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McEwen Supports Raises H ouse Will Not Block Salary Increases - „ BY JIM KENNEDY L -. ine House of Representatives is hot expected ta intervene to block a scheduled $13,000 pay hike for members of Congress and other top federal government officials, Rep. Robert C. McEwen said this morning. Thepay increase, which would boost the lawmakers salaries from $44,600 to $57,500, will take effect automatically at the end of this month unless blocked by the House. The Senate has already killed! an amendment which would have blocked the increase. McEwen told The Journal this morning that the Democratic leadership of theHousehas decided that it will riot oppose the increase and therefore have provided \no v Parliamentary procedure\ for any member of Congress to intervene, McEwen said. \The House'has decided that it will not say a thing about this,\ McEwen saw. McEwen indicated that while he in principle supports a pay increascfor Congressmen, he Had planned to co-sponsor a bill m the House which would have delayed the increase so that i t would not take effect until the next session. That way, he said, the congressmen would not be voting an increase for themselves, but for thenext Congress i n 1978. The hikes were recommended by former President Gerald Ford and are supported by President Jimmy Carter They take effect Feb. 20 unless blocked by Congress. Supports Hike I n Principle . ' , . From his comments, McEwen seems to support the idea of a pay nute m He argued that Congress i s \losing members* because thfrlevelofpay can not compete with that off ered hy private industry arid someuniversmes \To the average person,\ McEwen said, \these look like large salaries -, But in. comparison witti those being offered by some universities ana businesses, they don't look that large.\ -^..-.i-fith- He saidthatby limiting pay raises t o congressmen, the Congressjmj?\ pe doing itself harm by keeping good men out of public service. Herara ne feared a day when the only persons who could serve in c ° n f^^TZ^ those with independent sources of wealth or those who had income trom lucrative legal practices or speaking engagements. He-said the same was true for other top government positions scheduled for pay hikes. He said that the \non-glamor\ jobs in the upper echelons of government were not very attractive i n themselves. \There s no giamorin these jobs, just alot of hard work,\ he said. In order to attract people to these kinds of jobs, McEwen argued, me government would have to offer a good wage. Among these jobs, he said, areisoniejudicialpiositidnsiri the circuit courts. Some 2,000 top federal employes and 20,000 civil servants are scheduled to . get increases. Some civil servants earning up to $39^600 now would get in- creased up to $7,900. Bosses Should Get Raise McEwen further argued, that the legislators, who are the \bosses\ in the federal government, should be paid on a par with the government's em- ployes. . \The people's representatives are the bosses i n the federal government,\ MeEweh.said. \They should have pay equal t o the employes.\ All these factors figure into the salary question, McEwen explained. It is a \complicated\ issue, he said. He-added that he himself had never vdtedfqr an increase in the 12 years he has represented northernNew York in the House. When he was*first elected the salary for a representative was$30,000. it was raised in 1969 to $42,500; A five per cent cost oi living increae was added i n 1975. ^ Continued On Page6' JOURNAL Council Meets Tonight On Residential' Developments - Page 6, Daily Entered As Second Class Matter Post Office Ogdehsburg, N.Y. VOL. 26, NO. 6208 Gunman In Nazi Garb 5 New Rochelle officials, including the mayor and police, said the man inside was Cowan. A neighbor of Cowan's, who asked not to be identified, said Cowan, who- lives with his parents i n New Rochelle,;inain- tained. an arsenal of guns at his residence. \ ' \He's got every kind of rifle that ever was made, and has been collecting Jhehi since he was a kid,\ the neighbor said. \Ever since he was a kid, he's been bugged on Hitler. Hitler is his idol.\ Company workers said the gunman was a strapping man whose body was tattoed with Nazi symbols. The neighbor said Cowan had Nazi uniforms and swastikas on a wall i n the house he lives in and said the man \walks around in a Nazi uniform sometimes.\ The gunman's parents were brought to the scene in the hopes that he could be talked into giving himself up, but-a policeman at the scene said authorities expected a continuing gun battle, « Three wounded policemen -were taken; to New Koehelle Hospital, but-the fourth remained lying on the ground outside the warehouse, The gunmali, described as a strappings, tattoed maiwith an M161 sifiei kept^nfffccrs jfroni reScntag--theic- i.