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Taxpayers Have Opportunity To Protest Pay lo Alderman Public Hearing on Salary Now Sqen Everything Plan Scheduled to be Held In City Hall Wednesday Tomorrow is election day and some 4,000 citizens of this city are eligible to exercise their right of franchise. We hope that the jrreat majority of our citizens will vote in this gubernatorial year. But we also want to remind our citizens that on Wednesday, at 7:30 p.m., there will be a public hearing in the Municipal Building on a proposition to amend the city charter so that each member of the Common Council can receive $600 a year. The Star is publicly on record as opposed to a salary for aldermen, believing that economic conditions now make such a step unwarranted, and we hope that many of the some 3,000 taxpayers will jam the Municipal Building to oppose the move taken by members of the Common Council. Council's action comes at a time when real estate is carrying the heaviest tax load of all time.

As we have mentioned editorially, Council will have a hard time staying within the statutory tax limit. It is paradoxical that the Common Council, while voting itself a salary for the first time, also voted to raise the tax limit. This cannot be put into effect until January 1, I960, since it must be ratified by the Legislature, which does not convene until January. By that time Oneonta's 1959 budget will have been adopted, and it can't be changed after it goes into effect. We're going to have more to say about tfie tax- limit in future ediotrials, but right now our chief concern is the salary issue.

The aldermanic salaries come to only $3,600. But to pay these salaries the aldermen must eliminate something from the budget, a sidewalk here, a catch basin there, an extra- policeman, perhaps a much needed vehicle. Then, terrible thought! What if the 74 members 'of the city commissions should step up and say: "Dear Sirs: We also serve. How about paying us?" That would add to the budget. Where would it come from? Incidentally, $44,400 would raise the city tax rate more than $2 per thousand of assessed value.

We don't like to seem tight-fisted with our aldermen. We appreciate their service. We also appreciate the service of the 74 board members. We'd like to see all of them get pay if we had the money. But when we have so many places to put our money, and a limit, placed on taxes, we don't think it consist- ent or appropriate for the aldermen to vote themselves a salary.

Our many fine aldermen of the past considered it an honor to serve the city without compensation. And we mentioned before, if the time has come when it is no longer considered a privilege to act as a public serv- ant. in this city, then this newspaper is in favor of a city manager form of government in the interest of economy. Any citizen is privileged to attend the hearing in the Common Council chamber Wednesday night. This Local Law is only a proposal so far, although it has been voted by the Common Council.

It cannot become effective until 45 days after the date it was passed. The effective date thus is December 5. If enough citizens protest this proposed law, the mayor may be induced not to sign it. We urge taxpayers to attend the hearing and voice their opposition. That Savage Beat Despite the popularity of rock 'n' roll among the immature, there are multitudes in this country who despise the stuff but find it had to say why.

It is pleasant to record that these relatively inarticulate foes of the over-and-over-again jungle beat that passes for dance music have a highly articulate spokesman. This spokesman is Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, now 73, who has been singing the praises of good music for half a century or so. Dr. Spaeth is not one to confine himself to this' or that type of music.

He appreciates Beethoven, but he also takes pleasure in a first-rate harmonica solo. Of rock 'n' roll he said the other day, "There are limits to human tolerance." Now to the reasons, which we believe will jibe with what so many persons have inarticulately felt about rock 'n' roll. "It's nothing," Dr. Spaeth asserted, "but pure savagery--but the savages did it better. They used it to work themselves up to enjoy orgies or commit murders." And that's not all.

Spake the veteran music commentator: "Rock 'n' roll has practically no melodic value. It. is simply a monotonous, savage beat, repeated over and over." So there you have it, detesters of this low-level thump, groan and wail: It's savage and monotonous. But don't say that in a crowd of teen-agers! Letters To The Editors Big Money Hurts Right-to-Work Bill in California, Says Pearson LOS ANGELES. One interesting aspect of the California right to work battle is going to be whether certain big corporations deduct their right to- work contributions from i income taxes.

Internal Revenue agents are taking careful of the whopping big donations plus billboard advertising' which General Electric and Westing house, together with a lot California companies, have poured into the battle to pass a right to work bill. The list reads as if it came from Dun and Bradslreet. General Electric sent 517,763.89 out to California lo put across a right to work bill. Westinghouse sent $5,000 from Pitts burgh, H. J.

