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The Ithaca Journal from Ithaca, New York • Page 5

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Local Briefs Human Services Program Described CORTLAND Lack of a quorum prevented the Tompkins Cortland Community College Board of Directors from taking any action at its meeting Thursday evening. Board Chairman Ronald Space said, "This is the first time this has happened to us in Space was trying to get the board years." together for a noon seven meeting today. The construction bills have to be approved before Monday if the contractors working on the new building are going to be paid on time, he said. The four board members present listened to Mrs. Constance Shapiro, Human Services Department chairman, describe her program.

Emphasis was on the child day care program at Newman Hall of SUNY at Cortland where the board met Thursday night. The program is run under the auspices of the CortlandCounty Mental Health Board with TC3 serving as the educational association required by the Appalachian grant which funded the program. Mrs. Shapiro said the college set up the program and hired the personnel. The college uses the program to give its students wanting to enter pre-school children's programs training.

All services students must work 10 hours per week human in an agency which deals with the type of work they want to enter, as well as attend class, she said. Students are working in elderly, pre-school and other programs related to their work. 'People's Pages' Published in Ithaca A new type of "telephone directory" is being sold in the Ithaca People's Yellow Pages. "The People's Yellow Pages sort of a local whole earth catalogue," said co-founder Paul Glover. "It is a directory of descriptive listings of about 200 local and regional groups and individuals whose work and lifestyles tend towards the humanization of society," he said.

Under broad headings, the yellow pages list groups working towards political, social and economic change in this area. Headings include arts and crafts, ecology, his and her story, energy, welfare and recycling. The book begins with the introduction "A lot of us realize that social change is needed, but it is often hard to know what to do or where to start. "A People's Yellow Pages profiles an emergent new world. It's something we can hold in our hands that proves that others also have struggled, are struggling and are experiencing Glover said the directory will be sold at downtown stores.

It is an annual publication with occasional supplements. William Burbank is the other founder of the Ithaca directory- the 14th in the United States. No Highway Chief Decision HECTOR No choice of a new Town of Hector Highway Superintendent was made by the Town Board at its meeting Thursday night. A special meeting has been called for next Thursday to permit more time to study qualifications of six men who have applied for the job, according to Clyde Johnson, town clerk. Bruce Gunning, elected to the post last November, resigned effective April 4 to accept different employment.

Leon Champion, long-time foreman of the crew, is acting as superintendent. The board passed a resolution changing the job to an appointive rather than elected position. In other business, the board revised regulations governing use of the town park on the east shore of Seneca Lake near Peach Orchard point. The park which opens May 18 and will close Sept. 29, is managed by Walter Nazaranko of Burdett.

The facility offers camp sites, a boat-launching area, space for fishing, swimming and picnicking, including a pavilion on the shore. Reservations for use of the pavilion or camping space should be made with Nazarenko. Acting Mayor Is Named WATKINS GLEN Gerald Strang, village trustee, was named acting mayor by Mayor William Simiele at the annual reorganizational meeting of the board this week. Strang succeeds John Coolican who did not run for reelection this year. Other official appointments were same as last year.

Following a public hearing on the proposed budget, unattended by any village resident, the $392,776 budget was adopted. The tax rate will remain unchanged. There will be a public hearing in the municipal building at 7:30 p.m. Monday concerning the water rates, followed by a second public hearing about sewer rates. Village officials are contemplating hikes, a spokesman said.

FLA Directors Named WATKINS GLEN Joseph Franzese and George Woolley were reelected directors of Finger Lakes Assn. from Schuyler County at the annual meeting Thursday night in Glen Motor Inn. Speakers included William Bolden of Three Rivers Development Foundation in Corning, who described a study, financed by Economic Development Administration, of Chemung. Steuben and Schuyler counties after the 1972 flood to determine actions which might be taken to help the tourism industry recover and grow. Bolden said that the idea of an auto racing museum or hall of fame was considered desirable in Schuyler.

