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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1949
Page
14
A Green Island Grose Island lodge meeting installed officers led by Hugh Campbell with James Dunn and Arthur Wilkes among others. Community notices include church rehearsals, club plans, a Valentine party, a spaghetti supper, and tax collection updates for Green Island.
John Donaldson, who just celebrated his 102nd birthday, says it isn’t fair to compare his era with today. He retired from his bookkeeper job at a hospital two years ago after turning 100 and reflects that some things were better then while others are better now.
President Domingo Diaz Arosemena renewed Panama’s pledge to cooperate in defending the Panama Canal. Speaking to the American Society he urged response to defense calls in the common interests of both nations and warned that fighting communism would shield Panama from calamities seen in other states under Communist influence.
Douglas Chandler, former Baltimore radio commentator, asks the U S Supreme Court to review his case after a life sentence for treason. His lawyers filed a petition for writ of certiorari and expect action soon. Chandler was convicted by a federal jury in June 1947, a conviction upheld by the First Circuit.
Warren Beck was chosen president of the Fellowcraft Club of Phoenix Lodge F and AM at the annual meeting held Tuesday in Lansing bug Masonic Temple. Officers named include Clarence A Butler vice president Ona Genge M Filkins secretary treasurer Roy Lauridsen to arrange social evening Feb 22. Cheater G Wager elected senior warden at Christ Episcopal Church parish dinner. vestrymen named Oscar E Enquist Gordon Hopkins and William Hopkins to fill expiring offices.
Mrs. Mary O'Neill, Pennsylvania's believed oldest woman, marked her 111th birthday yesterday on Stone Crusher Hill. She lives with her granddaughter Neacy O'Neill near Bone Crusher Hill and can no longer thread a needle though she still bakes and performs other chores.
An airways firm moved 2240 animals in three months from Calcutta to Europe and the United States. Birds and dogs totaled over two thousand with ten cobras and five vipers sent to Switzerland. Three tigers five cubs and three cranes were sent to the London Zoo. A hundred monkeys were shipped to New York for infantile paralysis research.
An army deserter was sentenced to three years in prison after posing as a suitor to swindle a young Philadelphia woman. He used a false identity to gain her trust and finances. The case underscores military deserter accountability in civilian courts.
Wynantskill West Sand Lake and Wynantskill Home Bureau members meet Tuesday February 1 at 10 a.m. at the home of Mrs Ruth Miller West Sand Lake. Mrs Silas Battls is the reader.
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