State Racing Bill Goes To Governor
A 1944 Legislature bill passed to place pari-mutuel licensing under the Secretary of State. It creates a licensing bureau, appoints a license director, and sets rules to revoke or grant licenses for racetrack employees. Qualifications require citizens and state residence, with fees tiered by daily earnings and contracts paying $50, plus a $15,000 appropriation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas E. Dewey
Secretary of State
Kingston
Arthur Wicks
Department of State
State Racing Commission
Rac
Ing Commission
Pari-Mutuel
Miss Hopkins Dies At Williamstown
Susan Sedgwick Hopkins 89, last surviving daughter of Williams College president Mark Hopkins, died at her Williamstown home. She funded Hopkins gate and stairs at West College and helped found the college infirmary. Born in Williamstown, she attended Porter School in Farmingdale and was a longtime honorary chair of Williams Women’s Faculty Club. Funeral set for noon today at the Hopkins residence.
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Susan Sedgwick Hopkins
Mark Hopkins
Williams College
Williamstown
Hopkins
West College
Albert Hopkins
Williams
Porter School
Farmingdale
Conn
First Congregational Church
Woman's Faculty Club
East ern Star Officers Meet at Albany Hotel Ten Eyck
More than 500 members of the Order of the Eastern Star greet Most Worthy Grand Matron Dorothy C. Conleyn and staff at Hotel Ten Eyck Albany. Discussion includes 74th year of the order in New York with 115000 members and a 75000 fundraising goal for wounded servicemen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Order of the Eastern Star
Hotel Ten Eyck
Albany
Dorothy C. Conleyn
Robert Fisher
Annie M. Pond
Nellia Rutherford
Harry Held
Order
New York State
Worthy Quida Willis
Jessie Holstrom
Wilbur Bowman
Harry Cheney
William Sauter
A. R. Treto
Community Couples' Club meeting omitted. King of Kings film to be shown
The Third Presbyterian Church announces the Community Couples' Club meeting is canceled this evening. The club will sponsor a Friday March 31 presentation of the biblical picture The King of Kings in the church hall. Committee members include Mr. and Mrs. H. Richard Perkett Mr. and Mrs. Alf Miller and Mr. and Mrs. George Cutler. Charles H. Rysedorph seaman first class on furlough visits Wynantskill with his mother Mrs. James Rysedorph. his wife is from Baltimore. Thelma G. Brunelle, soon to wed Thomas Hoyt, received a kitchen shower at Mrs. Charles Brunelle’s home with twenty guests and pink and white decorations. New York’s first elevated railway opened in 1868.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Side
Third Presbyterian Church
Charles A. Mealy
Church Hall
H. Richard Perkett
Alf Miller
George Cutler
Charles H. Rysedorph
North Africa
James Rysedorph
Orchard Terrace
Wynantskill
Baltimore
Thelma G. Brunelle
Thomas Hoyt
Charles Brunelle
Club set to meet at Mrs. David Dyer’s home
Hammond and several ladies including Mrs. William Clarem, Mrs. W E Deuce, Mrs. David Dyer, Mrs. Harry Bloomingdale, Mrs. Leroy Talmadge, and Mrs. Lawrence McDonald plan a club gathering at the home of Mrs. David Dyer next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyman W. Smith
Bridge Club
David Dyer
W. E. Deyoe
Harry Bloomingdale
Joho
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St. Joseph
Guanaco
Mendoza Beaver
Black Kid Lamb
Hollender
Stroeiler
Hudson Seal Hollender
Kolinsky
Schrager’s
Fifth Avenue
102Nd Street
Funny
Leo
CrArei
Liberty Peeddly
State Officers of Order
Stillwater
Upton
O. E
Masonic Temple
Marion Rehberger
Ernest R. Rehberger
Corinth
Mystic Tie
Sonic
BR. W. Margaret H. Talmadge
Saratoga
R. W. Arthur Burdick
Glen Star
Palestine
Margaret Goodrich
Blanche Goodrich
Gertrude Case
Hazel Sanders
Myra Trueland
Irene Brownell
Waterford
Mechanicville
Earl Ward
Mr. Ward
John A. Ward
New Brunswick
Canada
New York
Irs
W. T. Grant CO. Broadway
Third ST
Woodbury
Edwards
Lass
Powey
Third Street
Wrisley Bath Crystals
Lyons Tooth Pwdr
Nestle
Lesan Burn
Unguentine
Dany Dift
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