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3 SfORTS hi AT ERS CLASSIFIED REAL ESTATE SECTION TWO- BROOKLYN, NEW YORK SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1953 23 4 The Warm Again! It's Your Town! year for feed for their livestock, and more than $175,000 for labor. A reporter and a photographer, bent on securing pictorial proof of the foregoing, set out the other day looking for signs of. the rustic life supposed to exist in the mid-die of this thriving metropolis. Plenty of Country Atmosphere They found them, too They slogged through irrigated fields of fennel, chickory, kohlrabi, beets, broccoli and escarole. They dodged periously close to massive horses pulling plows, just to get proof that they existed.

They played footsie wiU-yapping field dogs, who must have mistaken them for sheep, the way the dogs tried to herd them along. They investigated the mysterious habits of thousands of chickens who were pursuing the solitary busftss of laying and hatching thousands of eggs. And they rode herd on a couple of hundred cows kept by borough dairies. The wonder Is that such agricultural pursuits still exist In Brooklyn, although the steady expansion and housing have pushed them Into the perimeter regions, such as New Lots, East New York, Canarsle, Bergen Beach, areas of Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend and Bensonhurst. By GKXB LUSHB.UGH Dodgertovm, U.

S. the third largest population center In the country, known variously as the "Borough of Churches" and theiub around which the bustling Port of Jftw York revolves, is also a' cattle and agricultural believe it or. not! Within the 76 square miles which- constitute the county of Kings are te be found 1 264 head of cattle, 65 farms employing 1,172 persons, and 332 people engaged in the MINING industry, according to official Government statistics. Where Are the Miners? (All attempts to locate mines in Brooklyn have so far een fruitless; even the Bureau 'of Census, which came up with the figures, now agrees that the persons so listed must be employed by local offices of companies hi mining operations elsewhere. Certainly, no right thinking individual will concede that there might be GOLD DIGGERS in the borough!) The view of Brooklyn as a cattle and -agriculture center in farther enhanced by the following statistics: Kings County fir.ni-era annually sell over $600,000 worth of products, Including crops, dairy goods, poultry and livestock.

They pay over $25,000 a iy wit Photo by Kruh -J tmtmm -n ilr wamvmmmu mum IN OUR OWN BACKYARD Most Brooklynites take long, hot, tedious drives far into "the country" each Summer to look at farms and get away from the city's hot pavements. They could save themselves a heap of trouble, to say nothing of gasoline, if they merely drove along Ralph near Flatlands where they might see Harry Polese of 958 E. 89th St. end his horse, Charley, plowing the fields. 3,500 CHICKENS Murray Weiss, proprietor of "the Weiss Way Egg Farm, 15 Fairfield collects daily supply of fresh eggs from his 3,500 White Leghorns on the only poultry farm in the metropolitan area.

Murray has letters of appreciation from President Eisenhower and former President Truman, to whom he sends two dozen double-yoked eggs each year at Easter. 1 if i It BORO PRODUCE Christina and Filippo Marino are shown bunching chickory out in the fields of their farm lot 5710 Flatlands Ave, Sixty-five such, farms in the borough annually sell about $500,000 worth of the above-mentioned chickory, fen I kohlrabi, beets, broccoli and escarole. The Marinos do most of the chores on the farm themselves for two reasons: They love outdoor work and "would die if we had to stay indoors," and "young people today don't want to work hard, long hours for little pay." 1 THIS IS CATTLE COUNTRY, PARDNUH! 264 head of cattle and calves, to be exact, roam the range within the confines of Kings County. Here Stanley Stanelwcz fills a milk pail out at the Wortman Dairy Farm at 549 Wortman where Jacob and Paul Wank keep 66 Hoi steins and Guernseys. They have 60 on another farm.

liiniiiiniiiiiiniM iiiiniHiiiiiiinBiiiiaiiiiinHinH i Brooklyn's Man Of the Week CLUNE CALLS TUNE FOR C.W.V. HERE Born almost in the shadow of the concrete walls of the Yankee Stadium, Joseph H. Clune shed all but a vestige of his Bronx ties when he moved to Brooklyn as a three-year-old. He admits he has persevered in the I KlllilKiiiiwiB face of continued Dodger adversity by clinging to his Yankee' fandom. Except for this single lapse, Joe Clune has achieved a 36-year record of service as a community conscious Brook-lynite.

