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THfl WIEK'S WEATHit ft>dMP*4ay 1>m perm tare Hi«h U.w M«|«tm H7 M •=.« ** 60 ,02 «« «• .00 THE GOUVERNEUR TRIBUNE-PRESS M iSM \'' ftA 3» !41 Northern New York's Greatest Weekly THIS WEIK READEtS CAN til picture* of the new tearher*, r«»4 about « new postmaster, on griming participation Is VnitcKl Fund, comment on primary elex-1Ion *UK! respond U» the V.F.W. appeal for volunteer worker* Saturday. VOL 73, NO. 3 PHONES 177 4M78 —P.O. BOX 268 GOUVERNEUR, NEW YORK. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 17, 1959 14 PASES. 2 SECTIONS • •** Price Ten Cents Alcoa Employees Invited To Join Labor Groups Supporting United Fund MA SOX SMITH Reaching For The Moon pKKHAPS the most outstanding • feature ol the Soviet Union's -dramatic moon* strike late Sunday afternoon, eastern daylight time certainly one of the most spectac- ular scientilic achie\ements of the century - is the reception accord- ed the news of this historic event, around the world. £ u i p r i singly enough, unlike that grim Octo- ber day in .1957 when the Rus- sians put Sputnik I into orbit, this time th<Te weiv no hvsteria, no expressions ot tear but only warm congratulations to«*the Soviet sci- entists, in an atmosphere of calm confidence and anticipation here and pretty much everywhere else on the globe. • The moon shot was apparently! timed to coincide with Nikita j .. _ _y .... r _ _ Khrushchev's departure from Mos-I county-wide meeting held in Jul\ row on his trip to the I'nited that the time is ready tor all oi States, hut it it was intended to j us to raise the charitable dollars add political significance to his for all our, local and national wel- visit o\er here, the Russian pit>p- j fare agencies To accomplish the aganchsts were due tor a surprise, j necessary results in this under- For dospm. tho Soviet scirn-' takinR wv lnv lte >our - s P |pn * d fists' accuiae\ not only in hitting the target but in predicting the moment the instrument-filled i to every union member Alcoa emplovees throughout *the Aluminum Workers International Union, Local No 180, have been invited to jewn other labor groups throughout St. Lawrence counts in supporting the newly formed Cpunty United Fund organization The invitation was extended b\ Mason R Smith, president, by let- ter to Vnion olticials. Stephen Smytho, President; Office Kmplov- ees International Union. Ixxal 180; James A Parisian, president; Aluminum Workers Union. Local 420: and Business Agent, Daniel R Cuglar. Mrr Smith's letter emphasized i the importance of every loca! I union's support of the chanty fund I appeal Pasroll pa\ment is ,the 'simplest, most etficient way for .companies to help employees meet ; their community responsibilities to j the health and weltare sen ices j supported by the United Fund, he said. Parts of Mr. Smith's letter in- clude: *\As a result of an intensive sur- vey made with the management of industries and other labor leaders throughout St I-awrence countx. it was \oted b the public at a with us in information would crash into the moon travelling nearly 240,000 \To insure success of a United Charity campaign the support of lailer miles, the rocket delivered its J well known labor leaders like : j eave [ or Chicago package S<> seconds early, nobody j yourself is vital. We are asking anc j f 1Nt , children seemed particularly disturbed by you to lend the strength of your the implication that the Soviet ! union membership to this initial K- 1 Union now can fire an ICBM and guide it accuratejy to any destina- tion on the tace of the earth. For the world rs already aware that Russia is not alone in this capability The United States, as oi now, has put up several times the num- ber of satellites as the Soviet Union, and has twice duplicated the Russian space probe which lifted a rocket into t>rbit «after .missing the moon* around the sun. Meanwhile rocket and space ex- 18-3 International Reading penments in this country have « Con tinned on page 4> stage of organization.\ VThe citizens charitable survey shows Alcoa employees contribute to at least IT charities throughout St. I^awrence count>. This does not mean that each employee supports 17 different campaigns but it does imply that workers may contribute from tour to seven campaigns de- pending upon where thev live in the county.