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SUMMER STUDENTS gather for first session to discuss projects for the Catskills. Offices will be in a former pharmacy building adjacent to the Deak bank and on the second floor of the fire hall in Fleischmanns. They will survey natural and social resources of the mountains. Students Begin Survey Of Mountams' Resmirces Frisbee, Fleury Two Giris Named Students In Andes School Class Of 1973 Miss Debra Ruth Frisbee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Fri«^bee of Andes, is the valedictorian cl the class of 1973 at Andes central school. Miss Christine Fleury, daughter of Mrs. licRoy C. Fleury of.Andes is the salutatorian. Miss Frisbee plans to attend Penn State university where she will m aior in m a them a tics education. Her activities in four years of high school include cheerleading, senior band, maj orettes, class president, vice- president, Honor Society treas urer, student council, senior Young Man Held For P ossession Robert W ashburn, 18, of Dunraven v/as arrested by state police at 1:30 a.m. Sunday on a charge of possession of a dangerous drug in the fourth degree, specifically more than one-quarter ounce of marijuana. The charge is a class D felony. Taken before Town Justice Sollie Darling in Fleischmanns, Washburn asked time to secure counsel. He reappeared before the justice the next day, represented by Attorney Stuart Glass of M a rgaretville. He waived examination and was ordered held for the grand jury. Robert Lawrence of Jefferson was arrested Tuesday for giving a bad check to the Margaretville victory store for $27.74. He was arraigned before Town Justice Donald M. Fenton, pleaded guilty, made restitution and was fined $ 10 . play, junior prom queen, alter nate for state Regents scholar ship, editor and assistant editor of The Beacon, the ACS yearbook, Saturday Seminars for the Able and Ambitious, high school chorus, area all-state chorus and Delaware County chorus. Miss Fleury will attend the State University Agricultural and Technical college at Cobles- kill, where she plans to study secretarial science with the intent of becoming a bi lingual secretary . H er high school activities include Honor Society, Saturday Seminars for the Able and Ambitious, class recording secretary, senior band, high school chorus, state solo and ensemble festival, foreign ex change club, foreign exchange student to El Salvador, hostess for a stu d e n t from Brazil, Students to Outlaws Pollution, majorette, yearbook staff, girls’ athletics and Youth Corps. ACS To Hold Baccalaureate The annual baccalaureate ser vice will be held a t Andes central school on Sunday, June 17, starting at 2 p.m. Speaker for the program will be Rev. A. Paul DeMotte, pastor of the United Presbyterian church of Andes. Others participating will be Rev. Francis Tatem of St. James Church at Lake Delaware, and Rev. Merton Cady of the United Methodist Church of Andes. The ACS high school chorus will also sing during the program. Cite* RR Losses ICC Judge Rules l^enn Central May Abandon CatskiU Branch The battle to save the Cats- IdM Mountain branch of the Penn Centrai has gone in favor of <tlie railroad, which wants to abandon the 84 remaining miles between Kingston and Bloom- viMe. The Interstate Commerce Cctnmission ruled last week TtHUsday in W ashington that itlie railroad could proceed with abandonment, but allows 30 days for o^w n ents to file ap p e a l. If aK>®alls are submitted, the ICC aJlows 20 eui^tipnai days for rebuttal. ICC Judjre^ Wil liam Gibbons ruled th a t the fi nancial losses incurred by the banknqjt Penn Central on the line over the last four years, the downward trend of t ^ f i c , the poor jrfiysical condition of the line and the absence of a forecast of increased business justify the abandonment. He estim ated th a t it would require $11.3 million for reha bilitation of the line and this would impose “an 'iindue bur den” on Ithe Penn Central. He said th a t ,the 1972 loss, which was lower than in the previous years, would have been greater if the Penn Centrai had spent a normal amount necessary for average maintenance. There is a freight train op erating two trips a week in eadi direction. Derailments have been occurring \too fre quently.'’ the judge ruled, av eraging one a week, although the posted speed is 25 mpto and in {daces 10 mph. Judge Gibbons said th a t area interests protesting the aban donment could purchase the line when trustees for the Penn Central put i t up for sale. A program, sponsored by the Massachusetts Audubon society and the CatskiU Center for Conservation and Development, Inc. has brought seven college interns to the Fleischmanns area for the summer to study the natural resources of the Cats kills. The students will work pri marily in commercial and other forest lands, wilderness, and natural resource areas. Tom P'ield, research associate of the CatskiU Center, described the goal of this program as finding what and where are the CatskiU mountains’ natural and social resources and their availability. This data will result in a map depicting the natural resources of the Catskills. The college interns are Audrey Hoffer, a graduate student of botany at the University of Tennessee; Frances Beinecke, a land-use major of the Yale school of forestry and environmental studies; Liz Mikols, also of Yale, and a community ecology major; K a tharine P resto n of Yale, Charlotte Bishop of the Syracuse university graduate school of library science; Robert Lewis, a University of Pennsylvania grad uate student of ecological plann ing. and Frank Lanzetta, also of University of Pennsylvania, a graduate m ajor of regional planning. Soccer League Adds W o rcester The Delaware County Ama teur Soccer league has grown to seven teams with the addition of Worcester. Other teams are Andes, Downsville, M argaret ville, Jefferson and Stamford, all of whom have been in the league since its birth two summers hack, and another newcomer, South Kortright. Team representatives are Tom Coddington, A ndes; Jam e s Campbell, Downsville; Hank Hotaling, Jefferson; Don Ruff, Margaretville; Joe Peletz, South Kortright; Mike Ballard, Stam ford and Jim Kenyon, Worcester. Plans for the season were completed at a meeting at the Andes hotel last week Wednes day evening. The schedule is as follows: JUNE 16 — Stamford bye; An des a t Downsville; Margaretville at South Kortright; Worcester at Jefferson. JUNE 23 — Andes bye: Downsville at M argaret ville: South Kortright at Worces ter; Jefferson at Stam ford. JU N E 30 — D o w nsville bye; Margaretville at Andes; Jeffer son at South Kortright;. Stam ford at Worcester. JULY 7 - Margaretville bye; Andes at Worcester; Downsville a t Jeffer son; South Kortright at Startl- ford. JULY 14 — South Kort right bye: Worcester at Downs ville: Jefferson at Margaretville; Stam ford at Andes. JULY 21 — Worcester bye; Andes at Jefferson; Downsville at South K o rtright; M a rgaretville at Stamford. JULY 28 — Jefferson bye; South Kortright at Andes; W o rcester at M a rgaretville; Stamford at Downsville. AUG. 4 — playoff if necessary. AUG. 11 — all-star game. All d a tes are S a turdays. Rain-outs will be made up at the convenience of the teams involv ed. Outdoor SkiUs Four hundred fifty sixth grade students from Andes, Charlotte Valley, Delaware Academy, Gil- boa-Conesville, Grand Gorge, Jefferson, Margaretville, South Kortright and Stamford central schools attended Conservation field day held last week Thursday at Mayham pond at South Gilboa. Geese S tood By Injured M ember Pine Hill. June 14 - During lhc“ severe thunder and lightning storm Wednesday afternoon 11 Canadian geese alighted on the pond at Hector Colosimo’s home lu'low the village. The following morning, as they tried to continue their flight, one bird was unable to fly. Several attempts were made. The other 10 geese would fly for a distance then return to the pond, where the injured one remained. Satur day all were able to leave. Ruff To Speak A t Ag Conclave J:imes Ruff, son of Mr. and ■Mrs. Francis Ruff of M argaret ville. will present two papers at the national convention of Agri cultural Engineers to be held at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, June 17 - 20. The topics of his papers are “Theoretical Natural Frequenc ies and Their Role in Selective S traw b e rr y H a r v e s ting” and \Strawberry Removal Consider ation in Mechanical Harvesting.\ Jim is currently going for his masters and doctorate degrees at North Carolina State university in Raleigh. Firem en CaUed Roxbury, June 14 — The Roxbury fire department was called out for a fire in a truck hear the Scudder road below Roxbury at 11 Saturday morn ing. It was soon extinguished. Women Teachers Form New U n it C A T S K IU M O U N T A IN W07. Vol. 110—49 12 Pages MARGARETVILLE. N. T., THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1978 Fnblished Weekly 1 5 c O » y Sccond-Clais P o s tu e P«id ^ at MargaretTUle, I24S5 |7JS0Tear Sixteen Delaware County teachers were formally inducted Saturday as charter members of Beta Omicron chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, women educa tors international honor society. The induction, which took place at Scotch Valley in Stamford, was carried out by the members of Alpha Psi chapter of Schoharie county. The