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Newspaper
Free Press
Location
Trumansburg, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1968
Page
8
Miss Ann Newport of Cobleskill Ag Tech State College visited for the weekend with friend Miss Pat Ward. Local families celebrate birthdays, sales announced, and residents travel to Syracuse, Catskills meetings, and Elmira events.
Board grants Golden Age courtesy passes to residents over sixty five for school activities and agrees to cooperate with Seneca County Health Assoc for the Tine TB test for 1st and 12th graders. Clinics will be run by Public Health nurses with School Nurses. About 80 percent of the $336,000 local school tax for 1968 69 has been collected. Plans for the BOCES Vocational Center progress with ramps to aid handicapped students.
The College of Commerce partners with the Information Service to oppose a bill while noting a two year certificate of recognition. The Finger Lakes association dinner honored the information booths staff. The Lower Main Street Information Booth closed for Labor Day after a busy summer serving 819 cars from 28 states 29 from Canada and three from abroad.
Net earnings from a bake sale benefit reached sixty seven dollars. The event supported church and parsonage lawns. Visitors included Mr and Mrs Charles Morris and Clifford Warren in Burdett. Walter Rumsey visited Rhode Covert home in Trumansburg on Thursday night. Rev Crippen and Mrs. Ford Crippen called on avid Bullinger. Scotty camped with Leonard Soule at Hector blueberry patch. Mrs Kenneth Wright rests at Robert Packer Hospital Sayre Pa. Lawrence Morley attended Mrs Lillian funeral.
At a Jackson ville Community Assoc meeting last week the group voted to host a Halloween Party for local children. The event is set for Sunday Oct 27 from 4 30 to 6 30 at the Church with prizes games and refreshments. The Association will also hold an election night supper in the Church and the bazaar will run all day on election day at the schoolhouse. Mrs Carrol Burden of Canandiagua visited. Adrian Personius and others traveled to Bergen Ulysses Pa and took a horseback trail ride. Mrs Florence Wire and Louis Tripp of Elmira with Myra left for Pocono Mountains Swiftwater Pa and Miss Mary Tripp attended a funeral in Port Jervis.
Local listings show a sequence of fundraisers and meetings across Trumansburg Perry City and surrounding areas. Oct events include rummage sales bake sales library hours dinners and club gatherings from Oct 18 to Oct 24 with additional election day activities and a Halloween party for area youth.
Tompkins County Hospital reports steady recovery following an eye operation. Mrs. Charles Georgia remains in the hospital after a recent operation but is recovering well.
The Havens family hosted a get together in Troy Pa with Gerald Morley and family and later joined by Eugene Batty Jay Russell Doug Mount Jr Foote Kenny Gardner Gerard Lawrence John Kelly Donna Gaige Mary Foote Jackie Swartz Terry Royce. The events continued at Hidden Valley 4-H Camp with church services on Sunday October 20 and a mortgage burning to follow. Our District Superintendent attended and children enjoyed games and fellowship. Mr Kermit Leonard Sally and Patty Havens also spent time at their cottage.
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