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Dr. Hfiggliis Will End Practice
H«re Sept. 15 After 25 YearsDr. C. Ray Huggins, who has practiced general
medicine and obstetrics in Margaretville for a quarter century, will leave here next month. He has accepted
a position as professor ofCity Youngsters Aided Hospital
Thirteen New York oity area youngsters vacationing in Hal- cott Center have raised $100.52 for the Margaretville Memorial hospital this summer. The youngsters made jewelry, painted rocks as paper weights and prepared other attractions for a toazaar they held at the Garfield Reynolds farm in Halcott.
The youngsters, whose ages , range from seven to 15, included Peter George, who was chairman of this year’s project, Catherine and Tina-Marie Vor- gia, Karen Blionas, Philip and Nicky Pappas, Wanda and Christine Sakell, George and Maria Anagnos,. Ellen and Tommy George and Angela Pappas.
Mrs. Mary Blionas was the winner of the Rao oil painting prize at the bazaar.
The project is the outgrowth of an idea of 15-year-old Catherine Vorgia. Last year she inspired four teenagers to put on the bazaar, which raised $26 for the hospital.
B u r r o u g h s C l u b
S e e k s A r e a P h o t o s
Roxbury, Aug. 3.—The Roxbury Burroughs club will sponsor a photo contest “Changes in Burroughs Country.” In an effort to prepare a pictorial contrast of rural life in the Catskills of John Burroughs time with life in the Catskills of today, the club is offering prizes for pictures which best depict the area’s rural scenes of bygone and present days. The club hopes to stimulate concern for the future of the region.
All subjects of rural life are relevant to the theme, old and new pictures of methods of haying, milking, transportation, power, stonework and other aspects are needed.
Pictures selected wall be re produced and will become part of an exhibit which will be circulated to 22 area schools through the Rural Educational Center a t Stamford, where it will also be available to clubs and other groups.
Three prizes will iba awarded for old photos and three
will he awarded fo r new pictures. First prizes are $30, second prizes are $20 and third prizes, $10. Judging will be on originality, subject m atter and relevance to the theme. Pictures other than those for which prizes are awarded may be u s ^ for the educational exhibit.
Entries may be mailed to Burroughs Photo contest, or delivered to the home of T. Howard Smith at Roxbury between Aug. 1 and Sept. 30. Prizes will.'be awarded Oct. 7 and photos will be returned upon request.
N e w A u t h o r J o i n s
L i b r a r y I n d u c t e e s
Roxbury, Aug. 3.—Author’s day was held Simday afternoon at the library at Roxbury centra l school. About 30 were present. Mrs. T. Howard Smith presided.
Principal Robert Prout read the names of past and present Roxbury people who are authors of books. There were 'more than 30 of whom one- third have attended school at Roxibury. The first Author’s day was held in 1968, a t which time around 30 authors were honor^, and each year since, an author or two have been added.
This year’s addition was Eva Hirsch, who with her husband, Abraham Hirsch, bought the Burroughs homestead lin 1968. Mrs. Hirsch’s hook, “Poverty and Plenty on the Turkish Farm,” has been published. I t was -written as the result of a year she and her husband had spent in Turkey. They are teachers of economics.
Mrs. Earl T. Sch^eiber presented Mrs. T. Howard Smith with a plaque for her service to the Roxbury library. The new librarian, Mrs. Vincent Kelly, was introduced.
Miss Harriet Smith 'was chairman of the antique book display. Members brought old books, which were on display with comparatively new ones. There were a large nimiber of these, several more than 100 years old.
Punch and cookies were served a t a taible decorated with daisies, phlox and Queen Anne’s lace. Mrs. Schreiber and her committee. Miss Madeline Wallace and Mrs. Lee Turano, poured.
T r a i n i n g M o n d a y
A three-hour course for new drivers wdU be given a t 7 a.m. Monday a t the portable classroom behind Margaretville cen^ tral school. There is a $5 registration fee for the course.
health at the State University college at Oswego. His practice here will cease Sept. 15, and all patients are requested to secure their records from his office before that date.
