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^•^••^^ts^M >'w. ••-;;,:-'. v *$e *:?*'«;*£$'?. '«** \>^^§ o»j»., **w* Ifta post ftw Vwukihxs he** *»•\ »N* *> Ittatfe fc* * is fey *w *• ***** Calls for support forChasy school hoard & -SpiNS thot*' r While tha** things art reported to TO THE EDITOR: In rocent weeks we have been priv- ileged to read snd listen to many wsUcms concerning the fu~ turt of our school system hi Quizy. We know that there are . . # ^ many aspects of this controversy and do not profess to be to ft ttpckout police, »> rora fhot onfyora is caught, possession of tt* answers. As a inciter of fact, it is only after <j$*«erious The deed is usually dona on the spur the defeat of this brad issue that we fad compelled to write ^v8^ :* of tht fiHjmartf wHh no one else about, this letter. ^ ifefefdancy But we've sin now what con hop- jj, ^y pyblic j^ a^ mU st be a winning side and a -#ift oirf ot a pan. Those who take to the woods and losing side. In the lands of our Latin American neighbors where driving ftefds with guns must realize their ballots bjr buHets are trtdftfeiiai, it far tree that we quickly duty to oct responsibly at all times eliminate the losers. Does H seem to anyone else that we are KL ~~ *4J3Xi sw* MM u<*K, ~~A advocating this form of 'Democra ie M action in Chazy? If we No one should just carelessly and m ^ ^ from a recent news item, -After the vote Monday, thoughtlessly toke o shot at powe^ ib ^ P usefulness as a board is obviously gone.\ Does it seem fcertifies now that he can realize what possible that any sensible, levelheaded citizen would advocate con happen and see the great danger mass overthrow of any governing body simply because one vote has been contrary to their recommendations? Approximately one year ago, at a public referendum, the vote was whole- heartedly in their favor. Would you believe that any team people wf r* without heat, «rid nribfTif suff»t«d discomfort and ihconmiifeticfe. Th* who& tMtfg was senseless. Somjgnt, a hunter or youth without «¥ re^oud for tht oomaquencets to In his oct tf^K^j^kr -< thoughtlessly or mail- For «hos# who ant caught, there's etou$i?Wd£it*fm simulator for only ** answer Tha court should tarott n|d^r* \ throw the book ot them, lock them up Sig GK*nBruno, d^frict manager of and throw away the key. £ • - - • IigbtSide By GENE BROWN Hew Te Preserve A Hisbaad: Be careful In the selection; do not choose one too unripe or too old. Best results are obtained if be has been reared in a healthy atmosphere. Some in- sist mi keeping him in a pickle; others prefer to keep him in hot water. Such treatment, however, makes the husband, sour, hard, and sometimes bitter. Many housewives have found that even poor varieties can be rendered tender and good by a garnish of patience, the sweet- ening of a smile, and the flavor- ing of a kiss, to taste. Wrap him in a mantle of charity, place him over a steady fire of domestic devotion, and serve with peaches and cream. When thus prepared, a husband will keep for years. Oa ike Other Haad: We have been advised by our Arctic Reader that friendly Es- kimos rent their wives for a weekend. GRIN AND BEAR IT BY LICHTV \On account of oar pay always being gone by Wed- nesday, I bear our representative! are gonna ask for Thursdays and Fridays off!\ The old days By FRANK PROVOST '. HtBTY-FIVE YEARS AGO: Lorraine Cadrett. four, rode alone by train from Adams, Mass. where sne had visited her grandparents. Accidents: Trooper Cpl. Mar- tin E. Ryar ally injured in a car mis' ..ear Riverview. Trooper Tho**ias Hanson, -also Injured . . . Arthur Bouyea, an •rm wound in the discharge of Us gun . . . John \Sonny\ Gates, a leg wound whQe hunt- ing rabbits near CadyvHfe* » • • FORTY YEARS AGO: Arthur Johnson of Schuyler Falls won a two-mile cross-coun- try race. A Star, owned by Clarence Kayo of Rouses Point, and a Ford owned by Roy Frederick, were damaged in a collision. was es- tablished at city haH Fire destroyed fee interior of the Church of the Good Shepherd at Efizabethtowa. Deaths: Wesley Howard of Au gable Forks at * . . . William Mil FORTY-FIVE TEARS AGO aad good sldgUag! Mrs. WflBaa H. Oofley wm Booth, from South Dakota. Newiyweds: Julia Elizabeth Shappell and Nelson A. Rabi- deau. Deaths: Joel T. Comstock of Beekmant^vn at 73 . . . Mrs. Theodore E. Callanan . . . Peter Brown of