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BARNSTABLE PATRIOT
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EDITORIALSZZ
Our new CC Commission rep.
After seven years, Barnstable 's
representative to the Cape Cod
Commission, David Ansel asked
not to be reappointed.
Town Manager John Klimm
wasted little time in selectingfor-
mertown councilor and long-time
colleague Royden Richardson to
the post.
Richardson did not retire from
the council because he wanted
to. The charter-imposed tern
limit forced him out of the seat
he filled for 12 years.
Richardson likes to be in-
volved. It's more than being
able to sit behind a placard
engraved with his name. It fits
with his sense of community
and purpose.
That he willjoin the Cape Cod
Commission at a time when it is
about to undergo the scrutiny
of an outside study is oppor-
tune. More than a decade ago,
as he was a fairly new town
councilor, Richardson served
on a similar committee. It came
at a time when both Yarmouth
and Barnstable saw referendum
questions seeking withdrawal.
The study committee was
•empaneled prior to the vote
and its findings helped temper
relations and understandings of
what the commission was and
wasn't. The question failed in
both towns.
Richardson was also at the
council's helm in 2001 when
Barnstable creatively utilized
the District of Critical Planning
Concern process to impose a
town-wide building moratori-
um. He understands the explo-
sive dynamics that the commis-
sion and the power it deals to
towns represent.
Through it all, he considers
himself a supporter of the com-
mission (mostly ), even with his
years of service on the town's
Economic Development Com-
mission. At the council level, it
is his successor, first as chair-
man of the BEDC and now as
town council president, Hank
Farnham who is leading a rally-
ing cry against the commission
and what he sees as its interfer-
ence in the economic affairs and
well-being of this town and this
peninsula.
In an article in the most
recent edition of Mass Builder ,
the official publication of the
Home Builders of Massachu-
setts, the increase in housing
prices and decrease in afford-
able housing is blamed on
restrictive Zoning. Period. Mu-
nicipalities, it seems, are acting
in their own best interests, and
not the interests of the state as
a whole.
The article contends that had
building been allowed to prog-
ress at the same rate as 1960-'75
for the period between 1990 to
the present, the median home
price in the commonwealth
would be $276,100, not the
$431,900 it is.
There's little discussion as
to what kind of communities
those would be or whether the
population to buy and fill them
would have existed.
There's something to the
arguments forwarded in the
Mass Builder article, but there's
also something to the argument
that municipalities are right to
be selfish on certain issues.
It is indeed an interesting
time for anyone to serve on the
commission and Richardson,
who begins in April, is in a good
position with a good back-
ground to carry on the current
discussions.
DS II
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COMPILED BYJOHN WAITERS
EARLYF1LES@BARNSI\BLEPATR10T.COM
FROM THE BARNSTABLE PATRIOT FEB 13, 1986
DUE FOR ROAD WORK - A 1,200-foot stretch ot Route 132 fronting the new
Southwind Shopping Plaza, now under construction, will be constructed and
widened if the conservation commission gives permission March 18. The
project would widen the thoroughfare from 32 feet to 44 feet and reconstruct
and add traffic lights at the Independence Drive intersection.
1836
Wehave been favored byafriend
with the following extract from a
Boston newspaper. If he had not
given notice of course we would
havetakenupthequillindeference
ofthefairsexofournative"region."
Theyrequirenodeference,however,
at our hands. No who has actually
traveled in this "fishy region" will
say they ever saw its fair ones em-
ployed astheir libeler waspleased
to describe them; and no one who
has ever partaken of their good
cheer,willfor amomentbelieveour
cooks baked their "johnny cakes"
on the soles of their feet. They are
bynomeanssuchsalamanders.But
read what some cracked-brained
visitor said of them,andlet'smind
ourP's&Q'swhenhecomesagain,
"Speaking of the Cape girlsI must
not forget to relate the manner
in which they bake their bread;
a batch is mixed in the evening,
made into cakes of a suitable size
and placed on their feet,they then
stretch themselves at length upon
the floor withtheir feet in front of
a roaring fire, and come morning
the bread will be ready for the
table. I have seen a dozen girls in
this position in a single room, all
lyinground thehearthlikesomany
torn-cod inafrying pan,with aloaf
ofbread on eachoftheirfeet asbig
as a salt fish."
