PATRIOT FILE PHOTO october 15, 1981
FOREIG N STUD ENTS – Under the American Field Service exchange student program these young people, all seniors at Barnstable High School, last Saturday held a benefit mini-carnival at the Centerville Recreation Center. From left in front are Dianne Rocheteau, AFS Club president; Jane Lujuni from Malaysia; in back, Kristen Grant and Dolly McHenry, host sisters; Susanne Glykis, West Germany, and Lars Hansen from Denmark.
We give in today’s paper the record of every disaster, not previously given, by the late most severe storm that has come to our knowledge; and a melancholy record it is. Our paper of last week went to press so soon after it, that we had then received but few particulars. The effects of the gale we find to be much more destructive to both to life and property than anticipated. Fresh accounts of shipwreck and death has daily—we might almost say hourly—reached us since its occurrence, and probably there is many a sad tale of disaster yet untold. No storm so disastrous in its consequence has occurred on the New England coast within the memory of its oldest inhabitants;--certainly none by which this County has been made to suffer so severely. Our isolated sea-bound district appears to have felt its dire effects more than that of any other potion of this coast. Our shores are literally strewn with the wrecks of coaster, fishermen, and other craft, and the loss of property that has ensued, will fall heavily on that class of our citizens who are least able to bear it. The loss of life too, among our hardy enterprising seamen has been comparatively great and will be deeply felt and deplored. Many a hearth-stone has been made afflicted by the sudden bereavement of a husband or a son, in the mysterious dispensation of an all wise God.
The Frank Percival Weir off Sandy Neck, took about 1800 Bass one tide, and about 700 more the following day.
Mr. W. E. Kimball and Mr. J. P. Leavitt of Lynn and Mr. W. J. Harrison of Centerville caught the handsomest string of the last Wednesday that has been taken from the Lake this season. There were about 35 pickerel in all ranging from one to 5 1-3 lbs. each. As it took the three men to land the largest one the honor of catching him will have to shared equally.
The building committee of the proposed new school-house at Osterville has met a headflaw, and is to lay the matter before the town at a special meeting. $14,500 was appropriated at the last annual meeting for a 4-room brick, or tile construction, school building. The bids made by contractors, we are informed, averaged about $22,000! for such construction . It is now up to the citizens of the town to make an additional appropriation, or instruct the building committee as to what shall be done.
The Barnstable Village hall is sadly in need of assistance. It is a cause that is worthy and long suffering. Unless something is done and done soon there is danger of losing it. No one wants that to happen. Therefore when an opportunity comes to help, don’t say the price is high and stay at home. Your opportunity to help is coming soon and everyone is expected to turn out and help a good cause.
Delay in finding a selectman so as to be able to secure aid from out of town is believed mainly responsible for the Dennisport fire gaining such headway Monday night that it destroyed five stores and a barn, almost wiping out the business section and entailing a loss that may reach $200,00. It had its start in a small rubbish fire built by children in the rear of the Frank Howard barber shop which was ignited and was burning briskly before discovered. Even it is alleged a telephone operator refused to call out the local department until she was assured that it was firemen asking it. Summed up the loss includes the A.&P. store, the Gray-United store, the Howard barber shop, the Ginn dental rooms, the Ginn drug store and a large barn in the rear of the last named. Other stores were blistered by the intense heat, or caught fire and were saved with great difficulty.
With Captain Alan E. Burden, former personal pilot of Winston Churchill at the controls, the Cape Codder is flying in tomorrow to Hyannis for a tour of Cape airports and a formal christening ceremony at the Hyannis seaport. The $33,000 twin-motored Grumman airplane ambulance is the gift of the residents of Cape Cod.
The Barnstable County Agricultural district supervisors held their annual election at the Town Building, South Yarmouth. Mr. Hilding S. Hord, owner of the Mystic Lake Dairy Farm in Marstons Mills, was elected as district supervisor to serve for a period of three years.
A training for jail officers from county penal institutions throughout the state will be conducted for two weeks at Barnstable County House of Correction. It is the first program of its kind on the county level in the history of the state, according to Sheriff Donald P. Tulloch, and is set up “to help jail guards do a better job.”
Mrs. Mary K. Montagna announced today that she is a candidate for selectman and will run in the March election for the single vacancy on the board. The well-known businesswoman and restaurant owner is the first candidate to officially enter the fight for the post now held by Selectman Martin Hoxie.
Cape Cod Cablevision Corp. has targeted completion of 31 miles of new cable “plant” in the town of Barnstable by January. Spokesperson Joan Wheeler said preliminary “make ready” work, consisting mainly of arrangements with Commonwealth Electric Co., which owns the utility poles from which the new lines will hang, is about two-thirds complete. The new cable when actual installation begins will fan out from Cotuit, to Marstons Mills and on the North side to Barnstable and West Barnstable. Meantime the network plans to hike channel capacity from 12 channels in most places to 20 channels.
The town council has some financial wrestling to do in order to find money to fund the school building committee’s request for over $16 million by next May. The committee will appear before the council tonight asking for initial start-up money to get the project rolling. The state formula for school building allowance calls for 135 square feet per student at a cost of $136.50 per square foot. For a 900-student school, which is the planned sized, this comes to 121,500 square feet and $16,584,000.
The only thing that the proposed wind farm for Horseshoe Shoal in Vineyard Sound has generated so far is a lot of discussion. Prompted by a resolve from the council president and vice president objecting to the placement of any power-generating wind farm off the town's southern coastline, the council received a whirlwind presentation from Cape Wind Associates of Yarmouth and Energy Management Inc., the two firms combining for the half-billion-dollar joint venture.