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\f-^fiy.-limvi -an WWHJlOl'i j^,jp^jNWP*'')»l\ij)];iWWril|jljl Welcome, Visitors .adies from New England, lochester Family Winners )f Free Courtesy Prizes teachers ro Study jOcalpchq6ls Some 100 school superintend £ts, principals, teachers and irriculum coordinators will 3 in Massena Thursday for, a ise study -of-Massena Central chools. ' They are participating in a iree-day Curriculum Corifer- nce-being-held^-Potsdam tate University College of Ed- cation starting Wednesday. Here in Massena Thursday 0 group will hear Walter S. /ilspn, superintendent of Aools, speak on \The Mas- iria Story.\ Miss Louise Reese lementary .supervisor, will iscuss \Neighbor Ifo od choolV - Miss Dorothy Halt, anior high principal will talk n \The Little School in Juni ': ligh.\ Harley Dingham, high chool \principal will speak on The School Within a School.\ Wter the lour of the Mas- ena school facilities, the cm- erence participants will'meet a the afternoon in special in- erest groups. — - •-.-• In. one group William Stev- nson and Hilda Leonard, Lit- le School coordinators, will [iscuss \The Little School — Jurriculum, and Guidance.\* In notherr-Louise-^-Reese—ahd 'ancipat-of—the-JttghtingaleL £?mentary School Berna.Boy- ey will treat \The. Elementary \urriculum.\ -Berethy Hall and Coordinar or Mary Quenelle will speak in \The JunioLHigh.. School Curriculum\ in another group yhile Harley 'Scott, assistant mncipal of the senior high ichoorand—Jack-Horanr IBM- Supervisor, will talk on \Sched- jf)ig and Data Processing.\ Sa'rley \'\D'ihgman and James l,ong, director of athletics, will ;peak in another group on \Go- jurricuiar Activities:'*' — Later they will tour the St, Lawrence Seaway and PoweT Developments. V .' Speaker at the opening din- ner -Wednesday night at Pots- dam will be Dr. William Van ril, chairman of the Depart- n#nt of Secondary Education at New Yorlsf^ate., , Thursday ^evftStng, /main speaker at the dinner meeting will be Dr. Arthur W. Foshay, president of the National Asso- ciation for—Supervision and Curriculum Development. The conference will close With a. conference summary Friday night with' Dr. Alfred TJ|atchj«Vjdean of the college a\at PotSdahTSUCE, as ispeak-: Seaway Closed ByTo^Monday 77 ^ Brothers Service Station, 41 Maple^t^dinneiLj^Jhe Via Main Restaurant, Main St.','arid tickets -if or the Par 57 minia- ture golf_ course and the Grasse River- Boat: TourH—-- They said they \had read of the Seaway, and Power Devel- opment in the National Geo- graphic Magazine and other travel articles and were anjc- TbTis-io^ee^Hn^pe^tiqnr- 4 very pretty t mented, about TBe~pea=soup^fog-which-cov^ ej^d the Massena area early Mraiday morning halted traf- fic movements on trie U.S. sec- tion of the Seaway more than six hours;—.— r ~ -. All ship-movfement was stop- ped between 4 and 10:30 in the morning. One vessel, the 717- foot-Seaway Queen, was ber tween the, two locks during that period while a\ few others skp were tied up in this area until the fog lifted. \ ^bfesBuaRfis&meB.—of Tomorrow . . Observer Carrier Boys — 1 76 Strong ' And they're, bright busi- nessmen of Today too! They Ifciow.initiative, intelligent ^anibitionT^driverrandva will- ing ability to help alnhe different people on their in- dividual paper routes. What can you do for the energetic youth who deliv- ers your Observer? Please always have your change 4 ::re »dyif©feW3ltojuda^sJie_Js_ to be paidv If you-are-going •vay for a week or so, no : tify-your paper-boy, Observer office. If he isn't leaving it where-you wish ' how, speak to him when he visits your home, or call The Observer and tell us. We are sure he'll be happy to leave your paper wjherejou request. \Neither ^snow, nor rain, ifcor heat, nor gloom of night, stays these .couriers • from the swift completion of • their appointed rounds.'' Like the faaillttan, TfltfOb-|f server Carrier Boy does his job no