Lansingburg Senior Wins Essay Contest for Brotherhood Week Prize
A Lansingburg High School senior, Mary Durivage, won the $25 prize in the area essay contest conducted by the Troy Council of the New York State Commission Against Discrimination in observance of Brotherhood Week. Margie Farrell received $10 for her entry, with other winners from Waterford High School and LaSalle Institute earning smaller awards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansingburg
Troy Council
New York State Commission Against
Mary Durivage
New York State
Margie Farrell
Catholic Central High School
New York
Waterford High School
Donald Brundiage
LaSalle Institute
John G.M
Olan
Dragst. EB. Kellogg
Langingburg High School
Cohona High School
Troy High School
John Lapinaki
Hendrick Hudson
Brotherhood
Banks
Sq. Forth
Robert M. Holmes
Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp
Young traveler intercepted en route to Berlin
An eight year old Plattsburg girl traveling to visit her sister in Berlin was intercepted on a Delaware & Hudson train after mother reported her missing. She paid part of a $25 grocery bill and used the rest for train fare totaling 10 dollars before being stopped by Whitehall police and returned home. In other news Round Lake Fire Department appointed Chester G. Brown secretary and named committees for the coming year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plattsburg
Troy
Berlin
Washington
Delaware & Hudson
Rensselaer County
Whitehall
Investigaton
Round Lake
Chester G. Brown
Donald BR. Williams
Robert Hitchcock
Ralph E. Williams
Robert Rice
LeRoy DelGroff
Ellis Hawks
William Taylor
Chester Brown
Arthur Morris
Leslie Brown
Neil Hesson
Robert Arthur
Joseph Civalier
L. P. McKean
Donald R. Williams
House
Douglas McLean
Harold
President Truman plans Florida vacation and honorary degree
President Truman will tour Key West on March 6 for two weeks and visit Winter Park on March 8 to receive an honorary degree from Robins College. He will return to Washington March 19. Separately, Clifton Park Center Baptist Church groups met to sew bandages for the White Cross quota and plan fundraisers to ship them to Dr. A. C. Osterholm in the Belgian Congo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Key West
Fla
White House
Florida
Winter Park
Robins College
Alfred Stevens
A. C. Osterholm
Baptist
Belgian Congo
Africa
New Jersey Governor Will Seek Reelection
Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll of New Jersey announced he will seek a second term as governor. He is the first New Jersey governor permitted by the state constitution to run for reelection. The race is one of two gubernatorial contests nationwide next November, with national interest tied to the Virginia primary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
Alfred E. Driscoll
Driscoll
New Jersey
Virginia
Well Known Bowler at Albany Expires
Francis J. Powers longtime Albany bowler dies at Albany Hospital after a wartime career. He won the 1088 Albany elimination bowling tournament and competed nationally. Powers lived at McKown Head and managed Howard Recreation before the war and later worked in a shoe store on South Pearl Street. Funeral services planned at Duscher Stabler Funeral Home and St John’s Church with interment at Our Lady of Angel Cemetery.
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Francis J. “Frankle
Powers
Albany
Duscher& Stabler
Central Avenue
Oi Sam
St. John‘s
Our Lady of Angel
McMown Head
McKownville
Songitness
Jeter
Howard Recreation Abey
South Pearl
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Buffalo UP
Frank
Schwartz
Town Line
Stir
Lnskauet
Aveecas
Frigidaire
Frigidetrs
Prigitaire
Hudson Valley Lodge of Odd Fellows
112Th Street Temple
Howard Kershaw
Donald R. Lewis
Arthur Macomber
Noble Grand
Harold N. Turner
Russell Quackenbush
Q’brien
Stephen Smaidone
Norman Gilmore
Merritt Goddard
Ray_mond Fuller
Charles Freemireland
Robert Meager
Raymond Fuller
James Munro
William Lynn
Raymond Parker
William Tuck
Bills Hawks
Ronald Smith
Robert Cheshire
Louis Lavery
Elbert Cooper
LeRoy DeGroff
Charles Freemire
Bake
Ecilo
Kijay
WROW
Troy Camera Shop
Lissen
Eagle Mills
Jtchinson
Troy, N.Y
Bayon
Fesjay's
Neomi Seons
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