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J., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS OLD CHRIST CHURCH William R* White, Albert Lariviere GIRL SCOUTS URGE COURTS OF HONOR Belleville War Chest BELL TOWER TO BE WOMEN’S SUPPORT WILL BE STARTED DEDICATED SUNDAY Reported Killed in Europe Action FOR EXPANSION BY BOY SCOUTS Begins Drive Monday To Sound After Fifteen Years Sailor Had Been Missing in Mediterranean for a Year; Council Seeks Fifty Leaders Minasian Announces Meetings For Unknown Amount Of Silence; Memorial Tower Soldier Was Killed in D-Day invasion of Normandy; In Drive for 1,000 Scouts; To Plan Review Boards Wants Other Assistants And Courts Here To 120 Parish Servicemen War Department Lists Five Others Wounded Kathryn Conklin Named Chairman More than fifty adult leaders Henry Minasian, chairman of The tongue of old Christ Two more gold stars were are needed this year to carry on the advancement committee of Of House-to-House Solicitation; Episcopal church bell will be the greatly expanded Girl Scout the Belleville District, Robert added to Belleville’s flag of program in Belleville, according to Treat Boy Scout Council, has an­ Plan Two-Week Campaign Here loosened again''Bintday - after honor -this week as the Mrs. John D. Boyd of 14 Essex nounced two important meetings. .maintaining a silence of fif­ street, organization chairman for The first will take place October The Belleville Community Chest and National War thirty-seventh and thirty- 24, when all troop committeeman, teen years during which it the Belleville Girl Scout Council. eighth local men were re­ “ Girl Scout national member­ scoutmasters and others directly Fund, abbreviated this year to a simple Belleville War weathered the storms of the ship has been boosted from 671,- concerned with the advancement Chest, will embark Monday on a two-week campaign to raise ported killed in action. 000 at the time of Pearl Harbor program of scouting will meet to years in the tower of the old an as yet undetermined amount for the benefit of six local Quartermaster 8/c, William ‘o more than a million today,” discuss the necessary steps' for the church building on Main Mrs. Bovd declared. operation of troop boards of re­ and seventeen national charities. While the goal is still un­ R. White and Pvt. Albert H. view. street near William. “Interest in Belle ville has known, president Paul de Hagara said yesterday that “ we Lariviere had previously brought our local membership to It is expected that as a result It has been moved to a 330 with waiting lists for prac­ of this meeting Belleville will be been listed as missing but will try to make it a realistic amount, one that is not unat­ newly-constructed tower in tically every one of our twelve the first district in the Robert word to their families this troops. Many more women are Treat Council to have all its troops tainable.” The general campaign is scheduled to consume the newer Christ church edi­ week revealed that they had made needed to help the girls continue operating boards of review, thus two weeks with the house-to-house solicitation, under the making available more advance­ fice at Washington avenue the supreme sacrifice. their scout training. -<•' chairmanship of Miss Kath­ The War department this week The local scouts have embarked ment opportunities. and Essex street and will be also listed five soldiers wounded in on an ambitious campaign which The advancement committee has ryn Conklin of 14 Montgom­ dedicated Sunday afternoon the service of their nation. hopes to bring Belleville enroll­ also announced that a public court ery place, slated to be un- ment to 1,000 by spring. This will of honor, the second in 1944, will SCHOOL STUDENTS at 3:30. Missing a Year mean the formation of about 35 be held November 28. All scouts dertaken during the second The new tower was erected by new troops, including Brownies. who have nearly reached some ad­ DECREASE AGAIN week. the members of the congregation A fter having been reported as Besides the fifty leaders who are vancement goal are being urged to and their friends as a monument missing for a year, Quartermas­ sought to give active support to double their efforts in the next Drop for Tenth Straight Year; The only committee chairmen to the 120 parishioners now serv- ter 3/c William Russell White, the program, many more will be two months, that they may receive thus far announced for the drive ing^ in the military uniform of ¿0, was said last week by the needed as troop committee mem­ recognition at the coming public Public Schools List 4,715 are Miss Conklin and Lester Mc­ their country. Navy department to be “ presum­ QM 3/c William R. White Pvt. Albert H. Lariviere bers and as program specialists. In court of honor. Corkle of 293 Joralemon street, ed to be dead.” the latter category will be those On Opening Day who will head the businessmen’s The rector, Rev. Peter R. Deck- The son of MrS. Caroline yards prior to his induction in Feltey of 126 Cortlandt street, Plan Expansion section. It is not known whether May 1943. who will be able to give advice in enbaeh who is celebrating the White of 63 Holmes street and the they are the husbands respec­ Fov the tenth straight year the the general chairman will be an­ He went overseas last Septem­ the planning of programs. The organization and extension twentieth anniversary of his pas­ late William A. White has not tively _ of the former Wanda Win- enrollment in Belleville public nounced before the start of the torate, will conduct a brief service ber and had been serving with Explaining that Miss Elizabeth committee of the Belleville dis­ been heard from since his des­ owichi of Harrison and -Mildred Bardagjy, the new secretary of trict (Burt Johnson chairman, schools showed a drop when the campaign. of dedication and,the bell will be troyer was blown up in the Medi­ a unit of the Army corps of en­ McKeown of Darby, Pa. Last year’s Chest drive aimed rung by his younger son, Paul gineers. the council, will give the neces­ Edgar S. Peierls and Harvey B. schools reopened last month. terranean September 11, 1943. Lester suffered a serious leg sary training in leadership, Mrs. Thompson) met recently to map at $83,525 and fell short by near­ Deckenbach. Ken Bedford Wounded School population this year is He perished amidst terrific wound July 26 in „the bitter Boyd said that any woman over a program for* making scouting ly $30,000. For this reason de The senior and junior choirs of enemy barrages o ff the beaches A New Testament given him by fighting which followed the inva­ 21 with a “ liking for youngsters, and cubbing available to more more than twenty percent less Hagara said he and the budget the church ■ will ■ provide the nvsic of Salerno when, according to Bethany Lutheran church when sion of Normandy. He is still in a strong belief in democracy and boys. There are now ten troops than 1934, representing a numer­ committee are striving to set a ib r \the occasion under the direc­ some reports, his destroyer ex­ he- entered service possiblv saved a cast in a hospital in England. two or three hours a week to give and two Cub packs active and ical decrease of 1,366. figure which “ will be within rea­ tion of organist George Weston ploded and went down in 36 sec­ the life o fP v t . Kenneth H. Bed­ A basketball star at the high to^ activities outside her home,” ig registered in Belleville. son.” and the principal address wiZl be ford, 25, when he, was in the The figures released yesterday onds. It was his first trip school from which he graduated eligible to serve as a troop leader. A study made by the Committee, by Supervising Princinai Wayne The possibility of industrial re­ given bv Harry G. Specht, presi­ abroad. thick of enemy action July 11 in 1930, he worked for Crucible indicates that there is an imme­ conversion and ■ contract cancel­ dent of the Belleville Foundation. in France. Personal Canvass R. Parmer showed this year’s The sailor was born in Belle­ Steel corporation, Harrison, be­ diate need for eight more troops registiation as 4,715 compared to lations will affect the co’lectibi- The new tower, which has been ville and lived all his life here, Bedford wrote that he ordin­ fore his induction in February Miss Bardagjy will begin next and an equal number of new Cub 4,840 the year before and 6,081 lty of many of this year’s pledges, constructed of steel and concrete, attending Belleville high school arily put the testament in his 1943. He has been overseas eight week a personal canvass of many packs. The committee finds that he believes, since many of them is on the east side of the church, left breast pocket but that day at the peak in 1934. for three years. He was former­ mhnths. of the town’s organizations in an boys want scouting and cubbing. The 1944 figure is expected to “may not materialize a year from is, 37 feet high and about fifteen ly employed in Eastwood-Neal- he .