Press and Sun-Bulletin from Binghamton, New York • 31

BlNGHAMTON PRESS Wednesday Evening, December iff NsV; tV rri Power to Impose Non-Realty Taxes Sought for Villages Broadening of State Law Might Be Help to Endicott Revision of the state's local tax program to permit Juvenile Audience Proves Musician's Dream Symphony Orchestra Enchants 2,000 Wide-Eyed Children "pact Endicott and other villages of the state to impose non-realty taxes is expected to be asked next month by the New York State Conference of Mayors. XX fof A I W-V AAiAyi4fA Wi df If mm xi y. Business Called Lax On Welfare ir- wu i cJ! Binghamton Press Photo. FLY-TOGRAPHY J. D.

Turner, left, photographer, and Charles Stinchfield, pilot, are a team that is shooting an aerial map of the arterial highway route frogi Deposit to Middletown from a base at Tri-Cities Airport. They will take more than 350 photos. The six by eight inch pictures cover areas of 6,000 by 8,000 feet. The completed map will be used by engineers building the state highway. Ai I By PHIL WILLON All in EAR DR.

BOLLMEIER: you so soberly reported Binghamton Press Photo. PLAY ON, MAESTRO-Nine-year-old Bernard Leo Lynch' of 14 Mill Street is starry-eyed as he fiddles the bass viol of Daniel C. Walter of the Baltimore Symphony Bernard was one of 2,000 children attending the symphony concert yesterday afternoon. Baltimore Symphony Scores Triumph Here The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under the dy 8, 1948 31 first distinguished perform John L. Geist Suffers Fatal Heart Attack John L.

Geist, 68, a retired school teacher, of 42 Margaret Street, suffered a fatal heart attack while trying to start a motorbike in Crestmont Road about 5 p. m. yesterday. lie was pronounced dead on arrival at City Hospital and Dr. John J.

Breivis, a Broome County coroner, said death resulted from natural causes. Mr. Geist, a resident of Binghamton five years, taught school for 35 years in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He was employed as a grocery clerk at the time of his death. Survivors include his wife, Cora; two sons, Lawrence of Binghamton and Nelson, an army captain stationed in Panama; three daughters, Mrs.

Ernest Carpenter of Binghamton, Mrs. Stanley Kepp of Starucca, and Mrs. Harold Kimball of Chinchilla, and 14 grandchildren. The body was removed to the Cole Funeral Home in Clarks Summit, pending funeral arrangements. Get Star Badges Two members of Johnson City Boy Scout Troop 101 have been awarded Star Scout badges.

They are Arthur Patton and Carl Herman. The troop is af filiated with All Saints' Episcopal Church. A second class badge has been awarded to George Skinner, and merit badges have gone recently to James Humphrey, William Blatter and William Stall. Don't Miss Note, Learn Plenty- And Love It By DOROTllY DONNELLY Binghamton Press Staff Writer The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra unpacked its instruments, tuned up, and played its way right into the hearts of 2,000 enchanted school children yesterday afternoon in the Capitol Theatre. The wide-eyed and open-mouthed youngsters were a musician's dream as a receptive audience.

The program, played exclusively for Broome County school children, was snonsore'd bv the Children's Council of Binghamton in cooperation with the Triple Cities Civic Music Association. The first experience of hearing a symphony orchestra was an exerting one. The kids perched on the edge of their seats, planted el bows on the seat ahead, and cupped their chins in their hands. They didn't miss a note. FAIL TO REMOVE COATS When the orchestra played softly, the youngsters almost stopped breathing.

When the music raced to a rousing climax, the gum chew-ers and foot tappers were right up with it sometimes out ahead. Children who arrived seconds before the program opened never took off their coats. They just forgot. The first, selection, "The Queen of Sheba" by Gounod, put them in a trance that lasted for the hour-long presentation. Scattered through the audience were public school teachers and nuns from" the parochial schools.

Their presence as monitors was unnecessary for the children behaved better than many adult audiences. Before each selection, Kenneth Meyers, the commentator, explained it to the audience. He talked the children's language as he told them about composers and their compositions. The supervisor of music in Johnson City schools especially pointed out that no nationally can claim exclusive right to good music. The orchestra played compositions by a Frenchman, a Bohemian, a Russian, a Finn, an Austrian, and a German.