«>2Tvrade- \ v - - The rifleman fired both from inside the warehouse and from the roof of the building. A company employe said that up to 50\ persons could have been reporting for. work when the shootings began. Many of them ran out the back door of the warehouse when the shooting began. OGDENSBURG, N.Y. - MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14,1977_ Republican Established 1830 . SINGLE CCXPlf 20 CentS\ Journal Established 1858 NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (AP) — K >A husky gunman, said t o be wearing a Nazi-like uniform, shot and killed one policemen today and wounded at least five other persons, including three more police officers. . Theri the gunman, armed with a high-' powered rifle, held police at bay from . inside and from the roof of a moving company's warehouse, police said. He shouted that he had \plenty of grenades and other guns and ammunition to last me all day,\ police reported. The gunman, described by an employe of the Neptune Worldwide Moving Co. as a worker recently suspended, barged into the warehouse and began firing just before 8 a.m,, police said. There were unconfirmed reports from company workers and.police that at least one company employe was dead inside the warehouse. Another worker said two of his fellow employes \looked dead\ in the warehouse as they lay wounded in the chest. Meanwhile, police said a number of persons ^- at least five — remained hostage inside as the gunman kept up sporadic fire,. The dead ^policeman Was removed from the ground \alongside tlfe wsvr^s&ise 'shsirtly Jjefore iJsj&av. fisr armored, emergency rescue vehicle moved alongside the building and two New Rochelle policemen crawled under Several vehicles to retrieve the body of their dead comrade. Company workers who were present at the time fheshooting began identified the gunman as Fred Cowan, about 35. 4 - HOLLANDSBURG, Ind. (AP) — Four on U.S. 36, about 10 miles from the young men were shot t o death early murder scene, Indiana State Trooper today in their family's mobile home Jim Bell said. No weapons were found in near here. A state trooper said the the car, and the pair was being victims's heads were blown off, ap- questioned at the Parke County Jail, parently by shotgun blasts. The slaying victims were lined up face Police said robbery apparently <was down on tBe living room floor of the the motive. The victims ranged n age double-width mobile home, Bell said, A from 14 to 22. The waliets of all four were missing, The stepmother of three of the vie- the trailer was ransacked and its tims, Mrs. Betty Spencer, 41, was telephone lines had been cut, troopers wounded. She was listed in satisfactory said. condition at a Terre Haute hospital with \The motive as far as investigating wounds to the back and the back of the officers talking to her (Mrs. Spencer) at head. the scene is strictly robbery,\ saicLState Police said at least four and possibly Police Sgt. Fred Patton. » five persons were involved in the Bell identified the victims as Ralph shootings near the Western Indiana Spencer, 14; Reeve B. Spencer, 16; hamlet. Raymond M. Spencer, 17, sons, of Keith Two persons in a car matching the Spencer from a previous marriage, and description of the auto believed used by Gregory B. Brooks, 22, reportedly a half the assailants were taken into custody brother of the other yictims. Pair Walks Lake Erie; Another Duo Gives Up By The-Associated Press cold temperatures, the lake was suf- The thought of walking across a frozen ficiently frozen over to permit the trek. Lake Erie was more than four men Wesley Schalamon, 43, of Valley City, couid resist. One pair failed, turned Ohio, and Daniel Greene, 24, of back by howling winds and the thoughts Cleveland, walked 30 miles Saturday of worried loved ones. The second pair from Catawba Point near the Sandusky, virtually strolled into Canada unde- Ohio, side of the lake t o Colchester, Ont., tected. in Canada. Because of this winter's persistent Asked why no one outside their im- mediate families was told about the trip JJQTffi C* ~I ahead of time, Schalamon said, \The UtJfV S yjOdll object was to make it, I didn't care about coverage or publicity. That reaUy r l^Atim/i TrkJ-iQ complicates things. There was a good Lj\\Hl\fTi\ J O Uo chance we weren't going to make it. I'd y . . rather tell about it afterwards.\ WASHINGTON (AP) - The United Brian Kinal, 29, a newspaper copy Steelworkers union is determined to editor, and his boyhood friend Bob Bliss, break new ground in labor negotiations 31, a former submarine crewman, also by winning lifetime job guarantees for set out to cross the lake but from a point its half-million members i n the basic near Erie, Pa., about 150 miles east of steel industry. Sandusky* The proposal heads an ambitious list Their destination was Long Point, Ont. of demands for presentation today when — 24 miles away if they managed a union and management negotiators sit straight path across the frozen expanse, down to write a new three-year contract. But they gave up about noon Sunday Retiring USW President I.W. Abel when they climbed into a rescue wants to close out his career with a helicopter. negotiations breakthrough that he believes will produce more jobs and ]U on thn+ bring his members financial stability for. W GUlll>%5i the rest of their lives. ,, , , , . ., , ,.,„ Moderately windy and a little colder T~,*]~~. t^y and tonight with considerable JLTICMZX