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4 Chappaqua To Have Mail Delivery Soon New Castle News, Postmaster Harrington Receive Notice That Requests For Carrier Delivery Will Bring Results. THE WINNERS! • f 'r < One measure of Chappaqua's growth is that the population now warrants mail-order delivery, according to the regulations of the Post Office Department, Washington, D. C. For the first time in the history of the town, mail-men will soon be routed, and your letters and parcels will be delivered to your coor. How soon, is a question which cannot be answered as yet, but the details are being worked out with postal authorities. Double benefits will be felt by Chappaqua residents with the start of mail-carrier service. Not only will they be saved the trouble of maintaining a box at ^ the post-office, and calling for mail, but it means quick relief of auto traffic congestion at the center of town. The New Castle News, on be half of the town, together with Postmaster Harrigan, have been communicating with Washing ton to achieve mail delivery ser vice since this newspaper start ed, and our correspondence is printed below! 1st Asst. Postmaster General Post Office Service Washington, D. C. Dear Sir, Some time prior to the recent war, application was made by request of residents for mail car rier and mounted delivery for the hamlet of Chappaqua, Town (Continued on Page 2) Racing Event For Cub Scouts Immediately following their participation in the Memorial Day Parade on May 30, approxi mately seventy five Cub Scouts will assemble at the top of Mes senger Hill where the races are to be held. One or more push- mobiles representing each indi vidual Cub Den will be entered. Because of the large number of boys participating the event will be run in heats. First and sec ond place winners of each heat are to enter the finals. Winners of the first, second and third place in each event will be awarded ribbons and also mys tery bonus prizes donated by Jack Diamond of Diamond's Grocery Store, Andy Grieco, Manager of Gristede's and A. Prank Wellins of Chappaqua Pharmacy. The races will be divided into the following classes; nine year olds, to start one third way up the hill; ten year olds, to start two thirds of the way up the hill; eleven year olds, to start at the top of the hill. All the push-mo biles have been constructed en tirely fay the Cubs. Devoe Bingham will act as judge at the finish line. Leslie Romaine, Chief of Police, will act as starter. Chief Romaine has also promised the full coop eration of his force in the con trol of traffic during the proceed ings. Jim Hand and Juan Chau- druc have the job of handling the Cubs and their vehicles at the starting line and Joe Thomas and Bill Hoeft will call time. William Hard, Jr. is acting chairman of the event. Yale Chaplain To Speak At PTA Rev. Sidney Lovett to Discuss Ethical Standards For Child; Annual Election of Officers. The Chappaqua Parent-Teacher Association will hear the Rev erend Sidney Lovett, Chaplain at Yale University, speak on \A Foundation for Living for Post war Youth,\ at the last meeting of the year, Monday, May 27. Mr. Lovett will discuss how par ents may give to their children standards of conduct that will fit them for living as adults. Ethical problems encountered by adolescents will be considered and their solution interpreted in the light of the unchanging spiritual values that are the heri tage of each generation. PTA members are also urged to attend this meeting to par ticipate in the election of of ficers for next year. The nom inating committee will report on its slate of officers and nomina tions from the floor are also in vited. A report of the past year's activities and achievements, in mimeographed form, will be given to everyone present. Those who have not yet paid their membership dues are asked to (Continued on Page 12) Mt. Kisco Host To Legion Convention Westchester American Legion Delegates Will Meet July 19. Chairman Edward Olim an nounced this week that the American Legion County Con vention will officially open with delegates from every Legion Post in Westchester County at Mount Kisco on Friday evening, July 19th, at 7:00 P. M. The first day's work will be of much in terest because of the expected large representation of the younger element whose thoughts on national affairs are so di versified. Legion conventions are to be held throughout the country and a careful scrutiny of what the returned service man and woman does and thinks at these conventions will be the policy of officials seeking re election this fall. Following this first business session the Moses Taylor Jr. Post No. 136, will play host to all of the delegates and the County Auxiliary. The building is to be decorated by a couple of ex-GFs, Ed and Billy Eich of Bedford. Loretta Panetta (center figure). 