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Newspaper
Free Press
Location
Trumansburg, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1966
Page
9
A call for parents teachers and babysitters to use the School Age Safety Checklist from the Easter Seal Society. It warns that nine to eleven year olds face many hazards and stresses training in do's and don'ts to build lifelong safety habits.
Hilda Murphy reports a public protest at Ulysses Town Hall as residents oppose the J. M Clem inshaw Co reappraisal. Open book sessions exposed confusion over higher assessed values and tax projections, with Alec Proskine noting 1965 town valuation around 7.6 million on 50 percent of 1955 values.
The J. M Cleminshaw Co appraisal using 1964 values puts total full value at about 19.7 million, up roughly 30 percent. If government agency budgets stay flat, the tax rate would fall proportionally to the increased assessed valuation.
Joseph R. Shaw argues government differs from business and benefits from experienced executives. He proposes an Executive Service Corps to place retiring industry leaders in state government, detailing aims, costs, and expected gains for New York.
Irregular notes list 1873 trout hunting fines in Tompkins County three year window from June 12. 1874 Interlaken Village once Call's Tavern and 1805 Trumansburg known as McLallen's Tavern. 1888 local merchant proposes public dunning by chalking names and debts on sidewalk. 1912 records the 14th annual Business Men's Association banquet.
Readers weigh in on a public debate about modesty and dress. Lucy M Johnston questions exposing young women in ill fitting outfits. Elizabeth Morris offers a traditional, religious view urging restraint and piety.
The column lists Marriages of Miss Eliza Thurston to Franklin Whiting in Romulus on March 11 by Rev Dr. Lounsbury and Miss Maranda Hamilton to James Neely in Howard and Ovid on Feb 26 1856. It notes ice boating on Cayuga Lake with Kidders harbor crossing and frozen Seneca Lake. It also covers a 1906 Yarnell hall dance, Home Telephone Company leasing, 1916 clergy gathering, moves to Geneva, a Willard worker job, 1926 Varick supervisor praised, 1936 jail ceilings painted and electricity on at the McAvinney house, a hospital visit, and a 1946 wedding and an auction of farm equipment.
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