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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1944
Page
2
West Sand Lake Grange announced an exhibit at the Schaghticoke Fair Grounds for Labor Day weekend. Harry D. Vincent, fair exhibits chair, said neighbors’ night and Grange attendance would be encouraged. West Sand Lake Grange also reported a best exhibit award at the Nassau Fair.
Troy Department of Public Safety proposes using older schoolboys as monitors to aid traffic safety and relieve officers for other duties. Thirty officers currently on street duty would oversee the program as students at the larger schools begin training and uniforms with white belts and armbands mark the group.
Elinor A. Reardon versus W. T. Grant Co. action filed in Albany County Supreme Court has been discontinued as shown in county clerk records. Draper and Bartle, attorneys for the plaintiff, filed the papers.
The Mechanicville school board announced tax rates for three sections of School District 70 Stillwater and Halfmoon within town limits. The per 2000 valuation rates are Stillwater 19.60 and Halfmoon 13.35 with a total budget of 30265.59 and direct tax 124766.59. The meeting covered superintendent Livingston's convention, library work, corridor painting, and staff changes plus local notices on veterans, bowling league plans, a recital, a golf club fundraiser, lodge deputies visit, a blood bank drive, and an obituary for Walter Bilis.
A string of brief social items recounts Grafton Sherideere visiting relatives in Schenectady, Mrs. Babeohy’s recovery from promaine poisoning, and multiple guests and travels among local families. Names include Lampher, Kraus, Gapp, Gates, Menter, Sheridan, Kappes, Snyder, Dworak, Mahoney, Piche, Shavi dan, Cushing, Vermilyea, Van Cook, Temple, and Rawlins with several trips to Troy, Watervliet, St Paul, and Camp Lee.
A historical note explains seederloin as a punny term linked to seedy police precincts in New York City before the century turn, suggesting bribe opportunities with vice rings and a jokey boast about dining on tenderloin. It also touches on platform and planks origins in politics and the folk etymology of scapegoat and gost.
Members of the Rensselaer County Mounted and Victory Mounted Patrol took part in the General Elec Vote Athletic Association first annual horse show in Pittsfield. Competition was close with four jumps to determine the winner. Baron Scepter and Challenger rode by Hensselaer County Mounted, Tac. Keeley with Scepter won the knock down and close horsemanship near Gerry Boswell. John Bowman riding Queen Gilbert won the bareback jumping exhibition.
Francis Biddle told a Senate war mobilization subcommittee that any peace leaving Germany’s vast combines intact would guarantee another war. He cited firms like Carl Zeiss, Krupp, IG Farben, and Stahlwerksverbund as examples of a powerful industrial bloc to be crippled by postwar international agreements. He argued for measures to curb American production during the interwar period.
The document proclaims Allied victory and calls to break the power of German monopolies that enabled wartime economic control. It warns against the system that allowed combines to build up international settlements and seeks to destroy it.
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