NIAGARA FALLS GAZETTE Mtmlxr Gannttt Group o< NtwsP»P«n FOUNDED IN 1854. V N Htrman E< Mwcker, General Man*3«'r „ Thomas J. Btrrisan/Ed.tor \ Hamilton B. Mlztr, Mansslrta EdHor ti.mw* «« 101* with 1r* Niasara Falis JoyrraL %Jr!/^H Gazette W » J ^ C ^ « « j P u W W y Frank E. Tripp. presrfen!,- Herman c. Moeclcer, secreiar/, Ray M. Van wa'srven, ajslstant tKretary. NATIONAL ' ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE - &«<"** Aoveriiiina Sales, inc. TELEPH0NE5 Alt Decartrne^ti Dial BUtlef 2-2311 CANADIAN PHONE. Wain OHica Et-3'fl 8-3333 JVtmoer o» »** AsK*ya»td Prtu 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 o 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 • • * •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 123 Deuro Drive *• . • • should be drawn from di • « * 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 • 4 * ityle of the new President 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 " • • • • • • By Peter Edson . Untitled Document 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." * ON THE * * DOMESTIC 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 * * * 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 * * » 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 * » •* 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• * * chan who is willing to take 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 * * * . $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 • . 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 • * • 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 • • • 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* * • 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 • ing 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). . The same goes for the for labor and . materials. cousins. Here on our border * * * 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 * . * » 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" • • • families of taking advantage 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 » .* *" of Jifc." % $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* • • should 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 www.fultonhistory.com
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