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Brewster, Putnam County, January 4, 1962 Established 92 Years Price $3,00 Per Year j . - * i K

i^wster To Vote On $ 1,100,000 School Bond Issue on February 14 I

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i New '•••$$&Significant findings .toward impniving profits through bet­ter movement of goods were .revealed tnd'i-^OJaX;.Truck & Coach Division in ».|.first;public report-6f a four-. PI'luMPWWtioft stu4y -of American

^tii i 'Jl 'Werner, vice president of General Motors and general manager of the. Division, disclosed details of the in-depth study and announced that findings would be published soon for ; use of top 'managements of business arid-industry,< ;••'.', ' '•

Se said researchers in; GMC's Trans­portation Productivity Research De­partment probed /InfcV many nyrjor busmesies to determine how pjhey could find relief from the (profit

&§?;••••. squeeze through better handling and movement of their - products.. Matty

rl;?/ . firms surveyed were giants /In the Menfe"*)-'"'A 'American economy. '.. .•'•/•, •',

r , "At'the putieti research teams ex-S^(^V'V-- ,.peetbd to "find a minimum' savings U p v ; ; potential of 10, percent of (the fleet-* % ;i /department budgetj" Warner/ said. "To

%:'-'', r ^ ' d a t e i • they-'have yet to cjoraplete a study without finding a s'avings po­tential greater than 2 per' fcent.

"fi>, compiny 'after company, top managements were aroused by the dollar,volume of waste iri their own truck transportation operations, a ma­terial-handling function they {tad tra-•fyignally' accepted as a necessary bitt

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Joan Anderson Fiancee ' Of Chas. Anderson, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey E. Anderson, of Peaceable Hill announce the en­gagement of their daughter, Miss Joan Marilyn Anderson, to Mr. Charles, E. Anderson, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs., Charles E. Anderson, Sr., of Peaceable Hill Road.

,Miss Anderson was graduated from Brewster High School and the Wash­ington School for Secretaries. She is presently employed by the Reader's Digest Association in New York City as an assistant to the Merchandising Director. Mr. Anderson is a gradu­ate of Brewster High School, Pierce /Radio and Television, RCA Radio In­stitute and attended- White Plains Community College. He served four years in the Army Signal Corps in World War H and Korea. He is the owner of Anderson's Television in Brewster.

FIVE ESCAPE FIRE I N BURNING HOUSE

Mother, Three Children and Guest , Flee House .Fired fay Space Heater.

Neighbor Saves Man Trapped by Window Sash

A kerosene space heate • was blamed for a fire Monday night which de­stroyed a home on old Rt. 6 behind the Brewster Bowling and Recreation Center.

iFive persons in the house were forced to flee through the rear win­dows of the one-story £fan)e structure. It was occupied J(Fwrs. Florence Bar-tolo and her.three children.

A visitor, Joseph Cornell, 46, of White Plains, was saved from serious

RUTH ANN MICHELL JAMES ELLIOTT WED

Ceremony in St. Paul and St. Andrew Church, New York City, is Followed by Dinner in Hawley Manor

Miss Ruth Ann Michell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Michell, of Center Street, Brewster, N. Y., was married on December 30, 1961 to Mr. James H. Elliott, son of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Elliott, of North Salim.

Mrs. James H. Elliott

The wedding took place at, the Church of St. Paul add St. Andrew, 86th Street and West End Avenue, New York City, with Rev. Robert Schrock, forriier pastor, Methodist Church, of bride was given in m father and Miss Rose

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Seal Sales Asks Contributions Now

We all have a habit of pigeonholing things that donltfrequire our imme­diate attention. And the busy holiday season seems to be one of the best periods for pigeonholing. That's why the Putnam County Health Association wonders if this,Mir, you may have accidentally put aside something im­portant. We wondljr if you1 might have just happened to pigeonhole the chance that cbntfs. your way each holiday to help make this1 a healthier and happier ,world|for all of us. Why don't you open that desk] drawer and look through your mail to see if you might have overlooked your Christ­mas Seal letter, becausi' this letter helps protect you? and your family . . . in fact, all our families..Christmas Seals help pay for TB research, case finding, patient service.1; and health education. ' f

Take another look arjbund. Answer your Christmas, Seal letter today. Send your contribution to Putnam County Health Association. Box 175, Brewster, N. Y.