LEARN ABOUT INSTRUMENTS Two Slavonic Dances, A flat major and minor, by Dvorak, had them stretching their necks to find the source of a distinct melodic tinkle. Fingers came up from all over the audience as the students spotted their man with the triangle in the background of the stage. "Perpetum Mobile" (Perpetual Motion) by Johann Strauss, acquainted the boys and girls with the flutes, oboes, ana Dassoons seldom found in school orchestras The symphony orchestra also Dlaved "Prelude" by Jarnefldt, the Overture to "Tannhauser" by Wagner and "March Slav" by Tschai- kovskv. Concertmasler Hya Schkolnik, who directed the afternoon's pro duction, had assistance from his audience. They were conscien tiously directing from their seats One little boy was trying-to speed the musicians up in a particularly slow number by rapidly beating his rlenched fists on the seat.

The darkness of the theatre and the music of the orchestra were too much for a few sleepy neaas Holding Company Of Post 1254 Elects Daniel A. Green was reelected president last night of the First Ward Veterans Memorial holding company for First Ward Post 1254, American Legion. The election was held at a meet ing in the post clubhouse. Other officers: Vice-president. John Bleisnick; sec retary.

Joseph Holic, and treasurer, Fred H. Edwards. Named to the board of directors: Frank Trirjicco. post com mander; Frank Smack, John Selonek, Michael Bleisnick and Waller Kainin- sky. namic leadership of Reginald Stewart scored another musical triumph in Binghamton last night.

Morgan Strong, executive secre- tary of the conference, said today he believes the conference will ask the Legislature to give non-realty taxing powers to all cities and the state's 549 villages. Such an amendment would give Endicott officials tools with which to meet a 1949 budget problem which is expected to be every bit as acute as uas the problem the City of Binghamton faced in drafting its budget for next year. J. C. NOT AFFECTED This answer to Endicott's budg etary troubles probably would be unpopular with Endicott officials.

who have indicated they would prefer to have the Legislature in crease state taxes and return a share of-the revenue to the village. The subject is not considered of great importance as far as John son City is concerned because that village has ample realty taxing power at this time. As presently written, the Per missive Tax Law gives power to impose nine non-realty taxes only to cities of more than 25,000 pop ulation. BROADENED IN 1947 Exclusion of Johnson City and Endicott from revenue from a countywide non-realty tax was one of the arguments presented against a countywide retail sales tax when the Board of Supervisors consid ered the tax in October. The Mayors' Conference last year sought broadening of the permissive tax program and part of its request was granted by the Legislature.

When originally passed in 1947, the law allowed only counties and cities of more than 100,000 population to impose the taxes. Early this year the authority was extended to cities of more than Mr. Morgan said the conference's legislative program would not be completed until late this month, but indicated extension of the taxing powers to villages and smaller cities puld be requested. PAYROLL TAX ASKED "The broader the taxing powers granted," he said, "the more chance there is for any given locality to find a tax or group of taxes to.fit its economic base." While Mr. Morgan did not mention addition of new kinds of non-realty taxes to the law, last year the conferences requested that cities be given authority to impose a payroll tax.

Endicott must adopt its new budeet bv March 1. At present its only source of lo cal income is from real estate taxation, which is subject to the same constitutional limitation that hampered Binghamton this year. All indications have been that the tax ceiling will prevent Endi cott from collecting enough taxes locally to balance expenditures. Episcopal Women Plan Benefit Tea Women of Endicott St. Paul's Episcopal Church will conduct a silver tea and Christmas program tomorrow night for the benefit of House of Good Shepherd in Binghamton.

The affair will be at a regular meeting ql St. Paul's Guild at the home of Mrs. H. W. Bradley of 10 Marion Street, Vestal.

Miss Nancy Thayer, pianist, will give Christmas selections. The program includes group singing and a reading. Mrs. Harold Thayer, president, will be in charge of business meeting. Woman's Club Plans Party Women's Abruzzese Club will hold its annual Christmas party Dec.

12 at 5 p. m. in the clubhouse, Carroll Street. The chairman. Mrs.

John Romagnoli, is assisted by the following committee: Mrs. Julia Cer-retani. Mrs. Rocco DeVincentes, Mrs. Giovina Stento, Mrs.

Mario DeJohn, Mrs. Lena D'Angelo, Mrs. Mary DeJohn, Mrs. a i a D'Amico and Mrs. Rose DeRado.

ern Psychiatric Association, we parents have to stop fooling our children with the Santa Claus fable. As you said, it can lead to a dangerous neurosis and possible delinquency. Basically, Doctor, you were trying to say that children, must be raised to face life's realities. That's exactly what I have done with my five-month-old daughter, who has developed in the past week an avid interest in the American press. She waits eagerly each night for my arrival home with the evening paper.

