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*-—a fc 2 Massena, N.Y., Observer Tuesday. July 31, 1962 Nortliport Students Visit Alcoa Potsdam— Thirty junior and senior high school stu- dents from Northport,, L.l ware,at the State Universit' College at Potsdam last wee\ studying the social, econon\. 1c and cultural history o northern New York. Wednesday the group! which is studying New Yorl State history under a Sum mer enrichment program visited Niagara Mohawl Power Corporation's hydro electric installation on the Racquette River during the morning. In the~ afternoon they were guests • of tht Aluminum Company ol America in Massena and vis- ited the St. Lawrence Sea-; way and Power Project.! Wednesday night they met with Dr. Charles Lahey, pro- \ fessor ai social studies at the State University College- Thursday the Long Island students visited the Corn- wall Indian Reservation, Up- per Canada Village, thej Remington Art Museum and; (AHTNC) other points of interest in A Keenan, 23, .whose wife, Ogdensburg and __the -dairy •. Shirley, lives in .Brasher farms at Canton Agricultural Falls recently graduated \Hill Cumorah Pageant Set Thursday, Friday, Saturday The Hill Cumorah Pag- eant at Palmyra, portraying the rise and fall of an an- cient Isrealite civilization on the American continent and the ministry of Christ among its people, began in a modest way 25 years ago with only\ a few improvised stage proper- ties. Pvt. Keenan Completes NCO Course the colorful Pageant coin- cides with the 135th anniver- sary of the transfer of the golden plates qfc&the Book of Mormon from ,me top of the Hill Cumorah by the Angel Moroni -. to Joseph Smith. Joseph translated the plates into the Book of Mormon and on the basis of .the book and Ti „_„ . further revelations, he or> Its 25th anniversary per- ize(J the Church o f Jesus -TKS 58 ^ Ug ' h • L Ch r ist of Latter Da y Saint * W 1F ^ 1 L„ e n q ™ P . ped ,w which today has a member- more than 9600,0011 worth of shi of 2 ,000,000 around the buildings, theatrical para- wor j ( j phernalia and accommoda-i „. \ rr-n r>„ m «,.oi, !>.,«,>„„+ tions for SDectators The Hl11 Cumorah Pageant The 1962 P Sormances are dramatizes the record en- v: A 11 J ,% P e \ orman ces are _ d thos goMen scheduled for 9 p.m. Wednes- s ;„.„„ +v, V;^ , „* JTmnn IltircSfAuT ??S ^ \StXn\ ^vS Preoarations are bein g ; tion in the New World ' its made ?or sle 100^000 \spec' ? eriods of P eace and P r0S ' and Technical Institute. from the Seventh U. S. Army N o n-Commissioned Officer tators expected to see the cast of 300 actors re-create the,_triumps and tragedies, battles, and disasters, the revelries and reforms of the ancient American \Christian civilization as recorded in the Pvt. Michael Bo ° k of Mormon. Year by year improve- ments have been made at Hill Cumorah until now they include a staging prea on the. hillside larger than a OLD FASHION FOOD BOOTH IS SCHEDULED St. Mary's Church will (NCO) Academy in Bad Tolz, i football field with 25 stages, Germany. \ . | five miles of .underground Keenan received four wiring for lights and sound, reservoirs holding 175,000 perity, its periods of decline and i|s -ultimate destruction by a faction which had fallen into paganism and savagery. About 600 B. C, according to this chronicle, when the Lord decides to destroy Jeru- salem because of the prevail- ing wickedness of the in- habitants, he selects' the Pro- phet Lehi to escape with his family and sail to the Ameri- can continent. Here the band of Israelites build a flourish- ing civilization wth magnfi- cent .cties, palaces and tem- ples. Mrs. LeFrancois, Aged ^5, Dies In California Brasher Falls— Mrs. May Ej. Chagnon LeFrancois, 85, widow of Adelard D. Le- Francois, died in a nursing home at Oceanside, Calif. Mrs. LeFrancois was born in Brasher Falls in 1877, the daughter of -Dr. v and Louis PMUas Chaghon. Dr. and Mrs. Chagnon came from Canada about 1875 and made their home, in the house now owned • by Philip LaBrake. Dr. Chagnon served this section until his death by pneumonia ten years later. After the doctor's, death Mrs. Chagnon moved with her three little girls back to St. Anicet, Que., to be near relatives. Miss May Chagnon • was married to Adelard LeFran- eois in 1900 at St. Stanislaus deKostka, Que. They had one 1 son, Wilfred Silvio, who died in 1952. 'The family had lived in Boonville, Newton Falls and Waitertown where Mr. LeFrancois, a retired lo- comotive engineman of the New York Central railroad, -djed in 1949. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Le- Francois went to California to make her home. sponsor and Old Fashioned we f ks °* training in variousjg aUons of water for the reful-i They are believers in-the Food and vegetable.booth in nl u ilitarv subjects with em-lgentlyiUuminatedwater cur- the downtown section during P ha « s t ° n f . leadership and; tains and 0 ^ er purposes a Olde Fashioned Days. • c ™ bat la . otlcs : Th t e P^. 