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A GOAL TO FULFILL
This week one of the Cape 's most tireless workers inl -
ine Cancer Crusade passed away. She was Priscilla Britton of
Barnstable, who on Tuesday succumbed to the dread disease
after a long and valiant battle.
Friends and acquaintances alike marvelled at the courage
and cheerfulness shown by this young wife and mother through-
out these past several years. Though seriously ill , she gave
unstintiiigly of herself for the sake of others.
This month Cancer Crusade workers are canvassing in
the annual fund raising drive for the American Cancer Society.
A cure for the insidious disease must come that those afflicted
may have hope for recovery and a life not wracked with pain
and fear.
The cause to which Mrs. Britton gave so much must he
advanced. Contributions from each and every one of us is
one of the most effective ways of accomp lishing this .
The Cancer Crusade needs your help toward realizing its
goal—the day when cancer will no longer stalk the world us
a killer of both the young and old.
Local Alumnae Set
Colleae-For-A-Day
The general public , including
interested men, are included in
the invitation to the second "Col-
lege for a Day" Saturday, April
17, at Holiday Inn, Hyannis, spon-
sorec by local alumnae of wo -
men's colleges.
The nine member committee In-
cludes local college women Mrs.
Frank Garron , Jr. (Wellesley) of
Barnstable, Mrs. Richard Gould
(Mt. Holyoke) of Hyannis, Mrs.
Daniel James (Wellesley) of West
Hyannis Port , Mrs. J. Paul Lanza
(Smith) and Mrs. Seymour Zim-
merman (Smith ) both of Hyannis.
Registration and coffee at 10:15
a.m. will open the day, followed
at 11 by a talk on the function of
historic architecture In today's en-
vironment by Margaret Hender -
son Floyd of Weston.
Dr. Merle Goldman of Welles-
ley will speak in the afternoon , at
1:30, on the cultural revolution in
communist China.
Luncheon will be served by the
inn at 12:30 p.m . and the nominal
fee is all-inclusive. Reservations
are being taken by Mrs. Frank W.
Garran , Jr., Box 315, Barnstable.
Paraplegics
Chapter Asked
For Cape Cod
The Massachusetts Association
of Paraplegics is contemplating
forming a Cape Cod Chapter.
Composed mainly of people with
physical disabilities the associa-
tion works toward such goals as
shut-in voting in primary elec -
tions , moderate cost housing de-
signed for independent living by
the physically handicapped , and
making public buildings accessi-
ble for those who cannot climb
steps or stairs due to the fact that
they are confined to wheelchairs.
The organization Is also open to
anyone, whether handicapped or
not, who is interested in helping
the handicapped , such as doctors,
nurses, physical therapists , occu-
pational therapists and also many
concerned non- professional peo-
ple.
Those interested in joining the
association should contact Rich -
ard Washburn at 775-0477 ( office)
or 432-0308 ( home j or write him
at P.O. Box 157, Harwichport ,
Mass. 02646.
BIRTHS
Mr. and Mrs . Robert Boucher
i Ruth Moriarty t Third Ave., Hy-
annis Port , boy, 7 lbs., April 9.
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Faelton
(Christine Bachei 255 South Main
St., Centerville , girl , 7 lbs., April
9.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell D. White
(Judith Irving ) off Strawberry
Hill Rd., W. Hyannis Port , boy ,
7 lbs. 3 ozs., April 10.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Smith
iDeborah Merson) 108 Longfellow
Dr., Centerville , boy, 7 lbs. 9 ozs.,
April 11.
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Piner
( Anna Carlos) Woodland Ave., Hy-
annis . boy, 6 lb.-.. 11 o:";., April 12.
North America has 2.3 cultivat-
ed acres of land per person ; Sou-
th America has one acre, and
Asia has .7 of an acre per perron.
Natural History
Classes Offered
Registration for Cape Cod Mu-
seum of Natural History's annual
Saturday classes for children , ag-
ed nine to thirteen, will be held
in Brewster at the museum head-
quarters April 17 at 2 p.m.
Classes being offered , beginning
April 24, for five consecutive
weeks, are Pond Life , Forest Com-
munities , Beach Geology, and Ma-
rine Life. Hours will be 9:30 to
11:30 a.m. each Saturday, and are
limited to 14 in number.
There will be a charge of $8.50
for children of museum members,
$12 for non-members. The museum
is located on Rt. 6A In Brewster.
For additional information call
896-3867.
