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Villcige Property Worth $3 Million

The tentative 1965 assess­ment roll completed and veri­fied by the Margaretville vil­lage board shows tha t the assessed valuation of village property is almost $21,000 higher than laist year. The new roll is subject to slight change after a state hearing on special franchises covering four u n tie s .

The 1965 assessment for tax puiposes is $1,117,589. Last year it was $1,096,633. Most of the increase- is be-

-cause of new construction a t the Redmond development and another new home.

Based on the state’s appli­cation of a 36 per cent equal­ization rate to the 1964 roll, this indicates that village property has a m arket vedue of more than three million dollars.. This does not include tax exempt property.

Miss Janet Harten of New York city, representing Scotch Valley ski center, wears the crown of the second annual Central Catskills snow ball queen, after her selection Saturday night. Members of her court in ascending order are Joan Sanford, representing Belleayre Mountain ski center; Elizabeth Dugan, representing Big Bear ski center; Karen Ritter, representing Shayne’s.

More than 100 persons attended^ the ball, which followed the fashion show and selection of the queen in the Margaretville central school auditorium.

Participants in the fashion show were Dena Farber, Wendy Boxer and “Happy” Dugan, representing the Kass ski shop, Karen R itter and I^urilyn West, representing Shayne’s ski shop, and Janet Hartón, representing Scotch Val­ley ski shop. The. fashion show narrator was Mrs. Dot Nebel, head of the ski school at Belleayre Mountain ski center.

Judges for the queen’s selection were Douglas McKenzie of Stain- ford, vice-president of the Dela­ware county Chamber of Com­merce; Mrs. Gérta Walling of New York city and Arthur Sullivan of Margaretville.

Richard Lynch, president of the Central Catskills association, was m aster of ceremonies and spoke briefly on the history and accom­plishments of the association.

The snow sculpture contest was canceled because of an acute lack of the basic raw material.

Red Hook Band Plays A t MCS Saturday

' T he Red Hook central school band wiU present a concert in the Margaretville central school auditorium Saturday at 8:15 p. m. The 59-piece band, under, the di-

■ rection of Murray Van Ness, will arrive in Margaretville at 1 p. m., a t which 'time the visitors will rehearse several numbers with the MCS band, which will be pre­sented a t the conclusion of the concert.

Parents and interested friends of the MCS band will provide overnight housing for the Red Hook students. This is the third consecutive year Margaretville has played host to a visiting, band.

As a part of the concert, the Red Hook dance band wiU play several selections. The concert is free and open to the public.

Truck Broke BridgeHalcottvüle, March 8.—An oil

truck operated by Robert Hanley of Arkville broke through the private bridge near the Frank W.

.Smith home and nearly tipped over, last Wednesday. No dam­age was done to the truck.

Drive Netted $223Fleischmanns, March 8. -r- Mrs.

William Cohen, Fleischmanns chairman for the H eart fund driye, reports a total of $223.40 was collected in the drive.

Justice Douglas Next

Snow Brought Skiers, But Not to Stay

Skiers enjoyed some of the best conditions of the winter Saturday and Sunday a t Belleayre, High- mount. Big Bear and Plattekill ski centers.

While all centers report less than capacity crowds, because the six to seven-inch faU came too late to receive widespread notice, traffic to route 28 was heavy both days. Many were apprehensive of finding good conditions from lack of snow in the valleys.

Spring conditions wül obtain a t nearly all areas this coming week­end. Most will close soon w ith­out additional snow.

Motels and boarding houses say they did not receive much busi­ness.

Hunter Moimtain ski bowl wiU be the site this weekend of the aimual A rt Draper memorial race. This race is sponsored by the Rip Van Winkle Ski council in mem­ory, of A rt Drapei-, a w^-known skier and supporter of skiing. He was original superintendent and <ieveloper of Belleayre Mountain ski center.

The Von Der Linden Trophy for juniors of all classes will be fea­tured Saturday. The A rt Draper trophy, a team diampionship race for men and women over 18, wiU be contested Sunday.

