Press and Sun-Bulletin from Binghamton, New York • 5

She Served Schools 48 Years 200 Families Seek Apartments In Veterans Housing Colonies I BINGHAMTON PRESS 5 July 13, 1950 600 Jobs In Prospect Miss Healey, Starting Retirement, Worries About High School Music Lived Here Once Greek Suggests City Adopt Village There In a 'letter' to "His Excellence, Mayor Donald Kramer," Costas Calazas of Athens, Greece, proposes that the City of Binghamton adopt the village of Miniki, Greece. The letter was received by the mayor's office today. Worker Hurt As Torch Ignites Gas A flaming acetylene torch contacted leaking gas and touched off a fire which burned one construction worker and brought firemen to the new $1,000,000 Court Street widening project this morning. Squad crew members, using high pressure fog line, quickly extinguished the blaze after it broke out at Court and Oliver Streets. Joseph Drotar, 40, of 29 St.

Cyril Avenue, who was using the torch, was taken to City Hospital for treatment of burns of the face, left hand and neck. He was to be discharged later today. GIVEN FIRST AID' Mr. Drotar, employed by the Stento Construction of Bing -iff dental to the Job of taking part in music." The young music teacher today, she said, helps her students to feel music through body response clapping and stepping out the rhythms. Music appreciation also has been expanded by the use of the phonograph and radio and the integration of music with other subjects, such as social studies.

SYRACUSE GRADUATE Miss Healey completed her college training at Syracuse University. She also did graduate work at Teachers College, Columbia University, and received public school music training under the late Dr. Hollis Dann, noted New York music education teacher. During the summer, she has taught music at Albany State Teachers College and Pennsylvania State College. Her interest in music has not been confined to the schools.

She is one of the founders of the Triple Cities Civic Music Association and stjll assistant treasurer. She was secretary of the Music Section of the New York State Teachers Asociation for many years and is a member of many musical organizations in the Triple Cities. Miss Healey, who lives at 12 Schubert Street, comes from a family of educators. Her sister. Mrs.

Helena Wilson, is principal of Florence Nightingale School. Another sister, the late Mary G. Healey, was vice-principal of the old Alfred Street Schoot. Miss Healey's nephew. Fowler Wilson, is now carrying on the tradition.

He completed his first year of teaching at Thomas Jefferson School last month. By JEAN B. REEVES Binghamton Press Staff Writer Miss Kate L. Healey has packed away her books, but she is still keeping time with the The tiny, energetic woman, who shared her great love of music with thousands of Binghamton school pupils during her -48-year teaching retired this week as director of music in city schools. She had served in the post for 32 years.

Retirement will give Miss Healey time to resume her own study of piano. But she is still concerned about the music problems of our schools. She said she is "apprehensive" about senior high school music, because no definite, organized musical activity is provided for the great mass of boys and girls who are' non-performers. A SUGGESTION Expanding vocal music activities by establishing choruses and clubs. Miss Healey declared, "would reach the majority of students." In this way, she added, "the purpose of music teaching helping children to love music and to choose correct musical values would be achieved." Methods of teaching music have changed radically since Miss Healey, braced by a diploma from Cortland Normal School, began her first teaching job in the Binghamton-schools.

"I those days," she recalled, "we tried to inculcate a love of music in the hearts of our pupils through drilling on the skills note reading and beating of McAvoy Bias Place IFor Tfimig "There's only one place for a person who has a total disregard for law and order and that is prison." That was Broome County Judge Tuscarora or Johnson? Wide Range of Names Suggested, for TG College Dr. S. L. Cave Starts Work At Howard Dr. Sergil L.

Cave, son of Mrs. Marguerite Cave of 112 Susquehan na Street, has begun a year of Triple Cities College may be renamed for a prominent area industrialist or the Tuscarora Indians. These possibilities represent the range of suggestions being offered by area residents, in response" to an appeal In Tri-Cities Industry to Offer Only 200 Openings Six hundred job openings are expected to become available in the Triple Cities in the next 60 days but only 200 of them will be in industry. This job picture was painted today by Charles F. Rose, manager of the Division of Placement and Unemployment Insurance of the State Department of Labor in Binghamton, as he reported that the number of persons seeking work in the area had dropped by about 500 in the last month.

