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:6,95 6,1;oliticians have rallied their forces and are set
* another crack at public housing - anything for a
,; 1*04£90tes at the t4xpayers' expense.
*** It is to be hoped the voters at next Thursday's
0 ting won't be assailed with the old malarky about
*rana' rights. "Nothing's too good for the veterans,"
, ·:f vilhe cry at last week's meeting when a substantial
Dnty, including many veterans, tlrned down more
t. *I'll-..'.
: , A n-s time the something-for-nothing boys included
4S,t le veterans out of their schemes.
·' 1 Who are the veterans, anyway ? The real war vet-
i: **nS: are fellows most of whom have been out of the
i -service for five years or more. They wanted to forget
* the Army in a hurry, and did. They needed a little help
, at first, and got it. Now they're solid citizens. They're
'woYRing hard to get ahead in their jobs. They're raising
' families and building their own homes. They're paying
t&xes. They're just like everybody else. The Army is an
old uniform that doesn't fit anymore.
, Th6 professional veterans still bleat for the world-
okes-me-a-living fringe. But the overwhelming maj ority
df World War II vets are paying their own way now, and
5 they're not disposed to foot somebody else's bill- even
if he did put m six months as a company clerk at Gov-
·' *nor's Island.
67hat Price A Clean-Up Man P
Southington's first selectman is one of the poorest
Aid in the state. the Connecticut Public Expenditures
Council reported this week.
Mr. DePaolo gets $3,000 a year. That's less than
*me janitors are getting these days.
,·: Managing the town's million dollars a year business
- *ould be a full-time Job. But nobody can blame the flrst
selectman for not devoting his full time to it. Even a
fanitor is entitled to earn a few bucks on the side.
Of course, some people will say the incumbent lS
overpaid at $3,000.
, That may be, but we can't hope to clean up Town
Hall kintil we offer higher pay to the man behind the
»om.
Husbands Are /1 Sorry Lot
Well, girls. there's a sequel to last week's domestic
editorial.
4 We told you it was proving no cinch to keep house
*hile our wife was laid Up in a hospital. This week, in
»reparation for her return, we got around to those labor-
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saving devices, the vacuum cleaner and the washing ma-
Whine. We still say it's no cinch.
About 10 o'clock on the eve before her hturn we
broke out the Electrolux to tidy up a bit. Four hours,
four rooms, a smashed light bulb and several scratched
1.AirS later we fell into bed. The place looked swell - if
ou're not particular about dark corners.
: Several days earlier we had given the washing ma-
hine a whirl ( Easy Spin Drier, indeed !).The linen was
·, *retty dirty so we tossed in half a box of soap flakes and
, T,alf a box of bluing to make sure. Suds were all over the
lace. We had a little trouble with the drain too. But
e cellar floor was due for a scrub down anyway.
2' · k We were pretty proud when we escorted her
'through the front door to behold our handiwork. She
:.- *ave the parlor a quick critical glance, then her eye fell
on a drooping plant on the window sill. The devil! We
'had forgotten her instructions to water it.
"Husband," she cried indignantly. "You murdered
T.ETPERS TO THE EDITOR
Give Vets The Land And Let Them
Build Their Own,Two Readers Advise
EDITOR, THE NEWS: EDITOR, THE NEWS:
Why am I against a rental hous- About a year ago, sometime in
ing project in the Town of South- the Summer of 1950, this town
ington T went to the expense of spending
I know the housea built in a pro- $7,600 to buy land to build an
ject are ·not worth the money they armory to house our local bays'
are put up for Projecta are all i trucks and equipmenL
political doings and tax payers pay If this town was so big-hearted
the bill. So why should we go ' to see that our local boys should
ahead and put up these 80-called have the armory to house their
houses, but at high prices. 1 ap- | equipment, then the town should
prove of going ahead and giving I have even a better chance to help
the GI the land that would help our boys and give them some land
him toward a start towards build- where it won't cost the town any-
ing hts own house; and building the thing, so they will be in a position
town toward a better class of j to build a home for their children.
homes. I'm a GI myself and I know He ho gives shall receive -
owning your home is best Itaxes.
