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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02
ALPHA HI-Y PLANS
 SOCIAL FUNCTION
Popular Spring Swing to Be Presented at YMCA
 April l3

The Central Y. M. c. A. ballroom fittingly decorated for the occasion will be the scene of an important social function shortly when mem berS of the Alphia HI-Y conduct their annual Spring Swing. Recent ly the organization sponsored the Victory dance and it was popularly voted as one of the best social events in years. With an eXperi- enced committee perfecting ar engagements the Spring Swing sched- uled for Saturday evening, April 18th is expected to be the seasons outstanding event. Cliff Slater, who ranks highly with the younger set will direct his orchestra in a special program of current dance favorites
 President Edward Bowling of the Alphia HI-Y is acting as general chairman of the committee, as- sisted by Thomas Crean, chairman of publicity; Leo Kelly, programs; Walter Adomaitis, decorations; Ted Anton, orchestra; Ray Cashin, re- treatments and Frank Dooley is chairman of the entertainment. '
 The various committee chairmen will report on the prograss of plans at the next meeting, but if inquiries as to reservation may be accepted as indication of interest, it is very evident that the Spring Swing will chalk up new record mark for attendance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02
AID EXPOSITION
 OPENS APRIL 27
St. Lucy's Boy Scouts Planning to Participate
 in ArmOry Program

Plans for the troops participation at the First Aid Exposition at the Field street armory, April 27 were discussed by Scoutmaster Dichele at the weekly meeting of Troop 16, Boy Scouts of St. Lucy's church, at the weekly meeting in the parish hall last Friday night.
 The committee in charge of the troops display will meet this even- ing at the scoutmasters home. Ma talino DiFrancesco is chairman of this committee. Assistant Scoutmas- ter A. Guastaferri also discussed the coming armory exposition.
 Scouts who passed tests at the meeting were: Louis Morrelli, com pass; Joseph Myers. Francis Miller and Eugene Spagnola, safety rules, Joseph Skimba, signalling; Nicho- las Hudobenko, Michael Fibre, Nich- olas eMcca, William Pettinicci, Jo- seph Pagano and Ralph Capuano. judging.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02

by Alderman Patrick Shea, Demo- cratic majority leader. Alderman Walker asked why, if conditions were so good, it was necessary to come to the defense of MT. Scott Smith. Alderman Kingston said that his criticism had been based on the departments delay in get ting started after a snoWstorm, not the way the work was done when finally started.
 As instructed by the aldermen last month, Superintendent Scott Smith submitted a report showing that $24,551 was spent on snow re- moval work. The budget appro- priation of $180O0 for the work was admittedly insufficient.
 Parliamentary mane neuverin marked MT. Kingston's efforts to have remarks made by MT. Walker and himself a month ago printed in the minutes in full. Several motions for the insertion were lost, as was also motion that acceptance of the minutes be tabled until the next meeting.
 Early Start Asked
 MT. Walker, after Mr. Roots re- port had been received, expressed the hope that the works board see to it that the Baldwin Street Bridge project be pushed. He said an early start is needed if the structure is to be completed by the winter.
 Alderman Kingston succeeded in having adopted a motion correcting the minutes to state that he, too, had criticized the delay on the new bridge.
 The board granted permission to Gertrude Moran to withdraw a re- quest for a zoning change at Cooke and Moran streets. The petition was heard by an aldermanic com- mittee at a public hearing the week before last. Considerable opposition to the proposed change from resi- dential to business zone was voiced at the hearing.
 Street Layout
 It was to ask the works board to report the status of the layout of Raymond street. On recommenda- ton of the land committee, the board rejected an offer of $500 by Cataldo MaSsa for city-owned prop erty near the Bank street bridge. It was explained that the land is needed for storm sewer work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02
Dedication Of Bell,
 Tribute To Founder,
 To Precede Dinner
Distinguished CIergymen, Laymen to Take Part in Ceremonies; Catholic News Editor Principal
 Speaker at Annual Dinner

