RPI Hosts 1500 Navy V-12 Students By Thursday
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute plans to host 1500 Navy students by Thursday, bringing total enrollment to 2050. The V-12 group includes 750 men in ROTC and new arrivals, plus 600 preflight cadets and 150 flight school cadets. Civilian students number about 450, with 750 housed in four fraternity houses and additional rooms off campus. Navy cadets will reside in dormitories. flight and preflight students occupy named fraternity houses and campus rentals.
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Navy V-12 program ships 9000+ to 150 colleges
About 6900 young men in the Third Naval District will report at 150 colleges nationwide under the Navy College Program. V-12 enrollees at R. P. I. begin active duty Thursday in the Naval Reserve with apprentice seaman pay and Navy tuition, lodging, uniforms, and $50 monthly. They will receive transportation and pursue a government funded college education, with durations ranging from two thirds of a year to four years depending on specialty. Selection involved aptitude tests, physicals, and interviews. reports are staggered with three six week terms annually. Scheduled departures from Grand Central, Penn Station, and Hoboken terminals will move thousands to colleges like Union, Rensselaer, Rochester, Hobart, St Lawrence, MIT, Dartmouth, Wesleyan, Holy Cross, Penn State, Villanova, Princeton, Colgate, Cornell, and more. Some locals stay in New York metro. Columbia gets 520, Stevens 87, Webb 54.
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Pennsylvania Station
Pennsylvania State College
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Naval District
Stevens Institute of Technology
Webb Institute
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Red Cross War Reserve Accepts Nurses in Albany Area
The Albany Red Cross chapter announces 14 more nurses accepted for the war reserve. Louise Konevai Flora Maniey Geraldine Ray and Evelyne Najar are among those named. Najar is commissioned as a lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps and will depart June 30 for advanced training at the University of Nebraska Lincoln.
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Rensselaer
Flora G. Maniey
Hillview Street
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First Street
Albany Red Cross
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Army Nurse Corps
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University of Nebraska
Lincolin
Pownal and Bennington notes and social news
Pownal Mrs Gordon Niles visits Portland relatives. A J Bridgeman recovers from an operation in North Adams Hospital. Mrs Benjamin Griffin and children return from Adams visit. Walter Burrington Jr gifts Life of John D Rockefeller to library. Putnam Memorial Hospital in Bennington treated for appendectomy. Ross J Barber farewell party at Rightholme before Sampoon departure with about seventy attendees. John Senecal and Elaine visit Edgar R Senecal in Bennington. Howard Black canvassing Farm Bureau in Vermont. Benjamin Powell Jr and Easl Church of the Marines return from South Pacific service. both suffered malaria.
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North Adams Hospital
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Adams
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Walter Burrington, Jr
Putnam Memorial Hospital
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Rightholme
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Morgan Barber
Pownall
Shoftsbury
Williamstown
William C. Suile
John Senecal
Elaine
Edgar R. Senecal
Upper Main Street
Howard Black
Farm Bureau
Vermont
Benjamin Powell, Jr
Easl Church of the Marines
South Pacific Combat Zone
Few Takers 130000 Pay State Tax in Installments
About 11 percent of New York taxpayers used the four installment option in its first year. Of 3,177,095 filers, roughly 130,000 opted for quarterly payments begun April 15 1942, with 725 000 filing returns showing no liability. The fiscal year was shifted to open April 1, approved by Governor Dewey amid Republican majorities, with Lehman vetoing previously. A year end surplus of about 369 060 000 followed.
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Lehman
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West Sand Lake Clergyman attends Lutheran Synod in New York
West Sand Lake Revered Harry W Lammond attends the Lutheran Synod meeting in New York. A Children s Day program titled The Banners will be presented at Salem Evangelical Church tomorrow night under the charge of Mrs William Sman der Jr Mr and Mrs Kenneth Kendal and daughter Allene of Corinth were guests of her parents Mr and Mrs E J Hogle Mr and Mrs Hogie returned to Corinth with them to spend a few days.
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Lutheran Synod Meeting
New York
Salem Evangelical Church
William Smander, Jr
Kenneth Kendal
Allene
Corinth
E. J. Hogle
Hogie
War Contracts Renegotiation Under Fire in New York
Federal plan for renegotiating war contracts faces attack in New York State after Tax Commissioner Rollin Browne warns it would cost millions in corporation tax revenues. The commission, meeting after Browne’s Chicago trip, urges Congress and the Roosevelt Administration to adopt a renegotiation policy that relieves states from unprecedented administrative and budgetary strain.
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Rollin Browne
Browne
National Association of Tax Administrators
Chicago
Congress
Roosevelt
Tire inspections required for B book holders
The Troy War Price and Ration Board urges B gasoline ration book holders to have tires inspected every four months, with a second inspection due by Monday after the February 28 first deadline. Without a proper tire inspection record, renewals on future allotments may be denied. The Schenectady board reports complaints of inspection stations refusing service, and says inspectors may be withdrawn if the issue persists.
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Schenectady
Local Social and Church News From Eagle Mills and Center Brunswick
East Orange New Jersey visitor Pearl Fonda guests with Forrest Patrie family in Eagle Mills. Cora Derrick stays with Delia Smith and Stanley Link. Rev. Paul E Diehl to speak at 11 a.m. on The Individualist Jesus. Bible school at 9 a.m. Willard Clum escaped minor injuries when a rotted flag pole fell. Leslie Clum unhurt. Sunday services at Methodist Church at 10:30 Holy Communion and 2:45 church school World Service Sunday led by Joseph Duncan Jr. 7:30 p.m. sermon The Scoffers Seat. Youth Fellowship announcement to be made at morning service.
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Cora Derrick
Center Brunswick
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Stanley Link
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Willard Clum
George H. Pettingell
World Service
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Youth Fellowship
Boeing Fortresses Production Surges in 1942
Boeing Airplane Corp. president Philip G. Johnson says Seattle plant produced flying fortresses in 1942 at more than eight times the total of the prior year. Deliveries rose faster than sales increases, signaling a sharp uplift in wartime output.
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Philip G. Johnson
Boeing Airplane Corp
Hall of History Opens Today in Albany Museum
The New York State Museum in Albany debuts a Hall of History with four murals first shown at the 1939 40 New York World's Fair. Director Dr. Charles C. Adams says most exhibit material was donated and urges locals to contribute historical items. A separate convention discussion raised the minimum renegotiation on contracts from 100 000 to 500 000 and opposed a relief measure for tax losses.
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New York State Museum
Albany
Charles C. Adams
Browne
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