Mr. Rose based his prediction on data obtained from representative employers last month before the United States entered the Korean war. War developments, he said, may substantially change the job picture in the industrial field if local plants are given military orders soon. 200 BY CONTRACTORS Besides the 200 new jobs In Industry, he said, about 200 more jobs are expected to be provided by 33 contractors and an equal number of retail and wholesale establishments. Number of job-seekers listed with the emplnyr ment office has dropped from about 6,000 to 5,500 in the last month.

He said the employment office found jobs for 1,013 persons last about the same number of jobs found in June. 1949. Aside from the construction and wholesale and retail fields, jobs were "scattered." MOSTLY IN METALS In the industrial field, where 153 jobs were found last month, most of the new openings were in t'ne metal and metal products fields. Number of jobs found in industry last month, however, was' smaller than in June. 1949, when 274 openings were filled through Mr.

Rose's office 121 more than during the last month. Jobs for 136 were found last month in the construction field, as against 105 jobs found in June, 1949. In the retail and wholesale fiie service field. 105 last month compared with 83 in comparable month last year. the Puerto Jlican Workers New York (n More workers were being flown in from Puerto Rico today to help with crops in New Jersey and Upstate New York.

SEE RIGHT! FEEL RIGHT! LOOK RIGHT! 24-HOlR SERVICE (Prescription Permitting) EYES EXAMINED 32 Court St. 1 Flight Up Next Poor Jo Hamlin'i 1950- lFASHION-5 study and teaching in the Depart- fields, 294 jobs were found in con-ment of Pathology at Howard Uni- trast to 257 in June, 1949, and Mr. Costas informed Mayor Kramer that he once lived in Bing hamton and said that perhaps some society would undertake to sponsor the village if the city were unwilling to do so as a municipal project. The letter was held for Major Kramer who is on vacation in Arizona. DESCRIBES COMMUNITY Mr.

Costas wrote: "I fully understand how busy you are running the beautiful City of Binghamton, in which I lived for five years, some 20 years ago. "But being sick of rheumatism in hospital here in Athens gave me the chance to think for somebody else besides myself, and those are a few families, a hundred of them, who after the War 2, and after the rebel war, are In bad shape, although they are hard working people, honest and very good people in whole. "The village that I am speaking of is named Miniki and is outside of Karpenissi four miles and from Athens is about, if I remember well, 200 miles. Good auto road goes there and the village itself is what they called, before the war, picturesque upon a hill, full of pine trees and oak trees. Its residents are healthy.

"In suggesting this matter to you. Mr. Mayor, I took all things in mind and I thought that while a small help to them would be encouraging, especially now in the time of repatriation, to you it would cost very little. COMMON PRACTICE "Many American cities have adopted cities and villages Greece. This adoption, as they usually call it here, wouldn't cost you any considerable amount of money and still your city would be on the head line of charity "It would give the Binghamton riHpnts a chance to clean up their cellar or attic as anything and everything woiild be useful to tnem in that village It nrobablv would give you or to some member of your Board of 1 a chance to come to Greece and visit this wonderful little vil- lage.

From Athens, we'd go up to- gether there. "I hope this, Mr. Mayor, will! interest you. You talk it over withr and if vou like it all right. Otherwise, please be kind, and give it to some society that you think would be interested in my suggestion." County Employes To Get Rays A drive for free chest X-raying of the state's non-institutional employes in Broome County will open July 18.

A mobile unit of the state Health Department will be stationed at the Binghamton District headquarters of the Public Works Department on July 18 from 2 to 4 p. m. and" July 19 from 9 to 12 for state employes of the county other than those employed in institutions. Approximately 22,000 non-institutional state employes have taken advantage of the program to date. Six centers of the upstate population already have been visited by the portable units.

Hub Caps WorthS 10 Stolen From Auto A Binghamton man told police yesterday someone has removed two hub caps from his 1948 Stude-baker car. R. C. Moses, of 10 Carlton Street, who asked police to investigate, said the hub caps valued at $10 were taken sometime between 4 p. m.

