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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1969
Page
8
Spa city police report severe snow disruption after a 13 inch storm left most main streets “passable” yet clogged. Four accidents since Christmas Eve. notable crashes include George Wilkie’s Route 29 ditching after blinding snow and two-car collisions on Greenfield and Clement Avenues with damaged vehicles.
Edward B. Cornell will become associated with Rosch & Brown at 76 78 East High Street Ballston Spa starting January 1. He is a Syracuse University graduate and attorney admitted in New York courts with extensive private practice experience in Buffalo Watertown and Albany and five years overseas in the Army Intelligence Corps. He plans to move to the Ballston Spa area with his wife Marjorie Edwards Cornell resides in Voorheesville.
Lester C. Blight 77 of 14 Cottage Place Saratoga Springs died Thursday. A Brookyln native he long served Saratoga Spa as chief accounts officer and earlier as secretary to William M. Gage. He worked in New York City with General Carbonic Co and retired in 1956 after 22 years. Survived by wife Elizabeth Lannon son John H. Blight and five grandchildren. Funeral 9 a.m. Monday Burke Funeral Home then St. Peter's Church Requiem High Mass with interment at St. Peter's Cemetery.
Twenty students from Sara toga Springs Junior and Senior High Schools and St. Peter's Academy attended a narcotics guidance council workshop at the State University in Albany. Assembly Speaker Perry B. Duryea led the program and students urged teen representation on local councils.
Funeral services for PFC Kenneth C. Harwood 20 of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg will be held at 2 p.m. from Kark and Tunison Funeral Home in Saratoga Springs officiated by Rev. Kenneth Hinman. Burial with military honors at Woodlawn National Cemetery Elmira. He died December 19 at Walter Reed Hospital after heart surgery in October. Native of Birmingham Alabama, survived by mother Mrs Joan Worth Saratoga Springs stepfather Wilmot Worth sister Mrs Nancy Norton California and brother Bruce Harwood Saratoga Springs.
Saratoga Springs report notes the December issue of The Carolinian a 30 page school newspaper with creative writing original news stories and articles from every classroom distributed to students
John A. Slade 87 longtime attorney educator and civic leader died on Christmas Day at his Grand Avenue home in Saratoga Springs. He served on the draft board since 1942 retiring as chairman and was the last survivor of the Schwarte Slade Harrington and Goldsmith firm. He chaired Skidmore College Yaddo estate and Saratoga Historical Society. city attorney under Mayor Will Eddy. survived by wife Caroline Beach.
An open house on Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. at Salem United Methodist Church honors Mr. and Mrs. Walter Whittaker on their 50th anniversary. The reception is hosted by their family as Terry Mikesh returns from the University of Miami for the holidays.
John H. Cole 72 of Saratoga Springs died Wednesday. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Monday at Burke Funeral Home with interment in Greenridge Cemetery. He belonged to Bethesda Episcopal Church and worked over 25 years for the city Public Works Department and also for ALCO in Schenectady. He resided at 16 Joshua Ave. Survived by brother Pearl Cole of Saratoga Springs and sister Mrs. Josie Baker of Greenfield.
The Office of General Services will open bids Wednesday for two area projects. At the Troy Branch of the Girls Training School in Wynantskill, roofing repairs are planned for Buildings 1 3 5 and 6. At Troop G Barracks in Loudonville, electrical work will rehabilitate lighting in Building 7.
An early Christmas Day blaze on South Main Street in Corinth destroyed a two story frame dwelling. Mr and Mrs Norman Reed and their five children escaped in 26 degree weather but lost all possessions. Fire chief Raymond Bush cites an overheated wood burning furnace in the cellar as the cause. The family stayed with a neighbor while a permanent home is sought.
The Saratoga County Red Cross Blood Bank was held this week at the Saratoga Springs Holiday Inn. It collected 102 pints from 117 prospective donors, reported by county blood program chairman Mrs. Guy Hawk.
Greenwich Barracks 1617 Veterans of World War 1 cancel their Sunday gathering due to holidays. The next meeting is rescheduled for Sunday January 25 at 3 p.m. at the American Legion Liberty Post 515 club rooms in Greenwich.
The Capital District State Park Commission announces winter programs at John Boyd Thacher State Park near Albany and Moreau Lake State Park near Glens Falls. Thacher offers ski touring snowshoeing cross country skiing seven miles of snowmobile trails and a winter camping area. Moreau Lake provides snowmobile trails ice fishing skiing and snowshoeing with over 30 winter camping sites a heated comfort station and winterized water lines. Access to Moreau Lake is via Route 9 or Northway Exit 17s.
The State Employment Service mobile team ends Whitehall service and starts a two week Granville stay from January 5. About 100 Granville residents who requested interviews will receive appointment cards. Office on West Main Street will operate weekdays 8:30am to 5pm through January 16 with additional evening hours January 7 8 and January 14 15 from 6pm to 8 30pm.
Mrs. George J. Shepard of 62 1st Street Waterford a Mechanicville native died Thursday at Leonard Hospital Troy after a long illness. Widow of George J. Shepard she resided in Waterford most of her life and was a St Marys Church Waterford communicant. Survived by two sons George J. Shepard Waterford and John A. Shepard Rexford a sister Mrs Mary Converse Mechanicville and five grandchildren. Funeral Monday at 9 am from Quandt Funeral Home Waterford and 9 30 am from St Marys Church Requiem High Mass to be celebrated with interment in St Josephs Cemetery Waterford.
In Winfield Kansas Louis E Prather 83 hosted a Christmas dinner for 29 attendees at his home. He recalled spending Christmas alone 36 years earlier at his Belle Plaine service station and said he began the blanket invitation last year after 27 people joined. Eight neighbors and Seventh Day Adventist Church members helped prepare the meal.
The report notes that about 80 percent of U S wine consumption is produced in California, highlighting the state's overwhelming share of domestic wine output and its impact on national drinking patterns.
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