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THE JOURNAL- NEWS, SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 1972 New Hudson queen The Hudson River has a new queen, the sleek Dayliner which made its maiden voyage Saturday from New York to Poughkeepsie and back with stops at Bear Mountain. The $3.5 million vessel, first of its type built in America in 145 years, replaces the Alexander Hamilton which had plied the same route since 1924. The Hamilton, last operating side wheeler in North America, was retired last fall and donated to the South Street Seaport maritime museum on Manhattan's east side. Although slightly shorter than the Hamilton the Dayliner's capacity is 3,500 passengers compared to 3,200 for its predecessor. In a pinch 4,000 could be accommodated by the Dayliner.

Its noon arrival at Bear Mountain Saturday, was cause for a miniature celebration for scores of Rocklanders. Among the welcoming crew was Nash Castro, director of the Palisades Interstate Park, who leaped aboard to Cr greet the captain and owner. Captain George Clancey beamed with pride as he slipped the ship against the dock. A licensed captain for 42 years, he has been with the Hudson River Day Line 20. Equally as proud was Francis J.

Barry, president and owner of the Hudson River Day Line, and the Circle Line. Ex- Ex-cityite By ROBERT KNIGHT Staff Writer How much has Rockland changed over the last 30 years? The flight to suburbia has brought thousands of new people and the face of the county has changed radically. But are the people who are moving here now any different than those who were here before? George Edward Bouton owns the well-known Bouton stores offering furniture, stationery, greeting cards and office machines to the community. He has lived here since he was 15 and has had a share in the financial harvest of growth. George McKenna, a young college professor with three small children, has lived here three years.

In that time, he has been active in several local civic brouhahas and has run for town council in Clarkstown on an independent homeowners ticket. Staff Writer Ellen O'Han interviewed the two men and found their views different in many ways. But they share one thing they both care about Rockland. George McKenna, ex-Bronxite, is cultivating fruit tree saplings in his front yard to give the kids a feeling for things that grow. McKenna.

who came to the suburbs with the city-dweller's dream of a better life. invested his savings in a raised ranch home only to have the pipes burst when he moved in. "Caveat emptor, baby." was the realtor's comment. McKenna says "let the buyer The radicalization of McKenna and his wife didn't take long. They joined their neighbors to fight Reynolds Aluminum Co.

when it tried to build a can plant in their hamlet. and they fought to save Congers Lake from developers. They won. and McKenna. despite all the fault he finds Designed by Robert A.

Simons, the Dayliner was built by the Bellinger Shipyards, in Jacksonville, the only U.S. company willing to undertake the venture, Barry said. She completed the 850-mile journey to New York on June 4 and is continuing a service which began in 1863. The Dayliner is the first diesel-powered vessel in the company's history and is the 14th ship operated by the Day Line. Other day liners, starting in 1863, were the Daniel Drew, Armenia, Chauncey Vibbard, Albany, New York, Mary Powell, Hendrick Hudson, Robert Fulton, Washington Irving, DeWitt Clinton and the Chauncey M.

DePew which retired in 1940. By means of comparison the new Dayliner is 308 feet long and 65 feet wide, while the Hamilton was 338 feet by 77 feet. The Dayliner's engines are two General Motors diesels which propel it at 16 knots. She carries a crew of 43. The Dayliner's 150-mile round trip takes nine hours, starting at Pier 81 at 10 a.m.

and returning at 7 p.m. On the way it stops at Bear Mountain and West Point, where passengers can get off and reboard on the return trip. Some of the mahogany nostalgia may be gone amid the Dayliner's steel and chrome, but a 109-year-old tradition is being continued. IN DAY LINER Warren Inglese photo New Dayliner rides the Hudson's waves as it approaches Bear Mountain has growing concern for Roc Rockland property." and says that officials tend to "wink their eye" when private owners break the law in developing land. The situation is "all too likely" to be prevalent in areas where people are farther apart and don't affect one another.

