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EARLYFILES
FROM BARNSTABLE PATRIOT MAY 15. 1986
DIRECTING DIRECTOR - Head of BHS Music Department
Anthony Stevens conducts his jazz ensemble in several
"jazz-rock" numbers.
1836
FOR SALE, One half of the good schr. TIGER
88tons burthen,2years old,built byMr.Jonathai
Kelley, at Centerville.
1866
Barnstable - The pupils connected with th<
Grammar School in this village, accompaniec
by their popular teacher, Mrs. Spring, and quit<
a number of friends, went on an excursion t(
Centerville May day,encamping on their way foi
a brief season near Hadaway's Pond, where th(
children of older as well as younger growth, it ii
said, enjoyed themselves hugely.
1896
HYANNIS PORT - Mr. Chas. B. Marchant ac
cidentally fell off the hay mow in his barn lasl
Friday and severely injured his head, but is nott
recovering. Dr. Clement is in attendance.
1916
The new telephone cable between Nantuckel
and the main land will be laid in July. This wil
be the longest submarine telephone cable in this
country and the biggest project of undersea work
ever tried on the coast.
1926
Have you read the new "CAPE CODDER"Lloyd
H. Mader,Editor and Publisher (NOT THE CAPE
COD MAGAZINE) .Apictorialnews-magazine foi
Cape Codders. Mayissuehas37 CapeCod pictures
and five cartoons of prominent Barnstable folks
10c. at all news stands.
1936
E. Henry Phinney has arranged to run an ex-
cursion Sunday morning out to the Canadiar
Planter lying on the Horseshoe Shoal so as to al-
lowpeople to see this wreck, the most important
in Nantucket Sound for years.
1946
Death for wantofthe very essentialsoflife-food
clothing and shelter - is but five weeks away foi
several million people of Austria, according tc
the State Department in Washington. This tragic
news was announced here last night by Baronesj
Maria von Trapp at the close of a concert giver
by the famous family of singers before an audi-
ence of more than 800 members of the Cape Coc
Community Concert Association gathered at the
Hyannis Theatre...
1956
Bob Chase,agent of the board of health,informs
us that about 2500 children between the ages o:
one and 14 and pregnant women in Barnstable
have received their first shots of Salk anti-polic
vaccine during the clinics and special sessions bj
physicians which concluded last Wednesday.
1966
Historic Sturgis Library in Barnstable Village
is sending out a financial appeal to townspeople
this month for the first time since it opened it.1
doors as a Free Public Library in August, 1867
with a collection of 1,300 books.
1976
For the most part, Barnstable's town meet
ing representatives lumbered slowly through i
lengthy warrant with the confidence of holidaj
shoppers inadiscount house on payday... A schoo
budget, which a year ago consumed almost I
hours of town meeting debate, this time breezec
through intact with a 15percent pay increase tc
teachers provoking not a single comment fron
the usually tight-fisted reps.
1986
Teacher Robert D. Stewart and Attorney
Peter L. Freeman were named to the town's
Old King's Highway Regional Historic District
Committee Tuesday by selectmen... Freeman
is active in Historic Massachusetts , a state
preservation group, and was chairman of the
Brockton Historical Commission. Stewart was
supported by the town historical commission
for the OKH spot.
1996
Eight years ago today, a nattily attired Wendy
K. Northcross, fresh from the world of ho.ne
mortgage origination, walked through the doors
of the Hyannis Area Chamber of Commerce on
Barnstable Road asits executive director... What
she had gotten herself into and now prepares to
leave is aposition that led the Hyannis chamber
to prominence on Cape Cod, the region and,
with the addition of the JFK Museum and the
initiation of a world wide web site, the world...
Northcross will leave the chamber to take a
new position as the program director for the
private non-profit Cape and Islands Community
Development , Inc.
ZEDITORIALS
Peace, tranquility and unintended consequences
Overcrowded homes in tight
residential neighborhoods aren't
fun for neighbors to look at, listen
to or deal with. Come to think of it,
they're probably not too great for
the people living in them either.
