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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, December 11,1975
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WILMINGTON, Del.—George Long, a gun craftsman
from Newark, Del., lights his pipe the old way, with a
magnifying glass and the sun at a recent bicentennial
celebration here. (UPI)
Meter maid
tickets train
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -
The meter maid saw the engine
of the American Freedom Train
parked illegally and she did her
patriotic duty — slapping a
ticket on it.
The locomotive was on
display Wednesday at Fisher
man’s Wharf, but was parked
in a “non-allotted space,” the
ticket said.
Asked what would be done
about the citation, a Freedom
Train representative shrugged:
“We are just going to take it
down to the Hall of Justice and
pay it.”
The rest of the Freedom
Train was parked at the
Presidio, where it was open to
public viewing.
Israel
offered
planes
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Pentagon has offered Israel an
unspecified number of Fl 5
Eagle jet fighters, America’s
newest warplane.
The Pentagon, at the request
of Israel, refused to say how
many planes would be sold,
how much they will cost and
when they will be delivered.
It will be the first time the
McDonnell Douglas Corp. Fl 5
has been sold to another
country. The $12.5 million plane
is so new the Air Force has
fewer than 30 in its fleet.
The Flss were designed to
replace the F 4 Phantom as the
backbone of America’s fighter
force.
A twin-engine, twin-tail air
craft able to fly 2.5 times the
speed of sound, the Fl 5 can
carry four Sidewinder missiles,
four Sparrow missiles, 960
rounds of 20 mm ammunition
for a six-barrel cannon and up
to 12,000 pounds of additional
ordnance or electronic gear.
Earlier this year, the Air
Force said the Fl 5 broke every
climb-to-altitude record on the
books, some of which were set
by the new Soviet fighters the
Eagle was built to combat
The Pentagon also said
Wednesday it will sell Greece
eight RF4 fighters and com
plete the modernization of the
Saudi Arabian Air Force.
LARGEST CORKWOOD
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.
(UPI) — The largest known
corkwood tree in Missouri is
seven feet tall with a crown
spread of two feet and a
circumference of two inches.
Growing older
Suburbs need their old folks
By Lou Cottin
All over the country there
are village fathers who
respect and like their older
residents. They express their
affection in practical ways.
They vote adequate sums of
money for the maintenance
and expansion of senior
citizen activities and services.
Nikka and I live in such a
village. Westbury, Long
Island, a good place to live
and bring up our children
when we were young. Now, 25
years later, we enjoy the com
munity even more. Part of the
pleasure is our senior center
and the 400-plus contem
poraries we meet there.
One thing we’ve liked par
ticularly: The board of the
school district adds some
money to the senior citizen
service kitty. It's not a large
sum. As of this year, we
seniors were alloted 113,500 in
a budget of more than sl3
million. That’s about one
tenth of one per cent.
Actually, it’s only a gesture,
a little thank you. But, small
as the amount may seem, it
says to us, “We’re glad you
old folks are here. We ap
preciate your support. You
haven't had children in school
for years. Yet, you’ve
generally voted ‘yes’ on
proposed school budgets and
paid your school taxes.”
Then, in early fall, a letter
arrived from the school board
asking us to vote for a revised
budget to cover the 1975-76
school year. The letter con
tained a warning: “If this
budget does not pass, the
school system will go on an
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LOS ANGELES—So what? “Laura,” a trained macaw that performs at Busch Gardens
Amusement Center, does a pretty good job of upstaging skateboard champion Carol
Mapson of Costa Mesa, Calif., as the two roll through the park during a demonstration
kicking off the holiday season. Carol recently placed third in the world junior freestyle
skateboard competition. (UPI)
austerity’ program.” What
followed in the letter was a list
of the miseries that would
befall parents and their
school-age children if austeri
ty came.
Fortunately, the budget was
passed. What concerned us,
however, was that one of the
items of service that would
have been cut if the budget
had not passed was the tiny
one-tenth of one-per cent
($13,500) sum that has been,
as we see it, a respectful nod
to us and other senior citizens.
The money doesn’t really
matter that much. One way or
another, our well-directed
senior center and our ex
cellent programs would con
tinue to serve us. It’s the prin
ciple of the thing that counts.
In this and any suburb, the
basis of what may be called
“community loyalty” lies in
the hands of the elderly.
We’ve lived here longer.
We’ve paid taxes longer.
We’ve participated in all the
changes and improvements
that have made the area grow,
made it attractive to new
residents. If our suburb or any
suburb is a pleasant place, we
the elderly made it so.
It is we now-turned seniors
who built the new houses of
worship and supported the
older churches and syn
agogues. We established the
local service clubs, raised the
money for the Boy and Girl
Scouts, bought and manned
the firefighting apparatus,
built the fine new library. Our
affection for and our pride in
this place of our long
residence are demonstrably
part of the climate of the com
munity.
For those reasons, any
proposal that aims to save
money by reducing services to
seniors must, in the end, be
self-defeating. The school
board especially should know
that. We seniors represent
and confirm the moral
strength of the government,
the business and the social
pride of the community.
Our young neighbors now
outnumber us. Many, indeed,
are birds of passage whose up
ward mobility is conditioned
by the need to make several
residential moves during the
years before retirement. They
leave suburb A in order to set
tle, temporarily, in suburb B.
CORNER WEST TAYLOR AND 11 TH ST. — PHONE 227-1313
Dtpsuh iMured B) F.0.1.C
There, they will also find, in
evitably, that the older
residents will have created
the conditions that make the
new suburb attractive.
The young must understand
that concept. They have a
stake in establishing an at
mosphere that keeps the aged
in the suburb and in the com
munity of their choice. We
senior-agers are important to
the young, however tem
porary their stay in our com
munities. Among other things,
we pay taxes that help keep
their kids in school. We now
have no children of our own in
the schools (and are not likely
to have anv).
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN )