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CHAPPAQUA NEWS Page 9 News of other North Westchester communities on inside pages. Serving Mount Kisco 85 Years — No. 12 wms fOrktown 2-2747 unappaqua Library Kisco 6-8021 10 Senter St, Chappaqua m CEntral 8-3020 MOUNT KISCO. N.Y., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1963 SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT MOUNT KISCO. N. Y.. AND CHAPPAQUA. N. Y. 5* Serving New Castle 35 Years Renewal Pamphlet Precedes Meeting Future Bodes Trouble Area Republicans Say By MARY B. McLAUGHLJN BEDFORD— For the first time since the turn of the century, old-line Re publicans in the Town of Bed ford are admitting they have a big job ahead of them between now and Election Day if they hope to retain control of the town. Facing them are independent Republicans running in three districts in today, Thursday's primaries. The magic name of Barrett is missing, and a mili tant Democratic slate is playing for keeps with one of its candi dates, Albert V. Marchigiani, the first Democrat to be elect ed in Bedford for over 50 years in November 1959. The Primary Election will be held today from 12 noon to 9 p.m. District 4 Republicans will vote at the Bedford Hills Fire- house; District 5, in the Bed ford Hills Community House and District 10 at Historical Hall, Bedford Village. Incumbents in the three con tested districts are Chester Dex- heimer and Harold Rogers, Dis trict 4; Donato Cristofaro and John Palmesi, District 5; and Donald Vail and Ian Baldwin, District 10. Mr. Dexheimer is a central of fice foreman with the New York Telephone Company. He is a graduate of Katonah High School and a member of the Bedford Republican Club. He has been active in the Bedford Hills Lions Club and is a past scoutmaster, as well as a founder of the Bed ford Hills Recreation Commis sion. Mr. Rogers, also a graduate of Katonah High School, is the president of George F. Rogers, Inc. insurance. He is a captain in the Bedford Hills Fire Police and a charter member of the Northern Westchester Sportsmen's Club. He belongs to the Bedford Hills Memorial As sociation. Mr. Cristofaro, the father of three children, is with the De partment of Public Works of Westchester County. He has been a resident of the town of Bedford for over 35 years. He is an active member of the Bed ford Hills Fire Department, a charter member of Bedford Hills Memorial Park and a member of the International Association of Lions Clubs. Mr. Palmesi, who has lived in the 5th election district all his life, is a value engineer with General Precision Laboratories. He has served in the United Stat es Maritime Service, the Mer chant Marine and was a ser geant in the U. S. Marine Corps He is a member- of the Bedford Hills Fire Department and of the (Turn to Page 10, Please) DONATO CRISTOFARO CHESTER DEXHEIMER HAROLD F. ROGERS JOHN PALMESI IAN BALDWIN DONALD L. VABL Distaff Side Represented On Ballot BEDFORD— The distaff side will be repre sented on the ballot today, Pri mary Day, with Mrs. Judith Deickler running for County Committeeman in District 4 on the Independent Nominating Committee slate. Mrs. Deickler has lived in Bedford Hills almost all her life. She is a graduate of Katonah High School and of Wagner Col lege in Staten Island where she earned her R. N. and B. S. in nursing. She is a member of the Friends of the Bedford Library and has served with the summer story hour program. She is also a member of the Bedford Hills Luke's Episcopal Church and is recording secretary for the Bed- When 50 People Inquired He Was Overwhelmed! A substantial response re ceived immediately - - - that's most desirable when it comes to- selling. And outstanding pulling power effective at once is just the kind of ser vice a want ad delivers. Used cars are sold fast, for ex ample when the area is cover ed thoroughly and completely with want ads similar to the following which was publish ed recently in The North Westchester Times, New Cas tle Tribune and the other Westchester 'Group Newspap ers: ^PLYMOUTH 1957 \Savoy aofomo- '-Jfc transmission, > owner, garaged, excellent running condition. $225. BE 0-0000. \It was terrific • • - 1 was overwhelmed! Fifty readers called and I made a quick sale,\ reported the happy ad juser. r: Why \not put your ad vertising where it pays « - • *#t once? :<;•/ .. ' - Phone- MOunt Kisco 6-8091 ford Hills Elementary School Association. Mrs. Deickler is married to R. Barry Deickler, a building con tractor. They have four children. Haughton's Wife Wins CHAPPAQUA— While her husband and five children looked on, Mrs. Bill Haughton, wife of the country's leading harness rider, won the first two races of her career as an amateur in the feature events on the Long Island Fair pro gram at Roosevelt Raceway, on Labor Day. Mrs. Haughton — the former Dorothy Bischoff of