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4 THE SUNDAY PEESS EInghamton, N. May 10, 185 22 of 27 Otsego ospital Welfare Tab Debate Unsettled Supervisors raw tmmi' 'wo wmmm.mmm mining tmi iumi Chenango Supervisors to Get Back Argument Tomorrow By LARRY REED Sunday Press Bureau Chief Question Of Office Building Expenses for 2958 By PETE DOBINSKY Sunday Press Bureau Chief Oneonta Some supervisors apparently have become shy about submitting their expense accounts for scrutiny by taxpayers in Otsego County, Their seeming reluctance to file expense vouchers, plus other practices, tends Norwich Argument over prices Chenango Memorial Hospital charges for county welfare patients will be turned back to the Chenango County mi. i f-4 pi 3 A -v4 'h-HZ 1 a I st I 1 uniinmiifa MR. ARGENT MR, HOI SB ft x( 1 MR. GILDAY MR.

HUGHES Sunday Press Photo. ESSAY WINNERS Mrs. E. K. Allen, Tioga County Chairman of the 350th Year of History of New York State, with county winners of a state historical essay contest, mails the winning entries into finals contest.

Left to right: Beverly Wanck, Owego Junior High School; Diane French, VVaverly Senior High School; William Eric Berg, Newark Valley Central School; and Mrs. Allen. Delaware Man Admits Raping Girl, 7 A 44-year-old Delaware County man admitted to Bing-hamton detectives last night that he enticed a 7-ycar-old North Side girl into his car and raped her, police said. James R. Hammon, 44, of West Davenport, was arrested at about 4:33 p.

m. by Port Dickinson police and sheriff's deputies who pursued him from the village into the city in the Brandywine Highway. The child was returning home from her first Confession at St. Paul's Church when she was abducted, detectives said. Her first Communion was to be today.

Police said another 7-year-old girl who was accompanying the child refused to enter the abductor's car when he stopped at the crub of Che nango Street near Virgil Street and offered to buy them ice cream. After the man drove off with the victim, the second 7-year-old went to her nearby home and told her parents of the incident. Her parents telephoned the parents of the victim, who called police. The second 7-year-old was able to give detectives a "good" description of the abductor and his car, they said. Detectives said Mr.

Hammon admitted he bought the child an ice cream cone, then drove her toa deserted spot "somewhere near Eelden HiH." where he partially undressed her and assulted her. He then drove to the Brandywine Highway near Pickle Hill overpass in Port Dickinson, parked the car be- side the road and fell asleep, police said. The child took the opportunity to escape from the car and make her way to a Beacon Street home. Meanwhile. Port Dickinson Patrolman Curtiss A.

Scher-nerhorn, cruising in a radio car, had spotted the parked car as resembling a broadcast description of the abductor's car. He questioned the driver and summoned sheriff's deputies and Binghamton detectives to the spot. Minutes after they arrived, Mr. Hammon, who had ben sating in his car, suddenly started the motor and drove toward Binghamton nt high speed, police said. He was pursued by "Deputy Sheriff Frank Skinner and Patrolman Schermerhorn, whose raido cars had been parked ahead of and behind the Hammon car.

Warned by radio. Bingham-ton police set up a roadblock at Brandywine and Henry streets. The Hammon car evaded it by turning into Henry Street, but was overhauled by the two pursuing cars a short distance away. Detective Lt. John V.

Gillen said Hammon would be arraigned in City Court tomor-. row. The charge was not immediately determined. The child was being examined by her family physician at the request of police. Extent of her injuries, if any, was not immediately learned.

Board of Su pervisors tomorrow. The board's Welfare Committee, headed by Supervisor Ernest L. Poole of Af-ton has failed to reach an agree ment with hospital directors. Jhe committee has mr. poole been asked to negotiate with hospital ofti-cials after the hospital asked a daily rate $7.70 higher than the slate-approved rate.

The Stale Department of Social Welfare approved a rate of $20.59 a day for welfare patients in Chenango Memorial Hospital, highest rate in the county. However, hospital officials claim the actual cost to the hospital is $28.29 a day. They told supervisors they wall bill the county at that rate and can collect, by going to court if necessary. At last month's county board meeting, Mr. Poole reported the hospital cost last year was $40,000.

He said the county, in the first three months of this year had paid the hospital $15,500 for welfare patients. That does not include what was paid other hospitals in the county and in Sidney and Binghamton, he said. At the rate asked by the hospital, the county would have to pay about $15,000 more during the year, with no additional state aid, Mr. Poole said. Supervisors were in no mood to agree to the $28.29 rate at the April meeting.

