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'^HAPFAQUA, N. OVEMBER PRICE FIYE CENTS The Prize' Winning Newspaper C A S On School Job \Bobby Woodard, left, and Bruce Miller are observing national j£ Week by looking over a few of the new children's books pur- during the past year by the Chappaqua Library, and put on Splay .during Book Week for the inspection of the public. Bobby's ..Jlbther, Mrs. Seward Woodard, who came along to chaperone, ap parently has remained to kibitz. The book display will continue through the coming week. —Photo by Don Tully You Cant Keep Chappaqua Out A of the Magazines; Now Were in \Holiday Westchester is \New York's commuters' heaven\ Mr. Stan ley points out that the County maintains \a precarious balance\ in the * All-American suburban problem: how to keep the con venience of the city and still not sacrifice the quiet and spacious comfort of the country. A comprehensive analysis of the physical changes which con- (Continued on Page 4) ^77e have before us at the min ute an advance copy of the De- , cember issue of. Holiday maga zine, open to an article 17 pages 'long on Westchester County, and • we've been running down the col- • urans counting the number of times , Chappaqua is mentioned. It's' surprising,. because the ar ticle is about the history of the aunty as a.whole and its char ier as that glamorized suburbia which is the- background of a solid -fraction of all the novels published in \any given year. The Riggio estate in Chappa qua rates four pictures; Chappa qua. is x mentioned once as- the home of the Reader's Digest (be ing\ described, horrible horrors, as a place near \Pleasantville); £ice as the locus operandi of Horace Greeley, where, to quote, \his home is a combination shrine, gift shop and tea-room\ (Mrs. Mills does serve tea in her apart ment, if you like tea); and fin ally, it is just mentioned. But all in rail this adds up. to consid erable recognition of our com munity, through it would have ;en the whole 17 pages at the __^posal of the writer, Edward Stanley, to have given it the ex position its unique character mer its! For, after all, Chappaqua, used as a synonym for New Castle, is at once as different from Westchester as it i s like it. The job that Holiday has done j eous appointment of Paul Rey- is first rate, however. Beginning ! nolds, Hardscrabble Road, to with the established fact that j serve out Mr. Scott's term which Q expires in 1952. Mr. Scott gave ! press of business as a reason for OTS1 CHRISTMAS CLUB The Chappaqua National Bank today mailed out $54,096 in Christmas Club checks to 503 Club members, it was announced by Clifford V. Fisher, vice-pres ident. The amount saved in the Chappaqua National Bank's Christmas Club exceeded the. 1949 savings total by 8%. The 1951 Club is open now for member ship, Mr. Fisher said. 0 Paul Reynolds To Replace C. Scott The resignation of Cecil Scott, Deepwood, from the Board of the Chappaqua Library was announ ced by Board Chairman J. C. Heminway at the regular meeting of the Board Monday evening, j November 13, and the simultan An extension of 120 calendar days—from December 2 to March 2—was approved for four of the five contracts on construction of the Quaker Street School by the Board of Education, School Dis trict No. 4, at its regular meet ing Tuesday, November 14 The extensions were granted on re commendation of school archi tects Moore and Hutchins, who estimated that, at the present rate of progress, the building should be completed by March 2 and be ready for occupancy that month. It i s the present intention of the School Board to occupy the Quaker Street building as soon as practicable, no matter how late in the year it is completed, in order to give it a \shake-down\ period, or period of adjustment, so that any difficulties in opera tion or equipment may be at tended .to during the summer va cation. In the case of the fifth contrac tor, Wood Sanitation Corpora- continued on Page 11) Next Move Up To C of Con Parking Responsibility for further ac tion on off-street parking in downtown Chappaqua now rests with the Chappaqua Chamber of Commerce, it was decided at a meeting of the Off-Street Park ing Committee of the Town Board in conference Thursday, November 9, with representa tives of the Town Club, the League of Women Voters and the Chamber. Membership of the League of Women Voters and the Planning Committee of the Town Club have held meetings during the past month on the off-street park ing problem being studied by the Town Board Planning Commit tee, it was reported by their rep resentatives. The Chamber held j (Continued on Page 19) | Pay'Rises, New Cruiser Provided by '51 Budget The New Castle Town Board unfurled its 1951 y. *. 7- : ~uci- get at its regular meeting Tuesday, November 14, and' revealed tha|.