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Vol. 6 No. 22 Chappaqua, NY. March 23, 1951 The Prize Winning Newspaper Price Ten Cents EW CASTLE SI . |jLibrary Board ?t Contemplates County Plan |ii The Chappaqua Public Library £%with some three dozen other li- ,'' braries in Westchester County ,has been asked to give its decision ,'by April 15 about whether it will iioin in the proposed state finan ced plan of library service for Westchester County. The decision v& be taken by the Board of Trustees at its April 9 meeting, • and Board chairman J. Callender Heminway has placed in the hands of the trustees a full ex position of the plan for their con sideration. Under the Education Law, by the provisions of which the plan has been proposed, pub lic libraries serving at least 80% offthe population of the County jajlkling in communities of more f^&Kfa 2,500 population must ap- } ¥p^oye;of participation in the plan bllfpre^ it can be adopted and or ganised:. The Chappaqua Library is listej&as ^serving a community population of 4,000 and hence will have a vote in the plan's ac ceptance or rejection. If the plan is adopted for the County, in dividual libraries secure their ^ (Continued on Page 10) Conversion Plans For Gas Decided Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. announced this afternoon that it had filed a pe tition with the Public Service Ctonmission last Friday asking fo^permission to change over its gas distribution system in the County of Westchester, City Is land and a small adjacent area to straight natural gas during the year 1951. Preliminary surveys will begin Monday, March 26. According to plans still very tentative, inspections will begin of all gas burning equipment shortly after April 9 in New Cas- twf with conversion possible here (Continued on Page 21) Estate Talked for New Town Hall A price of $175,000 has been placed on the Neustadt estate on. King Street in a letter from a^feal estate dealer offering the property to the Town, it was dis closed this week by Supervisor Robert Stewart. The offer .was apparently motivated by the rumors which have been circulat ing in the vicinity recently that the estate with its fine red-brick Georgian home, outbuildings, small swimming pool, tennis court, and extensive land would bjrnore than suitable for a Town Hall and town recreation center as well as provide town highway and water departments with gar age and storage space. The estate comprises 116 acres _ ;• (Continued an.. Page 21): tye W r 5 Last Sunday Was A Day Long To Be Remembered It was a day of community triumph at the dedication of the new Roaring Brook school Sunday, March 18. It was the seem liest day of the week, in the most appropriate season of the year (within the octave of the first day of spring) and there was the brightest kind of outdoor fairness for this momentous com mencement event of declaring the preliminaries finally done on the magnificient new building and its life of serious usefulness entered on. Not at all monumental in the heavily architected sense, and as trimly utilitarian as a stainless steel shoe horn the new 23-classroom school on its 25-aere campus gave the in specting public a feeling of hav- Moving Day Really Began a Year Ago For Local Schools THE GIRL —Debbie Goldfrank, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Goldfrank, Thornwood. On Saturday morning, March 24, and on Tuesday morning, March 27, the moving vans will back up to Horace Greeley and to King Street schools respective ly and will open their capacious maws to take in the contents of these two buildings (in the case of Horace Greeley, only the ele mentary removables will 'be tak en) for transfer to the newly dedicated and open-for-business Roaring Brook plant. Twelve hundred pieces of furniture and 500 cartons from the elementary rooms at Horace Greeley, King Street school and the \Chicken Coop\ will be making the trip. Three hundred more pieces of furniture will be moved within Horace Greeley during the com ing week as the High School takes back the room it had loaned to its younger colleagues. The second that school was out Thursday noon for Easter vacation, the stripping of the three buildings and the packing were begun, but this was almost the climax, not the real begin ning of preparations for this big gest moving day in local history. According to District Principal Douglas Grafflin, on whose shoul ders rests the burden of planning for this outsized exodus, it was just a year ago that Coach Mark Whittleton started the task of (Continued on Page 10) ing described the spirit of the community, in the unstudied modernness of its lines and its meticulous fit to its purpose, more exactly than any effort of word or deed to date. Hereafter (and we quote a conversation overheard) when someone asks whether Chappaqua is a town, a village or a hamlet or a what, it will be quite proper to reply that it is a school. If the statistics of attendance tell a tale, the new school's com ing-out party brought a3 much pleasure to as many people hore as any official holiday on the calendar. There were well over 500 persons in the body of the auditorium for the formal pro gram, over 100 more on the stage and an uncounted floating audi ence who, for one reason or an other (principally the reason was children, and where could their presence have been more ap propriate?) added to and sub tracted from the crowd con stantly. Using the 2,000 brochure programs distributed as a base figure, it is plain that between 2,500 and 3,000 persons took the tour of halls and rooms between 3 and 7 p.m. The formal dedication pro gram, running longer than had been intended, consisted of two principal parts, a symbolic key ceremony and a speech series in exposition of the physical and ideal development of the build ing. Participating in the key cere mony were Domenco LoCascio, general contractor; John C. 13. (Continued on Page 16) \Charming Child 9 ' Contest Ends With Many Fond Recollections tor Us T11J£ 15 U Y —Coby Leyden, son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Leyden, Paulding Drive, Chappaqua. ATTENTION! We will hold the pictures submitted to the \Charming Child\ contest for two weeks. If you call for them at the News office on Bedford Road during that time we will give you the engraved cut used in our newspaper reproduction^ • In this moment of pride in an nouncing the winners of our first annual \Charming Child\ con test we are still conscious of that after-holiday feeling that it's all over. Not for some time to come will the daily mail bring us new batches of pictures of fresh-faced smiling kids, all of whom were winners except for the said fact that only one could be first. We have been keenly pleased with the quantity and quality of the pic tures entered, and those we were able to print have given our con test issues a spice of interest we will miss for quite a while. In no case did we see an entrant we didn't think had every change to win, and there was something good in every photograph. That is exactly the situation the judges discovered. After hours of deliberation they were able to reduce competitors to an even dozen, but beyond that, and (Continued on Page 8) WEST END Our West End readers will find our \Roughly Speaking\ column, devoted this week to the recent doings of the Mill wood Fire Company, the heart of the West End's community life. See it on page five.
