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By PAULA BERNSTEIN WHITE PLAINS — They are deserted in bars. They are abandoned in automobiles. They are looked in apartments.,They are the children nobody wants — until the County of Westchester finds someone whc does. \These are the children of people who became parents without wanting to,\ explains Mrs. Helen Halstead, a retired senior caseworker for the county's family and child social \services. \They are the children of immature parents whose own childhood has brought them little satisfaction and who are still seeking their own satisfaction rather than taking care of their children. \We've had children left for two days without food,\ she adds. \We've seen children who literally don't know how to smile. We have lots of broken families where the fathers drift off. But because these are blood relationships, the children usually cannot be released for adoption. \THEN THERE are instances where the mother gets sick and there are no near relatives. The father and mother are both brokenhearted. The child must foe placed in a foster home temporarily. If possible, we try to place children within walking distance of their mother.\ But ''placing them in foster homes\ — there's the crunch. There just aren't enough such homes anymore. Nearly 2,000 Westchester children are already living in some 800 foster homes in nearby areas with for the children nobody wants 146 children in 80 foster homes in northern Westchester. About 120 more county children every year need foster homes. \Getting foster homes is more difficult today,\ says Mrs. Halstead, who blames travel, affluence, more women at work, and the fact that \youngsters and adults everywhere axe more disturbed and there's not as much interest in children.\ Sometimes, she says, parents flog their children with bicycle chains. That's why \we need homes quickly for youngsters coming in from traumatic situations. We need foster parents to take children in the middle of the night in emergencies,\ continues Mrs. Halstead. \WE NEED foster parents who have no children of their own at home right now, because parents' natural children might feel threatened by an emergency situation. We need foster parents who can accept dirty, unwashed children. We need foster parents who have the capacity to talk to us and tell us what the child is like, to tolerate the extreme. Foster parents who have the perceptiveness to see the needs of the child. We try to have foster parents understand the child's problem. \We do not put a Negro child in a white home, as a general rule, for cultural reasons. Our cases are about half Negro, half white. Less Negro foster homes are available because more Negro mothers work. \We are so pressed, but we try to match a Protestant child to a Protestant home, because this is the law. But this can be flexible. We try to avoid placing a foster child in a home with a natural child the same age. We have an average of two foster children to a home. Yes, some people take babies only. We place babies in foster nomes two or three months before adoption. But in general, we talk about long term care, staying in a home to grow up. The foster child is also the child of his own parents and the foster parents must be ready to give the child up, to help the foster child with his identity and not want to adopt him. \Placing children in a foster home has become a real skill. Forty years ago, it was all very uncomplicated. A great deal has happened in the field of social work since then It's very important that foster parents have a flexible approach, that people who want a boy will take a girl, and they will take a seven-year -old instead of a four-year -old. If they have problems of their own, what's the sense of giving them more? We like to have patient people. ••THE AGENCY has to be flexible today. A lot of things are different because our society is changing. Some foster mothers are now working ...\ Mrs Lillian Morley, the agency's publicity caseworker says recruitment of additional foster homes is urgent: \Temporary homes, and homes for adolescents and children with special problems are especially needed.\ The county pays foster parents for the (Continued on Page Four) PATENT TRADER B.B.H WEEKEND EDITION KSSS^^^^^^ Serving Upper Westchester and Putnam County VOL. LVI — NO. 60 Thla Inn* In twa MeUona Published Twice Weekly MT. KISCO, N. Y., SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1969 Entered as eeoend clan matter at Bit. Kliet. N.T. f> per year 10 CENTS A COPY Some complain about 'Portnoy 1 , some don't at temple's discussion By JILL NAGY YORKTOWN — \My complaint about 'Portnoy' is that, even though these are Jewish stereotypes, they aren't Jewish types\ and that Philip Roth \sees only the weakness of his milieu,\ Rabbi Irving Baumol told a discussion group at Temple Beth Am in Yorktown this week. \I have a complaint with 'Portnoy' too,\ offered one of the women in the group. ''He could have written the same book about a Jewish family without depicting the areas that people would find objectionable. I have a complaint because I couldn't carry the book over to my mother and say, 'Read this ' \ The discussion centered on those two issues: the validity of the characters in the book, particularly Portnoy's mother, as people and as typical Jews and the participants' reaction to what was referred to as the \pornography\ in the book, the use of four-letter words and descriptions of bathroom and sexual scenes. \If you made a movie of this book,\ the rabbi asked, \would you need anything besides a bedroom and a bathroom?