Bears Evaded Guns Of Hunters in ’64

Big game hunters in New York state last year killed 469 black bears during a season beset with hunting conditions tha t favored the bears a good deal more than the hunter. There was but one bear shot in Delaware county.

A fair beechnut crop attracted bruins away from the areas where himters usually concentrate. In addition, portions of the Adiron- dacks were off limits to hunters during the first 27 days of the regular season because of a seri-. ous forest fire threat. In three counties this delay cut the usual annual take by 50 per cent.

Despite complications a t the sta rt of the season, the total statewide harvest was above the 1963 kill of 445 bears and the 10- year, 1955-64, average take of 454. The all time high of 622 bears was set in 1960.

Archers reported taking two bears. One, a 150-pound female bruin, was downed by a Pennsyl­vania archer near Steambxu^h in Cattaraugus county. A 300-pound male bear was reported killed by a New York himter near Big Moose in Herkimer cotmty.

Hamilton coimty with 106 bears kiUed, was not seriously challenged as the state’s top bear himting' covmty.

A coimty breakdown of bears killed in the Catskills during 1964 follows: Delaware, 1; Greene, 14; Sullivan, 14; Ulster, 24. Total, 53.

Andes Girl Accepted At Brockport SUC

The director of admissions at the New York State University college in Brockport has an­nounced the acceptance of Miss Betty Temming, senior a t the An­des central school, for the fresh­man dass of September 1965.

Miss Temming, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Temming of An­des, has been active in cheerlead- ing, girls’ athletics, senior play, chorus, and student council. She plans to major in elementary ed­ucation whUe a t Brockport. She has also been accepted a t State University college in EVedonia.

Missing Boy FoundArthur Kahil, 14, of Mt. Trem-

per, who was reported naissing from home early Sunday morning, was located on route 28 about 8 ~a.. m. Sunday by a sheriffs patrol. His parents were notified and he was taken to the sheriff’s office by Deputies Thomas O’Brien and Henry‘ Polhamus for questioning and to .await arrival of his parents.

Pupils Had Phone Interview With Prominent BroadcasterGroups of students from Andes

and Margaretville cen tré schools larticipated in a telephone inter­view Friday with Pauline Fred­ericks, United Nations reporter foi- the National Broadcasting comi>any over the telephone teach­ing system in this sui>ervisory dis­tr ic t

Following a synopsis of the work of the UN, Miss Fredericks answered questions put to her by the local students for about half an hour. In discussing the prob­lems of the UN, Miss Fredericks called the body “a vision come true” in which nations desist from fighting as long as their prob­lems are aired in the UN.

Participating students were those who will represent Marga­retville and Andes a t the model UN session a t Delhi Tech May 1.

Students from Margaretville in the conversation were Sally Hug­gins, Douglas Sluiter, Sue Van Benschoten and Kathy Scudder. Kam Mattino sat in as a repre­sentative of junior high school.

This group win take the role of Nationalist China in the model UN security council session. Also in the conversation were Princi­pal Erie Smith and Advisor Dan Morse, social studies teacher.

Andes participants were Wil­liam Finkle, Karen Joslin and Pa­tricia Berg, who will act as the Soviet Union delegates at the model session. Their advisor is David Andrews, social studies teacher.

Members of the jtmior class a t the Andes central school will speak via the tele-teaching sys­tem a t the school to Associate Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas on Wednesday morn­ing, March 17. ’

Justice Douglas will speak on the expanding role of the court in American iiffairs and will answer questions from the dass. A talk a t a la ter date is plarmed for the sophomore world history class with W alter Lord, author of “Day of Infamy” and “A Night to Remember.”

New Hospital Inquiry Made Under US Act

The Margaretville hospital board of directors is seeking in­formation on federal assistance to build a new fire-resistant hospital in Margaretville. j Such aid is contained in the Appalachian Re­gional Development act of 1965 recentiy passed by the Congress and signed Tuesday by President Johnson.

