Press and Sun-Bulletin from Binghamton, New York • 7

Oct. 15, 1970 PRESS, Binghamton, Y. 5-A Castleman Road Project ewer Doubts 47 VKV Vestal Subdivision 4 Stall sanitary sewer system that would be needed. The board called for the studies after a public hearing last night on the petition that the 50-acre Richard D. Gris- By STEVE HAMBALEK The Vestal Town Board has held up the proposed residential subdivision of a Castleman Road farm pending studies of the public water and Si I 4 Marine Midland Low On Vestal Notes Bid The Marine Midland Trust Co.

of Southern New York was the lowest of eight bidders yesterday on lending the Town of Vestal $2,000,000 in bond anticipation notes to mature June 15. PRESS PHOTO BY JOHN WILLIAMS. GOING GOING The old Stella School, pinched off by the Route 17 Expressway, its windows boarded against vandals, awaits its fate, which will be decided next Wednesday by school district voters. Building is sought by American Legion Post 1305 as a clubhouse. Expressway is at left.

Prospect Street swings past the school's front, as does a new lane of the relocated Harry L. Drive Stella-Ireland Road intersection. wold tract be rezoned from agricultural to residential. Jacob Katz and his son, Steven Katz, both of Flushing, have an option to buy the land if it is rezoned. THEY TOLD THE board that they would build 123 single dwellings on the tract, which lies on both sides of Castleman Road an east-west road in South Vestal between Route 26 and Underwood Road.

Board members expressed concern that the nearest public sanitary sewer hookup was about a mile and a half away from the proposed subdivisions. They told the petitioners that they have had too many problems with subdivisions that don't have public water and sanitary sewer services. The petitioners said that they would drill individual wells and would put in either septic tanks or a primary sewage treatment plant that ultimately would drain into nearby Brown Creek. One Castleman Road property owner expressed opposition to such use of the creek. TOWN ENGINEER James Reid was asked to provide the board with estimates on the costs of hooking up the proposed subdivision with water and sanitary sewer line terminals now in the Vestal Center area to the northeast.

The Katzes said that they would build houses ranging between $25,000 and $30,000 in cost. Their attorney, George Mundt of Newark Valley, said that the developers would build a swimming pool and a 2-acre park for the 'Healthy Tax Base Increase' McCabe Joyful on News of Mall -MAP Marine Midland was awarded the contract by the Town Board with its offer of an interest rate of 4.18 per cent and a premium of $71. Chase Manhattan Bank of New York City offered the same jate but a premium of only $36. Other bidders and their offers were: Endicott Trust Co. of Endicott, 4.27 per cent, Endicott Bank of New York, 4.47 per cent.

Chemical Bank of New York City, 4.53 per cent; First-City National Bank of Binghamton, on behalf of Morgan Guarantee Bank of New York City, 4.52 per cent and a premium of SI 77, and First City, on behalf of Bankers Trust Co. of New York City, 4.27 per cent and a premium of $60. About half of the $2,000,000 will be used to retire a note, with the Marine Midland that carries an interest rate of 6.25 per cent, according to Supervisor Joe B. Munk. The rest will be used to finance construction of buildings and sewage treatment works over the last two years.

Mr. Munk said that the town board expects to float a bond issue on these debts in 1971. fflftGHL Of? i 1 Vestal to Begm Leaf Cleanup The Vestal Highway Department will begin to pick up leaves Monday. Residents must leave them at the curb or ditch lines. The schedule calls for the pickup Monday in the area between the Binghamton City line and Jensen Road, Tuesday from Jensen Road to Route 26, Wednesday from Route 26 to Big Choconut Creek, Thursday from the creek to the Tioga County line and Friday, Twin Orchards and Vestal Center areas.

Corps Plans Chicken Roast The Apalachin Junior Drum and Bugle Corps will hold a chicken barbecue from 11 a. m. to 8 p. m. Saturday.

Dinners will be served at the Apalachin Fire Station and American Legion Post 1700, Maple Street, Endicott. The menu is half a chicken, potato salad, baked beans and a roll. Desserts will be available at the fire station and the Legion post. Persons who wish to have dinners at home can call Apalachin 625-3500 or Endicott 785-9800 for free home delivery. TV Jfe QCto COQCiJ stand is "good.

Any intramural compctit'on like this is good and it will help keep the other shopping centers in the Triple Cities on their toes," he said. He said his department saw the area as an ideal site for a shopping area several years ago and predicted then that the village's tax base would rise. BASED ON THIS HE ALSO pushed for the location of the Riverside Drive interchange. He said such "major interchanges are considered the hotspots" for such development, "and you can expect them to be developed." Mr. McCabe said that with a highway development district, a developer must win site plan approval from both the village and county planning boards before construction can begin.

He added that "this center will definitely do some of the things we need in Johnson City." on LIU CTi fTf7TV7nTTifTT7C7l NEW SHOPPING PLAZAS Construction has begun on Triple Cities shopping plaza, in Westover, lower left. Tri City Mall in Johnson City still in planning stage, though developers say they, plan to start next fall. Johnson City line runs west of Oakdale road to George F. Highway and east to Riverside drive. 9 Shop both (Hum's HOOVER HOME-CARE CENTERS DURING THIS mm Legion Top Stella School Prospect If American Legion Post 1305 doesn't get the old Stella School, who will? That appeared to be the question today after a meeting of about 100 residents of the old district last night in the Polish Community Home, Prospect Street.

