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Serving the Communities of Upper Westchester and Putnam County. Lak ^iKl edition 1 •v.'-i>-v. *A,*V- VOL. LVII - NO. 98 Thli lnue In (our itelloni PubfKhed twlct weekly MT. KISCO, N. Y., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1972 S*eomXlMipotfN*paM«tMt.KISCO,N.Y. 1094f t Subicripllon price U.li per y»ir. Write Box V», Ml. Kltco>N.Y. 10541 MOTORISTS BEWARE: Millwood Road sign was placed in front of the John Deegan residence in New Castle by 15-year-old Connie Deegan, a Horace Greeley High School student and rabbit raising hobbyist. Her rabbits are caged, but she'd like to protect the wild ones also. Highway noise meeting scheduled for Monday BEDFORD — The first public con ference on highway noise pollution with participation by all concerned state agencies will be held at 9 a.m. Monday in the main auditorium of Westchester Community College The conference, to be conducted by the Department of Environmental Conservation with the Department of Transportation, the Motor Vehicle Bureau and the State Police, is a result of efforts by Bedford's Quiet Highways Council. In September the council submitted a petition with 2,100 signatures, including many town supervisors and county of ficials, asking for a public hearing on the noise pollution from Route 1-684 The Department of Environmental Con servation denied a formal \environmental impact hearing\ on 1-684, but called, in stead, a general conference on the problems of highway noise Richard A Pearl, chairman of the Quiet Highways group, said it had raised more than $15,000 to retain noise experts to study 1-684 and testify on the degree and effects of highway noise. Among those testlfying «wu >be -David Sive, an attorney noted for championing environmental causes, Dr. James Miller of the Central Institute for the' Deaf in St. Louis, and the Albert Appraisal Company which will consider the effects of highway noise on Westchester land values. Also appearing will be representatives of Bolt, Beranek and Newman, a firm of acoustical engineers who helped frame anti-noise legislation and develop en forcement procedures for California and Illinois Engineers from the Boston firm have recorded noise levels in homes bordering 1-684 that would have prevented con struction of the road had it been attempted after new Federal Highway Administration noise control guidelines were issued in July, 1971 Mahopac teacher wins appeal over dismissal MAHOPAC — An appellate division ruling made this week is expected to re turn Miss Kathy Marcato to her third grade Mahopac Falls Elementary School classroom after an absence of almost two years The recent court decision calls the teacher's dismissal over her refusal to remove an anti-war poster from a school display case an \abuse of discretion,\ stating that the punishment for the in cident should be no more than two months suspension without pay If the decision is not appealed by Mahopac school board it is' expected to mean that the teacher will be reinstated in her teaching job, one she had held for ap proximately five years before her dismiss al and payment of salary retroactive to June 1,1971 This retroactive pay, howev er, will exclude any money earned by the, teacher working as a house cleaner, baby sitter and part-time reporter, all jobs she has held since her dismissal When asked how she felt over the pros pects of receiving almost $20,000 in back pay, Miss Marcato commented, \If I'm lucky this will just about pay my legal ex penses.\ School board members and district of ficials refused to comment on the decision until they had had an opportunity to meet and discuss it. It is reported, however, that since the decision was unanimous on the part of the appellate division it will not be appealed Miss Marcato was dismissed from her teaching post in April of 1971 after a six- day public hearing on charges of insubor dination and failure to keep the.required lesson plan book. The charges stemmed from her refusal to remove a poster stating \war is unhealthy for children and other living things,\ from a Christmas dis play case, located in the elementary school hall, in December 1970. The display case, according to school KATHY MARCATO officials, was for student made materials. Since the poster was not student made but was commercially manufactured they claimed it was inappropriate and there fore should be removed. Miss Marcato claimed at the time that she had decided to remove the poster, as requested by Jier principal, the day after the request was made. However, she said, she found that it had already been removed from the case by school officials. In commenting on the decision this week Miss Marcato said that she would be happy to return to her classroom and hoped that the notoriety received by her case would not make it Impossible to do so. FBI agents join sea for Bedford woman, 22 By ELIZABETH SIMONOFF BOSTON, Mass.