Supervisors Debate Cost-of-Living Bonus in Westchester
Westchester County Board of Supervisors met in White Plains on July 11 to discuss the cost-of-living bonus for about 2000 county employees and the creation of a Westchester Fire Training School for volunteers. The board declined to alter the sliding scale despite a drop in the Bureau of Labor Statistics index, noting earlier protests over the sizable annual cost and maintaining the existing formula.
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Westchester County Board of Supervisors
Westchester Fire
White Plains
Mount Vernon
Yonkers
Broad Street
Eastchester
Wilmot Road
Hanfling’s Corners
Consumers’ Index
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Department of Commerce
Weatchester
Scarsdale Tennis Open August 1 For Championship Tourney
The Scarsdale Chamber of Commerce and Village Recreation Department sponsor the second annual Scarsdale Championship Tennis Tournament beginning Monday August 1 on the high school courts Wayside Lane. Eligible Scarsdale residents compete in boys and girls singles women and men singles and men's doubles from August 1 to 13 with no entry fee. Entries run July 11 to 22 at Village Hall or Recreation offices. finals August 13 at 10 a.m.. prizes awarded to winners and runners up.
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Scarsdale
Scarsdale Chamber of Commerce
Eastern Lawn Tennis Association
Sportcenter
Chamber of Commerce
Jerry Diener
Dover Todd
Alex Wolf
Madeline Price
Adele W. Shumay
Health Department Finds No Communicable Disease in Scarsdale
Real Healthy Scarsdale reported a clean bill of health last week as the Health Department announced no communicable disease cases. Local officials cited thorough inspections and routine surveillance in the update.
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Scarsdale
Health Department
Church News and Society Pages Noted on index
The page index lists Church News on page 16 Editorial Page 10 society sections 12 to 18 and Theatres on page 18 indicating section coverage for the issue. The listing outlines where to find religious society reports and theatrical items within the newspaper.
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Church News
Registration Window For November Ballot Opens
Residents away during registration days may apply now through September 26 at the Central Registration Board in White Plains. July hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily and 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays. absentee ballot applications can be filed then as well.
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Central Registration Board
Office of the Board of Election
Court House
White Plains
Another Candidate Enters Greenburgh Supervisor Race
A Republican contest forms as William A. Alley, village trustee and former acting mayor, enters the Greenburgh supervisor race alongside Charles J. Costabell and others. The slate includes William H. Van Dorn, B. Wilbur McDowell, and Edward H. Innet backing various towns, with Supervisor William C. Duell as the target of a "Draft Duell" effort. Greenburgh committees plan a September 12 meeting to discuss the slate and fall offices including town clerk, receiver of taxes, two councilmen, and highways superintendent.
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Greenburgh
Republican Club
Dobbs Ferry
William A. Alley
Alley
Charles J. Costabell
Greenville
William H. van Dorn
Hartsdale
B. Wilbur McDowell
Ardsley
Edward H. Innet
Hastings
William C. Duell
Duell
Tarrytown
Republican Committee
Very Young Scarsdale At Play Schools Open
Scarsdale mothers entrust 590 children to Edgewood Edgemont and Fox Meadow play schools for summer activities. The program offers shop work, sports, arts, trips to the zoo, Rockefeller Center, and baseball games at Ebbetts Field and Polo Grounds. Bus trips priced 60 to 80 cents, swimming at Wilson Woods, and parent consent rules apply.
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Scarsdale
Edgewood
Edgemont
Fox Meadow
Rockefeller Center
Recreation Department
Ebbetts Field
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Dodgers
Pittsburg Pirates
New York Giants
Boston Braves
Polo Grounds
Sheep Wander Into Suburban Yard Stray Flocks Prompt Patrol
A herd of about twenty sheep escaped from Stonehouse Farms and roamed Church Lane in Crane Road, threatening vegetables in Mr and Mrs Charles E Zoupecks yard. After a near collision with a car the flock lapped into the yard where police assisted in corralling them back to Miller McClintock's Heathcote Road farm with help from Miss Lisa Jackson.
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Charles E. Zoupeck
Church Lane
Stonehouse Farms
Crane Rd
Miller McClintock
Heathcote Rd
Zoupeck
Lisa Jackson
Edgemont School to Have Part Time Psychologist
The Edgemont School will hire a part time psychologist for next year, announced by principal William D. Moyle. Miss Elizabeth Junken, NYU MA graduate and Riverside Church consultant, will assist teachers with individual student development and has prior service in Valhalla Hastings and Hartsdale.
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Edgemont School
William D. Moyle
Elizabeth Junken
Voucher
New York University
Riverside Church
New York City
Edgemont
Junken
Valhalla
Hastings
Hartsdale
Board of Cooperative Services
Golf Team Wins Inter-Club Match
The Scarsdale Golf Club women's A and B teams won an inter-club match at Pelham Country Club. Scarsdale led the round robin with 23 points, followed by Bonny Briar 19, Wykagyl 16, and Pelham 13. Captains were Mrs. George J. Brady and others. This is Scarsdale’s second consecutive inter-club title, with a sweepstakes at Wykagyl on August 8.