She searches first for juicy items, since her pri-Mary interest in a free press is its calorie content. You see, she eats it, being one of the few readers who, it truthfully can be said, devour the news. As she tears up the paper preparatory to munching it, she usually drools heavily in gustatory anticipation. The American press, you may be interested to know, has a wonderful blotting action. Only in the United States is the news absorbed in the reader.

"That, daughter," I said pointing to a soggy front page, "is your proud heritage. It's a basic freedom of democracy. Cherish it." She nodded solemnly at me through the hole in the front page (she always eats the center first). "We are the last remainingstronghold of a free press," I said heavily. She shook her head in sober agreement, while I wiped Errol Flynn off her chin.

"In Russia, readers have to take news with a grain of salt." "That's not a bad idea," interjected the Little Woman, whom I sometimes suspect of hiding undeveloped films in her pumpkin pies. "If the American press really gave a Jioot about the welfare of its readers, it might impregnate its stories with cod liver oil." "We must keep the press of America free'," I continued heatedly. "We must always fight to keep it free from dictatorial control. So our little girl, and millions of little girls like her, can continue to eat news that is free from prejudice and propaganda." At this Juncture, my daughter spat up. I noticed it was a story out of Dallas about Dr.

Bollmeier predicting delinquency for children who believe in Santa Claus. She found it hard to swallow. Fun at the annual meeting of South Parole Violator Gets Year and Day Ayres Bailey, 58, of 1152 Upper Front Street, who on Nov. 30 com pleted a 30-day sentence in Broome County' Jail for petit larceny, yesterday was sentenced to a year and a day in a federal peni tentiary. Bailey pleaded guilty in U.

S. District Court at Utica to a charge of violating terms of a suspended sentence he received after forging endorsement of war bonds worth $260 in Spokane, Wash. The petit larceny conviction was the basis of the violation of probation charge. Bailey pleaded guilty of larceny in theft of a watch and a radio before Town of Chenango Justice of the Peace Hawley S. Booth on Nov.

8. By TOM CAWLEY MARGARET OTIS from the United Nations at Lake Success, told us yesterday afternoon the secretariat people who make the wheels go around are "dying to go to the Triple Cities" for Christmas. She said they don't know how many will accept the in-itations of Rotary Clubs, though. because they don't know yet how many people want the UN'ers for the holiday this year. Most of the 175 persons who came last year have been in Paris, and won't be back in the states until the third week of December.

The Bing-hamton Housing Authority has been receiving suggestion: that the new housing project to be built in the SixUi Ward in the spring be named uiter the late George F. Johnson. 'i'he authority also is considering suggestions that each of fire apartment buildings to make up the colony be named for separate individuals. Apparently more cats than dogs leads dogs lives. Appealing for funds, the Humane Society reports it has given shelter to 3,791 orphans of the storm during the last yean 1,692 dogs and 2,099 cats.

Some were put out of their misery. Others were given new homes. With these cew; City Hall taxes on cars, telephone' and electricity bills and entertain-; ment admission tickets in Bingham- ton, the Democrats are happily thinking of the campaign coming up next faiL They figure they've never had a better opportunity to accuse the Republicans of soaking the little guy eten though the Democratic minority in the City Council approved the whole city budget for 1949 after announcing its disapproval in principle of the cew taxps. Engineers building the vast New York City water supply dam at Downsville have a problem on their bands. In the sprawling reservoir area behind the dam, there are 3,880 bodies buried in nine rural cemeteries.

They've cot to be moved before the reservoir can be flooded. The long, tedious job of finding the next of kin is under way. Relatives of only 190 have been found so far. The search has taken the engineers as far away as the Deep South to set permission to have the bodies moved. Headstone information, public records and the memories of villagers all are gathered to facilitate the search.

No one has decided yet as to just how the job of moving all the bodies is to be carried out. With New York City footing the bill, either relatives can have funeral directors of their choice transfer the bodies for reburial beyond the boundaries of the reservoir, or the water supply people may advertise for bids for local undertakers to do the job. This is a policy matter as yet undecided. TIE PARKS DEPARTMENT'S zeal for exotica is mildly alarming to our fussier citizens, but not so much as to cause them to come out flatfootedly yet against the mouSon or the emu. On the other hand, we don't want to go about buying a mouSon in a poke.

