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The Post-Star from Glens Falls, New York • 8

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I Pott-Stor and Timet, Glens Falls, N.Y. Saturday, Dec. 1 1 973 Fort Edward Towli Board Considers Bids I' "I bidder meeting all specifications. Town Clerk Edith Amorosi was advised to place an ad in the Glens Falls Post Star and Times reminding town residents that no vehicle should be parked or abandoned on town roads during a snowstorm. Penalty for not complying with the local law will result in the vehicle being towed away.

Tom Mercure, town legal advisor, brought the board up- purpose for which the money will be tised. The Town Board has budgeted $750 for 1974 for the organization. Councilman Howard Creaser reported on his meeting with representatives on the planning of a joint celebration for 1974 in commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the incorporation of the village and the 100th anniversary of the George Satterlee Hose Co. Creaser, who was appointed the town board representative to the committee, asked that any board member having ideas for town participation in the event, advise him and he will forward them. Permission was given to Councilman Creaser to attend the Association of Towns meeting to be held In New York City during the month of February along with Loren Sullivan of the town planning board.

A resolution was passed requesting that Washington County roads passing through town roads be appropriately marked at limits of 50 miles per hour in compliance with the request made by President Nixon and Governor Rockefeller. A lease for the present town clerk and town assessor's office was approved for not more than one year with rent not to exceed $1,900. board members regarding the fees commercial users of the landfill are charged in the local area. This matter will be considered at the next -Town Board meeting. In other business, Mercure noted that the senior citizens organizations will be submitting vouchers to the board for monetary contributions.

Area municipalities have1 agreed to help support the senior citizens in this manner. The vouchers will list the Today Special Mmdsoin Falls Fnit Edlwairdl UTILITY GRADE McINTOSH v. Mrs. Morrison Honored APPLES Energy Crisis Board Topic Vi Bushel Mrs. Myrtle Morrison, seated, was honored by the Satterlee Hose Company Auxiliary with a life membership.

Here she is shown at a party in her honor with Mrs. Eunice Alheim, president of the auxiliary. Auxiliary Gives Life Membership BUTTERNUT SQUASH DeVos's Rainbow Orchard 1J5 Bag 9 I Vi Miloi South Horthway Exit 9 located on U.S. Rout of Clifton Park ONN 7 DAYS Will. FORT EDWARD Prior to its regular meeting, the Town Board opened two bids submitted for a 32,000 lb.

capacity machinery hauling trailer. BioY'were submitted by the Southworth Machinery of Albany in the amount of $5,187, and the State Equipment Co. of Albany for $4,775. It was decided after 'discussing specifications during the regular the bid would be awarded to State Equipment as low Party Honors Ormsby FORT EDWARD Mr. and Mrs.

Warren Ormsby attended a surprise dinner party Dec. 9 in honor of their 53rd wedding anniversary. Ormsby and Mrs. Ormsby, the former Georgianna Mason, are both former residents of South Glens Falls. They were married in the old Methodist Church on the corner of Third Street and Hudson Street in South Glens Falls.

For the past 50 years they have lived on East Street in Fort Edward where they operate Warby Farms. Four generations attended the party including: Mr. and Mrs. E. Mason Ormsby; Mr.

and Mrs. George Ormsby; Mrs. Hubert Akins; Miss Linda Akins; Mr. and Mrs. E.

Mason Ormsby and sons, James Michael, and Matthew and Mr. and Mrs. Joel Knapp. Registration Now Open FORT EDWARD -Registration for voters in Washington County is conducted from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m: at the Board of Elections in the county building on Upper Broadway.

Any resident who will be 18 on or "Nov. 5, 1974 may register now for the election. Those who have changed residence are required to reregister. Change of name also requires re-registration. Area Briefs HUDSON FALLS Santa Claus will make his annual pilgrimage to Hudson Falls today by firetruck arriving at village park at 3 o'clock, courtesy of the Italian-American Civic Club and the Hudson Falls fire Department.

Free candy will be given to the children. FORT EDWARD The John R. Durkee Hose Co. will hold its annual Christmas party beginning at 6 p.m. at Everetts Restaurant tonight.

FORT EDWARD The annual Christmas party of Wheel and Pitch Chapter 67 will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday at the South Glens Falls Methodist Church. Those attending are asked to bring a covered dish' to be passed along with a gift for the children they bring. FORT EDWARD The final group in a series of films shown at the Fort Edward Library will be shown at 3 p.m. Monday.

The films scheduled for showing are "Winter Program," "Snow Revolution," "Trouble With Ice," and "Sgt. Swell." The program is open to children of all ages with parents welcome to attend. ML, following the pin presentation during which games were played, prizes awarded, and Christmas gifts exchanged. Joanne DePalo and Wendy Bovee provided entertainment for the evening. The next meeting of the auxiliary will be held one week later than usual on Jan.