Naugatuck, and other valley towns will be present for the ceremonies.
 Congressman J. Joseph Smith, whose home is in Prospect, will also be present for the services. The con- gressman took an active part in aid- ing the Knights of Columbus in raising funds for the new bell.
 Also expected to be present for the occasion is the Rev. Leo M. Finn of Bridgeport, national chaplain of the Knights of Columbus.
 .. Solemn Benediction
 Following the blessing Solemn Benediction will be celebrated by Rev. J. Oliver Cronan, chaplain of Sheridan council.
 Rev. James Wilson of St. Aedan's church, New Haven, will preach the sermon for the occasion.
 From Prospect the K. of c. en- tourage will go to old St. Joseph's cemetery in Waterbury where me- morial services will be held at the graves of Rev. Michael J., Monsignor Patrick J., aid Monsignor John J. McGivney. All three were instru- mental in the growth of the order, Father John McGivney being its founder, and his brothers later serv- ing as supreme chaplains.
 Father Finn will recite prayers for the deceased at the graves and Grand Knight Charles E. McDon- aid will lay wreath on them.
 As their special guest at these services Sheridan council will have Richard Reid of New York, editor of the Catholic News, who is to be the main speaker at the sixth an- nual Catholic Action banquet to be held at the Hotel Elton at 8 o'clock in the evening.
 MT. Reid is coming to this city from New York Sunday morning and will be guest of the officers of the council throughout his stay here.
 Other guests at the banquet will include Right Rev. Monsignor Thomas s. Duggan, vicar-general of the Hartford diocese and editor of the Catholic Transcript, Fathers Finn and Cronan, Hon. Vincent Scully, mayor of Waterbury, and William J. Mulligan of Hartford, past state deputy of the K. of c. and present state master of the fourth degree.
 Reservations for this banquet are expected to close within a few days.
 There will be a meeting of all committees connected with these events following tonight's council session, which is scheduled for 8:30 at the Columbus club. All members are requested to be present.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02
STATE AIDED BY
 FEDERAL FUNDS
Over $I6,OOO,OOO Allotted
 for State Highway Work Since l932

Since 1882, $16,O56, 200 of Federal funde have been allotted to Conn., ecticut State Highway Department for highway construction, according to William J. Anderson, Engineer of the Public Roads Administration, assigned to the Connecticut State Highway Department.
 In a radio interview over WTIC today, sponsored by the Office of Government Reports, MT. Anderson said there remained unapproved $2,398,000, indicating that 3,657 ,688 of Federal funds has been spent in Connecticut in the last eight years. Of this amount, $8,295 ,491 did not have to be matched by State funds.
 According to MT. Anderson, dur ing the last construction season, the program of Connecticut high way construction included A miles of highway with the Federal gov- ernment paying half of the estim- ated total cost of $4, 4,108,319. Official and thorough inspection of vehicles is needed to rid the roads of old and unfit vehicles" declared MT. Ander- son, who cdded that skilled inves- tigation of traffic accident and the establishment of uniform system of compulsory reporting were needed in this country as guides to safety measures.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02

regional committee, to discuss the problem of leadership.
 Mrs. Edith T. Cabot of Provi- dence, R. l., member of the na- tional board will lead one of the group discussions. Other discus sion leaders will be Mrs. E. A. Mead, of Norwalk, Conn, and Mrs. George W. Skilton, of West Hart ford, members of the regional com mittee which sponsors Girl Scout ing in New England.
 Mrs. Hugh c. McCurdy, commits sioner of the Middletown council will greet the institute guests, and Mrs. Joseph Merritt of Hartford, member of the region al committee will introduce the speakers and dis cussion group leaders. Others who will participate in the program will be Miss Marguerite Twohy and Miss Dema Kennedy, of Boston, and Mrs. Emily Greedy, local director, of Meriden, Conn. Miss TWohy is act ing regional direcotr of Girl Scout ing in New England and Miss Ken nedy is a national field adviser.
 Communities which have been invited to attend the institute in MiddletoWn are Ansonia, Danbury Glastonbury, Manchester, Meriden Milford, Norwich, Stonington, Tor rington, Litchield, Wallingford Waterbury, WatertoWn and Win Sted, Conn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02

