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CHOWDAH BOWL: Spring on Cape Cod, na- tives and washashores will agree, is as lovely as mud. We're aware that spring has arrived only because the calendar told us. Cape Cod historian-author Noel Beyle recalls the legendary Mark Twain's observation of New England's springtime (emphasize Cape Cod). "... Every year new Englanders kiU a lot of poets for writing about 'Beautiful Spring.' These are general casual visitors who bring their notions from somewhere else and cannot know how natives feel about spring." And now comes April. Ah-h- h April, that unpredictable , silly, cantankerous , dreary goddess who offers not love, but misery to hopeful Cape Codders. The arrival of April also stirs memories of a departed Cummaquid Golf Club companion who loudly proclaimed his cruel disgust with April. The late Harry DeStefano of South Dennis admitted he started every first day of April with the shout, "I hate April! I hate April." And if the venue was the golf course, the verbal outburst thundered across the fairways, need it be said, in bone-chilling, misty, stinky weather. Rarely sunshine. And then followed by a chorus of "Amens."... Pol Pals: Christy P Mihos tosses a wrench into the state GOP vehicle by an- nouncing his candidacy for Governor. Meantime, South Yarmouth's Peter White, an Independent, chimed in with his challenge to unseat Congressman William Dela- hunt. At the same time, each candidate -Mihos and White - announced their endorse- ment of each other. That led Falmouth Enterprise politi- cal scribe Michael Bailey to quip what in the world is "the value of one neophyte's endorsement of another?" Only neophytes would have that answer...Hanging Out the Wash: C'mon, selectman, get rid of your persnickety peeve. Persist with your silly suggestion and all Codders will be laughing at you. What this is all about is a request by Provincetown Select- man Richard Olson that the community ban the use of "washashores" to describe non-natives and newcomers. "Sounds something like you have to clean off the beach," was Olson's excuse. Instead, the town official prefers the more politically correct designation of "newcomers." "It's less divisive," he was quoted in The Cape Codder. That, Mr. 0., is moose mess. Can it be that the selectman is unaware that washashore is as permanent a word in Cape Cod's lexicon as the word cod? Then again, con- sidering his town's problems, perhaps the busy official needs a few lighter issues to dally with. ...What's this?? A former upstate New Yorker upstaging Cape Cod oyster- men! Well, not exactly, but a report by Doreen Leggett of The Cape Cod Voice says that Dennis' Gerald Bojanowski's "Quivet Neck Oysters" are the rave below the Bass River. In fact, she reports, the Quivets topped the Wellfleets and others in an oyster contest in the oystery capital of New Eng- land -Wellfleet, of course - this past winter.Wellfieet- ers no doubt shrugged that off because they know who really is Numero Uno. ... Add Neophyte: This lady from Harwich wants to go to Bea- con Hill, the State House, that is. She's Andrea Silbert, a Democrat, who wants to be the next lieutenant-gov- ernor. She has been quoted as saying she believes a rail- bus network in the Upper Cape is possible. Hasn't that refrain been going around for the last few decades? ... Tomorrow is AFD. A day to be reminded that "a fool's bolt is soon shot." • • • You're up there, Mor- ris, if you ever shopped at the Dranetz Clothing Store located at the pres- ent southeast corner site of Old Colony Boulevard and Main Street in Hyannis... Barnstable history buffs should be able to name the village in which were located two well-known hotels, both destroyed by fire: Seapuit and Cotocheset. Answer below. • • • Columnist Comment: "... the town is waitingfor the other shoe to drop. When, or if, it does, Provincetown knows the drill... Provinc- etown with its large gay population, gets painted as Sodom and Gomorah-by- the-sea, filled with godless heathens... then comes the politicians and then the jokes and then possibly a defacto boycott by those afraid to visit the town..." - Steve Desrocher on Prov- incetown's "troubled soul" spotlighted by the ivjcent Miksch murder trail. (In The Cape Codder) . • • • Newsquote: "I'm not out beating the drum, I get much more out of it than I put into it." -Priscilla Chick of Chatham, one of three Lower