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VoL 88. No. 8. Established in 1863. MABGABETVILO], NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1945

Two Planes Crash In Catskills Last Sunday Evening

One at Mt. Tremper Tower, Other Near Peekamoose

Mountain

One Man Killed Chap Who Walked to Farm

Had Eyes Too Swollen to Know the Way

Two Army trainer planes, in flight from Buffalo to Newburgh, crashed in the vicinity of Phoenicia during the hard shower Sunday evening. The pilot of one plane, Lt. O'Brien, was kiUed. The pilot and, passenger in the other plane both survived, one of them suffered a broken leg.

The first plane crashed near the tower on Mt. Tremper. It hit a large rock. Those who have visited the scene said that 60 feet more elevation would have deared the rock. When the plane was found on Monday the Army at Newburgh was notified and a large number of men and much equipment were rushed to the scene. A jeep was driven to the mountain top to bring down the body of Lt. O'Brien. He was taken to New-burgh.

other jdane was a com-panion one. The pilot said that he missed Lt. O'Brien and circled back to find him. This plane crashed at the head of Watson hollow, near Peekamoose moun-tain, one of the roughest spots in the entire Catskills. One of the men came out Monday to a Wat-son hollow home. He reported that tiie other man was at the site of the plane with a broken leg. But the man who came had suf-fered eyes so badly swollen that he could not tell in what direction aearchers should go to find his obmpanied. Hie spot was sighted from the air. Rescuers foimd the

' injui^d man sitting oh a rock near the plane. This was Monday afternoon. He did not seem in a serious condition, despite no food

' for one day and exposure to the cold of the present CafskUl weather. Both planes were badly wrecked. Both men were taken to Newburgh.

Parents Receive September Letter From Sgt. G^itwell Mr. and Mrs. Martin G. Cant-

well have just received two cards from their son, Sgt. James D. Cantweli, who is in a Jap prison cam>.

One card is dated last Sept. 23, and states that he is fine and that he had received lettere '.firom his mother and sisters. The other card is similar. He states: "Mar-shall was fine the last time I saw him." Of course, he was unaware that his friend, Sgt Marshall Stoutenburgh, was liberated in the Philippines last January. They were together until last July when James was taken J;o Japan. James writes from Camp Fukuoka, Hon-shu, Japan.—^Roxbury Cor.

Cold Continues Overcoats were comfortable on

the streets of mountain villages yesterday, despite ja bright sun all

,aay. Cold and wet have prevailed ffiince the middle of April. Farm cr<^ and gardens cannot be planted.

Must Have Request For News Overseas

All persons in the armed services overseas who are now receiving The News, are urged to send to the publish-er imnjediately a written request that this newspaper be sent to them for the duration.

This action is necessary to make it possible for the publisher to comply with new postal hiles covering the mining of newspapers to persons in all services over-seas.

Soon after July 1 all names not covered by such written request must be stricken from our mail list. A post card will do.

Sgt. Morse Writes About 50,000 People on Highway A letter was received recently

from Sgt.-Lindon B. Morse. The letter was written May 3, just be-fore V-E day, and is of special interest ^ it relates to the period just before V-E day. He writes:

"Did you ever see fifty thousand people on a highway at one time? •Die sight that I saw t<5day I will never forget. It was estimated tha tat one time today there were approximately fifty thousand Ger-man soldiers, traveling in trucks, autos, motorcycles, bicycles, wag-ons, in fact, anything that had wheels on it. The vehicles were packed not only to the roof but on the roof. One truck might be pulling four or five other vehicles behind it. Women an*?" children were along with the soldiers clear-ing out ahead of the Russians that were to link up with the Americans and British in this sector.

"Traveling toward the front, we had to clear the road most of the time, it being completely filled with the oncoming traffic. The super race! Now willing to do anything to be taken prisoner and be relieved of the burden they were carrying. If we saw any one of them carrying a, pistol, they were immediately relieved of it. The same with field glasses and cameras. In fact, anything that one wanted was theirs simply by taking. Many of the Germans dis-carded their pistols along the way by tossing to one side. Many can be found in the fields along the way. A great many of them carry some type of pistol along with their other weapons. And naturally the Ameriean-^oldier is looking for souvenirs. Farther west of our camp where we stopped, the 82d Airborne Divisiwi linked up with parts of the Russian Army. They were all a j appy gang. However, %here were others more happy than one can tell. Refugees from many coimtries being liberated after having been slaves for months and years. When freed they were allowed to do what they wished with the Germans that were around at the time. They were not stopped in their actions toward the Nazis. It was a great sight. For once you felt as if you had accomplished something. No mercy can be shown the German pppulation for they have been the followers of their—may I s a y -one time leader. The complete surrender of the German army is near at hand. But will they have learned their lesson? After see-ing what I did today I wotdd like to say yes, but don't dare to. There were too many that looked at you the wrong way. And so today, May 3, 1945, goes down in my mind as a day that will never be forgotten. And so 'Old Glory* flies over more captured territory of the German Reich." — Roxbury Cor.

