5 i THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, SPRINGFIELD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6., 1958 31 NEWS FROM THE CITY OF CHICOPEE 213 RIVOLI BLDG. TEL. 'LY 2-2377 WILLIMANSETT ASKS ISLAND AT CAR TIEUP SPOT Committee Will Meet With State Rep. Como On Question Chicopee, Feb. 5-The Willimansett Board of Trade last night set up a traffic committee comprised of Roland Foisey, Rheo Gagne and Charles Jason to with Rep.
George Como to propose that the state establish a traffic island at Chicopee and Prospect St. near the underpass, to alleviate the bottle-neck at that point. Traffic jams develop at the hours when employces ofthe various plants are driving from work. Erection of Signs Gerald Baldassaro, president, will check on the possibilities of having. Willimansett entrance to signs the erected community.
Reports will be given at the next meeting. Foisy and Dr. Joseph Gagne, president of the Hampden College of Pharmacy, will meet with the mayor to discuss an off-street parking problem confronting the students of the school. Discussing the rerouting of Rte. 5, the Board of Trade has voted to publicize any information received.
The auditors report, by Kenneth Young, showed the organization to be sound financialJy. Others on the committee are William 'Begley and Edward L. Roy. The next meeting, March 4, will feature nomination and election of officers and directors. CHEST GROUP'S ANNUAL DINNER SET- FOR FEB.
18 Awards to Be Given for Campaign Work; Man9 dell to Speak Chicopee, Feb. 5-The Community Chest will hold its annual dinner Feb. 18 at 6.30 in the Federated Church parish hall and ARCH MANDELL Raymond, W. Gelinas, president, will present special awards for those who excelled in carrying ca the 1957 fund-raising campaign. Officers will be elected and dinner served by Women's Guild of the church.
The public 'is invited and reservations for dinner tickets can be made before noon on the 14th at the Community Chest office. Arch Mandell, former associate executive director of the United Funds Council of America and executive director of Massachusetts Community Organization Service, will be the speaker. His will be based on a broad background of social welfare service. Mardi Gras Fete Of Post 337 Set Chicopee, Feb. 5 Mardi Gras will be held by the American Leto 12 p.
m. at the post gion Post 337 on Feb. liofrom Comdr. Roger L. Sampson will serve as honorary chairman with Bernard Tetreault, junior vicecommander, as general chairman.
Assisting on the committee will be Leonard DesRochers. Robert Mueller, and Carl Atwood, and Auxiliary members Mrs. Doris Sampson, Mrs. Mueller, Mrs. Tetreault, Mrs.
Atwood Mrs. Marguerite DesRochers. Tickets are on sale and may be obtained from the committee or it the door. A smorgasbord lunch will be served and dancing will be 10 the Hi-Lighters orchestra. Prizes will he awarded for those attending in costume but dress will be optional.
Chicopee Funerals The funeral of Mrs. Leona Girouard of 34 Marcel Aldenville 11. A. Fleury, Jr. home was held this morning, at the in Aldenville with a solemn high mass of requiem in St.
Rose de Lima Church. Rev. Raymond Lavoie was celebrant. Bearers were Charles Ronneau, William Gagne. Gerald Sullivan, Ernest Budd.
Spiro Populos, and Raymond Rheaume. Burial was in St. Rose Cemetery. Rev. Adrian Remy said prayers at the grave.
The funeral- of Mario Bernier of 165 Chicopee Chicopee, was held this morning at the A. J. Brunelle, Jr. funeral home with a soicmn high requiem mass in the Church of the Nativity. Rev.
Roland Nadeau was celebrant. Bearwere Richard Provost, Douglas Ruda, Edward Gewinner and Roger Dupuis. Burial in St. Rose Rev. Leon.
Lussier read prayers at the grave. Sonja Henie, Look to Your Laurels! her skates are her granddaughter, ert Mr. and Mrs. after, watching the youngsters enjoy themselves in previous winters, decided this winter to join the fun and they bought skates and are now well on their way to recapturing their 'old skill on the blades. 3 Mrs.
