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Titanic mystery
Fifty-five years ago this month, the aeveet and finest passenger Ujajer on tae North Atlantic, on ber maidon voyage and thought to be unsinkable, struck an ieoberg late at night in midocean. The White Star Urn's Titanic went down in two hours and 1,500 peopie were drowned. That was perhaps the most dramatic news story (other than wars) of the centqry. The tragedy is still very much in the public eyein both books and films, partly' because some believe that the loss of this ship and so much British-American society almost ended a way of life. Certainly World War I, which followed two years thereafter, ended that era's way of life for all time. A few years ago in England and in Norway questions were seriously raised about the long-accepted version of the tragedy. It will be recalled that

The Bystander
. . . Looks Around Our Town
By JIM CONWAY
If you've ever entertained an "overnight" guest who stayed two weeks....loaned money and didn't get it back....or known somebody who always expected you to foot the nidi, chances are you can sytnpatbrnse with the Ohio couple who were Monte WooiHey's hosts in the famous Br oad woy play 'The Man Who Oame to Dinner." Wooley played a literary lion who falls on the couple's icy step while staying at their home during a lecture tour. During his stay, he wouldn't let them use their own living room, insulted his hosts' (friends, ran up a huge phone ball, encouraged the daughter of the house to elope with a man her parents thought impossible, persuaded their son to become a school drop-out and instated a flock of penguins in residence. But while the cWpie in "The Man Who Came to Dinner" were unwilling hosts, another fictional character may have been the most ungracious host of all time. Ulysses, the hero of Homer's Odyssey, came home after 20 years at sea to find that a gang of young men had moved in and were about to force has faithful wife, Penelope, to choose among them. Penelope tricked them by promising tori^arryone of the suitors as soon as she finished her weaving, but each night she would 'unravel what she had done during the day. Ulysses, with the help of his son, Telemachus, and some faithful servants slew alii the suitors with the exception of one whom he politely asked to leave. Such barbaric methods were unheard of at Hampton Court, the famous residence of England's King Henry v m . There were no corridors at Hampton Court; instead each room was built railroad fashion onto the next one. Each day a whole procession of freeloaders (tactfuHy called courtiers) went tramping through Henry's royal bedchamber! ., Such embarassdng lack of privacy,need not be encountered by today's hosts and visitors, thanks to the increasing numbers of convenient and comfortable hotels and motels in and around our communities. In fact, the trend now, according to researchers, is for sophisticated visitors to stay at a nearby hotel or motel even* when visiting family or intimate friends. In this way, there's just enough privacy and separation to allow different generations and individuals to enjoy the visitand yet allow each person a chance to live at his own pace. A glance at the Hoted and Motel Red Book at any of the more than 6,000 American Hotel and Motel Association facilities or wherever travel is arranged, traveler'' and hosts can book accomodations ahead of time swiftly The country noblemen who lived during the reign of King Louis XIV of France didn't need a Red Book to find out where they should stay; they shared the magnificent palace at Versailles whenever they could. These royal moochers were entertained lavishly in exchange they found it necessary to swear their loyalty to the king . Another king who lived at Versailles later on, Louis XVI, was not so lucky. On Oct6, 1760, a howling mob of Parisians descended on the palace and forced the king to return with them to Paris. There, over the matter of revolution, he literally lost his head. These abductors may have numbered among them the same squatters who made camp in the famous Louvre in Paris during pre-revodutionary days, building bonfires and making merry inside. Another sponger who helped precipitate a revolutionthis one in Russiawas the sinister monk and court favorite, Rasputin. Because of his apparent powers to aiievite their son's condition of hemophilia, Rasputin became the permanent house guest of Czar Nicholas II and his wife, and gained great political power. Afsian nobles and meddling in numerous controversial affairs of state, he was poisoned by Prince Yusupov. But when that failed to bring death' to the mad monk, Yusupov and friends shot the moocher and threw his body into an icy branch of the Neva River. So next time you're having trouble getting nil of an "overright guestor keeping your . distance from one of the great spongers of todaytell him the story pf Ulysses and his guests. o* the "sad" >end of Rasputin; maybe he will, take a hint.
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the ship California* was widely blamed for aot having rescued the drowned. It lay within sigh*, so i$ was said, aad failed to answer emergency rocket signals.its captain baing asleep and the watch aoi MaMvsnff ^ a t tha signals meant Yet the chief officer of the Norwegian ship Samson, that was in sight of the Titanic that night, a vessel that was engaged in illegal seal hunting, recently said that it was* this ship which passengers on the Titanic saw that fateful night. The Samson stole away, not wanting to be detected. And so perhaps the Californian, its captain and its crew, have been wrongly blamed all these years! Who can say! All one is sure of is that on the anniversary of the great Atlantic tragedy the fateful event is still very much alive.

