Third Slate In Watervliet Post Election
Watervliet organization outlines third slate for local offices with candidacy to oppose Lieut. Jobe Pavien Fest in a meeting. Harry McClure leads the slate while Andrew F. ter backs another ticket.
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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1944
Page
9
Watervliet organization outlines third slate for local offices with candidacy to oppose Lieut. Jobe Pavien Fest in a meeting. Harry McClure leads the slate while Andrew F. ter backs another ticket.
Watervliet Selective Service Board No. 346 met to designate registrants for the October induction quota and preinduction physical exams. The board reserved the group sizes and identified those selected for the upcoming call.
Local authorities urge Watervliet residents to mail overseas parcels before deadlines and follow postal rules. Officials emphasize packaging requirements and customs forms to ensure timely delivery and avoid delays.
Chaplain Wilfred Boucher completes 18 months with the Army in Greenland and visits his parents at 24 Street Watervliet before resuming duties. He previously served at Fort Dix and other posts. details note his home address and ongoing assignments at local churches. Fire crews were called to a street electric wire fire and the city will hold upcoming literacy tests and school-hour schedules at several campuses in October.
An outdoor garden party at Maplewood featured refreshments, a program of games and musical selections, and dancing in the evening. Mr James McMahon attended amid reports of tin can collection efforts in the village and plans to send the cans to Albany for county salvage.
At the meeting of the Board of Education Monday the resignation of two teachers was accepted and new hires placed on probation. Mrs Theodosia Meligon and Mrs Boreby Budrakey departed Water Street High School. Dorothy Poole was appointed to teach science in the high school for three years probation. Jane Gabe and Queene Kernedy were named for three year probationary posts. Kernedy as school nurse.
Maplewood Cub Scouts graduate into the senior organization of Troop 53. Scoutmaster Harry Harris welcomes new members Joseph Hostia Louis Narwiel and John Pobidie. The Cub Pack discusses fund donations for the armed forces and plans for hosting a camping trip at Maple Wood School.
Watervliet schools begin a war relief program issuing stamps and bonds and collecting waste materials to aid the war effort. They report $3644 in stamps and $0720 in bonds sold and 85 pounds of waste paper gathered for the campaign.
Green Island outlines plans for the annual Grand Knights season with a Columbus Day event and a pinochle tournament starting soon. Reports note a four year bowling league, social events by the Rod and Gun Club, and a Mother and Daughter banquet at the Methodist Church where lessons and impersonations featured.
Grefton Mr and Mrs Edgar Barthelmas buy Edward Lausiders house and plan to move in. Mrs Jesse Melnigh travels to St Petersburg with Mr and Mrs Prenk Baker. Rev Paul Maitland, new Baptist pastor, ordained in Hamburg and to return for Sunday services. About 700 attend a shower for Emma Jane Babucks who will marry Sherman Cottrell next month.
Esther Hoyt reports a 20 pound tire on a spare wheel smashed through a window in her Romie home as a heavy truck en route west passed by. The tire demolished a table two chairs and iron lamps then bounced off the wall and flattened the divan.
Funeral of Alphonse W. Lawyer held at his sister’s home with Rev. Frederick W. Evans officiating. Burial in Albans Rural Cemetery. Also notices for Miss Nova A. Grogan, Frank M. Frame, Matthew Mooney, Mrs Florence Moore Gustafson, Miss Catherine Cooney, and the finding of John Hall’s body in the Barge Canal. Survivors and service details listed for each case.
The U S Office, under guidance of Miss Berk More, assists workers laid off at Belor Manvi Bing Corp to transfer to other war plants. Referrals target men and women for suitable jobs at arsenals, paper firms, railroads, and textile centers to keep workers productive with minimal downtime.
The article notes that mass layoffs can demotivate workers causing them to seek employment in less essential industries. It highlights the negative effect on morale and future labor market participation.
A Troy student spoke at Russell Sage College in the First Presbyterian Church chapel service. The address focused on war, danger, and the role of books and words in shaping national and world events.
The Coast Guard identified Henry Moeller, 72, as the storm victim found in Jamaica Bay. Moeller's dinghy was swept into the bay by heavy surf on Thursday, and rescuers recovered the body yesterday as authorities continued to assess the situation.
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