Westchester Reviews New State Aid Plan Impact on Local Schools
Westchester officials study Governor Dewey committee’s education plan as it could add about 924000 dollars a year to county aid. Scarsdale preliminary figures show potential gains from the new program with per pupil guarantees raising elementary and high school funding compared with the Friedsam formula and current emergency aid.
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Westchester
Thomas E. Dewey
Board of Supervisors
Scarsdale
Board of Education
Heath Ridge Association Holds First Meeting of Year
Twenty four members attended the Heath Ridge Association’s first meeting of the year held at Crossway Firehouse amid zero weather. John Taylor, the new president, presided as eight new members were admitted. The group discussed amending the constitution to raise yearly meeting limits and the worsening Crossway bus service. Hostesses were Mrs. Robert Jackson and Mrs. Taylor with refreshments from a snack bar.
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Heath Ridge Association
John Taylor
Crossway
Robert Jackson
Taylor
School Physicians Review Oil Heated Classrooms
Dr. Wallace Sheridan and Dr. John Cannon reported to the Board of Education that oil heated schools maintained a lower but healthy temperature. They noted thermostats at eye level caused some desks to feel cooler and that adjustments were made. Assistant superintendent Archibald Shaw commended custodial staff for handling the heating situation well.
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Wallace Sheridan
Board of Education
Sheridan
John Cannon
Archibald Shaw
Shaw
Junior High Smoker Panel To Discuss Education
A junior high fathers smoker is set for Monday from eight to ten p.m. in the gym with moderator Lester W. Nelson. Panelists Walter Fogg, William M. Steele, George M. Lawson, and Richard Fischer will discuss current junior high education topics and fathers may question the experts. Oliver Kingsbury chairs the event.
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Lester W. Nelson
Walter Fogg
William M. Steele
George M. Lawson
Richard Fischer
Oliver Kingsbury
Holiday Bank Closings and Post Office Schedule Inform Residents
Banks in the village close on Lincoln's Birthday next Thursday and on Washington's Birthday Monday February 23. The Post Office also closes all day on Washington's Birthday with no mail delivery. on Lincoln's Birthday there is one delivery and windows stay open until 1 PM.
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Lincoln
Washington
News index entries and page references
The index lists sections for Churches pages 16 17 Editorials page 10 Schools pages 11 18 Society page 14 Theatres page 10 with page numbers indicating where each topic is featured in the issue.
Robin sighting sparks debate on signs of spring
Nelson F. Chambers of Delhi Road reported a robin on Underhill Road last Sunday afternoon. The notice jokingly questions whether the bird’s appearance signals spring or reflects a lack of common sense by the bird.
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Nelson F. Chambers
Delhi Road
Underhill Road
Residents Elected To Hospital Board In White Plains
John K. Starkweather and William L. Butcher of Scarsdale were elected to the White Plains Hospital Association board of governors at the annual meeting. Also reelected for three years were George M. Waugh Jr Paul Fox and Mrs James N Hynson of Scarsdale. New officers named Otto C Jaeger president Everett J Penny treasurer J Henry Neale secretary Alfred D Wolff Jr first vice president Girvan N Snider third vice president. Starkweather a former mayor and banker resides at 23 Autenrieth Road. Butcher an executive VP of The County Trust Co lives at 5 Sunset Drive and holds several local and statewide posts.
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John K. Starkweather
William L. Butcher
Scarsdale
White Plains Hospital Association
George M. Waugh, Jr
Paul Fox
James N. Hynson
Starkweather
Girvan N. Snider
White Plains
Allan C. Stevens
Arthur C. McGowan
Butcher
Lyle L. Shephard
Otto C. Jaeger
Everett J. Penny
J. Henry Neale
Alfred D. Wolff, Jr
Mr. Fox
Five Scarsdale Churches Plan Union Lenten Services
Five churches join Hitchcock Memorial Church for Lenten services at Hitchcock Church Walworth and Greenacres Avenues on Ash Wednesday and the following Tuesdays at 8 15 pm. Preachers are from New York City including Merrill Shoemaker Farber Wolfe Buttrick Kin solving and others. The five churches also hold their own Lenten services during Holy Week.