\ \Friday. Sept. 4. 1959. members of the St Lawrence County United Fund commute met with oflicials of the Massena Work*, and we are indeed happy to pass on to you their widespread knowledge and belief in the United Fund princi- ples of fund raising Key labor leaders and top company officials in Pittsburgh and other Alcoa Plant locations have been very cooperative in establishing suc- cessful United Fund campaigns.\ \We would be most appreciative of having the opportunity of meet- ing with you and wour committee within the coming week. All other local union groups within the principle industries have already met and agreed to cooperate in this first county wide effort to raise the necessary monies for our charitable agencies.\ \The success of every United Fund Campaign throughout Amer- ica has been the result of labors inspired leadership and enthusi- asm.\ Hospital Administrator Accepts Post Hi Chicago Leon Bennet -Alder, administra- tor of North Country Hospitals, Inc.. since November. 1955, has been named administrator of the Chicago Osteopathic hospital and business manager of the Chicago College of Osteopathy at 1122 Fast 53rd street in Chicago. Ill Dr. Richard N. MacBain. president of the Chicago College of Os- teopathy, made the announcement According to Mr Bennet-Alder notice ol his rosienation was given j to the chairmen oi the boards of j the Gouverneur. Canton and Alex- j andria Bay Edward John Noble {hospitals and to North Country •Hospitals. Inc.. on September 9. i Mr. Bonnet-Alder expects to with his wife e cruiaren on October 9th or loth. Prior to coming to Gouverneur. Mr Bonnet-Alder was superin- tendent of Victoria hospital in See -ADMINISTRATOR Page 4 A I'LAN FOR ACTION to bring inductr\ to th. >t. I^attrenve Valley WHS outlined by Don S. Foater. «*\erutive vice president of the >i Ltn rernr \ alley Chamber* oi Commerce, at A meet- ing of the Industrial Development committtt' hHit Saturday noon at the (rouverneur Klks club. From left to ritfht are John \X. Rouse, < Minima n (if the comniitee; Harr\ Cool, vice president of NLVACC . Mr. Foster and Walter Highland. Industrial Survey Starts Locally Wednesday; SLVACC Plan of Action Supervisor Post Is Only Office Contested Hi Fait Primaries Held Tuesday I'RIISRYTKRIAN PASTOR ANNOl'NCKS RESIGNATION The Rev. Merritt W. Updyke. pastor of the First Presbyterian church since 1953. on Sunday an- nounced that he would resign from the pastorate. The announcement came as he read a letter of resig- nation to the congregation. A meeting of the session of the church has been called for Thurs- day evening VOLUNTEER HELP NEEDED FOR V. F. W. PROJECT An apical is made this week tor members ol the V.F.W. Post to report for volunteer work at the site ot the new V.F.W. club house on Main street on Saturday. The project Saturday will be laying concrete blocks tor the new back wall. Members should rc*pon between 8 and 9 a.m. Work will be in prog- , less all day. . Improved Postal \^ Service Assured Major improvements irr iirst class mail service benefitting near- ly one-half million people living in eight counties of the S.91TT square miles of I'tica Metropolitan Area was announced vesterday bv Post- master 'General Arthur K. Sum- mertield. Postmasters Frederic K Price of Gouverneur and Lee Meldrim of Edwards stated that patrons can now be assured their letters mailed before 5 CX> pm on a business da\ will, under normal circumstances. be delivered to destinations within the area pn first delivery trips of the following business day. . \Mailing early in the dav. there- by- giving the Post Office time to See POSTAL SERVICE Page 4 School Board Studies Preliminary Plan School meeting a new v rr.err.beis at theii^ Mon i iy ewning studied ot ]>:climin iiv plans for by the new hiL;h >( hool tha> had forwanietl to th»-m this week W. Parker I><Ki^\ architect. ^ AlT.houi;h tae plan> contained all of the facilities ..s.enTiTil to carry- ing on the SC:UM>1 program, the board, alter reviewing them at some Irni,\!: leit chang«-> mijht 4*' both an ediication.il and financial Nelson B. Winters Is Appointed Acting Postmaster f viewpoint • :-^!en:her-> agreed to Turn the plans over to the Advisory -Coun- cil's Biiilding committee for fur- ther studv. Thi> CummitteC will pres«Mit i»* recommendations to the boani. and a date will b*> set to me»*t with the architect within the next ^eek or so. . The board approved Trie apjmint- ment <tf Marguerite JJackett as NeNon II. Winters, secretary of the Gouverneur Chamber of Commerce since 1949 and chief clerk and assistant mill superin- tendent at international Talc company for the past nine years. that 'certain j nas ^* >n named acting postmas- d^sirahle from ' {vr of the G»»uv(»rneur Post Office. Mr. Winter.