Tuesday and 11 a. m. Wednesday. He said his car was parked in an unlocked garage over Tuesday night. hamton, which holds a contract for the work, received first-aid for burns'at the scene of the fire.

Fire Chief William D. Thomas said Mr. Drotar was using the torch to cut sub-pavement rails formerly used" by street cars. He said gas leaking from a main in the south side of the street came in contact with the flame and began to burn. Chief Thomas said the medium main may have been broken or weakened by the dropping of a heavy maul, which has been used to break up the pavement as work progresses eastward on the" south side of the street.

Chief Thomas said the resulting blaze was small and that he considered delaying use of the high pressure line until representatives of the Binghamton Gas Co. arrived. WON'T USE TORCHES "The boss there assured me they would not use acetylene torches for cutting said. "They will pull the rails out, using a steam shovel to raise them up and then break them off." The chief said he had been told by the representatives of the gas company that there was no danger of the gas igniting in homes in the area. He said engineers informed him that the main in question is a medium main.

Leaks will be capped wherever found during the present digging operations, he said. Chief Thomas said he was told by the engineers that ultimately the main on the south side of the street will be replaced by a new mam on the north side of Court Street. Machine Causes Finger Injury Richard Hanson, 28, an engineer for the General Ice Cream was taken to City Hospital this morning after the middle finger of his left hand was caught between a pulley and a belt on a machine. Mr. Hanson, who lives at 44 Torrance Avenue, Vestal, suffered a laceration of the finger and possible fracture.

He was being X-rayed this afternoon. Eighteen month old Dennis White, of Horseheads, was treated at the hospital for a laceration of the forehead. Hospital attendants said the boy is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Dorothy Slakta. of 31 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Mrs. Slatka said the boy fell at home. Cowhands Shun Disputed Range All things considered, the five cowboys thought it best to clear out. Police said today this was the settlement reached yesterday in a disagreement between a Gaines Street woman and five youngsters who were playing cowboys and using some of her property as a "range." The woman asked police to intervene and Patrolman William D. Mares later reported: "I talked to the boys and the complainant at the same time, and the boys decided they wouldn't play there anymore." Daniel J.

McAvoy's comment today as he sentenced Frank Ashley, 19, of 92 State Street, to the Recep tion Center at Elmira on a burglary charge. "I hope the state prison authorities will send you to a vocational school and teach you a trade and that it will be the turning point in your life," said Judge Mc- Avoy. The judge recalled that young Ashley was "one of the first juve nile delinquents to come befpre me when I was judge of Chil dren Court. "You have cost the local tax- pavers a lot of money in wasted effort on the part of authorities to help you get straightened out, Judge McAvoy told the young de fendant. "You've been a habitual of fender and, although the authori ties have given you chance after chance, you appear determined to disregard the law," the judge said.

"So I am going to send you to prison where perhaps you'll learn there is a right and wrong way of doing things," Judge McAvoy told Ashley. The defendant was indicted on the felony charge in April along with Joseph Paul Skiba, 16, of Crandall Street. Young Skiba's case is still pending. The youths were accused by detectives of burglary at a Conklin Avenue drugstore. fxr QJ I CJIIl VllY I nlrp lnvt" -A-V A In Sokol Meet Thirty-five members of Binghamton Catholic Slovak Sokols will participate in a weekend of calis-thenic displays at the group's fifteenth annual national field meet.

The exhibition will open tomorrow in Kirby Park, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Binghamton participants will be: Miss Barbara Valent, Miss Betty Ann Oswald. Miss Patricia Kucera. Miss Mary Ann Jahelka. Miss Pat Simandel, Miss Beatrice Morgan.

Miss Betty Vat-ral and Miss (Barbara Kosicky. Also, Miss Barbara Drotar. the Misses Bernice and Sylvia Kumpon, Miss Ann Cibula, Miss Carol Macek, Miss Dolores Jones, Miss Patricia On-drako and Miss Marjone Joblonsky. Also. Miss Leila Reynolds.

Miss Virginia Bichta, Miss Mary Pavlik. the Misses Dolores and Barbara Barvin-chak. Miss Mary Komacek and Miss Marilyn 'Jachimowicz. Also. Robert Sedlak, Gerald Oswald.

