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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1949
Page
4
A blast in a post office injured four men including a substitute clerk who lost both hands and eyes after handling a small package. The incident damaged windows in the post office mall room and occurred yesterday in Bowling Green. One man was reported critically injured and not expected to live, while others required hospital care. Names and addresses given were fictitious.
A parade by 106th Infantry of Troy and 27th Division units moved from Blaze Capitol to Albany Union Station where Gov. Thomas E. Dewey accepted the New York State Freedom Train. The six car train carries 89 documents and will depart for Schenectady, with May arrival in Troy, as Dewey extolled liberty and free speech.
Twenty one Joy men in full dress OD uniforms accompanied six jeeps for the 106th Infantry Regiment escort. Maj Sigmund A. Piotrowski announced the Troy honorary escort led by M/Sgt Frans T. Connora of Co C with a long list of noncommissioned officers and privates from Companies C and Headquarters and Medical Companies.
Local items report sleigh ride plans at the Lutheran Church Friday February 4 and Pittstown Grange meeting on Tuesday February 11 with a pre meal supper led by Grace Cushman and Ethel Mason. The Raymertown Rosebud 4H Club elected officers and set two yearly projects. Church elections and oyster supper are noted along with Dorcas Circle crafts nights and new officers for the circle and related parish groups.
In Georgetown Kentucky a jail escape attempt was thwarted when a bucket of water soaked two inmates at the county jail window. Sheriff Dwight Clemons and Deputy Tom Paul had suspected an escape for three days but did not know which two. A signal prompted the deputy to throw water, sending the men back to their cells. Later they were found asleep, their clothes damp from the water.
Eighth Army investigates a Sunday riot among occupation troops on Holkaide Island. One waiter died and five were wounded. Military police from the Seventh Infantry Division used gunfire to quell the disturbance at Camp Crawford where four soldiers were shot, one fatally. A fifth was stabbed and a sixth cut diving through a window. Three of the wounded were from the 11th Airborne Division.
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