'6 North Westchester Times, New Castle Tribune, Mount Kiseo, N.Y., January 7, I960

%, h £ #ji|pR> QjJHfcgf United Fund to Send 1st Checks to 24 Agencies

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Managing Editor . Associate Editor M A R Y B. M C L A U G H L I N

Telephone: MOunt Kisco 6-4133 — Chappaqua office — CEntral 8-3020

Let's Push United Fundlty! NORTHERN WESTCHESTER is

in the midst of the largest single fund campaign, with the excep­tion of hospital drives, ever car­ried out in the north county. It's the campaign of the United Fund of Northern Westchester. And the goal is $588,235.

That's a lot of money. But it will care for the basic needs of 24 member agencies. That $588,235 must be raised or the agency al­locations will have to be reduced. We hope that is not necessary. We are sure it will not be neces­sary.

To ate, contributions and pledg­es total $342,000. That's only about 60 per cent of the quota. That to­tal of $342,000 represents the gifts and pledges of 15,200 donors. Even SO, the campaign is not completed In about half of the communities. Each town has a little more work to do. About half have virtually completed the campaign which be­gan Oct. 14.

The advantages of a United Fund are numerous, not the least of which is the fact that just one solictor comes ringing your door­bell for the 24 agencies. You are asked to make o n e contribu tion—not 24. You should keep this in mind, too, when you make your contribution. Let the amount be at least equal to the total of what you would give each of these agen­cies in a separate campaign. If possible, give a little more.

It's especially important that this first United Fund campaign reach its goal in Northern West Chester. Future years should see considerable more support for a project that is no longer a new idea.

So if you haven't contributed yet why not do so as soon as possible You'll be helping 24 agencies car ry on their good work among your neighbors.

It's Your Winter Carnival WE ARE proud to be a part of

the big Mount Kisco Outdoor Win ter Carnival and Open Speed Skat­ing Championships which will be held at Mount Kisco's Leonard Park Jan. 23-24.

This is the biggest event of its kind ever staged in Northern Westchester and all that is need­ed to assure its success is a little cooperation from the weather. A cold spell wlli freeze the ponds and lakes in the area and provide boys and girls—the men and wom­en too—the opportunity to get out the skates and get in trim for the big day.

A word of caution to the contest­ants. By all means, if you are get­ting in shape for the Carnival, be sure that the ice on which youj

practice is safe. If no outdoor ice is available soon, go to one of the indoor rinks. They're much safer than a pond that isn't en­tirely frozen over— and thick.

We are happy that the Mount Kisco Recreation and Leonard1

Park Commission are sponsoring this Winter Carnival, in coopera tion with this newspaper and the Mount Kisco Boys' Club. It's a community event and deserves your support. And encourage your youngsters to participate. They'll get a lot of fun out of it, and so will you.

Don't forget. We'll see you at Leonard Park on Jan. 23 and Jan. 24. Be sure to put the dates on your calendar.

TDbe Shortage of Interns T&E SHORTAGE of interns,

ig Increasingly more acute, Biay hit Westchester hospitals even harder in the coming months, t is possible that after July 1 the

poster of foreign-born doctors may be whittled down as the result of a nationwide test of medical qual­ifications.

The Educational Council for For­eign Medical Graduates will re­quire, on that date, that all for­eign interns or residents doctors must be qualified under a new formula. And, according to the medical director of Grasslands Hospital, most of the foreign med­ical graduates in this country have not had medical school training which equips them TO render the type of medical service to which the U. S. public is accustomed.

Grasslands pointed out this week that for some time it has sought to o b t a i n extension of a visa granted to a young Japanese doc­tor, needed badly by the hospital. Unfortunately, overtures to the

-State Department have failed—he,] must return to .Tapan, leaving a vacancy that will be hard to fill.

