Olympic committee - Organization of the Lake Placid executive Olympic committee was completed last week. The following officers were chosen: Dr. Godfrey Dewey, chairman; Supervisor Willis Wells, vice chairman; William J. O’Hare, treasurer; John F. White, president of the Kiwanis Club of ...

Smokey turns 40 - Thousands of area schoolchildren, local dignitaries and officials from the state Department of Environmental Conservation gathered Tuesday to honor the birthday of that great conservationist, humanitarian and firefighter — Smokey Bear. Perhaps no more important or ...

Olympic bobsled - Determined to have the first entry in the Olympics, to be held here, and equally determined to have this sled an Adirondack product, five local men are now hard at work on plans for the five-man bob. These men are J. Hubert Stevens, Frank S. Leonard, J. Vernon Lamb, ...

Bootleggers - The month of April so far has proved a disastrous one for bootleggers headed this way. In their determination to make Lake Placid as dry as the Sahara Desert, Sgt. Fred Homedean and his force of state troopers, with the able assistance of Lake Placid Police Chief Thomas Black, ...

Second beach? - The question of purchase by the village of the Stevens property on Mirror Lake for use as a public beach and pavilion has again been brought to the attention of the chamber of commerce. E. C. Herb, village clerk and chairman of the public improvement committee of the chamber, ...

Capt. Hart call - Mrs. Edward Hart has received a telephone call from her son, Capt. George Hart, army flight surgeon now resting in Hawaii after active duty in the South Pacific. The young surgeon called to express greetings to his mother and to her twin sister, Miss Mary Gremple. The ...