Soldiers and sailors from this village on duty in this country will be the recipients of 3,600 cookies as an Easter remembrance from the Victory Club. Each boy will receive an assortment of brownies, sugar and nut cookies made at the Lake Placid Club bakery with Mrs. Charles Holt in charge of arrangements. Miss Helen Cautin supervised the packing. The butter was donated by the Victory Club, and the bakers contributed the remaining ingredients and the labor.

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Working children

Two bills were passed by the Senate to permit the release of school children for work connected with the war effort. Similar action is expected in the Assembly.

One would excuse students 14 years and over to take temporary jobs in canneries and greenhouses. The other would permit pupils 16 and over to be absent for up to 30 days each school year to engage in commercial fishing. Students 14 years old and over may now absent themselves for up to 30 days a year to work on farms, under a 1941 law reenacted this year.

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Mirror Lake rescue

What might have been a double tragedy here Wednesday afternoon narrowly averted by the quick thinking of a 10-year-old boy, Orson Kelly Jr., who saved two younger boys who had gone through the ice of Mirror Lake.

James Shea Jr., aged 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Shea and Ronald Lawrence, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lawrence, were playing on the ice in the rear of the Wanda building shortly after 6 p.m. Arthur Adams, watching the boys from the window of his apartment noticed that they were dangerously near a raceway of water at the end of a drainage pipe from Main Street which had opened the ice for several yards.

Before Mr. Adams could warn them, the boys, unaware that they were near open water, walked directly into the raceway where the water is about 6 feet deep.

Neither lad can swim. Young Kelly, who was playing nearby, came to the rescue and instead of wasting time from the shore side, he circled on the ice and reaching down grabbed a boy in either hand and succeeded in hauling them up to safety from the ice water.

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Scrap metal pickup

Ralph G. King, chairman of the salvage section of the Essex County war council, advises that residents of the county during the month of April should locate, prepare and assemble all scrap metal for the spring pickup which is scheduled between May 1 and May 15.

The state salvage committee has designated April as the period in which householders should scour their premises to locate every piece of scrap metal possible, especially heavy farm scrap to set this country on its way toward meeting its quota for the first six months of 1943. Salvage chairmen in each town will arrange for the pickup and they can be helped if householders assemble scrap in a pile where it can be loaded into a truck. Farmers having old machinery which is of no further use are urged to see that it gets back into production.