Chronicle-Express (Newspaper) - November 18, 1954, Penn Yan, New York In Yates County Nearly Everyone Reads The CHRONICLE EXPRESS NOW 130 BUT NEW EVERY THURSDAY Convert That Old Article You No Longer Use Into Cash With A For Sale Ad Volume Number 1753 PENN YAN N Y THURSDAY NOVEMBER 18 1954 3 Sections 24 Pages Village Purchase Extends Elm St Parking Lot Area Penn Yan Boat Company To Build Storage Sheds With the chase of the old blacksmith shop at 121 Wagener street from Charles J Freeland Penn Yan trustees on Monday squared away the village Ing lot that extends from Elm to Wagener streets Purchase price Is Mr Freeland who has been conducting his Iron and welding at the site plans to teai down the shop this Fall and move his business to Benton Center Space now by tho building will not only provide parking for at least six additional cars but will make the lot rectangular and more easily accessible fiom Wagener street At the same meeting the tees agreed that the village of Penn Yan should share with tho county of Yatos tho cost of rent Penn Yan Couple Mark Golden Wedding MR AND MRS ROBERT S ARMSTRONG Married In Penn Yan Nov 38 on sheet for Unemployment agency mont made with the supervisors of the county extends for six months Expansion Included In permits granted by the trustees wore those to the Penn Yan Boat company to erect two stool storage buildings ad- jacent to their Waddell avenue plant The buildings 40 by 100 feet and 18 by 140 feet used according to Ralph Blown president of the firm for boats manufactured by the com- pany Pre-emption Developers Inc wore granted a permit to build a prefabricated residence at 203 street Walter Jonas was granted a permit to build a side porch his residence at 556 Liberty street and Mr Leonard Robertson wore granted permission build a now walk at 107 Court street Bills were audited and ordered paid for tho period Nov 3 to the total amount of of which was In tho general fund Oliver fund cemetery fund County To fake Part in State Civil Defense Test A big test of our ability in Yates county tfo carry on in an emergency and prove tho woith of planning and operation will bP Mi and Mis Robett S 158 Coinwell in will their en wedding day on Tuesday Nov 23 Because of Mr somewhat ft all health the couple are planning no apodal llon but will welcome visits fiom Tho annual fall and their many fi lends business meeting of the Yates week County association will be The Armstrongs will be joined at tho Benton Grange hall on their two sons and wives Lt Tuesday Nov 23 at 1 p m County Officers Meeting Nov 23 Col Donald of the Stewart Air base at Mr and Mis Kenneth iof East three grand- children Roy Armstiong Mr brother and Mrs Lela Bailey Mrs strong's in a on Sunday Nov 21 Mia the Georgia was born on a farm in Chubb Hollow about font miles east of Dundee tho ter of Mr and Mis Wilbur Robert S Atmstrong was born In Penn Yan the son ot uel Armstrong He Is in his year and is two years older than hla wife While Georgia was at- tending Dundee academy Armstiong was going to school in Yan and the two met through mutual ft lends several I years bofota they weie married They weie wed In the former tist parsonage on Couit by Dr Thomas DeGuichy one clay be- fore Thanksgiving Nov 23 1904 This year their anniversary Is two days before but the pleasant weather Is about the same as It was a half century ago Attendants were Roy strong the youngest and now proprietor of the Armsttong restaurant and Mrs Mae Weller a cousin of Mrs Armstrong who Is no longer living Loft Home Town Mr Armstiong was employed a cabinet maker at the old Topic his ad- Your Land and Al of radio station WHAM will be the cipal diess will be Mine ior the coming year will be elected at the meeting Tuesday night ate P Flynn Toirey ship supervisor Fenton Wager township 01 Edwin Evans township supoi visor Girl Scouts Help Make Library Both Busy and Bright Like gay buntings at h fair tho fascinating jackets of new Juvenile books arc tho full length of tho young people's leading room the Penn Yan in of National Book week which runs through Nov 20 Theio aie 180 now books for children Lo ment the splendid Night Parking Prohibited in Penn Yan j i Motorists are reminded Peim Van Chief that a village ordinance hibits Hie parking i of In the streets of village from 6 a m By keeping the cant off the more efficient snow removal Is assured v i i The no IN in force from Nov 1 to and is being enforced now HO Unit there will be in tho event of a night storm Fi require cars no illegally parked be hauled to police headquarters defense With the city of Rochester designated as Ground tha will from Yatos county for support area of Yates Wayne Ontario Livingston and Steuben counties