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EARLYFILES COMPILED BYJOHN WATTERS EARLYFILES@BAMSMBLEPATR10T.COM FROM BARNSTABLE PATRIOT APRIL 24, 1986 LEADER OF THE PACK - Mike Kelleher (162) leads the eight-and-under age group at the start of the Barnstable Recreation Road Race Patriots Day in Marstons Mills, with Jason Ethier (155) and Jason Tobey (190) hot on his heels. Kelleher kept up a steady pace and wound up the winner of this race, a 1.5 miler, at 11:14. 1836 The whole number of commit- ments to the Jail in this town since Jan. 1, 1833, to the present time, which includes those sentenced there as a House of Correction is 75 -the alleged causers of commit- ment are as follows, viz. Debt 21, Assault 8, order of Court 3, Stealing 9, Surrendered by bail 1, Complaint 4, Riot 3, Stabbing 1, Murder 7, Warrant 1, House Breaking 1. Con- tempt of court 1, Lunatic 2, Breach of the peace 4, Bigamy 1, Common Drunkard 1, Vagabond 4. 1866 The friends of Sheriff Bursley will regret to learn that he met with a serious accident on Tues- day, last, by falling from a ladder while at work upon a tree in his yard. He fell a distance of several feet, his side and back striking upon the fence, fracturing one or more of his ribs and being other- wise severely bruised. We learn that he is rapidly recovering from the effects of the accident. 1896 A forest fire started from a bonfire in Mrs. Handy's garden in Cataumet Wednesday morning and raged with unabated fury up to Friday night, when the main fire was stopped between North Falmouth and Hatchville on Hatchville road , in which vicinity about six miles of highway were covered by the fire wardens and 200 men. In total about 80,000 acres of woodland , two dwellings and one barn was destroyed with an estimated loss of $150,000. 1906 A 90 mile an hour southwest gale, with a pounding sea, sent three sloops and a two-masted schooner to the bottom of the Provincetown harbor early Tuesday, and another sloop was cast ashore. The sloops were: Peacock,Mildred,and Blanch. The schooner was the Helen F.Ward. A curious scene was enacted in the harbor and over the town during the night as the harbor seas of a size rarely seen in this vicinity washed and pounded the shore. A southeasterly galesweepinginfrom the sea caught up the sand on the beach and drove it in dense clouds over the town. When the citizens a ose and looked out into the streets Tuesday morningthey saw this sand drifted in heaps after the manner of a mid-winter snow storm. 1916 A meeting of the Boards of Health of the Southeastern Dis- trict was held at the Ferguson hotel in Hyannis April 20. It was an open meeting at which questions were presented for discussion.The subject of clean milk is always a popular one, and Dr. Nickerson's milk bill, now before the Legisla- ture, was thoroughly commented upon and finally unanimously en- dorsed. The question of keeping our shores in a sanitary condition brought out the disposal of black- fish as a very grave subject. 1926 The parkingproblem in Hyannis is receiving a lot of attention by the selectmen and police. Chief does not want to drive business away but wants to do everything possible to make it easy to eat, shop or be entertained. 1936 Bright new badges were given by Chief of Police William Flem- ing Saturday to 13 members of his newly organized auxiliary in Osterville, known as the Boys Po- lice Patrol of Osterville, greatly to the elation of the boys who wear with pardonable pride this emblem of their authority.These badges are of nickel of regulation size and are inscribed: Patrolman, Boys Police Patrol, Osterville. Philip Whiteley was the first to get a badge. The boys had unanimously chosen him for their chief without a suggestion or hint of anyone else. He is not the oldest or the biggest of the force, but seems to be a natural leader. He has a frank, open face even if it is marked with many freckles. 1946 More than a few of the employees of the Barnstable Patriot will rest more easily tonight now that the two-month-old mystery of a pair of missing paint brushes, used for pasting newspaper wrappers, has been solved. It was at first a laugh- ing matter when one publication day the mailing clerk searched in vain for the necessary tools with which to paste the wrappers. The laughing ceased , however, and counter accusations flew forth afew days later when it was learned that the editor on the day followingthe disappearance of the brushes had purchased considerable paint at a local sale. Right in the thick of this accusation came the report that a Patriot pressman had bought a few boats and was busy in his off-time paintingthem.At thispoint the edi- tor and the pressmen were engaged daily in a free-for-all. Weeks have rolled by and the search for the brushes and the culprit who took them has continued. This morning the whole befuddling question of the brushes was answered - and with mortal finality -when a dead rat was found in the back of the building with one of the missing brushes between his teeth, the precious bristles partially eaten away. The second brush was found nearby the corpus delicti. 