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All School Proposals Pass; MCS Meeting Stormy C / I T S I C I L L Andes and Roxbury central rate increase, all in less than Virgil Meade, Richard Finch understand what was to be de- H B I H i Andes and Roxbury central school districts took care of the voting and other business at their annual meetings Tuesday night in short order, but Mar- garetville residents experienced one of their longest and most confusing meetings in many years. In all cases, however, proposed budgets were approved by the voters, although the one in MargaretvDle was amended before it was passed. ANDES Andes voters okayed, 58-12, a $520,000 budget that will cre ate a $15-per-thousand increase in the tax rate on assessed valuation. Part of the increase is because of the recently passed $140,000 bond issue for school repairs and improvements. Douglas Stevens was reelect ed without opposition to another five-year term on the Andes school board. The meeting was over in about an hour. ROXBURY Roxbury elected three trus-. tees, authorized a bus purchase bond, sale of an old building, and approved a $597,984 budget that contains no property tax Andes Seniors Led By Engel, Miss Chappell Kenneth Engel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Engel ' of Andes, is the valedictorian otf the class of 1972 a t Andes cen tral school. The salutatorian is Miken Chappell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Chappell, also of Andes. Kenneth has majored in mathematics a n d industrial arts throughout high school. Last year jhe was elected to membership in the Dr. J. D. Frisibee chapter of the National Honor society, and he is now the president of that organiza tion. He is also the 1972 editor of the ACS yearbook, “The Bea con,” which is scheduled for issuance soon. As a member of the religious group known as Jehovah’s Witnesses, he plans to go into a full-time house-to-house ministry follow ing graduation. Miken has taken a four-year college entrance course while at Andes and will attend the State University college at Os wego this September. In two years her plans call for a trans fer to the Syracuse Mediical Center for training in physical therapy. Her majdr field wiU be .science at Oswego, \Sftw w is recently elected to the National Honor society and is now vice president of that group. Her other high school activities have included cheer- leading, senior band, area all- state band. Pep clxib, foreign exchange student, junior prom queen, girls’ athletics, dass sec retary, Delaware county band, Wigh sc4k)o1 chorus and ski club. Philip Geary, lecturer, travel er, educator, and explorer, will be -the commencement speaker at ACS graduation cer«nonies on Saturday, June 24. They start at 2 p.m. The date and time represent a departure from tradition, since commencement is usually held on Friday evening of the final day of school. Mr. Geaiy spent five years supervising 20 village schools in India from 1940 to 1945. While there, he trekked to the source of the sacred Ganges river, and another foot trail took him over the Zogi-La Pass into “Little Tibet.” For these off-theJbeaten-path adventures, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society dn 1951. During World War 2, Geary served as an Army Air Corps chaplain for 27 months dn the South Pacific. In the summer of 1954 he set out to find a little-known Indian tribe called the Kogabas in Colombia, South America. He brought back the first tape recordings of their music and language. Mr. Geary is director of air world education for Trans- World Airlines. Prizes will be awar<^ed by Su pervising Principal Lloyd T. Johns as wBl scholarships. These include the Helen L. Gardner Memorial datnig back to 1957, the James A. Glenden- ing Memorial, and the anony mous scholarships. Fred Temming, president of the board of education, will present the diplomas. The An des senior band will play sev eral numbers during the pro gram. This will mark the final time graduating band members win penform with the band. The annual baccalaureate program wiU be held Sunday afternoon starting at 1:30 pjn. It will be held in the school auditorium. Rev. R. V. E. Wright, retired Andes United PreSbyterian min ister, will offer the invocation and the ^ripture readng, while Martin Hyzer will offer the prayer and benediction. The baccalaureate sermon