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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., looking some-
what like the crucified Christ
gazed out from the front page of
the New York Times Book Re-
view section Easter morning. But,
far from being crucified , the
Barnstable author was getting a
rave notice on his newest offering,
''Slaughterhouse-rive.''
Robert Scholes, director of the
Center for Modern Letters at the
University of Iowa, where Vone-
gut had spent a year in residence,
says in his review for the Times,
"Slaughterhouse-Five" is a book
we need to read, and to reread."
In closing he states, "The truth
of Vonequt's vision requires its
fiction. That is what justifies his
activity as a novelist and all im-
aginative writing, ancient and
modern. Art, as Picasso has said,
is a lie that makes us realize the
truth. Kurt Vonegut Jr. is a true
artist."
Based on the destruction of
Dresden in World War 11, the
novel, which is the author's sixth
was given accolades by Life Ma-
gazine. Look, however, took a
dimmer view of the work.
Vonnegut Book
Widely Reviewed
Accepted by selectmen with re-
gret was the resignation this week
of Mrs. Elsie E. Caswell, Town of
Barnstable tax collector since
1953 when tax rate was $32 and
the town's' overall budget was
$1,440,197 (schools, $511,415).
Mrs. Caswell, whose resignation
will become effective July 1,
stated in her letter to the Town
Fathers that health was the basis
of her decision as well as the ad-
vice of her physician. Her term of
office would have expired in 1970.
Selectmen will appoint a tem-
porary collector to fill the vacancy
until the next annual town election.
Selectmen also have received
two other resignations, that of
Andrew P. Hall of Osterville,
Finance Committee member, and
Attorney Charles H. McOrath of
Hyannis, chairman of the Appeals
Board , who has just returned from
Tax Collector,
FinCom Member,
Board Head Resign
TWO-YEAR-OLDS — Kristlne Perry and her cousin, Wesley Wiseman,
are shown at Easter Breakfast held at the home of their grandfathe r,
Clinton Perry, Sr. of Marstons Mills,
Cape Cod Baseball League con-
tinued its efforts to become the
best summer amatuer league In
the country with two important an-
nouncements after the recent
meeting of the loop's executive
committee.
League Commissioner Bernard
Kilroy announced that the direc-
tors voted for a new playoff sys-
tem. The first and second place
finishers in both the Upper and
Lower Divisions will meet in a
best-of-flve series. The two win-
ners will then play a two-out-of-
three series to determine the 1969
Cape League champion.
The committee also unanimously
authorized Kilroy to finalize plans
with the Atlantic Coast Collegiate
League for an All-Star game to
take place this summer In the
New York Mets' Shea Stadium.
t
Cape League
Plans New
Playoff Deal
George F. Pearson of Carver
will give an illustrated lecture en-
titled Historic and Literary Boston
following the annual business
meeting and election of officers
of the Historical Society of the
Town of Barnstable.
Scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday,
April 11, the meeting will be held
In the parish hall of St. Mary's
Episcopal Church, Barnstable , and
refreshments will be served after
Mr. Pearson 's talk.
Dues for the coming year may
be paid to Bruce Jerauld , treas-
urer , at this time.
Historical Group
To Hear Pearson
NAN DEVITA
A "one-family" show is next in
line for the winter-spring series of
one-man professional art exhibi-
tions at Cape Cod Conservatory of
Music and Arts.
Donn and Nan Devita of East
Dennis have been chosen by the
conservatory's art advisory coun-
cil for the fourth in the current
series. They will exhibit paintings,
drawings and prints in mixed
media for two weeks beginning
Sunday, April 13, at 3 p.m. and
continuing through April 27.
The exhibit will be open daily
except Tuesdays and Thursdays
and from 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturdays
and Sundays.
At the opening of the show Mr.
and Mrs . Devita will conduct a
discussion of their styles and
techniques in response to ques-
tions. The exhibit is open to the
public without charge. The gallery
discussion is scheduled at 3:45
p.m.
Both artists have had experience
as professional illustrators and de-
signers in addition to their work
ns painters.
One-Family Art
Show Scheduled
Town of Barnstable residents
named to serve as traverse jurors
for the April and October sessions
of Barnstable Superior Court were
Robert W. Coleman, Prescott L.
Fish, George T. Slddall, all of
Hyannis, Suzanne Howes of Barn-
stable, and Dana Marston of Os-
terville.