new members were honored by a luncheon. An organizational meeting followed. The following were elected as officers for the coming year: Ruth Hartman as president, Mabel Faoro as first vice president, Jean Hillson as second vice president, Marian Connell as recording secretary , Bev«^’ly Reed as corresponding secre tary, and Marion Hoagland as treasurer. The new DKG members as selected from schools in the area are: Sylvia Glendenning, and B e tty Jackson from Andes central, Mabel Faoro and Marian Hoagland from Grand Gorge, Jean Hillson from State Univer sity college at Gneonta, Marion Connell, Edith Davidson, and Virginia Marks from Margaaret- ville, Ruth Lutz and Areta Weyl from Roxbury, Theresa Cerreta and Constance Reed from South Kortright, Joan Burke, Nancy Eisenhard, Ruth Hartman and Beverly Reed from Stamford. Miss Klapper New Member Of MCS Boanl Miss Gertrude Klapper. a form er M a rgaretville central school administrator, was elected to the hoard of educataion in a three-way race Tuesday night for a five-year term . She will succeed Mrs. Roswell R. Sanford, retiring board president, who was not a candidate for re- election. Miss Klapper drew 134 votes, 12 more than the necessary 40 per cent. David Taylor had 102, and Glen Gavettc 64. The other candidate. M rs. K a thleen Hersch. withdrew shortly before the balloting began. She drew one vote, with two ballots void. A budget of $1,474,230 was approved, 208 to 58, as was a proposition to purchase a bus, 143 to 30. Tellers named by the chair man, Dr. William Kavanaugh, for the vote on a board member and the bus were David Solomon, Willis Marks and Herman Wick ham. Three women, Mrs. Francis Ruff. Mrs. Willis Marks and Mrs. P>nest Hyatt, were selected tellers for the budget vote. Dr. Kavanaugh called for a vote of appreciation for Mrs. Sanford for her many years of service to the board. The meeting was orderly and completed in a little more than two hours in contrast to the 1:30 a.m. finish last year. At an abbreviated board session proceeding the nieeting, 48 seniors were certified for graduation; the resignations of Anthony C ruickshank, L a tin teacher and Miss Susan Fiedler, kindergarten teacher, were ap proved and Esther Slavin was approved for early graduation. Fifth G rader Best S piH^r Margaretville central school students- in grades 5 and 6 participated in a spelling bee on P’riday. Caroline Meinstein, a fifth grader, correctly spelled cemetery to win the contest. James Davis, sixth grader, came in second, and sixth grader Stacey Valk was third. Other finalists were Deidre Duhamel, Chris DiBenedetto, Hellena Livanis, Scott Linde- m ann, Rikki York, R o b e rt Bowers, Mitchell DeSilva and Carol Erickson. E^dward VanSteenburg, left, incoming commander of the Middle town American Legion post, congratulated James Woolheater, retiring commander, on the trophy the post’s color guard brought home from a county meet last week. Leghm, Dkwn Corps W hi Trophies The Sundowners drum and bugle corps took a first prize trophy and $75 cash in the county A m erican Legion parade in Franklin Saturday. The local youngsters paraded at the head of the Middletown post contin gent after the county convention. 'They also paraded at Cortland Sunday for the Sixth district legion convention. The Middletown post color guard also took a first place trophy in Saturday’s parade. This is the first first place win for the color guard in the memory of present legion members. Edwin VanSteenburgh was Summer Begins N ext Thursday The summer solstice will come at 2:08 a.m. Daylight Saving Time, next week Thursday. This is the moment when the sun will have reached the niaximun distance from the equator into the northern hemisphere. Although it marks the turning point, the days will not be appreciably shorter until the first week into July. The mornings will change first, but the evenings will continue to grow longer for a moment or two until nearly two weeks after the solstice. The long days and short nights provide mountain folks with the iiest opportimity to enjoy the outdoors to the fullest. The inevitable cycle will reverse the situation in six months. D elaw are GOP M eets Saturday The Delaware county Republi can committee will hold its organizational meeting Saturday at 2 p.m. for the purpose of electing officers for the county committee. The meeting will be held a t the Delhi village hall. All incum b ents stand for re-election. Cyrus Schoonmaker is chairman; Isabelle Fenton, vice chairman; Charles Smith, secretary, and Charles Mitchell is treasurer. Members for the Sixth judicial district committee have to be designated. These committees are the 48th senatorial