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EARLYFILES 1836 (Advt.)BARNSTABLE ACAD- EMY. The next term will com- mence on Monday, Oct'r the 17th . Scholars from abroad can be ac- commodated withboard at aprice varying from $1,50 to $2,00 per week. Maps,Globes and Chemical Apparatus , are about being pur- chased for the use of the scholars, free of expense. The scholars also have access to a valuable library. Tuition - English branches $4, Classics $5. F.W.Choate, Precep- tor, For the Committee. 1866 Barnstable. Mr. Eben Smith of this village lost a valuable horse last week, the result of getting mired. 1896 A sad providence came in the death of a Finn girl who has been withMrs. WilliamParker for nearly ayear... Taken suddenly ill, only a week sufficed to end the struggle of life she was so bravely carrying forward , though all that care- ful nursing and attention was done by Mrs. Parker and kindly neighbors. 1916 Marstons Mills. Residents of thisvillage are up in arms against the recent raids by burglars on their property. Several houses have been broken into and money, silver and jewelry taken. We un- derstand the burglars have also visited Cotuit and Osterville. The selectmen are offering a reward for their capture. 1926 New books at Hyannis Public Library: Arrowsmith (Sinclair Lewis), Big Mogul (Joseph C, Lincoln) , Abraham Lincoln, The Prairie Years (Carl Sandburg), Massachusetts Beautiful (Wallace Nutting). 1936 Three of the gigantic Martin bombing planes depart from the Hyannis airport each morning for a bombing test at the Langley field,Virginia,adistance of about 460 miles and return to their base ... These planes take off about 2:15 a.m.... 1946 Thirteen pupils registered at the opening of the Greek School in Hellenic Hall Monday ... The committee has engaged Mrs. Alice Pharmacopoulou , formerly of Boston, as the instructor and supervisor. 1956 (Advertisement) Stop in and see our Christmas card display book. Order early: Christmas is just around the corner.The Patriot Press, 24 Pleasant St., Hyannis. Telephone 24 or 2445. 1966 Youthinthe Town of Barnstable willbe offered acourse inteen-age sex education this fallwith classes held on four Sundays at St.Mary's Church in Barnstable beginning Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m. Included in the sponsoring group, besides St. Mary's, West Parish Church in West Barnstable ,Barnstable Uni- tarian Church, and First Lutheran Church in West Barnstable. It is expected that the Greek Ortho- dox Church in Hyannis will also be among the sponsors. 1976 Cheered by onlookers and chanting such slogans as "All the way for ERA," more than 150 supporters of the Massachu- setts Equal Rights Amendment marched through downtown Hyannis Sunday afternoon , bear- ing a colorful variety of signs with the common denominator, "Vote No. 1" on the Nov. 2 ballot. 1986 John DeMello , candidate for sheriff,took aleave of absence yes- terday from his job as executive director of the Cape Cod Council on Alcoholism to make the run for sheriff. DeMello , who comes from Plymouth, is a Democrat. 1996 What boxing commentators called "desperation ,"Kippy Diggs called "determination. " The Hyannis hometown son dropped his nickname "Top Kat" Tuesday night , then dropped opponent CurtisPeoples inthe first round to capture the vacant welterweight North American Boxing Federa- tion crown. If AHOD'sneeded , so is compromise There's been an awful lot of hand wringingover the proposed affordable housing overlay district, commonly referred to as AHOD. Simply put, AHOD allows devel- opers, with the blessing of first the planningboard and then the council, additionalunitsinaplanned develop- ment if they provide a certain level of affordable housing. Just what that level is the greatest sticking point. Theplanningboard wants40percent, councilors (some) want less. What can't be forgotten is that the model upon which AHOD is based was a compromise, and one rooted more inmamtainingcommunitychar- acter than creating affordable units. If AHOD is to survive, it will need to find a compromise as well. The mak- ings of such a compromise appeared last week asplanningboard members contemplated a sliding scale of sorts based on project size. The push for affordable units in Barnstable over the past five years, starting with a town-wide district of criticalplanning concern through the Cape Cod Commission in 2000, was about regainingcontroloflocalzoning. By meeting affordable housing num- bers, the town gained the ability to sayno to Chapter 40B developments. That was the goal, and those in need of affordable units benefited. The AHOD concept was born out of the Public Initiative Affordable Housing District, which was born out of sometimesbitter negotiations that included the town, developer Jacques Morinandtheresidentswho'dbemost affected by dense affordable develop- ments proposed by Morin. Morin had an approved Chapter 40B affordable housing development in his pocket. That's what gave him the ability to negotiate from a hard- ened position. That his project was distasteful to residents and much of town officialdom from a community character standpoint made for apow- erful bargaining chip. But Morinalsowanted more,which put him in a mood to negotiate. The resultingzoningdistrict provided less dense development that honored the character of the surrounding neigh- borhoods. Housing advocates were disap- pointedthat the percentage of afford- able units seemed to be the first thing negotiated away. That's the history from whence AHOD came. It wasn't a particularly happy one and was downright bitter at times,but the result made an awful lot of sense, and so does AHOD. The councilalsoneeds toremember that the planningboard'srecommen- dationisjust