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Dave Heck, Zimmer Burgess: Lindsley. ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE. SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1936 CCC CAMPERS GAIN AVERAGE OF 20 POUNDS Hamlin Beach Boys Become ExPert Steeple- Jacks Mix beef, Irish potatoes, shovels and double-bitted axes freely and you build men. The beef comes by the quarter, the tubers by the 100-pound sack and the work from 8 A. to 5 p.

m. An average gain of 20 'pounds per man at Hamlin Beach COC Camp 1252 reflects the success of the formula. One hundred ninety-five strong, the boys troop in from the windswept woods and swamps along Lake Ontario to stuff away 180 of meat, 200 pounds of "spuds" and several bushels of whatever the side dish may be at Junch and dinner day. They peak the load whopping wiNery dessert and pass the two gallon coffee pota round and 'round. One thousand dollars worth of victuals are stored in the refrigerators and of the camp kitchen and the cupboards.

monthly bill stands, at about $3,000. Study Tree Surgery Two dozen lads, volunteers every one. are learning the rudiments of tree surgery at the hands of Forester Francis V. Rice. Tree surgery, 8.8 these lads know it, means a combination of the talents of A rose gardener and steeple-jack.

life 19 a bit analer perhaps because he is given cleats with which to do his timbertopping. The wiry youngsters climb the 60 A and 70-foot trees at Hamlin Beach are engaged in saving trees, not destroying them; consequently, they climb in ordinary shoes. The boys choose a tree which 18 well-limbed and go up about 50 feet, dragging a rope lashed about their waists. Once up they loop the rope around a limb, fashion A sailor's seat and swing out into space, hooking the limbless tree with their feet. Up they gO and work begins.

No Injury Reports With the same rope they drag up a pole saw, hand saw or whatever tool is required and teeter out along a branch to cut down dead timber. Not an injury has been recorded in weeks. The biting ring double-bitted six, axes cracks out of the woods all day, several dozen lithe youngsters breaking down dead stumps and destroying century old logs. Trucks roll by the grove every few minutes carrying great heaps of wet brown peat from the swamp A half mile away. Over there several dozen muckers are digging a highway through the park swamp.

They squirm ankle deep in the spongy stuff and heave it into trucks shovel by shovel for eight hours every day. A tree nursery occupies part of the camp's time and clearing fields takes still another crew's attention. In addition to maintaining order in the barracks, a fre-guard is on duty 24 hours a day. Fire drills are executed once a week. A library must be kept in order and an infirmary prepared for the multitude of emergencies attendant on outdoor work.

Records, are kept in the camp administrative offices by another detail of the youths enrolled. Another crew is bent over drawing boards plotting out the park. Indian Instructor The camp administrative offices from which Project Superintendent Owen C. Hoban of Penn Yan directa the work were designed by Sigmund Berlineki of Buffale, He fashioned desks, chairs and cablnets from white pine, applied a blow torch and grained it, and added polish that approaches mahogany. Eugene Reuben, 19-yearold Seneca Indian from Akron reservation, is instructor in atonemasonry in addition to performing camp sign painter.

A half dozen others combine.talents to publich a weekly newspaper which they run off a mimeograph machine. Four nights of the week are given to An educational program. Students choose their own curriculum in this school and subjects may inelude anything from typesetting to automotive repair or English to leather craft or chip carving to stage craft and social usages. of the 195 boys in camp 14 are high school graduates. From behind his desk in the Army building Capt.

Jacob Frank of the United States Army directs the education schedule. On his staff are Lieut. Harold L. Brant, camp adjutant, and Lieut. Elwood Neener, mess officer.

Bar to Discuss Problems Feb. 4 An old fashioned "bull session" la planned by Rochester Bar Association for members at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 4, in Powers Hotel. Members were notifled yesterday by Charles W. Green, secretary, that there will be no guest speaker at the dinner "as it has been considered desirable to devote the entire meeting to a discussion of our own problems." Among the questions to be considered is "what constitutes the practice of law?" The legislative committee will report, as will other groups, including delegates who attended the state bar convention in New York.

