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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1943
Page
3
Dr. James H. Flynn, health commissioner, cites three infantile paralysis cases for the month. Two are in Troy, one in the Speigletown area traced to Detroit. No direct Troy contact. Deaths total 97 in Troy. births 193. Tuberculosis cases 3, sanatoria 10, 2 deaths. Diphtheria and syphilis tests noted. Pasteurizing plants and dairy inspections conducted.
County Clerk Lawrence J. Collins warns hunters to fill deer license applications carefully. Many forms lack signatures or addresses or are filed in the wrong county, risking voiding. With rapid distribution, northern counties may hold drawings if applications exceed the doe quota, as in Hamilton County which allows 3,000 does.
East Side announces the initiatory degree will be conferred tomorrow on a class of candidates at Odd Fellows Hall. Mrs. Versa Hammersley district deputy president and her staff will be present. Personal notes: Mr and Mrs George Culler of 11 Luther Street return from St Albans Vermont with children Betty and Phyllis who stayed with relatives. Better to buy hands than to wear them.
A Hudson Falls youth charged with stealing Rev. William Sheridan's auto at St Patrick's Church was released after the priest declined to prosecute. Theodore S Waterman, 16, was arraigned in Troy Police Court where Judge James F Byron ordered release to his parents. The sedan valued at $2,000 was found four miles east of Wilmington, Vermont after Waterman abandoned it when out of gas while headed toward Lynn Massachusetts.
The Hendrick Hudson Fish and Game Club plans a Monday meeting at Owls Hall on Federal Street. President George C. Limebeck reports 55 pheasants liberated recently, bringing total birds released in the county to about 325 by the Conservation Department. Victory gardens on Averill Park Road produced cucumbers tomatoes and corn with no corn borers and good yields except for cabbage which rabbits ate.
Edward J. Ronan, former chair of the Troy Rationing Board and later part of the consolidated Rensselaer County board, resigned under district policy. At Hotel Troy headquarters Saturday noon, Charles C. Freihof er presented a cowhide traveling bag with toilet accessories as a token of appreciation from board members and staff. Ronan thanked the group, praising collective effort and staff support, and noted he would still visit the hotel frequently.
Radio listings detail a wide slate of shows across 224 NHAL Troy 1350 and affiliated stations. Program notes include Philip Kesne Gordon, Dick Thomas, Overseas Report, Norma A. Catri Cala, Raymond Clapper, Sonny Skylar, Lew Diamond, George Hamilton, The Lone Ranger, Treasury Star Parade, Farm News, The Guiding Light, Mary Marlin, Pepper Young, and numerous serialized dramas and musical segments. The compilation reflects a busy broadcast day with news, music, dramas, and variety acts across multiple time slots and programs.
The fragment outlines a dense morning radio and almanac style schedule with numerous program titles and hosts. It lists shows, times, performers, and station segments including news, weather, music, and serialized features, reflecting a bustling daily broadcast lineup.
The New York State Nurses Association released a two year Albany study linking the nursing shortage to static salaries and working conditions. Ruth Hall of Buffalo said the 20,000 member group urged pay from 1800 to 2100 dollars annually, a 48 hour week, paid vacations, night day rotation, sick leave, definite hospital personnel practices, and better living conditions to attract and retain graduates. The report argues nurses earn less than elementary teachers and cites neglect by hospital authorities in raising standards.
Jackson Mississippi. Joseph B. Eastman director of the Office of Defense Transportation says civilian travel rationing is not planned with the possible exception of the Christmas holidays. He indicated studying travel rationing abroad shows it would be a tougher job than rationing tires and gasoline and that the cure might be worse than the disease.
London reports that Field Marshal Albert Kesselring ordered the immediate transfer to Germany of all Allied prisoners of war in Italy. The Zurich dispatch via Exchange Telegraph says DNB confirms arrangements to keep Rome as a free city under Italian police control.
The fall term of Washington County Court will convene at Salem on Tuesday Sept 28 with Ween and Bascom presiding. Trial jurors drawn include Argyle Thomas Hughes George McGowan Floyvd McConnel Cambridge Robert Marshal Dresden Clayton Greenough Edgar Bartley Easton Ernest Booth Howard Dixon Fort Ann Harland Matuson Richard Lyons Rollin Steeves Deil bert Stiles Howard Carpenter Fort Edward Mrs John Burns Herbert Cronkhite Harold Stoughton A M Prior Granville E G Barrow Hyman Berkowitz John Brayton Willard Ward Greenwich Clifford F Lauder Edna Hartford Lawrence Gibson Fayette Dean Kingsbury Dora Stick Jus land Fowier Mildred Framer Fred rd Emmons Putnam Arthur Belden Chester Davis Zalem William C O'Donnell D Earl Every White Creek Benjamin McCiri Her W J Jan Whitehall Amoz Yell.
A Troy traffic officer serving with the U S Navy SeaBees writes Acting Commissioner John B. Conroy saying traffic in North Africa and Sicily is hotter but notes the local system is different and ours is more up to date. He longs for Fulton and River Streets and praises Troy's system.
The Troy Public Library reveals a one week exhibition of newly added titles. Notable works include In the Beginning Was the Light by Amelie Brazdove, What America Means to Me by Pearl Buck, Greatest Eve in the World by A F Collins, Sense of Humus by Bertha Damon, Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, and They Also Ran by Irving Stone. Fiction selections feature Death of a Busybody and Ring Finger among others while biographies and guides cover radio speaking and social insurance plans.
Brown and the News, Burns and Allen appear in the Nation. Congress speech quoted by Ted Husing. Joan Brooks reports. Samarinys Orchestra featured in the program. Sparse details but marks a mixed broadcast listing with notable names and a headline of a radio show.
New York State College for nilgat teachers in Albany plans war education courses for Monday night sessions start September 2. Courses include Mathematics for Army Men, Elementary Spanish, Studies in Art Literature and American Diplomacy. Director Prof. Ho A. DoBell leads the program with about 130 students expected at college buildings.
The Second Ward Honor Roll Committee will meet at 2 pm today in the Troy High School. All residents of the ward especially families of those in service have been asked to attend. The committee reports donations are coming in for the veil, with the type of memorial to be decided later.
Inheritance tax reports have been filed in Surrogate's Court by Transfer Tax Examiner J. Poland for three estates. The cases involve Jennie M. Whitehurst who died Nov 14 1942 in this city, Laws Unser a former Troy police officer who died Jan 14, and Frank W. Kent of Koke Town. The papers list gross estates around 19 Bank weogne with net figures and designate Alfred White and Edson H. Whitehurst as heirs, with attorney E. Jones RD ng Chase.
The Mothers' Club of St. Augustine's School held its first meeting in Baldwin with newly elected president presiding. Plans were made for weekly Wednesday afternoon card parties at the school with hostesses Mrs. Clinton Trembley and Mrs. James Graham for the upcoming session at 2 pm. The next meeting is set for October 8 at 8 pm to finalize arrangements for a November reception for new members.
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