Heinz of "57 Quaker Oats $1.500 from Pittsburgh, Dick Mellon another 51,000 Quaker Oats 51,000 from Chicago, the Koppers a Mellon firm, another 5500 Pittsburgh, Continental Oil 51,000 from Houston, the Hilton Hotels 52,500 from Chicago, with 51,000 from Standard Oil in Chicago. Gen. Lucius Clay, close friend of President Eisenhower, a authorized 5750 from his company, Continental Can. Internal Revenue agents a equally interested in some of the By Drew Pearson huge donations for the right to work bill which came from inside California Signal 0 i 1 $5,000 Southwestern Portland Cement 55,000, California Portland Cement 55,000, and Oil $5,000 the Los Angeles Turf Club 57,500. Western Gulf Oil, owned by the Mellon family, 510,000, Hydril Company 55,000, Realty Tax and Service Company 512.500, a Robert Di Giorgia.

the big California rancher who fought Agricultural Workers Union, 54, 500. Big contributions by big business, incidentally, are one reason the right to work law in California is having a sledding. KNOWLAND LOSES BALANCE For 12 years William F. Knowland has been one of the steadiest Senators in Washington. He has been able to take criticism and grin, able to chat with opponents as if they were pals.

Today he has lost his balance. He has been making wild pitches with the desperation of a ballplayer whose arm is lired, who knows he has lost the game, who should be taken out of the box, but who still thinks that somehow, some way, he a win. The reason for Knowland's Keep Control Of Tensions By Herman Buncensen, M. D. The Oneonta Daily Star 102 Chestnut Oneonta.

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By Mail In Otsego, Delaware, Schoharie and Chenango Counties: Three months six months One year SI2.00. Outside Areas: 3 months $4.50 6 months S8.50; 1 year S15.00. Entered as Second Class Matter, Oneonta, N. Y. Monday, November 3, 1958 Relax, brother.

You're not the only one with tensions. Almost everybody, in fact, has them to some degree. Tensions, you see, are self- protective reactions. are an automatic response threats to our general wellbe- ing, whether it be physical, mental or financial. UNIVERSAL riSOBLKM And since everybody faces such threats, most everybody has tensions.

Most of us are able to keep these anxieties under control, at least most of the time. Although an occasional case of anxiety may be downright painful, it is a perfectly natural thing. You have to live with it, conquer it and then forget il. Some persons, however, become anxious and tense over every little thing. For them, life is just one crisis after another, and such persons are ripe for prolonged emotional upsets.

How can you tell when anxiety and tension are becoming intense, when there is danger of real trouble? EIGHT TEST QUESTION'S Dr. George S. Stevenson, national and international consult a for the National Association lor Mental Health, has devised a series of eight questions which will give a pretty good indication ot the seriousness of the situation. When emotional upsets become frequent and persist, that's the time lo ask these questions: 1. Do minor problems and disappointments throw you into dither? Do you find it difficult to get along with people, and do people have trouble getting along with you? 3.

Do the small pleasures of life fail to satisfy you? CAN'T STOP? Are you unable to stop thinking of your anxieties? o. Do you fear people or situations that never used to trouble you? 6. Are you suspicious of people, mistrustful of your friends? 7. Do you have the feeling of being trapped? S. Do you feel inadequate, suffer the tortures of selt- rioubt? TIME FOR ACTION If your answer is yes to a considerable number of these questions, it probably means that disaster is staring you in the face and it also means that you should take some action.

Best advice I can give you is to see your doctor and ask his help in straightening out your troubles. But there are also several tings you can do to help yourselt. For one thing, don'l expect perfection either in yourself or others. Don't bottle troubles: a things And don't insist that you are always right. Kvon if you are, give in occasionally.

QUESTION AN'D ANSWKH D. Recently I have been getting a burning of the eyes. Would the burning be caused by a vitamin deficiency? A. Burning of the eyes can be due lo an allergy, infection, a growth in Ihe eye, or to a lack of vitamins, as well as anemia or tuberculosis. wild pitches are, first, the fact that he never should have run for governor of California; second, the people around i including his wife.