\ He felt that Jewish life and culture could be endangered by \presenting a book about Jews to the world that gives the impression that all Jews are that way, that there's nothing good about Judaism and one should strive to be non-Jewish.\ \I pray that your children should never have Portnoy's complaint,\ he said A Negro member of the discussion group — who said that his \Jewish\ mother was a Southern Baptist Negro — compared \Portnoy's Com plaint\ with the old \Amos 'n' Andy\ radio show. \I used to laugh my head off at them,\ he said, but when he became an officer in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, he fought to have the show taken off the air because he felt it was dangerous to expose the unflattering stereotypes to white audiences MOST OF the participants ir Tuesday's discussion did not see a similar danger in havim* non-Jews read \Portnov' Complaint \ One man said he hesitated to recommend t*- book to his non-Jewish friends, especially if they were wom\ r but only because he felt that (Continued on Page FOIT* Shea: a hit with Kisco —Staff Photo by Kaplan PART OF the Mt. Kisco Little League contingent at Big Shea BY PAUL VITALE FLUSHING, N.Y. — More than 2000 children, coaches and parents at Mt. Kisco Night at Shea Stadium Thursday saw a 12-inning thriller in which the Cincinnati Reds nipped the Mets 4 to 3. The setting for the annual event was different this-year (the previous two bad been at Yankee stadium) but all three games have gone into extra innings. A motorcade that included 33 buses brought the group to the stadium where Mt. Kisco Mayor Henry: V. Kensing threw out the first ball. (Messages welcoming the various Mt. Kisco area groups were flashed on the scoreboard in right centerfield. Banners from many Kisco organizations bedecked the mezzanine level and many children displayed their own while sitting in the field level boxes along the left- field line. TV viewers at home could see \Mt. Kisco,-N.Y. loves the Mets\ paraded through the stands. GETTING A break from the weatherman and a comfortable evening, the affair bettered the turnouts for either of the first two games at Yankee Stadium. A combination of the pennant- contending Mets' popularity and high community interest made Thursday night's game a sellout in Mt. Kisco two weeks ago. And with more ticket requests constantly pouring in, Mt. Kisco Night Committee Chairman G. Howard Taylor ordered 500 tickets more, which were sold out three days before tie game AM told, tickets sales reached a record high of 1,800 More than 200 persons also attended as guests. Mr. Taylor said he called the Weather Bureau six t i m e between Wednesday and Thursday night. The evening of \possible intermittent showers\ turned out to be a perfect night for a ballgame The only persons disappointed were the last minute ticket- Missing yellow to be back soon By JAMES TRANSUE POUGHKEEPSIE — Wonder where the yel low went? In the case of state highways in the West chester-Putnam area, the yellow lines down the middle, have been washed away by the weather and rubbed away by tires. That, of coarse, is no mystery. The ques tion that occurred was: why were the yellow lines~not being repainted this year? Patent Trader checked with the Pougb- keepsie office of the state transportation de partment. The answer to the question, it seems, is bugs, the kind of bugs associated with new machinery. THE POUGHKEEPSIE district has a new paint marker that was supposed to have been in operation early this spring, but it arrived late and then developed bugs which kept it out of operation for several weeks. The bugs, says Hubert Cosgrove, the assist ant civil engineer at the Poughkeepsie office who is responsible for the line markings in the district's seven counties, have been worked out and the machine is at last busy running .(Continued on Page Four) Performing arts center proposed By GEORGIA DULLEA YORKTOWN — A community theater group hopes to raise the curtain on a center for the performing arts here—playing to upper Westchester and Putnam audiences and serving students of music, art, drama and me dance. The project, according to Mrs. Irving Jontow, Yorktown Community Players president, might be financed by mdividual contributions and matching grants from the state. The drama group is an ANTA affiliate and could qualify for state aid. Plans for the project were announced this week at a meeting of the Yorktown Ex change Club. \Next I'm going to the chamber of commerce and from there to the town board and from there to the county if I have to\ said Mrs. Jontow. There has been some discussion of a county civic center by the Westchester County Council on the Arts. Olcutt Sanders of Chappaqua, executive director of the council, said Thursday that he is interested in hearing more about the Yorktown proposal. \I like encouraging such activity if it is well-planned,\ he said. RIGHT NOW, the Players are concentrating on getting local business support \and just talking to anybody who will listen,\ said Mrs. Jontow. \But I've got to get to the money people. There must be an angel around someplace who has a • little love for the arts and good live theater.