General discussion will center on proposals to' eliminate jury trials in courts of record in Monroe County, unless demanded by litigants, and the proposition of permitting women to serve on juries, a topic that in the past hes provoked spirited debate at bar conclaves. High in Treesor Deepin Mud, CCC Life Has Little Idleness Whether high in windblown muddy excavations, youths CCC camp are finding plenty in winter time. But their Volunteer Chiefs To Confer Today Forty fire chiefs of Lake Shore Volunteer Fire Association will meet this afternoon in Point Pleasant firehouse to formulate plans for the coming convention. The meeting will be under dircetion of Henry Fleig, president. The association includes companies extending along Lake Ontario from Hilton to Red Creek.

The meeting will start at 2:30 o'clock. Motion pictures will be shown and refreshments served. STUDY CLUB TO MEET DeMolay Study Club, of the Rochester Chapter of DeMolay, will meet tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. in Masonic Temple.

Rochester Business, Civic Leaders Unite in Voicing Demand for Parellel Street Plan foresight and little else, The this whole longer our paral- for streets pro- 20 sect. ject is postponed Delay is the more the dangerous residential tax- costly." payer will have Henry H. to pay." bins: "It Augustus argued that Mertz: "The city cannot time is at hand ford this when A little provement serious thinking this time, In and prompt ac- opinion it tion on the sub- not afford ject of parallel WALTER L. postpone Roland 0. Roberts: "I how many Rochesterians that we have been temporizing, WALTER L.

Warren S. Parks: "Was ever a better time to begin elimination of a condition contributes the largest single tor to declining property retail business, assessments and declining in uncollected and unlevied taxes?" TODD longer." Daniel N. Calkins: "We have but to consider our own individual exin getting into and out Rochester's congested downtown area, to realize the urgent need for continuous east and west thoroughfares paralleling Main Street." Donald S. Barrows: "Our early settlers a can be excused for not visualizing the city of today, but no excuse can be found for those who ignore the present opportunity to correct the mistakes of the past." Frank S. Gottry: "Lack of continuous thoroughfares paralleling downtown Main Street' increases the cost of trucking operations at least 25 per cent.

Something must be done, and quickly, to alleviate the terrible congestion and inaccessibility of our downtown seation." John B. Howe: "No one publie improvement means so much to the welfare of the community as whole, as the construction of these streets Cost of anything will always frighten those indifferent to the city's welfare." Idleness FUN NIGHT SET AT 'Y TUESDAY Central YMCA will conduct its annual "fun night" under auspices of the physical department coinmittee and the Athletic Council Tuesday beginning at 7:30 p. m. The program will begin with a volleyball match between Arnett and Central a basketball game between JYMA and Central wrestling, fencing, tumbling and weight-lifting will follow. Dancing will start at 10 o'clock in the assembly hall.

The evening will end with co-ed swimming and refreshments. The public has been invited. The following are in charge: Clarence E. Curtice, general chairman; Frederick J. Weismiller, secretary; athletic program committee, Dale Brush, chairman; Harry Reynolds, Kenneth Connelly, Joseph Ortolani, Howard Baker and Michael Bulavintz; dance, Ted England, chairman Fred Swanton, Fred Diehl, Robert Kunow and Harold Newman; bridge, Martin O'Dea, chairman, Harold Carlton and Adrian Hull; refreshments, Ralph Curtice, chairman, Oliver Harold Banter Lewis and Schoerner.

GROUP PLANS DISCUSSION Discussion of "The Church--the to a New World," will Pathway. place of the service this evening at 7:30 o'clock at Bethany Presbyterian Church. Those participating will be Miss Dorothy Vogel, Duane Miles, Ralph Happ, Raymond Gardner, Miss Fanny Collins, Kenneth Callaghan and the minister, the Rev. Arthur Talman. The Young People's Quartet will sing.