Witter What the elements. A carload of ladies^, from Massachusetts arid Connecti- cut and a family from Roches- ter Friday were picked as win- ner's of the \Free 24 Hours in Massena\ program'. The program is operated by the Massena Junior Chamber of Commerge in conjunction with the Massena Motel-Hotel Association, the Massena' Tour- 'istHomes Association, and oth- er local businesses^ and tourist attractions. _, __ Two groups of ''touristsl'aisr selected-each'Friday andoffer- ed free lodging for the night, gasoline, dinner and tickets J&. various local attractitfri's \and events. •'*•\.. First winners selected \Fri : day were Mr. and Mrs. Michael Cantisano and children, Mich- ael Jr., and Barbara, 1131 Britton lid.! Rochester, N. Y., who are on their annual va- cation. - They said they heard- of Massena and the. St. Lawrence Development from. Jriends who urged them . to make a stop in Massena as part of their vacation trip. They received lodging at Storie's Village Motel, five gallons of gasoline at the Shell Service Station, N. Main .St., and ticKets..for Seaway Kiddie- land alia-the Power City Bus Line tour of the project. the New England party was composed of Miss Beth Taylor and jMrs. E. Taylor, both of Daribury, Conn., Miss Agnes Svenson and Mrs. Malcolm Stearns, both of Greenfield, /lass. The ladies, were sent to the Warren Pike Tourist Home, 53 Maple St., received five gal- lons of\ gasoline free at Marth, stei ConVem '\ i IS W-'X- '- The American Foresters will hold session ^here —Tl Friday, Sept. 15 Richard Lea, forlster forth* Diamond National Corp., Og- densburg, is in charge of ar- rangements and was in Mas- sena rasTTweek^pfanning the convention. Between 100'and 150 pro- fessional foresters will attend the two-day meeting. Conven- tion headquarters will be the. • MASSENA. Established Dec. 2,1?91 Massena's Oldest Industry VACATIONLAND Volume 69 — Issue 4933 - Second Clau .Poatiro Paid at Maaaena. N. Y. Massena, New York, Tuesday, July 19, 1960 ^^^TuXL^^ 10 Cents a Copy At United Nations Persell \ Attending Pilgrimage William Persell.sori of the Rev. and Mrs. Charles Bowen Persell Jr., 145 Main St., left Sunday for New York City to attend-the 11th. annual- Pil- grimage\ for Youth to theUnit- ed Nations. 1 „_. _'._ He' is the representative of St. Lawrence Lodge 882,; Odd Fellows, and St. Lawrence Re- bekah Lodge? 348, both-of Mas- sena, Willard Dewey is chait man of the-committee for the two lodges, Mi-7 Persell, who will be a senior at Massena High School in September, returned last week after attending Boys' State at Colgate University as representative of American Legion Post 79. In New York ~City~Mr. 'Per- sell is staying in the heart of the city at the Sheraton-Atl&n- tid Hotel. Meals are.eaten? in the UN delegates' dining room, Sloane House YMCA, the Auto- mat, International House and other interesting eating places. Main purpose' of the Pilgrim- -age-4s~for^the~youths to get. a 1irsthand^k»ok—at—how the United Nations functions. While there Mr. Persell will see councils and commissions Highland Hotel where a .ban quet will be held-the night of Sept. 15: Speakers for the ban- quet will be hsted later. \^heme of the convention is ,'Fprest Production Manage-^ ment and Forest Recreation Management Through Proper. Use of Forest Preserves.\ Electrical Group r tours J*roject Seventeen members of Elec- tromode: Corp, with its.. main office in Rochester toured the St. Lawrence Seaway and Pow- er Development Monday. The firm had^ charge of the heating units for the power dam~and~U:S: IdcksTT Heading the group is El- bert E, Karns head of the Western- F.armers Electrial Co- operative in Oklahoma. of the UniteerNaiions in-aefaen- at the permanent headquarters building. He will be instructed^ with charts and diagrams about the 82-nation UN and theJnterjrelation of^its various parts and agencies. ; Mr, Persell and. the other delegates will actually sit in council chambers and will have interviews with delega- jtiojL representatives from var- »us member nations anoTvis|t 'some of the national secretar- ies in their respective head- quarters. Sehopl Census |$ Underway In Massena • Walter-S.