Alfred Rivest, who accepts her 60 0 years lightly, and her husband, the well-known Aldenville fuel oil distributor, have joined their children and grandchildren and their friends in nightly skating parties at an outdoor rink next to their home in Grattan St. Helping Mrs. Rivest on with Karen Rivest, and two friends, Houle, who serves as the rink master. For the past five years their son-in-law, Ernest Guyette of 251 Grattan has flooded a vacant lot next to their home for the pleasure of his own children. Since then, all the children of the neighborhood have joined them.
Mr. Rivest is owner of the A. Boys' Club Will Defend Billiard Championship Chicopee, Feb. 5 For the fifth year in a row the Chicopee Boys' Club will take part in the Charles C. Peterson 14th Annual Pocket Billiard Tournament sponsored by the Boys' Clubs of America.
In the previous two years the Chicopee Boys' Club copped the Roy's' Clubs of America Championship in the Northeastern Regional Playoffs and they will be defending their Any boy who titlishes to take part must be a member of the club and may sign up on Friday night at the club quarters. To date over 30 intermediates I Bobala Is Named To Head Board Chicopee, Feb. 5. Joseph Bobala of 17 Northwood St. was voted chairman of the Contributory.
Retirement Board during a meeting in City Hall yesterday afternoon. The committee includes City Grise of the water department, Auditor Joseph A. Alfred employee representative and Bobala, an agent of Metropolitan Life Insurance who was named to the committee by former Mayor Walter J. Trybulski. Golden Agers Set March 17 Dinner Chicopee, Feb.
5-The Golden Age Club made plans for a St. Patrick's Day dinner at a meeting yesterday in the Community Center. The club also decided to discontinue the budget box, a project to collect, repair and sell at a nominal cost used clothing for needy families. Wilfred Camerlin of Fuller St. was elected as a member.
His death father, Simeon, charter until his member. precent Lea Lefebvre, social chairman for February, announced her committee: Mrs. Georgianna Cote and Mrs. Emma Monty, cochairmen; and Mrs. Cora Ackerman, Mrs.
Marie McCasland, Mrs. Stefania Chmura, Mrs. Em8 ma Girouard, Mrs. Lauria Le- Donald Verville, left, and Rob- Rivest Oil Co. and is the father of six children: Roland and Oscar of East Springfield; Roger of Springfield; Omer who is in the Navy; Leo of Ludlow and a son studying for the priesthood in New Rochelle, N.
Y. They have 114 grandchildren. State House Chicopee, Feb. 5-Mayor Walter M. Grocki said today he was "definitely opposed" to a proposed bill calling for party instead of nonpartisan primaries for Chicopee whch will be heard at the State House Feb.
17. The bill was proposed by Rep. George R. Como of the Third Hampden District, who said party primaries would eliminate racial politics here. He pointed out groups representing Polish and French extraction back rival candidates for city office and successful candidates come from either groups.
Under suspension of rules and by unanimous vote Tuesday night, the Board of Aldermen gave consent send a four-man to the hearing. The delegation has not been named and the aldermen did not indicate what stand they would take. OPPOSES PARTY PRIMARY Como Bill to Be Heard by Rosary Society Planning Sale of Food On Sunday Chicopee, Feb. 5-The Rosary Society at St. Stanislaus parish will have its annual food sale of homemade Polish delicacies Sunday at the parish school from 7 a.
m. til noon. Miss Leona Sokolowski, chairman, said that pirogi, golombki, homemade breads, chrust, "cakes, pies, cookies, brownies and fudge will be featured. Any one wishing to purchase freshly pirogi may do so Saturday noon til 4 p. m.
in the parish school kitchen. Members are asked to bring their donations of food on Saturday. Scout Sunday Slated Chicopee, Feb. 5-First Congregational Church will be host to local Cub Pack on Scout Sunday at 10.50 la. m.
The sermon by the pastor, Rev. Asa W. Mellinger, will be "Remember thy "Re Thou My Vision" will be sung by the children's choir. The senior choir will sing. "Jubilate Deo." Mrs.
Phocbe Pringle will be the organist. At this service, children may be presented for baptism. Polish Falcons Nest Installs Officers and 60 juniors have enrolled. Schedules will be made up and Robert and Raymond Lavigne, brothers, will be cocaptains. They will run the tournament under the supervision of Executive Director, Alfred F.
