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THE MASSENA OBSERVER ESTABLISHED DEC. 2, 1891 MASSENA'S OLDEST INDUSTRY Published Every TUESDAY and THURSDAY At 56% Main St., Massena, N. Y., 13662 By The Massena Observer Publishing Co. Inc. JOHN T. DOYLE — General Manager LEONARD H. PRINCE - Editor NICK J. PODGURSK1 — Assistant Editor Subscription ratas. Carrlar norm dalivary 30 cants par waaK. By mall In St. Lawranca County, $7.00 par yaar; * months. 14.50; 3 months, 12.50. By mall alsawhara in tha Unitad Statas. M.00 par yaar; t months, $5.00) 3 months 12.75 In Canada, $13.50 par yaar. Entarad In tha post oHica at Masssna, N. Y., 13462, as sacond class maiiar. 4 Massena. N. Y. Observer Thursday, May 11, 1967 Somebody Elses Mother Most mothers will have a ball on Sunday, Mother's Day; they may be taken out to dinner, they may receive flowers and all sorts of courtesies. They will ebon a pedestal on that particular day. Red flowers will be worn by the children in honor of their living mothers. The world will be theirs for the askingj on this 'happy Mother's Day. r But,\there are women who have-advanced in age,:-who | will not be honored on Mother's Day. Many, mothers have stood by the casket of their last child, and have since gone on alone. As-the years have passed, the time has come when it is practical for them to reside in a nursing home or convalescent home, or even be hospitalized, where they can teceive proper care. And Mother's Day to many of these women may not be filled with the happiness that will be showered on other.] mothers. There are women 5 , who have not married, who have given their lives in teaching, nursing or secretarial professions, and who now are receiving the needed care in convalescent homes. This group ofjwomen could be much less lonely this Mother's Day if some kind friend would send a bouquet of flowers to them, offer to take them out to eat, or evenj. spend an hour or two in visiting them. This'type of cour- tesy would mean so much to these elderly people-just to be remembered. Why not make this a real Mother's Day? Remember somebody else's mother, spread some happiness. Other Editors Review from Observer Files Still Gullible Visit Nursing Home The project of the American Nursing Home Association to invite citizens of this community to visit residents of nursing homes on Mother's Day is a laudable program and one that we can endorse with enthusiasm. \ There are in nursing homes (where half the patients are 77 years ox older and half are receiving public as- sistance) literally hundreds of patients who have no livingf relatives and who have seen their old friends pass on ' before them. No wonder they feel the community has passed them by. No one is more cognizant of the loneliness that can mar the \golden years\ than nursing home owners, ad- •' ministrators and employs whose days are spent in the care and treatment of the aged and infirm. This program to assure that every patient in nursing homes receives a visit and a gift will not only brighten the day of a fellow human being and provide a gratifjng experience for participants, it also will give our citizens an excellent opportunity to learn more about nursing j __homes r their services, their problems and the progress ! they have made in the past few years. One need only visit a modern nursing home, and there are many close at hand, to see the metamorphosis that has occured in the care and treatment of our senior citizens who cannot be cared for in their own homes, or who lack family or friends to care for them. 7 In fact, that's just what the American Nursing Home '> Association wants you to do. The Association, and its 6,700 licensed nursing home members throughout the country, are sponsoring National Nursing Home Week. • A major part of the observance is open house on Mother's Day. Owners and administrators of participating nursing homes are urging citizens in the community to visit. Th°y have pointed out that many of their elderly patients are alone in this world and would welcome a visitor From the community. We think it's a grand idea - one that should give the visitor great satisfaction as a humanitarian gesture and at the same time add to his knowledge and understanding of how nursing homes are contributing to a \fuller life\ for our senior citizens. Why Not Try It A recent report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation says, \Serious crime in the United States increased 11 per ^_cent_inJ966jw_hen_compared-with.