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3 6 1 0 GRADUATE

HERE MONDAY EYEDr. F» ores To Ore Address To Sen-

iors Getting Diplomas

*Eh rty-six seniors will be grad-uated £t the Lake Placid CentralSchorl commencement exercises at8:15 p. m, Monday in the auditor-ium.

Diplomas will be presented byWilliam J. Hurley, president of theboard of education. David G. Al-len, supervising principal, willaward the prizes won thruout theyear ard Miss Kathryn ORourkepresident of the Lake Placid Al-umni association, will present thealumni awards. Janet Moyer willgive the valedictory and MildredPerkins the salutatory. Dr. H.Otis Noyes of the Plattsburg StateTeachers College will make thecommencement address. MeredithTwining- will be heard in a vocalsolo and Henry Gelles in a saxo-phone aolo. Other music will beprovided by the high school orches-tra under the direction of CharlesLehman,

Henry Gelles is president of the1$44 class; Calvin Defoe, vice-pres-ident; Joan Colburn, secretary andMaryanne MfcDevitt, treasurer.Mrs. C. R. Wilkins is the class ad-visor. The class colors are greenand gold and the motto, the sameas the th^ee preceding classes,"Onward to Victory."

Each graduate is allowed sixtickets for reserved seats in theauditorium for distribution to rel-atives and friends. Those withouttickets will witness the exercisesfrom the balcony.

Graduates include: LawrenceArquitt, Eleanor Baker, NellieBeaney, Jean Bigelow, PhelpsBigelow, Beatrice Chambers, AlmaCleveland, Joan Colburn, Doris De-mar, Pvt. William Fell, RobertField, Eleanor Fortune, MaryFountain, Gloria Fox, Henry Gelles,Patricia Halpin, Evelyn Hardy,Yvonne Hurlburt, Robert Jesmer,

LAMB FOLLOWS MARY,BUT ON A LEASH

Mary's little lamb that fol-lowed her to school one daywas no better trained than Wil-lie the 10 weeks old lambwhich Peggy Garren, 13, hason leash on the street fre-quently. The lamb followsobediently at heel thru thecrowded Main St. and comes tohis young mistress promptlywhen called to get its waterfrom a nursing bottle. Athome he solves the labor short-age keeping the lawn neatlyclipped of grass adding to hisdaily rations a diet of raw ce-reals and teaves. Willie wasan Easter gift from Supervis-or Willis Wells.

LIONS CLUB TOSPONSOR FRESH

AIR GROUP HEREWill Help Committee Find Vaca-

tion Home* Here

The Lions club will sponsor theannual visit of the group of FreshAir children who will visit LakePlacid this summer for a vacationcf two weeks or longer.

Mrs. Ruth C. Allen ot New Yorkriaa, been here conferring with Wil-ham Hovey, Lions club president,illative to obtaining vacationhomes for the children who are ex-pected here late in July or early

August, the exact date to beannounced later. The 15 children

VILLAGE NOTTO BUY PROPERTY

TO ADD TO PARKArkhaven Offered For Purchase —

Cars Host Be Garaged At Nigbt— Police After Speed Demons

The village board will not con-sider the purchase of the Arkhavenrestaurant, according to a decisionreached Monday night after theowner, Mrs. S. T. Otis had proposedit.

The building adjoins the property on the shore of Mirror Lakewhich the village purchased twoyears ago and is now making in-to -a park. Mrs. Otis stated that shewished to give the village the firstopportunity to buy as the new tenant desires an option to purchase.The trustees Unanimously agreedthat the village is not in a positionto purchase the building becauseof the developments which themunicipality is already fostering.The trustees concluded that itmight be expedient for local prop-erty owners and summer guestsand residents to purchase it so thatit might be added to the parkproperty.

Dr. George C. Owens, former| mayor, who with the village plan-ning committee, instituted the parkbeautification program here con-gratulated the board on the ap-pearance of the village parks andother complimentary remarks werepassed at the meeting, particularlyin regard to the progress of thenew park now under development.

