The Sun and the Erie County Independent from Hamburg, New York • Page 1

ThB i I nn: mv.vu, milOlil III n'mf xjliliA 16 PAGES HAMBURG, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1978 Edwards Outlines 'Positive' Benefits VOL. 103 NO. 41 Enrollment Drop Of 312 Is Seen By Area Schools There will be about 312 fewer students and 20 less teachers in the Eden, Frontier and Hamburg school districts when classes resume on Sept. 6. Projections by school officials follow; will be about 115 fewer children for a total enrollment of 2.295 and a faculty drop of 8't positions for 142.5 positions.

The elementary pupil registration will drop from 1,107 to 1,022 while the secondary figures decline from 1,303 to 1,273. Frontier: Enrollment is expected to drop by 127 students for a total pupil population of 6,241. Seven teaching positions have been cut for a new faculty total of 331. Elementary students show a decline from 3,231 to 3,063. Secondary enrollment is up from 3,137 to 3.178.

Hamburg: Total enrollment should dip by 70 for a new total of 5,500 youngsters. There will be six fewer teachers for a 352 faculty total. Elementary school registration should drop from 2,670 to 2,645. Secondary figures drop from 2,900 to 2.855. llilbert Awarded Grants of $43,800 For Learning Labs Two grants totaling $43,800 will allow I Elbert College to establish course laboratories simulating a modern office for business students and a florist shop for the floriculture curriculum, it was announced this week by Dr.

Carmen Notaro, vice-president for development. The first grant of over $41,800 is through the Grants Administration Unit of the New York State Department of Education. The funds will be used to develop an Office SimulationBusiness Resource Laboratory, ihe first in a Western New York College, whereby an actual office with paneling, telephones, and up-to-date equipment will be created in which Secretarial Science students will work in a realistic business setting. Mrs. Adele G.

Nowak, the Project Director, believes "the simulation. lab will develop and improve secretarial, clerical, administrative, supervisory, and human relations skills." Another $2000 grant from the Kenneth Post Foundation, a private page 13 Eden Schools List Opening Plans, Pupil Schedules, Hew Teacher Orientation Village Floats Truck Bond Mayor Objects Over the strenuous objection of Mayor Karl A. Henry the Hamburg Village Board on Monday night authorized a $51,000 bond issue for the purchase of a garbage packer truck for the Department of Public Works. Terming the bond issue "fiscally unsound," Mayor Karl A. Henry said the village has an unrestricted fund balance of $120,000 from last year which could be used to avoid increasing bonded indebtedness.

When money is already available you don't go out and borrow more, said the mayor. "That's like having a rich uncle die and leave you a good inheritance, you wouldn't go out and borrow money if you had just come in to a lot of it," said Mayor Henry. Other board members however felt the village was better off to keep the fund balance in interest bearing accounts which could earn more money than the village would pay out in borrowing. The" board referred to the Department of Public Works, a formal complaint filed by the page 13 Opening Schedules High, levels 7-9 is on Division Street at Legion Drive and the Hamburg Senior High, 10-12 is on Legion Drive. Classes for the district's students will begin with a full day on Sept.

6. There will be a staff day for teachers Sept. 5. Detailed information including the bus schedule for public and non-public students, will be mailed to district residents in the Board of Education publication, "The Focus" prior to Labor Day. For information call 649-6850.

camera equipment and other tools. On further checking Sgt. Harter discovered another auto with a forced window and bearing Ohio plates. This car was traced to Edward Hood of Cincinnati who with his wife and two children were asleep in the motel. The youth who fled apparently damaged a numbei of ignitions in Ford cars in an effort to find an escape vehicle.

He is well known to Buffalo police and a warrant is out for his arrest. Chief Conroy and the Hood family were united in their praise of Sgt. Harter efficient police work. TOWN BOARD TO MEET TUESDAY The Hamburg Town Board will hold a special meeting next Tuesday (Aug. 29) at 10 a.m..

in Hamburg Town Hall to clean up interim business prior to its next regular meeting on Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. Of Budget Cuts Hamburg Town Councilman Thomas Edwards in campaign bid for mandated self-imposed budget reductions by the Hamburg Town Board, declared this week that such a tax saving policy would encourage new home construction and sales and increase town departmental efficiency. "By definition everybody benefits," said Edwards, "the town and the taxpayer." Speaking Monday night at meeting of the United Association of Hamburg Taxpayers in Hamburg Town Hall, Mr. Edwards outlined four positive attributes of the program; Hamburg taxpayers would know immediately that they would realize some savings during 1979.

New home construction and residential sales would tend to increase if the building trades and prospective homeowners 'knew' that the town tax rate was leveling out. Budget proposals by various Departments of Town Government page 4 Elementary School, 3000 School-view Road, Eden. Students in grades five through eight should register with Chris Frauenhofer, Principal of the Middle School, 8289 North Main Street, Eden. Ninth through twelfth grade students are requested to register at the Senior High School, 3150 Schoolview Road, with Bernard Frawley, Director of Guidance and Pupil Personnel. School time schedules for 1978-79 will be as follows; High School Grades 9-12 7:45 a.m.

p.m.: Middle School Grades 5-8 9:30 a.m.-3:20 p.m.; rover L. Priess Grade 4 8:30 a.m. p.m.; Graver L. Priess Grades K-3 8:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.; Graver L. Priess AM Kindergarten 8:30 a.m.-ll:00 a.m.

