The Portsmouth Herald from Portsmouth, New Hampshire • Page 15

Recreation needs to be studied in Rye DeMotay proclamation Mayor Bruce Graves recently signed a proclamation or Portsmouth DeMolay Week. Left to jfleht are Rodnev G. McQuate, master councilor, the major, and Bruce Peschel. junior counsilor. (Staff Photo) Connecticut Indians have other plans -'HARTFORD (AP) JJmnecticut Indians don't plan celebrations with the $1,500 the State bicentennial commission gave them.

Instead they'll tesearch their ancestor's Migration away from white settlers. the Indian population on ffie East Coast to celebrate the bicentennial is pure hypocrisy," Irving Harris, chief of the aghticoke tribe and irman of the Connecticut Indian Affairs Council. "'Gov. (Ella) Grasso wants us IB participate but what do we have to celebrate? Should we celebrate the broken treaties unkept promises? Should we rejoice over the slaughter of TJgr people and the spoiling of Apr lakes and forests? Some of us don't even have our in- JJfependence yet." iUThe council, a state en- grfronmental protection department division, represents 'Gospel music Open Doorway Coffee Jjjouse will host "The Mes- wsngers" on Saturday night at The group is comprised of Goodrich, Wendy Mracek, "Starvin Swain and his sister Xfebbie Adams, all of York. The will share the message of Jjgsus Christ through the media music in a meaningful way.

evening, March 16., JTrancis Sykes" of Rye will nt a colorful slide program the Land of Israel. Presenta, will begin at 8:30 very one is encouraged -Wat- 1 id both of.these programs. 4810 was 5,000 of Connecticut's 10,000 Indians. Harris says the commission awarded the council the money "to usein whatever way we saw fit." "We want to trace the migration of the state's northern Indians who were being educated by the Moravian Missionaries in the early 1800s," Harris s.ays. He says the Mohegan, Pequot and Schaghticpke tribes left when Kent residents, unhappy that Indians were learning to read and write, forced the missionaries out of -their northwestern Connecticut station.

The Indians left for Canada, Maine and as far west as Wisconsin, Harris says. He says the purpose of the project is to re-establish liasons and to relocte the descendents of migrating Indians. "The biggest mistake the Indians made was never haying left anything behind. We were not like the ancient Greeks and Romans who left their history in stone and the written word. For the Indian everything was passed from generation generation by word of mouth," Harris says.

He notes that old army records often provide the basis for- Indian research but the council's bicentennial project will try to trace the migrations by speaking with Indian descendents. Harris says two other Connecticut tribal councils, the -Western Pequot and Golden Hill, plan to revive Indian -handcrafts with grants they received independently. feut for the most part, Harris won't "march in Connecticut's parades until we too have something to celebrate. "We are going to be the one dissenting note on Uncle Sam's birthday," Harris'says. RYE The needs of recreation in Rye find how they can best be met 'will be the discussion topic of the Rye Civic League at its monthly meeting on Wednesday evening, March 17.

The Recreation Commission was originally set up at the Town meeting of 1965 to "concern itself with all that which has to do with recreation in the Town of Rye and that it have general supervision of all Town -Lands, buildings and facilities reserved or accepted for recreational use by the Town or its Selectmen." In actual practice, however, the Commission has limited its field of interest to managing the 98 acre recreation area off Locke Road and providing a day camp program here. It has allowed the Rye Little League to have a playing field in the but does not supervise the program. The Commission also built a basketball and general purpose tarred court which is for use by the public but this is not suitable for football or soccer. Feeling the need for such games, a group of parents organized a football program for the boys in town this past -year at their own expense. Other parents have paid to have their children take advantage of the hockey program in Portsmouth.

At the town meeting last Saturday night 15 petitioners inserted an article into the town warrant to set up a summer soccer program under the guidance of trained physical education instructors and a- special instructor for handicapped. It was proposed that all children, boys and girls, from 6 to 16 would be given an opportunity to play. The $3,000 article was defeated by nine votes. The budget Committee had also lopped $1.000 off of the Recreation Commission budget with the suggestion that since the day camp program was losing attendance that it be continued only in the morning. One commissioner has ex.

pressed the opinion that it may be difficult to find qualified leaders who would work only part time. Although the $5,983 budget was'largely based on day camp expenditures it is understood that the Recreation Commission can use the money for other recreational activities. Fonda scheduled for surgery NEW YORK (AP) Actor Henry Fonda reportedly has been 'scheduled for surgery Tuesday to remove a tumor in his lung believed to be nonmalignant. Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles confirmed on Sunday night that the 70-yearold Fonda hadbeen admitted. Political Advertisement However, with the Recreation Commission more or less committed to the Day Camp program, and with their budget pared to a minimum, townspeople wanting an expanded program will probably have to organize it and pay for it themselves as did the men who instituted the football program.

Some people have expressed interest in getting a town ice skating and hockey rink. Therefore the Civil League is holding an open forum so that townspeople may make suggestions on the type of recreation they would like to have the town provide in the future, or that they themselves would like to organize at present. The Recreation Commission and the Board of Selectmen have been invited to attend and contribute to the discussion in the hope that suggestions will be forthcoming on how the Commission and the Townspeople can work together for their common interest in the year to come. The forum will be held in the cafeteria of the junior high school on Wednesday, March 17 at 7:30. All interested townspeople are invited as are any teenagers who would like to express an 'interest in recreational opportunities.

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