Razing Revives Old Memories On Mechanicville Park Avenue
Four venerable three story brick blocks on Mechanicville's upper Park Avenue sit empty as Urban Renewal demolition begins. The last Christmas season sees windowless fronts and bulldozers as the Woodworth five and ten, Guild Block dry goods, and other longtime shops vanish. The wholesale era traces back to 1915 with Woolworths opening, followed by Baker brothers and Safford's hardware, and the Halfmoon radio shop. The four blocks are slated for removal by the first week of the year to clear space for Park Plaza shopping center.
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Mechanicville
Park Avenue
Haliday
Woodworth
Woolworth
Guild
J. P. McGirr
Drygoods
Saratoga Springs
McGirrs
Baker Brothers
Silas
Len
N. P. Wendell
Safford's Hardware Emporium
Newbury
Five and
Wookworths
Mechanicville Soldier Awarded Purple Heart for Vietnam Action
Parents of Sp4 Robert Webster received a Christmas message claiming he earned the Purple Heart for wounds in Vietnam on November 9. Webster, a member of the First Cavalry Division, has been writing home weekly and continues to serve in Vietnam. He is a 1964 Stillwater High School graduate.
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Mechanicville
Robert Webster
Harald Webster
Yellow Meetinghouse Road
Vietnam
Stillwater High School
Harris Avenue
Morristown
Ryan
J. J. Short Hook and Ladder Co
U.S. Marine Corps
Korea
Colhiner EF
Kilsworth Post
VEW
Cash Register Company
State Bank of Albany
Andrew Ryan
Estelle Rita
Park Avenue
Obituary Miss Maria Hall 90 Mechanicville native Hoosick
Miss Maria Hall 90 of Grand Street Mechanicville died Sunday night after a fall. native of Hoosick she moved to Mechanicville 20 years ago. Survived by a nephew and three nieces. Funeral Tuesday at 2 p.m. from Dunn Funeral Home with Rev. Taylor Light officiating. Interment in West Hoosick Cemetery.
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Mariam C. Hall
Grand St
Mechanicville
Hoosick
Leonard Hospital
Rensselaer County
Anthony F. Matera
Miss Hall
Memorial Baptist Church
Dunn Funeral Home
Park Ave
Tayior B. Light
West Hoosick Cemetery
Gracfe Dies, Saratoga Pizza Shop Owner
Herbert F. Graefe 65 of 194 Circular St Saratoga Springs owner of the Red Door Pizza Shop on Court Street died yesterday at Glenridge Hospital Schenectady He formerly ran Herb and Joans Delicatessen from 1964 to 1966 Survivors include his wife Joan daughter Debra Ann Saratoga son Richard Armonk and brother Martin Briarcliff Manor.
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Herbert F. Graefe
Circular St
Saratoga Springs
Court Street
Glenridge Hospital
Schenectady
Mr. Gracfe
New York City
Herb and
Joan
Lake Avenue
Greenwich Lodge of Elks
Debra Ann
Saratoga
Richard
Armonk
Martin
Briarcliff Manor
Reading Circle Meets January 5 at Mechanicville
Miss Beatrice Bullis will present the program at the weekly Reading Circle meeting on January 3. The group gathers at Mrs. Harry Iden's Green Street home for roll call, where members respond with a notable arts item and Mrs. Iden will lead a words review as critic.
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Beatrice Bullis
Mechanicville
Harry Iden
Green Street
Iden
Bridge Disaster Rescue Efforts Pause Amid Grim Toll
POINT PLEASANT West Virginia rescue teams paused from searching the Silver Bridge wreckage after divers recovered another body, raising the death toll to 33. The victim was identified as Bobby L. Head, 35, of Gallipolis Ohio, with seventeen others reported missing.
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Point Pleasant
Wva
UPL
Red Cross
Ohio River
Bobby L. Head
Gallipolis
Ohio
NCR Branch Closes Doors in Mechanicville
National Cash Register Co ends Mechanicville plant with 32 layoffs as production shifts out. Three staff move to Morristown Tennessee and Jacksonville Florida. Facility opened 1948 with significant upgrades and served as a slitting operation for paper rolls.
