Miscellaneous Happenings, 1940

Bainbridge News & Republican, July 25, 1940

 



Four Escape Serious Injury in Sunday Crash:  Four persons escaped serious injury Sunday when a car driven by James E. Scott, Unadilla R.D.1 [Otsego Co., NY[, collided with a car operated by Paul Bouton, Delhi, R.D.2, on the Sidney-Unadilla highway. 

 

Scott was coming out of Mrs. George Shaver's driveway going east and Bouton was traveling west on Route 7 at the time of the accident.  Bouton told Troopers Batters and E.J. Palombo that he failed to see the car coming out of the driveway and when he did see it, he pulled to the left of the road and as the cars collided, lost control of his, going over an embankment with the car landing on its side. 

 

Mr. Scott was treated by Dr. Burian, Sidney, for a broken left arm.  Paul Bouton was taken to the Sidney Hospital and was treated for a two-inch cut on the forehead, skinned left ear and a badly bruised arm.  Leroy Bouton and Clarence Carpenter, both of Delhi, and passengers in the Paul Bouton car, received attention for minor cuts on forehead and hands from Dr. Ralph Loomis, Sidney.  No criminal action was taken. 

 

Local Girl Speaks Only in French:  Miss Doris I. Stead, 98 N. Main street, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Stead, of this village, is participating in a six weeks program at the Middlebury College Language Schools, designed to better international relationships through language study.  Miss Stead is a student in the French school.  All the students, at the schools, have pledged themselves to speak, read, and write only the language in which they are specializing. 

 

Faculty members in the segregated schools of French, Spanish, German and Italian, are natives of their respective countries.  The schools stand for the thorough preparation of language teachers through efficient methods of teaching, a mastery of the spoken and written language, and an intimate knowledge of the life, institutions, literature, history and culture of the country studied. 

 

Bainbridge News &Republican, Aug. 29, 1940

 

Guilford Boy Graduates:  John R. Shelton, of Guilford, who re-enlisted in the U.S. Army Corps on February 13, 1940, has graduated from the Roosevelt Aviation School at Roosevelt Field, Mineola, L.I.  This school is one of the seven civilian aviation schools designated by the government to instruct Army Air Corps enlisted personnel in airplane mechanics.  The course lasted six months and covered all phases of repairing and overhauling of airplane engines.  P.F.C. Shelton was one of 25 students selected from the Army Air Corps base at Mitchel Field, last February to pursue this course.  P.F.C. Shelton has been assigned to the Second Air Base Squadron at Mitchell Field to perform the duties of a specialized air mechanic on one of the hugh twin-motored bombers. 

 

Bainbridge News & Republican, September 26, 1940

 

Three Russinas With Maps And Cameras Snared by Troopers in Afton:  Konstantine Gregory Vorobiev, 31, of Orange, N.J., was arrested Monday morning, Sept. 23, by Inspector Ernest Maynard, and Trooper James Fleming, B.C.I., and charged with failure to stop for a stop sign, at Route 41, before entering Route 7 at Afton.  The young Russian electrical engineer, who is employed by the Amtory Trading Corp., New York City, was arraigned before Judge Paul Brown and fined $5.  The discovery of maps and high powered cameras in the machine lead to an extensive official investigation, the result of which police failed to disclose.  Neither the drive nor his two companions could speak English. 

 

Donald Pratt Enters Aeronautical School:  Donald Pratt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pratt, will enter the Academy of Aeronautics, La Guardia Airport, Flushing Bay, L.I., next Monday.  Donald, who is a graduate of Bainbridge High School has won many prizes in various state and other model airplane meets.