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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1955
Page
16
Schaghticoke Fair shattered attendance marks with 77 424 paid admissions over the run ending Sept. 6. Children’s Day drew about 5 000 youngsters among a 11 303 total on a record-breaking turnout while 42 European and Asian exchange students visited Bennington College during the week.
The senior and adult choirs of St Mark's Methodist Church will resume rehearsals at 8 p.m. Warhorrow in the church. Mrs Evelyn Johnson Small is organist and choir director.
Local notices list births at St Marys Leonard Samaritan and University hospitals with names of parents and newborns. Entries include dates in September 1955 and details about mothers’ prior names and hometowns, such as Cohoes Watervliet Galway Ireland and Troy.
Alfred A Dundon family thanks friends neighbors and organizations including Doring’s Military Band American Legion Troy Musicians 5113 and St M Church for sympathy mass cards flowers and funeral attendance during their bereavement.
The unveiling of a monument in memory of Annn Sheftel is set for Sunday September 11 1955 at 1 pm at New Spring Avenue Cemetery Trey N L. Died notices follow for several individuals with funeral details from James J Clinton Brothers Inc and other local funeral homes.
Troy police arrested Carl P. Decker 41 after a chase through the East Side. The 1949 government truck stolen from the Albany Post Office contained three sacks of mail and VA checks. Decker was captured at gunpoint near Pawling and Maple after colliding with a power pole and fleeing through yards.
Two members of the William B. Tibbits Auxiliary Sons of Union Veterans received department appointments at a meeting last night at the Noble Callahan American Legion Post home. Mrs. Mildred Nistico and Mrs. Lyda Van Housen were appointed and installed as personal aid to the department president and department aide representing the auxiliary.
Three people were injured in auto related incidents in the Troy area. A bicycle rider and a teen suffered injuries on Clifford Avenue near Troy Schenectady Road when a car driven by Edward Lupian struck a private driveway bicycle. Robert DeLollo is 17 and Robert Tyson is 15. both were treated at Samarian Hospital. The Tyson boy has a fractured left leg and DeLollo was released after treatment. The other crash involved Dorothy McCaffery whose car hit a parked sedan, injuring her lip and sending her children to hospital for checks. all three children were found not injured.
Mrs. Pearl Smith, 52, remained in critical condition at Leonard Hospital after being shot multiple times by her husband Leslie Smith, 57, who then killed himself at their Mineral Springs Road home near Melrose. Coroner rules death by suicide.
The State Bureau of Motor Vehicles explains a point system to curb persistent violators. Six points in two years or eight in four years triggers review and possible license action. A speeding or dangerous driving conviction adds two points. other offenses add one point. In 1954, 2,939 persistent violators lost driving privileges and 163,123 licenses were suspended or revoked overall.
Herman J. Rosenthal a Troy music teacher and lecturer will be guest speaker at Utica Rotary Club Friday noon at the Hotel Utica. He will discuss The Role for Music in Everyday Life describing music influence on intellectual social and spiritual life. Dr Winton Toles of Hamilton College is in charge of arrangements.
About 200 juniors enrolled yesterday at the Hudson Valley Technical Institute in Troy for the fall term to begin tomorrow. Registration continues today for seniors and more juniors across six two year technology curriculums.
State Commerce Commissioner Edward T. Dickinson reported a 20.8 percent rise in vacation business in the Catskills Adirondacks and Lake George areas. Lake George campsites saw 20 percent growth while the Adirondack region rose 30 percent. From Memorial Day through Labor Day 1,249,240 people registered at 35 campsites and 20,704,873 visited the state's 81 parks, about two million more than last year.
Zion's Evangelical Lutheran church officials announced a turkey supper to be served Saturday September 17 from 5 30 to 6 30 p m in the church hall.
Assemblyman Thomas H. Brown charged at a Hendrick Hudson GOP meeting that two policewomen were laid off for working for the wrong ticket. He named neither woman but said one was the sole support of her mother. County Republican leaders and officials spoke as primary election day loomed.
Mayor Edward A. Fitzgerald charged that Taylor is vulnerable to attack and vowed to win the Republican primary over Assemblyman Thomas H. Brown. He accused Boss Dean P. Taylor and others of pressuring Brown and outlined why the bosses prefer Brown to Fitzgerald. He spoke at the Veterans for Fitzgerald Club in Times Building headquarters and hinted at a party power struggle.
Twenty six Troy Area residents were sworn in as American citizens in Albany Naturalization Court. The group includes Father Kabarowsky a Ukrainian Catholic priest who earlier served in Europe under shifting regimes. Other new citizens span Poland, Ukraine, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Ireland, France, Canada and the United Kingdom.
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