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GF' \\ii,n...„.,nr IIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIItlSflllllinilllMHIfMIMJIIIIIIMII . \\\\'0 | Albany County Weekly | | The Enterprise is among the oldest. | I of country weeklies, and carries news I s from half-a-hundred communities in- f I to 3,000 homes. $3.00 a year. I 7]illHlH|lllllMMIHilHMIllllllll,,llllllllllllHlimiHMimiMIIIIIIIIHMIIir«] _SEVENTY-POURTH YEAR |tpiiiiiiiiiitiniiiniiiiiitniiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiinimtitintiiniuiiiiiiiiiiiinii fj? Enterprise Ads f Our long list of advertisers speaks I | we IJ of the value of advertising in f | this paper. Use Enterprise ads t o tell' | | readers about what you have to sell. | ?| iiiiiiitiiiiMiiiniiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiitimtiiiiitiiiiiiiitiiiiiiniininniintiinfir] ALTAMONT, N. Y., ^^g^^^ 24, 1958 J10PAGES) NUMBER 28 ALTAMONT KIWANIS INSTALLS — John Ether, 1958 president of the Kiwanis Club of Altamont, re- ceives the gavel from Henry W. Martin, lieutenant governor of the Capital Division (West) of Kiwanis, at his installation Jan. 13 at the Maplewood Inn. Others in the photo are (from left): Philip Harmon, secretary- treasurer; Charles Frink, second vice president, and William R. Wands, first vice president. (Photo by Vernon Davis) EVENTS TO COME Churches, Schools, Fraternal, and Other Organizations TO PRESENT MOVIE JAN. 24 Friday, Jan. 24, at 8 p. m., \Ivan- hoe,\ a Technicolor film starring Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor, and selected shorts will be presented by the sophomore class in the Berne- Knox Central school auditorium. CARD PARTY JAN. 24 The. Altar Rosary society of St. Matthew's church, Voorheesville, will hold a card party Friday evening, Jan. -24, in the church basement. , DANCE JAN. 24 The PTA of Voorheesville Central school will 'hold a round and square dance in the school gym/on Friday,\ Jan. 24,'*fr6rri 1 to; 11 p. m. Music and calling 'by Bill \Ch&ftinV BAKE SALE JAN. 24 The women, of Onesquethaw Re- formed church will hold a bake sale at the Grand Union, Delaware Plaza, Elsmere, Friday, Jan. 24, 'beginning at 2 p. m. CARD PARTY JAN. 24 The Columbiette Auxiliary to the Rev. Joseph H. Boldt Council 3357, Knights of Columbus, Altamont, will hold a card party at the K of C Home (formerly the Sewell Estate) oppo- site La Salette Seminary, Friday, Jan. 24. Doors will open at 7 p. m. and the public is invited. GOP WOMEN TO MEET JAN. 29 The Women's Republican Club of the Town of Guilderland will meet at 8 p. m. Wednesday, Jan. 29, at the Guilderland firehall. I. R. Service Suggests 'Do It Yourself'Plan LIBRARY MEETING JAN. 29 The annual meeting of the Alta- mont Free Library association will be held at the library at 8 p. m. on Wednesday, Jan. 29. CHOWDER SALE JAN. 31 Home made clam chowder and doughnuts will'be sold by the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Guilderland Center Fire department on Friday, Jan. 31, from 2 to 5 p. m. at the Community hall, Guilderland Center. Anyone wishing to place an order call UNion 1-8882 or UNion 1-2705 by Jan. 24. DANCE FEB. 1 Lucky 13 Corral will sponsor a round and square dance Saturday, Feb. 1, from' 9 p. mtJ to 1 a. m. at Community hall, Osborne Rd., West Albany. Music by Bill Chattin. (Continued on Page 6) Turnpike BPW Unit Accepted By Federation The newly organized Turnpike Business and Professional Women's club officially was voted into member- ship in the State Federation of Busi- ness and Professional Women's clubs at the state board meeting in Utica Saturday. Mrs. Helena Grimm, District' 3 membership .chairman, pre'-. sented the new club. The club, serving women in the Westmere-Quilderland area, was spon- sored by the Albany BPW. Mrs. Jane Waldbillig Fowler, a for- mer member of the Albany club, was elected president of the group at its official organization meeting last week in the library of the Westmere school. Other officers are: Vice- presidents, Mrs. Joan Robinson, for- mer member pf the Latham club, and Mrs. Louise Burns; recording secre- tary, Mrs. Agnes Begley; correspond- ing secretary, Mrs, Helen Borden; treasurer, Miss Monica Wells. Miss