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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1967
Page
14
Police in Saratoga Springs arrested three motorists on driving while intoxicated charges after a sequence of four vehicular accidents investigated early yesterday. The incidents prompted multiple responders and ongoing inquiries by local authorities.
Report by John Tobin head of Yankee Trails warns that bus service for Glens Falls and nearby areas may shrink. The piece details multiple drunken driving arrests including Bernard J. James Leona C. Bradshaw and George H. Campbell along with police reports of accidents and road hazards in West Avenue Grand Avenue and nearby streets.
Tobin said the local bus venture cannot keep losing money after 14% years and warned the future looks bleak if it stays. The existing franchise terminates October 23 and no new franchise will be pursued without drastic changes. Committee members debated subsidies. Tobin rejected that option but offered to think it over. Mayor Earl suggested a financial guarantee, while Corbett proposed a transit authority. The group will meet again September 18 with representatives from Glens Falls Hudson Falls Kingsbury Fort Edward South Glens Falls and Moreau, excluding Queensbury, all aiming to continue Yankee Trails bus service.
Numerous Salem residents and guests are listed in a long series of visits and trips. Miss Cindy Linendoll returns home from Sche nectady to Salem to stay with relatives Albert Linendoll and family. The Frank McAleer family arrives back in Chicago after weeks with Mrs. McAleer’s sister-in-law, Mrs. Patrick Carero lan. Other visits include Mr. and Mrs. John Roche and family of South Bend Indiana to see George Roche and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Macalpine of Manchester Connecticut visiting Mrs. MacAlpine’s sister Mrs. John Hubbard. Nearby, Mrs. Joseph Schoner and son Joseph of Elmont, L. I., stay with Mrs. Fred Fleming on Blind Buck Road. Robert Baker and Mrs. John Bay and children of Hawthorne, and Pierce Campbell Jr. vacation with relatives in Plattsburgh and Oakfield. Activities include a Moore family picnic at Lake Nancy and a weekend at Old Orchard Beach, Maine with Salemites James Stewart and his wife. John Neil Sr. and Mrs. Neil, with L. A. Palmer of Clifton Park, tour Rhode Island.
The county administrative building at Ballston Spa should finish by end October. Two parking lots will be paved and opened next month to ease traffic around the Saratoga County complex. About 2 million of the 2.8 million bond issue has been spent. the entire complex including the courthouse is to be finished and occupied by summer 1968.
Whitehall and area residents are noted for military enlistment as Arthur Schumacher leaves for Ft. Dix NJ for basic training after high school graduation in 1966 and Cortland State attendance. Bridal showers highlight upcoming weddings for Patricia Garofano to Donald Charbonneau and Helen Hoey to Paw Harris, with various local hosts and church ceremonies planned. A birthday party honors Mrs. Anna Matte with friends and relatives hosting.
Seven new teachers will join the Argyle Central School staff for the 1967 68 year. John McCarty will be elementary supervisor. Donna Dougan Tsiatsos Gilbert Betts Donnelly and Bunker join as instructors in various subjects. New hires reside in Hudson Falls Middle Granville Glens Falls and Queensbury areas.
Glens Falls Common Council rejected two bids from Howard A. La Rose Inc for granite curbing at 53925 dollars and steel face concrete curbing at 55195 dollars for the Elm Street Parking Lot project. The bids were tabled earlier and new bids will be sought with specifications available at City Clerk's office.
Round Lake notices show Mrs M W Williams phone 899 2162. Richard Gorsline visits son Donald in Bloomfield Conn. Recent guests include Mr and Mrs W Henry Suters of Waterville and Mr and Mrs Clyde Robinson and family of Richfield Springs. Sunday services: Round Lake Methodist 11 am Rev W R Deming. Saint Episcopal 9 30 am Rev Arthur D Bridgers. Corpus Christi Usher Rev Arthur P Carroll masses 8 30 10 30 and noon.
