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WAY WE WERE FOR SEPTEMBER 6, 1996

SEPTEMBER 10, 1971

A total of 65 units marched in the Newtown on Labor Day morning to make up the

largest Progess Festival Parade in the town's history. The Southbury Training

School won the award for the best float for its rendition of the theme "Out of

Darkness." The best non-musical entry was a float by Newtown Hook & Ladder

Company No. 1 which showed firemen at work in a burned out home saving a child

with resuscitator equipment. The most original float, by the Newtown Jaycees

and Jaycee Wives, was made up of some 5,000 colored napkins showing a little

red schoolhouse and school site entitled, "Progress? Where Are Our New

Schools?" The comic award went to the Town and Country Garden Club for its

float with a hugh inchworm on it.

A compromise agreement has been reached on the series of court actions between

the town and Francis D'Addario over removal of gravel from a site near Mile

Hill Road and Route 34. The compromise, recommended by Judge William Teirney

of Stamford, was signed by Town Counsel Robert Hall and by Friedman & Friedman

for D'Addario. Under the compromise, the Campanella Company may excavate for

Mr D'Addario enough material to satisfy the needs of the job currently being

done on the intersection of I-84 and Route 25, but no more. The amount needed

is estimated in the agreement as 435,000 cubic yards. If additional material

is taken for other jobs, there will be a $25,000 fine.

The Pole Bridge Road intersection with the eastbound lane of I-84 has now been

permanently closed. To get to and from Pole Bridge, drivers now must use Route

34.

Burke Marshall of Newtown, deputy dean of the Yale University Law School, has

been appointed to the Board of Governors of the American Stock Exchange. Mr

Marshall, 48, will serve as one of three public representatives on the Amex's

32 member policy-making body.

At the Selectmen's meeting this week, the board voted unanimously to

participate in, and make use of, the funds available through the federal

emergency unemployment act. First Selectman Timothy Treatdwll has been

notified that $66,323 should be available for Newtown. Of this, 70 percent, or

about $46,426, could be for local jobs. More information will be forthcoming

after a meeting in the office of Danbury Mayor Gino Arconti later this week.

SEPTEMBER 6, 1946

Newtown schools opened this Wednesday morning with a first-day total

enrollment of 579 students as compared with 554 on the first day last year.

Based on previous experience and information about students who will enroll

late, Principal Carl LeGrow expects enrollment to top 600 at the six locations

in the Newtown school system. The initial enrollment includes 93 at Sandy hook

School, 21 at Land's End, 23 at Huntingtown, 23 at Flat Swamp, 62 in two rooms

at St Rose School, and 357 at Hawley School. The most populas rooms in Hawley

are the second grade, with 59 students, and the third, with 35.

The Committee for Child Refugees has just received an urgent plea for

assistance in making woolen jumpers for little Dutch girls. The garments have

come in all cut and ready to be put together. If they are to be of use this

winter, they must be finished by October 1. The committee is setting aside its

regular work to meet the deadline and will welcome all volunteers who might

want to assist in this project.

Albert H. Nichols, recently honorably discharged from the US Army as a

captain, has resumed his position as postmaster of the Newtown Post Office.

First Sgt William (Mike) Kearns also has been honorably discharged and is back

home with his family in the Gray's Plain district after more than three and

one-half years of service.

Home Wanted: Preferably 3 bedrooms (2 would do). We have 2 girls in high

school and No. 3 on the way (a boy, we hope). By November 1 we have to be out,

the house has been sold and the buyer (Mrs Mason Day) needs it desperately.

Would prefer a place where we could keep our cow and a few chickens; if this

is not possible they would go to the butcher. If the owner of our future home

should be a lady or gentleman, alone, we would be delighted to have you at our

table. Now, if all this should be of no interest to you, because you want

someone to live in the second house on your estate and take care of the place

for you, give me a call anyway. Kon Rode, Green Gate Farm, Washington.