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PAGE SIX THE ROCKLAND COCNTT TIMES* BAVERSTRAW* N. T h DEC. 4, 1952 The Rockland County Times Haverstraw, N. Y., Dec. 4, 1952 Entered at the Post Office at Hav- erstraw, N. Y., as Second Class Matter under the act of March 3, 1878. NATIONAL tOITOftlAt ^]'|..g.c5,gN Published Every Thursday at 11 New Main Street, Haverstraw, N. Y. WILLIAM J. McCABE, Editor and Publisher Single Copies: 10 Cents Subscription rates: $4 per year in the United States. Other rates ^on application. The Times, founded in Haver straw in 1889 by Thomas Heatley, was published by Michael McCabe from 1893 until his death in 1940. In politics The Times will be Democratic, in religion neu tral, in ail other matters in dependent. We welcome letters on matters of public interest. All letters must be signed, but on request we will withhold the name of the writer. Address all communications to the Editor. Nor did be know that the youth would bolt from the car when the speedometer read 35 miles per hour or that tlie youth had* entered three places of business on Main street. It was all a patent risk. Often the first \fall guy ” for the public and the newspapers is the patrolman. Sometimes you can ’ t find him when you want him, sometimes you think he ought to be somewhere when he isn ’ t, and sometimes he raises the hackles on your neck by handing you a park ing ticket. Sometimes, too, the or dinary patrolman ought to be praised. The patrolman is human like the rest of us, but too often he is shot down and killed by walking into situations that have no indica tions of immediate danger. That is the greatest risk of his job. The District Attorney ’ s office has praised Patrolman Coyne publicly. We wish to add to that bouquet. A patrolman rarely gets rewards for his job and if he does, his fame is fleeting. But a patrolman is one of the greatest risk-takers in the world, and his blue uniform makes a fine target. And most of us can hide when the going gets tough; but not a patrolman, who makes a lot less money than most of his severest critics. Reacliing! Reaching! 11 YEARS AFTER _ Sunday will mark the eleventh anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For hundreds in this vicinity it is a day of high per sonal experience and remem brance. Some were on Oahu, others were in service in this country. Fori most young Americans of military age it ended the time of prepared ness for peace and thrust them into war. At this hour of 1952 it seems fit ting to ponder the nature of our present preparedness and willing- HIGinVAYS AND EDUCATION “ If a fourth “ R ” were to be ad ded to the three “ R ’ s ” — readin ’ , ‘ ritin ’ and ‘ rithmetic, it might well stand for roads. Roads have been a tremendous factor in expSnding educational opportuniy in this state and everywhere. Highways are as much a part of the educational system as the school building itself. A safe high way over which school children are transported is just as import ant as a safe school. A weak bridge or a narrow dirt road is just as hazardous as a tottering old school house. Every day, a half-million New York State children ride in school buses to and from school. Thous ands of others go to school in city buses and by car. To see that this precious cargo travels in safety is a responsibility that none of us dares shirk. Yet here in this county, there are many miles of roads entirely unsuited for school bus transporta tion. They are narrow, winding and dangerous. Ordinary stand- ness to sacrifice. Thousands of ^rds of decency demand their im- Americans have been killed Korea, and the threat of Soviet at-1 Here is something for school tack looms everywhere. Still, we ! ^o^rds, parent-teacher associations are lacking. educgtional groups to m ^ *u j * w .! consider seriously. Are we provid- the anniversary coming Sunday.' One said that the visit of the Red Cross bloodmobile, scheduled for Letehwqrth Village Monday of this LABOR ’ S NEW BOSS We must commend President- week, had been cancelled because > Eisenhower on his appoint- there were not enough donors— the ! cabinet of Martin P. minimum requirement is 200 — to ' parkin of Chicago as Secretary of make the visit worthwhile. “ The Labor. It took courage and thought blood collected is used first for the already provoked Senator armed forces in Korea, ” the story first open criticism of said. The other story reported that the Ground Observers Post at the New York State Rehabilitation Hospit al is still short of volunteers to keep it running efficiently on a 24- hour-per day basis. Apparently, we have not learned much from the daring strike in Hawaii. The community not only has failed to make sure lives will be saved in Korea, but is falling down on the job of keeping the I the shaping of the new Adminis tration. But we* also must warn Mr. Durkin to be wary. He is a regis tered Democrat who voted for Gov. Stevenson