Albert Leahy leads sophomore class at Stevens; new Newport manager expected by Jan. 1

1978

CLAREMONT

Michael Tice, son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Tice, 51 Prospect St., Claremont, recently joined the U.S. Navy for the guaranteed advanced electronic field program.

In a special session Tuesday, he city council approved a five-year lease agreement with the Arrowhead Recreation Area (ARA) which turns over the ski area’s equipment to the city in 10 years. The city has been in negotiation for the last several months, trying to get an agreement which both protect the city in case ARA should dissolve and gives ARA enough independence to borrow money to install a new poma lift. ARA President Alan Spahr told the council the organization hopes to have the lift in operation by December.

An estimated 2,500 to 3,000 interested people streamed through the Joy Manufacturing Company complex Sunday in honor of the opening of the new foundry. Participants in the ribbon-cutting ceremony were Claremont’s Mayor Charles Puksta, master of ceremonies, and Paul Mongeau, general manager of the foundry. Also present were Rocco Monetta, foundry controller; Jack Twitchell, industrial relations manager for both plant and foundry and James Simcox, general manager of the plant. Coordinating the event were Gilbert Gitchell, George Magnuson and William Agan.

Excluding Vermont from an initial solid waste study, the Sullivan County Solid Waste Study Committee Sunday unanimously passed a resolution limiting a solid waste study to the New Hampshire county and calling for an incinerator solution to the problem. In discussing and adopting the resolution, members of the five-person group and two attending county commissioners agreed a partnership with Vermont in studying town-by-town solid waste flow would be undesirable because of the possibility Vermont might pull out unexpectedly.

NEWPORT

Plans for rebuilding the Elm Street Bridge and widening Elm Street now lie in the hands of he federal government. The state and federally-funded highway project was delayed indefinitely early this summer after historical questions were raised about several buildings on Elm and Maple streets set to be demolished. At that time the New Hampshire Historical Preservation Office suggested the Jasinski and Foresters Club buildings on the south side of Elm Street might be eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Their position was based on a cursory review of the buildings.

Sixty applications have been received to date for town manager of Newport, according to Acting Town Manager Ronald Lemay, Newport should have a new manager by Dec. 1, who would be expected to begin his duties Jan. 1, Lemay said. As chairman of the selectmen, Lemay has been acting town manager since James Hannigan resigned the manager’s position Sept. 29. Hannigan was manager for five years.

The Sullivan County Delegation Tuesday agreed to hold all future meetings “in strict compliance with New Hampshire’s Right-To-Know-Law, following an alleged infraction Sunday. Two Claremont reporters filed suit Monday after claiming they were illegally barred from a session to “discuss the action of the solid waste study committee and the direction thereof.” Georgia Croft, a staff reporter for the Lebanon Valley News, and Bradley Pokorny, a staff reporter for the Claremont Eagle-Times, filed a petition in Sullivan County Superior Court Monday charging that an executive session Sunday did not meet the legal exemptions from a public meeting under state law.

Newport is having budget problems again. The deficit this time is in the town welfare account which will be $7,500 short by the end of the year, according to Selectman Ronald Pfenning. At town meeting, $20,000 was appropriated for welfare expenses and, according to Pfenning, the account would total closer to $15,000 if not for the foster care program.

SUNAPEE

Sunapee High School students have elected class officers for the 1978-79 academic year. David Brown is president of the senior class; Jeffrey Trow, vice president; Cheri Field, secretary, and Melody Fadden, treasurer. Junior class officers are Joseph Internicola, president; Bayard Webb, vice president; Vicky Hardin, secretary, and Ann Collins, treasurer. Michael Ansart heads the sophomore class with John Hendrick vice president; Naomi Carey, secretary, and Jay Odell, treasurer. Alan Murray is president of the freshman class; Kurt Smith, vice president; Ellen Krajcik, secretary, and Gregory Smith, treasurer.

UNITY

The Sullivan County Energy Fair at the Sullivan County Home will be sponsored by the Sullivan County Cooperative Extension Service and will feature a wood lot demonstration. County Forester Joe Szymujko and Assistant Country Forester Steven Wood will be in charge.

SPRINGFIELD

Brian Paten, son of Mr. and Mrs., Malcolm Patten, took two second prizes at the recent Eastern States Exposition in Springfield, Mass., in the Junior Division 4-H Working Class. One prize was for the working class steers and the second was best overall handling of the steers.

GOSHEN

Mrs. Thomas Durham attended a reunion last weekend of early elementary classes of the Shady Hill School, Cambridge, Mass.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nelson attended a lecture Oct. 25 at the Lempster Town Hall, given by Charles Thompson, Canterbury, who spoke on the Shaker Community, its beginnings and lifestyle.

WASHINGTON

The Washington Snow Riders Snowmobile Club opened is season Oct. 14 at the town hall. Officers elected for the coming year were Robert Clark, president; Charles Wood, vice president; Marcia Goodspeed, secretary-treasurer, and George Eccard, trailmaster.

