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THE SCIENCE LAB TYPING CLASSROOM LARGE GROUP INSTRUCTION... NOT QUITE FINISHED ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED LSI THE ADIRONDACK S AdironciacK DAILY Weather Forecast Cold, Snow Harriet Tonight and Tomorrwr SEVENTY-FIFTH YEA& VOL. LXXVI; NO. 234 Monday, December 1, 1969 PHONE: Saranac I*ke 891-2600 TEN CENT* Snowstorm Batters Western New York Weekend Traffic Toll Reaches 35 Dead By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A snowstorm battered West- em New York Sunday ni# u .t in the waning hoars of a long Thanksgiving Day weekend that left 35 dead in traffic accidents across the state. The storm skimmed across the waters of the Great Lakes end from southern Canada de- positing up to seven inches of snow over much of Erie, Or- leans and Genesee Counties re- ducing visibility to zero in some places. The storm moved eastward during the night dumping less snow as it went along. The Fin- ger Lakes region in Central New York received about four to six inches. The storm rammed into the state as a low pressure system moved from Southern Ontario Province at 35 miles per hour eventually reaching the Finger -Lakes. .Nine persons were injured, none seriously, in a flaming three - car crash at Remsen near Utica. Six persons wer« injured crit- ically in Rochester Sunday when their car was struck by a fire truck en route to a 2-alarm blaze. The injured, all members 1 of the Wayne King family o f Ro- chester, including his wife and four children, were taken f o two Rochester hospitals where tJieir conditions were listed as criti- cal. A commercial bus overturned •in on the State Thruway near ihe Pennsylvania border at the Western tip of the state. The forecast called for contin- uing snow over most of the state for Monday but only light snow- fall in the eastern i>ortions. Western and Central New York- ers could expect about 10 inches of snow on the ground. One Poughkecpsie man travel- ing east from Buffalo by car said Route 20 was \glare ice\ mpst of the way to Albany. The highway parallels the state Thruway. Bruce M. Gillooly, 26, said cars were driving bumper - to - bumper at about 30 miles per hour, half the speed limit in same places. In addition to the traffic deaths, nine persons perished in fires and one died in tfbe crash of his light airplane. The death count was taken in the period from 6 p.m. Wednesday to mid- night Sunday. WEATHER Snow changing to flurries this afternoon and tonight, windy and becoming colder. Some blowing and drifting. Tempera- tures mostly in 20s this after- noon, and. 8 to 15 tonight. Tues- day, partly cloudy and cold a ehanre of flurries. High in the upper teens to lower 20s. Winds generally becoming northwest- erly, 15 to 25, and gusty this afternoon, tonight and Tuesday. News in Brief Rail Strike Wednesday? WASHINGTON (AP) - Around-the-clock mediating ses- sions aimed at averting a possi- ble nationwide rail strike Wednesday began today. Administration officials have expressed mild optimism about the outcome. Representatives of railroad management and four shopcrai't unions met with representatives of the National Mediation Board in an effort to settle the contract dispute. Secretary of Labor George P* Shultz ordered the continuous sessions. Assistant Labor Secretary W. J. Usery Jr. said \I am optimis- tic that settlement can be reached. Both parties have been cooperating. Proposals have been exchanged. Some progress has been made. I believe both earnestly desire to reach an agreement.\ But, in case desire falls short of accomplishment, Shultz •warned \If a voluntary agree- ment is not reached by the deadline other actions will have to be considered by the adminis- tration. * Scientists Test Moon Rocks SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) — Scientists begin tests to- day on rocks and other moon sample* brought back by the Apollo 12 astronauts. They hope the material will unlock more of the moon's mysteries. The astronauts collected two boxes of rocks, dust and sam- ples gathered by boring mto the lunar surface. The Apollo 12 crewmen — Charles Conrad Jr., Alan L. Bean and Richard F. Gordon Jr. —have nothing scheduled today. A formal debriefing On ttieir mission is to start Tuesday. All three astronauts bad visits from their families Sunday as they relaxed in the quarantine quarters at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory. Conrad also spent some time putting together a ra !di o kit, and Gordon and Bean j watched football on television. ' Quarantine of the astronauts |is to end Dec. 10, if they develop jno illnesses that can be traced to a moon microbe. j Where Next... After Helsinki? [LLSINKI is n o A c.