Date: Fri 27-Sep-1996

Publication: Bee

Author: KAAREN

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REAL ESTATE

WAY WE WERE FOR SEPTEMBER 27, 1996

OCTOBER 1, 1971

The Rev Eugene Crabb, pastor of the United Methodist Church of Newtown, took

the first shovel full of dirt in ground-breaking ceremonies held after the

Sunday worship service for the new church site. The church, which was built in

1850, will be moved across Church Hill Road to a new location in Woods Park

and will be expanded. G. Robertson Swentor is chairman of the building

committee.

Joseph Dauplaise, chief of the United Fire Company of Botsford, received

serious leg fractures in an accident on Saturday. According to Newtown police

reports, Chief Dauplaise had jumped from the passenger side of the company's

Ward LaFrance fire truck in front of the firehouse, intending to direct

traffic, but stumbled and fell. The truck's right front wheels ran over both

his legs. The chief was taken to Danbury Hospital in the Newtown Ambulance

with serious fractures of both legs and large lacerations.

The 102nd Danbury State Fair is ready for a 10-day exposition opening on

Saturday. About 300,000 people are expected to attend, touring hundreds of

exhibits including the "big top" displays of fruits, vegetables, Grand

exhibits, flowers and plants. The outstanding attraction this year will be the

daily performance of the Royal Lippizan stallions which will present their

world-famous ballet for 90 minutes each afternoon in front of the grandstand

following the midway parade.

At a short meeting Monday evening, the Board of Finance reconsidered and

rescinded its approval of a plan to have vendor checks in payment of Board of

Education expenses be written in the office of the superintendent of schools.

Approval had been given by the finance board because the change had been

proposed by the town's auditors to eliminate the duplication of bookkeeping in

the offices of the superintendent and the controller. But Town Counsel Robert

Hall said the new procedure violates the Town Charter.

The village of Sandy Hook has fallen serious victim to the construction in

work in progress to provide separate eastbound and westbound traffic lanes on

I-84. The volume of traffic and consequent long delays in the center of Sandy

Hook, expecially during rush hour, are "horrendous," according to a Bee

editorial, despite the changed timing pattern of the traffic light and a

police office to direct rush hour traffic. Various proposals are being

considered to help alleviate the problem, including construction of a new

bypass road south of Sandy Hook Center from Washington Avenue to CLhurch Hill

Road at the top of Sandy Hook Hill.

SEPTEMBER 27, 1946

A large number of women attended the first meeting in St Rose Hall Monday

evening, called for the purpose of organizing the Rosary Society of St Rose

Parish. The Rev Francis J. Cullitan, curate, explained that rosary societies

are organized throughout the world under the Dominicans and that their purpose

is both spiritual and social. Mary Boyle was named president; Ruth S. Carmony,

vice president, Alice H. Carroll, secretary, and Ellen F. Wheeler, treasurer.

Next month's program will be arranged by Sarah Mannix.

William H. Cassidy, a young Newtown resident who had recently returned from

serving with the US Navy in the Pacific, was killed in a two-car head-on

accident on the Danbury-Newtown Road near the old Bethel line this week. A

passenger in one of the cars, Mr Cassidy, 18, died at Danbury Hospital the day

following the accident. The son of the late John Joseph Cassidy and Margaret

Jennings Cassidy, "Bill" was the adopted son of Mr and Mrs Forrest J.

Violette. He served for 14 months in the Pacific during the war and was

recently honorably discharged with the rank of seaman first class. A military

honor guard fired a volley over the grave during the funeral services.

A large delegation of SAndy Hook Volunteer Firemen and their shiny Mack truck

left this week for the annual state firemen's convention in Torrington. They

included Chief Hiram Hanlon, John McMahon, Tom Asteger, First Engineer Irving

Beers, Mike Lucas, Cliff Beardsley, Assistant Chief Walt McCarthy, Treasurer

Ed Knapp, Tom Cunningham, John Wood, Eddy Casey, Tom Digillo, Second Engineer

Leo Halstead, Stanley Korzeniewski, Pete Peterson, Steve Stefanko, Frank

Proudfoot, Secretary Donald Tenney, Dick Lane. The Sandy Hook Fire Department

now has about 75 members and, in addition to its regular duties, now sponsors

a fife, bugle and drum corps.

4-H Club member Donald Ferris Jr of Newtown has won a spot on the state

judging team. This entitles him to go to Richmond Virginia, to judge at the

Rural Atlantic Exquisition on October 7. Several county teams competed last

week in the state tournament at the University of Connecticut and the top four

finishers were chosen for the state team.

A large and appreciative audience at the Rotary Club meeting in the Parker

House greeted internationally known sculptor John Angel, who lives in the Zoar

District, as he gave a talk on his art Monday night. Mr Angel illustrated his

talk with stereopticon and motion pictures. In his 21 years in the United

States, Mr Angel has created the 156 statues and figures in the Cathedral of

St John the Devine.