GRANTHAM

Assisting Mrs. Henry McCarthy, Eastman, who is local chairman for the United Way of the Upper Valley are Mary Hutchins, who will canvas Old Route 10 South, North Grantham and Ella Reney, who will canvass the Howe Hill Road and a portion of the East Grantham Road.

1963

CLAREMONT

Stevens High School students named semi-finalists in the 1963-64Merit Scholarship competition are Charity E. Engel, Marilyn K. LeClair, Gary N. Sinawski and Katherine Woodward.

While money has been spent on the Claremont Airport in the past, and there are long-range plans for its improvement in the future, the city imply has no funds to answer its present needs. This was what facts and figures given to members of the Claremont Flying Club at a meeting held in the hangar last night boiled down to. Speaker was City Manager George Benway. He was backed up, albeit sympathetically by Mayor Charles Puksta, who urged the pilots not to become discouraged and to try and do more for the airport on their own.

A Claremont woman is one of 11 new faculty members at Salve Regina College, Newport, R.I. Dr. Lorrine N. Gaudreau will teach sociology at Salve Regina. Miss Gaudreau was born in Claremont in 1929 and attended Perkins School for the Blind in Boston from kindergarten through high school.

Airman Third Class Stephen W. Wadleigh of Claremont has completed a United States Air Force technical training course for jet engine mechanics at Amarillo Air Force Base, Texas. Airman Wadleigh, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilford R. Wadleigh of 43 High St., is a graduate of Stevens High School.

The Claremont Jaycees have forwarded another $500 towards the final payment of the translator equipment. “This is another step towards assurance of continuous translator operation,” a Jaycee said. The sum of $13,200 has been raised to date.

Photo Caption—The roof went on last week at the Claremont Junction plant of Tampax Inc. where the massive building program was called “right on schedule.” Steel members to hold windows, doors and walls are being added in the all-metal framework this week, and water drain pipes and the basic heating duct system is being installed. Next step: pouring of 5,000 square feet of concrete for the first floor level.

NEWPORT

Mrs. Robert Underhill has been named general chairman of the Towle Booster Club Harvest Dance which will take place Nov. 2, the day of the last football game of the season. Mrs. Arthur Shadis, chairman of publicity, has emphasized this will be a family dance and tickets will be priced for adult individuals and couples and for students in Grades 9 through 12. A 12-piece local band will furnish music. Mrs. Solon Kanakis will head the decorating committee and Mrs. Glen Berwick and Mrs. Alfred Hague will be in charge of procuring card tables.

J. James Wright was elected president of the Newport Golf Club at the annual supper meeting Monday night. Other officers are Benjamin Zukauskas, vice president; Gloria Digilio, secretary, and Henry Allen Jr., treasurer. Harry Woodard, 1963 men’s champion, received the Brown-Rollins trophy and the championship trophy. The women’s championship trophy went to Dodie Belski, Claremont, who successfully defended her 1962 title.

Henry E. Mahoney, Highland Avenue, a former Newport School Board member and chairman of the Newport Junior High School Building Committee, has been appointed a director of the newly-created New Hampshire School Building Authority by Gov. John W. King.

If the ground freezes before ample rain soaks into it, Sullivan County will have a critical water situation well into next summer, S.W. Colby, Sullivan County agent, said yesterday. “Even though it rains steady for two weeks,” Mr. Colby said, “there are grave doubts if springs and wells will recover sufficiently to meet the water needs of most farm and rural families.”

Class offices were elected recently at Newport Junior High School. Elected in Grade 9 were Michael Mosley president; Mrs. Rita Shultz, vice president; Terri Hebert, secretary and Robert Rossiter, treasurer. In Grade 8 they were Douglas Barton, president; Susan Harlow, vice president; Mary Huot, secretary, and Peggy Lee, treasurer. Named to Grade 7 were Paul Towey, president; Charles Franz, vice president; Janis Duncan, secretary, and Richard Bates, treasurer.

SUNAPEE

Mrs. Reta C. Morse, Rebekah district deputy president, conducted the installation ceremony in Sunapee Odd Fellows Hall recently for officers of Hopeful Rebekah Lodge, Newport. The installing staff included Elizabeth C. Morrill, Pearl C. Sawyer, Laura M. Billings, Abbie Cross, Joyce Hill, Francese Fadden, Clara Hawley and Thelma Bartlett.

GRANTHAM

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce McDonald and their daughter, Heather, Hampstead, spent the weekend with Mrs. McDonald’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Barton.

GOSHEN

The eighth grade of the Goshen-Lempster Cooperative School will have a “Martian Hop” in the Goshen Town Hall Saturday night. Proceeds will be added to the class treasury.

Walter Nelson accompanied Mr. and Mrs. John Newman and their son, Jack and Bonnie Jill McGhee to the Western Baptist Association meeting in New London Sunday.

CROYDON

Recent guests of Mrs. Ethelyn Messer at the Safford Rest Home were Mrs. Bertha Jones and her daughter; Mrs. Rachael Osborne, Sunapee; Mrs. Mary Bragg and Mrs. William Wright, Newport.

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Davis and their children, Bambi, Steele and Bernard, visited Mr. Davis’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Davis, North Sutton, Friday, in honor of Gordon Davis’ birthday.