Alice Blanchard, serving as\ temporary chairman, presided. The club adopted a constitution and by-, laws. Meetings will be the third Tuesday of each month, ' The charter list will be kept open until Saturday and may be signed at the home of Mrs. Burns, 1824 West- ern Ave. The Internal Revenue Service during the 1958 income tax filing sea- son is again stressing self-help as its basic theme of taxpayer assistance, local acting district director, Fulton D. Fields announced. \The self-help program has now been in effect about three years,\ the tax official said, \and we believe that more .and more taxpayers are 'becom- ing familiar with the requirements for sound preparation of Federal in- come tax returns. Essentially self- help means that taxpayers complete as much? of their returns as possible before asking help from us. Most taxpayers can dp the whole job after a careful reading^of (the form itsejf and its acGomparLyirig\' instruction booklet. ' • ' 'We'-SrV'stto goiftg -to provide help to ,1ho^«iv^A6^achiall^'.nefed' it and w^ shall again ' stress; ; dur '. iMephbrie ' as- istance program, which will enable taxpayers with a problem or two to call us for a quick answer designed to enable them to complete prepara- tion of their returns. Office as- sistance will be available where re- quired but will naturally entail con- siderably more of the taxpayer's time. I \The most important thing to the taxpayer, in preparing a return or in seeking telephone or office assistance is to have all of his 1957 - financial records in hand and to have all the necessary facts in mind. And again let us remind taxpayers that it will be much easier to prepare a return or to obtain any help needed now, early in the filing period, rather than waiting until the late stages of the season when telephone lines are jammed and offices are crowded.\ i Telephone assistance may be ob- tained by calling your local Internal Revenue Office. Issue W-2 Forms By. Jan. 31, Says Director Employers and employees are re- minded by local acting district di- rector Fulton D. Fields of the im- portance of the use of W-2 withhold- ing certificate in the proper filing of 1957 Federal income tax returns. Employers,, he points out, are obli- gated by law to furnish copies of this' for to their employees by January 31. Employees, in turn, must attach the requisite copy of the W-2 to their Form 1040 or 1040-A when filing. The tax official urged employees to prepare their returns as soon as they receive their withholding certifi- cates and to file them as soon as pos- sible thereafter. Larger employers can help by providing their workers with the W-2 form before the deadline date. The acting director also reminded employees who have worked for more than one concern during 1957-that all of the W-2's they received during the year must be included with the 1957 income tax return. In case of couples filing jointly, each of whom was employed during the year, care should be, taken that all W-2's are attaehed\ahd any change of jobs indicated. While the April 15 deadline still is in effect, early filing would prove advantageous bbth to the taxpayers and to the government, Mr. Fields indicated. 'Fireman's Life Busy One/ Say Volunteers New Pastor At 'Center' The Rev. Charles Pope will become pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran church, Guilderland Center, Feb. 1. Rev. Pope entered the ministry in 1953, his 'first Charge toeing at the Evangelical church, Hartwick Semin- ary. He* comes to Guilderland Cen- ter from Christ church, Ghent. He is married and has two daughters. Rev. Pope was born and brought up in Schenectadyjand'\was a merr^ ber of the First English Lutheran church in that city. The Pope family will move to Guilderland Center Jan. 30. With the approach of the Altamont Fire department's annual ball, it would not seem out of place to stop and think just what the boys do. Let us take* a look at a typical member of our fire department and see what he does. Every month he attends a meeting for the \transaction of ne- cessary business that every well-run organization must face as a necessary function. Two additional nights per month during a part of the year (for some six to seven months) he attends a drill lasting from three to three and a half hours. These drills are to make-him familiar with the location of the many tools used to combat fires, that are carried on the apparatus. Not only- must' he know where they a^,Aufca^?