15. Refreshments will be provided by Gail Bennett and Joanne DeCamilla. Frame Presents Frank FORT EDWARD Ray Frank, guitarist and singer of traditional and contemporary folksongs, will make his first appeaWiceln this area at the Frame Coffeehouse, Fort Edward Art Center, at 8:30 tonight. Frank spent a year crisscrossing the country as singer-guitar player, and professional accompanist appearing at coffee houses and campuses throughout the mid-west. In the east he has performed at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Gerdes Folk City, and the Gaslight in New York City, the Eighth Step, and the Bethlehem coffeehouses in Albany, and for many schools in the area.

He operates an instrument shop in West Lebanon, doing fine repair and restoration of stringed instruments, and will be available for consultations between performances at the Frame. Singing in last week's songswap were Margaret Cray tor, Glens Falls; Tom Winn, Whitehall; Gary Knighting, Glens Falls; and Marty Griffin and Ellen Austin, in duo. The Frame will be closed next Saturday, reopening on Dec. 29 for a Holiday Singing Party, Save on Food and Electricity Cuts cooking time 75. Save up to $36.

per year on electricity. Cooks a 5 lb. roast in 30 min. Bake a potato in 4 min Plugs into regular house current. SEAR, SAUTE Day FORT EDWARD Eleven-year-old Judy Corriveau will have her own special day this Saturday.

Judy, who turned eleven on Election Day, has completed her final series of treatments at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and arrived home Wednesday. A homecoming day has been set by Town Supervisor Louis Fisher for Saturday. A food sale will begin the day's events with proceeds turned over to Judy. Also canisters have been placed throughout the village for those wishing to help celebrate her arrival home. While she was receiving treatments, she was able to keep up her schooling by attending the Boston area schools.

She resided with relatives of the family, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Dirrane and their two daughters. Mrs. Corriveau expressed her gratitude to the volunteers who picked Judy up after school, transported her to the hospital for treatments, and then returned her home.

This entailed many hours of waiting for the volunteers, she added. Judy was kept aware of local happenings with the many letters, cards and gifts she received from friends, relatives, schoolmates and teachefs. Following the Christmas holiday, she will again be attending the local school system. Cambridge Artist Exhibits CAMBRIDGE Joyce Decker, artist and instructor at Mechanicyille High School, a Cambridge resident, is exhibiting her paintings and pottery on the Russell Sage College Albany campus through Jan. 5.

A Skidmore College graduate, Mrs. Decker has pursued graduate study at Russell Sage and was the recipient last summer''' of an Asian studies grant from Syracuse University. She has studied painting with Jack Bosson of Albany and ceramics with Regis Brodie of Saratoga. Her works, which have been shown in Glens Falls, Saratoga, Troy and Albany, were most recently exhibited at State University at Albany in a show sponsored by the Hudson-Mohawk Association of College and Universities. to-date on the progress of the rezoning request made by the Fort Hudson Nursing Home.

Approval has been given by the Village Board, the Town Planning board, and will be reviewed by the Washington County Board on Monday. It is necessary to rezone a portion of nursing home property from R-l residential to C-l commercial for the addition of two wings. Material compiled by Mercure was distributed to in 1934-35; commercial subjects at Argyle Central School in 1947; and has been with the Fort Edward School system since 1948. A northern conference meeting will be held at the high school at 7:30 p.m. Monday with the topic of discussion the energy crisis and its effect on inter-scholastic sports.

The school board has adopted a stronger line on the problem of student smoking. Previous board policy has been to issue a warning to the student followed by a letter sent to the parents. A second violation would result in suspension. The new policy to be followed will call for immediate suspension of students from school if found smoking on school property. Parents would be obliged to return with their child to school before the student is allowed to attend classes.

In other several appointments were made by the board. Mrs. Mary Lynn Biondollio, 28 Broadacres Glens Falls, was given an appointment to complete the school year as a fourth grade elementary teacher. Miss Angela Cicero was appointed to coach the girl's athletic program with Stan Lewza director of the bowling club. Miss Barbara Senter was appointed with Miss Cheryl Sheehan to supervise the cheerleading squad.

Plant Whitehall at the Whiteford plant taking interviews and applications for sewing machine operators, sewing mechanics, cutters and general factory help. The industry is one of the world's foremost designer and manufacturers of parachutes and associated life support systems. They are in research development with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Wilson and Jessica Day. Honors: Kim Benson, Debbie Barker, Kathy Harrington and David Aubrey.

