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Newport Deify Nawi, Wedneiday, Dec. 28, Newport County's New Year Promises Continued Growth By ELLIOTT STEIN (This is the first of two articles on the growth of the Aquidncck Island economy and the increasing role being played by the Newport County Chamber of Commerce in servicing that economy.) The new year will be the big- gwt ever in Newport County's history, an official of the Chamber of Commerce predicted this week. challenge yacht race nexiUias been an island strength, the a'notild help break old rc-jexpansion of Ruytheon and the cords. i entrance of Kaiser Aluminum The building of the bridge, redevelopment work and educational Institutions have added Corp. into the area industrial picture has helped to diversify the economy.

considerably to the payroll a Specifically, this growth can the purchase of local materials, be indicated by certain key fig- and in the case of the schools, ures, Holbrook noted: Vchicu- Francis J. Holbrook. exccu- cm as thc TM''' live director of the chamber, Salvc na lle a the pill it this a "We confi-i" a a i grow tr of Vernpn dently expect 1S67 to be Ihej biggest year economically in the history of tiie area." Holbrook said his optimism was based on continued growth of the Naval Base, tourist and recreation activities, and i vate boarding colleges a schools. i This optimism was reflected! In the attitude of businessmen i and customers, also, said. The Newport Bridge and redevelopment already having their impact on property I values, as people looked forward, to a further boom in the eco-i nomy.

Holbrook confirmed the re an important secondary effect, lar traffic over Mciinl "Not only arc students cus-JBridge was 2,285.000 in 1961, lomers in the community, but compared with 3.255,000 in 1955, parents and friends use local and an expected 4,000,000 fig- facilities when they visit here" ure for the year now ending. Holbrook said. He particularly The growth of Newport as a tourist attraction is indicated by attendance at the historic homes and mansions. For example, The Breakers was visited by 46,000 persons in 1961, compared with 92,000 last year. Court Junior College since its establishment five years ago.

Although 'manufacturing never Cary Estate White Wills $200,000 BI'SINKSS ROOMS Francis J. Holbrook, right, executive director of the Newport County Chamber of Commerce, shows President Robert Wrathall how the Chamber's op- cratmft budget has increased since 1961. The 400 per cent jump in operational costs reflects the degree in which the island economy has boomed in the past, six years, Holbrook sn 1 (Daily News Photo) DeSimonc Appoints O'Brien Special A ide James S. O'Brien, former solicitor and councilman, was named by Attorney General elect Herbert F. DeSimone as a special assistant attorney general.

DeSimone will be sworn Tuesday with uiliur general officers of the state. O'Brien, other appointees made today by DeSimone at a press conference in the Sheraton Biltmore will be sworn in Wednesday by Chief Justice Thomas H. 0 erts of the Supreme Court in the grand jury room Providence County courthouse The attorney general elect has, for the first time, divided the responsibility of assistants into specific devisons and department. Other assistants named- Robert L. Gammell, Coventry town solicitor and former counsel to Gov.

Christopher Del Sesto. who will be administrative officer; Americo Campa el- la of Providence, former legal counsel in the state Registry of O'Brien BORN Two wills nroljatp, in were admitted to Probate Court this by Ra ph The a ot a i a was Mrs csli i maled at $750m and that of 'Antonio S. White at $200,000. Library was left $10.000 for i endowment fund, and St. Columba's Chapel, Middletown, and! the Seamen's Church Institute; received $1,000 each.

a Avenue and Unknown Driver In Crash Leaves Scene Of Accident Local Briefs An unknown man involved in Bowery Street property, and its fhc other driver -Miss Mary Elizabeth Dan- Cumberland iels of 27 South Baptist St. is patient at Newport.Hospital. Motor Vehicles, who will chief of the criminal division: G. Edwards ot Provi'-'CHAMBERLAIN Dec 28 IMS jwill be chief of the civil jsion; and Mrs. Julia A.

a i Congdon Ave. complained of a --The 9 a.m. family service at ly Gil atri( 59 Sherwood Drive Portsmouth. of Cary Ihed at F.lm Court, suits of a spot check conducted tj Uevue Avenue White was own- by the Daily News earlier this lc former White's Launweek: has been the best dry. Christmas season for business-.

Under the will of was left to her (laugh men in the history of the conn- a i Richard n. Shelters, Eileen B. Robins of Da- 'J' 1 'field, attorney, the and Cynthia Van to ash neck injury when a I st John Episcopal Church which she be omitted Sunday morn- Woonsocket Bar AssoclauTM at the a special assistant. Naval Hospital, a daughter to Looking ahead, he said Jazz and Opera other musical "specials" like the 1966 appearance of Barbra nard John Maynard. Peter; Turner Van Pelt and Guy Fair- Cary Van Pelt each ccived 55,000.