Donald Murphy, Leo Heavery. Paul and Thomas Simandel. John Koman-cek. Rudolph Sedlak. Ronald Lesko.

William Morgan. David Kucera and Martin Pignatelli. Girls are under the direction of Miss Mary Pavlik. John Kliment is supervising the boys. Director of the Binghamton group is Ste phen Kucera.

The exhibition will close bunciay afternoon with a demonstration -of rhythmic calisthenics in Artillery Park, Wilkes-Barre. A convention, celebrating the forty-fifth year of the organization's founding, will follow the calisthenic display. Binghamton delegates are Michael Polacek, Felix Habala, Mrs. Neil Kubik and John Kliment. Big Jump In Bids Reported A substantial increase in the number of applicants for apartments in the city's emergency veterans housing colonies was reported today by Jack A.

Valada, special deputy comptroller in charge of veterans housing. Mr. Valada said there was relatively little pressure for housing in the first five months he was supervisor of the project. This picture has changed in the last month, however, he said. "There are about 200 families Mho are desperate for places to live," Mr.

Valada asserted. Principal reason for the hunt for places to live, he said, is the dispossessing of tenants by purchasers of houses who want them for their own use. Completion of the Binghamton Housing Authority 166-unit low-rent housing project in the Sixth Ward will relieve pressure to some extent, Mr. Valada said. He estimated that the housing euthority would accept approximately 40 families now living in the emergency quarters.

"I'll have those 40 apartments filled immediately with families with applications on file," he as-erted. Mr. Valada said that he has, renewed a request to City Council to appropriate $5,000 for main tenance of the veterans apartments in the Fifth end Sixth Wards. The' money is urgently needed, he reported, because of the deterioration of the apartments. When council adopfd the 1950 city budget, it eliminated $4,500 ef the appropriation for repairs to the bnildings.

Woman Hurt But How She Doesn't' Know 34-year-old Binghamton woman today is in Wilson Memorial Hospital, Johnson City, for treatment of injuries she doesn't remember receiving. She is Mrs. Marion Laviska of 597 State Street. She received multiple abrasions, a fractured right leg and a fractured right ring finger. Hospital attendants reported her condition as good.

Mrs. Laviska was taken to the hospital shortly after 11 o'clock night in the hospital ambulance. She told attendants when admitted she didn't know how she received the injuries. Her husband, Theodore Laviska, said today that his wife told him she was crossing State Street, "and that's all she knew." Mr. Laviska said he believes his wife was hit by a car Binghamton police and detectives have no record of an accident in State Street last night, they reported today.

100 at Eagles Auxiliary Convention More than 100 women are in Endicott today attending opening sessions of a three-day state convention of the Women's Auxiliary to the Fraternal Order of Eagles Members of the Auxiliary of Endicott Aerie 2269 are hostesses to the group. Endicott's Mayor C. Burdette Parkhurst gave the welcoming address this morning. The invocation was given by the Rev. Mi chael L.

Dacey, assistant pastor of Endicott's St. Anthony of Padua Church. Officers were seated by the Gloversville Auxiliary degree team. Reports were given by-three retiring state officers. They were Mrs.

Frances Woock of Lock-port, state president; Mrs. Frances Bcntley of Middletown, state ser-retary, and Mrs. Doris Manzer of Utica, treasurer. After a brief luncheon recess, the convention convened again at 2 p. m.

Reports of internal committees were scheduled. Nomination of new oficers was to take place. Delegates planned to spend the remainder of the afternoon in a tour of the Triple Cities. Donald Manzer of Utica, president of the state aerie, will give the principal talk at a dinner tonight at the Eagles clubhouse. At 7.30 p.

m. members will meet in the Endicott Moose Clubhouse to attend a memorial service for deceased members. New state officers will be elected tomorrow morning and will be installed in the afternoon sessions. Group Endorses Knauf Candidacy Assemblyman Richard H. Knauf was endorsed for renomination at the Aug.

