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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1946
Page
18
Syracuse Herald Journal and Syracuse Sunday Herald American reporters provide home town news across the wide circulation territory, with correspondents stationed in Cooperstown Oxford Madison Unadilla Oneonta Sherburne Afton Sidney and nearby communities.
Chenango Farmers Market Cooperative Association will open its 13th annual market at East Park Norwich on Saturday May 25 with a special May 29 flower producers market for Memorial Day tribute shoppers. From June 1 the bi weekly market expands to Wednesdays and Saturdays 8 30 AM to 1 PM. The group amended by laws to match city ordinances and plans to push for ordinance modernization. Membership fee rises to 5 dollars with stall sales limited to paid dues. Richard Goodwin of Guilford to lead May 23 meeting with Ivan Close alternate reelected directors Dever Rogers and Mr Close. Bessie Stratton Guy Barr and Hubert Dubois named officers. No sale of eyes not candied graded and dated cartons.
The Ithaca College choir of 34 voices performs at Clyde Methodist Church in a Spring Musicale under Bert Rogers Lyon Tuesday at 8 15 P M. Selections include madrigals by Morley and Dilassa and religious works by Byrd Palestrina and Burleigh with college band solos between groups. Kenneth Landy leads as general chairman, with Mrs Hydon planning, and Leon Anstec as ticket chairman.
The Ithaca Common Council, on Mayor James Conley’s recommendation, appointed acting City Judge Edward J. Casey to the municipal bench at a special City Hall session. Aaron Mintz was named to the office Casey held. The bench vacancy followed a Third Department ruling that Berty Baker was ineligible due to age. Casey has presided since January 1 during Baker’s leave of absence. Casey, a Ithacan native, graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1924 and Cornell Law School in 1927, previously lost to Baker in the last election. Mintz, also Ithacan and brother of the late Judge Lawrence W. Mintz, earned his law degree from Cornell in 1901.
Cortland area men near completion of a 3000 foot runway will operate a new airport on the Schenck property, between Cortland and Homer, effectively paralyzing the Cortland Country Club. Lawrence MebDermott, W Eldridge and Oscar Schenck will run the port with private flying instruction by McDermott and Eldridge, both former Army Air Forces. The group aims for about 10 planes. Separately, Bible School Park seniors Dorathy Ruhlman, Mary Baker, and Kathryn Earle will sing at Mother’s Day services in Newfield and West Danby churches. They study at Practical Bible School, Johnson City, and train for evangelical and missionary work.
A public hearing on forming a Danby fire district is set for 8 P.M. Thursday May 23 at the Town Hall after a petition with about 200 signatures, representing over 73 percent of residential taxpayers, was presented to the Town Board. The plan would place three equipment locations in West Danby Danby proper and on Coddington Road with little opposition.
Cortland hosts state auxiliary leaders Mrs Harold Burdett of Brooklyn and Mrs Marion Paterson of Binghamton for a Cortland County Auxiliary dinner at McGraw Presbyterian Church on Wednesday May 15. Dinner at 6 30 followed by a business meeting. Reservations requested by today.
The Reform Methodist Church on Virgil Hill will have Rev. George Morton of Endicott fill the pulpit tomorrow in place of the ill Rev. H F Bailey. Morton will lead both morning and evening services as supply pastor.
Four New York 4-H Club members Bernard Stanton Bruce Wheeler Alice Tarbell and Eleanor Todd were named state delegates to the 16th National 4-H Club camp at American University Washington June 11 to 18 Alternate Gladys Blatchley will attend since Tarbell cannot go The delegates have long records in judging showmanship and leadership with Todd Tarbell Wheeler and Stanton reporting substantial profits and project values and Blatchley stepping in as attendee after Tarbell’s withdrawal.
A concert of original student works opens the Festival of Contemporary American Arts at Barnes Hall at 4 45 PM on Sunday May 26. The program features songs string quartet pieces choral pieces and two solo piano works composed or co composed by Cornell students working with Robert M Palmer and performed by student musicians and members of Sage Chapel Choir.
Mrs Dolly Smith and Mrs Mary Woodworth with Miss Elizabeth Brock as alternate were elected delegates to the Latiseh Zuanna convention to be held in Columbus Ohio July 30 to August 5 at the Odd Fellows Temple. Great Ashaghi Dolly Smith presided. Entertainment followed with prizes won by Mrs Alice Townsend, Mrs Mary Woodworth and Mrs Cecil Craft. The program was led by Mrs Margaret O'Shea and Mrs Helen Little. The next meeting will be May 23.
Officials of the Buffalo district once of the United Mine Workers will visit Ithaca on Tuesday for a Ludlowville unit meeting at 5 PM in the Parish Hall at Myers. They will confer with Watkins Glen locals the same night as the union seeks an 18.4 cent per hour wage increase against a 10 cent offer from the company.
Dr. Staaley Lincoln, superintendent of Biggs Memorial Hospital in Ithaca, spoke at the Watkins Montour Rotary Club noon luncheon. His subject was Advancement in Medicine.
The Rev. Arthur White of Eltira, former Army chaplain, will speak at a Methodist Church Brotherhood supper on Monday May 27 at 6 30 PM in church parlors.
The Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church will gather at the home of Mr and Mrs J Lynn Gibbs Tuesday at 7:30 PM. The Gibbses, who just returned from a trip to the Southwest and Mexico, will show colored motion pictures.
