“Nunnawauk Meadows” is the name chosen by Newtown Housing for the Elderly for its planned 40-unit elderly housing project on Nunnawauk Road. The winning name is one of five names submitted by Arthur Titus of Parmalee Hill Road, a Newtown Post Office employee, who will receive a $25 Bicentennial bond. A total of 34 names were submitted ranging from Townview Heights and Sunburst Manor to Vintage Square and Arcadia.

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 The National Guard will install a Bailey Bridge at the Hanover Road crossing at Pond Brook, beginning early Saturday morning. The temporary structure will carry traffic in the area while the flood-damaged bridge there is replaced. The town received the commitment for the bridge last week, and the first selectman signed papers this week relative to the installation, which will employ helicopters.

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Samuel Cooper of Warrington, Va., finally got his airplane back after it spent nearly a month in George Mayer’s alfalfa field off Bogg’s Hill Road, but not by the airborne route he originally intended. Mr Cooper was forced to make an emergency landing there September 16, shortly after taking off from Waterbury, where he purchased the vintage 1932 French biplane. As reported with an accompanying photo in the September 19 Bee, the problem wasn’t with the venerable craft, but with the new American-built engine that had been installed. Before he finally had the plane partially disassembled last week and shipped home by trailer, though, Mr Cooper gave the skies one more try. David and Carl French’s home is right next to the field, and Mrs French witnessed an exciting effort by the pilot to fly the craft away on October 4. The Frenches report Mr Cooper and a co-pilot took off down the sloping field and headed north. They got to about 10,000 feet and circled the field three times. Even from the ground, though, you could hear the engine was still having problems. Skillfully, the pilots made another landing, skimming right over a row of trees bordering Mr Mayer’s field.

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First Selectman Frank DeLucia and Town Counsel Paul Pollock spent all day Tuesday in New Britain at a hearing on the town’s appeal of OSHA citations and fines regarding the town garage, but Mr Pollock just barely got the time to begin his presentation to the Connecticut Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. The day was taken up with the presentation on behalf of the Labor Department regarding the findings of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, said the first selectman. As a result of a February inspection at the garage, the OSHA unit in March cited 22 non-serious violations at the garage, including a total of $424 in fines for 12 of them.

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The two candidates for the office of Newtown’s first selectman remain divided in their views as to what professional help the town needs, with Republican Frank DeLucia calling for a planner with engineering background, and Democrat Jack Rosenthal opting for a full-time town engineer.

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The Newtown Band Parents met at the home of Mrs Peg Forbell on Wednesday evening, October 1, 1975. At this first Steering Committee meeting, the following were elected to serve for the 1975-1976 school year: Jack Parkinson, chairman; Bob Alex, vice-chairman; Mrs Jean Swanhall, secretary; Mrs Peg Forbell, treasurer; Mrs Sylvia Poulin, publicity; Mrs Mary van Riper, phone committee; and Mr and Mrs Bob DiGiovanni, ways and means.

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During the open portion of its meeting on Tuesday evening, the Board of Education voted to deny a grievance by a Newtown Teacher, Dr Michael Moher of the Middle School, which sought to have Dr Moher move up to the doctorate step on the pay scale. The board had a specal meeting on Wednesday, October 8, which served as a hearing on the grievance. Besides board members and Dr Moher, present was John Quinlan of the Newtown Federation of Teachers.

OCTOBER 20, 1950

Guest speaker at Newtown’s celebration of UN Day, which will be held in the gymnasium of the Edmond Town Hall, Tuesday evening, October 24, beginning at 8 o’clock, will be a prominent member of the UN Secretariat, Povl Bang-Jensen, senior political advisor in the Division of Security Council Affairs. Mr Bang-Jensen formerly practiced law in Copenhagen. Later he entered the Danish Foreign Service where he served for a number of years as the counselor of the Danish Embassy in Washington.

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Newtown friends of Dr William J. McLaughlin of Bridgeport, who at one time lived on Newtown’s Main Street, will be interested to know that he was given a testimonial by the Connecticut Society of Oral Surgeons at the society’s annual meeting, which was held last Thursday evening at the Algonquin Club in Bridgeport. Dr McLaughlin, who is honorary president of the society, received a leather smoking set in recognition of the fact that his service in the field of oral surgery, extending over a period of more than 46 years, is the longest in the state.

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Henry Schnakenberg of Taunton District is to have a one-man show at the Kraushaar Gallery at 32 East 57th Street, New York City, starting Monday of next week. The exhibit consists of oils and water colors, all of which were painted at the artist’s studio here, and will continue for about three weeks.

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Visiting Danny Lawler at the Newtown Country Club last Friday were Birdie Tebbetts and his American League All-Stars which included Johnny Pesky, Red Sox; Bob Kennedy, Cleveland Indians; Freddie Hutchingson, Detroit; and Ed Lopat of the Yankees. On Saturday, Johnny Mize of the Yankees dropped in and spent the day talking over golf and the highlights of the past baseball season.

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In its effort to secure the best possible plans for the new high school, the High School Building Committee interviewed two architects at its meeting held in Hawley School last Thursday night. Another meeting with other architects is being held by the committee this Thursday night, and it is reported that two or three more meetings for the same purpose will be held before arrangements for preliminary plans are determined.

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Arthur T. Nettleton, president of the Newtown Savings Bank, has named the corridor outside his room at Danbury Hospital “Newtown Avenue.” In his daily walks recently he has been able to visit with a number of Newtown neighbors who have also been in the hospital temporarily. His friends find his keen sense of humor at its best and he readily draws on his rich store of amusing anecdotes from his long experience in the financial field.

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A graphic eye-witness account of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor was given at the Monday night meeting of the Newtown Rotary Club by Dr William F. Green, superintendent of Fairfield State Hospital, who had arrived on the Hawaiian scene as a naval medical officer less than seven weeks before the notorious attack on December 7, 1941.

 

OCTOBER 16, 1925

Contractor DeMichael is pushing the work on the Dodgingtown state road and expects to have the work completed early in November.

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 Newtown loses one of its most substantial and respected citizens in the death on Sunday of Amos T. Camp of Hawleyville. He was 62 years old, the son of the late Lemuel Camp of Hawleyville.

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A surprise party was given in honor of Miss Stella Karcheski, Monday evening, at her home on Mile Hill. A very pleasant evening was spent playing games and dancing. There were 24 girls and boys present.

OCTOBER 19, 1900

People in this vicinity, who travel to Stepney, complain of the conditions of the road. For a turnpike, a road of the first class, it is in very bad shape, nothing having been done to it since early last spring.

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Frederick McGuire, right hand man of the Tinkerfield miller, spent last week sightseeing in Hartford.

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Ex-Selectman W.H. Glover fell and broke one arm near the shoulder on Tuesday night. Dr Smith set the dislocated member.