Complaints were recefved byentertained here last season was j those who have witnessed speed-below the number which usually j ing <>n Saranac Avenue and Sen-

Halpin,visits here. Mrs. L. M.chairman in 1943, will serve as co-chairman ofMr. Hovey.

Representing the clergy on thecommittee are: Rev. Sidney TRuck, Rev. Glenn H. Tyner, Rev.•BE* L. Twining, Rev. Frederick G.MacKenzie and Rev. Robert Far-mer. Other members are: Mrs.Thomas Tarrant, Miss Claire G.

tinel roaci. Police were instructed

%/r • i v ~A v 4-1,1 T rr «*. ' lfl"«»as larram,, miss oxaire <j.Munel Kennedy, Kathleen LaHart, }„„ ,x __. __ ., _> ,_„. • T ' T I White, Miss Marguerite Ryan, Mrs.Eleanor Lascor, Frances Lawrence, >_ . _ _ , e __ w-n* T, , , r ~ .,, «A ,, « i Robert F. Isham, Mrs. William J.Maryanne McQevitt, Stella Mar-|TT _, ,,_ T* ijL ^ ,tin, Catherine Maynard, JanetMoyer, Ralph Owen, Luke Patnode,Dorinth Peck, Mildred Perkins,Doris Peryea, Robert Proulx,James Rollier, Meredith Twiningand Norma Valentine.

The baccalaureate sermon willbe preached Sunday night at theschool by Rev. Sidney T. Ruck, rec-tor of St. Eustace Episcopal churchwith other pastors assisting in theservice.

MISS KERR DID NOT DROWNDIED OF HEART ATTACK

L. E. Otis and niece, Miss Vir-ginia Otis, arriving in SpringfieldMtuss., for the funeral of MissAnita Kerr, 23, who had been re-ported drowned found that the au-topsy revealed that the young wo-man had died of a heart attack af-ter her canoe turned over.

Miss Kerr, the daughter of Ma-jor and Mrs. Tracy Kerr, wasteaching in Maine this year. Thewater where Miss Kerr was pad-dling was not over three feet deeuand the coroner found no water inher lungs. The woman had fre-quently visited relatives here. 60of the faculty of her school at-tended the funeral.

FOUR LOCAL WOMENVISIT BLOOD BANK

Donations to the blood bankwere so plentiful at PlattsburgMonday that only four womencould be taken thru the Lake Pia-cid branch of the Red Cross whichhad made reservations for 10 ormore. Those who gave blood wereMrs. Gus Miller, Mrs. Howard E.Page, Mrs. Paul Reed and Mrs.George H. Warner. Names of otherlocal women who volunteered wereput on file for the next bank, 350donations were taken by the visit-ing' Canadian mobile unit.

For The Girl GraduateShe'll want something dainty andpersonal. iFeek's Pharmacy hascomplete variety of toiletries inname brands that is sure to bringsparkle to her eyes. Fine stock offresh candy. Also graduation cards.Come in today!—(adv.)

to curft) it immediately and thethe committee with j motorcycle will be put back into

| use for this, purpose. Signs warn-ing against speeding are to be re-painted immediately.

The board voted to enforce theordinance which requires a permitissued in the regular manner forany type of construction, irrespec-tive of its size or kind. Buildersupon applying for a permit shouldpresent a blue print or sketch ofthe proposed construction.

No more parking overnight onj;he village streets will be allowedand Chief of Police John Shenestated that the matter would havehis attention during the months ofJuly and August. Taxis will be al-lowed to park on the east or lakeside of the street but only one carmay be parked at a time at eachtaxi stand.

The trustees will meet twicemonthly during the summer

Hurley, Mrs. Jeannette Pensel,Mrs. S. A. Volpert, Mrs. KennethWhittemore, Mrs. Sidney Walsh.Mr. Hovey will appoint a commit-

>f Liist him.