Isabelle Hoey, i 1 Streisand and the America's' (JillCCl WlClOW IVTrdpirnsi Mrs. Isabelle Merriman' Hoey 1TS.IA1U1I US, 2() Grccnough ed TT.H..H,.!. morning at the Bay View dl I11CI Home. Portsmouth. She was the widow of Capt.

Gran- Jose F. Medeiros. 73, a B. Hoey. USX.

$1,000: and each employe, long dairy farmer, died yester-. She was born March 26, her empioy at the time of Pelt of Radnor, 1'a. Her grandsons. Walter May a car driven by Johnny Lee 32, of the destroyer ickell. Williams told police jthc driver of the second vehicle iappeared drunk.

was hit in the rear yesterday Edwards and Cim panella each will receive 000. O'Brien anH Dec. Peter Brown and George TMV en Md lBreal by an auto driven by Chester H. Parrish were bearers 7, cs pay ra tcs a Boyers HI, 17, of 9A Constclla- at lnc funeral of John C. Mich- 'acl of 53 Tildcn Ave.

Damage to the unknown car involved a broken radiator and 1 grill. Williams told po- 'licc. The accident happened at Archibald and Hilda Scott! 4:45 whc Williams car, each receive- procc Sclln norlh was ln the Cameron, Mary A. i George Platt, Olive Serpa, $1.500 a To-i day at his home, 462 Aquidneck in Portsmouth, N. H.

Middletown, He was born! Surviving are a daughter, June 24, 1899, in Ribeira Funda, Fayal, Azores, and has- lived in Middletown since J911. Mrs. Emily C. Soverel of North Palm Beach. a son.

Thomas G. Hoey of this city; seven He was a member of the Holy'grandchildren and three great Name Society of Jesus Saviour Church. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Maria Serpa Medeiros; a son, Jo- ieph F. and a daughter, Mrs.

Mary Mendonsa, both of Middletown; three sisters, Mrs. Conceicao Andrews of Middletown, Mrs. Gloria Frisbee of Angeles, and Mrs. Rosalina Gracia of the Azores; and five grandchildren. A service will be held from the Faria Funeral Home Saturday, with a solemn high mass In Jesus Saviour Church at 9 Burial will be in St.

Col- umba'i Cemetery. grandchildren. Agnes Barker, Rites Saturday Mrs. Agnes Jane Chichesfer Barker, 84. of 6 Pine S(.

died this morning at Nawport Hospital. She was the widow of George Barker. She was born in Amityville, Long Island, N. June 7,1882. She leaves a sister- in- law.

death $100 a year for each year! of employment. Executors named were her son, Guy Fairfax Cary Jr. of New York, Charles B. P. Van Pelt of Radnor, and A.

Loeb Fal- An A1Ief henv kin of New York, with bond of Airliner Lands In Bridgeport In Emergency STRATFORD, Conn. (AP) skidded on Washington 10 and 10:30 a.m. ast night at 10:30 and hit a tree --John I. Sherblom of 75 Park on the corner of Chestnut Street, Avc Portsmouth, who died police said. Damage was estimated at $200.

two cn A service will be held at each, and no surety. Ap-j glne turbo-jet enroute from Bos- Hambly Funeral Home Satur- praisers have not been to Washington with four day at 11 a.m. The Rev. Canon On the While estate, Francis aboard made a safe Lockett F. Ballard, rector ofiA.

White, a son, was namediemerffencv landing todav at Trinity offlpiate. executor; with bond of I -I Ll Airnor and no surety. Appraisers 'erel Blld rt nlc 'P al Alr rt Mrs. Sherwood Rites Saturday Mrs. Helena Dowd Sherwood, 0, 52 Marchant died yesterday afternoon at Newport Hospital.

She had been taken there at 12:50 p.m. by the Fire Department rescue ambulance after becoming ill at home. She was the widow of John Sherwood. She was born Newport June 23, 1886, a daughter of John and Catherine Sheehan. She was a member of the Emblem Club and of the Rosary and Scapular Society of St.

Au- jgustin's' Church. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Louise Woodall and Mrs. Mary Heald, both of Newport; Josephine Sulli- James S. O'Brien, Craig P.

Baker and Andrew M. Brown. Mrs. Fannie M. Penznik of this: a slst er city; a brother William H.

Chi-! van thls Cltv flve grandchil- chester of Lydonhurst, 'g-dren inri three great- grandchil- Island; a nephhew and three nieces. A service will be held at the Hambly Funeral Home Saturday at 2:30 p.m. The Rev. L. United Baptist Church, will officiate.