Dannemora . . . Mrs. Harlow Mingr. • • • FIFTY-FIVE YEARS AGO: •'Pedro\ was a popular pas* time on wintry evenings. Henry J. Langlois, a highway engineer in New York State, at- tended the Catawba County Fair at Hickory, N.C. and addressed farmer groups on the impor- tance of improved roads. Valley and Kempner opened a 25- and 50-cent store at Mar* garet and Cornelia and em* ployed a staff of 39. I. A. Featherston erf Au SaWe Forks was district game war* den. SIXTY YEARS AGO: Work was completed on the hospital at the barracks, now the Old Base. There was talk of making Plattsburgh Barracks a brigade post F. EL Graves purchased the itstaarast of George H. Davis at S Bridge St R & Strattos of Nashua, N.H. purtAased the Philander Strattos homestead at Chazy. John Fanefl of Oayburg killed with an ax Chazy Lake statrnt \batting M0 M is on a losing streak? Let's take a few minutes to examine this \team\ which has been guiding the future of Chazy Central Rural School in recent years. 1. Each member is married, with four or five children. 2. Each is a taxpayer in the town of Chazy, and three are lifelong residents of the community. 3. This group presents three Bachelor of Science degrees, one Master of Science degree, plus additional graduate work in the field of education. 4. Two members are currently serving their community on the non-remunerative BOCES board, one as a member of the Advisory Committee and one as president. 5. All three local churches are represented on this board. 6. One of these gentlemen is a certified teacher and school administrator, presently vice-principal of a neighboring school. 7. Together the board brings in a combined experience of 77 years in business—agricultural, industrial, and retail sales. 8. These gentlemen have to date accumulated 33 years of free service on the Chazy Central School's Board of Education. New York State law prohibits school board members to receive pay either directly on indirectly. 9. We are honored to have on this board a former pres- ident of the Clinton County School Boards' Association. Neither time nor space would permit a detailed listing of all the community groups supported by these people, however, we know of a few, Chazy Volunteer Fire Department, Clinton County Cooperative Extension Service. Clinton County Automobile I^ere Association^ boards andrelated church activities, and various frategaal oi^anizatioos We certainly do not wish to intimate that there are no other individuals in this community qualified as members of the school board, however, we do feel that it would be extreme- ly difficult on short notice to duplicate the years of experience and dedication of this group. May we strongly advise that we take time to consider carefully the course we take lest it be said that our actions have generated more heat than light °He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.\— A. Lincoln WALTER TONER, BARBARA TONER Chazy Solvation Army urges *share with others 9 TO THE EDITOR: As the Christmas kettles appear again on the street corners throughout the United States, and wherever the Army is serving, we are more than ever aware of the deep significance of our Christmas theme, tl Share with Others.\ Our service to others is an expression of our love for God, and ar we move further into -our second century of serv- ice to God and man, may our devotion and steadfastness re* main undiminished—in fact may we be challenged and inspired to meet the ever-changing, ever-increasing demands of the atom- ic and space age. Since coming to Plattsburgh, Mrs. Wittenberg and myself have found that the Christmas needs of the less fortunate have been and are being met vary well by fee many churches, char* itable organizations and other groups ami organizations that do a Christmas Welfare program. (These are far too many to mention individually). There is one segment of the community that unfortunately in most communities is not remembered and to this group this year the Salvation Army wants to give as much attention as possible. This is the Senior Citizen, the Golden Ager, or, specifically the man or woman who has passed the age of sixty Many of our Senior Citizens are forced to live throughout the year on a very meager monthly income How those who live alone or old couples living together manage to make this little bit stretch from one