A c c id e n l^ ^ ^ ; N ^ ^ WThree automobile ..leciaPnts

were reported in FleisSoianns during the last week,' ac _ ing |,o records of the M argaret vUle state police station. An­other occurred Tuesday on the ^ ifv ille cut-off road intersec­tion with route 28 in Arkviile.

Cars operated by Dorothy Sammis and Patrick Clark, both of Halcott Center, collided on Lake , street in Fleisehmanns shortly after noon Dec. 31. State police said that the Sam- mis car had been stopped as the Clark car approached from the opposite direction. Because of the icy road surface and the road made narrower by plowed snow near Lake Switzerland, Clark was unable to stop his car nor maneuver past the stopped Sanamis car.

His car hit the Sammis car on the left, then skidded into a wooden fence along the lake side of the street.

Vehicles operated by Elton Mattice of Margaretville and Osyp Kasian of Fleisehmanns collided at the intersection of the Breezy hill road and the Halcott road. The Kasian car, entering the intersection, was unable to stop, crossed the center line and struck the left

Old Press W reckedThe rugged old press on

which TTie Catskill Mountain News had been printed for two decades in the basement of the theater building, was disman­tled this week by Ray Weaver and Sons, who are junking the press. Although the old press was still capable of a good print job, it had developed ail­ments, including deep lacera­tions of the main cylinder bear­ings, that would have ended its working days shortly. Junked with the old press was the old hand-fed folder on which many choice words had been ex­pended during its working days.

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collLsion at the intersec­tion of Main street and Red Kill road Tuesday morning in­volved cans operated by Allen F. Harkc and Elek Kovacs, both of Fleisehmanns. The Harke car had been stopped at the intersection, then started into the path of the Kovacs vehicle, which struck the left rear of the Harke car with its left front. Harke was given a summons for failure to yield right of way.

A car operated by Mona Gra- hanj of Margaretville had stopped on the cut-off road, preparatory to entering route 28 Tuesday. A westbound car operated by Ralph Caswell of Arkviile was beginning a right turn off route 28 on to the cut-off road when it skidded into the left rear of the Gra­ham car with its left front.

Three persons were reported injured over the holidays in town of Shandaken auto acci­dents resulting from icy road surfaces and from errant deer.

Mrs. Arlene Thienel suffered the loss of a tooth and lacera­tions of the mouth, and 18- month-old Mark Thienel suf­fered a bump on the head and a cut tongue in a two-car acci­dent on the Lasher road near Phoenicia. Both were treated at Margaretville hospital.

They were in a car operated by Klaus Thienel traveling south on the narrow road when a station wagon operated by Deborah Scannapieco of Big In­dian approached from the op­posite direction. As the Scan­napieco vehicle was braked, it skidded into the left front of the Thienel sedan.

Helen G. Nessler of Stamford was taken to Kingston hospital, where she was admitted with a head laceration following a Dec. 31 accident on route 28 at Mount Pleasant. Deputy Sher­

iff Robert Grennie said that she was traveling west on the high­way when she attempted to pass another vehicle.

Her car skidded on a patch of ice, went to the left and landed upside down on the Lindsay Hoyt property.

Two property damage acci­dents were reported on the Oliverea valley road. One of these was caused by a deer, which jumped, in front of the car, traveling north and oper­ated by Charles Hedden of Oliverea. In attempting to avoid the deer, which escaped unscathed, Hedden skidded and went down a bank backwards after breaking three guard rails. This was reported on Dec. 31.

Cars operated by Claudine Cloarec of New York city and Lydie Shufro of New York city collided when the Cloarec car was braked near the Dunham bridge. The vehicles were ap­proaching from opposite direc­tions.

Braking caused the Cloarec car to skid across the road and strike the back end of the Shufro car.

A uxiliary P ro fits F rom Y ule E fforts

The Margaretville Memorial Hospital Auxiliary netted $1,006 from its Christmas money rais­ing efforts, including the gift shop on Main street and a bake sale. There was also an im­promptu sale at the Kass Inn.

