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FITCHBUR6 (MASS.) SENTINEL, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1962 Protestant Church Services Guest Ministers Supply Pulpits LEOMINSTER--Guest 8.30 and 10.45 morning wor- will officiate and preach at sum iiier worship services tomorrow in Protestant churches. Services tomorrow include: Congregational Church of Christ --Hev. William F. Moore will officiate at the 9-30 worship service. A reception for Mr.

and Mrs. Manuel and their family, recently arrived from Cuba, will be held after the service. They are a Cuban refugee family being sponsored by the church. Assembly of God--Hev. Gerard J.

Plockstra, of Lynn will be guest preacher at the 10 a.m. worship service. Sunday School is at 9 a.m. There will be no evening service as members will attend a eamp meeting in Charlton. First Baptist--Rev.

Samuel J. Hiscs will officiate and preach the sermon at the in a. m. service. Methodist--Wayne Kendall, ministerial student of the Leominster Methodist Church who leaves next jnonlh for Kentucky Wesleyan College to begin studies for the ministry, will preach the sermon at the 9 a.

m. worship. Pastor's membership class will be at 7 p. m. and Study Group will meet ill 8 m.

in the parsonage. Pilgrim Congregational Rev. John Chapman will preach the sermon ship services. Children will be cared for in the nursery at 10.45. St.

Mark's Episcopal--Hev. W. V. Albert will be guest clergyman at the 8 a communion and preach the sermon at the 10 a. m.

morning prayer and sermon service. Baby siding will be provided at 10 a. m. in St. Mark's House.

Unitarian--Rev. Harold executive secretary of the Southern New England Unitarian Council, will be guest preacher at the 10.45 morning service in the chapel. Church of Christ--H. Decker at the 10 a.m. Bible study, 11 a.m.

and 6 p.m. worship. First Church of Christ Scientist --Sunday service and Sunday school are at 10.45 a.m. Jehovah's Witnesses Public Bible lecture is at 3 p.m., Bible study is at 4.15 p.m. Salvation Army Capt.

Paula Goddard, newly-appointed commanding officer, will officiate at the 10 a.m. prayer meeting, 10.15 a.m., holiness meeting, 11 a.m., Sunday school and 7 p.m., open air meeting in the City Common; A reception for the new command- Clark, minister, will officiate ing officer will be held at 7.30 p.m. Gx Granted Variance In Zoning By Appeals Board LEOMINSTER Central Toi Warehouse of Lunenbu la.si night was granted a varian in zoning by the Board of Appea to permit construction of a war house, office and distribution ee ter at Keystone drive and Industri road. Variance was granted after public hearing at which eight pe sons appeared and no oppositic Is Jesus Christ" at a lodged by the abuttcrs wno is jesus uinst at Area residenlSi however, Pepperell -Board To Quiz 6 Candidates For Supt. Job ----North Regional District School will meet Tuesday at 12 noon in executive session to interview six candidates for the position of superintendent Each candidate will be grantee a one-hour interview and it is expected that the committee will announce its choice Tuesday night.

Briefs Jimmy Fund cans are being dis- tributcd to all business establish' ments throughout the town and to the stores by Police Chief John F. Pelletier. Events to be held for the benefit of the fund will be nounced at a later date. Mr. and Mrs: Vernon E.

Stillman of yuiney, 111., have returned home after spending 10 da.ys as the guests of and Mrs. Chester H. Waterous of High street. Mr. Stillman is the brother of Mrs.

Waterous. While here he attended a course at Harvard University in Cambridge. Mr. and Mrs. Robert' Yeutter of High street are vacationing on Cape Cod, their Mrs.

Silas Foster of street assisting- in their, hardware store. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Young and family of High street and Mr. and Mrs.

Roger Dunbar and family of Boynton street are spending a week Bt Hermit -Island in Maine. Mrs. Lester Gage of Willow street has returned to her duties irt the Board of Public Welfare office after a week's vacation. pressed consternation over the po sible flow of traffic over Fairvie street and the use of Fairvie street, Keystone drive and Tolma avenue to enter the new industri, road was briefly debated, But it was noted by Central To president Harvey J. Levine, th; Dog show- Many Breeds In Leominster LEOMINSTER--Over" 70 breeds of dogs have been entered in.