-Wirson, superin. terident of.Masserta Central School District No. 1, announc- ed today that a school census is_ being taken. Census takers are Daniel GT McCbrmickr William L^-Step- ~ Hol- henspn ajid Charles t O landT^ •\'\\' The New York State Educa-' tion Law provides that an an- nual <schoorcensus, to include all minors between birth and 18 years otage, must be .token in each school district outside\ of cities. The law further pro- vides that each school district must ascertain the number of physically aid mentally handi- capped children^ in the district underJthe age of 21 years. ~ Mr.^Wilson indicated -that the accuracy of this school census depends in large part upon the cooperation of the resideritTofthe sthoolTdistrietr He pointed out that.the infor- mation asked for by the census takers is required in reports to be made, to the State Educa- tion Department. \A census is indespensible to good. school administration. Census infor- ination4s-used- by school offi- cial, in planning the educa- tional program for the chil- dren residing in the school dis- trict,\ he added. Village Inn Struck By Lightning Bolt; 5 Persons Flee Fire A two-alarm fire- gutted the kitchen and damaged the main dining room of the Village Inn while \three persons escaped from the second story by ladder at 11:35 Monday ^night during an elec- trical storm, • \\•\'•'\':' ,_ .\\\•-' Mrs; Mabel Cecotjhenon Daniel 4, 1 and. Miss Josephine Ok- JAMBOREE BOUND. Six Massena and two Waddington Boy Scouts left by train yesterday from Cornwall for the Boy Scout National Jamboree at Colorado Springs. Front row are Steve Ehle, First Class Scout; Peter Persell, First Class Scout, Mike Ingram, patrol leader, Eagle: Scout Bill Crapser. Second row: Eagle Scout Dan DeMarino, Wadding- ton Scouts Russell Strait and Joel Howard, Scout Marty Nightingale of Massena, ; Chamber Brief Protests Hearings oh New Flight The Massena Chamber of Commerce -has filed a^strong, brief with the, Civil Aeronau- tics Board taking exception to the initial decision 'of Exami- ner John A. Cannon on the Pittsburgh-Syracuse case, TheamtiaLdejasiMjsaidJthat \Mohawk Airlines'be\ author ized to provide service over a new segment between the co- ternimal points Watertown and Ogdensburg-Massena,' the intermediate points Utica, Syr- acuse, Ithaca and Elmira-and the terminal , point Pitts- burgh.\ ; . ' The Chamber brid| argues that Eastern\ Airhnei* which ^services Massena, would be authorized to provide the serv- ice, ' —:_. . ... Both the village board and the town board have passed resolutions backing the Cham- ber brief, which is submitted by Willis erosswhiter^chair- man^f-the^AJdationjtiMLTrans^ portation Committee. \ The brief joints out: 1. Massena, and only Mas- sena in the upstate New York area north of Syracuse, has, and in the future will have, a strong community of interest Ba^^o^Bea13s-\ Directors Of Safety Albany—A new chairman of the—group-of—safety- directors who supervise the annual statewide industrial accident prevention campaign\ has been -announced by Joseph R. Shaw, president of Associated Indus- tries of New York State; ln'cv. He is Claude\TrBardo safe- ty-director~oLthe Massena Fabi ricatirig IVdrks of Aluminum Company of America. As head of the 22-man com- mittee of industrial safety ex- perts he succeeds Clifford F. Burris, ^manager of safety and security services of Interna- tional Business Machines, En- dicotfeHMrvjBurris^Jhas become the committee's first chairman emeritus.. W.