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No-llitters j For Warrio~ ·Shoults • e Crusader Twosome See Page 6 ·Coach: SU's McPhet,son Big Hit At Fulton Fete See Page 7 ~ t allabium ~ etimts ~ Oswego County's Home Daily For 135 Years « Vol. 57 No. 406 12 PAGES OSWEGO-FULTOII TUESDAY, APRIL, 21, 1911 · I For City Firemen, Policemen ~ (USPS 413-260) PRICE lWENTY CENTS Oswego Aldermen OK Raise OSWEGO - The Oswego t.:ommon Council voted 6-2 to grant both the Lake City l'olice Club and the Oswego ~'irefighters Association an Pigh t percen I raise over present salaries for both the 1981 and 1982 fiscal years. Aceording to the resolution \all benefits prt>viously l'njoyed in prior contracts shall rl'main the same.\ William Crego, President tlf the International Association of Firefighters J.(lcal 2707, went before the council prior to a vote on the resolution which was added to last night's agenda by Alderman Frank Clavelh. only with the council and not with the city negotiating team. The council was trying to plan a meeting of all three groups. Council President Tom Halpin, who presided over last night's meeting because Mayor Cahill is in Florida on vacation, asked that the meeting recess for five minutes so that the two public employee groups eould confer. Halpin wanted them to decide on whether or not they wanted to meet with the council or if they wanted the council to vote on the resolution asking for the Pight percent salary in- creases. At ter the brief break Crego and Dunsmoor told thl' council that they would likt• to meet with the council if the l'esolution was not passed. Alderman Ed Matott said that he felt the groups were asking for the best of both worlds. Alderman Earl Gardner asked Dun- smoor,\We agreed at the last common.. council meeting to meet with you, who didn't follow it up?\ The police club president explained that he felt that he had made it known that the dub was leaving it up to James Vaccaro, Oswego's Administrative Assistant, to set up the meeting. \We've been dealing with Mr. Vaccaro for six months now and I' rn not. surprised that nothing was done,\ Dunsmoor said. City Clerk Robert Riggio asked for a vote to be taken on thl' proposed resolution. Aldermen James Comer- ford, Robert Bradshaw, ('Javelli, Gardner and James Sullivan voted for the eight percent salary in- crease. Aldermen Matott and John Canale voted against it. Debate Prior to the five minute recess at last night's ml'eting, the council dehated the I?roblem of contract negohations and whether or not they should vote on a contract during a eouncil meeting. When Clavelli first in- troduced the resolution to his fellow aldermen, Gard- ner said. \I think this resolution is out of order, it should go to committee.\ l'lavelli responded by saying, \As you know, two weeks ago Wl' all agreed to have a meeting. The mayor has not arranged one for some reason. \Our negotiators don't want to move on this. Maybe Vaccaro wants to put a feather in his cap, but he's not going to do it at the expense of the city of Oswego.'' • The absent Mayor Cahill will have the power to veto the passed resolution if he so chooses. Clavelli claimed that, , \The Mayor is trying to usurp the power of the common council,\ by not acting· to form a meeting between the council and the police club. John Canale tried to convince the council to postpone any votl' on the resolution until the mayor returns from his vacation. \I don't think that we should take care of the business of this city while tht• mayor is out~(lf town,\ Canale said . .'The mayor is law are of 1 the facts of finance that we don't have.