Tho director of civil defense In Yatos county will serve as support area commander assisted by service heads and staff Friday night tho control center will bo activated with direct com- by AM and FM radio to all counties and tho emergency RACES control will bo used Fire police welfare tion medical public works and public utilities services will All heads of these groups arc asked to bo at tho control center Dundee and Middlesex ters will also bo In action and In communication All radio tors should be ready to seive and offer their set vices to tho com- officer Francis H Orcutt There will be a partial county test alert on Saturday morning Nov 20 In which the police will go Into action and tho public Is asked to cooperate S S Benefit Home Baked Sale Saturday Nov 20 Just In time to whet the Thanksgiving clay appetite tho combined churches of the Penn Yan aiea ate holding their fall home-baked rood sale at tho Knapp hotel on Saturday Nov 20 fiom 9 a m to 4 p m The annual sale of delicious kitchen fresh baked goods is held for the fit of tha woman's committee of Soldiers and Sailors Memorial hospital of the churches will be responsible for the sale at the following churches and tho Penn Yan Methodist chuich fiom 9 to 10 a m St Mai It's pal chuich 10 to 11 a m ton Center Methodist and St Pauls 11 a m to 12 noon Dresden Methodist church 12 lo 1 p Paik and Penn Yan Baptist churches 1 to 2 p m Bluff Point and Penn Yun churches 2 to 3 p m Dundee chinches and St Michael's Catholic church 3 to 4 p m Mis John Sullivan is president of tho and Hospital tec enough books to satisfy the Ing minds of the who make the library one of tho ost places In town Actually it has been one happily long book week at thp all summer according to Mrs Jones and hor assistant Mis Lambert The bad that put Yates Fix Tax Levies in Nine Townships With a total budget of 072 30 announced tot the year fot Yates county board of supervisors established on day the amounts to be assessed and levied upon taxable property for highway and health pui poses In the following Ban health total total 494.16 total total total 09943 total Star total 30 total The board discussed the new equalization rates proposed by the state and decided to meet with the schoor boards of Yates county In hope of at means iof protesting rates The new lates If adopted the supervisors agreed would be disastrous to the school and the load plan Hatos by the duce the equalization rate 1953 to tentative rate for 1954 In ton from 81 to 41 Benton 88 to 44 Italy 300 to 65 Jerusalem 80 to 43 Middlesex 94 to 47 Milo 73 to 39 Potter 88 to 46 Starkey 82 to 36 Torrey 27 Fire rates as an- by the are Wayne Benton Bellona Italy Middlesex sov light district Milo Potter Starkey Jerusalem Keuka Park fire district Branchport light dis- Unemployment they moved from a rented resl dence on Keuka to own home on Blown street In I windy crimp In the outdoor Yan mer season brought In In 1919 the Armstrongs decided to move to whet a they woia well acquainted and Mr joined the Johnson Shoe Manufacturing com pany as a maker for 10 before he wont to work for to the library to take books by armsful to summer homes for quiet browsing This Which serves all of county haa a reputation for In both fiction the International Business chine company as a cabinet er Ho was with IBM for 18 years until his retirement in 1947 They sold their Endicott home then and acquit Ing returned to Penn Yan homo at 158 Cornwall street In the 1948 Mis la in good health and though he has a weak people near and so that Its circulation favorably with the In ger such as Canandaigua and Geneva A t Girl summer L Wli y Ug Id Scouts of Troop 17 under Mis Lyndon have baen helping Lo make the local library the and though he has a wealt attractive and stimulating heart Mr is able to piace that It Is These girls as part be iro and ntn be up and They at a mem of the Penn Yan lan church Mr Atmstrong is a member of the Odd Fellows and Mrs Armstrong of the Their son Kenneth who has a of theU have been credits senior scouting by salving as pages In Lho assisting with cally every aspect of work They of course take an especial feed business m Canandaigua has interest in the attractive displays two children Shit ley Ann and Ro- Of contemporary adult books both Beit Howaid and their son Donald has a daughter Donna Elizabeth Chamber Holds Fall Dinner Some 75 of the Penn Yan Chamber of Commerce and tholt wives attended the regular fall mooting of that at Benham hotel day evening Nov 17 The featured speaker was ford A AHanson ager of the New York State Re- tall Merchants council and local business people weie given an opportunity following his talk to present problems to tha assemblage