^o^^tpVMe/thern proper- ly -anSFsately^wHeii instructed to oper-: ate 6he oi th&fi at a fire. i Certain firemen are detailed every month to check. and clean the appar- atus and equipment, and that is their responsibility for a 30-day period. If they are lucky, they will only have to clean the equipment weekly — or, as sometimes happens, when the siren blows, on the return of the apparatus the members who have used it give it a wash-down and tidy up —- and then the committee men get busy and polish it up. Did you ever wash 16 pairs of boots, clean and fold 16 coats, wash one or two trucks — all after youf regular day's work? Then you go home and the little lady says, \Now what took you so long? I might as well be a fireman's widow •as a fireman's wife!\ Then there is the matter of raising funds to keep the company organiza- tion running smoothly — and that is where the fire department's annual ball comes in. Once a year our local firemen ask the support of area resi- dents for another year. They count on your support as you can count on theirs. The annual ball will be Saturday night, Feb. 22, at the Altamont Ele- mentary school — followed by \open house\ at the American Legion Hall where friends of the firemen enjoy the finest in- fellowship and refreshments. When you realize what the firemen do, when you consider the services they render — the 'cost of a three- dollar ticket to back the boys does not seem so large, does it? Al Mar- ion is in charge of ticket sales. 6 Shopping Center Leases Filed; Spring Construction Six firms planning to operate stores at the Stuyvesant Plaza shop- ping center at Western Ave. and Fuller Rd„ McKownville, have filed leases at ^fche County Clerk's office. The stores will be operated by Jesse H. Freedman (dry cleaning), Schiff's, Inc., of Cleveland (shoes), Mayer Rosenthal (gifts and cards), Rinaldi .Service, Inc., (hair dressing and slenderizing), Western Auto Supply and the W. T. Grant Co. Construction of the multi-million dollar shopping center is scheduled to begin this, spring. Ultimately 30 stores are planned for the center. Empire Markets, American Stores and the F. W* Woolwofh Co, also are expected to. operate stores there. The Grant £nd» gchiff's leases are for 15 years «ach. The others are for 10 years. . Schiff's lease wall date from May 1 .and Grant's from Aug. 1, while the other leases- start next fall. Picotte Realty, Albany, is man- aging broker for the shopping center and Carl Leftfoaiin is renting -agent., fiOP Wb0lolfet Jan, 29 The Woftiefii's; Republican CIUD of the Town of Guilderl&nd will meet & 8 d\J^%4& e # ( ^ Jto - 29 - at the Guilderland firehall. Election-bf. 6fficers will take place. Fast committee? chairmen and officers will report, -Hpsftesses will foe mem- bers of Election, District No ; 3 r with Mrs. Andrew Ulrich acting as chair- man. We Have OnSnowRenwral-But! Yes — the village of Altamont has an ordinance an lfs boofe that requires property «*jers to remove snow and other ( KrS l S? ns fro m their sidewalks — Bui IT IS NOT ENFORCED f That is about the sujn total of a conversation the effitoK-of the En- terprise) had witttaJW* Lloyd G. Briggs Wednesday/nJAt when we suggested th5t fljS Village Board crack down on snttWproterty hold- ers who sit m theifjgusei and force pedestrians to wallifii the road we got nowhere W^uggested that individual owners fjjp fail to clear walks of obstructiCOl he visited by a person hi) ed for e jw job, and told to clear their walfe 01 \ &e village would do it for thop and the am- ount would be changed to their taxes. The answff we received was: \Who will do»fte shoveling?\ In answer to this ^jupsfion, the En- terprise offered tff^publish a free \Wanted\ ad to geetaen f 0 do sho- veling work The oner was not ac- C about suits *Nn should gughwaj be- T»&5 to use. 9 be against , and not cepted. We asked the for damages if a be run down on cause there are He said such suits individual, proper . ^ the village. \How jpgSId an lnjure'd pedestrian prove tiiK^he was run down by a car iD|Ppnt of John Doe's house—or mtf it in front of Susan Roe'±> house%here ho was run down?