Thousands come to take a ride on Goodyear blimp in Claremont

1975

CLAREMONT

In honor of St. Joseph Church’s 50thanniversary, Mayor Charles P. Puksta has proclaimed the week of Oct. 5 as “St. Joseph’s Parish Week.” More than 400 people attended the celebration at the National Guard Armory following a Mass celebrated by the Most Reverend Odore J. Gendron, Bishop of Manchester.

 

Under bright sunny skies and before an enthusiastic crowd of parents and friends, a fine turnout of youngsters appeared in Monadnock Park Saturday morning for the Don Miller Punt, Pass and Kick Competition. Pictured were Mark Breen, 12, Michael Fay, 12, and Sean DeCamp, 12, all of Claremont, and Arthur Bates, 12, of Charlestown.

 

Three Stevens High School students have received certificates of commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. They are Richard E. Lear, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lear, 15 Grant St., James A. Littlefield, son of Dr. and Mrs. James Littlefield, Bible Hill, and Alan D. Parker, son of Mr. And Mrs. Herbert Carey Jr.

 

NEWPORT

Gunnar Berg was elected president of the National Honor Society, Newport High School Chapter, at a recent meeting held with faculty advisor Ollie W. Turpienen. Named to serve with Berg were Betsy Black, vice president, JoAnn Gobin, secretary, and Zoe Ambargis, treasurer. Other members attending were Dena Sanborn, Heidi Hubert, Donna Reid, Henry Koziel, Jay Towne, Pam Merritt and Ann Luck. Lori Alto was named business manager of the 1976 Tiger, Newport High School yearbook, and Anne Latva will serve as head of advertising.

 

CHARLESTOWN

Troop 31 held a court of honor in the Upper Town Hall. Scoutmaster Bill Bushway presented skill awards and merit badges to David Beaudry, Mark Bicknell, Richard Bushway, Scott Bushway, Norman Cobb Jr., Jay Emery, Edward O’Clair, George O’Clair, Stanley Pelkey, Richard Slavin and Tom Slavin. John Burns achieved the rank of second class and Norman Cobb Jr. became a Tenderfoot.

 

ALSTEAD

Douglas Ikeler has been accepted to the 1975 MacDonald’s All-American High School Band. The award includes an all-expense paid trip to New York City where he will be playing in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and then on New Year’s Day he will be in Pasadena, Calif., where he will play in the Tournament of Roses Parade. Ikeler, who plays drums, was nominated for this award by band director Robert Cuniff at Fall Mountain Regional High School. Ikeler is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Ikeler of Alstead.

 

CORNISH

Michael Monette was re-elected Master of Cornish Grange 25. Other officers elected were Steven Monette, overseer, Maydeane Sawyer, lecturer, Neil Lord, steward, Edward Lawrence, assistant steward, Angie Riviezzo, lady assistant, and Carol Fitch, chaplain. Also, Clifford Sawyer, treasurer, Evelyn Lear, secretary, Orville Fitch, gatekeeper, Leola Jerome, Ceres, Kim Clineff, Pomona and Sue Hillard, Flora.

 

1960

CLAREMONT

Photo caption—Pictured are Stanley W. Colby, Sullivan County Agent, Edward F. Upham, Rockingham County Agent, and Arthur H. Cutter, Strafford County Agent, testing feed value of hay for dairy animals in the state.

 

Four members of the Claremont Quota Club attended the 30th anniversary of Quota held in Fitchburg, Mass. They were Mrs. Frank Bush, Mrs. Wilfred Gagnon, Mrs. Carl Powers and Mrs. Eugene O. Isabelle.

 

Stevens High School’s expanded library was formally opened at a faculty reception and tea. The library, which has been doubled in size, modernized and renovated, will open for student use under the direction of Librarian Miss Leona Tremblay.

 

NEWPORT

The Mount Sunapee Area Ski Club has been named one of the Eastern United States top ski clubs. It was ranked fifth in the 1960 Eastern competition for the annual Miller Award, which goes to the most outstanding ski club in America. The bulk of the Mount Sunapee points came from service to youth in this area. In the community service part of the judging, the club made a perfect score of 10 possible points. Nat Allen and Phil Hackwell were last year’s ski school directors. Chairman of the guide program was Myron L. Cummings, Newport. Jack Maxfield served as president of the club, Eero Niemi as vice president, Ellie Drown, recording secretary, Ellie Thoresen, corresponding secretary and Pat Osborne, treasurer. Executive board members are Bud Thoresen, Dick Sheehand, Warren Sandberg, Norman Wild, Clarence Morrill and Dick Parker.

 

CHARLESTOWN

Nine Rotarians, eight Rotary Anns and four guests enjoyed the club’s first Rotary Ann night at the Lower Landing in Charlestown. A chicken barbecue was catered by Ralph Hogencamp, assisted by his son, James, and daughter Joan, with Anna Hogencamp assisting with serving. Frank Frohock was the lucky winner in the golf shooting practice shots. After the dinner, the group moved to the home of the Rev. and Mrs. Bruce Wyman because of the cool weather. President Frank Little, Dr. Paul Willard and Hogencamp were in charge of the event.

 

Moniford Sayce, Scout leader and a group of Charlestown Boy Scouts took a month-long trip to the West Coast during the summer and Sayce showed slides of the trip to the Rotary Club. Approximately 80,000 Scouts from around the country attended the Colorado Jamboree.