He first began practice in Andes in 1947 following his discharge from the Army. He joined Dr. G. M. Palen in Margaretville in 1948. They, in partnership with Dr. Donald Gibbs, formed a group practice in 1949 which continued until Dr. Gibbs left for Texas in 1957.
Obstetrics were given up five years ago when Dr. Palen left to accept a opsition at State University college in Oneonta. Dr. Huggins has attempted without success to curtail his extensive practice. He came to the conclusion recently that a clean break was the only method by which he could reduce the burden on himself. He estimated this week that he had delivered more than 3,500 babies in his years here.
He is health officer for the towns of Andes and Middletown as well as the villages of Andes and Margaretville, also is physician for the Andes central school.
The board of directors of the Margaretville Memorial hospital was informed of Dr. Huggins’ decision at a meeting Monday night. They have begun the search for a replacement.
F r e e E y e C l i n ic s
A v a i l a b l e H e r e
Free eye examinations will be available to residents of Delaware county from Aug. 15 to Aug. 17, when a mobile eye clinic will visit four locations in the county. The clinic will be staffed by ophthalmologists, trained to identify persons with visual handicaps for whom assistance may be made available through appropriate training, medical treatment and other services.
The clinic will be in the parking lot next to the Margaretville United Methodist church from 2 p.m. until as late as needed on Tuesday, Aug. 15. That morning it will be a t Indian Trail park in Stamford
-Irom 8:30 a.m. imtil noon. It will be at the Walton fairgrounds all day Wednesday, Aug. 16, and a t the Sidney recreation center all day Thursday, Aug. 17.
The clinic is sponsored by Delaware Opportunities, Inc., and is operated by the Albany Medical center and the state commission for the visually handicapped.
P r i v e r ’ s T o n g u e
C o m p o u n d s A r r e s t
Hillis Faulkner, 19, of Margaretville has been given a conditional discharge following his arrest Thursday on a charge of harassment.
State police report that Faulkner was being issued a ticket for speeding when he became abusive to Trooper MiUs. This led to the charge of harassment. The case was heard before Town Justice Sol- lie Darling of Fleischmanns, before whom Faulkner pleaded guilty.
In Arkville Future
M C S t o B e M in u s
P o w e r T h r e e D a y s
Reconstruction of the Margaretville central school will necessitate the cutting-off of telepfione service and electric power to the Margaretville bu'iding Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. The school cannot be reached by phone during this time.
However, a temporary office will be open in the portable classroom behind the west wing of the building during normal office hours. Persons having business with the school during this period may go directly to the ix>rtable balding.
F le is c h m a n n s P o o l
G a in s P o p u l a r i t y
Action by the village board has provided the village of Fleischmanns with a swimming pool for public use. The pool is the former property of the Park Terrace hotel on Wagner avenue, which was bought by the village for $6,500. The money necessary for the project comes from the budget of the village and the operation of the pool will be by the village board.
When the property was purchased the pool was in need of a great deal of repair, as it had not been used in several years. Restroom facilities and a place to change were also built. After the expenses of the first year the board expects to be able to run the pool for about $3,500 for the seaison.
The pool is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 pjn. on Sunday, Monday, Thursday and Friday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, T u e s d a y and Wednesday. Lights have been put in for night swimming. There are two RM Cross senior life guards on duty a t the pool a t all times when it is open. A charge of, 50 cents for the day to swim helps the village to offset the cost of the operation. The i>ool is expected to remain open through Labor day.
R e g i s t r a t i o n D a y s
3 e t f o r O c t o b e r
The Delaware county board of elections will register prospective new voters and voters who have moved any weekday from now until Sept. 6 a t the board’s offices in the county highway building at Delhi. Hours are 9 a.m. until noon aild 1 to - 4 p.m. Mondays* throtigh Fridays.
Registration iwiU bedone a t the Walton fair Aug. 14-19 and a t loced poUing places Friday, Oct. 6, Saturday, Oct. 7 and Tuesday, Oct. 10, from 11 a.m. to 9 pjn. each day.
Eligible are persons who are citizens and who will be 18 by Nov. 8 and a resident of the county for 30 days. Registered voters who have moved within the county since the l£ist election must reregister in person. Teachers and students may register and apply for absentee ballots during August.. Applications for absentee ballots may also be made in writing.
