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*Editorial
Senate subcommittee acts
effectively on acid rain
Last week a Senate Subcommittee
on Environment and Public Works,
chaired by Vermont Senator Robert
Stafford, unanimously passed a
proposal aimed at reducing the
amount of pollutants pumped into the
air in 31 eastern states -- pollutants
that are causing Acid Rain.
The proposal was an amendment to
the federal Clea Air Act aimed at
reducing the amount of pollutants
generated by factories and other
sources mainly in the mid-
northeastern industrial states. The
amendment passed by the sub-
committee proposes to reduce the
amount of sulfur pollutants by 8-
million tons over 12 years. Although
an earlier amendment pushed by
Stafford would have reduced sulfur
emissions by ten-tons over the same
time period, "the passage of last
week's amendment can be seen as a
major victory in the fight against
Acid Rain.
For a time it looked as though some
membexs of the Environment and
Public Works Committee were intent
on sending through only a mushy
version of the amendment which
called for "additional research" into
the problem but very little action.
There is considerable basis behind
the contention that the sulfur
reductions called for in the amend-
ment may not actually rid Vermont,
New Hampshire, Maine, and Nor-
them New York from the bouts of
Acid Rain that have poisoned hun-
dreds of lakes and ponds, rendering
them uninhabitable to fish and plant
life00
We need, however, a clean air
program that can get through the
legislature and get through it quickly.
We need some type of working
program that can specifically address THE KOCH FAMILY
the problem -- a program that in .............................................
cludes at least some real restrictions Craftsmen of recorders
on sulfur and nitrogen oxides before it
is too late.
Hopefully, our representatives will
continue to fight for more effective
industrial regulations as continued
research yields additional effective
alternatives.
As we have said before, Acid Rain
will assuredly have a disasterous
effect on our region's economy as
more and more lakes die off. But an
even darker problem associated with
Acid Rain looms in the future. What
effect will Acid Rain actually have on
us as a population? Already Vermont
Attorney General John Zaston and
Environmental Secretary Brendan
Whittaker have called for the federal
Environmental Protection Agency to
act on the problem citing what they
believe is the effect of Acid Rain on
the water supply in the Vermont Town
of Bennington.
Easton and Whittaker said early
this winter that acidity, caused by
Acid Rain in the town's water supply,
caused lead water pipes in the town to
erode causing lead contamination.
This example should caution us to the
many yet unseen dangerstof Acid
Rain lurking ahead.
So we are encouraged by the
passage of substantial measures to
curtail Acid Rain passed in Sen.
Stafford's subcommittee last week. It
is about time that we have seen some
effective action on one of the most
pressing issues facing those of us
living in the Northeast.
Monetary madness
than 11 percent. As a result, by the spring
of 1981. shortly after Mr. Reagan became
president, inflion was raging out of
control and interest rates were above 20
percent.
At that point the Federal Reserve, in a
new fit of monetary madness, leaped upon
the money supply and began choking, it,
until it was limp and lifeless. From April to
October the money supply actually
declined. This totally irresponsible con-
traction of the money supply, following
fight on the heels of a totally irresponsible
expansion of the money supply, plunged
the economy into its worst decline since
the Great Depression.
Now we are again presented with op-
timistic predictions from the ad-
ministration and most private economists.
President Reagan says that the recession
is bottoming out. The blue chip forecasters
are echoing his opinion.
And indeed, they may be right.
Preliminary data indicate that the
economy grew a little in the second
quarter. Moreover, the July 1 tax cut will
be substantial. Unlike the first installment
last October, this cut will be only partially
undone by bracket creep and recent
federal, state and local tax increases.
Unfortunately, fiscal sanity is once more
being accompanied by monetary madness.
Last fall, after being strangled nearly to
death, the moribund money supply sud-
denly sprang to life and advanced
vigorously. From September to January it
increased at the astonishing annualized
rate of 15 percent. It was this increase that
caused the economy to stir during the
spring. But since January the Federal
Reserve has again been squeezing the
money supply into lifelessness. At the end
of June the money supply, M-1. was
by THOMAS B. SILVER
Dr. Silver is president of Public Research.