\ Thagjfould be up to the injured persorijghe mayor re- plied. We forgot tcrjBk him Just suppose the pedesljfcn, forced to walk in the road, got himself kill- ed?\ > at Well, this gets usjowhere — as expected. Maybe thellun mil shine next week, and the idbw will me i t t WINTER IS HERE! — For more than a week this area has experienced just about everything in winter weather — heavy snowfalls, high winds with drifted roads, below-zero temperatures, and, as a climax, a heavy rain storm. In the picture above, a County Highway department Sno-Go battles its way (Monday) through 7-foot drifts in Meadowdale Road, town of Guilderland, to free 10 fam- ilies who had been snowbound since Saturday. Below, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Fryer, who operate a dairy farm, and Albert Mead, Delmar milk dealer, use a small tractor to get the Fryers' two-day accumulation of milk from the milk house to tlje road in anticipation of arrival of the Sno-Go. (Photos courtesy of Knickerbocker News) METHODIST AT MO' BURNS MAGE — lit Members of the McKownville Meth- odist church, Westawe, conducted a mortgage burning ceremony at the church Sunday afternoof f' Jhe actual mortgage, however,- w«|i5»i^|ffl«4. and the can\clle*?db^fir«^wirbe placed in the records jot 4Hfr church The church has paW toff \a $20,000 10-year mortgage at 4% percent inter- est, in approximately 3% years l - The mortgage was dated April 30, 1954, and the final payment was made Dec 2, 1957. With the mortgage money the church enlarged its land holdings by 26 acres (three acres of which were earmarked for the Thiuwa/K -With the additional land,, the church develop- ed a parking lot, a baseball-, diamond, a Boy Scout camp and a pond ' Or- iginal buildings that were on the extra acreage have been used for Sunday school rooms. Speaker at the Sunday _service was the Rev. Harold Griffis, digtrict super- intendent of the Methodist Church. Others participating in the-'..program were Fred F. Peters, vice pjfesident of National Savings Bank of $lbany, and a mernber of the Methodistjiichureh of Delmar: the Rev. Charles V$anier, pas- tor, and Harold Jonson, chairman of the drive to raise funds tojpay off the mortgage. Harry W. Albright, president of Na- tional Savings Bank, was scheduled to participate, but was absentibecause of illness. It was brought |iut at the service that Mr. Albright 'slather drew lumber for the original McKownville church built many years agpi. ' McKownville Methodist church is ob- serving Y. M. C. A. Wee£ . Sunday services on Jan. 26 will ojJ-'Jri-. charge of the young people of the church. In charge will be John Garman, president of the Senior Youth Fellovy^hip; w h 0 is also president of thevState Hi-Y organization. Other young'-.people will participate in the service. ... In Army ScItfHjl '* Charles Palombo, a 1957 : ;giraduate of Berne-Knox Central. f High.' school, is attending the Arrfijp -.Security school at Fort Deven's, Mass/..- Tenta- tive date of graduahori^s.'r'fixed at April 11. Pvt. Polombo Mi-ftien be allocated to an overseas; :':{K>sition where he will begin his i&tual prac- tical work. .; ... C In high school, Pvti •'.-Palombo served in many cl^S;'endeavors, which included W™tofc,\v : ;^tt!ering committees, and # e fc:Class ac- tivities. He was spbrte: editor;'of the B-K publication, \Static^; , '•.-. • Upon fulfilling hjs.niUj|s^ .obliga- tions he plans to enter, allege as a liberal art's major; Gh^e^fs the son of Mrs. Gordon Trotter;of: Knox and Harry Palorhb?°^T^;vwhipp. Area Sailors On Same Ship Three area sailors ,;£$&;.. serving aboard the aircraf£?& rr # R'aSdolph, which recently wasaww!g^*Sfe.'.i&S7 Battle Efficiency W Ay&MorCSafety awards for carriers, ra-rajfe',, Atlantic Fleet. ,-r.. '.^AJ.\ They are I^p c e;v$3Jfte, 3d, musician tthird .$$?• ;#h;d: Richard White, seaman •flM reI *BPg..Sdiis i of Mr. and Mrs. U^^-wlu$e,. Jr., of Coeymans, and ^H°h> Johnston, naval- airman, a.sott°^^.'ah<l' Mrs. A, J. Johnston ofWesterlp. v T , The awards were, ma HC-by• \the 6th Fleet commander ;p ^renjohies at Athens, Greece. ; ;.