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mmHRP fr»^#*&3*L.p*-t£**i. ''_;i» ~, It all begins today. ' ' The first ever O'Burg Expo, sppnsor/ed by the Ogdensburg Boys' Club opens its doors this afternoqn at 4 p.m. with a ribbon-cutting eeremony at the main exhibition had in the downtown Ogdensburg Mall, - ' ' •'% ^ .\.; The first day of. the three-day. ev ! eht will feature the world famous comedian, Henny Youngman^v'ho will be on hand for the ribbon-cutting ceremony and for a full performance at 10 p.m. Tickets for the Youngman perfordnance are still available and wiU be sold at the door at $3 a head. Youngman will appear prior to the performance at ff p.m. for \preliminaries\ and at 9 p.m. for ^teasers.\* The main exhibition hall was filling up yesterday afternoon and this morning with a variety of exhibits ranging from a huge free- standmg water faucet, \vith a 15-foot simulated stream of. Culligan soft water j to $1,500 circular bed courtesy of Fred Shurtleff's, complete|wim velvetine bedspread and. headboaj*d. There fire CB displays, plants, campers, tents, cars, boats, home fu/Jnishings and appliances. There's even a semi-circular TV set on display. Ih the Crescent Room, there are a,.variety of carnival games and craft displays set up with prizes and refreshments,. The line-up for tonight's entertainment is as follows; Main Exhibition Hall . 3to 10 p.m. — merchants' exhibits and concession stands will\be operative at all times during the Exposition. 4 to 4115 — ribbon-cutting 4 ceremony, Crescent Room. Every day this activity will feature crafts and demonstrations, raffles, antique dealers' displays, prizes and surprises, refreshments, and carnival games. , 4:15 to 5 — Henny Youngman, tour, pictures and autographs, 5 to 6:30 — music, refreshments, demonstrations, sales \and elosed^circuit television. , 6:30tc 7—Ogdensburg Chapparelies (outside on steps or in 3G> 7 to 7:30 -^ music, refreshments; demonstrations, sales and closednjircuit television. 7:30 to 8 — OFA Stage Band. 8 to 8:15 — Henny Youiigman, preliminaries. 8:15 to 8:45 — music, refreshments, demonstrations, sales and closed-circuit television. - ^. 8:45 to 9 — auction, Spencer Merry. . 9 to 9:15 -* Henny Youngman, \teasers.\ 9:15 to 10 - Fools' Gold, 10 to Close—Henny Youngman's Night Club Performance to be presented in the kas Vegas Room (3G), Admission $3per person. '•T-\ H ,;V-r«»' VOL: 26, NO. 6211 Daify Entered AS Secorid qfass Matter Post Office Ogdensburg, N.Y. TWO SECTIONS—16 PAGES OGDENSBURG, N.Y/. — THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1977 SECTION ONE Republican Established 16% Journal Established 1S58 HIGHLIGHT CB Patrols In North?—P*ge„9, SINGLE COPY 20 cents -Shore Drilling Rights Void' NEW YORK (AP.) - Declaring that the U.S. secretary of the interior had ignored environmental law, a federal judge today ruled that a $l.i3-billion sale of off-shore drilling rights in the Atlantic Ocean was null and void. U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein, sitting in Brooklyn, rescinded the sale of the drilling sites to a number of major oil companies on the grounds that Thomas Kleppe, when he was interior secretary, violated the National Environmental Policy Act in the way he •* allowed the drilling rights to be sold. \ The ruling, revealed in a 132-page \decislpn , ends, at least temporarily, the hopes of'oil companies to explore for oil and natural gas in^ the so-called Baltimore Canyon, which extends along the Atlantic's continental shelf from Long Island to Delaware. Major oil companies successfully bid more than $1.1 billion for leases to 93 tracts covering almost 900,000. acres in the Baltimore Canyon, a valley on the floor of the ocean between 45 and 90 miles off the Atlantic Coast. , In a stinging decision, Weinsfefn said Kleppe had ignored local government licensing powers, had failed to consider the environmental impact of piplines routes to shore, had overstated peak oil and gas production, and had un- derstated the cost pf the projects. \The parties are enjoined, from fur- ther proceeding with the exercise of any powers reportedly granted by\ by the sale of the leases, which was the first sale of leases in federal waters in the Atlantic, Weinstein said. \Th0 J leases are declared null and void. This order is stayed pending the completion of appeals, if any.\ Weinstein said there was no indication' \of illegal acts by the oil companies. The fact that they.must suffer because of the secretary's failures was considered by the court. The public's rights and equities are paramount and must prevail.\ Weinstein noted that the oil companies which successfully bid for ; the leases \have begun to take preliminary* steps * required for full exploitation of their leaseholds.