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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1967
Page
15
The Merry Makers Home Bureau will meet Monday at 8 pm in the Watervliet City Post rooms VFW 783 Broadway with Mrs Harold Larkin presiding. The project for the night is foot stools and a social hour will follow under Mrs Janet Reilly and her committee.
Edgar C. Barker aged 83 of 603 2nd St sustained minor injuries in a Broadway auto crash south of 13th Street. He drove a car owned by Florence V. Smith of 161 Marion Ave South Glens Falls and struck a parked car owned by Frank Canga of 600 24th St. Barker was taken to Samaritan Hospital for a nose laceration and released. Officers Connors and Degnan investigated.
The Wes tervliet City VFW Post Auxiliary seeks volunteers to help Mrs D Mildred Beattie at Albany VA Hospital on Friday May 12. Mrs Bertlie named auxiliary chairman of the Poppy Drive today. Proceeds aid local veterans and families as the auxiliary parades with post members on Memorial Day. Installation dinner next Wednesday at post rooms. cocktails 6:30 p.m. and dinner at 7. Reservations close Monday via Mrs Erin Hases. A hospital thank you letter was read at the latest meeting, presided by Mrs Barbara J DiPofi.
In Watervliet the Mass schedule lists St Patrick’s with Rev J M O’Connor offering Masses at 6:45, 8, 9, 10 and 11 am and 12 pm. St Nicholas with Rev Bohdan Vo jlosin offering 8, 9:45 and 11:30 am. St Brigid’s with Rev Francis G. Janis offering 6:45, 8, 9, 10 and 12:15 pm. Immaculate Conception with Rev Boleslaus M. Watroba offering Low Mass 9 am and High Mass 11 am. Sacred Heart of Mary with Rev James H. Curley offering 8, 10 and 12 noon. Our Lady of Mt Carmel with Rev Gerard Caruso offering 8, 8, 10 and 11 am.
Watervliet proclaims May as Salvation Army Month in a city notice signed by Mayor Hugh Ey Donnelly. The proclamation honors the Troy Salvation Army and its officers, with Operation Opportunity launching a $350 fund drive to support a new building and local services. Chester F. Millhouse, general chairman, says the campaign offers citizens a key chance to help.
Dr H Jackson Davis announces an immunization clinic in the Health Building Seventh Avenue and State Street on Monday May 9 from 3 30 to 4 30 pm. Parents unable to afford private immunization are urged to use clinic facilities. Vaccines protect against polio whooping cough diphtheria tetanus smallpox and measles per schedule. Infants may begin between ages one and three months. Booster doses recommended for five years and younger to reinforce protection.
Pastor Richard L. Sears of First and Third Avenue Methodist Churches will attend the 135th Troy Annual Conference in the Olympic Arena Lake Placid Wednesday through Sunday. Mrs. Mary Nolan accompanies Sears. she died yesterday at Cohoes Memorial Hospital after illness. Coroner says death natural. Funeral from Green Island McNulty Funeral Home Tuesday at 9 a.m. to St. Joseph's Church. Burial at St. Paul’s Cemetery, Thankville. Also lists church services and notices, including meetings, events, and a Vietnam film screening by Hudson Avenue Methodist Church Youth Fellowship.
Anthony J. Travia will be principal speaker at the annual fundraising dinner by the Rensselaer County Democratic Committee at Mario's Theatre Restaurant on Monday. Travia, a Milwaukee native and longtime New York Assembly member, is president of the 1967 New York State Constitutional Convention.
Watervliet General Manager and Building Inspector Raymond C Selke announced 24 building permits issued in April. Fifteen were construction related and nine were miscellaneous. Total construction value reached 819140 with fees collected totaling 150.
Explorer Post 10 will sponsor a dance on Saturday May 13 from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church. High school students are invited to attend. Music will be by the group 100 Proofs.
The funeral for Mrs. Lydia Loar and her sister-in-law Mrs. Married M. Watson, killed Monday in a Savannah area auto crash, was held yesterday from Earl Memorial Chapel. Rev. Henry J. Schererer of Grace Methodist Church officiated. Interment followed at Oakwood Cemetery.
Hudson Avenue Methodist and St. Mark's Episcopal announce services and programs. Rev. James A. Green leads 10 a.m. church school at Green Island church with 11:15 a.m. worship. Preschool church school operates. MYF meets at 7:30 p.m. Rev. Jerrald C. Potts leads 9:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist.
Christopher Tillman about 35, of Buffalo's Cold Spring section, was stabbed to death yesterday in a street corner fight. Authorities said he died at Sisters Hospital shortly after the stabbing. A.M. and noon masses at St. Joseph's noted by Rev. Joseph L. J. in the report.
Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall announced a new effort to boost the whooping crane population. Eggs will be removed from nests in northern Canada and flown to Marsland for captive hatching under the plan.
Nicholas Montello of 94 Hill Rizzo in Troy's Eighth Ward won a GOP seat on the Rensselaer County Board of Supervisors, increasing Republican strength to 21 and reducing Democrats to 14. He replaces the late Thomalne Piscitella amid council opposition.
Clifton Park firehouse hosts an open house from noon to 6 p.m. to inspect a new pumper with 40 gallon capacity and a 1,500 gallon tanker. Fire Chief Donald Bonesteel announced the event and noted ongoing fire school sessions, while Paul Dworak said Arthur Hayner and Allan Richard Lee lead a public roast beef supper on Saturday May 20 with servings at 4 20 and 6 30 p.m. Edgar Nieman was named publicity chairman succeeding Lee. The group plans a June meeting at 8 p.m.
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