Syndicated.
{€} PuNic hxrch, 5ycmed, 1982
Las[ fall, few people expected a severe
economic decline. In fact, most
economists believed that we would avoid
recession altogether. On October 26, 1981,
the Wall Street Journal reported that:
A group of some 49 forecasters surveyed
monthly by Blue Chip Economic
Indicators... looks for a slight rise of 0.5
percent in the real GNP in the fourth
quarter, with stronger gains coming in
1982.
Expectations of a stronger economy in
1982 stem in large part from a belief that
the Reagan administration tax cuts will be
stimulating business.
Despite my support of President
Reagan's tax cuts, I strongly dissented
from this rosy consensus view. On October
27, in an article entitled, "Will President
Reagan be the next Hoover?," I predicted
a "severe economic slump" and suggested
that the president "should caution his
countrymen that terrible economic shocks
and storms may lie directly ahead,"
Tliere were strong reasons for
eessimism last fall. First, the tax cut had
n delayed and diluted. Second, it had
been offset by bracket creep and increased
social security taxes. Third--and most
important--monetary policy had been
unpcecedentedly erratic. For a whole
year, from April 1980 to April 1981, the
Federal Reserve had allowed the money
supply to run wild. Month after month it
raged upward at the torrid rate of more
stenciled trays -- he was one
of the first in the country to do
stenciling in the oldtime way.
In addition he started a small
photography business.
Finances were slim, going into
the Depression years, and by
that time he and Liilie had
added sons William Jr. and
John to the family.
Making recorders
In the fall of 1932, Leslie
Dewing of Norwich, a teacher
at the City and Country School
in New York City, suggested
that Mr. Koch try his hand at
making recorders for the
school, as there were none
being made in this country at
that time and it was difficult to
obtain them from abroad. He
agreed to give it a try, and
began experimenting with a
variety of woods, finally
chasing Cuban mahogany for
his first soprano recorders. In
Leslie Dewing's words, he had
"infinite patience, a true ear,
and a marvelous eye for
design. He was always
working, reading, and
thinking of new ideas. He
would come down when he had
found a new wood and made a
recorder from it, all wreathed
in smiles, and so happy -- it
was delightful. He did not copy
any instrument. He looked for,
and found, original solutions
for making his recorders."
He conducted tests to
determine the shrinkage of
various kinds of wood, and
when Cuban mahogany
became unavailable in 1934,
he selected cocobolo wood for
his recorders. It was a year or
so before he thought the
soprano and alto recorders he
was making were good enough
to sell -- but after that they
sold as fast as he could make
them. For two years he sold
recorders to various in-
dividuals and to schools, but
after that he allowed G.
Schirmer exclusive rights for
handling them.
As the business grew, Mr.
Koch expanded his shop space
by adding to the back of it the
old corncrib from over by the
barn. Lillie says they moved it
over with a couple of horses,
then George Lavoie put
clapboards on over the old
corncrib slats. They used this
building for storing and drying
the lumber for the recorders.
Around 1942 Mr. Koch
made his first bass recorder.
At that time, during World
War II, there was no metal
available for keys or for the
conventional mouthpiece
tube, so he evolved his own
bore design, which eliminated
the need for either keys or
mouthpiece tube.
He constantly sought new
ways in which to improve his
recorders, but his procedure
in making them remained
essentially unchanged
through the years, as
described in a 1964 newspaper
article:
"Each instrument is
made from one square blank
of wood and the parts of the
blank are always kept
together on special racks.
Thus, when the instrument is
finished, the color and grain of
the parts will match each
other (also the shrinkage will
be equal). The bores are first
rough-drilled and the ex-
teriors rough-turned. Then the
pieces are stored for about two
months so that strains existing
in the fibers may disappear.
"After this period, bores
and lengths are finished to
accurate sizes. Then the ex-
teriors are finish-turned to
correct shape and dimensions
and finally varnished. When
this is dry, the instrument is
hand-rubbed and polished.
