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Page 4 WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, WELLSVILLE, NEW YORK Friday, September 26, 1975 Wellsville £aily Reporter Jim Bish reporter Serving Allegany, Potter Counties Ninety-Fifth Year Established 1880 "The of our it not that my words may triumph over yours, not that may victory over mine, but that ua. may discover the most perfect truth." Socratas. Editorial Our universe Take the numerals 18 and add 20 zeroes to (hem. That's the estimated distance in miles across the star-spangled universe as far as astronomers can determine. There are 350 clusters of galaxies, similar to our Milky Way, each containing perhaps 100 million individual stars, similar in size to our sun.

Astronomers note constant movement of these galaxies, some of them outward bound. What the significance is they are unable to determine. In fact, their observations concern detail and not Current studies may lead to an entirely new theory of the universe. Many such theories have been advanced in the past, to be dropped in favor of other guesses. This is not exactly surprising, since the mind of man is not always entirely competent to cope with the problems of this mundane sphere itself.

We have cycles, revolutions, eras, evolutions and other manifestations which may conform to some natural law which escapes the probing human mind. The mind is great on detail but not particularly impressive in correlating the mass into an ordered whole. Man can devise gadgets but he cannot regulate their moral and spiritual impact upon the human family. We are as yet pygmies in knowledge. The marvels we have accomplished are insignificant compared to the knowledge to which we aspire as we search the heavens for the higher intelligence needed if we are to continue to advance.

From the Assembly Make students pay at New York City U. By ASSEMBLYMAN JAMES EMERY One of the things which I think sticks in the craws of many upstate residents when we get into increasingly frequent discussions about "Bailing-out" New York City's financial troubles is the fact that residents of that City are still able to attend the City University of New York (CUNY) tuition-free. The staggering costs of this giveaway program alone to taxpayers everywhere in this state is amazing when you consider that the average tuition for New York State residents at the State University system (SUNY) is between $650 and $800 a student. This fact comes home to hit hardest now, of course, since the Legislature has just completed a Special Session authorizing the expenditure of $2.3 billion in state and public pension funds to keep New York City from default, and it is highly doubtful that the default can be prevented in any event. Last June, when wasn't even known that things in the Big Apple were as bad as they really are, Time Magazine ran a candid assessment of that City's financial woes entitled "How New York Went Broke." Several paragraphs from that article tell the story: "The city (New York) got into its fix by overdoing what it does best; being generous.

New York has always taken pride in its treatment of the poor and oppressed; it has welcomed wave after wave of immigrants, clothed, housed, and schooled them for a better not for themselves, then for their children. No other city in the U.S. has provided such a range of free services and diversions; schools and libraries, parks and playgrounds, museums, zoos and a host of programs aimed at improving mind, body, and spirit. New York spends more per capita on services than any other "The city helps support a highly ambitious and costly university system City University of New York is now larger than 43 state universities. Yet most students receive a free education as compared with the several hundred dollars in tuition charged by almost all state universities.

In 1970, the Lindsay Administration began a program of open enrollment; which permits any city high school graduate, whatever his grades, to enter the university. Of the 19,000 students who have been added, some 15 percent receive an average $30- a-week stipend as well as a free education. The cost of remedial studies has boosted the higher education by $30 million to $585.2 million The day is past in the picture theater world when a lone piano player can sit and play for an audience using a library that has been in service for many years, playing as the fancy strikes him. Now the director organist gets a cue sheet many days in advance of the picture with suggested names which absolutely enalble him to synchronize the music with the mood of the play. No more w.ill "Hearts and Flowers" do for dance scenes, or foxtrots for pathetic situations and here is the great feature of the babcock theater organ.

At the instantaneous will of the organist, strings, reeds and brasses are ready. This instrument has unlimited possibilities. A demonstaration on this marvelous instrument will prove it. It was a splendid struggle from start to finish when Bolivar and Franklin- vUle played on Tullar Field for the first of the series games for Allegany County League championship. Fate favored Franklinville in a score of 4 to 2.

Weather conditions were not condusive to bring out a large crowd but those in attendance saw a mighty well played game. Pity the beautiful, they travel alone The St. by the way, pronounced their name two daughters. Adelaide was the first. She was almost too pretty.

Frances was plain, almost painfully plain. Seldom was there such disparity between two children. Father St. John a lawyer, dismissed the problem by saying, "They'll grow out of it." Mother St. John wrung a kerchief between her hands.

And sometimes a few tears. The St. Johns had affluence. They had a big house on Rumson Road with six baths. They had two maids in black uniforms with white lace aprons and white caps.

They had a seven- passenger Packard, a chauffeur, and a cellar full of wines which Mr. St. John didn't understand. When the girls were tiny, Father and Mother decided to even the scales by exuding more love to Frances. She would need it, poor thing.

Thus when Frances returned from school with a drawing of a red apple, Mother and Father ooh'd and aah'd and told each other, "We have a Michelangelo in the family." Adelaide returned from school with subtle drawings of sunsets with a big Indian chief in the foreground. Her parents said, "That's nice, honey. Go comb your hair." This went on all through school. Adelaide was overcome when her Father pecked a goodnight kiss on her forehead. Frances frolicked in love, being hugged and kissed and praised for everything and for nothing.

The disparity between the two grew greater. Adelaide had long taffy hair which fell in natural waves. Her skin was so soft as a cake of damp soap. The big blue eyes seemed to illuminiate Adelaide's face. Frances had a nose which dominated her face.

