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Wednesday, December 14, 1983
EDITORIAL COMMENT
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OOOOOOOPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPOOOOO
OUR MATHER U)ATC
BY L H. PARSONS
OCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPOOOOOOOOl
heating degree days. This
past week here in Sandy
Creek we had 249 heating
degree days or 6 percent
less than in 1857. Last year
there were 30 percent
fewer heating degree days
than we have had this
year. In 1981 however,
there were more heating
degree days, but only 10
percent more than this
year.
What
Compromise?
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Evening
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90 YEARS AGO - DECEMBER 14, 1893 -
Smartville is to have an established post office, with T. Leanor as postmaster.
Nine years ago today, the Seeley Corner; House residence and business block;
and the Salisbury mill were burned. (The area from Lake Street to the south bank
On November 29, President Reagan signed the of the Little Sandy, where North Country Mercantile, Tug Hill Tourathon,
Dairy Compromise Bill into law. At first glance, this Mulligan's Ice Cream arid Sancona Builders Supply, Inc. are now located).
new law might seem like the answer to the dairy
75 YEARS AGO - DECEMBER 10, 1908 farmer's prayers.
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We hold, however; that the new law is not the answer
Orwell Road - George, Gue of Detroit, Michigan, is the occupant of the red house
to anything. Certainly, it is not the answer to the
catastrophic problems facing the nation's dairy and wiil work for Henry Stevens and Son the coming year. Edwin Stacy, who has
worked for Henry Stevens and Son for the past two years, has moved to
farmers today.
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Under the new law, the milk assessment was Deansboro.
A death from scarlet fever occurred at the home of E.L. Stowell last Saturday
reduced from $1 to $.50 per hundred-weight. This is all
or Sunday. Three children have been stricken and the father and mother.
"fine and dandy" except for one fact.
Pupils of the East Primary (Lacona) who were perfect in attendance during the
We are referring to the automatic $.50 reduction in
the milk support price which became effective the day month of November were Helen Austen, Helen LeClair, Arlene Smith, Doris
the bill was signed intoJaw. We hold that the offering Smith, Josie Hedger, Clair Soule, Thomas Soule, Hazel Wilcox and Hildred Tilton.
J.W. Lyons is working at Solvay. He is also playing with the Solvay band this
of a concession witlr'tne right hand accomplishes
nothing if that same concession is snatched back with winter.
the left. It was a neat maneuver, but it failed to fool
65 YEARS AGO - DECEMBER 12, 1918 those who are most affected by it.
In addition to the price support drop already in
Mr. and Mrs. James Woodruff have received a letter from their son, Benjamin,
force, there is a provision in the new law which states
that a second $.50 reduction in the price support can be who had been reported as missing in action.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred I. Guy have purchased the F.L. Matteson restaurant in
expected April 1, 1985 if the federal government's
purchases of surplus milk exceed six billion pounds. Lacona. (This was in the one-story building, now part Of Lorice Apartments,
Since, according to most widely accepted sources, which most recently housed Nellis Diner. It was for many years the I.G.A. Store
the purchases will exceed that amount, the second run by the late Martin Presley.)
The Blount home was the scene of great rejoicing when a telegram was
dron in the milk support price is almost a certainty.
Add to this information the fact that a substitute $.50 received announcing that Howard Blount who was reported missing, is in one of
assessment was included in the new law, and the the German prison camps.
outlook for the dairy farmer is pretty glum. The new
assessment went into effect December 1, according to 50 YEARS AGO - DECEMBER 7 & 14,1933 Alan Emory, Washington correspondent for the
Many New York homes will have Christmas trees and wreathes which were
Watertown Daily Times.
grown in the Town of Boylston on the plantation established by the late F.W.J.
Aside from the fact that the new assessment may McKibbin of Syracuse ten years ago. Heirs of the McKibbin estate have entered
eventually lead to the establishment of a base support into an arrangement whereby a portion of the trees are to be cut under the
price system, we see little value in it. The new supervision of W.J. Endersbee, St. Lawrence University forester stationed at
assessment was set up to provide a $10 per hundred- Pulaski. The entire plantation consists of about 100,000 young trees.
Dr. Herman Van Horn of Harrisburg, Pa., was a weekend guest of his mother,
weight payment for milk not produced by the
Mrs. Elizabeth Schermerhorn. (Yes, the good doctor changed his name!)
individual farmer.
Great excitement raged at the high school Saturday afternoon when a local
This payment-not-to- produce program, however,
does not take into consideration the fact that many young man became locked in the office vault and was forced to remain there some
farmers are in debt to such an extent that reducing time until a member of the faculty who was able to unlock the safe could be found.
Persons knowing the combination of the safe were, widely scattered, one in
their milk output is a financial impossibility.
