Scarsdale Library Friends Stage Literary Quiz and Election
Scarsdale residents are invited to a literary quiz titled Your Turn with the Book Worms at the Woman's Club on May 13. The event, part of the Friends of the Scarsdale Library annual meeting, features Frederick Lewis Allen as moderator and a panel including Warren Weaver Vernon G. Smith Anne Rymer Burnham Finney Henry C. Link Shipley Newlin and Richard Walter. Prizes donated by local publishing firm members will reward correct three-part answers.
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Scarsdale
Friends of the Scarsdale Library
Woman's Club
Allen. Wilber
Frederick Lewis Allen
Harper's Magazine
the Inquirer
Warren Weaver
Rockefeller Foundation
Vernon G. Smith
Kipling
Anne Rymer
Burnham Finney
Henry C. Link
Shipley Newlin
Richard Walter
Scarsdale High School
New York
Edgemont
Friends of the
Searsdale Library
Searsdale
James A. Stewart
The
Town Club
Dana H. Ferrin
Henry Bloch
Robert G. Fuller
James N. Hynson
Donald F. McCall
Allen
Wilber
Charles C. Jordan
Stuart C. du Breuil
William J. Edmonds
Maxwell E. McDowell
Harold L. Smith
Robert R. Updegraff
Dunninger to Headline Scarsdale Benefit Show
Dunninger, renowned stage and radio mind reader, tops the third annual Scarsdale Branch of Children to Palestine benefit at Scarsdale Theatre on May 28. He will perform thought-reading feats seen coast to coast, claiming access to audience minds and revealing personal details. His notoriety includes encounters with prominent figures and guests like Henry J. Kaiser and Lucille Ball.
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Dunninger
Scarsdale
Palestine
Scarsdale Theatre
Johnny
Marjorie
Mr. Jones
Mother
Red Cross Election Set for Scarsdale Branch Meeting
The Scarsdale Branch of the American Red Cross will hold its annual meeting Monday May 5 at 2 30 p m at the Scarsdale Woman's Club Speakers include Mrs George Carrington chapter production chairman and Chaplain Sherley from Castle Point Veterans Hospital Polls for officers open 9 a m to 1 p m in Room 305 Harwood Building and 2 to 2 30 p m at the Woman's Club Tea to follow the business meeting and program.
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Scarsdale
American Red Cross
Scarsdale Woman's Club
George Carrington
Sherley
Veteran's Hospital
Castle Point
Harwood Building
Woman's Club
County Board of Supervisors Set Meeting Next Monday
Members of the Board of Supervisors will meet next Monday at 2 30 p m in rooms on the eighth floor of the County Office Building in White Plains. The county board is meeting only once a month until fall.
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Board of Supervisors
White Plains
Church News Page 20 Editorials Page 14
The index lists sections across the paper including Church News on page 20 Editorials on page 14 Schools and Sports on pages 15 to 17 and 22 Society on page 18 Theater on page 23 and Woman's Club on page 19.
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Church News
Woman's Club
Stricter Ride Solicitation Law Warns Scarsdale Pedestrians
Scarsdale police remind the public that under Article six Section eighty eight of the Vehicle and Traffic Law it is illegal to solicit rides on any road unless a person is a member of the armed forces.
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Scarsdale
Scarsdale High School to stage Mikado in May
The Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Mikado will be produced by Scarsdale High School music department with PT A and G O of the school sponsorship. George Lawson directs. Cast includes George Newlin as The Mikado James McDowell as Nanki Poo Warren Dodson as Koko Shipley Newlin as Yum Yum Anne Breckwoldt as Katisha Leo Dorfman as Poo Bah Robert Barnwell as Pish Tush Judy Cohn as Pitti Sing Jean Eschenbach as Peep Bo Ronnie Estes as the Umbrella Bearer. Understudies are Barbara Horn Marianne Glaser Richard Walters Russell Leonard Joe Misenheimer. Chorus includes Girls and Boys Choral groups.