\ Canale went on to say, \What I see here tonight IS anarchy. I think we should wait until the mayor comes back to the city. Otherwise, we a~~ usurping the Taylor Law. Matott agreed in some ways with Canale. \This resolution,\ he said, \steps beyond the bounds of the process that is set up. \The Taylor Law came into existence after , labor achieved benefits for public employees. This <the resolution J is a very sim- plistic solution. It puts some money in your pockets fast but it's a double-edged sword. You're abridging the Taylor Law.\ Crego stated that the lire£i!lhters · contract with thl• c1ty was still undecided and that the next step would bt• binumg arbitration. \We are as)!.i\ng if the council would get together and listl•n to us.'' he said. In the past few weeks the police club has expressed its wishes to meet with the eommon eouncil to avoid arbitration in their own negotiating efforts. . Cres.o told the common l'OUncll that the average salary in Fulto.n for firemen 1s about $800 more than in Oswego and ealled this \a APW School District Slates Budget Voting Police club president Dunsmoor explained to Matott, \Our intentions are not to step aside the Taylor Law. our intentions are to step aside the city negotiators.\ Matott further explained. \Once you ~o beyond the process, you re stirring up something down the road that you don't want to be involved in. I'm sym- pathetic to public em- ployees... I'm a public t•mployee. But, again, it's a double-edged sword. I can't I ell you not to cut your own throat.\ · hell of an insult.\ Tht• eount·il asked both tht• llreml'n and the police club whether or not they still w ished to meet with the council although the resolution for the eight per cent raisl' had bcl'n handed out. Both Crego and William Dunsmoor, President of the Lake City Police Club. said that thl' groups would ml'l'l Al.TMAlt·l' t\ R ISH· WI- l.LIA~lSTOW:'>< ~·or the ~t\l'lmd ~·par 111 a row, th(' impass nl the budget in Albany has held up stall' aid dl't•bions nwking it im- po~lbk In l•stimalt• the llll'Oilll' with any kind of at•t•urut•y Thl• Altmar-Parish-Wi· lliamstown School Board, .after t•a rt•ful study and considt•ra lion has adoptPd a ---Good fvenin,._- SiRns Puzzle Motorists The City of Oswego has again p1acl•d lht• \11o lt•ft turn\ signs at East First. West First and West St'cond streets lor the day, dul' to the m•ed for traffk movement with the Utica Street Bridge clost•d. Tht• theory is that the traffic load on the Bridge Stn•t•l Bridge must be handh•d, but motorists gt•t c(lnfust•d and angry, when they arl' takt•n blot·ks out of tht•ir wav At least It's a one-day closing. · f'irst A it# (.'ormw Slatt>rl A course in \Standard F1rst Aid and Pl'rsonal Saft>ty .'' taught by John Phillips and a ll'am fron Syracuse. is being offered by the A111erican Red Cros' May 2,9 and 16 at the Leighton Sl'hool all-plll·post• room. Hoursare9 a.11•. to 5 p.m. May 2and 9 and 9 3.1!> to 2 p.m. May 16. Thl're is a minimal cCJSt for malt'1·iab. Rt>servations for thl' courst• must bl• madt• by calling the Red Cross, 343-tl!l67, and asking for Jt•an Kingsh·y MPn Har•p To Pa.'- B.l' Ma.Y 4 The City of Oswego Rl'crl'ation Dt>partnwnt is at· ct•pting men's league sanetion fl•t•s and t•ntrv fl'l'S bl•tween Sa.m and 4 p.m. The dt•adlim• for that innm·y going to lhl•m is May 4. Inside Your Pall-Times W'oman Rt•bountls f<rom f'par The st'l'ond in a two-part s1·rit·s on om· oswef.