ANTHONY M. MASTRIANNI, Jr. JOSEPH FIONDELLA.
KLe ha e tried for months now in
How Is Your Christmas Spirit?
Dear Old Lady Needs An Apartment
EDITOR, THE NEWS: f recommendations from both Wat-
How is your Christmas spirit erbui y and Milldale.
this morning ? Mine is high and I This lady ts now hving in an
hope yours will be the same when apartment house \\here there are
you read this letter. small children and K is making her
1 know a dear elderly lady, who vel y ner ous, and the doctor told
was born and brought up in Mill- hei she must make a ehange as
dale, and w ould like very much to soon as possible. 1 think you know
conie back and spend her remain- what the apartment Sltuatlon m.
ing days near home.
She would like a two-loom apart- Waterbury and haven't been able
ment, or would like to hve ith to find anything, so when she sald
some congenial people. what she \ ould like
Aside from a httle arthritis, she anything ,#as to go home, I
is well able to get around, m fact thought of i,riting you
up to sIx months ago she worked,
doing house woi k, and was able to ,
turn out a good day's woik. as it is ruining her health to stay
She is a very neat person, m here he is I know we will reach
kind and vety appreciative, and someone in either Milldale, Marion
would make a good companion foi or Plant rille
another elderly person REBECCA GRASSO
I know che nould get very good R aterbury
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he Right To Know
om The Lakeville Journal
We are sure that after reading '
by VIP
Blo At Public Housing
From The Hartford Timea
The Evening Grosbeak :'.2 1 1
By The National Wildlife Federation i
Evening Grosbeaks travel in lit- 1
tle flockl, of eight or ten birds. I
Never staying long at any one
spot, they come and go at unex-
pected times. If the feeding is
good, they may remain for several
days. Then they are off, perhaps
not to return for a long time.
Always they are looking for
seeds. Their favorites grow on box
eldern, but they also hke the seeds
of pine, cottonwood, locust, wild
cherry, apruce, birch, maple, ash,
dogwood, apple, hawthorn, and
cedar. Sometimes, too, they get , ·
their meals from poison ivy, Vir-
ginia creeper and ragwood. i i
A good way to attract the birds ©Nalional Wildlill Fiderallea ;
7 to put out sunflower seeds. Al- Evening Grosbeak
though you can't count on your enough yellow, black and white ;
feeding station to keep the Even- how through to let you know who ·
ing Grosbeak around constantly, she ts
they may return again and again Both the male and the female
for their meals. are about the same size. .Thby are
There are several u ays to iden- from seven and a half to eight and
tify them. The male is a large, a half Wches long. Their wing-
chunky bird, about the sue of a spread measures nearly fourteen
starling. His body is yellow, and inches.
his wings are black, with two large When flying, the Evening Gros-
-patches of white. His tail feathers ; beaks seem to be bobbing up and
are black, too, and he weal s a down, as though they were. 1
'J k "'. H" bill " large a",1 1:'1%,Z.,n,nh oew:.'.'.117:1:..,1
The same colors appear on the j the white patches on their wings
female, but they are hai del to see , can be seen at a distance.
Almost hiding the brighter hueh 15 , It is possible to find them in the
a covering of silvery-gray. But 4 summer near the northern fringes
- -- of the United States. But that m
Local attitudes towards public Should We Write-off
more than the excellent renew of citizenship housing have undergone a sudden A Generation ?
(Uncle) Sam You lade The (Shirts)
Too Long,' Complains Local WAF
about as far south as they come
I dui ing the nesting season. Most of
1 them build their homes and raise
their young in Canada.