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CURRENCY DISPLAY AT BREWSTER BANK

Meserole F. Mead, Cashier, Invites Public to View Exhibit of U. S. Currency on Loan from Federal Reserve Bank of New York for One Week

The First Rational Bank of Brew­ster will display a collection of United States currency and coin in its lobby for one week, beginning January 3, 1962, Meserole F. Mead, Cashier, an­nounced.

The exhibit is made up of three frames of currency and one frame 6f coin, and includes specimens of money issued or minted from colonial times to the present.

Our Nation's earliest history is re­flected in specimens of the currency issued by the Continental Congress to help finance the Revolution. Overissue of this currency caused its rapid de­preciation and gave rise to the ex­pression "not worth a continental." The problems of the Civil War period are reflected in the "shin-plasters," or fractional currency which had to be issued by the North to replace coin, which had become scarce. Confederate currency issued in the South to help finance the Confederacy's war effort is also displayed.

Of unusual interest is the collection of Federal Reserve notes — of which more than $27 million arc outstanding — including the seldom seen $10,000 denomination. The set of notes was printed especially by the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, in Washing­ton, D. C, for the Federal Reserve

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Clough, Vice-Pres. In Morgan Guaranty

William S. Clough, Jr., of Katonah, N. Y., a member of the general bank-

j ^ i : division of Morgan Guaranty Trust ^ . of New York, was one of four • fire-presidents of the bank elected on Dec.-29, 1961.

Mr. Clough is the son of Mrs. Wil­liam S. Clough, of Brewster, N. Y.

MOREY - POTOR HOLIDAY NUPTIALS

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understanding the relation-btween profit potential and ransportation, four years ago

elf With productivity experts Jecteli to research ways of decreas-

|tg trv. ck-transportation costs. ">Thi i field research has already

lamed the respect and confidence of be to > managements of many busi­nesses j " '•:•'•' •••'''•

•He said sthe researchers made co-

(operative, large, scale surveys within individual companies operating their own truck fleets to move their own materials and products. i

' ' Research was broad-based, always jkept confidential, and sometimes • reached back 10 years into coroporate \books?'jSbmeT/Studies took weeks, others, month/'

' v The, survey'covered street and high ! way .transportation in a wide variety of fields, including food, petroleum, chemicals, construction, printing and publishir.g, iron and steel, public util­ities, retailing and general distribu­tion. .'

In every business studied, R was found that a sizable savings potential existed. This has a direct bearing on company profits, for the-savings come from reductions of costs that can be transferred directly into the profit ledger.

Here are some examples, with the firm names kept anonymous due to the confidential relationship between the researchers and the companies:

One corporation is correcting the lack of top-management controls in the fleet department to translate into potential gross profit $50,000 in wasted costs, the euqivalent at two percent net profit on sales of $1.25 million in new business annually.

Another company recognized an im­balance of truck types in its diesel-gasoline fleet, is writing off new trucks in three years with the savings

talone, thereafter foresees an addi-fonal half-million dollars in new an-

Eil gross profit. I great fleet was shown potential ings of $9 million a year, or $4.5 Ijon in new net profit — the equiv-

pf -he profit on 300 additional f% each buying $1 million a

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f'.y research, said: "Costs of [transportation influence sale and profits on everything that msiness delivers to the market

[Yet few businesses assemble |le accountings of transport

£ten they've obscured them in production, sales or general

Ire studies GMC's survey-re-Jms made, the more strongly

the (Pattern of savings op-

Of the Bartolos. Cornell jumped through a side win­

dow to escape the rapidly spreading flames, but didn't quite make it. The window sash dropped on his legs and trapped him hanging head down out­side the window according to Daley.

Daley pushed the window up with a clothes pole and Cornell dropped free. He suffered a scalp laceration and possible neck injuries in the fall, and face burns while he was trapped outside the window.

He was taken to Northern Westches­ter Hospital, Mount Kisco. The hospi­tal indicatd that his injuries were not serious,

The house was owned by David Parent.

The alarm was sounded at 10:27 p.m., and firemen answered, but found that the fire spread so rapidly through the wooden structure that the house was completely in flames by the time they arrived.

The firemen fought to contain the blaze for two hours.

A bursting cooking gas container gave a moment of alarm when the safety valve on the top of the con­tainer let go and the escaping gas suddenly added fo the pyrotechnics.

Mrs. Bartolo and her children, Lin­da 8, Bruce 6 and Jeffery 4, are living in the home of Mrs. Frances Keeler on North Main Street until other quarters can be made. They lost everything they had and they need furniture.