Trumansburg officials were reelected with Mayor E W Randall as nominating chair. James E Rice remains president, Laura K Dimmick vice president, Helen Bower treasurer, and E Katherine Dimmick secretary. A recreation center plan aims to enlighten youth with playgrounds and musical community activities. A Randall-led committee will survey similar towns for usable recreational and vocational aids.
Ithaca announces the engagement of Ida Howe to Albert J. Rustyak son of Adelbert and Mrs Rustyak of 119 N Aurora. Both graduates of Ithaca High School. Rustyak recently discharged from the U S Army. Wedding planned for August.
J Gordon Crowe of Albany along with Willard Stone and George Bonacker will visit Cortland on May 20 to confer with the city Youth Bureau advisory committee Board of Education and Exchange Club and city recreation commission. Meetings schedule noon recreation commission 4 PM advisory committee library 6 15 PM Exchange Club Cortland Hotel and 8 PM Board of Education at Cortland High School. County Judge Morse E Ames announces three new advisory committee members Dr William E Mosher Myrtle Gilchrist and Mrs C V Brubeck.
U S Employment office in Oneonta, managed by Miss Katherine Woodruff, appeals to Otsego and Delaware County employers as 1,218 World War II veterans are registered for employment. The call urges an orderly, direct job process so veterans avoid bitterness and disillusionment from door to door hunting and underused skills.
Miss Mary 5. Markey of the New York Tribune Fresh Air Fund announced the committee for the project in Cincinnnatus and vicinity. Members include George Dodge as chair, John Kerr, Mrs. Russell Taylor, Mrs. Claude Green, Mrs. Harry Connor, the Rev Otis Fischer, Mrs. Harold Fritz, Mrs. Warren Davis, Mrs. Alston Bush, Mrs. Robert Pudney, Mrs. Grover Potter, the Rev. Philip French, Mrs Percy Wildman, the Rev. J. W. LaSalle, P. B. Foster, Mrs. Shirley Brown, Lloyd Mey, and Mrs. John Sassman.
Cortland High School bands and orchestra under Burton E. Stanley and the chorus led by Miss Margaret McKeon are competing in the district high school music contest at Lion today.
The engagement of Miss Betty Fredericks to S/Sgt Lawrence Crispell, son of Mr and Mrs Ellsworth Crispell of Slaterville Springs, is announced by her parents Mr and Mrs William Fredericks of 110 Monroe Street. No wedding date has been set.
Announcement from Ithaca reports Prof and Mrs F B Morrison funding an annual Morrison award for five years to ASPS members for meritorious beef cattle dairy cattle horses sheep or swine research with direct relevance to production. Each year 1000 cash and a gold medal. nominations due June 15 to the Association of Animal Production secretary in Urbana Illinois.
Funeral services for Clyde Wilbur Darling 29 of Freeville will be held Sunday at 3 at the Earle W. Wright funeral home Cortland with Rev. Stanley P. Borden officiating. Burial will be in McLean Cemetery. He died after a monthlong illness at Cortland Hospital. He was born Oct 7 1916 in Ithaca. Surviving are his father stepmother five sisters one brother and a stepbrother.
A roundup of Sunday schedules across Cortland area churches listing church names, locations, pastors, and service times. Includes North Presbyterian, Free Methodist, St. Paul's Lutheran, Grace Episcopal, Homer Avenue Methodist, Memorial Baptist, First Methodist, First Baptist, First Church of Christ Scientist, First Presbyterian, Second Congregational, Lethel Tabernacle, Salvation Army, St. Marys, St. Anthonys, Assembly of Christians, Universalist, Elm Street, Homer Calvary Episcopal, and other denominations with their respective worship and Sunday School times.
Mrs. Josephine M. Burr secured a judgment against Commercial Travelers Mutual Accident Association of America in Otsego County, with additions bringing the total to about 12 300 dollars. The case stemmed from the death of Raymond J. Burr, and the Court of Appeals affirmed the accidental death ruling after rulings by the Supreme Court and Appellate Division. Judge Martin W. Deyo signed the order in Cooperstown.
The Rev. Robert Kellerman, recently assigned to Sidney Methodist, will arrive after July 1 from Naples Italy where he served as executive secretary of a nutrition and housing commission under the Congregational church board and UNRRA. Mrs Kellerman and children Jean and Lynne will move to Sidney about May 14. Kellerman is a graduate of Brothers College and Drew Theological Seminary.
Mrs. Josephine Johnson, librarian at Sidney Central School, honored at a dinner hosted by Mrs. Willard B. Ruland in Sidney. After 22 years as faculty, she will retire at year end. A Oneonta Normal School graduate with library training from Albany State Teachers College, she previously taught in Patchogue L. I. and Walton.
Cooperstown Playground will start its season July 1 under Lester G. Bursey, director and athletic director at Cooperstown Central School. It runs seven weeks through August 1. Since 1925 the village organized playgrounds with Bursey in charge. Activities include baseball schools and leagues, swimming, archery, paddle tennis, volleyball, badminton, basketball, and table tennis. Swimming classes occur at Alfred Corning Clark gym pool.
Funeral services were held Friday in St Marys Church Cooperstown for Paul Pushlar of Oaksville with burial in St Marys Cemetery. Born January 10 1874 in Austria, he came to the United States in 1903 and to Otsego County in 1914. He married Josephine Kregel in 1903, who died in 1936. He was a farmer. Surviving are two daughters Mrs William Semroy Hartwick and Mrs Paul Congdan, two sons Victor East Springfield and Louis Hartwick, and six grandchildren.
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