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™i JOURNAL No Tax Increase, School Board Orders — Page 11. VOL. 26, NO. 6209 wise Move Daily Entered As Second Class' ' FOUR SECTIONS — 30 PAGES Matter Post 'Office Ogdensburg, N.Y. • OGDENSBURG, N.Y. — TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1977 SFPTIOM n\P Republican Established 1830 SINGLE COPY 20 Cents \\•nal Established 1858 islature Ousts Clerk CANTON—In a surprise move, Mrs. June 0'Neill,Df Morley, was named by a 12 to 7 vote of the County Board of Legislators to replace Mrs. Eileen Petrie as clerk, budget officer, and auditor of the board at its regular monthly meeting last njght. The roll call followed an executive session called by Chairman Allen J. Rishe for the pur-* pose of discussing county appointments. Mrs. Petrie, who had failed to garner enough votes to gain reappointment in January of this year, has been performing the duties % since the death of Charles Fox several years ago. Rishe indicated after the meeting that the replacement of Mrs. Petrie should come as*no Surprise, since she wasn't appointed easily in 1976, : and; didn't get the necessary vote majority «f 12 reqsrired for reappoinftnent this year, , Rishe stated, \There is a definite advantage to the situation we now have. June O'Neill knows we| are thinking of restructuring the county government, and is sympathetic to it. Eileen Pejrie was never sympathetic to the idea.\ 1 Livingston Comments Republican legislator Donald Livingston in con&nent on the move this morning said that lie foufid the dismissal of Mrs. Petrie \shocking.\ He said that the move represented \the: biggest disservice to this county that I have seen: in my 14 years in county government.\ He also cited Mrs; Petrie's 16 years of county em- ployment. Livingston had some criticism for Democratic chairman Rishe and also for the .newly appointed Democrat on the board, John F. Ruitberg. Livingston said the removal of Mrs. Petrie seemed contrary to Rishe's earlier statements, \which Livingston said were \on record somewhere,\ that a proposed restructuring of the county government would not put anyone's -job in jeopardy. \I thought the intent of the proposal was not to remove people from positions but just to restructure,\ Livingston said, Livingston added that in-his memory the Republicans, when they were in control of county government, had \never dumped someone because of his or her party affiliation.\ \We never even checked their political af- 1 filiation before appointing them,\ Livingston' said. \They (the Democrats) talk about the, disservice Dave Martin did by^not resigning. Well, this is the biggest disservice to the county that I have seen in my 14 years in county^ government,\ Livingston concluded. Mrs. O'Neill, who has worked in the County Office of Social Services for a number of years as a grade-B supervisor, will draw a yearlylsalary of $17,626. Mrs. Petrie was receiving $20,129. Unless restructuring of the county government is instituted by the strengthened Democrats, who have just seated John Ruitberg Jr., Mrs. O'Neill Will be up for reappointment after Dec. 31,1977. ' Democrats on the board are reportedly con- sidering a restructuring of the county govern- ment which _jwould put an ^'administrative.. - •-*- Contiiiued On Pagfe 12 TFENS CONFRONT COUNCIL — A group of parking lots. The teen center is located to the teenagers confronted the City CouncU last night rear of the Frank Building. From left are Nor- in an effort to plead for reconsideration of the bert Markert Jr., Laura Seymour, Nancy Hoff- council's proposal to demolish the teen center man, Cathy Fisher, and Jifti McWilliams. Story along With tfie Frank Building hx the downtown page lL-(Stokes Photo) mall to open a pedestrian walkway from the mall ; \. Mights Commission Urges Musing WASHINGTON (AP) —TheU.S. Civil Rights Commission says children in targe metropolitan areas, should be-,,: bused between the inner City and the suburbs to reverse a trend of increasing segregation in bigcity schools,. -\, ''White elsewhere much progress, has been mage in desegregating public schools,\' the commission said, '<it is these children of the cities more than any others who have yet to reap any benefit from the promise\ of equal educational opportunity. The commission, in a 119ipage\ report released today, said, \the problem, is growing worse, not better\ as \the boundaries between cities, and suburbs have become -not merely politicals •dividing lines but barriers, that separate people by.race^nd ecbncpiic class.