Fire Report Presented To Council
Watervliet council received the fire department annual report detailing about 13,444 dollars in losses last year including 6,940 on buildings and 43,003 on contents. It notes uninsured property and unsettled insurance claims, 119 still alarms, 68 bell alarms, and 40 false bells. The report cites over 2,100 fire inspections and lists repairs needed at Protection Hose and McIntyre stations, plus alarm system upgrades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watervilet
James J. Cuckett
Corbett
McIntyre
George E Kemp Watervliet Man Dies At Residence
George E Kemp 74 a retired rail road engineer and father of Laula W Kemp manager of the Troy Division of Behr Manning Corp died Thursday at his residence 02 Nineteenth Street Watervliet after a brief illness. He was a native of Albany and longtime Watervliet resident member of First Presbyterian Church of Watervliet and of the Independent Order of Redmen Albany. He served as focal chairman secretary treasurer of the Board of Locomotive Engineers, retired from Delaware & Hudson Railroad in 1927 after 25 years, then painted and was affiliated with J H Tilley Ladder Co. Married to the late Augusta Zorn, survived by his son two daughters Mrs Frank L Powell and Miss Charlotte C Kemp seven grandchildren. Funeral 2 p.m. Monday from the residence, Rev. Jack Cooper officiating. Interment Albany Rural Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George E. Kemp
Raiload
Laula W. Kemp
Troy
Behr-Manning Corp
Nineteenth Street
Waterviiet
Mr. Kemp
Albany
Watervliet
First Presbyterian Church of
Board of
Locomoive Engineers
Delaware & Hudson Railroad Corp
Kemp
J. H. Tilley Ladder Co
Augusta Zorn
Frank L. Powell
Charlotte C. Kemp
Jack Cooper
Watervilet
Albany Rural Cemetery
Grade School Children Top Polio Drive in Watervliet
Water viet polio drive closes with Albany County Infantile Paralysis Association netting 3092.92, led by grammar school children. Frank P. Esposito announces final returns and notes last year’s total exceeded this year’s early promise. Church notices detail services across local denominations, with sermons, fellowships, and community events on Sunday schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany County Infantile Paralysis Association
Frank P. Esposito
Esposito
Ja.m
Westminster
Presbyterian Church
Troy
Tee Hughes Brush Co
St. Patrick’s School
Sty. Bridget’s School
Véterans Administration
Hoe
Mt Carmel Church Plans Lenten Mission by Italian Parishioners
Mt Carmel Church will hold a week long mission for Italian speaking communicants starting Monday March 6. Rev Leo Rebella OFM will lead the mission opening at the 7:43 AM mass with landes distributed to parishioners after the 7 and 8 AM masses on Ash Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Our Lady of Mount. Carmel Church
Leo Rebella
Presbyterian Church Plans Men's Service in Watervliet
First Presbyterian Church of Watervliet holds Men's Sunday observance at 10 30 a m with Rev Jack Cooper announcing the service The event honors men of the congregation aims to motivate involvement and uses the sermon A Good Man Baptism and new member reception accompany music by youth and adult choirs and performances by soloists and organists
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Presbyterian Church of
Watervliet
Tomorson
General Assembly of
The
Presbyterian Church
Jack Cooper
Cooper
John Warner
Lord
Wilson
Oliver Dexter
Lorenz
Robert Birkby
Belle Lathrope
Lysberg
Lawrence
Mercantile Show Plans Progress in Watervliet
Plans for the Watervliet Mercantile Show at the Civic Center March 24 through 28 advance quickly. More than 30 firms will exhibit including White Bays Bakery with a doughnut machine, Watervliet Canvas Co., Gregs Tire Service, Modern Home Appliance, Henry BE Eckert and Sons, Walton Motors, Automatic Heating Equipment, Arsenal City Oil Heating, James Hamilton Hardware, Foley's Feed Store, Retallic Printers, the State Bank of Albany Waterville Branch, and others. Space is being allocated among participants as entries continue to arrive from area firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watervliet