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Scarsdale High School
Parent-Teacher Association
George Lawson
George Newlin
Japan
James McDowell
Nanki-Poo
Warren Dodson
Koko
Lord High Executioner
Shipley Newlin
Anne Breckwoldt
Katisha
Leo Dorfman
Robert Barnwell
Judy Cohn
Pitti-Sing
Jean Eschenbach
Peep-Bo
Ronnie Estes
Barbara Horn
Marianne Glaser
Richard Walters
Russell Leonard
Joe Misenhimer
Books on China exhibit at Scarsdale Library
A display of books on China is set up at the Scarsdale Public Library as part of the United Service to China campaign. The exhibit is chaired by John A. Pearson and features a special table for the event.
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China
Scarsdale Public Library
Scarsdale
John A. Pearson
Submarine Commanders to Speak at Navy Day Event
Scarsdale Post 52 American Legion hosts Navy Day with Rear Admiral Richard G. Voge and Commander Eli T. Reich as honored guests. The meeting in the Harwood Building includes films from the Navy Department and a ship-of-the-line tribute by the Post, with a guard of WWII veterans.
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Scarsdale
American Legion
Harwood
Richard G. Voge
U.S. Navy
Eli T. Reich
U. S. Navy
Voge
Reich
Pacific
Navy Department
Scarsdale Post
Walter Myers
D. L. Farley
George Redford U
Navy
Fort Schuyler
Bronx
Vogue
U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Sea Lion
Cavite
Editorial on End of Telephone Strike
An editorial reflects on the announced end of the telephone strike, written Wednesday and printed late Wednesday afternoon. It weighs the meaning of the announcement, noting optimism for Friday morning reading and acknowledging the uncertainty from yesterday.
Hangar Closed Early. April 30 Official
At a joint meeting the Hangar advisory and Hangar committees decided to close the Hangar on April 30 due to May activities and outdoor weather. They will return donated furniture and seek contacts. Mrs. Norman E. Horn chairs the advisory committee at 15 Brayton Road. The Hangar committee will host a final dance with date to be announced.
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Norman E. Horn
Brayton Road
Peckham Road Corporation wins paving contract
At a special Village Board meeting the Peckham Road Corporation secured the paving contract for Chase Road Crane Road and Old Orchard Lane. Work to start within ten days. Peckham bid 32865.50 versus Halton Construction Augustus V Riegel bid 39515.50 and Frank Bracatello bid 48698.50. Engineer's estimate 35000 including ten percent for engineering and contingencies.
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Peckham Road Corporation
Chase Road
Crane Road
Old Orchard Lane
Peckham
Halton Construction Corporation
Augustus V. Riegel, Inc
Frank Bracatello, Inc
Edgewood P T A Election and Lecture Set for May 5
Edgewood P T A will hold its annual meeting and officer election at the school on Monday May 5 at 3 00 pm Doctor Jean Betzner professor of children's literature at Columbia University Teachers College will speak on Good Literature for Our Children A book exhibition will be shown by Miss Cowden the school librarian Tea will be served by Mrs G Stanley McAllister and committee Child care will be available in Room 3 for children ages three through second grade upon request to Mrs Waldo Finn
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Edgewood Parent-Teacher Association
Jean Betzner
Doctor Betzner
Columbia University Teacher's College
Bronxville
The
Association For Children’s Education
Miss Cowden
G. Stanley McAllister
Waldo Finn
Price Reduction Move Started in Scarsdale
Campbell and Morgan inc began a ten per cent sale at 4 p.m. last Saturday April 26 in the Men’s Shop window at 26 Popham Road Scarsdale. The offer runs through May 15 with manufacturer cooperation. Campbell says the experiment boosted sales and other village stores plan similar cuts.
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Campbell and Morgan, Inc
Popham Road
Scarsdale
Campbell
Scout Troop Three Wins Ross Rally
The Ross Rally in the Scarsdale district saw Troop 3 win with 656 points followed by Troop 9 with 628 and Troop 4 with 538. Teams competed in inspection attendance first aid signaling knot tying relay and friction fire relays judged by Red Cross officials and Scout leaders including Robert Goeller and Frank Harrington.
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Boy Scouts
Scarsdale
Butler Field
Troop 3
Red Cross
Robert Goeller
White Plains
Frank Harrington
Nuremberg Trials Exhibit At Scarsdale Library
The Scarsdale Library displays material on the Nuremberg war crimes trials sent by resident interpreter Gertrude Levinger. A photo book titled Justice at Nuremberg shows the city courts and figures. mimeographed defense pleas by Goering and others are also shown. Victor Bernstein's Final Judgment and related Germany books complete the exhibit.