C a m p I s S o l d
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Hub- bell have purchased and took possession Tuesday of one of the oldest camps a t Perch lake. They acquired from Robert W. Thomson of New Jersey the double lot and cottage, which had been in the seller’s family since 1924.
Feunder Of Business institute
Envisions Growth To UniversityThe Institute for Free Enter
prise, a non-profit educational institution, which has been running courses successfully dn New York city for the last year, will launch a course of weekly classes in Arkville beginning next week. .W alter Geier of Arkville, who has been the moving force behind the New York courses, expects that eventually the main campus for the institute will be in Arkville.
Twenty area residents last week attended a meeting a t the Pakatakan motel to discuss the formation of the first series of classes to be run by the institute here. Weekly classes on “How to Run a Growing Profitable Business” will begin a t 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 10, a t the Pakatakan. There will be a minimum of eight two-hour sessions.
The courses are designed specifically for those who are running a business or who are contemplating starting a business. Mr. Geier says that a realistic, no-nonsense appreaoh is used. A work-study program will be an integral part of the cur-, riculum.
Ih e institute will use many erf the training methods Mr. Geier developed as the result of a study for the Edwin Gould foundation. The study was authorized to develop a plan to find out what was most need
ed in the way of higher education in the United States, disregarding the outcries on both sides of established educators and their campus activist critics.
Edwin Gculd was a son of Jay Gould and a great uncle of Ambassador Kingdon Gould of Dry Brook. Mr. Geier and about 200 other businessmen in New York city formed a volunteer group to conduct workshops in business opportumties for minorities and achieved 95 per cent success with 1,000 trainees during the last winter.
One of the aims of the course, according to Mr. Geier, is to train the students to become moderators of future courses. He hopes to achieve this with the local people enrolled in the course at Arkville. Although there are differences, the moderator would be the equivalent of a teacher in other schools.
If the institute is successfial, Mr. Geier believes that it could be developed in a full-scale university. He is beginning to seek enrollments of next year’s high school and college graduates and returning veterans to make up the largest part of the student body in 1973.
Mr. Geier noted that htis- bands and wives who are partners in the same business may attend the institute for a single tuition.
Callanaii Bid
On Sliandaken
Roads Is LowThe state Transportation De-
partmejit received a low bid of $985,488.50 from Callanan Industries, Inc., of South Bethlehem for the retonditioning of 6.1 miles of two state roads in the tovm of Shandaken. The bid was the lower of two received.
Route 42, from the Shandaken intersection of route 28, to the Greene county line, and route 214 from the Phoenicia intersection of route 28 through Chichester to the Greene county line, will be resurfaced with asphalt, and bridges along both routes will be improved. Pavements less than 20 feet wide on both roads will be extended to 20 feet.
The projects are scheduled for completion by Jtdy 11, 1973.
The department also announced Monday that it will open bids Aug. 24 on 31 more highway projects. The route 97 bridge over the Delaware at Hancock is scheduled for reconditioning under these bids. Improved water supply systems, and installation of additional picnic facilities a t the route 17 Quickway rest stops near East Branch and near Roscoe are cilso listed for this bid opening.
Another project of interest to this area will be the reconditioning of route 30 between Blenheim and the Schoharie creek bridge near Breakabeen. The 8.7 mile stretch will be resurfaced and shoulders strengthened. New guide railing will also be installed.
A n d e s B o o t e r s W i n
T w o S o c c e r G a m e s
The Andes soccer clifc was the winner of two problem- plagued Delaware County Soccer league games during the last week, one of them by forfeit. Andes defeated Jefferson, 3-1, Thursday after loaning J^ e rs o n two players to fill out an 11-man team. Colchester forfeited its games Saturday when not enough players were on hand to meet the league minimum of nine.
In the Jefferson contest, Andes was dominant, taking, a 3-0 lead before Jeff Arquette booted a fourth-quarter goal to avert a Jefferson shutout. Don Hombeck tallied for Andes in the second on a direct kick from outside the penalty area, and the Redden brothers completed the scoring. Dsm Redden booted one dn the third, and George Redden in the foturth.