OUR DEPENDENCE on foreign-bom interns is pointed up by a survey taken by this newspaper. The study shows that Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco has had almost no Ameri­can-born interns in 10 years; of 13 interns at White Plains, eight are foreign-trained; all 12 interns and resident physicians at United Hos­pital, Port Chester, are foreign-born; the situation obtains at

Grasslands, too, where 13 of 18 in­terns are young foreigners. All in­terns or house residents at St. Ag­nes Hospital, White Plains and Phelps Memorial, North Tarry-town, are foreign-borh.

NOT TOO MANY administra­tors are supporting the national qualifying test for these doctors. Jerome Peck, of the Northern Westchester Hospital, says "The sufferers will be the public. The ruling about this examination is like burning a house down to get rid of a few mice."

Mr. Peck's statement is cause for concern. It seems normal that there should be variations in med­ical school training, U. S. versus foreign schools. But it would seem to us not in the public interest if a U. S.-geared test that may be "loaded" against the foreign doc­tor eliminates from hospital ros­ters those interns or resident phy­sicians whose work has been ex­emplary.

THERE'S another side to the coin too. With the U. S. fast mov­ing to a 200 million population, our "production" for doctors has not kept pace. The lure of the Space Age may b'e taking young men from the medical field to the are­na of missiles and defense-orient­ed fields. This is one trend that will have to be halted; there are few callings in this world that af­ford so much personal satisfaction •—and, for many, so many remu­nerations—as that of the physician.

'Dimes' Opens First Birth Defects Center

A birth defects study center, the first of its kind designed to com­bine clinical treatment with re­search and teaching, has just been officially opened at Columbus, Ohio. It is supported by funds from the New March of Dimes, which is now engaged in its January cam­paign for contributions to fight three major crippling diseases in­cluding, besides birth defects, ar­thritis and polio.

Medical experts say that birth defects are the biggest unmet childhood medical problem in the United States today. There are more ) than 600 different kinds of birth defects, or "congenital mal­formations," as they are called by doctors. They range all the way from harelip and clubfoot to'] mental retardation.

Some 250,000 American babies are born each year with one or more significant birth defects; and about half of this number are doomed to a lifetime of serious ill­ness or crippling. About 34,000 infants each year are stillborn be-cause; of these afflictions, or die

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within the first month of life. Med ical science as yet has few clues to the causes of these disorders) that occur before birth; and there are few known methods of preven tion. Shrouded In Superstition

The study center in Columbus' famed Children's Hospital thus represents the beginning of the New March of Dimes attempt to solve a medical problem that has heretofore been largely neglected by research. It is a problem that has for centuries been shrouded in fear, superstition and shame. By tackling this issue with a three-pronged program of research, pa tient aid and training of skilled medical professionals, the March of Dimes organization seeks to bring hope to the hundreds of thousands of parents whose lives have been blighted by bewildering grief and heartbreak following the birth of a malformed child.

This hope is bolstered by the past record of the March of Dimes5 or­ganization in lighting baffling dis-, eases. It was March, of Dimes

A VOLUNTEER in the Mount Kisco area tor the United Fund campaign, James McMahon, right, of the Halstead - Quinn Fuel Co. receives a substantial contribution from Theodore Slos-son in behalf of the Young and Halstead Co. The campaign seeks a total of $588,235 in be­half of 24 member - agencies throughout northern Westchester —Staff Photo by Dante Raffaeli

Newsworthy At the Digest

The Christmas holidays brought news of engagements to the Read­ers Digest. Elaine Berthiaume of North Tarrytown became engaged to William Waechter of Hartford, Conn, on Dec. 24. Miss Berthiaume is a member of the entry typing department. Christmas saw the an­nouncement of an engagement be­tween Dorothy Hickok of Syracuse, N. Y., and Thomas Hill of Oswego, N. Y. Mr. Hill is the son of Kath­leen Hill a member of the typing department and a r e s i d e n t of Peach Lake. On Dec. 25, Joan Johnson of Carmel became engag­ed to John Hahn of Beachhurst, L. I. Miss Johnson is a member of the entry typing department at RD. During the holidays', Nanci Ann Robbins of Peekskill became engaged to Charles William Pem-berton Jr . also of that city. Miss Robbins is a member o f the con­densed book account records de­partment while her fiance is in the personnel department.

