January 28;-1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS · 140l EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS HARVEY BOYNTON: A KINGFIELD ing, fishlng. or relaxing. An enthusiastic generations of residents of southeastern fisherman, l\Ir. Boynton once caught the sec­ Michigan owe their economic livelihood LEGEND ond largest trout ever to be landed in New­ foundhmd. to the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Kowalski During World War II, Mr. Boynton served had the vision and the foresight to add HON. WILLIAM S. COHEN as a second Lieutenant in the 91st Infantry, sausage-making to their little Ham­ OF MAINE 361 Regiment in Italy, where he was wound­ tramck grocery business. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ed. He received the Purple Heart, Bronze We sometimes forget, Mr. Speaker, Star and the Distinguished service Award. that this is still the land of opportunity; Wednesday, January 28, 1976 In 1969, the Boynton's went to Italy and we sometimes forget, too, that opportu­ traveled along the same route where he had Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I was ex­ been with the army. On Tuesday of this week, nity comes disguised as a challenge to do tremely saddened 1·ecently to learn of Laura Boynton received a letter from the a good job at whatever it is that we the death of Harvey Boynton of King­ president of the 91st Infantry Association, tackle, and to work hard if we want to field, Maine-a man who was an insti­ stating that a notice of Mr. Boynton's death succeed. We sometimes forget, and then tution at one of Maine's best known ski would be placed in the Stars and Stripes pa­ along comes someone like Agnes Kowal­ areas, Sugarloaf Mountain. per in Washington for national publication. ski to help us remember this priceless Prior to his sudden death earlier this Mr. Boynton wa~ vice president of that or­ part of our American heritage. ganization. He was the first commander of It is a genuine pleasure for me, Mr. month, Mr. Boynton ran a ski shop at the Norton-Wouri American Legion Post in Sugarloaf for 20 years, and he was a Kingfield in 1946. Speaker, to pay tribute to the matriach familiar figure to all who visited the ski On Sunday, a memorial service will be held of the Kowalski family as she celebrates area. at the Dick Bell Interfaith Chapel at Sugar­ her 85th birthday-still strong, still in He was a leading business and civic loaf at 1 p.m. good health, still concerned about the leader in Kingfield, and his unselfish family business and its role in bolstering service to others won him the 1973 Man the area's economy, still involved in social of the Year Award of the Sugarloaf Area activities in the Polish-American com­ Association, an organization he helped MRS. AGNES KOWALSKI: GOOD munity, still a pillar of financial support found. · CITIZEN, VALUABLE NEIGHBOR for parish charities. The extent of Mr. Boynton's service to My wish for Agnes Kowalski is that she his community is detailed in the follow:­ enjoy many more years of good health HON. JAMES G. O'HARA in which to continue her role as good ing article fOI' a recent issue of the Cen­ OF MICHIGAN tral Maine Morning Sentinel. Mr. Boyn­ citizen and valuable neighbor. ton will be sorely missed by his family IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and friends, and by all of us who came to Wednesday, January 28, 1976 know him through their love of skiing. Mr. O'HARA. Mr. Speaker, on Sunday, JIM McHALE-A DEFENDER OF The article follows: February 1, Mrs. Anges Kowalski of RURAL LIFE HARVEY BOYNTON: A KINGFIELD LEGEND Hamtramck, Mich., will observe her 85th (By Laura Dunham) birthday. On that date, a host of her Harvey Boynton, who died earlier this friends, neighbors and admirers will be HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. month, was virtually a legendary figure to paying their t1ibute to this woman of OF CALIFORNIA Kingfield folks and visitors to Sugarloaf, indomitable courage and vision. I would IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES USA, where he had maintained a ski shop like to take this opportunity today, Mr. Wednesday, Jan·uary 28, 1976 Ior 20 years. Speaker, to express publicly the admira­ It all started when Graydon Erickson was Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. teaching school in Kingfield, and the Boyn­ tion in which we hold Mrs. Kowalski for ton's son David became interested in skiing the contribution she has made to the Speaker, I wish to draw the attention and jumping on a small ski jump just north community in which she lives. of my distinguished colleagues to the of town. About that time, Amos Winter and Mrs. Kowalski was born in a small vil­ changes we are witnessing in farming a group