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Oneonta Needs To Take Control Of Its Future

COLONE/From A1 public officials and private leaders to unite in spirit, to engage in meaningful cooperation to support expanded economic development.

The success of Greater Oneonta economic development will hinge on the ability of the two Oneontas to think and work as one.

All Oneonta political leaders who represent the City and Town of Oneonta running for office this year need to be publicly challenged to come out in support of the Oneonta economic development plan.

We need to control our own destiny. Let’s not look around for someone or some outside entity to step up to take care of us. We need to do it ourselves. And we

certainly shouldn’t look to Otsego County government for any funding support.

The county is experiencing increasing financial stress, has extensive outstanding financial obligations, and when push comes to shove, the County Board will likely use its resources to offset debt and operational stress.

That’s just the way it has always been!

The first thing the new economic development organization needs to do is to develop a combined city/town economic development master plan, one that recognizes that everything we have to deal with needs to be done together.

It needs to focus on filling the Pony Farm Industrial Park, cooperating in secur-

ing infrastructure funding for extending utilities and developing a new modern Roundhouse Road in the old railyards, marketing the East End, West End, Southside and downtown retail sectors, overall Oneonta community promotion to include the performing arts, Oneonta conventions and sports tourism. The #1 priority of the new organization is growing jobs, good-paying jobs for Oneonta.

The new organization needs to create a direct alliance with Oneonta State and Hartwick College, one that seizes on their academic talent and professional expertise towards building a diverse Oneonta economy, one that says to some of our college students, Oneonta

is where I want to plant my flag and establish a professional career. This new Oneonta economic development operation needs to network with existing Oneonta based businesses to do all that it can to assist them in meeting their business objectives, with an eye towards adding jobs. Oneonta economic development needs to reach-out to nearby area communities, chambers of commerce, other economic development groups, State and Federal Agencies, always with the working operating motto of “what’s in it for Oneonta!�

It’s time for the two Oneonta’s to join forces, to go it alone on Oneonta economic development!

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asked her friend to assume some of her responsibilities on the CSO board. “It’s worked out very well,� said Mrs. Hamilton in a recent interview in The Otesaga’s lobby.

Added Brose, “It was Bunny’s idea to have an outreach concert. It’s a natural connection.�

The first few years, the Cooperstown Concert was held in the Cornwallville Church at The Farmers’ Museum, but it outgrew the venue, and for the past four years has been in the resort hotel’s 300-seat ballroom. “I’ve always liked Baroque. It’s thematic and flowing,� said Brose, adding that Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons� remains one of the highlights of the series. All the Brandenburgs have been performed over the years.

Still, “you’ll never run out of material with the Baroque,� he said. “We like to promote that we use local musicians, local talent,� added Mrs. Hamilton. “And they do just fine, thank you.�

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ANGEL/From B1 The 14-year arrangement has raised the Oneontabased CSO’s profile in Cooperstown in a very beneficial way, said CSO President Martha Forgiano. “It really is a wonderful opportunity to branch out to our Cooperstown neighbors,� said Forgiano, “to provide chamber music in a fantastic setting – The Otesaga on the shores of Otsego Lake.�

The smaller performance group also gives CSO musicians a chance to play in a more intimate setting, and it highlights individual talent, she continued: Cellist Janet Nepkie and trumpeter Carleton Clay in the past; and, this year, flutists Elizabeth Kitson-Arnold and Elizabeth Evans, and Michael Emery on violin.

Bunny Hamilton’s involvement in the CSO dates to 1999 and the passing of G. McMurtrie “Mac� Godley, the former U.S. ambassador to Laos who was president of the Glimmerglass Festival.

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IN MEMORIAM Lodia C. Bennett, 83; Active Volunteer Worked With Labor, Pro-Women Organizations ONEONTA – Lodia C. Bennett, 83, an active volunteer with organizations promoting women, passed away Tuesday, July 16, 2013.

She was the daughter of Richard and Robena (Banks) Anderson of Danville, Ill. She attended Danville School and received a B.A. Degree from Central State University in Ohio.