will be preadied by Rev. Francis Ta- tem, rector of St. James Epds- cop^ church a t Lake Delaware. The ACS high school chorus will sing one or two numbers and accompany in the singing of three sacred songs. The final assembly program rate increase, all in less than two hours time. The new budget received 200 yes v^tes and 12 no votes. Despite the lack of tax increase, the district will spend $38,249 more than in 1971-72. The tax rate in the towfti of Roxbury remains at $67 per thousand. The voters approved, 208-5, a resolution granting authority to the school board to sell the former Vega schoolhouse. Bids will be solicited for opening on July 13. Also approved was the purchase of a new school bus by a 209-4 vote. Linden Gregory had no op position for reelection to a five- year term on the school board. He received 201 votes; there were also three write-ins and two blank ballots. To fill the unexpired three years remaining in the term of Obe Zuidema, Gordon Stahl, who has been serving by ap pointment, won election to the post. He defeated Andrew Millar, 161-46. There were two blank and four void ballots. To fill the unexpired two years remaining in the term of Engel Chappell for the year will be held on Friday, June 23, starting at 9 a.m. Included in the program will be the awards for the year in various categories, senior class .play activities, and the movdng-up ceremony. Awards will be made in these areas: Library, student council, Saturday seminars, dthletics, cheerleaddng, music, yearbook, perfect attendance and effort. The last two are prizes given to students in each of the first six grades who, in the ju d ^ e n t of their teachers, have tried the hardest and achieved the most during the year. The faculty members in charge of each of these activities will make ithe awards. Class day will include the reading of the 1972 class will by Dennis Rose and Miken Chappell, presentation of class gifts by Suzanne Conine and Robert Joslin, and the class prophecy read by Susan Tubbs and Peter Johns. The traditional moving - up day ceremony, which replaced the graduation of the eighth grade into High school, consists of each class “moving up” to the next grade level with seniors first going to the auditorium stage, where their commence ment usually takes place. Other classes similarly move up into the vacated spaces. All this is done Avhile the students and audience sing the moving-up day song which WiU be played by Walter Codddngton. The auditorium is arranged so that each class has enough chairs to sit in and the re mainder of the school, grades kindergarten through six, sits on the bleachers. Seats for parents and friends are set up along the sides. The program is open to the public. Following the assembly, ail students will [be issued their final report cards for the year and dismissed. Seniors will re main to rehearse for commence ment. Driver Course Set A three-hour instruction course for new drivers who have already secured their learner’s permits will be given from 7 to 10 pjn. Tuesday, June 20, at Margaretville central school. There is a $5 fee for the course, which is required of all new drivers. Virgil Meade, Richard Finch drew 143 votes and won election over Maria Adishian, who re ceived 60. Mr. Finch had also been serving by appointment. There were five write-ins and one blank. MARGARETVILLE Weary Margaretville district voters, or the 80 or so that re mained from an original turnout of more than 300, filed out of the gym shortly before 1 a.m., their trustee elected, their budget amended and passed and purchase of a school bus ap proved. It was after midnight before any of these decisions were reached. Mrs. June D. Meinstein was elected to a five-year term on the school board. She succeeds Francis Ruff, who did not seek reelection after 10 years on the board. Mrs. Meinstein won on the third ballot, 121-111, in a run-off between her and Mrs. Simone Halim, after the third candidate, Ernest Hyatt, had announced his withdrawal. Since a majority of the 301 votes cast in the first balloting was necessary for election, the first two ballots ended without decision. The first ballot was 133 for Mrs. Meinstein, 98 for Mrs. Halim and 70 for Mr. Hyatt. The second ballot was 138 for Mrs. Meinstein, 107 for Mrs. Halim and 44 for Mr. Hyatt. There was one void on the first ballot. It became necessary to