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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1967
Page
1
The funeral of James D. Lyons was held yesterday from Dufresne Funeral Home in Cohoes and St. Anne's Church in Waterford. A Solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated by Rev. Leo H. Paradis with Rev. Celas A. Robitaille assisting.
J D Lyons deacon and Rev Carl J Blaze Jewski subdeacon with bearers Alderic J Lajeunesse Mer tek F Robert M Henry J Dufresne and Albert E Bourgeois. Interment held at St Josephs Cemetery Waterford with Father Paradis officiating.
In Liverpool, the Ministry of Agriculture ships about 1,500 Asian grass carp from Hong Kong for a trial to clear waterways of nuisance plants. The program costs around 3.5 million dollars a year to control vegetation.
At Stephentown the Federated Church will hold an Easter 9:30 a.m. service with a choir providing music. Lenten self denial folders will be distributed during the service. About 50 attended a Republican Club meeting at Taconic Valley Grange hall where county chairman Joseph Casey spoke. The Town Board meeting for this month has been canceled.
Miss Erma Graham NL 17 1295 notes members are on vacation while the grade school closes tomorrow at noon for vacation and classes resume Monday. Mr and Mrs Clarence Carpenter return from a 4000 mile Florida trip visiting relatives in Fort Myers Sarasota and Auburn Alabama joined by Mr and Mrs John Calhoun of Melrose. Mrs Norman R Rathburn remains hospitalized at Pittsfield General Hospital.
Jersey City AP reports the Jersey Central Railroad filed for bankruptcy as Gov. Hughes officials vow to maintain essential commuter and freight service through a court-appointed receiver. In Washington, the House Administration Committee approved a $50,000 cut in the 1967 budget for the Un-American Activities Committee and sent a $350,000 appropriation to the floor, with further cuts likely.
Albany NY AP The state’s top labor leader Raymond R Corbett president of the State AFL-CIO proposed another compromise on repealing the Condon-Wadlin law. Legislature should leave the act in force but pass a second bill creating machinery for collective bargaining and related negotiations. New York UPD A Manhattan federal judge temporarily denied bail for a Liberty NY man accused of desecrating the U S flag but granted a hearing to test the law’s constitutionality. Horace L Duncombe was not granted a temporary injunction to stop the state from enforcing a 30 day jail term as he could have sought bail earlier if planning an appeal.
Weather delays Rev. Lowell Ditzen of the National Presbyterian Center from Troy Holy Week visit. Rev. George P. Morgan presided at Fifth Avenue Church delivering a long sermon on Christians renewal, noting mountain tops and valleys of faith and that renewal follows deep involvement in God through service and work.
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