Colchester had seven men pn hand for its game, and an eighth showed up later. A scrimmage was held when Andes loaned three men to the visitors. The official standing for both teams is 2-2-1.
Official problems are also affecting the league. Since the league arrangement was not to pay officials for the games, they have usually been chosen from among spectators, and in one case a game was played without officials. This has caused dissention, and Tom Coddington of Andes has asked that certified soccer officials who are willing to work DCSL games during the next four weeks contact him. Use of certified officials will hinge on the consent of competing teams.
F i f t h D e g r e e R i t e
H e l d b y G r a n g e r s
New Kingston Valley Grange was host last week Wednesday evening to a special meeting of the Delaware County Pomona Grange. The Young Patrons of Tomorrow conferred the fifth degree on 31 candidates.
Those taking the fifth degree from here were Mrs. Ma- belle Russell, Miss Lynn Van Steenburg, Miss Marjorie Elliott, Mrs. Aileen Moore, Clifford Moore, Randy Moore, Warren Moore, Miss Sally Good- child, Miss Claudia Gray, Mrs. Linda H arter and Kip Johnson.
There were more than 100 in attendance. The host Grange served refreshments afterward.
The August meeting of the New Kingston Valley Grange wdll be Thursday, Aug. 10, one week later than usual, to allow the music group to participate in the talent contest tonight, Thursday, a t tne Otsego county fair at Morris.
G r o u p F o r m in g
C i v i c O r g a n i z a t i o n
A second organizational meeting of the Town of Shandaken Civic association will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 8, in the parish hall in Phoenicia. Twenty-one men and women who met last week Tuesday in the Mount Tremper firehouse agreed to form the new citizens and taxpayers groups.
A collection was taken to pay for advertising the next meeting, and individuals, organizations and clubs with interests in town affairs were invited.
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MOUNTAIN NEWSVol. 110—5 14 Pages—2 Sections
MARGARETVILLE, N. Y., THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1972 Published Weekly Second-Class Postage Paid
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Towns Gird For AnotKer Fight To Save RailroadRailroading in the Catskills
will become a memory by the end of autumn unless enough protests are made before Aug. 12 to abandonment of the last 83.6 miles of the Catskill Mountain branch of the Penn Central.
The town of Shandaken and other Ulster county towns through. which the railroad passes has taken steps to protest the closing. The towns of Roxbury and Stamford in Dela-
T h r e e - C a r C r a s h
C a u s e s 9 I n j u r i e s
A three-car personal injury accident on Highmount, east of the Delaware county line, Sunday morning resulted in minor injuries to nine people.
State police reported that the accident happened when a car being driven by Nellie M. Carr, 31, of Fleischmanns which was eastbound on route 28, stopped to make a left turn. A following car, driven by George Zehlesnik, 36, of High Bridge, N. J., was unable to stop and struck the Carr car, driving it across the highway into the path of a third car operated by Frank P. Nicchio, 37, of Brooklyn.
Injured in the crash were Mrs. Carr, with cuts on the left knee; Virginia Mahone, neck and stomach pains; Deborah Carr, cut on lip; Ruth Zehlesnik, bruised left knee; George Zehlesnik, bruised left shin; Kathleen Zehlesnik, cut on right leg; Frank Nicchio, bruised right knee; Judith Nicchio, cut on right knee, and Genia Nicchio, with a bruised right knee. All were taken to Meu’garetville Memorial hospital by the Margaretville ambulance where they were treated.
Damage to the three cars was so extensive that none could be driven away. ».
There were no tickets issued.
O f f i c e r s S h o w U p
W h e n D e e r A r o u n d
W alter Platt, 44, of Miller Place, L. I., paid a civil compromise of $125 Monday for illegal possession of a deer and for having a loaded gun in a car.
State pohce of the Margaretville station, along with Senior Conservation Officer Bryan Burgin, had gone to the Platt cabin near Arkville, to try to locate another man believed to be staying there. The man’s wife had called the .state police earlier in the day asking their aid in contacting him. Upon their arrival, P la tt was seen dragging the deer around behind the cabin. Further investigation revealed the loaded rifle in the car.
Taken before Town Justice Sollie Darling of Fleischmanns, P la tt paid the compromise and was released.