delay the third ballot while additional forms were mimeographed. In between trustee voting, the discussion on the proposed $1,397,908 budget was interrupt ed so many times that many of those attending could not Monoxide Kills Couple In Car; One Man Lives Carbon monoxide poisoning claimed the lives of two Dovras- ville residents Monday as they sat in a parked car on Mallace Brook road in the town of Col chester. A third occupant of the car barely escaped with his life when he awoke and was able to get out of the death vehicle. Killed by the exhaust fumes of the car were Mrs. Betty Sanford, 28, of Downsville and Rodney Tweedie, 20, a former resident of Downsville, who had moved to North Adams, Mass. Dr. Harry J. Wilber, Dela ware county me<^al examiner, issued a -rcMifct *of accidental death from carbon monoxide poisoning. The accident was reported by the third occupant of the car, Howard Cicio, 23, also of North Adams. State police from the Mar garetville station, assisted by Officer Charles MacDonald of the Colchester police, investi gated the case. The car, owned by Patricia Homovitch of Downsville, was reported parked at the end of the dead-end Mal lace Brook road when the acci dent occurred. The bodies were removed to the Clark and Knorr funeral home in Walton. Test Is Adopted TTie me<Mcal staff of the Mar garetville Memorial hospital has adopted as a standard pro cedure the “Pap smear” test upon the admission of any fe male patient over 21 to the hospital. Exceptions are made where medically indicated or if the test has been performed within the last three years. The test has been made com pulsory by a new amendment to the state hospital code. T e e n a g e P e d d l e r s understand what was to be de cided. Before Principal Dennis McLean could finish going oyer the budget, motions began flying to restore items that had been deleted, drawing counter- motions, procedural motions, in terruptions and accusations in such disorder that it appeared that the meeting was hopelessly deadlocked. Among the motions offered to amend the budget were one to restore dental hygienist serv ices through BOCES at a cost of approximately $6,000 more than the budget total, and restoration of eliminated and reduced typist and custodial positions amounting to about $14,000; Procedural motions were offered to table both. The den tal amendment tabling was turned down, 113-97, so that amendment was made in the budget. The job restoration amendment tabling was passed, 150-45, so that amendment was tabled; in effect, defeated. Since financial propositions must be decided by paper ballot or tally count of ayes and nays, it became necessary to vote on the dental hygiene amendment by ballot. This time it was passed, 111-73, and became a part of the budget. When it came time to vote on the budget itself, the crowd had dwindled, and the budget was passed, 98-56. The bus purchase amendment was then passed, 68-14. Chairman of the meeting was Dr. William Kavanaugh, who appointed William Sluiter, Charles Holdridge and Earl Cronan as tellers. When voting lines bogged down because of sheer numbers, James Fuller and Willis Marks were appoint ed as additional tally tellers. Before the voting on the trus tees, Mrs. Meinstein, Mrs. Halim and Mr. Hyatt were called on to make brief state ments to the audience and to answer questions that were put to them. Tax rates tentatively drawn for the new budget on assessed valuation are $88.85 per thou sand in Middletown, $92.78 in parts of the district located in the town of Andes, $77.78 in Bovina, $85.69 in Roxbury, $48.24 in Lexington, $48.38 in Halcott, $95.59 in Shandaken and $127.41 in Hardenburgh. These do not reflect the added cost of the dental hygienist restoration. Farewell Sermon To Be Given Sunday Rev. Murray Walters will de liver a farewell sermon at the United Methodist church in Andes Sunday at 9:30' a.m. Mrs. Walters wiU deliver a sim ilar message at the United Methodist church in Pleasant Valley at the same time. Rev. Walters will deliver his farewell sermon at the United Methodist church in feloomville at 11:30. This will be followed by a covered dish dinner at 1 p.m. and a musical program at 2:30. Featured wdll be ac cordion, trombone, guitar, sax ophone players, as well as sing ers. There will be special choral selections and congrega tional singing. Rev. and Mrs. Walters are