A set of ordinances and amend-
ments now before the town coun-
cil seeks to provide the means to
effectively enforce what's already
on the books and add a couple of
preventative matters to nix such
situations before they can start.
Nomatter howformal or informal,
the renting of aroom,apartment or
home is abusiness transaction. The
town licenses many other business
transactions and maintainsregula-
tions that ensure the well-being of
the general public. Think of the
number of licenses and inspections
restaurants must carry.
The rental of residential property
should be no different. Consider
the proposed annual rental per-
mit as the license to operate. The
$90-per unit fee covers the cost of
inspection and registration, both
necessary components to ensure
regulations are enforced and prob-
lems prevented.
It'slesslikelythat the unintended
consequences withregard to rental
properties will be as disruptive as
those that affect year-round, owner-
occupied homes.
The proposed Comprehensive
Occupancy Ordinance sets limits
on the number of occupants ahome
can have based on bedrooms (two
each for the first two bedrooms and
one each for all subsequent) and a
similar restriction on the number
of allowed vehicles (two each for
the first bedroom and one each for
all others).
Children under 19 are incidental
to the count, which is good. Unfor-
tunately, their vehicles would not
be excluded (potentially bad).
The town does need to be aware
that adoption of these ordinances
will displace people who now
have places to live, albeit illegally.
Whether that's a problem the town
deems worthy of a response has yet
to be seen.
Most other states can deal with
these problems efficiently through
revised zoning. Perpetual grand-
fathering, that almost singular
anomaly of Massachusetts zoning,
allows existing (legal) conditions
to be preserved in the face of
changed land use laws.That means
a community's ability to solve its
problems immediately through a
zoning shift is limited.
That'swhy the current set of pro-
posals before the Barnstable Town
Council are offered as changes to
the general ordinances, which carry
no grandfatheringand canbeimple-
mented a month after adoption
The ability to vary from general
ordinances, a flexibility allowed
under zoning, is limited to non-
existent. That tends to require all-
in-one approaches that inevitably
cast the dragnet too widely.
Throughout all of this are preva-
lent questions of not only tenants'
rights, but individual civil rights
as well.
What'soffered inthese ordinances
is a work-around for a number of
these limitations based on what
can be easily proven, and what's
ultimately going to be effective and
enforceable.
The language of the current pro-
posals are expected to change;how
significantly won't be known until
after the council holdsitsworkshop,
hears the public and determines
what it'scomfortable doing. Those
looking for change need to make
themselves heard, as do those who
oppose the proposals.
We're inclined to think these
measures are good things, posi-
tive movement toward addressing
situations that will not take care
of themselves.
DS II
editor@barnstablepatnot.com
By Ed Semprini
CHOWDAH BOWL: Murder
in the Dunes: The murder
victim was found deep in the
Provincetown dunes. Both
hands had been cut off. The
discovery was made 26 years
ago and authorities are still
trying to identify the woman
and solve the mystery of "The
Woman in the Dunes." Police
files describe the woman as
weighing about 145 pounds,
with long red hair and between
the mid-20s and 40 years old.
The "Woman in the Dunes"
surfaced with a report in the
Provincetown Banner that
Court TV will feature the
unsolved murder in its Haunt-
ing Evidence series in June....
E-I-E-I-O: And you were con-
vinced all farming (shellfish
farms excluded) died on Cape
Cod years ago! How about a
garlic farm? Not only growing
the pungent plant , but using
Highland cattle to produce or-
ganic fertilizer, and where the
sun and wind are harnessed
with solar panels and a wind
turbine. It'sthe Pleasant Lake
Farm, owned by "Skipper "
and Karen Lee. who told the
Harwich Oracle they bolted
the corporate world to enjoy
their 12 acres in Harwich...
A few grizzled Cape Codders
may be around who can tell
you they crossed the Cape
Cod Canal over a drawbridge.