-1965«,—Newspapers are ' filM with crime stories all the way from purse snatching \' by children to murder. Legislation has been introduced in Congress which I would provide for a $25 million program to combat juve- nile crime. The $25 million would pay for research into untried 1 methods of controlling and preventing juvenile crime, strengthening local and state juvenile courts, treatment institutions and correctional services, and aid- ing communities in. establishing new diagnostic and '. treatment programs for delinquents'- and \potential\ \\\ delinquents. One simple \untried method\ to help correct juvenile delinquency is never memtioned, probably because it would not take a large appropriation of money. It would be applied in homes, schools and colleges. Any child old • enough to talk could understand it. It is the simple admo- nition to \Keep Your Hands Off Other People and Other • , People's Property.\ \ Five minute illustrations could be given from the news- papers showing what happens to individuals who fail to • keep their hands off other people and other people's pro- perty. Much suffering could be averted by general adher- ence to this simple rule of conduct. Summer Thoughts The warming sun and the breezes of spring herald the coming of another sutnmer season. For a large percentage of our population — our young people — the coming of summer means just one tiling, the end of school.. Every student, whether this summer means lazy days at the old swimming hole, a summer job, baseball in the school yard or the beginning of a career, should keep in mind one thing about the world around him — it is changing more quickly than we can imagine. \Academic training can give an individual store of knowledge of our history and our heritage, of human relations, of technical mat- ters with concrete commercial value. It can give prepar ation to meet the world as it exists on the day of gradua- tion. But the day after, the week after, the year after new knowledge, new reactions, new circumstances wil! pile up. The summer season may mark the end of school days for three months or for the rest of a person's life but it does not mark an end to the need for learning and growing in order to keep up with and contribute to the fast paced world around us. So, find the fun of summer, let it bring exhilaration, re freshment and the perception to find knowledge and un derstanding in the blooming of a buttercup and the flame of a sunrise as well as in the schoolroom, library or lab- oratory. Successful living must be based on a constant! enlargement of all kinds of knowledge. J Indianapolis Star New York Timesman Harri- son Salisbury is still pleading ; there ought—to-.-be a way out of the Vietnam War: his way. He considers Ho Chi Minh in the early stages of the struggle to have seen victory almost in his grasp and the power of the United States dissipated by the Communists' global gang-up. Hanoi and Peking both envi- sioned the U. S. bled from without by Red \wars of lib- eration\ in a dozen countries at once, or more, in Africa, Asia, Latin America in the island nations of the Pacific. Interestingly, the revolutions^ that backfired, in Indones i a . _ aid^the\ \Dominican \ Republic~ particularly, fit this line of ideas. If the Reds had won in those places, and then had set fire to the brush In a score of others, what a strangling, grip this would have put on the U.S.! The Viet Cong were still ad- vancing. China was still as one man urited under one set of thoughts. ., Subversion was pushing ahead hi most of the non - Communist world, making slow but steady gains, winning new recruits, spreading the word.' ( Hanoi also counted 'on' strains and divisions within the U. S. The sit-ins, teach-ins, \peace\ rallies and endless \stop the war\ harrangues fit in here neatly. So, do the draft card burnings, flag burnings and the voice? of the doves. The North Vietnamese Red counted, too, on support and help from the former colonial peoples who dominate the Uni- ted Nations. The outpourings of bitter gall and maneuyerings against the U. S. among the pro-Red Afro-Asian bloc fit the pattern to a T.' So does the olive branch waving oL U Thanh' But then the Red tide was turned — in Vietnam, Indo- nesia, Santo Domingo. The U. S. buildup in Vietnam grew mightier. China was convulsed by internal strife. The time to try for peace was ripe, in Hanoi's eyes, thinks Salisbury. But Hanoi could not talk peace - openly, he says. This might have angered China and cut off all supplies. Hano i could, bargain only under the table, secretly, not letting Chi- na know. At this point Salis- bury visited Southeast Asia j and North Vietnam, chatting, at length with the Red rulers, whose words he accepted pret- ty much at their face value. What would a negotia t e d peace bring? Salisbury hoped for a South Vietnamese \co- alition\ government including the National Liberation Front containing many of the \vital ingredients\ of the NLF pro- gram. North Vietnam would become'-\neutral explosive, festering Laos \quieted and sanitized, Cambodia and Thai- land sweetened with economic and political help.\ The whole shebang would be policed and stabilized by a strengthened Internation al Control Commission whi c h _would also oversee aid and guide development. Red China would remain a power. But the new Asia envisioned by Salis- bury would be \strong and vi- able...resistant to the spread of Chinese influence and Chinese Communism.