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Wappingers Class Size Issue Goes To Arbitration By GEORGE BERNSTEIN WAPPINGERS FALLS A grievance regarding class sizes filed last October by the Wappingers Central SchooLFaculty Association will go to binding arbitration Thursday, The timing of the hearing has forced postponement of further iargalnlng Jn leather Tcon toct talks until April 23. The Issue concerns the sizes of three second grade classes at the Fishtail Plains Elementary School. DeMara HcwittpresldcnLo: the teachers association, claims that two of the classes' have 34 pupils and the third has 33. He says the current feache'rs contract stipulates average class jlrcsof 27 pupils for first, second and third grades In the Wappingers school district. The grievance ran the formal T6uTcbefore rcachTnglhe arbF tration stage, according to Jack Economou, the WCSFA's attorney.

This means that the complaint was first registered with leJiuilding prlncipairtnen wun the school superintendent and finally with the Board of Education. When those' appeals are ex hausled, a contract grievance goes to binding" "arbitration through, a private firm agreed on by both sides In the dispute. According to Economou, the American Arbitration Assocla lioii has appolnteoTVTJew Jer scy professor to settle the dispute. The hearing Is set for 3:30 p.m. at the Van Wyck Junior High School, the site of the current teachers contract talks.

Hewiti emphasized4 that the bargaining sessions been put off "not because we're mad at them or they're mad at us." He said the postponement was due to a conflict of schedules, nothing more. However, there are indications that the school district wants to remove uie ciass size daily to a secondary school teacher, would be a stumbling block In negotiations to some. degree. The fifth bargaining session was conducted Thursday after Iiwu 111 vuil vrytik mm inrur and a half. The time was taken stipulations from byMplana ons neacheFscofitrTct and that barpy the teachers negotiating eaintne on that Doint may be team.

of Pint3 eir stalled until the immediate grievance is settled. The teachers have indicated that class sizes and class loads, the number of classes assigned posed contract. The next session is tentatively set for a week from Thursday at 4 p.m. at the Junior high school; Joiigbftftpsit Journal Pogt 20 Friday, April 10, 1970 100 At East Fishkill Meeting, But Key Issues Are Tabled HOPEWELL JUNCTION One hundred persons attended Thursday night's meeting of the East Fishkill Town Board, presumably to hear the out come of a rezoning request but the item was tabled until next Thursday. Richard Brescia, president of.

the Trl Start Realty Inc. in Poughkeepsie requested that his ,195 acres in Lake Walton Road be rezoned from agricultural to multi residential. resldentlal zoning in East Fishkill, although some multi residential housing was built prior to zoning. While making the request, Brescia pointed to the filled hall and said, "I didn't realize I had so many Supporters." The crowd broke into laughter. Brescia said that his pron erly, the former Cashman Farm for which he reportedly paid $250,000, was ideally suited for multi residential housing because "it is flat and rolling, with easy access to lie added mat tne land "lends has a sufficient water supply, and is 'centrally located in an area sorely in need of housing." A number of hands in the audience were raised but not.

recognized. Councilman Steven Hopkins, presiding over the meeting in the absence of Town Supervisor Robert Alley, heard Councilman Clarence Nichols move to "take the matter un der advisement," seconded by Town Justice Lawrence Fogartjf. After a number of Inquiries on this and. other matters also tabled during the course of the meeting, Nichols said, "All thes' Items will be settled next Thurs day. "We are not an entire board tonight; that is why we have tabled these matters." He said that with the return of Alley the boartLwould studv the items and Things would comer to a head am Thursdayr11 Also tabled was Francis Ry an's tequest to rezone one of his 10 acres in Route 82 from industrial to commercial, and Dominick Canoizzaro's request to add a car wash to his service station in Route 376.