for open discussion Campney and ar- of Jackets telling of such ft ash juvenile books as The Crooked Ethan Land and People of The Stais How Do You and cus Ruckus Scouts oC 17 who havo been working during tho 15 week program at the even In the ever popular twice monthly story hour are Linda Swell Catol Athawes Sara Jane Maty aker Catol Loe Swaithout baia Parkman Carol Rubin ginia Pond Olivia and Tho Geneva of the New York State Employment service will a blanch office Yan starting Friday Nov 19 Through cooperation and forts of local town and county of- Lho new office will be able for placement services and will also be authorized to toko on unemployment in- claims cling to ot Lewis A and Woeks chairman of the Yates County of who have foi some Lime been working on this to provide bettei sei vices Lo Penn Yan residents Foi the Lime being tha office will Mondays and days only but this may be tended to other days in the future I if demand tor services Requires it The office will be located al 110 East Elm street In the former American building and Miss Maile Burke who resides in Penn Yan will bo in charge Mr Richardson manager of Ge- neva office has assured the lage and county thaL the slate de- labor will back this project to the fullest of Plans Include ot for local and out-of-town as well as occupational guidance to workers seeking employment Loo Wallace of 322 East Lake Keuka load formerly of Is at home resting ably following a back Injury Sunday evening about 5 30 when the oar he was driving went out of control between Wayne and Tyrone The car went off the road taking several highway posts and finally stopping Inches from a six foot embankment Following treat- ment Mr Wallace was taken to his homo He has beon employed for tha years as chef al the Keuka restaurant Damage to the car Is estimated between and WILL PRINT TWO DAYS EARLY Thanksgiving Week So thut the may receive their papers early than on aitoi Thanksgiving Will Print Monday Nov 22nd ADVERTISING COPY must bo In by noon Monday lit latest DISPLAY or Monday morning COPY must bo in by Monday morning at latest Material mulled Monday will not in time All Copy Possible Should Be In Friday There's j letter blot In coiner door i i Thanksgiving Day Service Speaker REV ARTHUR Pastor The traditional union giving service sponsored by the Penn Yan Area Chuich council will bo held at 10 a m Thursday at First Baptist chuich in Penn Yan i The Rev Arthur pastor of St John's Lutheran cHurch at East Potter will deliver the sermon The new pastor at the First Baptist church the Rev Vernon E Kuehn will lead the service of worship assisted by local the clergy Music will be furnished by Methodist church choir directed By John Harpai The choir will sing I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Miss Ethel Price will play the 01 gan The community church council invites everyone to join with their family and friends on Ing in this tion service lo God for ing bestowed upon all Elmira Journalist Pleads for Free Press Alert Public Your newspaper must strive 0 be eyes ears and conscience oil Us declared Barber publisher Penn Yan and Monday It can in only In tion as you leader maker of the news Insist upon youi light to what is going on and re- lo the press for 4 t his honest in his craft this newspaper man of 33 In his profession lashed out al 5oth Incredible lance have in their papers and tendency ol dom to repress information be- cause 11 Is a to let lic know what Ihoy ate doing 01 think they aie doing of business and mailers of government are done in cy because minds feul the public cannot be trusted and taka upon roles of surrogates and wet nurses Lo suppress news Ho quoted Thomas Jefferson in saying a newspaper and a paper without I would choose lallor Do not he warned his that press has ways beon list victim In every Napoleon And when It goes all go Today we lead our papers which arc by and large ably accurate and eager to be comprehensive because years ago a man went lo jail America Continued on Page Throe To Be In Penn Yan Public Band Concert At JHS Saturday Nov 20 Vocalists and Instrumentalists fiom 30 high schools in the area will meet In Penn Yan Junior High school Filday and Nov 19 and 20 for the oC the York State School Music association There will be about 150 choristers 93 bands and 60 players The to be held here aie not competitive Chorus band and orchestra sections will make up the program which will close with a band concert Saturday Nov 20 at 8 p m in the junor high auditorium The con- ceit will be open to the public Local people who have rooms thai could Be made available to Uie visiting students are ed to telephone Mr Bascom or Mr Harper at the school Yan 1298 the