Mrs. Knowland is a lovely lady, much too young in appearance to be a grandmother, who champions her husband with a passion verging on hysteria. That very obsession, and the wild charges Helen Knowland is making in the course of her defense, are costing her husband votes. Also aiding Knowland are two public relations men, a Kluckhohn and Hal Short, Kluckhohn followed a spectacular career as a New York Times Correspondent, being jailed by the British in Africa, arrested and deported by President Peron Argentina. U.

S. Ambassador George Messersmith sent a 20- page report to the State Department after the Argentine incident calling Kluckhohn irresponsible and unbalanced. Despite this, the State Department under John Foster Dulles gave Kluckhohn a job. He also worked for four years for Republican National Committee, recently was farmed out to help Knowland win the governorship of California. He has not been a stellar asset.

Hal Short is a Portland, advertising man who concocted some questionable literature defeat Sen. Richard Neuberger in Oregon in 195-1, failed, then was rewarded for his failure by a job in the State Department. Short also lectured regularly before the GOP National mittee "school" on "How to get out the Republican vote." He, along with Murray Chotincr, Vice President Nixon's friend, later exposed as a lobbyist, was among the GOP committee experts on campaign tactics. It was this oscillation back and forth between politics and the State Department, incidentally, that has lost Secretary Dulles Democratic support for a bipartisan foreign policy. Short is credited with arranging contact between Knowland headquarters and Joe Knmp.

the convicted rabble rouscr and hate peddler. When Mrs. Knowland lined up with K'amp. it cost her husband thousands of votes. SECRET AMMUNITION' Last spring.

GOP Congress man Pat Hillings of California, now running for attorney general, addressed a group of California Congressional wives, all supposedly Republican. However, Mrs. Jack Shelley ot San Francisco, whose husband has both Ihe Democratic nnd Republican nominations, was present. Not knowing Mrs. Shelley was in the group, Hillings announced: "Wail until this campaign gets tinder way.

We have some secret ammunition up our sleeve that will reverse the trend and is sure to bring us victory. We really have the goods on these hoys." "We'll be waiting for a secret a i i chided Mrs. Shelley aflerward. "Oh," said the startled Hillings, "I didn't know you were here." If the recent scries of charges and whispers used by Knowland and Hillings against their 'ponents are what thr Congressman had up his sleeve, Ihey haven't been effective. The polls show a McCarthyesque campaigning is no longer etlectivc-- at least in California.

Reader Hits at Local Option in Town Editor, The Star: In the mail October 30, received a letter signed mittee tor the betterment Oneonta Township. The letter was written to urge all voters to vote yes on all four local option questions. What reasoning should I say what nonsense? Well in their way of reasoning It would make cents, (not sense), and dollars for a certain few, at the expense and disgrace for scores of others, both young and old alike. In many cases loss of character, self respect, loss'of job, broken homes and last but most important of all, a lost soul for all eternity. They state before voting should ask ourselves: Should we continue to cause our business people to lose business to other merchants.

A very good and timely question. Let me give the answer, absolutely no, but let's treat all business people alike and go about it in the only right and sure way and vote alcoholic beverages out in every town and city. Booze in any form is the Devil's business and there is not one honorable thing you can say about it. If the younger people a lived some years ago when there was a license in the town Oneonta they could perhaps appreciate w'hy the town is dry today and has been for years. There was the Shady i corner of Chestnut and Oneida St.

where the new Tydol gas station is located. The Willow Brook hotel where the Empire Sales Stables are and the Pond Lily Hotel near the corner of Oneida St. and Country Club Road. Ask any of the older residents how they affected the community. Ask them about the reputation of any one or every one of those places.

Also at West Oneonta there were two hotels, one on each corner of that small village. Ask any of the older residents what reputation those places had. Booze is just the same today as it ever was and yet some people are still willing today to engage in a business which has never brought one minute true happiness to themselves or any body else, just lor the gain of the almighty dollar. Booze has been the means of robbing youth and adults happiness, character, self spect, true friends and everything of life worthwhile. It has caused more heartaches, loss of character, broker, homes and ruined lives than any other cause.

