14
PATENT TRADER
Dr. Barton
Ottjnger sharply criticizes to
preach
Nixoti health fund cutbacks
Saturday, December 6, 1969
On Stage
Wilder's 'Our Town'
By CHARLES FREEMAN
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My audience antenna did not
lead me astray, I'm certain. In
that event the most affecting
play of the current season at
the ANTA Theatre is Thornton
Wilder's "Our Town."
That observation may seem
surprising. Particularly in view
of previous exhibits sponsored
by
the American National
Theatre and Academy being
authored by Albee, Shake­
speare, Fevdeau and Chekhov.
Surprising, too, since '"Our
Town" has had national expo­
sure t h r o u g h
the years
(Breathes there a dramatic so­
ciety that has not leapt on it)?
Yet overall compelling tender­
ness in this enactment grabs
and holds one endearingly atten­
tive.
1
"Our Town." Even if you do it
might help you catch up with
your soul to see 'this version.
Henry Fonda's doin' a right
comfortable job as stage-man­
ager. There's Ed Begley, Mil­
dred Natwick, John Beal, Irene
Tedrow,
Jdhn
Randolph,
Margaret Hamilton a m o n g
some of the sunniest casting in
quite a spell.
Musn't forget Elizabeth Hartman
as Emily and Harvey
Evans,
a
most
touching
George. They're all dandy fine,
Donald Driver has directed
with tender loving care but al­
lowed himself a small jarring
indulgence when he should
have stayed his hand. I particu­
larly liked the use of a lanternslide lecture (not in the origi­
nal) but fitted quite okay. (An­
other observer deplored it . . .
goes to show). And a special
salute to Jennifer Tipton for
some fluid and most expressive
lighting.
!
WASHINGTON — The Nixon
Administration's
cutback
in
funding of medical research
and health services was sharply
criticized Thursday by Rep.
Richard L. Ottinger, D-Pleasantville.
years of research at the Nation­
al Institutes of Health.
"DURING THE epidemic of
1968, rubella was responsible
for the stillbirth of 20,000 babies
and left another 20,000 with
brain damage or serious defor­
He said the cutback may turn mities," the Congressman said.
"With the new vaccine and a
out to be "one bf the most
$60 million appropriation we
wasteful and costly programs
would be able to protect all exr
ever proposed by any adminis-!
^'tier's '&£ne™m\
when the next epidemic is pre­
tration.
In a speech on the floor of dicted. We have the vaccine,
the House, Rep. Ottinger said but under the present cutback
the cutbacks are forcing reduc­ we are allocating only $30 mil­
tions in vital medical research lion to the vaccination program
half what is needed to do the
and forcing many of the na­
job."
tion's medical schools to curtail
Congressman Ottinger called
education programs.
for immediate action on a sixAnother result of the cutback, point program to increase fed­
he said, would be to deny ex­ eral health financing to avert
pectant mothers the protection the threatened health crisis in
of the new rubella vaccine de­ •the country. He set the cost at
veloped as a result of four $263 million, which he pointed
out is "just about what we in­
vested in the most recent moon
shot."
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MISS LOIS MARTIN, head
dietitian at Northen West­
chester Hospital in Mt. Kisco,
will be the guest speaker for
the Lay Society of the West­
chester Diabetes Association
December 10 at 8:30 p.m. at
the Ridgeway School, White
Plains. Miss Martin's subject
will be "Holiday Suggestions
for
the Diabetic and His
Family."
The play has come in at the
right time- Thanksgiving, when
Americans
pull
themselves
together and falunt an air of
The play was originally done|
togetherness. The audience (it BERNADETTE PETERS in
The Hudson
looked capacity) was in large, the new musical "La Stra- |(and this is a production of) | VONKERS
Museum will feature an
part made of young people da," now in preview at the the Plumstead Playhouse d e d i - | R i
Theatee. It cated to a need for a national exhibit and sale of art works
home for the turkey ceremoni-i Lunt-Fontanne
als and inclined toward a tem-| opens Monday, December 14. theatre. It should set its sights from November 29 through Jan­
on a theatre dedicated to Amer­
porary generation-gap truce ,
uary 4. The sale is sponsored
The applause at the end of the well she gets up and splits ican plays, past and present.
play was mighty and made wood for the fire and makes There are a lot of good actors jointly by the Yonkers Art As­
clear they were caught up in the breakfast and all the other around ready to act them to the sociation and Museum to be a
'
the simple philosophy.
showcase
for
hand-crafted
meals and tends to the men- nines.
din', raises chickens, corn, peas
pieces such as original signed
WHY? The conclusion I have (hulls 'em too when sittin' out WHAT'S ON THAT'S NEW:
graphics, water colors, draw­
come to is that Mr. Wilder nas passing the time of day with
The new musical "La Stra
ings and small sculpture.
