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.^pripi^ i»«iimiipisip •1;/' ? Serving t&e Communities of Upper Westchester and Putnam, County Including COMPLETE WEEK'S TELEVISION MOVIE TIMETABLES, DINING, WEEKLY EVENTS CALENDAR IN WEEK AHEAD » SECTION. . . AND MORE CENTS to MT. KISCO — Patent Trader has been sold to Morris Newspaper Corporation of Savannah,. Ga. The transfer of ownership will be effec tive December 15. The sale includes the Patent Trader plant on North Bedford Road as well as the newspaper. Charles Morris is president and prin cipal owner of Morris Newspaper Cor poration. The corporation owns and operates 14 newspapers in five states with a combined circulation of more than 100,000. \Papers in the Morris group include: in Kansas, The Great Bend Tribune; in California, The Manteca bulletin, The Vista Press, San Marcos Courier, Fall- brook Courier, North County Courier; in Florida, The Key West Citizen, The^ DeLand Sun News, Deltona-DeBary-En- terprise, New Smyrna Beach News; in Georgia', Statesboro Herald; in Ten nessee, Murfreesboro Daily News Journal, Rutherford Courier. Mr. Morris is a second generation newspaperman. His father, the late William S. Morris, started the family in the business with the purchase of the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle in 1942. Morris Newspaper Corporation was formed in; 1970 when Charles Morris resigned as pub lisher of the Savannah Morning News and Evening Press. The Savannah papers are; owned by his brother, William S. Morris,- III and have a combined circulation of. 80,000. ; \Our plans are to put all of ouK resources into Patent Trader and to con-; tinue the outstanding job that is being- done. Patent Trader is one America's' great suburban newspapers and I'm most; (Continued on Page 2) '• Drug deaths off sharply BOTTLENECK: This is not the EsstW^r ^rfve :ln New York. But five mornings and six evenings a;week the traffic jam ups on this stretch of Route 22 in Gold- ens Bridge resemble the 'horror scenes on 'the; .city parkway. The state 49part^ent^^f^^p0r^iUQ ^Wf > uses to deactivate the traffic light at Goldens Bridge during rusht hour. Hence ^iTihr ^^B^li'el'^is pn the way. Contracts have been let oneliminatiiig this^ Route22section and replacing if yltW a^mite^'access link that will finally complete Route 684 through' upper Westehcster-V' . ' * *-• * v - r - By JON SHERWOOD w .WHITE PLAINS — Deaths from drugs and related causes in Westchester rose dramatically in 1971 and have declined just as dramatically this year. The decline is attributed by the county medical examiner to an effective metha done program, and to stricter enforce-, ment of drug laws. Deaths from heroin alone declined from 13 in 1970 and 20 the next year, to six through s September of 1972. And while deaths, from overdoses' of methadone jumped from zero to 10 in 1971, principally due to unfamiliarity with the treatment Mail heavy, manpower Post office manpower shortages are combining with heavy Christmas mails this year, but Westchester and Putnam postmasters don't anticipate unusual , delays in delivery during the holidays. Mt. Kisco's post office is one of the hardest hit by Postal Service hiring freezes and phasing out of part-time help. Last year 31 full-time men were doing the job 22 will have to do this Christmas Katonah will unexpectedly be three men short due to recent retirements and sick leaves according to the postmaster there. He will be left with 11 postal Indoor tennis boom continues; 12 more courts By JUNE KURDELL ARMONK — Owners of Green Woods Country Club plan to build 12 indoor tennis courts in a large building adjacent to the club's present club house, according to a letter received by North Castle Town Board Thursday. The project would bring to more than 40 the total number of indoor tennis courts serving the upper Westchester and Putnam area. Formerly the Bel Aire Golf .and Country Club, Green Woods is located north of Armonk on Route 22. The new owner, John P. Miseo, said in the letter that the club pays more than $100,000 a year in taxes to the town and school dis trict. In order to survive, the club needs to add the courts for additional income, he said. Some outdoor courts are proposed, too, but Mr. Miseo did not specify how many. Nor did he say how large the indoor tennis building would be. There are two other indoor tennis facil ities in North Castle. One in Banksville houses five courts and the other Armonk Tennis Club, just north of Green Woods on Route 22, has four. Both buildings are very large metal structures, according to Tony Mancini, an architect who is a member of the town's architectural review board. He said he hoped that Green