Grade 10 high honors: Evelyn LaGoy, Brenda Grinnell and Cecelia Strainer. Honors: Elizabeth Osborne and Judy Green. Grade 9 high honors: Wynne Beaman, Joyce Whitney, Jason Zweig and Nancy Dubai. Honors: William McNeil, Laurie Osborne, Linda Townsend, Mark Cornell, Jennie McCotter and Robert Mumblo. HUDSON 8 FALLS ANTA 1 FORT EDWARD The main topic of discussion at Wednesday's meeting of the Board of Education was the current energy crisis.

Various ways to conserve energy were discussed including conducting evening activities under night heating conditions of 55 degrees and not adding any additional programs to conserve fuel. District Principal Bradford Fancy noted that there have been no radical changes and that the school is meeting its outside commitments. However, all school thermostats have been checked. Improving the heating plant by shutting off fans and the outside circulation systems have been further steps to help save energy. The thermostats have been cut back where possible.

Fancy added that there has been no major adjustment in the school calendar or curriculum. Jack Sheehan of the Sheehan Insurance Agency gave a presentation of the school's insurance coverage in relation to accident policies, theft, and vandalism. The resignation for retirement purposes of Mrs. Dorothy Holbrook was accepted with regret at the meeting. Mrs.

Holbrook, commercial teacher, will retire effective June 30, 1974. Mrs. Holbrook is a 1933 graduate of the State College for Teachers in Albany. She taught one year in Canajoharie Industrial Considers WHITEHALL A new industrial plant is interested in establishing a manufacturing -system in Whitehall in the vacated former Whiteford Smith Street, as announced by Ronald Burns, industrial chairman. Before establishing their manufacturing plant they will take a survey for employment.

During the day Tuesday and Wednesday, personnel will be FORT EDWARD Mrs. Myrtle Morrison has been named the first life member of the Satterlee Hose Company Auxiliary. A surprise party was given for Mrs. Morrison Tuesday evening and she was presented with a corsage of pink carnations, a cake to celebrate the occasion and a pin stating her life membership in the organization. A personal present of homemade rolls also was given to Mrs.

Morrison by Mrs. Fannie Miller. The annual Christmas party of the auxiliary was held Ring in A Merry Christmas ADORN 200. to 800. WED.

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RINO 3 Licensed Pharmacutt 2 Parking Lots SERVICE DRUGS 56 Main cor. Beech, Hudson Falls Free Delivery in Fort Edward, Glens Falls South Gleps Falls Hudson Falls 747-4144 SUFBAVS E30LIMVS 10 m. -1m. 5m." 9 ALKA SELTZER PLUS I TABLETS en lO BATI MiltS 5 'VI, 10 OFF GELUSIL TEGRIN LIQUID ANTACID MEDICATED SHAMPOO 11 M. J.7!.i.

CIGARETTES VITA-VURV log. 079 mineral I vitamin tonic kings ctn. for pupi, dogi ctn SERVICE DRUGS Adverttted Specloli Good thru Friday DAILY HOURS: 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m.

to 9 p.m. Hartford Names Students TOW-LY SHOP Hudson Fall YOUR CHRISTMAS STORE WITH GIFTS GALORE HARTFORD David R. Burroughs, supervising principal of Hartford Central School, has announced the first quarter honor roll for grades 9 through 12. Grade 12 high honors: Sunny Bardwell, Sandra Clark, Mark Modeen, Dianna Aubrey, Jill Landon, Russell Danforth and Karen Whitney. Honors: Joan Irwin, Christine Miller, Christy Barker, Susan Townsend, Nancy Liebig and Dawn Sweet.

Grade 11 high honors: Bonnie Getty, Kathy Valyer, Janis if OPEN Yfil The Fun Crowd I gives and receives 4 TONIGHT noilJkrdob Nowforalimes 8-18 New 36-42 LIMITED OFFER! FREE BROWNING SKILLET NOW YOU CAN BROWN, Finely knit paltrrnii, prinin, rlrh rrrnmv koIuIk. Tutiirrrl in arrilnn Brrillr arrilnn poUrmrr rloiiblr knit. I Mb aQ tw When you buy any MICnOWAVt'OVEN With the hew browning skillet you can tear juicy flavor into steak, brown chops, fry eggs and grill sandwiches. Perfect for gourmet cooking. Onf grrat outfit afirr another.

Red. White, Navy, all wanhnble TODAY 3 'till 5:30 Arriving at Village Park at 3 P.M. by Hudson Falls Firetruck, courtesyof Italian-American Civic Club. Free Candy for the Kiddies! IN PERSON at W.T.GRANT FROM 4 to $: JO P.M. LIVE COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS DAILY IN OUR STORE fir Say "Merry Christmas" with FIRE ISUSMR 'from the Totr-ly Shop.

UitHmm Falls CIIARCE tT! Nerer a penny of cost for rredit LA' t0 UCre tract. MuftM Fife. 12IJI.

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