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Scarsdale
Hitchcock Memorial Church
Hitchcock Church
Walworth
Greenacres Avenues
Greenville Community Church
Community Baptist Church
Congregational Church
St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church
New York City
Ash Wednesday
William Pierson Merrill
Brick Church
Samuel M. Shoemaker
Calvary Episcopal Church
Benjamin F. Farber
Fourth Presbyterian Church
Paul Austin Wolfe
The
George A. Buttrick
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
Arthur Lee Kinsolving
St. James Episcopal Church
Schools to Continue Opening The Week After Labor Day
The Board of Education rejected a tentative next school year calendar proposed by Dr. Vernon G. Smith. They backed a schedule opening the week after Labor Day and closing Christmas early to avoid attendance losses and ensure staff travel time.
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Vernon G. Smith
Board of Education
Quaker Ridge Votes to Keep High Grades
The Quaker Ridge School will operate as an eight grade school after a 79 to 1 vote at a special meeting on Monday February 2. The board will hire one full time and two part time teachers to support the enriched eight grade program. Dudley Hare signed a new three year contract as principal starting next fall.
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Quaker Ridge
Weaver Street
Walter E. Barnes
Dudley Hare
Vernon G. Smith
Scarsdale
Scarsdale Board of Education
Harold L. Smith
James A. Roberts
Iimsey High School
Stone
Hare
Board votes tuition increases for nonresident students
The Board of Education approved higher tuition next year for nonresident pupils. High school rates rise from 500 to 550 and elementary from 400 to 450, with Edgemont and Quaker Ridge contract pupil rates moving to 400 for high school. State funds cover the difference.
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Board of Education
Edgemont
Quaker Ridge
Overhill Association Reelects Officers at Annual Meeting
The Overhill Association reelected officers at its annual meeting held Tuesday night at Philip L. Carret’s Overhill Road home. New/retained leaders include Philip L. Carret president Frank D. Lemmon first vice president William L. Canady second vice president Kenneth H. Chalmers secretary treasurer and Dr. Jackson A. Seward member of the executive committee.
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Overhill Association
Philip L. Carret
Frank D. Lemmon
William L. Canady
Kenneth H. Chalmers
Jackson A. Seward
Scarsdale Golf Club elects Brown as president
Austin Brown was named president of the Scarsdale Golf Club at a Wednesday night gathering marking the club’s fiftieth anniversary with 217 members in attendance. Everett L. Noetzel became vice president, M. J. Hoover treasurer, and George C. Kindred secretary.
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Austin Brown
Everett L. Noetzel
Scarsdale
H. Beach Carpenter
Harry EB. Humphreys, Jr
J. Lester van Name
Krebs
van Name
Henry D. Brewster
Brewster
Biarritz
Health Dept Reports Scarsdale Illnesses Last Week
Scarsdale records show two new chickenpox cases three pertussis infections one measles case and one pneumonia case reported by the Health Department last week.
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Scarsdale
Health Department
Community events schedule for Eastchester week
Goings On list shows events this week: Sunday paper drive at 1 p.m. Monday Junior High Smok er event at 8 p.m. Tuesday Village Board meeting at Village Hall 8 15 p.m. Thursday Audubon Society at the Girl Scout House 8 p.m. Friday World Prayer Day at Redeemer Lutheran Church 2 p.m.