The Auxiliary expects to send three representatives to the annual institute for hospital auxiliaries Jan. 20-22 at Syra­cuse.

The next Auxiliary meeting will be at 8 p. m. Monday at the Margaretville Methodist church. Mrs. Lena Johnson, W’ho has been leading the train­ing class, will go over a typical class lesson.

Shavertown, Jan. 9.— Prog­ress on construction of the now bridge across the Beaverkill at the foot of Beech Hill has been halted because of the bitter weather. Frost has now deepened to the extent that work may not resume until spring.

A new culvert at the foot of the hill, about 500 feet to the north, and crossing the Beech Hill brook, is to be installed at that time, with a straightening of the existing curve and rais­ing of the dip at the foot of the hill to eliminate most of the grade.

The present narrow concrete bridge at this point has been the scene of many accidents, be­cause of the blind curve at the top of the hill. This half-mile, once a town of Hardenburgh road, was transferred to Ul­ster county highway system. It was the first bit of hard-top Erwin-plan road to be built anywhere in this area.

Firem en Give Chief His 24th E lection

Fire Chief Roy Saxouer was elected to his 24th year in the post by members of the Mar­garetville fire department at their annual meeting Monday night. Other officers were also reelected. *

They are: Waldo Squires, first assistant chief; Bernard Ladenheim, second assistant chief; Richard G. Baker, sec­retary; James Sanford, treas­urer, and Robert Hunt, chief engineer.

Reports indicate that the de­partment answered 16 alarms during 1968, two more than in the preceding year.

Plans were made for a field day, to include fireworks and other attractions. This will be held on or near the July 4 weekend. Mr. Baker ’ was named general chairman.

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W arren Slavin H as

P urdue A cceptanceThe. admissions office at

Purdue university has notified Warren Slavin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Slavin of Fleisch- manns, of his acceptance for the freshman class in Septem­ber.

While in high school, Warren has been active in varsity base­ball and basketball, has held numerous class offices, attend­ed the State University college at Oneonta Saturday seminars. He won the 1968 county ping pong championship and has participated in the school news­paper and yearbook.

Warren has also been notified of his acceptance at C. W. Post college and the University of Missouri.

Warren is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Slavin to,attend Purdue. His brother Jeff is a senior at that institution.

V isiting R estrictedVisiting at Margaretville hos­

pital has been cut to one mem­ber of an immediate family per patient each day. The one visit may be for a 15-minute lim it once a day either between 2:30 and 5 p. m. or between 7 and 9 p. m., but not both. Adminis­trator Richard E. Anderson said the step was taken because of the worsening flu epidemic.

J u l y to D e c e m b e r

T h e E v e n t s T h a t M a d e N e w s D u r i n g 1 9 6 8July

July 4 — New York State’s Power Authority has disclosed plans for a study of the Scho­harie creek at Gilboa as a site for construction of a $100 mil­lion power reservoir complex. Margaretville firemen have gala plans for the county convention which will be held here this weekend. The Phoenicia iron bridge across the Esopus was knocked out of commission when it was damaged and struck by a skidding car. Trooper Glen George arrested two youths in a stolen car while operating a radar set-up in the town of Shandaken.

July 11—Nine persons were arrested on charges of criminal possession of ma^rijuana after a raid on a Fleisehmanns home Sunday morning. Fire Chief AI Eignor of Big Indian suf­fered a broken leg during a fruitless search for a missing aircraft. The new supervisory district in which eastern Dela­ware county, southern Scho­harie and western Greene coun­ty schools joined with Otsego county schools is the second largest geographically in the state. Thomas Gorence, 17, former Margaretville resident, became the second in history to have a liver transplant in Bos­ton. Margaretville and Andes voters passed their respective school budgets by wide margins Tuesday night. Donald Pierce has resigned as administrator at Margaretville hospital.