November 4. Like a rabbit in a den of lions, he must develop the ability to lo^ forward, sideways and over his shoulder in one quick motion, Sympathetic treatment of labor was one of the things which earned Presidents Roosevelt and Truman Representatives from the Baby lon, North Babylon and West Babylon school districs met in Al bany yesterday afternoon and heard State Education Commis sioner Lewis A. Wilson suggest a re-investigation of the original five-district centralization plan or the consolidation of five other districts, including Babylon and West Islip, as a solution to the sec ondary education problem. West Babylon, seeking authoriz ation to create its own high school, was turned down by the Commis sioner who refused to grant a char ter and informed representatives that the district did not qualify under the 7-mill law for state aid for its proposed high school build ing plan. North Babylon officials, who wanted to establish a ninth grade, were also told that the State couldn ’ t go along with such a plan. A meeting will be held, probably within ten days, at which officials from North Babylon, West Baby lon, Deer Park, Wyandanch, and Dix Hills will discuss possible new centralization plans. West Babylon is faced with a major problem as the Babylon Board of Education has ruled no more West Babylon students will be admitted to the Babylon high school after 1953. The State promised to send in vestigators to the area to study the original centralization plans and the alternative of forming the new joint district. Officials from the three schools will meet in Albany again in three weeks. — The Suffolk-Every- Week, Nov. 7, 1952, Bay Shore, N. Y, With Other Editors to blame? , , , . T.. XL • XL much of their support. Perhaps homeland safe. If there is another , ^^ere were inequities in the Demo- Pearl Harbor shaping up m the treatment of labor, but the dens of the Kremlin, who will.be j ’ g 32 the present time the labor-union movement was sure of just treat- DON ’ T DOUBLE PARK! ment. And apparently Gen. Now that the Christmas shop- Eisenhower is cognizant of labor ’ s ping season is upon us in Haver- strength and its awareness of straw it is well to observe the rules national problems, of driving and parking courtesy. J Durkin becomes in fact the On the busy nights that loom overseer of American labor and ahead, when parking space will be with his service as a Democrat at a premium, drivers can make ol^oody known, he has been placed sure they avoid inconvenient traf-M^ a position that could work ad- fic tie-ups by remembering the against himself and his other fellow. party, especially with a man like Haverstraw streets seem to have Sen. Taft in the background, become smaller in the past several I Therefore, after the Republicans years, a result, no doubt, of the au- 1 into Washington, it should tomobile manufacturers ’ decisionremembered that Mr. Durkin to make long, low-slung cars. But.^® ^ Democrat in a Republican even these models can get into the Cabinet, not a Democrat in a metered sections without difficul- Democratic Administration. This ■ makes a big difference. ty. The trouble starts when a driv er, out of haste or selfishness, de cides to double park, tying up CROP SHORT lane and making through traffic impossible. Available and- convenient park ing is one of the attractions a Christmas shopper likes best and merchants here want the shopper to like their community. The shop per also likes to get in and out of town without having to stop two or three times, sometimes for up wards of five minutes, while a double-parking pest pursues his IN NEW YORK STATE The apple crop in commercial areas of New York State totals less than two-thirds of the 1951 crop according to State and Fed eral Departments of Agriculture. Crops in the State in each of the three previous years were large, ranging from 17 to 20 million bush els. Movement of apples to storage was rapid after harvest this fall annoyance. Incoming shoppers ' with the reduced produc- know that at this time of yearition of apples, storages were not parking space is hard to find — they ^^^^d* particularly in the Hudson don ’ t mind that so much — but try'Valley area. to explain the double-parking hin- 1 The leading three apple produc- drance to a shopper and you won ’ t, ^08 states are Washington, New get far. York and Virginia which produc- Haverstraw will have rnany'G^^ nearly half of the 1952 United places to park this year, especially States crop, at the village lot on West Broad street, and many places to pur chase Christmas gifts. Just remem ber, though, that when you decide to double park, even for a min ute, you might be scaring some body out of town. Beat the urge with courtesy. A PATROLMAN ’ S LOT If you read between the lines, you will know the dangers that existed last week when Patrol man Ambrose Coyne apprehended a Bronx youth on New Main street and took him to police