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Show BUYS TOWN TO AID CRIPPLED VETS NEW YORK, N. Y.SOUNDPHOTO Charles I. Ruderman, industrialist in-dustrialist of Gouverncur, New York, himself a disabled war veteran vet-eran of World War I, is shown here, plans in hand, as he discusses dis-cusses with newsmen his purchase of the upstate town of Pierce-field, Pierce-field, which he plans to hand over to disabled veterans of World War II. The 80-acrc town contains eighty homes and an abandoned paper mill. Only, items in the town he did not buy were two churches. He explained; "Without any strings attached, I want to give it to the disabled veterans of World War II under some agency such as a foundation or the government." He explained he would seek to persuade business establishments to install manufacturing branches in the town's 800-foot mill, idle since 1930. |