Fined In His Part OfThree-Car Accident

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stunzi ofSaranac Lake were slightly injuredSunday when their car was in athree-car accident on the Lake Pla-cid-Saranac Lake road. The driv-ers of the other cars were JosephH. Smith of Syracuse, and JamesHadjis, Lake Placid.

The couple was taken to theSaranac Lake General hospital,where they were treated for cutsand bruises and released later inthe day. Police investigation re-vealed that Mr. Stunzi, who wasoperating a pickup truck, wasdriving toward Saranac Lake. TheSmith car was directly behind himand in attempting to pass it metthe Hadjis machine, traveling to-ward Lake Placid and then swervedto sideswipe the Stunzi pickup. Thethree cars piled up and were bad-ly damaged.

Smith was arrested and arraign-ed before Justice of the ePace Clar-ence Eccleston of Lake Placid. Hepleaded guilty to a charge of reck-less driving and was fined $25.

LEGION TO SPONSORTENT CARNIVAL HERE

Members of the Lake Placid postof the American Legion haveagreed to send regular messagesto the men of the villaga now inthe services. Each member willsend a paragraph of greeting andnews of the village.

The local 'post will sponsor acarnival here during the first weekin July. Traveling shows havebeen consolidated this year be-cause of transportation problemsand the show which will be inPort Henry the week previous, islarger than the tent shows form-erly visiting- the village, accordingto Legion officers.

months: July 3 andAugust 7 and 21st.

17th and on

SIXTH GRADECOMMENCEMENT

MIRROR LAKE'S SUBMARINEJUST A GONDOLA

Program At School This MorningMarking Entrance To JuniorHigh

The sixth grade of the Lake Pla-cid Central School will stage icommencement Day program in theauditorium at 9:30 a. m. Friday.

The children, who will enter jun-ior high school next fall, have lin-ed up a program similar to thatof their seniors graduating fromhigh school and have also issueda class book. Harriet Pollatschekwill be the valedictorian and RogerFavro, the salutatorian, as thehighest ranking children scholasti-cally. Sybil Campbell will read theclass will and Charis Cobane, theclass prophecy.

The diplomas and prizes will beby Howard Page, vice-and there will be selec-

awardedprincipaltions by the sixth grade orchestraand vocal numbers. Miss GladysBooth will play the recessional andprocessional. Class poems havebeen composed by Terry Umber,Pat Chase, Nellie Chambers, GerryNolan, Harriet Pollatschek, PaulaTrudell, Harriet Vondell and JanetWhitney.

The Coining of Summermeans hot days and stops for re-freshment at the friendly fountainat the Lake Placid Pharmacy. Oursuper-creamed ice cream makes;uper sodas and sundaes trythem and see for yourself. Takehome a quart—69c.—(adv.)

A gondolier from which ahandsome dark young manwearing all the accoutrementof a gondolier used to singlove songs, now resembles asubmarine as it floats up anddown Mirror Lake with no oneto claim it for his own.

For several seasons the gon-dola was popular with roman-tic couples who would floatover the water at twitight tothe tunes of *he your.g gondo-lier who poled it for a me-dium stipend from one s'ioreto another. As the season woreon and his voice grew huskyhe sometimes substituted aphonograph. At one time headded another gondola to hisfleet which later was sunk. Theneglected boat has been beach-on the shore for several years.This spring youngsters pushedit out in the lake but could notsink it and for several weeksit has been floating aimlesslywith the breezes. An uprightpole at one end which used tosupport the awning resemblestoo closely a periscope of asubmarine when viewed from adistance as the tx>at hangslow in the water.