The bill provides for inclusion of Delaware eind other southern tier counties a t a later date. Un­der the act the government wiU pay 80 per cent of the cost of new hospital if certain conditions are met.

A letter was sent Monday to R Sargent Schriver, director of the program to ascertain what stejis must be taken to make formal application. Copies of the letter were sent to congressional repre­sentatives and to hospital officials in Albany.

A member of the New York state Hospital Survey and Plan­ning Cormnission, Irving Mermon, speaking recentiy before a joint meeting of Margaretville and other hospital representatives sug­gested that communities the size of Margaretville might profitably combine nursing home and regular ho^ital, facilities to achieve a 50 bed imit. ■ Most hospital authori­ties agree that 50 beds is the minimmn economically feasible unit. Federal and state assisl^ce is seldom available for imits of smaller size. '

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Fleischmanns Girls M ark Scout Week

Fleischmarms, March 8. — Tlie Fleischmanns Junior Girl Scouts enjoyed cake and punch a t their meeting Monday afternoon in ob­servance of Girl Scout Week. The Brownie troop also enjoyed a party at their m ating Monday afternoon.

The Junior Girl Scouts started a selling project Monday to raise money for their work during the year.

A meeting of mothers of the Girl Scouts was held Monday eve­ning a t the fire hall to find lead­ers for the coming year. Those to volimteer their services were: Mrs. Frank Mariotti, leader of the Brownie troop, and Mrs. Emil Grocholl as assistant; Mrs. Dick Barkman, leader of the Juniors, with Mrs. Thomas Smith as as­sistant.

Mrs. Myrtle Lang is chairman of the Girl Scout Troop. Leaders are needed for the Cadet troop. Training is available a t this time in this area. Those interested for training and leadership may con­tact Mrs.' Lang.

Leaders for Canvass Named by Red Cross

Mrs. Irvina Andrews, chairman of the Red Cross drive for the town, of Middletown, has com­pleted the recruitment of com­munity leaders for the drive this month.

Leaders are Graham Bruce, Margaretville; Mrs. David Wil­liams, Arkville; Mrs. Harold Church, Dry Brook; Mrs. Guy Faulkner and Mrs. F rands Ruff, New Kingston; Miss Faimy Hub- beU, Kelly Comers; Guy Kelly, Halcottville; Mrs. Alfred Mathis, Hubbell Hill; Eldred Shaver, Mül- brook; Mrs. Clifton Elliott, Dun- raven; Mrs. Haldbert Utter, Huckleberry Brook.

Forums W ill Resume A t ACS in Spring

A new series of programs in An­des central school’s Forums on Foreign Cultures will open Tues­day evening, March 23, when Ab­del Wahid, attache a t the United Arab Republic tourist office, will speak on his native Egypt.

Other programs this spring are to be on Switzerland, France, Dermiark, and Puerto Rico. A sixth program is yet to be ar­ranged. The Forums are ending their third season and are spon­sored by the Andes chapter of the National Honor sodety. David C. Andrews is advisor to the group.^

H eart Fund Is $507Phoenicia, March 8.—^Mrs. Al­

fred Pettinato, chairman of the heart fund, r e ^ r ts the following coEections: Chichester, $92; Pine Hill, $45.25; Shandaken, $66.50; Phoenicia, $192.45; Woodland, $30; AUaben, $19.30; Mt. Tremper-Mt. Pleasant, $61.75. A total of $507.25 was reached for the town of Shan­daken.

Rotarians Are Told Of School Mergers

Roxbiuy, March 8.—^The Rotary club met a t Mapleburst Monday evening. Principal Roderick C. Dorrance of Roxbury central school devoted his program to a discussion of school district re­organization. He traced the his­tory of public education from the common school to the central school district. Mention was made of the decrease in the number of school districts during the last 40 years.

Mr. Dorrance distributed copies of a pamphlet describing the pro­posed reorganization of neighbor­ing districts. He dted advantages and disadvantages of reorganiza­tion. The reicent trend in local school population was among items discussed.