(o woman's battll' with the fl•ar of cann•r appt•ars lt•day on pagl' 5. · features Regular Wllo•swho \n•a :lit'\' I 'hts•lllrtl ('nmks \alimml Nl'\\~ llbihmrlt•s lltlinlon I' olin ~porb ~talr :Iii''\ l'od11~ ·, l.h in!! 1'\' l'aJ.{l'S 2,M I' a 1(1• Ill l'lll(l•ll l'agl' :1 l'agl' 2 Pa~f' I 1'111(1' 2 Pap;t•!-11;.; l'agr:l Pnge:; 1'111(1' !I l'agr :1 (St•P PupP 2) Weather Outlook 1\lt\XII\Il'l\1 56. MINII\Il'M 44. t\VImA<it: 50. Th;•n• was a trace of prl'cipitation. I'HF.!'i!'il'ltE :JO.tJO and rising. lll'l\ltiHT\' 75 pt•rcl'nl. WIN))S west· southwesterly at 3·6 mph. lllGIIt-:sT this date. 81 in 1915. LOWt-:ST this dale, 30 in 190!1. Sl'N!'iET today at 8:05. Sl'NIUSE Wt>dnesday at 6:02. FOREC\S1' Occasional showt>rs or thundl'rstorms likt•ly today and tonight. High today 60-65 with tht• low tonight reaching the lowl'r 40s. Mostly cloudy on Wt•dnt•sdny with scatten•d morning showt>rs. High nl•ar 55. Variabll' winds 5-15mpb 1 except strong and gusty whl'n accompanil'd by a thunoerslorm. Chance of ram is 80 percent through tonight and 40 Pt'rcent Wt•dnt•sday Tht>rt•'\ Plt>nty In Store There's plt'nly t'oming np for you in your J>aii-Timt's this wt't'k. Tomorrow. wl' lakl' a look atlht' Jlt'oplt' who makl' t'ulton progress in lhf' annual Fulton l'rogrfSS rtlltion, o spt>clal section indudl'd h1sldl' your n•gulnr Pnlhadium-Tlmes. And on Tbursda)·. (!al'rl''~ a spl'cial Iloml' and (;urden t'ditJon ... plU'kl'd with informali(ln. ,\dd thai to tbt' wel'kly ('oilmord contest, wortb O\'l'r $:i00 this wt>ek for a eorrl'el solution or sotnlions, and tbl're's plt>nty to look forwa1·d to in your l'alladhnn- Timt's. The. Numi.Jers Y e sterda~ 's \inning nun• bl•r in thl' Ne\\ York duily Numbers game Y.as: 2-0-0 hud~l'l for tlw 1981-82 school yt'<ll' in tht• amount of $4,97~.964: this rl'presents an increase of 7.65 percent t$:154,1091 over the 1980-81 conlingl'ncy budget the dislt·id nperated on this yl'ar. Where possible, line items wen• held to thl' previous y,•ar 's figures and ftwl oil expenditures were cut by $7,5110- which reflected the fewer numbl•r of gallons used as a result of con- sen·ation efforts b>: the dish·kt. Only where 11 was absolutely, necessary were thl' budget figures in- tTeased. lnsuranl'e costs, retirement contributions, social security, workmen's compensa lion, BOCES sl'rvices and salariPs were increased to meet required l'Xpenditun•s. Some tran- sportation ilt•ms, equip· ll1Pn1. athll't!cs. and library hooks wPn' a'mong items thai lmd been dropped from tlw 1!!80-81 contingency budget. Stall' aid is once again a «tuestion mark on the revenUl' sidl' of the budget and due to lhl' failure of the legislature and governor to agrl'l' on a budget formula, school districts throughout the state find themselves in the same fininacial troubles. This is a common accurance and makes it difficult for any board of education to muke 11 decision. However, certain rl•venues available to 'the district this yea~ will not be thl're next year. Rural education aid in the amount of $57,000 and in- lt•rt>sl l'arnl'd on capital tunds invl'sted in the amount ol $36,000 represent nonn•curring income an<! must bl' made up by a t•ombinalion of state aid and llx·al taxl's. In addition, the district's aid percentage has droppl'd two pt>rcent. reflectmg an increase in the true value of propt>rty in the district and a decline in enrollment. Present estimations show a 7.65 pl'rcent increase in the budget would call for a 21.98 percen1 increase. The annual district meeting will be at 8 p.m. on May l2 at the A-P-W High School Cafeteria. Voting on the budget