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A BINGHAMTON PRESS 5 March 16, 1954 xv Legislature Approves Bus Company Asks Council To Cancel $10,000 in Taxes Four-Year Term OK'd i For Village Officials i- J.C?S 4 -If They Want It Survival Is Issue, Plea Says pf ft? if a 1 I Binghamton Press Bureau Albany The Legislature last night opened the way for four-year terms for the mayors and trustees of the villages of Johnson City and Endicott if the village officials are interested in getting away frem running for office every two years. Final approval to a permissive four-term bill was voted by the Sonata tuhifh spnf thA moasnre to Governor Thomas E. Dewey. The bill applies to all in the state LlinstianitY Under terms of the measure, village boards in Johnson City and Endicott could adopt resolu-l fvntt tions lengthening their terms of III lVl1 Ctl I yf I jMin, ii iiimIi in miiiiB i Sffiin 4a(K(i i Binghamton Press Photo. SKIRT-AINLY Officials and employes of McLean's prepare for the store's annual Women's Day, to be held Thursday.

Distaff employes take over management of the store for the annual sale and the brass goes to work behind counters. Left to right: William M. McLean, vice-president of the store; Mrs. Barbara Formanek of the display department; C. Mossman McLean, president, and Miss Patti Murphy of the advertising department.

Triple Cities Traction Corp. today asked Binghamton City Council to cancel some $10,000 in taxes and fees whfch the bus company otherwise would have to pay the city in 1954. The request was made In a letter from Albert Schreiber, company vice-president, to City Council president Franklin H. Preston. Mr.

Preston released the text of the message without comment. The bus company In recent weeks has made it known that it was losing money at such a rate that possible discontinuation of service threatens. MOVE TO SURVIVE Mr. Schreiber's letter did not say that the bus company would give up if City Council could not see its way clear to eliminate the taxes. There was, the following Implication: 1 "The company makes this pro- posai noc oniy in tne interests of maintaining bus service in the Triple Cities but also in an attempt to survive Its present emergency.

"The situation Is urgent. Prompt action is required. We urge in the interests of the bus- riding public and transit in the Triple Cities that such action be forthcoming promptly from the city officials." NEED $125,000 CUT Mr. Schreiber has previously said that it would be necessary iur me company to cut about $125,000 from its operating expenses this year to break even. Unionized drivers and mechanics were asked to absorh snmP $85,000 of this amount by foregoing scheduled wage raises and 1954 vacation pay.

-They refused. TCTC now has shifted to planning further reduction in its service that will allow lavnff fit ahntit 25 employes, feeling that it can pick up tne required $85,000 in tnat manner. One the levies which Mr. Schreiber wants canceled is the 1 per cent gross earnings tax. under uhich the company paid the city $5,591.25 in 1953 at the same time the company was losing $196.21 for the year.

FEELS TAX UNJUST Of the gross earnings tax, Mr. Schreiber said: "The company feels that the gross earnings tax is unjust and Binghamton Presi Photo. Paper Argument Could End It MEN OF THE WHORL-Special Agent Harold C. Joslin, right front, of the FBI's Albany Division, demonstrates fingerprint comparison methods to a group of police officers attending Johnson City Police Department's fingerprint school, which opened for a five-day run this morning at the village Moose Clubhouse under FBI sponsorship. About 20 police agencies are represented in the student body.

Left to right: Johnson City Police Chief Floyd L. Allen, director of the course; Set. Ben Coryer of Pittsburgh; Karl Gunther of Herkimer; Kenneth Fletcher of the Vermont Stat Police, Mont- pelier, and James Duggan of Glens Falls. Final TV Hearings Scheduled for April Binghamton Press Bureau Minimum Iloost S'MH) Washington The Triple Cities television case faces another month's delay. If, however, the two applicants for a Channe40 UHF license in the community can reduce their remaining Teacher Pay Hike Plan To Go to U-E Board The Union-Endicott District Board of Education tonight is expected to receive a salary schedule proposal calling for a minimum raise next year of $300 for district teachers.

office from two to four years. Such resolutions would be sub ject' to a referendum, if enough village voters filed a petition demanding a vote on the issue. A resolution doubling the length of the term would be ef fective in the first year follow ing the village elections at which the officials were eieciea ior four-year terms. AnDlcation of this law to Johnson City and Endicott would eive officials there the same four- year terms which are the rule in Binghamton. Ex-Reichstag Member to Talk To Dinner Club A former Reichstag member will look into Germany's future in a talk before the Broome County National Dinner ciud chapter March 23 at the JBing- hamton Country Club.

