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THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1975 LONG ISLAND TRAVELER-WATCHMAN PAGE FIVE a Letters To The Editor Ed. Notei Letters to the editor are encouraged. The space given is to encourage the people of the com munities to express their views and by so doing help our communities grow strong. An enlightened people working together toward the good life. Cicero once said, “ Life Is short, but life is long enough to live honorably and well.” CORRECTION A letter, sent to The Long Island Traveler-Watchman in the name of Lecia Dellamano and printed in the June Sedition, was cited as fraudulent by.M rs. Dellamano. What People Want Editor: The people want their politicians to reduce spending and taxes. They want an end to government forced inte gration in housing and in the schools thru forced busing. They want a judiciary that interprets the law not twist the law to reflect the judge’s philosophy of government. The silent majority of citizens want discipline and religion back in our public schools and sex education out. The people want something done about pornography, drugs, crime and the permissive and failing criminal justice system that places more emphasis on the rights of the criminal and ignores the rights of the victim. People are weary of having their middle class values eroded by p seudo liberal politicians who reflect the opinions of a loud-mouthed minority and neglect the silent majority who pay their taxes and b ear the burden of government. It is about time that the silent majority wake up and make their voices heard by our legislators. When legislators are made aware of the silent majority they will abandon the ultra liberal philosophy of govern ment with all high taxes entailed. Henry Anderer Southold Gift Appreciation Editor; In this affluent age kids are being robbed of much of the magic of gift giving and receiving. When 1 was a boy it was a rare treat to get an ice cream cone. I’ve never forgotten the tingling antici pation I felt as I walked with my father to the corner drug store on hot summer nights, there to grin quietly over a huge m o u n d of butterscotch royale at friends who had come with their families. Then with my mother’s waxpaper wrapped cone held tightly in my other fist there was the quick walk back to where she sat waiting on the front porch swing. “ We had no way of keeping ice cream at home, and neither did anyone else 1 knew. Our desserts were generally things like tapioca pudding and oatmeal cookies. The ice cream excursions were infre quent and memorable. “ Today in our kitchen we have: one quart chocolate almond, one quart vanilla, nuts, bottled cherries and assorted syrups. What is more, from spring until fall, we single- handedly keep an ice cream truck going, a nice friendly truck that orbits our house every 20 minutes. \T a k e birthday celebrations. They used to begin the moment you came downstairs in the morning and entered the dining room and saw a tremendously right present (like a baseball bat) in a tremen dously wrong place (on the table cloth beside your plate). They ended when you had opened your cards and put away the money. Later there would be a cake, but first you had to finish your red cabbage. If you had received indoor gifts, like Tootsie-Toy cars or soldiers, you placed them in the cigar box where you kept your indoor toys. \Today birthday invitations go out, large parties are held and th e r e are toys by the dozens. P r e s e n t s are received at other children’s parties. I know of a boy who received a baseball outfit for Easter and another who got a set of trains for Mother's Day. “ Kids today need a whole room for their indoor toys, while half an acre barely m a n a g e s to contain their outside toys. ^\^Speak The Speech “ Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.” The bones of William Shakespeare, that universally acknowledged master of the English language, who accord ing to one source, died of the vapors after an excessive drinking bout in a British tavern, may quite under standably be re-arranging themselves in the Bard’s grave. A UPI broad caster over the weekend, tripped up on the word “ Spokesperson” . He fell flat on his tripping tongue, as well he might, for he was contributing his talent to the growing de-personaliza tion of language, brought about forthe most part by the sinister influence of what is called “ Women’s Lib” . A recent book by NBC’s Edwin Newman, entitled “ Strictly Speak ing” ,bears thesubtitle: “ Will Ameri ca be the Death of English?” The death of what Mark Twain called \English as She is Spoke” may well result from such monstrosities as \Spokesperson.” In their zeal for equality of the sexes, the Women’s Libbers have decided to neuterize the nation. No longer Miss or Mrs., but Ms., buzzing like an angry b e e . No longer chairman or chairwoman, but chairperson. No longer spokesman, or spokeswoman, but spokesperson, evoking images of a bicycle repairperson. Webster defines “ P erson” as “ a human being, especially as dis tinguished from a thing or lower animal: individual man, woman or child” . Note the “ individual man, woman or child” . The function of language, in its development, is to refine and particu larize; not to generalize and obfus cate. In their efforts to elevate the female sex, the Women’s Libbers have rendered language sexless. This way lies madness. A male human being is a tenor, a baritone or a b