The Legion post has bid $16,000 for the old eight-classroom building, unused since the Route 17 Expressway sliced across its location transferring to other schools in the Johnson City Central District. WSKG-TV, THE educational television station, had sought an arrangement whereby it would trade 10 years of programming for the use of the building, but the school dis-t i legal representative ruled that out. A Legion member told the crowd last night that the post's bid dropped to $16,000 from an earlier $20,750, after an examination showed the building to be in worse condi-tin than expected. IRONICALLY, the Johnson City Board of Education had decided not to submit the $20,750 bid to the voters because it was about half the value placed on the building by a professional apprasier. Board officials said last night they decided against following the same course of action with the $16,000 bid to avoid a repeat of that situation.

Voters will decide whether the Legion will get the building at a referendum from noon to 8 p. m. next Wednesday in the Prospect Terrace Fire Station. Weliare Cost Rise Shrinks In Union What started out as a possible $900,000 increase in the 1971 budget for the Town of Union Social Services Department, has now dropped to a more certain $495,528 rise over last year's figures. Supervisor Robert M.

Kropp explained today that when the preliminary town budget was released, showing the large increase in social services, potential state and federal aid figures had not been included. As these figures became available, Mr. Kropp said, showing about $300,000 in aid revenues, the large increase shrunk. He said the board has actually only cut $87,500 from the social services budget even though it could appear to be almost $500,000. Town board members have been meeting for more than a week with various department trimming budget requests.

Mr. Kropp said there is still much work to be done preparing a final budget, including the calculation of special districts budgets. Social Services has shown the largest budget rise, bringing its total yearly amount to $3,100,000. The effect of the rise in social services is an increase of $1.55 on the tax rate, Mr. Kropp said.

This brings to $10.31 the total effect of that department on the rate. tion of Mr. Missavage, it has been under pressure by several groups to grant rezoning of certain slices of the site area. "We've been trying to regulate what goes in there," he said. "We got a lot of pressure when we wouldn't rezone for New York State Electric Gas.

But they wouldn't tell us what they wanted to put in there." He recalled that the village decided it "didn't want a power station in there." And he said. "We've tried to be careful about allowing gas stations in up there." The village's concern over retaining the area won praise from Mr. Missavage. "I'm happy the village board and village planning board have had enough foresight to retain the land as it PORTABLE ELECTRIC Y- "I MM.III.i'l'' 111 By PATRICK McGUIKE Announcement yesterday of plans for a 100-store shopping mall at Harry L. Drive and Reynolds Road in Johnson City "is just the kind of news I've been hoping for," Mayor James W.

McCabe said today. And county planning commissioner Joseph Missavage predicts a "healthy increase in the tax base" of the village with the building of the mall. INTERSTATE PROPERTIES of Clifton, N. .7., announced plans to begin construction next fall on a snooping mall 800,000 square feet in size. It would include a motel, three full-line department stores, a large discount store, a theater and 100 other unnamed outlets, sponsors said.

The news came as another and totally unrelated shopping center was just undergoing its first stages of construction in Westover. The Triple Cities shopping center in the George F. High-w a would cover 250,000 square feet and contain a large W. T. Grant department store plus a handful of others.

Of the Harry L. Drive mall, Mr. McCabe said "It will be of tremendous benefit not only to Johnson City but also to the whole area. "That's why we pushed and pushed and pushed to have the Riverside Drive Interchange located there," he said. "Originally there was no Route 17 interchange planned for the village." The Harry L.

Drive exit of the Route 17 Expressway is at the northern tip of the Riverside Drive interchange. The mall would be centered just north of Harry L. Drive, extending along Reynolds Road. MR. McCABE SAID that since the village rezoned the area as a highway development district on the sugges- Broome 3-Coimty Officials from Broome Legal Assistance Corp.

plan to meet within a month with their counterparts in Chemung and Tioga counties to discuss merger with' an Elmira-based legal services program. The board of directors of the Broome agency voted last night to set up a committee to meet with similar groups that are expected to be set up in the other two counties. Guy Valella, a representative of the Officer of Economic Opportunity-operated Legal Services Program in New York City, told the board that such a merger is being considered by the regional office. BROOME LEGAL ASSISTANCE provides free legal aid for the poor in civil cases. Mr.

Valella discussed with the board last night a possible set up that would merge the Chemung Legal Services program, a similar organization, with the Broome agency. The two programs would be expanded to include Tioga County. Tioga at present has no OEO legal services program. MALL MAA sr. BY PRESS ARTIST JACK BRYAN.

is," Mr. Missavage said. HE SAID HE AGREED with the disapproval of requests for gas stations, "not because I'm against gas stations, but because they weren't (designed) as part of the overall scheme." It was not exactly clear today how much of the land where the mall would be lo-c a remains in private hands. Much of the land in question is thought to be owned by Stanley Vashina of 613 Harry L. Drive.

He is vacationing out of state and was unavailable for comment. Realtors involved in the mall project refused to say who owns what until Mr. Vashina returns. Mr. Missavage said the view of a shopping mall from the county planning department's board the trend in Legal Services is to concentrate on test cases and law reform rather than on individual cases.

This too is tied in with the coat-effectiveness factor because more persons would be served for the same amount of money. "The ideal situation would be to have a facility with enough money where anyone who qualifies would be able to receive legal aid. Unfortunately, we're operating with limited funds," he sai. "WE FEEL TEST CASES and reform law are the best ways to help at this point." The combined budgets of the Broome and Chemung operations totals about $110,000. Several members of the Broome agency's board last night said their initial reactions to both ideas merger and concentration on test cases and law reform were negative.

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