day or the Harper the evening Yan 1452 The mixed chorus under the di- rection of George H Gunn of donla State Teachers collage will be made up of 150 boys and girls Dii acted by Ainald Gabriel of the Sampson Air Force bands the band will have a the orchestra of 80 will be dh acted by Eugene Kaza of Am hoist Central school Registration i Registration for the two day event will be hald Friday Nov 19 with rehearsals scheduled for both and night of that day followed by a social hour after the night rehearsal On Saturday morning Nov 20 a full will be held and Saturday afternoon tho will be rehearsed for the conceit Saturday night at In junior high auditorium aie In charge of Lester R Bascom In- in instrumental music In the local schools general man John Harper PYS vocal In- chorus Robert worth Middlesex Valley Central school orchestra John Kinyoun talcing part in chorus Conrad Gill Paul Bllss Maurice Murphy Nancy Coon Beatrice Darrow rol While Rose Houck Charlotte Erma Wells Beverly Ralph Hell John Band Marilyn Warren flute Wood clarinet Richard Brown tenor saxophone analy Purdy bassoon Gordon Bascom cornat Joyce Richards lin The will sing Jesus The Black Oak Tree and Solemn Tha orchestra will play Song of Moods Paon and Cuban Holiday Tho band will play Semper Gate of Kiev and Shepherd's Hay Yates Community Concert To Present Choir The Yates Community choir a group of 25 singers will present their first concert of this season at tho Dresden Methodist church on Sunday evening Doc 5th at 8 p m The program as planned will include many beis in Fred Wai ing ments Lester Bascom of Penn Yan is the director of this choir and Robed is the The choir is a part of the adult education program in Penn Ynn From Valedictorian to La Boheme residents who have ed with closo singing of Miss Maiy Williams Middlesex native will havo an op- Lo hear Lho young woman when sho appeals in Rochester Eastman Ire Tuesday evening Nov 20 with New Yoik City Opera company will be heard in a of Puccini's La Boheme I Miss Williams daughter of late Middlesex Williams and Mis Ruth H Williams now Leaching school aL Lyons was engaged by Now York City company tover a year ago after having appeared with the Lakes cus Rochester Philharmonic and in many and radio j The lise of Lho New York CILy company has beon rapid in tho 11 and it is now tanked by beside the Metro- Opera company as one of the only Lwo fully professional organizations playing continuous seasons In their own and maintaining in- permanent The company and Miss Williams began Lour fiom on Nov 2 and will have played in Boston Mass Philadelphia and Pa and Lansing Mich Cleveland Ohio and falo concluding Lour in Rochester The company has a oil New Pastor of Church VERNON KUEHN Unanimous Choice The Rev Vernon E Kuehn re- cently minister of Christian cation for the Baptist Temple in Charleston W Va will preach his first sermon as pastor of the First Baptist church In Penn Yan at the regular worship on Sunday Nov 21 at 10 30 o'clock The Rev Vernon Kuehn is a graduate of Wilmington college in Wilmington Ohio and had ed high school in CIncinnatti He graduated from the Colgate Ro- chester Divinity school in the class of 1952 and was ordained in the Baptist church in During his first year at the Divinity school he was a youth worker in a Rochester Baptist church and for the last two his training had a student In Gasport Upon graduation he became minister of Christian education for the Charleston Baptist Temple which has members Is a graduate of son university and had one year of training at Colgate Rochester Divinity school She is the ter Dr and Paul Carter of the board of education of i the Baptist convention The Kuehns have one child ten- months old The Penn Yan Baptist church pulpit committee is made up of chairman Mrsr Glenn Hatch Mrs Samuel Elwce Ole and Paul i Harry Price is chairman of deacons The pulpit committee acknowledges especially the help of Dr Roy B Deer of the Colgate Rochester Divinity school in selecting a pastor for the local church The Rev Mr Kuehn was named choice to ceed the Rev David Leach After almost exactly four years of at the Penn Yan the Rev David Leach submitted his resignation last July to cept the appointment by the Rhode Island Baptist State con- vention as their stale director of Christian education MARY WILLIAMS Come a Way Singing 200 with 51 principal singers oichcstra and let seven baggage cais ing 11 full scenic productions moie than costumes 30 of pi ops and lighting equipment and musical instruments Miss Williams was Ian the 1017 graduating class the Middlesex Valley school and received her of sic degree at HIP School of Music Croppers Harvest Cash To Send Food To Starving Thorp's