leaving the area a fter six years, the longest tenure of any min ister in the 172-year history of the BloomviHe church. Mr. Walters will return to the min istry at another location fol lowing the termination of a leave of aibsence. All activities on Sunday are open to the public, including the dinner. Those attending are asked to bring a dish to pass. Beverage and dessert will be furnished by the host church. DH» E* C* 2 6 9 S«I1H MAXir AVE. » S m , 12208 not, 10 Drug Raid At YiHage Pavilion Nets Four; Fifth Charged Later State police of the Margaret ville statton raided a tent camp site adjacent to the Margaret ville pavilion at 10:30 pjn. last Thursday and arrested four persons on a variety of drug abuse charges. Two of the offenders, local residents, will be arradigned as youth offenders. Another will be petitioned into Delaware county Family Court. Their names were not avaMaWle from state police. The fourth person, Nicholas B. Huffman, 21, of Brooklyn was charged with criminal pos session of a dangerous drug in the fourth degree, a felony, in volving possession of more than one quarter ounce of mari juana. He was also charged with criminal sale of a dtmger- ous drug, marijuana, in the second degree. Charged were a 15-year-old boy from Margaretville, for SKth degree possession of a jkingerous drug, marijuana, a misdemeanor; a 17-year-old girl from Ma^aretville, charged with criminal possession of a dangerous drug in the fourth degree and criminal sale of a dangerous drug in the second degree, both felonies, and a 16- year-old boy from ArkviUe, charged with loitering in <*16 first degree for the purpose of using a dangerous drug. All were arraigned before Town Justice Donald Fenton of Margaretville. Huffman and the girl requested counsel and were granted a continuance un til June 27. They were com mitted to the Delaware county jail in lieu of $2,000 bail. The 16-year-old male also re quested counsel and is to ap pear before TJ Fenton on June 27. He was committed to jail in lieu of $500 bail. The 15- year-old male will be petitioned to the Delaware county Family Court. State police reported that a quantity of marijuana was con fiscated during the raid. A subsequent investigation on the following day resulted in the arrest of another Marga- retviUe youth, a 16-year-old boy. He is charged with crim inal sale of a dangerous drug in the second degree, mari juana. State police of the Mar garetville station reported that he sold marijuana to Huffman and the female. He was also arraigned before TJ Fenton and requested coun sel. He is to reappear on June 27. He was released upon the posting of a $2,000 cash bond. MOUNTAIN NEWS 14 Pages—2 Sections No. 109—51 MARGARETVILLE, N, Y., THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1972 Published Weekly Second-Class Postage Paid at Margaretville, N. Y. 12455 15c Copy $7.50 Year GOP, Democrats Must Choose At Tuesday Polls Delaware county Republicans will have one primary contest county-wide Tuesday, while Re publicans and Democrats in the 105th Assembly district, cover ing the eastern three-quarters of the county will have contests to select their Assembly candi dates for next fall’s election. County Judge Richard Farley, who was appointed to that post this spring, is ibeing challenged for the Republican nomination by Assistant District Attorney Malcolm Hughes of Roxbury. Election also covers the office of county surrogate and judge of the Family Court. The Democrats have already chosen Paul Eaton of Walton as their candidate. Former Social Services Com missioner Charles Cook is run ning for the Republican nom ination for assemblyman. Op posing him is Richard Spinney of Stamford. The Democrats will have a choice of nominating Robert E. Shaffer of Schoharie or Martha Dayton of Stamford as their candidate to oppose the Republican nominee in Novem ber. County Democrats also have on their ballot a choice for associate judge of the Court of Appeals, highest court in the state. There are four candi dates for the three nominations, Bernard S. Meyer; M. Henry Martuscello, Annette Dembritz and Lawrence H. Cooke. This contest is statewide. Officers, Council Elected at ACS Mary Kay Harvard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Harvard of Andes, will be the president of the Andes central school student council for 1972-1973, She succeeds Dennis Rose, who