Supervisor Floyd C. Sholcs of Columbus, senior "member of the board, said, "We won't compromise a damn cent." Supervisor Arnold J. Gibbon, of Norwich Town, said. "I think we should stick to the state rate, and if they want to sue, let them try it." Supervisor Lyle M. Sturges, of Fharsalia said, "the doctors are as much to blame as anyone.

They tend them (welfare patients) up there to (the hospital) with a toothache." "It's time somebody stood up to them and knocked them down a peg" or two. If we have to fight 'em, fight 'em," he said. Since the April meeting, Mr. Poole's committee has met with the hospital directors. "We didn't reach any agreement," Mr.

Poole said. The problem will be turned back tomorrow "for the w'hole board to decide," he said. "We'd be setting a precedent if Chenango County pays more than the state-approved rate, and "it's very doubtful the board will go along with it," Mr. Poole said. (The rate approved by the state to determine state aid to be paid to the county on Welfare Department hospital costs is based on figures furnished the state by the hospital.

However, it is understood, certain charges such as "bad debts" are not allowed by the state). fct ,4. I ft tJ Sunday Press rhoto. SAMPLE FAIR Mrs. Reese Jones and Mrs.

Andrew Currie plan the Apalachin Parent-Teacher Association's sample fair, which will be Friday evening at Apalachin Elementary School. A MR. WINGER MR. LOWE pervisors, as listed in the 1958 report, were: Burrill W. House, Richfield.

Walter F. Gilday, Cherry Valley. Jack f. Ranieri, Oneonta City. Clifford J.

Eldred. Oneonta Town, Harvey A. Strong, Laurens, $174.78. Also, Alton G. Dunn, Otsego, Ronald L.

Hunt. Decatur, J161.09; Harold Brooks, Edmeston, Arnold Koelliker. M07.64; Guy Maddalone, Maryland, $320.30: Ambrose C. Green, Middlerield, $37 4. Also, Jsmes O.

Tomasl. Mi'ford, SR828; Guy Rathbun, Morris, S395.12; C. Llovd Greeorv. New Lisbon. $176 80; Jnsenh F.

Mitchell, Oneonta City. Will-n W. Huehes, Oneonta Citv, $48.25. Also. Millard R.

Trak, Oteeo, Fadsley Webb. Koseboom, $405.46: G'me C. Hinds. Sprlne-fiMd, W. 'Earl Winger.

Una-rlilla. 5M.7: Fdward Skellie, Westfnrd. $175.08. ond A. B.

Mus-lon, Butternuts. $255 69. Chairman of the board I't year was Supervisor Webb. The current chairman Is Supervisor Skellie. Supervisors who did not claim any expenses for 1958 are: Georce Z.

Lowe. Burlington; Harold Hieeins. Exeter: Jessie Sar. eent. Pittsfield; Earl Saunders, Plainfield.

and Maynard Skinner. Worcester. Mrl Keiinys Return Sherburne Mr. and Mrs. Mel Kenny, who have been teaching at Cuddington College, Monrovia, Liberia, have returned to this country and will live at Riverside, Cann.

Both have accepted teaching positions in Connecticut. They arc formerly of Sherburne. Sunday Press Bureau Norwich Should Chenango County build a new $1,250,000 office If so, where should it be built? These questions probably will be before the County Board of Supervisors at its May meeting tomorrow. No early solutions are expected. The board's Building Committee has held at least three meetings since the April board session to consider sites for the proposed building.

Supervisor C. Eugene Kirk-by, committee chairman, said he is trying to get a report ready for tomorrow's meeting. Three sites being considered are East Side Park, the Academy Street Parking Lot owned by Norwich City, and the remainder of the block bounded by Academy, Court, Fair and Guernsey streets. The county has an option from the city for the Academy Street Parking Lot good to Sept. 1, but city officials are under pressure not to sell the lot despite the option.

A price of 562,500, what the city has in the lot, was set at the time ths option was given. At one time, the county could have purchased the area now occupied by the lot for $25,000. Supervisor Ernest L. Poole of Afton, a senior board mem ber and member of the committee, said he still favors East Side Park for the pro-Posed building. However, Mr.

Kirby is not in favor of building on the park, and there is little likelihood the committee will recommend it. The most likely recommendation is for the purchase of all or part of the entire block bounded by Academy, Court, Fair and Guernsey streets, excepting the city's parking lot, if these properties can be obtained at a reasonable price. Supervisors from rural towns are going to be hard put to justify any purchase of a site to their local taxpayers. Both East Side Park and West Side Park are owned by the county. They were given the county, more than 100 years ago, as building sites or "public greens." About 10 years ago, when the building site problem came up, a group of Oxford Village residents offered the county a choice of four sites free.