evaded the treacle in highlight­ Mrs. Webb)
da"
based
on
Federico
Fellini's
,
ing some long-lost basics. Also,
The works are all by profes­
Mrs. Webb's got a garden, famed motion picture is now
•the ensuing nostalgia contrasts
too. Lots of hollyhocks around previewing at the Lunt-Fontanne sional artists, and an artist will
vividdy with the dehumanization
and a butternut tree. Mr Webb Theatre. Opening is set for De­ be in attendance to supply in­
process of individuals trying to
puts out the Grover's Corners' cember 14. Music and lyrics formation and guidance. Each
maintain their cool under the
Sentinel twice a week. There's are by Lionel Bart, book by
present day stress of unremit­
choir practice and gossip about Charles K. Peck. Bernadette
ting electronics, jet propulsion,
Simon Stimson . . . always Peters, Larry Kert and Vincent
computerization, wars, inflation
drunk. Seen lot's 'a trouble, Peck are the stars, Alan Sch­
and other too well know ills the
neider directs. No performance
Simon has.
flesh has become heir to.
Monday, December 8 . . . "The
And indeed what have we
GEORGE GIBBS' not doin' too Moon Dreamers" opens now on
here? A near-bare stage, some well in school. Wants to be a December 8 at the new Ellen
few simple props and a stage- farmer. Got his eye on Emily Stewart Theatre, 240 East Third
manager/actor to set up the go­ Webb. She's bright and at the Street.
Opening curtain
at!
ings on in this feather of a town, age when the body is supple 7 P.M. . . Previews are on
Gover's Corner, N.H. in the and
trembles when George for "The Brownstone Urge,"]
first years of the century.
comes by. You know they'll get a new comedy set for an'
And what's it about? Well, married; they look at each opening at the Actors Play- j
the folks that lived there, other that way. And they do get house, 100 Seventh Ave. . .i
worked, loved, raised families married. Emily dies. In child­ "Coco" with Katharine Hep-j
and died there. Nuthin' much. birth. But that's after you get burn is still in preview with the |
There's the Gibbs' family and to know the milkman, the pa­ largest advance sale in many a'
the Webbs that live next along perboy, Mr. Morgan who runs moon, Alan Jay Lerner (book
and lyrics, music by Andre
the street. They've got kids; the drugstore, Mrs. Scames
Doc Gibbs is tendin' to the sick She's a talker . . . and lots of Previn, sets and costumes by
Cecil Beaton). Opens December
and bringing the new babes other folk.
into the world. Mrs. Gibbs . . .
But, heck, you certainly know 18.
Mr. Ottinger also questioned
the priorities which allow a na­
tion to spend $21,600 to kill each
enemy soldier in Vietnam and
only $6.27 per patient in the re­
search for a cure for heart di­
sease, the leading killer of
Americans. "Aside from purely
humanitarian
concerns,"
he
said, "this is also bad econom
ics for the care and treatment
of heart patients today cost the
Nation $2.6 billion or slightly
more than $100 per patient."
THE
SIX-POINT program
which Congressman Ottinger
said would be the minimum
commitment needed to meet
the health care crisis includes:
Raising the funding for edu­
cational institutions under the
Health Manpower Act from
$128.9 million to the full $192
million.
Increasing student aid for
traineeships, direct loans and
scholarships u n d e r the Act
from $73.3 million to $130.7 mil­
lion.
Expansion
of
institutional
support programs for nursing
He described the administra­
work is framed or matted and
and
allied health programs
tion budget cuts as "penny wise
ready to hang.
from $18 million to $59.5 mil­
and pound foolish" and said
The Hudson River Museum is that they represent "a grossly lion.
Increasing funding for N.I.H.
at 511 W a r b u r t o n Avenue distorted
sense
of
national
and
National Institutes of Men­
Trevor Park, Yonkers, and is ^priorities." As an example he
tal Health training grants by
open Tuesday through Saturday noted that in 1969 the federal
$30.5 million.
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sun government invested $50 in pro­
Restoration of $40.4 million to
moting
tobacco
and
tobacco
days, 1 to 5 p.m.
products for every $1 it invest­ the research funds adminis­
ed in lung cancer research. "In tered through N.I.H., and
Immediate allocation of the
United Cerebral Palsy helps 1970 support for the tobacco in­
people-children and adults-han­ dustry will be increased while $30 million additional funding
dicapped by Cerebral Palsy. research funding will be cut necessary to implement a na­
rubella
vaccination
You help United Cerebral Palsy back so that the ratio will be tionwide
when give your Fair Share gift $56 for every $1 spent in the program for women of childbattle against lung cancer."
bearing age.
the United Way.
MT. KISCO — "Religion The Enemy of God" is the iitle
of the sermon to be delivered
by Dr. Charles A. Barton,
pastor of the United Methodist
Church of Mt. Kisco at 11 a.m.
Sunday.
Dr. Barton says "when some
young person who hasn't dar­
kened the door of a church for
years, goes off after some guru
or starts meditating and trying
to find reality through the
senses, parents often say they
are glad he is finding some­
thing religious to interest him.