-onSiG*-! tainty AJVI thi< in Hels > and the t¥M the , TV Fnv f*)rA round of negotiation* to i SALT—t,, say on in their papi- jr#o: *h€ T%*clmr arm*, rar*. j u <_ jt *ou\<i ^ p th*ir t-nsH Off.\-iUy Aer« ;,* m dec^on ' country on foreign front pares *r +& *;*n w-11 b* i^eh a ^ ax*** snd *li By JIM LOEB It was all beauuful t ail confus- ion..and very slippery at the new high sch<x>l building in Sar- anac Lake this morning. How could it be otherwise as some 525 high school students moved into new facilities the very first day..and they aren\t quite finished yet. Why slippery? Because the waxed terrazzo floor had not •been walked on enough, and id ii l Sergeant Views My Lai As 'Point-Blank Murder' Several Veterans Recall Experiences; Bailey Denies Gaptain Ordered Massacre By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE FIRST BUS ARRIVES New School: Beauty, Confusion our guide; Principal Charles Murphy, explained that it wo uld take several weeks of walk ing for the slippery gloss tojto be off the floor. Meanwhile, th c experienced skiers will have a great advantage. (This reporter is not among this group and several times during our quick walk through we felt momentary thanks for medical insurance.) \Where's the traffic circle?\ asked one student, understand- ably. Where was any tiling? And even if you could find it, maybe it wasn't there, if you get wha' we mean. The library, for example. Be- autiful. But no books o n the shelves yet. That will bo a cou- ple of weeks more or less. But when it is available it will have been worth waiting for. And the first public address ace, tlie large group instruction hall that can take care of 145 students, the new laboratory ar- rangements and a locker for every student in the school, for the first time. Today's contusion which won't last and the Ueauty that v.ili come as the culmination of years oT effort. It really ail began after cent- ralization became a fact back in 1964. Building a new high h i dd p announcement we heard going through the entire building was to the effect that shuttle buses for art, homemaking and shop were waiting at the main en : trance. You see, the rooms for these studies jhaven't been quite comp- leted as yet. That will be ano- ther couple of weeks, more or less. But Basil \Pat\ Patri- ck, clerk of the works, is just- ifiably proud of what has been accomplished and told Mr. Mur- phy that there was less confus- ion this first day than he had expected. , Mr. Patrick took us to see the new gymnasium facilities which are not open as yet, and were not really scheduled to be. But after the Christmas holi- days the new gymnasium wing will be ready and the first bas- ketball game in it is scheduled for Friday, January 9th, with the Tupper Lake Lumberjacks. Incidentally, a dedication date has not been set as yet, and won't be, we were told, until everything is completed and au- thenticated. Then there will be opportunity for visitors so that we taxpayers can nave look at what they paid for. Ann they will be proud of school was first recommended by a citizens' committee, appoi- nted by the board of education study educational needs in the new centralized district. At first the committee thought in terms of building two new ele- mentary schools and renovating the Petrova School so that it rould continue to house the fifth through 11: th grades. Sommhere around the mid- dle o*f the two-year study, the committee decided that a new high school was necessary. The plan presented to the voters in March of 1966 at an estimated cost of $2200,<A;0 s was approved although a separate proi>o.sal for a swimmng pool