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SIX SULLIVAN COUNTY RECORD—JE^FBRSONVBLLE, N. Y. THURSDAY, DEC!Irtv, IMW Et 25, 1952 FARM BUREAU ADVISES FARMERS TO DELAY 1953 TRUCK LICENSE PURCHASE Don't buy your 1953 license un til Jan. 31 — the end of the ex piration period on current license places, according to the New York State Farm Bureau Federation’s message to Robert Mahy, chairman of Sullivan County Farm Bureau. E. S. Foster, general secretary NYS Farm Bureau, says farmers are so advised because the Farm Bureau and other farm organiza tions are attempting to have the Vehicle and Traffic Law amended by Feb. 1. The truck licensing plan for 1953 has increased the cost of licensing farm trucks over and a- bove the increased 1953 costs. New regulations issued Nov. 1 by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles es tablished minimum gross weights at which motor trucks must be li censed with no provision or relief for farm trucks. Under the new Bureau regula tions farmers will have to pay an average of $30 more for license fees than they did in 1951. That in cludes the $7.50 increase for 1953 registration (necessitated by the new truck licensing plan) and the $22.50 increase for 1952 for the av erage farm truck (under revision of the truck licensing plan by the Legislature in 1951.) These figures ' were arrived at from the average gross weight of farm trucks in the Farm Bureau’s survey in the fall of 1951. They show that the average farm truck has a gross weight of 12,437 lbs. The Bureau’s minimum gross weight on this average truck is 13,956 pounds, or an increase of 1,519 pounds. “In our opinion,” says Foster, “the policy should be firmly fixed by the Legislature and not left to the discretion of the executive branch of government.” “In many cases the minimum weights for licensing purposes es tablished by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles are in excess of the gross weights that will be transported. This means either the payment of excessive license fees or filing ap peals with the bureau. Farmers do not like such arbitrary action and red tape. The Legislature should determine licensing policies and makes those policies stick.” Mr. Many says that th e Farm Bureau and the New York State Conference Board of Farm Organ izations had originally called for amendment of the Vehicle and Traf fic Law to permit farmers to reg ister their trucks at a rate some what lower than the commercial rate^ of 50 cents per hundredweight on gross weight (the weight of the truck unladen plus the weight of the maximum load.) Governor Dewey vetoed the Man ning Bill last year. This bill would have provided for licensing farm trucks at one-half the 50-cent rate of 25 cents per hundredweight on gross weight. CARL MELTZER, BOY SCOUT WORKER, GUEST OF HONOR ON CJLS. TELEVISION SHOW Local residents who tuned in on CBS—Channel 2 were startled a week ago Thursday morning to see Mr. and Mrs. Morris Rattner and their children, Roger and Ronnie and dog Chippie on the program, “There’s One in Every Family.” The guest of honor was Mrs. Rattner’s brother, Carl .Meltzer of Middle town, formerly of Liberty. It seems that’little Ronnie with the assistance of her mother wrote a letter to the sponsors of the pro gram telling of Carl’s work and travels with Boy Scouts of Orange Sullivan Council for the past 22 years. Two days later, on Wednes day afternoon, Mrs. Rattner an swered the telephone. When she was told that John Melnick of CBS was calling she thought it was a business call and referred him to Mr. Rattner’s office. Mr. Melnick re plied that he wished to speak to her and said they had found Ron nie’s letter concerning her Uncle Carl of great interest and would like Carl and his family to be at the Biltmore Theatre in New York the following morning. After phon ing back and forth the arrange ments were completed and they ap peared on the program. With John Reed King as master of ceremonies, Carl and his family, the Rattners, were introduced to the studio and the TV audience and were questioned concerning Carl’s work with Boy Scouts? The ques tions revealed that Carl had exer cised a great influence for good among the boys in the Orange-Sul- livan Council as well as boys in other parts of the world for which he has received the “Silver Beaver,” Scouting's highest reward. Prize questions were then asked and re sulted in Carl winning $70, Mrs. Rattner a vacuum cleaner, Ronnie a tricycle and Roger an airplane. Mr. Rattner would have gotten a prize but Carl muffed his question which was, “How many hundreds ?” “Into the valley of death rode the ----- hundred.” Carl an swered 400. He was just 200 short and Mr. Rattner went home empty handed. Among those who enjoyed watch ing the television was Carl’s mother, Mrs. Rachel Meltzer, who is critically ill. former P.O.W.’s of the Japanese, maltreatment awards at the rate of