HAS LETTER FROMCOMMANDANT

PARATOOOPRECTLieut. Col Ekman Write, Mother

of Local Paratrooper

Mrs. Mae Rand has received aletter from Lieut. Col. William E.Ekman, commandant of the 505thparatroop infantry regiment ofwhich her son,- Pfc. Jay Rand, isa member. The lettejr commendsthe unit for its performance. •

Pfc Rand took part in the Sicil-ian invasion and has been restingand training in England for severalmonths prior to the invasion ofNormandy. The letter from the of-ficer, written before the invasionfollows:Dear Mrs. Rand:

It is with great pleasure that Ican assure you that your son is?uMUing his duties with the 505thparatroop infantry in a most com-mendable manner. As commandingofficer of this regintfent I takejreat pride in the high degree ofndividual accomplishment whichprevails in this unit and I knowthat the 505th paratroop infantryates as one of the best in our par-

ticular field. I cannot fully ex-press my whole-hearted appreci-ation for the cooperation receivedfrom a memlber of your family. Iam confident that in the future wewill retain the high mark (of bat-tle efficiency) we naveji2si3y earn-ed in past assignments, no matterwhat the mission may be."

NAME CUMMINGSTO HEAD ESSEXCO. LEGION AGAIN

Hold Convention In EEzabetbtownTo Elect Officers Aad Delegttes

W. Stanton Cummings of PertHenry has been reeiected fcom-mander of the Essex Countybranch of the American Legion.

Named at the 26th annual con-vention held at the courthouse inElizasbethtown were the vice-com-manders, Francis Thew, Lake Pla-cid; Ralph Torrance, Westport;Owen D. Murphy, Tieonderoga.Other officers elected were: JohnH. Hennessey, Port Henry, financeofficer; Walton Rich, Port Henry,service officer; Thomas Batton,Lake Placid, chaplain; Julles Bur-res, Elizabethtown, sergeant-at-arms; Raymond C. Prime, LakePlacid, judge advocate; GeorgeSmith, Lewis, historian.

On the executive committee are:John Moore, Tieonderoga; John

Rumney, Elizaibethtown; JacoBDiets, Westport; Gordon Green,Port Henry; John Shortsleeves,Essex and Albert Dolan, Lake Pla-cid. The adjutant will be appoint-ed by the commander. Elected dele-gates to the state convention inAugust are: Fred M. Dennin, LakePlacid; John B. Rumney, Eliza-bethtown; Stanton Cummings, PortHenry; Wendell L. Crowningshield,Tieonderoga; Walton 0. Rich, PortHenry and Francis Thew, LakePlacid.

Alternates are: Albert J. Dolan,Lake Placid; George E. Monis,Elizabethtown; C. P. Peterson,Port Henry; Sam J. Ariga, Tieon-deroga; Ralph G. King, Port Hen-ry and Thomas Batten, Lake Pla-cid. Walter O. Rich, delegate, and \George E. Morris, alternates, arejveterans of world war II It was jvoted to increase the allowance fordelegates' expenses to the conven-tion from S10 to $15 each.

It was announced at tae meet-ing that the Essex County MedicalSociety at a recent meeting adopt-jed a resolution favoring the planfor a paid Legion service office tobe employed for Essex county. Thefinance officer, John H. Hennessyreported that the coun-y branch isin good financial condition. Six cfthe eight posts of the county rep-resented by a total of 33 memberswere: Lake Placid; Clark-PatnodePort Henry; Lasher-Still, West-port;* Tieonderoga; Bouquet Valley.Elizabethtown and Stafford-Den-ton-Cross, Essex. <

SWALLOWS TAKE RIDEON CHIPMUNK'S BACK

At times cats make dogsuncomfortable by riding theirbacks when they approachyoung kittens too closely. Birdshave taken up this habit ofdefense but pick on chipmunksas their mount. A chipmunkventured too near a swallow'snest in a bank and got troublefor his pains. The mother birdhopped on his back and gavethe cry of alarm for her materode tandem style on the chip-who joined her and the twopie's back until the trio wasout of sight.