The bridge existed from 1913
to 1935, when the Bourne
and Sagamore bridges were
built. The old bridge came
int o the news recently when
the Buzzards Bay Village As-
sociation announced that a
$93,000 "Three-Mile Look"
walkway will be completed
in June. The walkway will
stretch from Bourne Town
Hall on Perry Avenue to the
Canal , overlooking the site
of the drawbridge , and will
be illuminated at night. The
Bourne Enterprise described
the walkway as the flag-
ship of the 26-mile Greenbelt
Pathway around the village...
Cape Cod's army of sports-
men need not rush to oil their
hunting guns in anticipation
of bagging an Eastern wild
turkey for Thanksgiving. The
Cape Cod National Seashore
will be opened to wild turkey
hunting, but not until next
spring. For now, wild turkey
huntingis banned... Chatham
Blemish: A commemorative
of Chatham 's early history
has become a casualty of
indifference and neglect and
a North Chatham woman
wants something done about
it. History records that four
hundred years ago Samuel de
Champlain, French explorer
who founded Quebec and
was the first French governor
of Canada, landed at Stage
Harbor. Today a smallmonu-
ment recognizingthe landing
is in place at the harbor, but
it is in disrepair, its split rail
fence is rotting and a "no
parking" sign stand directly
in front of monument,Martha
Batchelder writes in a letter
to The Cape Cod Chronicle.
She urges a cleanup prior to
an observance of the histori-
cal date in October... Sudden
thought: Whatever happened
to the antiseptic mercuro-
chrome?... Supported edito-
rially by the Provincetown
Banner , David Nicolau was
returned to the selectmen's
board in the annual election ,
assuring Provincetown of
an all-gay board , according
to the newspaper. One of
the two challengers was a
homegrown Cape-ender,Peter
Costa, who was sharply criti-
cal of town government, (see
newsquotes )... Credit Jean
Gardner of Yarmouthport
with a prideful journalistic
coup. The witty host of TV
Channel 17'sTalesof Cape Cod
revealed in a recent program
that "I've got a famous astro-
naut here... and he is making
his home in Yarmouthport."
The guest was U.S. Coast
Guard Commander David
Burbank, a NASA astronaut
who is training at Houston
Space Center for an upcom-
ing mission. The Register 's
Craig Salters, who covered
the interview, reported that
Gardner's wit and sense of
humor jibed well with the
astronaut's accounts of mak-
ingspace historyinaYear2000
mission.
• • •
You'fe up there, Morris, if
you remember Myron's ham-
burger nook adjacent to long-
gone Center Theater on Main
St., Hyannis... Barnstable
historybuffs shouldbe ableto
identify the villages in which
are located the following: (a)
Hooper'sLanding;(b) Bodfish
Park; (c) Chester Park; (d)
Disabled American Veterans
Boulder. Answers below.
• • •
Columnist Comment: "Any
residents or local officials
in the Cape's 15 towns who
think their community can
go it alone in the 215t century
are not being pragmatic, and
pragmatism issomethingthat
has been valued on Cape Cod
sinceits earlier days."-Execu-
tive Editor Janice Walford in
Bourne Enterprise.
• • •
Newsquotes: "No dog ownei
worth his salt has a dog on z
chain."- Fred Fenlon of East-
ham, protesting animal con-
trol proposal to chain dogs
(In The Cape Codder) .
... "The Cape will definitely
see an influx of Europeans
this summer... besides the
weak dollar versus the euro
Europeans love our beaches
You think Cape beaches are
crowded? Try Europe. " - Su-
sanneThibault,Orleans bread
and bed owner (In Harwich
Oracle).
... (Like) "putting lipstick
on a pig."-Peter Costa, se-
lectman candidate, describ-
. ing expensive renovation of
waterfront shacks (Provinc-
etown Banner) .
• • •
Answers to query: (a) Co-
, tuit; (b) Sandy Neck; (c)
i Osterville; (d) Hyannis.
• • •
Quotebook: "There are two
i kinds of people who blow
through life like a breeze. The
; one kind is gossipers , and
the other kind is gossipees."
- (Dorman Book of Quota-
tions).
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