NIAGARA FALLS GAZETTE
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Monday, January 30, 1961
Some Reasons For
Downtown Renewal
The case for a comprehensive program of urban rehabilitation and redevelopment in the 175-acre downtown
area_Jjounded by the Hydraulic Canal
and the Niagara River was ably stated
.by City Manager Edward H. Potthoff
Jr. last week. .-'
Mr, Potthoff pointed out that the
tractcontains about 1.6 per cent of the
city's total land area and is the home
of about 3.5 per cent of the population—statistics that of themselves don't
mean much. But then he went on to
make these significant points:
Approximately 11.7 per cent of the
:
city budget is spent in the area.
For every dollar taken from the
area in taxes, three dollars is put back
in services.
Seventy per cent of the total fire
Voss in the city has occurred in this
iirea in the last three years—the Gluck
building disaster being the most memorable example.
T h e s e are meaningful statistics,
pointing up dramatically the need for
an urban renewal program in this section which is, in effect, the heart of the
city.
On the Right Track
The growing incidence of juvenile
crime points up the need for positive
action to halt a trend that threatens the
general welfare.
Efforts to date to halt youth crime
have proved pitifully ineffective. •
We think the January -Niagara
County Grand Jury recommendations.
on the matter deserve earnest study.
The jury asked in its report last
week that "work camps" be created for
young people who leave school early
and for the rehabilitation of juvenile
offenders and that parents be made accountable for juvenile vandalism and
misconduct.
There is food for thought in the
Grand Jury s t a t e m e n t that society
alone cannot be held responsible for
"the depredations and vandalism of
youth."
The jury said parents must accept
some of this responsibility. They must,
we agree, if we are to curb dangerous
lawless tendencies in our society.
Stevenson Will Need
Negotiating Strength
Adlai Stevenson has taken his place
as head of the United States delegation
to the United Nations, a difficult job in
an uneasy time.
The job will test the talents of the
urbane gentleman from Illinois for he
steps into a spot long graced by the,
gifted Henry Cabot Lodge and, after
• him. by James J. Wadsworth.
Both Lodge and Wadsworth were
genial. And both, when the principal
disturber of world affairs got going,
could be tough, logical and totally unimpressed with the made-in-Moscow
line parroted by th,e Russian mouthpiece of the moment.
Adlai Stevenson has appeared to be
made of less stern stuff and he could
find the going rough, indeed. The'
Kremlin hasn't changed its tune. For
the moment the instruments of hate are
muted as a gesture toward the new ad:
ministration in Washington. When the
time comes, Khrushchev will yank out
the mutes and blare the old discordant
theme with the violence for which he is
so renowned.
We may miss the forthright arguments of Lodge and the diplomatic skill
of Wadsworth. Such men shouldn't be
on the sidelines.
Stevenson has a high mark to shoot
at when the amenities of welcome are
over and he settles to a mighty task.
Few Changes Noted:
Kennedy Uses Care
Getti ng U rider Way
(t
Great to See the Girls Again"
Education for the young, help for
The aged is tha Kennedy program.
What about us felloWs who are in-,
between?
Tolerance on Display
Jimmv Brown mav be the best line
buster in the National Football League,
but he was thrown for a loss by a
bunch of sandlot kids on his visit here
recently.
The burly Cleveland Browns' fullback almost outdid his athletic accomplishments in the role of guest speaker
at the 13th annual Niagara Rapids Club
sports night. He competed against a
host of first, rate talent, too, including
Phil Rizzuto. Elroy Face and Hal Smith.
But the big stumbling block came
when he tried to move 10 yards to leave
the room. The kids:—most of them
Little League baseballers who were
guests of several business and civic
groups—literally mobbed him. It took
him a half hour to inch his way to the
door.
Best part of the Rapids Club and
its sports night is the complete lack of
discrimination in any form. Rizzuto
joshed about high and low Italians,
Frank Toomey told a "Catholic" joke
and Brown's popularity knew no color
line as the crowd of youngsters surged
to touch him.
Bread and Gasoline Prices
Hold Debate Spotlight Here
We invite readers to express their opinion on all
matters of public interest.
Each letter should contain
the name and address of
the writer, which will be
checked before publication.
I WISH TO ANSWER a
letter written to you and
published on Jan. 26, 1961,
concerning "Broad or Gasoline., Why Not Cut Rate?"
The q u e s t i o n on lowpriced bread is one which I
know little a b o u t , except
that I agree with the local
bakers. As to the price of
gas, it directly concerns me.