Burial will be in Mid- dietown Cemetery. dren. Another daughter. Mrs. Edward Cinq-Mars of Middle- tow-n, died last May.

The funeral will be held from the Hambly Funeral Home Sat- here. Fire Ch cf Felix P. Curei said Under the will a son-in-law the pilot told the control tower Anthony Lewis, was left $15,000 and a granddaughter, Clara Ann Lewis, $15,000. The remainder was left to' the son. he had a lire in an engine.

Firemen from Bridgeport, Stratford, the Sikorsky Aircraft and. Avco-Lycoming plants answered the call. A tire had been blistered by heat but the fire apparently was put out by automatic equipment under the engine while the ship was' in flight. The passengers were taken to New York City by taxi. Cure! said the pilot reported Middletown, police said.

Mrs. Leary's husband, Ednund J. Leary, 64, was driving their car. The accident occurred at 12:45 p.m. on Broadway Vcrnon Avenue.

Damage to the Boyers was estimated at $300 and to thejnigan, students at the Gladding --The meeting of the Newport County Council of Churches tonight at St. Paul's Methodist Church has been cancelled. The higher than the starling siiiar ies of $10,000 now paid. DeSimoue said he had reached' rales by total- 29. 1966, at the a a Hospital, a daughter to Pipefitter 2.C.

and Mrs. Alfred Williams of 782 Naval Gardens Drive Middlctown. sa incumbents. DIED Cha- car at $100. A car driven by nas oeen cancetieo.

ine OQ .1 near next meeting will be Jan. 26 at 1C co BARKER, in this city Dccem- the -hurch. anri PPr VQ 136G Agnes (Chiches- vehiclcl -Marie and Margaret Bran.i^n^j.l 31 1 tor) Barker, widow of Georg. students at the ng rUl Barkcr in her 85th car Ralph D. School of the.

Dance, will ap- DeSimoue. said he pear in dances on a television Parker, 19, of 73 Burnside Program on Channel 6 Friday hniu'iun in in.in i )dln 10 Isl al a salary of $15,000 positioi, He is' Seniorg Attend Job Interviews Dolls Reported Inflammable I (AP) A four-man team from the Providence Fire Prevention Bureau viui 1:1 a i uit; is checking stores in the city an emergency light and horn for Pdish-styled do! which are went on ove Milford. reportedly flammable. James T. Killilea, Fire Prevention Bureau Chief, said his men found no trace of the flaxen -haired dolls in any of the stores checked Wednesday but added the check would continue today.

He said the plastic faces and hair of the dolls can burst into flame if exposed to severe heat. The dolls are made in Poland Monday at Ste. Anne's Hospital Fall River, is survived by his wife, Mrs. Gladys N. Sherblom.

Her name was omitted from the obituary in last night's Daily News. --A quarterly dividend of 20 cents a share on Raylheon Co. $5 par value common stock was I (AP) -''voted yesterday by the board of More than 300 college seniors Directors in Lexington, Mass, participated in job interviews-The dividend is payable Jan. 25 Wednesday in Providence the i to stockholders of record at the first of a two-day of business Jan. 11.

Native Son" effort designed to acquaint the students job opportunities available in their home state. The program will continue today, at the Sheraton Biltmore Hotel. "Operation Native Son" is the first such program of ils kind in Rhode Island and is being sponsored by the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce in Barker in her 85th year. Residence 6 Pine St. Services at.

the Hambly Fun- rral Home, Brick House, 30 Red Cross Saturday, December 31 at 3:30 p. m. Relatives and friends invited having difficulty finding a qualified person, he said, because to atlenci of the low pay. Do not send flowers. He said he also would apboint Portsmouth, R.

10 other lawyers to the depart- mcnt before Tie is sworn in next Tuesday. He said he would not engage in private practice holding'the attorney general's position. Three of the incumbents il)i Funeral Home, Rrick House, remain in the department m-' TM" December 29, 1966, Isabel (Merriman) Hoey, widow of Capl. Granville B. Hoey USN.

in her 77th year. Residence 20 Greenough Place. Newport. Services at the a 1 porarily so that an Coast Guard Tug Rescues French Sliip A 106 foot French fishing trawler was towed into Port 0' 4CaU at :25 yesterday af 30 Red Cross Saturday December 31 at 11 a.m. Retransfer can he effected to i 'atives and friends invited to They are 1 a Williani Jr.

of Jaw-iMEDEIROS, in Middletown, R. tucket, Carmine A. Rao of rov December 28, 1966, Jose F. dence and Special Assistant Attorney General Carmine Grande, also of Providence bers from across the state. It is aimed at Rhode Island students attending out of state ter she developed engine trouble E.

