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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1943
Page
11
We thank our friends and relatives for kindness and sympathy during our recent bereavement. Mrs Eugene Bova and family. Also extend sincere thanks to friends and relatives for kindness during the time of sorrow for Midas De Lorme.
In loving memory of Mrs Mane Falco who died three years ago on Oct 14 1940. Also births: Janet Marie Benson Oct 7 1943 to James H Benson and wife. Frederick William Helmbold Oct 13 1943 to Frederick W Helmbold and wife. Kathleen Roberts Oct 10 1943 to William J Roberts and wife. Patricia Anne Squadrito Oct 12 1943 to John J Squadrito and wife. James Jerome Tierney and a son to Harvid Tierney and wife.
Mr and Mrs Benjamin C Ginsburg announce the Bar Mitzvah of their son Alvin Herbert on Saturday morning October 16 at 5 30 at Congregation Beth Israel. Friends are invited to attend.
Multiple death notices dated October 11 12 13 1943 from Wynantskill Taborton Green Island Troy Lathamstown Troy area. Includes Myrtle Gottschalk Ackner widow of Henry Ackner mother of William Margaret Mildred Donald Virginia and Henry Jr. Funeral from 6 Bentley Avenue Wynantskill and Zion Evangelical Church. Also Alfred Benoit Green Island James Cowee Westport Conn. Margaret Davies Troy. Detective Sergeant William Conroy Wynantskill. Multiple obituaries list survivors and funeral details.
DA Delaney launches a grand jury inquiry in Albany into state legislative committee expenditures since 1935 and subpoenas State Comptroller Moore and Tax Commissioner Browne to produce records. The move targets Republican figures and seeks canceled checks and all bills, with the proceeding tied to alleged larceny and corruption charges.
The Troy Central Federation of Labor approved four candidacies for local offices and upheld a joint committee's disapproval of Hearle J. Wiley. The body opposed an incentive plan for piecework speedup and heard a report on Albany talks with OPA officials. It also named labor representatives for Troy and Watervliet ration bodies.
Governor Dewey ordered closure of state lands and a hunting ban across central and southern New York due to a critical forest fire hazard. The Conservation Department logged 47 fires state wide, with serious blazes near Jerseyfields Lake and in Great Valley. Rain is forecast, and the ban may be lifted when danger eases.
Firemen of Pumper 8 responded at 6:53 p.m. to a one story barn fire owned by John Law at 155 North Lake Avenue on the city ne side. The blaze, likely from a grass fire, was well advanced upon arrival. 500 feet of hose via hydrant line was used. Chickens in the barn survived. Apparatus returned by 7:44 p.m. Eight other grass fires and leaf blazes prompted still alarms yesterday afternoon and last night across multiple streets and addresses including Woodlawn Court Kinney Avenue Spring Avenue Fonda Avenue 46 Pawling Avenue Mill Street Second Avenue Congress Street east of Fifteenth Street.
Obituaries list several deaths October 1943 in Troy Albany and Canajoharie. Includes Mary E Landers sister of Mrs McCullough and Mrs Betham. Amelia McGarry sister of Mrs Looby and Miss McGarry. William B Mangione husband of Alice M Corps with Mangione and related kin. Rose Mochon and Edmund Roche funeral details. Anthony Sambo. Clarence Spencer. Helena Timber Hoffman wife of Frank Timber with funeral at St Patrick’s Church. services held at Bryce Funeral Home and Lenz Funeral Home with masses at local churches. Interments in local cemeteries. funeral home calls through Thursday and Friday evenings.
District Deputy Mrs. Inez Gurtze of Albany will visit Liberty Council D A on Wednesday October 27. Albany Capital City Council guests attended the meeting at 81 Fourth Street. A social followed.
Kentucky folk singer John Jacob Niles appeared at Emma Willard School presenting a program of folk songs carols and ballads in three parts. He played his own dulcimer accompaniments described the colonial background and noted Finnish affinity for his carol The Cuckoo Carol. He closed with work songs about John Henry and an encore You Got to Cross That Lonely Valley.
The Court of Claims reopens a 1942 auto crash death case involving Schuylerville soldier John McCarty. Administratrix Anastasia McCarty Maloney leads claimants against the Saratoga Springs authority for alleged highway negligence on the Avenue of Pines. Judge William Frizsimmons presides with Saratoga officers David Cunningham and Theodore Winship testifying.
