Presentation of DAR Americanism Medal to Luis Lobo by the Colonel Joseph Winston Chapter

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How Samson Bitensky, a Jew, opened doors of opportunity for others in NY and NC

Gerardo "Jerry" Lobo

Samson Bitensky

How Samson Bitensky, a Jew, opened doors of opportunity for others in NY and NC

March 2, 2014 at 1:06pm

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http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/samson-bitensky-86-introduced-supersuede/33079/

"In 1955, Bitensky founded Fab-Lace, Incorporated, a specialty lace company. He began manufacturing operations at a former rug mill in upstate Amsterdam, N.Y. In 1966, John MacArthur asked Bitensky to take over a foreclosed North Carolina textile mill. Bitensky reorganized his company as Fab Industries, and added MacArthur to the board. He began the large-scale manufacturing of tricot knits and other fabrics. The company went public in 1968". - from the obit above.

So the story of the Costa Rican settlements in Amsterdam, NY, then NJ and later in NC begins with this man.  A Jew escaped from Poland before the invasion by the Nazi's in 1939 which effectively decimated the Jewish population of eastern Europe in what is today know as the Holocaust.  Bitensky fled to Far Rockaway, NY at 18, volunteered in the US Armed Forces and participated in the invasion of Italy and went on to innovate textiles in NY.

My father had arrived in Amsterdam, NY February 1964 and was unemployed for about 6 months. That Spring he got a job in an Italian restaurant  as a dishwasher because you do not need to know English to wash dishes, he just needed a JOB!  Week after week he pestered the head waiter to give him a table because he wanted to earn a higher wage.  Then, one day a waiter is out sick, and my dad is,  like : "PUT ME IN COACH, PUT ME IN!"  He has memorized the menu.  He had trained night after night, reading the menu, understanding how to pronounce the words, listening to the waiters and asking lots of questions while waiting his turn as a dish washer.   I am not sure if it happened on his first night or shortly thereafter.  A table of well-dressed businessmen came in, 5 or 6.  My father, all of 21 at the time, proceeded to welcome them and take their order.  He had the uncanny skill of being able to take an order without writing down the details, how cooked, with what kind of beverage, etc. (my brother Roberto has this gift too).

The gentleman at the "head of the table" later beckoned my Dad and asked about his origins, noting my father's accent.  He proceeded to tell him that he had recently arrived from Costa Rica and had left his two sons and wife behind and was determined to make his life in the US.  The gentleman asked my father what sort of work he wished to do.  My father told him that he was "good" with his hands, indeed my Dad could disassemble and put back together whatever, and had many years of experience working for his own father in their  dry good store in Costa Rica since infancy. The gentleman, speaking his English with a heavy Polish accent, pulled out a business card, handed it to my father, and told him to call the name and number on the card, they would be awaiting his call.  That gentleman was Samson Bitensky, founder of FAB industries, first in Amsterdam, NY and later in Lincoln and Catawba counties in NC.  The name on the card was that of Al Delavale  and he hired my Dad on the spot that week, his first job was sweeping in the 3rd shift , 11:00 PM to 7:00 AM.  He was IN!  In short order he became a crack knitter , then trained on the German machinery, by the time we arrived 9-65 he was a third shift supervisor at Adirondack Mills in Amsterdam, he had been in the US all of 18 months. In the mid-1960's FAB moved to purchase mills in NC, my father relocated and thus began a tremendous migration of Costa Ricans that had first followed my father and his cousins, Horacio Lobo and William Montero,  first to Amsterdam, then to northern NJ, then to Lincolnton, NC.

So, tell me we are not capable of tremendous change?  Tell me we are not capable of changing reality? Tell me we are not able to escape our origins and create a life for ourselves through focus and perseverance?

I guess no one told my Dad it could not be done, and he never told us either.

HAPPY 50th ANNIVERSARY on your  one-way ticket with destiny

In the final analysis, your attitude determines your effectiveness in everything, every time! LGL www.LuisLobo.Biz

So PROUD of Arizona looking back to 2010

Arizona’s Immigration Law Does NOT go far enough….

Arizona’s Immigration Law Does NOT go far enough….

It has become evident that the politicization of immigration reform serves as a lightning rod for populism. It is NOT a reality to be resolved, as evidenced by the failure of Bush to gain his own party’s support for comprehensive reform; the waiver and lack of integrity of the Senator from Arizona John McCain and many on both sides of the aisle on the issue; and the lack of leadership on the Democratic side towards a fundamental and comprehensive program towards the use of foreign labor for our own needs. It is our own need to employ foreign labor and arcane rules that causes illegal immigration. It is also every human’s need to serve their selfish self-interest and seek a better result from their own efforts. We need the labor and immigrants are motivated to improve their lives. This is the story of the peoples of the United States.

This commentary is not about how the labor resource should be utilized. It is about how precious the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights are to us as citizens and to individuals across the globe. In the lexicon of today, the immigration problem is about “mexicans” (note the minor “m”). It appears most Americans are unaware of the Irishmexicans, the Chinesemexicans, Russianmexicans and other illegals in our midst. However, Arizona and other communities have opted to use their optical abilities to cull through the mexican-looking folks. This seems somewhat difficult to accomplish as some mexicans look Anglo, Arabic, and even indigenous. Arizona’s next step will be to make them all wear mexican flags on their clothing so that we do not confuse them, similar to a tyrannical and evil government in the 1930’s. The mexican flag can be the Star of David patch of today!

“ARTICLE THE SIXTH

[Amendment IV]

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.



Our laws apply to our citizens and to non-citizens. Thus, the newest missives from Arizona that no person with a foreign accent can teach English and that it will be unlawful to teach the history of its diverse populations in the public schools, will decide that competency is not the basic requirement to teach and that someone’s version of history, as opposed to the truth, will be better for all concerned. I am reminded of Arizona’s son Barry Goldwater, who said: “each man is responsible for his own actions, he is the best judge of his own well being, each has his individual conscience to serve.., and each man is a brother to every other man.”

I do not think Mr. Goldwater would recognize his home today.


Luis G. Lobo
"In the Final Analysis, Your Attitude Determines your Effectiveness in Everything, Every Time!"



In the final analysis, your attitude determines your effectiveness in everything, every time! LGL

n the final analysis, your attitude determines your effectiveness in everything, every time! LGL www.LuisLobo.Biz