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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1949
Page
18
The Troy Record notes Wells Fund contributions from multiple donors, including Westheld and others, pushing the total to about $680 by yesterday evening. A detailed timeline shows gifts arriving through the afternoon and evening hours as the campaign proceeds toward its goal.
John Zweig, son of Mr and Mrs Merrill Zweig, will represent Rensselaer County in the state 4-H Club competition in New York City Monday through Thursday. He was selected as the outstanding county club member. Other area representatives include Louis Richnak Saratoga James Grey Washington and Tate Court Albany. Also notes births obituaries and memorials across the region with donor lists and services.
Contributions hit the halfway mark yesterday in the annual Christmas Seal sale in Rensselaer County. Returns to date amount to about $32,500 in the $27,000 campaign of the County Tuberculosis and Public Health Association to finance its health work during the coming year.
The Jewish Orthodox Luau Brotherhood of Troy will install officers for Beth James and Sharah Tophill and host a Christmas Seals drive. Mrs Neale E Parsons urged early contributions to finish the drive this month, with events at Beth Israel Synagogue and the Troy Post Office booth. The group runs chest X ray drives, expanded education at Pawling Sanitarium, job training, and TB patient placements.
The Star Gleams choral pageant by Florence Lewis Speare will be staged at 3 30 p m during the YWCA Christmas vesper service. A YM YWCA student and staff choir will perform with Mrs Thelma Crowther at the piano. The service includes scripture readings, carol performances, and a poem. An offering for the World Fellowship fund will be collected and a tea follows under Mrs Russell Westbrook.
The Lansingburg YWCA hosts a mother and daughter tea next Wednesday at 8 p.m. with the Y Teen Club from Lansingburg High School. Doris Van De Cat leads tea arrangements. Audrey Keenes and the Ashdown Sisters perform. Betty Weiner oversees supervision. Also planned are a coed party for seventh and eighth graders and a caroling tour of area hospitals led by Mary Ellen Mooradian.
Troy area residents faced a cold night waiting for the Geminid meteor shower. An AP dispatch from the National Bureau of Standards said viewing was scheduled from 6 p.m. to midnight, but meteors appeared around 2 a.m. after hundreds of fiery streaks lit the skies from Gemini. Meteors traveled up to 100 miles per second, burning out 30 to 46 miles up, vaporizing and scattering dust as they disintegrated. A repeat display is promised for tomorrow morning for those willing to stay up.
Mrs Harry Hamilton of RD 4 Krny reported to police last night that a black leather gold trimmed wallet valued at $4 and containing between $25 and $30 was stolen from her handbag while she was in a focal store. Other notices list obituaries and funeral details with multiple names and interment plans across various local sites.
Prof Wynant J. Williams head of RPI Electrical Engineering will give the principal talk at the LCR Society initiation dinner at The Annex tomorrow. Prof Hiram Harris and Prof Harold M. Trevitt will also speak. Thirty new members will be initiated earlier at the campus club rooms. The LCR Society traces to the 1928 social school group.
Two Bennington Vermont men Charles Reynolds aged 39 and Royal Clarke age 42 pleaded guilty to morals charges in Bennington Municipal Court. Judge George A. Mathers sentenced them to one and a half to five years at the Windsor House of Correction. The case stemmed from a Troy police report about an incident involving two Bennington brothers and a car taken by Reynolds.
A joint meeting of the Pensselaer County American Heart Association chapter and the Reneerlaer County Tuberculosis and Public Health Association discussed program planning. Pr. Jehan J Quinlan was named chairman of the heart committee.
Patrolman Joseph F. Walsh of Troy heads a statewide group named to the Police Benevolent Association committee within the State Police Conference of New York. Other area appointees include Patrolman Charles McAndrews, Edward Sullivan, George R. Smith, Edward F. Flynn, and David Cunningham. A 7 p.m. luncheon at the DeWitt Clinton Hotel in Albany will gather about 40 000 members from 100 cities for plans on a 40 hour week and a two year retirement. The conference marks 26 years with a New York City convention in August.