Dzialo. Each club that participates will receive a certificate from the Boys' Clubs of America. The two winning teams will win a pocket billard table and individual trophies will be awarded each junior and intermediate champions in each age division. A pocket transistor radio will be awarded individual winners. may, George Gosselin, George McNeil and George Como.
Anniversaries to be honored next week include the 55th of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Theoret which falls on the day of the meeting; the 54th of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Martin on Feb.
10; and the 49th of Mr. and Mrs. William Kindness on Feb. 27. Birthdays to be observed clude those of Mrs.
Amanda Deroy, Mrs. Emma Fontaine, Mrs. Albina Hetu, Mrs. Elizabeth Mulvaney, Leslie Landry, Mrs. Emma Oakland, Cora Ackerman, Mrs.
Anna Courchesne, Mrs. fined to Louise the Demers, who is conBuckley Nursing Home, Holyoke, and. Mrs. Nora Shea, a patient at the Lakeville Sanatorium at Middleboro. were Mrs.
Mary Warner, presGuests at st yesterday's meeting ident of the Westfield Club, and Mrs. Sadie Roberge, Mrs. Mary Smith and Mrs. Catherine Doughcrty, members of that club. A handmade stole, donated by Mrs.
Philomene Desrosiers, was awarded to Mrs. Mary Smith. Present after illness was Mrs. William Kindness. MARRIAGE INTENTIONS Chicopee, Feb.
5-The following couple has filed marriage intentions with City Clerk Arthur Balthazar: James A. Rogers, 23, of 34 Elmdale West Springfieid, customer control and Lois M. Gennett, 22, of 123 Chicomansett Village, PBX The Polish Falcons Nest of Chicopee conducted installation of officers last night at the St. Stanislaus Hall in Perkins St. The installing officer was Miss Stephanie Przyzyla of Chicopee, district.
instructor. From the left are: Mrs. Irene Malinowski, president; Joan Boskiewicz, recording tary; Mary 15 Jendrysik, financial secretary; Patricia Kemple, assistant instructor and Miss Praybyla. 1: (STRIKE TODAY SCHEDULED BY KNIT WORKERS Garment Union Charges Chicopee Falls. Plant Fails to Bargain Chicopee, Feb.
5 Employees of Knit Goods Specialty Chicopee Falls, tonight voted to strike tomorrow to enforce their position in contract negotiations. Picketing Planned John F. Albano, assistant district manager of the International Ladies Garment Workers Unien, AFL-CIO, said. none of the 43 employees will report for work tomorrow and that picketing will conducted. ILGWU Local 226 was authorized as bargaining agent at the plant in a National Labor Relations Board election about six weeks ago.
untabano said the practices union against has filed the company "for not bargaining in good faith." He said union representalives have met with management four times and "could not make any headway." The unin's demands have been refused "all along the line," he said. The strike was unanimously approved by 13 of the employees at tonight's meeting in the Chicopee Falls Community Center. Albano said. He said the walkout was sanctioned by the international union. Ralph A.
Roberts of Brookline, union district manager, attended the meeting. Albano said the union is "ready and willing to negotiate a fair contract." polled' NLRB election, the union 36 of the 50 votes cast. All of the employees involved are women. Sewer System Survey Report Is Due Tuesday Chicopee, Feb. 5-The survey report for a proposed multimillion dollar interceptor sewer system along the Chicopee River will be given during 'a joint meeting of the Board of Aldermen and city officials Tuesday at 7 p.
m. in the aldermanic chambers. The report, which will take about three hours to present was completed by Tighe Bond of Holyoke, Mayor Grocki said. It is generally believed the project will cost about $1,000,000 although no figures have been released. Legion Women Admit Eight as New Members Chicopee, Feb.
5-The Willimansett American Legion iliary members Tuesday night enrolled as Mrs. Gertrude Paul, Mrs. Lucille Knightly, Mrs. Mary A. Crevier, Mrs.
Constance Lafleur, Mrs. Helen Perron, Mrs. Constance N. Lafleur, Mrs. Rhea R.
