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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1955
Page
1
Population estimates project 46 million children of echoo age by 1965, up 9 million or 25 percent from 1954. This implies rising birth rates and shifted age structure influencing future social services and education needs.
Dr. Haaren A. Miklofsky joins the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute civil engineering faculty as a visiting associate professor. He comes from Washington DC where he held a similar post at George Washington University and taught six years. He will teach structural engineering and is an affiliate member of the ASCE Committee on Deflection Limitations of Bridges.
The report notes new seivil engineering faculty at the Institute include instructors Noel Desch James B Weigold and David J Tierney along with three graduate students teaching part time. It also mentions a staff member who taught at George Washington and earned a Yale doctorate in 1950 and references the Miklofsky family at Dunn Garden Apartments Hoosick street.
Two area bidders were named low for statewide road work let by the State Public Works Department in Albany. Callanan Road Improvement Co. posted low sums on three site preparation projects for Thruway maintenance buildings in Albany Catskill and Kingston with bids of 70627 36214 and 44508. Anchor Post Products Corp. bid 98096 to furnish and install 49 miles of chain link fence and 0.5 mile of woven wire fence from the New York City line to the East approach of the Thruway Hudson River Bridge between Tarrytown and South Nyack. Bids were received on eight Thruway two state highway and one parkway job totaling about 11160000 of work in ten counties. The principal jobs relate to the Erie section of the State Thruway.
The funeral of William Elmer Wiley, former Republican supervisor from Schaghticoke, who died Monday, was held at 2 p.m. yesterday at Hack Funeral Chapel. Rev. Melvin D. Lavender officiated. Bearers were Wiley Dunham, George Dunham, Ralph Baucus, Ernest Drouin, Leonard Lockman and Jesse Lockman. Interment followed at Elmwood Cemetery in Schaghticoke.
The State disapproved a five year lease proposal by Saratoga Springs Authority with Myron Woolley to operate the Gideon Putnam Hotel at Saratoga Springs. The action, described as without prejudice, leaves room to renegotiate or seek bids while Woolley would receive 6 percent of profits over 250 000.
Mrs Ebenezer D Morgan a former organist in Troy and Watervliet died at her Watervliet home after a brief illness. Born in Watervliet she lived there all her life and served at Church of the Ascension Troy and First Baptist Watervliet. A graduate of Emma Willard Conservatory of Music.
Surviving family includes husband and Lt. Col. Prentice G. Morgan with grandson Tom C. Morgan of Fort Monroe Virginia. Funeral at Bryce Funeral Home 1820 Sth Ave tomorrow at 2 PM with Rev Frank L. Scidmore Jr. officiating. Burial planned at Albany Rural Cemetery.
New York reports that more than half of the nation's outstanding life insurance is under seven years old, signaling a younger profile of policy obligations and a shift in industry risk.
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