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The couple will reside at Va'iPs Grove, North Salem.

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St. James Episcopal Church, Motc-rcy, California was the setting for a wedding on December 23, 1601 of Victoria Martha Potor and IJCDR Leonard Morey, Jr., United States Navy. The Rev. George W. Ridgway officiated at the double-ring ceremony.

Victoria is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Florea G. Potor, of 430 West 12th Street, Anderson, Indiana. She is a graduate of St. Mary's High School, Anderson, Indiana and also a graduate of St. Elizabeth's Hospital School of Nursing, Lafayette, Indiana. She is presently in the United States Navy Nurse Corps and is stationed at the Naval Air Facility, Dispensary, Monterey. Calif.

The bridegroom, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Morey, St., of North Salem, New York. He is presently attending the U. S. Naval Postgradu­ate school, Monterey, Calif., and will graduate with a Bachelor Of Science degree in March 1962, Following his

, graduaten lie will resume his duties as a Naval Aviator with the fleet. |

I Lcdr. Morey graduated from Purdys Central High School, North Salem, N. Y, in 1945, .and receive' " Naval Commissi

The registered voters of the Brew* ster Central School District will have anoppor'tunity to vote on a si.lOO.OOO bond Issue on Wednesday, February 14,1982, for a new elementary school which is needed very urgently. There arc 1082 elementary pupils in,grades kindergarten through sixth. Yet wo have a capacity for 660 in our Garden Street School and• 170 in the rooms in the High School building for I total of 850. Next year we shall have to take over some of these rooms, for the high schools pupils. Next Sep­tember we anticipate quite conserv­atively there will be 1104 pupils is grades K-tith in our system.

The new building, to accommodate 600 pupils, if approved by the voters,

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Hollywood Head, List of Special New Year's Eve Dinner-Dances. Lenny's First Anniversary Scores a Hit With

Lars* ftityMty of Patrem •; . " i<% • . *

Hundreds of people celebrated the coming of the New Year for four day* e^s Friday, Dec. 29,1961 through January , :

1, 1962 in the homes and inns about, i v!. Brewstei,N. Y. ^ P l

Giggcst gathering to toast the little new yoar was. at Hollywood Cafe' . wher^«apa**kner WlBeim P. Cun­ningham and William Manning ' corned a ttscord number of o U . B U — . *, and nwiJliieeratioaa-.ten « » i p > f e i scribed b» the dawt -* ^ " - v

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SCHOOL TAX RELIEF FOR REAL PROPERTY

Rockefeller Favors Lifting Some of the Tax Burden Imposed on Prop­erty Onwers by School Districts

certiorated and the TowW'Board made appropriations anmlally'1foMts main­tenance. '•'' r . - • • ^ ' '

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Pharmaceuticals manufacturers use platinum and palladium as catalysts to alter and rearrange the molecules of many substances used to make vita­mins and drug priducts.

portunities in seven common profit leaks. The leaks can be described briefly as the lack of direct attention from top management, the lack of exacting vehicle selection, the lack of planning vehicle replacement, the lack of systematic analysis of useful records, the lack of strong mainten­ance policies, the lack of clear stand-' ards of performance and the lack of, skillful dispatching.

More detailed results of this re­search will be published in digest form by GMC under the title of, "Seven Common Profit Leaks in Truek Transportation" for the use of top managements of companies operating their own fleets.

The digest sets forth selected case histories from fleet studies; seven J measurements for economical (Uvt performance; a formula developed for programming truck replacement; and a quick pencil-cheek list for any top management executive to make a quick desk-top audit of the probabili­ties of new-profit potential in the operation of his own company's fleet.

Albany, Jan. 3 — Governor Rocke­feller indicated today that he was prepared to go along with recommen­dations for new non-property taxing powers for local school districts.

In his message to the 1962 Legisla­ture, Mr. Rockefeller noted that "the rising cost of maintaining our syst"m of elementary and scondary schools is straining the financial resoures of many local School districts and their real property taxpayers."

Last week a staff report of a special committee to study education finance urged that school districts be em­powered to levy a 1 per cent sales tax on a county or multi-county basis, the proceeds to go to education.

In i960 Mr. Rockefeller asked the Legislature to approve similar per­missive local taxes, which school au­thorities could levy in perference to increasing the present real state tax rates for school purposes.

Opposition Within Party This proposal did not meet with

favor in the Republican controlled Legislature, however, despite the Gov­ernor's pleas. A major factor was the reluctance of the lawmakers to au­thorize new local taxes, even if they did not directly impose them, in a year when they were all seeking re election.

