The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-07

Thomaston, Sept. 7-The Repub. llean electors of ThomNSton met in caucus last evening in the court room of the town hall to nominate town officials for the annual cleo. ton in october,
 Roland Cuthbert chairman of tho Republican town committee was named chairman of the caucus and Mrs, Benjamin Menke was nanied clerk, All town officials were re- nominated, the only contest devel. oplng ln nominations for the board of education,
 Nominations for ofaees are as fol- lows: Assessor, Hugh Tingle; tax review, Albert Golden; first Seleet- man, E, R, Kaiser; second select man, James Truelove; agent town deposit fund, Robert Robinson; grand jurors, William Bumstead, James Scott; judge of probate, J. Howard Roberts; board of eduea. ton, Russell Roberts, Herbert TTue- love.
 A contest developed in nomina- tlons for the board of education which required two ballots. On the first ballot, Roberts had i4 votes, Truelovo had Il and Mrs, Robert Shearer had Q, On the next ballot Roberts had 10, TrueloVe had l4 and Mrs, Shearer had with two blank ballots, making Roberts the winner for one of the posts on the board The other nomination went to True- love with 2l ballots. Mrs, shearer with i2,
 Board of finance for three years, Allan 1nneS; representative to the general assembly, Allan 1nnes, for Q second term.
 Justices of the peace, Y. c. Hotch- kiss, Ralph North, William Bum- stead, Leon Foster, Sherwood Beardslee, Roland Cuthbert, Mar. shall Sangster, Henry Petke.
 Constables, Frank W. Bellmay, James P. Ryan, Peter Rein, Neil Smith.
 Library directors, Louis orlswold, George Potter.
 Fire commissioner, George Kind- ness.
 Tellers were N. D. Holbrook and Peter Rein. The town committee was empowered to i'll any vacan- cies which might occur.
 Auxiliary Met
 The Auxiliary of Clifford R. French. Post No. %, met last eve- ming at the home of Mrs. Allan T. Westlake. Routine business was car- ried out and c committee was named to assist the Legion post in en- tertaining the members of the sixth district at the meeting to be held September g, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall.
 Legion Makes Plans
 Clifford R. French Post No. 22 American Legion met last evening at the Legion home on Elm street with Commander Axel Neelsen pre- siding. The post voted to send 6 vote of thanks to owners who do- mated trucks for the recent paper salvage drive and to Frank Bellmay and Mrs. Poit, principal of the Grove street school who assisted in the drive.
 Another drive for paper will be made the last of the month. The leaders of the local scout troops will meet with the post at the next meeting Sept 20 to make plans for the drive. The post voted to send letters of recommendation for Howard Palmer who recently passed an examination to the Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis and who stood third highest on the list to Senators Maloney and Danaher, and Con- gressman Talbot,
 Commander Axel Nielsen and ad- jutant Koops were appointed to ate tend the state commanders dinner at Wilcox's Pier restaurant, New Ha- ven October 2.
 The post voted to add the names of all servicemen to the post nen1- bership rolls who have died in serv- ice in World War II.
 The following committee was ap- pointed to act with the auxiliary in making arrangements for the sixth district meeting which will be held at the V. r. w. hall Sept. 2S. Commander Nielsen. Peter Koops, Arthur Kelly. Sheldon Kocps. Earl Beardslee. Commander Nielsen made the following appointments for the year: Americanism. E. F. Daven. port: anti-subversive Arthur Kelly; citizenship. William J. Moran: com- munity service. Harry Lynch; for eign relations. Sheldon Koops; fore estry and conservation, Harry Saun- ders; safety, Forbes Gibbs; child welfare, Thomas Reynolds; disaster relief, Sheldon Koops: education of orphans. E. F. Davenport: graves registration. Joseph Howard; law and order. James P. Ryan; mem. bership. Julius Friedrich; national defense. Earl Beardslee.
 Marksmanship. William J. Moran
 Military Affairs. Peter Koops