1 am a service station operator in this city. The letter y o u published stated
that the writer believed that
the price of gas and bread
could be lower with little
effect to business men in
their ability to make a decent living. Many of us
think differently.
At the present time our
ga.s price gives us a fair
return. A decrease in price
would cause many to go
broke. Few of us now could
live off our gas p r o f i t s
alone. The writer claims
many stations • which have
been selling at a lower price
Let's not be too smug about Bufstill are making a good profit. Last year 1 understand
falo's snow troubles. It will be surthat in the Buffalo area
prising if our turn doesn't come before
35% of the stations changed
spring.
hands. This does.not indicate good profit or even a
meager profit to dealers.
Do you honestly believe
By Marquis Childs
Washington Calling:
a dealer could sell gas at
26 cents a gallon and make
a profit? For most of us. at
our present buying price,
we would have a net loss of
one half cent a gallon or
more. If you believe this to
he a fair profit, I would
appreciate knowing h o w
it is done. 1 also wish you
will remember the 10 cent
State and Federal and 2ro
address himself to the problarge degree been overlook
WHEN THEY SAT DOWN
sales tax on gasoline.
lem of the increasing cost of
together around the Cabinet ed.
S e r v i c e stations offer
American e x p o r t s in the
His most impressionable
table for the first meeting
more
than gas. Service like
years were spent in London, world market while helping
willi P r e s i free
air,
window cleaning,
to
reverse
the
trend
in
the
whore he had an intimate
dent John F-.
antifreeze
testing, etc., toweconomy at home that has
view of the British system
Kennedy 'the
ing,
b
a
t
t
e
r y boosts, and
put unemployment today at
under the ordeal of the on
rn e m b e r A
other
much
needed servicthe fi million mark or above.
set of World War II. His
of jus Cabinet
es,
are
offered
and expected
In undertaking this diffijudgments on that system as
were for the
by
the
public.
it functioned, or failed to cult t a s k he must w o r k
most pari
M o s t. of our businesses
closely with-Arthur J. Goldfunction, with the rise of
strangers
are
open seven days a week,
berg, the secretary of labor,
Nazism and Hitler's threat
t o o n <• a nsome
24 h o u r s . For this
and with o t h e r Cabinet
to England's place in the
other. S o in e
kind
of
service do you bemembers immediately, conworld showed remarkable
scarcely bad
grudge
a
dealer a fair prof- ,
cerned. In their respective
maturity; The hook thai he
met b e f o r e
it?
M
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s
t of us live in
domains theso officers might
published in 1040 when he
this session
Niagara
Palls
and own our
was 2'.\ years old. "Why Log-' be supposed to have con- own homes. We
This is one
have emtiary interests--Dillon for
land Slept," is a sober, seof the f * c t a
p
l
o
y
e
s,
many
of
whom
a steady or even a lower
rious study of the shortcomCHILDS
nhfltit
the
would
lose
their
jobs
it
wage scale, Goldberg for a
ings of democracy confront
A m e r i c a n system .that
price conditions get worse.
higher one. But these are
rd by the menace of totali
strikes the foreign visitor
You work in industry for
able men who ran be ex
tarianisnt.
*s so extraordinary- t h a t
fair
wages, we. work for you
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•peeled to take the national
men who will exercise such
Arid expect the same.
view of the President who'
IF THE STYLE QF Presi
considerable power in their
Bruce A. McMullen
has called on them to serve >
own respective s p h e r e s dent Kennedy's politics has
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any parallel a b r o a d , it is
IF ONE WORD can he
verse backgrounds to serve, with Britain's Conservatives,
Change in Fans'
4n many instances for the and the word that comes to
fitted to President Kennefirst lime, in the nation.il mind at once is "realism." dy's style, it Is:, elevated.
Attitude Deplored
government. H e r e is no The Objective of Prime MinThe lofty tone of his Inaug"shadow cabinet,' »* in the
BOTH AS A FORMER
ister Macmillan's g o v e r n - u r a l address pervaded the
parliamentary s y s t e m .«, ment in London has been
student
and an avid fan, I
whole ceremony.
made up of those who have to put as few obstacles as
have
followed
Niagara UniComplaints have already
w o r k e d -together through possible Jn the way of the
versity's
basketball
schedule
been made that the Kenne
the years and whose views healthy growth of Individ
with
much
interest
for the
dy official family is too ele
arc widely k n o w n to the ual enterprise. But at the
last
ten-years.
In
this
time,
\ a t e d - i h a t is to say, too
public.
