CATSKILL MOUNTAIN NEWS SorvlBf the Oonraumlllee of ADaben, Aitdca, Anna, ArkviUe, BcOMyre^ Big Indtea, Denver, Dry Brook, Omaaiwa, FlrfuchnHMinp, Grand Gorge, Halcott Center, AOeottvill^ Hii^nnoant, Kelly Comers, Bbrfaretvffle, New Kingston, <Hiverea, Fboenida, Fine BUI, Boxbnry, Gpiandaken, Shavertown, IMMI Grove and Vega.

Vo l 81. No. 7. Esteblidied in 186S. MAIuiABETVILLIC, NEW YORK, FiODAT, MAY 28, 1943 12 Per Year. $1JS0 in County

Two Big Trout YieUToWiks

Of Fishermen George Fairbaim Takes

P r ^ in Stone School Section

Streams Are High Earl Jenkins Lands Second

Pnze at Turn Above Creamery

George Fairbaim caught a monster trout near the Stone school bridge Tuesday morning w^ich weighed five pounds, six ounces. Mr. Fairbaim was fishing Monday night in that vicinity and caught an ordinary sized trout. As he was about to take the fish frcan the water it was grabbed by a m(»ister trout. Hie fisherman "let him have it" but did not wait long enough and when he pulled torfc the trout out of the mouth of the big fish.

Fairbaim got up early Tuesday moming, " caught some minnows, and repaired to the scene of the former evening's fishing. The big trout grabbed the minnow the first cast and was landed. It has been on exhibiticm at the Bussy store here.

Earl-JMTfciafi of-this viUage 4oek a 4%-pound trout Wednesday moming while fishing with bait at the turn in the river above the B. ft B. creamery. The water is swift there and the landing of the fish was an exciting job.

All the streams are very high and fishing is impossible except in long pools. Rubber boots and waders are useless for the reason that fishing has to be done from the banks. A few trout have been caught on flies, but fly fishing is difficult from the banks of the streams. Fish that have been caught are plump and vigorous. If the rain does stop most fisher-men believe there will be excellent sport once the waters recede enough they may get into the streams.

Fire Damages Former Weil-Known Resort Hotel

The former Churdiill hall in Stamford was damaged by a fire whidi, started in the main hall about 10 o'clock Thursday night of last week. Firemen fought for an hour to subdue the blaze. The property was recently taken over by the county for taxes. It was built 50 years ago and was one of the most prosperous of all moun-tain hotels in the hey-day of its owner, the late Dr. Ste^dien Oiurdiill. How the fire started is a mystery.

Fann Hrip AvailaMe Farmers may secure evacuees

and other types of farm help, in-cluding boys, by applying at the U. S. Emplo TOen bureau at Qne-« i ta or J. AL Sharpe, South Kort-right. The boj^ have had a short course at the Delhi Ag school, •niey start with $30 per month.

Please Stay Hmne Transportation Director East-

man at Washington Thursday urged peqple to stay off trains and inter-dty buses over the Memorial day weekend.

WILL OBSERVE MEMORLU. DAY

Patriotic Sm-vioes in Fleischmanns and Blaigaietville Sunday

Aftmioon

Memorial day will be observed in Fleischmanns and Margaretville Sunday aftemotm. The American Legion will go to Fleisdraianns and n parade will start there at 1:30 p. m. It will be made up of the Fleischmanns school band, fire department, Legion, Boy Scouts and other patriotic organizations. The parade will end at the ceme-tery where there will be a prayer and patriotic songs.

The Legion will retum to Mar-garetville in time for a parade here which will start at the cen-tral school at 3:15 and march to the Margaretville cemetery. The parade will be made up of the central school band, the Legion, Boy and Girl Scouts, Auxiliary, D. U. v., firemen and other patri-otic and service org£mizations. After a simple service at the Mar-garetville cemetery the parade will disband and many of the or-ganizations will be the guests of the Legion at the Legion house in this village where ice cream will be served by the Legion.

Board Certifies Nineteen For Graduation in June

ITie following members (rf the class of 1943 of Margaretville central school have been certified by the board of education for graduation in June. These seniors have maintained an average of 75 per derit "above in eadh subject duri^ the year to dater They win receive a local school diplcmia in June regardless of their results in the final examinations. The other members of the class may become certified by raising their marks to the necessary average du^g the remainder of the year or through the Hnal examinations.