\ Why didn't the negotiations take place? What forestalled, peace? Leadership in Washing- * ton, says , Salisbury. It. was tired and stale, full\ of men committed to past mistakes they, would: riot admiLwere' er- ror, weakwilled politicians scared of the folks back home and lacking imagination, and hawk generals who saw victory near and wanted to \pour it on\ hard'. Under this, says Salisbu r y, was a main but half - hidden plank in our Asian policy, the U.S. in fighting in Vietnam not to smash Hanoi but to draw the line against China •— \the real enemy.\ Beyond this half- hidden plank was a concealed super-hawk strategy: rebuff all peace offers and escalate until China intervenes, then blow China off the map in a nu- ciear *var. \\\ These are key points in Sal- isbury's soon - to - be - pub- lished book, \Behind the Lines — Hanoi.'' His intellectualistic reasoning contains the same old holes that it did before and the same wishful thinking. Americans are t'ue villains. Their motives are repulsive — or sinister. Communists are nice. Their motives make sense. Hanoi will not negotiate openly for fear of China's cut- ting off all aid, or even inter- vening. Thus by implication Hanoi is even preventing a nu- clear war unleashed by Amer- ica's murderous super-hawks. Again, the Reds are nice. A coalition government in- cluding Reds would work in Saigon. The Communists would be nice. The NLF would be Farmer Produced Butter Which Won Prize at Chicago Fair Lorraine Bandy, Town Histor- ian of Louisville, N. Y. Louisville's \Talcott Butter\ was given a medal at the World's Fair in 1893. ; A very beautiful bronze med- al packed in an aluminum case with the inscription \World's Columbian Exposition in Com- memoration of the four hun- dredth anniversary of the land- ing of Columbus, — MDCCCX- -va** MDCCCXCIII to c. H. Talcott,\ is now in the posses- JE Jr. of West Potsdam. Clarence H. Talcott, his great uncle, lived in the Town of Louisville on the Henry Tal- cott farm which in,later years was known as the Merland Lowell Farm. A large certificate. accompa- nied the medal, stating that the butter produced on this farm and sent to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chi-., cago in 1893, rankedjiigh in the opinion of thfe judges! The butter was packed by Mrs. Zelia Talcott and was ex- hibited by her son, Clarerice Talcott. This butter, sent by the Tal- cott Jamjly, lacked onlyJTpqints of having a perfect score. The judges gave it 44 points out of a possible 45 for flavor, 25 -points out of 25 for grain, 15 out of 15 for color, 9 out of 10 for salting arid 5 out of 5 for pack- ing. • - Mr ; Talcott received a letter from Chicago after\ the Exposi- tion telling him that his exhibit would have . ranked higher if he had used a certain brand of salt. The letter was adver- tising that particular brand of salt! But the joke was on the manufacturer of that salt as this same brand had been used exclusively on the Talcott farm for years and had been used in the packing of that same butter nice. The Viet Cong would ciuit killing peoDle they don't like. They would quit killing once they had control of the govern- ment. Hanoi would stay neu- tral, ^keep hands off. The Reds would keep their promises. The situation_in Southe a s t Asia would then be healthy. China would simmer do w n. Asia Communism would quit pushing. It would lie down like a lamb. This is Salisbury's vision of \the way out.\ It will be ped- dled across the continent, start- ing- next week. It no doubt gives heart to many earnest hopes for peace as veil as to many pure, unadulterated Communists. Who is Salisbury kidding? Hundreds of millions of Ameri- cans and Asians, like Salis- bury,, want peace. But does Hanoi, really? If Hanoi does, it should be easy to get. Let Hanoi qiiit fighting. But, as Salisbury admits, Hanoi in-^ tends to go on fighting Tor\ years. Salisbury's \way out\ would work only if the Ccmmunists would quit acting like Com- munists. \If...\ exhibit! \' It was • understood that the butter exhibit would be placed in cold storage while being ex- hibited at the fair, but some people from this section who attended the Exposition report- ed that the butter wa$_ judged while in a semifluid condition. Clarence Talcott was the first man in this area to own *a cream separator. His father, Henry Talcott, who had died in .1887, had always kept Jersey cows and the herd had been .\conflnuairy\\improves.