Cape women honored as unsung heroines for their continuing volunteer work on behalf of the communi- ty's underprivileged. (In The Cape cod Chronicle). • • • Press Speaks Out: "We know that towns and de- partments often behave like fiefdoms, but the time is right to explore a new level of cooperation. (Selectman) Green's proposal (Chatham- Harwich Regional Police Station) deserves discus- sion, not a brush-off by the board of selectman." (The Cape Cod Chronicle). • • • Answer to query: Osterville • • • Quotebook: "A friend is one who knows all about you and still likes you." (Dorfman Quotations). Cape Comment i * By Ed Semprini COMPILED BYJOHN WAITERS EARLYFILES@BARNSHBLEPATR10T.COM FROM BARNSTABLE PATRIOT. APRIL 3. 1986 OF RABBITS AND BUNNIES AND ELKS- The Easter Bunny would have been in good company had he shown up for the Hyannis Elks annual Easter Egg hunt at Veteran's Park in Hyannis. From left to right are Jessica and Melissa Dolgoff with costumed Darcie Pickering. 1836 Wewere made doubly sure that Winter had not departed , tho Springhad cometo takehisplace, by the falling of as fine a heap of snow as any good Vermonter could have desired, had he been waitingamonth to carry hispork andnotions to marketonrunners. Snow commenced to falling on Tuesday about noon, and con- tinued nearly 20 hours without interruption, (so we guess) from the depth of the flakes, which, though they fell somewhat gently and lay lightly, were from fifteen to eighteen inches deep. The most winteriest appearance was presented by the white mantled earth and thickly loaded trees which has not been seen here a twelve month. It afforded one day of pretty good sleighing and then quickly departed before a Marching sun. 1866 The music of the spring birds has been suddenly checked by severe storms and cold weather. On Monday it blew a gale during most of the day from the north- west withsnowfallingmost of the time, and the thermometer only 15 degrees above zero. 1896 A curious sight to make in this section is the tapping of a rock- mapletree by Mr.FrankPHallett. Dr. Hawes who had experienced with sugar maplesinhisboyhood days did the tapping and made the spile. The spile wasno sooner inserted when the sap began to run. On Saturday about two quarts of sap was secured. Cape Cod maple sugar is something entirely new. 1906 Thefuneral of SusanB.Anthony took place at her late residence, Rochester, New York, Rev. Dr. Gannett of the First Unitarian Churchofficiating. Formanyyears she waspresident ofthe woman's suffrage party,and for the past few yearsdevoted much ofher timeto lecturing and traveling in foreign countries.In 1904,shevisited Ger- manyto attend the International congress of women, the result of a plan which she devised in 1898 at the fortieth anniversary of the first women's right meeting. In the following year Miss Anthony was at Portland,Ore., at the great gathering of women's suffragists. This year she went to Baltimore and it was thisjourney that over- taxed her strength. 1916 Edward Everett Hale used to tell with a rueful smile a story of his boyhood, when, like other boys,he occasionallymislaidsome of his belongings. His gloves in particular had a strange way of disappearing one at a time. At last his mother, by way of assist- ing his memory, sent him out one day with ared cotton glove on one hand and a white cotton glove on the other. Even at this painful crisis hiswits helped him."I held one hand in front of me and one behind my back," said Dr. Hale, "and it seemed to me that people coming toward me would think I had on apairofwhitegloves,while those behind would think I wore a pair of bright red ones." 1926 Nearly 200 people interested in real estate met at the Ferguson Hotel last Saturday afternoon at two o'clock and accepted a constitution and by-laws, and elected directors of the first Cape Cod Real Estate Board. Forris W. Norris was elected president. The fact that these people sat for nearly four hours shows the deep interest taken in this mat- ter of a real estate board. The sum of $50,000 was agreed upon as the amount which should be expended on advertising Cape Cod this summer. Through the efforts of James Henderson the sum of $15,000 was pledged from the floor in a few minutes. 