Those certified are: Charles Boggs, Thelma Cross, Fred Cure, Margaret Haynes, Russell Johnson, Richard Kelly, Patty Kaufinan Etts, Dorothy Lane, Charles Mc-Farland, Lona O'Connor, Donald Odell, Everett Paine, Millicent Place, Virginia Rose, Phyllis San-ford, Linn Shultis, Catherine Smith, Francis Sweeney, Richard Whitney.

L<odge Entertains E ^ t ^ n Stars The Coeur de Lion lodge, F. &

A. M., entetrained the Eastem Stars and other friends at a party Monday evening at the Masonic hall. A most interesting evening was spent. Various games includ-ed novelty relay races, one of which involved an umbrella, chair and whistle, and another a lighted candle. There was a game of skill involving a clothespin and a bot-tle. Papers containing half a proverb were given to each person and the wie with the other half was then sought. There was a quiz contest in ixWch participants were asked to choose their subject — sdence, geography, music, etc.— and nswer four questions in it. Hie evening was ended with a spelling contest. Ice cream and cookies were served at the dose of the evening. Committee were Rev. Glenn W. Young, Harrison C. Morse, F. Leightc«i Enderlin and Donald Smith.—^Roxbury Cor. -

Beturm From Trinidad David Crawford, who has spent

several months in Trinidad work-ing for an English firm, returned home early in the week. Mrs. Crawford and her sister, Mrs. Beatrice Robertson, met him in New York dty. — New Kingston Cor.

Rains Hinder •

Demolition Of D.&IUtailway

Four Miles of Track Have Been Shipped, Ties

Piled Up

Bridgesjfill Wait Train Leaves Here in Mom-

ing, Returns Late at Night

The demolition of the Delaware & Northem is being held back by the constant rains. Despite this, George Temple, a wrecking expert, who is in charge of the operation, expected to ^ v e the rails up as far east as Harvard last night. The starting point was East Branch.

The big bridges will not be taken down at present. The rea-son for this is that a gang of nearly 50 men is required to op-erate the machinery to take up the rails. Seven men are aU re-quired to take down the bridges. When the rail job is complete the smaller gang will begin on the big bridges, most of which are over 150 feet, double span. After they are taken down the material Wfll taken by truck to a rail point for shipment. Mr. Temple has trucks here belonging to his organization.

The ties are being taken up with the rails and sold to other ndlroads. Mr. Temple, at present, is filling an order of nearly 10,000 for the Detroit & Mackinaw rail-road in Michigan. The ties are piled along the tracks as fast as removed from the roadbed and will be trucked to a rail point.

TTie demolition train leaves Margaretville each moming and returns often as late as midnight. The carloads of rails are put on a switch at Arkville for shipment as the market demands. Nearly all the rails will be used again. This is also true of the bridges. This material will go to save vital new material for various railroads east of the Missi^ippi.

Will Unveil Pine HiU Honor Roll Monday

Ceremonies in connection with the miveiling of the Pine Hill honor roll, erected to the service men of the community, are to be held at 11 ju m. Monday, May 31. The honor roll will be located on the lawn near the Village hall. The exerdses will consist of pres-enttation of the flag by Pine IDll Boy Scouts, troop 62, addresses by several prominent men, unveiling of the honor roll by two mothers of service men, and musical num-bers. A cordial invitation is ex-tended to everyone to be present and assist in these services for our boys in the service w^o are giving their all for us who are obliged to r«nain at home.—^Pihe Hill Cor.

Party Honors Newlyweds The party held last week at the

home of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Limn was in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McCumber Jr., who were married last Thursday at Kingston. Mrs. McCumber is the former Frances Miller, R. N., of Kingston. Mrs. McCumber was at one time nurse at the , Margaretville hospital.— Dunraveh Cor.

Winton Ruff Dies From Acute Indigestion

Winton Ruff, 42, prominent dtizen of this village, died sud denly yesterday aftemoon about 1:30 o'clock. Mr. Ruff had gone home from his office about 11 o'clock, not feeling well. He suffered an attack of acute in digestion and died at the hour stated.

The News will cany a story of his life in the next issue.

Trooper Haskins Found Not Guilty Wednesday

Justice Fred Sprague of Liberty Wednesday dismissed a disorderly conduct charge against Trooper Matthew V. Haskins, fomierly of Oneonta, who was arrested when members of the BCI of Troop C raided two horserooms in the Sullivan county community April 24.

In finding the defendant not guilty of the charge, Justice Sprague ruled that the evidence presented at the hearing "failed to show that Trooper Haskins had been frequenting a resort or con-sorting with criminals. It was brought out," Justice Sprague said, that Trooper Haskins had not

been in Sullivan county for three years prior to the day of the raids."