chopping going on in Yates county this week and it is without the aid of a pis liter or harvester Throughout the counLy and the resL of New York state hundreds of men women and children arc visiting their neighbors on farms and in rural communities Ing for Christian Rural At the close of CROP week Nov we hope to have gone over our goal In the says Fred chairman of the Yates county campaign In what better way can we show our thankfulness at this Thanksgiving jeason than to help feed the world's hungry The entire ty goal is but tho continuing and urgent for basic food in much of the world Dr Earl W Benjamin of Branchport Slate CROP chairman declares that fully half of the world's people are housed clothed and He cites Ilia most recent study of the FAO Food and ture organization reporting thai over large areas of the world production Is still well below its prewar level In re- lation 16 population The FAO study also that food tion per capita is four to five times greater In North America than in the Far East Near East and Africa Most of the money New York contribute to be used lo send am plus milk to needy Dr min explains It will be buted Lo and refugee camps without re- gard to race or creed by aries on the scene The Yates county CROP com- is headed by Fred well of Penn men Orion Reed of and Eastman Beers of Dundee tary Mrs Frank H Conley of Penn Yan RD 4 treasurer Mrs Claude Ayers of Penn Yan Mrs Sara Mageo of Yan special events Dr Lloyd Imes of Dundee canvass men Warren Giles of Penn Yan and Henry McDougal of Foreign Students Arrive Wednesday For Thanksgiving 41 Guests Expected Representing 2 1 Different Nationalities To date two foreign students on the Cornell campus have accepted Penn Yan's general invitation to Operation Understanding 1954 but there are no local homes to which they may be assigned Mr and Mrs Chester Gray of who are heading the International goodwill project this hoping for last-minute Invitations this week so these students will not be disappointed Something about Operation Understanding it U termed in Penn Ymt and the similar project In Sidney will be heard over Ithaca station during the a m news program Wednesday Ing of next week Nov ald O Kerr counselor to foreign students Cornell university will explain the goodwill project over the air The group scheduled to Penn Van community next week a greater variety of peoples and nations lust year's group when many were from Germany The students Invited so far to local homes come from 21 different countries in- the islands Only one so far from Germany is Included The US Department of State did not bring a large group of young men from West Germany to the Ithaca campus this school as haa been done the two years the family group front Cuba was invited return visit by Mrs Charles Ness last year's hostess all the people will be visiting Penn Van area first time Most of them have been in this country for but a few months and will form their first impressions of rural community life by what they Operation Understanding 1964 the inviting for ing weekend Mr and Lloyd Ledgerwood of RD and Mrs Augusto Vallenas of Doreen of 4 Mona of Keuka Jaya Ram of f i i- Mr and Carroll O of RD Theodore 3 of Tadashi MatsUmoto of Japan Mr and Stanley Stout of RD P Pal of pines and Richard Hamada of Mr and Mrs Robert of 7 Grant Yen Huang of China and Banst Lai Amis of India Mr Mrs Arthur Elliot of Dundee Demetrios of Greece and Ki Nam Wai of China Mr and Mrs Sidney R Ay mi of 600 Liberty Kaoru Toba of Japan Arthur I Henfy of Jamaica Mr and Lester Bascom of 137 Burns of Japan Mr and Mrs Glenn of 36 Water street Mrs of Ceylon and Mrs Gilbert 219 Bast Main street Penn Yan Taherbhai of india Mr and Mrs Charles of Bluff Point Masaki Yamamoto of Japan IMr Mrs Leon Wood of 111 Continued on Page Three I 9 Set Thanksgiving Services Sunday The Thanksgiving services In the parish will be held Sunday morning Nov 21 At the 9 130 service In ter the congregation of the ond Milo Baptist church will unite with the Milo Center group In their annual union service The choirs will join for the day and the sermon will be by Rev Rowland of Second Milo while the pastor Rev George E Clarkson will conduct the In Dresden the choir will sing an appropriate an America Our Heritage with both piano and organ accompaniment The pastor will preach on Hills and Valleys This Friday evening another of the very popular Family Nights will be held in the Dresden with a covered dish supper al 71 and a program at 8 consisting of a colored Slide travelogue I SEE BY TEE CLASSIFIEDS You wilt find and often many In the tion Read It every week Printed on wanted j for Thanksgiving clothes to sell 1 food MUc a 1 wants work room with heat I