\- The refWft comes two days after Attyi. Gen, GriffiftB. Bell said thathe be^eve* 4he Supremei Court has narrower the scope of busing that maybe ordered by Isderal'judges to-*w.hieve. desegregation, Last summer the bipartisan com- mission created a controversy with a study that found busing to desegregate schools was working smoothly in most cities.,The study accused then-President Gerald It. Ford of trying to \curb\ court-ordered busing. »'\\ * War Crimes Denied ALBANY, N\Y. (AP) — Vilis A. Hazners, 71, a resident of Dresden in northern New York, has denied that he committed war crimes while an officer in the Nazi-backed Latvian, S3 Legion during World War II. At a hearing in the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Court here Monday, Hazners* attorney told Judge Anthony DeGato that his client denies the war crimes charged against him. Hazners, who currently has per- manent resident alien status, was served with a deportation notice Jan. 28. Dresen is in Washington County. • Hazners is charged with having en- tered the United States from Germany in 1956 in violation of the anti-war crimes proviso of the Refugee Relief Act of 1953. The deportation notice accused Hazners of participating \in collecting a group of Jews in Riga, Latvia and detaining them at the Big Synagogue on Gogal St,, Riga, Latvia after which the said synagogue was set afire and the detained Jews burned to death, therein, in or about July, 1941.\ Some critics charged the study was ' rigged^in favor of busing. Iii its latest report,-which caps a threes • iyear study, the bipartisan commission rejected, claims, that desegregating; schools \across city and suburban bor- ders WQul^feqi^e.m(»e„-busing- , lk long trips and- tremendous \adhimiswative probIer^;li3xperteh6<;%ow§ travel tittle can actually be reduced,, the panel said, \\and school district mergers long- have been commonplace. The report blamed government at all levels for fostering \facial ghettos,\ It cited numerous instances 'of federal housing practices since the 1930s that it said helped set the present patterns °f minorities being restricted to the inner cities whiie whites have gained almost exclusive control of the suburbs 1 and suburban schools. ' Weather Variable cloudiness with sortie /sun- shine today, highs in the mid to upper 20s. Considerable cloudiness tonight and Wednesday with a chance of flurries. Turning-colder, with lows tonight zero to 10 above, highs Wednesday in the teens. Winds southwest to west today eight to 15 miles per hour; northwest tonight 8 to 15. Chance of snow 20 per cent today, 40 per cent tonight and Wednesday. LAJES, The Azores (AP) -Secretary estate Cyrus R. Vance was headed for the Middle East to seek concessions on the Palestinian issue in the hope of resuming the Geneva peace conference hf the end of the year, Vance's, plane stopped at this U.S.- jnibhed Portuguese Air Force base^to xefuel early today en route to IsrajlsJ^the fiaii stop on his tour. ^ -• The one^week trip also will take Vance, tq 'Egypo, Lebanon briefly, J6rdan : , Saudi Arabia and Syria. As he left Washington late Monday, Vance said, he did not underestimate the difficulty of trying to bridge 30 years .of hostility^ between Israel and its A?ab, Neighbors. \* \\ ' But, he said, the Carter ad- ministration is determiiiedto; achieve \a just and las^Bf'peace\ in the region, To^ii Stiiaiiied While in the Middle Bast, Yanoehopes x to prombt arms reduction asSwell as to. encourage a return to peace talks in Genevas Vance intends to find out the depth of the Arabs' commitment to .creating a Palestinian state and whether they think the Palestine Liberation Organization is prepared to accept Isra^lHs existence. He has no -meetings planned: during the -trip with* Palestinian represent tatives* U.S. Officials said. ;^ Ih Israel, his first stop; Vahces^wM probe for a softening in the sc^Ja* ironclad objection to. PLQ participation in peace talks. ^'•'\'•...'.• Vance Wj& also-register U.S.: of*. iections t$ ^aeii s»;k exploratiaiiWh the ' GuTfTofSuez.'Stau3 department ^ollicials said Monday'that under international law* Israel figs naright tojbegin a new project in occupied Egyptian territory. Adptifient gpoKesman said M Ven- ture was \not helpful\ to peace negotiations- Other U.S.- officials sard, however, that it ^oulcgnbtinteriere wjlii Vance's missiolff. -:-•-*••?:•;•''--*-?S.'-' ; s -> \^ Vance, in an interview last week with; Israeli correspondents that was released at the. start of Jus trip, said, \I ami ttot going; ¥6..engage in shuttle diploSnacy Se:£h1s ftiae:?' T \'•'- - ^^^atlainn^'yjng t&dV=is tof4scer t taln as^teafly-^s I-cah whatjfche views of the fceyf leaders are so jEhict I 'cat£ r feturn> to fh^-'United States ah* wepbrt id the President. We can then develop our viewsas to how we-cahbehiost u^efuiin r trying to promotepe'ace in Hie Middle '•te,\;i*-\-v^-£ -, • ',-.