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Newspaper
Free Press
Location
Trumansburg, New York, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1971
Page
5
The piece lists 24 requirements for school board members including unity, leadership, executive function, staff relations, personal conduct, and courageous action. It urges voters to evaluate candidates against these criteria at the June 9 election to ensure a unified board that serves students and the community.
The piece notes twenty years of Republican control in Trumansburg Ulysses with little Democratic activity. It reports a plan for a first class town with two extra councilmen and a revived Democrat party, potentially creating a two party system and broader township representation.
Albany faces a heated clash as New York City's 900 million tax package hangs over a 9.2 billion city budget and a 7.7 billion state budget. lawmakers demand a home rule message from the city council while battles over a lump sum budget and potential layoffs intensify.
May events list daily schedules for libraries, open houses, and church dinners. Notable items include Open House at New Fire House with a dance, Searsburg Church supper, and multiple club meetings at Royal Arch Masons Rebekahs Rainbow Girls and Ovid Interlaken groups.
A compact retrospective of local items from the Trumansburg and Interlaken papers with brief notes on propriety uniforms, church spire repairs, weather, road conditions, births, school honors, factory purchases, and community events dating 1895 1955. Includes Beatrice Starrett teaching in Binghamton, road improvements, a tobacco warehouse seizure, and the Ovid Drum Corps victory at Cornell.
A reader, Mike Scoles, contests a May 13 issue article from the Empire State Masonic Magazine in the Ovid Gazette. He argues the circle with line and inverted V is a semaphore message for nuclear disarmament, not atheism or communism, and notes the diagram was upside down.
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