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Mechanicville
National Cash Register Co. J
George Ryan
Matin
Round Lake Avenue
National Cash Register
Mr. Ryan
Morrisstown
Tenn
Bernard Mickalonis
Morristown
Anthony Pignatelli
Jacksonville, Fla
National Cash Register Ft
Dayton
National Cash Register Co
Ryan
Auxiliary of Defreestville Fire Department elects officers
The Defreestville Fire Department auxiliary nominates Mrs William Reinecke as president Mrs Lester McKay as vice president Mrs Keith Merrifield as treasurer Mrs Dennis McKay as secretary and Mrs Evelyn Lasher as corresponding secretary. Robert Reineke is elected corresponding secretary and will be installed with other officers at a banquet on February 10 at the American Legion Hall Wynantskill with cocktail hour 6 to 7 p.m. and dancing 9 p.m. to midnight. The department will collect discarded Christmas trees on January 6 and 12.
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Defreestville Fire Department
William Reinecke
Lester McKay
Keith Merrifield
Dennis McKay
Evelyn Lasher
Gordon Merrihew
Harold Fontaine
Edward van Buren
Robert Reincke
Bruce Brands
Richard
Trandt
Richard Jr
Dark Vidae
Nob
Mel Willan Remeke
Mountainview Teraca
Area servicemen listed in home and abroad intently
Notes on area servicemen serving in Vietnam and elsewhere. William Wallets of Waterford and Joseph Mahoney of Waterford with multiple tours and postings aboard the USS Oriskany and in Phu Binh Phu Vinh Long Binh Lai Khe. Donn Gooley of Mechanicville in Vietnam with the 1st Battalion 3rd Division and Camp Pendleton movement. Walter Dugan of Watervliet promoted to specialist. Albert Bronson of Watervliet promoted to sergeant in Korea. Frederick MacGregor Jr. of Troy on duty in Vietnam with the Pacific Air Forces. Roy Dewey of Watervliet completing optical instrument repair school and preparing for Camp Pendleton. James Blackburn of Averill Park graduated electronics. Edmund Smith Jr. of Waterford on 20 day leave before transfer to Okinawa and Cherry Point.
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Aetarea
Wiamt
Sins
James V. Waters
Gina Matic
Cropseyville
Pro Aviation
Joseph B. Mahoney
Vietnam
Marie’ Mahoney
Waterford
Foree
Oriskany
Tamarac High School
Ft. Dix
Hudson Valley Community College
Marine Lance Cpl
Donn Rk. Gooley
Donald R. Gonley
RD 2
Mechanicville
U.S. Marine Corps
1St Battalion
3Rd Division
Mahoney
Naval Training Center
Great Lakes
Ill
Jacksonville
Fla
LeMoore
Calif
Albert F. Bronson
Anna Bronson
714
4Th Ave
Sth
65Th Military Airlift Group
Korea
Lansingburgh High School
Ted Hughes
Lackland Afb
Texas
L0th
England
Frederick B. MacGregor Jr
Frederick B. MacGregor
397
Ninth St
Phu
Cal
MacGregor
Pacific Air Forces
311Th
MacDill Afb
Troy High School
Pearl Gertseh
Idaho
Roy J. Dewey
Mary Dewey
Congress St
Marine Corps School
Quantico
Dewey
Camp Pendleton
5Th Marine Division
Marines
Parris Island
D.C
Camp Lejeune
N.C
James T. Blackburn
Harry Blackburn
RD 4
Averill Park
Lowry Afb
Colo
Washington
Syracuse University
Air Force
Washington, D.C. Marie
Edmund R. Smith Jr
Edmund R. Smith
Smith
Cherry Point
Okinawa
Ile
Federal funds back training for medical students and nurses
More than 23,000 medical students interns residents and post doctoral fellows have been trained in clinical research vendors supported by federal funds and over 20,000 nursing students received federally financed loans.
Johnsons Locked Out Of Church On Christmas Day
President Johnson, with wife Lady Bird and daughter Luci plus Charles Robb, waited in a car as Secret Service tried doors at National City Christian Church after services at St. Thomas Episcopal. No entry occurred as no service was scheduled and Rev. George R. Davis was absent.
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Scheduror
George R. Davis
Felt Firm Help Hold Yule Fete Hoosick Falls Firm
More than 50 local employees of the Hoosick Falls Branch of the Albany Felt Co attended their annual Christmas luncheon at St. Mark's Episcopal Church parish house. The event featured a basic bonus presented by Spencer J. Standish, executive president, while Francis J. McEvoy served as master of ceremonies. Standish outlined past year operations and 1968 prospects, noting a new mill in Australia and improved designs from the research and development department. Guests from Albany headquarters included Fred Kincaid, Floyd Zenette, Russell Pantal, and Elsie Enright.