\ > He ordered that they stop all activity. The leases were sold last Aug. 17 after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall refused to order them stopped. \ WASHINGTON (AP) — Some House members may try to prevent the House from adjourning for the weekend in or- der to force a Vote on their $12,900 pay raise that takei effect automatically Sunday.\ But it appeared all but certain that the iiacEiea&e ttqnV $44,600 to $57,500 for members of Congress and similar pay boosts for judges and other high officials will go into effect without a vote. An attempt to force a recorded vote in the Houge failed Wednesday. Members who <»bject to the raise or to the method . of getting it then focused their efforts on House Speaker Thomas P. \Tip\ O'Neill. They ir sisted O'Neill has enough clout with the Rules Committee to push through a special procedure allowing a vote on resolutions to kill the raise. Under regular House rules, there could ne no vote before the deadline. The Post Office and Civil Service Committee lias not voted out any of the resolutions and a subcommittee on Wednesday recom- mended against them_ O'Neill, who favors the raise and has said he would vote for it on the record, insisted the speaker has no power to take the resolutions out of committee jurisdiction and send them to the floor. The issue is already-dead, in the Senate, which is not in session this week, the House is scheduled to adjourn for the weekend today after hearing a speech by President JaseJjopez'Poftillo of Mexico. The time for blocking the automatic pay raise proposed by former President Gerald R. Ford and supported by Presi- dent Carter runs out Saturday at mid- night. \It looks like things are stacked against us, but we'll fight until the last minute,\saidRep. CharlesE. Grassley, R-Iowa. One strategy, he said, would be to try to hold the House in session until leaders agreed to ask for a Rules Committee meeting. > Grassley and others said that even if they did Hot succeed in blocking ad- journment/a roll call vote on the issue of remaining, in session would give some indication of how members Stand on the pay raise. In addition to the congressional pay hikes, other pay raises include: Vice president, chief justice, House speaker, from $65,600 to $75,000; associate Supreme' Court justices, $63,000 to $72,000; Cabint«ir members, $63,000 to $66,000; majority and mi- nority leaders in/Congres^ $52,000 to $65,000; district judges, $42,000 to $54,500. Carter Ponders Thaiv In U.S.-Cuha Relations TAKE THE EXPO^-It all starts today and the by fee Ogdensburg Bo*s' Club. This sigh main attraction, Henny Youngman will wing into welcomes the famous comedian to the mall. The town at approximately 3:30 p,m. to be on hand sign was painted by Jim Mullen, Ejave Yando, for theribbon-cutting ceremony for the first ever and Rich Trombiey. (Turkington Photo) O'Burg Expo, sposnored in the downtown mall FPCJ Natural Gas Woes \Oter' WASHINGTON (AP) — President Carter is asking that Cuba pursue a policy of restraint abroad and respect for human rights at home as his price for friendlier U.S. relations with Havana. Cuba, in turn, is demanding that the United Staites lift its trade embargo against the island if Washington wants an extension ,of an anti-hijacking agreement past its scheduled April expiration> Carter took his White House advisers by surprise when he said Wednesday he has receiyed indirect word that Cuba intends\ fo remove its troops from Angola, Other U.S. officials said they were unaware of any such signal from Cuba. The most recent State Department estimate is that 10,000 to 15,000 Cuban troops remain - in Angola, comparable to the figure cited at the height of the Angolan war, which ended a year ago. If the .Cuban troops were removed, Carter said, \that would be a step toward full normalization of relation- ships-with Angola.\ Then the President, speaking to Agriculture Department employes as part of his series of visits to federal agencies, added: \The same thing applies ultimately to the restoration of normal relationships with Cuba. \If I can be convinced that Cuba wants to remove their aggressive in- fluence in thisr hemisphere, will not participate in violence in nations across • the ocean, will recommit itself to the former relationship which existed 4n Cuba toward human rights, then I would be willing to move toward normal rela- tions with Cuba,\ Carter said. Carter did not spell out what he meant by Cuba's \aggressive influence\ in the Western Hemisphere. U..S. officials said Cuba stopped efforts to export its revolution to Latin America years ago They speculated