Ithaca Journal-News, Thursday Evening February 12, 1931

Ithaca Journal-News, Wednesday Evening August 19, 1931

Ithaca Journal-News, Wednesday Evening August 20, 1931

References to Dates when Franklin D. Roosevelt was in Ithaca

3,370 Registered for Cornell Farm Week;
Governor Attending

Ithaca Journal-News, Thursday Evening February 12, 1931

Hundreds of visitors poured into the city today for the fourth day of the 24th annual Farm and Home Week of the State College of Agriculture. All attendance records for the first half of the week had fallen at noon with 3,739 registered as against a previous high marked of 3,160.

The registration desk this morning was the center of huge throng as the multitude of new visitors signed their cards. Many arrived in town yesterday in time for the address of George Russell who hundreds of others came today to hear the daughter of the Commoner, Congressman Ruther Bryan Owen, give her view of women's place in the home.

With the arrival of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt for the main address of the week at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Bailey Hall over 1,609 more guest were expected today and tomorrow morning.

Governor Due at 3:30

Governor Roosevelt traveling by automobile from Syracuse, was to arrive in Ithaca about 3:30 o'clock this afternoon for a two-day visit in connection with Farm and Home Week at Cornell.

The Governor and Mrs. Roosevelt will be guests here at the University Avenue home of the late Charles E. Treman, former State Superintendent of Public Works.

The Governor's principal address will be given at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Bailey hall. Tonight, however, he will present Master Farmer medals to 11 New York State farmers and achievement awards to six outstanding farm boys and girls, at the Master Farmer banquet in Willard Straight Hall.

Mrs. Roosevelt was to receive state women's organization presidents at a reception this afternoon.

Ithaca May be Site for State Hospital; Governor Inspects

Ithaca Journal-News, Thursday Evening August 20, 1931

Ithaca may have one of the State's three proposed $175,000 tuberculosis hospitals. Governor Roosevelt this morning paid a visit to the suggested site.

Accompanied by members of the State Department of Health and Chamber of Commerce officials, Mr. Roosevelt and his party drove to the proposed site, located just north of Oreate Villa on the east side of the Ithaca-Trumansburg highway.

The Governor spent a half-hour this morning admiring the view and discussing its potentials as a location for one of three State institutions, with Carl Crandall, Finger Lakes Park engineer.

Mr. Crandall explained that from an engineering point of view this location is specially suited to the projected construction in that the ground is made up of a thin covering of clay only before reaching solid rock. He also said that quarries of native stone to be found nearby where the materials for the buildings may be easily procured.

With the Governor were Dr. Edward S. Godfrey Jr. and Dr. A. B. Seigel of the Health Department at Albany. They told him that representatives of the department had been here on several occasions inspecting this location. Engineers have made preliminary surveys and their stakes were in evidence as the party drove into the fields off the highway this morning.

Health Department To Decide

Final decision in the choice of the hospital rests with the health department of which Commissioner Dr. Thomas Parran, jr. is the head. He is being assisted by Dr. Robert E. Plunkeet, chief of the tuberculosis division who has been to Ithaca several times since this site was suggested. At present he is on vacation but is expected to pay another visit here sometime next week.

State Chief Executive Distinguished Guest at Rural Conference

Governor Comes to Town

Ithaca Journal-News, Wednesday Evening August 19, 1931

With the arrival of Governor Roosevelt here this afternoon, the 14th annual Americana country Life Conference at Cornell University was at high tide.

The Governor, accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt and party, left Albany this morning by automobile at 10:45 o'clock (E.S.T.) and was expected to arrive in Ithaca by the middle of the afternoon.

The Governor's party were to eat luncheon on route and to make a brief stop in Cortland where Mr. Roosevelt was scheduled for a short address.

Met by Col. Beacham

Pressing on to Ithaca, the Executive was to be met at Varna by Colonel Joseph W. Beacham, Jr., commandant of the Cornell R.O.T.C. and staff and escorted to his overnight quarters in Balch Hall.

The Governor's schedule in Ithaca calls for a public address at 8 o'clock tonight in Bailey Hall, a visit to the Reconstruction Home for Infantile Paralysis tomorrow morning and a radio address over a nation-wide network from Station WEAI at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

The conference which extends through tomorrow had collected a total attendance of 555 at noon today, including about 100 students from various colleges and universities who are members of the student section meeting simultaneously.

Future Meeting Places

The Board of Directors last night selected locations and topics of the next two annual conferences. That of 1932 will be held at the University of Minnesota with the keynote topic of "Rural Adult Education." In 1933, the conference will be at Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg, Va. to consider "A National Policy for Agricultural and Rural Life."

Among prominent men who addressed forum sessions of the conference today were: Senator Seabury C. Mastick, chairman of the New York State, Commission on the Revision of the Tax Law; M.C. Burritt of Hilton, former Cornell Professor, now New York State Public Service commissioner; and R.C. Hall of New Haven, Conn. principal forester, on forest taxation inquiry for the United States Forest Service.

References to Dates when Franklin D. Roosevelt was in Ithaca

Ithaca Journal-News Friday Evening, February 19, 1932 - Speaker at the Farm and Home Week Bailey Hall Cornell University

Ithaca Journal - News Thursday Evening, February 16, 1933 - Mrs. Roosevelt is speaker at the Farm and Home Week - Cornell University. This representation at the Farm and Home Week changed in 1933 because Franklin Roosevelt was running for office of President of the United States. He was in Florida on February 15 when he was involved in an attempted assassination on his life.

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