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CLINTON COUNTY EDITION ; ^-»»,;>ifS. JMEIte *\* I : ?^5 * * * :^1£' *. > -* MM| * -5*\'W $g VOL 73—NO. 81 m^mmmm^lmti^mmtfmmmmmm Npy»^\ Clinton budget local levy seen 22.6% higher for '67 ^M&?i 'S> v, ^*\» •***•**!• The Clinton County Boani of Supervisee Tuesday evening set Nov. 22 as the date for a public hearing on a tenta- tive county budget for 1167 which would require a tax levy of »,J12,950.to-up 22.6 per cent. The tentative budget, com- pleted after a two-and-a-half- hour session of the finance committee on Tuesday night, asks for $426,857.72 more in local taxes than in 1966. Highest single item on the budget 5' the 13,446,721 to be appropriated for public wel- fare, with Medicaid account- ing for $1,500,000 of the total. The budget oficer's 1966 rec- ommendation for this expense was onty $250,00fr-$ 1.25 mil- lion lower than in 1967. State and federal aid would pay $2,370,750 of the public welfare total. Nine coaaty Auctions win be more expensive for county taxpayers next year. They are: Legislative: Up from $83,930 to $94,964. Public Safety From $99,- 187.50 to $126,132. Highway Department: $1,- 117.78S.8S to $1,207,751.27. Health: From $326,420 to $376,750. Correction: $3J>,860 to $42,- m Recreation: $32,535 to $40,- m - Natural Resources: $30,- 141.53 to $34,378.58. Authorized Agencies. $59,- 902 to $73,260. Countv General: $733,751.26 to $855,766.28. * * t County functions which show a reduction from the 1966 budget are: Judicial. From $2»,1«.» to raised by taxes and sbownig $294,514.20. Staff: 254. $326,517.50 to $322/ Education: $40,039 to $29,- 289.12. Debt Redemption: $339,875 to $2*4,850. The one item remaining un- changed was the appropria- tion of $150 for lighting the Trinity Park Monument. Economic Opportunity proj- ects which accounted for $2,- 500 of the* 1966 \appropriation- do not appear on the new budget. • • • Totals on the tentative budg- et are: Appropriation, $7,206,978;45; state and federal aid, $3,738,- 428.40: revenues attributable to functions, $907,600; leaving the $2,312,950.05 figure to be a cash surplus of $250,000. In other action, the board passed a resolution correcting an error in the tax roll for the Town of Dannemora and another designating the pro- cedure for the county govern- ment in case of enemy attack. The board also accepted the report of the Clinton County Bar Assn. Assigned Counsel Plan. A final resolution by Super- visor Harold Mauley of Sar» anac and seconded by City Supervisor Aaron Scheier au- thorized issuance of a revenue anticipation note to pay coun- ty claims. The note for $200,000 is jus- tified by anticipated revenue from state and federal aid to velfare due the county before Dec. 3L Space champs on target ABOARD THE USS WASP (AP) — The world's champion Gemini 12 pilots, chipper after four days aloft, plunged home \right on the money\ Tuesday after dramatically writing the final chapter in a historic project that led America to the portal of the moon. \We're both happy to end the« Love!! and AWrfn dropped {Jemmi program with a «*c-t into the gently swelling ocean at cess/' his flying partner. Navy! 2:22 p.m. EST, and within half Capt. James A. Lovell Jr. told 2,- \ an hour were strolling the deck 700 sailors and a nationwide tel- ; of the ship, shaking hands and And next: Apollo &/*'- u' *'T;t-.:.* ' : '^ A evision audience viewing the recovery' live. And, a success it was. Project Gemini, a $1.3-billion forerunner to America's man- waving as a Marine band boomed out an enthusiastic \Anchors Aweigh.\ Behind them was a bold jour- CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP)} — Suddenly, Project Gemini is j history. Now the United States} turns full attention to the great- j est space adventure of all — the Apollo man-to-the-moon pro-1 gram. j In Januarv or February, if! CARTONS OF CLOTHES — Processing contribute* at CBn- 7 to It fjn. west \very well\ and collection* should trrcoad ton County Clothing Bureau during Tuesday eight's Jayoee time #f past yean. Number of Hems donated is uknowa et ckthii^ driytJW iteft » ri^rt) Jnycees Dan Nageogaft and present becaase several collection points were used « Air Pat Roche, assisted by David (on chair) and Norm Bergeron. Base and throughout county. Jaycee spokesman said drive, conducted over WEAV from Chazy school board gives stand on bond issue \We tried hard to please ev .„ , „„„* ...„„, h . . , 0 . erybody,\ declared Edwin E. i to-the-moon program, came to .Tr ™j 1M ^ w m Jf \W\\ I present mechanical problems (Buzz) Attrin Jr., who spent j its triumphant end within «g»|^ n ^eS ^ l.«_nul-: ar e solved, the first_ three-man more time outside a spaceship than any other human. \I hope we've come halfway there.