Springfield Reporter from Springfield, Vermont • 1

Aty Hayer To Speak May 30 At Exercises Johnson Up Again For Lt Governor Looking Things Over with The Republican State convention at Montpelier Saturday was inspiring and exciting In spite of reports to the contrary coming from the Taft camp the Eisenhower forces were on hand with enough ballots to give the general the 12 delegates Ed Janeway the Eisenhower chairman had predicted that there would be BOO Eisenhower delegates on hand when the convention convened There were more than that Gov Proctor polled 679 out of a possible 861 and most of the members of the delegation did just about as well Attorney George Hayer of Greenfield Mass a native of Springfield will be the Memorial Day speaker at the Springfield exercises on Friday May 30 it was announced yester Attorney Hayer will take the place of United States Senator Flanders who will not be able to be in Springfield far the exercises as planned The remainder of the program is as planned according to Mrs Mary Hurd chairman of the Citizens Committee The exercises 'will open at 10 a in the Springfield Square with a prayer by Rev Clifford Stetson The remainder of the program is as follows: Singing of America the public Salute to the Flag Max Emery Gettysburg Address Cathy Poole Selection and Town bands Roll of honor Bernard Emerson talk by the president of the day Richard For-bush Address of the day Attorney George Hayer singing of National Anthem Miss Cynthia Cobb Benediction Rev Ehrmann Bennett The Manchester Post will participate in the parade Members of all patriotic organizations are invited to attend pre-memorial exercises at the Congregational church Sunday May 25 at 10:30 Rev Richaijd Beyer will deliver a sermon in connection with the exercises On Thursday May 29 at 3 exercises will be conducted in the Springfield High school auditorium Pre-memorial exercises will also be conducted in each of the grade schools on that afternoon The public is invited to attend VERMONT DPI JIG AXES These 12 Vermonters who will support Gen Dwight Eisenhower when the Republican national convention is held in July met beneath the statue of Ethan Allen after the state convention Saturday They are left to right Elbridge Adams Shrewsbury Philip A Angell Randolph Frederick Smith Burlington Former Gov Mortimer Proctor Proctor Mrs Berniece Estey Springfield John Swainbank St Johnsbury Mrs Clayton Brown Essex Junction Vrest Orton Weston Edward Smith St Albans John Carbine Rutland Preston Gibson Brattleboro and Mrs Forrest Rice Newport GOING TO EUROPE Miss Beverly Ann Davis (above) daughter of Mr and Mrs Elbert Davis of 10 Orchard street Springfield a junior at Springfield High school is one of 80 American who will sail on June 19 for two months in Europe under the American Field Service Summer Scholarships o-gram The group will sail from Monti-eal on the Arosa Kulm a student ship run by the Council on Student Travel Miss Davis has learned that she will be guest of a family in Dusseldorf Germany Stephen Galatti director of the American Field Service in New York announced that the group of American students were chosen through a nationwide competition to go to Europe for two months under the program The American Field Service whose members served as volunteer ambulance drivers in two World Wars is engaged in a peacetime program of international scholarships on the secondary school level Carefully selected teenagers from abroad are brought to high schools and preparatory schools for a year to study and to learn about American life at first hand to take this knowledge home to their countrymen the director stated As a result of this program returned students in Belgium France Finland Germany Greece the Netherlands and Norway have formed AFS committees and have extended invitations to a selected group of American teenagers i live as members of families Moroao for two months (Bernie Lashua Photo) Lieut Gov Joseph Johnson of Hillcrest Road Springfield announced yesterday that he would be a candidate for re-election to his present office in the September Republican primary election Lieut Gov Johnson thus set at rest speculation that he would seek the office of governor this year In a brief letter to the editor of The Springfield Reporter the lieutenant governor said: may announcce as soon as y6u care to that I am a candidate for re-election as lieutenant governor I feel that I should not wait any Lieut Gov Johnson is the only announced candidate for lieutenant governor Gov Lee Emerson has already announced he will be a candidate for re-election with no other person in the field as yet Many of Lieut Gov Johnson's friends had urged him to run for governor this year but he felt that he would rather take two more years as the second man in the state before considering the governorship The Springfield man surprised Vermont politicians in the fall of 1950 when he ran away with the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in a field of several well-known candidates Even he was surprised at the vote he received in that election A legislator for three sessions previous to running for lieutenant governor Johnson took over his duties