Civic Center
Calle
Waterwilet
White Bays
The
Watervliet Canvas Co
Greg's Tire
Modern Home /Appliance Co
Modern Appliance Co
Henry BE. Eckert and Sons
Walton Motors
Joseph ¥. Fowler
Arsenal City Oil Heating Co
School 1 Edges School 3 To Lead League Race
Richard Lewis hit a late clinching goal as School 1 surged from behind to beat School 3 by one point. Tom Haskins added 12 for the victors while Cliff Thompson led School 3 with 18 in a hard fought rally that kept the Public iSchool Athletic League standings tight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Lewis
School 3
School
Lewis
Tom Haskins
School 4
School 1
Forco
Cliff Thompson
Thompson
Dave Meier
Funeral service held for Frank Wusterfeld at St Bridget’s Church
Frank Wusterfeld died Tuesday at 01 Fourth Avenue. Funeral services were at J Gregory Nealon Funeral Home and St Bridget's Church. Rev. Massey officiated a solemn requiem mass with deacons Bourke and Hanrahar t. Organist Hervieux played Paris Angelicus and Hark Hark My Soul. Interment followed at St Agnes Cemetery Menands. Burial rites conducted by Father Bourke with church societies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank 5. Wusterfeld
Fourth Avenue
Fam
J. Gregory Nealon Fustral
Fourt Avenue
St Bridget's Church
Robert Massey
John F .Bourke
James Hanrahart
Joseph Hervieux
Carmen Bonfant Wang
Paris Angelicus
M.savior
Frank iKtruegler
George Ramroth
Carl Fand
James Reardon
Raymond
Jana Roy Vadney
St. Agnes
Menands
Father Bourke
Hemke to speak at Laymen's Day service
Dr. Paul K. Hemke head of the Aeronautical Engineering department at BPL will speak at the Laymen's Day service tomorrow at 10 am at West Avenue Methodist Church. He will discuss L An A Methodist. Donald Marino and P. A. Horn will lead worship. Rev. Luther A. Patton will deliver the benediction. Music by Junior and Senior Choice and organist Mrs. Lloyd Ovthout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster
Thid Avenue
Elmer E. Benn
Jay McClurg
Gideons
Troy
Harry Kline
Ferry Kline
Mr. Benn
Basil G. Gorsky
Beacon Light Mission
Harry N. VanAntwerp
Clyde Sumner
Stamfort Vt
First Avenue Methodist
Luther A. Patton
Larman
Donald Moringa
P. A. Horn
Paul Hemke
VPI
North Reformed
Paul KE. Hemke
B.P.L
Wiest Avenue Methodist Church
L An
Hemke
Tn Europe
Donald Marino
Luther A
Official Visits Court Hiawatha Amaranth Meeting
Mrs Evelyn Baker district grand matron and Richard Glanders assistant grand lecturer visited the Masonic Temple for the Amaranth meeting. They spoke on the cerebral palsy drive and the order’s history from the 19th century to now. Attendees included nine district roy al matrons and several officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Hergert
Beatrice “Ewing
Washington
Effie Doherty
Oklahoma
W. Briggs
Grand Court
I. Seymour Scott
John C. Sinko
Watervliet Mass Schedule and parish notes
Watervliet churches list Mass times for multiple parishes including Mt. Bridget’s St Nicholas and Our Lady of Mt Carmel with Holy Communion times. It notes Rev. James P. Hanrahen Rev. Andrew P. Chiyatum Rev. A Nap La Palme and Rev. Boleslaus M. Watroba among others. Girl Scout investiture ceremonies held at St Patrick’s with Tenderfoot pins and color guard details. Victory Glass church fund payment approved by members of First Avenue Methodist Church. Mrs. George M. Lawlor travels by air to Rio de Janeiro to visit relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacred Heart of Mary
A. Nap la Palme
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Boleslaus M. Watroba
St. Ambrose
Latham
Daniel F. Cronin
Girl Scouts of America
St. Patrick’s Church