Vient, and Mrs. Vera Bienvenue. unit will conduct a public social on Feb. 18 at 7.30 p. m.
in the American Legion Home. Prizes will be awarded and tickets may be had at the door. Mrs. Rena Riberdy is general chairman. Delegates elected to the county meeting March 21 at Springfield are Mrs.
Yvonne DeGraff, ident, Mrs. Theresa Cote pres Mrs. Georgette Lafleur, and alternates, Mrs. Florence Erickson and Mrs. Marge Hebert.
Delegates at large are Mrs. Mary Franchere and Mrs. Lillian Roy. On behalf of Mrs. DeGraff, who is recuperating from surgery, Mrs.
Theresa Cote thanked the members who attended the recent dance at Leeds Veterans Hospital. Dirs. Dorothy Demers, senior vice president, reported on the reent Blue Crutch drive and on the membership supper. The mys- donated last night by awarded to Mrs. Gertrude Paul.
St. Stanislaus Mardi Gras Set Chicopee, Feb. 5-The second annual Mardi gras of the St. Stanislaus Holy Name Society will be held in the Parish Hall on Front Chiccpee, Feb. 18.
Zenon Boskiewicz, a general ghetti, chairman, tossed said chicken and spasalad, Vienna bread, Italian cheese, butter and a surprise dessert will be served be furnished by Frankie Gee's from 6 to 8 p. m. a and music will orchestra. The public is invited to this pre-Lenten affair. Assisting Buskiewicz are Joseph Krupa, assistant chairman; Joseph Ferus, tickets; Walter Ogulewicz, decorations; Stanley Stachelek, food; and Stan Bragiel, music.
Serving will be members of the Breakfast Club with Bertha Kurdziel in charge. Tickets may be purchased at the door. Sons of Legion Meet Chicopee, Feb. 5-Members of the Sons of the Legion, Squadron 337, at the meeting Tuesday night at the post home held a short business meeting presided over by Ulric Montcalm, 3d, and then: viewed movies on wrestling and battle of Okinawa. Assisting Rene G.
Paquette, who is chairman of the group, were Clarence Fournier, Teddy Lefebvre, George Lariviere, Gene Morin, Edward Demers and Louis Mazaros and Bernard Tetreault. The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, Feb: 18. JOHN STRYCHARZ Chicopee, Feb. 5-John Strycharz, 65, of 20 Park died at Dr. Edmund Chicopee J.
Infirmary today. Zielinski, Holyoke medical examiner viewed the body and gave cause of death as an acute heart attack. The infirmary reported Mr. Strycharz Confraternity Teachers Honored Rev. Thomas F.
Curran, pastor, was host last night: at a dinner in the Yankee Pedlar Inn to the teachers of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine of St. Patrick's Church in Chicopee Falls. Each of the instructors was presented a statuette of St. Patrick by the pastor. Fr.
Curran, left, makes a presentation to Mrs. Maurice Spillane as Rev. Fdmund B. Walsh, parish religious director of CCD and Robert Deady, chairman, look on. There were 32 teachers so honored.
had been admitted there about week ago. It was reported that a his relatives live in The funeral, at will take at the place William Friday S. Starzyk funeral home in. Center St. with a high mass of requiem in St.
Stanislaus Church at 8.30. Burial will be in St. Stanislaus Cemetery. Visiting hours will be Thursday from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10. Sportsmen Seek Workers Party Chicopee, Feb.
5-A meeting of the Chicopee Sportsman's Club will be held Thursday night at in St. Joseph's Hall to make arrangements for a work party to be formed to clear brush 'and other obstructions along a roadway leading to the club's fishing pond in Granby. members have been requested to meet at the club Saturday morning at 8, or go direct to the club grounds in Granby equipped with axes, hatchets and grub hooks. Stanley Pietras, president, reported a clearing 20 so feet wide. must be accomplished that a contractor may start spreading gravel to form a hardened road Monday.