 

1945

CLAREMONT

New members were honored at the first meeting of the year of the Claremont Women’s Club. They were Mrs. Ralph Bailey, Mrs. Alfred Burrill, Mrs. A.L. Carpenter, Mrs. Harriet Damren, Mrs. Henry Herbert, Mrs. Robert Haskel, Mrs. Lincoln O’Brien and Mrs. Alice Potvin. Mrs. Maurice Firestone asked members to save articles for a future rummage sale. Mrs. Chauncey Brown played two piano selections and refreshments were served by Mrs. Herbert Daley and Mrs. J.A. Commons. Mrs. Townsend presided over the meeting.

 

The Girl Scouts of Troop 3 met at the Community Center with 31 girls and a visitor present Roberta Belair was elected scribe and Patricia White, treasurer. Three patrols were formed with Betty Murphy, Jackie Palmer and Rolant Granger as leaders.

 

NEWPORT

The Business and Professional Women’s Club will open its Business Women’s Week with a banquet at the Winston Hotel. The theme for the week will be “Jobs Enough to Go Around.” Harry Carlson is featured as the guest speaker and Mrs. Constance Richards, state president, will be present. Miss Elsie Bailey, chairman of the public affairs committee, expects a good attendance.

 

A committee of Newport citizens will serve on the state committee for the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Wing for St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York. “Newport, I know, wants to be represented in this,” said former governor Francis Murphy. The following committee members will accept donations: Jesse Rowell, Anthony Tarullo, Frank Ray, Patrick Silk, Bert Marcus, Jacob Shulins, Robert E. Gould, Clinton Bartlett, Dr. E.F. Keane of Maurice J. Downing.

 

1930

CLAREMONT

“The Call of the Wild” will be frequently heard from today on as the hunting season for a number of animals and birds officially opens. Residents of West Claremont, C.E. Densmore and Mrs. Clyde Dole reported three moose seen roaming around the dwelling. It seems a pity that the fish and game laws of New Hampshire prohibit hunting moose, caribou or elk.

 

The visit of the Goodyear blimp “Mayflower.” The first lighter than air craft every seen in Claremont, terminated at 7 a.m. when the ship, rising easily from her temporary mooring mast in Monadnock Park, set sail Southeasterly for Boston. The blimp was brought here by Earl F. Howe of Howe’s garage. Passenger flights were given from noon until 10 p.m., drawing an audience of thousands.

 

Tadeusz Maryowski, consul to the United States from the Republic of Poland, is to be a guest of the Chamber of Commerce. W. Henry May, secretary of the Chamber, announced that a delegation will escort the Consul through the manufacturing plants of Claremont and he will be guest of honor at a luncheon. He will be the guest of the Rev. M.W. Semiotics, pastor of St. Joseph’s Church. Poland is enjoying a remarkable development and a fruitful market for American exports, including Claremont products.

 

NORTH CHARLESTOWN

Mrs. Carl Buswell of Charlestown substituted at Farwell School on Wednesday and Thursday for Mrs. Tupper, who is ill. Gladys Adams, Priscilla and James Adams, attended the football game at Dartmouth last Saturday.

 

Mrs. and Mrs. Olney Quinley have vacated their farm this week and a family from Lebanon has moved in.

 

WEST UNITY

Mr. and Mrs. Levi Racine, who have been living in Claremont for a few years, have moved back to their farm.

 

Mrs. F.H. Britton, Howard Britton, Edmond Johnson and S.G. Breed attended the Hopkinton Fair last Wednesday.

 

Sylvia Koshi, fifth grader in East Unity, and Henry Davis, fourth grader in the Country school received first prizes in the state temperance essay contest.

 

NEWPORT

Signal honors were conferred upon the Claude J. Brewster Post of Newport and its fife and drum corps, the official musical outfit of the Granite State Legion posts, in its selection to act as escort to General John J. Pershing, commander during the World War, upon his arrival here. The snappy uniforms of the New Hampshire outfit made a big hit with “Black Jack,” one of the honor guests of the American Legion convention in Boston. He was met at South Station by the corps and escorted to his quarters in the Copley Plaza Hotel.

 

Ernest T. Robinson of Newport retained the Republican nomination for State Senator from the eighth district over James W. Davidson of Charlestown in the official recount at the request of the defeated candidate. The Charlestown candidate, whom the first figures showed was defeated by a margin of 890-866, gained a total of 19 votes on the recount, while Robinson’s total remained the same.

 

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Past-Time readers will be interested in this follow-up to an item printed in the Sept. 21 News Leader. The article, originally written in1960, recounted Lt. Col. Michael Zinkovich’s participation in Operation Deepfreeze 61, in which American airmen delivered supplies to Antarctica.

 

In January of 1967, Lt. Col. Zinkovich received the following letter from T.O. Jones, Division Director of Environmental Sciences, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.

 

“Dear Lieutenant Colonel Zinkovich: It gives me a great deal of pleasure to inform you that the U.S. Board on Geographic Names has named in your honor the geographical feature Mount Zinkovich located at 81 degrees 8 minutes S. latitude, 158 degrees 14 minutes E. longitude in the Ross Sea area, Antarctica.”

 

Michael C. Zinkovich was a graduate of Stevens High School and Georgetown University. His sister, Mary Zinkovich Touchette, still lives in Claremont. Thank you to Amelia Skill for sharing this information with our readers.