- ,•• t ' », D1ST. COMMITTEE ON FUTURE NEEDS REPORTS TO BOARD Carl Barney, chairman of the Guilderland Central School Future Needs Committee, recently presented the following report to the Board of Education: \This committee started work in November, 1957. Mr. Barney, chair- man of the Future Enrollment Plan- ning Committee, composed of four members of the Guilderland Central School District No. 2 Board of Edu- cation, informed us that a new fore- cast of school population was deem- ed necessary by his committee. This was felt to be required in-'recognition of the fact that there was a definite decline in expected enrollment in September, 1957. \In our study to determine the future number of pupils that would be likely to attend our schools for the next 5 years, the school census reports for the years 1953 fo 1957 were used as a yardstick. In pro- jecting these numbers, the possibility of increase or decrease of the total enrollment in our school district was studied. Facts that showed trends, which could affect these totals, were 'valuated. Diminishing or increasing actors were applied where reason Droved their proper use. \The result of this survey is an estimated enrollment for each of the years, including 1957 to 1961: .Year Grades K-6 Grades 7-12 1957 2258 1002 1958 2416 1007 1959 2474 1200 1960 2530 1292 1961 2566 1363 Rodelle Thompson, chairman of the Board of Education, accepted the re- port and Suggested that letters toe sent to the committee members thanking them for the work they did. Committee members were: Robert M. Andrews, Walter J. Bell, Howard Bramer, Arnold Davis, Walter Dietz, Robert Dillenbeck, Willard Ebert, Henry Flanagan, Allen Fisher, John Havern, Albert King, Marvin Knoll, Conrad Loeber, Mrs. Floyd McCar- ville, Joseph Preslick, Eric Rasmus- sen, Kenneth Sebast, Kenneth Smead, R. H. Spray, and Justin Tiernan. Fairs Convention In iCo, March of Dimes Fort Hunter PTA Holds Workshop Program The men and women who operate the fairs of New York state are con- /'Dimes verging on Albany Jan. 27 and 28 for their 70th annual winter meeting. New program ideas await the con- ventioning fair people, said President George G. Sipprell who represents the big Erie County Fair at Ham- burg. Program speakers have been abolished in favor of panels which will weigh some of the most complex- problems facing the fairs. Another new feature of this meet- ing of the New York State Associa- tion of Agricultural Fairs will be Sheraton-Ten Eyck Hotel main ball- room exhibits by as many fairs as care to participate, according to Executive Secretary James A. Carey. Mr. Carey is also the Agricultural Fairs representative in the Depart- ment of Agriculture and Markets. State Agriculture Commissioner Daniel J. Carey will welcome the visiting fair officials. All sessions of the convention ar,e scheduled for the ballroom floor but scores of rooms on other floors will display fair posters, pictures of the 1958 grand- stand attractions, concession samples and will be the scenes of many mid- way and thrill sho\V contract sign- ing's. Panel topics include new ideas for manning the fairgrounds gates, new uses for the time honored premium book, pass situation, year around use of the fairgrounds, the question of sufficiency pf premium awards for exhibitors' and the fairs' roles in the lives of tlieir communities. Leading figures in the state ad- ministration have been invited to join the fair people at the dinner which climaxes the two-day conven- tion. Grandstand acts will be pre- sented indoors as one of the featured attractions at the annual dinner. More than 400 persons are expected to attend. _-3>he Tott'fc-'Huikdr- STAJ. *ie\4»« B./ ^ workshop program on \Parent-Child Relationship\ .at its regular-meeting Jan, 13. Foife discussion. <grpjups were led by Mrs. Anthony Bifflto, Mrs. HaroM-^'EgneH, Mrs. .fames Hendricks, and Mrs. Anne McCarthy. Special consultants on \Discipline RECORD HOP TONIGHT The sophomore class of Greenville Central High school will present a record hop tonight at 8 o'clock, fea- turing Bill Pope, disc jockey on station WABY. The dance will be held at the school. Infantile Paralysis. Although