Cork joints are then fitted and
cemented in place. In a fixture
called a 'drill jig' the tone
holes are drilled.
"Native woods used are
generally impregnated with a
wax mixture, which increases
their moisture resistance.
Cocobolo does not require this
because it is naturally filled
with waxes and resins.
"The last and most im-
portant step is the tuning."
Through the years
For most of the time this
was a "one man industry,"
William Koch of
Haverhill, N.H., was
renowned for his fine work-
manship in the manufacture
of recorders a musical wind-
instrument made of wood).
Mr. Koch came from New
York City, where he had
worked as a machinist and
toolmaker, then later as
foreman in a machine shop
that made sp.ial printing
machinery. His wife Lillie
says that when they were
living in an apartment in
Brooklyn they had two
bedrooms, but one of them
was converted into a
workshop, complete with
lathe.
The Koches soon decided
that they had had enough of
city life and moved to
ttaverhilL where they bought
the old house built by General
John Montgomery of the War
of 1812). When they were
loading up their household
goods to move, the lathe took
so much room that they
coutdn't hring much of their
furniture. So when they got to
Haverhill they had to find
furniture for their house, and
antiques purchased from local
households seemed to be the
most economical and prac-
tical.
Following the example of
Mr. Koch's sister and brother-
in-law, Elizabeth and Robert
Royce, who were operating
the White Cupboard Inn in
Woedstock, Vermont, they
opened their house in
ttaverhill as an inn. The first
two years, while their inn was
closed for the winter, they
stayed with the Royces in
Woodstock and Mr. Koch
spent his time refinishing
antique furniture.
The Koches' summer
guests at the "Montgomery
House" showed considerable
interest in the antiques with
which the Shouse was fur-
nished, and bought so many of
them that the Koches had to
keep replacing them and
gradually they shifted away
from innkeeping into the
antiq ue business
Adjacent to the Koches'
house was the old Bell Store
building, which they con-
verted into a workshop for
refinishing antiques. Mr. Koch
also started making-to-order
reproductions of carved bed-
frames, mirrors, trestle
tables, wing chairs and
several billion dollars lower than it was at
its peak in January. It may well be,
therefore, that the recession will continue
through the second half of 1982, or that the
incipient recovery will be anemic. If so,
our financial system will continue to he
dangerously vulnerable to major unex-
pected shocks, in addition to the steadily
mounting toll of corporate and personal
bankruptcies and failures of financial
institutions.
The long range prospects for the
economy are bright, so long as President
Reagan refuses to he deflected from his
present course of tax cuts and moderate
growth of the money supply. Reduction of
government taxing, spending, and
regulation is wise. The growth rate of the
money supply, though dangerously
volatile, is slowing.
From April 1980 to April 1981 it was
greater than 11 percent, but during the
past year it has fallen to around 4 percent.
Once the Federal Reserve succeeds in its
announced goal of making money grow
both slowly and steadily, we can look
forward to a prolonged and healthy
economic recovery.
William Koch making a recorder.
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tters to the Edit
Fourth Amendment right to be free
To the Editor: My bill amends the statute to Finally, this bill
I would like to bring to your provide that whenever a the importance
attention S. 2548, legislation I businessman refuses entry to places on
recently introduced, an OSHA inspector, a warrant right to be
As you know, the shall be required for the in- unreasonable
Occupational Safety and spection, government
Health Act authorizes in- As we all know, Supreme believe is one
spection of factories and other Court interpretations of the precious
workplaces for health and 4th Amendment may change the Constitution.
safety hazards or violation of from time to time, and S. 254 can to encourage
OSHA's standards. Although will safeguard this in- this legislation
the Act is silent on the terpretation through you informed
question of whether a warrant codification. In addition it will ments. If you
is required for the inspection, make sure that all or comments,
the 1975 Marshall v. Barlow's businessmen are aware that servations are
Inc. Supreme Court ruling the law gives them this right, welcome.
clearly and unequivocally since at the present time only
holds that inspection withouta a very small percentage of
warrant or its equivalent employers deny entry to an
violates the 4th Amendment. inspector without a warrant.