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New York's lottery

Governor Nelson Rockefeller and legislators recently came to an agreement on details of the state lottery which has been enacted in Albany. New York thus becomes the second state with such a lottery the profits from which are earmarked for. the public schools. Experts predict the state will take in about $160,000,000 a year from the lottery. Over $70,000,000 will go to New York City education and about $48,-000,000 to upstate New York schools. Instead of the original jnan of four annual lotterv drawings, there will be 12, Tickets will cost $2.00 (or less) and from every $1,000,000 in tickets sold, $300,000,000 will be given to participants in prizes, ranging in amounts from $100,000 to $5,000. Tickets will be sold by Western Union, banks and some government offices, and there will be 15 winners for every $1,000,000 in tickets sold. Winners will be determined hy drawings from a ^fishbowl" and a double system of drawings has been arranged to eliminate tjie joossib^ity of tampering or fixing. * ~ w l S The lottery and its production of vast revenue for education is a significant state government experiment being watched by many other states. In addition, to denying gamblers much of the inevitable numbers take, it assures citizens an honest game and chance, with the knowledge that if they lose, their money will go to educate the state's children. latest step in that direction came recently when South Vietnamese leaders approved a Constitution which called for a presidential election this September. After a chief executive is elected a two-house legislature is to be elected (within 12 months). Meanwhile, the President and his cabinet will carry on the work of governing the nation. The importance of this move toward democracy is very great to Americans. Of course, the country has not been free for centuries and the procedure now beginning in South Vietnam is designed to make that country a democracy with universal adult suffrage. Critics of the war, of the Johnson policy in Vietnam, say we will be unable to create a democracy in South Vietnam, that the people do not understand it and will not keep it after we leave. Certainlv it is true that unless a there is some progress in evidence soon, that the South Vietnamese are moving in a domocratic direction, and that this government has the support of a majority, many mtrte will question expand sion of the war there. Thus the great test of our recent foreign policy in Asia and of our present hope lies to a large degree in the progress or failure of the effort to create a democratic and free nation in South Vietnam. No community will grow and develop when its people are envioiis of each other. ^s When you discover a liar you know how to protect yourself against what he says.

Zimmerhackle
Old ZimmsrHackls Observe* flow Philosophy, poetry, comment, humor and advice hy Joseph W. Burgess, cofounder and editor of The BREEZE before the turn of the Century.

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Americans are, and must be, concerned with steps toward democracy being taken in South Vietnam. The
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Doctor Talk
Many Americans are overweight and as usual many are trying to lose this excess fat many because of fright from heart disease etc.but many are seeking to lose weight at this time "because everyone t is dieting these days." Millions of Americans are

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frantically looking for an easy way to lose excess pounds. Those seeking relief from excess weight must realize that formula diets are not a rational approach to the problem it Is simply another fadfor the patient must approach his problem with complete under-

standing and attempt during bis dieting period to educate himself to correct dietary habitshe cannot Mve the remainder of his life on 900 calories doily. The person who feels that he needs to reduce should consult fads family physician, and then after a careful examination and consideration of the patient's needs and physical requirements a sound, sensible diet will be suggested. The chief problem of most Americans overweight is not that of excess obesitybut what actually produced this obesity. The actual cause is the intake of excessive calories beyond the daddy requirement. Thus, the hoped for result is not just the rapid loss of obese tissue but the education of the patient in good and bad dietary habits and the proper consumption of ordinary foods. The formula diets, when used property under supervision certainly should cause no trouble to those who are not grossly overweight but merely desire to "lose a few pounds from here and there." The serious problem arises when individuals are excessively overweight and woo may be suffering from a serious ailment such as diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease or heart disease-losing excess weight will be beneficial but it must be done slowly or serious complications may develop.