1866
We last week chronicled the
fact of the arrest of E. W.Cahoon,
one of the parties who recently
broke jail and made their escape
from Mr.Easterbrook's domains.
Yesterdayalarge crowd gathered
at the Depot in this village to
witness the arrival of the two re-
maining parties -Simeon Handy
and Thomas Eldredge - in the
custody of Deputy Sheriff Harris,
who, we learn, arrested them in
Alfred Maine, whither they were
traced by a letter written from
that place by Eldredge to hiswife
in Hyannis.
1896
Of late we find the game of
Golf is often noticed and written
about,showingthe importance,as
a pastime and health giving and
attractive sport,it is becomingin
our country, as well as in Great
Britain and on the Continent of
Europe. The gamehasbeen popu-
larinScotland for morethan seven
hundred years, but owing to our
busy habits it has only begun to
be known in this country for the
last five years,but the last year its
growth has been so rapid and so
great that unless alocality,where
summerpeople gofor their outing,
has a course where they can play.
The summer cottagers of Wianno
and Osterville, looking into the
future , laid out a course on West
Bay of nine links, (about two and
half miles in length,"which have
been pronounced equal invariety
of surface or in natural hazards,
to anylinksknown, and which are
open to every citizen or visitor of
Barnstable on equal terms. It has
required a large outlay of money
to do this work, and we feel that
every tax payer of the town will
be benefitted as it cannot fail to
offer the only attraction whichwe
lacked to induce settlers to locate
among us.
1906
Captain George F. Tilton, of
Chilmark,Martha'sVineyard,will
make a dash for the North Pole in
the near future. Capt. Tilton will
have a vessel after the type of an
American whaler, built down in
Maine the coming summer, and
she will be along Capt. Tilton's
own ideas of what such a craft
should be exceedingly well built
to withstand the impact of the
ice floes. Capt. Tilton will be in
command and willhave a crew of
experienced Arctic seamen. It is
planned to take along 500 dogs,
and after the vessel has been
forced as far north as possible, to
make the dash for the pole with
the dog teams. Capt. Tilton has
an abundance of courage and his
nerve has never been doubted.
It will be remembered that he
walked alone from Point Barrow
to civilization in 1898, when the
whaling fleet was caught in the
Arctic.
1916
Agreements have been signed
recently whereby parties rep-
resenting the summer colony
at Osterville and Wianno have
purchased all the property of
the Cotocheset Company. It is
proposed to change the Wianno
Yacht Club to the Wianno Club.
The Cotocheset hotel willbe used
as the clubhouse and will be the
center of the athletic and social
activities of the community. It is
expected that renovations will
be complete by the 15th of June,
and many requests for rooms are
being received, It is proposed to
make this a family club.
1926
On Sunday, last E. Henry Phin-
ney suddenly made up his mind
that he would build a new ice
house on his land at East Sandy
Pond. Monday morning he had
buildersatwork,the lumberbeing
already on the lot and Tuesday
night the house was all up and
filled with 500 tons of ice of ex-
cellent quality, Quick work, eh?
That's the Cape Cod way!
1936
After spending almost an entire
day interrifyingexperiences adrift
on an ice floe,with no food, drink,
or shelter and subjected to rain,
snow and cold winds with the
mercury going almost to zero the
seven CCC boys from the East
Brewster Camp were taken off
their floating prison early Mon-
day morning by the U.S. Coast
Guard cutter "Harriet Lane ,"
and brought into Provincetown.