as presiding officer of the Senate of 1951 with experience in both houses of the general assembly Lieut Gov Johnson was bom in Sweden while his mother was there on a visit her people At that time the Jonasons were living in Quincy Mass They moved from there to a farm in Westminster West and then to Putney In 1902 the parents of the lieutenant governor settled in Springfield where the father was employed for the next 36 years as a molder in the foundry Lient Gov Johnson attended Springfield schools and later went to the University of Vermont where he received his engineering degree in 1915 His wife is the former Virginia Slack daughter of WHH and Anna Corbett Slack of Springfield They were married in 1919 after Johnson returned from the Field Artillery training school in World War I The Johnson are charter members of the American Legion post and Auxiliary in Springfield While receiving his college education Lieut Gov Johnson worked vacations for five years at the Bryant Chucking Grinder company Following the war he resumed his work at and progressed from draftsman to chief engi-neer to director and general manager holding the latter post from 1938 to 1949 Since then he has been consultant in engineering and management for firms both within and outside Vermont Besides his service in the Legislature and on the Springfield School board of which he was a member for 20 years and chairman for 19 he is a trustee of Spring-field hospital a director of the First National bank vice president of the Saving and Loan Association a member of the Vermont Industrial Relations council and has held office in the New England Council the State School Directors Association and the Boston Ordnance District He was a trustee of the Univer-( Continued on Page A-4) Luke Taft forces made a gallant stand but they were beaten from the start and Luke knew it Friday night Gelsie Monti first lieutenant and chairman of the credentials committee of the convention kept on fighting though right up to the end Monti won a victory In the rules committee when he forced through the ballot used at the convention on which there were such designations as The Eisenhower forces would have liked to have grouped all the Eisenhower delegates all of the Taft delegates and all of the uncommitted delegates but crew won out on this one It was only victory of the convention and his only one of the year for he lost his job on the Washington County Republican committee two nights before the convention The long ballot with its attendant counting problems kept the delegates in session even during the lunch hour There was grumbling about this but it disappeared when the alternates were elected quickly and without trouble Former Gov Mortimer Proctor is the most popular Republican in Vermont He has proven it at both of the past conventions when he led all delegates on contested tickets Proctor was under heavy pressure in the several days previous to the eonventipn to take the post of national committeeman However the former governor and many of his friends on the Eisenhower committee had committed themselves to Edward Janeway and they stuck by their commitments When Mortimer hurried to the platform hen it came time for the recommen dation of a national committeeman to the delegates we knew that Ed plan to committeeman was safe Windsor Senator Frank Corliss made the seconding nomination for Janeway and the vote was unanimous The delegates indicated they were not in agreement with Gov plea that they send an uncommitted and unpledged group to the Chicago convention The governor who has yet to declare himself for any presidential candidate was pretty specific about this phase of the convention in his speech to the delegates However when the smoke had cleared delegates committed to Eisenhower had been not only elected but pledged by unanimous vote of the convention to support the general until such a time as it appears his chance of winning is gone Whitey Killirk the representative to the House from Burlington and well known as a radio commentator got this'one through We were pretty surprised that the motion went through with so little trouble after all the talk there had been about the Vermont tradition of not pledging delegates The last time delegates were pledged was in 1920 when Vermonters went to the Republican convention pledged to Gen Leonard Wood Although only Congressman Winston Prouty has come out for Gen Eisenhower it looks as if he had the well wishes of at least one other member of the Vermont delegation in Congress-Senator Flanders Senator Aiken who with Prouty and Senator Flanders attended the convention Saturday is still a lit-( Continued on page A-4) Architects For Hospital Job Are Engaged The first major move in the Springfield Hospital long-range building and improvement program was taken this week when the Hospital executive committee en- gaged the firm of James Ritchie land Associates Boston architects and engineers to prepare pre-I liminary plans for the job ahead Announcement that the Boston had been engaged was made jby Merton Arms chairman of the Hospital Executive committee I The sum of $3000 was set up in the last Springfield Hospital Chest