She worked at the Lara Lee Fellowship House, Albany Interracial Council; Director of Women and Girls programs and the NYS Department of Labor in Oneonta. She was an active volunteer in numerous organizations.

Cameron Dean Sanchez, 22; Documented City Life With His Art

MARYLAND – Cameron Dean Sanchez, 22, who documented his life in drawings and photography, passed away unexpectedly She is survived by her on Friday, July 5, 2013 in daughter, Wanda Walters; New York City, where he her sons, Richard and his was living. wife, Cindy, and Robert He was born July 17, and his wife, Donna; three grandchildren, Megan, Trey 1990, in Wichita, Kan., the and Jeremiah; and her many son of Michelle Lynch and beloved friends; her extend- Dean Sanchez.

He graduated from ed family.

Schenevus Central School She was predeceased by in 2008, and played on the her husband, Richard; and soccer team, was involved her daughter, Wendy L. Benin drama, and part of the nett.

At Lodia’s request, please Yearbook Club.

In the fall of 2008, he do a good deed for someone. attended college at BufArrangements are enfalo State for Fine Arts and trusted to the Lewis, Hurley Photography.

After a few & Pietrobono Funeral Home years, he decided to make in Oneonta. his move to the Big Apple.

He was currently working at Café Mocha is the East Vil-

lage of NYC. He was very much involved in the art life in NYC Cameron and Sanchez always documented his experiences whether it be through his drawings or his photography.

He is survived by his mother and stepfather, Michelle and Edward Lynch of Maryland; his father and stepmother, Dean and Sue Sanchez of Colorado Springs, Colo.; his younger sister, Olivia Lynch of Maryland, and his older sister, Jade Pendolf of Otego,

Lynn Errol McAdams, 60; Known as ‘Shoes’ to Friends, Family ONEONTA – Lynn Errol McAdams, 60, a custom meat cutter known as “Shoes,” passed away on May 19, 2013, at McLeod Hospice Home in Florence, S.C., where he had been living.

Lynn was born in Oneonta on Sept.

23, 1952.

He graduated from Oneonta High School Lynn in 1971.

McAdams Lynn was married to Elizabeth LaChausse on June 5, 2007.

For the over 39 years, Lynn was a professional custom meat cutter for Price Chopper in Oneonta. For the past five years, he worked for KJ-IGA in Quimby, S.C., as a custom meat cutter.

He was an avid fan of the Boston Red Sox, the Buffalo Bills and the Saratoga horse races. He frequently traveled to watch his favorite teams play.

He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; his son, Nolan (Barbara) of Big Rapids, Mich., his daughter, Alexi of Oneonta; his stepdaugh-

ters, Lynn (Kent) Wilcox of Syracuse, and Antionette Chenard of Watertown; stepson, Nicholas (Courtney) Chenard of Saratoga; his grandchildren, Jonathan, Connor, Geralynn and Meredith McAdams, Liam Henry Curley, Olivia Rayne and Stella Grace Chenard; and his siblings, Debra,

Bruce and Mary.

He was preceded in death by his parents, William and Emma Jean McAdams.

A memorial was held July 21 at the Sixth Ward Athletic Club.

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and her daughters, Lily and Rubi Pendolf. He was also very close to his cousins, Ashley and Leslie Lynch of Franklin. He was predeceased by his sister, Kezzia Thompson.

The family will be having a celebration of his life from 5-8 p.m. Thursday, July 25,

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Hall Of Famers Will Read Plaques Of Honorees Who Fought In WWII

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Gus Baker, Springfield, left, and Myles Erway, Milford, Tuesday, July 24, began erecting the fence around the Induction’s VIP section at the Clark Sports Center.

Local SABR Chapter Due To Convene

ROGER BRESNAHAN read by Carleton Fisk

DAN BROUTHERS read by Orlando Cepeda

FRED CLARKE read by Bert Blyleven

ED DELAHANTY read by Billy Williams

JIMMY COLLINS read by Wade Boggs

HUGH DUFFY read by Jim Rice

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ooperstown’s Cliff Kachline SABR Chapter’s traditional post-Induction meeting will be at 5 p.m. Sunday, July 28, at Tillapaugh’s, 28 Pioneer St. Presentations will include Gabriel Schechter on the logjammed 1945 Hall of Fame election. Refreshments and a baseball-book auction planned, too.

