By Morris Rote-Rosen
At a ringside television seat at the Louis-Walcott championship fight at Jerry Dwyer's place ... Jammed with boxing fans to witness the first of this form of championship entertainment in Granville ... Including Mrs. Jack McHenry and Eleanor Lewis, snugly seated in front row chairs ... With Eleanor learning the first rudiments of the sport and the intimate system of scoring points ... And an apt pupil at that ... Arthur Bruce, a statue of immobility, as he watches Joe Louis shuffling towards Walcott, during the fight.
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The feeling at Dwyer's is tense as if the sports, witnessing the progress of the fight, were at Madison Square Garden ... Some, frozen in their place, follow the contestants, slowly swinging fists, with every punch of the boxers ... While Jerry Dwyer, the genial host, smiles at his interested guests ... And when Joe Louis hit the floor, after Walcott landed a hard right to his head, Eleanor Lewis jumped from her seat, waved her hand and said, "Oh, no, no!" ... While Dick (Cowboy) Davies cheered for the betting underdog, Walcott, to finish the champ there and then.
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By the time the gong sounded for the fourth round, Eleanor had her fine polished fingers in her mouth. And then Walcott landed a hard right to the face of Louis, and Eleanor chewed off most of the finger nail polish from both her hands, while the referee counted seven over Louis ... When the champ got up Eleanor sighed a sigh of relief and leaned heavily against the back of her chair ... During that only one good mix-up in the ninth round, when Louis and Walcott were exchanging everything they had, "Dot" McHenry and Eleanor, almost slipped out of their seats to the floor.
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Jack McHenry, as chief operator of the new television set, had the instrument working perfectly. Jack is responsible for trying out television in Granville. When he was told that it couldn't be done because of the distance from Schenectady, he thought it was worth a trial. And it worked. "Now," says Jack, "we know that it works in Granville and we have a good start. It won't be long before you see me installing a few more sets around here." ... Jerry Dwyer and Jack McHenry can be listed as the pioneers in introducing a new field of entertainment in Granville.
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Only two days left until December 20, the deadline for the contributions to the Fred Thompson Christmas Fund and it is gratifying the way our readers have responded. Here are only a few excerpts from the many letters, accompanying contributions: Capt. Glen Beecher: "It will bring at least a measure of happiness into an otherwise lonely life." Mrs. Robert Rowlands: "Glad to donate, Mr. Thompson deserves the best of everything." Mrs. Gertrude Warren: "It will help give him a little ray of sunshine in his lonely life."
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Mrs. Dorothy Aubrey: "I am sending a dollar too for a very worthy cause." Willard Hicks: "He used to tell us boys stories about his war experiences and believe me, he must have gone through a lot. The fund couldn't be for a better cause." Bob Whitcomb: "Your appeal is the finest thing heard of in a long time and am sure that you will get a good sum to give Fred a real Christmas, and I know that he will try to be very grateful." And so on, and on, which proves to us what we always believed, that people are kind and understanding and helpful to their needy fellowmen. And isn't this what we are here for? All of us.
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Camillus (Mickey) Nelson, says he is a good weather fisherman only. "No ice fishing for me," says Mickey, "the last time I went ice fishing with Burdick, I was glad to get home" ... And many of us are eagerly looking to one of the finest water sports in the world ... Our boys and girls are taking a peek at that skating rink to see what goes on in the rear of the Race grist mill ... And that includes several young ladies from the Green Mountain Junior college.
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The two runaway boys from North Poultney, who came to Granville to seek their fortune, "looking for a job." One 16 years of age and his younger brother 12. Police Justice Albert Berkowitz bundled them in his car and returned them to their parents where they belong ... That photograph of Mrs. Tierney, on the shelf, in Pat's coal office brings back memories of his mother, a sweet and lovely character, who, to those who knew her in life, is immortal. Even death can not dim the lights on bright rays of memories. Some who go before us do leave something to be remembered by. Mother Tierney was one of them.
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How many more sacrifices of human lives will New York state demand, on the Middle Granville - North Granville highway, before the highway department will do something about it? That is, something more than cutting down the trees. The road is a dead "T" stop. It isn't even a curve. The state finds money for everything else, why not an appropriation for a widened round curve which will, at least, give the motorists a chance for their lives? There isn't a ghost of a chance under the present road conditions, especially at night. And we can look forward, with dread, to other casualties, almost any time.
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"Is this winter?" asks Mary Roberts, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Roberts. And before we could answer, her little brother interposed: "Yes, until spring" ... Those thoughtless boys who, while shooting rats on the public dumping grounds, have shot down several electric wire insulators, perhaps do not realize that a broken high tension cable falling on them, will cause instantaneous death. It is no wonder that mothers' hair turn gray worrying about their youngsters.
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The death of Roy I. Williams bring back his connection with two prominent men in Middle Granville: C. H. Bull, his grandfather, a well known merchant in Granville and his uncle, E. C. Whittemore, better known to another generation as "Ed" Whittemore. The Bull store was a landmark on the site of the present Pat Quinlan house, when the Granville Masonic lodge met in a room on the upper floor. And "Ed" Whittemore was the first principal of the Middle Granville Union School opened in Corinthian Hall in 1868.
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The pros and cons of the necessity of a snow loader was settled on the first snowy night. Before 7 o'clock on the morning, Saturday, December 6, after a heavy snow fall, the village streets were clean from curb to curb and traffic had no difficulty in parking in the usual places. The snow loader costs $4,900 to the village and it will pay for itself in doing away with the slow method of hand-shoveling and keeping a force of men busy both day and night. Mark down another progressive move for Granville.
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