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Vol. 81. No. 41. Established in 1863. ]M[ABGAKETVILLE, NEW YOBK, FRIDAY, JANUABY 21, 1944 Per Year. flJSO fin Coanty

A. Alton Killed In Car Accident Near Richford

Former Resident of Pepao ton and Son of Late

John B. Alton

Car Hit Guard Rafl Passenger Slightly Injured.

Both Men Were Pinned Underneath Car

Arley Alton, 40, of Dryden, son of the late John B. Alton of Rox-bury, was instantly killed about 10:30 last Saturday night when the automobile which he was driv-ing left the road near Richford on the Ithaca pike. Henry Hutch-ings, also of Dryden, whp was Tiding with him was, was injured.

The accident victim died of a broken neck and severe concussion, according to Dr. A. C. Hartnagle of Berkshire, Tioga county coroner, who was called to the scene of the accident. Mr. Hutchings, appar-ently not seriously injured was taken to the Cortland hospital. Dr. Hartnagle said.

According to Deputy Sheriff De-Alton Hover of Newark Valley, who investigated the accident, the car owned by Mr. Hutchings, but apparently operated by Mr. Alton, was traveling west on the highway at the time of the accident. The car struck a guard rail and knocked down three concrete posts before leaving the highway. The men were thrown from the car which overturned, pinning both men under it. They were found by passing motorists and the acci-dent was reported to police.

Mr. Alton's body was first taken into the Sidney R. Smith funeral home in Ridiford and later was brought to the Lattin funeral home in this village where the funeral was held yesterday afternoon and interment was made in the cemetery at Qovesville.

He is survived by his widow ,the former Laura Griffin, and one daughter, Miss Marjorie. There is also a sister, Mrs. Cecil Smith, of Delhi. Miss Cora Alton of Fleisch-manns is ^ aunt.

The family live dfor.some years on a farm at Pepacton and moved from there to Dryden.

Dissatisfied Witii Milk Subsidy Dairymen in Delaware and Ot-

sego counties have joined with others in the state in opposing what they term to be discrimina-titHi in milk subsidy payments for November and December.

Payment for the two months is based on the amount of milk each dairyman produced for the period, but those farmers delivering milk to plant supplying New York city receive only 25 cents a hundred poimds while those who deliver milk elsewhere are receiving the pnxnised 40 cents a hundred pounds.

Suffers Stomach Ulcers Wallace K. Crosby was taken

suddQply ill Sunday night with stomach ulcers and is now under the care of a trained nurse. Dr. Champlin ot Fleisdimanns is in charge. Mr. Crosby is rating comfortably and everyone is wish-ing him a speedy recoveiy.— Fleisdunanns Cor.

Attorney A. C. Fenton Suffers Leg Amputation

Attorney Andrew C. Fen-ton of this village, who has been suffering from gangrene in one foot and a complica-tion of ailments, was taken to Albany Monday where on Wednesday he suffered the amputation of the affected leg.

His son. Attorney Donald Fenton, who has been in the Army nearly three years and

has been in Honolulu since some time before Pearl Harbor, arrived home late Stmday night. He left Ha-waii Friday. His fifflough was secured by the valiant efforts of the Red Cross who sent a wireless direct to him from the government station in Washington, D. C.

Sgt. Claude Kelly, owner of Bowl's hotel in this vil-lage, is also called home on a furlough by the illness of his mother. He and Attorney Fenton met in New York and came to Mafgaretville together. Sgt. Kelly was in an Army hospital when told of his mother's illness.

Red Cross Helps Locate Cpl. Frank D. Armond

The many friends of Soldier Frank D. Armorid will be glad to hear that he has been reached through the American Red Cross. When "Frankie" had not been heard from fdr about seven months, Mrs. George Speenburgh of the Home Service committee, using the facilities of that branch of the Red Cross, started an in-quiry.