15th annual Wachusett. Kennel Club Dog Show, slated for Tuesday -at Doyle field. Advance ticket sales for the show are being handled by the Leominster Rotary Club. Hotarians will also sell tickets at the. gate.

Receipts will be presented to the Leominster Hospital. Mrs, Leo Allen of Bolton is chairman of this year's show. Her com- Ayer-- Study Report On Hospital Expansion AYER--At the meeting of the ex Ecutive committee of the Commu nity Memorial Hospital, agreemen with Ellerbe and of Saint Pau was reviewed on its expan sion survey. Houghtbn B. Pries pointed out the three main area to be covered in the preliminar -survey were: (1.) investigate th problems of the hospital commu nity; (2.) prepare and submit survey report with recpmmerida tions for a program of develop ment and master planning; "(3.

furnish schematic sketches, de scriptions, cost estimates and ma terial as maybe needed for pre liminary Hill-Burton, fund raisin and publicity purposes. The administrator reported tha average occupancy in May ha been the highest on record arid tha ail units of the hospital had been extremely busy. It was noted tha work on the new storage building is progressing and it should bi ready this month. Hamilton Hears, reportei he hospital will realize about. $50C rom the benefit performance South Pacific" by the Shirle; Players.

Brownie Scouts of Troop 94 West Groton under the direction their leader Mrs. Victor C. Pineo made simulated firecrackers for favors on the Fourth of July Patients admitted to the hospita nclude Walter Speirs, Linda Rob Venuti, Mrs. Alma iumphriss, Mrs. Mary Marquedari and Mrs.

Sandra Sbucy of Littleton Mrs. Barbara Rust of Shirley; Mrs Kujala, William Newsham and Jennifer Tougas of Harvard mittee includes obedience George H. Perry chairman; Alvin Mrs. Cora Constance Cram of Gray and Mrs Groton; Davi Heignes of Forge Village. Others are Mrs.

Hildegan Scheffe, Harold B. Allen, Natalie and James Januskiewicz, Fret Partridge, James Hume, Mrs Mathilda Belanger, Mrs. Nancy Neaveille, Mrs. Mary Picard am Mrs. Carmen Vasquez of Ayer.

Births recorded include a daughter, Jill Marie, to and Mrs Jr. obedience chairman; Alvin James J. William (Judy Hopko) of Litchfield, chief steward; Arthur 93 East Main street, Ayer; a son, M. Hillery, am Mrs. George H.

Perry chair man of the trophy committee, aide( by Mrs. Charles Bolack. The committee con sists of Laurence J. Worthen, chairman, Mrs. Phyllis Azarian, Mrs.

Mary S. Winsor, and Miss Coletta Kinch. Catalogue committee chairmen are Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hamblin, assisted by Mr.

and Mrs. John A. Sisto. E. Sumner thayer is concessions chairman.

The publicity committee is headed by Arthur Hillery with Miss Louise I. Doyle and William Appleton Jr. On the hospitality committee are Miss' Doyle, Mrs. Winsor, Hillery and Mr. and Mrs.

Bruce Wiley. The show will open at 9 a.m. Tuesday judging will start at 10. Algeria (Continued from Page One) moved into several desert posts in the area of Tindouf and Colomb Bechar. Tindouf, a lead mining center, Is about 60 miles inside Algerian territory from the Moroccan border.

Colom Bechar, an important French military base, is about 15 miles inside the border. Apparently no Algerian troops were in either area and French troops there made no move to interfere. In Rabat, Moroccan officials denied any invasion of Algerian soil claiming that Moroccan troops merely had occupied frontier territory considered to be Moroccan. It was apparent, however, that Morocco did not consider the territory negotiable. King Hassan reportedly had already received leaders of local tribes in the occupied areas and they swore allegiance Moroccan crown.

David Eric, to Mr. and Mrs. Pres ton M. Ransone (Sara Pavitt) oi Center road, Shirley; a daughter, Melinda Lee, to Mr. and Mrs.

James P. Sheperd (Betty Vickers) of 1 Goodblood drive, Ayer. Briefs Mr. and Mrs. Paul F.

Gardner of Pearl street, are vacationing this week on the east coast. Mr. and Mrs. John Carroll of Pearl street celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary recently. They left Thursday with their two sons, Kevin and John, and Mrs.