Most farmers with big debt loads cannot reduce Syracuse, one in Oswego and one in Watertown.
The faculty of Sandy Creek high school and grammar school met at the home of
production and still expect to stay in business. This
means that the farmers who can least afford it will be Miss Mabel Carnrite Tuesday evening for a Christmas party and supper.
W. Rozelle Tilton and wife have sold a strip of land 100 feet wide on the eastern
paying for a program which leaves them "out in the
side of the present Wesleyan Cemetery grounds, to the Boylston - Sandy Creek
cold."
Dairy farmers, as it is, have been operating since Cemetery Association.
the September 1980 milk support price freeze on
restricted incomes. And they have been doing so under 40 YEARS AGO - DECEMBER 15, 1943 less than favorable circumstances (i.e. inflation and
John Hollis, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hollis of Lacona wasawarded the
high interest rates). The milk assessments imposed American Agriculturist achievement award at Syracuse, yesterday. He was one
earlier this year have„also taken their toll.
of two boys in the state to receive the annual award given by the farm publication
Many farmers have already gone through the to Boy Scouts who are outstanding in agricultural work as well as Scout
traumatic experience of declaring bankruptcy. And Leadership.
we fear, under this new legislation, that many more
The Baptist church has sent boxes of chocolates to forty men and women in the
are sure to experience the same fate.-If this happens, armed services, as well as personal letters written by Rev. and Mrs. David Owen.
we all lose.
The recipients included: Mertice White, Ruth Kerns, Harwood Corse, Matt
Latent* Robert Gibbs, Burton, and.Stanley Bumpus, MaurieefUoynec, Gdeiui and
Grant DeLong, Gilbert Williams, Sidneyyt'eey'G'edrge+Goriway,' Paul and-*Ray
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Martin, Rex Noble, Milford Allen, Douglas .Brewer, Robert Obleman, Manville
Dewee'si'Henry Scranton, Carl Ouderkirk, Harry Devoy, Lewis Fraser, 1 -Robert
Mareness, Junior Rider, Paul Fuller, Fred Warner, Ralph Bacon, Franklin
Archer, Milton and Wilbur Jones, Sanford Wheeler, Paul, Everett and Harwood
White, Harwood Williams, Arthur Roberts, Floyd McDougal and William Otis.
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Sunday
9:30 a.m.
10:30- £
School
First Sundi
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Meeting
6:00 p.ir
Supper
Last Wedm
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8:00 p .
Group
A person who gets into
Next week I should be
the woods, near here, has able to expand t h e
noticed that there are a learning which we can get
good supply of wild apples from the diaries of the late
on the trees which he Lewis Wilder who kept
takes as a sign of a rather them from 1856 to 1881. Since December first we
hard winter.
While I don't expect to have had 24 inches of
This was born out by the use all twenty-five yearly snow. In ld82 there was no
very wintry appearance of diaries, there is much we snow during the first eight
our landscape and the can learn from them in days of the month. In 1981,
snowfall during the first both-the weather as well December started off with
week of December, 1983. as farming practices in only two inches of snow.
Also the low temperature. this area. Our editor, Mrs.
Temperatures
during
Parsons,
will the seven days of our
In this first week we have Marie
received 24 inches of snow review the diaries at a report were as follows:
and it got down to nine later date.
Friday, Dec. 2, 25 to 38;
degrees on the morning of
At the moment I have Saturday, Dec. 3, 25 to 34;
December 8.
been using the Wilder Sunday, Dec. 4, 11 to 36;
Some
news
i t e m s , diaries for a comparison Monday, Dec. 5, 29 to 41;
gleaned
from . the for heating degree days Tuesday, Dec. 6, 33 to 43;
literature,
which
I then and now. During the Wednesday, Dec. 7, 23 to
r e c e i v e , tells that the week of December 2-8, 30; Thursday, Dec. 8, 9 to
State University of New 1857,
there were 297 31.
York at Albany is testing,
with the National Weather
Service, the use of a
lightning
detection
network along the east
coast and it is in use at the
a i r traffic control ast
Leesburg, VA. One is also
in use at Albany.
The Sandy Creek News reserves the right to edit
The Gas Institute of
all letters. Letters must be signed and accompanied
A m e r i c a has m a d e a
by a complete address. No mimeographed
grant of money to a group
signatures will be accepted. If requested, the
calling
itself
the
writer's name will be withheld except in letters of a
Environmental Research
political nature.
and
Technology
Associates to try to invent
a small carbon monoxide
detector for home and
office use. Somewhat like
the smoke detectors now
in use.
