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Vol 6. No. 20 Chappaqua, N.Y. March 9, 1951 Price Ten Cents The Prize Winning Newspaper E W CAST L E This is just a peek through the keyhole into a classroom at the new Roaring Brook school on Quaker Road to whet your curiosity for the dedication ceremonies and public inspection Sunday, March 18. The lad who looks as though he's been kept in^jffter class is Mike Carlebach, and it ain't .so — yet. \ Photo by William Carlebach. Roaring Brook School Dedication Short on Ceremony, Long on Look-see ^\Beginning as soon as the short formal ceremony of dedication over, Sunday afternoon, March 18, public inspection of the new \(Knifing Brook school will con tinue until 7 p.m., the tours to start at the front door, end in the cafeteria where coffee will be served by the P.T.A., and in clude, if you like, a peek into the basement crawlway where per haps a quarter of a mile of cop per pipe will make you wonder how they could build it at the price. As a matter of fact, it has be«| cautiously estimated that the'new school, if built today, might run a quarter of a million dollars higher in cost, with few contractors interested at that. The dedication ceremony itself, which will begin at 3 p.m., will feature a kind of quintuplicate play key presentation ceremony I^ht at Woodburn May be Restored The Town of New Castle has requested that the Westchester Lighting Company submit plans for improved lighting in the Chappaqua business district, it was reported this week by Super visor Robert Stewart, with a spe- g^Qr, request to restore the spot- ligjifc at Woodburn Avenue and Greeley Avenue to provide visi bility for traffic patrolmen on duty there during the commuter rush hours at night. The spot light was removed during the Station Plaza light ing improvement project, and as a result several near accidents and near injuries to traffic po licemen have been reported. Ac- coJMing to Police Chief Leslie Remaine, luminous Sam Browne belts will not provide sufficient visibility to policemen on duty to insure tfceir safety. The request for downtown (Continued on, Page 18) and five three-minute talks va riously titled but combining un der the general topic of \Educa tional Significance of Our New School.\ In the key presentation ceremony a school key in'a com memorative mounting will be presented by the general contrac tor to the architect, who will pre sent it to the chairman of the Board of Education building committee, who will in turn hand it to the president of the Board (Continued on Page 15) Rec Commission Lays Plans For Millwood Site POST OFFICE BULLETIN The extension of mail deli very out Campfire Road, to and including Barnes Lane and Wildwood Road, beginning April 1 (no fooling), was an nounced this week by Chappa qua postmaster James J. Har- rigan. The only requirements of residents are: (1) a post box at the curb and (2) an address number visible from the road. Addresses can be ascertained from Town Hall. They are not, Mr. Harrigan said, within the jurisdiction of the Post Office and cannot be obtained there. Recreation Report on Millwood Site It seems very likely that the first recreation facility ever to be owned by the Town of New Castle will be a Millwood playground, to be developed beginning some time in the early spring on the site on Route 100 purchased last year by the Town from the school district for recreational purpos es. A preliminary assessment of the field's possibilities conducted by O. Leslie Lynch, recreation planner for the National Recrea tion Association and submitted in a written report to the Recrea tion Commission on Monday, March 5, summed them up by saying: \It appears to be a logical assumption that the site now owned by the Township at Mill wood is large enough to meet the recreational needs of that com munity for the present and for some time to come, for the popu lation is not increasing rapidly.\ The Commission, adhering to the Lynch recommendations, im mediately set to work on the steps to be taken on the execution of the prescribed program, within the limitations of the allotment of $2,000 itemized by the Town Board in its current year's budget for expenditures on the play ground. Full development of the playground, to be spaced over a period of the next few years, should provide adequate recrea tional facilities in the Millwood area for the next 15 years, it was estimated by the Commission. The Lynch report, printed in full elsewhere in this issue, calls for a Softball diamond and ten nis courts, basketball backboards for practice shooting, horseshoe courts, swings, a sand box, and, possibly, picnic facilities. The Commission, however, will have to begin at the beginning, with a survey of the property, grading, and fencing, before laying out this year's work which may not go further than the softball field and horse-shoe pits. The Com mission decided not to employ the National Recreation Associa tion (at $45 per day for four or five days) to complete a recrea tional plot plan for the site de velopment. This recreational en gineering office will be performed by Robert Francis, New Castle (Continued on Page 18) Purchase of Allen Place Property Recommended The Town Board's Joint Committee on off-street parking, meeting Monday evening, March 5, at the home of Francis Deck er, its chairman, accepted with thanks the proposals