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\-..^i^s^m^L-L • • • **Tv.^>»,*-Sgi Serving New Castle 30 Years—No. 42 CHAPPAQUA, N. Y. THURSDAY;t^^€H ^2g f l958 happaqua Library Chappaqua, KY PRICE FIVE CENTS Teachers' Pay To Be Boosted As of July 1 Teachers' salaries in School Dis trict 4 will go up July 1 under a schedule adopted Monday by the Board of Education. For teachers with bachelor's de grees, minimums will be raised from S4,200 to $1,300 a year. Maxi mums will go up from $7,300 to $7,600 Minimums for teachers with five years of study completed will rise from $4,500 to $4,700. Maximums will increase from $8,000 to $8,400. Teachers with six years of study will receive an increase in maxi mum pay of $600 a\year to $9,300. Staff Additions Voted Staff additions approved by the board for 1958-39 will provide one new elementary teacher, a lay as sistant to a kindergarten teacher, a part-time French teacher for the junior high school, a high school social studies teacher, a girls' physical education teacher for the high school, and a boys' teacher who will divide his time between mechanical drawing and physical education The board also voted to request from the Board of Cooperative Ed ucational Services an additional art teacher for two days a week, an increase from two days to three and one-half days a week of a reading consultant's services, and an increase from two to three davv a week of a high school psephologist's time. It approved continuation of serv ices b> an instrumental music teacher for three days a week, and a speech therapist for three and one-half day*?. The staff increase*- and the ad ditional BOCES services approved are in line with projected enroll ment increases for 1958-59, Super vising Principal Douglas Grafflin said. Guidance Son ice Boosted The board a No approved an in crease of BOCES guidance center sen*ices to provide for 80 students. Services are now provided for 50. Mr Grafflin said this increase was sought on the basis of a predicted increase in the number of 11th grade students, and was figured on the same percentage basis now; in use. | The board decided to drop the district's driver training program from the 1958-59 budget, now in preparation Voters will be told what it will cost to continue the program, and be given an oppor tunity to vote the program back into the budget at the annual meeting in May. Mr. Grafflin submitted three sec tions of the budget to the board They _were \plant operation,\ which cost $127,304 this year and is budgeted at $143,105 next: \plant maintenance,\ $36,193 this year and $34,830 next, and \fixed charges,\ $120,860 this year and $152,172 next. The principal said the rise in plant operation was occasioned mainly by the need for two ad ditional janitors at Horace Greeley High School. The drop in plant maintenance resulted from elimi nation of non-recurring repair items, he said Teachers' retirement require ments brought $12,500 of the in crease in fixed charges, he ex plained, and budgeting for social security payments accounted for $15,960 of the increase. Will Acquire Site The board passed a resolution authorizing exercise of an option it holds on an elementary school site on King St. Voters approved purchase of the site earlier this month. It also approved final certific ates indicating completion of elec trical work, plumbing and heating and ventalation work at an addi tion to the high school. Probationary appointments ef fective in September were ap proved for two teachers. They are Mrs. Marian Ostrom, who will teach high school science, and Miss Celestine O'Neill, elementary school teacher. Mrs. Ostrom obtained a B.A. de gree in zoology at Carlton College, and an M.A. in science at Colum bia University. She is teaching at Woodmere Academy. Miss O'Neill received her B.A. degree from New Paltz State Teachers' College, and an M.A from New York University. She has taught at Edgemont School. TRUCK HITS WALL Ernest Molinaro, twenty-four, of 98 Kisco Avenue, Mount Kisco, re ceived internal injuries Thursday afternoon when a track he was driving on Bedford Center Road, skidded and struck a stonewall.. . Molinaro told Bedford Police the accident occurred when he applied the brakes to avoid hitting another truck. His vehicle skidded out of control on