Dist. Atty. William Deckelman represented the people, calling to the stand four members of Troop C, Inspector Emest Maynard, Cpl. William Driscoll, and Troopers Leroy Zeiman and Michael J. Judge.

Justice Sprague dismissed the original charge made against Trooper Haskins following the raids, holding that the information did not contain sufficient facts to constitute a crime. Trooper Has-kins was recharged on a newly-drawn disorderly conduct informa-tion, the complainant being Cpl. Driscoll, assistant to Inspector Maynard, who conducted the raids and ordered Trooper Haskins charged. Cpl. Driscoll also was complainant on the original count.

With the arrest of the trooper, a 14-year man in the uniform di-vision of Troop C, a behind-the-scenes fued between the uniformed £Uid BCI divisions came to light.

Trooper Haskins was reported in Liberty on assignment by Capt. D. E. Fox at the time of the raids, which resulted in the arrest of 33 other persOTS, but he and Capt. Fox dedined to comment. Justice Sprague fined three operators $50

At Albany Wednesday Major John A. Wamer, state police su-perintendent, dedared Haskins' suspension has not been lifted and added "he will never serve as a trooper again."—Oneonta Steu*.

Baby Boy Undergoes Serious Hernia Operation

An operation for strangulated hemia was performed at the Mar-garetville hospital this week on the four-week-old son of J. Sprague. In addition to the hemia there was grangrene in the intes-tinal tract. It was a major opera-tion and medical men say sets a r ^ r d for the age of the patient in strangulated hemia cases. The operation was performed by Dr. Gilbert Palen, assisted by Drs. Weinberg and Bruell.

Find Cars Tagged Sixty-three motorists on Satur-

day and Sxmday found a tag in or on their cars notifying them to appear at the bffice of the Kings-ton war price and rationing board to explain why they were using

Delaware Again Leads State In Pounds Of Milk

Ahead of St. Lawrence County by Small Margin

This Time

June Milk To Be $3.50 Value of April Product Con-

siderably Over One Mil-lion Dollars

Delaware county remains fa the lead of all milk-producing counties tributary to the Metropolitan milkshed for April milk volume and value, leading its nearest com-petitor, St. Lawrence county by a narrow margin.

April production in Delaware totaled 35,032,850 poimds which returns a value of $1,064,998 for the month.

Returns are figured at a uniform price of $3.04 per hundredweight, which is 28.1 per cent hig^r than the yield for deliveries in April, 1942.

The ten top counties tributary to the pool, all in New York state, delivered a total of 235,285,963 pounds of milk in April wrarth a total of $7,152,693. The detailed figures for the t ^ follow:

County Vol., Lbs. Value Delaware 35,032,850 $1,064,998 St. Lawrence 34,343,008 1,044.027 Jefferson Oneida Chenango Madison Orange Otse^ Heridmer Lewis

771,066 755,207 721,593 684,715 580,730 562,053 489,632 478,726

Value 363,000 105,529 89,472

25,362,069 24,842,369 23,736,612 22,523,529 19,102,993 18,488,596 16,106,347 15,747,590

Returns in three nearbjr counties are as follows:

County Vol., Lbs. Schoharie 11,940,801 Greene 3,471,353 Ulster 2,943,188

Milk worth a total of $17,604,626 was received last month from 53,951 dairy farmers at 462 New York eirea approved plants in the six states of the metropolitan milkshed. The farm value, reck-oned at the record high uniform price for April milk indudes but-terfat payments worth $328,136, averaging nearly six cents per hundredwdght of milk marketed at New York pool prices and loca-tion premiums amounting to $155,-504.

The third successive suspension of the operation of the seasonal variation in the farm price of fluid milk in the New York milkshed caused Dr. C. J. Blanford, admin> istrator of the New York metro-politan milk marketing area, to post Wednesday a price of $3.50 a hmidredweight for fluid milk in June.

Will Deliver Address Memorial day will be observed

next Monday in the usual way. Prin. John Sliter of Grand Gorge school system will deliver the ad-dress of the day. Mr. Sliter is an Andes boy and many will be glad to leam that he has been secu^ for the occasion.—^Andes Cor. ""

Tractors Used Gas The gasoline shortage here is

really being felt. Tractors are nmning out of gas in the field. If

^ _ _ the situation is not relieved sotm their automobiles.—Kingston Free-! the foods will sufferer—HalcottviDe man. 1 Cor.

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