'What's Ahead in Germany" will be the topic of an address by Dr. erhart Seger, who became an American citizen in 1942 after he and his wife and small daughter had fled Nazi Germany. The former aperman md liberal Reich- stae member, a DR. SEGER victim of one of Hitler's political purges, spent time In the in famous Oranienburg prison camp before he made good his escape. He is a former editor of the Neue Volkozeitung, one of the oldest of New York's German- language newspapers.

Robert H. Austin, secretary of the dinner club chapter, said its meeting will open at 7 p. m. 2-Year-Old Girl Scalded by Water Two-year-old Carla Malvagi, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Dominic Malvagi of 63 South Street, Binghamton, was admitted to Wilson Memorial Hospital, Johnson City, last night with burns suffered when she pulled a pan of hot water from a stove at her home. Attendants said Carla's chin and chest were splashed with the water. Her condition was reported fair today. Constance Lesko, 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Paul Lesko of 64 Mygatt Street, Binghamton, was treated and discharged from the hospital last night after she had swallowed a quantity of an unknown substance at her home. SPECIAL! TROL'SER POCKETS REPLACED 50c Each TRY OCR FINE CLEANING Master Cleaning Service 2I9creNeS Dial 2-7777 YOU HARD The proposal, prepared by a special committee making a study of the district's salary schedule, was prepared last night at a com- me company andConsider whether the geographi-the bus riders of Binghamton be- Lal locati0n of the proposed sta- cause our company is no longer a tl0n should be an issue in the monopoly. Lase "The only justification for ai.p,.',,, hal" FFederal'SlIw requires FCC to VFW Chief Will Visit Area May 21 W. E. RICHARDS The national commander In chief of the Veterans ot oreign ware tt-ni hie annual visit I iff ii -v.

if i wmt" "imake sure.it distributes licenses muiee iiieeuiig, mc luuim iu School. series. If granted, the proposed mini-! mum raise would mean an addi- niiroiiif OlO tional expenditure of approxi- Xjtl 3 111 I kJUlty mately $80,000 for the Specifically, the special com- mittee recommends that salaries" ill I Jpllntl be raised a minimum of $300 the 1954-55 school year. However, the committee said If state A The tremendous growlh of competition from the private automobile has taken the Triple Cities Traction Corp. out of the category of a monopoly." The gross earnings tax, first I f-'f ofy lfpe llOHl villLO There is no more dynamic Christianity today than that which is demonstrated in South Korea, the Bethel Brotherhood Class of the Endicott First Presbyterian Church was told last night.

The speaker was the Rev. John C. Corbin, D. secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian" Church, U. S.

A. Approximately 70 members of the class and their guests heard Dr. Corbin at the class's annual meeting in the church. Dr. Corbin told the group of a 40-minute interview he had with Dr.

Syngman Rhee, president of South Korea, during a recent tour of Far Eastern missions. He said Dr. Rhee at the close of the interview stressed that the power of prayer was the "only power that matters today." On India, he said the Christian movement in that country is gaining converts at the rate of 300 a day. Communism, he said. Is a dynamic way of life that gives great promises but fails to deliver on them.

Dr. Corbin was in China at the time the Red armies swept down from the north into the Southern provinces of that country. He was in Shanagai only eight days before that city was taken over by the Reds. Dr. Corbin was introduced by the Rev.

Henry Clay Banks, pastor. Gavin Cullen presided at the meeting and George H. Nichols gave the invocations. Harold Bloem led group singing. Window Rapper Gets $35 Fine Henry E.