A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Reynolds of Katonah on Christmas °€)^.T,he baby was born in the Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco. Mr. Reyn­olds is a member of the machine maintenance department at RD. His wife was - irmerly in the mes­sengers department.

Joan DeVido departed from RD on Dec. 31, to begin her maternity leave. On that day she received many gifts from co-workers and friends. From members of her group within the subscriber file department, Mrs. DeVido received a baby comforter, a receiving blanket and a baby bath set. Members of the entry typing de­partment gifted her with a revers­ible carriage set and diaper bag and those friends of Mrs. De-Vido's who ride with her daily on the RD Peekskill bus gave her a blue nightgown and a fancy cake. Mrs. DeVido is a resident of Lake Mohegan.

Shirley Roake, a member of the Special Typing Group of the typ­ing department will be married on Jan. 9 to Harry W. Danielson of Boston, Mass. Miss Roake resigned from RD on Dec. 31, and on her last day was honored with a lunch­eon given by members of her de­partment. She received' a Borg Scale from the special typing group and a clock radio from the typing department. Miss Roake is a resi­dent of Peekskill and after her marriage, she and her husband will live in Boston.

School Menus Following are the menus to be

sensed in the Chappaqua schools during the week beginning Jan. 11: MONDAY

Beef-vegetable soup, hamburger, cheese square, lettuce heart with Russian dressing, roll and butter t

milk. TUESDAY

Waffles and syrup, sausages, green salad peach half bread and butter, milk. WEDNESDAY

Roast beef with gravy mashed potatoes, buttered corn, bread and butter, milk. THURSDAY

Chicken r i c e soup, cold cut wedge, celery sticks, milk, FRIDAY

Baked macaroni and cheese, but­tered string beans, green salad, bread and butter, milk.

funds that encouraged Dr. Jonas E. Salk to become a virologist and that produced his world-celebrated vaccine against crippling polio. Some Can Be Helped

Certain major birth defects, such as "water on the brain" (hydrocephalus) and "open sipine" (spina bifida), can now sometimes be corrected .by new techniques-of surgery, medical experts at the March of Dimes organization re port.

Through the combination of treat­ment, teaching and study at the Columbus Birth Defects Study Cen­ter arid others the March of Dimes hopes to establish and support, it is believed that new .knowledge will be obtained and spread so that the devasting effects of these dis orders may eventually, for the most, part, be prevented or con­trolled. •

25 Years Ago in Mt. Kisco MOUNT KISCO—

The resignation of Henry P. Blackeby as mayor of Mount Kis­co was received by the Village Board of Trustees at a meeting held in the Municipal Building, Mr Blackeby who served as village head for nine years, sails tomor­row for South America for an ex­tended business tour. Late last month the former mayor reveal­ed his intentions of retiring from office and on Dec. 20, nearly 200 residents of Mount Kisco honored Mr. Blackeby at a testimonial din­ner.

The Village of Mount Kisco op­erating expenses have been cut 20 per cent in four years it was an­nounced at the New York Confer­ence of Mayors. The village's op­erating costs were third lowest in Westchester it was disclosed. A survey made also revealed that Mount Kisco ranked 14th in State for actual reductions made since 1931.

Fire, believed to have been caused by a defective chimney,

burned the upper story of a house on Lunday Lane owned by William Rockett and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wheeler and family.