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THE WEEK'S tETTERit-I have a veiy unusual problem. I'm grounded for a couple of leeks which means no dates, phone' calls, nothing! I can't see S T boyfriend either a u d i m afraid he'll get tomeoi*^newto have his kicks with and then Z back to me. I don't know SJen he's serious and when he s J S T I love this guy very much. ^Idon'tkn^whatheAinto of me. I wonder if I *m just another girl he wants to "make E S w I t h F He's pretty popular

gether. I don't know what to do, date others, or stay with him and get hurt" OUE 1EPLY: You appear certain of one thing if you stay with him you will get hurt You have reason to feel this way. If you wonder how he feels about you, if your worry about what he does most of the time, you know feat he is dating other girls. Isn't it foolish, then, for you to give up other dates? If you mink he is just trying to make time with you, give him up before you do get hurt No matter how sharp he is, the girl g ^ n t o . I ^ ^ a ^ w n m a n y he will want the most is the one S t o because I ^ ** S ^ he finds hardest to get tit which be did, a coupte S ^ w h i J Yet, I wonder what L i s * * of the time. WVre ne Qoca - r__j_ t*ffnine*to-

The Honorable Job E. Hedges of New York CRy was the speaker at a patriotic mass meeting held in ttie Opera Stop dead still, and think, House last evening which was occasionally. It will do you attended by about 1300 people. good. The members of the Dansville Foot NotesThose given in Board of Trade, under whose payment of cbiropoddst's bills. auspices the meeting was held, The sharp man doesn't tell were seated on the stage. The of it. He let's the other feBlow balcanies and stage were elabfind out orately decorated with the "On which side should a man > Stare and Stripes. Boy Scouts sleep?" asks an enquirer. ,. efficiently acted as ushers and Wehesten to add that if the assisted Camp Fire Girls both nigHtjis cold, he'd better sleep in putting up and taking down the decorations. A writer of "Don'ts" i n a ' Taken by death: James M. : Buff ado paper said it is a mis- Hamsher, Mrs. A. James Evey. take to work when you are not. Story from Canton, O.: War in m fit condition to do so. And ' brides cannot expect sympathy yet the city papers are contin-,,.. uaSy poking fun atthe country '' "if their efforts to help men brethern for saying foolish evade the country's call end things. He must toe a waytoack, in the divorce courts,) Judge indeed, who would launch Harvey F. Ake said he^e. Marforth such a sillyl idiotorial riage licenses broke all recas that one, if it was put off ords last week, most of them at Buffalo. The men who work [ being issued to persons barely are not, as the rule, dn a posi- odd enough to take out such tion to ddebate^ and have to permits. News Note: The peepers work whether in a fit condition were heard for the first time to do so or not. To cease work means j starvation for them- this season last night. The Jackson Hose Co. has selves and their dependents. Some* of these "don't" writers just erected a flagstaff over had better knock off from that its building on Exchange St. West Sparta Grange served sort of work, for they have an Easter supper at its regular evidently long since passed the point where they are "in meeting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John VanWagnen. a fit condition." Dansvdlde plans an agriculturail radly following issuance of proclamation by Governor 1907 . . . Whitman. The Town Board last week appointed Charles Curry as highway commissioner in place 1 9 2 7 . . of John Huver who has reEarl Karros, 16-year-old Danssigned. Mr. Huver's resignation ville youth was killed when was tendered on account of struck by an auto on Main St. poor health. Delegates from seven lodges Everybody will Gibe interattended the annual meeting ested in the announcement in of Livingston District I.O.O.F. another column that Hadiley's here last week. moving pictures wild appear at Pupils from Avon Central Heckman's Opera House on School are on strike, demandThursday. ing that a new contract be A shooting affair took place given to Principal John E. at the lodgings at the old Gerfin, who, it was reported, malt house on Jefferson St. is to be discharged. some time last night at which The Village Board has aptime Charles Smith received * proved the election of Eugene a bullet wound in. the wrist. We are without further par- Stiegler as fire chief. ticulars of the event. , Kenneth Howe, a student at the University of Buffalo, is About 500 people enjoyed the dance given* at the Heck- -visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Rowe. man Opera House by the Red The F. A. Owen Co. is stagMen The music was furnished

1937 . . .

