Ahern Recalls 1928 View on Incinerator
Former Troy officials recount a 1928 survey on an expected incinerator project. A committee chaired by Alderman Dame 1iney faced residents and wind direction concerns as they reviewed odor impacts near churches schools and city buildings. Plans for a Chinteenth Ward incinerator near the U W garage faced proximity objections and local opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ahern
Troy
Aldevatan Dames
John Aow
Kapps
Dunes Fe Mevay
Peter J. Mayray
Hgora
Nie Guinbiliee
Chagoy
Satel
Jongerighten
Veterans enrolling in higher education and vocational training
Ledward J. Neary director of the Bate Veterans' Affairs Division reports that over 4 100 veterans inquired about schooling in November and about 2 992 planned to enroll. In October inquiries reached 2 087 with 1 503 enrollments. Courses cited include accounting business administration journalism medicine finance physical education and photography with agriculture related studies also noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ledward J. Neary
Bate Veterans’ Affairs Division
Apeville
Nove
Neary
Velrieh Velora
Bron Renge
Ae Veluriniy
Ras Dia
OPA Extends Wage Base Periods to Help WWII Vets
Lester W. Herzog of the OPA announced new measures aiding World War II veterans returning to business. Specific base period price caps and quotas will be available to qualified veterans who operated similar businesses before service. Applications, limited to veteran owners with prior experience, will be handled by the nearest OPA district office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester W. Herzog
Dtatriot OP
Enel
Remnain
Nhot
OPA
Ase Uist
Sim
Field of Tigers
Amy
Yetrtang
Camely
Veterans Administration Office Closes for Christmas Break
The Veterans' Administration Canter Oilien at 247 River Street closed yesterday for four days in observance of the Christmas holidays. The office will reopen at 3 20 a.m. Wednesday, Victor J. Bardally, contact officer, announced yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veterans’ Administration
Canter Oilien
River Street
Victor J. Bardally
Ten Guard Posts Torn Up In Serious Mishap
Francis J. Paired of GT Jucaster Street Cubes drove a Grand Union truck that left Route 7 near Daanesburg. Eastbound after passing a downhill car the truck rounded a curve, struck ten concrete yard posts and four telephone poles, then halted 74 feet from the road into a field. A passerby reported the collision around 9 PM. the driver is injured and in hospital in serious condition. The road was reportedly slick and closed pending police investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis J. Paired
Jucaster
Cubes
Grand Union
Daanesburg
Pure Cell
Si Pnt
Phone Operators Get Raise in Pay
New York Telephone Co announced pay raises of four dollars for telephone operators and three for clerks and dining room workers. The increases take effect December 9, affecting about 3,900 traffic department workers and roughly one thousand other staff outside Metropolitan New York. The raises followed a recent negotiated agreement between the company and the Tra cke employees Association of the upstate area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worlly
New York Telephone Co
Altany Yexterda
Deo. Y. Alfuez
Copany
Traffe
Askocitlin
Upstate
We Company
AIL Colle
New York
Aircraft Plant in Allentown Sold to General Electric
The Reconsvnietign-Finance Corp announces sale to General Electric of a government owned aircraft plant at Allentown Pennsylvania. GE agreed to pay $200,000 for the American Armament Capyr tida facility comprising nine acres and a one story radar building. The government acquired the land by condemnation and converted it for Navy airplane manufacture with adjacent property. Canack idated Vultee Aircraft Corp operated it during the war. County health department reports on disease measures and school progress in New Lebanon Centist Seitagl and nearby Chatham areas amid efforts to curb pneumonia spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reconsvnietign — Finance Corp
Gale
General Electric Coy Sehenertady
Allentown
REC
G. E
Capyr
Canackidated
Vultee Aircraft Corp
Honorable discharges granted to area servicemen at Fort Dix and surrounding towns
Area officers and enlisted men from Troy, Cohoes, Waterford, Hudson, and nearby communities received honorable discharges from the Army at Fort Dix New Jersey. Among them were First Lts Patrick Derenzu Edgar Edwards Hubert Guyette and Lt Col Lloyd Gibbons from Saratoga Springs plus numerous specialists and privates from Troy, Cohoes, Watervliet, and Schenectady areas. Navy releases included personnel from Sampson and Shoemaker California along with others from Watervliet and nearby cities.