22 Republican primary by the Fenton-Dickinson Young Men's Republican Club last night, President Victor Vaccaro said. Mr. Knauf is ieing opposed in the GOP primary by John H. Man-gan, Binghamton attorney and former Fourth Ward councilman. The endorsement of Mr.

Knauf was unanimous and was based on his legislative record, Mr. Vaccaro said. versitv Medical School, Washington. D. C.

A 1947 graduate of Howard. Dr. Cave interned at Harlem Hospi- tal in New York City. He has com- pleted two years as resident physi cian in the l)e-, partment of Obstetrics and Gyne 1 at Mercy Douglass Hospital, Phila- dr. cave aeipnia.

i'a. Upon completing his present work in pathology. Dr. Cave will train for his ultimate goal the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr.

Cave was graduated from Binghamton North High School as valedictorian in 1940. A survey taken by a Harvard expedition in 1948 showed that natives of the Aleutian Islands are almost completely free of heart disease. i FAMILY POLIO POLICY AND COMPLETE COVERAGE FOR FIRE AUTOMOBILE BONOS COMPENSATION LIABILITY MARK A. GOFFA 192 Clinton St. 3-2752 or 6-2818 mjj I MISS KATE L.

HEALEY time. The approach was all mathematics. NEED FOR MUSIC "Today we realize that not everyone can learn or will need to know how to read music when he grows up. But everyone will need the recreational and spiritual uplift which music, especially group singing, can give. "The attitude of boys and girls toward music is our concern," she explained, "because they are the audiences of tomorrow.

"We want to teach pupils the fundamentals of music in such a. way that they are merely inci ceived by them include "Clinton College," in honor of a famous old New York State family; "Whitney College" for Joshua Whitney, one i the founders of Binghamton; "Broome 1 1 "Tuscarora College," "Chenango College." "Susquehanna College" (there already is one, at Selinsgrove. "Southern Tier College," "York College," "Empire College," "Hudson College" and "Triple Cities College." All suggestions will be turned over to the State University trustees. Triple Cities College, operated at Endicott since 1946 by Syracuse University, will become part of the State University Sept. 1.

Currently housed in temporary buildings in Endicott, the college ultimately will be relocated on a Town of Union tract donated by Mr. Watson. Bus Strike Avoided Elmira (JP) AFL bus drivers hae accepted a five-cent hourly pay raise retroactive to June 1, thereby averting a bus strike set for tomorrow. i Gold Medal Fashion Award Winner of 1950 CROSLEY Shelvador VP Easy Terms Schwab FURNITURE 109 WASHINGTON STREET Sq. Yd.

03 by officials of the State University. Last Friday, Dr. Alvin C. Eurich, president of the State University's board of trustees urged Broome County residents to submit suggested names for the new four-year state liberal arts colleges. Readers of this newspaper have been asked to submit such suggestions to the editor of The Press, who will forward them to the uni versity trustees.

DEADLINE JULY 20 Deadline for the suggestions is July 20, according to Dr. Eurich, who points out that the naming of the college "is not a contest in any sense." Only restriction is that no unit of the State University may be named for any person now living. In spite of this, several persons have suggested "Watson College," for Thomas J. Watson, chairman of board of International Business Machines and donor of a site for the expanded college. Among proposed names received by The Binghamton Press are "Empire State College, Watson College," "Johnson College," for the late George F.

Johnson, founder of Endicott Johnson and "Watson-Johnson College" for koth industrialists. TUSCARORA COLLEGE One Press reader suggests "Tuscarora College." pointing out that he Southern Tier is rich in Indian lire and once was inhabited by the Tuscarora Indians, a sub-tribe of the Iroquois. Other suggestions from Press readers include "Southern York University," "Henry DeWitt Watson College," for the late Dr. Henry D. Watson, Binghamton physician who died recently.

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Burdette Parkhurst, left, welcomes leaders of the second annual state convention of the Women's Auxiliary to the Fraternal Order of Eagles which opened today in Endicott. Left to right: Mayor Parkhurst, Mrs. Mollie Reif, Endicott auxiliary president, Mrs. Frances Woock of Lockport, state president, the Rev. Michael L.

Dacey, who gave the invocation, and Mrs. Dorothy 1 Wilkins, immediate past state president. MONEY HEREC.