The April session began Monday
with Superior Court Judge Wilfred
J. Paquet sitting and a crowded
docket facing the court.
On April 14 selectmen will hold
a public hearing to consider the
application of John J. Rosario do-
ing business as Christianstaad at
700 Yarmouth Rd., Hyannis, for a
seasonal innholder's all alcoholic
beverage license. Hearing time is
10:30 in the town office building.
Selectmen have announced that
there are six additional seasonal
on premises liquor licenses and
one seasonal package store license
now available In the town. Orig-
inally the board had stated that
there were three when it had
estimated 30,000 as the summer
population increase. That figure
has been reevaluated at 33,000, a
6000 jump from the 1968 estimate.
Chairman George L. Cross wished
to retain the 30,000 estimate, but
was out voted by his colleaques.
The ABC usually allows an ad-
ditional seasonal on premise
license for each estimated 1000
population increase and an addi-
tional season package store permit
for each 5000 increase.
"We commend Mr. Field for his
generosity," said Selectman John
F. Aylmer Tuesday when the gift
of two acres of marshland in the
Great Marshes area of West Barn-
stable was made to the Town of
Barnstable by Donald H. Field for
conservation purposes.
That rent bill owed by the State
Welfare Department for use of
space in the Town Office Build-
ing for January and February
finally has been paid , according
to Chairman of Selectmen George
L. Cross. The $1,336 telephone bill
owed by the state Is in the pro-
cess of payment, he said.
Andrew Hatcher, former press
attache for Presidents Kennedy
and Johnson, will speak on "Black
Power" at Cape Cod Community
College's cultural hour at 11 a.m.
next Wednesday, April 16.
Many area residents and news-
men remember when "Andy" used
to come here when President Ken-
nedy spent weekends at Hyannis
Port. "Andy " was an assistant to
White House press secretary
Pierre Salinger.
Barnstable public schools will
close for spring vacation, next Fri-
day, April 18, at the end of the
regular school day. Schools will
open on Monday, April 28. Report
cards will be given out May 1.
TOWN TOPICS
Annual business meeting of Cape
Cod Wellesley Club will be held
April 16 at 12:30 p.m. at the home
of Mrs. Howland Jones, Jr., Har-
bor Rd., Harwich Port. Members
are asked to bring a box lunch.
Dessert and coffee will be served.
Included on the agenda will be
the annual reports of committee
chairmen, a report by Mrs. Brooks
Thayer on the Alumnae Council,
which was held at Wellesley March
26 through 28, and the election of
a vice-president and treasurer.
The nominating committee will
present the name of Mrs. Frank
Garran , Jr. of Barnstable for vice-
president, and will nominate Mrs.
Murray Pendleton of Falmouth to
continue as treasurer.
All members who plan to attend
should notify Mrs. James Cleary,
Box 541, Falmouth or call 548-6686
by April 14.
Wellesley Club
Meets April 16
For better service to Cape Cod
employers of seasonal help the
Massachusetts Division of Employ-
ment Security will continue the
program begun last year without
charge to either the employer or
employe.
Interviews are being arranged
in the Mid-Cape area for April 25
at 10 a.m. at the Elks Home, 310
Barnstable Rd., Hyannis.
SEASONAL EMPLOYMENT
INTERVIEWS PLANNED
Marvin manic ana Harold Per-
kins, trustees of Old Harbor Real-
ty Trust, have applied to Barn-
stable Appeals Board for permis-
sion to change the u-iJ-corforming
use of a warehouse and distribution
facility to that of serving custom-
ers generally.
Old Harbor Candle Company
earlier this year was damaged by
fire estimated at a $1000,000 loss.
Property is located on Scudder
Avenue, Hyannis Port in a Resi-
dence C zone.
Hearing on the petition will be
in the town office hearing room
at 3:45 p.m. April 23.
Initial petition of the April 23
sitting of the appeals board is that
of Ruby L. Daniels at 3 who wishes
to add a kitchen, living room, two
bedrooms and bath to a lower floor
of a house on Cammett Way, Mar-
stons Mills, for use as a two-fam-
ily dwelling. Area is zoned Resi-
dence D2.
At 3:15 the board will consider
the appeal of Marie A. Hallett to
use part of premises on Walton
Avenue, Hyannis, in a Residence
Al zone as a real estate office.
Permission to construct a 24 by
40-foot addition to a cabinet shop
on Old State Road , Centervllle,
Residence C, is sought by Clifford
L. and Irene W. Lihou at 3:30
that afternoon.