The Bible takes a dim view of
religion for religion's
sake.
Let's face it. There is such a
thing as bad religion. It is far
worse than none at all, because
it keeps people from God. A
religion that looks within for re­
ality, which depends on the
senses for guidance, or which
dabbles in magic to manipulate
the forces with control life is
bad religion. The God of the
Bible is a creator God who de­
fines the limits of existence.
Museum sets art exhibit
ver
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Weekend gardener
Cut Yule trees
by Pail Cassoi
Having run through the live sometimes touted "double-need- [chosen, if you make a fresh
Christmas trees last week, we J le" balsam. The tree is verysaw cut at the butt end when
had better get on with the cut fragrant and needles persistant you get the tree home and
trees now before it is too late. for the duration of the holidays
stand it in a container of water,
Anyone who has bad occasion
at least.
it should "drink up" enough
to be on any of the major high­
water to help it stay fresher
ways in the last month has
THE DOUGLAS fir, a native
probably n o t i c e d the large of
the northwestern United looking longer. A type of stand
truck loads of cut Christmas States, has long been planted in that has a water cup also helps,
trees coming into the metropol­ these parts as a fine ornamen­ providing of course you use the
itan area.
tal tree. Its response to shear­ water cup.
In this immediate section, ing helps to make it a desirable
Just don't make the mistak<
upper
Westchester - Putnam plantation crop. Its branching of standing the tree in a pail of
is
not
as
rigid
as
the
balsam
fir
Counties, the most popularly
water outdoors and forgetting
used cut Christmas trees are or Scotch pine, so that it would about it until the last minute. If
decorate
a
little
differently.
the plantation grown Scotch
the temperatures stay down too
pine, the balsam fir, some The needles are very persis­ long you might have a rough
Douglas fir and spruce. Once in tant, soft to the touch and there job removing a block of ice
a while other miscellaneous fir is a slight fragrance.
from the trunk on Christmas
may be found.
Occasionally nursery - grown Eve.
The Scotch pine, as we know trees may end up as cut trees
it today, used to be called when, for one reason or an­
Scot's pine. It is native to other, they will no longer dig
Europe from the Mediterranean properly. You might just find a
northward into Norway. Be­ good buy on one of these. Any
cause of its wide range there of the true fir that may be
have been quite a few regional found as cut trees should have
and genetic differences devel­ persistant needles.
oped. Formerly, it was very
The spruce trees, both wild
difficult to hold a good green or
plantation
grown, have
color in the Scotch pine once always been used as Christmas
the weather turned cold.
trees both in Europe and some
sections of this country. Many
SINCE THIS hindered sales areas of Connecticut and New
as a cut tree, it did not take York State, where the native
the commercial growers too, balsam fir might not be too
long to come up with a superior i plentiful, have always used na­
strain for plantation growing tive spruce since way back
That's what the patriots wantBarring an occasional, excep­ when
,ed to see as the Redcoats
tionally droughty fall, practical­
charged up Breed's Hill.
Native red, black, and white
ly every cut Scotch pine
Their gunfire was more effec­
spruce
make
fine
trees.
Nor­
shipped into the Christinas
tive at close range . . . and
way,
Colorado
and
Engleman
market today is a winner. They|
so is the message which your
spruce
are
also
very
handsome.
are grown on large tree farms'
Welcome Wagon Hostess
The
Colorado
and
Engleman
brings to newcomers and new
where they "are sheared regu-,
spruce
may
also
be
found
as
mothers.
larly for shape and fulness am'
Information on churches, civic
are managed with all the atten- blue spruce. Both have rigid
organizations, shops and com­
tion of any other commercial needles that tend to "bite" ii
munity facilities is delivered
you
are
not
aware
agricultural crop. The needles
with the warmth of a personal
are very persistant.
THE ONLY WORD of warn­
call undersponsorshlpof lead­
ing business firms . . . and
,The balsam fir, long the tra­ ing on any spruce as cut tree
yours can be among them. Call
ditional Christmas tree of the they do have to be cut compar­
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northeastern part of the United | atively fresh to be of anj
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Scotch pines. Instead large nat­ and balsam fir were cut they
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ural wild seedings are thinned, will drop their needles when
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managed and maintained. Their brought indoors. If they have
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rates of growth will vary from been cut within three weeks of
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tree to tree, they do best in Christmas, and kept shaded
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cplder areas, and no one could and cool, there should be no
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possibly plant them where na­ problem.
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will grow out of rotten logs and
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stumps, jdck crevices and float­
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beans
Nova (Scotia,*,any of the New
En^Ian'd^States and upstate are shiny, egg-shaped and
•New YorJj. They do not always] bright red, or orange with
respond well to shearing. There' black tips. If chewed and
are some'^ehe'tic differences in swallowed they can cause
color and needle size and ar­ vomiting, convulsions
and
rangement, accounting for the even death.
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