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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1949
Page
17
Recruiting for the Service Company 108th Infantry will resume this week as headquarters reports. The operation paused June 30 while the regiment prepared to journey to Pine Camp. Recruiting officers will be on duty at the Troy Armory from this week on and prospective recruits may apply at headquarters.
The report notes openings for mechanics, clerks, and various recruits, with KE Connally and Charles F. Finning named among the new enrollments. A regular drill was held under Capt. William O'Donovan, followed by the Mube skinners social planning meeting. The camp tour appraisal, motor transport section checks, truck maintenance instruction, and R.S.O. training in ration distribution are described under M/Sgt. Frank W. McInerney and S/Sgt. William Curley with Warrant Officer Leo Dean guiding ration breakdown instruction.
Irving Greene Jr of Carmel drowns Monday when his motor canoe capsized near an island in Lake Speculator. State police recover the body.
Lloyd A. Mason 18 of Petersburg died when a Nehi Beverages delivery truck veered off Route 2 near West Grafton. Driver Floyd E. Goyer 19 escaped with shock and minor injuries as Mason was pinned against a tree after attempting to jump. The accident occurred while delivering soda bottles. Mason was pronounced dead at the scene and moved to Barber Funeral Home.
A. F. Dappert of Delmar was named executive secretary of the new State Water Pollution Control Board with a starting salary of 9325 dollars. He has served as principal sanitary engineer for the State Health Department since 1930 and becomes the board's chief administrative agent leading the statewide anti pollution program created by the 1249 Legislature.
The New York State Society of Newspaper Editors elected John Hart of Jamestown Post-Journal as a director. Dwight Perrin of Syracuse Herald Journal and Burrows Matthews of Buffalo Courier-Express were reelected. A forum on small versus large newspapers closed the two day session. Dwight Marvin of The Record Newspapers led a memorial for Harold B. Johnson who died last May.
Delegates at the 24th New York State Police Conference in Troy were told of a missing false tooth. John O Connor of the Auburn Poller Association described losing a false tooth during the event. A search alert urged officers to look for one tooth attached to a plate.
A New York driver, William G. Chipley, was jailed on a manslaughter charge after his car left a highway, circled a house, and killed Mrs. Wilma L. Todd, 48, as she read in her North Hampton backyard. Betsy Ann Squire, 6, was injured but is expected to recover. Chipley posted $2,000 bail for arraignment.
Sculthorpe England U S Air Force bomber command in Britain marks its first birthday as 28 B 29 Stratobombers arrive from Tucson base. The Third Air Division has grown to include a supply depot a major overhaul depot three B 20 bases and a London headquarters to support bomber groups on temporary training missions and Berlin airlift maintenance.
Leonard Miller 42, sought for the shotgun killing of his former sweetheart Rose Prince 42 in Grand Rapids, was arrested by a state trooper in a car with Michigan plates FG 3600. Prince was killed Sunday night at relatives’ home after church services.
Mrs Edward R Clifton formerly Edith Cran died suddenly yesterday at her son Edward R Clifton Jr s Waterford home after a time of illness She was a Green Island native and Methodist Church member Survived by husband Edward B Clifton daughter Mrs E W Bunke and sister Mrs Joseph Pullan Funeral from 124 Saratoga Avenue Waterford at 249 pm with interment in Oakwood Cemetery
Wynantskill to host a child health clinic at the firehouse tomorrow from 10 a.m. to noon. Dr. James Barrett health officer of North Greenbush and Miss Rosina Morath county nurse will supervise. Diphtheria toxoid whooping cough serum and smallpox vaccine offered to children 3 months to 1 year on parental request. Parents should bring birth certificates for seroid immunizations.
John Byrne 31 of Albany died after falling from a scaffold during construction of a large oil tank in Renesselaer County. He collapsed at noon and was treated on scene by Dr. Thomas Phelan before being taken to Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Byrne had lived at the Coreen Hotel Albany for several weeks and is believed to have formerly resided in Pittsfield or Lenox Massachusetts.
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