At that time the board had architects hired and paid them without going ahead wtih a building. The building proposal came up again more than a year ago when the Chenango Valley Realty Co. offered the county a free, five-acre site In Route 12 just seuth of Norwich near the Norwich Shopping Plaza. Architects were hired again, but there is little indication the board will go ahead with a new building. The architects reported to Mr.

Kirby's committee in February that a new building will cost about $1,250,000. ARE YOUR YOUNGSTERS POLIO PROTECTED? If not, make sure they start and complete the full series of polio shots NOW! The 1959 polio season is almost here! Folio isn't licked yet! Ia fact, among1 children not Taccinated, paralytic polio cases actually increased in 1958 over 1957. More ofi-ycar-olds were strickenthan any other age group. Don't delay. The sooner your children are polio-protected, the safer their futures will be.

And since polio strikes all ages-be sure to get your shots too. See your doctor or health department, DON'T TAKE A CHANCE TAKE YOUR POLIO SHOTS1 Fublitii fnhlit tervif hi tnopiration untk Advtrtmnm Covnoil und tk Ar'trpopr Ad-rtiing Eitcutitti Anoeictiitn. to distort a section of the annual report by County Auditor Eva M. Rhodes of Oneonta. The report, released last week, reveals that only 22 of 27 members of the Otsego County Board of Supervisor drew expenses during 1958.

In contrast to the preceding: year, three members of the board neglected to seek reimbursement for their personal expenditures in 1958. The two others who failed to collect expenses for the year are freshman members of the board. Several of the supervisors apparently totaled their expenses for the year and submitted their vouchers last Dec. 31. Two of the supervisors, however, began drawing their exrenses earlier in 1958, and put in four claims each during balance of the year.

Supervisor Burrill W. House of the Town of Richfield drew $142.14 on June 5 and, before the year was out. had collected a total of $429.96 in expenses. His expense claims in 1957 totaled $876.67. First claims of Supervisor Walter F.

Gilday of Cherry Valley, which added to $122.65, were put in on Sept. 5. He received $452.38 in expenses for 1958. Supervisor Jack F. Ranierl of the City of Oneonta was paid $92.56 on Aug 5 to cover his only expense voucher of the entire year.

Clifford J. El-dred of the Town of Oneonta received $187.83 on Oct. 21 to satisfy his lone claim during 1958. Collecting the largest mount for expenses in 1958 was Supervisor W. Earl Winter of Unadilla, who claimed a total of $584.67.

His 1957 claim was $504.38. The smallest amount for expenses last year was $48.25, which was the only claim of Supervisor William W. Hughes of the City of Oneonta. Supervisor Hughes, father of Oneonta Mayor Roger G. Hughes, submitted an expense account totaling $42.85 for 1957.

Supervisor Hughes does not drive. One of the reasons his expense accounts are so low Is that he rides back and forth from Cooperstown with fellow supervisors. As a result he Is not able to claim the mileage allowance given supervisors. Supervisors receive 8 cents a mile for travel and their meals while the board or any of Its committees, which requires their attendance, are in session. The board normally has 11 regularly scheduled meetings each year in Cooperstown, with the budget meeting frequently requiring xip to 10 separate sessions.

Expenses of the supervisors are underwritten by the 'taxpayers of Otsego County, who also pay each of the supervisors an annual salary of $1,500. The chairman of the board receives an extra $700. or a total of $2,200 annually, plus expenses. Besides these county salaries. 24 members of the Board of Supervisors also are paid salaries, in varying amounts by their individual townships.

Exceptions are the three supervisors representing the City of Oneonta, who receive no pay from the municipality. Supervisors also receive funds for travel, hotel rooms and meals while away on county business and while attending conventions in various parts of the state. Efforts to determine the total expenses of some supervisors during a 12-month period are not too rewarding. One of their practices aopears to be the filing of expense vouchers the next year, so the county auditor's report for a given year does not reflect their total expenses. As an example, Kenneth R.

Aney of Hartwick claimed $138.80 on Jan. 21, 1958, some three weeks after he had ceased to be a member of the board. The 1957 auditor's report schowed he received $91.07 in expenses, but with the belated payment it appears that his claims for the year totaled $229.87. Keneth G. Engcll of Springfield, who became commissioner of public welfare on Jan.

claimed $20.30 on Jan. 21, three weeks after he had left the Board of Supervisors. The amount, plus the $127.75 paid him during the preceding year, would Indicate that his expenses for 1957 were $148.05. I Expenses of individual su- HodgkinS'Feinman Betrothal Announced Sunday Press Bureau Mr. and Mrs.

Stanley Hodgkins of Auburn, Maine, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Shirley, to Earl S. Feinman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Feinman of Portsmouth, R. I.