Budlong. 39, of West War- colleges and universities. Edgar Stone pastor of the urday, followed by a solemn Earthquake Hits Chile, Tidal Wave Possible SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) flames spurted from the ocean Earth tremors continued to depths when the quake struck at an mporle shake northern Chile during the 4:18 a.m. Old, one-story struc- Killilea said similar searches nigh and there were warn ings tures of mud bricks and wood for the same dolls are underway in Connecticut and other states. requiem mass in St.

Augustin's Church at 9 a.m. Burial will private. I Display Advertisers SPECIAL DEADLINES TUESDAY January 3 Publication DEADLINE NOON FRIDAY WEDNESDAY -January 4 Publication DEADLINE NOON SATURDAY Earn your own spending money BE A NEWSBOY! Four productive routes open MIDDLETOWN: INDIAN AVENUI ARIA PORTSMOUTH: IAST MAIN ROAD-COREY UNI POWER STREET-WATER STREP- Cdl felly Circulation S44 1600 Income Tax (Continued from Page 1) struction program on a pay-as- you-go basis and stop continued issuance of bonds for that purpose, which has resulted in soaring debt charges. $1,000,000 a year for and rehabilitation of buildings, now also financed by bond bor- rowing. $1,000,000 a year corstruction fund to finance smaller acquisitions of land or buildings.

An additional $4,000,000 a year cover pay raises for state employes. A surplus reserve amounting to 5 per cent of either expenditures or revenue of the prior fiscal year whichever is great' er available for unforeseen emergencies or a reversal of income trend. The proposed revenue structure, Kenyon said, would be adequate to -meet requirements for several years and be a justablc from year to year. WEATHER Rhode Island, Massachusetts --Clearing and somewhat cold er tonight. Lows mostly 20s coast and teens well inland.

Fair somewhat colder Friday. Boston and vicinity--Tonight, clearing and continued cold. Lows in the 20s. Westerly 'winds 20 to 25 miles per hour. Friday, fair and somewhat colder.

Probability of precipitation 20 per cent tonight and 10 per cent Friday. Eastport to Block sland-- of a possible tidal wave if an underser volcano continued erupting 25. miles off shore. The volcano sheets fli Jirt from the ocean bottom Wsdnes- day about the same time that a mighty earthquake rolled across 1,000 miles of the copper-rich coastal area. The quake destroyed much of the old nitrate of Taltal, where three -were reported killed so far and two oth- missing.

Dozens were injured and an estimated 4,000 sersons were left homeless in provinces of Antofagasta, Atacama and Tarpaca. Three million persons live in the area. Residents of Taltal, which has collapsed in the town amid big clouds of dust, and thousands fled toward the neighboring hills with the shaking earth slipping beneath their feet. The first quake registered 8 on a scale of 12 and light tremors continued Wednesday night. The navy that if the volcano continued erupting, a tidal wave could flood Taltal and other coastal areas.

quake was felt in Santiago, the capital 600 miles south of the epicenter, but no damage was reported. The $700-million copper installations of the U.S. Anaconda Co. in Atacama and Antofagasta Provinces also were reported a population of 10,000 said huge undamaged. 13 Cub Scouts Join Pack Thirteen new cub became members of Pack 64 of Tonomy Hill and Park- Holm housing projects at the monthly meeting yesterday in the Tonomy Hill Community Center.

They were Ted Bostic, Robert Boyer, David Britton, Eddie Edding, Malcolm Finkley, Raymond King, Kenneth Moyer; Andy Neal, Rickie Palakiko, Keith Rice, Robert Putman, Mike Snyder and James Spencer. Receiving awards at tht meeting were David Shaw wolf badge; Stephen wolf, gold, and silver badges; James Neal bear badge; and Charles Mahone. bear, gold ind silver awards and lion badge. nnA nlnt on the Xaval Base piers one and two and at Melville Dec. 24.

Participating were 1 Boyer, David Britton, Stephen Gray, Charlie Lipsey, Charles Mahone, Andy Neal, James Neal Rickie Palakiko, Robert Putman and Keith Rice They were accompanied by the cub master, Jim Neal, and the assistant cub master, George Baskervtllc. The next pack meeting will bo held at 7 p.m. Jan 23 in Center. OftilB $000 CITABLISHKD PnblltlKd dtiljr. Sundays and certtln holldtyi by The Edwtrd A.

