Legendary PT Boat Hero Joe Burk Resumes Pacific Duty
Navy cross recipient and wartime PT boat skipper Joe Burk leads a combat mission off Cebu's east coast. His crew searched for camouflaged enemy barges, firing along the beach at shore batteries, destroying several targets at close range. Burk, famed for early rowing titles and the Sullivan Award, returns to sea after a prior tour.
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Stillwater Honor tests and troop meeting summary
Honor tests were given at two recent meetings of Troop Xo and St Cecelia Junior Catholic Daughters held at Miss Huth Jones home. Miss Hery Whitmen presided. Guests included Miss Anas Bennison and Miss Leone Bouchard who spoke on year’s projects.
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Huth Jones
Hery Whitmen
Anas Bennison
Leone Bouchard
Jones
Joan LaBarge
Betty Whitman
Troop 5
Siu Regina
Man Grady
Community notices from Shushan and nearby towns
Shushan residents visit home duties while Mr and Mrs Harry eyes return to Waterbury Conn. Sgt Frederick W Fowle on two weeks leave from Brooklyn visits his father and sister in town. A Methodist Church fellowship and prayer tea is planned in the assembly room Friday afternoon. Local women invited. Mr and Mrs Charles Hedges and others host dinner for Mr and Mrs Irving Hedges in Cambridge. Family learns Pvt Henry Ropsa has recovered from injuries and returned to active duty. Brotherhood Class and P C sponsor a program with Rex WY Cougher showing motion pictures of China Japan and Honolulu at the United Presbyterian Church today at 2 2 pm.
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Albany
Harry Eyes
Waterburys
Conn
Frederick W. Fowle
Brooklyn
Frederick Foxle
Gene Fowle
Methodist Church
Charles. Hedges
Agnes McGeoch
Franklin McLenahan
Irving Hedges
Cambridge
Joan Ropsa
Pvt
Henry Ropsa
Brotherhood
United Presbyterian Church
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Chine
Japan
Honolulu
Rex. WY. i Cougher
Gleas Falls
Vatican Audience Greets Polish Primate
Pope Pius yesterday granted a private audience to August Cardinal Biorid primate of Poland. The audience lasted forty minutes. Cardinal Hiond, once a Nazi prisoner, has been recently liberated by United States troops.
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Poland
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United States
Closed Breech Rockets Aim for Faster Firepower
Féwara FP Chandler of Brooklyn claims a closed breech rocket gun with single shot recoil similar to a shotgun. The design uses a rotary projectile for accuracy, enabling rapid firing automatic arms and portable paratroop weapons with reduced muzzle flash to conceal firers.
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Féwara FP
Chandler
Brooklys
Averill Park Mise Amy Brate Illness Restricts Mobility
Averill Park and Sand Lake Volunteer Fire Company will hold its monthly meeting at the engine house this evening with a baked ham supper served beforehand. Berry Kenizel will chair the session while Amy Brate remains home ill. The Good Cheer Class of the Methodist Church elected officers for the coming year: Harrison Lay president Arthur A Heyner vice president John W Basolt secretary Florence Barnum treasurer.
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Florence Miller
Jessie Sassstit
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Ruth Samonson
Ana Steele
Marie Bayner
Veteran nurse dies after brief illness
Watervliet native Sliss Grace Hodby longtime district nurse for the District Nurses Association of Troy dies at Leonard Hospital after a brief illness. She lived in Port Schuyler Watervliet and Troy and was a graduate of Watervliet High and the Troy Hospital Nurses School. Survived by three sisters, two nieces, a nephew and other relatives. Funeral from 393 Fifth Avenue at 2 am Thursday and 9:30 am Solemn Requiem Mass at St Augustine's Church with interment in St Patrick's Cemetery Waterville
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Norsieg Association
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Se Bridge
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Albany Troy Highway Repair Contract Details
A contract to repair and resurface about 100 miles of the Albany Troy highway includes 720 tons of plant mixed bituminous concrete as part of more than 200000 tons of concrete to be awarded soon. The bid opening by the Division of Purchase is scheduled for May 20.
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Sand Lake Guild Banquet to be Held at Central School
The Sand Lake Guild will sponsor its annual family banquet at Averill Park Central School on May 14. The Senior class and the Seed Lake Presbyterian Church Guild will prepare the meal. Ways 4 and Mears Cam martine Wik lead the bass.
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PTA Game Party to Support School Project
The Parent Teacher Association hosts a game party at 3 pm on May 2 to raise funds for a new school movie projector. Chairpersons include Mrs. Henry Wagner and Mrs. Raymond Dewey with Lucian Late and others coordinating activities.
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Hudson heating contractor killed in street accident
Thomas J. Sisuson of Hudson, a plumbing and heating contractor, was killed Saturday when struck by a smith owned by the Coal Co. of Hudson. Death was caused by hemorrhage of the abdominal region according to the coroner's report.
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Ladt
Ehen Coal Co
Republic Steel Owned by All Kinds of People
A broad portrait of Republic Steel as a nationwide, worker and investor owned company with about 60 000 stockholders including a lawyer widow and a young couple. The piece highlights small earnings of around two cents per dollar, tax contributions, war materiel production, job creation, safety health and reemployment of veterans, and ongoing research and expansion across the United States.
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Republic Steel
America
Republic
Invasion Pipelines Power North Africa to Europe Drive
Portable steel invasion pipelines drive supply for advancing forces in the North African and European campaigns. Republic industries produced 1000 miles of 4 inch pipe, then 2000 more miles of various sizes. The firm also makes electric welded tubular goods for oil, gas, and industrial use.
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