Mary Carroll of Groton-School road, for a trip through upper New York State and Niagara Falls. Eric Lund, proprietor of the Len- Art Press, Main street, is spending month of July with his parents in Sweden. He traveled by plane. Caroline Cross Engaged To Wed LEOMINSTER has been made of the engagement of Miss Caroline J. Cross, daugh- of Mr.

and Mrs. Francis of 19 Fruit street, to Robert 3. Tellier, son Of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A--Tellier of 31 Johnson street.

Both, were graduated from Leom- nster High School. Miss Cross it employed by the Leprninster Sav- Bank. Her fiance will enter his Junior year at the University of Bridge- iort in Connecticut in September. No date has been set for the wedding. the new distribution facility will employ relatively few persons and that the plant is not being built in the Leomirister Industrial Park, but on land purchased from private parties.

Opposition to the Central Tool variance was lodged at first by Mrs. Florence E. Todd of 54 Fairview street. But she withdrew her complaint after noting that she was opposed to heavy truck traffic using Fairview street to reach the Industrial Park. Other Fairview street residents present, but not recorded in opposi- lion to the Central tool variance, ncluded Gordon Graham and Edward F.

Gulliver. The variance was sought by Cen- Tool to permit construction of a plant in a Residence A tract Jrojecling into the otherwise limited ndustry.zone. A petition to rezone he area tract to limited industry las been filed with the City Council. But the variance will permit 'mmediate construction of the plant. Decision to permit the variance was given by the Board of Appeals because no abutters lodged opposition.

The will front on Keystone drive and is near the ntersection of Industrial road which bounds the Leominster Industrial Park, a general industry Board Elects Delegate At Meeting LEOMINSTER Mrs. Maurice iaufman will represent Hannah Levine Chapter of Hadassah at the lational convention in Pittsburgh, Sept. 16 to 19. Selection of Mrs. Kaufman was made at a meeting of the chapter oard at the home of Mrs.

Kaufman, president. Other officers in ttendance were: first vice-presi- ent, Mrs. Jay Rome; second vice- resident, Mrs. Sidney Zomlefer; naricial secretary, Mrs. Wallace 'einbaum; recording secretary, Mrs.

Albert Fuhrman; correspond- ng secretary, Mrs. Max Kalin; reasurer, Mrs. Julius Levine. Activities chairmen appointed or the ensuing year are: American nd Zionist affairs, iigdol; education, Mrs. Bernard Mrs.

'Eric I. xiwenthal; Hadassah medical or- anization, Mrs. Irvin Chaplin; Hadassah supplies, Mrs. Michel Curianski; hospitality, Mrs. David chwartz and Mrs.

Max Wolf eld; ewish national fund Seymour Tharler and Mrs. Aaron Simon; membership Mrs. Rome and Harry Click; life member- lip, Mrs. Louis Levine. Medical center, Mrs.

Selig Lesoy and Mrs. Albert Williams; rogram, Mrs. Morris Loeb; donor rogram, Mrs. Herbert Diamond; ublicity. Mrs.

Maurice Tomkin; ift certificates, Mrs. Ralph Ep- ein; sunshine, Mrs. Sumner Lein; visual aids, Mrs. Edward Run; vocational education, Mrs. 'illiam Hurwitz and Mrs.

Sidney urwitz; Youth Aliyah Mrs Flor- noe Sobel and Mrs. Robert Wex- Zionist youth scholarship; Mrs. olorrion Wcimbaum; honorary oard members, Mrs. Edward Cap- and Mrs, Albert Rosenberg. Tentative dates for meetings ere discussed at the session which as preceded by a social PRESTON A.

BAKER Enters lUce Westminster Man To Seek 2d Dist. Post WESTMINSTER Selectman Preston A. Baker today anriouncei his candidacy for Republican nomi nation for state representative ii the second Worcester district in thi September primaries, The distric comprises Ashburnham, Ward Fitchburg. Hubbardston; Peters ham, Phillipston, Princeton, Tern pleton and Westihinster. A member of the Republican town committee for the past 1 years, Mr.