Precit, 26, of 3208 Pearl Street, Endwell, was fined $35 and given a suspended sentence of 10 days in jail last night after pleading guilty before Justice of the Peace Robert Eckelberger, of Town of Union to a charge of disorderly conduct. Mr. Precit was arrested Sunday morning by Broome County sheriff's deputies after Mrs. L. R.

Barnes of 3211 East Main Street, Endwell, complained that he was "rapping on windows" at her house at 4:10 a. m. SAY'S KEY SHOP Key, Lock, Safe Work 101-103 Water St. (So. of Court) Est.

1861 Dial 4-3986 PROFESSIONAL TREE SERVICE Trimming, Removal, Cabling, Fertilizing, Etc. LANDSCAPING INSURED FREB ESTIMATES Member N. 8. t. C.

RAY E. GOODELL Dial 3-I6T6 3-4014 Of UEARIUG? VXiv 1 Rntteriat Uw All Hearing Aidt 15c a Month instead of $450 operates the new Tubeless Royal Transistor Aid ONLY $25 CONVENIENT PAYMENTS PEPENDABLE TEWELEM SINCE IIM qua. eny payment wm oe flue FCC said Mr. Butts should hear not later than March 31, 1954. argument on this point and then The company does not at nn.

anniirant time see its way clear to maket0 be preferred over another for arguments to writing, the record of the case may be closed sooner than that. Not until the record has been closed can Examiner William Butts of the Federal Communications Commission begin writing his decision on whether the license should go to Southern Tier Radio Service, Inc. (WINR) or Ottaway Stations, Inc. (WENE). The new delay occurred because the full FCC, at WENE's a "fair" geographical basis.

Rufte hart rnlprl that the npneranhiral dis tribution is not involved because both applicants are in the same metropolitan area, as defined by the U. S. Census Bureau geographical reasons. WENE contended today that "Greater Endicott" is geographt cally and politically separate from "the Binghamton community." Maurice Jansky, WENE's Washington lawyer, pointed out that Endicott has its Ann eAhnnlc t't rtranniTntinnc and similar bodies separate from omnns in RinPham- ton. 1 Mr.

Jansky argued that the li cense must go to WENE if Mr. Butts decides the question ot fair geographical distribution is involved in this case. Binghamton, he noted, already has a TV station. TO APRIL 12 Earl Stanley, Washington lawyer for WINR, argued that the Triple Cities is a unit and that ovpn if the examiner rules other wise, WINR still should get the i license because the Binghamton area has so much more popula tion than the Endicott area Mr. Butts adjourned the hear ing to April 12, with the under standing that the applicants may put their arguments in writing and thus eliminate the need for the April 12 hearing.

Mr. Jansky declared that if more oral testimony or argu ment is needed, he probably will be unable to participate before June because of other commitments. To Upstate Cities Binghamton Press Bureau Washington A television trade publication said today that color television should be available in Rochester, Utica and the Albany area by June 15. Probably it will be later in Binghamton, "Television Digest" declared, because of "special technical microwave problems." (WNBF-TV is expected to and discuss a request to the vil lage Board of Trustees for a curb ln front of the George Nlch. A possible lawsuit is the sole asset of the estate of Mrs.

Patricia Williamson McClellan, a Johnson City waitress who was fatally injured in a 1952 automo bile accident, according to an ap plication for letters of adminis tration fiied in Broome County Surrogate Court 6 Mrs. McClellan died at City Hospital on April 24, 1952, four days after she and five other persons were injured in a two-car collision in Upper Front Street near Broome County Jail's farm barracks. She was a passenger a car driven by Edward Kluenie of Johnson City which was in col lision with a car operated by Ernest Talmadge, mayor of North Syracuse. Two sons, Gerry L. and Dale L.

McClellan of Auburn, are beneficiaries. grand mother, Mrs. Alice Williamson of Auburn. is administra trix. The estate Is represented by Chernin Gold and by Bern stein Gitlitz.

