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...Chateaugay Could Surprise
...Corp.'s Tom M. Girdler. In 1938, to find out whether Adirondack ore was rich enough to warrant its cost, he leased the Mineville and Port Henry properties from the Witherbee Sherman Corp. Girdler soon bought up another ancient mine and 115,000 acres in the mineral-rich Chateaugay district, dug shafts, built mills and narrow-gauge railroads. The Government helped him get labor. During the war it financed the building of his dormitory villages with churches, hospitals and a swimming pool. Last week Republic had an Adirondack working force of 1,550, and Girdler had the urge...
...home in Chateaugay, N. Y. (pop.: 1,100), Warren T. Thayer was amazed to find himself suddenly the object of large public interest. Day after the letters were published, the hearty old Republican was interviewed in his dingy office above a cigar store. "I had about 50 telephone calls last night but I couldn't make out exactly what it was all about," he chuckled. "If I wrote the letters, they certainly have slipped my mind.'' Asked if they might be forgeries, he declared: "Well, now, I don't think anybody would do a thing like...
...excelsior mill, a cold-storage plant and a road building firm, Senator Thayer maintains he is "just a simple farmer." But: "I did a lot of wandering when I was a young fellow." Shortly after the century's turn, he helped found a small local power company in Chateaugay. About 1925 he and his fellow Chateaugayans sold out to Associated Gas & Electric. "And here's the funny thing," he explained last week. "After we sold out . . . we found that the 20-year franchise had ended in 1923, and we had forgotten all about it, the way people...
Died. Leroy Scott, 54, author (No. 13 Washington Square, Partners of the Night); near Plattsburg, N. Y.; drowned swimming across Chateaugay Lake...