Her eyes were small and squinty.The hair was brown or henna, depending upon the season. She had a habit of taking everything she never asking permission. Father wanted the girls to go to the best school. He selected a private girls' school in Jersey. It was a Catholic school, and the St.

Johns had never quite decided which God they would worship. Mrs. St. John liked the school because it cost more. There the girls grew into young ladies.

In the senior year, they were invited to dances. Frances always accepted at once. She danced well and she was unashamed to like boys. Adelaide had excuses. She was never sure of herself within the family, so she felt less confidenct outside.

Frances had a ball. The fellows thought she was a natural comedienne. The beautiful Adelaide often cried into a pillow at home. One night, Frances came home tiptoeing on bottles. She awakened the house to tell everybody she was engaged.

To whom? To Reggie Moore, that's who. Reggie's parents had died in a plane crash and left millions. He had his own personal polo field. Adelaide kissed her ugly sister wildly and wished her much happiness. Frances couldn't understand why everyone was surprised that she had won a handsome millionaire.

What else? Frances was married. She had cars and servants and a polo mallet. Adelaide surrendered. Friends said she was so gorgeous to look at that she would be an old maid. The beautiful one made up her mind to marry the first man who asked.

At a Canteen she met a bashful boy. Ron Huxley was a sailor. He saw Adelaide night after night. They were two losers. One night he gulped fast and said, "Will you marry me?" She said, "Yes." Father and Mother St.

John thought it was in poor taste to marry a bashful boy with no money. Ron told Adelaide that he had orders to "ship out. Wait for me," he begged. She said she would. She went to the chapel at the girls' school.

"Dear God," she said, "I never had a boy before. If you will bring Ron home to me, I will visit you here every day for five years. Every single day." Huxley was a fireman aboard the heavy cruiser "Chicago." It was sunk off Guadalcanal. He survived with horrible burns. The Navy flew him to a hospital in Texas.

Adelaide went to him. He rambled out of his mind. "You're home," she said. "That's all that matters." It wasn't all that mattered. Ron Huxley died of uremic poisoning.

Adelaide had character. She wouldn't double-cross God. She went to the chapel every day. It was her side of the bargain. There she met a young seminarian.

Adelaide did what she had to do. She seduced him. Mother and Father St. John never mention Adelaide. When last heard from, she was living in Berkeley, California.

Frances always felt a deep pity for her sister Copyright 1975 Center closes NEW YORK (UPI) The New York Cultural Center, originally built by Huntington Hartford and later affiliated with Farleigh Dickinson University, closed Sept. 14. The building, on a prime site at Columbus Circle, is up for sale and sealed bids are being accepted through Sept. 26. Huntingto'n Hartford built the Center as the Gallery of Modern Art, to house his collection.

It opened in 1964. Farleigh Dickinson took over in 1969 after Hartford sold his art collection and has been trying to run it since then as a general exhibition center without its own collection. Rising costs and lack of patronage forced the current sale. Among the more startling facts revealed in the Time article is a chart which shows New York City per capita (per person) costs compared to the other major cities of this nation. In education, New York City spends $296 per person (in a city of nearly 8 million) as compared to $7 per person in Chicago, $13 per person in Philadelphia, and $6 per person in Detroit.

If I didn't know better, I'd say those figures were impossible. Now, with New York City in terrible financial trouble, the cry has gone up once again to stop the tuition-free spending spree at CUNY, and rightfully so. Now that cry has been picked up by none other than State Education Commissioner Ewald Nyquist who, just a day after the Special Session ended, presented a plea for a tuition charge in the CUNY system. His request was met with not unexpected protests from the New York City Board of Higher Education, and, of course, that's really the trouble with this whole New York City mess. No one there wants to give up anything.

Sure, it would be nice to allow their students a tuition-free education, but that's obviously impossible, and furthermore, we in upstate areas are helping to foot that bill. Nyquist's proposal, which wouldn't even begin until spring of 1976, calls for a yearly tuition of $650 for freshmen and sophomores and $800 a year for juniors and seniors. This is exactly the same rate charged to all other students in New York State who attend the State University system. The New York City people protesting this suggestion say that it would cause undo strain on students from low income families. Well, without even going into the fact that the same is most assuredly the case for students of low income families who attend SUNY, Nyquist points out that the increased state and federal aid which would be available to most students if tuition were charged at CUNY would more than offset the additional cost to students from low and middle income families.

So that's nothing but a very weak argument. The fact remains that the financial community, both private and public, is looking with a very careful eye to New York City to see if officials there really intend to do something to pull in the giveaway purse strings. That may mean the difference between default and no default. The tuition issue at CUNY will play a large part in that decision. Mr.

and Mrs. P.K. Millspaugh of Whitesville visited the home of their son and family last week. The watch of dainty pattern and design which today is a favorite among women is in striking contrast to some of the watches which were famous centuries ago. Many of these were of enormous size and most ornate design.

Mary, Queen of Scots, was the possessor of a devil's head watch which was of silver gilt and elaborately ornamented. Another skull watch belonged to Mary once by its inscriptions in the 1560's shows Francis II of France presented it to his young wife in year's before watches were supposed to have been brought to England from Germany. She was also said to have possessed one in an ornate crystal shaped like a coffin, and another made at Rouen with a thread of catgut in place of a chain. Some of the early watches were so small as to be set in the head of walking sticks, or in bracelets or pendants. There is also record of a striking watch mounted in a ring in the year 1542.

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