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Eastchester
Audubon Society
Girl Scout House
Redeemer Lutheran Church
Officers Elected By Humane Society in Westchester
Mrs John W Thomas was reelected president of the Central Westchester Humane Society at the annual meeting held at the president's Elm Road home. New officers include Mrs Henry A Maurer Scarsdale first VP Mrs Laurence V Burton Scarsdale second VP Arthur N Dusenbury White Plains third VP Mrs George T Hastings Scarsdale fourth VP John W Thomas Scarsdale treasurer Miss Cornelia Brown Bronxville corresponding secretary and Miss Margaret Vanderbilt executive secretary Mrs William A Yanss Scarsdale was elected recording secretary. New directors are Mrs Frank A Jones Scarsdale and Miss Constance Wheeler Bronxville. Directors and prospective directors were hosted at a tea by Mrs Maurer January 29 at Woodland Place. A letter from Jack Wolff Scarsdale Audubon Society noted the society has formed a permanent duck feeding fund for the Bronx River ducks from North White Plains to Bronxville. Members were asked to monitor a proposed state bill allowing near unrestricted vivisection use of animals in humane shelters and urged letters to Albany legislators.
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John W. Thomas
Central Westchester Humane Society
Elm Road
Henry A. Maurer
Scarsdale
Laurence V. Burton
Arthur N. Dusenbury
White Plains
George T. Hastings
Cornelia Brown
Bronxville
Wis Margaret Vanderbilt
William A. Yanss
Frank A. Jones
Constance Wheeler
Woodland Place
Albany
Eastchester Plans Paper Drive Sunday
Eastchester salvage drive by Leroy Gregory Post No 979 American Legion set for Sunday February 8 at 1 p.m. in Green Knolls North End Wilmot Park and Eastchester unincorporated areas. Residents should place tied paper magazines books and cardboard at the curb. Proceeds fund a building project the post recently bought land on White Plains Post Road between Clibway and Leewood Drive for a future Legion home.
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Leroy Gregory
American Legion
John Rescigno
Green Knolls
Wilmot Park
Eastchester
The
Post
White Plains
Clibway
Leewood Drive
Legion
Games Tonight at Scarsdale High School
The THM seniors face Ossin Ing after Greenacres-White Plains at 7:30 PM. Sponsored by the Village Recreation Department, the Friday events are free for teens with a snack bar and dancing in the teachers' cafeteria after the games.
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THM
White Plains
Scarsdale High School
Village Recreation Department
School Nominating Group Sets February 15 Meeting
The Union Free School District One citizen nominating committee will meet Sunday February 15 at 3 p.m. in the Woman's Club. Terms of two Board of Education members expire this spring Maxwell E Mc Dowell and Mrs Frederick W Brown. Members and alternates are listed with ex officio members without a vote.
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Citizens’ Nominating Committee
Union Free School
Woman's Club
Board of Education
Maxwell E. McDowell
Frederick W. Brown
Allen& Wilber
Samuel E. Darby, Jr
Charles A. Perera
Warner W. Kent
Courtlandt Otis
Albert S. Swanson
William E. Leidt
Daniel L. Strickland
George T. Gragnani
Martin J. Brennan
Isaac Gluckman
George Koch
Lansing Carpenter
Orison Marden
Paul Smith
Evelyn H. Sullivan
Oliver A. Kingsbury
George S. Callaway
Ralph Keating
John Dennis
Leo Rich
Henricus J. Stander
Joseph P. Anderson
E. Ray Broenniman
Edwin F. Armstrong
Girl Scouts Plan For Cookie Sale
At a meeting of the Girl Scout Mothers Club executive board at the Scout House on Wayside Lane, Mrs. Doug las Myles announced a cookie sale from February 25 to March 25. Cookies will be available Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays nine to ten a.m. Proceeds go to the Childrens Foreign Relief Fund and the Juliet Low Fund for Scout rooms and flags. Mrs. Arthur Taylor announced a luncheon for Scout leaders on April 21 at one p.m.