PAST MATRONS ELECT Past matrons of Charlotte Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, conducted their annual election and banquet Jan. 17 at the home of Mrs. Phoebe Griffing. The new officers are: President, Mildred Leake: vicepresident, Alice Ritz, and secretary and treasurer, Cassie Wyant. Arthur H.

Ingle: "It is the only project of major importance that has been advanced in many years that would pay for itself." John P. Boylan: "The Rochester Telephone Corporation is withholding its decision in the matter of erecting a central office building pending a decision as to whether Broad Street will be extended east of South Avenue. The cost of the building will approximate 250,000." H. Wilbur Graves: "Consummation at once of the parallel streets program is the only way ot check declining values in the business district. It is the most important economic measure ever put before the citizens of Rochester." SOL Walter L.

HEUMANN Todd: "Rochester is at the crossroads and must now grasp a rare opportunity for betterment or be reconciled to continued sion in the central business district." Benjamin Forman: "Downtown Rochester needs the help and the modernizing of these new streets. All of Rochester will benefit. A whole community prospers or fails to prosper in proportion to the health of ite downtown district." Thomas A. Sharp: In view of our intolerable traffic congestion and unsatisfactory business conditions, I believe Rochester needs the parallel streets more than it needs any other suggested public improvement." Elmer Roblin: "It will be nothing short of stupidity if our community fails to promptly provide additional street capacity at a time when this improvement can be accomplished at minimum cost." Samuel W. Guggenheim: "Rochester hesitates to pay for parallel streets, but we are paying, and paying dearly, for not having MEDINA FORCE HUNTS LEAK IN WATER MAINS Supply Cut Down While Workers Seek Break Medina- Dispatch) -A dozen water department work men today were scheduled to continue a hide and seek game with a water leak in West Center Street near Ann Street that for 36 hours has depleted the water supply of every house in that residential section.

The break came at. 8 p. m. Friday night. Water Department Superintendent George Haingry and Trustee Tunis Barhite, head of the water committee, sent a force seeking the leak.

The men worked all night Friday, after trenching curb snow along West Center Street so the thoroughfare would not be flooded, but ice several inches thick formed. Streets effected include West Center, Pearl, Eagle, Park Avenue and north, south thoroughfares north of the New York Central tracks. Most of the houses in these blocks had but little pressure all day Saturday for the water was not entirely shut off. It was turned back on last night, to supply homes for the night. A large section of West Center Street pavement was removed near the spot where water seeped through.

The water line that burst was the main line supplying all homes in Western part of the village, Barhite said. Damage to the West Center Street pavement is expected to be severe if cold weather continues and the water freezes underneath. Barhite and Haingry had been on the job almost 24 hours without sleep when department forces gave up the search Saturday night planning to return to work early today, Leader in Church Marks 19th Year Seneca Falls -(Special Dispatch) -Raymond A. Canfield this week will begin his 19 year as superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday School. Associated with Mrs.

Canfield in the conduct of the Methodist Church School, the coming year are: Assietant superintendent, Loren J. Strong; secretary, E. L. Evans; assistant secretary, Miss Elaine Balsley; treasurer, W. C.

pianist, Miss Mary Pratt; assistant pianist, Miss Doris Clark. Superintendent of missionary department, A. H. Shrimpton; missionary department treasurer, Mrs. John T.

Youngs; temperance department superintendent, Mrs. Sarah Sanderson; home department, Mrs. Sanderson; primary department, Mrs. Samuel McCheyne, assistant, Mrs. Edith Balsley; pianist, Mrs.

Pierson Goodwin. Social Justice Unit To Meet in Geneva Geneva--An organization meeting of Geneva Social Justice Unit will take place at 2:30 p. m. today In Victor Emanuel Hall. Two local groups will unite and there will be speakers from Rochester.