more economically financed than the average association.
 50 Per Cent Self Supporting
 Brooklyn and North End branch es are per cent self supporting and need a greater degree of pub lie support than the central branch. The entire enterprise of the Water bury Y. M. c. A. calls for only 23 per cent of support from the public for it's three branches and boys camp, against the average of 28 per cent public support for one city Y. M. c. A.
 The new budget was presented by the term executive committee, with John B. Goss, chairman.
 Proud of Record
 In giving out the above facts, the committee stated that it was proud of the financial record of the local Y. M. C.. A., which was due to its board progressive policies, and its careful business management.
 The committee states "that the Y. M. c. A. operates on a monthly budget, with a daily control show ing receipts and expenditures in comparison with the budget. The board of directors of q men, is divided into three executive com mitties, each of which serve four months each year, and supervises the business management of the "Y."
 The budget contains extra items for repairs, etc. this year, totaling $4,241. These include partial new roofs for Brooklyn and North End, new approaches to the Central bowling alleys, furniture, etc.
 It also has $2,560 for the reduc- tion of the notes borrowed during the big depression, when the three Y. M. c. A. buildings were given so largely to service of the unemployed young men of the city. The notes amount to $12,889, and there is a mortgage of $7,740 on the Brooklyn the total value of the Y. M. c. A. property is $825, ,946.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02
SOUTH END SOFTBALL

At zoo tonight in the Boys Club library all managers of the South End Softball league are requested to be there. Before the usual pre- cedure, the election of officers will be held, New entrants wishing to join the league are also asked to be at the confab. The officers of last year, namely Jimmy Damelio, vice president; Maurice Duhamel, secretary; and Joseph Garvey, treas urer are asked to be at this import ant meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02

South View street, covers thousands of miles each week. In his trailer is a small chapel. where he celebrates Mass. His headquarters are at One Hundred Oaks, Tenn.
 Bob McHugh's Kilkenny Kats scored big upset in the weekly forty five matches of the St. Fran cis Holy Name Society last night when they handed Greaney's All Stars a 33 to 30 setback. This was the first defeat for the All Stars ill the past eight weeks. Tim Horgan was the outstanding player for the Kats who Jailed to move out of the cellar in the standing.
 Other results in the standing were as follows: Fitzmaurice 33 Coughlin 30; O'Donnell 34, Frageau 29; O. Mel 36, Began, 27. Although Fitzmaurice's team won over Coughlin's men the latter remained in second place in the standing. Meeting Tonight
 A special meeting of the Wash ington Park Community Club has been called for tonight to make ar- engagements for the thirteenth an- niversary of the club. A committee to make arrangements for the affair will be named at tonight's meeting Bowling
 The mems league at the Con- munity House alleys will come to close after tonight's matches. The annual banquet will be held Sat- urday night at Moynihan's, Lake Hitchcock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02

motion calling for the public hear ings was introduced by Aldermen Joseph Reiner, Republican.
 Voted unanimously also was a resolution praising Superintendent Herbert Scott-Smith and Street De- partment employees for their snow removal work. This vote came after Alderman George L. Kingston, Re- publican, failed in several attempts to amend the minutes of the last regular meeting by inserting the text of remarks made by himself and Alderman Burton Walker, Republi- can, in criticism of snow removal.
 Exploitation Given
 The resolution commenting Su- perintendent Scott-Smith was made
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02
Directors Adopt 194O
 Budget For Y.M.C.A.
Public to Be Asked to Contribute $40
 tions Outlined in Recommendations of Board

