Elmira Star-Gazette from Elmira, New York (2024)

a a a a a to .23, ELMIRA SUNDAY TELEGRAM -PAGE FIVE -B 4 Set Monday; One Tuesday Commencement exercisces a program starting at 8:15 four Chemung County high schools will be held Monday night with a fifth scheduled for Tuesday evening. The Monday graduations are: Southside High School exercises will be held at 8 p. m. with about 250 graduating. About 85 students will be graduated from Thomas A.

Edison High School at Elmira Heights at 8 p.m. About 100 graduates will be honored at Horseheads Central High School exercistes at 8 p. m. The Van Etten Central High School will graduate 23 students 379 Added To Voter Register ed Another 198 persons registerfor the November election Saturday at a special Board of Elections trailer located at N. Main and W.

Gray Sts. This gave a weekend total of 379 as 181 signed up on Friday, Last weekend another 300 persons registered centrally at the special downtown trailer. Board of Elections officials last night expressed satisfaction with response of the public to the project aimed at bringing in a heavy central reg Cration in advance of regular registration days in October. Election office and Board of Supervisors leaders are expected to meet this week to map further registration signups in the towns and villages of Chemung County. Probe Crash At Heights Sheriff's deputies early, today were investigating an accident on Grand Central Ave.

near McCann's Blvd. First reports were that a car left the roadway, went down an incline and ripped out three or four guard rails. Police said they understood no one was injured. Mooers (Continued from Page 1B) party has the complete initiative and authority. situation is not at all like that of a or a president who has a Legislature or a Congress controlled by the opposite party.

The governor or the president has the power to appoint the department heads he believes most capable, and the power to veto legislation he thinks unwise. The mayor of Elmira does not have these powers. Hopes for GOP Control "I have agreed to be a candi. date again because I hope the people of Elmira recognize that the present situation is not good and will give the Republicans the opportunity to provide our city with a really progressive and well managed government, starting in 1958. "Voting for me alone will not accomplish this.

It can come about only the people will also elect Republican councilmen to support such a program. Because I hope and believe our citizens will do this, I am respectfully offering my services to them Mooers was born in Towanda, has lived in Elmira since he was two years of age. He attended Elmira schools, and won a bachelor of chemical engineering degree at Lehigh University. World War I Veteran During World War I he served as a flying instructor and a flight commander. Mooers began his working career in 1920 as a bottle machine operator at the Thatcher Glass Manufacturing remaining there until 1928.

He became a foreman, assistant factory manager, and finally factory manager. In 1928 he left the Thatcher company to become general manager of the Hilliard and has been president of the COrporation since 1948. Active in community Mooers also has been active in civic affairs. He is a director of the Community Chest, the Council of Community Services, and the Association of Comerce. He also is a member of the Elmira College Advisory Board, the executive committee of the Second St.

Cemetery and the executive board of the Boy Scouts. He is a past president of the Neighborhood House, the Chemung. County Historical Society, the Association of Commerce, Elmira Torch Club, and the County Council of Social Agencies. From 1943-45 he was a member of the War Manpower Commission Labor-Management Committee for the Elmira Area. Mooers is trustee of the First Presbyterian Church.

His wife is the former Nellie Welles of Elmira, and they have two daughters, two grandsons and one granddaughter. State SUV Headed By Vincent Truman A. Vincent of Elmira was elected president of the New York Department of the Sons of Union Veterans. He was chosen at the closing session of the department's 74th annual encampment in Albany. Other officers elected were: Joseph S.

Rippey of Rochester, senior vice president, and John H. Berry of Niagara Falls, junior vice president. The term of Secretary-TreasJurer Bert in Isaacs 1959. of New York expires HALT GRASS FIRE City firemen Saturday afternoon at 2:10 went to Woodlawn Ave. next to the Erie Railroad tracks to put out a grass fire.