the snow covered high way. BOARD OP EDUCATION A meeting of the Board of Ed ucation will be held at the Robert E. Bell school at 8:15 Monday evening. Business of the meeting will be devoted largely to consid cratlon of the budget, according to Douglas G. Grafflin, district principal. Flagpole Auteunae Asked in Hillholme A public hearing is to be held at Town Hall at 8:15 Wednesday evening. Apr. 2, on an applica tion made to the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of New Castle for permission to erect a flagpole and an antennae for communication purposes on the North side of North Place, in Hillholme. Chappaqua. The application is made by F. L. Wurzburg Jr. on behalf of Tuf-Top Pavements, Inc. Persons interested will be heard for and against the application at the hearing Mrs. Butler Treasurer of Cancer Drive Mrs. Anna C. Butler of Kisco Gardens has been named treasur er of the Chappaqua Cancer Cru sade, Edmund F. Ebert, chairman, announced today in making public the names of the members of the Chappaqua Crusade Committee. Other members are: Mrs. Eugene Browning, 33 Pondhill Road: Mrs. Louis R Buerger, 283 Millwood Road; Mrs. Edmund F. Ebert, 15 Colonial Drive; Mrs. Stephen D. Fay, 128 Roaring Brook Road; Mrs. William A. Hsi, 38 Kitchawan Drive: Mrs. James A. Leyden, 98 Paulding Drive; Mrs. George M. McCoy, 108 Devoe Road; Mrs. Charles F. McQuiston, 19 Gray Rock Lane; Mrs. Alfred D. Moore, 31 Mohegan Drive; Mrs. Philip C. Sayres, 25 Ivy Hill Road, and Mrs. Martin R. Wolf, 2 Kittle House Road. \We sincerely hope that every resident of Chappaqua will respond to our appeal for funds to continue the program of the Westchester Cancer Committee when they re ceive our letter asking their help,\ Mr. Ebert said. \Contributions should be mailed to the Chappaqua Cancer Crusade, Post Office Box 212, Chappaqua.\ He added that another aspect of the Crusade was public educa tion. \We are equally\concerned that each Chappaqua resident read the brief outline of the Commit tee's program and the life-saving facts about cancer contained in the literature we are enclosing in our appeal.\ P.D. Message Speeds Son To 111 Father Mount Kisco police used a di rect coast-to-coast P.D. teletype hookup over the weekend to speed word to a member of a U. S. Coast Guard and Geodetic sur vey team that his father, a resi dent of Mount Kisco, had been stricken seriously ill while shovel ing snow at Woody Hill Apart ment where he resides. Henry Van Scoy, sixty five, is still in a serious condition at Northern Westchester Hospi tal where he was taken by am bulance Friday morning after be ing stricken with a heart attack. Mount Kisco Police, in response to a call by the stricken man's physician, rushed oxygen to the apartment and summoned an am bulance. That was at 10:40 a.m. on March 21; the following day at 6.30 a.m. at request of Mr. Van Scoy's son, Porter, a resident of White Plains police flashed news of the Kisco man's illness across the country to another son, Leonard, who was expected to reach Yreks. Calif, that day. Po lice were told that he was trav eling with his family as a mem ber of the Geodetic survey team. The teletype message which read \Father seriously ill,\ brought Leonard Van Scoy east ward by plane and he arrived in New York on Sunday. Good news awaited him upon his arrival in Mount Kisco. Although his father is still on the serious list, his con dition has improved, Mr. Van Scoy said. Judge Levies Fine On Wife Parking meter violations are heard in Mount Kisco Police Court every Thursday night by Village Judge John F. Reed Jr.. and their disposition has become something of a routine matter with the judge. There wasn't anything routine, however, about last week's court session when Judge Reed found the name of his wife, Anita C. Reed of Parkview Drive included on a list of meter violators. She had been summoned^ by Pt. Wil liam Burkert for an* infraction in Kirby Plaza and, like all others tagged for parking meter offenses, she paid a $1 fine imposed by her husbafld. TAXES DUE APRIL 1 Next Tuesday, April 1 is All Fools Day but Bedford Tax Receiv er F. Hobert Lent won't be fooling when his department sends out Spring tax bills which fall due on April 1. They cover State, County and Town levies. A** <'*vV--> » v -x V * jags