Recently, the Canadian
cannot put a price tag on 25 YEARS AGO - DECEMBER 18, 1958 Weather Service got so
DEAR EDITOR:
them the CCC lives again
many complaints about DEAR EDITOR:
In a s much t as the anyone's life, especially a ,
in the NACCCA. It is a holiday season is a time lost child's, I am donating
giving the temperature
During
1983,
the
Some $88,060.00 has been taken off the assessment roles of the Town of Sandy
and growing for giving thanks I am these dogs to the "people" Creek by the Equalization committee of the Oswego County Board of Supervisors.
only in the Celsius scale, National Association of young
w i t h taking this opportunity to in the hopes that this unit
that public meetings were Civilian
Conservation o r g a n i z a t i o n
Dairy farmers will receive a uniform farm price of $4.99 per hundredweight
called so that the people Corps Alumni (NACCCA) chapters in many of the publicly express my will be. continued and that (46.5 quarts) for milk delivered to plants in the New York-New Jersey milkshed
could
voice
their celebrated
the 50th states throughout t h e gratitude and thanks to this valuable resource will during November.
suggestions. As a result Anniversary
of the nation, and one of itsthe many people and remain available.
Andrew Zahler and family moved earlier this month into the house on South
the Canadian forecasts establishment of t h emajor objectives is too r g a n i z a t i o n s w h o
Main Street, Sandy Creek, which he purchased from the estate of Mrs. J.R. Allen,
now give the temperature Civilian
Conservation have the CCC reactivated. supported me, not only
Another
g r o u p the property including both the house a t one time used by Dr. Allen for his offices,
both in the Celsius scale Corps (CCC).
A commemorative CCC during
m y recent deserving special thanks and the Doctor's Garden, the basis of the floral business operated for many years
and the Fahrenheit scale.
The NACCCA is trying Postage Stamp has been campaign for re-election, is the voluntary "Special by both Dr. and Mrs. Allen.
We use only the latter to locate about two million available for purchase but also for their support Forces Unit" who, by
Mr, and Mrs. Martin Maurer have purchased of James Keating and wife, their
scale in this country.
former m e m b e r s a n d since April, 1983.
and
e n c o u r a g e m e n t their
own efforts, house on Salina Street, in Lacona, the former Fred Kent residence.
who were
Anyone interested in the during my tenure a s amassed a, net worth of
As I reported last week, persons
over $60,000.00, donated 10 YEARS AGO - DECEMBER 12, 1973 the first three days of connected or affiliated organization can write to Sheriff.
December might be used with the CCC during the NACCCA, L o e h m a n n ' s
In the past six years thousands of man-hours
as indicators of what the 1930's and 1940's. It is a Plaza, 7245 Arlington much
has
been and provided the county
As a result of an early morning fire on December 4th, the Rex McNitt family of
the cheapest Smartville Road, Town of Boylston, lost all their' possessions as well as their
whole winter might be known fact that many of Blvd., Suite 318, Falls accomplished to improve- with
like. If we accept this sort these persons reside in Church, Virginia, 22042. the
services a n d insurance they ever had recently refurnished home. Some 50 Lacona, Sandy Creek and Redfield firemen
of 'off the cuff forecast we New York and a r e a s For more information and professionalism of your for emergency situations battled the blaze.
by
your literature.
can expect lots of snow, serviced
Sheriff's
D e p a r t m e n t . at no cost to t h e Charles L. Summerville, Jr. announces the opening of the Summerville Funeral
S u c h Home at 8192 Harwood Drive, Sandy Creek.
and, at the end of the publications.
Victor Vengrouskie These
accomplishments t a x p a y e r s .
winter, a clearing off
I am sure that many of
2212 Areola Ave. were possible due to the dedication i s certainly
toward sunshine as weyour readers have often
Silver Springs, combined efforts of all the commendable.
had, on December 3 and 8. wondered what became of
Maryland, 20902 loyal m e m b e r s of the
Of all the dedicated
For several years I the CCC. You can tell
(301)942-5180 Department. Therefore, I
wish to e x p r e s s m y people that deserve a
reported from time to
special appreciation to the special thank you and
time on the number of
members
of t h e more, I would be remiss in
sunspots on the surface of t « f t n r m n i n r a
Department, for without not giving a special thanks
the sun. Then for the past
their cooperation and to my wife, Mary, and my
two years we have had
effort many of these family; all of whose lives
lots of sunspots and very
positive goals could not were affected. Unless one
mild winters, and yes, hot
have been achieved.
has experienced being in
summers.
I can now report that the
I cannot
let this public office, one could
number of sunspots has T
opportunity
pass by never a p p r e c i a t e t h e
skrunk to i t s n o r m a l
price
support
level, without giving a special effects of public life and
President Signs
n u m b e r and t h a t t h e
initially, .50 cents, if thanks to the County the news, m e d i a upon
Dairy Bill Into Law
weather has turned much
does n o t Firemen, with whom I had family members.