ass, unless he has the misfortune to b e a eunuch. A female human being is a soprano, a contralto or a mezzo, with all the intermediate variations. A man is a man and a woman is a woman. A boy is a boy and a girl is a girl. And as the French say: “ Vive le Difference” . The Women’s Libbers lump them all together as persons - a most depressing prospect. This will have a devastating effect on all strata of society. For example, Broadway will have not showmen, but showpersons, and an entertainer will be a song-and-dance person. In local government, we will henceforth have policepersons and councilpersons. Washington will have Congressper- sons, our armed forces will consist of airpersons, seapersons, infantryper- sons, artillerypersons and militia- persons. NASA will be training space- persons. The church will be composed of laypersons and clergypersons. The telephone company will employ line- persons, a groceryperson will deliver your food, and a repairperson will come to your house to fix whatever has to be fixed. Consider also the enormous changes which will have to take place in nomenclature. Any name contain ing the prefix or suffis of man, or woman, or he, or she, will have to be changed. Try the one time governor of New York , for example. Averill Harriperson? Manage becomes per sonage; manchester, personchester; Fu Man Chu, Fu Person Chu; man date, persondate, manhole, person- hole; manipulate, personipulate. Not to mention Persondrake, the Magici an. On the other side of the spectrum, womanizer becomes personizer, wo manhood, personhood. A misogynist, defined as a woman hater, becomes a person hater. And last but not least, shenannigans becomes personanni- gans, and that lovely slang word, shebang, becomes personbang. The Saints, male and female, pre serve us. In his book, Edwin Newman remarks that there is no way to measure the destructive effect of sports broadcasting on American English, but it must be considerable. There is also no way of measuring the destructive effects of the attack by Women’s Lib on American or English English, but it has already proved to be considerable. As H.L. Mencken once admonish ed: Back to Bach! So newspersons won't trip over spokesperson. Ted Marvel “ If this torrent of gift giving keeps up the kids are going to have to imitate the Potlatch Indians and have big bonfires once a year on which they throw all their current possessions. \But then, I suppose we’d only be buying them gifts for Potlatch Day.” Sincerely, R. Arnold Mattituck Remembers Southold Editor: Mrs. Dewar and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary last April 25. Friends in Southold put an announcement in The Traveler before that date, as a result we received approximately 30 cards from friends and neighbors in Southold. We used to own the little house on Horton's Lane across from the Academy Print Shop for about 30 years. We finally moved down here to escape the winters in 1972. We are very happy here but will never forget the people we left behind who were always so very kind to us. Stewart Dewar Naples, Florida Gift Of Energy Editor: No disciple is above his teacher, but when perfected, everyone will be like his teacher. It is consistent with all the robust virtues, and makes a large practice of them possible. It is the measure of a fullness of life, the more energy the more abundance of it. No energy at all in death. In the inquiries I make of the antecedents of men of science no point came out more strongly than that the leaders of scientific thought were generally gifted with remark able energy and that they had inherited the gift of it from their parents and grandparents. I have since found the same to be the case in other careers. Energy is an attribute of the higher races, favored beyond all other qualities by natural selection. We are goaded into activity by the conditions and struggles of life. They afford stimuli that oppress and worry the weakly, who com plain and bewail, and it may be, succumb to them, but which the energetic man welcomes with a good-humored shrug, and is the better for it. It does not seem to follow that because men are capable of doing hard work they like it. Some, instead, fidget and fret if they cannot otherw ise work off their superfluous steam, but on the other hand there are many big, lazy fellows who will not get up their steam to full pressure except under compulsion. A g a in, the character of the stimulus that induces hard work differs greatly in different persons. The solitary hard workers, under no encouragement or compulsion, ex cept their sense of duty of their generation, are unfortunately still rare among us. Yours truly. Jack Ciocchetti Wading River Good Coverage Editor: You might want to know why people subscribe to your paper - well we live in Wading River and Shelter Island and you cover the North Fork in that area better than any other paper. Clayton Quinn Paper A Pleasure Editor: It has been a constant pleasure to receive your weekly paper. Delivery has been consistently reliable and the news from the north fork eagerly awaited - As soon as I establish a fixed address I hope to get in touch again. Sincerely, Robert H.McIlroy P.O.Box 1403 San Diego, Calif. Parents Say Thanks Editor: As we sat in the Southold Kinder garten rooms on Friday, May 6, I'm sure we all felt extremely proud of our children, as we watched them enter tain us. At one time or another during that day, the thought of the first day of school