Baker has also served the residents of Westminster as se lectman for four consecutive three year terms, first being elected in 1950, and now serving as chairman of the board for the fourth time In announcing-' Baker said "Through the encour agement of my associates ant many voters I have decided to run for representative from the secom Worcester district on the Repub lican ticket. After serving the people of Westminster, for 12 years I feel qualified to represent this district in the General Court." During his terms as- selectman Mr. Baker was instrumental in thi town's acceptance of a water sys tem; served on the committee for the new fire station and the new Fennp wing of the Elementary School. He also co-operated with the management of Fitchburg per Co. in order to bring to town its first new major industry, the Deco tone Products Division of Fitchburg Paper Co.

He was a member the Route 2 committee. He is a past president of the Westminster P-TA and currently a member ol both the Worcester County anc Massachusetts Selectmen's Assns Mr. Baker and Brs. Baker, the former Grace F. Jarvis of Fitchburg, have seven children.

Warren, their eldest son. is now studying for his doctorate at New Mexico University and also undertaking re search at the Air Force Missal Base in Albuquerque, N. M. Another son, Donald, attended Fordharn University and is now at St. John's Seminary, while Preston and Dennis are students at Notre Dame High School, Fitchburg.

'They also have a pre-school son, Kevin. Their older daughter, Judith, is a junior at Fitchburg State College and Gail attends the Westminster school. Accident Decrease Noted, Credit Police Traffic Drive larrie I. Smith Observes 95th irthday Today LEOMINSTER--Mrs. Carrie -I: mith, a resident of the Fairlawn ursing Home, 297 West street, to- ay is observing her 95th birthday.

A native of Jamaica Plain, she sided here for many years and is widow of Edgar M. Smith, who aerated a contracting business in The family residence was Pearl street. For many years she worked as a erk at the former Chamberlain Huntress store in Fitchburg the former Nickerson's store in is city. She has been a member Prosperity Rebekah Lodge, OF, for rnore than a half century. On New Building By Union Strike LEOMINSTER-A strike of East Coast steel erectors union workers b.as not materially affected construction of the $3,480,000 Leominster building this week.

Chairman Charles DeCicco of the construction subcommittee reported today that although steel erection was delayed one week, it is expected that with resumption of work more men would be put on the job to make up for lost time. No other jhasc of the building project, however, was affected by the strike. The project is continuing according to schedule, it was reported by Mr. DiCicco. A full report will be submitted to the supervisory building committee at its next meeting Tuesday, July 10.

Sold Out STUART, Va, (AP)-Sign on a closed service station: "We Undersold Everyone." LEOMINSTER--A continuing police drive on traffic law violators-and a new traffic engineering an safety program--has managed I keep trafic problems below 196C and 1961, thus ending an upwar spiral, during the first half yea of 1962. Police, through June 30 have re corded 205 traffic accidents, a compared with 230 in 1961 and 264 in for the same six-month pe riod. But, despite the drop in total ac cidents, there has been a slight in crease in the number of persona injury accidents: 84 this year a compared with 75 last year and 8C in the previous year. There als lias been one traffic fatality this year compared with none last yea and three in 1960. Police last month issued 48 traf lie law complaints raising the to for the year to 325 as compare with 275 last year.

Last month' 48 traffic charges compared wit 62 in May, 1962 and 43 in June 1961 There were 26 accidents las month, 12 involving personal in jury, but no fatality. That com pared with 22 accidents, 11 with personal injury, in June, 1961, alsi none of a fatal nature. Police recorded a total of 137 vio lations last month, raising the to tal for the year to 760 as compared with 793 violations in 1961 and 921 in 1960. A total of 44 juvenile com- Memorial ByF.ArVets Planned LEOMINSTER-The' a i ri al Franco-American War Veterans Inc. has received permission to place a plaque in the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, it was announced today by Victor W.

Leger of Leominster, national public relations officer and a past national commander. Permission has 1 been granted by the office of the quartermaster general because, Mr. Leger said; "the aims and objectives of the Franco- American War Veterans Inc. as outlined in their constitution and by-laws, are in conformance with the criteria established for the presentation of tributes and trophies for in the national memorial. A sketch of the proposed plaque has been prepared and will be sub- prt the quartermaster gen- for acceptance.

