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.onday, Jan. 21,1963 ' Liquor
Britons Shiver 15 Years Old, Installs Maybe;
As Winter By BARBARA BELL
ENFIELD CENTER—John Ju -
BELL 1,��.-_ -• Lees Uri
bar of Enfield Center was in. ;'
stalled as chief of Enfield Vol -
Sets Records Vol-
unteer Fire Company Saturday
night at the annual dinner. Fire- By CRARLE.
men also learned that the new ALBANY, N.Y.
By ANTHONY WHITE tanker truck is ready for work. Rockefeller's chant
LONDON (AF)—Freezing winds Other officers for the coming an increase in liqu
and snow whipped across Britain year include: President, Roger- appeared brighter t
today, burying the shivering coon- Hubbell; vice president, Harold W- �` �; Republicans feared
try deeper in one of its worst Clark; recording secretary, Rob - lure would rebel if
winters in recorded history. ert Grey; financial secretary, Mert pyj*gµ .;, E,; to raise charges f
After almost a month of bbz- Inman; treasurer, Vincent Oliver; _ r motor vehicles,
zards, record cold and searching first assistant chief, Howard Liv- Rockefeller's fist
winds, the nation was running ingstone; second, Floyd Carlisle; have been weighing
short of fuel and electric power. captain, Dominic Seamon; first It., - as devices to help ba
Its railroads were struggling and Norman Snyder; second, Robert — budget, expected to
its road network was in chaos. Cornish and director for four lion.
More than 100 major highways years, Harry Willis. - Well -posted sources
it.. 80 of Britain's 86 counties were The company's newest truck Director T. Norman
blocked by snowdrifts and treach- was purchased and fitted during ready to recommend
erous ice. Virtually the entire recent months while Dominic Sea- feller seek an inert
country lay beneath a thickening mon was Fire Chief. The 1963 charge for licenses
crust of snow that has been there Ford tanker has a capacity of serve alcholic bevera
since Christmas. —Ithaca Jourtat'Phota
1,600 gallons with a penetrator It was reported, he
JOHN JUBOR
The Thames River froze bank installed by firemen since the Hurd and his aides st.
to bank at Kingston. It was the first of the year. They plan :t, placing alternative wa
first time Since 1895 that the river add a front mounted pump soon. at the rear of the fire house allow- ing revenue before mai
has frozen so far downstream. The Enfield Volunteer Fire Com- ing room for a ladder truck, rest decision on boosting not
Searchers looked for three men pang saw its beginning in the fall rooms and kitchen. charges.
feared dead beneath avalanches of 1947 when a group of Town of Through Civilian Defense, a tank Ranking Republican
in the Pennine hills of northern Enfield men met for organza. of 1,350 -gallon capacity was pur- Legislature thought the
England. tion. Committees went to work chased in 1958. It was mounted on jority would be willing
Snow and ice on runways forced and a charter was granted on a truck chassis bought that Decem• with a heverage•fee int
British European Airlines to can. Feb. 3, 1948. There were 52 char' her and answered its first call the when it came to mato
cel 44 flights out of London Air- ter members. day after Christmas. A resuscita. the storm warnings wei
port Sunday- A plot of land adjoining the tot and small individual pieces of "I can tell you this—i
Trains between London and the Grange Hall was donated by Harry equipment complete the inventory tough," said Assembly
suburbs ran hours late. The in- Willis. Money -raising events were to date, along with the new truck. Joseph F, Carlino.
tense cold froze the wheels of sponsored and the fire house be- Augmenting company o w n e it Sen, John H. Hughes
some trains � to the tracks. gan to take shape the same spring, equipment are smaller but vital cure said, "I don't t
Italy also continued to take a built largely by volunteer labor. items purchased by the firemen chances of passage
beating from the weather. Freez• In June 1948, a Chevrolet pump- privately such as flasher lights good."
ing temperatures gripped the pen- er truck with American LaFrance for their cars, fire radios and Rockefeller and Hurd
insula after a weekend of snow equipment was delivered, a con- parade uniforms. Time donated to work on the new budge
and rain. Four persons died in tract was signed with the Town fight fires, clean and maintain 1%3 Legislature entered it
unheated homes. of Enfield and the Enfield Volnn- equipment, fill wells in dry wea• working week. The first
Venice's lagoon was frozen over. teer Fire Company was in busi. ther and empty cellars at times the session, reported oat
Icicles formed on Rome's famous ness. The first annual field d4Y of high water and other commun- entities last week, were
fountains. In the , Appennines, was held in June 1953, enabling ity service projects is never en• floor action tonight,
snowdrifts and landslides disrupt- firemen to reduce standing debts tered in the records and charged Among them was a me:
ed road and rail traffic. Several and plan for additional equipment. to their fellow citizens. ratify a federal const
villages were isolated. In July of that year, on 800- Although only 15 years old En- amendment barring Impos
gallon tank truck joined the fire field Volunteer Fire Company is a poll tax as a qualificai
Kentucky Shrines crew and a second 250 -gallon port- justifiably proud of its members voting in federal electiot
able pumper. That fall the De- and service• proval of the bill appear
Honor Lincoln partment became coed with the lain.
registration of 31 women in the 7 Rockefeller's decision
FRANKFORT, Ky. —Four initial year of the Auxiliary. Surrogates Court to seek increases in the b
shrines K Kentucky stand —In Four
In 1954 proceeds from the Field and motor -vehicle Fees
of &s sea, Kentucky
Abrastand
Lincoln. Days were sufficient to provide Issues 6 Letters based on his own estieni
o AE Hodgenville is the cabin hose in quantity and quality to political risks and the chi.
where he was born, Near Atherton-cabin
meet Fire Underwriter require• Six letters of administration In legislative approval.
vine Is the cabin where he lived meats In 1955 it was a two-way hued
with estates have been The Legislature's Den
youth. Near Springfield is the radio for mutual aid on the pump. in Surrogate's Court. minority leaders promise s
ase
of his grandfather. At Har• er truck and a third piece of fire Those who died leaving estates position. They argue that
cabin a
Cabin of is the cabin which his fighting equipment which was to and the dates of their deaths are: crease in fees would viol
Torlsbpatensmarried.. be a parade truck In its "spare" Anna M. Baldwin, Ithaca, Dec. Repuhlican' governor's ce
time. 3, 1962; Harley Marion, Town of promise to hold the line of
Toast perfect walnut halves In Seven years ago, the company Ithaca, Nov. 27; Anna Weigandt, Republicans hold clear
a little butter and sprinkle with purchased an auxiliary lighting Ithaca, Oct. 11; Charles J. Crispell, ties in both houses. With
cinnamon sugar; use as a garnish outfit and the fire house began Town of Caroline, Aug. 27; Emma crats united, however, a
for squash, pumpkin or sweet po- to look crowded. The next year A. Dale, Ithaca, Aug. 21; Alonzo of GOP holdouts could b.
tato pie, firemen built a two-story addition J. Brown, Ithaca, Aug. 24. tion.
Hurd said beverage-licei
i,,„,.,,i . ,,, a.....• �, had not been raised since
structure was first set up,
Tf 71 N r `T L; 1 Wl' _• 0 7 The annual revenue vield