Washi
To the Editor:
I was pleased
Katherine Blaisdelrs history
of Chalmers-Mills in the
Opinion. I married into the
Chalmers Family.
Just recently, I have heard
of three of W.W. Chalmers'
Wagons. One is over a sugar
Seekin00 a Chalmers' uw00on
house, another, over a hay kept in the
to read loft, and a third was in an old Museum. TheSe
shed 40 years ago. prior to 1900.
One has Chalmers' Boot Compare the.
buggy name on it. I don't know these well-mane
about the others, cars that last l0
Is there one in good shape dare to trade
that is easier to get at? It Doris '
seems as though one should be
THE FAIR IN
JO TAKF_ ALL THE MAPBLES--- The Journal Opinion team wn thel
trophy for "Moot Outstanding Effort" during bath tub racing last
was sponsored by the Jaycees. The captain of the team (not in
dinated the team effort for the big win. Team members were JameS
Julie Marsh, Glenn Dockham, Andy Corrigan (hidden from view),
Dockham (the driver in the bath tub yelling "help"). The "JO"
next to last.
although before and after
World War II, Mr. Koch was
helped for about six years by
Ralph Rogers, who is now in
charge of teaching wood-
working at Dartmouth
College. Mr. Koch's elder son,
William Jr., a graduate in
forestry from the University
of New Hampshire, worked
with him from about 1950 to
1965.
Mr. Koch was en-
thnsiastically content with
smalltown life. He ap-
preciated the friendliness of
the people and the beauty of
the countryside, and spent
many happy hours fishing the
local brooks and the Con-
necticut River. At one time he
spent about two months
getting the church clock
revived and going, and
electrified it, then kept it
maintained. He also designed
the original stagecoach sign at
the monument between the
commons,
During the later years of
his life he was increasingly
plagued by acute arthritis of
his hands, but he found ways
to compensate for his
limitations, remaining to the
end an extraordinary craft-
sman.
The family traditions are
being carried on by the Koch
sons. Although William Jrt is
working for Sanders
Associates in Nashua as a
manufacturing engineer, he
still is carrying on recorder
manufacturing in a limited
way. John Koch is a
professional musician, a
pianist, composer, and
teacher of piano and recorder.
Sources: Lillie and John
Koch; also an article by John
Koch, "William Koch: 1892-
1970," reprinted from
American Recorder
Magazine, 1971. Other articles
have appeared in Business
Week, Sept. 19, 1953, in Time
Magazine, and in various
newspapers.
Note: The Haverhill
Historical Society is
presenting a concert by
Elizabeth Clendenning,
violinist, Bettina Roulier,
cellist, and John Koch,
pianist, at the Haverhill
Congregational Church on
Sunday afternoon, August I, at
3:00. Everyone is welcome. An
offering will he received for
the benefit of the Ladd Street
School Restoration Fund.
Dairy show
Parade
ffiEETI
Wednesday, July 28
ORFORD: Selectmen, 8:00 p.m.
LYME: Selectmen, 7:30 p.m.
WOODSVILLE: Haverhill School Board, 7:30 p.111.
Friday, July 30
WOODSVITJ.W.: Haverhill District Court, 2: 00p'"
Monday, August 2
BRADFORD: Special Town and
WOODSVILLE: Haverhill Selectmen, ?:00P Jn"
FAIRLEE: Selectmen, 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday, August 3 , _ $,
WOODSVILLE: District Commissioners, 7: v.
GROTON: Selectmen, 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, August 4
ORFORD: Selectmen, a:00p.m.
LYME: Selectmen, 7:30 p.m.
NEWBURY: Selectmen, 7:30 p.m.
WARREN: Selectmen, 7:30 p.m.
Publisher of
J°umal i Opinion
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dilcnat $2.00.
