filmore
Allegany County
Buffalo Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Sherif George Stekl
Democrat Leader Backs Rep Fish in Newburg District
Fred Mulholland, Hesnburg Democratic city chairman, endorses Rep Hamilton Fish after his 3000 vote primary win over Augustus W Bennet. Mulholland lauds Fish for favors to Democrats, cites appointments of a Democrat to Naval and Military Academies. County Dems led by Tomas J Cullen of Chester prior to primaries.
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Hamilton Fish
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Fred Mutholand
Hesn+burg
Augustus W. Bennet
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Afulnoland
Fish
Mulholland
County
Democratic Committee
Tomas J. ¥. Cullen
Chester
Tommy Manville to Wed Wife No. Eight
Tommy Mansilie announced he will marry Collette Francis by Sept. 1 making her the eighth Mrs. Manville. He said the marriage is lasting and they plan to adopt a child. Francis, 30, a former Earl Carroll showgirl, and Manville have known each other 13 years and are close friends.
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New York
Francis
Menville
Manville
Bennet Endorsed by Democrats and Labor Party
Bennet wins unanimous endorsement by the Democratic Party and gains Labor Party backing. He will run as a Republican on a Good Government ticket, while Fish plans a Jeffersonian ticket compete in the November elections.
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Bennet
American Labor Party
Fish
Primary Day Turnout in Rensselaer County Totals 2 281
County Board of Elections released figures showing 42 000 residents were eligible to vote. Of 2261 ballots cast 1530 supported Republican nominees while 492 backed Democratic candidates and 36 ballots came from American Labor Party voters. Enrollment: 75 088 Republicans, 19 461 Democrats, and 1 American Labor Party member.
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Rensealaer County
Eigellon
Tusaday
Rebistlzer County
County Board of Elections
Rensselaer County
American Labor Party
Casualties in France Report Lower Than Expected
Supreme Headquarters announced that Allied casualties in the invasion of France were about 30 percent below the anticipated figure. Maj. Gen. A. W. Kenner of the Medical Corps said the Normandy campaign has a very low mortality rate among the wounded, with about 3 percent fatal among all casualties. Once moved to England hospital care improves survival chances, with about nine in 160 dying and others surviving.
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Supreme Headquarters Advanced Command
A. W. Kenner
Devight
Th. Eisenhower
France
Normandy
England
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