month to another is far beyond my ability to understand. This year we want to know where these people live: their name, address and the amount of their income. We want to **try\ to see that they are remembered with a \special\ bag of food lor the Christmas holiday and we want that bag of food to be more than enough than for just the ooe meal. (On the side: The Plattsburgh City School system has very kindly agreed to have the students, who #ish to, bring a Christmas offering of canned goods to their respective schools on Dec. 5, I, and 7. This contribution will help to fill our food baskets). As Christmas draws near, the various hospitals, county homes, nurses homes and shut-ins will be visited and a 4t speciaT wrapped Christmas remembrance will be given to the patients there. Akmg with aO of the above, thane will be parties, gift- giving, some toy distribution, Christmas carolling and other ac- tivities to meet the need of those who are far less fortunate than we, but at Christmas time we want to do not just a little extra. We want to do a lot! Many, Rtaay (hanks to all who help as in this program to \Share with Others.\ LEO G. WnTENBQHfr Major, Salvation Army Wma* another meeting an sidewalk mm TO THE EDITOR: I am appall** at the recent display of civic spirit that was exhibited at the city council caucus on sidewalks in the fifth ward. I did not attend the caucus as I was not aware that such a meeting was to be held. However, it is interesting to me that in the newspaper account of the meeting the majority of the opinions aired *ere strongly opposed to the construction of sidewalks on several streets in the fifth ward. Further, these opinions were voiced by people who happen to live on these streets and would be directly affected by the construction of sidewalks. I would like to note that the absence ot sidewalks hi parts of the fifth ward affects many more people throughout the entire city than just those who happen to live on the streets in question. I am deeply concerned over the lack of sidewalks in this area as I have a 5-year-old son who must *alk along these streets to school each day. So far we have forbid him to walk in the street and he has dutifully carried out our instructions. The thing which really concerns me is, where will he walk when there is a foot of snow on the ground and snowbanks are plowed up alongside the edges of the streets. Is it necessary for the citizens of the city to wait for a tragedy to occur before we realize that an error in judgment was made by those who oppose the construction of sidervalks 0 All of the landscaping in the world or a few dollars saved could not justify the senseless loss of a child by an auto accident along one of these streets. I would like to suggest that a second meeting with the city officials be held on the matter with sufficient advance pub- licity so that interested people can plan to attend I feel that the majority opinion of such a meeting would be considerably different than that of the earlier meeting. JAMES F. OLMSTED 20 Sanborn Ave, «•'• $ Winter season By JIM BISHOP Winter can freeze a blade of gra^s with a glance. It's the jealous season, glancing coldly at the riotous orange and gold of autumn, breathing furiously, and changing everything to si- lent black and white. The other seasons are content to remain within a calendar year. Winter demands two. It is aggressive, and therefore masculine. Nothing is as noisy; nothing is as stubbornly still. Even the sun fears it, and hides on the horizon. Winter is also romantic, walking awhile with the emerald buds of spring on one arm, the rustling russets of autumn on the other. e • • It is a time for green valleys to turn white overnight. A mir- ror lake is crubbed with a Bon Ami of ice. Giant trees are whipped nude. Corn shocks, the tepees of Indian summer, shiv- er in open fields. White clouds sail faster and the sky deepens to royal blue. Small animals hurry to hide and a dainty doe taps a wafer of ice so that her baby may have a long cold drink. Little chil- dren in snowsuits and sweaters stand like solemn penguins wan- ing for a school bus. The day gets out of bed late and retires early. The cold night wind rides the sky, shrieking its brakes around the corners of houses, racing across mountain peaks to design white veils, pausing only to finger the features of