certainly crept into our minds, and smiles crossed our faces, as we realized how much our sons and daughters had accomplished during their first year of school. It also saddened us, to an extent, to admit to ourselves that we are no longer the parents of babies, but parents of young boys and girls, who no longer depend on us as they did in Septemb- ber. Let us all sit back and think about some very important things that we all know and do without giving a second thought to these things: counting, recognizing shapes and objects, read ing, spelling, following directions, getting along with others, knowing our address, telephone number, the alphabet, the days of the week and the months of the year. These are just a very few of the many things our sons, and daughters now know, and will always know, thanks to our Southold Kindergarten teachers. Not many people realize how important kindergarten is to our Coffee Break By Sherley Katz One day I had a brainstorm. Even for me, it was bad. We have a crushed shell driveway. Idly looking at the bare spots, I wondered about adding the clam shells as we eat them. Good idea? No. We reckoned without the effects of whole shells. Not on us, but the seagulls. So we went through the motions, relished the clams and dutifully took them out to the spots which needed them most. Sure, a little clamjuice spilled in the process but so what? I’ll tellyou what. The next morning, a warm, summer-soft mist re-activ ated the aroma and brought the gulls on the run. They swooped, dived and battered each other in a frantic effort to get at what was supposed to be in the shells. The fury spent in dis appointment was startling so there I was, trapped in the house with my car in full sight, too chicken to go out into that crowd of screaming birds. It’s still a good idea and I’m still doing it and the neighborhood winged set seems to have accepted the inevitable and bypasses us. Once in a while the white top of my car shows the color of the disdain with which they view us but that’s a small price to pay for the gradual buildup of crushed clam shells. My short cuts will be the undoing of me y e t. A friend of mine who got on the children. It is at this time that the basis of their whole education is learned. Without these basic fundementals, our children would be lost in school. Trying to keep five and six year old boys and girls interested in learning, is not an easy job. Learning through enjoyment is what our children have experienced this year in k indergarten. Our children have also learned about the world in which they live by experiencing it. The kindergarten classes have either visited or have been visited by the following: N.Y. Telephone Co., LILCO, North Fork Animal Hospital, Pumpkin Farm, Indian Museum, Highway Dept., Cheese Platter, Associated Food Store, LIRR, L.I. Game Farm, ELI Hospital, Apple Orchard, The Old House in Cutchogue, A firetruck, Southold Police Dept, (ask any kinder garten student what number to call in an emergency). If we stop and think about it, perhaps these young five and six year olds have a better understanding about our town than we do. There is also a very important aspect of their education that has not been mentioned as yet. We all realized today, what an excellent musical background our children are receiv ing. It was amazing to watch our five and six year olds reading notes and understanding what they mean. We now know much more about the little songs, we have all so often heard being sung around the house. Believe it or not, ourchildren did not want to miss any school this year. How many times have we experienced tears or pouting because they were too sick to go to school? Do you ever remember doing that? It has been a wonderful experience seeing our children grow, and for this we owe a great deal of thanks to Mrs. Peggy Dow, Miss Betty Hagermann and Mrs. Bernadette Aldcroft (Music). We never hesitate to criticize teacher when we think there is a problem, but how often do we praise them when we know they have done an outstanding job. We have had three very dedicated women teach our children thisycar, and for this, and for all they have done, we say THANKS. Mary Ann Feavel Southold Compliments Traveler Editor: As with many others who sit out the winter and resume enjoyment of East End life, my family and I look forward to reading about happenings in your newspaper. But more than that and being in the publishing field myself, I want to throw bouquets your way and tell you how much improvement I have noticcd in The Traveler since you took over. The appearance and editorial quality of your newspaper are noticed by others. I’m sure. There is a need for such communication to East End residents, and the Traveler can fill that need with continued hard work. Sincerely, Alex Porianda Southold Urges Involvement Editor: In answer to a letter of Mrs. Alan Overton, Library director of the Riverhead Free? Library, I am sorry that she states that misleading in formation is being presented through my letters to the Editor. I know that in printing my letters in your paper, you have my name spelled correctly, while she seems to have trouble in knowing how to spell my name. I note she states that the Free Library Budget is only 2 percent of the school budget, but further on she states that the amount to be raised by taxation is $268,652.00, this represents 2.47 percent of the school b udget, which is exceedingly high. In a report from the Riverhead