July 18 —Three Nassau coun­ty Boy Scouts were found asleep and unharmed, but cold and wet, after they had been reported lost on Balsam moun­tain. The Shandaken tovm board v o t e d unanimously against an Ulster county tax map. Linden Gregory has been elected president of the Rox- bury central school board. A tie vote in the Delaware county board of supervisors has sty­mied a plan to create a county legislature. Fire damaged the unoccupied Nicholas Loiacono house on the Bushnellville road in Shandaken.

July 25 — Fire destroyed a large dairy barn on the farm of the James Perkins experi­mental school in the town of Roxbury.. A 15-year-old New Kingston boy, Billy Gray, was attacked and injured by a hawk. , Willis Marks was elected president of the revived Margaretville Chamber of Com­merce, w;hich has extended its range to. other nearby com­munities.

August

Aug. 1—Gerald Buyce, super­intendent at Belleayre ski cen­ter, has been promoted by the Conservation Department to the post of supervisor of forest park facilities. A Millbrook woman and a -year-old boy escaped injuries in the second attack by hawks in the area within a week. A black ^ a r

was sighted along the Upper Dry Brook road Saturday after­noon. Nineteen Delaware coun­ty women were capped as li­censed practical nurses at Delhi Teth. A committee of Onteora school district residents is seek­ing a third vote on the twice ̂rejected school budget.

‘Aug. 8 — Yvonne Kranendyk of Holland arrived in Margaret- viHe Tuesday -to, become a Ro­tary exchange student at MCS this school year. A garage and storage building ccmatructed a year ago on the caiiip. property of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold John­son between Arkviile and Mar­garetville was destroyed by fire. Phoenicia is experiencing its biggest building bpotii in'-lO years.

Aug. 15 — The Margaretville . hospital construction fund; is nearing $700,000, but rising construction costs have boosted the total project to $1,930,000. Activation of Troop F of the state ix)lice Monday has re­lieved Margaretville troopers from Troop C of the responsi­bility for the town of Shan­daken. A 17-year-old Bronx youth drowned while swimming Sunday in Pine Hill lake. Mr. and Mrs. David Goodchild and seven of their children lost their home and all possessions when lightning fired their Hubbell H ill home during Friday after­noon’s storm. Roxbury folks were vehement in their opposi­tion to a trailer regulation law.

Aug. 22—There will be no vote in Delaware county this fall on reapportionment. Mar­garetville hospital will benefit from the presentation of the comic opera “Don Pasquale,” sponsored by the Fleischmanns- Pine H ill Rotary club. Seven cows on the Thomas Liddle farm were killed by lightning.

Aug. 29 — Opening work on Wittenberg park is scheduled this fall. The high percentage of absentee owners in the town of Middletown is a big factor in slow collection of taxes, re­ports County Treasurer Charles D. Cook. The Margaretville Memorial Hospital Auxiliary has assumed responsibility for the blood collection program. New York State Power Author­ity has submitted its plans and requested permission from the Federal Power Commission for construction of the Gilboa dam. Theodore Sorenson has been named speaker at the Delaware county Democratic dinner at Kass Inn Sept. 28.

S ep tem b er

Sept. 5—Resorts and business places set new records in the summer season just ended. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Purchell of Roxbury have returned from a 12,000-mile camping trip to Alaska. Roswell R. Sanford Jr. has been granted a fellow­ship for study at the Institute for Art in Architecture in New York dty.

S ep t. 12—^The s ta te h as b e ­

gun a study that could lead to the first school on recreation management at Delhi Tech. Vandals tipped over stones at Margaretville cemetery and broke windows at the vaUlt and at the Fair street pumping sta­tion, which also was heavily damaged by rifle fire. Six youngsters were orphaned when Mr. and Mrs. Durwood Ingram died in an auto accident near Kass Inn. The Pine Hill̂ Kings- ton Trailways has cut through service to New York city to one round trip per day. School enrollment has gained at An­des and Roxbury, but Marga- retville central is down from the combined enrollment last year at MCS and Fleisehmanns high school.

