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can Legion and Veteran of Foreign ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE Wari offices. Construction Boom in Monroe Hits Record Pace; Wednesday, January 7, 1953 DiPASQUALE City Institutions Urge Educational TV Station Here Incinerators Plans for two new city incinerators ire expected from a Buffalo engineering firm in a matter of days. However, construction won't begin until the City Planning Commission has found Public Projects Alone Total 90 Million for Year SHOES FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY i 'Buy Where They Are Made' The public building boom in Monroe County is expected to a bridge over Honcoye Creek on opened by the city Jan. 13. Archi-hit its hich this year lhe East Rivcr Rd- near West Rusn Lco WailSliorP A survey bv The Democrat and Chronicle shows that about elZ 'h, ThZTX 'fmthcr'de' crr nr nnn r- i road is scheduled to be done this The city hopes to avert tuitncr ue- $90,000,000 of construction projects financed by taxes or public vear by sUIe at a cost of and begin actual construction donations are either scheduled to be completed or get under way ooo.

this Spring. The Rroad-Exchange- and received approval for a sile on the east side of the city. The western site has already been chosen at Fiume and Colfax Sts. near the New York Central Railroad on city-owned land. Engineers estimate the two incinerators will take 9 months to build, cost a total of TAKE YOUR TIME TO PAY the Di PASOUALE WAYI this vear in Monroe Countv.

I Kast Hieh School Ten sites arc Court Sts. site has been cleared cx- Fifteen Rochester institutions yesterday went before a state commission to justify demands for a state-financed educational television station here with a $150,000 anunal operating budget to air, first 12, later 20 hours' live programs a week on a statewide network. Dr. Cornelis W. deKiewiet, presi Wt Also Make SHOES for Deformed Feet.

1 before the Cily Planning Commis-, cent tor the Barr and Crcclman A'' sion for a new East High School Building and the excavation is com- 313 No. Onion N.ar Public I recommended by the Board of Edu-; plete. Optn Bvtry Nithl cation. The City Council already Airport A terminal building is dent of the University of Rochester, 8St spoke for the local interests before NO DOWN PAYMENT 12 MONTHS TO PAY Budget Plan 2s ss 0 uovernor Dewey temporary Mate Commission on Educational Television at a hearing in Buffalo. Dr.

aaiut iui jmi luetic i sencau ICQ Ul re cumfneicu C.lliy IM1 of a site, though observers report it i year. Costing about 1 million, it ill cost between $800,000 to will house administration and to acquire any one operations offices in addition to mod-three sites the Board of Education em facilities for airline passengers, particularly favors. The old Uni-jlt will be located on the Brooks versity of Rochester athletic field; Ave. side of the airport. The county on Main St.

E. and the Prince St. 'also hopes to compleie a $200,000 de Kiewiet is temporary coordinator for the local schools and cul STOVE EGG THAT GOOD HARD Campus of the university have been grading and paving contract length tural institutions and led a delegation of 15 to the hearing. The commission is studying a Board of Reeents nlan for a 10-st. I NUT prominently mentioned.

ening the north-south runway. This 750.000 and increase the capacity of the present wnrnout plant from 200 tons of refuse per day to a total of 1,100 tons per day. Regional Market The Genesee Valley Regional Market Authority has an option on 22 acres in the town of Hcnrielta as a sile for a proposed growers maikct to serve a nine-county area. Construction depends on two factors but authority officials hope to begin by June on the estimated $917,000 project. If about 201) farmers indicate in advance they want space in the market (about 150 have so far), the authority will ask the State legislature for a non-interest loan to cover half of construction costs.

The site is bounded by the Fast Henrietta Jefferson and Clay Rds. and, the West Shore line of the New York Central Railroad. BraddiHk Bay A shore protection contract of $49,000 starlcd last vear is now 90 per cent complete, School 38 One of three schools 16.50 RICE. .14.75 HAmitton 1762 18.95 BUCKWHEAT 348 EXCHANGE STREET is one of the final phases of a five-jear, $4,660,000 airport reconstruction project. Police-Fire Academy Construction is expected to begin shortly on the major portion of the academy.

