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4 J. • \V -^^ / • I mi EttttON VOL 73—NO. M ' / r 4 v * v 3§ift .X^kSi. :i >.>.•£.' Mental examination is o for Rushford murder W4 :h '«•*•..*:- J'l&i SOLACE — With confusion and grief etched lnto_ his fore*ead^ Brent Boordeao of 44 Charlotte St. holds a worn leather Bible in his manacled hands while be leaves the County Jail for City Court. Bourdeau is ac- cused of the second-degree unpremeditated murder Friday night of taxi driver Ernest Rushford. Boordeao told police Jie shot Rush* ford with a .S caHBer pistol\after Rushford made slurring remarks about Bourdeau's marriage. Chazy kills school bond Rouses Point Bureau CHAZY—Chazy School District voters Monday overwhelmingly defeated a proposal to build a new $3,650,276 central school here. The vote was 338 against. 231 for and there were 20 void ballots. The 589 voters who made their way to the polis represented a record turnout for a local school election. • • • A total of 441 had voted a year ago when the proposal to build the new school, at a cost of 1710.000 less, was overwhelm- ingly carried, 380-60. But there were errors in that original cost estimate and when :: came time to award bids, :he overall price turned out higher than anticipated. • • • This required the new vote* and the voters obviously either weren't willing to spend the ex- tra money or they were con- vinced by those opposing thej move that the school board had been unfair with them. School board president Ber- nard Riley said, as the votes were being tabulated, that the turnout was at least 100 more than he anticipated. | • • * Jie tfagn said he doesn't know #bat wiH happen next. •He said the proposal could be legally resubmitted an indefi-i nite number of times, but that.; each time, due to normal cost; hikes, the figure would undoubt-j edly be higher. j Nobody on the school board; seemed particularly prepared i for the loss and what the next move is, probably won't be learned at least until the next school board meeting. At any rate, the general con- tract signed with McManus. Longe and Brockweil of Albany, now is invalid and as it stands. Chazy wont get its new school There were 30 or 40 people in the auditorium when the re- sult was^ read by an obviously dispappointed Riley. After reading the tally, he said, \I hereby declare the reso- lution defeated.'' His announcement was greet- ed with a rippling of applause. • * * Joseph Brushnefski, who had outspokenly opposed the resolu- tion and who was one of the election tellers, turned and said, 4 'Some you win, some you lose.\ 'The kxis are the losers/' grumbled a school board mem- ber. Brushnefski and at least two of the school board members then had words but that's as far as it wem and everyone filed from the building which was the world's first centralized school. This landmark would have been torn down had the resolution been adopted. What its state is to be now is anyone's guess, but on Monday, it at least received a temporary reprieve By PRANK PROVOST \I didn't mean it! I didn't mean it!\ Sobbing these words a 13-year-old man accused of murder fled to the arms of his grandfather in City Hall Monday morning. Brent George Bourdeau, ac- cused slayer of Ernest Rush- ford, tt-year-old taxicab oper- ator last Friday, was being escorted to City Court for a preliminary bearing. The grandfather, Alphonse LaMonda of Peru, stood among spectators, in the second floor lobby of City Hall. Bourdeau, carrying a big Bible in his handcuffed hands, was being escorted by Patrol- man Wallace King. Other patrolmen stood by at exit, points. • • • Suddenly, Bourdeau broke from police and into the wait- ing arms of his grandfather. Both sobbed. Meanwnile, police alert at all exits, moved in to stem what they though was an at- tempted escape. It was not so. The accused murder and his grandparc-n* were permitted to meet briefly, one weeping apparent remorse, the other uttering words of comfort. The arraignment that fol- U.S. platoon staves off 500 Viets SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) — A 40-man platoon of \Flying Horsemen\ suffered heavy casualties Monday in a battle with about 500 North Viet- namese in the central highlands before reinforcements arrived. j By nightfall, 102 enemy bodies ! had been counted on the battle field, * The platoon of the 1st Caval- ! ry, Airmobile, Division was I moving out 22 miles southwest of the U.S. SpeciaJ Forces camp at Plei Djereng when it was hit on all sides by the North Viet- namese. The North Vietnamese closed to within grenade distance be- fore air strikes and artillery fire | 1 caught them. Then