- •*- • • . Other XS.S. pffiqials said thequestion Of- Palestinian par-tifeipatiqii jit- jwace talks, insoluble until now, is ~one of Vance's overriding concernsk HQLL^DSB^G* Ind. (AP^ Talk in the Kaccoph Lake bar usually runs to fishing, politicsand country music. That was gone today, shattered by shock at the execution-style slayings of four young brothers i n a?' town:, where^ crime has -always, been something that hap- pens somewhere else. \This is supposed to be a nice, safe community,\ said Virginia Tyler, whose husband owns the bar and restaurant on the fringe of the Raccoon Lake recreation area* • ; . \Everybody is just. shocked. They\ were super-fine boys.\ RalphSpencer r 14; Reeve B. Spencer, 16; Raymohd M- Spehcer, 17, and Gregory?. Brooks, 22, a step-brother, were found Monday, face-down on the blood^soakediloor of theirmobile home. Each had been killed hy'a shofgun ; blast to the head. \Their mother escaped by Splaying dead after gunshots tore through her wig, police said.\ 'Betty Sjpencer, 43, Grego'iy Brooks^ mother and stepmother of the thre6 teen-agers, was wounded in the back, head and shoulder. She managed to walk to a neighbor's and summon help. The trailer was ransacked, the telephone lines weriecutand the victims' wallets missing. ' Mrs. Spencer told investigators four' men, believed to be in their early 20s, invaded the trailer shortly after her hus- band, Keith, left for his- job as a technician for an Indianapolis 'television station. Police were unable to leaian more immediately about the incident because she was heavily sedated, although listed in satisfactory-condition at a Terre Haute hospital 1 . The assailants fled in Raymond Spencer's car, which was found 'about six hours later abandoned on a rural rdad seven miles away. Police said they assumed there was a second ear. \there might'have.been at the most $30 taken,\ said State Police Sgt. Don Aldrich. \It looked like an execution- type slaying. However, we don't have a reason for it. Killing four people over $30 r doesn't make a whole lot of sensed' ews IBS- , » . GEARING UP — Ruth Luckie and Bub Gwih geared up for Thursday's opening of O'Burg Expo \77 Monday night by trying out one of the many games set up in the Orescent room of the downtown mall. Here, Mrs. Luckie and Gwin spin the Astrology- Wheel. The Expo opens Thursday afternoon in the mall with a special guest appearance by world-famous comedian Henny Youngman. (Kennedy Photo) . NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (AP) -r The baffling personality of NazUminded Tred Cowan was plumbed today for a clue to the army^trained sharpshooter's rampage that took, five lives at the warehouse where he worked.. I t ended when he put a bullet into his own \brain.; Although Cowan appeared to be motivated by revenge against his em- ployer over a two-week suspension from his. job on grounds that he had .offended company customers, he issued no major demands once inside the warehouse. \He was; a very gentle man who loved children,\ said a sister-in-law, Mrs, Mary Ellen Cowan. Added a neighbor: \He was always a nice boy.\ But others remembered the avid gun collector as a hulky 6-foot-2 250-poUrtder enamored of Nazi uniforms, who tat- tooed his body with symbols of Adolf Hitler's regime and festooned the walls of his room with swastikas. * \Hehates blacks,\ said one neighbor, Roldnd Lersch. \He hates Jews:\ Said another neighbor who refused to give his name: \Ever since he was a kid, he's been bugged on Hitler. Hitler is his idol ... He walks around in a Nazi uniform sometimes,\ • The possibility existed that Cowan selected his victims, out of his hate. He let some persons escape from the ware- house where he was supposed to return to work Monday. He killed four fellow employes at the Neptune Worldwide Moving Co three blacks and an In- dian, \~ The fifth victim was New Rochelle Police Officer Allan McLeod, 29, married and the father of two children. The first policeman on the scene, h e was gunned down at the outset of the siege. Six years before, McLeod had been decorated for single-handedly capturing a beserfc man with a rifle. This morning, there was little activity her.e. The company warehouse was closed for the day and outside the home where Cowart lived with his parents, two New Rochelle policemen stood guard. A newspaper was delivered and the garbage was picked up, but no activity could be seen inside. Five persons were injured ih the carnage, including three other policemen. Two of the injured remained hospitalized today, one of them in serious condition. On the 32-year-old' Gowan's'car was an anti-gun control sticker which read: \They won't take the gun from my hand until they pry it from my coid dead fingers.