Located on a site between Scottsville Rdi and the Genesee River near the airport, the present contract calls for building a fire-fighting area, and a two-story building housing the Fire Bureau re Lbelmont COAL CO. where the Board of Education said construction was "imperative" by September to meet expanding enrollments. Recommended for this vear is a nine-room addition costing $650,000 including equipment. This is the first of two additions for the school on 270 Latta Rd. School 39 The second of the three schools the Board of Education wants to expand this year.

A seven-room addition costing has been recommended for the school at 145 Midland Ave. There will be a 96 per cent increase in enrollment at the school by 1957. School 42 The third school recommended by the board for expansion this year. A six-room addition has been recommended costing $250,000 at the school at 3330 Lake tion network of UHF educational stations to be operated by colleges and universities. Locations proposed are Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, Utica, Albany, Binghamton, Ithaca, Poughkeepsie, Malone and New York City.

Most of these cities have Federal Communications Commission approval for educational TV stations provided the projects get underway by June 2. Principal stumbling block has been failure of the Legislature to provide funds for the project. The commission is studying the desirability of government handling of the matter. De Kiewiet painted a glowing picture of Rochester's ability to contribute much to the proposed network with its educational resources "just as large in influence and qual pair shops, classrooms and a pistol range. 1 tie ily Council has appropriated $663,000 for the job.

Completion date is set in November for this phase of the work. Future proposals call for an auditorium and firchouse on the site. This work We Actually Deliver 1946fs to 1950's $99 DOWN Payments Low As $5 Per Week is tentatively scheduled for 1954 STEADY PROGRESS: Although it may have skipped your attention, work on the Thruway in Rochester area is moving steadily. Here's air shot of new state highway as it crosses West Henrietta Rd. It runs from left to right in the picture.

This includes city, county and.ent divided highway at Bushnel state highway programs, school con- Basin to the Fairport Rd. near Har- Brighton Town Hall Town officials hope to be doing business struction, public housing, hospitals, wood Lane. Work is expected to the War Memorial, airport facilities take two years on this $4,115,000 but the work isn't expected to he finished until June. This was authorized by the Legislature last year to protect state-owned land at Biaddock Bay, originally planned as a state park in connection with the Ontario State Parkway. Lake Onlarin Water Filtration and Pumper Station The filtration plant at the end of Dewey Ave.

is expected to be finished late this year. It is part of a $5,000,000 city project started in 1950. When completed, the new water system will add 36 million gallons per day to the present city waler system. Public Library Branch The present Goodman St. branch must be vacated by September when the city's lease expires.

Plans are now being drawn for a new branch to be '46 PLVM. and similar projects project. The work includes two 47 CHEV. $695 traffic interchanges and five bridges $445 Spc. Dlx Sedan.

It doesn't mean that 90 million will be spent in the county this year, for in most cases the projects were or underpasses. Victor Tliruvtiy Interchange It started several years ago or wi '46 CHEV. will be rebuilt this vear at a cost of continue past 1953. But that figure $550,000. The present cloverlcaf represents the total cost of all proj $545 '48 HUDSON 5695 49 PONTIAC was started four years ago at a cost of $273,708.

But state engineers say ects scheduled for some phase of Tudor construction in 1953, according to present plans and hopes of govern ment officials. the new interchange, which will require only one toll station instead of three required by the oiiginal '46 HUDSON located at Iroquois and Bay Sts. The program was given a shot in design, will save the state an esti $995 Preliminary cost figures were placed at $75,000. Officials hope to ad $495 Dlx. Sedan Clb.

Coupe Radio, Heater the arm last week with the announcement by the Defense Pro vertise for bids this month. mated $1,080,000 gross over 25 years or $530,000 net after taking out cost of constructing the replace CARS SOLD WITH A 2 DAY FREE TRIAL ment interchange. duction Administration in Washington that 1,692,000 tons of structural steel will be available in the second quarter (April-May-June) this year. ity among comparable ones in the country." As examples he cited the Hastman School of Music and the city's leading place in the fields of photography, medicine and nuclear physics. He cited studies by local educational institutions into the possibility of educational television as evidence "that we have the interest and ability" to achieve valuable goals with TV.

Program outlines, he added, were submitted in 1951 to the state by the Rochester Board of Education, University of Rochester, Rochester Institute of Technology, Memorial Art Gallery, Council of Social Agencies, Public Library. Brockport State Teachers College, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and George Eastman House. In addition to those institutions, others represented at the hearing were Allendale School, diocesan Catholic Schools, John Fisher College, Nazareth College, Geneseo State Teachers College and the Museum of Arts and Sciences. 4 In actual television experience, local institutions also rate high, Dr. de Kiewiet said.