I
have
noticed
a
very
regretsame time the British Conmuch on the remote, expert
table change in the attiservatives— unlike those in
Politics certainly entered
level to capture the public
1
tude
of the typical fan.
America who claim this title
Into the choices of'the men
imagination. H lacks the
During the early fifties
comprising the Kennedy ad- - k n o w that they must but
gaudy color, the flamboythe
N. U. fan went to most
tress
the
economy
with
the
ministration. But politic* to
ance of the early New Deal
of
the
games knowing that,
welfare
measures
without
one *ide, and In some sew h e n Harry the Hop and
win
or
lose, this" team was
lection! it figured scarcely which no modem, technolog- Honest Harold lekes were
his
to
cheer.
And cheer we
at all, there was. a touch- ical, highly centralized so- exchanging magifiecnl In- did, both in victory
and destone w h i c h suggest* the ciety can remain stable.
nulls which sent waves of
feat.
Occasionally
the
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laughter across the counu-y. cials felt the ire of the Offifan,
One can find the elements
The new administration because;of a *poor call, or
THAT TOUCHSTONI Is of this approach in the Ken- rjolds out no such generous some other reM or imagined
in one word: ability. This is nedy Cabinet. C, Douglas promise of public show. But fault. In spite of these iras able a group as has ever Dillon as secretary of the this Is after all a n o t h e r regular outbursts the fans
fceen brought together in a treasury mutt have as his time, and it may turn out were very cooperative when
n a t i 0 n't 1 administration. major goal fiscal policies that the Kennedy style is the opposing players stepAnd their aelection suggests that will correct the outflow more adapted to the present ped to the foul line.
aft element In the,Kennedy of gold and the growing im- era than the gay insouciance s ttegrettably of latent have
background that has to a balance of trade, Ift must of the Roosevelt Mvle.'
noticed that the fans now
Kennedy's Team One of Best
Ever Assembled in Capita
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jeer, hoot and thoroughly
try to confuse the players of
the other team when they
step up to the charity stripe.
In the interest Of^fair play,
sportsmanship, and other
ideals of the American way
of life, I am no longer proud
to call myself a Niagara
fan.
It is not because they have
lost games.' or how they
have lost them that has
brought about this change
in my attitude but, instead,
it is how the fans have reacted.
John A. D'Angelo,
.717 Pasadena Ave.
WASHINGTON—T h e r e
were a few changes in
United States foreign and
•domestic policies reveal-?|
ed by Presi- ]
dent John F.
Kennedy i n
his first news,
confe r e n c e, ]
but not many.
In summa- :
ry, after
a|
few days in i
o f f i c e , the!
new P r e s i dent appears'
EDSON
to be aggressive but cautiously feeling
bis way. He is no wild
radical as some opponents
predicted he would be.
Although former >
• President Eisenhower had made
release of the two RB-47
pilots a condition to further
conferences with the Rus-.
sians. President Kennedy
says their return to America does not mean he is committed to talk with Khrushchev.
Actually, Kenendy did
nothing to get the U.S.
fliers released. He sent no
new ambassador to Moscow. Khrushchev ordered
the release on his own initiative, to show that he
wanted better relations with
the United Sattes.
suspension of nuclear weapons testing does not yet
represent a change in policy—only a change in timing. This problem is being
given more careful study
along with general disarmament by the advisory commission under John J. McCloy.
The "Food for Peace"
program has been made
more aggressively effective.
Relief shipments to the Congo are being stepped up immediately to support U.N.
"stabilizations efforts in that
country.'
And even though the
Communist Chinese have
not asked for food and may
not need it, the President
says the United States
would consider carefully
proposals to ship food to
Red China, "if people's
lives are at stake."
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front, the new administra'tion'will'use food more ag-.
gressively to combat distress from unemployment,
to the extent that "Section
' 22" funds from U.S. customs permit.
The President does indicate more changes, coming
up. There will be special
messages on greater aid for
unemployed, improvement
of the United States economy, how "to deal With
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America's declining balance
THIS IS NO INDICA- of payments and the outTION that the international
flow' of gold—without bringsituation has .greatly im- ing back the families of
prov overnight.—T-he PresU^- ""United Stares sirryicemeTi""
proved overnight. The Presstationed abroad.
ident admits that tensions
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Relations with Cuba are
KENNEDY APPEARS to
unchanged, though the welbe following the Eisenhowfare of the Cuban people
er policy of noninterference
and the introduction of forwith Congress in determineign arms and ideologies on
ing its own procedures, as
the island are of concern to 'in the proposal to change
the United States.
the House Rules Committee.