IN mm OVERAWED at top responsi bility, but more particularly at the mysteries of inter-office and outside communications, Bing Carlson takes over Dr. Donald Miles' position of principal on Horace Greeley \Student Day\ last Wednesday. Students filled all the top posts at the high school for the day—Photo by Don Daggett Chappaqua Churches Set Easter Services Catholic and Protestant Chur ches in Chappaqua will observe Palm Sunday, Holy Week and Easter with special services. The dawn of Easter Day will be heralded with special sunrise ser vices to be held at Flag Hill, Old Farm Road, under the auspices of the First Congregational Church. Young people from other-churches in Chappaqua, churches in Pleas antville anp] from x the \.Briarcliff Congregational *t%ui£a^0^O%SC ipate. Seirvic6s ^pr f starf%^^' a.m. and yfljU. be. ^bljo'we^jb'y/ breakfast for* ybun^peb^^'tHe First Congregational Church\ in the Parish House. Palm Sunday services will be held in the First Congregational Church at 9:30 a.m. and at 11:15, with the pastor, the Rev. Kenneth Nye continuing his sermons in the series on \The Faith We Share.\ New members will be received. The church will hold Holy Com munion on Maundy Thursday, Apr. 3 at 8:30 p.m.. at which time the Deacons will share in the reading of the Scripture story with the min isters. On Easter Sunday the sunrise service will be followed by three Easter services, at 9 a.m., 10:30 a m. and 12 noon. The High School Choir and the Junior Choir will sing at the first service, with the Chancel Choir singing at the sec ond and third. No Sunday School classes or Pilgrim Fellowship meetings will be held on Easter Sunday. At the Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin special services will be conducted by the rector, the Rev. Reginald G. Stewart, throughout Holy Week beginning with Palm Sunday when Palms will be blessed and distributed at all services: 8 a.m. Holy Commun ion, 9:45 a.m. Morning Prayer, and 11 a.m. Holy Communion. During the week Morning Pray er will be held Monday through Thursday at 8:45 a.m. with Holy Communion at 9 a.m On Holy Wednesday there will be an addi tional celebration of Holy Com munion at 7 a.m. On Good Friday there will be Three Hour Service, noon to 3 p.m., conductor, the rec tor; Evening Prayer, 8:15 p.m. Holy Saturday Evening Prayer, with Blessing of the New Fire and the Paschal Candle will be at 5 o'clock. On Easter Sunday Holy Communion will be celebrated at three morning services: 6:30, 9:45 and 11 o'clock .^;Our ? .JL'ady:'.by the Wi.ys'ioTe' Throughout the Lenten season Fa ther Robert B. Loftus has conduct ed the Stations of the Cross serv ices each Thursday evening. Easter Sunday service at the Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer will be conducted by Prof. Henry Proehl, an instructor at the Con cordia Collegiate Institute. The service will be held at 11 a.m. and Holy Communion will be served. During Holy Week a special serv ice will be held Good Friday at 8:15 p.m. Chaplain Gerhardt Hyan, instructor at the Army Chaplain's School at Fort Slocum, will be the speaker. Holy Communion will be served. Palm Sunday services will be held at 11 o'clock Sunday morn ing. Blessing of the Palms will take place at the Church of St. John and St. Mary Sunday morning at 7 o'clock, followed by the regular Sunday Mass. On Holy Wednesday Confessions will be heard from 3:30 to 5:30 and from 7 to 9 p.m. Mass will be said on Holy Thursday at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. On Good Friday the Mass of the Presanctified will take place at 3 p.m., with the Veneration and Stations of the Cross on Good Fri day evening at 8 o'clock. On Holy Saturday, Confessions will be heard 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Holy Saturday ceremonies will begin at 7 p.m. with Easter Mass at 8 p.m. On Easter Sunday Masses will be said through the morning at 7:30, 9, 10, 11, and 12 o'clock. Area Fellowship Names 1st Unitarian Minister The Rev. Harry C. Meserve of Westport, Conn, has accepted the invitation of the Unitarian Fellow ship of Northern Westchester to be its first minister, it was an nounced today by Joseph Morse of Bedford Village, chairman of the board of trustees of the Fel lowship. Dr. Meserve, former minister of