a barn and find a crack for whistling. Stars brighten and flirt across the vast seas of space. The moon wears frost on its face. • • * It is a time for the maracas of radiators; the curling orange tongues around fireplace logs: the tap dance of twigs on storm windows. It is the time when the little running brook stops and the little nose starts. It is a day of apple cheeks, sparkling eyes and plumed breath. A window adorns itself with the frost of a thousand tiny trees. An icicle points a bony finger at the hard ground. Bed sheets are cold and litUe ones pull blankets over their beads. In the intense cold the house cracks its knuckles. The ther- mometer takes the locad eleva- tor down. The sky is a date blackboard with too many erasures. Snow- flakes fall fat and lacy. They swirl in tight white gowns, fin- telephone lines. They paint one side of a black oak, and edge the flagstones with ermine. Faster and faster, thicker and thicker, until even the footfalls and voices are muffled in white. Skid chains kit a rhumba beat. Under the eaves, old sparrows shake their feathers sleepily. Buses stop and skid sidewards to the curb. Galoshes weep, jn ..the hall Church steeples disappear in clouds of flakes. A rusty snow shovel comes out of the garage. Green meadows sleep under percale sheets. Boys who have just discover- ed girls throw snowballs at them. Mittens have elastic bands running up the sleeves. Long underwear feels fleecy if it hasn't been laundered. In the morning, the world is white and still and a bottle of milk on the porch wears a cocked hat. A horse with bells jogs ahead of a sleigh. The son, pale and gold, stares at the snow and casts long blue shadows behind trees. Branches, boughs and twigs are laden with calcimine. In a virginal field, a dog hops happily, snapping at snow. Youngsters, on a bright voyage to nowhere, tug sleds uphill: as in life Kself. the climb is arduous and the trip down brief and swift. It is a season when a thermo- stat listens to a vial of mer- cury. In a single day, plows buck the drifts, paths are made, and the crust underfoot squeaks. Trams, like elephant ladies en route to an appointment, are late. Layer cakes of snow slide off the edge of roofs. Winter is beautiful to the rich; ugly to the poor. It is frozen fee; in wet shoes and it is also a graceful pirouette on a pond. It is a hundred pounds of coal and it is also a pound of toasted marshmallows. It is a child's cough in the deep of night just as it is also the sweet sad har- mony of a Christmas carol It is rough and restless, tl sweeps and scours the land and pauses on a warm day to catch its breath. It comes back again and again, sometimes stepping on the toes of spring. This is the brutal beautiful season, painting everything in one color, envious of all cabers. Winter . .. The Press-Republican wel- comes letters te the editor so aay subject Letters mast be signed and the same wiU be pablisbed. it* ts the paiBi set more m wards is leagtk. eves By SfLVU PORTER Between now and New Year f s Day, shoplifters will steal an estimated $8»,WI,000 - plus of merchandise and food from store shelves the nation over. In all of 1966, the country's to- tal shoplifting losses will amount to over 2% billion. Just to break even on shoplift- ing losses this Christmas shop- ping season, U.S. retailers will have to sell at least $6 billion worth of goods, and this I re- peat, is just to break even, not to recoup lost profits. • •> • Although many retailers re- fuse even to discuss the matter, shoplifting has become a split- ting business headache in this year of booming self-service. It will surely reach record pro- portions this Christmas be- cause there will be record vol- umes of goods on display, rec- ord armies of untrained tempor- ary 7 sales personne, record num- bers of teenagers on shooping— and shoplifting sprees. Shoplifting actually is now the fastest growing from not larceny in the U.S., far outrunning the rise in bank robberies, jewelry thefts, burglaries, embezzle- ments. According to the FBI and police agencies, shoplifting offenses have nearly doubled just since 1960. Yet it's estim- ated that only one out of 100 shoplifting cases is reported to the police. \We have reached the point,\ says an official of Norman In- dustries, Inc. in Chicago, the nation's largest manufacturer of anti-shoplifting equipment for stores, 4i where r shoplifting losses have become a significant factor in our rising costs of living. It's no secret that the consumer must make up for the $2 billion- plus a year losses by paving higher prices all along the line.