He pointed out that 142 programs have been put on by them over WHAM-TV since 1951, most of them by RIT and Army Reserve Training Center Local Army officers ate studying three sites for construction of a training building de-1 signed for classroom and administration use. Construction of the BRIGHTON TOWN HALL: Here's the new town hall which is expected to be open for business in Brighton by next month. Henrietta Thruway Inlerchanee A bid of $613,000 was received Dec. This is the largest amount allo FOR THE BEST DEAL SEE Rochester's Newest Willys Dealer 30 for a traffic interchange at West Ave. The board would also like Henrietta Rd.

and the Thruway. It will include construction this year building is estimated at $500,000, cated since the program began two years ago and helped assure local officials that construction projects in the county this year probably won't be delayed by a lack of steel. to expand facilities at School 46 at 250 Newcastle Rd. and School 52 at 100 Farmington but said the The Army hopes to begin this Spring and complete the work by the end CHURCHILL MOTORS 110 MT. HOPE AVE.

work could be postponed a year. of a toll station, connecting roads and a bridge over the Thruway, all east of the West Henrietta Rd. Thruway Contracts totaling in their new Elmwood Ave. home in February. Built at a cost of $350,000 from a surplus the town built up over the years, the one and two-story building, located about a mile west of the 12-corncrs, will house all of the town offices, an auditorium, kitchen, dining room, library, and space for Ameri- of the year.

The three sites under A rundown of the projects follows: consideration are at 2051 Goodman Rochester State Hospital State City Paving Program Scheduled St. lrondequoit, a lot at Brooks officials hope to begin construction this year on a 10 million dollar $16,106,000 for In; Monroe County section of the Thruway should be Ave. and Buell Gates, and 941-971 South Ave. 3 OPEN EVCS. BA.

5030 medical-surgical building to be lo to be the largest post World War 2 paving program, the cily is expected to spend 2 million this year for reconstruction and repaving. The detailed program will be submitted completed by the end of 1953, cated on an 85-acre tract adjoining though some engineers privately say it will be almost impossible to siart present hospital property on the south side of Elmwood Ave. The 16- and finish the million dollar Thru to the City Council early in the Spring. Already disclosed are plans way bridge over the Genesee River for reconstruction of Lake Ave a short distance north ol Scottsville. Concrete east of the Genesee Rivcr from Ridge Rd.

W. to a point i the Gallery. short distance north of Kodak Park has been poured in most places and work on the several bridges carry As an adequate vehicle for local contributions to an educational TV network, de Kiewiet asked that the story building would provide 1,050 beds. The State Legislature appropriated $7,200,000 for the work in the 1952 budget but state officials say another $2,800,000 in addition to reappropriation of the original sum will be needed. Engineers estimate it will take two years to construct.

Norlhside Hospital Construction may begin in April at the Portland ing the Thruway under existing roads is nearing completion. The Regents provide a two-studio sta section between the East River Rd. tion with a minimum operating and Reed Rd. which contains 13 bridges, including the one over the Genesee River, is the section en Ave. site of Rochester's newest hos gineers 'privately say may not be pital.

Bids are expected to be ad completed by the end of the year. at a cost of about $600,000 and reconstruction of Clinton Ave. S. from Court St. to either Gregory St.

or Goodman St. S. at a cost of $800,000. Eventually Clinton Ave. will be rebuilt to the city line near Highland Ave.

The 1952 city street program amounted to $950,000. Inner Loop The first quadrant of this state project is scheduled to be completed by December. It will include an overpass over State St. as part of a contract that includes construction of the highway from Central Ave. at Front St.

and swinging around to Plymouth Ave. ending at Main St. W. Cost of this, vertised this month. It will be a 210- Lake Ontario Parkway Paving bed hospital scheduled to be com and bridge contracts totaling $2,202,798 for the section of the pleted in the Spring of 1955 at an K)l KA 'ThK YzLs I manager V8' II 42" STEEL RUNNER SLED! A TTfJSl I hoW VOU A brf.l-o(-fun (or h.