5 Area Men Are Naval Enlistees Coiinty Home Payroll Gets Chef Oneonta The Otsego County Home and Infirmary at Phoenix Mills has its first chef in history. Wendell Thayer of Cooperstown has been added to the payroll with the title of "chef." at an annual salary of $3,120, plus maintenance valued at $120. The new situation was created by resolution of the Board of Supervisors last week at the Courthouse in Cooperstown. In the pasl, the County Home and Infirmary always has had women preparing meals, with the title of "cook." Mr. Thayer reportedly has had considerable experience as a chef in various dining rooms at Cooperstown.

The Yorkers Elect Slaff Saratoga Springs VP) David of East Aurora was elected president yesterday of the Yorkers, a young peoples' unit of the New York State Historical Society. He succeeded Roger Cota of Canton. The election was held at the closing session of a two-day convention attended by 2,000 members. Other new officers are: Rebecca Carr of South New Berlin, vice-president; Ronald Marose of Massena, treasurer; Catherine Sommers of Chatham, secretary, and Robert Ames of Cortland, hitsorian. Clothing Class Spencer Final meeting of the Adult Education Clothing Class will begin at 7:30 p.

m. Tuesday in the homemaking center of Spencer Central School. SAM KI.I0N CLOSING OUT All Famoui '58 Floor Sampla APPLIANCES and TV With UHF to Mike Room for 1959 Modeli GREAT SAVINGS SAM KLlOn 142 WATER STREET DIAL RA 3-3731 LIFETIME GUARANTEE ON PK0T0 EQUIPMENT? ASK STICKLEY-SIVER shop downtown BINGHAMTON II Carroll Binghamton Jimp I ii A'wk Miss Hodgkins is an 'assistant home demonstration agent with the Otsego County Extension Service in Cooperstown Mr. Feinman Is an assistant Otsego County agricultural agent. The bride-to-be is a graduate of the University of Maine at Orono.

The prospective bridegroom Is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island. A late summer wedding is planned. Talent Show At Milford Oneonta The Table Toppers 4-H Club was well represented in an Otsego County Talent Show at Milford Central School. In all, 20 members participated, according to Charlotte Baird, club reporter. Dorcas Miller won third place in Senior Division of the show.

Blue ribbon inners were: Mary Ann Danzt and Mararft Garrison, aonR; Nancy Bairrt, Belli Danzl and Marilyn Bred. aonR: Norma Quackenbush, pantonine, and Margaret Cunero, tap dance. Club personnel awarded red ribbons in the show were: Charlotte Baird and Suni Miller, iong; Jean Ann and Susan Clark, song, and Sharen Quackenbush, poem. The Table Toppers Band also won a blue award for a rendition of its version of "Yankee Doodle." In addition to award winners, personnel of the band includes Kenneth Pickard, Pa-mala Lown, Robert Reed, Ste-phan Quackenbush, David Clark, Dawn Van Alstlne and Caroline Van Alstlne. Missionary Society De Lancey Elsie French Missionary Society of De Lancey United Presbyterian Church will meet at 8 p.

m. tomorrow In the home of Mrs. Oscar Ruff. Sunday Press Bureau Norwich Chief George T. Martin, Local U.

S. Navy recruiter, reports the enlistment recently of five area men. They are, Charles K. Race and Daniel Hallock of Oxford, Jmes Leech of Holmesville; David Fitzerald of New Berlin, and Ray Page of Stamford. The recruits are taking 10 weeks of basic training at Great Lakes, 111.

Mr. Martin asks that high school seniors who plan to enlist in the Navy after graduation contact him in the Courthouse here. They may commence application processing in order that they may be sure, of enlistment on the date desired, he said. At times, applications exceed budget limitations and enlistments then are regulated on basis of date of application, he said. Nc obligation is incurred by making application, Chief Martin said.

I)r. Wilson Bailey Graduated Norwich Dr. Wilson P. Bailey is a member of the 1959 graduating class at Kirks ville College of Osteopathy and Surgery, Kirksville, Mo. The son of Dr.

and Mrs. Percival D. Bailey of Norwich. Dr. Bailey will intern at Kirksville Osteopathic Hospital.

His wife is the former Barbara Ann Miller of Mar-celine, Mo. OES at Nichols Nichols Nichols. Chapter 175. Order of the Eastern Star, will hold Master Masons Night Tuesday. Donald Rolfe and her circle will be in charge of arrangements.

Sunday Pre Phnln. A TREE GROWS IN APALACHIN-Mrs. Catherine McHugh, fourth grade teacher at Apalachin Elementary School, wields shovel as school children planted trees and shrubs Friday in the school grounds..