Their nests, made of sticks and
, aie placed at least ten
raining in the Regional Schools change unfoi eseen by the 1951 i From The Litchfield Enquirer
ompiled by the local school prin- Legislature hen it authorized an. 1 A pubhc prosecutor mUSt study,
ipals, no one is lying awake other $50 million b 151 issue to as a duty of his oace, all of the lootlet:
ights worrying about communist help relieve to nr-and caties of information hich can be gathered feet off the ground, and sometimea
infiltratton ul our local education- housing shoi tages. Not so long ago on any case to be brought befoie higher In thi dwelling, the par-
at set-up. We are wondering, how·- evely coilin unity H ithout adequate , the Court In the ordinary coulse of ent: i al:*e a brood of three or four
ever, about another danger A shelter for residents gratefully events, he collects in one year an young hnh are hatched frvm
conversation R e overheard in New shared in the State's program. amazing amount of facts and in- greenish eggs Watched with pale
York between two teen age girls No , jt appears some munictpali- I formation about the circunistances brown.
made as aware of a pitfall into ties ha e had enough of low rental surrounding motor iehicle acct- By November, the flocks of Eve-
which over.conselentious educators uniti pruvided by the State and ning (ho beaks are ready to move
may fall i dents and inotor iehicle lan i 11,Id-
in borne instances of low - cost tions aouth aid, though not away from
single homes built by private 1 It is depressing, theref4,1 e, #, hen cold 036
eather Many of them stay
Said one child. "Gee, they cei - builders. Their earlier concern a prosecutor of lonir expet ience in *outhern Canada and m our
tainly talk enough about hon over substandard quarters and the i loses faith in the "un illingness of
wonderful democracy is at school m,ithern states Others go as far
cio ding of niore than one family J too many motorists to obey the down a, Mi sourt, Kentucky and
thefe days!" into a single unit has ended. No , . law." The Litchfield prosecutot, 060.
"Yes, I know . . gets a httle chief concern seenig to be over the Z captain Wilham M. Foord, has
boring! We all knou #'s a good 4 __
higher taxes that ha e tonie ith arrived at the sad conclust 036n,
after
thing I wish they'd tell us some- the increased school, pohee, fire, Noir They'It Clip You
many years as an enforcement offi·
thing w·e don't know ; explain more seu age and other senices made 1
about the ideas in other countries neressar> by the building boom. E cer and as a motorist, that nlobir- 1 Coming find Going
Hair raising news from the
. commurnsm, Socialistli and ists allow flight per.fc,nal incon- Southington Barber's Associa-
Rnstol. Manchester and Solith..,
things like that.. ' ·eniences and headless indifference tion this Meek.
I'resident Louis Grimaldi an-
: nounced the price of haircuts
, , n ill &:o up from one dollar to
$1.15 and Mhaves will be raised
frcm 60 to 75 cents. Children's
haircutv will go from 60 to 75
cents. $1.00 on Sat:Irtlays.
The new prices take effect ,
Tuesday. December 18.
EDITOR OF Tlin. NEWS ,for the items mentioning the
Just anted to ;,1 te a fe; hneb ti·an fet of assignment out this
and let you kno ho tnuch 1 ap- wa> of an>one from to\in but as
preciate receiving The News eier> yet haven't met anyone frorn
week It'b nice to know hat'b go- 1 Southington.
ing on in the "hometo n" and The babe i. ; ery nice here and
makes it seem not quite so far , only t\,enty-fipe miles frbm San
away Fianci co "FlibCO" reminds me
to 05 ercome their sense of dutv
A feg of the othei girls have ington onl this week acted as lf
ier> much of >Ie\% 1 ork except "04 I guess the) re Just afraid of the 9.inic nlind in rejecting more
read it and expressed the opinion that 1 kno 1 can't get on a tram we d turn out to be commumbts SNip prVILb, totalling *orer $4
that they u i3hed they had come His experience N th 3 iolat,in
ancl be home m a matter of a few or something - Irais him to behe e that in spit, 1
nilltion The reasons zaned with of highua> engintering 94 hiti
from a mall to,4 n *0 that the) hours There ate lots of things to '*That s silly' I Just want to
I could recelie a blmilar paper local conditions but underlying all
6 see and do in that town-Fisher-1 knoo what these othe, ideas are U .2 4 a freling that they prefer to lines and warning mgn< dangi rq
We read your edhoi ial about 11 man':· Wharf, China Town, Nob { and see for myself why they don t stop and catch their breath re I en&, of a, unlformed ofilcer that
increase and it A ( Inl> the pit 5
"Subversives in the Army" and got ; Hill-things I had seen in the work out wid why democracy is
quitk a kick out of it. The same 4 nlov les and ne er expected to see better " gardless of the fact that chronie compeIs obedience.
