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Familiar Danger Danger is everywhere, even on landscape and roads that are the most familiar. The events of the past few days bring that terrible message directly into our community. The sunlight of a bright morning can be shattered by the siren that means disaster. The quiet evening is ended in the squeal of brakes and a grinding crash. Our hearts go out to the families who feel the direct impact of these unexpected blows. The loss to the community can only be measured at a later time Top Notch Man \Reliable \Solid Citizen,\ \Top Notch.\ Those are just a few of the words that friends and cus tomer8 use when they talk about Fred Bnzee. HIH quiet efficiency and genuine interest have been the keys to solving intricate banking problems as well as organizing the resources to benefit the com munity. This month he retires as a senior vice president of Merchants Bank. For 15 years he was manager of the Merchants Fayetteville office and he has served more than 20 years in the bank's main of fice in Syracuse There are many who have benefited from hiH quiet words of advice. As one of his friends from the banking days at the top of the hill, this newspaper joins hundreds of others in wishing him and his wife Jeanne many years to enjoy retirement from the daily cares and pon8ibilities that he so ably handled res- A Bright Spot Gasoline cost $1 f>0 a gallon in New York Citv last weekend (if you could find a gas station with gas for sale) The latest word is that it 'H going to be an expen sive and fngid winter, with price* of heating oil soaring to 80 cents a gallon The independent truckers are striking, and fresh vegetables, which people are encouraged to eat more of because the price of beef is so as tronomical, are rotting in the farmers fields in some areas Managua. Nicaragua is no place to go for a vacation. Nothing can stop Skylab from falling, and nobody knows where the pieces are going to land or who they're going to land on The DC-108 are still grounded, there's a con tinued anxiety about the safety of nuclear reactors and if you use a hair drver, watch out for the asbestos Serfs in the middle ages were in bondage to the liege lord for M) percent of whatever they had. Americans are in bondage to the government for about 50 percent But dispainng as all this may sound, there's a faint ray of sunshine peeking out from the clouds The State Health Dept has taken time to fix it so that church groups and other worthy organizations won't have to get a state license after all, before having covered dish suppers Now don't you feel much better' The Unbeatable Thief By Robert Morris We all feel the ravages of inflation Those who live on fixed increases feel it the most Hut are we really analyzing the causes of this thief who is stealing from us all 9 Inflation occurs when too much money pur sues too few goods If a product is in demand people who can afford to buy it will compete with each other t o acquire it and hence send the cost skyward Therefore the goal of planners should be to in crease production or else reduce the supply of money The federal government's intervention m this battle generally takes the form of reducing the money supply It does this by tightening credit, causing interest rates to climb However this remedy can itself be in flationary. When the prime rate of interest soars to 115 percent, money becomes expensive. We live in a credit society When we build a house, buy a car, use our credit card, we borrow money to do so. The 11.5 percent is only the tip of the iceberg. That is the rate at which banks lend to their best customers. Small contractors often pay as much as 20 percent for their money This is enormously inflationary For the Notes Off The Cuff Sidewalks in Haldwinsv ill*' are getting a $175,000 boost this year The village is using its federal (ommunitv Development funds to repair and replace the walkways in the village. A lone doe was spotted wal k ing slowly across the Lyndon Golf Course heading back into the woods on the south side of Rt 92 Monday morning. Wonder if it had a good early round? • The Weather has been so firifid lately that the swans and ducks didn't even swim in the Swan Pond in Manliua early Monday or Tuesday mor- The tall (atalpa trees art- dropping their delicate white blossoms The last of the blooms, it s all green now until ()ctober Did you ever wonder exactly how much is one million of anything? A science teacher at Palmyra-Macedon started his class collecting a million aluminum pop tops to get some concept of numbers. It took them three and a half years, but last week they loaded 1,500 pounds on the Reynolds recycl ing truck. Aluminum is worth 20 cents a pound and netted the class, now eighth graders, $300. Pop tops are identified as the largest single source of litter in the state. interest costs through the middlemen, layer after layer, add to the final purchasing price to the consumer. When Presidents Nixon and Ford tried this formula, in the 1974-75 period it wan disastrous It caused a recession that brought on unemployment which reduced production and worse still, caused an enormous deficit, the erasure of which required inflationary resort to the printing presses The better way to attack inflation is by in creasing production When goods flood the market prices come down Instead of dis couraging production as they did by ehminat ing the incentive credits, they should have en couraged production The greatest cause of inflation is the $50(> billion federal budget, much of which takes the form of salaries When salaries are paid by in dustry these salaries have produced goods which reach the market place. The government salaries come into the market place without producing goods It is this enormous infusion of money without