Sherman Publlihlni Company 1 St Newport, ft. 1 02840, Telephone conflicting ill di- Dirtments. 848-1800. Second clnss oiid early Tuesday off Nantucket. The Laita, with a crew of five aboard, was brought into Port 0' Call by a Coast GuarJ tug, out of Bristol, which picked up the tow two miles off Brenton' Tower from the Coast Guard ship Vigilant stationed at New Bedford.

The Vigilant picked up Laita at 3 p.m. Tuesday 85 miles southeast of Nantucket. Laita had advised the Coast Guard some 12 hours earlier that she was developing engine trouble. An American registry i Warwick Man Found Innocent WARWICK, (AP)-G i lledeiros, husband of MarU (Serpa). Medeiros.

Residence 462 Aquidneck Ave. Funeral will take place from the Faria Home. One Mile Corner Saturday morning at 8 o'clock. A solemn j-ligh Mass will be suiig at Jesus Saviour Church at'9 o'clock. Burial will be at St.

Columba's Cemetery. No flowers please. Calling hours Thursday 7 to 9 and Friday 2 to 4 and 7 ta 9. wick, was found innocent charge of driving to death resulting, in a hwu-i district court at Warwick Wednesday. Warwick police had brought: the charge in the in this i a on Post Roao." 28 1956 Helena early this month in which (Dowd) Sherwood, widow of bert S.

Hartniiin, 42, of Wai-wick! J(lhn Sherwood in her 81st was'injured fatally. year. Residence 52 Mai-chant Budlong was identified as the; St. Solemn Hich Mass at St. driver cf the second car ana had' pleaded innocent to Ihe when arraigned on Dec.

13. Weather Elsewher Laita is out of Lprient. France. By THE ASSOCIATED The skipper is French and the' four crew members are Ameri-j cans. They would not idenlify'Albany, snow themselves.

The ship will leaveJAlbuquerque. clear 31 Port 0' Call as soon as repairslAtlanta, clear are completed. Weather (Continued from Page 1) icson. and to 27 in Phoe Ariz. Outside the snow belts, showers and thunderstorms splashed iDetroit snow much of the Southeast.

More Pnr UF than one inch of rain fell at Tallahassee, in six hours and nearly an inch fell in many areas from eastern Alabama to western North Carolina. Bismarck, snow Boise, snow Boston, rain Buffalo, snow Chicago, clear Cincinnati, snow Cleveland, snow Dcnvnr. clear Des Moines, cloar Fort clear 1:30 P.M. Quotation!) Allied Ch Int Nick Am Air 69 a i Kennccott Am 54 Mont Wurd Am Tcb 31 N.Y. On.

Anac Cop Pa RR Atchlson 28U Phill Pet 49U Beth Steel 30'4 Radio Corp Boeing Air Ches Oh Chrysler Con Edls Doug Air Dow Chem duPont 61 Scars Roeb 45 3 i 23 23 33 33 35 48 40 30 22 38 32 Pfl 43 74 Memoh'S, clear 57 jMiHvai'kee. clear 34 cloitrH- New Orleans, clear 68 18 31 41 4(i 35 28 60 29 1.73' Tj 21 Helena, cloudy Honolulu, rain Indianapolis, snow Jacksonville, rain Omaha, rlear Philadelphia, rain Phoenix, cloudy "'i-'Hnrl. snow rain .39 Augustine's Church, Saturday. December 31 at 9 a.m. Relatives and friends are invited tr attend.

Friends may call at Ihe Hambly Funeral Home. Brick House. 30 Red Cross Thursday 7 to 9, Friday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9. jvARGAS In this city Dec- 27, 1966. Frank Vargas son of the lato Frank .1.

and Annie C. Vargas. Residence 3 Maitland Court. Funeral from the Memorial Funeral Home. Friday December 30 at 8:30 o'clock.

Requiem Mass p.t St. Joseph's Church at 9 a.m. Calling hours Thursday 2 to 1 and 7 to 9 p.m. Relatives and friends invik-d to attend. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express oiic sincere a appreciation to our .41 i a friends, relatives, neighbors, 'he nurses, nurse? 1 aids in Vam II, the Tuesday Bowling 021 League and all who sent Rinid Citv, clear Richmond, cloudy St.

Lmiis. -lear Salt Lk. City, clear 27 1 00 cnrc 5 spiritual bouquets, floweri offered us Iheir sympathy 151 i thf. recent death of our belovtd Carrie E. Frazier.

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New den moth- a TM hiile motheri over miles. Tides 1 2 feet Jones, Mrs. Let Boyer and above normal with some flood- Mrs. Florence Gray. Pack members sang Christ- lotion of ill lectl 1 In thli ptptr ti wtll ti AP MWI dlipitchM.

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