Village Shows lialailCe Johnson City's village treas ury showed a book balance of $95,054.54 at the end of last month, according, to a report by Village Treasurer Herbert Schaefer, February receipts were listed as $42,061.91 by Mr. Schaefer's office. to the Triple Cities area May 21. $4,800. The proposed $5,200 fig-He is Wayne E.

Richards of uve takes into consideration the Arkansas Cify, who was possibility that the raise for ex-elected to head the national or- perienced teachers next year He will be guest of honor at a would be $400. ganization last August. I The special committee also dinner at 6 p. m. May 22 in the wiil recommend that an intensive Endicott EJ Recreation Hall.

'study of teachers' salaries be con-Accompanying him will be New.tinued this spring with a view to York State Commander Edward making recommendations for a Papantonio, members of his staff, permanent salary schedule to go and state leaders of the organiza- into effect after the 1954-55 tion's women's auxiliary. 'school year. The dinner will be sponsored i Community representatives on that payment for the reasons al ready given." FRANCHISE FEES Second levy which Mr. Schreiber asked City Council to eliminate, at least for the year, is $4,225 in franchise fees. The bus company official noted in the letter to Councilman Pres- ton that, The franchise fees were due and payable on March n.n.M.

lln.klv 1, 1954. They were not paid because of the drastic losses suffered during the months of January and February." Concerning the losses, Mr. Schreiber said, "During the months of January and February, 1954, the company has suffered a total net loss of $8,950.04. January and February are normally the two best months of operation of the Triple Cities Traction Corp. "During January and February of this year, the company had no abnormal or unusual expendi tures.

The net loss was due directly to a decline of $31,972.17 in passenger revenues for January and February." Since 1947, TCTC patronage has been declining steadily. Seven fare increases and frequent service, cuts have been introduced since that time in an effort to stem the tide. Lodge Supper DO YOU YIUR All AID? hy the isouthern Tier Counties Council of the VFW and its aux- lriiy. than 1.200 organiza-. tion members are expected to attend.

William Evans of Endicott is general cnairman lor tne proj- ect, assisted by the folowing representatives of area posts: C. Phelps, Robert Reynolds. Paul' Miller, Mrs. Helen Reynolds, Mrs. Marion Walters and Mrs.

Martha mm wr aid received by the district "is a substantial amount for next year, the recommendation Is for a maximum raise of $400 for teachers beyond the first step in the salary schedule. $3,000 TO START If the $300 raise Is granted by the board, the new starting salary 1 nnn ninnino tn a nrts- sible maximum of $5,200 through, annual mci cinema. The present maximum Is i the committee last- night ex- pressed the hope that the num- ber of lay members on the com- mittee be doubled for future (studies. Currently there are six iay members on the 12-man com- mittee with the remainder teach er and school administration rep resentatives. SAME SCHEDULE mended by the special committee salary j.j,uuu ana me new max' imum $5,000, The special committee making scneuuie was apuimcu vy mc Board of Education at the request of the Endicott Teachers Association.

In February, the association 'submitted a proposal to submitted a proposal to the com. mittee calling for a $500 pay hike next year, a $200 increase retro ou active to last September, a new nenn minimum saiaiy ui a maximum of $7,200 and additional increments for graduate work beyond a bachelor's degree. MERIT ELEMENT In its recommendations for more study, the special committee urges "particular consideration to the possibility of incorporating a merit element into the teachers' salary schedule." While the proposal is expected to be presented to the Board of Education tonight, action on it may possibly be postponed to a later meeting. The Board of Education tonight also is expected to take action on several probationary appointments for instructors and custodians, accept several teacher resignations, grant leaves of absence to several other teachers Johnson City: Lester Cox, Edward lis approximately the same as l.5,s?7',Vel Rarl adopted by some area Floyd Miller, Stanley Philip, Betty Lee, Mrs. Mary Cox, Mrs.

School districts. Endwell, for ex-Shiriey Bickford. ample, has adopted a new salary Binghamton: Paul Keenan, Floyd schedule Calling for a $250 raise 'Mr'FloVen 55S2. whic kS Golden Sceptre Lodge TV Coming Leona StuU and Mrs. Patricia Con- rad.