is in this year’s graduating class. Martha Drew, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Drew of Andes, wiill be the incoming vice president, succeeding Way- land Gladstone. Carol Stevens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Doug las Stevens of Delancey, is the new secretary-treasurer, taking the place of Miss Drew. ’The group’s advisor is Mrs. Sylvia Glendening, the school iabrar- ian. Each dass chose representa tives as follows: Grade 7— Sharon Skovsende, Edward Frisbee and Inigrid Lor, vi^th Lorie Truesdell as alternate; Grade 8—Scott Lee, Jeffrey Tubbs and Sheilah Finch, with Judy Shelhnan as alternate; Grade 9—Robert Liddle, Nancy Frisbee and Mark Finkle, wdth Janet Conran as alternate; Grade 10—Ritchie Gabriel, Jay Tweedie and Florence Stevens, w5th Douglas Andrews as alter nate; Grade 11—Kevin Roney, Thomas Ackerley and Peter Fusscas, with Wyane Reynolds as alternate, and Grade 12— Paul Berg, Debra Oles and Debra Frisbee, iwith Alma Fair- bairn as alternate. Class officers for the 1972- 1973 school year have also been elected. The offices were filled as follows: Grade 7—President, Sharon Skovsende; vice president, Bar bara Rose; secretary, Montie Hobbie, and treasurer, Daivid Cole. Grade 8—^President, Scott Lee; vice president, Laura Ny- gren; secretary, Kathy Dabritz, and treasurer, Ann Firment. Grade 9—^President, Robert Liddle; vice president, Bernard Barrett; corresponding secre tary, Janice Stevens; recording secretary, Robert Hanley, and treasurer, Polly Gladstone. Grade 10—^President, Ritchie Gabriel; vice president, Timo thy Faiiibaim; corresponding secretary, Judy Melvin; record ing secretary, Linda Drew, and treasurer, Fred Dabritz. Grade 11—^President, Kevin Roney; vice president, Edward Conran; corresponding secre- tery; Kathy Gladstone; record ing secretary. Holly Cole, and treasurer, Judy Sidorowicz. Grade 12—President, Paul Berg; vice pre^dent, Debra Frisibee; corresponding secre tary, Mary Anne Conine; re cording secretary, Christine Fleury, and treasurer, Patti Dailey. Hotel Was Sold The property known as FleischmanBs hotel on Main street has been purchased by Monasterio, Inc., and will be run as a resort hotel, beginning inmiediately. The sale was made through the office of Mildred Wadler by N d Alan. Two ACS Juniors Go on Exchanges Two members of the junior class at Andes cent^ral school will be spending 10 weeks in Latin America this summer un der the auspices of Interna tional Fellowship of Buffalo. Christine Fleury will go to the home' of Angela Chavez in El Salvador. Miss Chavez is presently attending school in Andes. Ellen Finkle will spend her summer in Mexico. Miss Finkle has ibeen assigned to the home of Sr. and Sra. Meliton Perez in Mexico City for her 10-week stay. Miss Fleury is the daughter of Mrs. Ann Fleury and the late LeRoy Fleury of Andes, while Miss Finkle is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jaunes Finkle of Andes. In return, Andes will sponsor two foreign students next fall. Teachers Honor Two Leaving ACS Mrs. Elizabeth Mabon will re tire at Andes central school later this month after 20 years of teaching. Seventeen of these years have been spent at Andes. She also taught at two rural schools in the area, at Lake Delaware and at Spring Valley on the Franklin road out of Delhi. At the faculty dinner held May 26, the Andes Teachers association presented Mrs. Ma bon with a battery-operated wall clock. About 40 teachers, husbemds and wives were at the dinner. Association presi dent Dale Christopher was in charge. On May 30 Mrs. Mabon was guest of honor at a tea given by Mrs. Sylvia ■ Glendening, school librarian, at her home. Lady members of the faculty were present and gave their guest a toaster-oven. While at Andes, Mrs. Mabon has spent most of her years teaching in the middle grades, although she is finishing her 20 years as a third grade teacher. Members of the ACS faculty also held a tea in honor of Mrs. Betty Benkert, girls’ physical education teacher. Mrs. Ben kert is leaving her duties at Andes, but wall continue to teach at the South Kortright central school which is close to her home. She was presented w ith. a gift by her Andes colleagues. Honor Is 13th Boicevdlle, June 15.