- will assume the du- ties of acting postmaster immed- iately j>endins permanent appoint- ment following civil service exam- inations The key to the post of- I urer. Only 197 voters, including Republicans and JH Democrats cast their ballots in the primaries ; for town and county olfices held | from I'J noon until 9 p.m. Tuesday I The only contest to occur was i in the Republican bid lor the po- sition of supervisor. Ik>nald D Peck received 123 votes and Ivan Bennett received 34 write-in votes All Republican candidates Joi town offices were unopposed on the ballot Their tallies were: - .Attorney Sterling L. Tait, run- ning for town clerk. 15ti. Corner Jones, running for* councilman, 149: and Chane> E. Cooke, Dem- ocrat running in the Republican primary 153* votes as a candidate for justice of the peace The two Republican candidates for the ewo assessor posts wire Attorney Lee I Rich, wh<^ receiv- ed 140 votes, and James F. Me* Cormick. who* received 15o On the county level, 146 votes were cast m the town of Gouver- neur for Will.am D. Krehs for candidate as sj>ecial county judge and 143 votes went to Carl K * Don S Foster, executive vice president of the St. Lawrence Val- ley Association of Chambers of Commerce, bei^an work this Wed- nesday morn inn on a survey of the village of Gouverneur The survey will include a complete study of the labor market, the community attitude inward industry, fuel, power, transportation, educational and reeieatu>nal facilities, hous- ing, possible industrial sites and water supply and sanitary condi- tions a.- well as the type and ef- ficiency of local government. This is the initial step in the Gouverneur area toward compil- ing information for the St. Law- rence Valley association Industrial Development committee that is presently concerning itself with' attracting new industry into the area. At a meeting of the Industrial iVvelopment committee held Sat- urday noon at the Gouverneur K!k.s club, Mr Foster presented his plan for action\ to interest companies in establishing opera- tions in the St. Lawrence Valley. Mr Foster strongly recommend- ed that the course of action of SLVACC be based on the \View- point of Industry\. This viewpoint - the key to the location of every industry', he said \is its ability to remain competetive. The most Bums in his bid for county treas- I vital factor is \cost of Operation\ both Republicans. , fice was turned over tu him on Tuesday * He succeeds Frederic E. Price. who has been postmaster for about nine\ years. Mr. Winters is a native of Gou- verneur and the son of Mrs Lois (stenonraphvr at the high school, j Wadsworth of William Narrow as janitor and of Lee R.ch as a ha It-time teach- er of mathematics at the high school. . Super -intend' -n* Frank \V. Ma- son r«»i>orterl that he had request- ed to chair a committee to pre- . parr one of the 12 programs to be J given February .15 at Atlantic City at the* meet ing of the Ameri- can As>ociation of School Admin- Story of the Week— New Teachers Begin Work at Schools He was educated in Gouverneur schools, graduated from St Lawrence university and took special courses in business administration at New York uni- versjty. ^ . . For two \ears he was in the Corporation Trust department of the Brooklyn Trust company, (or , Kennen, 21 two years worked in a similar ca-|/ nornas * pacfty for the City Bank Farmers ! Trust company in New York city, was sales manager and purc/ha.* POSTMASTER Page 4 Attorney Max l>e\inson receiv- ed 25 votes for candidate for spec- ial county judge, and Charles fcl Hand received 21 votes for candi- date for county treasurer. 3oth are Democrats. Dr. Sar,.;iel Livingston. \Republi- can, was the recipient of 147 votes for candidate for county coroner On the Democratic ticket, the six candidates as delegates to the judicial convention lor the fourth judicial district received the lol- ig numbers ot votes: Mr l^evinson. 