Woods did not plan a metal building even though it is the most economical material for this type of structure. \Have you ever seen a car after 10 (Continued on Page 2) MOITHBLPPOL Mr. K „ manager of a ttoro In Carmel. needed clerical hi ID . He put a help wanted ad In another newtpaper endfn Patent Trader Want Ad». \I had about 16 repflei from Patent Trader, from Carmel. Mahopac, Brewiter, ' Paltrion and Yorktown. You did the |ob the other couldn't,\ Mr , K. reported. If you need help, go where tha action li, Patent Trader Want Adi. workers, three of thern substitutes for other losses. In Armonk the postmaster said he had two fewer men than this time last year. Brewster's postmaster said there would be nothing unusual about Christ mas. His office has had two vacancies for a year but was not permitted to fill them. They've had no extra Christmas help for three years under new Postal Service directives. Carmel has applied for Christmas help anyway, and the postmaster said service will hinge on how soon people send their holiday mail. Several postmasters thought the hard line on hiring by the Postal Service, initiated to cut costs when the private agency took over from the U.S. Post Office Department, would ease up. Mt. Kisco has been authorized to fill two vacancies, but must wait for an exam to be given in Peekskill in January. In an attempt to cut manpower costs, all part-time employees are being dropped from the postal service. Last week 80 part- time employees at Mt. Vernon went onto the full time rolls v In effect, according to the postal Workers union, these men are being dropped. Most have second jobs and will be unable to put in full-time at the post office. Dominick Sgammato, head postmaster for the Westchester-Putnam section, explained that part-time employees meant more overtime. The number of employees he has to work with is frozen, and part- time people are included in the total. If they don't work a full day, then some other worker must fill in on overtime. Another factor is that part-time em ployees who work 20 hours get full fringe benefits. High benefit payments must be compared with overtime pay for work formerly done by part-time help that has been cut Roland Smallwood, a union representative, has filed a grievance complaint with the Metropolitan New York area postmaster charging that Sgammato's plan was \de facto laying off\ and a breach of contract from Yonkers, was ascribed to heroin in the July-September 1972 quarter of reporting, a drop from the two in the April-June period. • The statistics, and the two broad reasons for the dramatic decline in drug and related deaths for 1972, were provided in an interview by Dr. Henry Siegel, county pathologist'and medical examiner at Grasslands) Dr. Siegel declined to ascribe a reason for what he described as the \dramatic\ increase from 1970 to 1971 in drug-deaths, but unhesitatingly de clared that the county's \very good\ methadone maintenance program and ac tive law enforcement are reasons for the decline in the number of deaths. Worrying Dr. Siegel, however, were the deaths in the July-September period of three persons from a combination of drugs and ethyl alcohol. This is two more than in the previous quarter of 1972. \In the few deaths where narcotics were involved with other substances, ethyl alcohol is cropping up as a major factor. In other words, where we find that where there has been a narcotic plus another substance as cause of death, alcohol has usually been the other substance. \If you take a little too much of methadone and alcohol,\ he said, \You die.\ The sharp increase from 1970 to 1971 in methadone deaths — from zero to 10 — and the two deaths so far this year ascribed to the maintenance drug are the result of poor education up to now. Dos ages must be strictly controlled, Dr. Siegel said, and match the individual's tol erance for alcohol, for example, he said, but the range of tolerance for methadone is sharply limited and dosages must be precise. Dr. Siegel agreed that-generalized comparisons of Westchester's \drug problem\'to other areas'are'imprecise, but the,county's problem ranto well below, uand-comparestweU, with other U the range,\ he'said. ' In the.three years he has held the post, Dr. Siegel said, drug, and drug-related deaths examination and reporting has' been tightened.. \All-cases .