—^The On- teora high school symphonic band was awarded an A-6 rat ing at the music competition held recently in Wappingers Falls, N.Y. The 94-pSece band under the direction of Harry Simon received an “A” rating in grade 6 music. The annual competition is sponsored by the New York State School Music association. This marks the 13th time the Onteora high school symphonic band has at tained this high honor. Trespasser Fined And Sent to Jail 'Trespassing on the Tuscarora club property in the Millbrook valley proved time-consuming and expensive for Thomas Hel- bigi, 24, of Stony Point Satur day. On a complaint from Eu gene Wickham, caretaker for the club. Trooper Glen George and Conservation Officer James Ponzio arrested Helbigi and charged him with trespassing. Taken before Town Justice SolMe Darling, Helbigi pleaded guilty and was fined $50 and sentenced to 10 days in the Delaware county jail. He is serving bis sentence. S t a t e P r e s s u r e s C l o s e No Expressway Or Two*Lane Road Found Feasible In State Study A lb a n y , Ju n e 13.— T h e co n s u lting firm c o n d u c t ing a stu d y of t h e n e e d fo r a n d feasib ility of b u ild in g th e p r o p o s e d D e law a r e - S t. L a w r e n c e expressw a y h a s concluded th a t an express Woolheater Heads Middletown Post James Woolheater was elect ed new commander of the Mid dletown American Legion post at the montJily meeting held June 7 at Margaretvi'Ue. For mer County Commander Her bert VanValkenlburgh of Rox bury installed the officers fol lowing the election. Other officers are Welton Platt, Edward VanSteenburg and Carl Wood, vice command ers; Alfred Mathis, adjutant; Robert Hill, treasurer; Warren Moore, sergeant-at-arms; Fran cis Sweeney, chaplain; Blanche Quinn, service officer; Darrell Atkin, historian; Donald Finch, steward, and Redd Webster, liaison officer. State May Pay Aid On Acquired Land Gilboa. — Governor Rocke feller has signed legislation per mitting the state Power Au thority to make payments to local goverrunent units for assessment losses involved in future power project construc tion. ‘‘The new law, which was endorsed by the Power Author ity, will make possible i>ay- ments to local government units in Schoharie county if a second power project is built in the county,” explained Authority Chairman James FitzPatrick. The Power Authority, currently building the Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage power project, is studying the feasibility of constructing a second, similar project in the area. I The Authority was nofc.per4 mitted to pay taxes or assess ments on its property because of restrictions in law and inden tures under which it sold bonds to build two operating projects and two now under construc tion. The new law would re move some of the restrictions on future projects. ’The law will permit the Au thority to enter into agreements “to make payments in lieu of taxes with respect to property acquired for any project where such payments are based solely on the value of the real prop erty without regard to any im provement thereof by the Au thority and where no bonds to pay any costs of such projects were issued prior to Jan. 1, 1972.” If a second plant is located there, it will involve the acquisi tion of additional land which wall take a substantial portion of property in one or two small towns off the tax rolls. I t would not be feasible or reasonable to take such proportion of prop erty off the rolls without some form of relief. This bill would give the Authority an opportun ity to provide such relief. Teacher Officers Named at Andes The Andes Central School Teachers association has elected new officers for the 1972-1973 school year. They are Joseph Grieco, president; Mrs. Stella McPherson, vice president; Mrs. Elnora Jackson, secretary, and Donald B. Tubbs, treasurer. Outgoing officers are Dale Christopher, president; Dewey Hornbeck, vice president; Mrs. Elizabeth Mabon, secretary, and Mrs. Mabel Hamilton, treasurer. h ig h w a y is n o t econom ical a n d w o u ld n o t satisfy th e trav e l a n d d e v e lo p m e n t needs of th e 10-county a r e a involved. T h is ro u te has been proposed as a north- south express highway through Otsego, Delaware and possibly Sullivan counties between route 17 and the St. Lawrence river. Instead of a new expressway, the consultant recommends that a lower level program of invest ment, aimed at preserving ex isting industry and stimulating recreational and agricultural activities, together