Vote NO on all four local option questions and safeguard the youth of our town and save the towns reputation. Be a committee of one for a Better Town. Conscientious Voter Oneonta, RD 3, N.Y. Money Is Wasted Editor, The Star: Your story about the taxes going up in Delaware County ought to open a eyes. It behooves every citizen and taxpayer to watch to see that no money is wasted and that is what we have town supervisors for.

But Plenty is wasted. Here are some things that taxpayers should be informed of. Why has the number of people in the County Sheriffs office just about tripled in only a couple of years? Is there a crime wave in Delaware County, or is this just more political jobs for the taxpayers to pay for? Under the former sheriff (Al Page) mere was only three in the Sheriffs office. Now under the present sheriff there are so many they fall over themselves. Is there any sensible reason for it? Maybe the supervisors deserve a raise, but if they were doing their job they would reduce the county budget instead of increasing it.

A good place to start would be the sheriff's office. The sheriff never felt it necessary to have fancy uniforms before. Now they are all decked out in uniforms! Who pays for all this the taxpayers no doubt. And cars for the sheriff, too. Another place where there is a lot of waste is the welfare department.

I see they have over $800,000 for that. Another place where the taxpayers could take a pretty close look. Why don't the supervisors cut about Governments Fear nflation Controls By George Sokolsky Many a person feels better with a slightly elevated temperature; so, in the economic system, the early moments of an inflation seem very pleasant indeed. There is more money ground. There is more credit.

Those who go in for various speculations feel that they are millionaires and that they can throw money about. Their women buy more expensive gear and their restaurant bills rocket. Even workmen find the earlier phases of an inflation lots of fun. Who needs cheap cars? Why buy second hand cars? Get only the best. A down payment on evezything there's plenty more where this came from, i The next stage of an inflation affects principally the salaried and while collar people, public officials, clergymen, teachers, professors and Ihe like.

It affects what, in our country, is regarded as the best element, those who keep the nation going. Prices go up; salaries are stationary; the standard of living very slowly goes down. Also at such a time, those who live on pensions, on the income from bonds, from life insurance policies become worried because somehow they cannot live on their incomes as well as they did a year ago or the year before that. They are not yet in trouble but they do complain. a THK WORKER, in this stage, is better His union fights for higher wages and Rets it.

In the United States some industries have cost of living es- cslator clauses which provide for an automatic raise in wages when the price index rises. As long as purchases continue in the basic industries, the worker is satisfied. Bui in the marginal industries there is panic. There buyers' resistance asserts itself early and unemployment appears. This also i true in the smaller merchandising units.

In Ihe United States, for reasons unrelated to the economy, the stock market in rewarded by many as an index to economic conditions. It is never The panic of which was in the making from 1021 on and which lirM i and then moved around tin. 1 world, did not show up in Ihe United Slates i 102!) when it hec-amc a Irag- edy because, of its velocity and universal tiled. As a mailer ot fact, the stock market moved upward as the economic well being of the country moved downward. Many of those who jumped out of windows when they thought the end of the world had come, never had any solid eqmties in anything.

The farmer usually is safe in a period of depression because he can grow his own food and he can eat. American agriculture in some respects presents exceptional circumslances because of Ihe unusual high standard of life for agricultural workers compared with similar workers in other countries, the specialization of production, the high cost of agricultural machinery, the dependence of the farmer upon borrowed capital to move his crop. In a word, the American farmer is not a peasant; he is, on the whole, a middle class business man using capitalized machinery of a high order. He no longer is self sufficient nor is his life without big city associations. Therefore an extreme inflationary period can hit him hard.

Nevertheless, in bad times, the afrmer becomes increasingly important as government faces the demand for food from the unemployed proletariat in Ihe industrial centers. The farmers must produce whether times are good or bad. If individuals cannot pay, government must with some acceptable currency, if only to avoid revolution. THK FINAL STAfiK of every inflationary period hits the upper middle classes and Ihe very rich most drastically. Both groups always try to protect themselves in advance.