Rockland's urbanization or suburbanization has brought neighbors closer together and decisions made as far as a town away can affect others. McKenna says. The transplanted residents realize this more readily than the oldtimers, who tend to think of growth in terms of the large open spaces that were here 20 years ago. lot of the attitudes of a lot of the oldtimers been all growth is good, like the western movies where they say 'someday there'll be a town there. "I think what we're talking about here is what might be called the despotic theory of mine.

do what I private property, mine. all want with it. McKenna doesn't agree with those who have a "fatalistic attitude." though, and thinks growth. can be and should be controlled. Longtime resident shares interest with suburban living and local politics.

sees a chance to act on local level. "People can go down to town McKenna says. and "scare or cajole the politicians into effecting change. but in the city, life is more atomized and there's a sense of McKenna says that. ironically, he and his wife were glad to visit the Bronx to "get away from it all when the local life got too hot for them and the phone was ringing with neighbors' calls.

Oldtimers who have lived with nature for a while take it for granted, he says, but newcomers know what has happened with uncontrolled growth and have the memory of the city fresh in their minds. Warren Inglese photo George McKenna inspects burned out building Mental health seeks funds (Continued from IB) jail and educational and rehabilitative programs. Tuckman says there have been weekly therapy sessions with about eight prisoners to discuss emotional problems plans once they are discharged from jail. Counseling services are available to prisoners upon discharge, from a mental health professional, vocational rehabilitation specialist and education specialist. Appointments are made with the Department of Social Services for monetary assistance if necessary and the mental health professional, acts as a liaison with the probation department and public defender's office to make the discharge smoother.

The new proposal also includes crisis intervention by a social worker for the first week a prisoner is admitted to the jail and contact with the family. The forensic team will be responsible for all coordination, follow-through and aftercare services for prisoners. The goal will be for an individual. when he leaves the jail to be in a treatment program, if appropriate. to have gotten housing where necessary; to be reunited with his family and to have started some productive vocational activity.

The proposal includes a work release program where inmates. upon approval, could on their own recognizance, enter a rehabilitation, vocational or educational program. Inmates who are not approved for the work release program would take part in a vocational evaluation and training program in the jail. The total forensic team proposal includes a separate training plan for 105 of the county police officers presently before the Office of Crime Control Planning. Police would be trained in handling the mentally ill, the use of community agencies and sensitivity training.

The proposal calls for consultation with criminal court judges in addition to the current psychiatric evaluations as to whether or not individuals are drug addicts. There are newcomers Mc- cerned with their new homes Kenna disagrees with, though than with rearing their child- the ones who "think in ren. terms of plastic swimming MeKenna talks about the pools" and who are more con- theory of private Lights out Orange and Rockland Utilities lineman George Petry prepares to remove 2 foot wide tree which was felled by high winds Saturday evening. The Bengt Larsen Bengt Larson. 39.

of 37 Lester Orangeburg died Friday in a car accident. Born in Chicago, he formerly lived in New York City. He had been a resident of Orangeburg for ten years. As the proprietor of Larson Mechanical Corporation of Westchester and Rockland counties, he was a member of the Builders Institute of Westchester county. An Air Force veteran of the Korean War, he was a member of the Wayanda Lodge F.N.A.M.

and of the Orangeburg-Blauvelt Rotary Club, where he was the club's secretary. He is survived by his wife Evelyn; two daughters, Lisa and Lynn; and a son, CarlEric all at home. Services will be held 10 A.M. Tuesday at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Pearl River. Interment will follow at the Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, N.Y.

Arrangements were made by the Scarr Funeral Home, 160 Orange Suffern. Friends may call at the Wyman Funeral Home, 100 Franklin Pearl River. "I have no intention of mowing the lawn for the rest of my life." says Ed Bouton. Bouton, like Rockland County, has reached middle age, and the years of child and trying to "make it" into the ranks of the successful have leveld off. He and his wife would like to give up their large home in Pearl River for an apartment, maybe a condominium, and they're willing to pay the high price that may be involved.