The sum of $4OOOO will be asked of Waterburians to balance the Y. M. c. A. budget it was revealed ao a meeting of the board of directors of the Y last night. The annual drive will be from April 16 to 18th.
 The board adopted the new budget for the year beginning May l, for the amount of $63,114.
 The Central branch is budgeted to spend $117,489. against which it expects receipts from members of $96,191. The Brooklyn branch esti-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02
PRISON TO TRADE GOODS

Salt Lake City, Utah. (UP)- Wardens of the Utah, Wyoming and Nebraska penitentiaries have work ed out a project of exchange of con- vict made goods. Utah will special ize in supplying the other prisons with canned goods and vegetables; Nebraska will go in for heavy cloth ing and mattresses while Wyoming will furnish bedding equipment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02
FIELD INSTITUTE
 FOR GIRL SCOUTS
Waterbury Council Among l3 Communities Invited
 10 MiddletOWn Event

Representatives of Girl Scout councils from thirteen communities have been invited to attend the field institute to be held in Middle town, Conn.,, Thursday, April II. They will meet at the Methodist church with members of the Girl Scout national board of directors and staff, and of the New England
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02

mates expenditures will be $11,l53 and receipts $4,405 while the North End Y. M c. A. expects to spend $15,926 and take in $8,600.
 Camp Expenses $lO,297
 Camp Mataucha estimates ex- penditures of $1O,297 and receipts of $9,847. Special accounts, such as funds for young men or young women's clubs total $4,10O and con- tingency items $4,119.
 The amount needed in subscrip- tions to balance the Y. M. c. As various budgets is $39,871. Again the Central branch Y. M. c. A. is 32 per cent self supporting, requir- ing only IS percent in subscriptions. The average for North America Y, M. c. As, is 28 per cent, indicating that the local Y. M. c. A. is much
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02
TRAILER PRIEST
 GUEST OF GUILD
Father Cunningham, Ten- neSsee to Give Address;
 Kilkenny Kats Win
Washington Hill

Rev. James F. Cunningham, of the Paulist Fathers, whose travels about the Tennessee mountain dis tricts have earned him the title of "The Trailer Priest" will speak at the first spring meeting of the Ladies Guild of the Church of St Francis Xavier. The meeting will be held Wednesday, the 10th, at the parish hall.
 Father Cunningham, son of MT, ard Mrs. James Cunningham of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02

Dedication of the new bell in the tower of St. Anthony's Roman Cath olic church, Prospect, which was do- mated by Sheridan council, Knights of Columbus, through the generosity of its members and friends, will be part of days program that the local Kaceys are holding next Sum- day, April '.
 The bell has just been placed in the church belfrey and will be blessed by the Pastor, Rev. Thomas Griffin of Union City, at o'colck in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02
Knights of Columbus Plan Interesting Sunday Progr
Public Hearings Asked
 On New BridgeL Layout
Preliminary Steps Taken for Baldwin St. Structure; Early Start Requested; Board Lauds Snow Removal

The Board of Aldermen voted unanimously last night authorize the Board of Public works to hold hearings changes in layout and grade which will be required because of the construction of the Baldwin street bridge The vote, taken after City Engineer Charles A. Root had was interpreted as an attempt by the aldermen to have work start the structure as possible The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02

Every man on the Sunderland, England, police force searched for more than three days to trace 300 medical tablets containing opilH which were missing from doctors car,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02