1956 Major League base teamsswing back into action this week with the Red Sox opening the Fenway would say the Sox can do it if Sullivan has another good year, if Nixon can continue to win some of the big ones from the Bomb- ers, if Porterfield can win behind a better team than he worked for last year, if young Brewer lives up to the promise he showed toward the end of last season, if Parnell has a complete reversal of form, and if the bull pen crew comes up with the brand of relief pitching given lo these many years. 1966 Barnstable High School opened its defense of the Class "C" base- ball championship this week with an impressive victory over Silver Lake 5-4. Dave Hensen started the Raiders' drive in the first with a walk and then stole second. Right fielder Jim Trocchi uncorked a towering triple to right which scored Hansen and put Trocchi in scoring position. After catcher Dan Gardner struck out , second baseman Bob Rodgers unleashed another triple , which rolled down the bank in centerfield to give. Barnstable its second run. 1976 "There must be something wrong with our communications with this board ," complained Lewis Bay Lodge owner, State Racing Commissioner, President of Candlight Motor Lodge, and close friend of former Selectman George Cross, Peter Consiglio, of recent conservation commission wetlands fame. This time he was not speaking to con com, but rather to the Barnstable Board of Selectmen. "We are trying to get a fair shake of the dice," Consiglio argued in an effort to persuade selectmen to grant his daughter and son-in-law a year round beer and wine holders license for the Candle Light Motor Lodge on Main Street. Last month he was denied the same request for his Lewis Bay Lodge establishment. 1986 Chairman Doug Bill and other members ofthe Glenmere CivicAs- sociation of Hyannis approached the Barnstable School Commit- tee to register complaints about the deplorable and dangerous conditions in and around the old tennis courts at the Sixth grade school... "There are worse than CONTINUED ON PAGE A:9 The cost of living EDITORIALS For years, Barnstable County government has been mainlining the pure narcotic of a booming real estate market , thriving on Registry of Deeds revenues that are at last beginning to fade. It's past time to consider the methadone maintenance avail- able by raising the county tax assessment. It's been so long (fiscal year 1999) since the assessment was increased that Cape Codders might be forgiven if they weren't aware that the county can boost taxes 2.5 percent every year, just like Cape towns. In its 2007 budget proposal , the county commissioners state that revenues from Registry taxes and fees are likely to remain stable through June30 of next year.That doesn't translate to level-funding for the budget , however, because hikes in health insurance, retire- ment and cost-of-living increases will chew up some of the money. Faced with that situation, the commissioners and their staff had a choice: raise taxes or cut the budget. They chose the latter course, and the consequences will be felt most sharply by those Cape Codders who cannot pay the cost of their own living. The proposed county budget provides no funds for Pilot House, the regional response to the needs of homeless people who battle with drugand alcohol dependency or serious mental health issues that make it almost impossible for them to make good choices about where to spend the night, much less find and keep a job. What is the cost of their liv- ing? There is no funding for the out- reach worker to the homeless on the streets of Hyannis,which draw troubled men and women from all over the Cape. Some of these people don't need a Pilot House; they just need to hear where they can get help with bad situations. What is the cost of their liv- ing? A carefully-considered plan advanced by the county's health and human services advisory committeeto deal with a common condition among those struggling to make aliving or get back to the point where they have a job they can tryto hold -depression -gets half a loaf. A Community Care for Depression plan is funded , but a community psychiatrist to be shared by Cape health centers is not, potentially crippling delivery of services to needy people. What is the cost of their liv- ing? This is not to say that the commissioners failed to support human needs in the proposed budget. They have devoted hun- dreds of thousands of dollars to the cause, and have promised to push for state funding to make up the difference,but they could have made the difference themselves by taking a different approach months ago. When it became clear that hu- man services could not be level- funded , the commissioners and their staff should have outlined publicly all the options,including, perhaps, a smaller cost-of-living increase or a slight increase in taxes, or, more accurately,assess- ments to its 15 member towns. That , too, has its cost for the always tight municipal budgets. There 's interest on the Assem- bly of Delegates in adding funds back into the budget for human services, including more realistic support for the new human rights commission. Whether advocates can win enough votes to override a probable commissioners' veto will play out over the next few weeks. While