Since its inception in Cooperstown, in 1971, SABR (The Society for American Baseball Research) has grown into the sport’s premiere research organization, with 6,000 members worldwide.

ON TV: The Induction Ceremony will be televised lived on the MLB Network.

Also, Sirius XM Radio will broadcast the ceremony, which will also be webcast on the Hall’s website.

‘42’ SPOTLIGHTED: Legendary Entertainment CEO Thomas Tull, who produced the Jackie Robinson biopic “42,” is among honorees at the Hall’s Awards Presentation at 4:30 p.m. Saturday in Doubleday Field.

40 HEROES: Forty Hall of Famers are expected in the village this weekend.

LOU GEHRIG read by Cal Ripken Jr.

ROGERS HORNSBY read by Joe Morgan

HUGHIE JENNINGS read by Ozzie Smith

JIM O’ROURKE read by Tony Gwyn

MIKE “KING” KELLY read by Andre Dawson

WILBERT ROBINSON read by Tommy Lasorda

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Pre-Integration Committee Reawakens Sportswriter Paul Hagen Ruppert, White, O’Day From Shadows Only Living ’13 Honoree

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Anticipating Steroid-Era Drought, New Entity Revisited Past Contenders

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ell aware the steroids era would result in lean Induction classes, the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010 did some advanced trouble-shooting.

It restructured its Veterans Committee into three entities designed to re-consider previous candidates – managers, umpires, executives and long-retired players – for election to the Hall.

If not for the newly formed “Pre-Integration Committee (1871-1946),” there would have been no new inductees to the Hall when the

Induction Ceremony is convened at 1:30 p.m.

Sunday, July 28, in the field next to the Clark Sports Center: • Beer baron and New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert (1867-1939), who famously acquired Babe Ruth for $100,000 from the Boston Red Sox. • James “Deacon” White (1847-1939), a champion of clean living who didn’t smoke, drink or gamble when many of the game’s players were considered ruffians and hooligans.

• Hank O’Day (1859-1935), who after retiring from the major league Toledo Blue Stockings in 1884 went on t umpire more than 4,000 games.

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ports writing all came full circle for Paul Hagen. “The first book I ever read was a biography of Pee Wee Reese,” he said. “And in the late ’80s, I was covering the Phillies and went down in the broadcast booth to talk to Rich Ashburn, and there was Pee Wee!” It was just one in a series of coinPaul Hagen cidences in Hagen’s career, which, after 42 years, has earned him the J.G.Taylor Spink Award, to be awarded this Induction Weekend.

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DROGEN’S CELEBRATES 65 YEARS Mayor Dick Miller congratulates Arnie Drogen on his family company’s 65 years in business during a celebration on Thursday, July 18.

Drogen’s parents, the late Paul and Mildred, founded Drogen Electric in 1949 in downtown Oneonta, and were the first retailers to venture into the Southside, with the former Drogen Home Furnishings.

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The show, which included several pieces of sculpture from her collection, runs through Aug. 18.

BIDWELL HONORED: Ian Bidwell, a resident of West Oneonta, graduated from Ithaca College’s School of Humanities and Sciences with a major in Environmental Studies during the May 2013 Commencement Ceremony.

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New Librarian’s Love Of Books Trumped Animal Science Career ton Memorial Library. Bruni is retiring after 30 years.

“I’m really excited,” Winstead said. “I want to be part of a bigger library and a viWinstead brant community, and Oneonta fits that need.”

The “lifelong library fan” grew up in an Air Force family and moved often, living in such places as Iran and Tucson, Ariz.

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rom Arkansas to Iran, Newfield to Oneonta, Tina Winstead gets the same feeling whenever she walks into a library. “I just get this expansive sense of unbound potential,” she said. “All this information is out there, and I have the tools to access that.”