Old Harbor Trust
Seeks Warehouse
Variance Change
Cape Codders are reminded by
Secretary of State John F. X.
Davoren the next state holiday in
Massachusetts is Monday, Apr. 21,
not Apr. 19, the traditional date for
Patriot's Day.
The 1968 Massachusetts Legisla-
ture changed three Bay State holi-
days, but word apparently never
got to the calendar manufacturers.
Nearly all of them showed up be-
fore New Year's Day with all of
the old dates for holidays marked
in red.
In any event, patriots will be
able to note "their" day on a Mon-
day rather than a Saturday. It is
expected the usual marathon , ball
game and exercises at Concord
and Lexington will be held.
Next State
Holiday Apr. 21
"The sooner the better," says
Registrar Richard E. McLauglin
in urging motor vehicle owners
not to delay getting their compul-
sory inspection. Deadline is May
15, after which rejected vehicles
will not be allowed on the high-
way.
"It is advisable to be inspected
as soon as possible," declares the
Massachusetts Registrar, "in case
there should be a wait for any
needed replacement parts. Furth-
ermore, garages are going to be
increasingly burdened as the in-
spection period moves along."
MOTOR VEHICLE
INSPECTION NOW
IS UNDER WAY
Fair weather and little wind
favored the start of the aerial
spraying program In the Town of
Barnstable which got under way
at 5:30 Wednesday morning.
Town Tree Warden Donald
Coombs stated this week that high-
way elms only were being aerially
'sprayed with methoxychlor, re-
commended for control of Dutch
Elm Disease, to prevent the spread
of the devastating bark beetle
which has necessitated cutting
down so many of the ancient elms
In the town. Yarmouth and Dennis
are also using this type of con-
trol.
Methoxychlor is a hydrocarbon
which allegedly breaks down more
readily than DDT and does not
have the longevity of that chem-
ical in the atmosphere.
Recently the warden has planted
13 trees around the town, six In
the Village of Barnstable and
seven last week in the Hyannis
area. Varieties used have been
flowering crab, mountain ash,
disease resistant elm , Norway
maple and American planetree.
Highway Elms
Being Sprayed
The Cape Chorus is in final re-
hearsals for its April 13 concert
at Congregational Church, Yar-
mouth Port at 8 p.m. It is antici-
pated that the composer, Alexand-
er Peloquln , whose contemporary
chorale work "Christ The Light of
The Nations" the chorus will per-
form , will be present at the con-
cert.
Mr. Peloquin is composer In
residence at Boston College and
has many compositions to his
credit. He also is organist at the
Cathedral in Providence , R.I. and
in February conducted a work-
shop at South Yarmouth for mem-
bers of the American Guild of
Organists.
Composer Expected
At Chorus Concert
Weather conditions which delay-
ed Massachusetts' Easter Seal
campaign mailings have caused
the Society officially to extend the
1969 appeal from Easter Sunday
to Sunday, April 27.
Edward H. White , Treasurer ,
Cape Cod Bank and Trust Com-
pany, and area treasurer for this
year 's drive, made the announce-
ment.
Volunteers who are working to
obtain gifts have asked and the
Society has agreed to this cam-
paign extension to give everyone
an opportunity to contribute to
meet local goals so that vitally
needed rehabilitation services for
crippled children and adults across
the state can be expanded and
not cut.
Easter Seal Drive
Goes To Apr. 27
By
Hattk' Blossom Frltee
The view from my north window
toward the sea affords me much
pleasure. I look across pasture,
hills and hollow to the cottages of
Cobb's Village which have gained
in both beauty and interest by the
distance.
Beyond is the often calm and
placid waters of the inner bay,
that bay which long ago was the
home and sanctuary for so many
of the big sailing craft that once
plied our coastline, but which now
shows many acres exposed to the
eye as the tide leaves it. Such are
the changes wrought by the ele-
ments.
But I see none of this from my
window, and the pure line of blue
against the dunes of Sandy Neck
which are backed again by the
deeper hue of Cape Cod Bay,
leaves little to be desired in the
way of beauty.
Would that I were an artist to
put it on canvas, being thankful
at the same time to be artist
enough to see and appreciate the
many changes that occur each day
as the sun and cloud formations
reflect new beauty from hour to
hour.
When the wind blows ever so
little, It adds its bit of lacy white
decoration, as waves break upon
the outer beach and may be
glimpsed between the dunes.