1936 Bids for wells for the Cotuit water system were opened at a joint session of the prudential committee of the Cotuit Fire District and the water commis- sioners. There were seven bids in all and with Crandall & Co., Inc., of Boston as the low bidder for gravel-packed wells at $7,010 and Edward F. Hughes also of Boston the low bidder for driven wells with his bid of $5934. The meeting took the bids under ad- visement.A representative of the National Re-Employment service will be at the temporary office of the Cotuit Water Department on School street for the purpose of registeringresidents of Cotuit for employment on the construction of the Cotuit water system. 1946 The lid waslifted on Barnstable Countypolitics this week withthe announcementbyVictorAdamsof Osterville, Barnstable Selectman and welfare chairman, that he will seek the Republican nomination for Registrar of Deeds. The pres- ent registrar is Dean S. Sears of Dennis, who was appointed to the office Nov. 1944 after the po- sition was made vacant through the death of his father, Benjamin F. Sears. Mr. Sears will seek re- election. CONTINUED ON PAGE A:12 EARLYFILES Like it or not, the voluntary curfew worked It willbe interestingto see how businesses react when a formal ordinance closingretailestablish- mentsfrom 1to 5 a.m.goes before the town council next month. The voluntary curfewinstituted twoyears ago asked businessesin Hyannis to close between 1 and 3 a.m., and it worked. It took some gentle persuad- ing at first (and in one instance a brief late-night melee with the dischargeofafirearm) to convince some store owners to comply with the voluntary ban, but alleventu- ally did, and evenings in Hyannis became quieter. Havingwitnessed thistransfor- mationduringsomeofoursummer late nightson deadline,wecansay first hand that it worked, as long as stores remained locked. What's happened since then is a slipping of that compliance. All it takes is one place to be open to attract late-night, post-revelry crowdscorningout ofareawatering holes.Thepolice department says ithasrecent videoto provethat the after-hours problem is back. The response this time is to create an enforceable ordinance requiring closure. There's little question that the measure will provide the intended relief. It's already been proven to work in this town. Isit necessary to make thisthe lawofthe town? From aresources standpoint, thew answeris again yes. The amount of time and manpowerthepolicedepartment needs to muster to appropriately handle these congregations nec- essarily means less coverage is other parts of town. Back when Barnstable was a more rollicking nighttime des- tination, the sergeant in charge of the night shift was called the "party sergeant." But the town has changed. Concerted efforts bythe licensing authority in the early to mid-'90s made the town a less hospitable place for nightclubs and many closed down. The retail curfew could be seen as a logical extension of reclaim- ing Hyannis for the residents. DS II editor@barnstablepatriot.com — EDITORIALS= Just aswe would have expected Barnstable Second District State Representative DemetriusAtsalis to apologize had the Ethics Com- mission found him in violation ¦ of the state's ethics laws, so too should he expect us to apologize for taking him to task if he was cleared. Inthe weeksfollowingthe press blow-up, inlcuding front-page coverage in the Boston Herald, repleat with CIA-quality photo- graphs of cigar-chompinglegisla- tors, we wrote: "The complaint filed againstAtsaliswiththe state Ethics Commissionmayresult in ahand slap and fine for not adher- ing to campaign finance laws. If it does, Atsalis should accept it and acknowledge what he should have done to avoid it." Our relationship with the rep- resentative has been an up and down affair, and the press reac- tion, including ours, after last June'sgolfoutingwasoneofthose "down" times. He was cleared by the Ethics Commission and we apologize. DS II editor@barnstablepatriot.com Our apology Cf)£ pamsftable patriot — Founded in 1830 — Published Weekly at 396 Main Street Suite 15 • P.O.Box 1208 • Hyannis, Massachusetts 02601 Tel:(508) 771-1427 • Fax: (508) 790-3997 E-mail info@bamstablepatriot.com • www.barnstablepatriot.com PUBLISHER, Robert F.Sennott,Jr. EDITOR David Still II BUSINESS MANAGER ..Barbara J. Hennigan ASSOCIATEEDITOR Edward F. Maroney ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Luanda S.Harrison Representative Kathleen Manwaring Reporter John Picano Representative MeloraB. North.'. Reporter CarolA. 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