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NEW CASTLE NEWS, THURSDAY, DECEMEBR 1S T945_ Highway Workers (Continued from Page 1) grows, there will be need for much more space than the pre sent building affords. Despite a 10% increase grant ed town employees generally and a 15% increase granted to labor ers on the highway, there will be an over-all decrease of 29c per thousand in taxes for the entire township. Mr. Stewart pointed out with great satisfaction how fortunate New Castle township is in that it receives as its share of the Reader's Digest franchise tax from the State the substantial sum of $50,000.00 annually. In connection with the much- discussed pay schedule for high way workers who now get a 15% increase, it is pointed out that this pay is for a full-time job twelve months a year, and com pared with a rate of $1.14 per hour in Rockland County where employment is guaranteed for eight months annually. Mr. Stew art said that the minimum wage schedule for such work asked in communities where workers are organized under the State, Coun ty and Municipal Workers Union is $1.00 per hour. The more I am acquainted with agricultural affairs the better I am pleased with them, insomuch, that I can nowhere find so great satisfaction as in those innocent and useful pursuits. George Washington There is nothing better than farming, nothing more fruitful, nothing more delightful, nothing more worthy of a freeman. Cicero $100 PRIZE WINNER General Home Repairing CARPENTER Furniture Repairing—Polishing—Interiors Remodeled Venetian Blinds Repaired Cement and Drainage Work GRADING — PAINTING — GENERAL HANDY MAN WORK Phone Chappaqua 271 SUGGESTIONS to the WINTSEBS of NEWCASTLE AeW<l PRIZE Should you be a man Why not buy a fur coat for your wife or sweetheart Should you be a woman and the decision is in your own hands Stop in and learn about our Reliable Fur Connection MABEL S. VESSELOWSKY FASHION STUDIO Greeley House Tel. Chappaqua 809 $500 Prize Essay Winner Clarence J. Houmiel, Science Teacher at Horace Greeley High School. WHAT NEW CASTLE NEEDS TO IMPROVE THE TOWNSHIP Improvements that might be made divide themselves into three classes. 1J Structural: A new Town Hall is badly needed for the efficient functioning of our government. A new road along the railroad tracks to Mt. Kisco would allow Bedford Road to become a residential thoroughfare. Trucks and cars going to Ait. Kisco would save almost two miles each ivay. Roads such as Whipporwill, Roaring Brook, etc. need surfacing to help those areas develop. A multiple housing unit would enable our young married couples to stay in town and also provide housing for our teachers who now cannot find a place to live. 2) Mental: Adult education classes and m or urns should be added to the already existing programs to keep us growing mentally. 3J Physical Well Being: Public tennis courts and a swimming pool head the list. This center could well be broadened to include meeting rooms for our organizations and civic functions. Perhaps bowling alleys and a small theatre for community use could be included. All of these suggested improvements need to be carefully con sidered from a cost standpoint before they are undertaken. To help pay for them we might well consider the dissolution of our rural school district. Millwood children could be sent to Briar cliff and those in the northern portion sent to Mt. Kisco. This ivould elimin ate the necessity of a ney school building for a few years and ivould use surplus school facilities in both these communities. Marcia G. N'tcolaysen WHAT NEW CASTLE NEEDS TO IMPROVE THE TOWNSHIP World War II revealed tivo provocative facts: (1) the lack of physical fitness of many draftees and (2) that human intelligence is a natural resource which transcends in importance all other natural resources. These revelations, involving as they do the physical and mental training of our youth, challenge us as citizens of New Castle to exercise the privilege and responsibility of carrying out those projects which will develop and conserve the full capacities of our young people—namely, an all year round community recreational program and the best educational facilities we can afford. I visualize a recreational program which provides a swimming pool, tennis courts, athletic field, gymnasium, etc. ivhicb iviwll permit a full participation in all kinds of healthful activities. Because of their lasting utility I ivould urge the teaching of the skills of the \social sports\ such as tennis and swuning as thoroughly as com petitive team sports. The success that our neighboring community, Briarcliff, has had in the operation of its recreational park is con vincing proof that such a project is neither impractical nor prohibi tively expensive. New Castle should have school facilities second to none. For is is in these schools of tomorrowthat our children ivill gird them selves for the eternal struggle against ignorance, greed and prejudice. Very truly yours, Clarence J. Houmiel RUSSIAN LANGUAGE LESSONS Telephone Chappaqua 605 Evenings or Write P. O. Box 431 (Continued from Page 1) ners, with amounts won, follows: 1st Prize —Mrs. Marcia Nicolay- sen, $500. 2nd Prize —Mr. Clarence J. Houmiel, $100. 3rd Prize— Mrs. Gloria Darken- wald, $50. Six 4th Prizes of $25 each to: J. A. Seabrook, Arthur Mason, Angie Fischette, Patricia Ter- hune, P. M. Jelt, Elizabeth Farr Rodriguez. Ten 5th Prizes of $10 each to: June P. Wilson, William Weber, Marie A. Hutchinson, Janet M. Piazza, Melvin Pratt Spaulding, Bernice Dykeman, Mildred D. Urmy, Mary Heilman, Dora Mil- iambro, Sylvia M. Kurson. Twenty 6th Prizes of $5 each to: Gail Douglass Wilkins, Joan R. Thomas, Leo Kuperschmid, Pat Albro, Marion B. Ayres, Dor othea Cannacher, Mr. & Mrs. George A. Wiliams, Albert Mc Intyre, Paul E. Willison, Rose mary Hammond, Mary Frank Mason Elinor Ogden Stern, John Paul Stephens, Frederick M. Cur- ran, Alfred K. Barker, Virginia F. MacKay, Mrs. Louis H. Sobel, Charles Kraus, Adelaids T. Rieg- er, Mrs. Charles Hammond. Food Day For Europe (Continued from Page 1) portunity to do something about starvation in Europe. Mrs. John Lindenthaler and Mrs. Charles Batchelor head this Co-op pro ject in the Chappaqua store. The policy of the Co-op pro gram was set by Mrs. Walter Curry, Mrs. Boyd Darling, Mrs. Werner Fetz, Mrs. Walter Hahn, Mrs. Lindenthaler, Mrs. Batche lor and Mrs. Blom. Three ways will be offered for individuals to get food to Europe. Cans may be bought for UNRRA. Contributions may be offered for the Co-op \adopted\ family in - France. Chappaqua's group is adopting a Quaker School, the Pallant House, in Ommen, Hol land. Mrs. Lindenthaler has al ready sent them an eleven pound box of food and it is interesting to learn that she thought of stuffing the crevices between in- div dual packages with knitting- wool instead of the usual crumpl ed paper. Knitting needles were also included, thus tl oughtfully affording the recipients with materials for warm, and sorely needed, winter accessories. Money will be accepted for the American Friends' Service Com mittee work in Europe and Mrs. Blom stressed the fact that can ned foods may be bought in any store and brought to the Pleas- antville or Chappaqua Co-op for this food for Europe program. This is an opportunity for all residents of New Castle to help relieve the distress of those in Europe who have suffered so much hunger, despair and deso lation. In the true spirit of Christmas, let us help send food and good cheer to a neighbor across the sea. A COW'S DAY A Cornell University student recetnly used his stop watch to observe a small herd of beef cattle through a twenty-four hour period. In this way he learned that a cow grazes about 8 hours, spends some 12 hours lying down, and loafs the re maining 4 hours. He also noted that the average grazing speed is from 50 to 70 bites, but that the top speed is 90 bites a min ute.