\ of the giant carrier Wasp as it churned through the fabled Sar gasso Sea. Arthur Haley dies at 74, was J)annemora*s mayor Gemini 12, though plagued by a series of minor problems, ac- complished its major goals, in* eluding rendezvous and link-up with an Agena rocket, with little difficulty. crew is to rocket into orbit, starting a long series of flights aimed at a manned lunar landing in 1968 or 1969. CHAZY — The Chazy Central Rurah School Board is telling school district voters that it's due to the architect's miscalcu- lations that the proposed new- school project costs are $140,000 above estimates. To offset this difference, the school board is saying in letters to the voters, a new bond issue needs to be approved. This would \avoid the neces- sity of rebidding the project and running the risk of receiving p.m in the auditorium. period, leaving yearly payments \ * * | of $40,000 to be made. Other point* made in the let-! This means that each taxpay- er normally paying $70 would have this amount increased to $91. 6. Other alternatives listed nere to centralize with other ters: *1. If the new bond issue is approved, the building could be ready for the fail of 1968. 2. Present bids are valid only until Nov. 24, only three days after the voting date. 3. The bond issue must be in- creased bv $710,000 for a total of $2,550,000. 4. Actual cost to taxpayers will be $12.50 per $1,000 fuifval- Among its records were: even higher b^ds,\ the letters say. | ue. They compare this to an These and other points are i average rate of $14.88 per thou- made in a series of three letters ! sand full value for other dis- DANNEMORA - Arthur Ha- ley, 74, former mayor of this vil- lage rod past president of the board of education, died Tues- day evening at Physicians Hbs- pital, Plattsburgh. He was born in Plattsburgh, Oct. 15, 1892, the son of Jere- miah and Alice Copeland Haley, and he attended school in Dan- nemora and Middlebury, Vt. • • » A guard at Clinton State Pri- son, Haley was an active mem- ber of the Qinton County Demo- j cratic party. For 16 years after he retired from his job, he was the village's mayor. He had also been a member and a president of the Danne- more Union Free School Board, chairman of the county ration- ing board during World War n, Gemini was a major step to- ward the moon, spanning the gap between the pioneering Mercury program and Apollo. — Most time spent outside. He j In 20 months it sent 20 men into j to the voters in the Chazy Cen-1 tncts in the county logged a total of 5 hours and 36 space, qualifying them for Apol-! tral District. ^ : ^ 4 ••- -* -**••* minutes exposed to space, in-J lo trips and* teaching\them the I The school board has sched- 5. After state aid, the stun of eluding his walk, and two times j techniques required for lunar j uled a public meeting for to- j $520,000 is left to be raised lo- he poked his head through the j voyages. night to explain the reasons for held at 8 and for several years, chairman of the county March of Dimes fund drive. , m ^ . . TJ.MIL Haley was a former member • hatch t0 taite a series oI P^to-1 However, Apollo has its trou- i the vote. It will be of the Dannemora Knights of | graphs. |bles. Columbus. \~ The J 00 ? 6 ^ single excur-1 Two months ago. National He is survived by his widow, skm. One of his \space stands'* i Aeronautics and Space Adminis- the former Heleoa Bailev of' lasted 2 hours, 29 minutes, al- i tration officials spoke optimis- Dannemora, a daughter, \Mrs. | though he did not actually leave j tically ^of conducting Jhe ^first Alice Jordon of Dannemora; two;^ vehicle \ \\ L \\**\ \' grandchildren, Susan and Rus- cally. To do this the bond issue will be extended over a 30 vcar 2. A new school for elemen- tary students would still be nec- essary and any school Chazy consolidated with would have to add classrooms. Cost of doing this would be low but local taxes would have to be stabilized to the other dis- districts or renovate the present J tricts. and would therefore be building. {higher than Chazy's taxes even The board claims to have with the new building program, carefully considered both and: • • • say they cannot recommend: 3. Renovation of the present either for educational or eco-1 building isn't the thing to do nomic reasons. j because additional classroom * • * i space is still required. In explanation of the board's Chazy needs a minimum of 10 decision not to follow either of classrooms and a gymnasium. the alternatives to building a! The cost in local taxes would new school the board said: j be greater than the cost of the 1. With Miner Foundation aid, J new structure since state aid the Chazy School is able to pro-j would be less and the $1,025,000 vide as broad a curriculum asjg;* from the ~\*:er Foundation any other area school. 'would be withdrawn. Successor ineligible, Essex welfare chief says sefl Jordan of Dannemora; and a sister, Mrs. Mildred Leonard of Plattsburgh. Funeral services are scheduled for Friday morning at St. Jo- seph's Church, Dannemora. Ex- act time will be announced la- ter. The body is at the 0'NeM-Red- den funeral hone, Plattsburgh, where calling hours begin at 2 p.m. Weather Fair and chilly Fair with some variable cloudiness and oontimied moderately cold today and Thursday. High both days, 35 to 45. Lowest tonight mostly in the »s. Winds < variable and east or tooth- east, 11-15. 