Sept. 19—The controversial Onteora central school budget is up for its third vote. Fred McCandlish has resigned as welfare commissioner for Del­aware county. The applica­tions of Delaware and Sullivan counties for a study of the Del­aware river basin has been ap­proved. Vandalism in the area has spread to the Stone School- house at Dunraven, where stones were thrown through windows. First classes have be­gun at the new occupational center at Grand Gorge.

Sept. 26— T̂wo hunters were forced to flee their car near Mount Tremper when a fox they had shot and placed on the back seat suddenly revived. Fourteen students from Marga­retville, and seven at Roxbury have been accepted for Satur­day seminars at SUCO. Onte­ora voters approved a $3,912,- 845 budget, which will allow the resumption of normal op­erations in the school district.

O cto b er

Oct. 3 — Onteora • central school has an exchange student from the Philippines, Efren Sotto. Merit scholarship let­ters of commendation have been received by Ruth Mar- quardt of the MCS class of 1968 and William Weiss of the class of 1969.

Oct. 10—Representatives of the Protestant, Catholic and Jewish faiths will conduct a re­ligious census in the area of the MCS school district Oct. 20. Gregg D. Bookhout and Perry L. White of the class of 1969 at Roxbury central school have received Merit Scholarship let­ters of commendation. Special­ist David J. H itt and Specicdist David J. Estus , have received the Bronze Star medal for meritorious service In Vietnam; Cpl. James E- Morse received it posthumously. The East Branch-Horton section of the route 17 expressway will open Oct. 18. Fowler Finch of Sid­ney Center was honored at dinner in Margaretville as he was cfted as , the New York st5ite “Fireman of the Year.”

Oct. 17 — The Conservation Department is building snow­mobile trails in Kelly hollow and at Mongaup pond and Sam-

sonville. Margaretville, Andes and Roxbury schools, along with others in the county, are establishing an ID card sys­tem. Merit letters of com­mendation have been received

i by Nancy MoLean and Allen Joslin at Andes central school.

Oct. 24—^Rev. Richard Thurs­ton will be ordained Friday night at services at the Advent Christian church. Five youtlis and a juvenile have been round­ed up by state police investi­gating two Margaretville burg­laries. Dr. Magdi Halim of Margaretville was made a fel­low in the American College of Surgeons.

Oct. 31— T̂his is the first issue of the Catskill Mountain News published entirely in the new plant on upper Main street. Six young Phoenicia area men paid a total of $645 for posses­sion of a deer. Walter Odell, Margaretville village ' clerk and school treasurer since 1950, has submitted his resignation, ef­fective Nov. 15. The Burroughs homestead in Roxbury has been sold out of the family for the second time. The church cen­sus conducted last week has tallied nearly 1,200 homes in the Margaretville central school district. Seven persons were injured when a car rammed five parked vehicles in Grand Gorge.

November

Nov. 7—^Delaware and Ulster Republicans were in step with the nation in Tuesday’s elec­tions. Willis Marks has been appointed Margaretville village clerk and school treasurer. A Long Island mother and her 20- year-old son died when their car struck a tree on the Slide Mountain road near Oliverea. Television Star Robert Dsnver has purchased the Red Pine farm in Bovina and plans to move his family here in the spring. Richard Anderson of Walden has become adminis­trator at Margaretville Me­morial hospital.

Nov. 14—^Fire destroyed the two-year-old 16-unit Highmount motel despite the efforts of firemen from a span of 30 miles. Committees have been named to study the merger of Margaretville, Roxbury . and seven other school districts into a super-centralized district of 6,000 pupils. A Penn Central locomotive was off the tracks at Arkviile for nearly a week as it defied efforts to re-rail it without having it roll down into the creek. A heavy pre­winter snowstorm shut down several s<*ools in the- Catskills as it left up to 12 inches Tues­day.