On Tuesday, November production
colder a s witness t h e 29, P r e s i d e n t Reagan decrease. The program a n excellent
rapport
storms of the past few signed the so-called Dairy also
establishes
a which resulted in an In summation, my only
d a y s . The "Sky a n d Compromise Bill into law. n a t i o n w i d e ;
o f regret is that I will be
farmer- a t m o s p h e r e
Telescope"
m a g a z i n e This action culminates a financed dairy promotion n t e r d e p a r t m e n t a l co- unable to accomplish the.
reports that for the month year-long effort to develop program
aimed
at operation w h i c h ' n e v e r goals and plans that I h a d
of August, 1983, t h e and p u t in place an increasing consumption. existed previously, I shall formulated for the future
average
n u m b e r of alternative to the current
forget' t h e of
t h e Department*
In my opinion, this never
sunspots was 69 per day. "milk tax", which has had program will lead to a cooperation the firemen -However, I a m fully
This number will usually a devastating impact on rapid reduction in theextended to me in our joint aware of the substarice
drop to 25 within the next many dairy farmers in the dairy surplus that cost the venture to sway t h e that the majority of the
two years. So, we may 29th
C o n g r e s s i o n a l taxpayer over $2- billion county politicians to Department members ate
very well be in for some District.
this year. The program enlarge the County Cause made of and therefore, I
real
" o l d fashioned
B a s i c a l l y , t h e eliminates the current and Origin Team and feel certain t h a t t h e
winters".
arid
Compromise establishes a milk tax which has driven thereby provide a better p r o g r e s s .
service to the people Of professionalism of the
many
farmers
to
the
brink
farmer-financed
paid
As I said at the start of
b a n k r u p t c y y e t our county for then, as Oswego County" Sheriff's:
this article, the. week of diversion program which of
requires
the dairy farmer now, I have always Department will, cbrifiiijie:
December 2 to 8,1983, was will give dairy farmers a
purported to b e t h e
to improve and that .this
cold and s t o r m y . The real incentive to cut their himself to finance most-of "People's Sheriff."
"espirit de corps'' of the
average temperature for p r o d u c t i o n
the
program.
Compared
while
department
members wiij
that period
w a s 29g e n e r a t i n g
a d e q u a t e with the only alternative
One
of.
the
d e g r e e s . The longtime revenues to cover their which was a $1.50 cut in a c c o m p l i s h m e n t s of serve a s an inspiration: to
average for this period is costs. For each 100 pounds the price support^level, I which I am most proud our b r o t h e r s ift law
35 degrees. Last year the of production cut, a felt the passage, of the was the establishment of enforcement, arid to the
O.E.S OFFICERS, LAKE ONTARIO CHAPTER, NO. 124 -1897 - The Sandy Creek
average temperature for farmer will receive $10. compromise program was the K-9 Unit, Much has residents of OswegO
Chapter of the Eastern Star was organized March 26,1896, receiving its charter
this period of December This $10 will be financed in the best interests of the been said about the cost of County.
June 11th, and being fully constituted July 20th, the same year. This group
.
was 35 degrees. Two y ars p r i m a r i l y
portrait includes the second set of officers, many of whom were charter
through a small and medium-sized operation for this unit but
ago it was 34 degrees. Ten continued 50 cents per dairy f a r m e r s in m yfew have alluded to the
members. Back row: Cecil Barney Wallace, Mollie Robbins Mckee, Harriet
years ago it was 37 hundredweight a s s e s s r district a s well as thefact that the first two
Raymond A.Miller Seeley Pruyn, Flora Tiff Hollis (Grandmother of Dr. Warren Hollis), Susie Nye,
degrees. One hundred m e n t
on a l l d a i r y taxpayer. I am pleased b l o o d h o u n d s . w e r e
Oswego County Sheriff Antoinette Welch Potter, Sabina Fox Sherman and Hiram Hall. Middle row:
twenty six years ago the production. In addition, that the President hi,r purchased by me, at my
' RDi,Bo3tNoi5 Winnie Da'vies (Wife of Congregational Pastor, Rev. T.T. Davles), Allie Hettinger
average temperature was the bill provides for asigned this legisIaUo. <,o own expense. As it is still
Oswego, NY 13126 Sprague (W. Matron), Eugene Nye (W. Patron), and Elizabeth Tilton. Front row:
23 degrees.
'.'radiifll rpiinpHnn in r*>« law.
rn,y firrn holjpf t h a t y o u
. 343-S088 Blanche Stilwell A lien,Anna Jones Bartlett and Hattie Pond Potter.
Letters to t h e
Editor
Organization Seeks
Former CCC Members
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