Monday, Aug. 26, Winstead, director of the Newfield Library, near Ithaca, will succeed Marie Bruni as director of the Hunting-

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“I love to swim, so I could swim every single day when I was out there.”

She got her undergraduate and master’s degrees in animal sciences at the University of Arkansas, then a Ph.D. in nutrition at Clemson University and moved to Ithaca to work in animal nutrition at Cornell.

But her love of books brought her back to libraries, and she completed a master’s of library and information science at Syracuse University. “There’s a Please See LIBRARIAN, A9

Garth Radley and Teddy growing up on the East End.

Garth, Teddy Adventured On East End

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erry L. Church, 62, Oneonta, was killed Tuesday, July 23, in a two-car crash at 7:12 a.m. on Route 23 in West Oneonta.

State police said an eastbound car driven by Francis X. Gesel Jr., 66, Leominster, Mass., crossed into the westbound lane and collided with Church’s car.

Gesel was transported to Fox Hospital where he was treated for a broken foot and chest pain.

SPA REBORN: The New Karma day spa is planning a Coming Out Premier Party – featuring “summery Mexican fare” – 4-8 p.m. Wednesday, July 31, at its new quarters at 297 Main St. BERRY GOOD: Locally blueberries, blackberries, raspberries and strawberries will be featured this Saturday, July 27, at the Oneonta Farmers’ Market in Muller Plaza.

CITY LORE: Retired SUNY Oneonta president Alan Donovan will interview Joe Campbell, Mark Simonson and Gary Wickham on their “Downtown Memories” at 2 p.m.

Saturday, July 27, at the Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St.

hen you’re a kid, it helps to have a friend along on your adventures – even if that friend is a raccoon.

“My uncle hauled eggs down to New York City, through the Catskills,” said Garth Radley. “He was coming back late one night, and he saw this little raccoon in the middle of the road. He trapped it in an egg crate and brought it home.”

The raccoon, “Teddy,” would follow Radley and his friends to the East End Grocery, where the boy sometimes bagged potatoes and other odd jobs. “He lived in the house, slept in the basement,” said Radley. “But eventually, we had to give him to a zoo in Albany.”

Teddy was just one of the many friends Radley talked about during his lecture, “Growing Up in the East End During the ’40s,” part of the Swart Wilcox House Summer Sunday Series on July 21.

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Toni Davi, owner of the student apartments at 70 Market Street, joins Oneonta DPW workers Roger and Rachael Oliver to survey a 10-foot long, 8-foot deep sinkhole in his parking lot, washed out in the heavy rains of Monday, July 22. At left, City Hall’s Jeff House shows where water smashed 1/4-inch-thick glass.

For City Hall, Offense Best Defense Against Emerald Ash Borer

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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t’s not a question IF the Emerald Ash Borer will attack trees in Neahwa and Wilber parks; it’s a question of WHEN. “It’s just a matter of time,” said Steve Andrews, City Hall’s recreation director.

The bright green beetle, which nests and raises hun-

If you see this insect, lock up your baseball bat.

gry families in ash trees, has surfaced in Albany, Ulster, Greene and Orange

counties. When infested, most trees die in two to four years, putting park visitors at risk from dead, falling limbs.

“It’s a statewide problem,” said City Manager Mike Long.

The city’s two main parks have 70 ash trees.

“It’s a small number, so that’s good,” said Andrews, who has been placed in

command of the local antibeetle campaign. “The majority of them are in Wilber.”

As beetle sightings became more and more common in the surrounding areas, Andrews began working with several agencies to determine a plan to assess and plan a way to deal with the invasive species. “We have to look at

this pro-actively,” he said.

When the beetles show up, there are two things that can be done. One, traps – purple tents – can be hung on trees that lure the beetles to their demise. Two, the ashes can be injected with a pesticide – there are a number of different brands – that will keep the beetles away.

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FRIDAY, JULY 26, 2013

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This Is The Royal Birth. Let’s Wake Up And See It

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here’s nothing like being there, as NPR’s Morning Edition emphasized Tuesday, July 23, as Philip Reeves reported “the excitement ... and the hype” from London, where a prince – George or James or, heavens!, Kevin – was born.