of the Cham ber of Commerce's special committee on parking, and immedi ately proceeded to the task of preparing them for presentation to the Town Board. PTA, Town Club Sponsor Defense Public Meeting In a meeting at Horace Greeley school Wednesday, March 14, co- sponsored by the Chappaqua P.T.A. and the Town Club, civil defense will be presented to the public for the first time in a come -one-come-all program designed for the education and informa tion off the public at large. The meeting will begin at 8:15 p.m. in the Greeley auditorium, and will concern itself, among other things, with how a typical fam ily can protect itself against an atomic bomb and minimize its deadly effects. Not only are all citizens in the Town of Newcastle invited to this assembly, but they are urged to come in order to fit themselves for intelligent co operation as private individuals with the civil defense organiza tion which will loom large in their lives in event of a defense emergency. Highlight of the program will be a frank and realistic 20-min- ute motion picture entitled \You (Continued on Page 7) The proposals, which advance four separate locations in down town Chappaqua as possible parking lots, will be adapted to two different types of programs, one for immediate action, with out recourse to the legal device of a parking district; the other a longer range program looking to acquisition by the Town of Chappaqua business district land for parking on a scale that will require establishment of a park ing district (a somewhat labori ous and tedious process) to fi nance and maintain. The Joint Committee agreed unanimously to recommend the purchase by the Town, as soon as possible, of the land owned by the Claypaul Corporation at the corner of King Street and Allen Place, adjacent to property pre sently owned by the Town and now the location of the police headquarters and highway gar age. This purchase would com plete Town holdings on Allen Place so that a parking lot of satisfactory size and very satis factory convenience can be in stalled in the heart of Chappa qua as soon as the present police headquarters is removed, a con tingency, at this time, on the ac quisition by the Town of the (Continued on Page 6) This is Last Week-end To Ponder Entering \Charming Child\ Contest The following letter, address ed to Robert Francis, New Castle recreation director, is the report of G. Leslie Lynch, recreation planner for the National Recrea tion Association, on the Millwood playground site: Dear Mr. Francis: This letter is written in accord ance with our agreement to put into writing the points that we considered in our conversation last Friday. It appears to be a logical as sumption that the site now own- (Continued on Page 17) NOTICE The price of The New Castle News, beginning this week, is ten cents on the news stands and $3.50 a year by mail sub scription. Readers and new subscribers may, however, re new or begin subscriptions for one year at the old price of $2 per year or $3 for two years, for a limited time, as they have been informed by mail. This may be done even though a subscription is now in effect, the renewal to take effect when the present »ne expires. See the subscription plank printed elsewhere in this jspue. We thought we'd better give you a last run-through of the rules of the road, bylaws, posi tion of the ball and officiating personnel by way of sounding the bell announcing that this, the last week of the \Charming Child\ contest, is coming up. The contest began a little over a month ago when we announced that we had opened the lists in a search for the photographs of that boy and that girl among the children of our readers who best expressed the unique charm of childhood, not through classical beauty, but through individual personality. Far be it from us, and from our judges, to declare on the basis of photographs that this child or that is the most beautiful in this or any other dis trict; far be it from us to stir up that kind of rivalry. The contest we had, and still have, in mind, is one that any child might win, regardless of any natural en dowment in the shape of face or color of eyes or curl of hair. The idea was to catch your child on the photographic negative at the moment he was his most un inhibited, delightful, heart-stop ping best. Now it is obvious that each child will be at his best in a different mtidd; one will be most charmingly herself in demure attentiveness, another in explosive mischievousness, or third in high hilarity. This is a matter for each parent to decide, and for each photographer to seek. There will be an element of luck in the winning photographs (with which the losers may con sole themselves) even though \luck\ can often be duplicated by patience and understanding. So we conclude that every child has a chance to be the most charm ing child, because every child has in him or her that instant of ex quisite winsomene&s that will make the top photographs in stantly and unquestionably rec ognizable. The contest rules, otherwise, are quite simple, and you've heard them all before: decision of the judges is final, submit enough in- continued on Page 18) WARNING Your last chance to have your child's photograph print ed in The News will be to have it in our office before noon Tuesday, March 13. But that still gives you the whole week end to get that cherished photo ready,