-Eugene Stuffing, Carrier Corporation's director of safe- ty,' has been named to the new- iy -, created post of vicechair- man of the statewide safety committee. J^ ''^L-_ Mr. Stuffing's responsibat ties will^ include the planning and general direction of the in- dustrial-safety— campaign-con THE MASSENA. LIONS CLUB at it8 Weekly meating July 13 heard Mourad Basinajian of Massena tell of the training of the blind. Mr. Basmajian, left, who has been blind peveral . , years, i#,emBip»ed4nibe darkroom of theiX-r»y division at ° Massena STe'nic^ Ho>pital. W^ him* right iiFtancis ._ 7 ^tneiMj|(|uia Litjiyflfclub. ducted during the fttst quarter of each year under .the spon- sorship of Associated Indus- tries of New York State, IncT ( Mr. Bardp will have overall responsibility for the Associa- tion's expanded safety pro- gram - of industrialr;,safety which will include legislative service and other forms of as- sistance to industry for further advancement of on-the safety. Mr. Bardo has been safety director at Alcoa's Massena Works since 1943 and a mem' ber of the Associated Indus- tries' committee since 1950. He is a member 'of the Central New York Chapter of Amcri-. can Society -of-Safety Engi- with Pittsburgh. * -2._EulfiHmen]L of Massena's requirements is possible only by service at the Massena air- port and is impossible by serv- ice at any other airport.. Mo- hawk Airlines' closest termi- nal jpointisjn Ogdensburg. . 1 3. The !HF w c![rTleT7nW\\BeTV^ ing Massena,\ Eastern, Ms the sole carrier ready, willing and eminently able to-fulfill that requirement with no appreci- able: increase^in plant ecfuip- ment and personnel. 4, Authorization of a second csrirrjt to operate at Massena for the fulfulffient of this .J- quirement would not only pro- vide an inferior meeting of the_.Massena - Pittsburgh re- quirement, but would also ser- iously inii>air-the other exist- ing air services now available in Massena. • * • \It must be reiterated that in no way can service to or froffl OiaenSburg~be 'cbnstrueid asservice4o-or from^hssena^ the brief- contends. \Ogdens- burg service is. hot and can- not be remotely considered as Massena service.\ Further, the brief states, Mo- hawk has made \what can best be described as merely desul- tory approaches L toT^ssena relative to the services it mighTprovide It has been pointed out in earlier briefs that Masseria's strong community Qf interest with Pittsburgh is that the main offices of the Aluminum Conipany oF America are in Pittsburgh and one of its plants, the Massena Operations Qf-AleoaHsHocated-hereT Walkout Averted by Agreement A' threatened walk-out by employes in the potrooms at the Massena Operations of Al- coa, originally scheduled for, ; Friday night, was averted on Thursday ~ by an agreeihent reached by the company _and Lbcar420^1uminum\Wbrkers International Union. The dispute arose over the number of pots the men were being asked to care for. Daniel Cuglar, business agent of the union, said after the agree- ment Jhat-\the _settlemeht_jof Hevhrtes-a f -very tense situation, circumstances over which the union had no coriTrot? Mr. Cuglar, explaining the agreement, said: \Local management agreed to immediately start the re- mainder ofJPotline 5-C\ with the same complement of em- pjoyes as Potline 4-C with an assignment of 14^pots per man jbn three sections and' 15 pots [ne ^.^per man on two sections, in- \3° b ||tead of the present disputed assignment of 18 pots per man. \They further agreed to fur- nish an additional tapper im- mediately for F^tlme 5-C, mak- ing a total of tour tappers per line or two ptf rbom in Line 5rC. We were Beni«d the fiftljf or cross-over neers and Veterans of Safet#**-C.