After having put a tax on everything in sight, the City Council slipped the Parks Department $450 spending money to blow on two mouflons and two emus. Just so you won't have to sit there dully at dinner when somebody brings up Commissioner Marks Bump's latest enthusiasm, we've gone to no little trouble to bring you up to date. The emu (ee-myew) is a great big bird. It runs iery fast, due to the fact that somebody always is mistaking it for a cassowary. Why people chase cassowaries is another story altogether.

People always are picking on emus and, as a result the emu population has dropped off disturbingly and, out side of an occasional American zoo, they spend their time in big, open spaces in Australia so they can see their pursuers coming. rest of the time they spend eating fruit, roots and herbs, which they dig up with a hooklike claw that distinguishes them from ostriches. The Parks Department, as yet, has bought no ostriches. The mouSon, like most glamor-ously-named zoo inhabitants, turns out to be an anti-climax. It's just a sheep that comes from Sardinia and Corsica.

The male mouflon we get will have horns. His lady friend won't. Credit Women Plan Christmas Party Triple Cities Credit Women's Club will hold its annual Christ mas party Dec. 15 in the Ever glades. A reception at 6 p.

m. will iVl The United States will follow England in becoming Socialistic unless businessmen adopt a "more intelligent capitalistic program," the Binghamton Rotary Club wai told yesterday afternoon. The Rev. Richard M. McKeon, S.

director of the School of Industrial Relations at LeMoyne College, Syracuse, told the club at the Arlington Hotel that "big business" has made no construc tive proposals for the welfare of the "little men." "Instead, it has fought every phase of the social program of the government adopted in re cent years unemployment insur ance, the 40-hour week, child la bor laws, the right of collective bargaining and Social Security. It has offered no program of its own, only a negative appeal." MONOPOLIES CITED He asserted that the term "free enterprise" is a misnomer at pres ent because business and industry no longer can operate without be ing subject to government regula tions. Labor unions also prevent industry from operating in any way management see fit, he said. "Labor unions, he said, are accifted of forming labor monopolies. But so is big business responsible for forming ronopolies.

The steel industry, for example, is dominated by only seven companies." Father McKeon said that industry "views with suspicion" the desires of "the little guy" for security instead of attempting to cooperate with labor unions. PRAISES PROFIT-SHARING He praised concerns that have set up profit-sharing programs, asserting that firms that "honestly" share profits with employes contribute to "labor peace." He also expressed the opinion that concerns which adopt systems of "multiple management" in which employes take a part in operating companies are enjoying increased efficiency of operations. In conclusion, the speaker urged that labor and management should "cooperate" instead of fighting one anotLer." He said that if such cooperation were widespread, this nation could better fight Communism. Krochler to Give Service Awards Approximately 120 veteran employes of Kroehler Manufacturing Co. will attend the annual dinner of the Kroehler 20-Year Club at 7 p.

m. Monday at the company's new personnel service building in Ely Street. Awards will be presented employes with 25. 30, 35, 40, 45 and 50 years of service. Service pins also will be presented.

In former years, the company has presented diamond studded pins to employes for each successive five years of service after 20 years. Elmer A. Dagenais, Kroehler production control manager, will be toastmaster. Roy E. Cordrey, assistant plant manager, will welcome the group.

E. J. Kroehler, plant manager, will present the service awards. Maennerclior Plans For Dinner-Dance Members of the Triple Cities' Germania Maennerchor will hold their annual dinner-dance Thursday night at 7 o'clock in the Binghamton Elks' roof garden. Maennerchor groups from Syracuse, Corning and Elmira will be guests.

namton Press Photo. The group presented its ance in this city last year under auspices of the Triple Cities Civic Music Association. Its return appearance last night at the Capitol Theatre was no less impressive. The concert was the third in the association's 1948-49 series. Mr.

Stewart's musicians are well-disciplined. They play with cleanness and sonority, devoting the same precise attention to the contrapuntal intricacies of Bach as to the gay rhythms of Tschai-kowsky in his "Nutcracker Suite." BACH IN RIGHT MOOD The Bach music, which opened the orchestra's program, was adapted for the ballet suite, "The Wise Virgins" by William Walton, a contemporary composer, and Constant Lambert, a British conductor. Even ihough somewhat repressed and quitt, this is music of great emotional and spiritual power. The orchestra's treatment of it was eminently satisfactory. It knows how Bach should be played.