the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco, is associated with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in New York City, working in the fields of the humanities and social sci ences. He will serve the young Fellow ship, which comprises about fifty residents of thirteen communities in northern Westchester, by con ducting monthly adult services, and working with the board of trustees and the religious education com mittee. the Unitarian Fellowship of North ern Westchester has attracted growing interest in the area and provides a liberal Sunday - school for the children of-its members from Armonk, Bedford Village, Bedford Hills, Briarcliff Brewster, Chappaqua, Mount Kisco/Pound Ridge, Katonah, South Salem, Pleasantville, Goldensbridga • and Yorktown Heights. , .;>•• . The Sunday school, from the-first grade through high school; meets on the, second and fgurth .Sunday, mornings of each month, at 11 a;m at the home of Dr. CloVis Hifning in Katonah. ' \ Adult members gather on the - .*>:..v.v:-£. DR. HARRY C. MESERVE Legionnaires Offered Plan For Insurance Local Legionnaires will hear an explanation of a new group life insurance policy, at a meeting of the Chappaqua Post, 453, Ameri can Legion, at 8:30 Monday eve ning in post headquarters, North Greeley Ave. Commander Vivian Arnold will preside and will pre sent the new plan. The group policy, which is for Legionnaires only, was submitted to and ap^rQvi'dVby.^the,, National Executive' v eona^tte^ta:rsB^cial. meetui¥xcMed.^o**^tithst0pu^qse: -sveVfaidSp Ip^S^ib^^et insurer for residents of New \York State will be the Unit&JHStafes Life Insurance Company. No phys ical examination will be required, the plan states. Other details of the proposed offer state: the pre mium for the first year will be at the rate of $16 per annum per member, the first policy year to end Dec. 31; premiums thereaft er will be $12 per annum: for this amount, the Legionnaire will re ceive: up to age 34—$4,000 insur ance, 35 to 44—$2,250, 45 to 54 $1,100, 55 to 59—$600, 60 to 64 $400 and 65 to 69, $250. Hardscrabble Gives Brief Tonight The Hardscrabble Association will present a brief at the Town of Mt. Pleasant public hearing to night (Thursday) in which it will oppose the proposed amended zon ing ordinance. The officers and di rectors with their attorneys will officially represent the Association at the hearing, which is to take place at the Thornwood Public School. Under the proposed zoning there are several areas adjoining the Town- of New Castle which are tentatively zoned as half-acre resi dence plots, notably the acreage of Nelson-Built Homes, Inc., off Hardscrabble Rd. The Association takes strong exception to the zon ing proposed for these areas, and will so state in the brief it will present. At the first general membership meeting of the Association held Tuesday evening, March 18 in the Robert E. Bell School, officers and directors were formally installed. P.F. Mygatt was elected to the board, and an invitation extended to L.H. VanDyck to join the ex ecutive group. Jason Meth serves as president. Group Democratic Committee Scores Supervisor For 'Pigeonholing', 'Stalling' Discussion Meeting On NC Master Plan Takes Place Tonight The Planning Board announces that the public meeting for the preliminary presentation of the Master Plan scheduled for March 20th will be held tonight (Thurs ; day) at 8:15 p.m. in the Cafe teria of the Robert E. Bell School. The Planning Board will also hold a publjc meeting, for the same purpose,' at the Millwood Fire House, Millwood, on Thurs day, April 10th, at 8:15 p.m. Sharp criticism of New Castle Town Supervisor Arthur L. Green during his first three months in office is voiced by the Democrat ic town Committee in a state ment released Tuesday by the Democratic chairman, Frederick J. Byrne of Millwood Rd. Charging that \there are 1 disturb ing signs\ that Mr. Green is \fail ing to live up to the expectations of many of his supporters and sacrificing the needs of the town to political purposes of his own\ the statement specially points to \kicking the slow-down ordinance under the rug\ to \stalling tactics regaring the Chappaqua parking district,\ \never consulting his colleagues regarding pending votes Six Accidents In Chappaqua Due To Snow Roads made slippery by wet snows in Chappaqua Thursday and Friday of last week caused six automobile accidents in addition to scores of minor skids, colli sions and stalled cars, according to records at Town of New Castle Police Headquarters. Two large tractor trailer trucks crashed on Armonk Road early Friday morning, both owned by the Palmer Lines Inc. A West bound truck jack-knifed across the road when applying its brakes, and the second truck was unable to avoid skidding into the stalled vehicle. Joseph Cherubini of White Plains, aged 19, was treated at White Plains Hospital for injuries suf fered to his hand when his car skidded into a fence on Bishop's Hill. A Town Highway* Depart ment truck driven by Frank Mac- carello collided with a car driven by Marian G. Schott of 757 Hard scrabble Road, as the truck was operating a snow-plow on King St. Dennis R. Chadruc of Seven Bridges Rd., while backing out o,f.hIs flriyeway struck the Town Schools Close On Thursday For Vacation Spring vacation—like Spring it self, is a little late this year. All Chappaqua schools will hold class es through Thursday of next week, April 3, closing at the end of the full day session for the annual Ea ster recess. Classes will be re sumed Monday morning, April 14. District Principal Douglas G. Grafflin reports that confirmation of the vacation dates has been re ceived from the State Board of Education in Albany. At the beginning of the school year an extra day had been in cluded in the school calendar to provide for an emergency clos ing due to bad weather. Since snow and ice necessitated closing Chappaqua schools for five days this season, the school therefore had a deficit of four school days. Remaining open the extra day be fore Easter takes care of one day, and the State Board \ex cused\ as legal absences, the other three closings, Mr. Grafflin explained. ^'M ^^S ^paF 61 Ave,, v ^$;M ,^tm L- FisKer Icsvilie 'Rd., skidded back ward, intd the parked car owned By Paulino M. Costa of Mt. Kisco Stephen C. Schmidt of Dobbs Ferry, driving a light • truck on Bishop's Hill, skidded into a snow bank and struck a culvert, accord ing to report of the accident filed with the Town of New Castle Po lice. Snow Storms Tie Traffic; Clog Calendar Snow storms in Chappaqua last Thursday and Friday brought closed schools, traffic tie-ups and curtailment of most meetings and events planned for the community over the weekend. Disappointment and inconveni ence was widespread in Chappa qua as long-arranged plans had to be hastily abandoned due to haz ardous traffic conditions. All schools were closed on Thursday and Friday. The World Friendship rally planned for all Chappaqua Girl Scouts and Brownies for last Sat urday at the Robert E. Bell School had to be cancelled. The Horace Greeley High School Senior play, \The Night of Jan. 16\ was postponed. A program of music by The Readers Digest Choristers that had been planned for the luncheon meeting of the Women's Society at the First Congregational Church, had to be cancelled. Due to a com plete schedule for the remainder of the season, the Choirsters will be unable to appear here at a la ter date, but hope to be able to give a postponed performance in the Fall. The hearing on the Master Plan for the Town of New Castle was postponed until tonight, (Thursday) and will take place at 8:15 in the auditorium of the Robert E. Bell School. New Boy Scout Troop Formed In Ghappaqua By Lions Club Chappaqua's third Boy Scout Troop will come into being next week following formal filing of the Charter application tomorrow (Friday) night. The Troop has been planned and organized under the sponsorship of the Lions Clubfties in Taunton, Mass., and served third Sunday of each month at Qonant Hall* in Pound\ Ridge, whete Diri Meserve will preach his first sermon as their\ minister. Sunday evening* April. 