\j ~\~ Then Chicago decided to have a world's fair to, celebrate the 400th anniversary of the land- ing of Christopher Columbus. The fair was to have been held in 1892 but the officials could not make- all the preparations time so it was held in 1893. New York State, dairy state, , should send butter exhibits, it was felt, and so the St. Law- rence County leader* in the movement conferred withrClaf=~ ence Talcott who was in charge of the Talcott herd of Jerseys then. Choice butter was being made on the farm practically every day so it was not much extra , trouble...to_jnake_up ,an exhibit., and send it to the fair. It was sent and in due time the offi- cials sent back the medal and a large certificate. Clarence Talcott lived only a few years after the exposition. Due to the condition of his health -he was unable to -do heavy work and for the last few years of his.life he sold cream separators. People would come to the farm to see the separator in action; then would return the following day to see if they could find any resemblance of .cream ori the top of. the .jar of milk which had gone through the separator the day before!' Clarence Talcott's father, Henry, was anxious to enlist in the Civil War but every time he applied, he was turned down on account of a lung condition. Af- ter three attempts to enlist and failing to pass the medical ex- amination, he turned, his atten- tion -to farming and raising of Jersey cattle.- He was said to have been the best judge of dairy cattle in this section. He died very suddenly in 1887 and his widow and children carried on the farm activities. The Henry Talcott farm was on E. Hatfield St., three quar- ters-of a muVfrom the village.- The old brick house is still standing. Mrs. Talcott and her daugfc ter, Miss Anna Talcott, moved from the farm to 36 Allen St. in —1899 at the time that street was just being opened. They sold the farm to the Massena Im- provement Company. Massena was expanding rap- idly at that time-due to the con- struction of the power canal. The Talcott home at 36 Allen St., now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Chester Fregoe, was large and one day when a-friend of the family asked for board and lodging, he was accommodated. From that time until 1944, the Talcott residence was home to many different persons at var- ious times. Some of the men who hold important positions with the Aluminum Company of America or with other compan- ies were among those securing their meals at 36 Allen St. Miss Talcott kept boarders up until three years before she died in 1947. At that time, she had turned the upper floor into an apartment. Her mother died in 1928 at the age of 93 years. Her three brothers, Homer, Clarence and Herbert, and her sister, Miss Charlotte Talcott, preceded Miss Talcott in death. She was the last of the family of five children. She was survived by one niece, Mrs. Paul (Isabel) Lockwpod, Madrid, and Herbert W. Talcott Jr.,\ West 'Potsdam, Herbert \Bert\ Talcott Jr. of West Potsdam also has a watch, a maple bed and two -chairs-thathis great-grandpar- ents started keeping house with when they were married in 1862. The watch is English made and key winding. The key has an English King's crown on the end^of it. It is in a silver case and still runs. He also has 4he family-BibleJn-his^posses- sion. Arlton A. Talcott, a relative, lives on the Town Line Road of Louisville, but on the Massena side of the road. His is the last farm house at the dead end near the dike. The old Talcott farm and land that was con- verted into the Massena Coun- try Club in the early 1900's is now known as the \Massena Beach\ in the \Town of Louis- ville\ and ocean going vessels now'pass over the land that fed these Jersey cattle which._pro- duced the prize winning medal for the Town of Louisville at that great World's Fair in 1893. Residents of Louisville have always participated in County Fairs Winning many prizes with their cattle, horses, and handi- craft: •••• Stewart Benedict of Louis- ville, N. Y. is widely known for his raising of Brown Swiss \Cattle*/-- These cattle- -weigh about 1.200 lbs. and are noted for, their great production of milk and tender beef. Mr. Benedict has sold-several to our Canadian friends across the border,. He does not intend to take any himself to the 1967 Exposition .of Montreal this year but rumors have it that some of his cattle may be shown bv those Canadian buy- ers at the fyepo. They are a very beautiful faun colored an- imal. ' Mr. Benedict's farm is on Rt. 37B, in the Town of Louisville, on the Grasse River, near the Village Inn and Motel and his farm and cattle are very pic- turesque, especially to the tourists in our area. Who knows? Perhaps Louis- ville will indirectly receive rec- ognition for its dairy products in 1967 at the Canadian Worlds Fair! \ Open Season Hollywood ANTHONY J. ROMEO ANGEL ON EARTH The title of 'Angel on Earth', can be appended to many wonderful people but there is one we can fondly recall as an outstanding Angel, truly deserving of the name. This was \GRAMMA\. It would, indeed, be a difficult matter for me to enui ^ merate each and every deserving grandmother who lived , or even those I have known, other than my own. I be- * lieve it would be fitting to dwell on the merits of-the grandmother I knew, and I can be sure she was a proto- type and her description would fit millions of grandmoth- ersi throughoutJhe world.. ;: :..