Anthony Constable has been active in arranging the meeting. James H. Slocum: "If the present city administration would look ahead to the tremendous good it would be doing the city A3 3 whole, it would start on this street plan at once." Emmett V. Norton: "Adoption by the city of the Bartholomew Major Street Plan seems to have been another case of paying the doctor and tearing up the prescription." Raymond J. Fowler: "We sit and dream and talk about parallel streets that already should be resounding to the clatter of pick and shovel, the bustling activity of many willing hands that need the work, and the purposeful planning of fine new business structures." Sol Heumann: "Valuable time, energy and money are being wasted in deferring the progress of this much needed project.

Parallel streets are our most needed public improvement." George H. Trentman: "What are we heading for if we continue this shortsighted policy of public works- -the erection of magnificent public buildings, bridges, schools and other useful and ornamental structures -in the midst of traffic turmoil and inadequate street layouts that constitute a public disgrace?" Stephen Hurley: "Rochester produces more railway express traffic per capita than any other city in the United States, but it also produces greater obstacles to efficient, prompt and economical ling of that traffic in its business district than almost any other city in the country." William Pidgeon: "Rocheeter is one of the few progressive, grownup cities in America persists in wearing the 'street clothes' of a little boy, Many of our so-called main business thoroughfares are not even good alleys." William H. Stackel: "Judged by any reasonable standards the parallel streets project would not be an expense, but a wise investment. It 1s the most necessary of all public improvements that have been projected." FUNERAL RITES CONDUCTED FOR VICTIM OF CAR Miss Cora Johnson Services Held In Church A a of Requiem Mass for Miss Cora Johnson, Community Chest cashier and third traffic victim of the year, was celebrated in Immaculate Conception Church yesterday morning. Miss Johnson, who was 28, died in General Hospital (Jan.

21, 1936) following injuries incurred when felled by an automobile after she had alighted from a street car in Dewey Avenue. Services were in the home, Menio Place, and Mass was celebrated at 9 o'clock in the church. The Rev. Frederick C. Wise officiated and the Rev.

Eugene Golden was in the sanctuary. 1 Interment WA3 in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, the Rev. Cornelius Silke officiating. Bearers were: James Scheffel, Harold Cane, Edwin Brown, James Martin, George Roger and Joseph Schlick. Miss Johnson is survived by her mother, Mrs.

Margaret Johnson, and several aunts and uncles. Church Organist Rites To be Held Tuesday ACTOR MERGER SEEN WPA AIM Merging theatrical talent in Rochester and Syracuse to form one WPA company WAR in prospect last night. George M. Gatts, regional director for the dramatic project, indicated such a union in a written report received yesterday by Robert. G.

Hoffman, district director, Lack of experienced talent on relief here was advanced as the reason, Hoffman said. Gatts did not report any definite recommendation confining his report of the number of interviews he conducted during two visits to Rochester, and a general description of the caliber of talent he uncovered. He will return Wednesday, it was expected. The coalition idea is not new with Gatta, although the form it takes it was pointed out. On his first visit here the regional vanced the scheme of interchanging plays and companies in Rochester and Syracuse it both cities could support individual units.

Inclusion of traveling and ance. expenses for performers makes the plan possible, he said. Just how many Rochester formers acceptable to WPA he found was not included in the letter, according to Hoffman. Gatts did comment on the large amount of vaudeville talent available and he is expected to recommend to persons in charge of the WPA vaudeville project to scout possibilities here. Registration of performers, preferably those with dramatic experience, will continue at WPA headquarters, Edwin Niner, registrar, announced.

His office is open from 1 to 5 p. m. daily except Saturday. Widely diversified, independent. thinking has brought a surge of public opinion in favor of parallel streets outside of organized bodies, the Civic Improvement Committee of the Chamber of Commerce declared yesterday.

