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

Haaborg Free Library Center Street Hamburg, N.Y. 9-26 See $7 Village Tax Drop; Table Apartment Proposal TTIHII3 HAMBURG fund for $197,890. A complete JSk soura TOWNS HAMBURG. N. APRIL 8, 1965 Vol.

90 No. 31 An li fe Mayor Joseph J. Castiglia Mid Monday tint an anticipated decrease of $7 per $1000 assessed valuation for village taxpayers is expected for the 1965-66 fiscal year. The drop is the largest decrease on the tax rate in several years. An estimated $120,000 in sales ux revenue was responsible for the drop, the mayor said.

The projected rate is $24.79 per $1000. The taxable assessed valuation is $15,384,425, up about $141,000 from last year. The real estate Ux levy will raise $380,764 of the total budget of $857,308. General fund expenditures account for $649,418 and the water NATIONAL CofC. WEEK APRIL 4-10, 1965 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Chamber Marks Own Observance 'Week' The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, which throughout the year is busy promoting a host of business and civic activities and observances, is marking its own The 65-year-old local Chamber is celebrating National Chamber of Commerce Week through this Saturday.

Miss Edith Hall, veteran full-time secretary of the Chamber, holds down its Main St. offices and coordinates activities among 224 active members. Miss Hall observed this week that "almost 100 per cent of our physicians and other professional men support the Chamber." The see page 1 8 jf occurrence have been told, but few Hamburg urea residents know that five members of the Grand Army of the Republic who were with Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 0, 1865 were also from Hamburg, or later settled here. One of them is credited with saving one of four copies of the surrender document. They included Copt.

Norris II. Alberger and Joseph A. Taylor, members of the 24th N. Y. Vol '2l L-Mil IT IjL Lee signs the surrender terms at the McLean Sketch is one of several versions of the historic occurrence on April 9, 1865.

Hamburg Captain Saved Lee Surrender Copy breakdown of departmental appropriations, revenues and recommendations mill be made at the public hearing on the proposed budget next Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Village Hall. The mayor added that if the proposed local law for the uniform sewer rental is passed by the board, taxes may go down another per $1000. In his annual meeting message Monday the mayor praised the work of 1 page 3 Pre-School Clinic Erie Comity Health Depart-lent physicians and nurses will be at the Community Center this Wednesday from 9 to 19 aja. for the pre-eehool immunisation clinic for Hamborr youngsters, three months to years.

Diptheria. totalis, whooping cough, polio and smallpox immunizations are offered. Area GOP Split At Showdown Time Area Republican committeeman appeared to be split in their preferences as the showdown meeting of the county committee was scheduled to take place yesterday. Results of the ward and town voting will determine the future leadership of the Erie County Republican party. Over the weekend a split In Hamburg party leadership was evident, with Town Committee secretary Morgan F.

Goodwin announcing his endorsement of incumbent chairman Robert W. Grimm. Previously, Town Chairman Gerald Cullen, an old Grimm foe who lost a seat on the county executive committee cause of his opposition, said that about 60 of the town's 90 committeemen would support challenger Thomas W. Ryan. see page 2 quarter ending April 1 to the hearing, for the sewer rental will be based upon this quarter of water He indicated that individual costs would be estimated on the basis of these bills.

1 A Municipal Board Including see page 2 IS 7TU 20 PAGES Copt. Morris H. Alberger, who made one of few copies of famous Appomatox surrender by Lee, is shown (fifth from left) in front row of this 1890 reunion of CAR veterans at Erie County Fairgrounds. Gen. W.

Newberry is behind his right shoulder. Other Hamburg Civil War veterans identified are Joseph Taylor, second row far right and Eugene frank, far left. Gen. Lee rode to the Court House a century ago tomorrow (below, in sketch by Civil War artist Alfred ft. Waud).

unteer Cavalry, Henry Michael, Theodore Barten and Ausel Fritts. All later became members of N. J. Swift Post 440 of the GAR, the Hamburg unit of-Civil War veterans. Joseph Taylor was the grandfather of Mrs.

Sherwood B. Sip-prcll of Stevens Hamburg town historian and long-time area history researcher. Mrs. Sipprell cites the research see page 3 that the best possible school budget can be built to adequately serve the district at a tax rate which the people will support," a spokesman said. The board also set June 16th as the time for voting on candidates for board of education vacancies.

This vote will be by machine and will be conducted in the Junior high school building, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. Petitions nominating candidates for the office of member of the board of education, must see page 20 4 vote. They are board vice president Clifford O'Melia and John Barber, both of whose Ave year terms expire on June 30. They have not indicated their intention of seeking their own vacancies as of yet.

Deadline for nominating petitions is April 21. sea Village Sewer Rental Plan Is Up For Hearing Tonight Eden Moves Budget Vote Up To June; Cites State Delay One hundred years ago tomor-' row, at the Virginia farm house that would become history. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant accepted the final surrender of the Confederacy from Gen.

Robert E. Lee. Hundreds of accounts of that Budget Talk Tonight The first of three informational meetings on the 1965-66 Hamburg Central School District hud-get will take place at 8 tonight in the Legion Dr. high school. Other meetings are scheduled for next Tuesday and Wednesday, April 28, both at 8 p.m.

The PTA will provide coffee, the League of Women Voters brochures on school financing and residents are expected to bring the questions. I'm a. A in; Him Eden Central School District residents will vote on their 1965-66 budget and elect two members of the board of education about five weeks later than normal as the result of board action last week. The board said that because of the districts lateness of the Legislature in acting on state aid, the annual meeting will be June 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Junior-senior high school bulldlng.v "The board feels that certain variable factors In state financial assistance must be determined so A proposal which would establish a uniform sewer rental formula for the village will be up for public hearing this evening at 8 in the Village Hall on Main St.

Trustee Leon L. Lancaster, author of the proposed local law, said that the plan would absorb the cost of improvements to the existing 40-year-old village sanitary sewer system and expand it to meet the expected demand from new residents. He indicated that an overall reduction of $3.35 Per $1000 (issessed valuation would be effected by the new system. Mr. Lancaster suggested that interested village homeowners bring their water bills for the last Plan New Fire Hall On Buffalo at Maple The Village Board Monday authorized an option for purchase of the property at 199 Buffalo ht for construction of a new fire nail.

The site was a former filling station and is owned by Mrs. Jane Emerllng. Fire Commissioner F. Gilbert egory noted that. access would available both on Buffalo and rtne Sts.

The present Center St house would be closed and village property on Euclid and wnanotte originally purged for hall, will be sold. Frontier Citizens Unit Outlines Trustee Criteria nuwwanir nw visit oy nomowr8 The Citizens Committee for the Frontier Schools, organized last year in the wake of the district's two successive budget defeats, has outlined a nine-point "qualification for board member" criteria for next month's trustee election. Vacancies of two incumbent trustees will be Ailed in the May week when fiamourg scouts gave a parry icr me win scouts ot the Lackawanna institution, now undergoing a development campaign for a new building. Elizabeth Oberg and Pam Dinka of Troop 598, sponsored by Trinity Church, serve Milagros Dial nd Deborah Wiggins..