Many Cedars dot the expanse of
pasture land where the handsome
nera 01 j ersey cows oeionging 10
our local house of correction will
soon be roaming to add their pic-
turesque bit to the landscape. I
believe these trees are worthy of
mention . We are very lucky to
have them in such quantities here
on the Cape. A valuable tree ,
<^asy to move, and decorative in
tiny position , they need no care
except the first and only bucket
of water around their roots.
They are botanically not a Cedar
at all , but answer to the true
name of Juniper Virglniana. The
Swamp Cedar of our swamps be-
longs in the Arbor Vitea family,
so we are really destitute of real
Cedars without missing them at
all.
Looking Toward The Ocean
HONORED — Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crowell who operat < a lawn mower service at 75 Iyanough Rd., Hyannis,
were honored recently at a dinner held by Frost Compcuy of Arlington, New England distributor for
Hahn-Eclipse power lawnmowers. Mr. and Mrs. Cr w 11 were awarded the Century Club Plaque for
selling over 100 Hahn-Eclipse mowers. Presenting the plaque was James Powell (left), Frost Company
representative.
SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE — Cape Codders serving on United
World Federalists Scholarship Committee are from left, Rev. Kenneth
R. Warren, Mrs. Dudley Russell Palmer, Bernard C. VanderHoeven
(president) and Dr. Richard H. McKey of Cape Cod Community
College faculty.
Frederick A. Fallon , director of
the State Bureau of Planning As-
sistance, and Kauko Raitenan,
principal planner for the Depart-
ment of Community Affairs , will
discuss the status of the study on
revisions to the state zoning and
enabling legislation at the next
Cape Cod Community College plan-
ning seminar at 7 p.m., April 17.
NEXT PLANNING
SEMINAR APR. 17
In view of the very poorly at-
tended public hearing held at the
high school Monday night by the
Town of Barnstable's new Char-
ter Commission and inasmush as
there will be another hearing for
the public this coming Monday,
April 14, at 8 p.m. in the high
school's cafeteria B, Commission
Chairman Victor F. Adams today
admonished the townspeople to
get involved and to assume the
reponsibllities Imposed on them.
The retired Barnstable Select-
man said, "It should be apparent
to everyone that the Home Rule
statute imposes a heavy respon-
sibility on the Charter Commis-
sion. Perhaps most people do not
understand that the voters and
the taxpayers are also charged
with the responsibility through
public hearings to give the Com-
mission the benefit of their ideas
and Judgment.
"It is my hope that the next
public hearing to be held Monday
will show that there are more
than 15 or 20 people In the Town
of Barnstable interested in dis-
charging their share of the re-
sponsibility. "
Only 15 voters were on hand at
Monday night's meeting, and sev-
eral had left before it was ad-
journed. "That is tragic," said
Town Counsel Robert E. O'Neil,
clerk of the commission. He will
be interviewed by a panel of news-
men on WOCB's News Headliners
at 12:30 p.m. this coming Sunday.
Attending the meeting were
Selectmen John F. Aylmer and E.
Thomas Murphy, the latter re-
commending that the commission
consider a mayor-council frame of
local government. Mr. Aylmer, on
the other hand, thought the com-
ission should walk before running
and present a simplified charter.
He said he was strong for the com-
mission going along as a study
committee to recommend govern-
mental changes as required. He
favored representative form of
town meeting.
Citing the need of separating the
selectmen and assessors' posts be-
cause the town is growing so
rapidly, Mr. Aylmer said, "A
town with its problems com-
pounded by fast growth and escal-
ation of property value needs more
professional appraisers who might
well have to attend seminars and
take summer courses to keep
abreast of the assessment pro-
blems."
Mr. Adams today reminded the
voters, "The simple election of a
Charter Commission does not com-
pel or obligate governmental
changes. These changes, if any.
are only a result of voters accept-
ance of change and recommenda-
tions by referendum, one yejar
following their election."
DAV CHAPTER 96
WILL HOST
DISTRICT MEETING
Cape Cod Chapter 96, Disabled
American Veterans, this Sunday,
April 13, will host the District 7
meeting to be held at chapter
headquarters, 198 South St., Hyan-
nis.
Major business at the meeting
will be the annual nomination and
election of district officers. All dis-
trict members are urged to at-
tend There will be refreshments.
Voter Responsibility Cited
By Charter Commission Head