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BY THOMAS DOLIN MASSENA — The New York State Power Authority will not be asking the towns of Lisbon, Wad- dington, Louisville and Massena to zone about 5,100 acres of property before the authority places it up for sale. But the authority expects the. local town governments to submit land use plans to help guide development, said Robert Hadler, a spokesman for N.YPA. The St. Lawrence Eastern On- tario Commission and the St. Lawrence County Planning Board have both urged NYPA to require the towns to enact some measure of land use regulations before putting properties up for sale. Instead, NYPA plans to restrict development on some parcels itself by writing deed restrictions gover- ning uses for some of the proper- ties, Hadler said. \The land use must be compati- ble with the operational, recrea- tional and environmental op- portunities afforded by the pro- ject,\ said Hadler. This mean's not allowing develop- ment that would harm the environ- ment, the power project or the recreational opportunities the NYPA lands offer, said Hadler. To ensure that these critera are met, Hadler said NYPA would put deed restrictions on the properties sold to*the towns. \The size of the lots doesn't con- cern us,\ Hadler said. \All we are concerned about is that a land use plan is submitted because before the NYPA can sell the property to the towns the federal government must approve the sale. They re- quire a plan for the development of the land before we release it. That was the county's land use sa id plan plan. Mary Verlaque, director of Coun- ty Planning said that the NYPA will most likely take recommenda- tions from the County's land use plan and incorporate those plans into deed restrictions. Deeds can be restrictive or lax, said Verlaque. Deed restictions set requirements on how the buyer is allowed to develop the land, she fEsmastsr^gsisssussssssa Park Newspapers distributed a total of 75,277 issues in St. Lawrence County this past week. UPS4038$0 VOL. 28 NO. 1924 EIGHT SECTIONS - 92 PAGES A Park Newspaper • Copyright © 1981 ParkNewspapersof St.Lawrence, Inc. PUBLISHED IN OGDENSBURG, N.Y., SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1987 uu. An example of a deed restriction, said Verlaque, would be the requir- ment that who ever buys a piece of property that the deed restriction is put on can only have a single fami- ly home on the property. This happened in 1979 in the Village of Canton when Dr. Michael Smith wanted to put a veterinary hospital on his property but was Continued On Page 8 BOCES Defends Fiber Optics System — See Page 13 SECTION ONE PRICE 50 CENTS Kelly Comments...; * flf • BY CHARLES W. KELLY BOCES: Opportunity To Scrutinize Who will succeed Bill Hart as District Superintendent and BOCES chief executive officer? At this point we assume no one knows the answer to that question. If they do, the BOCES Board is not conducting a wide open search for the next superintendent, and that would be un- fortunate. The position of District Superintendent and BOCES Executive officer pays about $80,000 a year. Believe it or not, a BOCES board member told us recently he wasn't sure what the job paid, but $80,000 would be about the right figure. Frankly, the BOCES board member should have known. The BOCES board members are not nearly as well informed as the board members from the 18 component schools that make up the St. Lawrence-Lewis Counties BOCES district, Bill Hart has done many excellent things with and for BOCES since he became the District Superintendent. When he retires in January he can hold his head high, pound his chest and say I did a good job because he has. BOCES has served the needs of most of the 18 school districts, and probably served them very well, but with Bill Hart retiring, it's an ex- cellent time to take a hard look at BOCES. Should the focus of BOCES be changed to meet the educational needs of the students over the next five, ten, 15 and 20 years. With a new superintendent coming on board it's an excellent time to scrutinize BOCES. The BOCES board and the component districts should take an independent look at it. It's the independent districts that fund the BOCES programs through contracts and purchasing of services. Possibly BOCES doesn't need to make any changes in its focus, but it can only be better for having been looked at under a microscope. Whatever happens during the selection process of the new superinten- dent, the search must be open. Applications should be sought from far and wide. An $80,000 educational position in St. Lawrence County should draw a .great^many applications if the qualified candidates are convinced that the search will be an open and sincere one. If someone has already been selected and the position is being advertised solely to meet state re- quirements, that's unfortunate. BOCES will be weaker for it. Unrest In Mr. Martin's Staff? Ralph Greco, a former county legislator and former member of Con- gressman David Martin's staff, who has been quiet of late, has broken that silence with a letter to. the editor in today's Advance News, A fre- quent writerlo the Advance News, Ralph is now retired and spending his winter months in Florida. While on the county legislature, Ralph earned a reputation of being honest, forthright and extremely outspoken. His letter today would in- dicate he hasn't lost his touch. Always controversial because