The Troy Public Library announces new arrivals to be cataloged after a short dipping period. Non fiction titles include In Our Image, Its An Old Wild West Custom, Yankee Boundaries, Father Flanagan of Boys Town, Bird in Your Backward, Practical Hooked Ryan, Harvard of World Folk Talen, Lincoln Finds a General, and more. Fiction selections feature Midnight Boy, Family Fortunes, Willer Cabin, Do Not Murder for Christmas, Egyptian, Because of the Locke Note, and others.
Warmer weather is forecast for Troy as a warm south front nears, but a colder snap looms. Temperatures climb to the twenties with heavy snowfalls in Salamanca and nearby areas. Oswego County roads are treacherous and three central schools in Om wagon County and Pulaski closed due to snow.
Twelve unit meetings announced by Miss Ethel W. Samson, county home demonstration agent, across Hudson, Birchkill, Worth Hoosick, Hilltop, Round Top, Broadview, West Sand Lake, Luther, Greene, Mixers, and Hoosick Valley. Activities include Christmas greens sessions, parties, and business meetings at various homes and community locations.
Mary A. Waite longtime Fort Ann resident and former manager of the Washington County Home for Aged Women at Greenwich died at her home at 81. She moved from Kansas in 1902, served on the Fort Ann School Board, was active in Baptist church work, and is survived by four sons and two daughters and 11 grandchildren.
Mrs. J. Foster McEachron of West Hebron Washington County died yesterday afternoon in an automobile from a heart attack near Hudson Falls. She was 64 years old and returning from a Christmas shopping trip with her husband driving. Born in West Hebron she lived there and was active in the United Presbyterian Church. Survived by husband two sons and four daughters also.
Funeral services will be held Monday for Francis N Rokjer who died suddenly yesterday at the Renseclaer Valve Co where he had worked for several years. Born in Troy he was a lifelong North End resident and member of All-Troy Club Dutosh People s Rocety Redeemer Lutheran Church. Surviving are two brothers and a sister. Service details follow in the obituary notice.
Mrs Sarah Van Kinney of New York was awarded a $404 verdict in Supreme Court for Genesee County. The jury found in favor of Kinney against The Mutual Life Insurance Co. with 1 percent interest from 1882 and costs. The verdict shows interest totaling $139.94 and costs.
Beth Tarae Sisterhood to meet Monday March 15 at leonomoeae on River Street. A Chankuah program led by Mrs Jacot Cowen and Mrs Amna Railer will open with refreshments served. Ruben D Cohen presides over the Dusinem re sion.
Albert Hodgdon, 47, homeless, reported being assaulted and robbed of about $12 by an unidentified Black man in a house near Sixth Avenue. He described the assailant as five feet eight inches, about 140 pounds, wearing a brown coat hat and striped suit. Police Sgt. John J. Noonan and detectives investigated.
A round table set for Thursday at 2 30 pm at the Jewish Community Center on Flint Street will explore how vocational guidance counselors can help minority groups pursue professional and vocational careers free from race or religious discrimination. Catholic Central High School students will perform The High Cost of Discrimination as part of the program.
Mrs. Robert Falla aged 35 of 23 College Avenue suffered bruises to the left leg both knees and right arm in a fall at Congress and Third Streets. She was removed to St Marys Hospital by Patrolmen Pendt and Turner after treatment by Dr John H F Coughlin Jr. She was later taken home.
Three Troy men at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute were promoted in Army ROTC by order of Col. Heath Twichell. First Lt. Raynald C. Dufour, husband of Mrs Ann Dufour of 104 Georgian Terrace, promoted to cadet captain. Cadet Corporal Mark Z. Dollard of 200 Ninth Street, raised to cadet sergeant. Gerald V. Titterington, brother of William A. Titterington of 1245 Fourteenth Street, made corporal.
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