headquar ters after a crude attempted “ hold up ” of a Clinton street man. While it is quite true that the Bronxite was unarmed, the patrol man had no way of knowing it when he stopped the patrol car. NOT HARD TO FIND A 13-year old boy wandered away from the Herriman Farm School of Monsey recently on a Sunday afternoon. Ramapo police had no trouble finding him, as he had one of the “ Mohawk ” haircuts favored by some youths. State Workers To Have X-rays Free chest X-rays will be made available to all State employees starting this month under a pro gram sponsored jointly by the State Department of Health and the Personnel Council, Department of Civil Service. The program will be conducted in Albany the first three weeks of December and will then be carried on throughout the remanider of the State. National Unity Needed On Resisting Russia, Post Commander Pleas Commander Jack Hauser of the David Hirsch Post, Jewish War Veterans, expressed the hope to day that “ the unbeatable unity that was displayed by Americans after the first bomb dropped on Pearl Harbor 11 years ago should be duplicated today before war comes. ” Speaking, on the occasion of Pearl Harbor Day, Commander* Hauser said that “ the disaster at Pearl Harbor came at a time when American public opinion was sharply divided into isolationist and interventionist camps. But as soon as the battle with attacking Japanese aircraft was joined on that tragic Sunday morning in Hawaii the American people clos ed ranks until victory was won. ” Asserting that “the Axis ag gressors might have refrained from attack on the arsenal of democ racy if they had known that it would be turned into a bristling fortress from the first minute of the assault, ” Commander Hauser ad ded: “Serving notice today on the Kremlin that America and the free* world are united in their purpose of resisting aggression may well prevent World War III. ” Commander Hauser said the Democracies had learned much since 1941, and had “ already shown by their participation in the At lantic Pact, the rearmament pro gram and the resistance to armed force in Korea that the lessons of Munich and of- Pearl Harbor have been learned. ” “ No responsible person today would suggest buying ‘ peace in our time ’ through surrender on the installment plan, ” Mr. Hauser said. But the negative purpose'of mere ly avoiding appeasement is not enough, he added. “ There should be a positive cam paign to convince the world that, regardless of differences display ed during the recent political cam paign, politics stops at the water ’ s edge. Americans are of one mind on the prisoner-of-war issue and on other questions dealing with the struggle of freedom versus slavery, ” the Jewish War Veterans commander concluded. DOCTORS OPPOSE LICENSING The Rockland County Medical Society announced yesterday that it is opposed to the licensing of chiropractors in the state. Dr. A. S. Moscarella, president, said “ cults, quacks and chiropractors are short on education and scien tific training ” and that “ it would be tragic to weaken the high standards of the Medical Practices Act. ” STATE SCHOOL FUNDS LOST School centralization has been the subject of heated discussion during recent years. In the Baby lon area fever pitch was reached not long ago. The voters seeming ly were against it though the mar gin was by no means striking. This newspaper and those assoc iated with it favored centralization. However, no editorial crusade was made and both sides were given full and free opportunity in the news columns. Probably no one in this area is better qualified to give advice on that question than W. Kingsland Macy because of his long service as a member of the State Board of Regents, the governing body of the largest system of schools and in stitutions of higher learning in this country. To those who made inquiry of him, Mr. Macy made it plain that while the Regents favored central ization they believed in local auto nomy in the schools handling all administration within the educa tional framework established by the Board of Regents. Mr. Macy at the outset stated some plain truth that in this and many other phases of human ac tivities, go to prove the wisdom of the old saying that “Opportun ity knocks but once. ” He told inquirers that centraliz ing would provide greater facili ties for the children at lower cost to the taxpayers. For sheer com mon sense that is a sound argu ment. So many sections of the State were convinced that over a period of years the number of individual school districts has been reduced from 9,000 to fewer than 5,000, while upwards of 00 per cent of the area of the State has been central ized. As a sequel to all this, centraliz ation was proved so successful that former Comptroller Frank Moore, who is now lieutenant governor, thought it was no longer necessary to hold out so large an inducement of State Aid. Consequently at this year ’ s ses sion of