Some opposition was shown to the car wash proposal when it was given a public hearing April Hopkins said that the complaints presented would lead to "restrictions on. the operation of the car wash if it is approved by the board itself ta proper sewage facilities Theboard passed a resolution requiring that site plan approval be acquired from the planning board for any non conforming usage of property. In other action it was re solved that "shall" will be I come "may" in the town law that previously read "The sec retary of the zoning board shall submit a copy of all business transacted to the secretary of the planning board for the pur pose of review." The planning board had com plained of being over burdened with routine items Street Lights The board postponed action on a petition submitted by 80 members oflheWorIey Homes Association requesting permis sion to have Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corp. replace their current street lights with mercury vaporiamps ArepresentativeoLiheeroup said she and the other signers, who she claimed represented 80 per cent of the development, were "well aware that the change will increase individual lighting bills by 50 per cent." There were also complaints about harrassment by dogs and discarded building materials in cluding a truck body reportedly discarded in Revere Park. Residents of a private road off Miller Hill Road complained of junk cars they claimed have been left in the road, Mrs, Dnlnt'pg Phpphfk) qwafr ing for the group, said later that the man is a property 'owner, but does not comply with the other residents' wishes to improve the neighborhood.

The board agreed to review both the Revere Park and Mil ler Hill Road complaints by next Thursday. The adjourned meeting will begin at p.m. in the Town Hall. Lloyd Weighing Fees On Zoning, Building Permits Lloyd Grants Three Appeals On Rezoning HIGHLAND The Town of Lloyd Zoning Board granted: three appeals Thursday on ap plications it heard March Z5. Frank Minardi received per' mission to locate a trailer on his property near Route 9W and the North Road extension.

Willfam Calm, New Pate, was given a one and one half foot front line variance for his Route 299 office building as Well as allowed to locate a 20 square foot sign within 10 feet of the road instead of the prescribed 75 feet. County Legislator Eugene Noe received permission to locate an antique. shop in his Tillson Avenue garage providing no more than 12 display items be ieftoutside Four other appeals heard last monthnnusf beTtecidedifby May 25, Chairman Edward Gona said, because the board has 60 days from the public hearing to make a decision. Many of the cases now being heard are the result of the new Republican administration's drive to rid the town of zoning violations that are in existence, Abram Quits HIGHLAND Fees for zon lng change applications and building permits'are being considered by the Lloyd Town Board. Zoning Inspector William Raucci recommended at this week's board meeting that applicants be charged $10 per structure and $5 for additions to building.

Supervisor Louis Foscaldi, noting that the town is being swamped with zoning applications, said most municipalities use charges to defray these administrative costs. The councilmen set a special meeting for Tuesday at 7:30 iJuaPMlUjediLB cuss the fees and also draiiS age problems In the town. Foscaldi said he has asked town consulting engineers Brin nier and Larius of Kingston to suggest a drainage plan "Drainage is the number one problem in the" town now," he, declared. The supervisor toured theJ town Thursday with State Transportation Department of ficials to point out road and drainage problems, State resident engineer Henry Milmck said he would ask M. Nicholas Sinacori, district superintendent, to help the Town of Lloyd, according to Foscaldi.

At Wednesdays board meet lng, he also reported that Ro Grand Union be transferred Rip Van Winkle may soon J'e TeporteaTJhances are slim the estimated $100 to supply Births The previous council deadlock TT1 to the town. the town's equalization rate, The three model apartments th bd II If IO ed on the agreement and it Ulster County District Attor Top Of The News Markets To Resume Regular Hours NEW YORK (AP) Governing, boards of the New York and American Stock Exchanges have voted to resume regular 5'v hour trading sessions after operating on curtailed schedules since June 1968. The plan, subject to discus sion with the Securities and Ex change Commission, would re store the trading period to 10 a m. to 3:30 m. EST, effective May 4.

The exchanges currently Close at 3 p.m. Israel! Planes Strafe Jordan Village By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Israeli planes strafed a village in the north Jordan Valley today, killing 6 civilians and wounding 10, a military spokes man in Amman claimed. Two children were among the victims of the 20 mtnute ma Chine gun attack on north Shu neh village by two Mystere jets, the spokesman said. He added that two of the wounded civilians were in critical condition. Truck Lockout Ordered In Chicago "It's been a thorn in the side of the town," he remarked, "but nowit looks pretty good." The board purchased a fpur wheel drive truck for $24,000 sfrom the Hudson River Sales Co.