\ - It proved to be a grimly accurate prophecy. Shortly before 6 p.m. Mon- day, a task force of 30 New Rochelle, New York City and • FBI law en- forcement agents, emboldened by hours of silence from within the warehouse, decided to chance a showdown with Cowan,, who had been defiantly under siege since 8 a.m. Cowan's guns had fallen mute after a single, final shot at 2:23-p ( m. Some 50 employes of the firm had made their way to safety, many in ones or twos. None could say,he had actually been held hostage. Oneor two said Cowan had leveled his Ml6,-automatic:rifle ; at them in a gesture of mtimidatibh. But most had taken cover inside the warehouse on their own initiative, out qif fear. Now the law was poised to move in. The first floor of the building long had been secured. Cowan was holding out on the second. The invading force inched from room to room, dousing lights -as Uley iiioved. With them was an^attack. dog, \straining on its leash in anticipation of a con^ fi-oritation with its prey, \In the last 45„2ninufies we were searching the building room by room, and then we found him,\ said Police Commissioner Wlliam* Hegerty. \He was dead in aroom in the north corner of the building. He shot himself in the head.\ . •- \' Cowan had had a difference with a supervisor and had been suspended from his job about two weeks ago. He was to have returned to work Monday morning. % . But upon his arrival at the warehouse, in the words of a fellow-employe> Clint Wynant, \he just started shooting- and everybody started running all over the; : place.\ . h Officer McLeod was gunned down as he made an initial rush toward thf warehouse entrance. Cowan's . ih- termiittent sheet of fire kept fellow officers from retrieviing the body for hours Eventually, they were able to move.in under cover of a tanVlike ar- mored , yehicte.imppfeted \by' New \Kprk City police. ' - . \ . Police shargshootefs took to .adjacent rooftops, thei blue gray muzzles of their rifles glittering in the Sunshine of aiMld. and pleasant ^February day, • The afthernobh wbre oti, . the sun waned and the gloom of\ a winter night finally enveloped the scene, pierced by police searchlights. When a warehouse workman emerged shortly before 6 p.m„ officers had reason to believe he was the last of those, unaccounted lor. The invasion of the building then was launched. Page19 Page .17 .'...-Page .4. .Pages 11,12 ..i.Page 5 ..Pages Jy* , Page 2 -Classified , Comics .,-• Editorial...«.... Local.....-,.-, National News Sports ..;.*..'-. StateJfews:,... At Unweds-Home, Says His Lawyer CINCINNATI (AP)^- \Roots the televised epic inspired, by a black man's search for his ancestry, triggered Jes^se Coulter's rampage, says the lawyer for the 42-year-ow^man accused of taking eight hostages in an attempt to reunite his fa ™TMs man sat on this-for 20 years, *nd the dynamite was 'Roots,'\ said attorney Eugene Smith. n^u a ^ a During thesiege that began Friday night at the Catherine Booth home fo? unwed mothers, Coulter demanded the return of a son bom at the home 20 years earlier. The child had been put up. for adoption. *„„**_,+—> • , Smith slid his client, who is black, had been, frustrated over me loss for some time. , -ho-a ,.**». 'Jessie told me when he saw Chicken George (a character in «Roots»)\get '^^^^^^^ help himself/' ^\ih said. \He had to come back to Cin- *' Smith said, cinhati and get the Md.\ . . mt,„ „:„„. atyAnA As it turned out, the effort was in vain.The siege ended whenan undercover Cincinnati detective fi»W^Her f nd his ex-wife Rita Gibran into thinking he was their long-lost son and they .surrendered. -*^~^ft.WuJf*i*^—1 ,^- (( .i..ytSi^v.i.^^Tw'WMaos>\'i . < Coulter and Mrs. Gibran were arraigned Monday |ft Criminal Courtvand their cases were cpntmued until Friday, Bond was set a¥-|l million each - The television program was based on a book in whifch au- thor Atex Haley traced the history of his family ;from|bladk Africa through the days of slavery in the South. Thi: dra- matization concluded 12 days before Coulter came «i*/ Smith said,, after Monday's hearing, that the UficaJfMi.cn ;. man saw similarities between his life and the serial. ISHehSd: seen how families .-were split up in slavery, and he W3B bittd! \about his own famtty being split up,\ Smith said. K'~-. * Smith also saidMrSi Gibran was forced to come t§€iiicin- nati and did not know where she and Coulter were \ Coulter concurred at the arraignment, but the pp| arguedthat Mrs. Gibran had been a willing participS Authorities say that when' Coulter arrived at the] produced a sawed-off shotgun ahdherded seven wo^ man into an X-ray room. Mrs. Gibran, 37, sait'she d to run away because she hoped to have a Ckimingl on her former husband. / « gtosgaswassit \r