the Legislature, Chapter 716 was adopted reducing the pro vision of centralized districts for med after July 1, 1952. This means that Babylon loses $60,000 to $70,- 000 annually by failing to central ize before the new law went into effect. — The Suffolk-Every-Week. ---------- 0 ---------- THE VOCATIONAL IDEA Nothing is clearer in our com munity life and, we think, in the life of most American commun ities, than that almost everyone wants to do the best for the chil dren. We all want our schools to be as fine and as effective as pos sible — ^money, within reason, no object. More than a generation ago the best that could be thought of was preparation for college, even though it should have been obvious that his was “ best ” only for the boys and girls able to go to college, and they were a small minority. For the others we could think of nothing except short-hand, book keeping, and a little civics. We are far from that bar*-' and primitive concept now. But the problem continues to worry many of us, and there are recurrent suggestions that voca tional courses or even a vocational or trade school should be opened for children who are not preparing SmON IN DELTA MU DELTA Arthur L. Simon of 3 Allison avenue, a Bucknell University junior, has been initiated into Del la Mu Delta, national economics honorary fraternity. Simon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Simon, is studying for the degree of bachel or of science in commerce and finance. GOOD HEALTH |.MOWOf=TEN! CAN BLOOD G£\DONATED* safely 7 a. DOES THE HUMAN BODY GET IT'5 CALCIUM ? Afswer to Question No. I: Healthy individuals between the ages of 18 and 60 usually can give blood five times a year with safety. Donations should be properly spaced so that the body can re place the blood removed before the next blood is given. People over sixty should rarely, if ever, give blood. In the aged, the ability tu rebuild blood is diminished. Answer to Question No. 2: Most calcium obtained by the human body comes from milk and milk products. There is some cal cium in green leafy vegetables. Broccoli, kale, mustard greens, turnip greens, and water-cress are the best of these. Canned salmon, including the bones, is also a good source of calcium. If you are not obtaining enough calcium in your diet. It may be necessary to pre scribe extra calcium to take with your meals. Answer to Question No. 3: Yes, if this condition is treated early. Proper eyeglasses will often be all that is needed. Sometimes a comparatively minor operation is required to straighten the eyes. This operation should not be per formed when the child is too young. The ey«s should be watched by your physician be cause neglect may produce eye weakness and other defects. ICopyrlght 1952 by Health Informa tion Foundation) for college. A. Whitney Griswold, Yale ’ s president and a long time Vineyard sojourner, has apt com ments on this thesis in a lecture delivered at Phillips Andover last spring and printed in the current Atlantic Monthly. Dr. Griswold does not question the motive behind the “vocational ” courses but he does question the results. For boys and girls “ who do not go on, they arc poor sub stitutes for vocational apprentice ship and the subjective experience of life itself. There is too great a tendency in the United States, even on the part of individuals who ad mit the value of a liberal education to students preparing for college and the professions, to discount its value for those for whom second ary school is the final educational experience. ” To provide specialized vocation al training for boys and girls who do not go to college, especially when this is done at the expense of an already limited opportunity for a liberal education, is not to offer them the splendid chance one would choose, but the opposite of a splendid chance — a handicap and limitation. The liberal education, which will establish these boys and girls on even terms with their companions and competitors in thte modern world that demands so much background and material and capacity for thought, must come ahead of all else. Unless they receive all that our community schools can give in the way of a liberal education, these boys and girls will, in effect, be herded into a sort of second-rate citizenship in a world they ought to be able to call their own, and enjoy as their own. — The Vine yard Gazette, Edgartown, Mass. 50 YEARS ON MAIN STREET Court Spring Valley No. 340, Foresters of America, will give Nick Perruna of Spring Valley a testimonial dinner Saturday night at the Villa Lafayette for a unique reason. Mr. Perruna, who has been in the bowling alley business, the fruit business and the bar and grill business, will be feted for “ serving on Main street, Spring Valley, for over 50 years. ” All his business enterprises have been on that street. Canfiera Gift Here ’ s a camera with a com bination of features any photog rapher would want: Fast Cintar f:3.5 coated, color-corrected lens; gear-con trolled shutter mechanism with eneeda up to 1/300 second; ayn- ciuronized plug-in flash unit- coupled rangefinder to assure •barp-focua pictures! See the veraotiU Argus C3 today, EASY TERMS TRADE INS BOUTON ’ S Rockland County ’ s Leading Photo Shop PEarl River 5-4696 UNDERSTANDING YOUR CHILD Parents of children under six years of age will be interested in the new Adult Education course to bo offered in January entitled: “ Understanding Your Child. ” George R. Martin, psychologist with the Rockland County Voca tional and Extension Board, will be in charge of this course, which will meet Monday evenings. In addition to his work with the board, Mr. Martin lectures on psychology at New York Univers ity and operates a private psycho logical and vocational testing center. He has conducted this type of course successfully in other areas of the state. In addition to his professional preparation and experience, Mr. Martin ’ s own family of four chil dren has increased his knowledge concerning the behavior of small children. It is planned that this group will study the social and emotional patterns of children from birth to age six. Developmental charts will point out what the parent can expect of his shild at various ages. Good principles for training and disciplining children and sugges tions for handling other specific problems will be covered. If there is a child under six years of age in your home, and you are uncertain of how to train or disci pline him, you will profit from this course. In this group you may learn how others handle the every day problems that arise in the rearing of children. For further information about this course, call the Haverstraw Adult Education Program, HA 9- 5741. NEW BANK COMPTROLLER Bernard A. Kennedy of Croton- on-Hudson has been appointed comptroller of the Ramapo Trust Company, Spring Valley. He has been in banking for more than 20 years and began work at the com pany last week. Many dishes that are usually baked in a casserole in the oven, can be cooked on top of the stove.. SEE r TOW AT SLACK'S DEPT. STORE \At the Bus Step\ 17 BROADWAY HAverstraw 9-5562 LAY IT AWAY FOR CHRISTMAS DAY CEREBRAL PALSY TELETHON An 18-hour telethon, “ Celebrity Parade for Cerebral Palsy, ” will be presented Saturday and Sunday over Channel 7. The program will begin at 8 p. m. Saturday. Resi- i dents of Rockland County are re minded that any pledges for the Rockland County Center for thei Physically Handicapped at Suffern | should be postmarked in Rockland County. I ---------- 0 ----------- I SCHOOL MUSICAL DEC. 18 ‘ The Haverstraw Elementary i school will present a musical pro- j gram, “ Christmas Capers,\ Decem ber 18, at 8 p. m. in the auditor ium. The program is under the di rection of Miss Agnes I. Corfield. Miss Dorette Jenkins is chairman of a committee of teachers in charge of arrangements. ^ Employed men and women — married or tinglo-^et their loan /Mst at l^fuontd* Friendly, con siderate people make the loan in your beat intereaia. Phone for a one-visit loan, write, or come in today! It ’ s \Yes ” to 4 out of 5. Loons $25 to $500 Repey Menthfy 15 M ol 20 M ol CASH YOU GET $260 $500 $20.67 16.34 $38.57 3022 Abovt Mympnti cevtr tvtrythlnol loans of ethor omovnit. or for othor pofiodt. oro U pfoportiow. N. Y. 'JY tO«»Xlird tHAt MUM »• M** tf**- ' tenAciiai finance co. 18 MAIN ST. (Noxt to Roekland Light & Powor Co.) HAVERSTRAW Ptione: HAverstraw 9-5746 o Kenneth J. Jeffersp YES MANagH ’ Ui'EN FRIDAYS TO 8 P. M. SATURDAYS UNTIL 1 P. M. Portonol Finonce Compony of New York loom siodt to nildMtt of all strrrovnding tewu • Loom olio ao4o ky sn R “ But, madam, a pound is only 8 ounces today!\ No, weights haven ’ t changed. But many values have. Seems no matter what you buy, you get less for your money today. Except when you buy telephone service. Even though the cost of living has TODAY'S BIG BARGAIN. Your cost of living baa jumped 92% since 1940. Yet the price of phone eervice haa riaan an average of only 16% — more for eome, loee for othera, of courae, depending on the type of eervice and the uao made of it. jumped 92 %, fAe average price of telephone service has risen only 15% since 1940. And your telephone is a bigger bargain than ever because the price of telephone service has not kept up with the rise in telephone costs. Operating efficiencies have narrowed this gap, but they fall far short of closing it. Yet we are moving right ahead with the costliest construction program in our history — to catch up with the back log of telephone orders, to meet heavy new demands, and make service even better. Today, it is faster, clearer tlian ever. You can call more telephones, too — twice as many in the average commu nity as in 1940. Measured by service or measured by price, your telephone is one of today ’ s big bargains. NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY
