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(CWtddt ROCHESTER, N. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1955 13 University to Use Prince St. Campus For Eastman School The Eastman School of Music will take over a large part of the Prince Street Campus and thereby acquire Legislature to Get Thruway Feeder Bill residence and social facilities. unsurpassed by any other music school in the world when the Women's College of A bill fixing the route of the western Thruway "feeder" went to Albany yesterday. Prepared by county legal ad-, the University of Rochester is moved to the River Campus next fall.

1 The UR Board of Trustees has LLesl." P' Slade and Charles viser Joseph B. Boyle, the bill connection with the Inner Loop. Rumrill. It is tentatively proposed that the roadway would follow the west bank of the Genesee River along what is now a Pennsylvania Rail Other Buildings was given to Sen. Frank E.

Van Lare and Assemblyman Paul B. Hanks Jr. for introduction in the Legislature this week. The route outlined in the bill transferred Cutler Union, the stately student social center with its lofty Gothic tower at University Avenue and Goodman Street The Prince Street campus build- road roadbed. is the one favored by city and North, and Munro Hall, a large jngs which the University plans Georgian colonial dormitory in t0 dispose of include the main Prinr.

sfrwt. tn the Eastman academic buildings near College (The Pennsylvania has not indicated intention of abandoning county officials. It differs matcri us little-used itocnester line dui Avenue; Sibley Hall, women's li ally from the route drawn by the State Department of Public Works for the Rochester urban area local plans for the Thruway con nection arc based on a belief the roadbed will be available in the not-distant future). The State DPW's original con ception provided that the Thru School, which is one of the university's five major divisions. Together with the women music students' dormitories in University Avenue, these will give the Eastman School a spacious campus that will become the center of its undergraduate life.

Memorial Art Gallery, also brary, built in 1874; Anderson Hall, the original classroom building, erected in 1861; Kenrick Hall, a small dormitory; Reynolds Chemistry Laboratory, built in 1887; Carnegie Hall near Goodman Street North, originally an engineering and classroom build way would take a route north of ing remodeled 10 years ago as i the Airport, following Chili Avenue to Chili Avenue's intersection of Genesee Park Boulevard. The state has estimated the total cost of the 11.74 miles of owned by the University, will re-dormit and Eastma Labora. tion to make the Prince Street, Others are the Administration I -in 1 i i Thruway connection between Union Street, Chili, and the city line would be $12,565,673. arterial route plan, announced in 1947. However, the itate agency has expressed tentative agreement in the city-county route, according to city officials.

As outlined in the bill, the Thruway feeder or connection with the city arterial highway system would take off from the Thruway at the Union Street crossing in Chili, south of Church-ville village and northwest of Scottsville. Thence, the route would run northeasterly to a point near Paul Road and from there to a point in the westerly city line. It would meet Scottsville Road south of the airport, between Weidner and Paul Roads. The bill does not attempt to fix the route of the connection from the westerly city line to downtown and its transferred to Eastman School of Music for students' use. Memorial Art Gallery, left, also stays in University hands.

MUSIC CENTER Picture shows Cutler Union on Prince Street Campus of University of Rochester which has been campus the focus of fine arts office flt prince Catharina actlvUies' Strong Hall and Anthony Gymna- In all, the Eastman School siunii originai nome 0f the and Art Gallery will occupy u-nmpn's cMpbo at llnivprsifv Assemblyman Thomas F. Riley more than half of the campus will take another county-city bill to Albany for introduction this week. It is of technical character, Boyle said, and makes certain provisions governing the bonding bounded by University Avenue, Prince Street, College Avenue and Goodman Street North. The university also plans to retain of firms employed in Civic Cen ter work. The city's legal depart ment requested the bill, Boyle said.

and Prince, three former residences converted into dormitories at 35 Strathallan 493 University Ave. and 21 Prince a garage and storage building near College Avenue, and a small observatory. Sorrowful Story Screens $70 Thefi It was a long, sad story that a patron poured into the ear of counterman Oscar Barnes in a restaurant at 177 Joseph Ave. early yesterday. The story had sadder implications for tha counterman, police said.

While Barnes was engaged in the conversation another man By BILL BEENEY ifmh mat-owner the Faculty Club adjacent to the gallery, and the historic Scelye House at University and Prince, once the home of UR presidents and for the past 20 years a cooperative dormitory. Area Interests No decisions have yet been made on the disposition of the other Prince Street cdmpus buildings, according to Raymond L. Thompson, senior vice president and treasurer. He emphasized that the University would permit no use of any property Ill, ry-'V tt) c1 a ktnLi 0 a to a 11 If fi vi j.im'fiii'niiwiTBiiwjuj I pi 1 -pi that would be detrimental to the reached across the counter, use of the campus by the Eastman School and Memorial Art opened the cash register and extracted $70, Barnes told police. Both men disappeared before Gallery, or to the interests of the University's neighbors in the police could be called.

Prince Street University Avenue Strathallan Park Goodman Street area. Thief Smashes Door, An advisory committee is work Loots Grill Although a passerby spotted a ing with Thompson and Hulbert W. Tripp, UR vice president for investments, on plans for sale of Campus absorbs women students in fall. Music school's acquisition will give its students outstanding facilities. the buildings for which the uni NEW EASTMAN DORM Munro Hall, now women's dormitory, will serve.

Eastman students after River versity will have no further use man smashing the front door of Brown's Grill, 34 Fitzhugh St. shortly after 4 a.m. yesterday, the burglar rifled the cigarette machine and departed with $4 cash and several of cig when the Women's College and Level of Ontario SERVING ABOARD MC GINTY Serving aboard the USS Mc-Ginty in the Far East is Richard Railroad Cop Shook University School of Liberal and Applied Studies are merged with the Men's College at the River Campus. Its chairman is Frederick Finu-cane, and its members include L. Chnstensen, quartermaster Continues to Rise second class.

He is the son of Dice Player Has a Point: Gambling Does Not Pay LJIS name isn't Max, but we'll call him that. He's what you might consider an elder statesman among the members of the city's gambling fraternity, and he was in a reminiscent mood. "You won't believe this one," he said, "but I guarantee it really happened. Listen: "THIS is maybe 25 or 30 years ago and I am sitting with Little Harry (that's not his right name, but it will do) in a restaurant on Main Street one night. We are both broke.

Between us we couldn't come up with enough to buy a morning paper. "Now there is a gambling room in operation in Cortland Street at that time where a guy can have a go at the dice tables if he is so inclined. Also if he has got the necessary trump to open with. But Little Harry and I can't make a move because we are itoney. "So all of a sudden who comes into the restaurant but a guy we know who works at the Old Lyceum and who frequents the dice game often.

Little Harry says to me: 'Maybe I can promote this guy for a couple of bucks for a stake in the I say: 'Better than that, I will tell this guy that you are a dice manipulator and can cheat the game back there, then maybe he will think more kindly of your "That is what I do. I say to the guy: 'How much money have you 'Why do you he says, as he is a sort of cautious character when it comes to such matter. 'Because Little Harry here can cheat the dice game in Cortland 'I've got 14 the guy admits, having a little larceny in his heart. And he agrees to contribute it to the cause, although, truth to tell, Little Harry can't any more cheat a crap game than I can read Sanskrit. "Anyway, the three of us go to the game, and Little Harry picks his spot next to the man who has the dice at the moment, so he gets them next.

He lays the 14 dollars on the line and throws a seven. He lets it ride and throws another seven. He gets fantastically lucky. It is just one of those things. The chips pile up in front of him in rapid fashion, because Little Harry is a very good arettes before the passerby's alarm was received by police.

A black-haired man of stocky build who wore a light tan gabardine topcoat was being sought. Mr. and Mrs. Casper A. Christen- Youth AHzr Burglary sen of 505 University Ave.

'Warren W. Allen, Allen C. Stam continued month by Lake Ontario steady rise last A vnnth with a hnllpt in his lpft arm wjic arrpctprl at it. J.nlk 4hn innliu home earJy yesterday- an hour after a Baltimore by the U.S. Corps of Engineers 0nio railroad policeman had flushed a burglar and then fired at his fleeing figure as 246.87, more than a foot high' Apprehension of John Paul! When he saw the man-smash a Karnes.

19. of 13 King St. window, McCauslin said, he er than the level of January, 1954. Tho rico urae iwirp as mnrh is'Dotimon Psinh nor, ran to tne iront aoor oi tne Hurry. Hurry.