The parents of two Groveland youths 'have been awarded $17,500 in the suit against the Delaware, (Lackawanna and Western Railroad after the boys were killed when the car dn which they were riding was demolished by a fast train. The Board of Trade is seeking to establish the Taylor Aircraft Co. plant here, following news that the Bradford, Pa., plant of thatf company bad r burned down. The proposed prant would toe located near the Dansville airport.
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Boy Scout Troop 38 became the first Dansville unit to win the Mayor F. Jay Smith Trophy as a crowd estimated at 3,000 witnessed the second annual kite-flying contest here Sunday. Edwin Troost, a 14-yearold member of the troop, took first prize for the largest and best-constructed kite. His entry was a giant eight feet high and six feet wide. The smallest kite, entered by William Kraft, was less than two inches high and was constructed of tissue paper and broom straws. Miss Irma Kraft, noted author, critic and producer from New York City, will speak tomorrow night at the Physical Culture Hotel here on the subject "Inside Hollywood." A total of $500 has been contributed by Dansville industries toward the $2,000 fund drive for money with which to erect welcoming signs at the five entrances to the village. Arthur Gibson wiU author a special series for The BREEZE on the activities of drgh school seniors making the annual trip to Washington, D.C.

Joe Petersheim, manager of the G. C. Murphy Co. store here, recently met and talked with ace pro golfer Ken Ventura, winner of the 1964 National Open. Venturi attended a recent company meeting to introduce a Ke n Venturi golf shirt which the firm widd handle. Brother Petersheim warns his golf opponents that the meeting with Venturi wiM have to help his game and that he is looking forward to a big season.

Uncle Dan's letter

DEAR MISTER EDITOR: about zip codes in their sleep. I was reading this piece This piece reported that where, a country editor in Congressman Whdtener h a d North CaroHna bad wrote to took the matter up with anCongressman Basil Whitemer other Congressman n a m e d of his District announcing he David Henderson, that was on was going to close his news- the Post Office and Civil Serpaper. He reported the red vice Committee and that ContE'pe the postal department in gressman Henderson was talkWashington had put on him ing to a feller named McMillan was gitting too heavy to carry. that was Assistant Postmaster According to this piece, he General to see if they was anytold Congressman Whitener he thing that could be done to had to zip code ever paper he save the country editors of mailed, and if he had a dozen ^rica from going crazy. papers goin to some city it is just thinking, Mister took four or five different while I was reading codes fer this one city. Farthis piece that if you was gitermore, he reported, he had to ting on the brink of insanity sack up <his papers and label from red tape you might want 'em fer all the different trains to write to Congressman Henand fer ever direction on the derson and git your name in compass. He allowed as how the pot. he was doing everttong but deBut if you editors was golivering his papers in person. ing crazy from red tape, you On top of that, he said, he had ain't by yourself. Us farmers to mark off all the ads in the has now got in the mainstream paper, figger the percentage cf Jruvernment red tape. Since of news agin the percentage t h ^ , passed that new Federal of ads and file a report with Wage Law covering farm ever issue. workers, a pore farmer hiring And he claimed if he want- a helper or two fer a few ed to send a complimentary weeks has to hire a bookkeepcopy to a friend he had to er on the side. Fer instant, I print "Sample Copy" acrost the have already got one Form top of the front page, put a from tjh>* Labor Department zip code on it, stick it in a that was 10 pages long in the separate mail sack and have fine print. I can't even read it weighed separate fer the it, much less fill it out. bulk rate. He said him and his The answer fer me, Mister wife and two daughters had Editor, is that I ain't going to been devoting full time to the hire no, helpers. And I aim to postal regulations but the load take this matter up Saturday had final brung his wife down night with the fellers at the with a nervous disease and store. his two daughters was having Yours truly. nightmares a n d screaming

1957...
DarosviHe males are expected to look as though King Gillette had never been born by the time June 6 rolls around. Members of the Board of Trade are hopeful that a luxurious growth of whiskers will be displayed 'by imen to publicize the Old Fashioned Bargain Days promotion here. Prizes for the best beards will be awarded. Some Livingston County supervisors have already taken a dim view of enactment of o regional sales tax law proposed at the first meeting of a newlyorganized, six-county federation of Boards of Supervisors recently in Canandaigua. Piling up runs in every inning Coach Leo Johnson's high school baseball team clobbered Canaseraga by a 23-2 count here Tuesday. Nelson Martin, Jon Shay and Chuck Minster shared hurling duties for Dansville.

Dansville Breeze
Founded In 1883. Published Every Tuesday at 113 Main St Dansville, N.Y bj Genesee Valley Press, Inc., Orville Allen, pros.; James AConway, v. p.; Helen Allen, sec.-treas. A b o Publishers of The Genesee Country Express | JAMES A. CONWAY. EDITOR

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