Cape Cod Chorus
Now Rehearsing
Every Tuesday
Now that the Barnstable town
meeting sessions are over for the
year , the board members of the
Cape Chorus are hoping for fetter
attendance at chorus rehearsals.
Although rehearsals have been
held every Tuesday, Virginia Ful-
ler , director , has been hampered
by lack of basses and tenors.
The group hopes to present a
benefit concert in May and much
work must be done in the next
three or four weeks.
Chorus members are urged to
make a special effort to be at re-
hearsal at Osterville Community
Center , Tuesday at 8 p.m.
WOMEN VOTERS
UNIT MEETING
Mid- Cape Provisional League
of Women Voters will hold a unit
meeting April 27. Any woman citi-
zen 18 years or older who would
like to learn about the League is
welcome to attend.
Sub.'cct of the meeting will be
protective services. This is part
of the "Know Your Town" pro-
gram under the chairmanship of
Mrs. Robert Bartlett.
The meeting will be 9:30-11:30
a.m. at the home of Mrs. Jay
Tracy m Centerville. Please phone
her at 775-3408 if you plan to at-
tend. Baby sitter service will be
available.
SENSIBILITY GAP
by Dana Hornig
It is a master stroke of irony
that the poor farm legacy of Par-
ker Lombard , given in great faith
and generosity to this town in
1754, should receive its death
blows at the hands of the same
town , mistrusting and selfish , In
1971.
For 214 years this farm , to this
community, was "the Tow n' s
House," "the poorhouse ," "Lom-
bard Home. " It had reality, in
people 's minds , as a "home" in
terms of wood and plaster, as a
"farm " in terms of fields and ani
mats, and more recently as a his-
toric site in terms of architecture.
Now, in just over two and one-
half years, the reality of the place
has been lost in an intense politi-
cal squall. The farm has taken
on radical connotations. Lombard
is no longer either a person or a
farm , it Is an issue.
It Is not the building, old and
blistered as it is, that was ever
the issue. It is not fit for human
habitation . It needs repair , clean-
ing, paint , lots of things. Yet this
does not mean the building needs
demolition .
It should be clear that it is the
intent, the youth- in- crisis pro-
gram , of Cape Cod Mental Health
Association , hopeful lessee of the
farm , that has always been the
true issue.
This then was the conceptual
status of Lombard Farm as Barn-
stable town meeting 1971 came to
consider Articles 98-102. There was
plenty of politics and propaganda
on both sides up to the meeting
and during it.
Once on the floor of the meet-
ing it turned into hard-sell ora-
tory. And too many reps, like too
many sheep, proved by their herd-
like schizoid voting that they were
fair game for the eloquent shep-
herd.
March 31 it was the demolition
proponents with a little late hour
fast talking, and a quick call to a
vote. "Aye " went 105 reps , "Nay "
went 31, and Article 101 was past
history. The building was to come
down.
April 1 was the big show down,
with a troop to the podium by an
impressive line of articulate, pro-
mental health program speakers :
John Filler, president of the asso-
ciation ; John Aylmer , state Sena-
tor; William Covell , Junior high
teacher; George Tuttle , Cape Col-
lege professor and school com -
mittee member; Dr . G. Curtis
Barry, physician ; Gene Rayburn ,
of TV fame; Charles Fauteaux ,
HELP program director; Charles
Gelg, Frank Famell, Dan Serpi-
co, John McGinn, Frank Falacci,
Bob Hayden, and softspoken Mrs.
Jean McKenzie Bearse,
Efforts by West Barnstable reps
James Ellis , Frederick Conant ,
Robert Black , Gordon Cahoon ,
and non- reps Earle Merritt and
Mrs. Black , to hammer home the
evils of the building were to no
avail. Cape Cod Mental Health
had the shepherd's staff. By a
vote of 84-60 they had use of the
building.
West Barnstable regained its
composure over a weekend break
and April 6 got Article 102 recon-
sidered. A noticeable change had
come over their politics. Out came
more valid , though still disguis-
ed , empassioned expressions of
the true issue.
Said Ellis: "West Barnstable is
small , weak , and you are going
to have to ask yourselves this:
Arc you going to treat all minori-
ties this way? I don 't like to see
our village surrounded like Cae-
sar in the senate. " Said Conant:
"You will have to ask yourself
did the smallest precinct, precinct
2, receive fair treatment?"
Ping- pong went the reps' shee-
pish opinions. A vote revealed 62
for leasing the farm to Mental
Health , 77 aganist leasing. Once
again the farm was to come down.