Louts Turk, Latha Wild- Binghamton Press Photo. PAIR FOR CORPS Donald D. Allamo, 2734 Robins Street, Endicott, top, and Theodore F. Walker, Nineveh Junction, left yesterday for Albany to enlist in the Marine Corps. If they pass their physical examinations they will so to Parris Island, S.

for recruit training. start broadcasting network television programs in color in July.) The publication said the American Telephone Telegraph Co and the radio-television networks "are about to cut loose and ex tend color service to more sta tions in more cities." Noting that the networks have asked to extend color facilities from New York City to Buffalo by June 15, the publication added: "Intermediate stations along (this route) generally will be able to get service if the net works order it for example, it's expected color will be avail able by June 15 to stations in these cities on New York-Buffalo leg: Schenectady, "Utica, Syra cuse, Rochester. "There's doubt Binghamton will get color same time as others because of. special technical microwave problems for it's branch." What other curls ar -AIR man, Edward Rozelle, Harold ctniiv nf thp Fndirntt salarv Mrs. Fleta Griffis, Mrs.

Marion Coles, nf Study OI ine Maicorx salary Norwich Official May Dispose o. 1 TT ur siocK in Harness iracK EVERYONE CAN WEAR THE NEW ITALIAN CUT COLD WAVE James W. Coleman, city at-: tnrnev of Norwich anH owner of stock in the Vernon Downs har ness race track, today said he does not know whether he comes under the scope of Governor Dewey's proposed law barring many public officers from holding race track stock. He said he "probably" would dispose of the stock rather than iUVjr, Will noiu A jjaiiuajvc ouy oer from 4:30 to 7 p. m.

Thurs day at the Johnson City Odd Fellows Hall, 273 Main Street. HP I 1 Since last fall, he said, he has turned over one-third of the 500 shares to the stepson and now is "seriously considering" turning over the rest. Mr. Coleman said he. had not had an opportunity to read the Dewey administration bill, introduced in the Legislature yesterday, aimed at barring many public officials and major political leaders from having any connec- that the proposed law applies to any fulltime public officer or to any parttime public officer receiving $5,000 a year.

It gives them until May 1, 1955, to dispose of any race track stock they may own. Miss Inez Jones, FranKlyn M. Auus and Michael Cochran. U-E School Bid 1 injUUim JLTCICITUU i The Board of Educatioa of nictrirt District Union-Endicott School will open bids March 24 at 10 a. on $1,670,309 in new construction to expand the district's facilities The opening of the bids originally had been scheduled for tomorrow, but was deferred to permit contractors more time to study specifications and prepare bids.

The expansion program involves construction of a new school in West Endicott, and an addition to the present West Corners School. Church Luncheon The Bethany Class of the Endicott First Methodist Church nill hold a covered dish luncheon at the church Friday at 1 p. m. Limited Vim Only It's the most flattering hairdo created In $5 oo Take advantage of this opportunity to try this new 3-transistor hearing aid model. See and heor what a differ, ence it makes.

Small, smattly styled, the "RoyalT operate on a tiny 15 battery for an entire month, in average use. pays for itself on battery savingsl years. Vz Oft Special V2 Oft CREME OIL COLD WAVE ON $7 Cn REG. SALE OU $15.00 forfeit office, if the choice is made tion with horse racing in New necessary by the proposed law. yk state.

Mr. Coleman, a Republican, He said his Job of city attor-was listed as owner of 500 shares jney is a parttime appointive job of stock ln a list of stockholders paying $2,000 a year, filed last October by officers of Reports from Albany indicated ONLY 125 CONVENIENT PAYMENTS Top in loveliness topi in value! permanent brings you such lasting Mid-State Raceway, operator! of the Vernon Downs track. The list was filed with the State Harness Racing Commission. He told a reporter today that he had bought the stock as "an investment" for his stepson- ACME BEAUTY SALON mT6 44 COURT ST. PHONE 4-9614 MR.

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