Gardens Are Slow Due to the hard rains and cold

weat^ier few families Have been able to get gardens made.—Ai^-ville Cor.

Bowling Center Opens Tonight With Ceremonies

$12,000 Entertamment Place Ready to Roll First

Balls

27 Bu^Stock No Matched Games First

Evening. Alleys Are Modem, Complete

The Margaretville Bowling Cen-ter will open this Friday evening at 8 o'clock with appropriate ceremony. The program of the evening will start with a word of welcome by Dr. R. E. Smith. He will express the gratitude of the community to the 27 folks who subscribed enough money to give this village, a modem bowling center. The project is said to have cost $12,000.

The bowling center is located on the second floor of the Dugan hall on Bridge street. Workmen have been busy for weeks getting the place in order and installing Brunswick-Blake-CoUender alleys of the latest and most modem design. The old floor of the hall was covered with sound-proofing material and ea'ch layer of wood was sound-proofed as the construc-tion advanced. The alleys rest on a complete sound-proofed base. The complete installation has been in charge of E. E. Neil of the company mentioned.

After the opening talk the officers of the center will take a few bows. They are: Louis Affron, president; J. R. Weeks, secretary; Everett W. Herrick, treasurer. Mr. Herrick originated the proposi-tion.

Honored guests are as follows: Miss Ethel Edwards, Rev. A. H. Coons, Father Rennie, Cecil PoUey, J. S. Bussy. These honored guests wiU roU the first balls down the alleys after which the ribbons will be cut and the alleys declared open to the public.

There will be no matched games the first evening. The manager, Charles J. Eglinger, prefers to permit as many as possible to try out the new alleys. He says, "If your name is on the sheet go to it."

The following names are those who have "put up" the money to finance the venture: Charles Eg-linger, S. A. Dugan, D. W. David-son, J. S. Bussy, Everett Herrick, Layman Snyder, D. Kelly, F. H. Sanford, A. F. Tietbohl, William S. Sperling, Arthur L. Kelly, Marion Ballard, C. J. Kelly, H. J. Miller, Art Close, Roy Saxouer, Herman Veit, Waldo Parsons, K. A. Robertson, Harold J. Smith, W. B. O'Connor, Audrey Ponemon, J. R. Weeks, W. J. Kavanaugh, Oscar Fairbaim, Garden State Lumber Co., Louis Affron.

CPA Announces Poultry P^ces Retail ceiling prices of dressed

and drawn poultry effective June 7 are aonnunced for this section.

For. groups 1-2 stores—^Dressed poultry: Broilers, roasters, fryers, 48c; fowl, 43c. Drawn poultry: Broilers, roasters, fryers, 61c; fowl, 53c. Prices for groups 3-4 stores are same-except one-cent decrease in dressed broilers, roasters, fryers.

There will be a slight increase 'in ceiling price ot egg6 effective for week June 7-13.

Orders for Induction or Examination Next Week

Selectees listed below have been ordered to appear at the court house at Delhi June 7 at 7:20 a. m. for induction: ChcU-les N. Macintosh, Bovina Ctr Donald E. Elwood, Shavertown Gerald H. Cronk, Roxbury Stanley J. Nygard, Bainbridge Donald S. Green, Sidney Lawrence R. Taylor, Granville Adelbert Pultz, Arena m t o n E. Kelly, Bedell Howard J. Ogbom, Delhi