During a break aftor the vote ,
the previously stone- faced West
Barnstable reps were all smiles
and ln-uehs. It was a great politi-
cal victory; the little Caesar had
dominated Its senate.
The victory is illusory. The prob-
lem , which was apart from the
arguments of the West Barnsta-
ble speakers, was politically dis-
embodied in the mechanical pro-
cess of effective opposition. It is
none- the- less a flesh and bones
problem. It is in no way affected
by the millions of lungs full of
hot air that were expended to
achieve this negative legislative
victory, a victory which does not
confront but blocks those who
would like the opportunity to con-
lront that problem.
"Alienated youth " have inject-
ed themselves into the asphalt
arteries of this and every other
place. They are completely mo-
bile , moving freely over the geo-
graphy. To see Lombard Farm as
a village threat, as a threat to
West Barnstable, is to ignore a
subculture whose pervasiveness
throughout the entire community
can hardly be questioned.
And yet this must have been
how 77 of our elected representa-
tives interpreted the issue, feel-
ing concern for the whining West
Barnstavlllians and hoping to a-
void the "trouble " they feared by
voting against a project which
would bring alienated youth un-
der one roof .
Trouble is coming. But not to
West Barnstable alone, to this
whole town. Go into HELP of
Cape Cod any night. See 10 or 15
kids with no place to spend the
night. And it's only April.
Drugs are more plentiful, prop-
erty damage and break-ins more
frequent , youth more desperate.
The problem has got to be con -
fronted. Summer is coming.
Former Cape Cod
Museum Director
Book Lunch Guest
Marshal Case, former director
of Cape Cod Museum of Natural
History In Brewster, will speak at
Hyannis Library book and author
luncheon April 23 at Holiday Inn.
Subject of his talk will be his
new book "Look What I Found :
the young conservationist's guide
to the care and feeding of small
wildlife."
Mr. Case, who has devoted his
life to conservation education , ex-
plains the reasons for understand-
ing the animal life of our woods,
fields and waters and shows the
young naturalist how to care for
and study certain wild creatures ,
then release them back to their
native habitats.
Many of the photos in the book
were taken at Museum-sponsored
classes and elsewhere around the
Brewster area,
Second speaker at the luncheon
will be Berkeley Rice whose new
book is "The C-5A Scandal: an
Inside story of the mllitary-indus-
trail complex." Rice, the son of
Dr. and Mrs. Jackson Rice of Hy-
annis, now lives in Lexington.
Maurice Sagoff, who recently
published a humorous compilation
of capsules o£ classics in verse
form , will be the third speaker.
Tickets for the luncheon may be
secured at the Hyannis Library
or Lorania 's Book Shop, Hyannis,
or by calling 775-6903.
TOWN TOPICS
Chairman of Selectmen E. Tho-
mas Murphy represented Barnsta-
ble at the Committee on Govern-
ment Regulations public hearing
on the jai alal bill April 13 in
Boston. Mr. Murphy read a certi-
fied copy of Article 121, passed by
town meeting here, expressing the
town's opposition to introduction
of the betting sport on the Cape.
Said Murphy in his remarks
about the Cape, "Bartholomew
Gosnold named it, Daniel Webs-
ter roamed it, Grover Cleveland
fished it, the Kennedy brothers
sailed it, Secretary Jack Davoren
embellishes it, Senator Aylmer
reads It, Jerry Bowes raves about
it , Representatives Kendall and
Cahoon have the highest hopes
for It, so I certainly hope your
honorable body won't let jai alai
spoil it."
Selectmen met with collective
bargaining agents of the Police-
men's Association of Barnstable
April IB in the airport conference
room, Hyannis. At town meeting
the police were denied, Article 93,
request for a 10 percent pay in-
crease, and an amendment , giv-
ing them six percent was carried.
Present talks with selectmen are
in the form of a wage reopener.
MSPCC Orientation
Meeting Conducted
An orientation meeting for new
directors of Children's Protective
Services, MSPCC, was held April
7 at the agency's office, Main Str-
eet , Hyannis.
Among ten directors recently
elected to the Cape Board were
Mrs. Nancy Hagberg, Mrs. Jo -
seph Keane, and Mrs. Vincent
O'Neil, all of Hyannis, and Dr.
Richard LeJava of Centerville.
Board president Kenneth War-
ren, and Executive Louis Jaco-
buccl gave a history of the Cape
Cod District to the assembled
members.