Hospital Board Chief Dies At Montour MONTOUR FALLS Robert W. Walton, 82, of Turner Park, president of the board of the Schuyler Hospital Assn. for 25 years, died yesterday. He was 82. Mr.

Turner retired about five years ago after 38 years as service engineer for Hoist and Crane Shepard Niles tour. was Falls. a member of the Watkins-Montour Rotary Club, the Club and Myrtle Lodge 131, HOSPITAL GETS CHECK MONTOUR FALLS- -Montour Guild of the Schuyler Hospital has presented $500 to the for the Linen Fund. Flats Jurors Free Driver Richard Cox of 201 Golden Glow Elmira RD 1, was acquitted on a charge of reckless driving after a jury trial before Town of Big Flats Peace Justice Jerry Hayward Saturday. The trial started at 10.

a. m. and continued until 3:45. The jury then was out one hour before bringing in a verdict. Cox was represented by Atty.

Bertram Ziff and Asst. Dist. Atty. James Cain appeared for the people. Cox was arrested by Horseheads state police April 21 on Rt.

17 in the Town of Big Flats and charged with reckless drivling and speeding 100 miles an hour. He admitted the speeding charge yesterday and his case was adjourned until Monday night for sentencing. p. m. The lone Tuesday night commencement is at the Elmira Free Academdy where about 215 seniors will receive diplomas in a program starting at 8 p.

m. Horseheads Library Adds New Books Names of new books that have been added to the shelves of the Horseheads Public Library were announced Saturday by Mrs. Clifford Leet library director. The new volumes include: The Last Flowers, Barrett; The Legacy, Bedford; Say, Darling, Bissell; The Fall, Camus; Never So Few, Chamales; The Wapshot Chronicle, Cheever; The Wall to Wall Trap, Freedgood; Fifth Daughter, Gurney, The Guns of Navarone, MacLean. Madame Tussaud, Martin; Mandingo, Onatott; Birthright, Rogers; The Black Obelisk, Remarque; The Eye of Love, Sharp; Sword and Scalpel, Slaughter; The Short Reign of Pippin IV, Steinbeck; Halfway Down the Stairs, Thompson.

We Seven, Troy; Knock Wait a While, Weeks; The Wife of the Red Haired Man, Ballinger; The Late Miss Trimming, Carnac; Sapphires on Wednesday, Gair; The Megstone Plot, Garve; Manhunt, Machenzie; A Shadow in the Wild, Masterson. Shadow of a Lady, Roth; Too Much, Too Soon, Barrymore; The Late Liz, Burns; The American Woman, Dingwall; Day of Infamy, Lord; The Bridge at Andau, Michener: Stay Alive All Your Life, Peale. The Road to Miltown, Perelman; Graf Spee: The Life and Death of a Raider, Pope; To See the Dream, West; Citadel, White; The World of Albert Schweitzer, Anderson. Training Car Shift Changed At Watkins WATKINS GLEN An automatic shift training car will be used this summer in the driving training program of the Watkins Glen Central School, J. Mcinnis, instructor, announces, McInnis said it has been his experience that an individual can be taught to drive much faster on the automatic shift than on the standard.

"Once an individual has learned to drive on the automatic, he can, with only a few days practice, learn to shift and use the clutch," he said. McInnis said that during the past two years schools in the area that have changed to automatic shift are Corning, Elmira, Ithaca, Trumansburg and Ovid. Organization Meet Monday ITHACA-The Multiple Sclerosis Group of Tompkins County will meet at 8 p. m. Monday in the Reconstruction Home.

Purpose of the meeting will be to organize a county chapter. All interested have been invited to attend. A patient survey is being conducted in the county to determine the number of multiple sclerosis patients and the services they need. Informative slides will be shown at the meeting. Persons knowing of multiple sclerosis patients have been asked to contact Mrs.

Wilma Lloyd, List Three Top Candidates for Covington Post Rated the top three of the WASHINGTON (GNS) 25 persons who applied for examinations for the Covington, postmastership, the Civil Service Commission said yesterday, are Mrs. Lillian W. Richards, Mrs. Jean M. Swanson and Claude R.

