In Years Past
In 1959, the oldest active stock car driver in the United States turned his thoughts to maneuvering into outer space. At the age of 53, he'd like to be the first man to be shot into orbit around the moon. Ted Chamberlain, of Fairdale Trailer Park, Lakewood, said he'd ridden and driven ''just about everything here on earth,'' so he wanted to be the first to enter the new vista of space travel. Mr. Chamberlain had been a professional stock car driver all his life. A two-time veteran of the NASCAR 500-mile auto race at Daytona Beach, Florida, he had been one of NASCAR's top 20 drivers since the organization was founded. He had also flown about 5,000 hours with the U.S. Army.
Telephone service in Cassadaga was restored after an interruption following the Twig Hardware Store fire Monday morning. Fire Chief Wayne Wilcox said the cause of the fire had not been determined. It destroyed the hardware store, caused smoke and water damage to the Korwin Machine Corporation building and smoke damage to the Beauty Shoppe building owned by Mrs. Hazel Smith and operated by Mrs. Goldie Williams. Jerry Deuink of the Cassadaga Telephone Company said the firm had 737 subscribers and the fire burned a 45-foot section of the cable, which interrupted telephone service to 650 subscribers.
In 1984, Goldome Bank of Buffalo said it had decided not to go ahead with plans to acquire the Bankers Trust Co. of Albany because of a delay in Goldome becoming a stockholder-owned institution. Goldome, one of the country's largest savings institutions, had announced in December 1982 its plans to acquire Bankers Trust of Albany. Goldome announced plans in August to convert from a savings institution owned by its depositors to a public corporation owned by shareholders. However, the actual conversion had been delayed by ''technical accounting issues.''
The series of green ''zone'' signs hanging on posts along the roads around Chautauqua Lake had been helping visitors and residents find their way around the area since the 1950s. Under the original concept, the zone numbering system was to have been more extensive, involving maps and master lists of numbered buildings, road crossings and landmarks. However, no one saw the numbering system through to its conclusion. Because many had said the signs were still useful, the Chautauqua Lake Association was trying to raise money to rehabilitate the signs, which had fallen into disrepair over the years.
In 1999, the revisions were in and the schedule was tentatively set. But to use the words of Facilities 2000 architect Robin Mach, Chautauqua Lake Central's new all-grades facility was still ''at the mercy'' of two reviewers in the state Education Department. Superintendent Donald Belcer told school board members that Mach was hoping for a verbal approval of his designs by the end of the week. School officials hoped to begin construction on the new northwest Mayville facility once winter weather improved, perhaps in March.
Low inflation, plentiful jobs and low interest rates combined to fuel a retail buying binge in 1998 that helped keep the American economy growing robustly in the face of foreign economic problems. Retail goods - particularly cars and building materials - sold strongly during the crucial holiday shopping season. Earlier in the month, auto companies said they sold 15.6 million cars and light trucks last year, the most in 12 years.