“I can watch hockey on TV,” Canadian Steve Kyriacopoulos told Reeves, “but there’s nothing like being in the front in the best seats. It’s a different experience.

This is a big deal.”

Said Samantha Selness, a student from Virginia, “When you’re on a computer in front of the TV, it doesn’t feel the same. But when you’re in the moment and at the Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA city and at the place, you know “It’s just baseball,” said Mary Greenbaum, just arrived from it’s all perfect.”

Detroit with husband Todd, as if to say, It’s just everything.

• And yet, there’s the headline in reported. The Basketball Hall in It was Liam White, 10, on the the Wall Street Journal the other Springfield, Mass., is stymied at steps of 25 Main the other eveday, setting the stage for Induction 200,000. ning, who had prompted his dad, Weekend: “Empty Feeling at the The NASCAR Hall in CharBill from Tennessee, and Uncle Hall of Fame.” lotte, N.C., expected 800,000 the Joel from South Carolina, to bring It reported what we’ve known first year; it reached only 280,000 him all the way to Upstate New for a while around here, that the that year, 2010, and has since York.

Hall of Fame’s gate has dropped dropped to 185,000.

Joel remembers getting a call from more than 400,000 before “You can’t appeal to kids who from Bill when Liam was 2: A the Baseball Strike of 1994 to are 10 or 12 or 14 years old by restaurant where dad and son were some 260,000 last year. always looking backwards,” John eating had a banner with all the If there’s comfort in company, Doleva, Basketball Hall president, MLB logos on it, and the lad had at least we’re not alone. The told the reporter. named the team that went with Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto Phooey. every single one. has dropped from 500,000 to • “He plays,” said his dad, “but 300,000 in 20 years, the WSJ

Only Oneontans Can Charter Oneonta Future

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here’s been serious discussion of late on creating a new economic development model for Otsego County, conversation initiated as a result of the announced resignation of County Economic Developer Carolyn Lewis. The debate is mostly surrounding: Do we continue the governmentbased structure currently in place, a privately managed system or some combination? While establishing the right operational economic development model is certainly important, there are far more fundamental matters that need to be dealt with beforehand.

We need to answer the following questions first.

Do we believe in Oneonta?

Do we believe that Oneonta is the most important municipal-urban center for an area between the Thruway to the east to I-81 to the west; from the Mohawk Valley to the north and the Southern Tier to the south?

Do we believe that Oneonta has a leadership responsibility to the entire area? Do you see Oneonta as the areas commercial and cultural

hub, to include being the areas hospitality hub?

I believe that our local leaders, public and private, need to step up and say yes to all. It should also be a citizen pledge or oath.

Oneonta can and needs to grow. I think Oneonta needs to grow by between 500 to 1,000 new families just to justify our existing commercial, educational, physical and cultural infrastructure.

Do you want to maximize the use of our public schools? Then we need to grow student enrollment within the Oneonta City School District, expand the local tax base, and that only happens through the creation of sustainable, goodpaying new jobs.

I must say, it was quite heartening to see that a recent Zogby survey of Town of Oneonta residents revealed a wide majority of those surveyed supported expanded economic development in the community.

So if the community at large believes the place can be a lot better than it is, then the first thing that needs to happen is for all city and town Please See COLONE, B5

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about the draw.

As a girl, she was “something of a tomboy. I grew up playing baseball. Playing at the corner. Playing in the lot. We just played.”

Her dad was a truck driver, and on weekends he would pick up the visiting team’s equipment and deliver it to Tiger Stadium. She’d get to meet the stars and get their autographs, treasured memories until today.

“It’s just baseball,” she repeated.

• And so it is. And so it is, particularly in Cooperstown. This was the first visit for all these folks, and it fulfilled a lifelong dream.

We denigrate life. Life is analog. We talk these days as if life is bits and bytes. Of course, all of us with our noses stuck into tiny screens at all hours are going to tire of that. How can we not?

