THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, November 13, 2020 Page 13 CUTS | FROM PAGE 3 line workers who have kept our communities running during the pandemic. As transportation workers, the 6,000 members of Local 589 are among those essential workers. Now, there is a danger of MBTA officials exploiting the crisis by forcing austerity measures upon riders and workers alike. It is the same old song of MBTA officials pushing austerity, rather than daring to ask the wealthy to pay their fair share, despite the strong public support for new revenues that will ensure high quality, affordable, safe public transportation. The MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board would be failing riders and the public yet again if they make these cuts before the Biden administration has an opportunity to take important steps on infrastructure funding. It is completely tone-deaf and against the interest of riders and our communities for the MBTA board to be pushing service reductions, instead of working to hold large corporations and the super-wealthy responsible to finally pay their fair share and to protect the common good. Now is the time to invest in our future and our economy and in the public transportation services that our communities need, not to decimate public transit with misguided austerity measures. The members of Local 589 are calling for a moratorium on further austerity measures at the MBTA and a moratorium on any proposed cuts that will hurt the essential workers across the Commonwealth who rely on public transportation. We call on our elected leaders and on MBTA officials to reject these premature austerity measures, and to support the quality public transportation our cities and state rely upon. Sincerely, James Evers President Boston Carmen’s Union Local 589 1. On Nov. 13, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court declared segregated buses in what state illegal? 2. The first Thanksgiving football game was in 1876, between what two Ivy League schools? 3. On a Scrabble board, how many points is a Q? 4. On Nov. 14, 1922, what company began broadcasting from a London studio? 5. Rice is used to make what alcoholic beverage? 6. How are fish, cobra and lotus similar? 7. In 1955 what company’s test kitchen developed Green Bean Casserole? 8. On Nov. 15, 1932, what “First Lady of the British Invasion” was born who had the hits “A Sign of the Times” and “Colour My World”? 9. What were the first bicycles called? 10. When was the last Blue Moon (second full moon in one calendar month)? 11. Who won the Masters Golf Tournament at age 21? 12. On Nov. 16, 1841, the first U.S. patent for a life preserver made of what substance from oak trees was issued? 13. What Caribbean country has a national dog named after its capital? 14. Which Native American tribe celebrated the first Thanksgiving? 15. On Nov. 17, 1913, Lincoln Beachey flew the first U.S. airplane to perform a loop the loop – near what city whose name begins a first word meaning “Saint”? 16. How are Kumamoto, Duxbury and Cape May similar? 17. On Nov. 18, 1928, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, “Steamboat Willie,” was released; what pair starred in it? 18. In computers, what does RAM stand for? 19. How are Vulcans, Borgs and Changelings similar? 20. On Nov. 19, 1969, what famous soccer player scored his one-thousandth goal? ANSWERS Like us on Facebook advocate newspaper Facebook.com/ Advocate.news.ma 1. Alabama 2. Yale and Princeton 3. 10 4. The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) 5. Sake 6. They are yoga poses. 7. Campbell’s 8. Petula Clark 9. Velocipedes 10. Oct. 31, 2020 11. Tiger Woods 12. Cork 13. Cuba (Havanese) 14. Wampanoag 15. San Diego 16. They are oyster varieties. 17. Mickey and Minnie Mouse 18. Random-access memory 19. They are Star Trek alien races. 20. Pelé
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