1948

CLAREMONT

Sophomore class officers at Stevens High School are Albert Leahy, president; Constance Costello, vice president; Beverly Warren, secretary and John Parker. treasurer. Freshman officers are Wayne Barter, president; Janet Couture, vice president; Marion Plant, secretary, and Jean Primmer, treasurer. The senior assembly program committee includes Elma Griswold, Carl Steinfield, Robert Marshall, Edward Chick, Carolyn Papps, Nancy Brodrick, and Janice Baker.

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Leocha and daughter, Alfreda, have returned from a week’s vacation with friends in Utica and Whitesboro, N.Y.

At a meeting of the Stevens High School Hi-Y Club last night, the following officers were elected: Robert Hildreth, president; Forrest Putnam, vice president; Carl Steinfield, treasurer, and Louis Primmer, secretary.

Mrs. Annie Wilson, Miss Helen Gaffney, Mrs. Irene Jones, Mrs. Mary Arvantides, Mrs. Theresa Townsend, and Mrs. Catherine Parker of the local Ladies Auxiliary of the Ancient Order of Hibernians attended a testimonial Banquet last evening at Wentworth by the Sea.

Advertisement—At the theatres: “The Pirate,” Latchis, Claremont; “The Babe Ruth Story,” Magnet, Claremont,

Three “generals” to supervise this year’s Community Chest campaign were named today by James F. Mackintosh, drive director. They are Edward R. Bosely, Claremont tax collector; Ray Genereux, furniture dealer, and Lewis Primer, Sullivan County YMCA secretary.

Students enrolled for their freshman year at the University of New Hampshire are the Misses Barbara Glass, Bernice Hastings, and Louise Bushway, and Donald Galbraith, Merrill Dodge, William Foster, Donald Jacewicz, and Herbert Douglas.

NEWPORT

Mrs. Charles Rowell and Mrs. Frank Farmer were weekend visitors of Mer. Robert Warren in Montpelier, Vt.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Otis and son, Bruce, accompanied Mrs. Leon E. Fitts of Newport and Corinna, Maine, last Friday. Mrs. Fitts is remaining to perform her duties as district deputy marshal for the Rebekah Assembly.

In Miss Elizabeth Mahoney’s second grade on exchange day, the following children did very good number papers: Ronald Gebo, Kendall Flint, Judith Arlin Robert Burns, Sandra Devenger, Bruce Coggeshall, Shirley Chartier, Charles Goyette, John Hall, Henry Blaine, Albert Clement, David Bennett, Phyllis Conroy and Glendon Belden.

The regular meeting of the Brewster-Gould Unit 25, Women’s Auxiliary, was held Monday evening at the Veterans Club, president Ethel Peabody presiding. Other officers elected for the coming year were Bernice Perkins, president; Louise Bergeron, first vice president; Vivian Duling, second vice president; Theresa Webster, secretary; Lena Thibodeau, treasurer; Angie Brill, chaplain; Ethel Peabody, sergeant-at-arms, and Grace Keane, historian.

Newport’s Parent-Teacher Association Committee met Wednesday night to make plans for the coming year. Headed by the Rev. Maurice Porter and Cleon Johnson as co-chairmen, the program committee is composed of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Rowell, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Flint, Mr. and Mrs. Cleon Johnson, Miss Bertha Wilmarth, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Andler, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Wilkins, and Mr. and Mrs. John Sideris.

CORNISH

Robert Laduke has accepted appointment as temporary state appraiser for the State Tax Commission.

Arthur Butterfield, who has been spending a few days with his sister, Lizzie Rollins, returned to his home in Sutton, Vt., on Sunday.

CROYDON

Mrs. Roy Persons, Miss Betty Gross and Donal Ballou visited Mr. Parsons in Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, last week. They found him somewhat improved.

Jurors for the September term of court are Asa D. Cutting, grand, and Rema Diotte, petit.

CHARLESTOWN

Mrs. Frank Piper has as her guest Miss Jean Meyer, librarian at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.

Norman Erickson has accepted a position with the Kingsbury Machine Tool Company of Keene. He started working there on Thursday.

MERIDEN

Mrs. Arthur Adams returned recently from a visit to Sagamore, and is now at home with her daughter.

Mr. and Mrs. I.F. Conner entertained their daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Palmer and two children of Concord on Sunday.

GUILD

Different pupils at Guild School are in charge of answering telephone calls at Guild School to teach them how to properly answer a telephone call. They are Marilyn Putnam, Priscilla Beauchaine, Ruth Fleming, James Bulger, John Muller, Beverly Morrow and Merton Whitney.

GRANTHAM

Miss Patricia Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Walker has returned to the University of New Hampshire for her third year.

Allen Walker Jr., who has been in New York City during the summer is now enrolled at Columbia University.

SUNAPEE

A meeting of the Home Extension Service Club was held at Mrs. Mary Eastman’s on Tuesday. Officers elected were Helen Rainey, president; Mrs. Laura Billings, vice president, and Mrs. Hazel Parron, secretary-treasurer.