If approved, the plaque in honor of the unknown soldier will be placed in the amphitheater later this year. Franco-American War Veterans Jic. also will place a wreath the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery next npnth. It will be the second year his has been done by the organization. Leominster Births LEOMINSTER--The stork kept iBominster.

Hospital personnel on heir toes last night with deliveries if 10 new-borns in less than 24 hours. Girls led with six births. Births are: A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rocque (Nancy Navarolli) if 138 High street.

A son to Mr. and Mrs. Russel jagoy (Anna Liberatore) of 41 )umais street, Fitchburg. A son to arid Mrs. Robert flelanson (Pauline Prince) of 20 Maple avenue.

A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Fran? is Secino (Margarita Walla) of 31 Oak Hill road, Fitchburg. A daughter to Mr. and Mrs; Curis Guthrie (Norma Woodruff) of 15 Fairview road, Lunenburg.

A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Roand Richard (June Centra) of 127 Lancaster street. A son to Mr. and Mrs.

David lendren (Shirley Brow) of 112 plaints, Including six last month, have now been recorded. Of the 137 complaints recorded last month, six were of a juvenile nature, 84 lodged against residents and 53 against non-residents. Complaints were: drunkenness, 20; assault and battery, desertion, lewdness, using motor vehicle without authority, one each; default warrants, four; disturbing the peace, six; fraudulent checks, five; non-support and vagrancy, three each; summonses for other departments, 32; larceny, warrants Tor other departments, lewd and lascivious cohabitation, two each. Disposition of new and pending complaints in district court included three sentences to the house of correction totaling 70 days, one Youth Service Board commitment, ive placed on probation, 40 fines withdrawn and dismissed, five suspended sentences, 13 filed, five released by probation officer, two released by police and two turned over to other officers. Police investigated a total of 325 cases, including six false burglar alarms, two false fire alarms, four house breaks, theft of property and cash valued at $2415 of which $1636 was recovered, seven dogs killed, nine persons bitten by dogs and six lost children.

Eleven officers were dispatched to fires and 119 to public assemblages, 121 money escorts and nine traffic escorts were conducted, 17 messages were delivered, special protection was 61 vacant buildings--mostly homes of vacationers--and 82 doors and.win- dows were secured when found totaling $757, six discharged, 11 unlocked at night. Leominster Briefs Leominster bureau of Sentintl is located in the Merchants National Bank building, 7-9 Main street, Leominiter, second floor, Room 10. telephone number is KE 7-0731. Bimonthly i collection ichedule next week is as follows: Monday, Ward 3B; Tuesday, Ward Wednesday Ward 4B; Ward 5A and that part of 5B i Merriam avenue southerly side the-Fitchburg line and all side and adjacent streets to West street; Friday, remainder of Ward 5B. Reservations for the barbecue oi he.

Women of the Moose Wednesday must be made on or before Monday with Mrs. Yolanda Stacy. Catholic Youth Council of St. Ann's Parish held its second summer dance for teenagers of high ichool age last'night at the school grounds. Dances are held each rriday night.

Miss Angela Gratta- and Wallace Sillanpaa. Public Library closed this afternoon at 5 in accordance with the uly and August schedule whereby he library will close every Saturday at 5 p. in. Marriage intentions have been iled in the city clerk's office by Vancy C. Bollman of 140 Highland ivenue and Leo C.

Lefebvre, if 99 Sanders street, Athol. Purchasing department will open lids Monday at 2 p. m. on sale of oal and fuel oil and at 3.15 p. sale of soda Richard S.

Larkin, son of Mr. and tfrs. Harlari V. Larkin of 405 Main tfeet, will inter the -freshman lass at Worcester Junior College in he fall where he will major in busi- ess administration. He was gradated from chool.

Leominster High Members of the Golden Age Club 'ill go on a trip to Nantasket leach Tuesday. Transportation rill be provided from the Recrea- on Center. Leominster Lodge of Elks will Man Kidnaping Of Daughter AYER-rCharles Chretien of ence pleaded innocent in Aye purt this'morning to a charge idnaping his young daughter Jonria Marie, from the home of hi vile, Jbyce, of Groton, from whom is separated. The case was continued to July 2 by Judge Lymah K. Clark hretien failed to post the $1000 ond, was taken to the house orreciion in East Cambridge to wait trial.