1 manned Apollo earth orbit flight j this month. It slipped to December and ' now is scheduled for Jan. 17. But many officials expect a fur- ther delay until February. The problems lie in the space- craft, a roomy vehicle th&t will accommodate three men and man to the post who is ineligible to hold it. even provide them with beds, j \I don't think the New York En route to the moon, the Apollo ! State Department of Social Wel- will weigh 94,000 pounds, com- \ fare will uphold the appointment pared with the 8,000-pound! of John Carr to succeed me/' GeminL Densmore said. By LARRY PAYTON Chief. Elizabethtown Bureau WESTPORT — Essex County Commissioner of Public Welfare Westill L. Densmore charged Tuesday that the county board j • • • of supervisors has appointed a On eligibility, Densmore point- •'The law says any welfare j on the education requirement, commissioner appointed after j Densmore himself, though no Jan. 1, 1966, must be a college j college graduate, is excepted graduate. Carr background/' has no college ed out that Carr does have am- ple experience in welfare. \He has more than 30 years in the Seld,\ he added. But he felt that of the five ap- plicants for the position, Carr was the most clearly ineligible under the ruling which states: \anyone holding the office of welfare commissioner as of Jan. 1, 1966, is exempted from meeting this (educational) re- quirement\ \I know of one senior case- worker who applied and was turned down.\ Densmore said, \He has 15 years experience, the necessary education require- ments and administrative and supervisory experience. He would have been a more logical choice/* The Essex County Board of Supervisors Monday approved Carr's temporary appointment effective Jan. 1, 1967. at the end of Densmore's current term. • * * Bot the board's welfare com- mittee bad not recommended Carr for the Job. ^ P-R girl reporter OKd for military flights By KATHY BROTHERS We were given tablets and pencils and told to write our names, ranks and serial num- bers. Meet Kathy Brothers, Civ. 0007. It wasn't long before a heavy weight seemed to have lodged itself in the bade of my bead and my writing turned into an unidentifiable scrawl. This was a test for hypoxia symptoms, part of a physiologi- cal training course at Westover Air Force Base, Mass. I had decided that I wanted to go for a plane ride. Not Just any plane, but a Boeing B-52 Straiofatress or a KC-135 Strato Tanker. For a mender of the /uf Force assigned to flight duty, it's an everyday affair. For a civilian, it's something elae. . . • • • The request for these rides was made to the Public Infor- mation Office, Plattsburgh Air Force Ease, during the latter pan cf August. Frorn there it wen: \z Eighth .Air Force Head- carters at Westcver Ar Force Ba.se Mass Her? ;: -as approved I: *ai d^vatched to Headq*urtm Sraterc AJ- CGTrsrjtti. OStftt >-r F~-r:i? Base Net Approved ~Bu: *:'s sot *^a: i^zpie. Y» dexf: Just walk oct to the Sight tern, climb n£o a piaae and fly teo the vttd biae. ofthF for the sate of a mwt story. Ordinarily civilians are not allowed on these flights. Airmen are subject to strenu- ous, long training before being allowed to fly and a civilian is required to have a certain amount of training too. First step is the \flight physi- cal\—a physical check-up such as one doesn't get every day. Mine took four hours at the Plattsburgh Air Force Base Hospital, during which a flight surgeon or technician checked, tested or X-rayed me from my hair to my toenails. I passed the physical and re- ceived a 44 medical recommenda- tion for flying duty\. This form is addressed to the Altitude Chamber Officer, Westover Air Forts Base An appointment was made and I was scheduled for \phys- iological training\ at Westover. The physiology mamal says \Basically ... you are... a ground animal, naturally able to adjust, live and work com- fortably within certain narrow • limits of air pressure, forces of gravity, heat and cold, visibil- ity, bearing and general physi- cal and mental stress. \To survive and function at high altitude, you have to make some sort of compromise be- cause your body Just Isn't de- signed for it. \The compromise is achieved in varying degrees through the protective equipment you put on and use. • • • The eesne starts wttk t tet- ; sac on the atmosphere and jdeals with the composition of gases, gas and pressure laws and physical reactions. Respir- ation and circulation are next, followed by as extensive lesson on hypoxia. Although the coarse is 1*91 presented, I bsvt this strange habit of falling asleep if I ait still too long. Two instructors pounced on me after dasses, accusing me of falling asleep during their lectures. I denied everything. • • Hvpexia is tfce gen shortage to rtmU ef exy- types ; The tw^day eecte Ciartrti af 1 IS hours oi classroom lessons' by sever* 1 instructors who bow their subjects inside out- The officer IT: charge oi the section 1 is Capt Paul F Roberts Classroom work L< followed by a low-pressure alutiide cham- ber f.:gr.:. This sizrutiated high- aJtitude flight prepares the air- | man tor cv^Lxz) for whatever i pfcysica] reactions he may bave ] aelng in actsal fight } The i» hewn oi da«ratt wort were actually a eraza Khl eoce course oo the physiology # of the bsmt&body te!qgfigtt.j UVtAST iJSr . -««-*,,«».