\ 4---- ipper for Line BoySeoutj^^ Leave for Jamboree Eight Massena and area Boy Scouts lef-Uiy^ train from Cornwall, Ont. at 4:50 Monday afternoon on the first leg of their trip to the Boy Scout Na- tfnnal .Tamhoree- at Colorado Springs, opening this week. They are members of ,the Eagle-PatroLwhich consists^oi Mike Ingram,. patrol leader; Danny DeMarino, assistant pa- trol leader^ First Class Scout Steven Ehle-, \First Class ^cout Peter Persell, all of Massena, and First Class Scout Russell Strait and'First CJass Scout Joe Howard, both of-Wadding- ton,,Bih\ Crapser and Mostly \Ightingaleralso of Massena. Reporting oh the ..highlights of the\ iafmboree for The Ob- server will ber Scout Strait, sort of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell R. Strait, Waddington and a stu- dent at Madrid - Waddington Central SchooL . > • Praised By Readers _. ? Plaudits continue to come in- to The Observer about the new Mrs. Gecot had high praise for-the Massena firemen for their quick respense. She said as soon as she and the other two persons had reaenea tne sun deck roof, she coiild hear the \sirens\on3B5~MassEna=^fire- IruckT Assistant Chiefs Clifford Weegar. and Howard Brouse and -Volunteer- Fireman—John - Sed- lock\ helped the trio from the first floor sun deck roof to the zewsji, 63, were brought down a ladder by Massena firemen, Mrs. Cecot had led her daughter Katherine, 8, and the youngster's neighbor friend, Sandra Sheets, 10 outside the building. . She told an Observer report- er that she, her two children and the Sheets youngster - and JMissjOyj2§g^kijyere lasleep in the—Gecot' family\ apartments^ The Village Inn is not tipen on Mondays. Mrs. Cecot said she was awakened- by a loud clap of thunder during the peak of the storm. She went downstairs to investigate arid found the kitch- en ablaze. She used two fire ex- tinguishers in a vain attempt to put ©ut'1;he fire, the'H called the Massena Fire \Department. She then rushed back upstairs to awaken the others. By that time smoke had-filled the first floor. The trio made their way to the sun deck roof at the east side of the structure. Firemen Praised C ground. Massena firemen used two' trucks.and a tanker-Jo combat the blaze. The\Louisville Fire- Department sent, a truck and a tankerr Norfolk- Eire Depart^- ment sent a tanker. Booster hoses were used. Water pumps were pressed into action and \ flood- lights were- set up.- \ Owner At Work Andrew Cecot Jr., owner.and proprietor, was at work at the time at Andy's-news stand about a half mile, away on Route 37. Andrew Cecot Sr., who lives. at the Village Inn, had left Monday morning to take Sister Cathilda and companion,. Sister Leonida, back to Villa Main in Buffalo. Sister Cathilda is a' \sister of Mr. Cecot Sr. The nuns were guests of the Cecots dur- ing the past week. - • The bolt of lightning followed the wire from ' the roof down along the kitchen wall. The. building was charred around' the-wirei=The=^reas£c, ; hr: dtfc French .friers ignited. Heavy smolte billowed throughout the two^story structure. JFiremen used-heavy jexh_aust_ fans_. near _„_ the doors of .the building in try- ~^ ing to clear out the smoke. Boy Scouts from all parts of St. Lawrence County will con- verge on Massena Friday^ July 22, as St. Lawrence County Council holds its \Jubilee Camporee\ marking the 50th anniversary of —Scouting in America. ._. _ _ _ ^ _ , Carl L^ Kessler of Massena, SSSk^^^ Dr. John Wilde, local op- tometrist, commented, \Any- thing that makes reading eas- ier is beneficial—and this cer- tainly does. that between 600 and 650 Scouts will attend: The start of the Camporee coincides with the start of the National Jamboree being held The Observer stories weTe+at.Colorado Springs July 22-28. formerly set in 7Vz point type buOasTwSek we shifted over ta_thg>Jarger, clearer 9-pOint Conma type. William Coventry, executive vicepresident of the Massena Chamber of Comriierce, called the change \excellent\' \I've always read The Observer with great intefestr^Nbw this new type not only makes the paper jB.oreJegible.but gives it a-big- town atmosphere.,\- •-' Here are just a few of the other comments we're received about the^ new type: \Thejiew type makes it such a pleasure for all the family \to -read, The Observer. Thank you for the improvement.\ ^^'4~^thmlrTts=quite:-an im- provement; much easier to read. The Observer is to be congratulated.