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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1971
Page
2
A lengthy church directory lists denominations and service schedules across Albany area parishes and congregations. Entries name each church and pastor with Sunday times including Holy Communion Holy Eucharist Morning Prayer and varied worship services with Sunday School and youth programs.
The Town of Sand Lake board reported on actions including opposition to the County Charter, 23 percent return on HOSRA questionnaires, and approval of funding for Crystal Theater. Surplus sale announced for a 1952 Coleman truck and snowplow. Youth Recreation Program set for six weeks at three locations with beach season June 28 to September 3 despite lack of state matching funds. Town to expand near the town barn by purchasing two acres. Evangelist James Modder to appear at Petersburg Baptist Church tonight. Sunday services listed for several churches with times and locations.
The Troy Area Council of Churches will hold its spring assembly Tuesday at St John’s Episcopal Church in Troy at 6 30 p m. Douglass Bartow will preside as president. Trinity Institute of Albany will present its community oriented programs. Officers will be elected and reports heard from finance and nominating committees. Rev Charles J Warner serves as part time executive secretary from 520 Pawling Avenue. The council aims to strengthen religious programs with focus on youth and aging with current activities at Kennedy Towers Eden Park Nursing Home and Samaritan Hospital.
AP reports religious communes growing rapidly from California to New York. Rev. John A. McDonald of Evangelicals Concerned Inc. cites 600 in California and hundreds elsewhere, with elders guiding groups offering spiritual families, prayer, Bible study, and social service projects.
Troy area residents Anita Casale of Ouimet Drive Troy join the nursing program at Albany Junior College for the fall semester. Russell Boudreau of Rensselaer Avenue Cohoes enters the liberal arts program. Bernadine McEvoy of Maine Avenue Rensselaer enrolls in secretarial science.
Speigletown residents prepare for a June 5 paper drive organized by Boy Scout Troop 74 chaired by Walter Wilsnack. A spring luncheon for the local American Cancer Society unit is set for Monday at Verdiles with 11 am assembly at the fire house. Church services are listed for Our Saviour's Lutheran and St Bonaventure's with respective pastors named.
Troy Typographical Union will hold its annual memorial service Sunday at the Printers Plot in Oakwood Cemetery with Rev. Donald J. Gardner as speaker. If weather blocks, services shift to Earl Memorial Chapel. Mortuary roll lists Cor nelius J. Ryan Edward T. French and Joseph Hormats. Thomas D. Heffner presides with a program including introductions by Heffner and Mrs Stephen Madden and a benediction by Gardner. Flags carried by Robert J. Manning and Charles E. Best.
The Pleasantdale Fire Department Auxiliary met at the firehouse and planned the annual steak roast for June 15 at 6 30 p.m. Chairwomen and setup and cleanup committees were named. They will also take part in the Memorial Day Parade in Lansingburgh May 31.
Mrs Helen Ellett returns to Grafton from winter with daughter Katherine Closson in Troy. Cadette Girl Scouts camp at Gilboa Reservoir. Senior Citizens meet at Grafton Library Wednesday at 7 30 p m for a game party with a 25 cent prize.
Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile on May 6 1954 at Oxford running 3 59 4 and later lowered the mark in Vancouver. He was born March 23 1929 and became a physician after athletics. The item also recalls a 1934 Max Baer fight and presents riddles from the Know ledge Yearbook.
The Troy Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church approved by voice vote a resolution to participate in Christians United in Mission, an ecumenical group with a planned initial board July 1 and policy by Jan 1, 1972, targeting Rensselaer Albany Schenectady and Saratoga counties.
Historical summaries mark May 22 with events from 1868 Great Train Robbery in Marshfield Indiana to 1962 airline crash in Southeastern Iowa and 1943 Russia dissolving the Communist International. Notable deaths include Bobby Franks case in 1932 and prison outcomes for Leopold and Loeb. Ralph Waldo Emerson quote offered as Thought For Today.
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