with seleot- ed highway improvements, would be economically justified. It suggests an overall program for the area ibe carried out by State and local governments. The study, carried out for the New York State Department of Transportation by URS Sys tems Corporation, concluded that area development would be served more effectively by pro grams directly aimed at eco nomic and social problems of the area, than by indirect bene fits that might ibe provided from building the expressway. State ’Transportation Com- missiioner T. W. Parker, said that while the proposed express way has ibeen viewed by many residents as the answer to the area’s economic needs, the con sultant has found that the bene.- fits resulting from such an ex press highway would not justify the capital investment to build it. During the fall Of 1970, the department held a series of public hearings to obtain the views of area residents and local officials on the need for and the potential impact of the proposed expressway. The con sultant attended these hearings. Considerable sentiment was ex pressed toward stimulating eco nomic growth, reducing' unem ployment and emmigration, pro viding improved access to em ployment opportunities, contin uing present lifestyles, minimiz ing disruption or dislocation of residents, and preserving and enhancing the environment. ’The expressway was origin ally proposed as a development al tool and not because of a need to serve present or future needs and demands. However, the high cost of constructing such a highway led to a study to establish the extent to which such a highway could stimulate the area’s economy and devel opment as a basis for support ing its construction. The economic benefits it would bring in .the form of added wages and profits plus savings in itransportaticai cost would not equal the propected costs of nearly $1 billion to con struct the express highway and fund the necessary support pro grams and services. Moreover, the consultant concluded that neither would building a con tinuous four-lane non-express highway or a new high quality two-lane road between route 17 and the St. Lawrence river be economically feasfble. Patti Kelder Has Legion Scholarship Patrwia Kelder of Halcott Center, valedictorian of the senior class of Margaretville central school, has been award ed a 1972 Delaware County ./^erican Legion scholarship. Her award of $100 is based on merit. Another award of $250 based on need has been made by the Legion to Edward Nydam of Franklin. The grants were made Saturday at a meeting of the organization’s scholarship committee in Delhi. Merrill Houck, Delaware academy prin cipal, is chairman. Hospital Directors Hope To Keep Obstetrics Unit Open To Jan. 1 Raeder From rcs Boys State Choice The iboard of directors of Margaretville Memorial hosptt- tal has decided to make an effort to keep the obstetrics department in the hospital open at least until Jan. 1, 1973. State agencies regulating hos pitals have recommended that any hospital not uttldzing an obstetrics department a t 60 per cent of capacity close it by Oct. 1. The recommendation came from the New Yorit state De partment of Health and the re gional hospital review and .planning councils. Although these agencies do not have the power to force a hospital to dose an obstetrics unit, they can penalize the hospital by de- •creasing the reimibursable per diem rate for all Medicaid Mid Blue Cross patients. The situation has developed in many hospitals in the United States because of the decreas ing birth rate and the conse quent xxnder-utilization of ob stetrics units. 'The board of directors h(^)es to reach a final decision two or three months before Jan. 1. A factor dn the decision will be >the rate at whdch the obstetrics unit is used in the Margaret ville hospitflil for the remainder of tiie year. Robert Cole, commander of the Ralph S. Ives Jr. pos.t of the American Legion at Rox bury has announced that George Edward Raeder, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Raeder of Roxbury, has been selected to attend the American Legion Boys State at State V, University Agricultural and Technical coUege at Mor- risville later this month. George, a junior at Roxiniry central school, has been a mem ber of the youth fellowship, the varsity soccer team, the high school band, and was the fresh man class president.
