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Puzzle from The Record asks solvers to choose correct word pairs for 19 clues with delivery details and entry deadline August 24. Readers submit by mail to COINWORD Editor The Record Troy New York.
17 Aug 1976
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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1976
Page
1
Puzzle from The Record asks solvers to choose correct word pairs for 19 clues with delivery details and entry deadline August 24. Readers submit by mail to COINWORD Editor The Record Troy New York.
The Times Record announces a weekly Coinword contest open to all except newsroom staff or relatives. Entries may be mailed or delivered by 5 pm Tuesday after publication. a $25 prize is awarded to the winner, with ties sharing the prize. All entries become property of the paper.
Clifton Park Town Board approved a small radiation surveillance station near Route 146 to monitor radioactive gases from the Knowles Atomic Laboratory in Schenectady. The project will blend with surrounding woodlands using Breen plywood. The board also heard petitions on sewer noise on Acorn Avenue and discussed traffic, water hookups, a proposed 18 hole miniature golf course, wetlands regulation, and appointed Francis Hunt as Fire Advisory Board director.
Saratoga County votes to apply for a $42 545 federal grant to run an alcohol abuse program with two counselors and a secretary. An architect will be hired to plan expansion of Ballston Spa Infirmary while Homestead Infirmary may be merged with Ballston facility. A third floor addition at Ballston could cost about 1.2 million versus 2.15 million to renovate Homestead.
SARATOGA SPRINGS Two former Robert Joffrey Ballet members Elisabeth Carroll and Felix Smith have joined Skidmore College dance program as assistant professor and lecturer respectively. Andre Anduze, a former soloist from Puerto Rico New York City and Stuttgart, Germany, joins as associate in ballet.
Mechanicville playground events include special guests at Park Avenue Playground at 1 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday. Clarence Grasso will lead balloon crafts and artist Joseph Izzo will teach drawing. Storytown day on Friday requires parental permission slips. sign ups at the Park Avenue Playground. A Howe Caverns trip is planned for Aug 23, and Aug 25 features Halloween In August with a library parade to Talmadge Park.
Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake School District urges new residents and campers to register for fall enrollment. Elementary registrations occur at Pashley Elementary with hours 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and five-year-olds by Dec 1, 1976 may enroll. Secondary registrations start Aug. 23 at the Junior High and Senior High on Lake Hill Road.
The Rensselaer Volunteer Ambulance Association will host its annual Fall Fling dinner dance on September 11 at the Leonardo Da Vinci Lodge located at 320 Broadway.
A 15 year old is charged with second degree arson after witnesses said he set a gasoline tank on a lawn mower and pushed it under his parents' trailer at 29-B Round Lake Trailer Park Mechanicville Malta and Round Lake Fire Departments extinguished the 5:30 p.m. blaze no injuries. He is held at the Rensselaer County Juvenile Detention Center pending appearance in Saratoga County Family Court. Trooper J E McKevitt and Investigator W R Campbell made the arrest.
William J. Howard aged 19 of Fair Haven Vermont and Duard LeRoy Morris Jr aged 23 of Bubrock Texas are charged with attempted robbery and weapon possession after knocking down 73 year old Beatrice Orloup on Route 5 Colonie. Police arrested them at 12 25 p m Monday and the victim was treated at St Peters Hospital. Detectives and a sergeant led the investigation.
Robert F. Garrow, convicted in 1974 for the knife slaying of Philip Domblewski, has his appeals rejected by the New York Court of Appeals. He remains at Clinton Correctional Facility serving multiple murder sentences that run concurrently.
SARATOGA SPRINGS The Historical Society of Saratoga Springs Museum announces Susan Szurley as the new museum director. A Whiteboro native and Phi Beta Kappa alum of St Lawrence University and the University of Delaware, she formerly studied at Hagley Museum. Constance Carroll becomes educational director and will run school programs.
Henry Wilson, an inmate from Great Meadows prison, surrendered to police after a four hour standoff at 133 Dana Ave Albany He held hostage Thomas Charboneau and later released 13 year old Michael Mitrovich and his mother Bisera Filipova The incident began when Wilson escaped from Albany Medical Center and sought a transfer to Fishkill Prison He faced charges of first degree robbery third degree burglary and three counts of reckless endangerment The arraignment occurred in Albany Police Court and he was returned to Fishkill for confinement.
Twenty six watertight barges were serviced at the Port of Albany early Monday, described by port manager Frank Dunham. The new containers, stacked and carried by a mother ship, were loaded with grain at the Albany grain elevator, pushed by a tug to New York Harbor, then to Egypt via Alexandria. From there the barges would move on the Nile or be trucked from Prudential Lines, Inc.
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