Congressman Carleton J. King announced a 10-day tour of his eight-county 30th District to meet voters and discuss remedies for rising federal spending disorder and law enforcement concerns. He criticized Lyndon Johnson's Viet War strategy and proposed surtax plans, urging strong action against unrest and rapid reforms. Also notes local visitors and social notes from Saratoga Springs.
The Salem American Legion Auxiliary starts its season with a meeting on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Legion Rooms on Main Street. President Mrs. Elsie Jackson discusses plans to attend the Buffalo Convention in July and Tupper Lake conference this summer. The unit will continue to collect books stamps merchandise coupons and cancelled postage stamps for the Veterans Hospital and make cancer dressings and pillows. Worn nylons can be donated to any member. Membership chair Mrs. Mary Tarantino can be contacted to join.
Dr. Donald B. Washington and Dr. Donald B. Aulenbach of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute attend the Second National Conference on Environment and Sanitary Engineering Graduate Education at Northwestern University Evanston. The conference is sponsored by the Environmental Engineering Intersociety Board and the American Association of Professors in Sanitary Engineering.
Miss Jane Nolan, Cambridge Central School 1967 graduate, will study nursing at St Marys Hospital Amsterdam. Miss Barbara Hall, Cambridge Central School 1986 graduate, enrolls in Mary McClellan Hospital School of Practical Nursing. Also notes visits and a Putnam Memorial Hospital patient in Bennington.
Old Saratoga Historical Association sponsors a nine site tour Sunday September 10 to aid the Gen Philip Schuyler Furniture Fund. Hosts plan ticket sales, with Mrs Gr Leighton Cromie welcoming guests on the lawn for refreshments. The lineup includes the Old Dutch parsonage Marshall House Gen Philip Schuyler House O'Brien Bullard Lottridge Farm Old Champlain Canal Locks and Old Saratoga Reformed Church.
Labor Day weekend in Whitehall marks the 150th anniversary of Erie and Champlain Canal construction. The Erie Maid exhibition of canal memorabilia will run Sunday and Monday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. in Skenesborough Museum. Festivities begin with ceremonies and a 21 gun salute by the National Guard.
Poestenkill volunteers meet Labor Day adjusted schedule for Fire Company. Deer licenses go on sale at the Town Clerk’s home with mail deadlines Sept 5. Schools in Sand Lake Poestenkill district reopen with 9 10 start times, 3 30 end, square dance and Erie Maid visits mark opening events. Local churches issue Sunday services and school resumption dates.
The funeral of William Conboy a retired bank clerk and former confidential secretary to the New York Power and Light Company head was held yesterday. Requiem High Mass was at St Agnes Church Cohoes with Rev Charles Smith officiating. Beavers nephews Stanley A Conboy Thomas E Conboy John C Conboy and William Sauter attended. Interment followed at St Marys Cemetery Waterford where Father Smith officiated and the flag draped casket was presented to his widow.
Soviet Communist chief Leonid Brezhnev plans a trip to Hungary early next month to sign a Soviet Hungarian defense pact, the Soviet news agency TassSA reported on Wednesday.
Rev. Robert S. Hatela formerly of St Patrick's parish has been commissioned a captain in the Chaplains Corps to serve the Air Force. He will report Sept 12 at Offutt Air Force Base Omaha Nebraska. Hatela ordained 1960 and now assists at St Patrick's Albany. He earlier assisted at St John's Rensselaer and was a school faculty member there. He is a graduate of Catholic Central High School St Andrew's Seminary Rochester and St Jerome's College Kitchener Ontario. He completed studies at Our Lady of Angels' Seminary Niagara University. His first Solemn Mass was in St Patrick's Church. For the last year he has been Newman Club chaplain for Albany College of Pharmacy.
A committee for a national lottery has been formed led by Maynard Smith, former NY lobbyist. Smith, chair of the Committee for Enactment of a National Lottery, said the program could run via the U.S. Postal Department and generate about 30 billion dollars annually to cut corporate and individual income taxes.
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