SOLDIERS MAYBRING TROPICAL

DISEASES HONEHealth Authorities Get Ready To

Fight Any Threatened Epidemk

This country will have to beconstantly on the alert for the ap-pearance of tropical diseasesbrought here by returning soldiers,Dr. Joseph P. Garren of SaranacLake, district health officer, toldKiwanians at their dinner meetingat the Majestic restaurant Tues-day nights

The public health administrationas well as the army and navy medi-cal corps is studyiug trop'^al andAsiatic diseases and setting upmeans to combat diseases usuallyforeign to the United States,should they threaten epidemic pro-portions. He said most parts of thiscountry would be favorable for agrowth in malaria but state 1 thathe did not believe it would gainmuch foothold m the Adirondacksbecause of t.ne altitude and colderclimate. T:I-J bubonic plaque mightdevelop as an epidemic in someparts of the west, Dr. Garren said,but the European type of typhus,

louse-oorne disease, should notget undt̂ rwftv in great prop »rt)cnshere. He said that bathtubs insur-ing cleanliness and central heatingplants are the greatest insuranceagainst typbvs as people frequent-ly remove tneir clothing to cleansetheir bodies and garments. Ele-phantiasis and several Japanesediseases, often fatal, may be en-countered in months to come.

Dr. Garren was introduced bySupervisor Willis Wells and talked

following class representatives will j i n th« redoubled efforts toward thegive and receive the symbols of {control of tuberculosis. Although

CLASS DAY ANDMOVING UP DAYPROGRAMS TODAY

Classes Hare Final Ratty Before

Moving up day and Class dayexercises at Lake Placid Centralschool will be held this afternoon.Robert Proulx is the instructorsupervising the class on the stagecomprised of the seniors who willlisten to the program which cen-ters about the activities of theirfinal years in high school.

The class will will be read byLuke Patnode; the class prophecyby Maryanne McDevitt; class his-tory, Larry Arquitt, class poem,Alma Cleveland; advice to the jun-iors, Henry Gelles, adviee to theseniors, Rudy Perkins,

In the moving-up exercises the

their respective classes: Luke Pat-node, Matthew Hurley. Carol Gold,Carol Hurley, Gordon Musgrove,Norma Jean Lamb, Carolyn Blox-ham, Lorraine Bannerman, RolandBouvier and Adrienne Smith. Theexercises are in charg% of Mrs.Raymond Hughes and Miss Isa-belle Warner.

The group picture of the classin their caps and gowns will betaken this morning followed bycolored motion pictures taken nthe north terrace for the historicalfilm library at the school.

SON OF FIRE WARDENMISSING ON MOUNTAIN

Mothers Of Service MenTo March In Parade

Play Lot At Scout CampCamp Bedford, owned by the

Scouts organization in the Nor-thern Adirondacks, now has alarge parking area and play field.Work on this was completed Mon-day by a "bulldozer" brought in-to camp for that purpose.

Construction of a "walk-in" cool-er will be started this weekendby Scouters who volunteer theirservices. Reservations for the sec-ond week of camp, starting July16th are now closed, There are va-cancies left in the third and fourthweeks according to an announce-ment made byRussell Turner.will be the largest camping sea-son in the history of the Adiron-dack Council. Troops and Scqutsstill desiring to register are urged

send in reservations promptly.

Scout ExecutiveThe 1944 season

LIQUOR DEALERS MEETAT WH1TEFACE INN

The annual convention of theNew York Wholesale Liquor deal-ers will be held at the WhitefaeeInn for four days, beginning Sat-urday, An ice show will be stagedSaturday night at the arena fortheir entertainment and the hotelmanagement has arranged a steakdinner on Buck Island duringtheir stay.

An invitation will be issued toall mothers of service men andwomen to march in a special divi-sion in the Fourth of July parade.Gold Star mothers wall be partic-ularly honored during the exer-cises. The group of mothers willbe followed by a division made upof the wives and children of ser-vice men. Although written invita-tions will be sent to the mothersthey are asked to telephone thearena so they may be registeredas to number and transportationprovided for those not able tomarch.

TO OPEN VICTORY CLUBROOMS FOR SERVICEMEN

Members of the Victory club willkeep the club's headquarters in theMasonic building open from Fri-day night thru Sunday night dur-ing the remainder of June for theconvenience of local and visitingservicemen. An attempt will bemade to staff it daily during Julyand August so that the rooms maybe open for information on lodg-ing and entertainment and as areading, writing, rest, card andmusic room. The club has voted toenter a patriotic float in theFourth of July parade.

