St Marys opens with 500 enrollments in wartime program
St Marys School in Troy opens for the 1940s scholastic year with about 500 children registered. Rev Joseph P Kelly, principal, led a Holy Spirit Mass at St Marys Church as parents and friends attended. He praised the Daughters of Charity and described the school as one of New Yorks best with trained staff and modern equipment.
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B Mary's
Sisters of Charity
Troy
Qeam
St Marys Church
Josep P. Kelly
Holy Spire
Doctor Kelly
College of St Rose
Christ
Nis
St. Mary's School
New York
Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul
Troy Area Women Enter Albany Business College
Three percent of Troy area students will enroll at Albany Business College this fall. Prentiss Carvel Jr. announces admissions. Read names include Miss Roberts J. Jones of Salem and Miss Mary C. Stefanovich of Cambridge.
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Business College
Troy Area
Albany Business College
Prentiss Carvel, Jr
Roberts J. Jones
William ©. Joney
Salem
Mary C. Stefanovich
Joseph Stefanovich
Cambridge
Retail Stores Open Tonight in Troy
Retail stores in Troy will stay open tonight until 3:30 p.m. The Retail Merchants' Bureau reminds shoppers that summer hours have ended. Stores will open each Saturday from now on until 5:30 p.m.
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Troy
Burest
Two Motorists Forfeit Bail Bonds In Speeding Case
Two motorists forfeited $10 bail bonds after failing to appear in Troy Pollen Court yesterday morning to answer speeding charges. Edmund F. Madigan of Waterford and Addison Kingsley of Round Lakes were accused of driving at high speeds. Officer John Stalimer made the arrests on Second Avenue.
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Troy Pollen Court
Edmund FL Madigan
Tairé Street
Waterford
Addison
Kingsley
Asbury Avenue
Round Laks
John Stalimer
Second Avenue
Waterford Lions Club clams at Airport noon event
Waterford Waterford Lions Club plans an annual clam steam at the Airport on Campbell in Troy starting at 12 noon September 10. Julian VanAlstine will preside. the event replaces a prior schedule as noted by local leaders. The community gathers for a fundraising meal.
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Waterford Lions Club
Campbell
Troy
Juflian VanAlstine
GATS Bring High Prices For Household Pests
In London a welfare alert notes rising costs for alley cat kits as households and stores pay higher prices to control mice. The piece treats pets and pest control as a mercy measure amid growing homeless animal concerns.
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London
Britain
Xeré
OPA Plans Butter Price Reform to End Upgrading Practice
The Office of Price Administration announced a campaign to eliminate upgrading the practice of selling one butter grade at a higher price. Officials say only 1 percent of butter is top grade, yet June checks show 90 percent sold as 93 score. War Food Administration graders assist in cleaning up butter grading and consumer costs are falling.
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OPA
Office of Price Administration
United States
OFA
War Food Administration
GRA
Padula Assigned To U S E S Staff
Joseph A. Padula, WWII veteran, joined the U S Employment Service as an employment interviewer. New staff report to replace others. Beth E. Moore says. Padula served with Airborne Engineers at Westover Field and Smoky H A A F Salina as instructor and classification specialist before becoming orientation coordinator. He discharged June 21. His son in AA has been missing in action since last October. Padula is Albany native and Union College graduate with a masters in guidance counseling from State College for Teachers.
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Joseph A. Padula
U. S. Employment Service
Beth E. Moore
Padola
Airborne Engineers
Westover Wield
Mass
Smoky H. A. A F. Ai
Rensselaer Boy Hurt After Dash Into Car
Clifford Bruce Nichols seven percent of life? No the seven year old son of Mr and Mrs Clifford Nichols of 3 Columbia Street Rensselaer ran from his house into a car driven by Katherine Cantwell of Albany. He sustained a deep scalp laceration body bruises and a possible fracture. Taken to Memorial Hospital Albany his condition was described as serious.
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Clifford Bruce Nichols
Clifford Nichols
Columbia, Street
Rensselaer
Katherine “K. Cantwell
Albany
Memorial Hospital
Five Named to Schools in Hoosick Valley
Five new appointments to Hoosick Valley Central School District were announced. Jean Bombstreet and Clara Stebner join Schaghticoke High School and Valley Falls High School as science and mathematics teachers, Rita Weisberg becomes social studies teacher at Valley Falls, Warren Williams is hired for physical education, and Mary Griggs will serve as secretary to the principal. Bus routes contracts went to Donald Weir, Lorenzo D. Clark, Alvin Hoag, Alexander Marpor, and Mabel Slingerland.
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Hoosick Valley Central
Beheol
Jean Bombstreet
Schaghticoke High School
Clara Stebner
Schaghtcoke
Valley Falls High School
Mise Rita Weisberg
Valley Falls
Warren Wiliams
Misa
Mary Griggs
Donald Weir
Lorenzo D. Clark
Alvin Hoag
Alexander Marpor
Mabel Slingerland
Valley Fats
Mitertown
Schaghticoke Fair Grounds
Nine Area Men On Casualty List
War Department casualty list includes nine Troy area men. Eight Army soldiers and one Marine are wounded in action. Names include Sergt James F. Golden and Lieut Graeme F. Parrish from Cambridge, and Marine John E. Dewine of Watervliet, among others with home addresses in Albany Schenectady Cohoes Averill Park and Watervliet.