in Poughkeepsie, the low Didder, Highway Superintendent Peter Anella reported he Is still having problems at the landfill site as reinforced tires on town equipment keep blowing out, Anella said he has had 13 blowouts of the tires which cost more than $200 apiece to re place, Assessor Charles Morano had both bad and good news for dropped from 19 to 18 by the State Board of Equalization, win not De changed, Morano was optimistic that the state may put Pericentral Railroad property back on the tax rolls. This would raise the town's assessed valuation by Jury Complete For Jones Trial A jury of 12 men today began hearing the case against Robert Lee Jones, accused of murder in the rifle slaying of his wife, liieiia Gwendolyn, A man and a woman were seated as alternate jurors. The jury selection was com pleted late Thursday under a procedure novel to Dutch' ess County Court in recent murder trials. Judge Joseph Jiudice ordered QrfAInAlia Ia Ivntlt rlilaa awAm By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSjer than a tentative national Cise thV 'chVllenges ininedJ "6' UDon finishing lndiv dua JrASVlTlstionuig of prospective jurors, ratner man wait until the area Five major Chicago trucking associations ordered aby the Jlhnois Motor Truck Op lockout against jz.uuu drivers to 1 era tor Association provides day after a sixth carriers' group wage increases of $1 65 an hour algned a new contract caning over three years, it covers 8,000 lor pay, mites substantially nign drivers, Cambodians Bomb Viet Cong Pos'itiors PRASAUTr Cambodia (AP) itown ty 800 to J.000 Vie! Cong. Cambodian air force MIG17s jets, a.

gift fromuhe So bombed and strafed Viet Cone viet Union during friendlier positions outside Prasaut today days, attacked enemy positions! jury was completed tentatively, The result was the jury was completed within a day and a half. District Attorney Albert M. Rosenblatt Draised the method as legal and swifter. Deputy (Pubhc Defender James, R. Brown Jr.

is semmg me ueienaani. Mrs. Jones was killed last Backs Sorensen NEW YORK (AP) The field in the Democratic senatorial primary has been reduced by one and some well known Dem ocrats have endorsed ihestate committee's, choices for gover norand senator. Morris B. Abram, the former president of Brandeis universi ty who resigned to run for sena tor, Thursday withdrew from the race and endorsed senatorial designate Theodore C.

Sorensen, Abram said he would work in the gubernatorial campaign of party designate Arthur J. Gold berg. Sorensen also received the backing of former Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall, who praised the former Kenne dy aide's work in problems of pollution and the environment before the subject became fash ionable. Ramsey Clark, the former At torney General, officially endorsed Goldberg's candidacy, saying the former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court "can unite the Democratic party and help unite us all." at the Rip Van Winkle House will be open to the public from 10 a.m.

to 5:30 pm. Saturday and from 1 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Because of continued interest inihe first completed structure In the, Riverview urban renewal project, the apartments will also be open next Friday and Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. They will not be open week days.

State Promises 9D Work Schedule BEACON A schedule for work" on the realignment of Route 9D here will be released by the State Transportation De partment in a week or 10 days. That will be a result of a meeting between Mayor Robert L. Cahill and officials of that agency Thursday in Pough keepsie. The mayor met with trans portation officials in an effort to speed up work on the re construction of the road. Cur rent plans call for the project to be completed by 1975.

Cahill has said that the re building of the route is part of the city's urban renewal pro gram and is vital to the future of Beacon. The mayor said Thursday's! meeting "really didn't solve anything He said the ofiicials dis cussed the whole to how we are going to get to constructionr Cahill said the Transportation Department promised to include dates for corridor and design hearings in their timetable. Xdon know whether It will be a good schedule or not," said the mayor. Accompanying Cahill were George Mordas, director of the Beacon Urban Renewal Agency, and a representative of Raymond and May, the city's urban renewal planning consultants. The mayor maintains that the road, which goes through the western part of the must be improved to make the heart of Beacon more accessible, indicated'that luVat tempts to attract new housing and new industry to Beacon will be futile without better access roads.

