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Scout Council In Niagara And Orleans Counties To Develop Camp Here a t Newark Lake TJie Lewiston Trail Council Inc. Boy Scouts oif America has purchased the 311 acre Newark Lake tract as a Boy Scout camp site for scouts of Niagara and Orleans counties, and the cost and development will be nearly $ 200 , 000 . According to George W . Gleas- ner of Lockport, president of the Council, who was in Phelps two weeks ago looking over the site, the first troops to camp at Newark Lake will be during the summer of 1954. More than 2000 scouts and visitors will come intb Phelps and vicinity annually when the site is developed. The Lewiston Trail Council Is one of the 70 Councils in the statfes of New York and New Jersey not owning its own camp. After a fifteen year search for a site that would meet its needs, the Council was recently the successful bidder for the New ark Lake property. The property consists of ap proximately 200 acres of ever green woods and rolling/ farm land surrounding a one-hundred acre lake of crystal clear water. It will take care of all present camping requirements, as well as all expansion needs in the for- seeable future. The site has re-> ceived full approval from the Executive Board of the Lewis ton Trail Council and from the Engineering Division of the Na tional Council, Boy Scouts of America. The new camp will be develop ed for year round use by Scouts and Explorer Scouts. In addition to summer and winter camp, it will be developed as a Training Center for the a&ult volunteer leaders giving direction to the scouting program in this area. Plans call for the development of seven individual Troop sites, tjhe construction of a dining lodge, health lodge, chapel cen tral hot water showers, installa tion of a water system and de velopment of a swimming and boating area. When these im provements are complete'd, one of the finest camps existing in western New York will be avail able to the boys of the Lewiston Trail Council area. To purchase the property and carry out development plans, a Capital Funds Campaign will be undertaken immediately. “There must be no delay in developing this tremendous as set as it would deprive a whole generation of future leaders from receiving one of life’s riqhest experiences”, said Mr. Gleaaner. The new camp will be designed specifically for carrying out the scout training program and it is expected tjhat once the new camp is completed there will be a .very considerable increase in the amount of camping carried out by Troops and Posts on a year ’round basis. Charles Case To Head Legion Post At the annual election of offi cers of the Seeley B. Parish Post 457, American Legion, Charles L. Case of Phelps was elected com mander; Gayle Gollins, first vice commander; Joseph Rubery Jr., second vice -“ Command^rf - K Fogarty, adjutant; Norjnan liamson, finance officer;' Cainiel Hoven, chaplain; Charles Bracko, sergeant-of-arms and Ralph Pet ty, historian. Elected to serve on the executive committee, Junior Past Commander Harold Eding- ton, William Sheehan and Jack Ruthven; dele/gates to the coun ty committee Ralph Petty and Ed ward Arnold; publicity, John Boughton, Jr., service officer, Dominic Lapresi. School Board At. Conference Held In Canandaigua The Board of Education mem bers and principal of Phelps Cen tral School attended the spring conference of Dlst. 1 of the New York State School Board Associa tion held.at the Canandaigua ele mentary school Wednesday eve*- ning, April 29th. Those attending were Richard L. Rathbun, Floyd Wilson, Felix Taney, Chester Gridley, Elmer Peck, and Princi- pay Grove A. Nagel. Topics dis cussed by Board members were: state aid, school health services, new educational laws, salaries, public relations, and insurance. CITIZEN VOLUM E I—N U M B E R 10 PHELPS, N . Y ., M A Y * , 195S 7c P E R SINGLE C O P Y LEFT TO RIGHT: Jack Dyke, Doc Kervfield, Ken West, W illiam Whitson, Clarence Balcom, Leo Goldsworthy, Larry Hatch, Grovo Nagel, Robert Burnell, Maynard linquest, Fritz M a honey, Lou Salisbury end Don Pulver. Seated: Charles Converse and Pat Penta, All past presidents of Phelps Rotary dub. (Phelps Citlben photo). Legion Auxiliary To Serve County Meeting Dinner At a meeting of the Amer ican Legion’s Auxiliary April Tax Rate To Be $17 In Village man, has turned in three hun dred coupons. Mrs. Fayette Knight as publicity chairman re ported 24 and one-half inches, seven items. The 7th District Spring Con ference will be held May 20th at Rochester. Mrs. Benjamin Palm er, president; Mrs. Harold An drews, rehabilitation chairman; Mrs. Emil Dhalle, treasurer and Mrs. Fayette Knight, secretary, will be sent to the district con ference. The Auxiliary will put on the dinner for the County Legion convention to be held at the American Legion in Phelps May 24th. Mrs. Benjamin Palmer is dinner chairman. M ay 10th will be hosptail day at the Canandaigua Veterans’ Hospital. Friends and members are asked to attend. The next county meeting will be May 13th. This Auxiliary will meet May 12th. Refreshment committee will be Mrs. James Van Damme, Mrs. Benjamin Palmer and Mrs. Elkannah Young Refreshment committee for this meeting was Mrs. Ralph Petty, Mrs. Frank McAllister and Mrs. Fayette Knight. At the annual public hearing of the village budget last Monday evening, April 27th, no objections were raised to the village 'board budget of *57,000. -The tax rate\ fto v < *rUcW B v C a r will be 517 per thousand assessed 7 valuation the same tax rate as f ••v * * \’’4 • • Girl Scout Workers At Keuka Meeting Mrs. Raymond Buisch, Mrs. Thirteen Clubs Represented At Phelps Rotary's Fifteenth Anniversary w fflr U e a k e *, Phelps on Main street Friday. The #boy was treated on the scene by