Blasting operations will also be conducted at the club's brook then to form a spillway opening where a pond is to be developed for trout fishing. Stanley Czerwiec, chairman of the fisherman's festival event, has announced a 14-foot boat, equipped with a seven and. one half horsepower outboard motor, and a trailer will be offered as grand attendance prize at the festival to be held in Chicopee April 13. ROCKRIMMON LODGE WILL MEET MONDAY Chicopee, Feb. 5-Rockrimmon Rebekah Lodge will meet Monday evening at 7.45 in the Masonic Temple, East St.
Mrs. Ililda Hoffman, noble grand, has requested the drill team to assemble at 7 p. m. for a drill session. Plans for the valentine card party on Feb.
14 will be completed. Prizes will be awarded refreshments will be served. Tickets may be obtained at the door. Arrangements are being and handled Mrs. by Ida Mrs.
Bertha Anderson, Fairley, noble grands. First Church Planning Family Night Saturday Chicopee, Feb. 5-A Family Night will be held at First Congregational Church Saturday, Feb. 15, with potluck supper at 6. Each family is invited to sponsored by a the Women's Club bring either a covered dish, salad or dessert.
Mrs. Casmir Golasjewski is supper chairman and will provide menu suggestions. Following the supper, Warren McKinstry will show colored slides which he took on the Island of Malta while he was stationed there. The Men's Club of the church has elected the following officers for the coming year: president, Leonard Fredette: vicepresident. Donald Hamill; 2d vice-president, Robert Madru; and program chairman, Zygmund Polchlopek.
Aldenville PTA Plans Program On Tuesday Chicopee, Feb. 5-The Aldenville PTA will mect at Lambert Lavoie Memorial School Tuesday at 8 p. m. Thaddeus Budynkiewicz, physical education instructor for the 4th, 5th and 6th grades, will be the speaker. Demonstrations will be by Grade 4 pupils on tumbling: Grade 5, square dancing; and Grade 6, calisthenfacing movements.
A short business meeting will follow and Grades 5 and 3 mothers will serve refreshments. A white elephant will be held in the cafeteria and donations are being sought. Pupils may deliver articles at school or parents may take them to the meeting. can family requires about 400 gallons of water a day. WATER USE AVERAGE Chicago -The average Ameri- 3..
BOARD URBAN DEVELOPMENT Plan Favored Over LowRent Housing Project Proposal Chicopee, Feb. 5 Members of the School Committee called for urban development instead of lowrent housing projects to improve I substandard areas during a meeting in the School Room in the Administration Building tonight. To Mako Report John L. Fitzpatrick, superintendent of schools, said there is already a shortage of school rooms and only through additional school facilities can this problem. be met.
A report on the school condition with costs of education will be submitted to Mayor Grocki and the Board of Alderman. The report was made in obvious opposition to the proposed 150-unit low-rent housing project at Curtis Terrace by the Chicopee Housing Authority. The Chicopee School Lunch Department's annual report showed free to pupils free to 537,352 lunches, including, 12.962 school lunch personnel, were served during 1957 at no cost to the, city. A $3143.75 cash balance was reported on Dec. 31, 1957.
The committee also approved Hutchins appointment of 17B of Mrs. Davis Glories: over Air Force Base, and Mrs. Austin E. White of 26 Davenport St. as elementary substitute teachers to fill vacancies.
Postal Workers Union to Install Chicopee, Feb. 5 Installation of officers of the National Associa tion of Letter Carriers, Branch 641, Chicopee Falls, will be held Saturday at 7.30 p. in the Red Barn. Installing officer will be the organization's secretarytreasurer from Washington, D. Peter J.
Cahill. There will be re-' ports from Washington on prospective wage increases for postal workers. Invited guest will be William T. Sullivan, president. National: Association Carriers, Boston Branch 43, Boston.
Officers to be are George Harrison, president; Oscar Hilbert, secretary; Maurice Daigie, treasurer; and John Lyon, sergeant-at-arms. Scientists Have New Approach to Innermost Cells 5 UP--A new microfluoroscope which can. probe inner secrets of living cells described today by a Stanford University scientist. The device already has been. used on yeast cells, an ant's knee.
a fly's wing, cellulose fibers even human blood cells. Development of the instrument by Dr. Howard H. Pattee. acting director of Stanford's.