—The Federal Bureau of Investigation Tuesday joined the search for a young Bedford woman missing since the night of November 29 — a search pursued against a grim backdrop of rape and strangling which has brought violent death to four women students here in recent months. Damans Synge Gillispie, 22, the daughter of Mrs. Damaris Lee Gillispie of Hook Road, Bedford, has been sought by Cambridge and Boston police and Mas sachusetts state troppers since November 30, the day after her disappearance. A special telephone number — 617-661- 9661 — has been set up in Boston to take calls from anyone who has information about Miss Gillispie. Hosp pl ital's oyees em vote union MT. KISCO — Service and Mainte nance employees at Northern Westchester Hospital Tuesday voted 76 to 61 in favor of being represented by Drug and Hospital Union Local 1199. Hospital Administrator Jerome F. Peck said he was \very disappointed\ by the election and said the hospital would \study the possibilities\ of having it over turned or getting rid of the union in some other fashion. No election irregularities were charged Tuesday. Union spokesmen said they would move immediately to' have the election certified by the State Labor Relations Board. They will then ask hospital of ficials to sit down and negotiate a contract giving Northern Westchester employees \parity\ with some 50,000 other hospital employees represented by the union. Organizer Sy Bloomer pointed to salaries and benefits as the union's sole concern. \We don't intend to tell them how to run their hospital,\ he said. Local 1199 is the first union to organize any part of the Northern Westchester Hos pital's work force. There are 145 employ ees in the service and maintenance sec tions. The hospital has refused to issue data on salaries and benefits, but union repre sentatives have charged that both are far below union average. The board of directors of the hospital has said unions do not belong in any hospi tals as a matter of public welfare. Mr. Peck has also noted that Northern West chester Hospital depends on contributions for its support and cannot afford large sal ary and benefit increases. Other employee units at the hospital, including clerical and technical help as well as nurses, are expected to soon be targets of another Local 1199 campaign A senior at Boston University, she was last seen by a roommate at 7:30 p.m. November 29, when she left her Cam bridge apartment for the part-time job she held at a Boston discotheque, saying that she would have to \hitch\ a ride to work because she was late. She never reached the Jazz Workshop, her place of employ ment, and did not return to her apartment. Blue-eyed, blond, about 5 feet 2 inches tall and 120 pounds, Miss Gillispie was an honor student. Her friends called her Synge. She was considerate and reliable, her discotheque employer told inves tigators, and would not have been likely to skip a night's work without calling. The only lead in the case so far ap pears to have dwindled into insigni ficance. A telephone call to the Jazz Workshop Saturday purported to come from captors who said that the young woman was with them and would be freed. No ransom was mentioned and there have been no ransom demands since, police sources say. The call is now considered to have been a hoax. Mrs. Damaris Lee Gillispie, Synge's mother, and her three brothers, Steven, 30, Mark, 24, and Putnam, 16. have been in Boston since November 30, taking part in the search. Charles Gillispie, the father, an attorney, who has been divorced from Mrs. Gillispie for many years, is also DAMARIS SYNGE GILLISPIE present. A married sister, Mrs. Derek Pershouse, lives in Cambridge. Aided by the missing girl's college friends, the family has been questioning neighbors and acquaintances and pounding pavements in Cambridge and the vicinity of Boston College and the Jazz Workshop on Boylston Street in the hope of turning up some clue to her where abouts. Their investigation is carried;;on against a background of tragedy: four young women students of the vicinity navel been found dead, raped and strangled^ since Boston-area colleges opened in Sep- * tember. * Some 30 hours before Synge's disap-i pearance was reported, the body of 21-! year-old Sandra Ehramjian a college' dropout from East Meadow, L.I., was-, found in Brockton, Mass., south of Boston.. Miss Ehramjian, who is believed to have/, been hitchhiking to Long Island when she; was murdered, has lived only a few\ blocks from the apartment Synge;* shared with friends in Cambridge. J Three other girls have been found; strangled since September. The body of * Kathleen Ann Randan, 18, of CenterviUe, - Mass., a Boston University freshman,' was found September 13 in a field near\ Nashua, N.H. She was last seen before ; her death hitchhiking on Commonwealth - Avenue in Boston. ' Debra Rae Stevens, 19, a Boston: College junior, was found strangled and; • raped in suburban Lynn two days laten < And on November IS, Ellen Ann Reich, 19;* of Hackensack.N J., was found strangled : and stabbed in ah abandoned. Boston buildi; ing, six days after she had last been seen * hitchhiking to class at Emerson College;/;; 1 Police have conjectured that-another * (ConWefon Page,2), ; 15 starving horses found in South Salem Staff photo by Ted Kaplan CONCRETE FACTS are what Peter Delatater of North Salem deals with in a brick laying course at one of the area's newest schools. (See story page 13.) SOUTH SALEM — At least 15 starving horses pastured alongside Route 35 here \ were remanded to the SPCA of West chester during the weekend after pas- sersby reported the \terrible condition\ of the animals. SPCA board member Margaret Moun- trey said the SPCA had received three calls Thursday night from people worried about the horses, apparently owned by Gerry McDougal of Stamford, Conn. Friday morning Mrs. Mountrey and Mrs. John Macchia, another director of the organization, went to examine the horses with veterinarian Ronald Rosen of Ridgefield, Conn Dr Rosen reports he found four mares, all pregnant and with foals at their sides, who \probably would not have made it through the winter \ Two other mares about to foal, a pony, four more pregnant mares, and a stallion in \reasonably good condition\ would be likely to \barely\ survive, according to Dr. Rosen. That afternoon Lewisboro Town Judge John Minicus ordered the horses seized by the SPCA Four mares and three foals were brought to Elmwood Farm, South Salem, to be boarded. The SPCA has no horse stables. The fourth foal was missing and is presumed dead