The President will also foh
The new administration
continues support for Brit- low the Eisenhower policy
of keeping the vice presiish efforts to reconstitute
dent fully prepared to asthe international c o n t r o l
sume the responsibilities of
commission to oversee conchief executive in an emerditions in Laos.
Eisenhower's order sus- gency.
pending U2 flights over SoThe new President indiviet territory remain in efcate
he will be more vigorfect unchanged.
ous
in
enforcement of civil
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rights, p a r t i c u l a r l y the.
WHAT IS NEW in all
right to vole. But on electhese situations is that diptoral college reform he is
lomats under Secretary of
ready to back only moderState Dean Rusk are more
ate election law changes.
actively trying to., improve - K e n n e d y appears to be
American foreign relations more willing than his preby quiet diplomacy.
decessor to make informaIt -is a slight change in
tion held by his executive
manner, not in policy. One
agents available to Congreseffect is to parry foreign
sional committees and the
pressures fdr an early sum- public. The only limitation
mit meeting.
is that there be no release
The request for a delay in
of national security inforthe Geneva conference on
mation.
ness. Is that fair to the
retail grocer?
A large Buffalo baking
fhrm delivers bread houseto-house in Niagara Falls
and also sells to local merchants under a different
trade name. Is that fair?
We will have a better
understanding of their problems when the bakers bake
as large, as good and as
reasonably priced loaf as
the Canadian loaf.
All we want to do is to
compete with the selling
price of- b r e a d in most
chain stores I take off my
hat to the independent mer•
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Factors in Cost
advantage of this opportunity to give his customer his
Of Baking Cited <
money's worth,
I have a suggestion for
LET'S FACE the facts,
the complaining bakers. At
Mr. Sauvageau, in relation
to the factors making up your next conference with
Analysis Anajyzed;
By David H. Beetle
Mr. Miller ask him why the
the costs in Canadian and
New York State Power
American bread industryAuthority purchased steel
Canadian c o s t s—Flour,
from Italy while Bethlehem
100 lbs.. $4.50; labor $1 to
and other steel firms were
SI.25 per hour; other inoperating slightly over onegredients, fifty per cent
third capacity. *
less than in the United
States.
Chris Di Domizio,
American c o s t s—Flour
1890 Linwood Ave.
.100 lbs.. S7; minimum wage,
FOR POPULAR appeal, upstate districts pay $8.87
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$2 to $2.50 per hour.
the t w o - volume manage- an hour for medical consultT h i n k Positively
ment survey of public wel- ing services, as compared
These few cost factors do
fare .. in New York State with $4.85 in New York City;
not take into consideration
Is
Her
Advice
doesn't strike
other economic conditions
(F) that aid to dependent •
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I
SEE
ONE
MORE
exthing that!
which favor the Canadian
children expense- is rising
ample of negative attitude will catch up
four times faster upstate
bakeries, but it will explain
than in New York City.
the reason why the Ameri- in Niagara Falls when the w i t h t h e ;
can bakeries "cannot" low- bakers ask the city to stop World AlmaAs to the "good advice,"
t h e . import of Canadian nac or t h e
er, their prices to meet the
the
survey provides that in
Boy S c o u t
competition of the Cana- bread.
"depth.';
We were most im-'
dian, low, bread prices.
The local bakers give Manual.
pressed by its proposal to
But
for
I am sure that If the you less bread for more
shift around case-loads
so
t
h
o
s
e
w
ho
money
and
worse
taste,
and
that assignments Jare not
same econbmic factors in
savor
parceled out 70 to a casethe baking industry pre- then cry because people awould
distinctive
will not buy their poorer
worker like a deal of cards.
vailed here as they do in
b l e n d
of
product.
Instead more experienced
Canada, more bread would
i r o n y , naivcase workers would get fewhe baked, sold and .thereWhen suppliers and mer- ete, startling
BEETLE
fore more, people would be chandizers start to give the statistics and g o o d advice er but tougher cases.
employed.
We felt it a valid objectpeople a good product at a written in the best literary
Mrs. Antonio Trusello
competitive price, then the tradition of the Ph.D thesis, ' ion that welfare workers
840—19th St.
people will buy locally. it would be hard to do bet- spend more time giving out
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money, than \ on removing
Until this happens, people ter.
reasons for having to give
will buy out of town and
The survey was done by
Foreign Imports
imported goods.
Cresap, M c C o r m l c k and
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Passing laws to restrict Paget, management consultHurt Americans
WE'RE WILLING to " go
competition, which seems to ants, for a legislative sub- along'with the observation
TO RENE SAUVAGEAU,
be Niagara Falls' answer, committee headed by Sen.