conunit- tee, the 27th and 32nd congress ional committees, and the 105th and 122 nd assembly committees. Each committee consists of two members. A final issue is the designation of a Republican member to the board of elutions for a term commencing Jan. 1, 1^74 until Dec. 31,1975. Reid To Be A t Democrat P arley The organization meeting of the Delaware County Demo cratic committee will be held at Walton villAge hall Saturday, June 16, at 3:30 p.m. when officers of the county committee will be elected for the next two years. Congressman Ogden Reid will be present a t the opening of the meeting to meet the members of the county committee, Demo cratic candidates and the press. M eetings End Roxbury, June 14 — The Ad ministrative board of the Rox bury United Methodist church has decided to discontinue the youth group meetings Sunday night at the fire hall. In the future if the young people are willing to meet as an organized group, the church will sponsor a youth fellowship in the church building. H e r r i c k W i n s L a n d C a s e A s T e r r y D e c b r e s L a w P a r t U n c o n s t i t u t i o n a l Everett W. Herrick of Marga retville, who had been charged with 262 violations of the state health laws in the sale of property, won a state Supreme Court victory last week, when Justice Walter L. Terry ruled that the provision on which the charges were based was uncon stitutional. Unless the state appeals and wins a reversal, the decision is expected to benefit thousands of property owners throughout the state, who have sold off parcels for recreational use. Also affected will be the Slavin family of Halcott, assessed a total of $6,150 last month in the sales of 27 parcels. Payment of the Bill It Signed A bill was signed Tuesday by Governor Rockefeller to reacti vate tho temporary Study Commission on the Catskills. The measure, which had been passed by the Legislature in the closing hours last month, contains an appropriation of $250.00 for the work of the commission. Also contained is a provision for a report to the Legislature by March 1975. R o tarians Told Of School W ork Roxbury, June 14 — The speaker at the meeting of the Rotary club of Roxbury Monday night was Mrs. Georgene Gard ner of the Manhattan Country school located on the former Slauson farm In Roxbury. Mrs. Gardner pointed out that Ihc Manhattan school is a p rivate school located in New York City and the Roxbury branch is known as the Manhattan Coun try School. T h e re are 196 students in the school, coming from all walks of life and it is fully integrated by race, color and creed. Most of the children have never been away from the city before coming to the farm in Roxbury and this is an entirely new type of existence for them. The purpose of the country school is to give the children the experience of life outside of the city. The school, which was founded in 1966, has children from the ages of four through to the eighth grade, and groups come by class to the farm and experience life under a new .setting. Coming in groups of about 18 to 21 , they live as a family on the farm, doing the chores about the place, planting gardens, taking care of the animals, feeding the live stock and cleaning chicken coops. They go on nature hikes and study wild animal life, trees and fiowers and the like. Walter Mead of Roxbury is serving on the staff and aids in the children’s training. > Slavin fines had been held up pending the outcome of the Herrick case. The sta te ’s charges w ere brought on the basis of the section of the health law that provides that any parcel of land divided into more than four pieces and sold or offered for sale must have the department’s approval of water and sewage plans. Justice Terry said that this was unconstitutional when applied to land designed for recreational purposes as the law was in ten d ^ for urban and suburban residential subdivis ions. The state went back to the 1950s and early 1960s in bringing its cases against the local residents. As many farms have gone out of dairying, Mr. Herrick has been buying land and reselling portions. Most are in the Margaretville, Fleischmanns, Arkville, Halcott and Bovina areas. Land for recreational use has been in tremendous demand since the 1950s as many m e tropolitan resid e n ts seek second homes for vacationing or hunting and fishing. Attorney Paul C. Gouldin of Binghamton, who represented Herrick, esti mated that at least 100 other persons in Delaware county have sold off more than four parcels from farm property they owned. “The construction of elaborate water works and sewage disposal plants, (on the various Herrick properties) is neither necessary for the