*_!.._ ___ .'__. My paternal grandparents, I knew only from stories I heard about them. They never came to America, but my maternal grandfather and grandmother came here ever so long ago. In fact, I hardly hemember when my grandmother, in particular, was not a member of my fam- liy until her death in the early twenties. My grandfather passed away after a few years in this country. Gramma was-small of stature and: aiways the same - age. She never changed a mite in all the years I had, ' known her. Her apparel changed but once, and that was when grandfather died. She. chose black then and was identified as a little old lady in black, for many years. She did not have a farm where we could visit her at Thanksgiving Time as we traveled \Over the river and through the woods\ recalling the words of a beautiful ditty of old\. , • She was not a roomer nor a.l»arderjtoW;hquse. She was NANNA, and as close to the brood as o^ir parents. JShe^ never interfered_with tiie authority in the house, but could certainly maintain it when she felt she \should. She was neither harsh nor crude but was rather soft spoken and still well able to apply an open hand\ to the prbp- . per target of an errant youngster. NANNA was never feared by us children, but we never for a moment, lost sight of the fact that she was boss when she was left in charge of ten restive and energetic kids. \ •-. i_T.--_ '7\ ' » .• \.-— .- There was retribution you can be sure, from our moth- er or father if _we showed disrespect for NANNA, but it was mostly the respect we had for her that endeared her to our hearts?\ . • ... • She cooked, mended, washed and did ever so many chores which were, nptirequired of her but because we felt she would;polTif\she was told to rest for a spell or take a few days off. This, she considered a sign that she was getting useless; a thought she could never countenance. 'She was, to a great extent, our 'banker 1 . If we acquired a few pennies, nickels or dimes.-NANNA would keep them . for us and deal the money out in small doses, as we need- •^etfit. It was a long, time before we realized that our with- ^ drawals were, much heavier than our deposits, but as long as we felt it was our money we were spending, we were content. , ' __ / . _ Whenever our mother- was incapacitated by illness of • confined for the birth of an addition to the family, there was no worry about who would carry on as head of the> household. There was no let down. Everything went on as. before except perhaps (here was excitement if-a new member pf the family was joining\ us, pnd NANNA im-. pressed us in her quiet way, that we all should make an extra effort to help ? with chores and behave in a quieter manner than heretofor, - --,„:.;— When there was just cause, she would come-to our de- fense in such a way that we never got the feeling that we were being protected from punishment, but that we had erred innocently and would not fall into such erring ways again. We never did. < Gramma was as a little queen, — one to be honored and revered but the ruling was done by the parents, whose duty it was to attend to this task. Nanna was the pinch- hitter, who acted as a proxy in any emergency. \ . . ' •Those were the days when it.wasa rarietythat an aged person was placed in: a home. If there ever-i>ad beeo-anJL mention of this in our house in reference to NANNA, there would have been for once, a revolution that would . have, made itself heard for miles around. But there was little danger of this ever happening. When my' father decided there was need for more room _.forhis brood, he built the house on the hill on Romeo Ave. He built one room/ especially for NANNA, ignoring the fact that she might not be with us very long. .She enjoyed hit own; private room\ for: only a few rnontlis, which in- cluded our first Christmas Holidays in our new home. As quietly as she had lived, just as quietly she passed away and there was great grief amongst us. As she was consigned to her Maker and her body lowered into her. last resting place, those of us who survived her, realized^ that her place at our table could never be filled by any- one^else.__._' Gone was our faithful baby sitter, our banker, attorney, companion and friend. With her went a part of us, for it was because of her as well as our parents, that we as children were formed into, men and women worthy of earning our salt in the life to come. In the minds of all who knew her, there was no ques- tion as to her.destination, once she departed from this earth. She was not going to a strange abode,—she was going back to the place from whence she came, for NAN- NA was on a visit to us for all too short a time. And now, with her mission accomplished and having justified her existence in this world, she was returning to be among, those of her own kind. NANNA was an ANGEL ON* EARTH. -i iwty whtn nilig PESTICIDES U.I. DI'AtiMfNT Of AOIICUUUM