20 at 7:3(k; \ Dr. Meserve is a former mem ber • of • the \\Council. '6T-' r liberal Churches and serves >ori.'4n~&, board of* directors of the Unitarian\ Serv ice Committees-He was/-fpfr'six years a director f of theVAmerican Unitarian Assn. '\*\ '*\ of Chappaqua and its formation follows months of intensive effort on the part of club members in forking out details-for the found ing of the new troop. t Hobert Johnson of 'Pleasantville, regional • Scout 'executive for the Washington Irving Council, Boy Scouts of America, will attend the charter meeting for'the troop tomorrow evening ' at the • home of Dillafd Tucker,. St. Elmo '-Hill. , Present alsb at ,the. meeting;will be Walter '^Brownsword who wijl be installed --as 1 '•Scoutmaster' and Howard C. ..Rice., who -will. b.Q/.in stalled as- assistant Scoutmaster for the Troop. Both Mr. Browns word and Mr. Rice are teachers of the fourth grade at Roaring Brook School, and both have long experience in Scout work: Mr.1 Brownsword had previously been associated with Boy Scout activi also in an executive capacity with the local Council there. Mr. Rice is a former assistant Scoutmaster for Flushing. (L.I.) Troop 1, a crack troop and one of the oldest in -the country. The first meeting of the Troop is scheduled for Tuesday evening. All meetings are to be held in Temple Beth El on King ^Street and will take place on Tuesday evenings. The troop, to be known as No. 57, has already received seventeen applications' for mem bership, and in May: many boys who are now Cub. ; Scouts, will be of age -to join the troop. AW- r- etuMed A forty-four year old Pleasant ville Boy Scout leader had exactly seven cents in his pockets Satur day afternoon when he literally struck it rich after finding a lost billfold containing $310 in currency. Former Eagle Scout Michael J. Anniello of Pleasantville was on his hands and knees trying to de tect a leak in the car's radiator when he spotted a brown object in a pile of snow under the car on Valley Road, Katonah. When he dug it out and found it was a bill fold containing a large quantity of cash, he promptly phoned Bed ford Town Police and advised them of his find. Papers in the billfold identified its owner as Wil liam Doering, professor of Chemis try at Yale University and a mem ber of Hickrill Labatories staff at Katonah. He told Scoutmaster An niello the personal papers the bill fold contained were more valuable to him than the money itself and expressed surprise that anyone with only seven cents would re turn so valuable a find. His sur prise vanished, Mr. Anniello re calls, when he told the professor that his Boy Scout training had stressed the importance of honesty. \He was surprised that is\ Mr. Anniello says, \until I mentioned my Boy Scout training. Then he understtood perfectly, having once been a Boy Scout himself.\ In any event,. the scout leader was presented with $40 reward though he protested he expected nothing for the service he > had rendered. \I was just doing my good deed for the day\ he to'd the professor who understood per fectly. Mr. Anniello, an unemployed sheet metal worker, was also doing a good turn for a friend when he made the find; he was serving as part-time dishwasher in his friend's restaurant at Katonah. \I've found valuable things be fore\ the Pleasantville man says matter-of-factly and I always re fuse a reward when it is offered. But if somebody wants to make a contribution to the Boy Scouts in my behalf that is perfectly all right with me\. in the Board of Supervisors,\ and to the Town Board'-s. action to in crease the salary of the receiver of taxes. \We doubt if the residents of the town want a supervisor who is content to take the easy road, to stall or to pigeon-hole import ant projects necessary for the or derly growth of the town, a su pervisor whose ears appear sens- sitive only to the political signals emanating from White Plains.\ the statement reads after detail ing the above criticisms. \We urge our fellow townspeople to attend Town Board meetings, to watch the record of this adminis tration closely, and to insist that the foresighted planning programs initiated by the previous adminis tration be continued,\ the state ment concludes. The complete statement, with the exception of the final para graph, quoted above, follows: \Arthur Green has been Super visor of New Castle for three months, and while a new adminis tration is entitled to time to es tablish itself, the Democratic Town Committee believes ample time has passed to assess his perform ance in office. There are disturb ing signs that the supervisor is, in important areas, failing to live up to the expectations of many of his supporters and sacrificing the needs of the Town to political