22; John D. Van- At Saturday's meeting Mr. Fas- i ter emphasized that the first step . in planning an industrial develop- ! ment program is to temper the thinking of the citizens to deter- . mine interest and desire for new i indu-try. \Are you willing to invest a j little time, effort and money to I accomplish this purpose?', he ask- ed. Plan of Action , The proposed plan of action j calls for the organization of an j Industrial Development Corpora- Vincent E. Kirch, 20; I llon of a non-profit t>-pe which will HIOH* si'HOOL—William Kt«uffer.' Ruth' Reynold*, fllizahpth Kirehner. LouK Ruff. BALMAT Card. SCHOOL—Mi' BRASIK (ORNERS ~ Marlene Buvh. DEMOCRATS TO CAUCUS Democratic electors will hold their first caucus in the town of Gouverneur since World War II on September 2n at 8 p.m. in the municipal building according to an an- nouncement made this week by Democratic Town Chair- man Attorney Max I^vinson. The party members will meet to nominate candidates tor the general election in No- vember and for the tran^ac- * tion of such other business as may come belore the caucus. Mr. I>-vinson also revealed that the Democratic electors will caucus in the town of Fowler on^Thursday. Septem- Vr 24 at 8 p.m in the town hail and that a Democratic caucus will be hHd in the town or~Macomb on Septem- ber 22 and in Hermon on Sep- tember 23 , «* Pernn. 20; Edward A 20. and William O'Connell. 2<) 1 On the Republican side, the six i candidates running as delegates j to the judicial convention tallied the following numbers of votes: Attorney Edward H Case. 153; Ros- K Brown, 132; Edmund L Shea, 130; Bennett Abrams. 131; WiUiam H. Cubley, 131. and Roger W. Daniels. 131. . j Salvation Army Unit Reorganizes Locally; ^ Applies to United Fund A meeting to reorganize T\\e Salvation Army Service Unit com- >mtttee in Gouverneur was held at Shannon's restaurant. Friday and Jack Scott, assistant vice-presi- provide an agency whose leader- ship would be in a position to plan, prepare and to make decisions at the proper time. The benefits of a corporation are two fold, he maintained- *Once in operation it would,,receive of- ficial recognition by industry as an established, responsible civic body, equipped to act It would at- tract top local leadership to spear- See -SLV ACT—Page 4 West St. Lawrence Chapter of Red Cross To Join United Fund The West St Lawrence Chap- ter. American P*ed Cross, has \oted to join the United Fund. At^the same time, Dr. George R Hanlon. Gouverneur surgeon, Bank of Gotrverneur, [was elected chairman of the chap- dent of the was elected as its new chairman, according to Major K. E. Moss, service extension officer from the Divisional oft ice of The Salvation Armv in Albany. - -Herbert O Bartholomew uas re- elected Treasurer of the group, and Miss Mabel Kittle was elected wel- fare secretary Others attending thp luncheon meeting were LeRov Smith and the P W P\ . Anthony K Jefferson Those who will be ser\- on the committ4*<* but were not present at the meeting were Kd- iward H Case, Melvin Graves and Robert DIPT. Major Moss explained to the jrrmp that the purp^ise of The Salvation Army Service I'nit com- mittee w »* to act as a liason community and The Salvation Armv headquarters so when there was a service that orgamzaMon could make \n r»>mrruni!> it could. he heir a'tention through up»»n th*- ad\ice of the com- ter for the coming year These t\«o major d€*cisions high- lighted a meeting of directors of the chapter held Monday at the St I^awrence County National Bank Canton, beginning at 8 00 pm AIF branches of the chapter were .represented. D#»cision to jojn the United Fund came after prolonged discussion, in wrftch Mason P^ossiter Smith, IF president and Thomas R Miller .spoke briefly concerning the gi\ers organization and ans- WPH-TI qup^tjons regardinsr its op- erations and purposes. The vote wa< onammou> Dr Hanlon w^s elected chair- man of the Rpd Cross chapter by acclamation succeeding Norbert Woods and G At wood Manle>. C'an'on co-chairmen The new chairman will be a$- sis'ed h> M- Woods u ho no* b^- comev f ir> ? \ice-chairman. and Df A V:nir>g. C>gdensbjrg 2nd vice-chairman Mr* Liane otr>» r ofheers wi!l Jarer meeting of of r b^ fund* tr»*t are vear in their drive t*->p* roca! eommiTte** to crirr.munitv as the> p emer- f*\L\ATIO.V ARMV Pg 4 Ar-Mr r* 4 -*•!•\<• red A^wortk.