I am not a bread man or only hastens the rctrograda- Henry A. Wise, Watertown. straight cash relief somethat federal insistence on
a baker, but a person who tion of the city. Let's start
P a r t of the irony stems times i m p e d e s rehabilitabelie.vcs in Americans living to think positive for a from- its good advice that tion.
in America should buy Am- change.
public welfare o f f i c i a l s
4 i ^ C t , ! i k e . t h o suggestion
erican.
should
do
a
better
job
of
MRS. RUTH SEEDY,' letting the p u b l i c know that Education Department
I hope that in the near
8228 Bollier Ave. what they are doing. Yet on specialists in guidance and
future your source of in*
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come will be threatened by
the f r o n t page of e a c h rehabilitation be called in
foreign imports, and then
v o l u m e is the notation: to pore over .caseloads
Plea of Bakers
We suspect the state
"This report is confidential
you will realize how foolishmight
spend less time studyarid intended solely for the
ly you have spoken.
Called Amusing
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sample
cases —though
information and benefit" of- not as much
Before writing your letter
less as the
I FOUND the complaint
yo ushould have checked to by city bakers rather amtis- the immediate r e c i p i e n t report seems to feci (We
see how many gas stations . ing, considering that the hereof." (It turns out this think there is a certain
notation goes on all C, M policing value In spotrchecks
in Buffalo have folded in
market today is flooded
& P . reports, and in this
the last year or so. Also,
with foreign merchandise, particular situation means and that the electorate gets
check the Canadian prices
irate by mink coat cases)
mostly from far d i s t a n t
nothing).
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The same goes for the
for labor and . materials.
cousins. Here on our border
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amount
of time spent deAlso, check their standard
our "kissing cousins" are
WE SENSE, TOO, some termining relief eligibility—
of living compared to ours.
to be boycotted, not for in- irony in the report's obser- something the report finds
R e m e m b e r , when you
ferior merchandise, but for vation that "case records are unconscionable.
condone imports that hurt
competition which is the
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voluminous, repetitive, and
other Americans it will
backbone in merchandising. disorganized." The report itWE SEE VALUES In a
eventually get back to you,
Let's have fair play with
self has 270 pages, is num- proposed central registry at
Leonard J. Anderson,
•all nations. Perhaps a solu- bered separately by chapters state level for tracking down
1883 Broadway,
tion could be arrived at. so there arc seven page 3's, irresponsible fa t h e r,v in
Grand Tsland. X. Y.
rather
than deprive some and "Is the most repetitive more "work relief projects"
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state document we have in electronic record-keeping
ever
read,' • •
of
a
better
buy
on
the
"staff
Are Bakers Fair
(This j s supposed to save
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$500,000 to $1 million); In
Mrs. Roy L. Cooper,
To Retail Stores?
AS TO THE STATISTICS, freeing social workers from
177
67th
St.
Cresap,
McCormic and Paget clerical chores; and in not
A FEW BAKERS are com* •
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raise
a few eye-brows c h a r g i n g parents when
plaining about the amount
by
noting
that: (A) The youngsters are sent to trainof- bread imported from
He Appreciates
local administrative cost per ing schools (the cost exceeds
Canada at lower prices. In
case in New York is highest •? the" collections).
my estimation, "this is good
W o r k of Fireman
in the country; (B) some
In general, we.think that
ctitfipctiUon*
PLEASE CONVEY a mes- .local welfare districts have while tougher/ administra.
These bakers could rea- sage of thanks to the fire- employe turn-overs annually tion from Albany might be
lize a profit by eliminating men who answered an emer- of 50 per cent (the average a good thing that enlighthouse-to h*o u s e deliveries gency call on Jan. 13, to is 34 per cent); (C) that a ened "grass roots" reforms
and letting the retail stores administer oxygen to mv quarter of the aid to de- self-imposed would be better.
sell to consumers. Some wife. The calLwas answered pendent ddldren eases in
We ddubt that this.is what
bakeries even maintain re- very promptly. Words can- Erie county involve illiglti- the legislators had in mind
tail stores in direct com- not explain my appreciation. macy; (D) that medical wel- in contracting for the re> petition, with the retailers
fare costs have risen 328 port hut if that's what it's
Matthew Milzarski,,
\ with .whom they do busi- :..
North Tonawanda; N.Y. per cent since 1951; (E) that i.-used for, so what. •
Report on Welfare
Naive But Useful
Thomas M. Tryniski
309 South 4th Street
Fulton New York
13069
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