Robert F. Huminski
President & Publisher
Bradford Woisvillc
02-222-5281 60:I-747-2016
P
An Independent Newspaper i
L , ......,.
L_
i , i ; 1
*Editorial
Senate subcommittee acts
effectively on acid rain
Last week a Senate Subcommittee
on Environment and Public Works,
chaired by Vermont Senator Robert
Stafford, unanimously passed a
proposal aimed at reducing the
amount of pollutants pumped into the
air in 31 eastern states -- pollutants
that are causing Acid Rain.
The proposal was an amendment to
the federal Clea Air Act aimed at
reducing the amount of pollutants
generated by factories and other
sources mainly in the mid-
northeastern industrial states. The
amendment passed by the sub-
committee proposes to reduce the
amount of sulfur pollutants by 8-
million tons over 12 years. Although
an earlier amendment pushed by
Stafford would have reduced sulfur
emissions by ten-tons over the same
time period, "the passage of last
week's amendment can be seen as a
major victory in the fight against
Acid Rain.
For a time it looked as though some
membexs of the Environment and
Public Works Committee were intent
on sending through only a mushy
version of the amendment which
called for "additional research" into
the problem but very little action.
There is considerable basis behind
the contention that the sulfur
reductions called for in the amend-
ment may not actually rid Vermont,
New Hampshire, Maine, and Nor-
them New York from the bouts of
Acid Rain that have poisoned hun-
dreds of lakes and ponds, rendering
them uninhabitable to fish and plant
life00
We need, however, a clean air
program that can get through the
legislature and get through it quickly.
We need some type of working
program that can specifically address THE KOCH FAMILY
the problem -- a program that in .............................................
cludes at least some real restrictions Craftsmen of recorders
on sulfur and nitrogen oxides before it
is too late.
Hopefully, our representatives will
continue to fight for more effective
industrial regulations as continued
research yields additional effective
alternatives.
As we have said before, Acid Rain
will assuredly have a disasterous
effect on our region's economy as
more and more lakes die off. But an
even darker problem associated with
Acid Rain looms in the future. What
effect will Acid Rain actually have on
us as a population? Already Vermont
Attorney General John Zaston and
Environmental Secretary Brendan
Whittaker have called for the federal
Environmental Protection Agency to
act on the problem citing what they
believe is the effect of Acid Rain on
the water supply in the Vermont Town
of Bennington.
Easton and Whittaker said early
this winter that acidity, caused by
Acid Rain in the town's water supply,
caused lead water pipes in the town to
erode causing lead contamination.
This example should caution us to the
many yet unseen dangerstof Acid
Rain lurking ahead.
So we are encouraged by the
passage of substantial measures to
curtail Acid Rain passed in Sen.
Stafford's subcommittee last week. It
is about time that we have seen some
effective action on one of the most
pressing issues facing those of us
living in the Northeast.
Monetary madness
than 11 percent. As a result, by the spring
of 1981. shortly after Mr. Reagan became
president, inflion was raging out of
control and interest rates were above 20
percent.
At that point the Federal Reserve, in a
new fit of monetary madness, leaped upon
the money supply and began choking, it,
until it was limp and lifeless. From April to
October the money supply actually
declined. This totally irresponsible con-
traction of the money supply, following
fight on the heels of a totally irresponsible
expansion of the money supply, plunged
the economy into its worst decline since
the Great Depression.
Now we are again presented with op-
timistic predictions from the ad-
ministration and most private economists.
President Reagan says that the recession
is bottoming out. The blue chip forecasters
are echoing his opinion.
And indeed, they may be right.
Preliminary data indicate that the
economy grew a little in the second
quarter. Moreover, the July 1 tax cut will
be substantial. Unlike the first installment
last October, this cut will be only partially
undone by bracket creep and recent
federal, state and local tax increases.
Unfortunately, fiscal sanity is once more
being accompanied by monetary madness.