Eventually, inevitably, life will lure us back. And when it does, baseball will be there. And baseball fans will rediscover their love, and be in the front row in the best seats.

When you’re in the moment and at the city and at the place, you know it’s all perfect. For first-timers and for the rest of us, welcome to Cooperstown.

Dennis Corcoran’s Induction Weekend

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he’s also something of a student of the game.”

• Why was Arnold Kaminkow, 72, here from Westhampton Beach, L.I. (“You picked the right one to ask,” said his wife Donna Rubin. “It’s very emotional to him.”)

He told of one of his life’s memorable moments, seeing Babe Ruth in front of Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium four weeks before he died. The couple had just arrived in town – first stop, the HoF gift shop – but he was looking forward to seeing Babe Ruth’s uniform, his bat – everything – inside the Hall the following morning.

“Baseball’s a constant,” he said, recounting his fascination when, as a lad, he was taught how to keep score. “It’s in your blood.

You can always relate to something that happened, whether it’s in the 18-hundreds or 2012.

“It’s Faneuil Hall. It’s the Liberty Bell. It’s history.”

• Todd and Mary Greenbaum, 60ish, had just arrived from Detroit, and were looking at the standings on the score board between the main entrance and the administration building.

“It’s baseball. It’s just baseball,” said Mary, when asked

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Believe It Or Not! Editor’s Note: Our friend Dennis Corcoran provided these trivia questions from his “Induction Day In Cooperstown: A History of the Baseball Hall of Fame Ceremony.“ Test your knowledge.

IF YOU GO: Dennis Corcoran will be signing copies of his book: • 1-3 p.m. Friday, July 26, at the Green Toad Bookstore, 198 Main St., Oneonta.

• 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, July 27-28, at the Book Nook, 61 Main St., Cooperstown.

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What prominent player and future inductee videotaped Hall of Famers at Doubleday Field?

What Hall of Famer was a member of the KKK? He eventually left the Klan and went on to teach a black Hall of Famer how to play centerfield.

These two rivals played for the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, yet were the best of friends. Name these two infielders who went on to become Hall of Famers.

What two Hall of Famers were members of the Harlem Globetrotters?

What team had an interracial barbershop quartet in the late 1940s? Name the two black Hall of Famers who were members of the quartet?

What future president came to an induction ceremony and for what Hall of Famer?

What former president came to another induction ceremony and for what Hall of Famer?

What Hall of Famer did the great Olympic sprinter Jesse Owens refuse to race against?

What do prominent Hall of Famers Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, Mickey Mantle and Nolan Ryan have in common regarding the Induction ceremony?

Who is the only Hall of Famer in both the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame?

What Hall of Famer discovered Honus Wagner and helped to turn Babe Ruth from a pitcher to an everyday outfielder?

What Hall of Famer got “thrown out of The Otesaga” in Cooperstown?

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Dennis Corcoran provide us with these trivia questions from his book, “Induction Day at Cooperstown.”

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What Hall of Famer had his picture taken with the infamous Al Capone?

What Hall of Famer quit as a scout when the team he worked for didn’t draft

What two Hall of Famers “walked out” during another Hall of Famers induction speech?

Who is the Hall of Famer who never missed an induction in 34 years?

National Football League Commissioner Pete Roselle attended the induction ceremony of what boyhood friend?

Basketball great John Havlicek attended the induction ceremony of what boyhood friend?

Which Hall of Famer lost a leg in World War II and made a hole in his wooden leg that he used as an ashtray for his cigarettes?

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Solve this riddle. The Wright brothers are in the Hall of Fame but they never flew an airplane.

Who is the only Hall of Famer to arrive for his induction ceremony in a seaplane that landed on Otsego Lake?

What four Hall of Famers missed their own induction in the same year?

Which Hall of Famer never learned to drive and once walked from his hotel in Manhattan to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx to attend a World Series game?

Which Hall of Famer drowned at the age of 40 while trying to save his buddy?

Which Hall of Famer’s grandfather was considered the strongest man in the Union Army during the Civil War? What Hall of Famer threatened to sue another Hall of Famer?