the countering production that is causing the inflation For this reason the government should set it* sights on the real cause of inflation this huge excessive, wasteful spending at federal state and municipal levels Graduation disappointments At ESM At FM To the Kditor I've just returned from atten ding the Commencement ol the Fast Syracuse Minoa (Mass of '7M 1 had looked forward to this event since I hadn't attended one since our son's graduation in 1470 What a shock' Have our children changed so much in those few v ears'' Instead of the dignity that liegins with the opening of 'Pomp and Cir < umstance there was a ( onstant rumble of jeers cat ( alls, programs folded into air planes and tossed bv the graduating class < iranted. one < ant judge the barrel of apples bv the great number of spoiled ones hut how disappointed must ha \i l>een the parents, families and friends of those graduating seniors One young man donned a set of horns to ac ( ept his diploma Another smoked a (igar. and a young ladv' wore colored balloons atop her mortarboard Some people left earlv I'hev wereoverheard saying. We ve had enough of this and I have an idea thev weren t referring to the c hillv weather accompanying the outdoor c eremonie8. A woman near me told her friend, 'This is the rowdiest graduation I ve ever attended\ Others heartilv agreed Right on through the national anthem, invocation speeches. presentations prayers and benediction those jeers and whistles kept up One had the feeling these kids were saying, \(ret this foolish business over with so we (an go on to our beer blasts and parties and have fun'\ I have an idea these kids are the ones who had fun all through their s< hool years These are the kids we vesur> ported These are our leaders ol the future Doesn t that scare vou HAD KNOl'GH They agree To The Kditor The members of the Fayetteville Garden Club con cur with your article of thanks to the merchants of the Limes tone Association. Our club has always been interested in the beautification of our village and appreciate the efforts of the merchants in making the business area more attractive by planting of flowers. N The Fayetteville Garden Club l'o the Kditor I am a college junior who graduated from Fayetteville- Manlius Senior High School in 1W77 My vounger sister is now preparing to go through the graduation ceremony this weekend By the time this appears in print she will have graduated Perhaps some of \ou have heard of mv sisU*r I jsa She is an extremelv talented girl, an a< c omphshed pianist. She was a winner in the Inter national competition of Amenc an Music Teacher's Assn She placed first in the New York State MUSK I'eac her s \ssn competition and was first alternate of the K.istern I nited States She is attending the .lulliard School of Music I n New York Citv next vear Perhaps some of you have not heard of Ijsa How could vou have not heard about one of the most talented voung musicians in the state ' 1'his could not possibly be at tnbuted to the fact that her pic lure was left out of the vear hook that her name was the onlv name omitted in both the Herald-Journal and Post Stan dard list ol graduates, that her school has done little to noth ing to recognize her talents No, these must be mere trivialities And of course, the lact that the music department at FM has downplayed her ac comp'lishments is in consequential After all. whv should Ijsa, who has helped out the choir director bv ac fompanving the choir on pieces that would ordinanlv require a paid accompanist, be given the privilege of playing at her own graduation 9 I have seen her in tears many times as she was oversighted, bv her high school Why should her graduation be any different 9 Naturally, though, everytime she wins a competition and an article is wntten up about her, she should emphasize the fact that she is a senior at Fayetteville Manhus Senior High. Isn't this the place where she learned what loyalty is all about? . I was excited about the prospect of attending college but I was sad about leaving my friends and the high school days. In fact, most of my friends were having the same thoughts. But Lisa will be unable to share in these feelings. Rather than the nostalgic She will probably be happily watching the clock, ticking away her last minutes at FM 1 lor one. can not blame her Instead I feel sorry for her — she's missing out on feeling as all the rest of her class will upon leaving high school But. even more so 1 lee; sorry lor the administration faculty, and even some of th< students at I-a vettev I 11» Manhus Senior High IJS.I may be missing a special fee I ing but they are lacking .i special ingredient of humanitv that is so mucl^ more mi portant — that of Compassion for other individuals 1 veil card so much about r- M pride 1 suggest now we ci• something about it GAI1. SPFCTOK Manhus Kditor's Note. Ijsa Speetor - name appeared in the list ot candidates for graduation sent out by FM to all newspapers and appeared in the list published in this newspaper Honor America Eagle-Bulletin DeWitt News-Times National Blue. Ribbon Newspaper 197(W1 72 73-74-7S 76-77 7K Printed and Published Weekly WOBO Corp. Office 200 Brooklea Dr Fayetteville, N Y 13066 1 315-637 3121 The Manliua Eagle 1887 The Fayetteville Bulletin 1892 The Eagle BalleOn 1933 The DeWitt Time* 1949 T Elmer Bogardus George C Wortley III Publishers and Editors Telephone 637 3121 Single Copy 2S« $1 a month by earner Senior Cituens. 96 a year by mail Others, $12 a year by mail Katared aa Second Claaa Matter at the Poet Office at Fayetteville N Y 130M. vnder the Act of March 3 1879 Member of The New York Prees Aaen The National Newspaper Aaen Audit Bareaa of Circulation later-American Press Aaan American Newspaper Representatives National Advertising Representative Publication No 163640
