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i ft*r$j*j^j^ ,-. ^ ^« h't^y,fg*g Jw'(W»\iH- *»« ( ;^*^^^$j^, .^^-^^i^^i^^sj^ SPORTSt Interviews with local Tupper triathlon competitors. Page 12 W-' '•'•'--Li U. Bf TODAY'S ^v- •'••rUj •;,,',' «v;*fe' mmmM^mmmmsmm^ Unique Adirondack cure chair to be raffled at Antiques Show -J;\!.- L •-^ •-•?'• • , . . . P&r'- '•- ''>\^> 1 \~!ATH ' ,warmt ParUy'cldudy Saturday fair Sunday t ' 'High is 80& - • • \ I I f * The Voice of the TrMpkes—-Lake Placid, Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake ____,. IS^^^^^L^, NINETIETH YEAR VOL. XCI NO. 142 Friday, July 20,1984 PHONE Saranac Lake 891-2600 THIRTY CENTS !• Death toll up to 21 'Hunting for humans,' Wiliiam Donahue, left, Anthony Casale, right. Photo by Liza Frenette Area tourism study planned By LIZA FRENETTE SARANAC LAKE - The Commis- sioner of the New York State Depart- ment of Commerce said today that the Norths Country will be the first area to be researched in a state-wide study of tourism.. William Donahue, commissioner, spoke at a press conference (his mor- ning at the Hotel Saranac prior to his luncheon appearance there for the five-day Economic Development Conference now in progress. A consultant was just hired three weeks ago, Donahue said, lo begin gathering data for the study. Eventually, the Commerce Depart- ment wants to come up with a five year master plan on tourism for the whole state, and the North Country is the first area being studied for this plan, he said. \I decided the North Country is the number one priority for creating a long-term strategy,\ the commis- sioner said. \People live or die based on tourism activities.\ Some of the .issues to be looked at are accessiblity, accommodations, regional concepts, and where the state should invest its money. Donahue said that tourism in this area is the same as industry in other places; both provide a base for the economy which allows other retail operations to survive. State funding of tourist-related* businesses can be controversial, Donahue said, because-people feel- in some cases the state may be com- peting unfairly. It. is much more con- troversial than funding manufactur- ing, he added. \We typically have run tourism in a vacuum,\ he said of the Commerce Department. \It's been loo removed from the local level.\ !• \I personally cringe a bit at what can be Over emphasis on preserving the Adirondack Park region,\ Donahue said. '/I don't owe allegiance to the environmentalists.\ \There are resources, here for everyone to enjoy,\ he continued. \When you don't manage the forests they turn into jungles.\ Referring to Governor Cuomo's now-celebrated remark at the Democratic National Convention about the \abject poor of Essex Coun- ty,\ Donahue said that much of the Adirondacks is still in the reces- sionary stage. •' Assemblyman Anthony Casale, who hosled the press conference, disputed charges from people who say the state is not doing enough for tourism, citing the state dollars spent on the Olympic Regional Develop- ment Authority (ORDA), I Love New York, and matching granfs pro- grams. Donahue said Lake Placid, where ORDA is headquartered, has much potential as a major conference center, much of it owed to state and federal money spent on the athletic facilities there. He said he is worried about the fate of the Lake Placid Club Resort, a huge, old resort on the shores of Mirror Lake which is en- tangled in bakruptcy proceedings. \If we lose that, how do we draw major conferences?\ Donahue wondered. He said that Lake Placid's success with tourists will \endow the whole area\ and its potential is no longer just seasonal. Donahue also added that I he Com- merce Department is now consider- ing a campaign to promote the fall \shoulder season\ for the tourist in- dustry. mass SAN DIEGO (UPI) - Mass slayer James Huberty took his family on an outing to the zoo, calmly kissed them goodbye and said he was \going hun- ting for humans\ as he left for the McDonald's restaurant where he methodically shot 21 people, his wife says. In an interview and a letter to a TV station, Etna Huberty said her hus- band \started hearing voices\ and \seemed to be talking to people who were not there\ when he lost his job as a security guard a week ago. Huberty, described as a loner who loved guns, was killed by one shpt from a police sharpshooter to end the massacre. Mrs. Huberty apologized for the grief her husband caused and said he had been an unhappy, lonely child whose \only close friend was his dog Shep.