protection of the public, not economically feasible in connection with the sale of land ffom farms of this nature (or rccrcational purposes,” Justice ferry stated in his ruling. “It is clear from all of the evidence that this is not a problem of urbanization and is not land development for resi dential dwellings,” the judge continued. “In this case, the cost of complying, as shown by the proof, is so great that the property is priced out of the m a rket. F u r th e r , the proof shows that no great public benefit can be achieved for no great public menace has been proven,” the Terry ruling said. It is not known if the state Health Department intends to appeal the Terry decision. Cyclists H u rt A New York City couple were injured Saturday when their motorcycle skidded on route 28 near the New Kingston road intersection and dumped them onto the highway. The driver, David Balgley, suffered abras ions of the left arm . His passenger, Alice Snyder, has a fractured right arm, hand and left foot. The accident was thought to be caused by a blown front tire. Lightning Havoc Affect Of Storms, Heat Feh By Electric Users elected commander of the post last week Wednesday night. Others named at the same time were Warren Moore, Darrell Atkin and Robert Burchard, vice commanders. Robert Hill was renamed treasurer, and Alfred . Mathis adjutant. The Roxbury central school hand placed second at Franklin, leading the Ralph S. Ives post, which won first prize for having the most men in line. Marching with the Roxbury band were 36 musicians, five twirlers and six in the color guard. Severe electrical storms dur ing the last week, coupled with the intense heat of this week, have put users of electricity on edge with blackouts of power. Lightning was blamed for a fire which damaged a building at Highmount ski center. The first of the storms struck at m id-afternoon last week Wednesday. A bolt of lightning from this storm hit a small building containing the lower terminal and machinery for a T-bar lift at the ski center, melting wire, electrical fixtures and entrance boxes and setting the building on fire. The fire w as' not discovered imtil the crew of a passing conservation department truck saw the building burning. Pine Hill Fire Chief Everett Goens, who works at Belleayre Mount ain ski center was notified by the crew, and he rushed to the scene, sounding the alarm over a two-way radio. Pine Hill and Fleischmanns firemen respond ed. and Margaretville was called to stand by at Fleischmanns: The small building was about 20 per cent dam a g ^ . Firemen, working through heavy showers. kept the fire in check before the building could be destroyed. Less than two hours later, lightning struck again, taking down four spans of a 12 , 000 -volt distribution line belonging to the New York S tate Electric and Gas (’orp. The break was in a remote area on Red Kill mountain, and could only be reached by an all wheel drive vehicle. When the lines fell, service was cut off to 500 users in parts of Margaretville, Arkville, Kelly C o rners, D e n v e r, Vega and Halcottville. Other parts of the area went on reduced power, and many electrical appliances had to be shut down to avoid damage from low voltage. With power off, many resi dents had to make do with cold suppers if they depended on electric ranges. Others who had camp stoves ot fireplaces impro vised meals. The entire area was shut down at 6:55 p.m. while two crews made repairs to the fallen lines, and 1,000 mwe users were without power until 9:05 p.m. when repairs were completed and electricity restored. Roxbury was without power for a time Monday, beginning shortly after noon. The trouble was caused by equipment prob lems in the tri-county substation betw een Grand Gorge and Prattsville. At the same time upstate power companies had to cut voltage by five per cent to help supply power to Consolidat ed Edison in New York city. There the heavy demand on air conditioning units had forced a voltage cut back of eight p er cent as heat soared to a record high for the date. Additional storms Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morn ing caused wavering of lights in several instances, but the power was still on a t noon. A flash flood warning was issued for the eastern Catskills last Thursday evening. In the town of Shandaken, constables maintained patrols until after midnight, keeping residents liv ing along stream banks and low lying areas advised of the situation. There were several reports of small flooding along town roads, and a landslide of mud and rocks blocked the Big Indian-Oliverea road. The debris was removed by the Ulster county highway department. A