was turned down. The Board of Education had carried on an intensive inf- ormational program to aeH tts plans to the public. Contracts for clearing the school site, were awarded in the fall of 1966. Following approval of a supplemental bond issue that brought the pr4ee of the high school to $2,903,211.50; not incl- uding- the Petrova renovation or Bloomingdale K-4 school op- ened In September of 1968, the building contracts were made. The addition of 10,000 square feet that can later be finished to expand classroom sPa^e bro- ught the total cost of the school to $2,990,000. Ames Case in Massena For Selling on Sunday The District Attorney of SL-, Lawrence County, William Pow- er, Jr., has announced that the case being brought against the Ame» Discount Store of Mas- sena will come to a jury trial this corning Wednesday. Tins -was decided alter Town Justice Eduard LaVarnay de- nied a mine for dismissal of j-lhe case against Sunday selling on the grounds of discrimina- tion. Ames is being represented by Daniel Scanlon of Watertown and a hearing was held on Nov. 19. Scanlon produced a private investigator, Charles Chambers of Brasher Falls, who said he had evidence that 14 other bus- iness establishments in Mas- sena were selling on Sunday. The attorney for Ames insis- ted that the Sabbath Law was outmoded and obsolete, uncon- stitutional, arbitrary and dis- criminatory. Last year Ames paid a line- in Massena and agreed to close all departments on Sunday which were in violation of the letter of the law. In addition to this case-, there are aJsry pending two iaw suit* in St. Lawrc-n-.-e County in which Edward. Brown:n2, man- TliAf 1 IC LK.HT ager of the Ames Store in Mas- sena, is suing Fred Genaway, a buyer for the Boston Store, and Eugene Cyr, manager of the H.M. Fishman Co. store, for attempting to close the Am es Store. Each suit is for one million dollars. Sgt. Michael Bernhardt, who was at My Lai. says \it was point-blank murder.\ He said he told officers: \The hell with this, I'm not doing it.\ An Army lieutenant has been charged with the premeditated murder of 100 South Vietnamese men, women and children dur- ing an Army operation in the hamlet of My Lai in March 1968. Bernhardt and some veterans recall their experiences at My Lai in the current issue of Life magazine. Sgt. Charles West, a squad leader at My Lai, said a brief- ing before the operation \put fear into a lot of ou r hearts. We thought we'd *un into heavy re- sistance.** Capt. Ernest L. Medina, com pany commander at My Lai, \didn't give us an orde r to go in and kill women or children, West said. \Nobody told us at>out handling civilians, be- lauee at the time I don't think any of us were aware of the fact that we'd run into civilians/' Medina, West continued, \was telling us here was the enemy, the enemy that had been kUl ! our partners. This was eoing to be our first real live battle, and we made up our minds we w going to go in and with whatev- er means possible wipe them out.\ Meanwhile, attorney F. Lee Bailey said he had been re- tained by Medina, who is sta- tioned at Ft. Benning, Ga. He has not been charged in the case. Lt. William L. Calley Jr. leader of the first platoon in Medina's company, awaits court-martial for the alleged murder of 109 civilians. A military judge has ordered potential witnesses in the case to withhold public statements until the court martial. Bailey, reached by telephone in Colum- bus, Ohio, said he would ask President Nixon to remove the restriction so Medina could of- H-.n-Aay Tie,* :*rc arc of *Jne LaF fer a televised version of his re- with this, I'm not doing it. 1 collection of the incident. didn't think this was a lawful or- Medina has not been charged der.\ in the case. A murder charge has been brought at Ft. Ben- ning, Ga., against one of his pla- toon leaders, Lt. William L. Cal- e y Jr. Bailey said Medina reported to his superiors after the attack •that there had been 25 to 28 ci- vilian casualties and was told by a major, \That sounds about normal.