\ She also said that he had tried to make an appointment with a mental health clinic the day before the massacre but \no one called back.\ In an interview with KFMBTV, she said that on Wednesday — the day of the killings -- he took his family to breakfast and the San Diego Zoo. Later, \ she said, he donned camouflage pants and kissed her and their two children. \Then he said he was going to go hunting, something about going hun- ting for humans, but I though' it was just talk,\ she said. \I think he was trying to get back at society. He was frying to make Ihem hurt the way he was.hurting, bui I do not think he was in his right mind,\ Mrs. Hubertysaid. In her rambling letter, she said that her 41-year-old husband attended a security school and became a guard. \On July 10 he lost his job, but that did not seem to worry him too much at the time,\ she said. But, her letter said, \he started hearing voices and seemed to be talk- ing to people who were not there.\ She also loldKFMB that during the Strife between teachers and principal erupts at vocational high school By CAROL BRUCE SARANAC LAKE - Smoldering teacher unrest at the local BOCES high school erupted into public view here last night. The Franklin, Essex, Hamilton Board of Cooperative Extension Ser- vices (BOCES) had planned to accept teacher David Jackson's resignation last night without comment, until two of Jackson's fellow teachers urged the board to look more closely at Jackson's reason's for leaving the Adirondack Educational Center here. Teachers at the school have been complaining openly about the school's principal, Hugh Langelier, whose attitude and personnel methods, the teachers charge, have caused morale to sink at the school. \Does that letter say he is resign- ing?\ teacher Wayne McGinnis ask- ed Superintendent Robert Whitman, to which Whitman answered, \No he says he's not going to return. Board member Robert Bushey of Vermontville backed McGinnis, say- ing this was, more than a simple resignation and he voted \no\ to ac- cepting the resignation. The board then tabled the resigna- tion for further discussion later in ex- ecutive session. Assistant Superinten- dent. David DeSantis Said this morn- ing Mfe/board did accept the re*signa- (ipri'&li 'final session. iPeaehers Donn Garwood and M^j«jiiSi'Chai v ged Jackson was quif- fcingtfts>job because he has been told by sdhool principal Langelier he would be fired if he did not quit o volun- tarily. . . In a letter to the BOCES board.in Rlay Jackson said he had a confronta- tion with Langelier which resulted in Ihe principal telling Jackson he was \in big trouble and going to get it\. Jackson said the threat was made because he was one of eight teachers at the school who signed a four-page letter to the board in early May listing their grievances againsl Langelier. McGinnis also charged that Jackson's most recent letter to the board was not a letter of resignation but rather an explanation of why he could not come back to the school in September. In that letter dated July 13 Jackson said he would not be able to gel enough credits for his teaching cer- tification by September. In that case, the board, by state law, must look for a replacement, and if one is found must chose him or her over Jackson. If a replacement is not found, the school could keep Jackson at his post. When discussing the issue in late June Jackson had said the friction between himself and Langelier would prompt the board to diligently look for someone to replace him and he dared not wait until late August to find out if he did or did not have a job at the center for the coming year. He said he liked his job and hoped to return to il some time in the future. (Continued on page 2) Winterset time->share sales be^in in Placid winter he \became obsessed with ideas about war.\ She said he once approached a policeman in San Ysidro and told him he was a war criminal. \I talked to him later and told him that he could not possibly be a war criminal because he had never serv- ed in the military and that he had never been involved in war,\ she said. She said Huberty \told me God was 10 feet tall and had a long, gray beard. He said something about Christ, like he's not as tall as you'd think he is.