Some send their liquid assets to other countries, which is now being done by an unusually large number of Americans. Some are fortunate and manage to keep most of their money. Others buy stocks as a hedge; they always lose ihoir money in the end. Some invesl in diamonds and other gems. They survive if they have other sources income so thai they can eat.

Otherwise they have lo sell at a sacrifice. It has been established a stones are a good hedge against i a i Governments fear Ihe political consequences nf fighling Fin in- a i It loo often means ing a ceiling on profits, wages, prices and credit on every- i It "Hen requires a sharp control nf currency. Govern- munis usually delay imposing controls until it is loo laic. hall of that out, they could save the taxpayers money and still give themselves a raise. They would deserve it.

I see they are increasing the salary of McFerson (the highway boss) lo $512,000, up from SC.OOO. This is a 25 per cent raise. Maybe il is deserved, bill 25 per cent is a bigger increase than mosl people get even afler quite a few years. Every taxpayer in the should watch the county budget and study where the money goes, and the same with the, villages and towns. Some increases can'l be helped, some are justified, but a lot of it, too much of it is just waste.

Every year our taxes go up. and every year we see more money being spent foolishly. Why don'l Ihe supervisors cut out of the useless jobs, and a lot of the waste. That's what they are elected for, and then we'd all join together and say "give them a good raise, they deserve it." Mrs. Ferdinand VandermeUlen Hamden RD, N.

Y. Stratton for Aged Editor, The Star: I am 76 years of age and live all alone up here at Mariaville Lake. At the beginning ot the Sam Stralton for Congressman campaign. I was appointed on his board as one to ADVISE SENIOR CITIZENS. I was more than delighted to read where your good paper has offered support to Sam.

I thought you perhaps may use some experience I am having during my duties for Mi'. Stratton, and maybe some of your readers may like to read the following. Upon good authority, such as the Old Age Pension Federation at Buffalo, I have learned that something like 400 old age pension bills are now in the hopper at Congress. Everyone I have been in touch with including Edwajd Marshall Slone. 201S Gray Schenectady, N.

who is over SO years of age, and spending years and the remainder of his life in the interest of old citizens, they tell me if just ONE BILL AND ONLY ONE BILL was introduced it would pass both house? the first vote. Since both Colorado and California have given their oldsters 5105.00 a month, and some with a paid up blue blue ribbon card, and in other insjances where the cost of living goes up the allowance goes up with it. I feel it has been a terrible shame for years the manner in which old citizens have been treated, and what a blessing it is to have a man on the licket for congress whom we can look forward to doing things at last for old people. You. Mr.

Editor, are to be complimented to take such a good stand in favor ot your elderly citizens in your district. Every oldster along with his whole family ought to make a missionary of themselves and contact their neighbors and friends and what a blessing it will be to have Sam Stratton GO FOR THAT OLD AGE PENSION AND GET IT. Lewis McCuc Dela'nson, RD 2, N. Y. Favors Talbot Editor, The Star: During the past 14 years we have been represented in the State Assembly by Paul Talbot.

We are fortunate in this district of having such a fine man represent us. He is honest, dependable, courageous, and a true representative of the people. It is a pleasure for me to personally endorse his reelection and to urge others to vote for him on Tuesday. Paul has the welfare of all the people at heart. He is sincere and tireless in his efforts to do Ihe best for Otsego County.

His reelection is imperative. Roger G. Hughes. Mayor City of Onconta, N. Y.

New Derbies Edior. The Star: Business is business. One wonders, though, about this move to bring back the derby hat. The stiff cady, as it was called, was a symbol of the gay nineties, which old timers can tell you were not so full of merriment. Burlesque comedians smashed them.

Charlie Chaplin wore a derby in his early days ii the movies, but the bowler was on its way out in 1028 when Al Smiths brown derby brought a hit of fleeting fame to the headpiece. The worrl from New York is a halters are pushing derby hats this fall. Unless manufaci- urers relent, other cities are lo go Ihe hard sell later on with a big variety of colors being offered instead nf the old time black or brown. Heres suggestion. Why don't Ihe hat manufacturers try a little more promotion on the halless men of the country? A i persuasion might lead In trying on a snap brim.

Collegian Onconta, N. Y..