Changes in the personnel of the Village Board, heated debates over Leonard Park, a record turnout at the annual school election, and ad ditional hearings and promises on the elimination of Mount Kisco grade crossings constituted the highlights of the news in Mount Kisco during 1934, was revealed by a chronology published in the North Westches ter Timesnsti North Westchester Times in its the first born in the Northern West-

Mount Kisco regained its lost laurels in the "first baby of the new year" competition when Mr Stork brought an 8 pound 13 ounce bouncing boy to Mr. and Mrs. Jo­seph Graham of Mount Kisco at 9:27 p.m. Jan. 2. The child was the first born in the Nrthern Westo Chester Hospital in 1935, and al­though the Stork was a day be hind time, he did pretty well at that.

MOUNT KISCO — The 24 member agencies of the

United Fund of Northern West­chester will receive their first monthly checks from the Fund this week, it was announced today.

Most of these agencies have con­ducted separate campaigns in the area in former years. This year they are dependig upon the United Fund, which is conducting a cam­paign in 21 north county commu­nities, to raise funds for the-par­ticipating agencies. Local residents organized the Fund, volunteers are doing all fund-raising.

60 Per Cent Raised In this first time around, the

United Fund began a campaign in mid-October for a total of $588-235 to support member agencies This amount is the sum of the budgets of the agencies needed for their work next year. To date, about 60 per cent of this amount has been contributed or pledged, with the campaign incomplete in about half of the towns in the Fund area.

The checks mailed to the mem­ber agencies are based on the amount contributed to the Fund increases.

May Be Made Directly Contributions to the United Fund

agencies may be mailed directly to the Fund office at 510 Lexing­ton Avenue, Mount Kisco.

Voluntary charities being sup ported by the campaign are: The Adoption Service of Westchester Inc., the Association for Help of Retarded Children, the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, The District Nurs­ing Association, Family Service, of Westchester, Grasslands Hospi­tal Service Committee, the Nation­al Medical Research Program, the Menthal Health Association, Arth­ritis and Rheumatism Foundation, National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation, The Salvation Army, United Cerebral Palsy Association, Urban L e a g u e of Westchester, USO, Volunteer Service Bureau, Westchester Children's Association, Westchester County Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, County Council of Social Agencies, Mobility Rehabilitation Services

Agencies that are supported by contributor's in the area they serve are: The Banksville Com­munity House, the Boys' Club of Mount Kisco, the Pleasantville Teen Center and the YWCA of Peekskill.

25 Years Ago in Chappaqua CHAPPAQUA—

New Castle buzzed with activity during 1934, according to a news round-up in the Tribune: lower taxes, changes in political control, and ' talk of a new school were some of them. A noticeable in­crease in construction was good news/ and was ^isioned as a sign of better times andLa pick>\in,in business for Chappaqua trades­men.

Despite the fact that liquor flow­ed more freely than ever, the com­ing of the new year was celebrat­ed quite sanely. There were no ar­rests and no 'complaints on the police dockets.

Traffic was practically paralyzed when ice sheathed the highways and made motoring a risky busi­ness. Conditions were the worst of the winter, but no serious acci­dents were reported, only slides and minor bumps.

The Chappaqua Riwanis Club met to make plans for the year 1935 and decided to hold again two big Kiwanis features, the annual minstrel show and the Charter Night Dance.

Gilbert Ethier had an advertise­ment in the Tribune asking for list-

Nursery School Council Sets Course WHITE PLAINS —

"The Meaning of Pre-school Be­havior" is the subject for a West­chester Nursery School Council course which will be given for nur­sery school, kindergarten and pri­mary teachers beginning this eve­ning, at 8:15 p.m. at the Westches­ter Children's Association, 7 Lake Street, White Plains.

Ihler Grimmelmann, certified psychologist, is leader fo r the course.

Continuing each Thursday eve­ning through Feb. 11, the fee is $10 per person, payable at the first session.

ings of Chappaqua houses renting from $40 up.

The Chappaqua Parent-Teacher Assn. announced that it was spon­soring a series of talks on Home Decoration. A prize to be award­ed to the holder of a ticket with a lucky number was a linen bridge set donated by Mrs. Rolando £ai-ani of the Florentine Linen Shop.