Chappaqua— took the Bill Strang Junior Me morial Trot with Bill's six-year- old Ho Kid in the two-heat event. Both times she beat out Elbridge T. Gerry Jr., member of a lead ing harness horse family, who drove Specter. Ilo Kid, whose best time is 2:04 2-5, won easily in 2:06 and 2:07 3-5. He is owned by Farm stead Acres of Brookville, one of Haughton's leading patrons. Open Polls Close Bars Noon To 9 ALBANY— It will be a mighty dry day today, Thursday, throughout the state. From 12 noon until 9 p.m. tonight no liquor can be sold for on-premise or off- premise consumption because of the primaries, according to a ruling issued by the New York State Liquor Authority. After 9 this evening the win ners will be able to celebrate if they choose and the losers can drown their sorrows. Dry hours in New York City are from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Nearly Half-Million Renewal Architects Is Campaign Goal For United Fund MOUNT KISCO— The campaign goal of the United Fund of Northern West chester is $495,246, it was an nounced by campaign Chair man James R. Hand of Ossin- ing. The drive will open Oct. 5 in 20 northern Westchester com munities from Valhalla to the Putnam County line. This year's goal is about ten per cent higher than the amount raised in last year's successful campaign. The increase is due to the greater needs of the ris ing population of the northern part of the county, with more potential contributors also in the campaign territory. One new member agency, the Os- sining Children's Center, is in cluded this year, with its alloca tion to come from money rais ed in the area that it serves. This is true of all eight local U F agencies. For 28 Agencies The total of $495,246 is the sum of the allocations for 28 member agencies in the United Fund, made in proportion to their needs and the services they render. All possible budget revisions were made in the an- Harvest Show Slated For Two-Day Run MOUNT KISCO— Seventy classes of competi tive arrangements will be fea tured in the 59th annual har vest show and plant sale of th£ North, .Westchester. Horticultural Society opening Friday at the American Legion auditorium. The show opens at 3 p.m. Fri day and Saturday at 10 a.m. closing at 9 p.m. both days. The plant sale will be conduct ed in the lobby. The show will feature cut flowers, pot plants, fruit and vegetable arrangements. As in past years, three arrangement classes are open to members of the community. There will also be a class open to Garden Clubs. Registration of entries will be conducted until Friday at 10 a.m. Information may be ob tained from Joseph Tansey, show manager and Robert Alex ander, show secretary. Other sponsors of the event are Wil liam A. Burden, H. G. Flanigan and Harry Waxman. The following worrfen are also among the sponsors for the event: Mrs. A. E. Meyer, Mrs. Carll Tucker, Mrs. Mary O'Con nor, Mrs. Edwin De T. Bechtel, Mrs. DeWitt Wallace, Mrs. Al fred Cook, Miss Helen Frick, and Mrs. Thomas M. Waller. Donations of $1 will be taken at the door. School children will be admitted free. Who Needs Off Track Betting? nual meetings with the mem ber organization according to fund president Mrs. Charles F. Bound of Mount Kisco. Requests from the agencies totaled $569, 869. Contributors to the fund may, if they wish, designate which specific organizations they wish to support. The proposed allocations are as follows: Adoption Services of Westchester, $21,000; Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, $7,500; Association for Retarded Children, $16,750; Banksville Community House, $3,000; Boys' Club of Mount Kisco, $48,180; Boy Scouts - Washington Irving Council, $40,000; District Nurs ing Association of Northern Westchester, $41,000; Family Service of Westchester, $38,000; Grasslands Hospital Auxiliary, $750; Katonah Village Improve ment Society, $4,500; Mental Health Association of Westches ter County, $12,500; National Council on Crime & Delinquency -Westchester Citizens Commit tee, $750; National Cystic Fibro sis Foundation, $3,000; Ossining Children's Center, $14,850; Plea- santville Teen Center, $2,600; Salvation Army, $16,000, Tacon- ic Girl Scout Council, $47,500; Tappan Zee Mental Health Cen ter, $6,500; United Cerebral Palsy Association of Westches ter, $26,000; United Health Foun dations, $5,000; Urban League of Westchester, $6,000; U. S. O. $2,500; Volunteer Service Bur eau of Westchester, $1,000; Westchester Children's Associa tion, $15,000; Westchester Coun cil of Social Agencies, $14,000; Westchester County Society for Children, $14,000; Yorktown Ath letic Club Youth Program, $3,300;\ YWCA^ of PeeksMH, $17,500; Reserve for uncollecti- bles, $8,000; Administration, $30,950; Campaign, $27,616. Volunteers Needed Each of the 20 United Fund communities has a chairman and campaign committee en listing volunteers for the