10-year old fifth grader, ran away with top honors in the basketball foul-shooting contest which was the main feature of the final \Dads\ Open House of the year held at Greeley high school. Four baskets out of five tries cinched first place for Loretta in the girls non-varsity class. None of the contestants in the other three classes equalled this mark in their first five shots, although one of the boy winners later made eight out of ten in playing off a tie. Johnny .Principe (left figure) won in the boys varsity group after playing off a tie with John Anderson. In the boys non-varsity class Charles Boman (right figure) and Billy Smith of Kisco Park tied in initial competition, with Boman winning in the play-off. Lyndl Thorsen made best score in the girls varsity section. Each winner was given a medal by the Chappaqua Dads, spon sors of Open House nights. Nearly 100 boys and girls attended the Open House, the last of a series for this school year. The popularity of the affairs, which were initiated this year, has encouraged the Dads to plan an even larger program starting next fall. Local Garden Club Stages Flower Show First Event Since 1939 To Include All Community Members; Youngsters Awarded Prizes For Poster Contest, Ticket Sale. (Continued on Page 12) The Chappaqua Garden Club, in staging its first flower show since 1939, has as its capable general chairman, Mrs. W. Stuart Leech, who, with the aid of her committees, has worked out a program to include all the Community. The show is to be held in the Senter Street Firehouse on Sat urday, May 25, from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. The price of admission, 60 cents for adults, 20 cents for children, includes tax and tea, which will be served on the Library Lawn. The official judges will be: Lady Gabriel, Mrs. Paul Sturtevant, Mrs. Mayne Nordstad, Mrs. George Andrews, and Mrs. James B. Jack. For amateurs there is the cultural class. Mrs. A. G. Cleveland, Mt. Kisco 5298, will be glad to A receive your name for entry for any of the following: 1. Flowering shrub specimen up to 2 feet; 2. Peonies— 3 specimens— 1 or more varieties, double; 3 specimens— 1 or more varieties, single; 3. Tulips—a. 3 specimens—on each of 3 varieties; b. 3 specimens of one variety; 4. Pansies—collec tion of not less than 10 stems with foliage—staged in a low re ceptacle of wet sand, not to ex ceed 8 inches in diameter; 5. Early Iris — bearded — 3 stalks, one or more varieties; beardless —3 stalks, one or more varieties; 6. Lilacs— 3 clusters of bloom on a stem, 1 or more varieties, limit 2 feet; 7. Lilies-of-the-Valley — not less than 10 stems with fol iage—staged in a low recepaacle —not to exceed 6 inches; 8. Perennials: a. Garden growth which does not exceed 6 inches; b. Garden growth which does not exceed 12 inches—limit to 6 specimens each. All sections of the cultural class must be grown by the ex hibitor. If you are a friend of the New Castle News You will be glad to know that your paper has The largest circulation of any Westchester paper in this town—by far. It is way ahead on advertising revenue—and growing all the time. Advertisers tell us The New Castle News pays them with highly profitable results. We thank you for patronizing our advertisers. It will help the paper to grow faster and become steadily better if you will make it a point to patronize the merchants who use our pages. Every time you make a purchise be sure to say, \I saw your advertising in the New Castle News\. American Legion Sponsors Parade on Memorial Day Extensive Ceremonies Planned; Memorial Service, Parade, Address by Robert Stewart. All veterans of the Armed Ser vices of The United States, and particularly the Veterans of World War n, are invited to take part in the Memorial Day cere monies which will be held in Chappaqua this year in the tra ditional way under the sponsor ship of Chappaqua Post No. 453 of The American Legion. Any present members of the Armed Services who are at home on leave are also invited to partici pate. Police Chief C. Leslie Ro maine, who is Grand Marshal of the parade, has expressed the hope that all veterans of World War n will wear their service uniforms during the ceremonies. There will be three parts of the Memorial Day ceremonies this year: first, a memorial service at Fair Ridge Cemetery which will be conducted by The Ameri can Legion and in which mem bers of Chappaqua Post No. 453 and other veterans will take part; second, the Memorial Day Parade, and third, the exercises at the football field of The Hor ace Greeley School. For the cemetery services, members of the Legion and other veterans and service men on leave will assemble at the Chappaqua Police Station at 9:00 A. M. They will proceed to the cemetery for services at 9:30 A. M. Reverend C. Roland Ger- hold, Pastor of the Lutheran Church in Chappaqua, will offer the memorial prayers. The Le gion firing squad unde the lead ership of Robert R. Carr will fire a salute and volley and the buglers will play \Taps.\ The parade will assemble at 10:15 A. M. at the corner of Ridgewood Terrace and Elm Street. The column will proceed to Victory Corners at the inter section of Bedford Road and King Street. At this point there will be a halt for the placing of a wreath, the firing of a salute and volley, and the playing of \Taps.\ The parade will then move down King Street and turn south into Greeley Avenue. There will be another halt at the flag pole and Honor Roll and the wreath-laying service will be repeated. From this point the parade will proceed to the school (Continued on Page 2) New Teachers At Horace Greeley The Chappaqua Board of Edu cation has voted to appoint Charles Tetelman as sixth grade teacher to replace Miss Ann Wat son. Mr. Tetelman, a veteran, is at present a substitute teacher in White Plains. Miss Margaret Hamblen, a graduate of Adelphi College, is also appointed fourth grade assistant replacing Miss Frances Smith, who is returning to Scarsdale after a leave of ab sence. The teachers will begin their duties in September.