The following are ordered for pre-induction physical examination at the same time: Angelo LiPuma, East Meredith George M. Jacobson, Stamford Kenneth L. Holden, Arkville,,-Derwin G. York, Harriman John J. Zeidei*, Sidney Frank H. Neice, Stamford Lester A. Rosa, Arkville Raymond F. Oliver, Kelly Corners Michael R. Lodovice, Sidney Lewis L. Kaufman, Goshen Fred G. Hitchcock, Stamford Lee D. MacDonald, Oneonta Merwin E. George, Arkville Adriano Lanzi, Denver George E. Martin, Hobart Burton F. Clark, Delhi Howard Gerken, Stamford Victor W. HiU, Walden Imar C. Mondore, Delhi Leroy J. Grah'am, Roxbury Dorville W. Finkle, Shavertown James A. Finch, Roxbury Robert P. Pultz, Fleischmanns Francis A. Pickett, Grand Gorge Lloyd R. Grant, Delhi Lyim Liddle, Shavertown Bemard Vrbsky,' Union Grove John T. Haamilton, Delhi Carlton J. Cook, Stamford Murray R. Mayes, Fleischmanns Ray J. Weaver, Union Grove David H. Smith, Delhi William J. Merritt, Sidney George B. Davis, Schenectady J. Krasity Jr., Detroit

May Milk Expected to Bring $3.44 Per Cwt.

With $24,273,600 forecast as the farm income from May milk de-liveries to New York-area approved plants, dairy farmers will share the largest jdeld for any month in history.

The estimated retum is apinroxi-mately $485,000 greater than the record established in June, 1944, and is based primarily on the projections that 50,300 producers are expected to have delivered 694 million pounds of milk and that the imiform price will figure out at $3.09 a hundredweight. The War Food Administration produc-tion incentive, added to the uni-form price at the minimimi rate of 35 cents a hundredweight, wiQ raise the total yield to $3.44.

The anticipated record income of $24,273,600 is the sum of $400,-000 for butterfat and location ptemiums, a pool yield of $21,844,-600 at $3.09 a hundredweight, and $2,429,000 in WFA payments.

The farm income for May de-liveries a year ago, including fed-eral dairy payments at a minimum of 45 cents, was $23,667,061.95, while the previous record high in total value was set with the yield from June milk in 1944. It came to a total of $28,788,472.52. The new record apparently is going to be credited to May, 1945, because of the increase in production this year as compared with last. Both the May and June returns of 1944 —^respectively, $3.60 and $3.57 with the WFA incentives included—are higher than the current expecta-tion of $3.44.

Purchases Johnson Prt^rly Lowell Peckham has purchased

the Bama Johnson property on upper Main street—Andes Cor.

P« r Tear

Middletown Wiur Bond Buyers i)ff To Good Start

WeU on Toward Half o f / t . Goal. County Reaches 36

Per Cent of Quota

Sells ^ B o n d s Chairman Guild Proud of

Past County Record, Confident This Time

The township of Middletown is doing nicely in its effort to sub-scribe to the Seventh War Loan. Mrs. Florence K. Maurer, who has charge of the canvassers for the west part of the township, and Crawford Lasher, for the east part, reported on Tuesday that $67,629 of the quota of $154,600 had already been subscribed. One young woman has sold 78 bonds and expects to add considerably to that figure.

E. B. Guild, county chairman for the War Finance committee, says of the bond drive, "Delaware county is proud of its war loan record and confident that we will more than meet our Seventh War Bond quota. We owe this to our men at the fighting fronts an4 of course, we wiU succeed. There is no more important business before any of us today."

Up to last Saturday the people of the county had bought $901,492 worth of bonds in all categories. With a total quota of $2,500,000, this means that the county has bought only 36 per cent of its quota and will have to step some to go over the top by the end of the drive. Delaware has reason to be proud of its record in previous war loan drives and Mr. Guild and his aides are confident that the county will more than meets its quota.

James Foreman Resigns as Member of State Committee

James F. Foreman, chairman of the Delaware county Republican committee for over 35 years and a member of the New York state Republican committee for 25 years, has tendered his resignation as a member of the latter, effective at the next meeting of the State Executive conrmiittee.

Dr. E. Ogden Bush of Walton has been recommended to fill the vacancy.

Mr. Foreman, after many years of Republicem leadership on the state committee, feels that he ^ should be relieved of this responsi-bility, especially in view of the fact that he still retains the posi-tion of chairman of the coimty committee.

Injured in Car Accident Henry Williams was severely

injured Saturday evening when his car went off the steep bank opposite the former Sniffin Bellows residence at Cold Spring. He was foimd by passers-by and taken to the office of Dr. J. A. Gaul, who took him to Stamford ho^it^. Dr. Gaul sutured a deep wound in his head. He was also severely cut and bruised. The car was wreckekd.—Roxbury Cor.

Andes Jmiiors IVin l l ie Junior bal} team of the

Delhi school lost to the Andes boys here Saturday by a 9 to 0 score.— Andes Cor.