Tests Slated For Postal Workers In Troy Area
An open competitive examination for substitute postal clerks and carriers to fill vacancies in Troy Watervliet Cohoes Rensselaer Albany Amsterdam and Schenectady will be held at the Troy post office. Applicants must be US citizens 16 or older and able to drive for carrier posts. Applications on Form 4 000 BC are available at the Troy Post Office inquiry window.
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Troy
Watervliet
Cohoes
Rensselar
Albany
Amsterdam
Schenectady
Goon
U. S. Civil Service Examiners
United States
Second Purple Heart Awarded in Family
The Fitzgerald family of Averill Park adds a second Purple Heart to their honors. World War I veteran Joseph L. Fitzgerald earned the medal in France. his son, Pfc. David T. Fitzgerald of the Marine Corps, receives the Purple Heart for wounds in the Southwest Pacific. David attended LaSalle Institute.
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Fitzgerald
Averill Park
Joseph L. Fitzgerald
France
Pfc
David T. Fitzgerald
Marine Corps
Southwest Pacific
LaSalle Institute
Left Wing A L P State Ballot Challenge Rejected
Supreme Court Justice Daniel F. Imrie blocked the left wing American Labor Party slate for the Washington County state committee citing alleged forgeries in a substitute petition. Right wing candidates Lee Codington Alice Codington Carl DeLong and James Gorman remain on the ballot. Witnesses Minshaw and Dwyer criticized the left as communist tactics.
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American Labor Party
Washington County
Supreme Court
Daniel F. Imrie
Imrie
John Braun
Floyd Fish
Middle Granville
Frederick Jenks
Fort Ann
Abraham C. Goldstein
Troy
Goldstein
Rensselaer County
Fish
Jenks
Joseph Labate
Granville
Labate
Truman D. Hazeltine
Fort Edward
John Munson
Salem
Julia G. Cleland
Ernest E. Oddy
Hudson Falls
Emanuel S. Bennett
Grant Sherman
Truthville
Lee Codington
Alice Codington
Carl DeLong
James Gorman
John F. Minshaw
Albany
ALP
Clifford Dwyer
Washington County Board of Elections
Mrs Tighe Elected Head of Auxiliary
Mrs Kenneth G Tighe of Watervliet was elected president of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Railway Mail Association at a regular meeting held at Albany home of Mrs Willard C Link. New officers include Mrs Richard P Cassin Albany vice president, Mrs James Grady Albany corresponding secretary, Mrs Clarence Kellogg Watervliet treasurer, and Mrs Reuben Graves Watervliet recording secretary. The group voted to contribute to the Rensselaer and Albany American Red Cross branches. April meeting set for Troy Y W C A.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth G. Tighe
Watervliet
Woman's
Railway Mail Association
Willard C. Link
Morton Avenue
Albany
Richard P. Cassin
James Grady
Clarence Kellogg
Reuben Graves
Cropseyville War Fund Drive Nears Quota
Cropseyville residents have raised 621.25 toward a 750 goal for the Red Cross War Fund. A community supper is set for Wednesday at Odd Fellows Hall at 6 30 with a dish to share. From 7 30 to 9 pm a board and game party will be led by Mrs James O Donnell Jr and Carl Bulson, followed by dancing until midnight supervised by Samuel McChesney and Arthur Jones. The Odd Fellows provide the hall.
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Red Cross War Fund
Cropseyville
George Daniels
Odd Fellows’ Hall
James O'Donnell, Jr
Carl Bulson
Samuel McChesney
Arthur Jones
Odd Fellows
Arsenal Band Concert for Red Cross Drive
Watervliet Arsenal Band will perform Thursday from 7 to 8 pm at the gun plant to mark the final push in the Red Cross War Fund drive. Foremen at the plant will distribute tickets as the organization expects to exceed its goal.
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Watervliet Arsenal
Red Cross
Captain Murray Wins Distinguished Service Cross
Captain Edward M. Murray, former Troy lawyer, received the Distinguished Service Cross in Auckland New Zealand for heroism on New Georgia Island during the Munda campaign on July 22. He later directed machinegun fire to repel a Japanese attack on July 27 earning further praise from General Harmon. He practiced law in Troy before enlisting in 1942 and held memberships in local clubs and bar associations.