thing happened to us in babic As housing shortages ha e bot been Others ho ha e gi,en long ser
in person But that'b one thing the, We wish we knew H here those
we were one of the last squadrons Air Foree offers-travel--and I remedied
to be ishued the 01 1 t>pe ii Ac uni- girls go to 9chool. We'd like to vice in the aork of htihiiay acci j
HAi,i niuc h of the opposition uas dent presentic,n .1:id t 036
Rllptiipt. 7
ceitainl> haie nianagel plenty of i talk to their teachers Apparcntlj to reduce the number of ,10)al,OnS
fmm. He uere given anything re- that' stiried up b> realtors, lunibermen
2 in their zeal to teach the demo- and *'thi·rs \ ho, nationwide, have
1 gai dles of fit just as long as our Thankb again for sending me crattc way and in their fear of be- of motor ,('htele la" 9 -111 agic·(· 1
'reiord8 bhowed we had iL Now .ign 036,u,·13
objected to public hous- with Captain Fc,ord. They huze
The News It. really appreelated, ing branded communost fello
travelers, the* are depri, ang these ing a. :in interference u,th prizate seen millions of dollars bpont tn,
that the new Blues have bee is. m thtS corner of the United States I
sued, the Alr Force ts quite fuss> , enterpr Ise ts unknown In Bristol, produce safer highu ays, th,·y ha,e
about the fit of them and the al. CPI. PHYLLIS A. WIrr Youngsters 01 two of thrjr inost howezer, the Board of Realtors f sponsored educational c:impatigns r
teratton shop 15 swamped with 4727th WAF Squadron precious dernocrattc rights iree- surcegsfully led the opposifian, ' tiesigned to reach every person, *
uniforms to make over. Hamilton Air Force Base 4 dom of discussion and the right to though in Manchester there Was
When reading The Nens, I look Hamilton, Calif , know. motoriat and pedestrian, who uses,
little 91;In of such actipity. The
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be ironic if the effort the streets und highways and, still,
to keep our education systeni fi ec question naturally anses whether I vioTation;, a#larnts :ind deaths in- I
priiate interests intend to take crease. They i, Ill agre, 11190 that
DISTINCTIVE
r · ny African violet." CHRISTMAS
3 .2 Here endeth the lesson. CARDS
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A.4,-16 Build two new elementary schools in 10 mants or of any tatnt of communist infiltra
til"epare for ,·uN· Begion.. Pfc. Daniel Jones Reports Progress 10 DAY SPECTAL
cari· of the shortage problem, .
That's the sum and substance of Superintendent ' to I wo many people are uni, illing to .
*william Strong's annual school report. In Establishing Korean Orphanage * t,on we proceed deny these hencrf 036rth.
or whether if they be- i obey the law
rights, which. perhaps more than
The town is not to be envied in its alternatives. EDITOR, THE NEWS. repatr were necessary to winter- hez,· thr,v can handle it, they can, lt may be ton late tn rff('it .1 98c Ball Point
any others, are our trump cardb
r uilding two new elementary schools in 10 months or How are you and the re t of the ize the buildings. pro,ide kitchen :ictuall> build the kind of homes
. in the grlm gamr against oppob change m a malmit> 036f
.1 gi,ni i.i.
9,7, fdouble sessions means, of course, double sessions.
staff on the paper? Fine, I hope, and mess hall, ash room and la-, Fictim>· i,f the housing shortage
4*. W 1 ing ideologies. The man 4 ho in- can aff 036rd
to buy or rent.
for I am the same. trine facilitte, * tion, hardened m its #a>s Effort Pens
31St8 On his right to know the i should be concent ated. perhaps,
Th 're seems to be some con-,
U Dependabie Dollars I would like you to put another In addition, stoves, firew ood. whol. truth and hold open discus- on teaching our prospec ti e suc-
F. W cessors that they should *,arch for Engraved Free
fusion :is to H hat the State pro-
piece in your paper about our or- coal. eleitricity, fo