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Scarsdale Golf Club
Pelham Country Club
Scarsdale
Bonny Briar
Wykagyl
Pelham
Benny Briar
George J. Brady
Richard Hellmann
Brady
E. E. Pierce
R. F. Warren
C. C. Brown
T. E. Beck
P. C. Spencer
H. T. White
Shaw Named Interim Head for Scarsdale Schools
Archibald B. Shaw will head the Scarsdale school system after Dr Vernon G. Smith retires on September 1 to become headmaster of Saint Johnsbury Academy Vermont. Shaw currently assistant superintendent is among 25 to 20 candidates. board to appoint temporary administrator as interviews proceed conducted by George Rutherford Robert G Fuller and Malcolm C Spence.
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Vernon G. Smith
Saint Johnsbury Academy
Archibald B. Shaw
Scarsdale
Board of Education
Shaw
Dr. Smith
George Rutherford
Robert G. Fuller
Malcolm C. Spence
Debate on Does the Socialist State Tend to Destroy Individual Initiative
From London on July 12 America's Town Meeting of the Air featured American speakers including Robert Byfield of 11 Birchall Dr. and a NYSE member. Byfield supported the affirmative argument that the socialist state undermines individual initiative.
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America
London
Robert §. Byfield
Birchall Dr
New York Stock Exchange
Mr. Byffield
School Board Thanks Retiring Superintendent Dr Vernon Smith
The Board of Education of Union Free School District No 1 Scarsdale unanimously adopted a resolution on July 5 thanking Dr Vernon G Smith for 22 years in public schools and 17 years as superintendent. It notes his leadership, staff ties, and retires him September 1 with best wishes. A copy is given to Dr Smith and printed in the Scarsdale Inquirer.
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Board of Education
Union Free School District No. 1
Vernon G. Smith
Wilmington Nominated By Democratic Caucus
The piece notes a Democratic caucus result with Wilmington as the focal point. It also lists a sequence of high tides on Long Island Sound with exact times from Saturday through Thursday.
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Wilmington
Long Island Sound
Ciner Named School Director and MacLoud Tax Collector
In Scarsdale the Democratic caucus at Village Hall designated E Newton Wilmington as supervisor candidate for November. Ruth Diner was named school director in District 2 and Anson McLoud for tax collector. County committee members were elected and a resolution urged Gov Lehman for the U S Senate seat.
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Scarsdale
Wilmington
Indianapolis
Amherst College
Fordham Law School
New York Telephone Co
Arthur Manor Association
Scarsdale Community Fund
Citizens' Committee
White Plains
Ruth Diner
Broadmoor Rd
Anson B. McLoud
Democratic
Alice W. Bennett
Arthur S. Meyer
Henry Hofheimer, Jr
Edward Perry
Fowler Hamilton
State Committee
Herbert Lehman
United States Senate
Robert F. Wagner
John Foster Dulles
Dewey
Albert Foreman
Barbara Marks
Griffith
Crews
Hospital Governors Aid Building Fund Gift of $79,716
White Plains Hospital board of governors subscribes 79,716 toward a 1,100,000 building fund. Girvan N. Snider says 28 governors including 15 from Scarsdale have committed with more pledges expected for a seven story nurses school and residence and new hospital sections. The fund supports expansion and replacement of the obsolete nurses’ school and residence. Snider notes governors serve without pay and show strong community concern for expanded facilities and skilled nursing.
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White Plains Hospital
Scarsdale
Girvan N. Snider
Snider
Board of Governors
Scarsdale Republicans Set July 25 Caucus in Village Hall
Scarsdale's enrolled Republicans will caucus in the Village Hall on Monday evening July 25 at 8 15 p m to nominate a town supervisor a receiver of taxes and a school director A general election from those nominees will be held November 8 Candidates and their committee heads must file written intentions by July 21 with Addison R Wilson secretary of the Republican Village Committee
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Scarsdale
Addison R. Wilson
Republican Village Committee
Garth Rd Club Seeks Permanent Local Playground
The Garth Road Democratic Club protests before the Eastchester Town Planning Board to keep a public playground south of Scarsdale Manor Apartments from being reclassified. Acting chairman Michael Mayer warns that more housing will bring crowded conditions and threaten open space for neighborhood children.
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Garth Road
Democratic Club
Eastchester
Michael Mayer
Club
Call for Volunteers to Update Resident List
The Westchester Cancer Committee at 89 Pondfield Rd Bronxville seeks volunteers to type cards to update its resident list. Work can be done in the office or at home. any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Westchester Cancer Committee
Pondfield Rd
Bronxville
Scarsdale Reports Rising Accident Toll in 1949
Horace W. Hardy of the Scarsdale Safety Council notes June accidents reach ten, bringing May and June to twenty and placing 1949 at forty two accidents for the first half. The figure beats 1947 by more than twice and exceeds 1948’s six month total by six.
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Scarsdale
Horace W. Hardy
Scarsdale Safety Council
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Edgewood School
John Gas
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Mother
E. Newton Wilmington
Clarence Rd
George W. Cornell
Greenacres Ave
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