The three route transportation system will again be followed for 1978-79. Time schedules and corresponding transportation routing will be similar to last year. Students in grades 9-12 will be picked up on the first route which begins about 7 to 7:10 a.m. The second route for students in grades K-4 will start at about 7:50 a.m., followed by a third route for Middle School students at 8:35 a.m. Pupils are requested to be at their pick-up points at least 10 minutes earlier than usual during the first week of school until a "stop time" has been established.

A more precise schedule will be published in the Board of Education Newsletter. It is anticipated that approximately 2300 pupils will report to the Eden schools this year. The Senior High School expects an enrollment of approximately 875 with 750 students scheduled for the Middle School. The Graver L. Priess Elementary School anticipates 675 pupils to be in attendance.

Hamburg Schools List Students new to the Hamburg Central School District are asked to register as soon as possible at the school they will attend in September. All of the seven school offices are open daily from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. There are five elementary schools in the district; Armor Elementary, K-6, Abbott Road; Boston Valley Elementary, K-6, Back Creek Road, Boston, N.Y.) Charlotte Avenue, Pre-K-6, Charlotte Avenue; Union Street, K-3, Union Street and Pleasant Avenue, 4-6, Pleasant Avenue. The Hamburg Junior MS.

BRIDGET M. BRENNAN Village Karnes First Woman Police Officer Hamburg on Monday night became the first Erie County village to hire a fulltime woman police officer as the Village Board approved the appointment of Ms. Bridget M. Brennan of West Ave. on the recommendation of Police Chief Francis Conroy.

Also named was Gary S. Leavitt, a Hamburg High School graduate, village resident and step son of retired police Sgt. Lawrence Nye. Both were chosen from civil service lists. An Eden native and senior social -welfare examiner for the Erie County Social Services Department since 1973 Ms.

Brennan is a graduate of Eden High School and the Erie Community College-North in occupational therapy. She has also taken courses at the University of Buffalo. Chief Conroy, about the appointment, said he believed Ms. Brennan would be a "great asset to the department giving- us greater flexibility." Ms. Brennan and Levitt will begin a 16 week course Sept.

4 in the Training Academy of the Erie County Central Police Services. McKnight Appointment 'Coup' for Town Supervisor Leo J. Fallon this week described the town's employment of George McKnight as planning and development head as "a coup" for the town with 75 of Mr. McKnight's salary being met by stale and federal funds. Mr.

Fallon made his statement in answer to David Durfee, Hamburg Republican Town chairman, who in a letter to the Sun last week questioned McKnights credentials and charged the town board with in creating the position in face of rising taxes. "The planning position is not new," said Fallon. "It was created by the town board in 1970 and abolished in 1972. Thereafter the responsibilities were handled by planning consultants." The Town Board determined over a year ago that consultants were not the answer to its planning needs. But, until the hiring of Mr.

McKnight, we were unsuccessful in obtaining someone with the desired qualifications. page 13 Village Police Sgt. David Harter Stops Theft From Auto at Holiday Inn Here The Board of Education of the Eden Central School District this week announced the opening plans for the 1978-79 school year. New members of the teaching staff, will participate in an orientation program planned to acquaint new teachers with school district procedures and individual building operations. On Sept.

5, a general faculty meeting has been planned for the entire staff. Teachers will report at 8:30 a.m. to their assigned buildings for organization meetings with the school principals. Pupils in grades K-12 will report to their schools on Wednesday, Sept. 6, at the usual starting time.

Classes will be held for a full day session except for half-day kindergarten. Elementary student assignments have been given to parents informing them which section their child will attend. Parents are requested to register all pupils new to the district during the week of August 21-25. Late registrations will also be accepted on August 28-29. Pupils in grades kindergarten through four should register with Norman Moore, Principal, at the Graver L.

Priess MAIM STRUT TO It mURfACID Hamburg Mayor Karl A. Henry this week said he expected that Main St. between Lake and Buffalo recently scraped down to restore curb heights would be resurfaced within the next week or so. The scarifying operation had been intended only to lower the pavement level without damaging the surface. However this did not prove to be the case and a new lopping will be applied.

The alertness of Hamburg Village Police Sergeant David Harter early Monday morning landed a Buffalo youth in the Erie County Holding Center and returned $1,000 worth of personal property stolen from a vacationing Ohio family. Charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and felonious possession of stolen property and burglary tools was Christopher D'Angelo, 16, of 683 West Buffalo. He was remanded to the Holding Center by Village Justice Donald McKenna in lieu of $4,500 bail following arraignment later Monday. His suspected companion escaped. While on routine patrol about a.m.

Sgt. Harter saw what he described as "suspicious men" in the Holiday Inn parking lot. Harter said he saw one man leave a car and enter another as the second man ran from the area as the police car approached. Checking the cm with the other man in it, Harter found the engine running but with no key in the ignition. The vehicle turned out to be stolen.

In its back seat were clothing,.