Hdi with thli Flwtwina b.iutfl estimated cost of $4,000,000, fi Lake Ontario Parkvay between nanced by the Rochester Hospital Manitou Rd. and Long Pond Rd. Fund: --Strong Memorial Hospital By will be completed or nearly completed this year. Pending budget approval by Governor Dewey and the early Fall, a new five-story wing costing $650,000 is expected to be completed. Financed by the Roch ester Hospital Fund, the wing will provide expansion of overcrowded services at the hospital such as the out-patient department and fe'ff Genesee Hospital Another hos budget of $150,000 a year, exclusive of, equipment.

Such a budget, he added, should include at least 15 technical and administrative personnel. For a beginning, he proposed 10 to 12 hours a week of live programs emanating here, working up to 20 hours as soon as feasible. With a single exception, all testimony before the commission was favorable to the concept of educational Among the supporting statements deposited were those of Marion B. Folsom, designated deputy secretary of the treasury and retiring treasurer of the Eastman Kodak Company; Gordon P. Brown, owner of radio station WSAY, and Dr.

Milton Eisenhower, president of Pennsylvania State College. Only one to oppose the program during the hearing was Charles A. Suchan executive secretary of the Business and Civic Association of the Tonawandas Inc. He labeled the program "grandiose and unproven," and said the need for more classroom space should come ahead of educational TV. He added that the taxpayers of the state were unable to shoulder the expense of a "luxury aid" to education.

Almost all of the educators who testified cited the worth of TV in adult education programs, in addition to the role it could play in educating children. Television was described as a "new frontier" with immense possibilities in the field of education. pital addition expected to be completed by early Fall. Also financed by the Rochester Hospital Fund, the 5-story wing will cost more than 2 million. When completed, one of the 450 pSISlp 1 QUINCE-GRAPE-PLUM-ELDERBERRY OR CRABAPPLE fi (F(P EASY TO SERVE LUNCHEON MEAT HOT OR COLD! ri 11 "GRADE A FRUIT-JUICE" FANCY FLORIDA G(7f i feiadinui Mm 1 lv present wings, a wooden structure, will be torn down.

The net gain will be 40 hospital beds, in addition to modern facilities for administrative and other departments. Highland Hospital The 4-story FINISHED PRODUCT: This is the way the Community War Memorial will look, as shown by artist John Wenrich's rendering. First construction bids will be opened on Jan. 13. addition here was delayed by a lack of steel, but construction is ex pected to be completed early in 1954.

Financed by the Rochester including construction, acquisition Hospital Fund, it will cost an estimated $1,500,000 and, like Genesee Hospital, will replace older of land and demolition, is estimated at $2,344,000. The state has definitely scheduled construction of the facilities. There will be a net gain of 40 beds. inner loop bridge over the Genesee River for 1953. This contract, estimated at $1,800,000, is due for an Park Ave.

Hospital Hospital of early letting. The bridge will have ficials are now studying plans an eastern terminus at Howell at. Hetenyi Loses State Legislature, the state hopes to let grading and bridge contracts this year for $3,300,000 in contracts which will carry the Parkway from Long Pond Rd. to Dewey Ave. near the old Odenbach plant.

These contracts will include a traffic interchange at Long Pond Rd. and Dewey Ave. and bridge over Low-den Point RJ. and Island Cotiagc Rd. The Parkway, when completed, will extend from Hamlin Beach Park, across the Genesee River and up the east side Jo the traffic loop at Veterans Memorial Bridge.

Country Roads A detailed program will be submitted to the Board of Supervisors early in the Spring. a rchhabilitation project plus construction of a 3-story wing. It is hoped to begin construction this: Latest Motion and South Ave. and a western terminus at Troop St. and Fitzhugh St.

S. Tentatively, the state plans construction this year of the loop from South Ave to Monroe Ave. along Howell St. at an estimated cost of $1,415,000 and the section of the loop from Main St. W.

to the western bridge terminus along Fitzhugh WM- LARGE SIZE HART'S OWN 5 ff 2T I COOKING COBBS HILL Bff I i onions i coffee mU-4J The Rev. George' P. Hetenyi, 43 Summer. The cost will run well over, the $300,000 allocated to Park Ave-j nue Hospital by the Rochester Hospital Fund, it was reported. Hanover Houms One of the apartment buildings was completed last month, another is scheduled to be opened this month and work on yesterday lost his motion for dismissal on jurisdictional grounds of But country officials estimate the St.