■Nov. 21— T̂he Margaretville Hospital volunteer ambulance squad has begun a drive for funds to purchase a new ve­hicle. A bridge over Dry Brook collapsed under the weight of a Middletown - Harderiburgh fire truck, as attempts were made to reach a burning hunter camp in Mine Hollow. Many eight-

pointers were shot in the open­ing days of the deer season. Margaretville central school will have a team on the “Little Red Schoolhouse TV program Saturday. [

Nov. iS—'Bears were downed by Allan Rosa of Dry Brook and Tom Wagner of Margaret­ville. Margaretville central school opened its basketball season with a 92-60 win over Grand Gorge. Mr. and Mrs. Merton Mayes were injured when a deer dived into their car. A date-stone laying for the new Margaretville Memor­ial hospital will be held Satur­day. Rod Patrick has become coach of the Onteora basketball team.

December

Dec. 5— F̂ive Kingston teen­agers paid a total of $512.50 for jacking deer in Shandaken. Death ended the retirement of Ray Marks, who resigned as Margaretville Mayor l a s t spring. A patient-services train­ing course has been established by Margaretville Memorial hos­pital Auxiliary.

Dec. 12—A baby boy Was born in the Margaretville Hos­pital ambulance as it sped toward Walton at 4 a. m. Tues­day. Three victims of an auto accident in Woodland Valley lay helpless for nearly three hours before one of them strug­gled to a nearby camp, where he broke in to summon assist­ance. Rev. John, Caldara has been transferred from Sacred Heart parish in Margaretville to the pastorate of St. Mary’s church in Oneonta; his assist­ant, Rev. Bernard Hesler, will also leave here in February.

Dec. 19—Richard Holland of Roxbury was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout, highest in Boy Scouting. The Catskill Moun­tain branch will carry rail freight for the Gilboa power project via its connection with the West Shore at Kingston, ending hopes of rebuilding the Oneonta-Bloomville segment; the Penn Central has asked for further abandonment of the line between Bloomville and South Kortright. James Miller, 46, of Fleisehmanns was killed as he went to the assistance of two stranded motorists in Mas­sachusetts. Alfred Eignor of Big Indian has been named su­perintendent of highways in Shandaken to succeed Claude Rowe, who has resigned.

Dec. 26—^Activity in the area over the Christmas holiday has been cut by the prevalence of flu and other illnesses. The MCS cage team rolled to its sixth straight win. Onteora central school set a new Ul­ster county record with a 55- point spread over Wallkill at one point in their basketball game. ' A farewell reception for Rev. John Caldara was held in the Margaretville Presbyterian church; a reception for his suc­cessor, Rev. William J. Kelle- her is to be held Sunday in the Sacred Heart rectory.

P T A B eg in s

S k i, S k a te

F u n a t M C SThe roller-skating program

resumed at Margaretville cen­tral school Tuesday night, and the skiing program begins Sat­urday. Both are under the sponsorship of the Margaret­ville Parent-Teacher group.

Robert Smith, social studies teacher, is in charge of the skating program, which is open to eighth graders and younger. The schedule is for pupils in kindergarten thfrough second grade from 6:30 to 7:10 p. m.; third through fifth grade from 7:15 through 8 p. m.; sixth through eighth grade, 8 to 8:45 p. m.

The skiing program is open for all pupils in school. It will be directed by Elementary Principal and Mrs. Richard A. Dillon, but more adult chaper­ones may be needed.

Buses will leave the Marga­retville building at 7:45 a. m. to take ski pupils to the Cats­kill ski center in Andes. ’The return to the school will be about 11 a. m.

There is no charge for either activity, but a $1.50 charge is made at the ski center for rental of ski equipment, includ­ing skis, boots and poles.

Sum m er B urg lary Brings an A rrest

Lawrpnce F, LePierre, 21, of New York city was arrested by state police of the Margaret­ville station last week in con­nection with a burglary last summer in Fleisehmanns. Le­Pierre waived examination of witnesses before Town Justice Sollie Darling and was ordered jailed j)ending presentation of his tfase to the current Dela­ware county grand jury.

The break-in was reported last July 14 at Jack’s Tavern, where several bottles of whiskey were taken.

Also facing charges in the case is George S. Scudder of Arkviile, who was arrested Oct. 19.