WfcyTwaPc ti liluHr Poughkeepslt Journit Photo DUCKS ALSO ARE HAPPY Spring has arrived as they eat heartily again, onfood handed, out by" young visitors to the duck pond in the Rural Cemetery, South Avenue. Christo pher1JlJeft1andJrianDaley4J, Jook surprised as one of the ducks grabs a scrap of bread. The boys' parents are Mr. Hyde Park Planners Pass Subdivision HYDE PARK The Town Planning Board approved a sub division and a commercial building request Thursday. Mark Wyle, a New City developer.

received final si vision approval for 59 lots in his Green Fields development, The development is located along Windmill Road from Wa ters Edge to Buttonwood and Rpckledge Roads and Crest Hill Lane. The Hudson Valley Pump Co received permission to con struct a new, building off yiolet Avenue uppusue uie nue duwi Country Lanes. Chairman. Charles Van Tas sel! said a new plan for the proposed Roosevelt Plaza will be submitted at next Thursday's meeting at 8 p.m. In the Town Hall, The board will conduct a pub lic hearing April 23 at 8:30 p.m.

on the. APR Development Corp. application for a 120 bed nursing home at Route 9 and Anderson School Road. Traffic Unit To Get Badges Badges for members of the Poughkeepsie Traffic Commis sion were approved inursaay night by the Common Council. The non salaried commission makes recommendations on traffic control procedures.

The council authorized the badges to replace wallet sized identification cards. The council the badges, The vote was 6 to 2 with Alderman Pasquale Letterii, Sixth Ward, and Alderman Joseph Runza, First Ward, op posed, Letterii, chairman of he council's Tinance committee; noted the committee had re jected the proposal Council Defers Action On Crime Control Group after Cambodian troopa ith within hreenMlesf thiiage.4Juiy"Winher&parentstpart'j stood a six hour assauii. on met 'ment at 19 cottage St, The Poughkeepsie Common Council Thursday night defer ded setting up a spectal crime control improvemeril committee until an executive session Mon day night, It is understood the council, meeting in executive session prior to the council meeting itself, couldn agree on which councilmen should serve on the 13 meoiber committee. The committee would be an ad hoc one, lo make a broad study of all aspects of safety in the city, In addition to three alderman, there would be the mayor, city manager, police and fire chiefs, three citizens and three merchants. Setting bp the committee was approved by the council Mon day night, following a tabled proposal to Initiate, steps to cre ate the post of pupae safety police and fire departments, I Mayor Louie Fiore Thursday night raised a question on how many policemen and firemen were trained In first aid.

Alderman Louise Stark, Second Ward, invited a policeman in the audience to speak on the issue. Patrolman Charles Bogdanowitz' said he hasn't had a tirst aid refresher course in seven years. He added he hasn't qualified for hand gun use In over three years. He explained, "the situation is atrocious. There is no quali fied Instructor In the department I knew of one patrolman who was given a hand gun and who didn't know how to load it, The next day he was out on the street" Qn problems in the police, department, Alderman Pasquale Letterii.

Sixtn Ward, added commissioner to oversee gone out the wjndaw," Gov. Kirk Clings To Schools; Vows To Jail U. S. Marshals BRADENTON. Fla.

(AP) Gov. Claude Kirk, vowing to meet force with force," clung to control of the Manatee County school system today in the face of besieging U.S. marshals. clear the way for school integra tion under a federal court order, said they already regarded three Kirk aides, the county sheriff and five deputies as under arrest, although not in physical custody. Kirk retorted at a news iking t4hto marshalsttempting Ho 7riggseelined to sBy: what conference Thursday night that if "my people" are arrested he would put the marshals "in the county jail." U.S.

AttyT John L. Briggs said a Kirk intermediary had told ter school board headquarter; to make arrests would.be fired On. i A Kirk aide replied that no such statement was made either by an intermediary or any member of the governor's staff. Kirk said he'would not appear FacPfiriHej; Fayor Paid Firemen's Point A state fact finder mends approval of a controversial article in a 1970 contract between the Poughkeepsie government and the paid firemen. This was the conclusion of Earle W.

Zaidins, a fact finder Beacon Man Shot To Death Y. (APA man "tentatively identifed by police as Berme Brown of near by Beacon was shot to Tleath early today at a taverrrr Several people were questioned, but police made no immediate arrest and said their in vestigation was continuing. The, tavern is in Newburgh Mr, and Mrs. Constantin Zi kas, S3 Martin Drive, are the parents of a son, born today at Vassaf Hospital. Mr.

and Mrs. Thurmon Lee, 24' Smith. SU are. the. parents of a daughter, born today at Vassar Hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Zan chelll, North Avenue, Pleasant Valley, are the parents of a daughter, born today at Vassari Hospital. Mr. and Mrs.

