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Fitchburg Sentinel from Fitchburg, Massachusetts • Page 14

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FITCHBURG (MASS.) SENTINEL, THURSDAY. JANUARY 27, 1966 A Doorman Heads Plush GOP Club NEW YOHK Tln Employes Union, one-; So Grippi joined the Ivy probably be embarrassed Itcpublican Club on the auto mechanic, i)lj an Club. He sold more adslgoing around and pushing for jooable upper East Side has re-, builder and house h( cluVs nnual and mem bers the way I i Democrat, i When Pete became doorman and brought more new dub do." elected I'eter Grippi as its pros, ident for a third term. Today and Thursday, the victorious Grippi will be relax- at his place on Mastic Beach, Long Island. Then he will be back at the plush Sutton Terrace Apartments on East (Brd Street near the East River opening doors and hailing cabs.

Peter Grippi. 55, the political leader, is also Pete the doorman at Sutton Terrace in 1950 he had members than anyone else. come full circle, for the apart- Four years ago Grippi was born. His at the ments. Sutton Terrace Apart.

He also is a judge at wrestling matches, shop steward of nearly 30 men in the AI''L-CIO Building ment house is only a block away from the building where he was political career dates back to 1W2. "A friend of mine couldn't get a little favor done," he says. "The Democratic club told him they wanted 5200 to do the favor. So I went to Mr. Malee (Thomas Malice, then and now the Republican leader in the district) and got the same favor done for nothing." elected president, and he has oeen chairing meetings and setting club policies "with Mr.

Malice" ever since. He was re-elected again Tuesday night. The club's name dates back more than 100 years and has nothing to do witb the Ivy League. But the membership is loaded with doctors, lawyers and other prominent persons. "They might like the glory," he says, "but they wouldn't Grippi has his own nine-room house and two-car garage one side for the boat, "a 16-footcr with a 50-horsepower kicker.

His hobbies are restoring old paintings and boating and fishing near his home. But politics, wrestling, his art work, and his boat have not caused Pete to slack up on his job as doorman. One Sutton Place tenant, a retired clergyman's wife, says that every Sunday she says a special prayer for Pete -Pair Jailed For Robbery, 'Vicious'Beating Oi Man want to spend the time and that he will gel lots of big tips. Heads Worker WORCESTER Two 21-year- old Fitchburg men were jailed by Judge Henry H. Chmielinski Jr.

in Superior here Wednesday on charges of severely beating and robbing a man on Fairmount St. near Oak Hill Road, Fitchburg, at 1 a. m. Nov. 15.

Sentenced to. 2'A years at Springfield House of Correction was Henry A. Helie of 125 Fairmount who inlerupted his trial to plead guilty to unarmed robbery and also to unarmed robbery of two other men two months earlier and carrying a switchblade knife. Leo F. Guertin of 292 Kimball St.

pleaded guilty without trial to a charge of unarmed robbery, stemming from the lone Nov. 15 robbery with Helie and was sentenced to one year in Worcester House of Correction. The victim of. the second robbery, Joseph J. Dauphinais, 39, of 320 Fairmount suffered a severe laceration ol the right eyelid, serious injury tq the eye, JAMES lOffl DOES IT EVfRYWHEKE NOW 2.10, 4.40, 7.20, 9.50 6lh Smjih IT MUST BE Rlcfurd Burton "Spy Who Came From The Cold" multiple contusions and abrasions of the face in what detectives termed a "vicious beating." Police contended the pair jumped and beat Dauphinais and robbed him of $30 in cash.

Guertin was arrested a few hours later at a Fitchburg diner and Helie shortly after that at his home. At the time of the robbery, Helie was free on bail, awaiting action for the beating-robbery on Woodland St. early Sept. 20 of Frank Plymouth Cheries, and 53, of 79 O'Connor, 58, of 174 Beech who were badly beaten and cut about the Some $27 in cash was stolen from those victims. Groton -Alliance To Hear Talk GROTON The Alliance the Unitarian Church will hoi the monthly meeting Thursdaj Feb.

3, at 3 p. m. in the vestrj Devotions will be led by Mr Milton Estabrook. Guest speal er will be Robert H. Binghai of Farmers Row, who wi discuss paper.making.

His tal will be illustrated. Mrs. Victo C. Pineo will be tea hostess fo the afternoon. The monthly parish meeting the Unitarian Church will held Friday at 8 p.

m. in th vestry. The new parish officer as well as the old, have bee requested. to attend. The Adu Fellowship Group will meet Sa urday night, when Mr.

and. Mrs Douglas White will show slide of Hawaii. Parish members will atten the meeting of the Nashoba Va ley Churchmen's Associatio Monday night at the Acton Cor gregational Church. The Junio LRY will hold a winter sport program 6, th Presents At Our Piano Bar Mr. Song Man Himself CLYDE JONES Direct From The Sands Hotelln Las Vegas Appearing Nightly Tuesday through Saturday Starting at 7:30 P.

M. Appearing Saturday Nights George Gregory And His Orcestra In Our Main Ballroom Rte. 122 Mais. Telephone 829-4346 RODGERS-HAMMERSTEIN'S Ticked Available For All Performances Fitch bur TOM'W KEBE COMES THE BMEST BOKO Of All! HSOTRWCNU oviu Minirav JM 9fiM tUIUUJII VTHUNDERBALL CU IB KEIWKW IM AVOID STANDING IN LONG LINES GIT TICKETS TODAY 1.25 until 5p.m. $1.50 ENDS TODAY! "THAT DARN CAT" home of Mr.

and Mrs. Richard Taisey on Farmers Row. Briefs Mrs. David Boynton of Pleasant St! has been appointed to head the Mother's of the 1966 March of Dimes, it was announced today by Robert Gov selin, campaign chairman in Groton. Mrs.

