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REAL ESTATE

WAY WE WERE FOR OCTOBER 25, 1996

OCTOBER 29, 1971

Newtown Police Chief Louis Marchese spoke to the Newtown Lions Club at their

dinner meeting at the Newtown Inn Wednesday evening. He told of his plans for

the future of the new department. Since taking the chief's position earlier

this year he has organized a Youth Bureau, a Detective Bureau and an Explorers

Post. He said Newtown is below the level of crime in surrounding towns and

feels that the narcotics problem has reached a plateau and is going down. He

plans to appoint two police chaplains in the near future and have an

Identification Bureau soon.

There were two hours of heated debate at the Board of Education meeting this

week over the high school newspaper, Free Press . The discussion mainly

centered around the use of a four-letter word which appeared in the first

issue of the paper this year. The discussion turned into a shouting match

involving some parents, students, faculty members, high school administrators

and the board. The only thing everyone seemed to agree on was that no

obscenities would appear in the paper in the future. Nothing more than that

was accomplished, and exactly who was to set policy and guide and advise the

students in their future journalistic efforts remained a question.

Edward R. Sullivan, president of the Newtown Chamber of Commerce, has sent a

letter to John L. Bean, general manager of the Newtown Water Company, advising

him that inadequate water storage facilities are a hindrance to the chamber's

Industrial Committee which is attempting to attract desirable industry to

Newtown. He requested a meeting between town officials, officers of the

chamber and representatives of the water company in an effort to correct the

situation.

About 75 people attended a meeting of the Noise Abatement Study Committee in

the gymnasium of Edmond Town Hall Wednesday night to tell their specific noise

problems. Boats led off as villans, followed by trucks, cars, motorcycles,

snowmobiles and also the town snow plows. People also complained about hunters

and their guns. Drivers of big diesel trucks leave their motors running while

they eat lunch at the Sandy Hook Hotel. Committee Chairman Ted Whippie said

there is almost an absence of legislation on noise in the state. While some

levels of noise can be considered a health hazard, Mr Whippie said most of the

problem in Newtown is "annoyance noise."

William Petry, chairman of the Interclub Association, received a check this

week from Ernest Guckel, who headed the Teen Canteen, to be used toward the

establishment of a youth center in Newtown. An agreement has been signed

between Interclub and the Park and Recreation Commission for use of the

Italian Community Center on Route 34 as the youth center.

OC TOBER 25, 1946

Newt own's recreation program moved into top speed last week with Newtown

defeating Housatonic Valley 26-24 in football, and the Bronx Zoo trip on

Saturday brining out 426 persons - eight bus loads, an all-time high for local

bus trips. Invitations also were issued for all Newtown to join in the annual

community Halloween party in the Edmond Town Hall gymnasium and an annoucement

was made of a bus trip to the Yale-Brown football game at the Yale Bowl on

November 9.

A number of letters have been received by The Bee as a result of the acquision

of part of the Great Quarter District in Newtown for the Paugausett State

Park. The letters came from the family of Frank P. Stowe and describe the land

bordering Lake Zoar where he lived, roamed and felled lumber between the years

1872 and 1900. At that time charcoal was a big business on the Housatonic

River. The industry yielded livelihood for many families, Mr Stowe explained

in his writing, although many citizens "looked down their noses" at at the

people who made a living producing charcoal. At that time several teams along

the old river road from Bennett's to Zoar Bridge delivered thousands of

bushels of charcoal every week to factories in Waterbury, Ansonia, Derby and

Shelton. As this was before the days of the blow torch, plumbers and tinsmith

also were in the market for charcoal.

In what may prove to be one of the largest enrollments so far in Newtown's

history, 260 new names have been added to the voter registration list since

the start of the year. The state election is now only 11 days away with

balloting for a new state governor and an entire state ticket as well as for a

US senator and representatives to Congress. On the local scene, balloting will

be for representatives to the state house, probate judge and justices of the

peace.

There are only a few days left to dig out waste paper. Eight trucks, manned by

boys and girls from the scouting troops in town, will be involved in

Saturday's waste paper drive. The paper will help the country's paper shortage

and the money from the sale will go into the scout troops' treasuries.

Dr William F. GReen, superintendent of the Fairfield State Hospital, annouced

that due to the shortage of nurses and attendants, the hospital will no longer

have visiting hours on Wedesdays. Viting will still be permitted on Saturday

and Sunday afternoons.