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Scarsdale
Gertrude Levinger
Nuernberg
Germany
Edgemont School Board to Elect Two Members Tuesday
The Union Free School District No. 6 annual meeting will be held Tuesday evening May 6 at the school. Two Board of Education seats are open with incumbents P. Truman Henson and Mrs Liston Noble running to succeed themselves and Mrs Samuel A Harned respectively.
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Union Free School District No. 6
Edgemont School
Board of Education
P. Truman Henson
Liston Noble
Samuel A. Harned
East Scarsdale Association Names Officers and Endorses Non-Partisan Policy
At the annual meeting the East Scarsdale Association reelected Charles A. Hammarstrom as president with Charles Rizzi as vice president Richard A. Tilden as secretary and Robert M. Averill as treasurer. New governors include Dr. Victor N. Citron and Frederick W. Brown. A non-partisan government resolution was carried unanimously urging continued non-partisan village and town governance.
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Charles A. Hammarstrom
Secor Road
East Scarsdale Association
Crossways
Charles Rizzi
Richard A. Tilden
Robert M. Averill
Victor N. Citron
Frederick W. Brown
John J. Doyle
John E. Beauchamp, Jr
Morris F. Harris
William F. Kennedy
Howard Wolff
William Archibald, Jr
East Scarsdale
Scarsdale
Town Club
Greenburgh Adopts Master Zone Plan
Greenburgh Town Council adopted the master zoning plan for unincorporated areas after a public hearing at Central Avenue School in Hartsdale. The council rejected proposals to ban stores in six story apartments on Hartsdale Avenue East and to downscale Central Avenue housing to three story garden apartments.
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Greenburgh
Central Avenue
Hartsdale
Hartsdale Avenue
Charles J. Costabel
Costabell
William and
Harry Kalker
New York
Caroline Rest
Dinner Honors Ex-Mayor H. Beach Carpenter in Scarsdale
H Beach Carpenter of Lockwood Road was guest of honor at a Scarsdale Golf Club dinner as his mayoral term ended in March. Attending were Village Board members including Robert M. Gates and George W. Cornell, Albert B. Swanson, Village Manager Reeves Newsom, J Newton Nash, Anson McLoud, Village Treasurer, and Herman Steuernagel, Village Clerk.
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H. Beach Carpenter
Lockwood Road
Scarsdale Golf Club
Robert M. Gates
George W. Cornell
Albert 8. Swanson
School Board Seeks Four Directors At One District Meeting
Scarsdale New York elects four members of the Board of Education at its annual meeting next Tuesday at 8 15 p m in the junior high gym A last minute change names Mrs Frederick W Brown to replace Mrs George Taylor Stanton who moves to Massachusetts Newlin McAllister Rutherford and Brown are nominees for the seats The budget of 1326593 faces approval with a tax rate rise of 1234 per thousand and sixty four percent of funds allotted to teachers salaries
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Board of Education
Citizens Committee
William Britton Stitt
Scarsdale
Frederick W. Brown
Wildwood Road
Greenacres
Brown
Smith College
Sorbonne
Paris
University of Grenoble
Rise in Accidents Reported in March
March brought a sharp rise in Scarsdale traffic accidents. Horace W. Hardy reported to the Scarsdale Safety Council that thirteen accidents occurred last month, with seven injuries including three serious, and more incidents than in March 1946.
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Scarsdale
Horace W. Hardy
Scarsdale Junior League Joins National Unit
The Scarsdale Unit was admitted as a national unit of the Association of Junior Leagues of America at the twenty-fifth annual conference in Coronado California. More than 300 delegates from the United States Canada Mexico and Hawaii attended as Scarsdale moved from the New York Junior League and met all standards.
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Association of Junior Leagues of America
Scarsdale Unit
Coronado
California
United States
Canada
Mexico
Hawaii
New York
Scarsdale
America
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Jack Dempsey
Edwin C. Hill
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Poop-Bah
Ko-Ko
Joba Gass
Edgewood P.T.A
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Ogo
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Stanton
Scarsdale Junior League
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