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Advocate Archives
September 14, 1939
Grid Work Starts at High School
Reporting for the first practice of the Provincetown High School football team, 26 candidates appeared last Monday for the 10 of 11 positions open for team competition. Only five veterans are available of the 11 that marked up a record last year of two games won, two games lost and three games tied, but Coach Anthony Duarte is encouraged by the spirit of the squad and feels sure that the team will better last year’s record.
Captain Reginald “Pidge” Carter will again be tackle this year, but the other 10 positions are still to be filled. The biggest problem for Coach Duarte this year will be to fill the place of Captain Joe Roderick as center. Raymond Souza (148 pounds) and Arthur Roderick (147 pounds) will furnish heavy duty on the flanks.
Jimmy Roderick, a 150-pounder, looks like a good prospect to hold down the tackle opposite Captain Carter. Anthony Thomas (150 pounds) and Costa (154 pounds) should develop into fair guards and Frankie Reis, a veteran lineman last year, has been transferred to the center squad to bolster a weakness there. Lucian Cross (140), Victor Pascellini (138) and Edgar Francis (130) are three veterans who will form the nucleus for the light but fast backfield.
Provincetown is scheduled to play its first game Saturday, Oct. 14, against Yarmouth at Provincetown, but a contest for an earlier date may be scheduled. John Silva is manager of this year’s 11, with Benny Costa, his assistant.
September 12, 1957
Attorney General Approves Probe of High Gasoline Prices on Cape
Speaking before the meeting of the Women’s Republican Club of the Lower Cape last Friday at the Flagship here, Attorney General George Fingold, termed as “pure poppycock” high transportation costs as a justification for the reported 10 cent price differential in gasoline on the Cape as compared with other parts of the state. He also praised the efforts of State Rep. Harry B. Albro to bring a legislative committee to the Cape to study the gasoline price situation, urging the Cape legislator to “find out what’s rotten in Rotterdam” concerning the high prices.
Mr. Fingold declared there is ample fuel storage space on the Cape. He said prices are not the fault of the local dealer but more probably of the distributor, adding that dealers would be happy to sell more cheaply because this would enable them to increase sales.
Preceding Mr. Fingold as a speaker at the Flagship Restaurant meeting, Mr. Albro brought the group up to date on efforts to find the reasons for Cape gasoline prices and told of plans to have a public meeting on the subject, probably in Yarmouth. He said that Cape Cod probably has the highest gasoline and fuel oil rate in the State and he could see no reason for this.
Gasoline on the Cape sells for as much as 10 cents more than gasoline in the Boston area, he asserted, adding that motor fuel ought to be cheaper on the Cape than in the Berkshires, but it is not.
“It’s a crazy-quilt pattern,” he went on and added there is no justification for the difference in gas prices.
September 15, 1977
Anti-nuclear bike caravan planned
An organizational meeting will be held tonight at the Drop-In Center to plan for an anti-nuclear bicycle caravan to Provincetown on Sept. 23.
The caravan will start in Provincetown and end four days later in Plymouth at the site of the Pilgrim II nuclear power plant. The caravan is being organized by the Clamshell Alliance in Boston to publicize opposition to the proposed plan.
Jay Critchley and Paul Johnson will coordinate tonight’s meeting, which will start at 7:30 p.m.
Critchley said Monday he was negotiating for space at the Universalist Church for the anti-nuclear meeting.
After the Provincetown visit, the caravan will move to Wellfleet. Susannah Chivian will be the organizer there.
Preliminary plans for the Wellfleet visit include a large supper followed by a “town-meeting”-style rally. The bicycle riders will spend the night in Wellfleet before moving up the Cape toward Plymouth.
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Sep 15th, 2005