Property of the Watertown•• • Tfw Historical Society Watertown - OakviHe watertownhistoricalsociety.orgWeeidy TIMES Vol.*-15, No. 729 SutHcriptkm Price, $3.75 Per Year Single Copy, 10 Cents November 23, Town To Mark Council Hopeful Thanksgiving Holiday Of Naming Mgr. Watertown residents join with fellow Americans .everywhere to- morrow in, the observance of the ''traditional, • Thanksgiving holiday. Local .schools closed at the end By First Of Year of classes Tuesday and will not reopen until, next .Monday. Banks, stores, business offices; and. fac- Interviews With •5 tories will be closed tomorrow, to" reopen- Friday. Town Supervi- Rev. Mr. Starr 'Applicants For sor Joseph Masi has announced that the Town.. Hall will close at the end of business hours today Post Now Underway - and will, not reopen until Monday... To Preach Watertown may have its. first The Post Offices will observe Town. Manager by the first of, the holiday schedule. There will be no year. Town Council Chairman home deliveries by either' post of- James E. Cipriano indicated this fice and no 'window service. Post •week. masters Lucy G. Leonard .and. Here Sunday One candidate was interviewed Charles Kelly announced, "howev- 'The Rev. William Starr, pres- by the full, nine-member 'Council er, that: lobbies will be open until ently 'rector of Grace Episcopal, last Saturday, another 'will be in-' noon for the convenience of box- Church, Dalton, Mass-., will be-the terviewed tonight, two more in- holders. guest- preacher Sunday, Nov., 26, terviews are slated 'before the' end Thanksgiving Day at 10 a.m. the at the 10:45 a.m. Family Worship of 'the week, and a. fifth, candidate' churches of Watertown, and, Oak- s e r v i c e at -Christ Episcopal will come before' the 'Council at -a ville will unite in. the .annual holi- Church, date to- be set. sometime next day community service at the The Rev. 'Mr-. Starr, son of Mr. Union Congregational 'Church, and Mrs, William D Starr, Beach Mr. Cipriano said, 'that while it Buckingham St. 'The Thanksgiving Ave., is the first young man'to still. is too early to- say definitely, message will be delivered, by 'the enter the Ministry from 'Christ he is ""optimistic"" 'that the Coun- Rev... G. RoweD Crocker, rector cil will arrive at a decision short- of All Saints Episcopal -Church, ly and that the first manager un- Adult Education 'Director John der Watertown's new 'Council-Man- Regan announced., that there- .will ager form, of government 'will 'be:, be no. adult education or .recrea- able to-' begin his duties 'by the FIRST HOLY COMMUNION was received by a class off 136 chil- tion classes tonight. start, of 1962. dren Saturday at St. Mary Magdalen Church. The Rev. Robert 'The Council cut the 31 a,ppl- Keen, assistant pastor, offered' the Mass and gave the sermon, Four Persons ~ cants for the position to II 'last followed by remarks U the class and parents by the Rev. John -week, 'with five definitely slateA 1 for interviews, and six: more held, A. Ca rrig, pastor , A > Communion Breakfast - for the children was Hurt In Auto, for possible interviews, if a. " held in the church basement after Mass, and- a breakfast for ager is not secured 'from " parents- In the rectory basement. Pictured with Father Keen fol- School Ins Crash .-the first five. lowing: the Mass are Mary Ellen and Patricia Ann Olivierl, seven- ; Individuar- 'Council members' year-old twin daughters of M'r. and Mrs. Domenic Olivieri, Bam- A Watertown. woman, and three have, expressed their- satisfaction school children,' were injured early with 'the qualifications of many of ford Awe..,, Waterbury, and Ross Pavio, eight, son off Mr. and Mrs. Monday during the first snowfall, the original .31 applicants. The Romeo Pavio, off Bam ford Awe. in Oakville. '(Staff-photo) of the season, in an. auto-school group felt in narrowing down, the bus collision" on a narrow, winding field that it has chosen 'those. section of Northfield Rd, whose qualifications are best suit- Admitted to Waterbury Hospital ed to Watertown .and its. needs. - for treatment of a fractured right Unless some pressing-"' business- leg was Mrs. Ann Alvord, 45, of occurs in. the meantime,'1?the-Coun- Begin Collection Of Gifts 72 Porter St. Her condition, was cil will not hold, a regular session described as good' prior to press- until its meeting scheduled for time. Monday, Dec. 4, at. 8. p..m,.