Summarized, the views of leading Rochester business and taxpayer interests, follow: Edmund M. Alling: "It is a major disaster that is upon us, and we are paying dearly HENRY NOVES for our lack of streets will accomplish miracles in the light of what we have to contend with after years of procrastination and political dilly-dallying." Henry T. Noyes: "It is high time the city put first things first! Let's act now to save what remains of downtown values and stop the threatened additional burden that must otherwise be placed on homeowners and industry." Elmer E. Fairchild: "Why must citizens and taxpayers get down on their knees and beg for these improvement and, falling in this, nag and threaten and plead and petition for something we all supposed was settled once and for all six years ago?" Miss Frances A. Baker: "Do our citizens know that a plan for these streets was prepared at great cost to the taxpayers, was finally adopted and made of our city's official business- now lies part, pigeonholed somewhere in City Hall?" Frank W.

Lovejoy: "Residents in all parts of the city will derive benefit from the project." Second Reformed Church, Scio and Lyndhurst Streets, will be the scene Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. of funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth DeVisser Redman, 51, who for 20 years was organist and choir director at that church. Burial will be in Mt.

Hope Cemetery, Mrs. Redmond died Friday (Jan. 24, 1936) at her home, 370 Magee Avenue. She was born in the 1 10th Ward and was A member the Daughters of the Nile, Bethany White Shrine and Ruth Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. She WAR a member of the Second Reformed Church and its minister, the Rev.

Martin A. Punt, will officiate at the funeral, assisted by the Rev. J. W. A.

Stewart, former minister of the church. Mrs. Redmond is survived by her husband. Charles J. Redmond; A.

sister, Mrs. Susanne D. East; four brothers, James John Raymond F. and Clarence E. DeVisser of Rochester, and several nieces and nephews.

Miss Bridget Power Funeral Tuesday treetops or in reward seems at the Hamlin the lower picture, of work even James DiLella, dinner table Morgandi are Week Day Church Teaching Stressed Weekday religious school education must more closely ally itselt with public schools if it is to survive, Dr. Paul Eddy told of New York City told weekday religious teachers at their conference in Central YMCA yesterday. A luncheon followed the conference, after which Doctor Eddy led A discussion on the administration of weekday schools. Dr. Irving T.

Clark, president of the Central Council of Week Day Religious Education. presided. OPTIMISTS TO INSTALL Officers wil Ibe installed and annual reports of committees presented at the meeting of the Optimist Club Tuesday in the Hotel Rochester. James E. Kittrell: "The streets project is basic and be placed ahead of all other diate needs in city planning.

much stress is being placed the cost, and far too little is being focused upon the fits." George W. Wyman: "Must give up all hope of applying adequate remedy because ample from indications in where Hugo DiAconto, George Fareio and John preparing a meal for midday. Base Hospital 19 Veterans Banquet Veterans who served during the World War at Base Hospital No. 19 held their annual reunion banquet in the Spanish Room of Powers Hotel last night. Following the dinner, Col.

John M. Swan addressed the group, and members presented a picture of the lighter side of the war by recounting war-time anecdotes and experiences, Officers elected for this year are: President, Tony Buonomo; vicepresident, Jay Whittaker; secretary W. J. Ryan; treasurer, Fred parallel William M. Friedrich "If we should are to provide definite, permanent stimulus for business instead of a immetemporary hypodermic, we must Too get private dollars back to work.

upon Construction of parallel streets will attention stimulate and sustain private enbene- terprise new construction." H. H. Sullivan: "These parallel we streets have been considered necesan sary for many years past. At pressome- ent, while cost of land is low and city finances in such excellent shouts: 'But shape, there is no where 18 the cannot be put money for all through esthis coming pecially since the project not M. only will earn George Clancy: "Cer- its own way, tainly our down- pay divi.

town congestion dends." induce- B. Emmet FiIS 110 in- nucane: ment to an dustry or busi- building trades ness considering industry, in location which lies our in this city, If most important GILBERT J. GILBERT J. MC CURDY Rochester is to hold its own, much less expand. construction of these parallei streets is imperative." Gilbert J.