U J A D r iv e B e g u n
Harold A. Kleinfeld, Fleischmanns attorney, will again head the Fleischmanns-Marga- retville drive for the United JewTsh Appeal.
ware county expect to enter protests. Supervisor Eldred Shaver said that the town of Middletown had had no official notice yet of the shut-down.
Supervisor Raymond J. Dunn of Shandaken said the proposed aibandonment would likely be the chief topic a t the August town board meeting being held last night dn Allaben.
Supervisor Harold VanVal- kenburgh said that the town of Roxbury will take action a t its meeting next week to protest the closing. He also introduced a resolution passed by the Delaware county board of supervisors at ithe June meeting voicing opposition to the Federal Transportation Act of 1972, which would allow railroads to abandon trackage without hearing.
Assemblyman Edwyn Mason of Hobart and Assemblyman Clark Bell of Woodstock have been contacted and h a v e
P h o e n ic ia C r a s h
H o s p i t a l i z e s T r io
Phoenicia, Aug. 3.—A one- car accident on the Chichester road late Sunday afternoon sent three young men to the iBenedictine hospital and resulted in a summons for one of them, the driver of the vehicle. They were northbound about 5:15 p.m. when their 1968 Mercedes-Benz went out of control on a sharp curve near the Joe Doyle home and went off the road.
Constable James Short identified the driver as Stephen J. Lanane, 20, of Staten Island. The injured passengers are Louis Legozpy, 19, and William Burmeister, 19, both of Staten Island. They were given first aid at the scene by Shandaken aanibulance technicians Karl Busih and Waiter WincheU, and taken to the hospital, where the three were
"admitted with lacerations and possible internal injuries.
Lanane was charged with failure to keep right and will appear later in Shandaken jus; tice court.
S t o le n C a r F o u n d
A b a n d o n e d W r e c k
. s ta te police of the Margaretville station are investigating a report of a stolen car that was later wrecked and abandoned in Fleischmanns.
The owner of the car, James Todd, 32, of Fleischmanns, reported that his car was stolen early Monday morning. The car was found wrecked a t the intersection of old route 28 and Depot street in Fleischmanns.
There had been no arrests as of Wednesday.
R e c r e a t io n S o u g h t
The t o w n of Middletown Democratic club met Monday night and passed a resolution calling on the town board to provide a form of organized activity for area youngsters. The next meeting will be Wednesday, Aug. 9, a t 8:30 p.m. a t the town clerk’s office on route 28.
pledged their support to the affected towns in the attempt to thwart discontinuing the railroad.
The Penn Central applied last May 3 to the Interstate Commerce Commission a t Washington for a certificate of public convenience and necessity permitting abandonment of the 83.6 remaining miles of the line from Kingston to Bloom- ville. The last 24 miles to Oneonta were aibandoned in the mid-1960s.
The trustees of the bankrupt railroad have posted notice that abandonment proceedings will go ahead 'without public hearing unless protests are received by Aug. 12 indicating a need for a public hearing.
A railroad spokesman dn New York caty said, “We have no choice.” The railroad had been unsuccessful last October in a similar attempt to shut down the line.
The Penn Central public re lations man sadd that revenues were below the cost of providing service and “there are no real prospects for future traffic development.”
He also said that continued deterioration of the right of way makes further use of the line impossible without “prompt and extensive” restoration work. TMs is estimated a t $1,134,240, an average of $13,- 600 per mile.
The spokesman added, “Ma-
C a m p M a r a u d e r s
/ F a c e T o w n J u s t i c e
Phoenicia, Aug. 3. — Two Brooklyn boys were apprehended last week by Chief Constable Jack Schlegel investigating a complaint of repeated trespassing and troublesome behavior a t the Mount Tremper Lutheran camp. Harold Harr, director of the cami>, complained (that the pair had been hanging around the camp, interfering with occupants-^ the camp and had failed to leave after several warnings.
Frederick Papa, 17, was charged with third degree criminal trespass and pleaded guilty. He was unable to pay a fine levied by Town Justice George Kirk and was committed to the Uister county jail. The other boy, a 15- year-old, was given a one-way ticket to Brooklyn and placed on a New York city-bound bus under police escort.