William Lewis Herring, 24 Fountain Place, are the parents of a daughter, Ann Beckett, born Thursday at St, Francis Hospital, Mr. "and Mrs; Lou Lewis, 2 Loockerman are the par ents of a daughter, Elizabeth Jameson, born Thursday at M. Frauds Hospital. Weather Report TCMPtKATUHeS mn minimum tamMTfttUrM during tr hour MMimum 4 Mlnkminv UAlta windlw. IS ma.lv, OutU to TMHKNlitl i Hd)f 'Ht tlin.

ths moon FUtL MOON April II MX qUAHTM for the New" York State Public Employment Relations Board. His report to the Common CouncilThursday night was tabled. The' fact finder recommends the adoption of Article 9, which calls for a paid officer to be in charge of fire fighting in the absence of the paid fire chief. Currently, a yolunteer. fireman is in charge in such a circum stance.

The volunteers and the ma jority of the current council have opposed the change. Alderman Pasquale Letterii, Sixth Wyd, a proponent of we nanger oaay cummemea that the fact finder's recommendation "will probably not convince the council to go ahead on the contract. The firemen are receiving benefits under the newcontract went first to state mediation and then fact finding. Zaidms said, "A person hav ing full time knowledge of the whereabouts of1 alll men and equipment ought to be in com mand of the fire fighting per sonnel. In opinion this can only be accomplished by a full time professional fire fighter." Zaidins cited a March 24 in terview in the Poughkeepsie Journal, in, which C.

H. Van Norstrand, said Article 9 'will not in any way hurt the volun teer'forces. fact finder emphasized that Vn Norstrand, whose active command at fires, would be eliminated with the adoption of Article 9, supports the change. in Tampa today for a contempt hearing in the court of U.S. Dist.

Judge Ben Krentzman, au thor of the integration order, but would be represented by an attorney. his next move would be "I'm like a coach, I don't really ex pect to talk about the game plan before the game" but said he had talked with U.S. Justice De partment officials who had approvedapproved his 'undisclosed plan of action. Briggs added that his advice to the Kirk forces was to act "like the Arabs in ihenight quietly steal away." A superior force of deputy sheriffs and state troopers prevented three deputy marshals and an assistant U.S. attorney from taking actual custody of the Kirk aides and six lawmen in a confrontation at the school board office Thursday.

All nine were accused obstructing justice. Kirk has been ordered by Judge Kretzman to relinquish control of the school system to Supt. Jack Davidson and the county school board. Kirk took control to head off implementation of the court or dered desegregation plan on Monday, objecting particularly to the requirement that 2.600 bused tn classps ouU their neighborhoods achieve racial balance. District "Attorneys In State Oppose ney josepn lorraca told a Senate committee Thursday that the New York State District 'Attorneys Association is opposed jto Gov, proposed Department of Criminal Justice in the state.

Torraca, who is president of the association, testified before the Senate committees on codes and justiciary. He said that the proposed super agency "would, in effect, abolish local district attorneys." Torraca said, however, that the association favored expansion of the term of the prosecutor from three to, four years, and an increase in salaries of full time district attorneys to $25,000 a year. 30 County Holsteins Are Competing In Show Dutchess County area Hol stein farms "Will be represented by 30 head of registered cattle at the 1970 New Yorjc State Black and White Show and Sale, today and Saturday at Cortland. Orison S. Cook, Pine Plains, president of the Eastern New York Iloistein ciud, maoe uie selections for the sale today, The show will be conducted Sat urday, with John S.

Pulver, MU Eastern New York Club mem bers who have consigned cows for sale and for the show inv elude Charles Hapeman, Red tiook; R. Alton Wright, and Stanley Pulver and son, Miller ton; Hutting C. Winans and C. Butler and son, 'Pine Plains; R. Peter Heffering and Kenneth Savena, and Raymond McEn Amema; Kenneth H.

and Raymond YaiL La lerton. as rina clerk. The iudge Grangevulet D. David B. wul be Ar Falrchild.

BewickHammond, and Hf Pa. old Miller, Ancramdale, I.