campaign for the preparation of long-range plans for an expansion program which tentatively call for enlargement of the laboratory increased operating room facilities additional waiting rooms administrative space and increased bed capacity These will be accomplished in the years ahead through changes and alteration of the present building according to the board of trustees The Ritchie firm told Chairman Arms of the executive committee that a survey party would come to Springfield this week to begin studies of the Springfield Hospital problems The trustees emphasized in their announcement that the' architects had been engaged that the work would not be done at once but accomplished over a period of several years Money raised in various recent Hospital Chest campaign has been used to install a number of improvements at the institution These include the installation of a modem sprinkler system reconversion of the oil burners to effect economies in fuel use installation of a new bookkeeping machine for increased efficiency in the business department painting of the inside of the hospital a job recently completed immediate installation of a new operating room light and purchase and gifts to the hospital of several new pieces of equipment for the operating room and laboratory VFW Poppy Sale Will Be Held May 22 24 30 Plans are being formulated for the 31st annual nation-wide sale of Buddy Poppies by the Veterans of I Foreign ars and the days of 1 May 22 24 and Memorial Day hpve I been fixed for distribution of these I familiar flowers in Springfield according to Edward Prescott commander and Clifford Wood chairman of poppy sales of post 771 As in previous years these symbols of the fields of Flanders will be sold by a group of volunteer Scouts and members of the Ladies Auxiliary of post 771 as well as post members A record sales force of at least 35 women and girls is being organized The goal for the 1952 Buddy Poppy sale has been fixed at 3000 poppies of the money that we collect in this sale will remain right here in our own community to help finance the relief and welfare work which we have undertaken in behalf of our own veterans in need and their Wood explained rest of the proceeds of the annual Buddy Poppy sale is used to help maintain the nation-wide rehabilitation service of our Commander Prescott added example we contribute one penny for each Buddy Poppy sold to the operation of the national home for widows and orphans at Eaton Rapids Mich This is the only home of its kind in the world It was founded in 1925 Since then hundreds of orphans have been given the opportunity to become healthy self-supporting Mrs Taylor Opens Convalescent Home on Sunday Mrs Beatrice Taylor will open her new convalescent home at 17 Pleasant street Springfield formerly the Methodist church parsonage to public inspection on Sunday from 9 a to 4 Mrs Taylor has equipped the home with new modern hospital equipment and will have ten beds available The owner of the home which is to be called the has been in practical nursing nearly all her life She served one year at the Rutland hospital then several years as nursing companion to Mrs Arthur Lee in England and the West Indies She opened the nursing home in Rutland now operated by Mrs Gladys Perham Mrs Taylor will have the assistance of Mrs Ernest Miller a graduate of the Wayne School of Practical nursing in Chicago Mrs Emma Barr will also assist in the operation of the home for convalescents Social Security Aide To Be Here Tuesday A representative of the Social Security Administration field office Rutland will be in Spring-field at the Municipal building room Tuesday May 27 from 11 a to 1 Persons who desire information about or wish to file claims for Federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance are invited to call upon him LIEUT GOV JOHNSON CONGRATULATES EISENHOWER Edward Janeway who is to be the new national committeeman of the Vermont Republican party receives congratulations from Lieut Gov Joseph Johnson of Springfield following his victory in the convention Saturday Janeway a resident of South Londonderry was nominated for recommendation to the delegates for national committeeman by Former Gov Mortimer Proctor Chamber Holds Machine Tool Night May 28 Tool will be the subject of the meeting of Springfield Chamber of Commerce at the Masonic Temple Wednesday night May 28 at 6:30 with Frank A Chromec presiding A large turnout is expected for the dinner and program which will be put on by spokesmen of the four major machine tool companies of Springfield the Jones Lam-son Machine company the Bryant Chucking Grinder company the Fellows Gear Shaper company and the Love-joy Tool company A meeting of the Chamber directors will follow Two Windsor One Windham Co Republicans Elected To National Delegation Janeway Is Chosen 4 in Court For Traffic Law Violations Four men were arraigned before Judge Kenneth Robinson of Windsor during the Springfield session of Windsor Municipal court yesterday charged with violating traffic regulations Harold Baker 52 of Brattleboro through his attorney Palmer Ainsworth entered a plea of guilty to a charge of drunken driving at Springfield