Last fall, after being strangled nearly to
death, the moribund money supply sud-
denly sprang to life and advanced
vigorously. From September to January it
increased at the astonishing annualized
rate of 15 percent. It was this increase that
caused the economy to stir during the
spring. But since January the Federal
Reserve has again been squeezing the
money supply into lifelessness. At the end
of June the money supply, M-1. was
by THOMAS B. SILVER
Dr. Silver is president of Public Research.
Syndicated.
{€} PuNic hxrch, 5ycmed, 1982
Las[ fall, few people expected a severe
economic decline. In fact, most
economists believed that we would avoid
recession altogether. On October 26, 1981,
the Wall Street Journal reported tha t:
A group of some 49 forecasters surveyed
monthly by Blue Chip Economic
Indicators... looks for a slight rise of 0.5
percent in the real GNP in the fourth
quarter, with stronger gains coming in
1982.
Expectations of a stronger economy in
1982 stem in large part from a belief that
the Reagan administration tax cuts will be
stimulating business.
Despite my support of President
Reagan's tax cuts, I strongly dissented
from this rosy consensus view. On October
27, in an article entitled, "Will President
Reagan be the next Hoover?," I predicted
a "severe economic slump" and suggested
that the president "should caution his
countrymen that terrible economic shocks
and storms may lie directly ahead,"
Tliere were strong reasons for
eessimism last fall. First, the tax cut had
n delayed and diluted. Second, it had
been offset by bracket creep and increased
social security taxes. Third--and most
important--monetary policy had been
unpcecedentedly erratic. For a whole
year, from April 1980 to April 1981, the
Federal Reserve had allowed the money
supply to run wild. Month after month it
raged upward at the torrid rate of more
stenciled trays -- he was one
of the first in the country to do
stenciling in the oldtime way.
In addition he started a small
photography business.
Finances were slim, going into
the Depression years, and by
that time he and Liilie had
added sons William Jr. and
John to the family.
Making recorders
In the fall of 1932, Leslie
Dewing of Norwich, a teacher
at the City and Country School
in New York City, suggested
that Mr. Koch try his hand at
making recorders for the
school, as there were none
being made in this country at
that time and it was difficult to
obtain them from abroad. He
agreed to give it a try, and
began experimenting with a
variety of woods, finally
chasing Cuban mahogany for
his first soprano recorders. In
Leslie Dewing's words, he had
"infinite patience, a true ear,
and a marvelous eye for
design. He was always
working, reading, and
thinking of new ideas. He
would come down when he had
found a new wood and made a
recorder from it, all wreathed
in smiles, and so happy -- it
was delightful. He did not copy
any instrument. He looked for,
and found, original solutions
for making his recorders."
He conducted tests to
determine the shrinkage of
various kinds of wood, and
when Cuban mahogany
became unavailable in 1934,
he selected cocobolo wood for
his recorders. It was a year or
so before he thought the
soprano and alto recorders he
was making were good enough
to sell -- but after that they
sold as fast as he could make
them. For two years he sold
recorders to various in-
dividuals and to schools, but
after that he allowed G.
Schirmer exclusive rights for
handling them.
As the business grew, Mr.
Koch expanded his shop space
by adding to the back of it the
old corncrib from over by the
barn. Lillie says they moved it
over with a couple of horses,
then George Lavoie put
clapboards on over the old
corncrib slats. They used this
building for storing and drying
the lumber for the recorders.
Around 1942 Mr. Koch
made his first bass recorder.
At that time, during World
War II, there was no metal
available for keys or for the
conventional mouthpiece
tube, so he evolved his own
bore design, which eliminated
the need for either keys or
mouthpiece tube.
He constantly sought new
ways in which to improve his
recorders, but his procedure
in making them remained
essentially unchanged
through the years, as
described in a 1964 newspaper
article:
"Each instrument is
made from one square blank
of wood and the parts of the
blank are always kept
together on special racks.
Thus, when the instrument is
finished, the color and grain of
the parts will match each
other (also the shrinkage will
be equal). The bores are first
rough-drilled and the ex-
teriors rough-turned. Then the
pieces are stored for about two
months so that strains existing
in the fibers may disappear.