the debates go on, the needs won't go away. Too often, the cost of living is unaffordable for our neediest. Making sure they have a steady stream of support is as impor- tant as guaranteeing attention to wastewater disposal, public safety, and other core services of government. EFM editor@barnstablepatnot.c om CJje Pamgtable 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@barnstablepatriot.com • www.barnstablepatriot.com PUBLISHER , Robert F. Sennott,Jr. EDITOR David Still n BUSINESS MANAGER ..Barbara], Hennigan ASSOCIATE EDITOR Edward R Maroney ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT EDITORIA L DEPARTMENT Luanda S. Harrison Representative Kathleen Manwaring Reporter John Picano Representative Melora B. North Reporter Carol A. Bacon Representative Jack Mason Representative DESIGN/PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT Cathy Staples Graphic Designer CIRC. & RECEPTION Tanya Ohanian David Bailey Graphic Designer _» »<« ( MEMBER NEW ENGLAND PRESS ASSOCIATION - ^k: I ^re*^ace' General Excellence -New England Press Association,2001 *'¦ S> * * ^irsTPlaceTGeneralEx«Uence^dvertisin& l(M & 2003 " Overcompensatin g THE f f VIEW FROM h sr> ANCE * •*"* BY PAUL DUFFY £ You hear a lot these days about the growing gap be- tween what executives get paid and what everybody else makes. You hear a lot of whining. There was an article on the subject in The New York Times recently that covered an entire page. That is a lot of whining. And it was only one of several articles on the subject The first of these stories focused on a company called ConAgra Foods, a conglomerate with headquarters in Omaha , to makethe point that the dispar- ity between what the average worker takes home and what the chief executive makes is big and getting bigger In the story we met James P Smith, a high school gradu- ate who works at what is now ConAgra 's pepperoni plant , where he operates machinery that crushes and blends huge blocks of pork and beef. After 28 years with the company Mr. Smith is paid $13.25 an hour, or $28,000 a year. He doesn't figure to retire any time soon . if ever, unless of course the company shuts down or sells off the plant where he works , always a possibility. Bruce C. Rohde , ConAgra 's former CEO, has retired ,bow- ing to investor dissatisfaction after eight years at the helm. Although the company didn't do all that well under his leadership, he did pretty well - extremely well compared to Mr. Smith. Mr. Rohde earned more than $45 million dur- ing his tenure and left with a retirement "package" valued at around $20 million. While he was in charge Mr. Rohde made about $2,800 an hour compared to Mr. Smith' s $13.25, even thoughit appears Mr. Smith did better at hisjob than Mr. Rohde did at his. When you compare numbers like these, the whining can become more like moaning, sometimes escalating to bel- lowing and shrieking. How can one man be paid $22,400 a day for doing a mediocre job while another man, much longer with the company, gets $106 a day for doing a good job? The other Times stories on the subject of executive pay all seemed to support the notion that when it comes to executive compensation - what are they being compensated/or, by the way? - things are a tad out of whack. One story discussed a survey of 200 big companies which showed that total pay for CEOs rose 27 percent last year to an average of $11.3 million. Recalculating these spectacu- lar figures as an hourly wage, the average CEO in this group of 200 companies is making $5,650 an hour,or about $45,000 a day. At that rate they make in a day $17,200 more than James Smith, the meat grinder,makes in a year. Not that there 's anything unfair in this, mind you. After all, Mr. Smith doesn't even have a college degree, much less an MBA, much less a law degree, all of which Mr.Rohde does have. And it was always pretty unlikely that Mr. Smith was going to make the kind of connections that might have got him ahead while he was operating a machine that takes a ton of beef and blends it with a ton of pork resulting in two tons of pepperoni. The kind of connections that , say, Vice President Cheney might have made along the way that led him to the executive suite of Halliburton , the oil services, cafeteria catering and clean- up company. Mr. Cheney got a $20 millionseverance "pack- age" when he left Halliburton to run for vice president in 2000 and Halliburton got a multi-billion-dollar govern- ment contract. But this past year Mr. and Mrs. Cheney's taxable income was way off what it used to be,just under $2 million, according to an of- ficial release from the White House. And this is a pittance compared to what some of the big oil company moguls extracted from their record profits. John Drosdick , CEO of Sunoco, made about $23 million last year; not bad, but along way from the $63million Ray Irani took home as head of Occidental Petroleum. That number puts Mr. Irani way out in front in the hourly wages derby. His $63 million works out to be $31,500 anhour, or about a quarter of a million dollars a day, probably a little out of James Smith'sreach, but something to shoot at. 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