that Carter may have been referring to Cuba's campaign hi the united Nations to promote-an ini dependent Puerto Rico. WASHINGTON (AP> - The chairman of the Federal Power Commission says cautiously that the natural gas crisis of the winter of 1977.may be over, thanks to emergency legislation and a break in the weather* \I am confident today that the threat is not nearly as dangerous as it was two weeks ago,\ said Richard L. Dunham. The FPCchief credits the emergency gas act signed by President Carter oh Feb. 3 and a break in the cold weather for preventing a cutoff of natura.1 gas to the homes of hundreds of thousands, of Americans. Weather Partly sunny today with highs in the low teens. Clear to partly cloudy tonight with lows zero to-10 below. Mostly sunny Fridayfoliowed by increasing afternoon cloudiness and a chance of snow developing late in the day, highs in the mid 20s. Winds westerly today five to 10 miles per hour and\ light and variable tonight. Chance of snow 20 per cent today and 30 per cent Friday. \Very definitely there were homes that were about to go cold a day or two before the act became law,\ Dunham said in an interview Wednesday. Dunham emphasized that his predictions assume that Americans will keep their thermostats at 65 degrees or lower and that temperatures do not drop too far below average. \If an Arctic bias? < comesi there is no guarantee of anything,\ he warned. Dunham said the emergency law — allowing thesale of natural gas at higher than current federal price limits —gave the government enough freedom to ensure that homes, hospitals and other top priority users will get enough gas for beating fuel for the res); of the winter. \A margin of safety hks been built into the system,\ he said. TheJNational Weather Service's longr range forecast through mid-March shows slightly below-average tem- peratures for much of the Midwest and the eastern states, but nothing ap- proaching -the record-breaking cold weather of December and January. A second FPC commissioner, John Holloman III, and John O'Leary, head of the Federal Energy Administration, have predictej that plants shut down by the natural gas shortage would likely stay closed into spring and summer, causing serious -unemployment in sev- eral States. . • But recent Commerce Department figures have shown layoffs caused by the shortage droppingifrom 1.5 million to 500,000 now. In the interview, Dunham indicated he expected factories to continue to reopen and increase production, putting more workers back to work. But he said \pockets\ bf energy- related layoffs would persist. Comics Editorial... Local .,. ..*,... National News ...... Sports ............. State-News...... .-,- ....Page 13 ...,.Page4 Pages8,9 .......,.„.«..Pages ...:...Pages 10,11 ..,-< ...Fage2 Editor's Note: Soaring coffee prices have brought profit to many along the chain from bean to brew. But the wealth is unevenly divided. Here is a look at who has been sharing in the price spiral. By The Associated Press If you're wondering where the money you spend on coffee is going, look first to the' countries that grow it. « Brazil, the world's largest producer, earned $2.3 billion; from coffee sales in 1976, about 2V2 times more than in 1975, although its exports rose less than 7 per cent. Colombia, the second largest producer, boosted its coffee revenues by about a third to $917.7 million, despite a nearly 25 per cent drop in exports. Since July 1975, when a frost hit Brazil, suddenly making future supply uncertain, the retail price of a pound of -coffee-has jumped from an average $1.27 to, oyet $3 in some places.. Although'it's difficult to give an exact breakdown of the retail price, most of what you pay for coffee goes to the pro- ducing countries. And indications are that ho segment of the American coffee industry has reaped a comparable wind- fall From farm to grocery' shelf, the sharing of the new coffee wealth looks like this: PRODUCERS Green coffee beans account for more than 90 per cent of the cost of producing ' a can of roasted coffee; In Brazil, a 132-pound bag of green coffee sold last month for $240. (That is about $1.82 a pound, but it takes more than a pound of beans to make a pound of roasted coffee.) Of that $240, according to exporters and officials, the government takes $103 in export tax;, local levies, commissions and fees account for $27 and the grower gets $110. He spends about 68 per cent of his share for salaries and production costs, leaving him with a profit of about $35. In 1975, before prices started soaring, the 132-pound bag of coffee sold for $64. The government export tax was $21 and, according to one exporter, the ' proportion of money the grower