Lieut Malcolm Hormats, war hero and son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Hormats, spoke of North African and Italian theater service after reciting ancient Succoth prayers at Temple Beth El. Rabbi Joel Geffen offered prayers for the congregation. A reception followed in the vestry. Succoth continues with services today and tomorrow.
The New York Court of Appeals in Albany upheld Nugent, a Democrat, as American Labor Party candidate for Watervliet First Ward supervisor after ruling Olson’s ALP backed GOP nomination defective due to improper signatures. The tie in ALP primaries triggered the dispute. Olson’s earlier Supreme Court loss was reversed by the Appellate Division. Nugent now faces Olson in the November 2 election.
Residents from Speigletown Sunset Heights and Plank Road join to form a new fire company. Charter members will have names on the future secretary of state application. Male residents from nearby areas may join. four prior meetings. tonight’s public meeting to elect a board of trustees and conduct business at District No. 6 schoolhouse on the Troy Speigletown Road.
Hi Y plans a dinner series with new inductees and monthly meetings at the Y. The first dinner is scheduled for November 3 in Troy Lansingburg and Watervliet units. Each club will sponsor a bill for the Schenectady Assembly, and if approved will be presented at the State Conference in Albany.
Newly elected and appointed officers of the Troy Encampment L O F were installed with District Deputy George F. Stella leading the ceremony assisted by a Can ton Lea delegation from the Patriarchs Militant. Fred Whitehouse and Fred C Dugan named representatives for the Grand Encampment session in Albany next year. The event included installation of officers such as Fred Hunziker, Charles Post, Charles Hansen, and others, followed by addresses from Fredrick R Blackman, Arthur Schafer, and George Stella.
A Troy man named Robert J. Banks, 24, of 25 Harrison Place, Troy, was indicted in Albany yesterday on a charge of carrying a loaded revolver without a permit. He was taken into custody in Albany in September.
The 1943 44 county budget was adopted by a party line vote of 22 Republicans for and eight Democrats against after a public hearing. The $2 267 074 72 gross budget will be offset by estimated revenues of $970 025 00, reducing the tax levy by about 52 cents per $1 000 of assessed value. The meeting, in the Court House, featured debate on welfare department costs and salary raises, with criticism of fiscal estimates and calls for tighter control under the cash budget system.
Fred Shellard was elected president of Trojan Ledge Lodge for Montreaf War Employees at its Mondar meeting in Federal Street rooms. Other officers named for 1944 include Charles Dain vice president Joann Keyes auditor Fred Strickland secretary treasurer John Counley recording secretary George Larabee chaplain John McCabe sr conduct or James Mahoney warden and James Hunt safety chairman. Gifts were sent to all active in the armed forces. The lodge reports 100 percent enrollment in the War Bond payroll savings plan. Unanimous support was given to Charlies A Cassidy for the second assembly district. Strickland spoke on State Legislation for Maintenance of way Employees.
Lester W Herzog district director of the Office of Price Administration reported that 35 Troy area rationing boards including the city county board are being checked after reports they lack applications for War Ration Book and the A gas rationing book. He said Albany district did not distribute the forms and that regional boards supplied local boards directly. Book 4 starts Nov 1 and the basic A gas book on Nov 8, with shortages of related forms noted.
Five women from this vicinity have passed state tests to qualify for civil service positions. Jane Iha Chapelle, this city was rated first among seven listed for senior stenographer in the Conservation Department. Josephine Kittel and Mary Flynn, both local women, qualified for junior laboratory technician positions in the Health Department. Alce Bessette, Cohoes, took third place in test for stenography in the Conservation Department. Second place in an examination for assistant typist in the State Department was taken by Mary Grant, Rensselaer, who scored 83.8.
Maurice L. Tainter, 44, from Leland Stanford University in California, is named to lead the new research department at Winthrop Chemical Co. Rensselaer. He will head a staff of biologists involved in atabrine production.
Two Granville men serving with the Eighth Army Air Force in Great Britain met in Edinburgh on leave. Maj Jona J. Cunningham and Corp. Albert D. Tichie Jr. unknowingly spotted each other on the sidewalk and exchanged greetings during a tour of the Scottish capital.
The Trev Business and Professional Forum will host a Halloween party at the Troy YWCA on Wednesday October 27. President Marty Bonelli announced dates for the state conference in Schenectady October 22 and 23 with Evelyn DeCrescenta Vorgyma Labrum and Anne Swenson expected to attend. A bicycle owned by Otto Kerin 644 Fourth Avenue was reported stolen from 118th Street and Fifth Avenue valued at $15.
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