if he thought it, he said it. Today, his letter onens a wound that has obviously been festering for some time. He takeslssue with Cary Brick, Congressman Martin's staff director. No one dares to do that and expect to continue his employment under Mr. Brick. Mr. Brick is Mr. Martin's $70,000 plus a year staff director. He rules with an iron fist. It would seem that Mr. Brick has recognized but three powerful people in Washington since he first joined the staff of former Congressman Robert McEwen as his media spokesman. They would be Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Cary Brick. County Could Bid Itself hr£&S&u*i*Ji£h>£. SAND AND SURF - The resurgent hot weather has once again attracted area youngsters to the City Beach for a cool dip in the St. Lawrence River or simply to play in the shoreline sand. Shown building this trench are Adam Duvall (left) of Ogdensburg and Keith Hooper (right) of Heuvelton. The City Beach will remain open until next Sunday. (Mitchell Photo) We don't blame the county fuel dealers for being unhappy with the proposed plan to save county tax money for serving fuel to the indigent. The dealers aren't happy with the plan put forth by Citizen Action Fuel of Albany, a not-for-profit organization. Why doesn't St. Lawrence County do its own bidding? Why pay Citizen Action Fuel $50,000 or more a year? The county has a purchasing agent who seems to get involved in everything else. Why can't he put the fuel out to bid and keep all the savings in the county? Why doesthe county have to pay five cents a gallon to a \not-for-profit\ group to get the job done. Citizen Action Fuel wants five cents a gallon to do the job. A wholesaler's representative toid us this week that some retail outlets barely make five cents on a gallon of fuel oil. Think about the capital in- vestment they have. What does a not-for-profit organization really mean? It means that there's to be no profit at the end of the year. It doesn't mean they work for nothing. They have no incentive to operate as a business because they aren't supposed to make a profit. What happens to the $50,000 St. Lawrence County will pay them the first year? We can only assume that that goes towards paying the staff. How much of a staff will be required to handle the 1,100 accounts in St. Lawrence County? It's my understanding that Citizens Action will bill St. Lawrence County for the entire amount and then hold back five cents per gallon from the dealer they contract with. No accounts receiveable? Nice clean operation. Any business person would like to have someone else responsible for his or her accounts receiveable. By all means St. Lawrence County should save where it can. One of the places it could save $50,000 is for county Social Services Commis- sioner Peter Phelan to insist that Karl Keller, the county purchasing agent, put the fuel out to bid, and keep any savings within the county's own coffers. If the county were to lose any more independent fuel businesses, the legislature might have to purchase a truck and Mr. Keller deliver fuel to the Social Services clients in his spare time. He could always keep his records on the District Attorney's computer. Continued On Page 8 Northern III After Heads CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of people were unable to return to flooded homes Saturday and rising water in the Des Plaines River threatened the western suburbs after the city's heaviest 24-hour rainfall on record. \There's about two feet of water in the streets, and it's coming toward the police station now,\ said police Officer Phyllis Passarelli in Riverside, west -of downtown Chicago. But O'Hare International Airport was back to normal after flooded roads forced hundreds of travelers to stay in the terminals until the ex- pressways were reopened Satur- day morning. Four deaths were blamed on the storm, authorities said. Mopping Up Floods if Hninf nil Evm Elsewhere, heavy rain i n southern Mississippi and Louisiana ended Saturday, but four rivers were rising and 360 rural residents remained evacuated for a second day. Light rain fell Saturday, but none was forecast for Sunday, a marked change from Friday's 9.3 inches, heaviest in the century that records have been kept, said Tom Dietrich of the National Weather Service. By early Saturday, Red Cross authorities estimated that 3,000 homes had been damaged, while hundreds of people were evacuated. They could not provide any monetary estimate of damages and did not have an estimate on the total number of people evacuated. The Des Plaines River, running Mother In Britain £1 To Seven Children; On® north to south through Chicago's western suburbs, threatened flooding in an area that was hard hit last October. Evacuations continued Saturday in Riverside and Elmhurst, and about 65 people were evacuated early Saturday from Lawrence House, a senior citizens' residence on Chicago's North Side. Chicago sanitation department spokesman Kirsten Svare said water in the residence basement was 7 feet deep, and the 14-story building had been without electrici- ty, gas or elevator service since Friday afternoon. The Des Plaines River rose to nearly 4 feet above the 6-foot flood stage overnight at Riverside and was expected to rise an additional 6 inches, said Dietrich. LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — A woman gave birth to seven babies on Saturday, setting a British record for