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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1943
Page
3
The Army, seeking to sustain fitness of American soldiers after the war, plans to maintain nutrition and steady rations. Maj. Gen. E. B. emphasizes ongoing food programs to preserve physical readiness.
Twenty two men from Selective Service Board 331 reported to Army camp yesterday with four to the Air Corps, three to the Marine Corps, two to the Coast Guard, and 17 to the Navy this month. John J. Hyland Jr. went directly to camp from induction. Board members John P. Ryan, Franklin H. Wilson, and George H. Krug sent them off at the USO Lounge in Troy Union Depot as USO volunteers provided coffee, sandwiches, cigarettes, and apples.
Lansingburg unit of Nowetom pattamin Camp Fire Girls will meet at 3 30 p m Thursday at Roberta Gottschalk s home 417 Sixth Avenue Guardian Mrs Robert Gottschalk to oversee. Girls bring loose leaf notebooks and pencils and begin work on Trailseeker rank. Examination set for January unknown date.
Troy hosts the 1946 state convention after Elmer Rasmussen’s 1945 election advances him to deputy grand master and likely grand master in New York. Troys Trojan Lodge lines up leaders, with Rasmussen as temporary chair and Willard Simmons, John F.R. Johnson, Raymond Wallingford as cochairs. Twenty three lodges attend. meetings set every three months, next Feb. 6 at Trojan Lodge Jewish Community Center. Dr. Cushman warns wartime threats to civil liberty including Postmaster General mail exclusions and military intrusions into civilian life.
The Sycaway Red Cross unit holds a weeky sewing event at Memorial Church House tomorrow from 0 a.m. to 4 p.m. At 2:30 p.m. the School of Religious Instruction will meet under Rev. David J. Livingstone. The Youth Choir rehearses at 6:30 p.m. for To Serve Supper.
East Side A residents will host a rummage sale on Tuesday November 9 at 118 Congress Street by the Women’s Society of Christian Service Trinity Methodist Church. A Dutch supper and a clam chowder sale run today at Church of the Ascension and Pawling Avenue Methodist Church respectively with public meals and special offerings.
The regular novena will be held this evening at 7 30 PM in the Church of Paul the Apostle followed by the benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Samuel McKinney of Poughkeepsie has returned home after visiting his uncle. Henry Bryce of 2332 Fifteenth Street and Mrs Lela Hussey and daughter Kay of 228 Hoosick Street have returned from New York where they were guests of Mr and Mrs Wheldon Clark.
Staff Sergeant Edward J. Minehan 23 Army Air Corps belly gunner was killed in action over Stuttgart during a European raid. The Troy native, a Catholic Central High School class of 1938 graduate, worked at Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. before enlisting in September. The War Department sent the Purple Heart to his sister Mrs Rupert V O Connell of 71 Fulton Street.
Russell VanDenburgh and his four year old son perished in a Salem Ohio house fire Saturday afternoon. The boy died inside the home after the father carried his 18 month old daughter to safety. A gasoline stove explosion is believed to have started the blaze. The father in law found the house aflame and the girl on the lawn. The father, a former Metropolitan Insurance Co. worker, is survived by his wife Mary Ann Soxe and a sister Mrs. Frank A. Vinett.
Snyder's Corners and Water View mourn two brothers Stanley H. VanDenburgh of Water View and Emerson F. VanDenburgh of Snyder's Corners. They belonged to West Sand Lake Lutheran Church and Phoenix Lodge No 58. Funeral at 2 30 pm from Salem with interment there.
John Corning Wright a longtime store proprietor and public official in Center Cambridge died yesterday at his home after a brief illness. He had been town collector and his sister Miss Catherine Wright served as town clerk for over thirty years. Born in Center Cambridge in 1863, Wright was blind since childhood and graduated from the State Institute for the Blind at Batavia. He ran an oral store for fifty years and was active in civic life. Funeral services planned at Center Cambridge Town Hall with burial at Woodstand Cemetery in Cambridge.
Troy Public Schools will be closed today as Election Day observes. George H. Krug announced that most schools serve as polling places.
An old advertisement describes nutritional anemia from iron deficiency and promotes Pepto Mangan as a blood builder. It claims the remedy helps pale weak women and children regain strength, appetite, and pep, now available in tablet form with vitamin B and the original liquid version.
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