Brookshire busy on his first day as Claremont City Manager

1979

CLAREMONT

The only remaining stumbling block is its name. With tenants planning to move in this morning, the 81-uinit elderly housing project for low-income senior citizens is ready for service, according to Executive Director Howard G. Tolz. A few finishing touches remain on the elaborate building and ground area costing $2.7 million, now approaching $3 million, Tolz said. He described the architecture as modern and functional, offering all the latest comforts of living but in a cost-effective manner. The director explained how the building on Maple Avenue was originally designed. The plans were rejected because they were too extravagant and unnecessarily costly.

Clogged with invitations and visits his first day on the job, Claremont’s new city manager said his administration will stress teamwork, brainstorming and keeping the city council well informed. Edward Brookshire, 33, coming to Claremont with extensive experience in city management and planning, offered his initial views in a newspaper interview Friday.

High school students have something to prove Saturday night when the senior class of Stevens conducts the first dance of the year, school board officials told class officers at a special meeting Thursday morning. The dance will set the tone for the entire year, said Claremont School Board Chairman George Caccavaro, determining in large measure whether future dances will be regulated or eliminated on school property altogether.

Photo Caption—Claremont School District new teachers, from left, Judith Cabell, Arlene Dykes, Judith Watt, Linda Coolidge, Shirley McNutt, Timothy Luce, Pearl Nightingale, Susan Shackleton and Patricia Curtis. Second row, Tom Fowler, Tom Poliseno, Betsy Berry, Duncan McCutchan, Tom Goldberg, Administrator Charles Breliner, Helen Kochler, Debbie Morrill and Judith Bonneau. Third row, Rebecca Kull, Marie Hodgkins, Hazel Johnson, Julie Lannen, Martha Tougaw, Elizabeth Smith, Celine B. Ritzo and Eva Jane Demers.

NEWPORT

Town Manager William K. Dugan has slated there is a 25 percent chance of Newport’s applying for a community development grant. Such a grant, Dugan said at this week’s selectmen’s meeting, would be used primarily in low-income areas. He added the money could also be used to pave certain roads.

It is an area sloping down to the Sugar River, littered with stone and concrete rubble. The sandy slope is dotted with occasional piles of rubbish and heaps of dead branches and fallen trees. The area, located beside the intersection of Sunapee and Central streets is the site of the Riverside Park project, an idea whose death knoll was sounded a year ago when funds received from a federal grant proved too small to complete the project.

The high cost of a transfer station for Newport’s solid waste caused selectmen to table awarding contracts Sept. 17 until they can study different methods. They had expected the cost to be around $60,000 a year, but after opening bids and hearing two bidders, selectmen and Superintendent of Public Works Jeffrey Willett estimated the cost to be from $100,000 to around $150,000 a year.

Photo Caption—New Bridge Problems—Lt. Col. (ret.) Lucien Gentes, 67 Oak St., left, and Newport Superintendent of Public Works Jeffrey Willett discuss problems Mr. Gentes is encountering with the new Oak Street Bridge scheduled to open. Builders made the approachway to the bridge about 14 inches higher than the lawn around Mr. Gentes’ house, and he fears storm water from the road will harm his lawn and run into the cellar of his home.

GRANTHAM

Eleanor Reney and Onni Oksanen have been drawn as petit jurors for the September term of Sullivan County Superior Court.

Mr. and Mrs. Craig Bowers are making their home in the Shepard cottage on the Baptist Pond road. Mrs. Bowers is the former Debra Shepard.

GOSHEN

Arthur Jillette preached the service at the Community Church recently. The junior choir, with Alice Bruno as pianist and director, sang.

SPRINGFIELD

Gen. (U.S. Army) and Mrs. William Knowlton, Brussels, Belgium, have been spending the month with Mrs. Knowlton’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fairfax Downey. Their son, Davis Knowlton, serving with the United States diplomatic service in Columbo, Sri Lanka, is also visiting with them and his grandparents and will join the embassy service in Dacca, Bangladesh.

LEMPSTER

The Goshen-Lempster Cooperative School Board is seeking opinions of citizens in its quest for a solution to a space problem, which must be faced during the 1979-80 school year. In addition to providing for increased enrollment, the district must also comply with two New Hampshire Department of Education edicts. It must decrease the size of classes in the eight grades and provide an approved special education area.

UNITY

Lusty rock and roll mingled with the vrrooom of hundreds of motorcycles and happy voices as more than 13,000 people swayed, rocked, cajoled and burst within the confines of the August Acres music fest Saturday. A steady flow of cars through the City of Claremont had even the older people feeling the excitement of the day. From the far end of Chestnut Street Extension all the way through West Unity, traffic was bumper-to-bumper, sometimes not moving an inch for 10 or 15 minutes. Traffic was backed up for miles at times and residents of the area were not exactly thrilled as they tried to make their way through the thousands of cars.

1964

CLAREMONT

Marine Private First Class Roland J. Bernard Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Roland J. Bernard of 6 Fern St., recently participated in a sea assault landing in the Mediterranean with the Sixth Fleet.

Mrs. Joyce Taylor and brother, Stephen Vadney, have returned home after visiting their brother, Herbert Vadney Jr. in Charlotte, N.C.

Photo Caption—One person who now “has all the answers” is Mrs. Normand J. Bergeron of 55 High St., Claremont, who recently won a 15-volume set of Britannica Jr. Encyclopedias in the Rexall sweepstakes. At left is A.B. Valliere, owner of Valliere Pharmacy, presenting the volumes to Mrs. Bergeron.