For The Boy Graduate*ll want something practical and

useful. We suggest a shaving set,a pipe, a fountain pen or a set ofmilitary brushes. Peek's Pharmacyhas a fine stock, reasonably priced,and will be glad to help you makeyour selection,—(adv.)

A volunteer searching party of20 men scoured the heavily woodedarea near the top of Mt. MorrisTuesday night for six-year-old Jos-eph Fromaget, son of Fire War-den and Mrs. Adelard Fromaget fTupper Lake.

The boy was reported missingby his father, who said he leftJoseph at a cabin near the lookoutwhen the lad became tired as theyascended the S,163-foot mountainshortly after 9 a. m. Tuesday.

Leaving the boy with instruc-tions to stay near tha cabin,Fromaget continued about a quar-ter-mile to the lookout for his tourof duty. The fire warden remainedthere until after heavy rain

the stride toward control havebeen curbed by greater exertion,longer hours and unsatisfactoryhotising conditions of wartime, thehealth officer stated that author-ities are active in establishing theidentity of the carriers who passit from one member of a familyor community to another. He saidthat tuberculosis is now recogniz-ed as being primarily a family dis-ease and the wage earner or sev-eral wage earners of one familyare often taken to sanitaria forobservation so that danger f con-tacts- can be eliminated. In theevent that sources of income arecompletely cut off from familieshaving tuberculosis the support ofthe remaining members becomesthe responsibility of the countywelfare department. In the case ofEssex county the expenses fromthis source have been doubled dur-ing the past year.

FIRST WEEK BRINGS ONLY$7787 IN jBOND SALES

The war loan drive in this vil-lage got off to a poor start in thisvillage, according to Frederick G.Mader. local chairman. Only $7,-787.25 was subscribed thru the saleof 118 'bonds. The quota for thevillage is $168,000. Bond sales arelow thruout the county accordingto information received by Mr.Maderf vice-chairman of the coun-

about 2:30 p7m~ and then'"started j ty> f r o m C w m t y c h a i r m a * A. W.Stannard who said only two town-ships in Essex county are respond-

back down.Unable to find his son near the

cabin, Fromaget searched thethickly wooded section alone un-til about 6 p. m., when he returnedto Tupper Lake and reported hisson missing.

C. C. CONWAY PHONES HE HAS$55,000 FOR L. P. WAR LOAN

Mayor Luke Perkins was infor-med by telephone this week by C.C, Conway, president of the Con-tinental Can Co., that his companyis buying S50,000 in war bonds tobe credited to the Lake Placid cam-paign and he is taking1 S5000 per-sonally, making a total of $55,000toward the local quota of $158,000.Mr. Conway for many years has

n a summer resident here.

LIONS CLUB CONVENTIONHERE NEXT SUMMER

Lake Placid's invitation to theNew York State organization ofLions club to meet in this resort;arly in June, 1&45 was accepted

last week at the annual conventionRochester. The convention is

expected to bring 500 delegateshere.

satisfactorily.

FOUR WOMEN VISITBLOOD BANK MONDAY

Donations to the blood banx wereat Plattsburg Monday were soplentiful that only four womencould be taken thru the Lake Pia-cid branch of the Red Cross ".vhvhhad made reservations for 10 ormore. Those who g-ave blood were'Mis, Gus Miller, Mrs, Howard E.Prtge, Mrs, Paul Reed and Mrs.George H. Warner Names of otherlocal women who volunteered wereput on file for the next bank, 350donations were taken by th.3 visit-

g Canadian mobile unit.

It's Not Too Lateto get that special graduation1 gift.Commencement is Monday, so don'tdelay stopping in at the- Lake Pla-cid Pharmacy and look around. Ourclerks will be glad to offer sug-gestions—and we have literallydozens of gifts that will be longappreciated by either girls or boys.Also greeting cards for the oc-casion.—(adv.)