He detailed the steps that mvist be taken in the formation of a reorganization of a central school district. Under the master plan of the state, Roxbury would com­bine with Margaretville, Andes and Fleischmarms.

A visiting Rotarian was Lew Miller of Chieonta. ■ ^

Carroll G. Hinkley presented the club with a banner from the Ro­tary dub in HoUjTvood, Fla.

F. Leighton Enderlin announced the qualifications for attendance pins as follows: Lindon B. Morse, 18 years; Virgil Taylor, rune years; Edwárd Snegoski, two years.

Demos Seek To End City’s Plowing Task

A foretaste of how upstate New York WÜ1 be treated jwlitically after the Supreme Court mandat­ed reapportionment becomes law came to light this week. A New York State Senate committeé^ on the affairs of New York city rer ported favorably a bill to relieve New York city from responsibility of plowirg and sanding roads around reservoirs.

Senator E. Ogden Bush, a mem­ber of the corrmiittee, has pro­tested the action and says he will carry his fight to Governor Rocke­feller to prevent this imfair piece of legislation from becoming law.

New York d ty seeks to repeal section K 51-37.0 of the adminis­trative code of the City of New York under which permission to build the various reservoirs was amended in 1960 to require New York city to remove snow and sand highways made necessary by the construction of reservoirs. The city bill Senate print 1917 would shift responsibility for such maintenance to the local highway department.

Invited to Europe

C raft Motors to Sell Chrysler-Plymouth

Craft Motors of Margaretville has been appointed as a dealer for Chrysler and Plymouth auto­mobiles and has several models on display.

Sam Craft, proprietor, has had 30 years experience in the auto­mobile business, much of it with Chrysler products. He has been at his present location since 1963. Previously he was a partner in Stout-Craft Motors for 10 years.

He and his employes are well known for the excellence of their body and fender repairs, as well as general automobile mainten­ance. Their combined experience is over 100 years.

Marcus Korn InjuredArkvüle, March 8. — Marcus

‘Kom, who has been a patient in Veterans hospital in Buffalo for several months, feU last week and broke his hip. Mr. Kom is a for­mer Arkville resident.

Mrs. Gossoo FellPhoenicia, March 8.—^Mrs. Lewis

Gossoo fell on ice last Sunday and sustained a broken hip and is in the Benedictine hospital.

Take-Home Adjusted For MCS Employes

Non-teaching emplpyes who are members of the retirement fund a t Margaretville central school win receive a five per cent in­crease in take-home pay when the district absorbs this part of their contribution to the fund. A similar shift from individual to district contribution was effected last year for teachers 'by state mandate.

A resolution to make the change was passed by the school board at its meeting Monday night.

The board,also authorized Prin- dpal Erie Smith to go ahead with plans for a summer reading pro­gram and summer school this year. The ventures were successfully in­troduced in 1964. á Employment of Stephen Harvey ,aV a idence teacher-.on. a shared basis with Andes central school was authorized, effective July 1. His salary will be $6,800. Howard Gibbs was authorized to attend the armual New York State guid­ance counselors’ conference March 18, 19 and 20 in New York.

Specifications were accepted for a new 60-passenger, transit-type bus. Bids on the vehicle wül be sought April 12. I t was also voted to replace the 1962 station wagon with a 1965 Ford vehide under state contract a t a cost of $1,910.80.

February bUls approved amount­ed to $2,735.20 for the school and $1,961.38 for the school lunch pro­gram. Also approved were Feb­ruary payrolls of ■ $29,226.72 for school and $806.25 for school lunch.

The board will hold a special meeting Tuesday, March 23.

Chain Saws Stolen A t Fairbairn Office

The office - showroom of the Fairbairn Lumber, company was entered Monday night or Tuesday morning and 14 chain saws stolen. State police of the Margaretville substation, who are conducting the investigation, said that the saws, eight of which were new, were valued a t $2,000.

Entry was gained by breaking a window and reaching in to open a deadlock.