Coons. A spokesman said Ethel M. Willis, actins, postmaster in the position since Postmaster Foster W. Haverley retired last March 31, did not file application for the tests. Watkins Firemen Halt Home Blaze WATKINS GLEN Fire 'be- lieved to have been caused by spontaneous combustion was quickly extinguished by the Watkins Glen Fire Department shortly after noon Friday at the home of Joseph Fillippetti of 126 E.

4th St. Fire Chief Rocco Scaptura reported that the fire was confined to the partitions of one room in dwelling. ORDINATION PRINCIPALS The Rev. James Blaine Olmstead ordained to the sacred order of deacons at Grace Episcopal Church Saturday, is shown with members of his family and the Rt. Rev.

Walter M. Higley, Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of Central New York, who officiated at the service. From left are: Mrs. Olmstead, wife of the ordinand; Father Ol mstead; Bishop Higley; Mrs. J.

Blaine Olmstead, mother of the new deacon, and his father, J. Blaine Olmstead Sr. Ordination of James Olmstead Jr. Attended by 400 at Grace Church About 400 friends and relatives attended the ordination of James Blaine Olmstead Jr. to the sacred order of deacons Saturday morning at 11 at Grace Episcopal Church.

A reception, attended by about 250, was held following the ceremony at which the Rt. Rev. Walter M. Higley, Suffragen Bishop of the Diocese of Central New, York, Olmstead, officiated. son of Mr.

and Mrs. J. Blaine Olmstead of 1243 EYE BANK EFFORTS right, newspaper columnist, mira Lions Club President work in connection with the award was made at the W. Church will be deacon at the Eucharist and will preach the sermon the 11 a. m.

service today. Grace Church. at The newly ordained deacon has been assigned as deacon-incharge of St. Mark's Church at Clarks Mills and St. Peter's Church at Oriskany.

He will be ordained a priest within the next year. The Rev. Thomas J. Bingham, associate professor of Christian ethics and moral theology at REWARDED -Jim Morse, received plaque from ElHenry C. Hayes for his Lions Club Eye Bank.

The club's dinner dance Saturday night. Columnist Presented Plaque By Lions Club Jim Morse, Star-Gazette and Sunday Telegram columnist, was with the Lions Club presented plaque tor. hiawort the 31st annual installation dinner-dance Saturday night at the Mark Twain Hotel. About 60 persons attended. Morse accepted the plaque on behalf of all newspaper men and women in Elmira and the unknown blind persons who have been helped by the Eye Bank.

Carl Sutter, a past president of the club who has moved from the 2 Fassett Cubs Get Top Badges Webelos badges, the highest award in Cub Scouting, were awarded two boys at the annual picnic for members of Cub Pack the Fassett School and their families Thursday night at Sullivan's Monument. Receiving the awards were Martin Solomon and Jerry Reeves. awards, presented by Cubmaster George Berbary were: James Winch, silver arrow; James Berbary, wolf badge and gold arrow; Peter Marks, wolf badge, George Ber. bary, bear badge and gold arrow. Games and entertainment were under the direction of Jack Marks, pack chairman.

Galeton Cubs Will Hold Field Day GALETON-At 6 p. m. Tues- day, July 9, a Field Day for Cub Scouts and parents will be held in the ball park at the rear of the Community Building. Bobcat ceremonies will be held the same day. Cubmaster Richard Zimmermen urges all parents to attend (these ceremonies.

Shop ARNOLD'S In Corning Star CLEARANCE, VALUES General Theological Seminary in New York City, preached the sermon at the ordination service. Taking his text from Matthew 20:28, "The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto but to minister," he said in part: "In ordination to the diaconate the fullness of the ministry is not given because the deacon later will be ordained priest. A deacon is like an adolescent: not a child, not yet an adult; not a layman, not yet a priest. "Ordination is a day of fulfillbut in another way a preliminary step to being made priest forever after the order of Melchizedech. A primal fact and permanent element in this is to be a deacon after the order of the Son of Man.