cloudiness and flurries likely. Highs today i n the low to mid 30s, lows tonight Classified Page 13 in the low to mid 20s. Tuesday, cloudy Comics Pagell with a chance of a little snow Editorial ...Page 4 developing, highs in the mid to upper Local ... . ........Pages 5,6 20s. Chance of snow70 per cent today 60 Mini Pages Pages 9,10 per cent tonight and 50 per cent National News ..,:. Page 14 Tuesday. Winds westerly 10 t o 20 miles Sports — -Pages 7*8 per hour today diminishing t o less than StateNews .Page 2 10 late tonight. % VALENTINE'S DAY Pushing, Shoving, Hot Tempers Plague Buffalo Food Stamp Lines BUFFALO (AP) - After a chaotic v/eekend, Erie County will try out a hew program today to hand out millions of dollars worth of food stamps to county residents, said Fred J. Buscaglia, social service commissioner. More than 12,000 persons flocked to six county centers Sunday to apply for the emergency food stamp program, but officials said they had to turn nearly 5,000 away. Residents in the nine counties in New York state declared major ..disaster areas by President Carter are eligible for emergency food stamps if they lost income because of storm-related problems. — x •* Tempers flared as crowds in two Buffalo locations waited for their chance to get out of the cold and snow t o apply for the aidf Police said people were pushing and shoving in order to jockey themselves into a better position in the lines. Two women were arrested following an argument with police after trying to cut in the line. Police also said there were minor incidents, including four women fainting, but they did not know of any injuries, One woman complained that police were able to keep the lines orderly only until the doors to the food stamp dis- tribution centers opened. After that, it was a free-for-all, she said. Some people, like Betty PerreUi of the Town of Tbnawanda, came prepared for thelong^wait. Sheirought a small chair wjith her when she came to sign up over the weekend. \I figured this would foe an all day affair,\ she said. And Sal Mendola of Kenmore decided the - best way t o handle ' the jwhole situation-was with, a caiiof beer in.his hand. Rick Olejniczak of Buffalo who got in line at 7 a.m. criticized the^city for not roping off the street so people would stand in line. \This is just mass chaos,\ he said. The hew procedure planned - by Commissioner Buscaglia and his staff Will have persons reporting t o food stamp locations receiving a number. \Beginning Wednesday, alphabetical breakdowns, i n addition- -^ the v zip*epde breakdown how i n use,: \KU1 be used to restrict the number of persons who may apply on a given, day. WASHINGTON >CAP) -- President •Carter, seeking to set ashnpler style for his presidency, is dispensing With tr£ditionaifarifares as he greets his first foreign head of state, Mexico's President Jose Lopez Portillo, Carter revealed Sunday hehas cut out some, frills for today's White House ceremony marking the start of Lopez Portillo's state visit. ~ Aides said Carter eliminated the 14 Army herald trumpeters,' who used to play fanfares from the White House * balcony, and the array of flags pf r the states and-territories that had made a colorful backdrop for South -Lawn ceremonies.,, He also instructed military bands not to play two tunes traditional at presidential ceremonies, \Obviously we'll recognize &e foreign leaderjin; ffie propei- form/'\ GSrter told reporters iii fits hometpsasn, of Plains, - ija : , oni Sunday. \But I .dbtfiapprovieof] ,Jhe lluffleslind Flourishes' and 'Hail to; €•3 Chief iorihe/'; - •' . _-'. 4 Cstrter planned.to .meet,-.3#iJEh hi s GSbihet prior to: the ceremo'n^ :**\>• . On Sunday night he cMfjerfed with\ , TLN. 'Ambassador Andrew, ;¥pung, just returned .from a 10-day trip to Africa that ended in controversy. Young said on Saturday that former Secretary- of State Henry A. Kissinger \abandoned\ the British to. arranging the Geneva conference on Rhodesia. Young s^id Kissjiiger put the \burden on Britain?s^backr\' The^SKident-said earlier Sunday that he believed Young's remarks were taken out of context and that he did not think \AOdy said it in a critical way.\ Carter returned to Washington early from his weekend visit to Plains in order to meet for an hour with Young, Secretary of State Cyrus R; Vance and national security adviser Zbighiew BrzezinskL \ A spokesman provided no details, but said the U.N. ambassador gave a \full report\ on his African trip. 1 Carter then met fqr a half-hour more with Vance and Brzezinski. Vance leaves'tonight on a; fact-finding missioh to -the Middle East. . Although .neither government an- nounced a formal agenda, Carter and Lopez Portillo were expected to discuss such issues as trade, 'illegal aliens, prisoners and tourism. Carter was playing his role as com- mander-in-chief over the weekend when he flew to Georgia and back aboard an Air Force jumbo, jet that would be the aerial command pbst i n case of nuclear attack.' He.said he tried t o save money on- Fridayby traveling by car from Warner Robins AFB near Macon, Ga., where he landed, t o Plains, a distance of 70 miles. V BE MY VALENTINE —