Three of them were taken by air-
plane to Hyannis and landed at
the Hyannis airport from which
place they were brought in the
ambulance to the Cape Cod Hos-
pital. Although warned against
the danger they ventured out
on the ice Sunday forenoon as a
lark. They were warned by coast
guardsmen and other experienced
people that it was extremely
dangerous to venture far out on
the ice, but they were persistent ,
some distance from the shore the
tide ebbed and the ice floe broke
CONTINUED ON PAGE A:1 2
:EARLYFILES
BY PAUL DUFFY
Super!
By
Paul Duffy
Long before it
became a showcase
for the excesses of television
advertising and an inter-
national exposition of bad
taste, the Super Bowl was a
football game. And it wasn't
even called the Super Bowl.
It was just a football game
in which two professional
teams vied for the rights
to be called the best in the
sport. And. being profes-
sional football, there was
also money at stake, mostly
advertising money - rather
like big college football but
not nearly as well-estab-
lished.
That was in 1967. The
great Green Bay Packers
played the Kansas City
Chiefs in Los Angeles and
who of us football fans
could have guessed what
a bloated cultural embar-
rassment the thing would
become? The Packers won a
lopsided victory and thereby
set a pattern that has rarely
been departed from: the
Super Bowl, even before it
was so called , was not going
to measure up to the fans'
expectations; with very
few exceptions over forty
years the game has been a
resounding, echoing, deafen-
ing snore.
Not that this matters
much, for football hardly
seems to be the point any-
more:
"Oh, there 's a game on? I
thought the Super Bowl was
on."
"What do you think the
Super Bowl is?'
"I guess you 're going to
tell me it's some kind of
game. "
"That's right , afootball
game. "
"Well, you can watch the
game; liust want to see
Janet Jackson 's... "
"She 's not on this year.
This time it's the Stones,
and Stevie Wonder and
Aretha. "
"Who are they?"
"Pop icons. I guess you 're
a little too young. "
"I guess so. I'l ljust watch
the commercials then. They
always have really cool
commercials on the Super
Bowl. "
Yes, indeed -this year's
Super Bowl boasted no less
that fifty fabulous, stagger-
ingly expensive, wildly over-
produced commercial mes-
sages for the hungry, thirsty,
dysfunctional, dyspeptic,
car-driving, underinsured,
travel-minded , package -
shipping, mortgage-buying,
hair-washing, whisker-shav-
ing viewing public.
"Hey, cool! Who's that guy
in the gondola going under
that little bridge?"
"That's Fabio."
"Who's he?"
"He 's ... well, he's ... I
guess you're too young. "
"I guess so. Hey, I thought
you were going to watch the
game."
"I am watching the game. "
"Look^piore like commer-
t
cials to me."
"It 'sjust a break between
play s."
"It 's okay with me. i like
the commercials better
anyway. "
At Super Bowl XL you
could get yourself a 30-sec-
ond spot for just under $2.5
million. Apparently, quite a
few companies thought that
was, if not a good deal, an
acceptable one. A few adver-
tisers bought more than one
spot. A few years back, when
the prices were not much
lower, some dot com com-
panies gambled their entire
marketing budgets on Super
Bowl advertising. Most of
these ads were never seen
again and, for that matter,
neither were the companies.
The ads, for the most part,
were bewildering.
"You missed some really
cool car ads when you went
to get a beer. You missed
some really cool beer ads
too. Now there 's only foot-
ball on. I hate it when they
interrupt the commercials
with football. "
"What a shame. But bear
up, the commercials will be
back in a minute. "
"I hope so. I don 't think I
can take much more of this
football stuff. Maybe I'll take
a break and come back for
the half time show."
"That's a good idea. "
"I hate to miss any of the
commercials, though. Maybe
you could tell me about
them. Better yet , maybe you
could tape them. "
"What a great idea. I'l l
take notes and tape them.
That way we can watch the
commercials over and over
again. "
"Without any stupid foot-
ball stuff. "
"Without any stupid foot-
ball stuff. Just you and me
and the commercials. "
"Super! "
"Super Bowl!"
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