multiple births, a spokesman at Liverpool Maternity Hospital said. The hospital said one boy died within a half-hour of birth and that two boys and four girls were in in- tensive care. It said the babies were delivered nearly four months prematurely by Caesarean section at 6:30 a.m. Hospital General Manager Pearse Butler would not identify the parents, but said they had no other children. The mother was reported in good condition. The mother had been taking a fertility drug, according to Press Association, the British domestic live in England, Many northern Illinois residents spent the night in relief shelters or with relatives, while others stayed up all night cleaning their homes. Gov. James R. Thompson St Helen's, northwest declared Cook andI Du Page Coun- i,. L™ referred to ties state disaster areas and r^^nni h^nLioTnf its facilities ordered about 300 National Guard- ^^^^^^9thlStei- smen t0 hel P residents pile about J?n-£ Ph«™ S\A the P babies 400 > 00 ° sandbags in communities cian in charge, said tne Dames . ,. Plaines va vpr coi* were 26 to 27 weeks premature and ^J D ™ h 2f SSant d^W were verv ill \but we are Jf re S uurnam, assistant director of moderalelj ho eful. They will re- faster Len^^ S ™ S quire a great deal of help.\ msaster Agency. The agency said the surviving babies are: a boy 1 lb. 10 oz.; a girl 1 lb, 1 oz.; a girl 15 oz,; a girl 1 lb. 4 oz.;aboyl lb, 8oz.; and a girl, lib. 10 oz. \Survival for the 15 oz. baby girl would be extraordinarily rare,\ Cooke said. \The mother knew how many babies she would have,\ he added. \She went into premature labor.\ \Within a week we will have more idea about their survival DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A huge explosion rocked a li- quefied petroleum gas plant Satur- day at a key Saudi oil complex on the Persian Gulf. Just south of the gulf, an Arab supply boat hit a mine and sank, leaving one crewman dead and five men miss- ing. The 240-ton Anita, owned by a United Arab Emirates company, was in the same area of the Gulf of Oman where a mine damaged a U.S.-operated supertanker Monday and where six other mines were reported found. Officials in the Emirates port of Fujairah again closed to shipping a 35-square-mile section of the gulf, which is linked to the Persian Gulf by the Strait of Hormuz. They clos- ed the same area for 12 hours last week, but then declared it safe. Saudi officials said four people were injured in the early morning blast at the Arabian American Oil Co. facility in Ju'aima, and said an electrical fault was responsible. They drew a tight security cordon around the complex. The officials did not describe the extent of damage or give a money estimate. They denied early reports from sources in the desert kingdom that seven to 22 people were killed. The sources later said the deaths could not be confirmed. Aramco employs thousands of Americans, but the State Depart- ment said in Washington no Americans were injured. The plant is in the nation's Eastern province, which has a large Shiite Moslem population that mostly Shiite Iran has been trying to woo. Saudi Arabia, which is mainly Sunni Moslem, has back- ed Iraq in the 7-year-old Iran-Iraq war. Ju'aima is near the main Saudi oil loading terminal at Ras Tanurah and about 20 miles nor- theast of Dhahran, capital of the Eastern, province. The blast shook houses up to 18 miles away. Firefighters battled the blaze for six hours before br- inging it under control. A shipping executive who lives, about 20 miles from, the complex said the blast was \like a faint ear- thquake.\ He insisted on anonymi- ty, other people said they heard two explosions. Earlier this month Iran's Parlia- ment speaker, Hashemi Rafsan- jani, called on Moslems throughout the world to overthrow Saudi Arabia's Sunni ruling family. About 400,000 of the 1 million residents of Saudi Arabia's Eastern province are Shiites. They rioted in 1979 to protest economic neglect, but the royal family since has worked to improve their condi- tion. Six injured crew from were pull- ed alive from the Gulf of Oman after the Anita hit the mine. But the Anita's owner, the Gulf Agency, said one man, an Indian, died later. It said the captain, Jerry Blackburn, 38, of Hull, England, was among the five missing crew. Journalists in a helicopter off Fu- jairah said they saw two mines in the water Saturday, one 100 yards from a coast guard cutter of the United Arab Emirates. Iran has been widely blamed for laying the mines, but it claims the United States planted them. A major tanker anchorage lies in the area just off Fujairah. Com- panies use it to shift cargos from one vessel to another and to resupp- ly their ships. The anchorage also has been an assembly point for U.S.-escorted convoys of Kuwaiti vessels that have been reflagged with the Stars and Stripes. The United States has reflagged five Kuwaiti vessels and agreed to escort them on journeys through the Persian Gulf to protect them against Iranian attack. news agency, It said the parents chances. Index Weather State News Page 2 National News Page 3 Editorials Pages 4,5 Weddings Page 6,7 Local News.., Pages 10,11,13,14 Sports Pages 16-20 Classified Ads Pages 22,23 Today: Hazy and hot with a chance of an afternoon thunderstorm. High about 90. Chance of rain 30 percent. South winds 5 to 15 mph. Tonight: Fair and mild. Low 65 to around 70. Monday: Hazy, hot, and humid. High again around 90. !'