According to police, Chretien al gedly entered his wife's home st night and took the child with hold a dance for members and guests tonight in Elks Hall at 8. An orchestra will provide music. Frank E. Crawford and Robert G. Armstrong are in charge.

Representing Leominster Post, American the state convention in. Worcester beginning Thursday and continuing through Saturday are Cmdr. Joseph W. Kleczka, Raymoh C. Hastings, Howard Vorse and John B.

Willard. Harold R. Abare, son of Mr. arid Mrs. Harold H.

Abare of 46 Hoover street, has returned to Norfolk, USS Monrovia, which spent, five msnths in the Mediterranean with the Sixth Fleet. Lawrence A. Hill, son of Mr. and B. Hill of 204 Water street; has graduated from two weeks' training as a naval reservist at the Naval training Center, Great Lakes', 111.

TO STUDY--Miss Virginia M. Mills (above), 284 Highland street, Lunenburg, a 1962 graduate of Lunenburg Junior-Senior High School has been accepted at Anna Maria College, Paxton. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert F.

Mills, Jr. street, daughter to Mr. and Mrs, idgar Goguen (Beatrice Steven- on) of 60 Pearl street. A -daughter to Mr. and Mrs.

loger LaCross (Yvonne Pellorin) 20 Graham street. A son to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Varella (Florence DeBiase) of 20 Princeton street. CATHOLIC MASSES LEOMINSTER Masses in the four Catholic churches in this city tomorrow are as follows: St.

Ann's, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.15 and 11.30 a.m. St. Leo's, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9.15, 10.30 and 11.45 a.m. St. Cecilia's, 6, 7, 8, 9.15, 10.30 and 11.45 a.m.

Our Lady of the Lake, 6, 7, 8.15, 9.30, 10.45 a.m. and 12 noon. shburnham ThTTake Wirinekeag Assn. will Id its first meeting of the season tomorrow night at 7.30 at Camp Wellville. A film will be shown and refreshments served.

The committee in charge includes Maurice Couturier, Leo Zimlac, Arthur Booth, Richard Baker, Doris Bolduc, Erie Mosio and Jean Couturier. During fiscal 1981,121,985,000 ton- miles of air mail were flown over to the U. S. routes alone, according to 1962 Britanoica Book of the Year. Marble's--Gravel, Sand, TA or TA Fill, Loam, Advt.

Correspondent Mri. Peggy B. Muulgan JU 2-Mt CHECK OUT OF STOCK--Stock registration Charles Bellinger, left, and Charles Coughlin, both of New York's Chase Manhattan Bank, check out certificates for some of the 23 million shares of General Motors stock to be mailed to stockholders of E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company.

The certificates comprise the initial distribution of DuPont-owned General Motors stock in compliance with a federal court order directing DuPont to divest itself of the General Motors holdings. (AP Photo) Mayor Seeks Alarm Boxes LEOMINSTER Extension of the fire alarm system to all sections of the city was made possible yesterday when Mayor Laurie J. Cormier submitted a $3712 transfer request from surplus funds to the City Council to purchase 50 more telegraphic boxes. The allocation will enable the city to purchase the boxes formerly owned by the city of Fitchburg until its conversion to the telephonic alarm system. The 50 boxes are being purchased at a cost of $75 each as compared vith the $200 average cost for new joxes and will enable the alarm md fire departments to complete he extension this year instead of over a three-year period.

Mayor Cormier also will ask the Council to transfer $5000 for insurance on city buildings, $2576 for purchase of a water pipe-tapping machine, $550 for a water department calculator and $2000 for street and sewer wages. department overtime Charlene Roberts Becomes Bride LEOMINSTER Miss Charlene Ann. Roberts, daughter of Mrs. Armand G. Roberts of 157 Mechanic street, and the late Mr.

Roberts, became the bride of Michael J. Riordan, 615 North Rossmore ave-. nue, Los Angeles, Cal.j son of Mr. and Mrs. John R.

Riordan, of 37 France street, Norwalk, in a ceremony in St. Cecilia's Church this morning at 11 performed by Rev. Francis. Deevy, S. of Fairfield, a friend of the bridegroom.