A second speaker, Arthur McNair, professor of structural engineering at Cornell, showed slides of the area taken by remote sensing devices of NASA. James Allen of Kayutah Lake showed a brief movie of a mechanical harvester which is being used in some lakes to clear vegetation and waste from lake beds. Mrs. Helene Allen of Kayutah Lake, local FLA director, had charge. Corner Cupboard 34 RESTAURANT LANSING, NEW YORK Good Family Eating At Old Fashioned Prices, Served In A Warm Country Atmosphere.

Friday Fresh Fish Fry- $2.00 Plus Everday: Chicken in a Basket- $1.95 Pork Chop Dinner- $2.75 and much more SERVING DINNERS 5:30 to DAILY Friday, April 5, 1974 ITHACA JOURNAL 5 Dryden School Boiler Plans Are Completed By ARTHUR CLARK because of the repair costs by $25,000 for the current year. DRYDEN Final plans for and age of the boilers. Superintendent William new boilers and compactors at The compactors are being Deming said the increase is due Dryden Elementary School were installed because the to higher enrollments in the approved by the Dryden Board of Department of Environmental special educational programs Education Thursday evening. Conservation essentially and vocational classes. The board also set the bid condemned the school's -Received for consideration opening date at 2 p.m.

April 23 at incinerator. four policies governing the the office of its architect, Clark, The board approved the aid leasing of school vehicles during Clark, Millis and Gilson, in applications with the Education the summer, compliance with Syracuse. The board will meet to Department and the DEC. If all the Civil Rights Act of 1965, the consider the bids at 7:30 p.m. on the aid is approved, cost to the date, time and place of the April 24.

school district for the projects is annual meeting and the annual District voters approved the $16.812. building inspection in April. $125,000 remodeling project in a In other action, the board: -Approved participation in school district wide referendum Approved the cooperative the National Nutritional on March 28 by a 71-to-4 vote. bread bidding where all the local Program of the elderly under The school's insurance schools join together for bread' Title 7 of the Older Americans company suggested the boilers bids. Act of 1965.

It allows elderly be replaced rather than repaired -Increased the BOCES budget persons to use the school cafeteria for a noon meal. Deming said that according to Deaths, Funerals 20 the to Service 25 which Cooperative made may the participate. Extension request, persons -Accepted delegate agency Herman C. Kaske Nichols; nieces and nephews. status for a Head Start program.

Herman C. Kaske, 86, of the Services will be held at 2:30 This means that Dryden will Adult Home at Oakhill Nursing p.m. Sunday at the Allen Funer- have its own Head Start program Home, died Thursdya, April 4, al Home, Candor. Burial will be starting in the fall. Dryden Head 1974, in Tompkins County Hospi- in Maple Grove Cemetery, Can- Start pupils now attend a joint tal.

dor. program with Groton pupils in Son of the late Albert and Calling hours will be held Groton City. Lena H. Kaske, he was a from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. -Authorized Deming to seek veteran of World War having Saturday at the funeral home.

Slow" signs for roads at the served as a sergeant in the U.S. McLean School. Army. In 1959 he retired as a postal clerk with the U.S. Post Office.

Surviving are a son, Robert E. Kaske of Ithaca, and one grandchild. Tompkins County veterans organizations will hold a military service at 11:15 a.m. Saturday in Herson Funeral Home. Burial will be in East Lawn Cemetery.

There are no calling hours. Rev. McKenzie's Day Mr. and Mrs. Norman Toda help the Rev.

Gordon McKenzie celebrate the 50th anniversary of his ordination Tuesday night. The Rev. Mr. McKenzie is the pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Spencer where Mrs. Toda is the clerk of the session.

About 150 persons attended the celebration. Police Education Report Out Continued from Page 1 If approved by the legislature the proposed 8.5 per cent, $221 million aid hike would bring state spending for education to a record $2.7 billion. The task force, which includes members from the legislature, governor's office and State Education Department, has been working on the new formula since last July. Its recommendations were released by the governor and legislative leaders with the statement that it "merits serious legislative consideration," making it clear that none of them endorsed it and leaving open the possibility of substantial change before a formula is adopted. The pressure on Gov.