Precisely the same situation obtains this year, and it seemed unlikely that the legislators were any more eager !o create new taxes now than the\

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NEW POLICE PLAN WINS BY 36 VOTES

51 Property Owners Cast Vote% In Special Election on Proposition for a Joint Village-Town Police Force

On December 28. 1961 at a Special Kle.'hon of the Village of Brewster. N Y. thirty-six property owners cast voles in favor of the proposition to establish joint Police service with the Town of Southeast; fourteen voted against the plan; one turned in a void ballot.

The Town of Southeast will hold an election on the matter of a joint Town-Village police force probably in February.

For the past thirty years Brewster Library has been housed in the beau­tiful colonial structure of Harvard brick and limestone erected on the site of the home of the late William Andrew Ferris who by his will gave his residence property to Brewster Library. Then the Town Board of Southeast, knowing Mr. Ferris' keen interest in the Library, designated that the residence of his estate, be­queathed to the Town of Southeast, be known as the William Ferris Fund and used for the library building. So these two bequests of Mr. Ferris pro­vided an institution that is a source of great usefulness and enjoyment.

Other public spirited citizens who gave substantial aid for maintenance of the library were Mrs. Amy Howes, Joseph Scolpino, Elizabeth F. Morgan and Mrs. Frank Wells. Gifts of books, pictures and sums of money have been given to the Library from time to time.

New Books Arrive s

The books are for the information and pleasure of both adults and juven­iles. Mrs. Samuels, librarian, an­nounces that they are all catalogued and ready to go into circulation.

If any patron of the lebrary needs

„ colni ny, made In England

and shipped to the'Colonies in an at tempt to ease the coin shortage. Also of interest arc the one-half cent piece, the first coin to be minted by the United States; the two-cent piece of 1864, the first U. S. coin to bear the inscription "In God We Trusst"-, and the trade dollar, issued from 1873 to 1883, the only coin ever demonetized by the United States. Gold coins, with­drawn from circulation in 1933. arc :n the exhibit, too

The making of a quarter, illustrating bar to a finished coin, is also shown each step in the process from a silver in one of the frames. Another has specimens of counterfeit notes, paired with genuine, and samples of raised notes.

SUBURBAN PROPANE ANTICIPATES GAINS

Earnings Per Share, Attention to Re­duce Costs, Service Beyond the Gas Mains Make LP-Gas a Substantial Operation

Whippeny, N. J. - - At an informal meeting last week, about thirty New York Security Analysts quizzed offi­cers and department heads of Subur­ban Propane Gas Corporation con­cerning its present and future plans.

In reply to one question, R. Gould special books their requests should be jMorehead. financial vice president, made to the librarian. The Mid-Hud-' stated (hat the 1961 anticipated earn son Library system is designated to help readers who have special prob­lems.

GRANGE MEETS JAN. 5

The next meeting of Brewster Grange will be held this Friday, Jan. 5. at 8 p.m. in the Hall on Park Street. Master Arthur Hansen announces that the program will highlight, among others, an urgent resolution for the new year: "Safety — All Out!" Wal­lace Buter. lecturer, will be in charge.

An active December for tho local Grangers culminated Sunday night In a well-altended and jolly New Year's Eve gathering in the Grange Hill. Phyllis Schutz was in charge of the gay events, and refreshments, music and games enlivened the evening for all.

The annual congregational meeting of Brewster Presbyterian Church will be held following a covered dish sup­per in Reed Chapel on Tuesday, Jan. 9 The supper will be served under the direction of the Women's Associa­tion at 6:30 p.m.. and followed by the meeting at 8 p.m. Annual reports of officers will be give* at this time All members of the ^lgregation arc urged to attend.

ings of $1.80 per share, which had been forecast earlier this year, is expected to hold true. Earnings per share, of $1.72 were reported for the year 1960.

In answer to a question concerning the possibility of passing increased costs on to the customer, the group was informed that since this is not feasible, management is constantly looking for ways in which to reduce costs Self-furnished transportation was cited as one example. It was further stated that Suburban Propane is working alone, as well as with industry, to obtain more realistic freight rates for jumbo tank cars, and on the development of combination pipeline-rail rates to broaden the use of the Little Big Inch pipeline, which has been reconverted to handle LP-Gas shipments.