Which Hall of Famer was the oldest living inductee at the age of 87.

Which same Hall of Famer was almost traded for Ty Cobb.

Which Hall of Famer was a police officer after he retired? He was almost killed during a police chase when his car crashed.

Someone once said which Hall of Famer “sings like Lou Rawls”?

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FRIDAY, JULY 26, 2013

125 Years Ago

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Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library

Two thousand Italians in New York are absolutely destitute and dependent wholly upon charity for the continuance of existence. So at least says Signor R. Marzo, general manager of the Italian Society of Emigration, and he is probably a good authority. And there are many more who, being without employ, would also be starving but for their having some small savings upon which they live in the most economical fashion. When their means are gone, unless there is such an improvement in the labor market as there now seems no reason to expect, they too will be added to the army of paupers. The society is already doing what it can to relieve the distress of these unhappy people.

To procure aid Signor Marzo has issued an appeal to the charitable, and has already the gratifying response of contributions amounting to over $700 from well-to-do Italian residents of New York. Last year 42,725 Italian emigrants landed here. The present wretched condition of so many of the Italians is due to the excessive immigration from Italy within the past six months.

July 1888

100 Years Ago

Before one of the largest crowds that ever witnessed a ball game in Oneonta the Star Bloomer Girls of Indiana were nosed out on Thursday afternoon by the Oneonta college team by a score of 6 runs to 2. The playing of the visitors was something phenomenal and there was scarcely an inning that some of the fair players did not receive prolonged applause for difficult plays well executed. Well do the Star Girls deserve the title of World’s Lady Champions of baseball for it is doubtful if as strong an aggregation could be collected from the four corners of the earth. In every department of the game their playing closely resembled the work of a strong amateur or semi-professional team and their knowledge of inside baseball would put to shame many a college team. Rose Johnson, a young Miss of less than 20 years was in the box for the Bloomer Girls and her pitching was wonderful to behold. Bronzed by wind a sun she made one think of the Amazons of old. But no Amazon ever had a stronger arm or a cooler head than did Rose.

July 1913

80 Years Ago

The citizens of this country have an obligation to take an interest in the Civilian Conservation Corps which is building good citizenship among the young men of the common-

30 Years Ago

The Custom Electronics team, sponsored by Pete Dokuchitz and managed by Gordie Talbot, Sr., has won the Chenango Forks softball tourney. Custom is currently leading the Sixth Ward softball loop in Oneonta. Team players in addition to Gordie Talbot, Sr. are Gordie Talbot, Jr., the batboy; John Torrey, scorekeeper, John Gallo, John Bey, Don Axtell, John Werner, Ken Eldred, Phil Meagley, Jim Knight, Russ House, Terry Brienza, Don Flewelling, Roger Terry, Marty Mohar and Fred Phillips.

July 1973

20 Years Ago

Oneonta area veterans are applauding the Department of Veterans Affairs decision to add two more diseases to a list of illnesses and disabilities that entitle Vietnam veterans affected by exposure to Agent Orange to compensation. For example, Vietnam veterans with Hodgkins’ disease and a liver disorder called porphyria cutaneatarda as a result of Agent Orange exposure are now eligible for compensation.

However, local vets agree the system still makes it difficult July 1983 to process claims to receive the benefits they deserve. The wealth. This was the message of Captain R.T.W. Duke, who problem is proving to the V.A. that a veteran was exposed to Agent Orange. is in charge of Camp 30 located at Gilbert Lake State Park, July 1993 as he spoke at the luncheon of the Rotary Club yesterday at the Hotel Oneonta. The speaker discussed the progress which has been made at the camp and invited the members of the club to visit the camp as soon as all features of the “Dollars and Sense” is the title of Gordon Clay Bailey’s camp have been completed. scheduled presentation on Sunday at the Unitarian UniJuly 1933 versalist Church at 12 Ford Avenue. The focus of the talk is the U.U. Economic Justice Community now forming in New York State. Bailey is the director in New York for the U.U.J.C. which seeks to inform U.U. members and fellow Coyle Manufacturing Co., which made fine lingerie in citizens about economic policies and practices through Oneonta for more than 29 years, has gone out of business public debates. “We know that a few committed folks can for good. According to Mrs. Harold Keen, proprietor, the do great things when they set their minds, bodies and spirits firm actually stopped operations last January, but the Wall Street building where it had been for many years, yesterday behind a movement,” Bailey says. Bailey once served as an interim minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church in was being cleared to serve as the site for the “warehouse Oneonta. The service begins at 10:30 a.m. sale” sponsored by the Oneonta Department Store, owner July 2003 of the building. The firm was started in June, 1924, by Mr.