This is the second such bin*- glary in the last seven months. Fourteen other saws, most of them new, were stolen similarly last August in a still-unsolved case.

McMorran Tells Greene

State DPW Will Make Study Of DelawareOtsego RouteNew York State Public Works

Superintendent J. Burch McMor­ran said that a study will begin this summer of a proposed high­way through Otsego and Dela­ware counties to connect the Thruway a t Herkimer with route 17 near Roscoe. Mr. M i^orran made the armouncement Monday in a letter to Assemblyman Scott E. Greene of Otsego county, who has had conferences with public works departrnent engineers and administrative offidals during the last two weeks.

Mr. McMorran’s letter to Mr. Greene said- that this summer’s study wül be part of nonr^al ad­ministrative offidals during the last two wedcs.

Mr. McMorran’s le tter to Mr. Greene , said , that this summer’s study WiU be part of normal ad­ministrative and en ^ e e rin g pro­cedure. “The study,” the letter said, “will extend from the Gover­

nor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway southward to the route 17 E:q>ress- way. The southern terminus wiU be a t a point west of Roscoe, since, ^ you know, the proposed route would otherwise cross the Catskill Moimtain Forest Preserve —something thát coiüd not be done without an amendment to the New York State Constitution."

Mr. McMorran thanked Mr. Greene for his inquiry “by letter and in person.”

The route to be studied would run near Cooperstown, Oneonta and Walton, I t was suggested in a proposal made last month by the Oneonta Chamber of Com­merce, which contacted Mr. Greene and Assemblyman Edwyn Mason and asked their support. Mr. Ma­son submitted a bill to the Legis­lature calling for the study, but the bill is stalled in the D ^ o - cratic-controUed ways and rrieans corrmiittee of the Assembly.

Jerry I. Bussy

Halcottville, March 8.—Jerry I. Bussy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ivein Bussy of Bragg HoUow, has been invited to be a member of a European tour scheduled this year by the Future Farmers of America as part of its goodwill, people-to- people travel program.

The 1965 tour will take FFA members from throughout the United States through England, France, Scotland, Germany and West Berlin, Czechoslovakia, Hun­gary, Denmark and Belgiurn. The members of the delegation wül see and learn the ways in which agriculture is carried on in these countries.

Jerry is president of the Rox- biiry chapter of the FFA. A senior at Roxbury central school, he ex- pectis to enter an agriculture col­lege in the fall.

Dugway Drew Gripes On Cemetery Road

A delegation of more than a dozen Cemetery road residents a t­tended the Margaretville village board meeting last week Thurs­day night to complain about the condition of the dugway between the upper Main street triangle and the cemetery. Despite con­stant efforts, induding ^ oü top­ping, the ntgyoyy stre td i g ii ic ^ d isin t^ i^ tes '“ mjna ' trafiiS ' "aHtf water erosirai.

Among the. solutions discussed were cutting into the bank, which would endanger the Bryain Burgin and Richard Miller properties, and filling in psul of the birmekül, which would raise the possibility of high w ater being, diverted on to Main street properties. How­ever, the board expects tha t ef­forts wül be made this spring to improve the base and drainage.

The majority of those protest­ing were residents of Cemetery road outside the vülage limits.

In' other business the board ap­pointed Dorothea Gavette, Han­nah Delameter and M artha Blish as inspectors of Tuesday’s elec­tion. The applications of Charles Bertolino and Lyrm Eldred as can­didates for membership in the McU^garetvUle fire department were approved.

March 16 was set as the date for a budget work meeting.

Railway Express To Reopen Here

Raüway express service wül be restored to the Margaretville area April 1 through the efforts of Supervisor Eldred Shaver. Max Wülnus of route 28 wül begin re­ceiving and shipping on that date.

There has been no service since late last year when an Arkville firm discontinued the agency. All who have had need of the service have traveled to Stamford to send or receive packages.

Western Union in MargaretviUe has been transferred to Tuttle’s Paint and Waüpaper Store. Mes­sages are received and sent by phone to a base a t Woodstock.