\ ; \I certainly like your change to the new type. I'm sure your other readers will\ agree with me that it's much easier to read\ „-. •* \__ ( ^ St. Lawrence Advis6rv Board Names Spokesman Advisory board ofrthe-Str ^Lawrence Seaway Development elected The Camp6ree\site will be at the Long Sault Overlook-along- Lake St. Lawrence. Volunteer wOTklHreTiaWWeTralrirark^ weeks turning the site into an. at the sound of \Taps\ at 10 p.m. • \• - . : z, __-j\-_bjisy__scheduIe on Satur- day 'Will open with reveille at 7 a.m., followed by breakfast : between 7:30 and 8:30. ^J A Conservation Department exhibit will be presented in the morning between 9 and 10:30 :. and will include__demonstfa^rr tions on -forest and /wildlife conservation and how to. fire, < handle,-maintain—and-clean-— rifles. • Units 1 will also have exhibits ion dispia^duringi;he~TTioTning;— Saturday afternoon there wHt-be-a-rest--period—of-one—^ hour and a patrol \challenge . excellent camp ground \Everybody has been grand,\ \commented Mr. Kes- sler about the* cooperation he. has received from local volun- teers and businessmen. -The-schedule-ealls - f or the- sen t a-skit. Scouts, who will sleep iif tents, to check in at the camp site between 3 and 8:30 Friday cf- ternooa and evenings. • Highlight of Friday evening -will be- a tdur of the Moses.- Saunders Power Dam ^ by the Scouts and leaders. The Scouts will walk-front T the^camping- area, across Long Sault Dam to Barnhart Island, then along the dike~to- the power dam, a distance of five miles each way. The tired Scouts will turn in Corporation - elected Hugh - ; Moore as a spokesman for the. purpose\ of contact and deal-1 ings betweeiiPthe corporation •arid-members of the board at. the recent board meeting in Massena. • .. - Under the law setting up the St. Lawrence Seaway Develop- ment Corporation the advisory board can meet officially only at-the^xalLoUhe administra^ tor or acting administrator The administrator or' acting; administrator presides at the; advisory board meetings. j Mr. Moore does not succeed the late Lewis*G. Castle admin- istrator. He is serving as the spokesman for the advisory board;. , Appointments for adminis- tratofvlini deputy adihiriistra tor can be made only by the Prasideot of the United States. ASSISTANT\ PLANT MAN- AGER. Richard E. Cole has been named ^assistant plant manager at the Rey- nolds Metals Company's St. Lawrence aluminum reduc- tion plant here. He conies here from the Reynolds lis* ternill (Sheffield) Ala, reduc- tion plant where he Headed the industrial engineering department. After dinner arid camp cleanup, the day's activities will close _with a colorful \50 Years of Scouting 1 ' campf ire to which She parehts-aiid;guests are invited. Each unit will pre- The busy day's program will again close with taps at 10 p.m. Sunday's schedule calls for reveille at.7 a.m. and Catholic Mass. and-Protestant - church services between 7:15-and 8- a.m; :-: : . . ;\' : ---TherA-jvilLjusQ^be Scouting demonstrations and\ exhibits in the morning. . Parents and friends of. Scouts who wish to come Sun- day are invited to picnic at the, Barnhart Island picnic, area. _ Village Water Source Piscflssed ._ O'Brieif and Gere, consulting engineers, have recommended that Massena's water supply be taken from Lake St, Lawrence at the intake -• structure, rather than through the Alcoa lines. They met last night with—the ^Village Board and the Water\ Committee^ The two. local groups voted to accept the rec-- omroendations^. Thp ..water-. treatment plant . might be lo-' cated near the. pontoon bridge linder this setup. O'Brien and Gere, Syracuse,- have been hired by. the village\ to make recommendations*'for, an improved water.distributioii system, a new water treatmehfe* nt^afid- - ities. 1 S»i3i<iji>-iiwi'<liw'Wrt|!^ Weather Warm, humid; scatt showers tonight, Wednesda Thurs;,,iiiy 'H>. Ttl, July 1$ .., Satv Jttrjfie ... jBun^&Wr'^ £ Mort.,. July \M;