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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1967
Page
22
Schoharie County residents sponsor a sneak preview of the April 29 Schoharie Maple Festival at Colonie Center Mall. A maple sap house, antique show, and 1800s costumes provide attractions as the maple festival queen visits with her court, all on the lower North Mall level.
Educators M Manning Atherton and Robert A Christensen spoke at the Pennsylvania Music Educators Conference at University Park over the weekend. They coauthored a new junior high music curriculum used in seventh and eighth grades in Niskayuna. Atherton directs two bands at Van Antwerp Junior High and teaches instrumental music at elementary and junior high levels. Christensen directs the high school chorus and teaches Great Music in the other school, plus junior high classes. He also serves as organist and choir director at Eastern Parkway Methodist Church in Schenectady.
Niskayuna Police Chief John T. McGovern warned residents against burning rubbish in open fires. State Health Department regulations prohibit such burning as part of air pollution controls. A permit is required to burn refuse, and waste can be taken to the town dump, which will be open seven days a week until further notice.
The Craig Elementary School of Niskayuna hosts a three day Book Week sale and display with over 1000 titles. It opens tomorrow at 6:20 p m in the school gym with PTA chairwoman Mrs Vernon J Twombley outlining aims to foster early reading ownership.
The annual spring conference for teachers and administrators in the South Colonie Central School District was held yesterday at Colonie Central High School. Dr. Harold Herber of Syracuse University keynoted, stressing classroom creativity. The professional growth committee included Michelina Maiello as chair and many district staff as officers and coordinators. 22 group leaders and similar number of readers assisted. Glenn E. Bretsch and other administrators welcomed attendees.
A three car crash on State Street Schenectady led to two injuries and a driver being arrested for failure to keep right. Mrs. Evan Sanders and Mrs. Emma Sirrine were treated at Ellis Hospital and released. both were riding with Richard Sanders who was not injured. Another collision at the Crosstown Arterial in Rotterdam injured five and resulted in a reckless driving charge against Thomas McWatters.
Sophomore delegates Anthony Wise and Paul Briggs attended the annual Key Club convention in Concord where officers for next year were elected. Greg Grande will be president, Petra Hughes vice president, Thomas Fake treasurer, and Paul Briggs secretary. Jerry Kenny received the Sandy Ninenger Award for outstanding Key Club member and serves as senior class treasurer and member of swimming and tennis teams. The club plans a car wash at Latham Bowl to raise funds to light the school sign on Watervliet Shaker Road.
The Shaker High Executive Council led by Peter Buck announces a School to School Program drive with a goal of raising 1000 dollars to build a school in a needy African or Latin American nation. A June 3 fair runs 1 to 9 pm in the school parking lot with each club hosting a booth, followed by a 9 pm dance in the quadrangle. In rain the carnival booths move to corridors and the dance moves to the dining room.
A Schenectady firm and two Troy companies won Colonie town contracts for Latham Water District materials after bid openings led by Oscar V Esser. Levalley Co received 850 for valve boxes. Ludlow Valve 2240 for eight inch valves. Lee Hydraulics 3610 for hydrants and several pipe items. Ludlow 1460 for six inch valves. Materials were requested by Edward Denison, superintendent of the district.
Marilyn Mangione Woods, formerly of Flushing, and Ann Law, both injured in a Sunday collision at Waterman Avenue Route 5 in Colonie. Witnesses identified Richard Farone, 23, of Schenectady, as the driver. Farone not held. Ellis Hospital treated Gary and William Paraso for minor injuries. Canton remains hospitalized with injuries from the accident.
Mrs Woods active in St Ambrose Church and Latham activities, member of the Rosary Society and St Ambrose basketball committee, a homeroom mother at St Ambrose School, and part of the Black Rosary Society. She is survived by husband, mother, three sons Thomas R Kevin P and Michael D Woods, sister Mrs Warren Wills and brother John J Mangione. Funeral from John H Clinton Funeral Home tomorrow at 8 45 a m to St Ambrose Church for 9 30 a m Solemn Requiem Mass, interment in St Mary's Cemetery.
The Sounding Board details two front-page items by the Great er Colonie Chamber of Commerce and groups like the Preserve Loudonville Area Association. They push a four-lane reconstruction of the Loudonville Newtonville Route 9 segment and traffic routing changes to the proposed Northside Arterial. The other item covers efforts with Colonie to obtain a postal designation for the town. Chamber president Charles F. Luthe Jr will attend the U S Chamber annual meeting in Washington from April 30 to May 3. Harold P. Smith is named chair of the Wholesalers and Distributors Services Committee, succeeding the late John J. M. Smith resides in Latham. The article notes the chamber’s goal to assist the town’s growing wholesale industry and the town’s traffic planning. A Schenectady County Civil Service Commission exam for a Town of Niskayuna building inspector is scheduled for June 13 with a $4,800 annual salary. applications due by May 1.
County Judge John T. Casey signs order allowing Shirley Kloe as guardian for William Kloe to settle with William W. King and George King of Troy for 3475 dollars. Plaintiff’s attorney Bender Solomon filed papers stating the bloc youth was injured May 20 1966 when the motorcycle he rode was struck by a car at 115th Street and Fifth Avenue.
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