Two Seniors a t MCS Receive Acceptances

Two more members of the Mar­garetville central school senior dass have been accepted for ad­vanced sdiooh'ng after graduation.

Jo Arm Williams, daughter of Mrs. Russell Cariot and Johri Wü- liams, has been a c c e p t e d a t Broome Tedmical institute, where she expects to study dental hygiene.

Larry Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Davis of Dururaven, has been accepted a t th e ' Cam­bridge school of business in Bos­ton, where he will take a two- year, work-study course in busi­ness administration.

Onteora Is DefeatedOnteora central school was

outplayed and overshadowed, 83- 64, by Monroe-Woodbury in the opening game of the Section 9 Class B basketball toimiament te Newburgh. The Indians had fin­ished in third place in the Ulster Comrty Athletic league.

Four Mountain Villages Plan Elections Tuesday; No Slates Are Opposed

Little interest has been stirred in the four communi­ties having village elections Tuesday. Single slates have been filed in three of the villages without opposition, and

♦A ndes has balloting by write-in.

Eleven RCS Students Join Honor Society

Roxbury, March 8.—A National' Honor Society induction cere­mony was held, Thursday after­noon at Roxbirry central school.

Roy Dexheimer, principal of South Kortright central school, and a group of student members from the school performed the ceremony. Visiting students were Donna Truax, Silvia Gula, Arma Martin, Pamela Brazee and Ro­berta Salvini. Each lighted a large candle, the central candle, and four others, denoting char­acter, scholarship, leadership and service, and each student gave a ta lk ' concerning these things. In back was the blue and gold em­blem, with a torch and the let­ters CSLS.

Roxbury central school mem­bers inducted were Jane Book- hout. Perry Jones, Eileen Sne­goski, Linda Gregory, Linden Gregory, Mary Zuidema, Thomas Morse, Lola Arm Baker, Michael Kelly, Sharon Day, Starúey Mar­tin. Tenth grade probationary members were Marjorie Gile, Michael Porter, Lynne MiUer, Barbara Thompson, Joseph KeUy and Cynthia Wiedemann.

The program began with a march played by the school band. James Ives, student councü pres­ident, led the flag salute. Prin. Roderick C. Dorrance gave the welcome.

Reception to Honor Miss Ethel Edwards

Miss Ethel Edwards, will be 'henoired a t a reception and opei house a t the Methodist church Sunday afternoon from 3 to 6. The affair is sponsored by the National Bank and Trust Co. of Norwich, from which she is re­tiring this week.

Otis Thompson, president of the banki wül present Miss Edwards with a gift. Everett Gilmour, executive vice-president, Lewis Kolar, manager of the Margaret­ville branch, and other bank offi­dals wül also be present. Light refreshments wül be served by the WSCS of the church. The public is invited.

Miss Edwards is retiring after 40 years a t the local institution, where she began as a bookkeeper in 1925. She was cashier a t the merger of the Peoples National barüc with the Norwich bank. Since, she has served as assistant vice-president a t the Margaret­ville branch.

Stay Out of TownWüliam Sweeney and Thomas

FermeUy, both of the town of Shandaken, were given 10-day sen­tences by Justice of the Peace Donald M. Fenton early this week on charges of public intoxication. They were apprehended by Troop­er Robinson walking along route 28. Sentence was suspended on condition that the pair stay out of the town of Middletown.

On to Next Round

Voting in MargaretviUe wiU be from 2 p. m. to 6 p. m. at the fire hall. Incumbent candidates who have been renominated are Mayor Ray W. Marks and Trustees Orvil. Rosa and George Bloodgood. ’The terms to be filled are all for two years.

Mayor Leyden Smith of Fleisch-- manns and Trustees Harold Finch* and Mack Geller have been renom-' inated for two-year terms to suc­ceed themselves in that viUageU BaUoting wiU be from 2 to 6 p. m.