(of drug deaths) are reported to us,\ he said. The measure of whether an area has a drug \problem\ is loose, however, .,he said, and declared that if in 1970 there had been 13 and the following, year);20Y diphtheria cases \it would be called an epidemic and we would be up'in arms. The county's experience with drug\ related ^deaths' has also shown a decline from the high point in 1971. In 1970 there were nb reported deaths from a combina tion of heroin and. methadone. There were 3 ^l97l1todi^Uiere; hjiye been .two so' far ^^^f1ft^'lf ;tio;rt%o^;Of 'deaths. ascr|ted'torottiek'd^^ • werefive\ihe foUdwrngj-yearandCongsofat. thisTyear^aridlwhile there were nojdeaths^ last year and one so far this.year. r The medical examiner' warned metha-; done patients, to keep away from alcohol, since the combination kills. > Wet November sets new rainfall record JEROMES. THALER Trader Weatherman YORKTOWN — For much of northern Westchester and Putnam counties the past month was the wettest November in more than 80 years. Twentieth century records show no November rainfall totals greater than 8 inches in either Bedford Hills or Carmel until this year according to Dr. Jerome Thaler, who mans the U.S. Weather Service Station on French Hill in Yorktown. For Yorktown itself it was the second wettest November in the 31 years that weather records have been kept there: rainfall in the past month amounted to 8.16 inches, a little less than the 8.90 inches that Sfafe issuing new license plates January 1 By JON SHERWOOD ALBANY - What's colored blue and golden yellow, has three numerals and three letters on its face, and can be read by anybody with 20-20 vision from a distance of 1,800 feet in the dark? It's the state's new automobile license plate, with issue beginning to motorists whose registrations expire January 1, 1973, and thereafter. The new issue of license plates is the first since 1965, when the current plates with golden yellow numbers and letters on a blue background were put out. The new plates, produced by inmates of Auburn State Prison since last July, retain the current color scheme but in reverse — they have blue numbers and letters on a golden yellow background. A significant innovation is their reflectorized surface. John McHale, spokesman for the state motor vehicle department here, said the reflecting plates can be read in the dark from a distance of 1,800 feet. This will assist police and others who find it im portant to read license numbers at night. There will be a one-time $1 charge for the new plates to pay for the extra cost of the reflectorized surface. Mr. McHale said the reflectorized face of the new plates is coated to protect the light-reflecting material, while the back of the new plates Is unpainted, 'but coated with preservative against weather-wear. The face of the plate contains no slogan. Only the identification of \New York\ and an arrangement of three numbers, preceding three letters, with the latter larger than the numbers to avoid confusion. This arrangement of numbers and larger letters will show on the regular plates. Special plates, at an extra cost of $5, will range from a single letter to combinations of letters and numbers. Motorists with special plates can reorder them, but a moratorium on new ap plications will be in force until June 1, 1973, to facilitate plate production. Current area identification of registration by letters is abolished. The three-number-three-letter com bination permits 13 million variations, according to mathematicians who figured it out for the MVD, Mr. McHale said. The initial production run is more than seven million plates, since there are currently (Continued on Page 2) fell in November of 1947. Four daily rainfall records for the month were broken at the French Hill Station. On November 8, 2.89 inches fell, breaking the previous 1.42 inch record set on that date in 1951. That day's total was the fourth heaviest 24-hour rainfall in Yorktown in November. Later in the month, 1.9 inches fell on November 14, breaking the previous record for the date. The 1.04 inches which fell on November 19 and the 1.14 inches on November 26 also set new precipitation records. Soggy as it was in Westchester, New York City was even wetter, with more than 11 inches of rainfall giving the five boroughs their greatest November rainfall in 103 years. Snowfall was average for the month, with 2 inches recorded at French Hill Station, but temperatures for the month averaged 38.7 degrees, 2.6 degrees below normal, making it the coldest November since 1967 which averaged 38.1 degrees. The month ended on a wintry note, with. snow starting at 2 p.m. Thursday and lasting until about 5 p.m. when it changed to sleet. By 8 p.m. freezing rain was clinging to all trees and by 11 p.m. a steady rain was falling. PATENT TRADER'S <;i IDE Also Section Four Calendar 8A-9A Classified 21-23 Editorials 6 For children 16A Letters 6-7 Movie Timetable :..10A Obituaries 4 Sports 18-19 Town meetings 7 Trader Auto Mart 19 TV schedules 12A-15A Weddings 10-11 i i %