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Edward M. Murray
Troy
Auckland
New Zealand
New Georgia Island
Martin L. Murray
Sixth Avenue
Murray
Millard F. Harmon
U. S
South Pacific
Troy Club
The
Troy Country Club
Troy Lodge of Elks
No. 141
Rensselaer County Bar Association
Albany Academy
Williams College
Albany Law School
New Books Listed at Troy Public Library
The Troy Public Library adds a list of new titles including Such Interesting People by R J Casey Piloting Seamanship and Small Boat Handling by C F Chapman When Your Son Goes to War by Mrs C R Collins With General Chennault by F B Hotz This is India by Peter Muir Race and Rumors of Race by H W Odum American Reasons by EB W Overstreet Your Career as a Food Specialist by Doree Smedley and Ann Ginn Who Could Ask for Anything More by Kay Swift Heart on Her Sleeve by C B Kelland Two Mrs Abbotts by D EB Stevenson Death Invades the Meeting by C J C Street Treasury of Great Russian Short Stories ed Avrahm Yarmolinsky.
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Troy Public Library
R. J. Casey
C. F. Chapman
C. R. Collins
General Chennault
F. B. Hotz
India
Peter Muir
H. W. Odum
EB. W. Overstreet
Doree Smedley
Ann Ginn
Kay Swift
C. B. Kelland
Johnsonville Girl Enlists in Marines
Maeanor Elsie Dunham of Johnsonville was sworn in in New York for the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve. She awaits recruit training at Camp Lejeune New River NC after high school graduation at Troy High School. Her brother Harold Dunham serves in the Army at Truax Field Madison Wisconsin.
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Maeanor Elsie Dunham
Clarence Dunham
Johnsonville
Marine Corps Women's Reserve
New York
Camp Lejeune
New River
N. C
Dunham
Troy High School
Harold ©. Dunham
Truax Field
Madison
Wis
On the Air Programs From Local Stations
Radio schedules list daily programs across Troy Albany Schenectady and nearby areas. Stations WHAZ WGY WOKO and TRY publish morning noon and evening lineups with news talks music dramas and soap operas including The Farm Hour Captain Midnight and Ma Perkins runtimes and host names.
Upstate County Employees Receive Salary Increases
The Washington County Board of Supervisors in Hudson Falls approved raises for all county workers ranging from 50 to 252.50 dollars a year. A salary scale sets minimum and maximum pay, with increases based on tenure. The top earner, the administrative assistant in the county treasurer’s office, will be paid 2400 dollars minimum and 3410 dollars maximum.
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Washington County Board of Supervisors
Hudson Falls
Anheuser Indicted Over Draft Deferment Claims
Anheuser, 32, son of W. Fred Anheuser, vice president of Anheuser Busch Inc., was indicted by a federal grand jury on obtaining a draft deferment through allegedly false affidavits. The farm owner, with a 520 acre Hawk Point Missouri property, claimed full time farming since 1938. He is married with two children.
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St. Louis
Pi—Presley
Anheuser
W. Fred Anheuser
Anheuser- Busch, Inc
Hawk Point
Mrs Muriel Zoller Named Herkimer Home Commissioner
Governor Dewey announced Saturday the appointment of Mrs Muriel C Zoller of Herkimer as commissioner of the Herkimer Home. She succeeds Mrs Frank B Steele of Utica who resigned and will serve the unexpired term to April 1 before a full five year term begins.
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M. C. Zoller
Herkimer
Albany
Muriel C. Zoller
Herkimer Home
Dewey
Frank B. Steele
Utica
Steele
Zoller
Green Island K of C Plans May Communion Breakfast
The Green Island Council K of C will begin plans for the annual communion breakfast at their rooms tomorrow night. A date will be set and committees named by Grand Knight Walter J. Kane Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Island Council
K. of C
Walter ,J. Kane, Jr
Jap Working Classes Bear Heavy War Load
A Tokyo radio broadcast reported by U S government monitors says Japan will shift more war costs onto workers. It quotes an official plan to raise taxes on the laboring classes to counter rising incomes and to adjust corporate taxation to sustain industry and war effort.
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New York
Tokyo Radio
U. S
Thirty Workers Fired For Ford Disturbances
Detroit police bulletins recount disciplinary actions at Ford Motor Co. Rouge plant after two disturbances. Thirty workers were discharged, another thirty indefinitely suspended, and four suspended until today. A March 7 demonstration damaged property in the labor relations office, and a road blockade at plant gates were treated as a single case Ford says is now closed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Rensselaer County Magistrates Meet Tomorrow Night
The Magistrates' Association of Rensselaer County will meet tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Rensselaer County Court House. Judge George K. Trish of Schodack will direct the program.
