Dear Folks, This afternoon I went to the Town of Porter town hall on official Town of Porter Historian (me) business. After I had talked at length with the Town Supervisor I got up to leave. It was then that the Town Clerk asked me to wait a minute and he brought some old odds and that were stored in the town's archives. He thought they may be of interest to me as town history. One of them was a local Niagara Falls area telephone book of 1968/69. Now I realize that many people can't fathom anything so recent as being of any historical value but I knew genealogists would realize its value. If you had any family livng in Niagara Falls, Lewiston, Youngstown, Sanborn or Ransomville and want me to see if any of your family is listed in it, just let me know. BTW, another interesting published booklet that was given to me was "New York State War Emergency Act and other War Emergency Laws, 1941, 1942, 1943 and 1944," compiled and published July 1, 1944 by New York State War Council. I've only had a chance to just glance through it but I found one section to be of particular interest. It covers Acts Relating to Discrimination. In several subsections it makes it very plain that it's against NY State law for any defense industry "to refuse to employ any person in any capacity on account of the race, color, creed or national origin of such person." It even cites specific laws of that nature dating back to Sep. 1941. Another subsection is entitled "Enforcement of Civil Rights." And here I thought Civil Rights began in the 1960s! I have an idea that I'll find the booklet of particular educational value regarding the WWII years. The third interesting thing I was given was a "banker's" box filled with papers having to do with State of New York Department of Social Welfare, Albany. I leafed through the box and found it was filled with only NY State bulletins regarding social welfare during the WWII years. I was put off because I didn't see how that could have effected the Town of Porter. But because of one particular piece of paper on top, I realized that our town did indeed have a Deparment of Public Welfare. That's what the letterhead stated. In addition our department's phone number was 54 at that time! With that in mind I'm certain that if I study those bulletins more thoroughly I'll get another educational glimpse into the war years that truly effected the Town of Porter. vee