In Pine HiU both parties have nominated James Smith Jr. fo r mayor to succeed Edwin France, who is retiring after a one-year term. Bernard Wadler, who had been serving the unexpired terrrl of the late William Finch, was nominated for a fiül term. Mr¿ Smith is presentiy a trustee, and if he is elected there will be a trustee vacancy to be füled by appointment.

Andes has write-in baUoting. The terms expiring are those of Mayor W alter Gladstone and Trustee John Jakszewski. They are candidates to succeed them-? selves for two-year terms.

PTÁ Will Discuss College for Children

The MCS Parent-Teacher asso- dation wiU present a parrel on the topic, “Is CoUege for My Chüd,” Monday night at the school cafe­teria a t 8 o’clock.

Moderator for the j ^ e l will be Edward Sagen, admissions director a t Hartwick college in Oneonta^ Other panel members will irrdude H arry Thomas, registrar a t H art­wick; Clifford McVinney, admis-- siiaris director a t State Urüversity 'college at Oneonta;. Robert Shear manager of the New York Tele­phone compemy in Oneonta, and a representative of the New York State employment office.

This panel wül consider many of the questions parents are con­cerned about regarding higher ed­ucation and whether it is neces­sary for their chüdren. Parents of junior high students may also find this helpful in plarming the high school coiurse of study.

Arkville Man FinedDonald David Kelder of ArkviUe

paid a $10 fine and agreed to make restitution to a Downsvüle man who had complained of receiving a fraudulent check from Kelder. The ArkviUe man was arrested by state police of the MargaretviUe substation on the complaint of Roger Banks. The fine was im­posed by Justice of the Peace W. WeUs Baldwin, before whom Kelder was arraigned last week Wednesday.

‘Dimes’ Reports $710Richard MUler, chairman of the

March of Dimes for the town of Middletown, reports tha t the drive has been completed and can­vassers’ collections totaled. The 1965 coUection amoimted to $710.05.

Andes, Margaretville Win First Sectional ContestsAndes central school, second-

place finisher in the Delaware Moimtain league, started off on the right foot in Section 4 tour­nament play Saturday with a BB­SS victory over perermial tourna­ment rival, Truxtorr, in a game played a t Greene.

A high-scoring first quarrter saw Andes take a one-point lead, which was widened in the second quarter as offensive play slowed down. Ttuxton dosed the gap again to one point in the third p rio d before Andes pulled away in the final.

Andy Currie of Truxton led the scoring with 27 points. Jim His- man had 21 for the wirmers.

Hopes of the Andes central school basketball team for a tie and playoff with TreadweU for the champiorrship of the Delaware Mountain league were thwarted Friday n ig h t when TreadweU de­feated Grand Gorge, 51-42, in a make-up g a ^ . Andes, a half­game béhi^íTn the standings prior to JYiday, had pirmed its hoi>es on an upset by the Gremlins. I t was the first titie for ‘a consistentiy stropg Treadwell team in 23 years.

Next step in the sectionals for

Andes is a game Saturday night at Delhi Tech against the wiimer of the GUbertsviUe-Grand Gorge game. Grand Gorge was s c h ^ uled to meet GübertsviUe a t Delhi Wednesday night.

MargaretviUe centred school also hurdled the first obstade in its sectional campaign with a 61- 52 victory over Morris a t Oneonta SUC Tuesday night. MargaretviUe had one good period, the second, but that was enough to stave off the sUght Morris superiority in the other three quarters. Pete Palen led the scoring with 19.

Tomorrow night, Friday, Mar­garetviUe moves into the seccmd round against Newfield central school a t Windsor near Bingham- • ton. 'The Tompkins county team gained its right to face Margaret­viUe with a 49-44 victory over Edmeston Tuesday night.

Other schools in first round competition Wednesday night were Roxbury, scheduled to meet Davenport a t Delhi Tech, and Fleischmarms, scheduled to face South New Berlin a t SUC in Oneonta. Fleischmanns hoi>es to gain a victory and go on Saturday night to meet TreadweU, wirmer over Staprford.