The conductor's reading of Cesar Franck's brooding, mystical symphony in minor was admirable in the first two movements, but somewhat stogy in the third, where contrast was lacking. The orchestra's string section performed with distinction in a new work, "Fantasia for Strings," by Peter Mennin of the faculty of the Juilliard School of Music. The orchestra's superb interpretation of the "Nutcracker Suite" proved again that very familiar music becomes boring through listless, careless performance, rather than through repetition alone. CALM AND SOBERING As encores, the Baltimore group offered Stravinsky's ballet music from "The Fire-Bird," and a Strauss waltz. The entire program was calm, reflective and sobering.

It might have been improved if a more tumultuous piece of music had been included. Nevertheless, it was an evening of excellent music, capably played by an excellent oicuesua. capacity audience indicated the orchestra was well worth a second hearing. A Let us hope the Civic Music Association brings us a major symphony orchestra each season. J.

B. It. Five Students Receive Honors Five Binehamton students have rfivpfl srholastic and extra curricular honors at Albany State Teachers College. Miss Agnes Mclntyre and Miss Catherine Donnelly nave Deen pleeted to represent the school in the Dublication. "Who's Who in American Colleges and Universi tips" Miss Mclntyre, a senior, is the daughter of Frank Mclntyre of 18 Goethe Street.

Miss Donnelly, also a senior, is the daughter of Mrs. Grace Donnelly, 10 Livingston Street. Mrs. Donnelly's son, Robert, has been elected to represent the class of 1952 in the Student Council. Miss Lorraine Rasmussen has been named to the dean list.

She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rasmussen, 19 Lockwood bueet. Monarch Club Elects Wood President William A. Wood has been elected president of the Binghamton Monarch Club.

He succeeds Robert F. O'Connell who was elected chairman of the board of governors. Other officers are: First vice-president, Harold West-faU; second vice-president, John Nelson; secretary, the Rev. George L. Tappan.

pastor of Ross Memorial Presbyterian Church; and treasurer, William Carr. Elected to the board of governors were: Harry Aiken, Charles Hardy, and Fourth Ward Republican Councilman Rollip L. Twining. Club officers also are board members. The club also announced that it will hold a Christmas party for Boy Scouts of the city on Dec.

15 at 7 p. m. in the Y. Jtf. C.

A. On Dec. 20, the club will hold a party for members of the Girls Club. The party will start at 6:30 p. m.

in the gymnasium at police headquarters. The Weather By V. S. Weather Bureau For Binghamton and Vicinity: Partly cloudy with, snow flurries and colder tonight, low near 25. Thursday mostly cloudy and continued cold, high about 34.

For Eastern New York: Clpudy and not as warm with some rain on the coast and snow flurries in west and north portions tonight. Thursday cloudy and cold. For Western New York: Snow flur ries, windy and cold tonight. Thurs day cloudy and cold witn snow nxeiy by night. Official temperature at midnight 43 Official temperature at 8:30 a.

m. today 36 Official temperature at 5 p. m. yesterday 51 Maximum temperature yesterday 53 Minimum temperature last night Mean year ago today was 42 Two years ago today it was 48 Five years ago today it was 35 Precipitation for last 24 hours to 10 a. m.

today None Sun ries Thursday at 7:20 a. m. Sun sets Thursday at 4:33 p. m. Temperatures In Other Cities H.

L. SO 39 53 44 43 31 49 SS 47 33 H. L. Albany Bostonjtfass. BuflalcN.Y.

Cnicaxo.El. Jacksonville 82 Miami.Fla. 83 New Orleans 19 53 New York 95 50 Philadelphia 50 44 Clave land.O. Pittsburgh? S3 33 DetrottJitidtu 39 Syracuse S3 33 Washington 57 43 Harris bur 89 1 i A 1 'T' cj l'A. iV' ifSkL i' IF: 14 "WK A I I vc- vl MtmkiAf A nil Binghamton Press Photo.

WEATHER IT'LL SNOW-The weather will be the concern of this new meteorological aid at the.United States Weather Station at Tri-Cities Airport. He' is William F. Mittelstadt, left, who assumes his duties this week under Gean Di Lauro, right, official in charge. TEACHERS ELECT NEW OFFICERS The second Broome County Supervisory Teachers Association elected officers last night at a dinner in Masonic Temple. Left to riht: Treasurer, Richard C.

Watson, Port Dickinson School; president, Edward Butler, Julius Borers School, Conklin; vice-president, Mrs. Ruth Conklin, Kirkwood School, and secretary. Miss Margaret L. Fredenburt, Vestal Central SchcsL Huron.S D. 0 precede dinner at 6:30 p.

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