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Girl Scout Mothers Club
Scout House
Wayside Lane
Douglas Myles
Gordon C. Hunger
Childrens Foreign Relief Fund
Juliet Low
Arthur Taylor
Weather Readings Show Week's Temperature Swings
Weather report by A W Edderbuttel lists daily high and low temps from January 29 to February 4 with highs of 35 31 22 29 40 36 25 and lows of 13 3 below 4 below 5 below 3 20 5. The notice ends with a dismissive remark about snow on Wednesday and speculation about July.
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A. W. Edderbuttel
Inquirer
Village Board to Meet Next Tuesday at 8 15 PM
The Regular meeting of the Village Board is set for next Tuesday evening at 8 15 in the board rooms of Village Hall. Members will discuss routine agenda items and public inputs.
Audubon Society Meeting Headlined by Bradley Lecture
The Scarsdale Audubon Society will host botanist Leonard Bradley at eight p.m. February 12 in the Scarsdale Girl Scout House to discuss Common Wildflowers with koda chrome slides. Bradley, Connecticut flora expert and member of multiple societies, also studies birds. An amendment splitting secretary treasurer into two offices will be voted on at the meeting. A February 8 field trip to Smithtown, Long Island, led by Richard Fischer, will meet at seven a.m. in front of Scarsdale Village Hall.
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Leonard Bradley
Audubon Nature Center
Greenwich
Connecticut
Scarsdale Audubon Society
Scarsdale
Wayside Lane
Post Road
Church Lane
Bradley
Connecticut Botanical Society
New England Botanic Society
American Ornithologists’ Union
Smithtown
Long Island
Richard B. Fischer
Scarsdale High School
Post and
Popham Roads
Frederic Luther
Central Park Avenue
Dr Smith Named USA Canada Educator To UN Institute
Scarsdale High School Superintendent Vernon G. Smith is among prominent educators from the United States and Canada invited to the United Nations Institute at Lake Success and New York University from February 26 to 28. Dean Ernest C. Melby of the University’s School of Education announced the three day program sponsored by the United Nations.
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Vernon G. Smith
Scarsdale High School
United States
Canada
United Nations Institute
Lake Succcess
New York University
Ernest C. Melby
University
School of Education
United Nations
U. N
Lake Success
Scarsdale Red Cross Faces 1948 Budget Increases
The 1948 Red Cross budget rises to 97 million while the local Scarsdale quota is 24 605 dollars, reflecting priorities like a Civilian Blood Donor Program and rebuilding the Disaster Fund. Mrs Mildred Prior notes higher household costs require more funding as the drive ends before the national campaign.
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American Red Cross
Scarsdale
G. Herbert McCracken
Scarsdales
Red Cross
Mldred A. Prior
Scarsdale Firemen Hold Annual Stag Dinner
Thirty five members of Scarsdale Volunteer Fire Company No 2 attended the stag dinner at Donnybrook Lodge on January 29. Guests included B Richter Townsend Fire Chief's Emergency Plan president, Fire Chief Chester A Dobbs, Police Chief William Short, Harold King of Volunteer Fire Company No 1, James V Flanagan of No 3, with J C Graham and W T Shaw as organizers and Samuel Meredith as master of ceremonies.
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Scarsdale
Thawing Pipes Sparks House Fire in Greenville
Greenville firemen answered a Saturday alarm when attempting to thaw a bathtub pipes incident worsened. The blaze occurred at the home of Joseph Gillis on Healy Avenue and damaged insulation around the pipes.
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Greenville
Joseph Gillis
Healy Avenue
Also Mentioned on This Page
Heath Ridge Ass’n
News Index
Five Churches Planning Union
Lenten Services
Overhill Ass
Golf Club
Harry E. Humphreys, Jr
Humphrey
Balas
John Gass
Red Cross Fund Institute
Scarsdale Woman's Club
G. Douglas Morris
Walbrooke Circle
Mildred A. Prior
Chateau Brittany
Rodney Road
Humane Soc’y
Girl Scouts
Weather Report
Dr. Smith
Greenville Fire
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