Dr. O .' P. Willson anjl J. Walter Caves and Mrs. Rich-1. was taken home by his gr,and- ard Rathbun, committee members I mother, Mrs. Clarence Young, of the Phelps Girl Scouts, at- --- « -- - j l”y r tended the meeting of Region No. 2, Section B of Girl Scouts at K e u k a College April 28th. The program was finance training procedures with a speaker in the morning and group meetings in the afternoon. M rs. Ralph Bell amy of Rochester, regional di rector, w a s present. Police Chief H arold M u r p h in vestigated the accident. Rotary Meeting Held At School Archeologists Uncover Bones Of Cayuga Indians In What Is Believed To Be Burying Ground The complete skeletons of fi™ |bodl<!s were ta doubled-up posl- Indlan women have been uncov- ^ ^ ^ many other skeletonB have been found in a similar po sition it is thought tkat it was a characteristic of the burial of the Cayuga Indians of this area. “They are prehistoric Cayugas” Maim said, “and are connected with the Richmond Mills site. They probably lived about 1450.” Mann found a flint knife in one grave, and tbe bone of ft bird.in jered on the farm of Mr. and Mrs, Frank Putnam, Phelps R D by Prof. Paul Mann of Lima, of the Cayuga County Museum in Au burn. Many other parts of skeletons have been found, but were badly damaged by the weight of the bulldozers throwing the earth away from the mound. The earth is being uocu 5 , 3 fill for the nsw roadbed of the New York State Thruway. Mann uncovered the skeletons of two women, one about 45, the other about 20 , “evidently mother and daughter,” Mann said. The another, but no pottery or other utensils have been found. Other archaeologists have un earthed bodies of children and men in the past few weeks, and one chief who had been buried with his horse was uncovered. Future Farmers Chapter Degree Meeting April 22 by Edward Nayaert, Chapter Reporter The Phelps Chapter of Future Fanners of America held its an nual Chapter Degree meeting Wednesday, April 2?nd. After the opening ceremony was performed by the officers, regular business was taken up and the Chapter Degree was given to the follow ing members: Carl DeRuyter, Richard Van Deventer, Edward Nayaert, Gerald Van Camp, Ray mond Van Hemel, Raymond Phil lips, Morgan Knapp, Stanley Maines, Robert Lutz and Francis Maslyn. Each of these members received a silver pin with the em blem of the Future Farmers of America. Thomas Salisbury was elected as delegate to the State Future Farmer’s convention to be held at Wellsville May 7, 8 and 9th. The chapter alqp voted to have a softball team to play in the Yates-Ontario FF A league. The Phelps Rotary club heard Miss Beatrice Arze Barrientos, of Cochabamba, Bolivia, at the meeting of the club this \freek, 'Wednesday noon. Members gath ered at the Fihelps Central school and had the same lunch that ia served to the students in tl\e cafeteria after the stu dents lunch hour was over. Miss Barrientos is a Rotary scholarship student, attending Keuka College, and she told of the customs and economic con ditions of her country. memories \will not grow old either, of the anniversary event so fittingly celebrated. S. J. Dyke welcomed the guests and Harry Hovey, Gene va, gave the response. Kenneth West was In charge of tfae pro gram and dinner arrangements. All living past presidents of the Thelpa club were present. The late Fred Broshard is the only one who b&B passed away since the inception of tjho Ro tary club. Past district governors were present and Grove A.. Nagel was presented with a 15,-year ribbon for 100 per cent attend ance. Thirteen Rotajry clubs were represented including Waterloo, which sponsored the -Phelps club. Meeting of Parish Building Committee and Executive com mittee of St. John's Episcopal Church will be held Wednesday, May 6 th, 8:00 p.m. At the church. Speaker Tells Of Church School Cirriculum At Meeting Monday The Rev. William Williams, Religiojis Education Director of the Rochester Episcopal Diocese, spoke at the St. John’s Episcopal church Monday night on the new Church School curriculum which the Episcopal church is develop ing. Following the talk, the St. John’s Auxiliary met and elected officers. Mrs.. Kenneth Coons is the new president; Miss Elizabeth vice president; Mrs. Alleman, ________________ _ Ross Crittenden, secretary and The Chapter degree is the sec- ' Mrs. H. M . Coon, treasurer, ondand highest degree awarded ^ ^ meeting. ^ be on to FFA members in U ieloc^FFA I night> May llth, m the unit. In order to receive this de- ( parish Mrs Frederick gree members must have taken and Mrs. Arlon Wilber, Vocational Agriculture for art iczst one v??.r and havfe received i the Greenhand Degree. They must have a satisfactory supervised hostesses. Mrs. Richard Rathbun, presi dent, ,announced that the annual farming program and be familiar j repopfe will be given at the June with all FFA activities at the meeting. She, also reported the Chapter, District, State and Na tional level annual Diocesan Auxiliary meet ing which will be held at Trinity church in Geneva Tuesday, May 12 th. The annual rummage sale for the benefit of the Parish House Building fund will be held on June 4, 5 and 6 . The committee will be Mrs. John Richardson, Mrs. H. M. Coon, Mrs. Charles Rendelsham, Mrs. Frederick M a honey, Mrs. Leslie Champion, Mrs. William Sheehan, Miss Mary Ruthven and Mrs. Charles Conk lin. Anyone having donations may call any of these committee members. The members are collecting 1 fa vorite recipes for a cook book to be made up nekt fall. Mrs. O. P. Willson is in charge of it. The Auxiliary will sponsor a * t- - -» i 4W\rvi K* 1 R t 7 roast ucci ~ -- p.m. on Thursday, May 14, in the MaSonic* Hall with Mrs. Glen Ho bart, chairman and Mrs. O. P- Willson and Mrs. Donald Pulver, co-chairmen.