"A deacon is to minister to the needs of men in name of God. He represents the diaconal concern, the humanitarian concern cf the church, but represents this in its spiritual dimension, in union with Christ the Deacon. "Christianity does not teach us the methods and means by which good deeds are to be done, but the spirit that makes a good deed good. The danger of good deeds service to others, the danger of do-gooders, is that it makes us act like God. If in acting like God, we forget God, we then pretend to be, God.

To minister to others is not to be Him from all blessings flow, but to be agent of the humanity of the Son of Man Who looks to God." Reception To Honor New Pastor pastor Church, Dr. Warren Odom, new pastor of the Hedding Methodist Church, and Mrs. Odom, will be honored by church members and friends at a reception Wednesday at 8 p. m. in the church parlors.

DeForest Fox, chairman of the reception committee, is being assisted with plans by Mrs. Norman Lumbard, Mrs. Lucy Lat(shaw, Mrs. Robert Hague and Elmo Tinker. Appearing in the receiving line with Dr.

and Mrs. Odom will' be members of the board of trustees, chairmen of the church commissions, the Rev. Philip Torrance, district superintendent, and Mrs. Torrance; George Ahn, conference lay leader; Judge John Matthews, local church lay leader; Mr. and Mrs.

J. Howard McCullough, Sunday school superintendents; and Miss Lillian Schlick, church secretary. Dr. Odom has replaced Dr. Alfred P.

Coman, who is now residing in Ithaca. Champion Singers On Radio Tonight' The new champions, the medalists of the international quartet and chorus competition of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, will be heard on the radio tonight. The competition is part of the international SPEBSQSA, convention being held in Los Angeles. Sixty quartets and 50 choruses are participating. Seneca Land District, of which Horseheads Chapter is a member, is represented two quartets, the Oat-kans of Warsaw and the Flower City Four of Rochester, and the Warren (Pa.) Chorus.

The champions, will be heard locally from 10:05 to 10:30 over WELM. Mother Drives Car Over Sleeping Tot MANISTEE, Mich. (P) A 3- year-old boy was accidentally killed Friday by' his mother who drove over the child after he had apparently fallen asleep under, the family car. Mrs. Mildred McMahon told Manistee County Coroner Douglas Clason that she thought the child, Kevin, had wandered away.

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Irving Sandler. Other officers include: first vice president, Nicholas A. Schaef; second vice president, John R. Bennett; secretary, Fredericw W. Box, and treasurer, Russell H.

Gay. Presented perfect attendance pins were: William Bowes, Fred Box, Irving Sandler, Sal Scaffidi, Bernard Simon, Ford Snyder and Henry Hayes. Also eligible for the pins are George Brunjes, Charles Johnston, Kenneth Merrill, Earl, Mitchell, Dean Neal, William Lynch, Francis Rauh, Robert Robinson, the Rev. Eldred C. Simkins, Nayte Schoonover, Vert Upshaw, Arthur Van Vleet and Henry Williman.

Ten-year Monarch chevrons were given to Donald Wright, Irving Sandler and John W. Sheahan. Eligible are Peter Baker, Steve Bednarek, John Gerwin, Glen Updyke, Joseph Valicenti, Louis Robbins, Emil Melnick, Charles Johnston, Kenneth Merrill and Francis Mockler. Other honors announced were: 30-year Monarch chevron, Charles WilliPutnam: 25-year, Henry man: 20-year, Father Simpkins, Hobart Burch, Anthony Cieri and Lyman White, and 15-year, Philip Wolfe. It's an Old Movie -But Still Good LONDON, June 22 -Chief Chieu Obafemi Awolowo, prime minister of Western Nigeria, is a movie fan but was so busy conferring here on the future of his country that he saw only one film in London.

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