0 **,two-story air-conditoned ad- Mrs. Margaret Gabor ,s J^T^ chairman of the event and ^H^ 1 ^'^S^^ ^Z ™>».VW Mrs. Olm Peetsos ca-xhair-..^ thlself-confTdence-anffr tol ^- a bureau ft-mforma- man. The Ladies of the Sa- sensfe oi responsibmty re .:tion. cred HeartXeague are work- ed Qf a ^^ lea(Jer , Seating area now covers ing with them in soliciting He ig & draftsman in Head- ve acres and tne parking food and garden produce. quarters Troop of the llst s P ace 46 acre's, all brilliantly Anyone interested in con- Armored Cavalrv Regiment's^§ nte d D Y powerful sodium- tribuhng is asked to contact 2d Reconnaissance Squadron va P or \ghts. Mrs. Gabor at RO 9-6132. - in • L anc ishut. . • - An inter-com ^ystem in- —. =-^ . _ - \~He entered the Army installed this summer links--arr A watch, manufactured in October 1961, completed the buildings and production 1686,\ was recently dug from basic training at Fort Knox, units and will enable Direct- the ruins of the earthquake- Ky.,and arrived overseas lastlor Harold I. Hanson to be in ruined city of Port Royal. March., He is a 1956 graduate ] constant communication with 'Jamaica-whfc'h was destroyed of St. Lawrence Central High,his cast of 300 actors and his coming of Jesus Christ in the Holy Land, and, after His death and resurrection, to His followers *in the New World. Southern Baptists in New Location Club Notes Personal » i The Massena Southern Baptist Chapel has a' new name and a new location. Beginning Wed n e s d a y,. Aug. 1, the chapel will be'FAMILY PICNIC known, as the Baptist Chapel Moose Lodge 1110j Mas on Winthrop Road. The new sena> will hold th eir 21st an- location is the store building nual family picnic at the Nor . Frankinsense is produced owned by Francis White, 3Vz miles north of .Winthrop on the Winthrop-Massena Road, near the junction of Jenkins Cross Road. The.. first service of the Baptist Chapel in the new lo- cation is a prayer_ meeting, Wednesday, Aug. I,'at 7:30. A full program is scheduled for each Sunday during the month of August: Sunday School, 9:45; Morning Wor- ship, 11:00; Training Union, 6:30; and Evening Worship, 7:30. The chapel will conduct a vacation bible school for children ages 4 to'16 in the new location August 6 - 10. The first Sunday services are planned for August 5. For the last 2V2 years the Baptist Chapel has been meeting in the Odd Fellows Temple under the name OfJ Massena Southern . Baptist Chapel. The Rev. R. Z. Bor- oughs is the pastor of the church. SON BORN A son, Todd Philip O'Don- frorri a gum exuded by a lnell > was born to Mr - Md shrub native to southern Arabia. It forms about a bruise,' similar to the gum- bubbles of the cherry tree. Mrs. Thomas O'Donnell, 216 Jefferson St., in Hotel Dieu Hospital, Cornwall, July 27, 1962.\ folk Rod and; Gun Qlub <on Sunday, Aug. 12 from, 10 till 4 p.m. A paid up member- ship card will admit Moose members and their family. Fun for all. Bring a picnic lunch or you may purchase eats on the ground's. Personal A son, Chris David Fitz- gerald* was . born July -21, 1962, to William and Annette Ramsey Fitzgerald/ Rt. 3, Massena, in Hotel Dieu Hos- pital, Cornwall. The abbey on top of,Mt. St. Michel, France, classed as an architectural triumph, is built atop a narrow ridge on a mountain peak. - HOMESTEAD DAIRY STORE at-lrnie's Shell Stat. . Corner Center and N. Main Featuring AH Dairy Products at Cash & Carry Prices Mr. and Mrs. @hriis Wil- densen and, two daughters, Annette, 14\ and Hester, 10, Paramaribo in Dutch Guinea, S.A., visited Mr. and Mrs. Le- land Storrin, 68 Malby Ave., from Thursday night to Mon- day. Mr. and Mrs. Storrin and Mr. and Mrs. Willensen were neighbors for two and a half years in a Paramaribo. Mr. and Mrs. Willensen are en- route to Niagara Falls, then to \Pittsburgh before pro- ceeding to Holland. He is-em- ployed by the Aluminum Company. ' \ Mr. and Mrs. Paul Crouch, Pittsburgh, were in the St. Lawrence Valley over the weekend. They had coma north to visit Mrs. Crouch's mother in Brier Hill. Mr. Crouch attended the - Javits • luncheon in Ogdensburg and the J,avits dinner in Massena Saturday night. ( Orange and grapefruit trees are often found grow- ing wild along the Atlantic Coast as far north as Caro- lina-Virginia area. The Gulf» Stream floats the seeds along. Buy your tickets for \Fiorello\ at Gurs E. Orvis St. Ext. Coming Aug. 5 on June 7. 