Malcolm Wilson from Republican legislators from New York suburbs, including pow- Fisherman's Body Found GLENORA The body of Frederick Decker, 31, of Penn Yan was recovered from a depth of more than a hundred feet about 100 feet from the west Seneca Lake shore where he fell in Tuesday. Mr. Decker was smelting near the outlet of Big Stream Creek when he apparently stepped into a deep hole and dragged under by the weight of water when his waders filled. Services will be held Saturday at Weldon Funeral Home in Penn Yan. Accidents Frank L.

Dean, 30, of 514 Central Chapel Brooktondale, suffered multiple injuries at 9:10 p.m. Thursday when his southbound car on Central Chapel Road went out of control, struck a tree, went into a culvert and overturned in a creek. Dean was listed in "fair" condition today in Tompkins County Hospital. Deputy Sheriff Charles F. Augello has charged Dean with driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, faiure to keep right and driving at a speed not reasonable and prudent.

Augello reported Dean was thrown from his car as it rolled into the creek. Robert L. Brill 21, of 3319 Slaterville Brooktondale, received leg bruises at 2:10 a.m. today when his southbound motorcyle on Route 96 (Trumansburg Road) struck a deer. Chief Ithaca, College Security Officer Louis M.

Withiam said Brill was treated at Tompkins County Hospital and released. Fires Beat: A washing machine motor was damaged by a short circuit at 7:35 p.m. Thursday at Garden Apartments, Ithaca College. Engine five responded. Engines two and five responded to a malicious false alarm at Roland Hall on the Ithaca College Campus at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, firemen said. erful Assemblyman Joseph Margiotta who bosses the Nassau County GOP organization, whose support the governor needs for election in November, may well lead to increases in the size of the aid package. Missing from the task force recommendations was a major facet of its preliminary recommendations made in January the use of BOCES or Board of Educational Cooperatives taxing ability in the state. The task force said that the richest districts, based on property values, are now 45 times more able to raise money for education, using identical tax rates, than the poorest districts. Since rich and poor districts often are adjacent to each other, the task force had suggested treating a group of districts as an entity for tax and esoch ad plan purposes.

would reduce the existing 45:1 ratio in tax-raising ability to a maximum of 5:1, the ttask force said in January. Missing also was a plan to make BOCES districts more responsive to local control by letting a proportionately elected council district budgets and choose BOCES board members. "HOW TO BUY INCOME PROPERTY WITH NO CAPITAL" For Booklet, Send $3.95 Plus Tax To: Byrd Legh 911 Pennsylvania Ave. Elmira, NY 14904 ONLY SEVEN WEEKS UNTIL MEMORIAL DAY HOWARD 200000 P-203 For your peace of mind check our prices quality. We have the largest display of Better Memorials in the Area.

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French, 18, who died Wednesday, April 3, 1974, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday from the Herson Funeral Home. The names of his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Clarence French of West Danby, and his Mrs. paternal Bertha great grandmother: were inadvertantly omitted from the names of survivors.

Calling hours will be held from 7:30 to 8:30 tonight at the funeral home. helldrug store 408 college ave. 273-6595 A Complete Service Pharmacy For your PRESCRIPTION and HEALTH NEEDS Open til 10 p.m. Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sun.

Charles H. McDowell OWEGO Charles H. McDowell, 71, of 126 Chestnut St. died Thursday, April 4, 1974, in Wilson Memorial Hospital, Johnson City. He had been an IBM employe, and since his retirement had enjoyed hunting, fishing and trapping.

A veteran of World War he was a member of the Owego Post of the American Legion, and a member of the Owego Sportsmen's Club. He is survived by a son, Herbert L. McDowell, and a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Cheney, both of Owego; six grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Hattie York of Tioga Center and Mrs.

Margaret Kanfelt of Administrator Is Named Leslie Hughes has been appointed special events administrator in the business services office at Ithaca College. A native of Albany, she received a bachelor's degree in English literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has also done graduate work at th Cortland campus of SUNY. She has served as assistant for special events since September. CORRECTION The Fish Fry at Hillendale Golf Course Begins TONITE Not April 15 as it appeared in the Thursday night paper.

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