Bouton isn't a sentimentalist about Rockland's lost youth. but he does see the unfortunate aspects of unplanned growth. He says the county needs an overall plan. and wishes the county planning board which has little influence now would be given So some teeth. The white-haired Bouton who made it big as a natural salesman in a county that was ripe for burgeoning enterprise is rather obviously a member of the "establishment." He belongs to a country club and is active in business and civic organizations.

Bouton remembers a day when political leaders were men from the small town mold that fit most others here, and everyone knew them as neighbors. Bouton himself was offered chances to run for top offices, but turned them down. He says now he sometimes thinks he should have gotten more involved, but his temperament wasn't suited for politics. and he turned to community service instead. "I think that the majority politicians try to be responsive," says Bouton, adding that the political framework hasn't kept up with the growth of the community.

Bouton may not feel the same sense of alienation from local leaders as a recent arrival might, because he knows many of them, and he may not be so suspicious of them. "I was never overwhelmed by the growth of Rockland, even today I'm not." he confides. po General Hospital. He was a disabled veteran of World War I and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post, in Spring Valley. Born in Russia, he had lived in Spring Valley more than 35 years.

Survivors are one son Melvin Fudin, of the home address; a daughter, Mrs. Esther Neder of Queens; two brothers, Harold Fudin, of Spring Valley and Morris Fudin of Miami Beach, and two sisters, Mrs. Rose Brandinger of Spring Valley and Mrs. Nettie Brotman of the Bronx. Funeral services will be at Hellmans Memorial Chapel, Lawrence Road, Spring Valley at 2:30 p.m.

today. Interment will be at Workmans Circle Branch 63C cemetery in Spring Vailey. RIKKI MOSS GUITAR STUDIO INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP ALL AGES CALL FOR INFORMATION EL 6-4720 of housing, but Bouton carries it further, and talks about the sameness of people. He feels we have "locked ourselves into and I'm part of it a middle-class type of population. According to Bouton.

it's a lower middle class. and he doesn't see much chance for it to be any different. Executives don't come here because there are none of their fellows here to welcome them. Bouton says. Bouton points out that there is a great need for apartment housing.

and that older citizens and the young have no place to live. He says the county may have coped more realistically with housing needs after World War II. We are lucky, Bouton says, that we haven't had much of the static. row-on-row houses that were built after the war on Long Island. Bouton accepts the bad with the good, and feels Rockland may benefit from growth in the long run.

Warren Inglese photo Ed Bouton and his dog, Mike tree. off Tweed Boulevard. Nyack. fell on power lines serving the Nyacks and parts of Tappan. Valley Cottage and Piermont OBITUARIES Claire Robins, 76.

3. of 40 S. Cole Spring Valley, died Friday in Bronxville. She was the widow of Nathan Robins, the former director of the First National Bank in Spring Valley. A longtime resident of Rockland, she was active at the Temple Beth-El in Spring Valley.

She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Theodore Feinberg of Tuckahoe. A son, Harold of Riverdale: four grandchildren; and four great children. Services will be held 12:30 P.M. Sunday at the Riverside Memorial Chapel in Mount Vernon, N.Y.

Interment will follow at New Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Queens. Arrangements were made by the Riverside Memorial Chapel. Mabel Wanamaker Claire Robins Mabel Wanamaker, 69, of Eastern Star Chapter 205, Nyack, and a member of the First Reformed Church in Nyack. Born in Nyack, she had moved to Mountainview, N.J..

where she had lived for some 42 years, returning to Upper Nyack seven years ago. She is survived by her husband. Roy Wanamaker; two daughters, Mrs. Ruth Chapman of Wayne, N.J., and Mrs. Thelma Lewis of Pompton Plains, N.J.: eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at the Flender-Price Funeral Home, 118 High Nyack on Tuesday at 11 a.m. Interment will follow in Oak Hill Cemetery, the Rev. James Parsons officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home Monday from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Charles Fudin Castle Heights Avenue, Upper Nyack, died Friday at the Ra- Charles I Fudin, 78.

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