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JAMES E. NEEDHAM. Editor
THEODORE A. MILLER. Adv. ManaIJer
Published Wedne.day by The Meriden Record Co . • t
98 Main St. Phone 628·9611. Second cia.. postage
paid a. Southington, Conn.
Delive,ed by carrier on the town for 10 cen" ~ week.
Subscription price bv m.il for Th" Southington New.
within the St.te 01 Connecticut will be $5.20 a ye.r.
The rate Inr roOntinental Uniled St.te., ou,,:de of
Connecticut, will be $6 a year.
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Legislator Out Of Step
With Basic Town Needs
State Rep. James J. ClYQes (D-27th Dist.) favors a
bill to transfer the revenue from the real estate
sales tax to the towns from the federal government.
He also supports MUs that would give exemptions on
the Prope!'ty tax to veterans of the Vietnam conflict
and allow mwllcipalltles to increase the rate of interest
on delinquent taxpayers.
Olynes Is also ~ an additional income tax,
In other words 8 state or town income tax. He
stands against 1l bill that would allow municipalities
to place a tax on payrolls. The bill, Clynes says, is
in effect an income tax administered by locaUties.
With financial demands mounting upon municipal­
Ities and practically t'vt'ry town quaking under the
inadequate and Wlfalr property tax, Clynes and his
tax Idess are out of step with the needs of the communities.
Cities and IDwn$ must have better taxation systems
If they are to meet the increasing demands of
greater populations and modem living. If towns are
to escape state and federal handouts, then they
should have power to raise the money at home to do
the job that their residents requlre.
The Income tax Is one based upon abillty to pay.
It Is a progressive tax whereas the others are regressive.
Th~ federal government has the ability to
raise Immense amounts of revenue, and It is the
Income tax that gives It that power.
If It Is the taxpayers who contribute to all governmental
levels, why not have each raise the amount
Its residents require. It's senseless to have distant
government collecting great amounts of money only
to dole H back because the proper taxing method
isn't allowed at home.
Regional~lanner
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Benefits Town
The Central Connecticut Regional Planning Agency
on starting Its course of action has focused on
water, sewerage, Route 72 and Incineration of refuse.
Each of these has a meaning for Southington,
and the area's intelligent handllng of Its resources
as they bear on these facilities wiJl also have an
Impact upon our town. '
Perhaps the greatest faclllty needed to use the
area's resources most effectively is a knowledgeable
and practiced hand at the agency's helm. And we
are fortunate for It appears that we have just that
In the director, Melvin:T. Schneldermeyer.
Schneldermeyer came here from the University of
mlnols where he taught a graduate course in planmaking
for metropolltan regions. He was the only
student to graduate from the university with special
honors In both the undergraduate and graduate
planning prag! ess.
He was a senior planner Cor the city oC Moline and
Rock Island County, m . He also won high praise for
an economic analysis of the Davenport-Rock Island­
Moline Metropolitan area.
He defmes a regional planning agency as one that
Is a general guide to member towns for their indivld·
ual development. "We are a recommending body.
We are mostly concerned with pollcles and directlons,"
he says.
As Southington's population grows, it will become
more Imperative that the town utilizes Its resources
efficlently. With a man like Schneidermeyer giving
the area guiding policies rendered from the area'~
features and resources, Southington stands a good
chance of meeting the problems of the Cuture successfruly.
But it rests with the town. t·
Council Learns
Its Burdens
When the town council should be concentrating on
the fundamentals of govmunent and direction for
the town, it is ridiculous to saddle it With the administration
of sewers. Yet this is what the charter has
done.
Now the councilmen find that they don't know
enough about sewerage to make some decisions.
They must now take time to get some information
and beCome sufficiently knowledgl"able to set
charges for a laundry.
This Is a good example of hl"aping on the shoul­
. ders of the councilmen a lot of dl"tails of administration
that only makes it more difficult Cor the
council to carry out Its big job.
Even without Impediments imposed by the charter,
the council has enough trouble sighting on goals
for Ute town and the determination of municipal direction.
The council is just staring its life, and It
has a big job to do In providing deliberation on
basic issues, Hke just what kind of services the town
should give to a community of 50,000 or GO,OOO
people or more.
The council should be relatively free of detailed
work so it can concentrate on policy fundamental to
a new kind of government for a rapidly growing
town. Let's get seWerage out of the coundl.
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Leader Gives ••
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To Girl Scou"g Jf~pe
By EDNA WOOD
Her efforts as neighborhood
chairlady of the Yankee Girl
Scout Council have been reward­
Ing to Rita McDonough ~aylord
of Prospect SL She Is head of
one of the largest areas In the
Council - Southlngton and has
held the position lor the past
foW" years.
In addltlon, she has a troop of
29 junlors - Troop 96 sponsored
by the WUUam Strong School
PTA.
Perhaps It Is the elements of
the program that attracts Mrs.
Gaylord to scouting or perhaps
It Is that she likes to work with
and be with girls.
"'I'h.b Is my hobby - my Girl
Scouts: she said the other day.
.. To tell the truth. I feel 1 gain a
great deal. I have as good a
time as the girls. Also, my associations
With them have helped
me bring up my own girls," she
added as her youngest chUd,
Brian 7, climbed up on thecoucb
beside her.
The old adage - ask a busy
person and he will do a goodjob
- applies here for Rita Gaylord
Is not only a Scout leader, busy
housewife and mother, but also
a kindergarten teacher's aide at
Plantsville school from 9 a.m. to
3:30 p.m.