Word came quickly from Wash-ington that his name was not on the list of casualties or missing persons. Due to the fact, however, that Frank has been moved three times since he went overseas, some time was required to trace him from his old address to his present whereabouts.

Now a communication from the Red Cross field officer, stationed in the same camp (presumably North Africa), states that he talked personally with Frank, whom he found "i« excellent health and fine spirits and getting along splendidly in his special work. His friends will be interested to know that he has recently earned an-other promotion in rank."

His commanding officer, in a personal interview with Frank, suggested that "his friends back home might lige to hear from him

little more often." His present address is: Cpl. Frank D. Armond, 32253473, (unit from family), APO 534, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y.

Cpl.H.W.Franks Killed In Africa Says Telegram

Missing for Mont^, War Office Finds He is

Dead

Joined Army In 1941 Becomes Fifth Man From

This Village to Die for His Country

Cpl. H a ^ W. Franks, another Margaretville boy, has paid the great price and has laid down his life for his country. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Franks of this village, received an official gov-ernment telegram Saturday to the

December Milk Is $3.50 The forecast of a uniform price

of $3.50 per hundredweight for December deliveries of milk from dairy farms in the^six states of the New York milkshed is confirmed. The pool will yield a farm value of $13,342,416.52.

December deliveries amounted, in all, to 365,(X)6,788 pounds of milk for a decrease of ten per cent from the receipts in the dos-ing month of 1942.

Dairy payments from the War Food Administration, collected separately from the pool payments from dairy handlers, should yield in addition at least $910,016.97 from December milk at the mini-mum rate of 25 cents per hundred-wei f i^

effect that their son had been killed in action in Africa Feb. 14, 1943. They had a telegram last February that he had been missing in action since Feb. 17. No word had been heard from that time until the telegram Saturday.

Cpl. Franks enlisted in the Army July 24, 1941. He underwent nearly a year of preliminary train-ing and was landed in Ireland in June, 1942. Later he was sent to Africa. He would have attained his 22nd birthday yesterday.

He is survived by his parents, and two sisters and one brother, Mrs. William Ackerly, Miss Emma Franks and Robert Franks, all of Margaretville.

Cpl. Franks is the fifth Mar-garetville man killed in the great war. The others are Lt. Donald Baker, Ci)l. Fred Myers, Lt. Row-land G. EGll, S^ . Bruce Cowan. Two other men in the immediate vicinity have also been killed in line of duty. They are: Cpl. Wil-liam Todd of Dry Btook and Lt. William Munro of Fleischmanns.

Bays Demas Mead Property M. WiUnus, owner of Margaret-

ville's only jewelry store, has pur-chased of Demas Mead his modem home and several acres of land between this village and Arkville. Mr. Mead will give possession April 1. He has purchased the Ray Marks dwelling in this village, now occupied by Prof, and Mrs. K F. S. Shaver.

Plates Ibq^re F ^ . 1 Your automobile {dates «cpire

Feb. 1. Do not wait for last few days to obtain them. Office is not open evenings. H. J. Miller

War Baby Exists In This Village

Figures were completed early this week for the op̂ eration of the Margaretville cauliflower auction block for the season 1943.

A total of 80,136 crates was sold at the block in .1943. This is a decrease of 22,000 from the total 1942 figure. But to show how war prices have affected the market the total dollars in 1943 were $244,251.41. This is an increase of neeirly $100,000 over the 1942 figure despite the fact 22,000 less packages were sold.

The average value per crate in 1943 was $3.05. One hundred thirty-two growers patronized the auction block. The auction block ended the year with a profit of slightly over $6,000. This will all be paid back to the growers in the form of 2% per cent dividend. The checks have not yet been made out but will be forwarded soon.

BOND CANVASS STARTS MONDAY

Local SoUcitors ^ ^ VMt Every Home and Business Place

There wUl be an intensive effort on the part of the various com-mittees to sell the quota of $131,126 war bonds in the town-ship of Middletown.