A lack of response to the latest Claremont Translator Television Fund Drive has threatened to halt translator service, according to officials of Claremont TV Inc. and the Claremont Jaycees. The two organizations have been attempting to raise the remaining necessary funds through the sale of tickets for a colored TV set and response has not resulted in achieving the $1,200 goal covering remaining expenses.

The newly-chartered Young Republicans Club of Claremont held election of officers at a meeting Thursday night. Elected were B. William Tucker Jr., president; George Magnuson, vice president; Mrs. Louis Gerndron, recording secretary; Mrs. B.W. Tucker Jr., corresponding secretary and Mitchell Bieclecki, treasurer.

NEWPORT

State Trooper and Mrs. Ralph Wilson and their children, Michael and David, Marlboro, spent a recent weekend with Mrs. Wilson’s mother, Mrs. Elsie Rollins, Guild.

Mrs. Arnold Grantham and her sons, Robert and Michael, Court Street; Mrs. Grantham’s mother, Mrs. Lena Bedard, Manchester, and her niece, Harriet Winter, Laurel Street, returned to their homes recently after a one-week vacation at Goose Rocks Beach, Maine. They also visited in Portland, Biddeford and Old Orchard, Maine.

S/Sgt. Edward L. Smith, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith, Pollards Mills, has been assigned to Eglin Air Force Base. Fla., for three weeks temporary duty. He has served in the Air Force for 11 years and is presently stationed at Seymour-Johnson Air Force Base, N.C.

Pvt. Richard A. Downing, Service Battery, 197th Field Artillery, New Hampshire Army National Guard, has left for Ft. Jackson, S.C., for six months active duty. Mr. Downing is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alston Downing, Newport. He was graduated from Towle High School and has been employed by Heath Motor Sales.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Winn and their daughters, April and Candy, Bradford Road, spent last week in New York City and attended the World’s Fair.

GOSHEN

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Jordon, Windsor Locks, Conn., have purchased the Ivan Scranton property. Mr. Jordon is an engineer with Hamilton Standard Company. The sale was handled through Arthur Nelson, realtor.

SPRINGFIELD

Mrs. Marilyn Heath and her daughter, Elsie, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Lucy Tillson, were in Manchester Friday.

SUNAPEE

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Barry and their daughter from Huntington, Mass., were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hazen. Mrs. Barry and Mrs. Hazen are sisters.

1949

CLAREMONT

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Giguere and daughter, Joanne, and Edmund Cabana, have returned to their home at 30 Sullivan St. after a visit with relatives and friends in Montreal and Quebec City.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Whipple and son, Lawrence, of 52 Grove St., spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Whipple in Duxbury, Mass.

“Lost Boundaries,” the film in which the Rev. Robert H. Dunn of Portsmouth, former Claremont rector, appears, will return to the Magnet Theatre for a two-day showing next week. Manager F.J. Cahalan announced today. The picture, recently filmed against New Hampshire backgrounds, was shown to large audiences here last month, when the Rev. Mr. Dunn appeared in person and spoke briefly.

Ten of Claremont’s 3,500 taxpayers will foot 27 percent of the City’s 1949 property tax bill. Twenty-five firms and individuals will pay 35 percent of the bill, and of the 25, one—Joy Manufacturing Company—will pay 12 percent. Following Joy, the rest of the Top 10, in order, includes Central Vermont Public Service, Claremont Paper Corp., J.P. Goddard Realty Co., Coy Paper Co., Dartmouth Woolen Mills Inc., International Shoe Co., J.J. Newbury Co., Claremont Waste Manufacturing Co. and Latchis Inc.

Advertisement—Irwin Motors Inc., Washington Street, Claremont—1947 Pontiac Sedan Coupe, $1,295; 1946 Buick Sedan, $1,345; 1936 Plymouth 4-Door, $95.

NEWPORT

Mr. and Mrs. Merton Sargent and family have moved into their new home on Court Street after selling their home on Summit Road to the owners of Gintowt’s Market.

Mrs. Marie Geoffrion and family and Mr. Ubald Geoffrion are spending a few days visiting friends and relatives in Ottawa, Conwall and Castleman, Canada.

Mr. William Wright is on vacation from his duties at the local post office.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fleury and son, Larry, of Claremont, were Monday callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Bowlan Jr.

Editors come and editors go, but Tuffy goes on forever. As Editor Evan Hill leaves newspaper work to take graduate work at Boston University, Cleon E. “Tuffy” Bartlett, foreman of the Argus-Champion, will begin his 30th year of service to the newspaper. Tuffy has been employed by the Argus longer than any other person. In 29 years of getting the paper ready for its readers, he has become familiar with nearly every peraon and event in Newport’s history.

SUNAPEE

Mr. and Mrs. William Roach and Mrs. Sarah Ring motored to Orelans, Vt., on Sunday and Mrs. Ring remained for a visit with her sister.

It was reported Kenneth Gregg is confined to the house with mumps.

The former Dr. John Munro house is receiving a coat of paint.

WEST UNITY

Mrs. Charles Bailey, who was at the Claremont General Hospital for treatment, returned to her home here last week.

Lewis Walker is spending a few weeks with his brother, Lyman Walker.

CROYDON

The Rev. Richard Cook, Mrs. Cook and little daughter and Mrs. Cook’s parents spent a week recently at Green Acres. Rev. Cook was student preacher at the Congregational Church some years ago.

GRANTHAM

Miss Frances Leach has returned to her work in the Newport Clothing Company.

Mr. Landus and family spent last week at their new cottage, the Dr. Deyo Place.