The uaylords moved to
Plantsville soon after they were
married. Elmer Gaylord, a reservest
In the air force was called
back Into service during the
MRS. RITA GAYLORD
Korean War and Rita found ber·
self alone In their bome In Troop at Strong School. She also throughout the world to grow In
Plantsville _ and lonely participated In other way ... as 8 membership and programming
.. There were not many homes committee member and worker. over the years.
on Prospect St. then," she o~ In Southington, there are 28 Testimony of the success of
served. " I had trouble getting a troops of girl scouts with some the movement shows here In
telephone and probably wouldn't 795 participants. "There are 247 Southington when Girl Scouts
have got one If I were not Brownles,401 JUDlors and 86Ca- meet In a Juliette Low In-Gathalone."
dets. In addition. we have 61 erlng. Mrs. Gaylord said there
Mrs. Gaylord Is a native of
WaterburY _ grew up there
adult leaders and assistants."
the neighborhood chairlady said.
was such a meeting several
years ago at the high school atand
graduated from Wilby Hlgb .. Of course. we are always tended by 500 or more girls.
School. She found UvlDg In the looking for leaders. We must Several Sundays ago at St.
"country" a lot dltferent from have qualllied ones. I personally Aloysius Church there was a
the city. but grew to love It and would rather see no troop than breakfast for Girl Scouts of the
has not changed In all the 17 one with a leader who does not troops or the cllurcll. More thaD
years she has lived here. Elmer
G a v lor d Is associated with
carry through wi!!' the Girl
Scouting program, Mrs. Gay-
85 attended and 25
came lster for coffee.
mothers
'. . .' ?liit";a, ~ '~erlCln Melal ISIlord sald. .... ••• • ..... ". - ":';" .,.. • iiin"
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of the program, Mrs. Gaylwd
said.
"In thIa way, Red eross and
other organlzatlo"" can contact
WI," abe added_
Girl Scouta for the past several
years have made publidty
for UNICEF during Its
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Rwlthe~~,~~costs
under a central purc1Uising ageI\CY.~. ~t a ceUlng .
on town saiarles were some of Uudde'as expressed
at last '\Nek's budget bearing -in the.lUgI:I ~oo1
auditoriUm. - - _.. - - - .- ' -:
'l1us selection of ideas made at the heQ1'ing runs
the gamut· from reason to unreason, it 8e'ems.' But
from 1be past we ~ easily ~~~ . ~~ 11l!lIlY
aPIi!U"erltly \l1l1'e'IISOIl'le ideas .w~"'" ~, given
enough time, to be reasonable and practicaL
haa proved to be ,algnlfl- 'ibis dOem:t..m~ to · ~Y."~·~~·..!M~~ti!: ·
cant uodertaklng. The Scouts' reject or addpt any of the eKJIll 'a
efforts not only mean mucll to hearing. But It does recognize that the people are
UNICEF workers locally, but to the source of many !ideas that can ~re,spect
the glrle who give freely of their for potentially practical solutions to. problems, •
talents and orlg1nal1ty.
Richard Rosengrant's suggestion that" the school
Among their many services department rtm the scbools all year around, appears
and projects Ie an outstanding
one. 'lbey have taken over put. both reasonable and impractical. It appears reasonting
up the Americ:aD Flags able because It Is the result of one milli's fuind
around the green on holidays addressing itself to the problem of adeq~toe classand
other day.ll. For some time, room space for an increasing school population. It
flags dld not fly on the green. appeara Impractloal, beCause 0U1'. sOOl~ ~ are
The glrle have another Inter- tuned to the nine-month School year.
esting undertaking. They adopt
IImnl!!IU!.ut~ m!t coIlValeKl'.1It . As School Supt. John .C. Farr said in response to
home or elsewhere who may be the- suggestion and tne rucpectatiul1 tbat-most ap~lalone
In the world. The Scouts tion would come from students, it woulii be the parsee
to It abe Is remembered on ents who would provide the ruckus that would defeat
Christmas, her birthday and oth- the idea.
er days.
ould
"Service to others and to the Anyway Rosengrant's idea was one that sh
commUDIty are particularly Ilave come out. The others Should have too. It is too
stressed In the Scouting pro- bad that more residents don't take their {tICal govgram,"
Mrs. Gaylord said. "We emment more seriously. By count of the newsmen
a 1 s 0 stress trustworthiness, at the budget hearing, only about 75 pe:rsons attendshowing
the girls the Importance
offi
of keeping promises. lnaddltlon, ed the hearing, and the vast majorIty wen! town -
the scouting movement covers c§a1s.
man y areas - citizenship, . This reveals a sad outlook for loca!. government.
health, safety, the Importance of
Rotary's Exposition
international friendship and all The Rotary's announcement that its sixth annual
alds to buDd character."
progress exposition will be the "biggest and best of
She said the Scouts are anxious
to be called on forcommu- all shows to date" tens us that the exbibitioo can be
nlty service. ThIs week, she a valuable window for Southington. ,
said, the JUDlor Woman's Club Entitled "Live, Work and Play in Southington,"
asked the scouts to help locate a the exposition can also be one of the town's best
bird 811JXtuary. The area will be So ell h
located on ML Vernon Road and procla1mers of progress the town has. mu as
the Cadets will help by labeling been said about the town's sobriquet, but little has
trees. _ been done to demonstrate the characteristic that Is
When a Nigerian visited here supposed to give meaning to the name. ' "
thls fall, she came on Juliette 'lbe Rotary says that more than 50 exhibitions w1i1
Low funds that foster Inter- be part of the affair. They will m,ake the exposition
nat Ion a I relationships and
al
friendships. Anyone can apply the town's biggest showcase of industrl ,commerfor
these funds.
cia! and mercantile development, according to the'
. Money from cookie saies go to Rotarians. This should reveal real progress. .'
pay oU mortgages on camp sites Runiling from April 19 through 22 in the high schOOl
for do notlraise ~' the ~Ition could be one great educational
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