Edmund J. Burns
Margaret Endres
Susan Maroney
Irma Martel
Elizabeth Brennan
Victory Glass
First Avenue
Brazil
William M. Beidi
Mary Beth Beidi
Mr. Beidi
Dun & Bradstreet
Red Devils Sweep Royals In Junior League Opener
In the Watervliet Civic Center opener the Red Devils overwhelmed the Royals 95 to 4 as four players hit double figures led by Larry Pascale 18 Jon Czaoxkowski 18 Joe Celone 14 and Walt Kippen 14 Tom Brown and Colin Stewart each 18 for Wahe Royals Bob Gatfigan topped the Royals with nine fields while Duke Carroll led the Harps with 12 and Dan Colbert added five alongside Joe Wasula eight for the Knights in a 38 24 Harps victory A Belgian Congo court sentenced a native to death for killing a companion to eat him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Devils
Royals
Watervilet Civic Center
Larry Pascale
Jon Czaoxkowski
Joe Celone
Walt Kippen
Tom Brown
Colin Stewart
Wahe Royals
Bill Austin
Rockets
Cliff Thompson
Ed McDermott
Bob Bessmer
Ed Kohernack
Harps and
Black Knights
Harps
Knights
Duke Carroll
Dan Colbert
Joe Wasula
Bob Gatfigan
Four Drivers Nabbed By Deputy Sheriffs
Four motorists were arrested on the Troy Schenectady Road between 6:30 and 7:00 AM by Deputy Sheriff Jerome Zing due to speeding and reckless driving. Johannes Jenson, 57, and Charles P. Wituszywak, 25, both face high speed charges, while Seymour P. Biaauboer, 21, and Donald Yam Hoenson, 37, are accused of weaving through heavy traffic at speed. The four are from Troy, Watervliet, and Niskayuna. They will be arraigned tonight before Justice Homer W. Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bchenectady
Mornemn
Roy Redlegs
Troy-Schenectady
Troy
Waterviles
Ous
Niskayuna
Jerome Zing
Justice of the Peace
Homer W. Brown
Johannes Jenson
River Street
Charles P. Wituszywak
Eleventh Avenue
Watervliet
Seymour P. Biaauboer
First Street
Donald Yam Hoenson
Vig Road
Nikeyuna
Pancake and Sausage Supper Planned by Trinity Church Men
At Trinity Episcopal Church in Lanningburg the Men’s Club will host a pancake and sausage supper at 6:30 PM on Tuesday under committee chair Howard G. Seaman. Leroy Lester presides over a brief business session after. Rev. James Pennock will speak on Lent, followed by John Davis of Gibbs and Davis Architects as evening speaker. The usual social hour and smoker conclude the gathering. The arrangements committee will update members on supper reservations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinity Episcopal Church of
Lanningburg
Howard G. Seaman
Leroy Lester
James Pennock
John Davis
Givans & Davis, Architects
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Watervliet News
Heminway
E. J. Foley Feed & Grain CO
B'Way
Watervliet Auto Body Works
6Th Ave
W'Vliet
Edward D. Landrigan
19Th St. W'vliet
First Presbyterian
Jack Coover
Trinity Episcopal
Ivan H. Ball
St. Gabriel's Chapel
Basil
Women's Auxiliary of Watervliet Division
Fifteenth Street
John Fitzgerald
Edward McCarthy
Leo Reade
John Scarry
John Kennedy
Henry J. Burggraaff
Foreign Missions
Wesleyan Methodist
Edward T. Mein
Raymond Smith
Uisum
Floyd Miller
Fred Boroa
Mein
Juia Pattatisa
Margaret Owens
Clee Cpeyice
Tilpan
George Rath
Fred Bre
Gastos
First Baptist
Tes. Vern
Congressional Church
Bex
Alfred J Lalyrett
Dens Person
Wondetock
Theictem Missionary Association
Genet
Worchin
Sng
Demnain Memorial Presbyterian
Kester L. Bors
Charrh
Asa
Wors
Uleen
Secoma Presbyterian Church
Tne
Mt. Carmel Church
McCarthy
Tenth St. and
Eighth Ave
Gan Usns
Mercantile
Italo-Balbo
3Rd Ave
Hamil
N. Y
O'Keefe
Waterviare
Dr. Hemke
Petrick
S. Ray
Mary
Mt. Bridget's
James P. Hanrahen
Mary Immaculate Society
Cnnibal
Johannesburg
Uele
Belgian Congo
Aif
Latham Drapery Shop, Inc
Albany-Saratoga Road
Latham Traffic Circle
Home Furnishings Center
Paul Diston
Diston
Walter A Trombley
Opital
Curzon and Gispery
FBI
Schenectady-Albany
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