Mr. Jacobucci pointed out the
Children's Protective Service is a
member of the Cape Cod United
Fund. "Last year," he said, "232
families with 710 children were re-
ferred for help."
"Quick clay, " a substance that
has a high water content and not
enough salt to bind the soil toge-
ther , is responsible for mudslides
that can reach avalanche propor-
tions. One in Sweden In 1950 dis-
placed 106 million cubic feet of
soil and dumped much of the town
of Surte into the Gota River.
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Diane Butkus Goes
To Washington
As Essay Winner
Barnstable High School senior
Diane Butkus , of Hyannis Port ,
is In Washington D.C., courtesy
of the Massachusetts Labor Fed-
eration.
She won first place in the Mas-
sachusetts division of an essay
contest on hiring the handicapp-
ed, sponsored by the labor group
this winter, and the all- expenses-
paid trip to the nation's capital
comes in addition to a $125 first
prize.
A plaque was awarded to Diane
by Governor Francis Sargent at
ceremonies at the state house
April 13, and she and fellow BHS
senior Lisa Bourbeau left for
Washington the next day.
In recognition of her outstand-
ing essay, Diane will be honored
at the annual meeting of the Presi-
dent's committee on employment
of the handicapped April 15 in
Washington.
Culminating the trip will be a
guided tour of the city, including
nearby Virginia and the tomb of
the unknown soldier , and a din-
ner Friday night at the Capitol.
Diane is on the independent
study program at Barnstable High.
Interested in communication, she
is teaching oral communication
skills to 4th and 5th graders at
Hyannis West Elementary.
RE: NO APPROPRIATION
FOR DAV CONVENTION
Our first representative town
meeting is finished.
It is perhaps difficult at this
time to give an objective opinion
on the good or bad points of this
new method of legislating for the
town, but I do have some frag-
mentary thoughts on the subject.
I was surprised at the attitude
of the majority of the Veterans ar-
ticles, particularly the $1,000 ask-
ed for the Disabled American Vet-
erans convention this summer to
be spent under the direction of the
selectmen. Perhaps it Is the gen-
eral attitude about Vietnam that
makes many people refuse to see
things clearly in respect to all
veterans.
Most of us hate war and all its
evils, but is that a reason for sing-
ling out a group of disabled vet-
erans and venting our spleen on
them by refusing to support their
convention? They made no policy,
declared no wars, simply went a-
long and obeyed orders and suf-
fered serious injury. $1,000 to be
spent at the direction of the Se-
lectmen Isn't very much to ask.
If it is necessary to give a detail-
ed explanation of spending plans,
who can do it, and is there no
trust in the elected officials to
allocate it legitimately?
Thousands for toilets and com-
fort stations, but not one penny
for a D.A.V. convention! Doesn 't
seem quite cricket to some of us,
does it to you?
Perhaps our freedom to step up
and speak our mind at town meet-
ing might be slightly impaired
had not these and other veterans
given their all to protect the very
freedoms we take so much for
granted these days.
If tlie.se words can be termed
"Heart- over- head" or some such
.scornful or ridiculing phrase, then
so be it. There is a time to be
hard-hearted and cool minded , but
to my mind , it is not in the area
of a token tribute to disabled vet-
erans.
E. Thomas Murphy,
Chairman of Selectmen,
LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
Yarmouth Bank
Names Harrison
A New Director
Announcement has been made
by John E. Harris, president of
First National Bank of Yarmouth,
that William H. Harrison has been
named to the bank's board of di-
rectors.
Mr. Harrison , a resident of West
Yarmouth, is president of Harri-
son Associates, Inc. realtors. In
1961 he was elected to the Nation-
al Association of Real Estate
Boards and the Cape Cod Real
Estate Board , and in 1968 was
chosen as the Cape's realtor of
the year.
Mr. Harrison is widowed and
the father of two sons and four
daughters. During World War XL
he served four years in the U.S.
Navy and one and one-half years
in Korea.
As a former Eagle Scout, Harri-
son continues to serve scouting
on the Cape Cod Council as a vice-
president and in leadership train-
ing.
Next meeting of the Cape Cod
Chapter, National Railway His -
torical Society will be held at the
Dolphin Restaurant , Barnstable,
April 19 at 7:30 p.m.
A new member , Thomas Annin,
will reminisce about his train tra-
vel and rail-buff activities for the
first few years of the twentieth
century. Frank J. Bell will be act-
ing president.
RAILWAY SOCIETY
REGULAR MEETING