the figure is lower than the 1957 total at the halfway period, Mr. McEnaney said he was confident the goal would be reached when all contributions are in. \But it will require the assistance of everyone in the county, as in past years,\ he said. Collection boxes which have been placed in stores throughout the county wiil be brought in by authorized mem- bers of volunteer committees in the last week in January. Although no house-to-house canvass is authorized in the city of Albany, more than 1.200 volunteers are taking part in canvasses in suburban com- munities. National goal is S44.900.000 which will be used for rehabilitation of polio victims, training of personnel, research and promotion of Salk vaccine shots, especially for adults. County Gets State Aid A S118.515.030 payment of state aid 'for education now is being dis- tributed to the localities. State Comp- troller Arthur Levitt has announced. Albanv county's share of the dis- tribution is SI,696,055. New York city and four other so- called deferred payment cities are re- ceiving a total of $36,491,000 which represents the first payment of state assistance due them for the 1956-57 school year. The apportionment to the other cities and villages totals $36,044,000. Supervisory districts are receiving a total of S45.980.030. The payment to these cities, villages and super- visory districts represents the second quarter of state aid due them on the basis of statistics for their 1956-57 school years. \ Today's forgotten man: The guy who stopped advertising yesterday. JOIN THE MARCH OF DIMES \Development of Good Study Habits,' \•Health and Mental Attitudes,\ \Par- ent and Child Relations,\ included Marvin Washburn, principal of Fort Hunter school; Dr. George Foote, State Education department; Morris Miller, principal of Mohawk school; Clayton Campbell, psychologist, Guil- derland school system, and Albert Ashworth, head of junior high school English of Guilderland school system. At the close of the individual ses- sion the groups reconvened to hear resumes of the discussions. Report- ers were Mrs. John Burns, Mrs. Robert Jacob, Mrs. Adele McCoy and Andrew DiMartino. During the business meeting it was announced that curtains purchased with PTA funds were installed in the classrooms. Andrew DiMartino, presi- dent, also announced that Feb. 23, Heart Sunday, should have the full support of the entire community and asked that volunteers contact Mrs. Regina DiMartino, chairman for the Fort Hunter area, to aid in the drive. Also mentioned at the meeting was Principal Washburn's intention to- in- rite other schools in the Guilderland district to participate in the dance classes being held for adults and chil- dren at the Fort Hunter school. The problem of classroom housing was 'brought up and Andrew DiMar- tino requested all parents to carefully consider the material issued on this subject and to contact the office of Mr. Washburn, principal; or the Board of Education of the Guilder- land Central schools, to give them the benefit of all thoughts, ideas and questions. The Fort Hunter group is planning a minstrel to be presented in the spring. The subject for the next meeting is \Maybe Delinquency Isn't the Right Word.\ Second grade mothers served re- freshments after the meeting, under the direction of Mrs. Anzio Palazini and Mrs. ilichard Barnett.. Webster Birdsall Named President of Farm Group Webster- J. Birdsall of North Chatham, long identified with ^the Department of Agriculture and Mar- kets, is the new president of the New York State Agricultural society. He was elected at the 126th annual meet- ing in Albany on Jan. 15. Mr. Birdsall was with the State Department of Agriculture 36 years, 21 of them as director of the former Bureau of Markets. He retired' in 1954 to accept a post in Israel '^vith the Research Foundation of the State University of New York. His work with the Israel minister of 'agricul- ture was interrupted by the &\xeZ crisis 'during which he was sent; to. Rome and Ethiopia before completing his tour of duty abroad. Birdsall succeeds Warren W, Hawr^ ley* Jf.-,...of Batavia, Wip/ had? seW^d. -the traditional two 'terms .'$!?• \pfti&i- dent of the ancient society. •