Hurry! the Engineers lake survey had Louis Bertino climaxed a P.eer in see. predicted. Tms montn tne level wide search for a burglar who kent runnine from an auto Darts Gun drawn, the railroad police' is expected to go to 247 feet. The all-time high level was set in June, isoa, wnen tne lane store in King Street after he man demanded that the burglar apparently had been shot by Ed- come out the front door. Inward McCauslin, the railroad no- stead, McCauslin said, the man liceman.

dashed to the side window, Roeers and Bertino. acting on. climbed into the alley and began flooded homes and ruined shore It Starts This Morning! lines with a level of 249.29 feet. The lake in January, 1952, was some five inches higher than it a hunch inspired, by McCauslin's running toward the tracks. was last month.

description of the burglar, found After shouting a warning, Mc- In February, 1952, the season Karnes, his arm in a sling, in thejCauslin said, he fired one shot kitchen of his home. The city at the running figure 70 feet of all-time high water, the lake Doors Open at level averaged 247.67 feet, com pared to the predicted 247 feet policeman had remembered serv-away. The railroad policeman's ing a traffic warrant on Karnes target did not stop, however, and last November and went to was lost in the darkness between Karnes home, they said, because freight cars in the yards. this month. bettor, especially when the dice are rolling his way.

And as the pile of chips grows, I keep nudging the guy from the Lyceum and saying, 'See, just lilr I told Harry finally quits with $6,000. McFAHlILM'S fj. i fitted the description of the Patrolmen Rogers and Bertino ity Ke DOriS nlKeburght given by McCauslin. jtook the youth to General Hos-t CL i 'J the guy voure looking pital after arresting him. De l7 bdit Jlldkl nQ! or" Rogers and Bertino quoted tective Sgt.

Daniel J. Sharpe said i fnn II I Karnes as saying- He got the Karnes, father of a three-months-75 000 I OnS lSCO bullet wound wnile running down old baby, admitted breaking into an alley next to the New Deal the auto parts store. The city has spread more than Auto Parts store at 53 King Stanley Rodgin, who owns the 15,000 tons $147,750 worth of not far from his home, police auto parts business and lives over salt on city streets already this said. jthe store, said $50 had been winter, Frank Vicaretti, DPWI McCauslin said that while taken from the cash register. Greater-than-ever superintendent in cnarge oi me cnecKing tne ireignt yards Alter a surgeon removed a street-salting program, said yes- in the rear of 155 Main St.

W. atjbullet from his arm, Karnes was terday. 1:40 a. m. he spotted a man kept at the hospital under police That is only 1,231 tons less ing the doors at the auto partslguard on charges of third degree than the 16,625 tons used in all store next to the tracks.

(burglary and petit larceny. CD oilaliimii ot 195J-54 season, he added, this season bids fair to top all others in the amount of salt used, Vicar etti forecast, partly because of the continued cold weather of cash money. "The guy who stakes him gives him half. I don't get any of the $6,000 but that does not bother me, because Little Harry pays me $1,000 which he owes me for some time. We go back to the restaurant.

By this time there are a lot of other guys-in the restaurant, and Little Harry notices that most of them are ones he owes money to. He pays them off $200 here, $300 there, $500 to another guy. The fellow from the Lyceum goes home with his three grand, very happy indeed. "AFTER Little Harry gets through squaring himself with everyone, he counts the dough he has left in his kick and says, 'I think I will go back and press my He does. And his luck is still unbelievable.

He is confident now, and he bets that way. He wins $25,000. That's right, I told you you wouldn't believe this story. "Now, hear this. He comes back to the restaurant and has a cup of coffee and talks for a little while and then he says, 'I am going back for one last It is about 5:30 in the morning by this time.

So he goes back and I wait for him in the restaurant. He returns in a little while. He is not so happy looking. "He says to me: 'You still got that thou and I paid you, I say, 'Let me have it he says. And I hand it to him.

He goes back and blows that too. "And that's the way it ends. I say to Little Harry, 'Well, it wasn't such a good night, was He looks at me and says: 'Well, it wasn't so bad at least I paid off a lot of those guys in the Words on Truck's Side Lead To Arrest on Hit-Run Count January and early February and partly because more streets are being salted this year than last Although the amount of salt The words "heatine truck" a him $100 and suspended sentence used is up tne price this winter th side a 10 day term in Monroe is down. The delivered price of w'1 "CM cu. Icountv Penitentiary.