that,arecommendation. The council is fully empowered to amendthe proposal to makeit closer to what it wants. Amendments need only asimplemajorityto be approved. While some may be inclined to toss the baby out with the amended bath water,asubstantiallysimilarpackage remains better than none at all. DS II editor@barnsfablepatriot.com :EDITORIALS A war that remains unwon Chatham's year-round population isjust over 8,000. Imagine waking up one morning to read that every man, woman and child there had died the day before. Your sense of shock and outrage would be palpable. You'd want to mourn, and you'd want answers as to why it happened. Last week, The New Yorker report- ed that, "Worldwide , eight thousand people die of (AIDS) every day." We haven't won the war against AIDS. What's worse is that many of us have come to believe that new combinations of medication at use in this country have "solved" the "problem" of HIV/AIDS. That's very far from the case. The world iswide,and people are continu- ing to struggle, and perish,both here and abroad. Let's keep action on AIDS, cover- ing the whole range from end-care to the search for a cure, on the political agenda this election year. Let the candidates demonstrate their con- cern and declare their willingness to win this war. EFM editor@barnstablepatnot.com THE TT VIEW FROM h S&ANCE ^^• * BY PAUL DUFFY j Is everything jake? ??Then they say they 1/1/ are going to solve a Y Y problem by digging a trench around it or sealing it off with a twenty-foot wall, you can be pretty sure that the powers that be are in the final stages of losing their minds. The U.S. military estab- lishment in Baghdad an- nounced a few days ago that the way to bring the intrac- table violence in the city under control is to surround the entire city with a gigan- tic ditch. This ditch , say the authorities, will keep the bad guys out and the good guys in, and soon Baghdad will become like the Sea of Tranquility. The House of Represen- tatives , meanwhile, deter- mined to keep those nasty, hard-workin g Mexicans in their place, passed a bill to build a wall along part of the U.S.-Mexico border. It will be a really splendid barrier consisting of a double set of steel walls with lots of flood- lights and video cameras to illuminate and photograph any sneaky Mexican desper- ate or foolish enough to try to breach it. The wall will be constructed only along those parts of the border where illegal crossings are most common , a total of about 700 miles of the 1,952- mile border. The cost will only be $2.2 billion. The plan should work well so long as the Mexicans agree not to cheat and try to use the unwalled 1.250 miles of the border for their annoyingly persistent attempts to find a better life. The idea for the wall may well have been copied from the Israelis, who have had a rousing success with the one they are building to seal off the West Bank. This modern-day marvel, a technical and diplomatic masterpiece, will eventually be 370 miles long and will segregate from the rest of Israel the entire territory captured from Jordan in the 1948 war. So far, twenty miles of the wall have been completed with another 100 miles partly finished. Back in Baghdad , things are looking pretty good even without the ditch. The U.S. military says that in August only 1,535 Iraqi civilians were killed , a really good number when you consider how many were killed in July. The U.S. authorities there also say the murder rate in the Iraqi capital has dropped 52 percent - if you exclude deaths from bombs, rockets and mortars. This is a variation on seeing the glass as half full or half empty. President Bush keeps say- ing that we are winning the war against terrorism and that one of these days we're sure to bag that slippery Bin Laden. But the President also says that if Congress ties his hands with a stupid bill limiting the CIA's ability to extract information from prisoners , a lot of the inter- rogators are going to get fed up and go home. He says the only way to stop terrorism is to find out what the ter- rorists are up to from other terrorists. At the same time the president has said in a number of speeches that the United States does not engage in torture because Americans are nice people who wouldn't think of tor- turing other people , even bad people. If you think there is a contradiction here, you're wrong. "Harsh interroga- tion," which is what the CIA calls torture , is not torture so long as you don't call it torture. The same principle is at work here as in the case of the dead people in Bagh- dad who didn't get counted as dead because they were killed by bombs or rockets. And if detainees sometimes die under harsh interroga- tion, that's because they're terrorists, not because Americans like to torture people. Didn't President Bush say just a minute ago that Americans do not use torture? Pay attention, will you please. So, all in all, things are looking up on the inter- national scene, even if it doesn't always seem that way in the newspapers. There are still some prob- lems, to be sure, but some of those that appear moun- ; tainous are just molehills by another name. Mostly it's a matter of semantics. That , trench around Baghdad may look a little desperate , but that's only because they're still calling it a trench. People will forget about it when they start calling it a golf course. I Next Weekin ^e iattiot... fl ¦ ^ The Blackboard With school back in session, we present a round-up of activities and accomplishments. www.barnstablepatriot.com THE BARNSTABLE PATRIOT ISSN 0744-7221 Pub. No. USPS 044-480 Periodica]Postage paid al ihc Hyannis Posi Office and at additional entry offices Published weekly at 4 Ocean Street, Hyannis. 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