S. and Pine Alley at an estimated the first-degree murder indictment returned against him May 19, 1949, by a Monroe County Grand Jury cost of $1,253,000. (program will be about $1,200,000 the remaining five buildings in the and his attorney immediately re wuier i.p raving ana nnuge iui uiaimciiaiitc, tuMMiumiun ana staIe low-rent housing project wi newed his barrace of moves preparation for the third trial, set to nnen Jan. 19 in Syracuse. The latest motion made by At contracts on tne Ml.

Kead bivu. reconstruction, une ot tne major continue this year. Cost of the section of the loop (from Lyell Ave. I projects scheduled for completion 1 projcct started in April, 1951, is to Ridge Rd. will be let early will be the southern bypass to the 575000 loaned to the city' by this year.

Cost is estimated at city which will generally follow statc a'nd oul of opcral. 821,000 and will include bridges at; Beaver Archer and Ballamyne Rds. revenucs. The project will have Ridgeway Ridge Rd. and from Chili Ave.

'Route 33) to the 3 a rtmcnt5 uhen in two branch lines of the New Vo. Genesee River at the Ballantyne addi(ion iliti fo Mrv. Central Railroad. The state plans Bridge. Designed primary for jt to install a traffic signal system on trucks, it will incorporate lefferson torney William L.

Clay and set yesterday for argument in Special Tc. ni of Supreme Court in Utica at 2 p. m. Jan. 15 is for permission to take photographs of the interior of persons.

Rd. to speed trucks past the city. 1 unii II I 'f 11 n.ubTvi"uiMLiii I- ti 1 m.ro 1 1 Tha -1 1 l4nr ti i Program A survey by city officials, finish this job which will move federal financed by a 551,126 grant, Hetenyi former home at 49 Yale Ave. in Amherst, Erie County, and its attached garage and to take measurements there. Supreme Court Justice Earle C.

Bastow of Utica, who will preside this section at a cost of The state also plans construction this year on a section of the loop which will be an extension of the recently completed Sea Breeze Expressway. The proposed section will extend the present Expressway South from Edgemere Dr. from Long Pond Rd. back from the lake and eliminate will begin the middle of this month. The survey is expected to last six weeks and will determine present conditions of structures, number of the present jog and bridge on Long over the trial under a change of Pond Rd.

I he fill and bank pro tection work has been completed Ridge Rd. E. to Empire Blvd, at a i Alt5r WILSON CERTIFIED SMOKED yy lVO'' CALAS ECONOMICAL BACON (nj) jf SPARES WJfif sszsl ARMOUR STAR SKINLESS p- Jf 3 8 READY FRANKS 17! ---J A mct of (IMfinnn Tan i TkU lh Ml "W-Upanis, CI1 vil unmcilldl lunuuiuns. are planned on Ridge Rd. W.

be-j Bridge over the Long Pond outlet size of families and family economic tween Lake Ave. and ML Rend to Lake Ontario and pave the road, conditions. The federal government Blvd. One will install a traffic Total cost of the project is $448.000. 1 has set aside for slum signal system at a cos; of $40.000 Brooks AveWidening Brooks clearance in the area which is and the second will widen a hridce i Ave.

from Genesee Pk. Blvd. to the bounded by Clinton Ave. Bu- venue obtained by the defense, denied Hetenyi's motion to dismiss the indictment and his motion to be given the names of the witnesses who testified-before the Grand Jury. District Attorney Clarence J.

Henry opposed both motions. Hetenyi is charged with firing two pistol bullets into the chest of his wife, Jean 24, in his car the night of Apr. 22, 1949, in Monroe County and dumping her body in the Genesee River in West Brighton. over a railroad at Kodak Park at a Barge Canal bridge from the chan central ami present two lanes to a four-lane Hudson Aves. Planners have ex- be cost of $130,000.

pressed the hope the area can highway will begin this Spring. The Thruway Eastern Feeder State engineers hope to let a contract late in the Spring for I dual highway extending north from the pres- cleared for a quasi-public housing project. War Memorial Bids will be work is scheduled to be completed next Fall at a cost of $86,000. East River Rd. Construction of.

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