of young men were cutting the first lage south of Krakow, Poland, in 1891. and to the progressive steps which one trails to Sugarloaf and establishing a small She was a young girl of only 13 when her man has taken in this field. rope tow. Mr. Boynton who had a clothing family emigrated to the United States In the last few decades the small fam­ store, which he had operated since 1945 saw ily farm has been replaced by an ever a need for ski apparel and equipment and and settled in New York. It was there started to stock supplies for the local chil­ that she met the late Zygmund Kowalski, growing number of large, mechanically dren who were getting hooked on the new they were married, and in 1912 they oriented agribusinesses. We have seen sport moved to the Detroit, Mich. area. our farm population decline rapidly and As the mountain grew and the first small In 1920, Mr. and Mrs. Kowalski opened our number of farms decrease by 50 per­ base lodge was erected, Harvey and Laura a smal grocery store in Hamtramck. It cent since 1950. These are not just sta­ Boynton opened a store in the lodge and tistics, but a demonstration of an altera­ started a business which grew so much in was a humble beginning, Mr. Speaker; a small grocery store in Hamtramck. It tion in our past view of farming as a way three years that it was necessary to move into for a family to provide for itself and a single building across from the base lodge. many ne\vly arrived American citizens They remained there until the present base make for themselves here in this country. others while living in tune with nature­ lodge was built. About three years ago, the But the Kowalskis were a particularly a life filled with the creation of abundant ski shop was torn down and a new shop in hardy breed. They worked hard and they food products-a good, simple ).ife-to the valley crossing complex was opened. prospered. the present view so aptly described by Mr. Boynton's association with the region our Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Butz, also grew. He helped organize the Sugar­ As a sideline at that small grocery store in Hamtramck, the Kowalskis began and I quote: loaf Area Association to promote business in Farming isn't a way of life, it's a way to the area. He also served as president of the making sausage in a backroom of the organization and on its board of directors. grocery store. They worked hard and make a living. In 1973, he was named Man of the Year they put in long hours, and slowly but Pennsylvania's Secretary of Agricul­ for his many contributions to the Sugarloaf steadily, they built the sausage-making ture, Jim McHale, does not see the life region. operation into the main part of their bus­ of farming in such businesslike terms. Mr. Boynton loved the outdoors and was iness. Today, Mr. Speaker, it is a multi­ always ready to go off on a snowmobile sa­ His past struggles to encourage rural de­ fari on a Sunday afternoon. He, along with million-dollar-a-year food processing v~lopment through better health plans, four other persons had leased Round Moun­ business-the Kowalski Sausage Co., farmer-to-consumer marketing, and the tain Pond Camps, which reportedly was one which is so well known in southeastern spread of knowledge on self-sufficient of his favorite spots. Surrounded by five Michigan. That business now employs farming practices have given may peo­ mountains, he would spend days hunt- several hundred persons, and several ple, old and young, the impetus to begin, 1402 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 2B, 1976 or return to, farming as a way of life. masonry, welding, electricity and food proc­ in the area near my home. One out of every He feels, as I do, that farming presents essing." four families in that tract was living below a means for many to remove themselves As envisioned now, the project would be a the government's official poverty income, and and their children from the dependent, joint venture between the Agriculture De­ there is little doubt that conditions have be­ partment and the Department of Com­ come substantially worse since then. For f~t-paced, cement life of the city and munity Affairs. Possible sources for fund­ young people, and especially young blacks, that every possible incentive should be ing would include nonprofit corporations and unemployment may be as high as five times provided to those who have the urge to Comprehensive Employment Training Act the overall rate. The hard truth is that a become self-sufficient off the land. 1 monies. Wilcox has expressed a desire to get whole generation has been cast into economic commend his strong efforts to move his the Community Action Program agencies in­ limbo, and will remain permanent exiles State toward this ideal.