\ Professional shoplifters and kleptomaniacs account for only a tiny fraction -of shoplifting losses. Astoundingly, the big- gest offenders today are house- wives, teenagers and store em- ployes. The retail industry speculat- es that the housewife - turned shoplifter may be stealing the status symbols she can't afford * to buy. Or she may rationalize that since she is such a good dus- tomer, the store \owes her something\ for her patronage. Or she may simply be unable to resist the temptation of to- days tremendous display of merchandise on self - service store shelves. In the words of one seasoned observer: \Im- pulse buying is giving away to Impulse steal; Never before has the consumer had so many opportunities to shoplift.\ Equally astounding is the fact that shoplifting is not uncom- mon among gold-coast subur- ban housewives. According to one report, such well - to-do housewives 'have formed swap- ping clubs to trade stolen items and assign coverage of stores in the area.\ To combat the problem, mer- chants are buying, or leasing, convex, wide-angle mirrors to see around store corners, closed- circuit television cameras to watch shoppers from observa- tion booths. They are stapling bags of goods in retail stores to prevent customers from stuf- fing them with extra merchand- ise. Manufacturers, meanwhile, are developing \tamper proof packaging to thwart, for ex- ample, shoppers who refill po- tato chip boxes with cartons of cigarets. Says an official of Norman Industries: Some of the stores which previously claimed they 'didn't want to offend their cus- tomers' by using obvious se- curity devices now are usir.g armed, informed guanis M Over the years, manufactur- ers and retailers have spent billions of dollars to invest, package and promote todays vast variety of enticing self- seiling products It is irorjc that they now must apply th*s more hOLaoas, to the prohkxn a' ''impulse stealing/' The small gocietv Suggest reflectors where streetcurve$ TO THE EDITOR Hardly s week goes by that some part e goard rsfl m the area of the Otamptaia Mtwt\mwn is by notorisis travefiJ* too fast to mafe the carve. (Nor. Mu m Ins thai Ma aurtiw of te < -**^:< \- f?>- ^•* %• H6fZ£Y Hi* V JTBALLV? WHAT A£& ^ GOV**!* VO ABOUT IT? ka paatt, II a3gbi *;» Am T&IM4KST TjUT-mey ONLY MB \We KATe.' **mm •^S-KOT\ „ «L_ <^ ™^— ** ;<?JS\ *5>j JK '•&£*<- .* *: BeekHown school sets book fair BEEKMANTOWN — mantown School will holt fair Thursday and Fri students and parents. The fair is sponsored Parent-Teacher Assn. It fcr paperback books oi ncty of topics for chil all ages. • * * Students will be pent look over the selection ai orders both days in the ! t'f the main building Cumberland Head Scho The fair will be open cms Thursday at 8 p.m mam building during tl meeting. The school li w ill be prepared to discu able library resources P-TA reading program. P-TA spokesmen sai< ori books at the book : range from 35 cents to that books ordered th should be received in i Christmas. This is the Beekmant trict's first book fair. Man pays fin after spendin night in locki Raymond Provost, 4^ Pine'st. paid a $10 fine morning rather than s days in jail. Police Officers Rabid I ^ Pier answered a c Saturday evening, on plaint that Provost h beating his wife. When the policemen ed to arrest him, Provo: nn them, striking and both officers, they rep He was taken to the < up where he spent the der of the night. He raigned before Actii .Judge Robert P. Wylie morning as a disorder!; Two faiths move closer together LONDON (AP) - Roman Catholics took ' Sunday which seemed them closer to the C England. English instead of L extended and standard! Catholic churches of Bi Ireland as of Sunday, sponses m the Mass identical with those in churches, which have : lish since the Reforms Further, a pastoral i read from the Roman hierarchy giving instru the setting up of pari-i on which laymen will s >o me thing which has 1 ed m parishes of the it lished Ensiish church. DON MIS THE! SMOKED 1 TABLER1T1 GROUND I HILLS BR( DELMONTI CAMPBEU TABLE KQ PU1SBUR 1 U.S. NO. 1 LaBARRE* JENNE' 133 S. ABB0