pur poses of his own. Instances Cited \Specifically since he has been in office, the supervisor has done everything he could to bring about the repeal of the \Slow-down Or dinance\ or to kick it under the rug, although if any measure can be said to have the 'overwhelrning support of the residents, of town, it is this one. \The supervisor's attitude is no surprise, since he stated publicly during the recent campaign that he considered the ordinance in valid. But instead of having the courage and candor to advocate its repeal, he has proposed a ser ies of \negotiations\ with the Westchester Home Builders Asso ciation which have proved fruitless, as they were bound to do. For, while carrying on, these ^'negotia tions\ the Home-Builders associa tion v have instruct^dv-mei^-attorney •tOAC*it^r',cdudgmerit .-^gainst th§. Ana\ according to - this week's Westchester News, they have ar ranged iop the introduction of a bill'at Albany that' -would further limit the town's power to zone and plan for its future. This dual ap proach on the part of the Home- builder's is reminiscent of the Japanese ambassador talking peace at the White House while Pearl Harbor was being bombed* \Is the supervisor taken in by all this, or is he happily going along in the hope of undoing the pioneer planning work enacted in the previous, administration? \Regarding the Chappaqua Parking District, the supervisor's stalling tactics to date leave one with the feeling that \Green for Action\ was just a campaign slo gan after all. 2 Area Men Appointed ALBANY —Appointment of two Westchester residents to state boards was sent to the Senate'for confirmation Friday by Gov. Har- riman. The governor named Charles F. Darlington of South Bedford Road, Mount Kisco to the Taconic State Park Commission for a term end ing Jan. 31, 1963. Darlington would succeed Herman A. Derenthal pi New Rochelle, whose term has ex pired. Harriman also, named Alexander H. N Afdrey of Rye, president of' he Bankers Trust Co. of New York City, to * the State Banking Board. The term would expire on March 1, 1961. I. I \No Progress\ \In the three months since he took office, not one bit of progress has been made toward creation of the district, so badly needed in Chappaqua. The supervisor now tells sponsors of the district that their petition must contain metes and bounds descriptions before a hearing may be held, although the State Comptroller's office says these are not required for pur poses of a hearing. He has tried blame the delay to date on the fact that the Planning Board Chairman neglected until very re cently to appoint a member to consult with the Chamber of Com merce on the district. In fact, Gray Williams, Planning Board Chairman, appointed David Bu chanan to this post by letter fo the Supervisor dated February 25, and informed the Supervisor verb ally of this appointment at an earlier date. \Is the Supervisor really inter ested in facilitating the establish ment of this important planning project, or is he willing to let it ride from week to week in the hope that it will be forgotten? \The Supervisor has never con sulted h i s colleagues regarding pending votes in the Board of Su pervisors, though during the last campaign he waxed righteous on alleged failure of his predecessor to do so. At least one important vote since he took office vitally affected a large part of the New Castle population, namely, the re sidents of Mount Kisco. On March 3 a resolution was introduced re questing the legislature to amend the $4 Town Law to give villages some measure of relief from dou ble taxation in highway expenses. The New Castle Supervisor voted against this resolution. Puzzled Over Increase \Finally one actibn of the new Town Board that is most difficult to understand is the recent salary increase granted the Receiver of Taxes. While the legality of this act perhaps cannot be questioned, we wonder what has.^occurred since January\ 1, whem the Tax Receiver's salary was set at $3,- 600 per year, to make this increase necessary. At $4,000 per year his salary is now 2/3. that of the Towfi* Attorney^ .and. greater, than that of tlie Town; Clerk. Does' the workload of the Receiver of taxes really justify', this'; kihd of' salary; especially in light of the part-time nature of the\job?\