\ \The company commander received no orders to butcher* anyone or to kill any women and children—and he issued none,\ Bailey said in an inter- view. Bailey, who said he is repre- senting Medina, said the captain ordered the attack on tflie vil- lage on information that it was full of Viet Cong, and that \they weTe expected to be the only ones in the village.\ \He at no time told anyone to kill women or children or shoot at any of them,\ the attorney said, \As far as he knows, this was not done.\ Bailey said CaWey's platoon was on the othe r side of the vil- lage, out of Medina's sight. He said Medina did shoot-a Viet- namese who turned out to be a woman, after a helicopter ra- dioed \that there was a V Cong lying on the ground and moving with a weapon.\ Bailey said Medina later got a helicopter .iseport that ther e were women and children in the area, but was told only to \exer- ution,\ hooting. y not to stop the hooting. The Senate and House Armed Services Committees have or- dered investigations, as has the Army. The Hhite House has ex- pressed com em over the Bhd etl tioned at Ft. \The people probably didn't look so bad .. currently Dix, N.J., said who ordered it think it would . It was point- blank murder. Only a few of us efused. I just told them the hell Spec. 5 John Kinch, still on duty in Vietnam, said he had been point man for th^ heavy weapons platoon. \Captain Medina was right in front of us,\ Kinch said. \Col. Barker, the task force com- mander, was overhead in his helicopter. He cam e through on the radio saying he had got word from th e medevac (medi- cal evacuation) chopper there were bodies lying everywhere and what was going on. T heard Capt. Medina tell him: 'I don't know what they are doing. The first platoon's in the lead. I am trying to stop it.' \Just after that,\ Kinch con tinned, \he called the first pla- toon and said, 'That's enough shooting for today.' Colonel Barker called down for a body -count and Medina got back on the horn and said: 'I have a body count of 310.' \ Former Army photographer Sgt. Ron Haeberle and Spec. 5 Jay Roberts, assigned to write about the incident for the bri- gade newspaper. recounted these episodes at My Lai: —A group of soldiers tried to disrobe a teen-age girl. When her mother tried to intervene, both wer € placed in a group of other women and shot. —A black GI shot himself in the foot with a pistol to get evacuated after saying he couldn't stomach it. —Soldiers stood around shoot- ing and stabbing cows and pigs. One chased a duck down a trail, waving a knife. Life did not give home towns for the GIs interviewed or list where those still in the sen-ice were stationed. Life also printed eisrht color photographs by Haeberle, now a Cleveland businessman which were printed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer last week. NBC News showed the pictures on its 11 p.m. report. US Troops in Vietnam Now Down to 480,1 SAIGON (AP) military strength in Vietnam has dropped below 4S0.OOO men for th e first tinig in two years, continuing a five-month trend downward that began with the \irst troop withdrawals 'last summer, the U.S. Command an- nounced today. There was increased spocula- :m that President Nixon before the end of the year will an- nounce rnor e withdrawals be- yond the 6<i,UO0-men reduction y ordered ^o The U.S. far this year. Command said that First Draft Lottery Set for Tonight WASHINGTON sAP) — To as of last Thursday theie were 479,500 American troops in the country, a drop of 4,900 men during the previous week and 4,500 under the maximum of 484,000 Nixon set for Doc. 15. American troop strength in Vietnam was 485.t)00 two years ago and rose to a hi-ih of 5-13,-HJo last April. Meanwhile, enemy a; tacks a crass South Viotnam ^tu re- ported at a low level, ba. ? aUit^ spokesmen said this wa> : art of thp cyclic pattern that his pre- vailed in the :<ast year. Viet Con^ sappers moving be- hind a mortar btn-ra^e Masted their way into the compound of a U.S. Army combat support unit eurht miles north oi the b._; Ameoan suppk has..- .•: C \w Ranh Kf\. THE HAPPY SEASON — Rebecca Cofby, 5, of Laite Plsrid torn* tm the Saraaar Lak«* Cbmtmas Tr*»* light* m B*ck*l*T Square Friday night. A**i*t- mz t* park Mip*>nnt*fvi*flt G^nr^ tly area r hif- *m be! me»m m«NPtl th»t h* rm*j, Bea, 5 a* th*