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Hoosick Falls
Albany
Felt Go
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
St. Hilda’s Guild
McInands
Spencer J. Standish
Francis J. McEvoy
Standish
Australia
Albbany
Fred Kincaid
Toosick Falls
Floyd Zenette
Russell Pantal
Elsie Enright
Sing Carols For Shutins Christmas Carol Tour
Twenty one Baptist youths from Hoosick areas visited How Isigh Falls Health Center Twin Brooks Rest Home and several shut ins on a Wednesday night carol tour. They then visited Rev Raimund L Tumblerston at the West Hoosick parsonage and adopted a project to send money to the American Bible Society for New Testaments for young men in the Armed Services.
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Baptist Churches
Hoosick
How Isigh Falls
Twin Brooks
Fast Hoosick
yYoung
West Hoosick Parsonage
Raimund L.'Tumblerston
American Bible Society
Carol Sing At Town Hall by Hoosick Falls students
A choral group of Hoosick Falls Central School elementary students sang Christmas carols from the Municipal Building steps on Main Street on Thursday afternoon and filled other engagements. Calvin Pedersen served as instructor.
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Hoosick Falls Central School
Main Street
Calvin Pedersen
Local man to attend DKE convention in Montreal after Christmas
A local man, home for Christmas, will travel to Montreal Canada after the holiday to attend the Delta Kappa Epsilon convention set for Tuesday through Thursday. He serves on the expansion committee of the National Council.
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van Surdam
Montreal
Canada
DKE
National Council
Jersey City guest for holiday period
James J. Weiss of Jersey City Mab is guest of Mr and Mrs Charles EB Ralston for the holiday period.
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James J. Weiss
Jersey City
Mab
Charles EB. Ralston
Benefits For Every $1,000 Spent On Vocational Rehab
Federal and state agencies fund vocational rehabilitation for the disabled and claim that each beneficiary who returns to work will gain lifetime earnings of about thirty five thousand dollars for every thousand dollars spent.
Aid To Deprived Youths Receives Federal Support
More than 100000 of the nation s most seriously deprived children are being helped by federally supported educational programs in state and local institutions for delinquent and neglected youngsters.
Tax free exchanges and Keogh plan insights
In 1960s tax free stock for mutual fund swaps ended in 1967 and didn’t apply to regular funds, harming a reader’s estate value. Congress later removed such exchanges. The Keogh Plan helps self employed save for retirement with favorable treatment, but broad access depends on future legislation and counsel.
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Congress
Philadelphia
Keogh
Dosle
Farmers Proud Of Pineapples In Veracruz And Oaxaca
In Veracrus and Oaxaca, Mexican farmers celebrate large green sweet pineapples used in fresh, cooked, canned forms and even rind brews. They protested a planned Cuba sale of 19 000 plants, arguing competition would hurt Mexican growers. authorities later ordered the shipment halted and plants recalled.
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Veracruz
Mexico
UPI
Veracrus
Oaxaca
Frowers
Cuba
Frucuba
Salt As Money Nedining of the Sahara Still Prize Gall
A fragment notes salt functioning as money in a Sahara region, with salt trade likened to gold value. The text cites desert economies where salt and other scarce resources drive exchange and gauge wealth.
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Nedining
Sahara
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Broadway
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H. EF. Gracfe Dies
Pizza Shop
Reading Circle
NCR
Defreestville
By Jay Lionatrons
Waters
Phau Binh
Phau Vinh
Long Binh
Lai Khe
Mechanicville High School
8.C
Camp, Pendleton
Cadif
Walter J. Dugan
Walter F. Dugan Sr
225Th Avvc
Watervliet
Ft. Devens
Mass
Gloria Gatto
Dugan
U.S. Army Security Agency
Nal
Kt. Monmouth
Fta
Watervliet High School
William T. Waters
Donn R. Gooley
Albert Bronson
Hoddinys
Cklahoma, Arra
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Roy A. Sullivan
Falls
Shutins
Town Hall
SR King M
The
Daily Investor
William A. Doyle
W. E. Burnet & CO
New York Stock Exchange
American Stock Exchange
State Street
Troy
N.Y
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