will take place the following day, May 13 from 12 to 9 p.m. at the high school. A'lderman Bradshaw spoke in favor of passin(! the resolution. He explamed that thl• problems that the city was having with the polict• club and firemen was 1dentified months before the two eontracts ended. At Fulton Dinner WICKED WINDS - Those nasty winds blowing in off Lake Ontario can play havoc witb kill'~. as thesl' thrt•!' youngsters foUIId out near Leighton School in Oswpgo Monday afternoon_ Thl're's just no onP :1rnmtd ta 11 e110ugh when you need them. c 1'-T Photo I UW Challenge Offered lly JIIVI'n;ItRt\IVIIGm llnited Way campaign pherson. head football coach FliLTON - Though ex- chairman David J. Fell, of at Syracuse University, was pressing soml' disap- the Black Clawson Com- the featured guest s,peaker pointmt>~l for not reaching p~ny. drew high praise for of the dinner. tlus years anhe1pated goal, Ins efforts in the 1986-81 fund Revt>rend William J. Oswego Council Nixes Parking Lot- Planning drive of lhl' United Way of Brown. Pastor of greater ~'ulton, when he Immaculate Conception addrl'ssed the UW Com- Church, Fulton, and munity Appreciation and Director of Catholic annual meeting dinner, held Charities of Oswego Countyd at Lakl'view Lanes, Fulton, gave the invocation an Monday.. benediction. Fl'll told the 150 members MacPherson awokl' the present that the II member- gafhering with several agencies of the UW will amusing sports-related sharl' campaign proceeds items and enlightened that totaled $150,000, some listeners with factual in-. $25,000 short of the original formation concerning goal. athletics lind its marriage allocations: Association for Rt•larded ('hildren t $4,100 J. Boy Scou Is 1$12,300 J. C.Y.O., t$26.:!401 Girl Scouts 1$8,1181, Hl'd Cross l$10,ti60l, Salvation Army 1$22,386~. Salvation Army Auxiliary 1$2001, Travell'r's Aid 1$25lll, ll.S.O. 1$2501, United Cerl'bral Palsy ot NPW York State c$2001 and tht' Y .1\U'.A t $23,7801. This yPar·s filnd saw $li7,UOU raist'd from ~'ulton's industrial sl•clor. with till' n•maming donated lrom privatl' l'ltiZt'ns. oswt:1;o -- A resolution lo authorize the Department ol Publit' Works to build a l mrking lot at lhP Oswt•go lospital has bt'en dl'featl'd by thP t•ommon eouncil Tht• resolution was defl•alt•d at last night's t•ouneil met'ling when Aldt•rmt•n Comerford, Canal1•. llalpin, Matott and t;a r<hll'r voted for 1 he resolut inn wi lh alderml'n Hradshaw. Clavelli and Sullivan votmg against 1!. A n•solutwn that mandatt•s the spendin!( ol money must b1• passt>d with at least six volt•s Clan•lli pointed out to lhl' t'OUIWil that a projected t'OSt nf $11.1KKI for !ht• project as doni' hy lht• D.P.\\. excludes the eosl of labor. \Tht• D.P.W.,\ lw said, \is short somt• live opl'ratnrs, I don't seP how lh~·y l'an work it in.\ Befon• 1111' resoluhon was voh•d on alderman t-:d Malott madt• 3 motion that t hl' l'l'solution be tabled. Malott said that tlwre wen• too many unanswered questions concerning the resolution. Matott stall'd that he would like to know the n•alistil' l'Osts to the D.P.W. :md wnuld likl' to know the :tgn•t•nwnl on snow removal lor tlw parking lot. Tht• motion to table was clefeah•d li-2. Thl' t•ouncil also voted unanimously not to grant parkint~ in publk space for llw husiness office of Dr. Anthony DiBlasi at 6.1 West St•cond Street. ~·irsl ward alderman Jaml's Comerford, under whost• jurisdiction the rpsolution comes, presl'nled a pt'tition to the council winch contained 26 signaturl's asking for the t•ouncil to vote against the