John Sullivan, a resident Of Millwood, was appointed dog enu­merator for the Town of 'New Cas­tle, at a meeting of the Coun­cil held at Millwood. Information was released that there were about 900 dogs'in the township".

The Forum

Modern Teachingmethods At Bell, Writes Vertucci

New Books At Library ADULT

Fiction "Lorena," F r a n k G. Slaughter: "Murder on Delivery," Spencer Dean.

Non-fiction "Herbert Hoover," Dorothy McGee. YOUTH

Fiction "The Good Land,' Loula Erdman; "Hi Jolly!," Jim Jjel-gaard.

Non - fiction "Alaska," Willis Lindquist; " A u g u s t u s Caesar's World," Genevieve Foster. JUVENILE

Fiction "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back," Dr. Seuss; "Here Come the Raccoons!," Alice Gou-dey; "The Sno-flake and the Star­fish,' Robert Nathan.

Non-fiction "Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia," Margaret Cousins.

TO AID HEART CAMPAIGN Mrs. Murray D. Ewing of Hook

Rd. has been made chairman of the 1960 Heart Campaign in Bed­ford, according to an announcement by the Westchester Heart Assn. The campaign wll be held during February. Other area chairman listed include, Mrs. Kent Cooper, and Mrs. Charles Grimshaw, Ka­tonah; Lewisboro, Mrs. William I. Mathes; North Salem, Mrs. Gran­ger Costikyan; Yorktown Heights, Mrs. Louis D. Iviediatore.

The Stork Has Brought MOUNT KISCO— DEO. 15

Daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Binsell, Yorktown Heights.

Daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Bowlin, Cross River.

Son, Mr. and Mrs, William Hel ler, Pound Ridge. DEC. 16

Son, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bei-ser, Peekskill.

Daughter, M&and Mrs. William Berner, Ossihing.

Son, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Fish­er, Katonah.

Daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Masterson, Mount Kisco.

Son, Mr. and Mrs.' Joseph Min-asi, North White Plains. DEC. 17

Son, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Ben-zer, Pleasantville.

Son, Mr. and Mrs. George Jen­sen, Bedford.

Son, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Nav­arro, Chappaqua.

Son, Mr. and Mrs. Gabriele Or­lando, Mount Kisco. DEC. 18

Daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Rich­ard Havans, Mount Kisco.

Son, Mr. and Mrs. Courtmey Hauck, Briarcliff Manor. DEC. 20

Daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Poli, Yorktown Heights. DEC. 21

Soil, Mr. and Mrs. Santino Chi-acchia, Mount Kisco.

Dr. Farber Gives Farewell Sermon PLEASANTVILLE—

The Rev. Benjamin F. Farber D.D., who has served as interim minister of t h e Presbyterian Church for the past 15 months, preached his farewell sermon last Sunday. His topic was "Open Doors," and he preached at both morning services.

Also participating in the serv­ices was the church's new minis­ter, the Rev. John M. Whallon. Mr. Whallon wDl be officially in­stalled on Jan. 24.

A reception in the social rooms for Dr. and Mrs. Farder follow­ed the 11 o'clock service.

(Editor's note: A. C. Vertucci, assistant principal of the Robert E. Bell School in Chappaqua, after attending a meeting of the Educa­tional Records Bureau in New York City, felt compelled to out­line the type of instruction pre­sented at the above school. Mr. Vertucci wrote the following let­ter to Dr. Charles Keller, director of the John Hay Fellows Founda­tion:) Dear Mr. Keller,

The content of your speech at the Educational Records Bureau Meeting was most gratifying to hear. Please know that your posi­tive stress of what is being done is, to my thinking, the proper ap­proach for general evolvement.

