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Vol. 6 No. 24 Chappaqua, N. Y. April 6, 1951 Price Ten Cents The Prize Winning Newspaper EW CASTLE New Street Lighting For Chappaqua LEGEND A Proposed 6000 L S. (lumen series) overhead street lighting unit using 8 ft. upsweep bracket V and 101D Luminaire at approximately 23 ft. light center. *t Proposed 4000 L. S. overhead street/lighting u nit using 8 ft. upsweep bracket and 101D Lumi naire at approximately 23 ft. light center. 0 Existing overhead street lighting unit to be removed: four 1000 L. S. and six 4000 L. S. Chappaqua, \the burg of bright lights\ they'll be calling it sometime this coming summer. The New Gastle Town Board has given the Con Edison Westches- tfiL Division approval to execute p«is submitted by Con Edison'o engineering department for the improvement of public lighting in the business area of Chappa qua, it was disclosed this week by Supervisor Robert Stewart. The plans call for the replacement of 10 of the present low candle- power street lights with 11 lights which will more than double the present illumination as well as (^tribute it to better advantage through the use of 8-ft. bracket hanging fixtures like those used on the improvement of the lighting at Station Plaza, in stead of the present short brack ets. The present value of 28,000 L. S. (lumen series) Lamps will be increased to 60,000 L. S. and new lighting will be placed to t ninate dark spots now ex- ng between the penumbras of lights as now placed. Restoration of the overhead spotlight at the Greeley Avenue-Woodburn in tersection is included in the pro ject. (Continued on Page 20) Generous Contract Is Offered To Chappaqua Board Under County Plan Next Monday the Chappaqua Library Board will decide, at its regular monthly meeting, whether or not to loin the pro posed Westchester County Li brary Plan. Board members have been giving the proposal care ful study since their meeting last month when Chairman J. Callender Heminway distributed manuals on the Plan. If the Board decides favorably, it will authorize the signing of a con tract, which runs annually and which can be renewed or dropped at the_ end of any con tract year. The contract appears to be a very liberal one, impos ing little or no obligation on the Library nor charging any fees etc. The contract provides that: 1. The Chappaqua Library will receive an amount in cash equal to 10 per cent of its expendi tures for books, periodicals and bindings during the year of the contract, no ifs, ands or strings attached. The Chappaqua Li brary's expenditures for such purposes is about $2,500. 2. The Chappaqua Library will permit any resident of the County holding aXborrower's card in any library participa ting in the Plan to borrow books and other library materials on terms prescribed by the County Library for participating li braries. 3. The Chappaqua Library will accept for return to the owning library books borrowed under (Continued on Page 20) HELP WANTED Applications for recreation leader positions for the New Castle Recreation Commis sion's Camp Greeley will be accepted beginning this week, according to Robert Francis, recreation director. Applicants must have either a junior or senior Red Cross life-saving certificate. Appli cations should be addressed to Mr. Francis at Town Hall and should include qualifi cations of applicants. School Board Position Is: King St. Can Be Had If the citizens of New Castle want the recently vacated King Street school building for the purpose of converting it into a Town Hall, they are welcome to it, the only stipulation being that a price be offered the Board of Education for it which can be accepted in consistence with the discharge of the Board's responsibilities as trustee of the RecCommission Will Ask For 'Chicken Coop' The New Castle Recreation Commission, at its regular meet ing Monday, April 2, decided to petition the Board of Education to refrain from any disposal of the Horace Greeley annex, the \Chicken Coop\ which would render it untenable until the Board has given due considera tion to the possibility of its use by the Commission, since the annex is the only building even remotely available for the Com mission's use in the Town. As the matter was discussed during the Commission's ses sion, the annex would be jointly occupied by the Commission for storage and possible headquar ters use, and by the High School for such backstage activities t)f the dramatics groups as scene building and storage. The Com mission took cognizance of the fact that present alteration plans for King Street school, in (Continued on Page 19) The First Day At New School Goes Without A Hitch interests of the taxpayers of Central School District No. 4 of the' Towns of New Castle and Mount Pleasant. This is the official position of the Board of Education voiced by Eugene V. Gedney, president of the Board, and is the one from which informal conversations between its representatives and representatives of the Town Board are being conducted on the King Street proposition. In herent in the Board's responsi bilities, Mr. Gedney stated, is the duty of advertising the building for public sale (with the Board reserving the legal right to reject any and all bids) in order to determine the build ing's marketability and to arrive at some idea of its value, though this market value, by recognized legal precedent, need not nec essarily be met by the Town in a bid price. Supervisor Robert Stewart and Councilman Joseph Burpo are representing the Town Board in exploratory negotiations with (Continued on Page 20) Everything went right on opening day at the new Roaring Brook school Monday, April 2, everything, that is, but the class bell system which not only didn't ring for the opening of the first session but hadn't rung at all by'9:30, half an hour after the day's session had begun. And it's supposed to work on an elec tric clock. There was only one minor mishap to personnel: one pupil, in his eagerness to get to school, arrived at the bus pidk- up station too early and climb ed aboard the first bus which was bound for Horace Greeley. But that likelihood had been prepared for and a quick car trip had him in his classroom on time. \It was something of a let down, to be prepared for the worst, and have nothing hap pen,\ District Principal Douglas Grafflin said at the end of the danger period Monday morning, that is, after all children had been safely delivered. \Since things turned out well the first day we may assume that our sys tem is, in the main, all right, though there may have to be (Continued on Page 6) Two Board Jobs To Be Filled at Animal Meeting Notice was given this week by the School Board that the an nual meeting of the voters of the school district (Central School District No. 4) as required by law, will \be held Tuesday, May 1, at 8:15 p.m. at Horace Greeley school. The agenda this year calls for the election of two members to the School Board, the usual budget hearing and agreements with the authorities of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin for use of and easements to church land for school use. it L> not known at the present time whether any proposition con cerning the disposal of the King Street school or the Annex build ing will be presented to the vot ers though it was thought a one time they might be. The term of Eugene V. Ged ney, elected president of the Board on the resignation of Stanley Post in February, expires as of June 30 this year and Mr. Gedney will probably be a candi date to succeed himself for the five-year term. The appointment of Anthony Davin to succeed Mr. Post will expire also on uffne 30, and Mr. Davin is expected to file his petition to fill out the balance of Mr. Post's term, which was to have expired on June 30, 1955.