\ She said her husband was calm when he left their modest apartment in the predominantly Hispanic bordertown of San Ysidro and drove a half block to the restaurant where he unleashed a hail of bullets from three weapons that left 21 people dead. Police said that on the day of the murders, Huberty took his wife and two daughters with him to traffic court to settle a $75 citation, to a dif- ferent McDonald's in northern San Diego for breakfast, on a family outing at the San Diego Zoo and then back to the apartment. . Huberty, a one-time undertaker who lost his job as a security guard last week, entered the restaurant with the three loaded weapons and pockets stuffed with ammunition. He pumped bullets info children v on bicycles in the parking lot and ter- rified patrons lying on the floor and cowering under tables. \The moment he walked in he said, 'Everybody get down on the floor or I'll kill someone,'\ San Diego police Lt. Paul Ybarrondo told a news con- ference. \And then he killed them anyway.\ Huberty was killed by a shot from a sharpshooter after police realized he was slaughtering his victims. Mrs. Huberty said she would-take her children back to Ohio. The family moved to the San Diego area last Oc- tober from Masillon, Ohio. Mondale promises ^realism' from party By PE1ER RAfeETTE LAKE PLACID — Developers of a time^share project at the Winterset Inn have completed renovations and the resort's marketing, staff will begin time-share salesfhis month. The developers,. Summerwood Enterprises, Inc. of Chicago Heights, 111.,.are. operating under a rigorous set of regulations imposed on all time-share\ projects in New York by the state'Attorney General's office. Robert Macedon, marketing direc- tor for the resort,.said Wednesday that although no time-share sales have yet been made, prospective buyers have viewed the Winterset facilities. \We're not into full-blown sales yet but we have been showing people around and doing little marketing teste/' he said. \We're ready to go.\ The resort applied to the state At- torney General's office for permis- sion to convert the Inn last. year. The Attorney General's office gave per- mission for the project in May and construction of the 22 time-share suites was completed in early July. Macedon said five of the suites are furnished and ready for sale with the remaining 17 needing only to be fur- nished and carpeted. Those suites will be completed assales Of the first five units progress. \We didn't want to go through the expense of doing everything before sales started roll- ing,\ he said. \But Wfe&iso didn't want to annoy ^pukjirsf, buyers by pounding nails after the first units were occupied', so we've done everything but furnish the remaining suites.\ • » . ^ Continued oft Page 2' SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Walter Mondale altained a goal central to his life for a decade — the Democratic presidential nomination — and pro- mised the party faithful that \we will be fighting for Ihe American future.\ • In his acceptance speech lo the Democratic National Convention, . Mondale told Ihe nation Thursday he and the Democratic Party have learned the lessons of the disastrous defeat of the Carter-Mondale ticket in 1980. But he said the American public did not get what il thought it was getting when it elected Ronald Reagan. \Tonight we come to you with a new realism: ready for the future and recapturing the best in our tradition,\ he said. Mondale's speech, weeks in preparation, was interrupted fre- quently by applause and minutes- long chants of \we want Fritz.\ Mondale clearly was pleased with his speech and the crowds wild and loud response. \You can feel il there,\ Mondale s,aid in referring to the excitement of the crowd. \It's wonderful.\ A \We laid out the message for our campaign, defined the contrasts, pul together a solid, sensible, practical,, necessary platform and I think we selected a superb vice president and we're on our way,\ he told reporters crushed around him behind the podium. The speech stressed three themes: Democratic unity, the failures of the Reagan administration, and his dreams for a future based on a lessen- ing of the arms race, an America- first trade policy, excellence in education and a dramatic slash in the federal budget deficit. Mondale made few specific legislative or executive promises, but did pledge to end \the illegal War in Nicaragua\ within his first 100 days, and said he would' cut