Suburban Propane is the largest in­dependent distributor of LP-Gas. The company serves over a half-million homes beyond the gas mains, as well as thousands of farms, boats, and commercial, institutional, and indus­trial establishments One subsidiary manufactures gas appliances which ahe sold both through the company's LP-Gas distribution facilitiv and hy the gas industry as a whole, through­out the United States and Canada Another subsidiary manufactures stor

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The bride, wh riage by her bro wore a dramatic floor length gown

; white slipper satin with a flowing skirt, fashioned with a chapel train. The scoop neckline was trimmed wfth Alencon lace.

Her shoulder length silk illusion beehive veil was attached to a petite crown of pearls and aurora boreal is crystals. She wore a strand of riearls, which was her wedding gift from the groom. The "something old" was a beautiful white lace handkerchief which was sent to her by her sister Connie when she visited Brussels, Belgium several years ago. Victoria's bridal bouquet was a crescent shape of white carnations and white rose­buds, trimmed with green cypress.

Miss Sylvia Ann Potor, was her sisters maid of honor. She wore a full skirted, street length gown of

j Electric Blue Taffeta, with an overlay I of matching chiffon. Her headpiece was a large cabbage rose of matching taffeta with a circle of net. Her bou­quet was pink carnations and pink rosebuds.

Miss Carolyn Borst and Miss Jac­queline Mathias were the two brides­maids. Their dresses were fashioned

I as that of the maid of honor, only I powdqr blue in color. Their bouquets were all the same.

| The best man was Lt. Marvin G. Smith of Monterey. Six Naval Officers, all from the U. S. Naval Postgraduate School, served as ushers.

The wedding reception was held at the Copper Cup Room in the Com­missioned Officers Mess at the Naval Postgraduate School, which was dec­orated with white carnations and maiden fern The church was deco­rated with large vases of white stock.

After the first of the year the newly-weds will be making their home at the Green Cypress Apart meats, 426 Lighthouse Ave. Apt 4. Pacific Grove, California.

Mrs. Eddie Paige sang "The Lord's Praver" The traditional Lohengren's Wedding March was played by Mr. Robert Peterson. Pacific Grove or­ganist.

parties were special Now Year's ttt at The Deer inn, Brewster

Lodge of Elks, American Legion Hall, the Old Homestead. \

Celebrating its first anniversary/ Lenny's Bar and Grill on Main Street,, was the scene of festivity until morn­ing. Many of the patrons had been at the grand opening of Lenny's new establlshsment in February 1961.

Among the spots open to wayfarers were Colonial Pines, the Patio, the Tamarack and the Southeast House, an historic spot on Main Street serv­ing patrons well before the great blizzard of '68.

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Compatible Alloy

Because Monel nickel-copper alloy is galvanically compatible with bronze, il can he used to fasten bronze marine parts without fear of galvanic corro­sion

as;e tanks for the LP-Gas and assem­bles tank trucks for the industry as wel! as for Suburban Propane.

Suburban Propane is distributed to domestic, commercial and industrial customers in Northern Westchester, Putnam and Southern Dutchess Coun­ties from its modern plant on Carmcl Avenue, in Brewster.

It has recently been ascertained that a charter granted in 1049 can be reactivated for the Republican Club of Southeast which is now being or­ganized. This will be of considerable assistance to the new club in elim­inating additional expense and pos­sible complications, and those attend­ing the next meeting will be asked to formally accept the charter.

As a step in organizing the club, a constitution and by-laws was prepared in Anal, form at a meeting held on December 18 by a review committee. It is hoped that this can be printed in booklet form for distribution to the membership soon after its antici­pated approval at the meeting to be held at the Brewster Grange Hall on Thursday night, January 18. tion of officers and trustees for the

At that time there will be an elec­tion of officers and trustees for the coming year.^While a proposed slate, has been drawn up by a nominating commltte, nominations from the floor will also be honored.

All persons interested in becoming members of the Republican Club of Southeast are cordially invited to attend the January 18 meeting. Those joining at or before the April meet­ing will have the distinction of char­ter membership.

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.Mr and Mrs James .1 Yessian of Oak Street, announce the hirth of their first child. Laurie Ann. Wed­nesday December 27th at Northern Westchester Hospital She weighed 7 pounds. 1 oz The maternal grandpar­ents are Mr and Mrs John Petersen and the paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs Harry Yessian of I>akc Se-cor. Mahopac, N. Y.

In 1888. it cost $1500 to embalm a finback whale for a New .'ork travel­ing exhibit.