Miss Barbara Lewis of Endicott, served as maid-of-bonor, 3est man was Robert Riordan of Norwalk, a brother of the bridegroom. Ushers were John E. Riordan, of Metuchen, N. a rother of the bridegroom, and Thaddeus Stephanak of Wilton, 'onn. The bride was attired in a gown of white silk embroidered organza Evangelists Give Talks At Lancaster Two men from the Fiji Islands are entertaining at the Seventh-day Adventist camp meeting, 'South Lancaster, with their stories of the most primitive areas in the world in.the island of New Guinea.

John B. Keith, veteran missionary and Saimone V. Vulu, a native evangelist, both ordained ministers, are visiting the convention on their way to the world conference of Adventists in San Francisco later this month. "Cannibalism is still practised in some areas of New Guinea by tribes that have not as yet been reached by government authorities and civilization," stated Pastor Keith. Evangelist Vulu was dressed in Fijian dress and displayed a typical war club along with hats made of human hair.

Keith who is a New Zealander is president of the Coral Sea Union Mission. He told of how the primitive people these areas are wet- coming the Christian missionary who brings a better way of life, healing, arid education. Vulu, 42, is the' father of eight children. He serves the church as an evangelist During World and youth II he served with the "American forces in the Solomon Islands. When the queen of England visited New Zealand in 1949 he was a member of the guard of honor.

He-speaks three languages--English, Pidgen English, and his native dialect. Adventists conduct a similar work in 185 countries in the world. The camp meeting will close tonight with a sermon oh religious liberty by Roland R. Hegstad, editor of "Liberty," a magazine of religious freedom. The camp which is assembled in 10 days is dismantled in about two days by the ministers of the conference.

Over 5000 attend the week, end sessions of the camp meeting. scoop neckline, short bouffant skirt, empire with a ileeves, lodice and chapel length train. Her illusion veil was of embroidered fUk organza with a bow cap. She carried a caicade of white roses and ttephanotis. Her attendant was attired in mint green street length silk or- gown, scoop neckline, whort leeves, empire bodies of embroidered white, tangerine and olive lowers with a matching headpiece.

She carried a cascade oi daisies. A reception was held at the Old Mill, Westminster, and after a wedding trip the couple will make their home at 615 North Rossmore venue, Los Angeles. The bride was graduated from High School, Colby Col- ege In Watervillc, with an AB degree, and Sorboone Univer- Ity, Paris, France. She was a teacher at Endwell, N. Junior High School.

The. bridegroom was graduated from FaWield Preparatory School or Boys, Falrfleld, Colby College with a BA degree and served two years in the nivy. He is employed by Pitaey-Bowes, Los Leominster Girl Church Bride LEOMINSTER-Miss Roberta G. Tiberi Vipraio of 574 Merriam avenue, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Pierino Tiberi Vipraio of Corfinio, Italy, and Renzo E. DeSantis of 14 Wheeler street, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ercole fieSantis of Civita, Italy, were married this morning at lo in St. Ann's Church by Rev.

Domenic DiBenedetto. Mrs. Lillian dementi served as matron-of-honor. Bridesmaids were Miss Mary Tete of Readville and Campagna was flower girl. Joseph Santucci acted best-man and ushers were John Somma and Mario Ermini.

Ring bearer was Stephen DeCarolis. Given in marriage by her uncle, Vktorio Ferzaco, the bride wore a floor length gown of chantilly lace over taffeta fashioned witli long tapered sleeves with a portrait neckline embellished with sequins and pearls, bouffant skirt enhanced with diamond patterns of imported net trimmed with ap-. pliques of lace studded with sequins. Her fingertip veil of import, ed illusion was attached to a queen crown of pearls and she carried a prayer book with an orchid. Matron-of-honor was attired in a yellow and white lace dress with matching accessories and carried yellow roses and white carnations.

The bridesmaids wore light pink and light green dresses with accessories to match and carried pink roses and pink and white carnations. The flower girl wore a yellow and white lace-dress and cart ried a miniature colonial bouquet. A reception was held at Alcero's Supper House and the couple will make their home at 44 Arlington street on their return from a wed, ding trip to New York. When Tunisia became independent in 1956, French aettlen held one million acres bf Tunisia's richest land. An initial take-over of nearly half a million acres occurred in 1957.

Last year the Tuni- slan government bought 290,000 more from French holders..

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