on May 13 and was ordered to pay a fine of $100 and costs of $820 He was also given a suspended sentence of 30 days in county jail and was placed on probation during which time he is to pay the assessment to the probation department Baker according to his attorney is in ill health and was disturbed by a letter received from a son in Korea on the date of the offense Baker was placed under arrest by Police Officer Bernard Lashua who said he found the Brattleboro car weaving from side to side on the highway at North Springfield when the officer stopped him Earl Perry 44 of Cavendish a truck driver charged with careless driving resulting in an accident was fined $25 and costs on his plea of nolo contendere His appearance in court resulted from a complaint of an accident at Chester on May 11 made to state police Investigating officers said that Perry's car came around a corner on the center of the road forcing an oncoming truck owned by the Giddings company and operated by Boutwell to pull to the side of the road where it struck a soft shoulder travelled from side to side and knocked down guard rail and cement bridge posts resulting in $100 damage Paul Trevarow 16 of Chester a laborer pleaded guilty to driving a car with defective equipment at Springfield on May 9 and paid a fine of $10 and costs of $920 He was ordered into court by Officer Reney Attorney Ainsworth represented the youth as a of the Edward Rogers 34 of Windsor through his attorney Alban Parker pleaded not guilty to a charge of drunken driving on the highway between Charlestown and Springfield on April 27 and was released in bail of $300 provided by Mrs Mabel Adorns The case was continued until June 10 Attorney Lewis Springer of White River Junction was present during the court session as prosecutor Chandler Tells Rotarians How Is Being Fought This was buried under a chorus of shouts from the Eisenhower delegates Subsequently an all-Ike slate of alternates nominated by Rep Reid Lefevre of Manchester was elected by voice vote The alternates are Janeway Carleton Howe of Dorset Sen Robert Babcock of Burlington Mrs Mortimer Proctor Robert Gannett II of Brattleboro John Calhoun of Middlebury Dr George Abbott of Bethel George Milne of Barre A Stoddard of Windsor Wayne Sarcka of Shrewsbury Glenn Marshall of Norton and Emerson Kennedy of Bellows Falls The first test of the convention came before the election of delegates when Crispe made a bid for Spring-field CAP Flight Raised To Squadron Ranking Republicans from the Windsor--Windham county area had important parts in the proceedings of the Vermont State Republican convention at Montpelier last Saturday which elected a delegation of 12 pledged to Gen Dwight Eisenhower for president Two Windsor county residents Mrs Berniece Hicks Estey of Springfield and V-rest Orton of Weston were elected to the delegation From Windham county Preston Gibson of Brattleboro brother of Federal Judge Ernest Gibson was elected to the delegation and Edward Janeway of South Londonderry was elected Republican national committeeman Proctor Leads Ticket Top vote getter in tjie delegates race was former Gov Mortimer Proctor who polled 679 out of a possible 861 Proctor subsequently was chosen delegation chairman by his 11 pro-Eisenhower colleagues Philip A Angell of Randolph was close behind Proctor with 659 votes The rest of the delegation to the Chicago convention on July 7 ran as follows: Frederick Smith of Burlington 653 Mrs Forrest Rice of Newport 635 John Carbine of Rutland 632 John A Swainbank of St Johnsbury 625 Mrs Berniece Estey of Springfield 618 Edward Smith of St Albans 616 Elbridge Adams of Rutland 611 Mrs Dorothy Brown of Essex Junction 610 Preston Gibson of Brattleboro 607 and Vrest Orton of Weston 584 Claude Farr of Bradford designated on the ballot as finished 13th in the race with 231 votes His nominating speech was made by former Gov Stanley Wilson Crispe received 211 votes highest number given a candidate openly committed to the Ohio senator He was 15th Gelsie Monti of Barre former state GOP chairman finished 18th in a field of 27 candidates He had 191 votes WEATHER IN SPRINGFIELD Thermometer Readings an delegation Fletcher Joslin of Waitsfield immediately asked that the motion be tabled until after the delegates were chosen and the convention overwhelmingly agreed From there on in it was all Eisenhower Deane Davis president of the National Life Insurance company rhade the nominating speech for the entire slate of pro-Ike delegates He said the convention was mandated by the April Republican town caucuses to send a delegation supporting Gen Eisenhower The caucuses he declared were so conducted that the issue was clear Gen Eisenhower or Senator Taft we are to keep faith with the Davis continued should here adopt such procedures to make certain that the will of those Republicans who voted in caucuses be carried Davis reminded the convention tradition has its But he added no tradition is worth any more than what is back of it Davis criticized what he called the myth that position on great issues is unknown Eisenhower is a middle-of-the-road Davis said great area in the center where progress is most likely to be