New Formula Urged for Highway Aid
State Public Works Superintendent Charles H. Sets urged Congress to replace the old highway aid formula with a needs and traffic volume based plan. He argued industrial states require larger funds and NYS has paid in far more tax than it has received, calling for more state authority over secondary roads and flexible use of appropriations.
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British Women Reject Upswept Paris Hairdo
The Parisian influence on hairdressing reaches Britain but is dismissed as unpatriotic amid wartime priorities. British women argue the upswept eight inch high style clashes with service caps and safety in factories, and hair length and time for care are insufficient.
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Coiffeurs
London
Britain
Paris
Patis
Wedding Today Aboard Troy Baptist Church
The wedding of Miss Emmarant Babcock and Sherman Cottrell is set for today at 3 p.m. at the Baptist Church with families from Grafton Troy and nearby towns in attendance. Local news notes report visitors to Watervliet Berlin and Vickers Ferry and a Halloween party hosted by the Baptist Church children.
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Aaron “Miller
New York
Methodist Church
George Gates
Cornell
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Sherman Cottrell
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Fred Lamphere
Harry Raymond
Henry Dunham
Vickers Ferry
John P. Murphy
Frank Driscoll
Cheney Public Library
Roger White
Joseph Walsh
Marie Bradley
Anya Boyle
Judith Ann Bullock
Janet Hennessey
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Helen Bullock
Bratian
Hoosick Falls Grange Confers Degrees at All Saints
Hoosick Falls members and two guests attended a Grange meeting at All Saints parish hall Hoosick to confer third and fourth degrees. The class included Mr and Mrs Henry Crandell Mrs Lorens Keer and others with a future initiation ballot and a $20 War Fund vote. The evening featured readings songs and a covered dish supper followed by a juvenile Grange meeting and plans for Go To Church Sunday and Halloween events.
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Chester C. DuStand
Mire, Dudfond
Ulster County
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Lorens Keer
Edward Hay
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Lee Gagewar
Ophie Wilson
Mery Cunnignghas
Wiliam Garner
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Local Notables Ill or Visiting Family in Region
Whitehall resident George Guyette is ill at his daughter Mrs Charles Kingsleys home. Cadet Nurse Gloria Sullivan of the Army visits her mother Mrs Hermon Sullivan. Mrs David Manel is under treatment at Moses-Lamdington Hospital in Ticonderoga. Sergi Edward Signori stationed at Warrington Virginia spends a few days with his parents Mr and Mrs Charles Ligneri.
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David Manel
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Ticonderoga
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Warrington
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Machine Tool Operators in Demand Amid War Push
Island G Batcheller president of Aegheny Ludden Steel Corp says 415,000 more machine tool operators are needed to meet the grave shortage for war production in Europe. He notes shifts in production types may allow limited civilian output but the priority remains on accelerating war industries over all else.
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Avery
Arrest of former Greek dictator Pengalos reported
A Greek government notice states 66 year old Theodorus Pengalos, once a dictator, was arrested on collaboration charges. Pengalos led the 1920s coup that toppled King Constantine and later served as minister of war before becoming president in 1926.
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Athens
Theodorus Pengalos
Greece
Pangalos
Constantine
Harsh Regime Falls as Leader Is Ousted and Banished
A harsh regime collapses after four months of power. The government is overthrown, and the leader is jailed, tried, and banished, ending the era of rule.
Scholarship Fund Keeps Baby Besneth From War
A presidentially authorized trial grants six month old Besneth Maloney a scholarship for education at Bardia Simmons College Abi tene Fox. Grandmother William Maroney confirmed the acceptance in New York and expressed gratitude for the fund's security. The infant is the son of Lieut Kenneth Maloney killed in action and his British mother, who died in childbirth, leaving grandparents in England.
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Triaa
England
Bardia Simmons College
Abitene
Fox
William, Maroney
New York
Besneth
Kenneth Maloney
Presidential Wreath Placed on Teddy Roosevelt’s Grave
A wreath of dark green palm leaves bearing a card reading The President was laid yesterday on the grave of President Theodore Roening's in Oyster Bay. The ceremony was at Youngs Men Hospital with Franklin D. Roosevelt in attendance. Afterwards Colonel and two WAC members visited the widow of the 26th president at Sagamore Hill.
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Theodore Roening
Shasenemoras Gt
Davie
Cain
Camp Upton
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Young's Men Hospital
WAC
Sagamore Hil
Bricker Sees Farmers Weary of Promises
Gov. Bricker told Wichita that American farmers are disillusioned by New Deal promises and will vote Republican on November 7 to escape economic constraints. He attacked the Roosevelt administration for depriving farmers of labor, machinery, and supplies, noting wartime production records were due to prewar policies, not the New Deal.
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Wichita
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INS
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G. O. BR
Ohio
America
Berlin Church Destroyed in Recent Raid
Berlin's Church of St. Michel was razed in a recent air raid, the German press agency reported yesterday. The church, completed in 1447, was noted as one of Berlin's oldest buildings and a historic landmark.
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