This year he has climaxed that record as County Commander of the Catholic War Veterans. As head of the veterans' Clune stepped into a major re- enrmciVtilitv in cpttinolin what is now the Reeve3 grocery chain. While he was still an infant, his father died and the Clune family moved to Park Place and Washington Ave. in Brooklyn. Later they lived on St.

Mark's Ave. near Classon Ave. He attended Brooklyn Prep and in his last year in high school transferred to St. Francis Prep, where he was a catcher on the baseball team. He made an unusually tall backstop, stretching almost to his present six-foot-two-plus height.

After a short time at City College, Clune left school to take a job as a mail boy at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. "There's always been one important job requirement at the Met," he said. "If you want to work there, you start at the ground floor." That's just what he did. He's been there since, and in 17 years a period interrupted only by his war service he's worked up to an executive position as a claims approver. Served With C.

I. D. in War During the war Clune, whose ruddy, pleasant face marks him as a son of Erin, reached just about every portion of Europe except the south of Ireland. Somewhat ironically, his service as an agent of the Army's Criminal Investigation Division carried him to Northern Ireland, as well as to every Allied nation on the continent. As a C.

I. D. agent Clune was assigned to investigating crimes by GIs against the Army and European civilians and by the civilians against the Army. "It was strictly detective work," he said. "Many of the other agents had been cops in civilian life.

I suppose I was picked because of my background investigating insurance claims. "It was interesting duty. One day you'd hop to Berlin, the next you'd be assigned to Italy. On a couple of occasions you'd travel through several countries with home-bound troops." Decorated by Three Nations Clune was decorated by the French, British and Belgian governments for his service before being discharged in December, 1945. Although he returned to the Metropolitan Life, he's retained his contacts with fellow C.

I. D. men and is now a member of the Board of Governors of the C. I. D.

Agents Association. After the war, as a result of his C. W. V. affiliation he founded Our Lady of Lourdes Post he became treasurer of the Committee for the Liberation of Archbishop Stepinac, who had been imprisoned in Yugoslavia.

The committee, composed of 56 Catholic organizations, was instrumental in arousing public opinion, which, he feels, helped influence Tito's decision to free the prelate. One of the highlights of the committee's six years in action was a huge rally at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Clune and other officials of the committee also attempted to go to Yugoslavia to see the Archbishop, now a Cardinal. "We applied for visas to visit him," Clune said. "As you can imagine, we had a very interesting discussion with the Yugoslav embassy.

But we didn't get to Yugoslavia." While he was C. W. V. Commander of his post he never held any office on the county level until he assumed the County Commandership this year. He had served as chairman of a number of county committees, however, such as the blood bank and convention units.

TP i I 1 the C.W.V. Home Show, JoPh H- Clune which begins a week-long stand tomorrow evening at the 2d Corps Artillery Armory, 8th Ave. and 15th St. "One thing. I've learned about the Home Show," he laughed.

"I've seen less of my own home since I've been working on trying to interest other people in home improvement." Home for Joe Clune is at 91 DeSales Place, on the border of Bushwick and East New York. He lives there with his wife, Ann, whom he married 13 years ago Nov. 21, and their 2W-year-old son, Christopher. Clune was born in 1914, the son of a partner in i LIQUID GOLD We didn't have the heart to print this picture last week during the milk drought, showing Julius Goldberg of the Sterling Farms Dairy at 396 DeWitt Ave. straining the fresh milk in the first step tovards pasteurization.

The milk is still warm, having just come from one of 63 cows in Julius' corral. He and his cows have been here since 1 935..