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Magistrates’ Association of
Rensselaer County
Rensselaer County Court House
George K. ‘Trish
Schodack
Sage Students To Hear Max Brauer
Max Brauer a noted authority on municipal government and former Prussian Senate member will speak at Russell Sage College Chapel tomorrow morning at First Presbyterian Church. Born in Altona near Hamburg he led Produktion Hamburg and later became Altona mayor before fleeing Nazi seizure with his family to France.
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Max Brauer
Russell Sage College
First Presbyterian Church
Altona
Hamburg
Germany
Produktion
Brauer
Association of
France
Masonic Bodies To Work Degrees This Week
Five local Masonic bodies plan degree work with Mt. Zion Lodge No 311 conferring the third degree at the Troy Masonic Temple this evening and Jerusalem Lodge No 355 the first degree at the Lansingburg temple. Apollo Lodge No 13 to confer the first degree at Troy temple tomorrow evening and Phoenix Lodge No 5% to work the second degree at Lansingburg temple the same evening. Apollo Commandery No 15 K T will exemplify the Order of the Temple at the Troy Temple Friday evening.
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Mt. Zion Lodge
Troy Masonic Temple
Jerusalem Lodge
Lansingburg
Apollo Lodge
Troy Temple
Phoenix Lodge
Apollo Commandery
K. T
Missing War Worker Turns Up at Saratoga
George Hudson of East Line Saratoga County sought since a Thursday night when his car was found abandoned near his home walked into the Saratoga Springs police station Friday afternoon and identified himself He had been picked up as a hitchhiker about four miles west of Saratoga He is believed to have been a victim of amnesia He was a war worker for General Electric Co at Schenectady
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George Hudson
East Line
Saratoga County
Saratoga Springs
Amsterdam
Saratoga
General Electric Co
Schenectady
Three Upstate Men Missing in Action
Three upstate soldiers are listed as missing in action. Sergt. Charles William Hodge of Fort Edward is unaccounted over Germany since Feb 25. Pfc. Leslie K. Clark of Hudson Falls has been missing since Jan 22, with two brothers overseas. Pvt. Ernest F. Lewis of Hudson Falls is now reported a German prisoner.
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Upstate
Charles William Hodge
Fort Edward
Germany
Leslie K. Clark
Hudson Falls
Ernest F. Lewis
War Department
Vacancies On City Groups To Be Filled
Mayor John J. Ahern plans to appoint new members to the City Planning Commission and the Board of Zoning Appeals. Terms of Behan Bibb Ryan on the zoning board have expired and three replacements will be named. Seven people will join the planning commission and other expired terms include O Connor Meader Kaufman Rourke Hartigan Bryce.
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John J. Ahern
City Planning Commission
Board of Zoning Appeals
Joseph C. Behan
Richard H. Bibb
John P. Ryan
William P. Bradley
Nehill Smith
Richard C. Marshall
Martin F. O'Connor
James Laurence Meader
I L Kaufman
Thomas W. Rourke
Joseph F. Hartigan
Lowell H Bryce
Marine Pfc Hansbury Leaves for Combat Training
Pfc William Lee Hansbury of the Marine Corps, son of Mr and Mrs William Hansbury of 417 Sixth Avenue, returns home on furlough before departing for combat training at Camp Elliott San Diego California. He was previously stationed at the Marine barracks in Scotia.
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Pfc
Wiliam Lee Hansbury
Marine Corps
William Hansbury
Sixth Avenue
Camp Elliott
San Diego
Calif
Marine Barracks
Scotia
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Symphony Hour
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Henry Gladstone
Tony de Pardo
Lew Diamond
Star Parade
George Hamilton
Paul Martell
Timekeeper
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Music For Listening
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Robert St. John
Vic and Sade
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Carey Longmire
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Pepper Young
Happine
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Lorenzo Jones
Young Widderer
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Farr
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H. V. Kaltenborn
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Sacred Heart Pym
School of the Airife
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Valiant
Lynn Murray
the World Today
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Showtime
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Jeny Wald
Jaries Harnett
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San Juan, PR
Maseque Qscontt
N.Y
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Abe
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