Peterson1 the salt this year is $9.85 a ton a hit-ana-run picKup irucK werei tQ fjne j.i sufficient clue to lead a sheriff njght, however, and went to the' against the $11.22 a ton price of last year. The salt comes from the International Salt Co. stocks to stay until he penitentiary deputy and Birghton police to a driver whom they arrested on a charge of leaving an accident. at Retsof. The lower delivered pays it.

Fitch said Peterson's truck struck a car operated by Ernest Selvaggio, 44, of 359 Troup St. price this year resulted rom competitive bids received on salt! The charge was placed against deliveries by the city for the first rww vm of 1211 Vim. lime. about 9:30 p.m. yesterday ati West Henrietta and roads.

I I Crittenden Brighton, by Pa- 1 f'l ni trolman Richard u. iilcn. After the accident the truck 1 1 uiy rupn naces Peterson pleaded guilty when i arraigned before Brighton Peace was seen to head off on in LegiOn OH teSt Justice Bruce Percy, who fined.dcn Road. Deputy Kenneth i KphinrfW uhr romomhorfld hav. Schindlcr, who remembered hav- Ladder Burglar Ransacks Office Fifteen-year-old Sheila Mulroy, Social Workers To Hear Expert On Mind Health Burglars Loot Home in Sweden ing sen a truck of the general description on Crittendon Road in the past, checked houses until he found Peterson's in his yard, damased.

He called for Apparently bringing a ladder with him. an intriirier hrnV intn "Community Mental neaun.tne secon(j fioor 0ffjce 0f the Service Laws and Its Meaning United Jewish Welfare Fund at While the householder and his Fitch and other Brighton police, a junior at Our Lady of Mercy High School, yesterday won second place in the 7th District American Legion oratorical contest at, Geneva Central School. Sheila, 15, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard E.

Mulroy of 185 Genesee Park spoke on "The America We Live For." She and Conrad Gill of Penn Yan, For You" will be the topic of who made the arrest family-were in Rochester attending a funeral, a home in Sweden Rochester's Oldest and Most Famous Sale in Men's and Boys' Wear! This February, the Most Impressive Oddment Bargains Ever Offered! Come and See for Yourself! Hargaiias Galore! Save to Vi ami more Selvaggio suffered a cut lip and shoulder injury in the crash. He was treated by his own doctor. -4 ransacked Saturday after- was 129 East Ave. and ransacked the place, according to report made to police yesterday. Elmer Lewis of 29 Calumet office manager, said that although the office was ransacked, nothing appeared to have Luther E.

Woodward of the New York State Department of Mental Hygine at 6:30 p.m. today in Brick Church Institute. He will speak before the Social Workers Club of Rochester noon by burglars who apparently who won yesterday's contest, Willi ignored raore than they compete again March 6 at Albion I. iwanis to Hear and the mental health commit Central School. Winners there, 'been taken.

Entry was through Director of Parole will enter the state finals in New "omagnoio, urocKport- of iee oi me xieanii ssn. ui a rear window at the rear ester and Monroe County. Jthe building on Swan Street. of director of the rooms ol his house had been York City March 18. WINS CERTIFICATE Edward J.

Kovas, Bausch Lomb Optical is one of 66 Rochester. Division of Parole, at Trained in psychiatric social work and education, Woodward was a social worker for the New York City Board of Education HOME BUILDERS MEET The Rochester Home Builders Assn. will hold its February bureau of child guidance from; meeting at 6:30 p.m. today at torn apart. The only money missing was $2.

The burglars also found and smashed a piggy bank owned by one of Romagnolo's sons, but they left behind the more than $2 in coins it a meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Brighton tomorrow at 12:15 p.m. in Howard Johnson's Rest- aurant. Haines is a graduate of Cornell and attended Syracuse University. He is a former foot-1 1 ball player. i.

ventilation experts awarded certificates at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute upon completion of a three-day industrial ventilation institute. 1932 to 1943. Then he spent six Lorenzo Restaurant, 55 Chest-years as a field consultant to the nut St. William Hill, executive National Assn. for a 1 secretary of the association, is in Health.

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