A meeting was held at the cen-tral school in this village Tuesday evening and the workers list was set up. The plan is to be underway next Monday morning, Jan. 24, to canvass every home and business place in the township to sell bonds. The public is asked to be ready to talk to the canvassers ^ d have their minds made up as to what amoimt of b o i ^ they will take. It's the way fo furnish food and mimitions to the boys "over there."

Start Petition for Dr. Gladstone There is a dearth of dentists in

the Catskills and people are driv-ing many miles for dental atten-tion. There are two dentists on the line of the New York Central from Kingston to Oneonta. They are Dr. White in Roxbury and Dr. Cunningham in Hobart. Margaret-,ville has two dentists. Dr. Kava-naugh and Dr. Reed. Dr. Frisbee is at Andes. This is a total of five men.

Dr. Gladstone of this village was ordered to stop his practice by the state on Dec. 1. He is a graduate of the dental school of the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania which gave him a right to practice in about half of the states. He neglected to undertake the rather sketchy New York requirements 44 years ago and is thus out of practice in the present emergency when his serv-ices are much needed. A petition was said to be in circulation yes-terday by friends in an effort to have him continue, at least for the duration of the war.

Will Sell FumisMngs The furnishings of the Odd Fel-

lows and Rebekahs will be sold at' auction at one o'clock Saturday afternoon at the^odge hall. Jesse G^bert will be the auctioneer.— Roxbury Cor.

Shoot Bed Foxes The following local hunters re-

port shooting foxes this week: John Van Valkenburgfa, Roy John-slm, Fifller Van Valkenbtii^ and Sherman Ellis.—H^cott Crar.

CanceDeiSqme To Be Examined

Order of Going WiU Be Volunteers, Non-Fathers,

Then Fathers

Ma3 Certificates Board Finds It Impossible to

Give Date of Being CaDed '

In line with the new policy of pre-induction examination, the February call for induction for registrants of the Delhi board was cancelled. It was replaced by a call to order registrants for pre-induction examination.

A p ^ of the new regulations: "In filling calls, the local board, as far as practicable, shall first se-lect volunt^rs, then non-fathers, and finally fathers, and within each group shall make selections in sequence of order numbers without regard to whether the registrant has requested or will request a personal appearance be-fore the local board and without regard to whether an appeal has been or will be taken." Thus, a registrant's rights of appearance and/or ap^al are not forfeited because his order number is reached and he is ordered for pre-induction examination.

After February it will not be necessary to order registrants for local physical exanraations, ex-cept in cages where disqualifying defects are claimedL

After the pre-inducticm examina-tion, a certificate of fitness wiU be mailed to each registrant indi-cating that he has been accepted for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or that he has been rejected.

Many inquiries are being re-ceived by the board from regis-trants wishing to know when they will be called. It is next to im-possible to answer this question. The size of the call is not known to the board in advance. A local board must select from its list of lA registrants in sequence of order numbers (volunteers, sin^e, non-fathers and fathers). A vol-unteer of a higher order number

shoves" each lower number down, one; a deferment of a lower num^ ber moves each number up one.

The following list of registrarfts has been ordered to appear for pre-induction examinaticm Jan. 22 at 7:30 a. m. at the court house» Delhi:

Groi^ I William H. Brown, Meridale Leonard L. Hitt, West Oneonta George Gabriel, Delhi David H. Smith, Delhi Elwood J. Dibble, Arkville Rudolph Palumbo, Yaphank George M. Alton, Fleischmaims

Gronp HI George Gregory, Bloomville

tjrrOI9 IV George .M. Jacobson, Stamford Howard R. Graham, Arena Gordon F. OHeilly, Mohawk Harry H. Slade, Scotia George W. Cook, Delhi James W. Lane, Schenectady Arthur B. McEwan, Downsville Bernard £ . Tonqikins, Hagama^ J c ^ J. Guris Jr., CobleskiU Charles A. Snyder Jr., Azk!nlle Hexay B. Mattice, New Hyde Park William W. WardwidI, Stamfcnrd

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