I am extremely interested in the purpose and content of Grade Sev­en and Eight. The area has been long due for an examination. Be­cause of your approach to the problem, I felt that you would be interested in knowing what we are doing and our views concerning Grade Seven and Eight. I am tak­ing the liberty of stating some of the things that we are doing—not because we are doing them—but because you could positively in­form others of the things that are being done.

We feel very strongly that the present Seventh and Eighth Grade program is socially obsolete; con­sequently, the weakest grades in the K-12 program. The program was most effective and necessary thirty or forty years ago, when the Eithth Grade was the termin al grade in our formal educational programs. The program has been "long-due" for a re-examination.

1. We teach algebra in Grade Eight to half our students. We will introduce the Yale Program to the other half. We have cut out much of the business arithmetic and ele­mentary economics in Grade 8. This excluded much of taxation, life insurance, budgeting, stocks, bonds, etc., and substituted sets, groups, logic and number system. The students who complete alge­bra in Grade Eight will go into a full course of plane and solid geo­metry. Others will go into a course of plane geometry or intermediate algebra, to be completed in Grade Nine.

2. We cover general science in Grade 7 and 8—by stressing prin ciples and concepts through dem­onstrations and then apply these

.principles to explain every day ob servations. We feel that, in this area, we have reversed the ap­proach of doing, doing, doing, and through this doing comes a self discovery of the principle. Our method enables us to complete all the general science in two years As principles are applied, discov­ery of concepts are revealed, re­discovered and sustained. The most enthusiastic outcome of the process is-to see new insights and applicability of principles develop.

Some of the Eighth Grade stu­dents will go into biology; the re maining/; students - will v 1go into a-formulating- • Program iwhere >stu daSI^OTPfi^ third of the ba­sic principles and concepts of biol­ogy, one third of chemistry and one third of physics. This will al low one third more time in biol­ogy, chemistry and physics to ac­commodate new materials. During the course, they will use each of the three basic texts that are used in biology, chemistry and physics.

3. Social studies, we felt, needed a good shaking. This program is so far out of line it would take pages for an initial presentation.

Presently we are teaching world geography in the first half of Grade Seven. World geography is follow­ed by American history in the second half of Grade Seven through Grade Eight. The Ameri-an history program stresses the period of exploration through the period of reconstruction and, inte­grated within this program, is New York State history. The period of American history beyond the re­construction is a much surveyed course of events and consequences.

We feel that the Eighth Grade program should stress our Ameri-neros, principles, v a l u e s , and pride. We stress the concepts, ideas and movements of our coun­try to approximately 1900. We feel that a conceptual discussion of American history beyond the 1900s should come after a two year course of world history—since our foreign and domestic policies, eco-; nomics and social structure were so influenced by foreign contacts. In short, we can not talk about modern American history without knowing world history. Again, I am speaking of conceptual history, not a history of sequential events.

4. Sixty per cent of our students take a foreign language in Grade

Seven and Eight. The approach is conversational. Our, students do not see a printed word in the for­eign language for the first twenty weeks. They listen, imitate and translate. t

The remaining forty jj?er cent of the students have helping periods (three jtimes a week) in reading, mathematics and English. These classes are held to 10-15 students so that individual diagnostic teach­ing may be given. At any time, during the year, the students may shift from one subject to another. If they h a v e gained enough strength in Grade Seven, they may begin a foreign language in Grade Eight.

5. In English, we have a re­quired book list —plus book re­ports — plus individual academic book lists. Here we stress analyti­cal book reports and interpretative responses to literature and poetry. We have cut our book report re­quirements from 20 reports a year to 10 a year. The reports must be analytical and contain substance. We require two compositions a week and stress grammar through writing and diagraming. Our lit­erature program is one of Ameri­can literature which supplements and strengthens our social studies program.

6. We rotate all Eighth Graders through a thirteen week typing course. At the end of the period, students achieve a rate of 25-30 words per minute.