resolution. Coml'rford explained that when DiBlasi first built his business office it was for one dt'nlist and now lht>re art> lwo dentists there. liP exP-ressl'd the opinion that if D1Blasi wants to build a parking space for his dil'nts. let him purchasl' thl' land. Atlanta Murder Count Up Again ATLANTA tAP I- Just as polit'l' wt•re deciding not to add Jimmy Ray Payne's naml' to a list of 25 slain und missing young blacks, th~ hody of thl' 21-yt>ar-old was found floating 111 a river -;- the fifth body to be dumped in an arl'a river in less than a month, poliee say. Buffalo Officials Investigate Killings A few hours later. Publit· Safety Commissionef Let> Brown said that the death -of the 5·foot-7, 130-pound man will ht• investigated by the task force probing the 25 deaths and disappearances, which bt>gan 21 months ago. Tht• l'ause of Payne's death was not detl'rmined imnwdialt>ly and medical nfficia Is said his body, found Monday. bor!' no obvious injuries. An autopsy was to bt• performl'd today, Brown said at a news conferenel'. lllWrALO. N.Y. tAPI - Investigators sl•arching for tlw killl'r of st>ven area black mah•s last year are rl'portedly in a holding pattern. waiting to hear wha l twn ml'mbers of thl'ir team learn from a white soldit•r being held in thl' stockadl' at Fort Benning, Ga. Ruffalo homicide detl'clive Ml'lvin Lobbett and state poliee investigator Thomas Rash fll'w to thl' Georgia base Monday. Tht• soldier, ldl'nti fied as Joseph G. Christopher, 25, had requt>sll'd the meetings through a Fort Benning military chaplain. ac- cording to the Buffalo Courier-Express. Last week, on the advice of hi.s military attorney, the >old!t'r refused to answer their questions. Tht> investigators' visit coml's after progress ap- pt>arl'd to stall on what Buffalo Police Com· m1ssmnl'r Jaml's B. Cun- ningham last week called \lhl' holll•st lt>ad we've had yet\ Soun'l'S told both the I 'ouril'r and thl• Buffalo ~;,·ening News that photoMraphs and 11reliminary ballistics tests had failed to l'stablish a link l)('IWI't'n Christopher and the slayings last fall and early Wllllt•r. Wit nPssl's to some of tht' killings, as Wl'll as Albert Menoffl', who survived a stabbing artack on New Years' Jo:ve. reportedly failed to identify photos of Christopht>r that were brought back by Rash and Lobbetl last Wl'ek. Police art• worried about a change in patlt>rn, Brown said. becausl' \we now havt• four adult victims of homicides. Previous to that. all the victims were under 16. the youngest behig 7 .'' All thl' adult cas~s have similuritiesh including the tact. that I l' bodies were found in rivt'I'S, hi' said. \Our pPople have bel'n ml'elinl$ all evening to determme what this means.\ ht• said Ia II' 1\londuy. Payne was last seen April 22 as he hl'aded for the Omni sporting and entertainment complex in hopes of st>lling somP old coins, according to his sister, Evt>lvn. Fell citl'd the economic with scholastic and Annually thP Umted Way eonducls a eity-widP ean- vass in alt1•mpls to raist• money in ordt•r to keep non· profit and t•hantable organizations alive. Their volunlet-r st•rvict• is vital to lh!' <'Xisll'lll'<' of lhl'ir lllPtnber agPJH.'i(,S. impact on ~·utton, with the colll'giate students. He amount of people presently dosed with an question and unemployed here, and the answpr session. amount of donations being 11 ,\gencies Benefit made to the Syracuse The following agencies chapter. as the leading were recognized by the UW reasons for undershooting members to receive varying lhl' mark, but lauded the work of the many volunteers( who, ht• said, were in- strumental in raising the sizablt> fund. ''I'm not at all unhappy about what we wpre abll' to raise. hut I feel--and I think Seolt !Wallace. campaign vit'l'-dtuirman 1 shares this with nw---that this goal should have been rl'ached this year,\ Fell said. Ttw l'W vice president t•onlinuNi to praisl' all the volunll•ers n•sponsible in the fund drivP tfiat campaigned undt>r 1he slogan \people helping pl'opll'.