X-ray research laboratory, was announced at the national biophysics conference at Cambridge, and at Stanford University. "The microfluoroscope is just like a medical fluoroscope except that everything has been scaled down 2000 times in size," Dr. Pattee said. Using relatively long -wave X-rays, it can analyze specimens as small as one of an inch in diameter, or about three trillionths of an ounce in weight. "The will not replace electron microscopes, ultraviolet microscopes, phase microscopes or similar instruments, the scientist told newsmen.
"What it will do is give us additional information we cannot get in any other ORE REFINERY IN PAKISTAN Karachi, Feb. 5 CP -Pakistan soon will oil refinery near this national" capital. The government is choosing the site on the basis of report submitted jointly by Burmah Oil, Shell Petroleum, Standard Vacuum and Caltex. ENGAGED K. MARION FOSKITT The engagement of Miss K.
Marion Foskitt, daughter of Mrs. Yvonne Fo kit of 3 grant and Theodore Foskitt of Fort Lauderdale, to Ronald W. Maust, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wom.
row Maust of Westport. has been announced. No date has been set for the nuptials. Miss was in Chicopee and is an alumna of Cathedral High School. employed At the Break- Time Drive-In.
Her fiance, a native of SomPrapt County, is ployed by De Felice Construction Co. T4: Founder's Day Is Observed by Sheridan PTA Chicopee. Feb. 5 Founder's Day observed Tuesday night by Sheridan PTA with appropriate exercises. The reason, aims and goals of founding the PTA movement was told.
Mrs. Eugene Johnson. president, reviewed the history of Sheridan PTA. It was formed as an individual unit June 19, 1950, with Mrs. Charles Bennett as its first president.
Prior to that time, Sheridan School belonged 10 a combined PTA, including Alvord and Taylor schools, headed by Mrs. Charles, was instrumental Murray. in starting a children's library at the school during her term of office, and the project expands each year. Miss Mary Harrington, director of guidance in the local schools, spoke on child guidance. Mrs.
Johnson appealed to members and their friends to donate discarded furniture, clothing and bric-a-brac to the unit's rummage sale to be held at the Sheridan Circle Community Hall Feb. 24 and 25. A portion the proceeds will used to purchase additional The books next for the meeting, library. March a 4, will be Father's Night. At that time, John L.
Fitzpatrick, superintend-. ent of be the guest speaker. His subject will be "School Triple Antigen Clinic Held at Health Dept. Chicopee, Feb. 5 The free triple antigen clinic, inoculations against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus, was held at the Health Department this morning.
Children less than one year old also received shots against polio. Miss Pauline C. Jette, Health Department agent, said. The shots were administered Dr. Michael Lazarchick, assisted by school nurses.
The clinic was sponsored by the health department. Chicopee, Feb. 5-The Willimansett American Legion Home Association planned the menu last night for the French night at the post home Feb. 22 from 5.30 to 7.30 p. m.
It will include French meat pie, roast pork, mashed potatoes, apple sauce, French apple pie, and coffee. Tickets may be purchased from Harold Lafleur, ticket chairman, Richard Parent, cochairman, or members. Rene Bouthillier is general chairman and Howard Bourbeau. cochairman. Joseph Roberts and are in charge of decorations.
Local entertainers will perform from 5.30 to 3 p. m. and dancing will follow. Legion Post Planning French Night Feb. Student Federal Loan Fund Asked Washington, Feb.
5 (-Rep. Coya Knutson Dap today urged committee approval of a plan for a 10 billion dollar revolving fund for loans to college students. She has introduced a bill to establish such a fund. In testimony prepared for a House education subcommittee, Mrs. Knutson said the government should provide aid not only to science students but 10 students in olher fields as well.
Under the Knutson bill, a student who has passing grades could borrow money for. living costs, educational costs and modcrate spending money without interest while in school. Repayment, with 3 per cent would start one year after graduation. The plan, Mrs. Knutson said.
is patterned after one put into operation in Norway in 1947 and adopted some years later by Denmark and Sweden. PRODUCED TENNIS TERM Paris--The term, "love," in tennis scoring originated from A mispronunciation of the French word, "l'ocuf," meaning "the vernacular for zero. 3.