Scouts C am ped Out In 11-Below Cold

E i g h t Margaretville Boy Scouts and two leaders slept snugly in 11-below-zero cold Saturday night in an overnight campout at the foot of Kelly hollow in the Millbrook valley. There were no complaints or discomforts- other than one or two cases of cold feet.

Participating in the campout, along with Scoutmaster Robert Elliott and his assistant, Robert Wilson, were Ricky Kelly, Chris and Dave Elliott, Kenneth Mass, Jim McLean, Danny Reed, John Dobsa and Mark Wilson.

Ski In ju ries A re Routine to Toni

Pine Hill, Jan. 9.—While ski­ing at Belleayre Sunday after­noon, Toni Sears ran into a tree. He suffered a bone bruise on his right leg.

He was taken to Benedictine hospital, where the leg was put in a cast, which he must wear for two weeks. Toni returned home the same day.

Show Is Jan . 15Phoenicia, Jan. 9.—-The Phoe­

nicia Parent Teachers associa­tion will hold its annual ski fashion show, “Winter Won­derland,” at 8 p. m. Wednes­day, Jan. 15, at the Cobble­stone restaurant. Ski fashions will be modeled by members of the PTA and pupils at the Phoenicia elementary school.

Robin in R oxburyRoxbury, Jan. 9.—Mrs. Fred

Weber reports that a robin has been around iher house this winter, and that she saw it again the last day of Decem­ber. It was eating barberries from a bush there. She spec­ulates that the bird missed fly­ing south with its companions because it may have been ill.

Student A cceptedAndes, Jan. 9.—Donald Horn-

beck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Hombeck, has been ac­cepted at Momingside college in Sioux City, Iowa, for the next year.

These D eer W on’t S tarve to D eath

Three car-deer accidents were reported to or investi­gated by state police of the Margaretville station during the first seven days of the new year. Another occurred dur­ing the waning hours of 1968.

Thomas G. Ballard of Grand Gorge struck and killed a deer which had come from the south side of route 30 below Grand Gorge shortly after 2 a. m. on New Year’s day.

A deer was killed on route 30 in the town of Andes by the car of Robert Lor of Andes, who was traveling east Monday afternoon when the animal ran into his car from the right.

Another was killed on the New Kingston mountain road Tuesday by Wayne Maxim of Fleisehmanns, who was driving north about 2 V2 miles from Margaretville.

William Tompkins of Ham­den was traveling east on the north reservoir road the night of Dec. 31 when his car struck and killed a deer about eight miles from Downsville.

Phoenicia T heft

R eported SolvedA burglary last Oct. 4 at the

Phoenicia elementary school was believed solved last week with the arrest of two West Hurley men. A tape recorder and phonograph taken from the school were recovered, but a small transistor radio is still missing.

Charged with criminal posses­sion of stolen goods were Mi­chael Denehy, 21, and Dietrich Werner, 31. Wemer pleaded guilty before Town Justice Sherwood Davis and was given a one-year conditional dis­charge. Denehy appeared be­fore Tovm Justice Arthur Riley in the town of Ulster and was committed to the Ulster county jail in lieu of $500 bail pending arraignment Wednesday of this week.

Making the arrests were Deputy Sheriffs Robert Gren- nje and Bernie Schwerdtfeger. Also in the investigation, were Ulster county sheriff's Investi­gator Harold Bowers and state police Investigator Charles Teelon.

Deputy Grennie said that the record player had been returned to Principal William Maroney at the school in December and this had led to the recovery of the recorder and to the arrests.

C alen d ar P icture H as Fam ed Q u arte t

Roxbury, Jan. 9.—One of the New Year’s day tasks is put­ting up the 1969 calendars. On the Esso calendar, given out by the fuel oil dealer, S. G. Lutz, are pictures in a series of “Great Moments in Early American Motoring,” and the June picture concerns a Rox­bury native, John Burroughs, the naturalist.