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Rive
Trey Area
Army
Fort Dix
Patrick J. Derenzu
Second Street
Unis City
Edgar O. Edwards
Granville
Hubert E. Guyette
South
Hartford
Lloyd 1
Gibbons
Saratoga Springs
Richard 4. Jackson
Hudson Pulls
TM Mahel
Post
Corinth
Troy
John P. Cregen
Sixth Avenue
John J. Gillick
Albin Avenue
Chester J
Lord
William FP
Mahoney
Fourth Street
Poe
Maul H Mabin
Fifth Avenue
Pie
Harold R Rada Or
B.D
Wilfred H. Dickinson
Laperster Street
James J. Fanniff
Columbia Street
Joseph A. Michand
OH Saratogx Avenue
William F. Moran
Ivier Street
Alfred D. Yama
Central Avenue
Cohous
Michael Femurrhyk
Callishun Avenue
Waterslet
Stephen J. Ashton
Cambridge
Lprc
George C. Rutterfield
Lusere
Tloimes
George &. Stativrakis
Maneville
Psd
J. Boheris
Fort Edward
Jean P. Vadnais
Rensselaer
Rovert J. Gorle, Jr
Haosink Falls
Rome Air Wield
Navy
Sampson Incnding
Edward W. Nigisen
Second Avenue
Dongola
B. Tailz
Atlentic Avenue
The
City
Albert J. Bossette
Ira
Railroad Street
Cohoes
Walter Tenpo, Jr
Rallston Ria
Jozeph P
Cal
Doris N. Reilass
Gregory Court
Vomdir
Herbert W. Bacheller
Lee Avenue
New York
Cox
jJonn J. LeMay
Tenth Street
Lido Beach
Charles J. McCann
Cme
Malcolm Rice Carmichael
Rainesbridge
Sive
Robert Laird
Hudson Avenue
Green
Latur
Mary Wileinski
Secon Avene
Washington, DG
Farrar Takes Command Of R P L Naval Unit On Campus
Captain Farrar succeeds Captain Bowman as commanding officer of all naval personnel on the campus. The Senate approved extending the V 12 program through June 1946 to allow more men to graduate or be commissioned. Bowman, who came here in 1918, left Troy for holidays and will return in January. Farrar, a WWII veteran with Atlantic and Pacific service, now heads the unit and brings a decorated career to the post.
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PL Ed. Yeatorday
Senate
Murvale
Ly. Farrar
Mark ©. Bowman
Washington
Line House
Farear
Farrar
Atlantic
Pacific
Baldwin Ordnance Depot
Allauliv
Austria
New Guinea
Sotomons
Gum
Pallip‘pines
Lain Farrar
Bouton Road
Bowman
Troy
Jonn
Philips
South Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Annapolis
John E Furlong Railroad Man Dies in Johnsonville
John E Furlong lifelong Johnsonville resident and 44 year Boston and Maine Railroad employee died at home Thursday after a brief illness. He entered the railroad in 1900 as brakeman and later conductor. Survived by wife Meissne two sons William furlong of Scott Field and John E Jr. of Johnsonville and four sisters. Funeral Monday at 9 am from residence and 9:30 from St Monica's Church, interment at St John's Cemetery Schaghnaborough.
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John E. Furtong
Johnsonville
Boston and Maine , Railroad
Edward
Margaret McDonald Murtong
Boston and Maine Railroad Co
Isk
William Furlong
Scott Field
John E. Furlong
Joseph Pemrick
Troy
Charles McNosily
Ean Eridge
Mra
Connolly
Mechanicville
Kathryn Furlang
Schmartady
St. Monica's Church
St. John’s
Employment Gains In State Factories
Industrial employment rose 1 percent in November reversing a prior downward trend, with average weekly earnings at 46.22 dollars. Statewide gains across industries were modest and below year-ago levels, according to Industrial Commissioner Barbara Corsi. Payrolls rose in the Kingston Newburgh Poughkeepsie area, marking the largest upstate increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ba Wara Corsi
Corsi
Kingston - Newbury - Poughkeepsie
Corsl Sid
Marra Receives Suspended Sentence in Albany Case
Mbany James V. Maren, president of Cohoes board of education, pleaded guilty to petty larceny and received a suspended sentence in State Supreme Court. Albert Dingley of Cohoes also pleaded guilty to conspiracy and got no suspended sentence. Several witnesses in the New York Central scrip theft case were given suspended terms as well. Monaghan urged leniency, citing cooperation with state authorities. Justice Patton Swift noted possible miscarriage of justice if witnesses were treated differently.
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Bint
Correspondetin
Mbany
James V. Maren
Board of Education of
Cohoes
Petty Jareeny
George P. Monaghin
Albany County
Aroud
New York Central Railroad
Glen
Monaghan
Senlency Ve
Flye
Patton H. Swift
Albert Slowed
Julius Cohen
Joseph Steinberg
Charles la Fleur
John Nichols
Indietmvents
Monaghan Tol U R Eourt
Bel Builty
Sixth Ward Folk To Protest New Firehouse Site
Sixth Ward residents plan a protest meeting at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the hall to oppose moving the firehouse from Mill Street to Burden Avenue near the current honor roll site. Fire Chief Carla Smith and officials have voiced support for the new location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sixth Ward
Kooping
Stanton Bleaner Co Dire
Mill Street
Himae
Snorrow
Au Houndenent Yeaterbiy
Burden Avene
Carla A. Smith
Schegectady Boys Diary Reveals Burglaries Linked to Youths
A diary kept by two teenage boys details a series of burglaries, with police listing nine recent thefts. The youths, in Children's Court, are slated for rescheduled hearings Thursday.
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Potlee
Children’s Court
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