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FRIDAY, JULY 26, 2013

East End Kids Swam In Electric Lake

TEDDY/From A3 Radley moved to 507 Main St. after his parents, Mabel and Clay, divorced. The house had a big stone wall that still stands, where he and Leroy Perry used to play with his big metal airplane and his collection of toy trucks. “Our friendship continues to this day,� he said.

It was a perfect neighborhood, Radley said, filled with kids. “Our neighborhood was our world,� he said. “Neighbors knew and cared for each other. If you were thinking about doing something you shouldn’t be doing, you realized that someone would see you and tell your parents.�

In the days of party lines, where neighbors could also know each other’s business, Radley’s family had a private line – 1465.

The kids roamed outside, sledding down Park Street and swinging on the rope to swim in the “Horseshoe�

City Hall On Offense Against Ash Borer ASHES/From A3 Last November, 20 people attended a briefing by David Cox of Cornell Cooperative Extension, and they tagged 10 ash trees in Neahwa with a yellow “Awareness� sticker. “It’s good to get the word out,�

Andrews said.

The sticker part of New York State campaign that, among other things, tells

campers to burn campfire wood in the same region where they buy it. Otherwise, “you can be fined,� warned Andrews.

Though no plan is currently in place, another assessment is planned for the fall. “When this comes, the city will be able to react positively,� said Andrews. “We’ll take pro-active steps, plant new trees – we’ll make the call.�

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Garth Radley drew a crowd at the Swart Wilcox lecture Sunday, July 21.

off Electric Lake at the end of Rose Avenue. “One day, someone got the idea that we should all take our trunks off and swing out when the train went by,� he said. “So we did!�

There were also girls to impress. “I thought Joanne Isman was the prettiest girl I’d ever seen,� he said. “I walked her from the East End School� – where the Oneonta Veterinary Hospital (the former Carroll’s) is now – “to Gardner Place, just to be with her.�

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School may have been a place to meet girls, but there were harsh consequences if a boy got out of line. “Principal Gertrude Eldred would make you put your palm out and whack it with a ruler,� he said. “It stung, but we held teachers in high regard.�

The East End Grocery, now #1 Chinese, was one of the focal points of the neighborhood in the era of food rationing and stamp booklets. His mother worked there for 10 years. “I remember watching the butcher feeding meat into the hamburger machine,� he said.

Now living with wife Karen in Charlotte, N.C., he comes home to Oneonta to visit his sister, Janice and reminisce with friends. “We didn’t have any of the problems we face today. Life was uncomplicated. Those were the good old days.�

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natives, but learning is so prescriptive these days – they need to learn to explore. Life is about that exploration.”

Though she wants to get a feel for the needs and wants of the Oneonta library community before committing to any new programming, she looks forward to her role as “reader adviser,” helping patrons find books at their level, taste and author interest.

Most recently, she’s been recom-

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mending Ann Patchett’s “State of Wonder” to visitors looking for a summer read. “I really like a good story,” she said.

But don’t expect her to give a rubber stamp of approval to every book that crosses her desk. “I love to disagree about a book,” she said. “So many people have all these different points of view about the same thing!”

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Soothe Treat your summer skin to a facial from the Plastic Surgery and Advanced Skin Care Center. Glycolic peels and microdermabrasion also available from our licensed aesthetician.

Schedule your appointment before July 31st and be entered to win a free facial and Physiodermie gift package ($120 value).

Call for an appointment: (607) 547-7665