big drive. Over 2,500 volunteers will be needed. An important part of the cam paign, the Advance Gifts sec tion, opens today under the chairmanship of Frank N. Gil lette of Pleasantville and Wor- thington Mayo-Smith of Mount Kisco. Committee members are Robert L. Thorndike, Montrose; Philip C. Niles, Armonk; Rich ard Brill, Pleasantville; Ralph G. Coburn and Lester W. Smith Katonah; Winfield Taylor, John ston F. Northrop, and Thomas W. Keesee Jr., Mount Kisco; Paul Covill, Pound Ridge; John B. Watkins, North Salem; Rod man K. Tilt, Bedford Hills; and William Cabell, Chappaqua. LEONARD FELDMAN MATTHEW WARSHAUER Chappaqua Adults, Too, Can Register For School CHAPPAQUA— The Adult School of the Chap paqua School District has an nounced its fall program of 1963, with Sept. 23 as the open ing date. Registration can be either mailed or completed in person Sept. 21, from 10 to 12 noon at the Robert E. Bell School office. A varied program of 16 courses is being offered this fall, including a course for which no fee is being charged, \The World Around Us.' This free course is a series of lec tures and discussions of some phase of the particular country involved. Consuls of nine differ ent countries will speak, one each week, on some aspect of their countries, be it political, economic, geographic, or other. Countries involved are: India, Yugoslavia, Japan, Greece, France, South Korea, West Germany, Canada and Mexico. Other new courses are: begin ners' folk guitar, discussion of oriental art, psychology and you, the art of self-defense, in troduction to mathematics, crea tive stitchery and the world religions and their meaning for today. Many Courses Offered Other courses are conversa tional French I and II conver sational Spanish, gourmet cook ing, physical fitness for Women, explorations in the modern French theatre, machine and hand tool skills, and oil paint ing. The registration fee will be the same as in previous years- $6.50. All classes will be given once a week for ten consecutive weeks, excluding school holi days, on Mondays and Thurs days from 8:15 to 10:15 at the Robert E. Bell and the Horace Greeley High Schools. Brochures describing the pro gram will be mailed next week to every home in the school dis trict and will be distributed throughout, ttye. various business establishments. Further infor mation may be obtained by call ing Michael Siczewicz at the Horace Greeley High School. Lions Open Fall Season With Tuesday's Meeting MOUNT KISCO— The Mount Kisco Lions Club will open the fall season with a luncheon meeting on Tuesday at Kittle House when next year's budget will be the main topic of discussion. Robert Holloway, president of the club and captain of the Lions Ambulance Corps will give the annual report of the corps ac tivities, revealing that the am bulance traveled 2,500 miles from June 1,1962 to June 1,1963, making 105 day calls and 75 night calls. Broken down, six calls were answered at Grasslands, one to Phelps Memorial Hospital in North Tarrytown, four to New York City hospitals and seven to area nursing homes. There were 32 emergency calls, 31 accident calls, three fire calls and 14 pick up calls. A relay call returned a resident from South New Jersey to New York to his home in Mount Kisco. Plans will be made for a pic nic to be held on Sept. 15 at Camp Wagon Wheel in Chappa qua with R a y m o n d Wall as chairman. He will be assisted by Arthur Meyer, Dominic Amuso and Joseph Currie. Besides a barbecued meal, fun and games will be included in the program. Ready For The Bell MRS. R. B DE1<JKL,ER JOB Bureau To Open For Registration MOUNT KISCO— The JOB Bureau run by the Mount Kisco Junior League opens for fall registration this week. Beginning Friday the JOB Bureau office in the Mount Kisco Boys Club will be open through September and will operate by phone through the school year. Registration hours are Fri days from 1 p.m.' to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. till noon. Those who wish to regis ter must do so in person at these times. Mrs. William P. Dunham who is directing the project for the Junior League reports that al most 200 applicants 'were inter viewed this spring and summer. Positions from assistant book keeper to veterinarians helper were filled. Those interested are urged to contact the JOB Bureau'at the Mount Kisco Boys Club. MOUNT KISCO— \Who needs the Twin Dou ble?\ a New York sports writer said Friday. \Just grab a subway special to Aqueduct, where, at this meeting, you can bet a measley old daily double and pick up a small fortune.