"After this period, bores
and lengths are finished to
accurate sizes. Then the ex-
teriors are finish-turned to
correct shape and dimensions
and finally varnished. When
this is dry, the instrument is
hand-rubbed and polished.
Cork joints are then fitted and
cemented in place. In a fixture
called a 'drill jig' the tone
holes are drilled.
"Native woods used are
generally impregnated with a
wax mixture, which increases
their moisture resistance.
Cocobolo does not require this
because it is naturally filled
with waxes and resins.
"The last and most im-
portant step is the tuning."
Through the years
For most of the time this
was a "one man industry,"
William Koch of
Haverhill, N.H., was
renowned for his fine work-
manship in the manufacture
of recorders a musical wind-
instrument made of wood).
Mr. Koch came from New
York City, where he had
worked as a machinist and
toolmaker, then later as
foreman in a machine shop
that made sp.ial printing
machinery. His wife Lillie
says that when they were
living in an apartment in
Brooklyn they had two
bedrooms, but one of them
was converted into a
workshop, complete with
lathe.
The Koches soon decided
that they had had enough of
city life and moved to
ttaverhilL where they bought
the old house built by General
John Montgomery of the War
of 1812). When they were
loading up their household
goods to move, the lathe took
so much room that they
coutdn't hring much of their
furniture. So when they got to
Haverhill they had to find
furniture for their house, and
antiques purchased from local
households seemed to be the
most economical and prac-
tical.
Following the example of
Mr. Koch's sister and brother-
in-law, Elizabeth and Robert
Royce, who were operating
the White Cupboard Inn in
Woedstock, Vermont, they
opened their house in
ttaverhill as an inn. The first
two years, while their inn was
closed for the winter, they
stayed with the Royces in
Woodstock and Mr. Koch
spent his time refinishing
antique furniture.
The Koches' summer
guests at the "Montgomery
House" showed considerable
interest in the antiques with
which the Shouse was fur-
nished, and bought so many of
them that the Koches had to
keep replacing them and
gradually they shifted away
from innkeeping into the
antiq ue business
Adjacent to the Koches'
house was the old Bell Store
building, which they con-
verted into a workshop for
refinishing antiques. Mr. Koch
also started making-to-order
reproductions of carved bed-
frames, mirrors, trestle
tables, wing chairs and
several billion dollars lower than it was at
its peak in January. It may well be,
therefore, that the recession will continue
through the second half of 1982, or that the
incipient recovery will be anemic. If so,
our financial system will continue to he
dangerously vulnerable to major unex-
pected shocks, in addition to the steadily
mounting toll of corporate and personal
bankruptcies and failures of financial
institutions.
The long range prospects for the
economy are bright, so long as President
Reagan refuses to he deflected from his
present course of tax cuts and moderate
growth of the money supply. Reduction of
government taxing, spending, and
regulation is wise. The growth rate of the
money supply, though dangerously
volatile, is slowing.
From April 1980 to April 1981 it was
greater than 11 percent, but during the
past year it has fallen to around 4 percent.
Once the Federal Reserve succeeds in its
announced goal of making money grow
both slowly and steadily, we can look
forward to a prolonged and healthy
economic recovery.
William Koch making a recorder.
(Le
tters to the Edit
Fourth Amendment right to be free
To the Editor: My bill amends the statute to Finally, this bill
I would like to bring to your provide that whenever a the importance
attention S. 2548, legislation I businessman refuses entry to places on
recently introduced, an OSHA inspector, a warrant right to be
As you know, the shall be required for the in- unreasonable
Occupational Safety and spection, government
Health Act authorizes in- As we all know, Supreme believe is one
spection of factories and other Court interpretations of the precious
workplaces for health and 4th Amendment may change the Constitution.
safety hazards or violation of from time to time, and S. 254 can to encourage
OSHA's standards. Although will safeguard this in- this legislation
the Act is silent on the terpretation through you informed
question of whether a warrant codification. In addition it will ments. If you
is required for the inspection, make sure that all or comments,
the 1975 Marshall v. Barlow's businessmen are aware that servations are
Inc. Supreme Court ruling the law gives them this right, welcome.
clearly and unequivocally since at the present time only
holds that inspection withouta a very small percentage of
warrant or its equivalent employers deny entry to an
violates the 4th Amendment. inspector without a warrant.