1692. HIGHLAND HOTEL 37 Rt. Brought Back by p 0 ^..i, r Demand!. ROJVI OeSPIRITO Famous Singing Personality & • MARY RODNEY Beautiful Exotic Dancer BOB SITTIG TRIO For Your Dancing\ Pleasure School in Brasher Falls -and various technical crews, attended Niagara University, to achieve precisely the ef- Niagara Falls, and St. Mich- feet's he desires during re- 'ael's \College in'Wihooski, Vt.\hearsals and performances. His' parents, Mr. and Mrs.i Two new fog machines, m added to one introduced last i year, will help to make even ' | more spectacular one of the I major scenes-the destruction —Hof the cilv of Zarahemla. Hubert C. Keenan, live North Lawrence, N.Y. Massena Men Will Skig At Gouvemeur THEY know their vacation dollar's worth more at — ROUND LAKE INN. . Weir, P. Q. One of the Laurentian's oldest resorts with the fin- e s t, authentic French cuisine. ' . Rates start at $7.00 (meals included). For reservations Tel. 687-9921 or Write: M. E. Dubeau. A five-track high fidelity stereophonic sound system brings the music specially \written - for the pageant by Something new has been Dr! Crawford Gates, the real- added to the World of CloSejistic sound\ effects, ahd the Harmony. j music by the Mormon Taber- It was announced that anacle Chior which precedes fifty-man St. Lawrence Val-' eacn performance. ley Barber Shop Chorus com- « To the best of my know . posed of talented songsters, ledgei . the Hm Cumorah from Massena, Canton, Ma-' Pagean t now has the finest lone, and Cornwall, Ontario,! facilities in the world for wi 1 sing-at the •Gouverneur t pi . oduction » Direc . 10 31r ? n 8 6m? \' ' AUg -'tor Hansen says. \We have Re'centlv created by sel3ct-,g° ne *<> S r f l len S ths - ? or ing the top ' Barber Shop: e5 \> m P le < four years ago. Quartet singers in the area, when we discovered that a the chorus is additionally : nouse and ; barn owned bv unique in' having four musi-: 11 ^ Church across the road cal directors, one from ea^h^ere giving us an echo, we of the communities contrib- tore them down. This year, uting members. The Di- to create curtains of green- rectors arc: St. Lawrence jery on each side of the stag- University Professor of Mu-ling area on the hillside so sic. Richard Gilbert; a Corn-\that actors can appear and wall, Ont., Bell Telephone ! disappear, we planted S37,- emplqye. Daniel Osborne;'500 worth of evergreens.\ Franklyn Free Academy (Ma-; As In past years, a cast of lone) Music-Director, Viri-;300 young Mormon men and cent Tutino; and Massenatwoftien, mostly from the High School Principal, Har- Rocky Mountain and Pacific ley Dingmari. Direqtor Ding- Coast \ gtateg in strikin g coa . man has been mainly respon- tumes of ancient Hebraic, sible for the origin of this Greek Roman Aztec and new area-wide group and he M d ; .„ enact th will be the Director of the | J an ancient AmerK-arr y* * * • * Seaway Valley Business Assoc. Presents \Fiorello\ The Pulitzer Prize Musical SUNDAY, AUG. 5 8:30 P.M. \The Music Man\ SUNDAY, AUG. 12 8:30 P.M. \Fantastiks\ SUNDAY, AUG. 26 8:30 P.M. Adults $2.50 Children $1.50 All performances to be held at Massena Central High School Auditorium * * group when it appears at the Fair. • \ Each of these communities has a local chapter of the So- ciety for the Preservation and Encouragement of Bar-' ber Shop Quartet Singing in America. Barber Shop chor- urses have been featured at many State and world fairs, including New York and\ Se- attle,\ but this marks the first time that an area chor- us has performed at a coun- ty Fair in New York State. • Lovers -of close- harmony are sure to be thrilled on Friday night, August 10, by the blending - of fifty Male voices in the first perfor- mance of its kind in New York State. civilization as told in the Book of Mormon. The 25th anniversary of Mrs. Locke Is Acting Cashier Winthrop — Mrs. Donald (Jane) Locke was appointed acting cashier at a meeting of the directors of the First National Bank of Winthrop. Tlie meeting was held July 23. , Mrs. Locke has been an employee of the bank for the past six years and assistant cashier for two years. ^ She succeeds the late J, B. McNulty who was cashi«r of the bank for 31 years. • Moose Lodge Pleased With Blood Drive Members of\ Massena Moose Lodge 1110 expressed their appreciation to all who participated in the Moose Club-sponsored blood drive last Wednesday. , They considered the drive a success with .84 pints do- nated during the drive. They thank all donors, doctors, nurses, aids, work- ers and the news media for helping to make the drive a success. Fred Winfield of the Moose Lodge was recruiting chairman for the drivel 1 The chimney swift has been clocked at a speed of j 250 miles per hour, making i t Ithe fastest, bird known. THOMAS- H. WHITE FUNERAL HELD Funeral servicesfor Thom- as Henry White, .78, of 57 Somerset Ave., were held at St. Mary's. 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