Hay donated by Mrs. Anne Hubreth of Banksville Road, Bedford, is being fed to horses remaining in the field Two mares Lewisboro: how big? By SALLY FRENCH CROSS RIVER — Should Lewisboro — present population approximately 7,000 — become a town with population in the 30, 40 or 60 thousands? That is the question Lewisboro resi dents and officials will debate in the coming months as they choose between three alternative sketch plans, one of which or a combination of which will become the town's comprehensive devel opment plan. The three plans, nearly three years in the making, were unveiled Monday to town officials and members of the Citi zens' Advisory Committee to the Master Plan. There will be a public hearing Thursday, December 14, at 8 p.m. at the John Jay high school auditorium The plans will not be available for public viewing before that hearing, al though all previous studies made by Fred erick P. Clarke Associates may be read at the Town House or at South Salem Library. Planner David J. Portman made clear that even in the highest density plan there is no provision for a development of the magnitude—4,600 units—proposed by Sub urban Action Institute for a 600-odd acre tract in Waccabuc. Adhering to the Regional Plan Associa tion philosophy of development occurring in existing centers, all three plans en vision growth principally in the hamlet areas of Goldens Bridge, Cross River, South Salem and Vista with a gradual low ering of density as the distance from the centers increases. \The Waccabuc tract is about as far from a hamlet as you can get in Lewis boro.\ said Mr. Portman Its topography, he noted, is extremely rugged, making it unsuitable for development in densities greater than one to two units per acre, with large portions set aside for wetlands preservation \If you had sketch plan D—which we don't have,\ said Mr. Portman, \the ul timate population projection for the town under that type of development would be 200,000 \ Mr. Portman said also that if public water supply from New York City reser voirs were built across the northern por tion of the town, there are areas nearer Goldens Bridge which should be served first \Plan A represents what we felt was a continuum of development as under present zoning in the town,\ according to Frank Fish of Clark Associates However, there would be some increase in the ul timate population; under present zoning the population could reach a maximum of 24,000, whereas under Plan A it could go to somewhere in the 30,000s. Plan A would continue the rural character of Lewisboro with large amounts of land zoned as now for two- and four-acre single family residential development No public water and sewage would be required except for Goldens Bridge \If Plan A were Implemented with conservation zoning, then you could preserve a lot more open space than is shown on this map by clustering units closer together,\ Mr Fish commented The open space study showed that it is the privately owned, undeveloped open spaces — about 57 per cent of the total land area — that give the town its character \In terms of social impact,\ said Mr. Fish, \particularly on the lower income bracket, a somewhat limited choice is presented in the types and costs of housing It would perpetuate existing trends \ Plan B, which contemplates an eventual population in the 40,000s, would \change the housing mix but preserve the rural character of the town,\ according to Mr Fish Single family housing would' dominate throughout most of the town, but the hamlet system would be reinforced with somewhat greater areas of multi family housing permitted. Plan B would have slightly larger areas for neighborhood shopping in the four hamlets than under present zoning. An open space preservation system would follow the streams, wetlands, hilltops, steep slopes and poor soils. Two town parks would be added, one in Goldens Bridge and one in Vista. Mr Fish said Plan A contemplated no interchange at 1-684 and Route 138 in Goldens Bridge; Plan B could be im- (Continued on Page 2) about to foal wereto be brought.toElmT ; - wood- Farm W.ednesday, filling: upitb!| stable.taken by the SPCA there. £ Mrs. Moiuitrey said McDougal ha3 rented use of the pasture land during the summer and had not been seen in Lewi* boro since August. Dr. Rosen explainea that in summer, grass was sufficient 0 keep the horses healthy, but that after the first freeze of the winter the grass loses its nutritional value. After that horses in this area require hay and grain, he said. ^ The SPCA hopes to prosecute Mcr (Continued on Page 2) v $ Hungry thjevesk hit liquor store;, stop for shack i LINCOLNDALE — Liquor and wine* worth $16,000 were stolen Monday night by' hungry thieves who broke into Bernarj) Liquor Store on Route 202. *L During their labors — loading the heavy cases into a vehicle parked behitfi the store — they paused for a snack {# tunafish sandwiches, beer and soda in*a luncheonette next door. •* The black market value of liquet dropped sharply between Monday and Tuesday. A month long strike jjf warehouse and delivery men was causing severe shortages. A strike settlement Tuesday morning will return underground prices to normal. * Mrs. Sarah Rice, the 62-year-old widojw who owns the liquor store, doesn't believe she'll ever recover financially and will be forced out of business. She opened Tuesday to sell the only stock remainingt^ few bottles of the less expensive domestic wines. The thieves seemed casual ana* professional. They entered the liquor stof£ from the rear after removing an &$£ conditioning unit. Mrs. Rice closed the (Continued on Page 2) ~; PATEIT TRADER 'S Pages 13-36 Also Classified 4W7 Editorial 10 Letters 10-11 Obituaries 4, Sports 37-39 Suburban Diary .10 Town Notes 16-20