Rural problem areas are ire quently overlooked when the "so- cial workers" seek eases" yet death by starvation is just as tough in the country as in a crowded city fiat. Some months ago, certain persons affiliated with the State Department of Health asked for and received list of households where subnor- nal living conditions prevailed. Months passed. Finally, the in- formant received copy of the reports turned in after field in- vestigationS by supposedly quali- fled workers. In not one of the cases submitted had there been any material aid provided, other than that furnished previously by the town authorities.
 People read Grapes of Wrath, and are mortified by conditions that exist among transient work CTS across the continent. They overlook the likewise sad cOndi- tiOns along the R. F. D. in their own township. When an unfOr- tunate is found dead, the State Police investigate, accounts at the store show the allowance for rations given to the departed was usually ample. Another grave in the cemetery is filled and the case is closed.
 Probably the care of persons along the railfence circuit is too aften left to town officials who are poorly paid and sometimes too busy with other tasks because the rural indigent is not studied" by our best social salvationiSts. There's more front page news in the discovery of poverty in a slum area in town. There's something more appealing about mass pov- erty. Nobody seems to care about the old woodchopper who has run out of grub and is too proud to ask for help, until he is too weak to walk to the Town Hall,
 Someday 8 careful, thorough, road -by-rOad checkup will be made of the shacks and tumble down houses along the forgotten highways far from the mOtOrways. Photography might be used to show conditions in the back cOun- try. Volumes could be written about rural poverty right. here in Connecticut but if they were probably California would be the best market for the books and ''Nutmegia" would immediately attempt to prove that "it isn't SO."
 If such a book were written, perhaps a good title would be just Wooden Nutmegs" That California lad picked himself fruit title, and he did right well
 There's one thing about Con necticut paupers. They don't or ganize. Mass action by the un- privileged here is about as remote as real action in World War II. But our poor folks are thinking all the time and they're ready to adopt almost any hay wire philosophy that promises them a fuH stomach. Whether the promise can be kept or nOt.) Communism and n lot of other things start when people are rub hing an aching midriff and lis tening to a rabble rOuSer.
 Smoky Jenson has some ideas about backwoods rehabilitation. He believes that every group of small towns should have a visit ing nurse who has orders to make a round trip once every month
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02

through the territory assigned to her. Smoky says we could work it like watchman's rounds, make her ring-in from boxes connected with the local telephone system. Smoky would like the job him. self.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02
ESTABLISHED 1885

Thot Mon Who Has Mastered the Art of Gracious Living, In- stinctively Turns to Rogers-Peet Clothes He Can Live With GrociousIy. Rogers-Peet craftsmanship proves its worth in the finest of hand needing soft tailoring and So- vile Row drope and atmosphere in their oristoerots of toPcoots - that suove rain or shine Scotch cheviot masterpiece - Scotch Mist" topcoot at $65.
 From the far away hills of AuId Scotia, and the backs of those grazing pedigreed eheviot sheep, come the selected wool that goes into the weaving of the famous Scotch cheviot fabrics in thot ivy covered, century old m III in Peebles. thot toke their place in the sun as Rosers-Peet Scotch Mist" topeoots - the topeoots of a notion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02

Boy Scouts in Uairobi, Kenys Colony, are doing defense night pa trol duty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02

Tomatoes last only about one minute in one place, while cy- clones affect the weather for three days; yet tornadoes usually cause the greatest destruction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02
Principal Speaker

the afternoon. It is expected that all the Prospect parishioners, as well as a large delegation of Knights of Columbus members from Waterbury,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02
SOUTH BRITAIN BRIEFS
BY BILL GARRIGUS

BY BILL GARRIGUS
 Ed Warner is reported to be pinch hitting for Herdsman Rob- inson at the Russell farm. Ed has seldom known illness himself but he expresses deep sympathy with MT. Robinson who has lame back.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-02

Stray rumOrS drl1C through from the Roxbury area concern ing the plight of certain indigent members of the township. Lonely old folks, either living alone or with little or no care, supposedly suffer from malnutritiOn and gen. eral lack of proper attentOin. One report states that town pauper starved. another frOze, and still a third burned to death when dwelling caught fire. Down along the Shepaug, passersby watch the stove-pipe from a lonely cabin for signs of woodsmOke, half-fearful that some disaster may O'ertake an old man who lives there by himself. -.
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