the federal budget deficit by fwo4hlrds by (he end of his first-lem'- Huberty was described by his California and Ohio neighbors as an unfriendly man who liked guns \He shot my cat once,\ said Simon Miller, who lives across the street from Huberty'sfathei, Earl, in Ohio \He done a lot of shooting \ Another Ohio neighbor said Huber- ty did not get along with his step mother and would fire off a -dozen shots to warn her he had come home. The McDonald's killing spree took its 21st victim Thursday when Arisdelci Vuelvas Vargas, 31, Ti- juana, Mexico, died of a single gun- shot to the head. The victims ranged in age from 4 months to 74 years. In addition to the slain, 11 people in the restaurant and passing by were wounded in the 10-minuteattack. He acknowledged he would have to raise laxes to do so. \Let's tell the truth,\ he said. \Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't telryou. 1 just did.\ Most of his speech outlined his dreams for the nation's future, and his nightmares of a future under Reagan. \Over the next hundred days, in every word we say and every life wc touch, we will be fighting for the American future,\ he said. \By the starl of the next decade, I want to ask our children their dreams and hear not one word about nuclear nightmares,\ he said. There was a lot of hugging and kiss- ing on the podium after the speech as party big-wigs, presidential can-' didafes, families and others crowded in. Obviously addressing those who consider Democrats big spenders, Mondale said the party has changed from four years ago when, he acknowledged, Reagan \beat the pants off us.\ \I heard you. And our party heard you,\ Mondale said. \Look at our platform,\ he said. \There are no defense cuts that weaken our security; no business taxes that weaken our economy; no laundry lists that raid our treasury. We are'wiser, stronger arid focused on the future.\ \If Mr, Reagan wants to re-ruh the 1980 campaign: fine. Let them fight over the past.,We're fightjhg for the American future — and that's why we're going lo win.\ NO PARKING SARANAC LAKE - Police say drivers shouldjiot; park along Broad- way Sunday ni|ht because early Mon- day mothing (about 5 a.m.) a crew from the Franklin County Highway Department will be here to pave the cjenterline of the roadway The Jyghway crew recently aided the fillage in repaving Broadway and Maiit'Stre'et. • Robert Ptirdy Purdy quits primary race By LIZA FRENETTE KEENE — Former Keene Town Supervisor Robert Purdy has pulled Out of the Democrat, race for Senator from the 45th district, leaving his par- ty but. not. politics. Exiting from the Democrat, party and grumbling about, the Democrat party chairman and Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo's speech at the national convention which brand- • ed Essex County residents as \the ab- ject, poor\ Purdy sa id he changed his registration yesterday from Democrat to Republican. But he'also said he may run for Senator bn.an Independent, ticket. Purdy said today that Democratic- chairmen Bernard Amell from Clin- ton County and Ed Hatch from Essex County have backed the candidacy of Theodore Ruzow in the Democratic senatorial race against incumbent Senator Ronald Stafford (R-Peru) without having committee meetings to interview the candidates. . Ruzow and Purdy have long Been at opposite ends of issues, with RUzow a former chairman of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) and Purdy a former executive director of. the APA's monitoring agency, the Adirondack Park Local Government Review Boai d \That bothered me quite a bit,\ Purdy said of the committemen's alleged decision \Our County chairmen have stret- ched both the truth and their high position, but our Governor has put the cap on it,' Purdy said \It is a knoWn fact that he (Cuomo) hasn't done- much for the North Country people,, .To put us (Essex County) down as he did leaves me cold \ Disgusted with Democrats these days\ Pan dy said \Maybe just ma'ybe we will have a thi ee way race with a fallow who believes in grass roots people who will be an Independent candidate don't count Bob Purdy .'$$';;a Democrat 'contender, Fiirdy ,. WoiMjhave needed 1,000 signatures to eftahfe him to mp tar the primary. To run on the independent ticket,.3 f O00 sighatui es are needed. The 45tll disfiict includes Franklin* Clinton, Essex, Warden, Washington, and part df St, Lawrence counties,\ h .i i