one dollar per day may be .paid in a lump sum and such payments shall include any benefit for which the recipients may be eligible pur suant to article 10 of the Treaty With Japan. Former P.O.W.’s in the European Theatre who were in direct custody of members of such organizations as the SS, SD, Ges tapo and Leadership Corps, . and who were held 14 days or more, will be awarded one dollar per day for each day o f custody, but should such custody have been less than 14 days any award on per diem basis shall be within the discre tion of the War Claims Commis sion. For further details, contact the Veterans’ Service Agency, Mon ticello, N. Y. $2,258,968 BUDGET FOR SULLIVAN COUNTY ADOPTED The Board of Supervisors in ses sion late Wednesday afternoon of last week adopted a $2,258,968 budg et for Sullivan County for the com ing year. The tentative budget, on which a public hearing was held earlier on Wednesday, was $2,237,- 868. The budget was passed unani mously. However, taxes will be lowered this year for the first time since the war years, due to an $11,- 000,000 assessed valuation increase in the county. Salary increases of $200 a year were granted to the sheriff, com missioner of jurors, sealer of weights and measures, county his- * torian and county attorney. In creases of $100 a year were given to the court house custodian and to the director of the photostat de- partment, At an earlier meeting raises had been granted to the county clerk, county treasurer, com missioner of public welfare and dis trict attorney. The increase to Dis trict Attorney Newberg was $1,000 and his salary is now $5,000 a year. The budget submitted by Mr. Armstrong had anticipated reven ues of $964,200. The budget officer excluded an item of $75,000 antici pated revenue due the county for welfare reimbursement from the state and federal governments, which the Supervisors Finance Committe placed in the budget. Mr. Armstring noted Wednesday that the $75,000 was included in antici pated revenues for the various wel fare categories in 1953. The total in an categories of wel fare was $728,010 compared to $655,- 460 a year ago. This includes wel fare departmental expenses and salaries, Homer Folks Hospital, old1 age pensions, aid to dependent chil dren, assistance to the blind, aid to the disabled, hospital care and board of inmates. s Principal increases were from $325,000 to $350,000 in old age as sistance, from $90,000 .to $100,000 for aid to dependent children, from $36,000 to $65,OOO in aid to the dis abled and from $81,500 to $90,700 in hospital care. There was a drop from $20,000 to $10,000 in the board of inmates items. TELEPHONE FIRM LUNCHEON HONORS CAREFUL WORKERS Installer-repairmen and central office employees of the New York Telephone Company who during a year’s employment had no report- able industrial accidents, personal or .vehicular, were luncheon guests of the company Wednesday of last week at the Lenape. They were F. P. Gallagher, Kenneth Baxter, Har ry Krom, Albert Milliott, Harold Ray, Andrew Smith, Wallace Reed, and Bruno Strini, M. E. Estes, Har ry Sniffen, Walter Hudler, Henry Wallace, Jerry Koodford, Earl Ham ilton, William Kitz, Albert Mtichell, Ralph Carhart, R. Doyle, E. Fuchs, A. Harris, Joseph Kelly, Henry Roemer, William Smith, Richard At kins, Robert Kelly, Walter Cole, Lawrence Prince, Kenneth Storer, Robert Nolan, Clayton Hallenbeck, William Kespert, Herman Bressler, Bud Cooper, C. Knoll and Wendell Ormiston. Guest visitors were Day ton Garlick of Kingston, Donald Gillen and Harry Corr of Albany. Portugal is the world’s principal cork producer. BEST BOWLING IN TOWN! Boost your scores with our S o M W A lv ic k * R A N G E - F I N D E R CANADIAN VETERANS HAVE BENEFITS AWAITING THEM American citizens who . were pris oners of war while serving with the Canadian Armed Forces during World War II are eligible for cer tain war claims payments provided for and administered by the Can adian government, according to an announcement made* today by St^te Veteran Counselor Glenn Young and Director Blake McCul lough of the local Veterans’ Serv ice Agency. Mr. McCullough said that payments will be made for death, personal injury, and mal treatment, and in some instances survivors may be eligible for the benefits in case of the death of the prisoner of war. Counselor Young said that maltreatment claims will be considered by the Canadian War Claims Commission according to the “theatre of war” in which the prisoner was held. 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S c f e ic U M & S c h n i d t , Of~ ' ■ * h ■ %* ; J t * | / w v * ■*«* > A i/ * * w s m :. to all of you, our friends and neighbors, from all of us at the bank. We wish you a happy Christinas —and a new year to match it! •r * T h e F i r s t N a t io n a l B a n k O F J E F F E R S O N V I L L E M e m b e r F e d e r a l R e serve. S y stem M e m b e r F D I C