had to spend for local levies, labor > etc. was about the same as it is now. That left the grower with a profit of about $11 or $12. Prices for beans have almost quadrupled; profits for the grower have just about tripled. ROASTERS There are more than lOO U.S. coffee roasters, who turn green beans into if' '* ground and instant coffee. They sell to grocery stores from their inventory at a price based on the cost of replacing the green beans, although the coffee actually going to the store »was bought several months before. When prices rise, the coffee they have in warehouses is more valuable, a gain known as inventory profit. Two weeks after the Brazilian frost, Maxwell House, the nation's largest roaster, raised its wholesale prices by 20 cents a pound. Folger, the second largest, cut temporary reductions it had been offering to grocers, Genera! Foods, the parent company of Maxwell House, said that hi the three months ended\July 3, 1976, profits were 61 per cent higher than ih the same period a year earlier. \Inventory profits from anticipatory price increases on coffee account for a sizable portion of the recent earnings,\ the Argus Research Corp. said in an analysis of General Foods. The big roasters could have reaped even larger inventory profits had they raised wholesale prices as much as green bean prices were rising, analysts Say \ • - - .* \ IMPORTERS Although roasters hold about 80 per 'cent of the nation's coffee stocks, in- ventory profits were also important for the some 100 importers in the United States, who buy coffee in producing countries and ship it to roasters. Any importer with a warehouse of coffee when the frost hit made a quick profit. \We made some good bucks right after the frost,\ said one importer, who didn't want to be named. Most import firms are privately owned and don't reveal their profit figures, but all agree that the postfrost boom pulled their business out of the doldrums. . SPECULATORS Although not a direct part of the flow of most coffee, the U.S. and London commodities markets became a source of profit for speculators attracted by the price advance. A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell a certain amount of coffee at a fixed price at a later date. If you buy coffee now and the price goes up, you make money, if it goes down, you lose. An example; a speculator agrees now to have 100 ba;gs of coffee delivered in three months for $60 a bag. If the price were to. rise tcj $80, hu=. profit would he $20, less his broker's fee. He could take dehvery of the, actual .coffee* or just sell his contract back in -the futures market before the delivery date, realizing the profit either way. Speculators can, also profit when prices go down, if they,sell before the drop. In this case t a speculator agreeing to deliver 100 bags of coffee at $60 a bag in three months would be able to buy the coffee he needs to make delivery for less than he Will receive for it. How active speculators were in the coffee price advance, and What their profits were, aren't known. One analyst estimated that speculators not in the coffee business account for 25 per cent of active futures contracts. . _' ' - Most futures trading, however^ is^done by coffee merchants. They can protect themselves by buying futures equal to their planned purchases of actual coffee or by selling futures equal to their in- ventories. For example, if prices plunge, their inventory will decline in value. But if they sold futures, they would realize a profit on the contract that would balance the loss on the actual coffee. Coffee companies can also trade speculatively, buying or selling more than needed to, protect inventories. Retailers At first glance, many stores appear % be losing money as coffee prices rise. Before-the July 1975, frost, tjwy sold' roasted coffee at an average of six cents abo^e the wholesale price. By December 1976, the retail price was 25 cents less than the wholesale price. But grocery store prices lag several months behind wholesale prices. In all but three months since the frost* the government's average trf retail coffee prices has been, higher than the Wholesale price of two months earlier. There\ are signs, however,, that grocers •— who often sell coffee at or below cost to attract Customers into the store —may be feeling the profit pinch. They were the first segment of the trade to urge customers to quit buying coffee. \fhemoneyyouandl are being asked to pay for coffee is outragesus/' said Martin Rosengatten, president of the Daitch Shopwell chain in an advertising, campaign. \My sincere rec- ommendation to you is that you limit drinking coffee and find a.substitute.\ Nextt The prospects d :&£ si..