\ FPII ended by thanking Mayor Verner Drohan, honorary l'hairman, for his cooperalitm, and the Dt>nnis, Whl'ell•r family, for the· fund-raising kick-off auction they l'Onduclt>d on behalf of tlw l'W. Elsil' Dingle, UW Ext•culive Director. was a I so eredited, as was Milll'r Bn·wery. Nestles. Blaek ('lawson and Marint• 1\lidland Bank, for lhl'ir efforts in thl' campaign and sponsoring the dinner. l\Ja c Pht•rson Spoke Jim Stt>venaon. first Vl'ar pl't•sident of lht• liW. ·and fivt• yt•ar nwmbt'r o! the board ol directors, prl'sl'nled threl' special awards at the oulst•l of last night's meeting. ~'l'll, Wallace, of Marine - Midland, and Mayor Drohan, were honorl'd with an award for their \out· ·standing \'olunteer service.\ L<tsl night's dinner was loastmastl'rl'd by Donald Bullard of Rl'alty 'World- Bullard Real Estatl'. Thl' ('omm~ores. a four pll'CP band. provided dinner music, a·nd Dick Mac· News In Briel] Bus Strike Continues - KINI;STON. N.Y. lAP I - Trailways spokesman Adu\ondack Trailways buses Sannll'l llash sa1d Monday int•astern New York arP out hP t>Xpt-eted a ft•deral nl service again today and mPdialOI' tn t•all the parties 110 talks are scheduled in the togPIIwr in \a day or two'' two-day-old drivPrs' strikP. SPI'\'Il'l' has hl'Pn The eompany's f1? buses susp1·ndl'd ill'IWt'l'll Albany wert' idled Mondav aftl'r 'I and liiPns Falls. WarrPn· midnight strike ·dl'adlin~· sbu1·g. Snmnae. 1\lasst>na. passt'd without a contract l't1ea. Svrat'llsl'. Amster· sellll'mPnt. The drivers dam. (;foversvillt•, New h<!\'1' bel'n without a con York 1'1ly and Long Island, tract sinct• April 20. Hash said · Woman Filt>s $1 Million ~uit BlWJo'ALO, N.Y IAPI - A woman who allegt•dly was st•vPn•ly hl•aten in the hom!' or :1 promi(lent family hl'rP las l yl'ar has filed a $1 million damagP suit naming om• of llw fam1ly ml'mbers as tlw allt•ged assailant. 1\larv Kalt• OTonnl•ll. 26, ol Buftali• was altat·kl'd last March 20 whill' staying at Problems End In SYRAt'lJS~:. N.Y. lAP)- :\ n•lt'ran dPputy sh!'riff, whn neighbors say was having marital difficulties. walkt•d in on his wife at hl'r JOb in a nowdt>d suburban dt•partment stort•, sho1 her lo death and look his own life with his :157-caliber Magnum sl'rvice rl'volver. Onondaga County Shrriff's Dt•partm~nt. spokesman Robert Burns said the murder-suicide took. placl' at a J.r. Penney Co Inc. store in De Witt late llw htmu· ol :Vlax and Helen .Jacobs Tlw :1ssault kd to a six- lllonlh grand JUry Ill· vt•stlgation. hut no crimmal ,·hargPs resultt•d. Ms. ll't'omwll. who suffen•d a 'kulllractun•. a hand mjury ami wnunds l'l't\uiring 811 't1ll'iws. rt>porh•d y told the .parwl thai slw t·ould nol n·llll'lll hi' I' who ass a ultt-d 'l'hl'l' :\lnndav altt•rnnon afll'r llPpuly- .Janws Burke. ~9. nwt his wift·. Jant'l. 46, at tht' stort• Burns s:111l Burke, a t2- ' Par vt~tpran who ·was in umform and All duty, drOVI' 111 a shenff's patrol car to lht' slort• in the Shop- pingtown 1\lall at about 4 p.n> enlt•red a public rear t•ntranl't'. and ml'l his wife in tht• home furnishings st-clion where shl' wa3 working.