Bessie Shtrwin of Joy Lane observed her 90th birthday recently. The Rotary Club will induct two members at the luncheon meeting Wednesday. They are Rev. Bertrand N. Horiea the new headmaster of Groton School, and Sumner Levin, of Townsend, a manufacturer.

Groton Grange observed Youth Night at Grange Hall, and the program was under the direction of the master, Mrs. Lawso'n, and Miss Janice Wolfe, chairman of the youth committee, assisted by Robert Hackett, Richard Sampson, Mrs. Irene Williams and Bruce Wolfe, other committee mem bers. Mr. and Mrs.

George Babcock had charge of refreshments. The final date for the registration of voters for the town election will be Monday, Feb. 21, from 7 to 9 p. m. at Squan- nacook Hallj West Groton, and Wednesday, Feb.

23, from 12 noon to 10 p. m. at the town clerk's office in Town Hall. NEW YORK (AP)-A 59-year- old native of Detroit is the new editor in chief of the Communist a newspaper, The Worker. He is Carl Winter, who served a five-year prison sentence for conspiracy to teach and advocate violent overthrow of the U.S.

government. Winter, who joined the Communist party in 1925, was named to the job Tuesday. He will succeed James E. Jackson, 51, who becomes publisher and president of the firm that publishes the newspaper. Ayer- Hospital Occupancy Shows Increase AVER--Occupancy at The Na-lnewborn infant formula room in SCANDINAVIAN TRIO Discussing last-minute plans for the annual Scandinavian Night Smorgasbord and dance to be held by the Fitchburg Lodge of Elks are co-chairmen, from left: Rauni V.

Helin, Edward T. McHugh and Bernard F. David. Approximately BO members are on their committee. Dick Turpin Dick Turpin was a real English highwayman or robber, but the account of his famous ride from London to Yorkshire seems to have no foundation in fact.

Want Ads Bring Results shoba i Hospital climbed to a new high and as a result it was necessary to advise all who are concerned with udmiltiiig patients tljat only emergency admissions could be made until beds become available. The date and time for moving the obstetrical unit from Ayer to Groton is 7 a.m. Tuesday. Sidney F. Mason, treasurer of the executive committee of the board of trustees, reports that the year-end appeal for development purpose has already resulted in gifts amounting to $26,.

000. Nathaniel Bodwitch points out this money, as in several past years, will be used only for i remodeling and other major financial purposes concerned with consolidation and long-range planning. On recommendation of the building committee, Herbert G. Pratt, chairman, the trustees will develop plans for consolidation of pediatric service in the delivery labor room in the Ayer Unit which will be vacated on Tuesday when the obstetrical unit moves to Groton. It is hoped that a sub-nursing station will be established and that both pediatric and teenage, patients will be assigned to this one area.

It is also planned to use the the Ayer Unit as an in-patient examining room for the general nursing floor. This will eliminate the need for in-patients to be moved, as at present, from Bit second to the first floor of building when special examining facilities are required. It is announced that the Nashoba Forum for Community Health Needs has been changed. The date for this Forum ia changed because of a possible conflict with another meeting which is normally held on this day each year. The first fonim meeting will be Tuesday, Feb.

15 a 8 p.m. in the Groton High School cafetorium. All are urged to attend this series of Forum discussions on the medical and health needs of the residents the 8 towns served by The Nashoba Community Hospital. Seeks Independence BARBADOS (AP) The Barbados Senate approved resolution Monday night calling for independence from Britain this year. The vole was 17-3.

i The resolution was adopted earlier by the lower House of Assembly. It calls on Britain's colonial secretary to call a conference an early date to work out details for independence in 1966 for the Caribbean Island. Flemmi Ruled Incompetent BOSTON (ft Vincent Flemmi has been ruled incompetent to stand trial on an assault charge after a psychiatrist said that the tremendous pressures of hiding from his enemies had impaired his memory. Flemmi, 30, twice the target for gangland guns, was to have gone oh trial in Suffolk Superior Court on a charge of assault with intent to murder John Cutliffe, 22. Cutliffe was shot and wounded last Aug.

22 in Boston's theatrical district. Flemmi has been wounded twice in gangland style shootings, the first time in September, 1964, and again in May last year. Both shootings were in Boston's Dorchester section. Dr. Eugene Balcanoff, court psychiatrist, a i Flemmi's impairment a brought on by the "tremendous pressures" of hiding.

Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro committed Flemmi to Bridgewater State Hospital for 30 days' observation. Still Going Strong WESTBROOK, Maine (AP)Moe is still playing with a hand at 82. "When you play with a band," he said in an interview Tuesday, "you have to play the way the director wants you to. When I play alone, I can go as fast.or as slow as I like." A clarinetist, Harnois prefers classical and march compositions.

"That noise isn't music," he says of jazz. Harnois said he stopped marching when he was 70. ROCK ROLL DANCE ZYLA'S AUCTION HALL Rte. 3, Mtrrimack, N.H. Jan, 28 8 p.

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