Preservation and Landmarks Society, there is brought to fore, that the Riverhead Library is purchasing the old Hill home on Osborn Ave., with the intention of demolishing the building and using the property as a parking lot. Why does the director of the library want to take more property off the tax roles of our town, when it is not necessary? I suppose what is left of the accumulated expansion fund will b. used for this purpose, against the wishes of the taxpayers who voted against expansion by a h uge majority in 1973. Of course the spending of the taxpayers money of Central School District #2 does not concern the director of the library as she is not a taxpayer of this district, because she resides in East Quogue and our taxes do not affect her. In another article, given out to the public, it was announced that the library will be closed the week of June 9th for re-carpeting. Will this be a paid vacation forthe staff of the Library? In addition the taxpayers money is being spent for this luxurious floor covering. Our director makes a claim that more and more people are coming to the public library for help with formal or informal courses of study, and that they also look for guidance in'invest ing and estate planning. I believe this should be taken care of, in our schools and in our banks, which are properly staffed with personnel, acquainted with the above mentioned subjects, and what about all the guidance counselors in our schools. I still believe the budget of oiir Free? Library is a severe drain ot^thc resources of the home owners, taxpay ers and senior citizens, who are on a fixed income, or only rely on Social Security for their income. They do not have the fringe benefits and other goodies that the staff of the library have, which are paid for by the taxpayers of Central School District #2. This expense is on top of the amount we expend for the libraries in our seven public schols and four parochial schools. I believe the $30,000.00 amount included in library budget for expan sion should be eliminated, and the hours of operation should be cut too, from 12 n o o n t o 5 p . m . ,an d 7 p .m . t o 9 p.m. daily, thus lowering the cost of operation of the library. The amount of extra curricular activities should be reducedoreliminated, and the library should be operated as a library and not as a cultural and recreation center, when we have an amount of over $222,000.00listed in our town budget for culture and recreation. I urge the taxpayers and rent payers of Central School District #2 to get out and become involved in town board meetings, library meetings and school district meetings, and to make sure that you are registered for the school vote and make sure you vote on the next school budget vote. After all, it is your taxes that finance these items, and in these times of inflation, recession and unemployment, we do not want our taxes to go beyond our ability to pay, which they will if we pass these extremely high library and school budget. Also you citizens that pay rent, your rent will go up if your landlord has to pay higher taxes. Sincerely, Joseph F.Backora Riverhead To Town Board Gentlemen: We all have a common goal - the Good of our Town and its Citizens. Atthe May 27Town Board Meeting we witnessed a Pressure Group in Action - well organized, mobilized and vociferous - make demands which any government including our Town Board finds hard to refuse. The vogue today is GOVERNMENT BY PRES SURE GROUPS. To counter the pressure groups we the forgotten silent majority felt it incumbent on us to become VOCAL and get behind our representatives - You Mr. Martocchia and members of the Board in whom we have the greatest confidence and faith in your integrity and ability. We want to let (Continued on Page 7) health kick, gave me some recipes which included dates. I substituted prunes. The family didn’t talk to me for days. A pumpkin bread turned out to be an applesauce creation and I e n treat ed everyone to at least taste it. No use. They couldn’t get past the first bite. It might have been a success but when I tried to palm it off on unsuspecting visitors a few, dry comments on my creativity at the oven highlighted the sunken center. Some of my lesser talents include sewing. For years I functioned under the dire predictions of what would happen if I used pins, you know the parental admonition “ if you’re in an accident how will it look?” A lot b etter probably than if 1 do the stitching. We were going to a posh party one night and 1 went through the time- honored routine of trying on every thing I had, completely dissatisfied with the whole closet. My brimming health had something to do with it. What fit me last month doesn’t necessarily fit me this month. There was an oldie I liked, and it zipped, but it was a bit long so 1 cheerily threaded a needle and got to work. A quick pressing and we were on our way. At the party, 1 m ust have found the one chair in that august establish ment that had an imperfection and it caught one of the blasted stitches. No one laughed, even when I calmly took hold of the thread and pulled the rest of it out. The dress aged five years instantly and my escort ten. It could have been worse, I told h im. I might have used pins. TOWNSENIIMAHORINH Restaurant & C gc M Lounge WE WISH TO THANK OUR MANY FRIENDS WHO HELPED MAKE OUR GRAND OPENING SUCH A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS. 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