\ At this stage in the drive, the Players have no estimates on project cost but they have several sites in mind. One prime spot, according to Mrs. Jontow, is the Route 118 Sanfor Nalitt property, originally planned for a shopping center, adjacent to the downtown urban renewal project. Whafs Inside The $50 face page 7 Keeping it too cool page 8 First computer merger page 13 Plus: Amusements „ 18-9 Weekend gardener 8 Classified 21-23 Women's news 6-7 Editorials 10 Chappaqua 3 Letters 10-11 North Salem 3 Sports 14-17 Thornwood 18 But the Players aren't discounting Jefferson Valley, to the north, where developer David Bogdanoff has said he intends to build such a civic center as an adjunct to Jefferson Village, a planned age- oriented community. Still another possibility is the Shrub Oak Little Theater, the Players' present base on Mountainbrook Road. While the Little Theater is considered too small for a center, it might be possible to purchase the theater plus more land from the local park association and expand, said Mrs. Jontow. The Players, a seasoned group of 80 amateurs and professionals, have found that suburban productions -can draw a full and enthusiastic house. The groups latest show, which played four productions, was attended by a total audience of about 700, said the Players president (\That's a lot of people and that's a lot of people who haven't seen live theater before.\) For some suburban homeowners Broadway theater is out of reach (\Even if you (Continued on Page Four) hopefuls Thursday afternoon, who had to be turned away. As on the two previous occasions, the game went into extra innings Two years ago, the area residents who attended were treated to a 21 inning marathon in the nightcap of a doubleheader and last year it took 10 innings for the Balti more Orioles to beat the Yankees. This time around it was a sacrifice fly to rtghtfield by Wayne Garrett that tied the score at 3-all in the ninth and sent the game into extra innings. It was a disheartening loss for the Mets, who as a result were SVfe games behind the pace- setting Cubs in the National League's Eastern Division. Falling behind three times in regulation play, the Mets rallied each time to tie the score Home runs by Donn Clendenon and Cleon Jones knotted the score at 2-all after eight innings, to the delight of the 30,934 fans on hand CINCINNATI pitcher J i m Merritt then drove into the Met bullpen in the ninth as the Reds regained the lead, 3-2. A single by Al Weis, an error, a fielder's choice and Garrett's sacrifice fly brought the Mets even for the last time, setting the stage for Perez' game-winning homer in the 12th inning. Started in 1967 by Willard K. Denton, president of the Manhattan Savings Bank, as a treat for the winning team of the Mt. Kisco Little League and the championship Kisco entry in the Northern Westchester Babe Ruth League, Mt. Kisco Night has spread to neighboring communities. Groups also came from Chappaqua, Bedford . Pleasantville, Somers, Millwood, Yorktown and P e e k s k I 1 1 Putnam and even Dutchr Counties were represented, also The first of the 33 buses left Leonard Park at 5 30 p.m The Reader's Digest, alone, accounted for 12 buses. MEMBERS of the Mt. Kisco Little League and the Kisco teams in the Northern West chester Babe Ruth and American Legion League (Continued on Page Four) Roads to get new signs ALBANY — A massive pro ject for the installation of new traffic signs on 11 major state highways in Westchester will begin soon New guide and destination signs, route markers and parking signs will be put up to replace or supplement existing signs on these routes: 9A, 22, 100, 100A, 10OB, 100C, 119, 120, 120A, 125 and 127 for a total of 118 6 miles. Bids were received Thursday by the State Department of Transportation for the project and the lowest of five bids was the $279,640 bid received from I.S.E Neon Signs Inc. of Albany. Officials of the DOT said a contract will tie awarded in about a month, after the routine check by state engineers of all bids received Thieves use ruse to take $300 from gas station MT. KISCO — Mt. Kisco police on Friday were investigating the robbery of $300 from Tony's Service Station on North Bedford Road at 6:29 p.m. Thursday. According to police, Richard Dunnigan, an attendant at the gas station, had left the station to talk to a man who had driven up and asked to see a car for sale in the parking lot. After the man left, saying he would return if he wanted to buy the car, Mr. Dunnigan waited on another customer. When he went to make change, he found the gas station cash drawer emptied of $300. Mr. Dunnigan also said he vaguely remembered a car driving down the alley between the service station and Marty Motors while he was sweeping the floor. Mt. Kisco police believe the person purporting to want to buy the used car was a subterfuge for a second man to get into the office and clean out the cash drawer. Ptl. Van Owen is investigating the case.
