The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-30
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New Haven, Conn.,, Jan. 30-(UP) Trustees of the "New Haven" railroad system today reported net income of Sl,655 ,GO2 for the month of Decebmer and $14,O71, ,121 for the year 1944.
 December gross revenues were $I4,981 JOS and operating expenses | $10,657 ,552.
 For the year, income tOtaIed Sl82,- 394,331, an increase of $2,846, ,O57, while expenses were $l25,205, 1886, an increase of $12, ,966, ,964. The operating ratio of 68.6 compared with 62.5 for 1943
 Goshen, Com, Jan. 30-CUP)- This community of 800 population named for the Bilican land of Gosh- en, was partially snowbound today, with half of it's highways under drifts as high as Is and 20 feet and with highway crews fighting whip ping winds to keep main travel ar- l teries op2n.
 Located in the foothills of the Berkshires and at one of the high est elevations in Litchfield county, Goshen was hit heavy blow by yesterdays heavy storm. Ordinary blows were unable to toss aside the drifts, and bulldozerS and power shovels were brought in. But as quickly as they cleared roadway, the wind dumped the drifts back again.
 Iu citt fnrIttUr PinIJc to bypass the clogged thoroughfarec, and the crews played along with the drifts to hreach isolated homes so that food could be delivered.
 First Selectman Samuel Bartholo- new estimated that less than half of the towns 40 miles of roads were passable and yesterdays ten inch snowfall and the cold weather made it difficult to keep them clear.
 Many residents received emer- gency fuel deliveries and. because of frozen water pipes, were forced to use melted snow.
 At nearby Colebrook, pr. Homer c. ASheley shoveled his way more than two miles from main high way to answer an emergency call Several families also were isolated at Litchfleld and Cornwall.
 Hartford, Conn.,, Jan. 3O.-UP) An emergency fuel station was opened by the city today to prepare for threatened acute shortage of coal
 A fair amount of fuel was report ed available, and Mayor William H. MOrtensen ordered police to round up all vagrants end put them to work at coal yards to relieve the manpOwer shortage. Vagrants were given the choice Of going to work or to jail.
 Meanwhile, the state made its emergency centers. available. in many communities. Only substitute fuels were made available to amuse- ment places so that coal could be aIIOcated to homes facing distress.
 Hartford, Conn, Jan. 30-(P)- Convicted or 12 counts of forging government allotment checks, Miss LavOra Mitchell, go, went tO prison today to begin two year term imposed by Federal Judge J. JO- seph Smith.
 Miss Mitchell was accused of stealing the checks from the mall box of Mrs. Annie Ferguson, mother of three children, whose husband Is serving In the Navy overseas.
 Hartford, Conn, Jan. 30-CUP)- George D. Boutwell,, p, East Hart ford, a conscientious Objector with four brothers in the armed forces, was held for Albany. N. Y, author ities today after being apprehended by the FBI for deserting a civilian public service camp at Lisbon, N. Y, last october.
 Boutwell, was assigned by his Tor rington draft board to a Pennsyl- vania camp from where he was transferred to Lisbon. U. s. COmmis- sioner William J. Wholean set his bond at 5000.
 Greenwich, Conn, Jan. 3O.-UP) Tine Pickwick Land Company, owner of the PIckwick Arms hotel. has been purchased for about $5OO.- 900 by a group of Greenwich busi- nessmen, 1t was revealed today. The 25- years -Old hotel was valued at $I ,5OO, O,OOO at the time 1t was built.
 The group which sold the Pick wick Land Company included fOr- mer Atty Gen. Homer $. Cummings, Thomas W. Cook and Charles D. Lockwood. Evan r. Putnam, preal- dent of the Greenwich Gas Com