MeCurdy: "Property in the business district will continue to decline in value as long as Rochester persists in being 8 one street city, attempting to do a profitable business with a wholly inadequate street structure." M. Herbert Eisenhart: "We strongly advocate that as and when money is to be spent, the parallel streets be the initial George G. Batterson: "It has always seemed to me that an adequate street system was a city's first obligation to all of its inhabitants." Ernest R. Houghton: "Unless a solution to the problem is undertaken without further delay this public menace to Rochester and all of its citizens will shortly resolve itself into a city- wide calamity." George Dietrich: "There 19 no one thing that Rochester needs so imperatively and which will contribute so much to the stabilization of our business and economio life as these parallel streeta" Funeral services for Miss Bridget Power, 89, who died Friday (Jan. 24, 1936), will be conducted at 9 A.

m. Tuesday in Blessed Sacrament Church, after a prayer service at the home of Mrs. E. M. 64 Frost Avenue.

Miss Power, formerly 8 well known dress maker. was born in Cork, Ireland, Apr. 4, 1846, and came with her parents to the United States in 1849. The family lived first in Boston, and then came to Corning, where Miss Power taught school. At the age oL 25 she came to Rochester and since then has lived here.

She leaves several nieces and nephews. Burial will be in Holy Sepulcher Cemetery. Crittenden Named Valley Trust Head there the which facvalues, declining revenue city wonder realize and with submore years. both and Stebis the af1m- a my canto it W. Dewey Crittenden was elected chairman of the board of directors of Genesee Valley Trust Company at.

a meeting of bank officials Thursday, 1 it was announced yesterday. He succeeds William B. Hale. Crittenden is president and treasurer of F. C.

Crittenden Company and chairman of the board of directors of Brewster, Crittenden Company. All other officers of the institution were reelected. They are: President, Alexander T. Simpson; dent, Frank S. executive.

vicepresivicepresi- dent and associate trust officer, John Day; vicepresidents, George Varcoe, John W. Jardine. Stuart C. Dew; assistant vicepresident, William W. Steele; treasurer.

Howard W. Matthews; trust, officer, Joseph P. Collins; secretary, T. Chester Meisch; AKsistant secretary, Norbert D. Greene; assistant trust officer, Robert C.

Tait. reason why they against a stone SAMUEL T. wall and need NIVLING look forward to nothing better than some suburban residential building until this problem is solved." to its essence, the parallel streets Samuel T. Nivling: "Boiled down problem is a simple matter of arithmetic. Stripped of selfishness and procrastination, it can and will be undertaken, as one of the best investments Rochester ever made." Frank J.

Smith: "These two new thoroughfares would re-establish and rehabilitate many of the old lateral retail streete which have been all but abandoned for retail business because of their inaccessibility." James V. Carroll: "Rochester is a one-street town, with definitely limited commercial possibilities. Give our city these two parallel streets and you will see a definite and almost Immediate change." Albert A. Hopeman: "I believe the parallel streets plan, if undertaken without further delay, would greatly Increase building activity, halt much of the demolition, and definitely increase amount of taxable business property." Meeting Slated By OES Chapter 11 employment problem, is up Rochester Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, will meet next Saturday evening in Room Masonie Temple. Matron Mabel Langenberger will preside.

The Mabel Langenberger Officers Club was organized recently at a meeting at the home of the matron, with these officers: President, Mabel Langenberger; vicepresident, Ether Adam; secretary, Elizabeth Parks; treasurer, Kittie Roer; chaplain, Sadie Wagner; press correspondent, Adelaide Etta, Meetings will be conducted the fourth Tuesday of each month. Members Rochester Chapter will meet Wednesday at the home of Louise Proctor, 641 Flower City Park, for A tureen lunch and to sew for the chapter. Bath Church Class Will Present Play Bath- The Gleaners Class of the Bath Baptist Church under direction of Blanche Harris of the American Education Company will present a Biblical play, "The First Commandment," at the Bath municipal hall Tuesday and Wednesday night, More than 80 are in the cast. PUPILS TO GIVE RECITAL Piano pupils of Ira Shirk will give a recital at 8:15 p. m.

next Thursday in Hart's Hall, 29 Broad Street,.