- in the The three children, all passen- 'Town, Hall Annex. For Fairfield Hospital gers on. the bus. were less seri- ously injured, and did not require 'Rev. William Starr The annual collection of 'Christ- '35 from Watertown and Oakville. hospitalization. Treated, by the Preliminary mas gifts for patients at the Fair- More, than, 1,000 patients will be school doctor and nurse were Church Parish in recent years. field State Hospital, conducted by lonely and "alone at. Christmas, Karen, Johnson, 9, of Bryan Rd.. He was educated at the Baldwin the • YVatertown-Oakville Mental and are in need of friends and and, Larry Seymour, 5, Black Rock. School,' Taft School, Yale Univer- Plans For New Health Volunteer Committee, is • remembrances. • Rd., both for lacerations of the sity and, was graduated from the now underway. "For them the home town is a, lip. and. Bruce Houghton, about 6. General 'Theological Seminary in School Reviewed' - Mrs, Armand Madeux, Ball remote place'," Mrs. Madeux said, of Linkfield Rd., who'was checked 1958. He served as Curate at Preliminary plans for' the new by the school nurse after -being Trinity Church, Hartford. from Farm Rd., Oakville, is general ""for letters and visits may be in- 1958 to I960. Watertown High School have been, chairman. Mrs. Richard Bozzutto frequent or totally absent. These shaken up. His parents said they submitted to the- Board of Educa- would take him. to the family doc- Sunday will mark the first op- tion and, the School Building Com-' and Mrs. Harold Ruh, Jr., .are in patients are .from all. walks of tor if necessary. portunity he has had. to' return charge of the collection stations life—housewives, laborers, pro- and preach at "his home parish. mittee now is. awaiting that group's In Watertown and Oakville. fessional people, secretaries and Police reported that the Alvord approval of the planning as. it has " Collection stations will be set: factory workers. They are our auto..was northbound, on Northfield progressed to date. • up at the following locations: friends • .and neighbors. Rd. when it rounded a curve on a. The School Board, was briefed George's Market, 686 Main; St.; "We -in the .community outside narrow section of the road and met Work Day on the plans by Architect. Thomas Campbell's, 179 Main St.; Sulli- 'the "hospital can' do much, to help the school- bus, '"with 45 children Lyons at a joint meeting with the 1 aboard,, coming in, the opposite di- At Mazulaitis Building Committee 'last: week. van's Pharmacy, 453 Main St.; by showing that we still are in- rection. Mrs. Alvord swerved, The Board said it would study the Pik-Kwik Store, Hemimvay Park; terested and understanding. We sharply to the left in, an attempt to. plans as presented and hopes 'to Post Office Drug, 55 DeForest want, to make sure they are re- miss the 'bus.'but the vehicles col- Farm Successful be able to- give its approval in •* St.," all in Watertown; and Village membered • on Christmas Day. lided, causing damage- to the right The Work: Day conducted, last short, time. Package Store, 413 Main St.; 'Through, the annual Christmas front of both. 'Officials said that week at the Pranas Mazulaitis In. the meantime, the Building Community Food liner, 1TO Main gift campaign, patients at the hos- 'the section of the road, where the Farm. Echo Lake Road, to clean Committee is continuing with its St.; ' Jimmy's Market, 254 Falls pital will be remembered." accident took: place is. barely wide yp debris from the fire which de- work, and met last night with the Aw., all in Oakville. The stations Any kind of gift that might be enough for two cars' to pass, and stroyed a barn three' weeks ago, architects on. more details con- will be set up ..on Tuesday, Nov. 28. chosen -for a friend or relative is a bank on., the right made it im- was very successful... according to cerning the building,. •Mrs. Madeux- reported that acceptable. Lists of- suggested possible for Mrs, Alvord, to turn Mr. Lyons told 'the joint -meeting" there are 2,600 patients, at. the gifts' will be posted at .all collec- James 'Rock of the Litchf'ield 1 in that direction... This, coupled County Extension Service. last week that it still is. hope* - hospital, including 'between 3d and tion, stations. to- have the school plans ready for A dozen local, and area farmers, bids by Feb. 1 with Mar., 1 set (Continued on. Page 2) representing the Watertown as the target -date for' awarding Farmers Association and. the Ex- the contract. .If < this, schedule is. tension service,, turned out to as- met, construction may 'then be Bids Sought sist in the project and to donate started by the middle of March- SantaToVisitHereDec 1 four truckloads of hay to' replace Details of" the building were' de- OnOdm'He the tons -of hay lost in, the fire. scribed in detail by - Mr. Lyons. Santa. Clans will, pay a special, (from Watertown-Oakville and the The town's bulldozer was loaned He showed plot plans with the con- advance visit to Watertown on Fri- j surrounding area are invited to' to help in the work, as well as a.