made in Vermont and the Davis called both Eisenhower and Taft great Americans but said the senator lacks administrative experience for the office of President Candidates running as Taft supporters and uncommitted delegates were nominated individually Basically their plea was the same that Vermont should stick by its tradition of not sending a pledged delegation to Chicago and that both sides should be represented in the national convention Gov Emerson Speaks congressional delegation was very careful to take no sides in the delegates contest The governor however at the conclusion of his speech said that the state's interest will be served by sending to Chicago 12 judicious (Continued on Page A4) good health is something that be bought on the open market If you are blessed with good health do everything you can to keep Chandler said He advised a chest x-ray once a year and for those exposed to tuberculosis twice a year The speaker brought out the following points: Preventive TB program through x-ray examinations in clinics hospitals or privately vaccination and education Diagnostic procedures such as x-rays fluoroscopic examinations gastrics sputum tests blood tests urinalysis patch test tuberculin injection test and bronchoscopic examinations Curative TB program through bed rest well-balanced diet and drug therapy He mentioned streptomycin PAS oral and dibutin as the most used He discussed lung collapse and other surgical methods Chandler mentioned as early symptoms and danger signs of tuberculosis loss in weight appetite color and vigor night sweats elevated temperature hemorrhages blood spitting coughing and raising fluid pleurisy pains and spontaneous lung collapse The followup program including x-ray re-checks fluoroscope blood test urinalysis etc were also referred to Occupational hazards include sand blasting stone cutting pottery work hard rock mining metal grinding and foundry work according to Chandler He also discussed occupational therapy recreation and religious programs at the sanitarium Harold Chandler former Springfield high school teacher and sports writer and commentator here for many years and for the last four years a patient at the Vermont Sanitarium at Pittsford was guest speaker at a luncheon meeting of Springfield Rotary club Monday noon Introduced by Theodore Barrows Chandler presented a well-rounded talk on the general program for detection prevention and cure of tuberculosis in Vermont The program chairman said that Chandler who in addition to his many achievements here was a founder of the Mineralogical society is recovering from tuberculosis and expects to leave the sanitarium soon During the business session conducted by Milton Baker president Arthur Ingalls relayed an invitation to Spring-field members to join in the celebration of the silver anniversary of the Plymouth club June 16 A banquet will be served at the Pemige-wasset hotel at 6:30 with Ted Davis of Windsor district governor of Rotary Donald Adams of New Haven Conn former president of Rotary International and John Gadd a founder of the Plymouth club as speaker Commitments for the event yrtll be received by Ingalls before June 2 President Baker welcomed Lewis Whiting who recently underwent surgical treatment at a Boston hospital and also presented as guests In-gerson of Lebanon and Dr Richards of Spring-field get only one body and Barometer (Adjusted to 565 Feet Above Sea Level) The Springfield Civil Air Patrol unit due to increased membership has been raised from the status of a Flight to that of a Squadron Two trailers are in the process of being built by the group One will be used for a mobile commun-nications unit and will be equipped with a short wave set The other trailer is being prepared for a rescue team with stretchers and first aid equipment On May 19 the program was divided into three sections by Capt Edward Merrick One section attended the advanced first aid class given by Rev Edwin Thornton at the Community house One squad worked on the trailers and the third group went to the Nick Augustinovich hangar on Elm street to make adjustments on the plane which has been acquired by the local A squadron Meetings of the A are held at the Community house every Monday night Boys and girls from 15 to 18 years old are eligible to become Cadets Senior membership is available to any adults who are interested in aiding the A in a civilian capacity Charles Fiske Awarded Central School Contract The Springfield board of school directoi-s announced this morning that the general contract for the construction of the new Central school heating plant has been awarded to Charles Fiske of Woodstock The contract price is $79402 The contract specifies that the mechanical equipment used be provided by Randall Co Inc of Rutland Municipal Manager Leslie Giddings said that this will include Petro oil burners the same as used in other Springfield school buildings They will have electronic safety controls Alternates Named The coalition group made one last feeble effort to salvage something from the convention when Wallace Gilpin of Barton moved that the candidates who finished 13 through 24 be designated PC Partly Cloudy Cloudy Fair.