It is entitled “Ford-Edison- Firestone-Burroughs. They are evidently camping, with a ket­tle boiling over a campfire. Two tents are in the picture. The four are easily identifiable. Ford has his toolbox and is hammering something. Edison sits in study at an improvised table. Burroughs, with the long white beard, and the other man. Firestone, apparently are cooking before the campfire. Two old-time Fords stand in the background.

M C S C a g e rs

S te a m ro lle r

T o S e v e n thMargaretville central school

resumed basketball activity after vacaition Tuesday after­noon and notched its seventh straight victory of the season, a 94-44 exercise against Wind­ham in a non-league tilt. Coach Al Nelson used all of his 12 varsity players, and 11 of them scored for MCS.

John Van Benschoten and Russ O’Connor paced the Blue Devil attack with 18 each, but individual scoring honors went to Gil Cook, who scored 24 of the 44 points for the visitors. Dan Bohan contributed 11 to the MCS cause.

VanBenschoten, Brian Mayes and Rick Forsman, making his first varsity appearance, con­trolled the backboards for Margaretville.

The winners, holding a 41-18 margin at half-time, ran away with 39 points in the third period.

Friday night’s action on the MCS court sees the invasion of Stamford for what may be the toughest Upper Delaware league tilt of the season so far for the Blue Devils. Tuesday night Margaretville travels to Roijcoe for a return non-league match.

U lster Ends P ay

For Bounty H untsPhoenicia, Jan. 9. — Ulster

county bounty hunters lost a part of their income, effective Dec. 31. 'The county legisla­ture on that date ended the payment of bounties for wild­life predators.

Shandaken Town Clerk Ray­mond J. Dunn said, that al­though figures were not yet complete for 1968, the county had paid in 1967 for 38 gray foxes, 10 red foxes and one bobcat killed in the town of Shandaken. Most of these were taken in the area between Pine Hill and Oliverea.

The rate of bounty payments, now ended, had been $3 each for gray foxes, $2.50 each for red foxes and ^ for bobcats.

The legislature action was taken on the recommendations of the Fish and Wildlife serv­ice of the U. S. Department of Interior, the New York Con­servation Department and the National Wildlife Federation. 'These agencies had contended that the bounty system was ineffective in the control of predators, and the Wildlife federation had contended that they were actually harmful. This was based on the fact that predators are a necessary part of the balance of nature and insure the survival of the strongest creatures by killing off the weaker.

C ase Bound O verThe second degree assault

charge placed against Richard M. Fairbairn of Margaretville as a result of a fracas Dec. 29 at Murray’s hotel in Margaret­ville has been referred to the Delaware county grand jury convening this week. He is accused by Floyd Ingram, 22, of Bainbridge of striking In­gram with a beer bottle. Fair- baira was continued in the custody of his attorney.

R oxbury P roblem =

S ta te C la im s S ilo , S ta b le

E n c ro a c h o n R ig h t-o f-W a yThe State of New York has

filed a complaint in Broome County Supreme Court seeking an injunction against Paul A. Kennedy, owner of the former Parsons farm on route 30 be­tween Roxbury and Grand Gorge. The injunction is asked to restrain Mr. Kennedy from “maintaining or using” a stable and silo he erected adjacent to a barn alongside the highway several years ago.

The state contends that the silo and stable were built on property owned by the sate, and without the consent of the state. The complaint calls them “unlawful encroachment,” and says that if they stay they “may encourage other ptoperty owners tO'ene?oach upon the state’s hlgh’ways.”

The complaint also contends

that the silo and stable “ob­struct the view and lim it the sight distances of motorists on route 30 and create a danger­ous traffic condition. It says that Mr. Kennedy was notified of this alleged encroachment Sept. 21, 1967 and again on Oct. 5, 1967, but the “struc­tures still encroach.” .

In addition the state asks that Mr. Kennedy be fined under a section of the Highway law that provides fines of not less than $100 a day nor more than $1,000 for each day of violation after Sept. 21, 1967. Money for such fines, if levied, goes into the state treasury for maintenance and r ^ i r

highways.-The farm is one of saveral

owned by Mr. Kennedy in the vidnity.