^- it will cost taxpayers a very modest 47c per thousand (approxi- ^ mately) to grant long overdue raises to the police department and >f other employees, and t o add some needed equipment to the police department. <S The 1951 budget totals $134,- HELP! HELP! 732.43 as compared with the 1950 budget of $121,889.43, an increase By a coincidence that doesn't f of $12,843 42, approximately 10 strike us as particularly funny, per cent. Most of the increase Thanksgiving falls on the day j this year will go to the police de- that the New Castle News goes ' partnient for salaries, up $10,- to press. We can assure you that ' 950; replacement of radio equip- we do not intend to work Thanks- m ent; a new cruiser, one new pat- givmg Day, so our only alterna- ; ro iman, and replacement of a tive is to print the paper a day ^ cruiser The salary increase to early this coming week. But this | the police is a flat 10% raise, can be done only with the help ' W1 th cost of living bonuses in- of large dollops of cooperation corporated into present salary from all our contributors. All scales, as was done with all other copy from publicity persons has, Town employees. Increases to to be in the News office no later than Tuesday noon, November 22. Now it would be compara tively simple to say the heck with iw J11J.» *YI c Pocitfnc it and overlook releases for the ] YY 111131115 \51 g II 5 (Continued on Page 19) week. But if you do that, the ed- .' ^Yi\tr\ Plan Rnar/I itor of the News still won't get • rOm rldn DOdlU to sit down to the holiday board; j The resignation of Gray WiI j_ he will just have got home from j ' liamSj Treeh olme Park, from the writing the whole paper him- New Castle Planning Board was self, heaven forbid. Recipe for a announced to the Board at its happy holiday (ours) make the' monthly meeting Monday, No- news happen a day early this vember 13? by cha irman Charles coming week and get it in be- ^ Spencer> Mr . Williams, a mari- times. ; time lawyer, gave as his reason P. S. The paper will be out on for resignation an i ncre ase in bus- Friday, as usual. The Post office iness reS p 0nsibil ities. A replacement for Mr. Willi ams will be made by appoint ment by the Town Board, which usually makes such appointments doesn't work on Thursday either. 0 Zone Board Denies Set- Back On H0me ! ° n recommendation of the Plan ning Board. Three petitions for variances 1 There were no cases for public were heard at the meeting of the t .hearing on the docket of the New Castle Zoning Board of Ap- Planning Board at the session, peals Wednesday, November 8,, but section no. 2 of the Indian and two were granted while the \ Hills community, development was presented by Stephen M. Ruden for preliminary hearing. The Board passed the plans for third ran into objections, both written and oral, and was denied. Ernest G. Shipman, a develop er in the Deepwood area, asked > public hearing at an interim ses- permission of the Board to con- sion of the Board to be held Mon- struct a dwelling on Florence j day, November 27. The new In- Drive with a shorter set-back , dian Hills section includes about than required by zoning regu- . 16 acres of land, and, if approved, REGISTER NOW HINT I his resignation. We advise all parents of school I A report was made to thej : children to read pur school page I Board by a committee, headed by '. this week. \This Week's Greeley\ j David Scott, which had attended has a. \message for you, and its ' a meeting in Katonah recently of ^author.promises to be one of the ^:iinest'journalisteieyer,. turned out -thl; •propbsed^^ ;* library trustees called to discuss Registration for the newly ac tivated New Castle Auxiliary Po lice will continue on Saturday J and Sunday, November 18 and; 19, Police Chief C. Leslie Ro- maine has announced.- Candidates should apply at police headquar ters between 3 and 5 p. m. on either day, bringing operator's li cense and pistol permit, if any. .. Chief Romaine emphasized the fact that it will be necessary for members of World War II auxil iary force to - re-register, and urges all who have not done So to fill out application blanks at headquarters- on .Saturday or v __., _. Sunday afternoon • *~ \~ ^. lations because of a sharp fall ing away of the plot topography. A written objection to the vari ance was registered with the Board by Marcia Nicolaysen, and verbal objections were voiced at (Continued on Page 6) OPEN HOUSE The first feature program of the - current Chappaqua Dads Open the meeting by Olive Connor for Houge series win be presented herself and husband Reginald Saturday nightt November 18, at Connor, and by Earl K. Bassett., 1Q p m> when GeQrge wmiams secretary of the Zoning Board, • and his Rhythm Wranglers will (Continued on Page 2) < pi . ovide an hour of square dance music along with lessons in the art. Fran Williams will be caller and instructor. The regular program of ath- TURKEY NIGHT The Millwood Fire Company will hold its annual Turkey Nite letics, movies, and roller skating on Monday, November 20, at 8 will be available for youngsters p. m. in the firehouse. There will in Grades 7 through 12 from 8 be special gifts for children, free to 10. Saturday afternoon a sim- , u efreshments and, aturkey award- Har. program will.be offered for --<--- -• - . . . vrk ,.w »&M. _children..• 54red^s^a;^r;;prize. 0 ^.f 1 :;', v v>\| yp.ungier ; , chil.