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Troy Area
War Department
James F. Golden
Airs
Grace Golden
Ninth Street
William P. Molesky
Marcha
FL Molesky
Vilet Boulevard
Cohoes
Graeme F. Parrish
Malcolm M. Parrish
Broad Street
Cambridge
Charles Prager
Frances Prager
Morris Street
Albany
John Patleila
Francis Pattela
Green
Sirest
Prancis J. Wojtal
Anna Wojtal
Elk Street
Richard Buitig
Katherine Butiiig
Averill Park
Route
Garden Party Attended by Women’s Auxiliary members
East Side Mrs. Leo E Speck and daughter Marie hosted about twenty members of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Church of the Ascension at a Thursday garden party on Ferry Street. A picnic supper was served and Rev. Arthur T. Rice spoke on plans for the coming season. Mrs. Mabel R Frazier presided with the hostess.
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Leo E Speck
Marie Speck
Ferry Street
Church of the Ascension
Arthur T. Rice
Mabel R Frazier
Ferry* Street
W.S.G
Pawling Avenue
T. E. Burnap
Harold Shaver
Clifford Cooper
Licus Thrasher
Frank W.vanderpool
Lewise B. Barber
Etta Gleason
Nina Richardson
Rosella Saunders
Rose Lippman
Leaving Service Captain Cronin Returns Home to Civil Life
Captain William F. Cronin will report 10 inactive status on Oct 11 after a career in the Army Engineer Corps. He served in World War I and fought in Meuse-Argonne Verdun and Lu Mikiel. Cronin, post commander of Troy American Legion, plans to rejoin civilian construction work at 6 Locust Avenue.
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Wiliam F. Cronin
Army Engineer
Éaain Claiborne
California
Meusa-Argonne
Lu Mikiel
Verdun
Cronin
Troy
American Legion
Legion
Locust Avenue
Fort Dix
State Institute Announces Tuition Free Vocational Courses
Several new tuition free courses in machine shop blueprint reading mathematics radio operation and safety drafting will open at the New York State Technical Institute in the former Earl & Wilson Building Broadway Seventh Avenue on September 11 George E Holliday director announced yesterday Registration runs 8 am to 4 pm daily except Saturday at the school office. A total of 185 students are already enrolled in current programs.
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New York State Technical Institute
Earl, & Wilson
Broadway
Seventh Avenue
Park Police to Direct School Traffic in Troy
Park Police will aid school traffic duties to relieve Troy Police Department staffing shortages. Four Spectatothers will work shifts starting Tuesday at Hutton and Fifteenth, St Anthony's Lobel, Lawrence's School, and Douw and River Streets. Other park police will stay in parks and training monitors for school intersections planned by Chief Kendall.
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Troy
Perks
Frank B. Kendall
Fohn Beagle
Hutton
Fifteenth Street
George Rush
St. Anthony's Lobel
Lorenzo Cictfi
Su Lawrence’s
Wiliam H. Fisher
Douw and
River Streets
Park
John Doocey
Thomas J
Freepatrick
Malo
Edwin “Myers
Itergections
Frank M. Ames
Public Safety
Salvatore Caruso
Central
Sissian
Stove Rationing Rules Expanded by OPA
Changes announced by the Ab bady District Office of Price Administration tighten safeguards against altering stove certificates. Local boards will mark certificate types, endorsers may certify on behalf of purchasers, and transfers between stores and manufacturers are allowed. Errors in dealer registration may be corrected and records for transfers clarified. In Vermont a three footed bear was shot near the Pownal Stamford line by Bert Weller of Bennington after injuries from a trap.
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Abbady
Pownal-Stamford
Vermont
Bert Weller
Bennington
USO Lounge Seeks Folding Chairs for Troop Lounge
Fragments show the USO in Troy requesting folding chairs to seat more servicemen. The note states the lounge cannot seat more than about thirty at a time and chairs could be stored when not in use, aiding traveling soldiers in need of seating during visits.
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USO
Troy
Reid
UWSTH Officer Wounded in Action on Ssipan
Sap Sars L White of the 105th Infantry is being sent back to the United States after his second wounding on Ssipan. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Barward White of 235 State Street Schenectady. Captain White's wife Mrs Winifred White lives in California with son Earl and daughter Joyes.
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UWSTH
Sap
Sars L. White
105Th Infantry
Ba Ward White
State Street
Schenectady
United States
Captain White
Winifred White
California
Earl
Joyes
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Skelly
Bonny
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Walter Bate
Grace Episcopal Church
James TL . Herr
First Presbyterian
John Mouse
Chester Bo Parkis
Eibel Seouren
Upper’ Third Street
James T. Willian
Maple Avenue
Baldwin
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William A. Perry
Methodist Youth Fellowship
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Roscoe L. Wallows
Macjorie Ball
Gertrude Vander Poll
Katherine Bourke
2 Boyz
Migs Jane Houlihan
Kenne Putnam
Marjorie Osgood
Benjeh Curtis
Pearl Hacks
Elizabeth Caney
Sarah VasAlstine
Mar, Baker
Marie
Northside
Benily Amyot
Jane Cox
Nina Knabter
Taura Hyan
Bliss Leone Welker
Ellen Sullivan
Sirs. Bull
Arne Shewj
Padula
Hoosick Valley
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Spring Avenues
Kaya Deen
Brignoles
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Park Police
USO Lounge
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Goa
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