We firmly believe that Grades Seven and Eight are the most im­portant in our K-12 organization and that not enough academio stress, content and challenge has been given to the students in these grades. The exploration and psychological stress are stages that attempted to fill the academic vacuum created by the fast mov­ing terminal grade. The terminal grade has moved from 8 to 9 and, because of compulsory school at­tendance laws, has moved to 10. Because of our fast changing so­cial - economic - cultural pattern, we are moving to Grade 12 and the development of public junior colleges organized on a K-6, 7-10, 11-14 pattern will undoubtedly ex­tend the terminal grade.

The content and purpose of Grade Seven and Eight is present­ly obsolete. Thirty - forty years ago Grade Seven and Eight cul­minated, crystallized and reviewed previous learnings of K-6, as well as preparing students for living. The content of civics, government and practical arithmetic in these grades were developed as essential subject content for future living.

Today, the individual subjects of Grade Seven and Eight do not pro­gressively extend learnings from Grade Six, nor does it strengthen and develop skills for Grade Nine. In short, the grades are filled with aimless exploration.

I am sure that you would be in­terested in the Harvard mental growth study. The' study is report­ed in New York State Bulletin in reference to. junior high students •and graphically shows a steady Tg'te in mental growth, then a- lev­eling off and again a steady in­crease. The leveling off ages are 12-14 and the assumption is that the students experience a mental slump. This, of course, is tied in with physical, psychological and sexual changes.

I know perfectly well that many junior high schools have inter­preted this as a period when we should concentrate on the psychol­ogical and that, since there is no mental growth, we should have ex­ploratory programs.

I want very much to investigate this area since I presently believe that the slump is created by the fact that we do not teach any new content during this period. It's al­most as simple as the statement — no new subject content pro­duces no mental growth.

I certainly hope that what we are doing is going to be useful to you in creating some thinking among junior high school men.

Please know that you have a in­vitation to visit us at any time.

Sincerely, A. C. Vertucci Assistant Principal in Charge of Instruction

THIS OLD MILL will appear in . a full-length' hard cover His­tory of Katonah to be published this-year. The uncut version of, the history has1 been completed

as far as ^the writing goes and now awaits editing. Built around 1812 the mill,, was owned by Squire Wood-,vand John Burr Whitlock near; Cross River. As-

sisted by Mrs. Herbert S. Dun-combe M>f Mount HUy Rd., Ka­tonah, well-known author, about 70 persons-writers and resarch-ers did the actual writing. A

large committee headed by Miss Julia Mead of Katonah has been working for over a year gather­ing material for the history.

MHA Starts New Radio Programs

Mrs. Eugene Kramon, 44 Frank­lin Road, Scarsdale, and Mrs. Irv­ing Moskovitz, 19 Cooper Road, Scarsdale, have been appointed co-chairmen of the radio committee of the Mental Health Association of Westchester, it was announced by Marvin Green, executive direc­tor of the association.

Mrs. Kramon has previously served on MHA's publicity com­mittee, as an MHA workshop co­ordinator, and as an active mem­ber of the Quaker Ridge PTA. Mrs. Moskovitz, who is Scarsale High School PTA secretary, has participated in activities of the Players.

The radio committee, founded by Charles Loeb; of Scarsdale, for the past six years has presented an annual group of 30 radio programs over station WFAS. Devoted to various phases of mental health problems, three programs have re­ceived nation-wide notice for their excellence. The current Saturday night programs on "Mental Health Education" were concluded Dec\ 26. A new series, which started Saturday "Living in Suburbia," will be heard, from 8 to 8:30 p.m.

Contagious Ills Reported in Area WHITE PLAINS—

Twenty-one cases of communi­cable diseases are reported for the northern area for the week ending Dec. 26 by the Westchester Coun­ty Department of Health.

North Castle and Ossining each had five chickenpox victims. Os­sining also had one case of infec­tious hepatitis and one case of rubella, Measles cases were re­ported as follows: Cortlandt, onet Mount' Pleasant, two; Peekskill, five, and Pleasantville, one.

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