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Newspaper
Free Press
Location
Trumansburg, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1971
Page
12
Drug abuse is not new and has existed for years in the U S and elsewhere. People misuse drugs to feel different to evade frustrations and low mood or alienation. This behavior does not solve personal or social problems but is a flight from them.
The Gallup poll is cited on voter motivation behind the 402 vote against extra school property. The piece notes tax concerns, safety factors, price, and potential future use or demolition. It emphasizes that voters have spoken and the Board of Education must respond, with attention to resulting side effects.
A reader seeks genealogical records for James O Connor born in Ireland in 1837 and emigrants to Ovid and Anoka Minnesota. He asks for cemetery records and newspaper files through the 1940s and notes a burglary involving the Shepsons in Interlake. The letter also comments on local politics and party nominee processes with a closing sign off from Arlee Robinson.
Letter to editor notes Clifford Bower retires after 21 years leaving a vacancy in town government. Describes him as a Conservative Republican who kept the town from debt and navigated politics with skill. Questions whether an official will continue duties until a general election to fill the gap.
Earl Brydges and John Hughes back a bill to permit casinos across New York to increase state revenue. Assembly Speaker Duryea expresses cautious interest then neutrality as the plan struggles in early 1971 session. Hughes argues legalization could curb organized crime by cutting off gambling money.
1835 The Quarterly meeting of the Temperance Society in School District No. 1 Ulysses will be held at the school house on Thursday the 26th at candle light. Wines and Malt Liquors to be discussed. Henry Taylor presiding, C C Comstock Jr. secretary.
Step by step bread and muffin style recipes include individual spoon breads with corn and Parmesan, braided bread with poppy seeds, walnut bread with lemon, and oatmeal bread using oats and buttermilk. Instructions cover mixing, rising, shaping, baking, cooling, freezing, and reheating.
The State Highway Department will begin with developing the highway network in Seneca County as one of its first moves this year. In Ovid Central School matters the Board considers donating the old building to a surgeon for use as a hospital. Nearby, twenty guests attended a family dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs Kenneth Van Nostrand. In 1970 Beverly Myer, daughter of LeConte and Mrs Myer, received the Bausch and Lamb Honor Science Award from South Seneca Ovid High School.
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