Washi
To the Editor:
I was pleased
Katherine Blaisdelrs history
of Chalmers-Mills in the
Opinion. I married into the
Chalmers Family.
Just recently, I have heard
of three of W.W. Chalmers'
Wagons. One is over a sugar
Seekin00 a Chalmers' uw00on
house, another, over a hay kept in the
to read loft, and a third was in an old Museum. TheSe
shed 40 years ago. prior to 1900.
One has Chalmers' Boot Compare the.
buggy name on it. I don't know these well-mane
about the others, cars that last l0
Is there one in good shape dare to trade
that is easier to get at? It Doris '
seems as though one should be
THE FAIR IN
JO TAKF_ ALL THE MAPBLES--- The Journal Opinion team wn thel
trophy for "Moot Outstanding Effort" during bath tub racing last
was sponsored by the Jaycees. The captain of the team (not in
dinated the team effort for the big win. Team members were JameS
Julie Marsh, Glenn Dockham, Andy Corrigan (hidden from view),
Dockham (the driver in the bath tub yelling "help"). The "JO"
next to last.
although before and after
World War II, Mr. Koch was
helped for about six years by
Ralph Rogers, who is now in
charge of teaching wood-
working at Dartmouth
College. Mr. Koch's elder son,
William Jr., a graduate in
forestry from the University
of New Hampshire, worked
with him from about 1950 to
1965.
Mr. Koch was en-
thnsiastically content with
smalltown life. He ap-
preciated the friendliness of
the people and the beauty of
the countryside, and spent
many happy hours fishing the
local brooks and the Con-
necticut River. At one time he
spent about two months
getting the church clock
revived and going, and
electrified it, then kept it
maintained. He also designed
the original stagecoach sign at
the monument between the
commons,
During the later years of
his life he was increasingly
plagued by acute arthritis of
his hands, but he found ways
to compensate for his
limitations, remaining to the
end an extraordinary craft-
sman.
The family traditions are
being carried on by the Koch
sons. Although William Jrt is
working for Sanders
Associates in Nashua as a
manufacturing engineer, he
still is carrying on recorder
manufacturing in a limited
way. John Koch is a
professional musician, a
pianist, composer, and
teacher of piano and recorder.
Sources: Lillie and John
Koch; also an article by John
Koch, "William Koch: 1892-
1970," reprinted from
American Recorder
Magazine, 1971. Other articles
have appeared in Business
Week, Sept. 19, 1953, in Time
Magazine, and in various
newspapers.
Note: The Haverhill
Historical Society is
presenting a concert by
Elizabeth Clendenning,
violinist, Bettina Roulier,
cellist, and John Koch,
pianist, at the Haverhill
Congregational Church on
Sunday afternoon, August I, at
3:00. Everyone is welcome. An
offering will he received for
the benefit of the Ladd Street
School Restoration Fund.
Dairy show
Parade
ffiEETI
Wednesday, July 28
ORFORD: Selectmen, 8:00 p.m.
LYME: Selectmen, 7:30 p.m.
WOODSVILLE: Haverhill School Board, 7:30 p.111.
Friday, July 30
WOODSVITJ.W.: Haverhill District Court, 2: 00p'"
Monday, August 2
BRADFORD: Special Town and
WOODSVILLE: Haverhill Selectmen, ?:00P Jn"
FAIRLEE: Selectmen, 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday, August 3 , _ $,
WOODSVILLE: District Commissioners, 7: v.
GROTON: Selectmen, 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, August 4
ORFORD: Selectmen, a:00p.m.
LYME: Selectmen, 7:30 p.m.
NEWBURY: Selectmen, 7:30 p.m.
WARREN: Selectmen, 7:30 p.m.