\ For the second time since the runners returned to the Big Apple on Aug. 25, combination bettors collected almost two grand for picking jusf two winners in a row. Why are we interested you ask? Well sir, the numbers were 9, and 2 last Thursday, in a combination that was set up as a result of a disqualifi cation in the first race and produced a daily double pay off of $1,730. The No 9, a nag named Mid Tea Time, paid $125.80 was saddled by Thom as Waller, of Bedford who had put across a $129 horse at Sara toga. To maXe the reporting more interesting there were three $10 tickets on the dou ble and 77 $2. tickets includ ing one held by a Mount Kis co fan. But, this isn't all the finan cial rewards area men who follow the Sport of Kings, have garnered in having faith in Tommy Waller during the past few weeks. On Friday, Account Balanced a horse trained by Mr. Waller and owned by William Ewing, al so a Bedford resident, paid $79.50 for every two bucks in vested in the ninth race at Aqueduct. Who needs track betting? 2,900 Copies Mailed MOUNT KISCO— Twenty - nine hundred resi dents of the village are receiv ing a ten-page booklet, sum marizing and explaining the proposed urban renewal project to come before a public hear ing on Monday, Sept. 9 in the auditorium of the Mount Kisco Elementary School at 8 p.m. Joseph R. Pacitto, urban re newal director, said today that additional copies are available at his office in the Municipal Building, and that if a resident is unable to come for one, a member of his staff would de liver the booklet to his home. Monday's meeting is the end of over three years of planning, study and review. It will be a joint public hearing by the Vil lage Board of Trustees and the Mount Kisco Planning Board. Before the Village Board can make a decision regarding the execution of the urban renewal program, it must first receive a recommendation from the Mount Kisco Planning Board. The Planning Board's recom mendation will state if the re newal program conforms or does not conform to the princi ples of the Master Plan; wheth er all land use proposals do or do not conform to the present regulations of the zoning ordin ance; whether \any anticipated changes in the zoning ordin ance on account of the urban renewal plan are acceptable to the Planning Board; whether the Village should or should not enter the execution stage of the renewal program. To Consider Land Re-use The primary purpose for the hearing is to consider the pro posed urban renewal land re use plan which will control re development for the renewal area. Basically, the renewal plan includes the following: Thirty acres of jnanufacturing re-use; 10 acres of light indus trial re-use; 8 acres of commer cial re-use; 12 acres of residen tial re-use; 7 acres of improved flood control re-use; 4 acres of public park and recreational re use; 2 acres of church and qua si-public re-use; 18 acres of streets, road and highway re use. All of the acreage to be dis posed of in accordance with the renewal plan will be made avail able for development or rede velopment by private enterprise or public agencies as authorized by law. The proposals for the reloca tion of families, single persons and businesses from the pro ject area will also be open to discussion at the hearing. These proposals are on record at the renewal office and are available for examination by any in terested person or persons dur ing office hours at any time prior to the public hearing. Briefly, the agenda for the public hearing will include open ing comments by the Mayor, presentation of the overall ur ban renewal objectives, an up to the minute report of the pro gress of the Mount Kisco Hous ing Authority and a report on the middle income housing pro- (Turn to Page 10, Please) , THREE OF Northern West chester 's more than 12,000 school » bound youngsters are shown decked out and rarin' to go. Bringing up the rear, lunch box in hand, is Peggy Accetta, 6. Tommy Accetta, 11, with his briefcase is be tween his sisters. Leading the school-ward march down the steps of their home is Marie Accetta, 9%, with bookbag and lunch. The three are the chil dren of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Accetta Jr. of 53 Beverly Road Mount Kisco.—Staff Photo by Doris B. Kirchhoff. Annual Lamplight Service Slated MEDDLE PATENT— The traditional annual lamp light service will be held in the Middle Patent Methodist Church on Sunday at 7 p.m. The Rev. Paul Allen, pastor will lead the devotional. The music will be in charge of Mrs. Harold Brundate organist. The service is called lamp light because the church still uses kerosene lamps. A business meeting and elec tion of officers will follow the service. Today's Index Bedford Hills Notes _ Bedford Village News Chappaqua News — Community Events _ Editorials Golden Days 50 Years Ago Interior Design, Pahlmann It Happened 25 Years Ago Katonah News Items Kitchen Cabinet Letters from Our Readers Movie Timetable New Books at Library Obituary Notices School Menus Social News Sports News 2 3 9 4 6 6 14 6 2 7 6 12 6 16 6 7-8-10 13 6 12 9 25 Years Ago in Chappaqua 6 Stork Has Brought Theater News —_ Town Talk