R o t a r i a n s S a w
J o r d a n S l i d e s
Rev. William H arter showed slides of Jordan and the surrounding desert to Margaretville Rotarians Tuesday night.
In other business President Dennis McLean welcomed Attorney Stuart Glass as a new memiber.
The previous week themem- bres voted to donate $50 to flood victims in the Southern Tier. A budget for, 1972-73 was approved.
M r s . V a l k C i t e d
Mrs. Shirley Valk has been cited as employe-of-the-month for July a t Margaretville Memorial hospital, where she is in the dietary staff.
BIBLE SCHOOL PUPILS relax outside the New Kingston Presbyterian church during a recess of the daily vacation sessions. Nearly 100 children and 11 teachers are taking part in the week-long
program in New Kingston. The classes for the children are from grades nursery through eight. Bible lessons, along with games and songs make up the program.
, jor repair work on the branch has been deferred because it has become increasingly clear during recent years that abandonment of the line would become inevitable as the demand for rail service in this area diminishes’.”
He quoted Penn Central records for car loading and gross tonnage for the last three years>. Records for 1969 show that 1,310 cars were handled on the branch with a gross weight of 54,550 tons. In 1970 the figures declined to 1,098 cars and 44,925 tons, and in 1971 the figures were 950 cars and 38,- 228 tons.
The line is the former Ulster and Delaware railroad, which reached Stamford 100 years ago, then was pushed on to Oneonta, where it connected the Delaware and Hudson with the West Shore and Wallkill Valley at Kingston. I t also served Hunter and Tannersville and connected with the Delaware and Northern a t ArkviUe.
The line was taken over by the New York Central in 1932 and became part of the ill- fated Penn Central in the 1968 merger with the Pennsylvania. Passenger service, which a t one time required several trains each way daily, was dropped in 1954. Since then freight service has dwindled from a daily round trip to a twice-a- week round trip, mostly serving the Gilboa project, which is near completion.
Gerald M. B ^ t, a Port Jervis resident who became one of the nation’s foremost railroad historians, issued his book last month tracing the history of the Ulster and Delaware from its 'beginnings to the final days of steam. The book is expected to be available in 'the area in time to coincide with the possible death of the line.
f J e w P o w e r L in e s
P u t I n t o S e r v ic e
Two new high voltage transmission lines, built by the New York State Power Authority to transmit power from the Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage power project were placed in service last week.
One of the lines extends about 30 miles northeast from Blenheim-Gilboa in Schoharie county to the New Scotland substation of Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. in Albany county. The other line runs about 30 miles southwest from the Power Authority Project to a connection with a New York State Electric and Gas Corp. line near Delhi.
The Mnes from Gilboa to Delhi and New Scotland and a third line to Leeds eventually will transmit power from and to the Blenheim-Gilboa Project.
The million-kilowatt Blenheim-Gilboa project is scheduled to ibegin commercial operation in March, ivdth all units scheduled to be in service by next June.
The project will operate like a giant storage battery. Water will be pumped from a lower reservoir to a reservoir a t the top of Brown Mountain at times of slack demand of electricity. During periods of peak demand, the water will flow back downhill to produce electricity.
T r e s p a s s e r s P a i d
F o r C l u b F o r a y s
Trespassers on the Tuscarora club in the Millbrook valley continue to occupy time of local law enforcement agencies. Kurt Schamann, 26, of Brooklyn paid a civil compromise of $22.50 last Thursday before Town Justice Donald Fenton after his arrest by state police and conservation officers. He was released after payment was nuade.
Sunday, two Peekskill men, Arthur G a^ki, 62, and Richard Gadski, 3l, were fined $10 each ^fter they were arrested for trespassing on the club’s property. Both men appeared before Town Justice Sollie Dar- Mng of Fleischmanns.
C o r p s T o o k S e c o n d
The Sundowners Drum and Bugle Corps took the second place trophy in the dnurt corps competition a t the Columbia county firemen’s parade Saturday in Hillsdale, behind the St. Mary’s Gold Stars all-girl corps from Montreal. The Sundowners were guests of the Yailatie fire compeiny in the parade. The troprtiies are at the Bxm ’n Cone for display.