U.S. rein- • forcements came in by helicop- ter and the fighting raged ;through the afternoon. Contact* ' was broken off at dusk. The fighting, about 225 miles northeast of Saigon, is north- i west of the la Drang Valley- , where a year ago the cavalry- : men broke a major Communist ; offensive and killed more than i 1.500 of the enemv. lowetf before City Judge Thomas R. Quinn was brief. Bourdeau was ordered trans- ferred to Bt Lawrence State Hospital Ogdensburg for a psychiatric examination. Robert P. Wylie, assigned a< defense attorney by Judge Quinn, motioned that all af- idavits on the caae be includ- ed in papers to be sent to Ogdensburg. This was grant- ed. Also granted was a motion that results of previous psychi- atric examinations be included in the papers. Wylle saM that as k»g a*o as June, 1965, Bourdeau was examined by Dr. Paul Agnew, Plattsburgh psychiatrist, and that results of such exami- nation were never made known. Results of those exam- inations also will be included in the transfer to Ogdensburg, Judge Quinn ruled. Bourdeau will be taken to Ogdensburg Wednesday, the sheriff's office said. Judge Quinn recessed fur- ther hearings far one week, setting Nov. 28 for the next session* Fwieral services for Ern*t Rushford. victim of the trag- edy, will be held at St. Pe^s Church this morning at 9. Bur• iai will take place in Sacred iteart Cemetery at Quay. Rushford, of 36 Scomotion Ave., died of multiple buOet wounds Friday night shortly after being found unconscious in Us taxicab in the parking grounds of the Physicians Hospital. stoofoff 0* • • Less than 24 hours later Bourdeau was arrested and, according to police, admitted to have been wed fe was found by Sunday during a mouth of the Sam£ District Attorn^ North said that tbe nm& was found in a kwtftae apt was pointed out by SYMPATHY — Plattsburgh Police patrolman Wally King throws a protective arm around Bourdeau while be weeps in the arms of his grandfather, Alphonse LaMonda of Peru. LaMonda raised the 23-year-old Bourdeau from childhood. The murder suspect ran inta LaMonda's arms when be saw his grandfather standing outside courtroom. City Judge Thomas R. Quinn ordered Bourdeau sent to St. Lawrence State Hospital, Ogdensburg, for mental examination at Men- day's preliminary bearing. Prisoner exchange suggested News in brief Stock market totters again *EW YORK iAP»-Tbe stock market Monday took its worst! loss since early October as it \ staggered under the weight ofj discouraging economic news' and uncertainty regardmg a j possible tax boost Trading wis §uite active . Volume was 7.46 million shares compared with SJ1 mil- lion Friday. The Dow Jeoes-ia&is&ial av- erage feil 1114 to 7M.11 Sex-alteration surgery OKd BALTIMORE, Md (AP) — | Breaking with tradtttaal ta bfttfrs, Afi'Viiri * f r^ft*** Hospital are Ming p^tBrtT^ to daage the w of frtet tin? tern SAIGON. South Viet Nam (AP) — If North Viet Nam: agrees to negotiate a prisoner 1 exchange, this might open the * way for aider talks on the war itself, informed sources said Monday. But K> far. attempts to work out an exchange with Ha- < noi have not gotten off the' ground. j • • • One proWem is that tbe Inter national Red Cross Committee j has no official contact with the 1 Communist North. Hanoi has • brushed off third-party offers to j negouate : By unofficial estimate, there are'between 25.000 and 30.000 f prisoners — iDcludLng possibly! more than 100 Americans — in j the north and south. * Community Chest at 54 per cent With 80 per cent of the volunteers reporting, the Com- munity Chest has about $71,380 or 54 per cent of its goal of $133,380. Sigmund I. GiamBruno, general drive chairman, said Monday that this \didn't necessarily indicate that this would be the final result.'' He said they are still optimistic that the remaining 20 per cent of volunteers would make up the dif- ference. GiamBruno pointed out that in the education division, the State University faculty have attained 123 per cent of their goal under Dr. George Angeil, the construction group beaded by John Gooch has raised 120 per cent of it's goal and Special Gifts under Mrs. Anne Kirk has collected 101 per cent. State Employes headed by Jerome Scewart have donat- ed 116 per cent of their goal. GiamBruno said that rnough he couldn't predict the outcome, be hoped to have all results in by the end of this week. American Motors hits profit sag | DETROIT (AP) - American Motors' financial fortunes went ; into reverse Monday as it re- I ported a $12.^million loss tor the fiscal year, second biggest * deficit in its 12-year history. The drop was the biggest since the $25.4-million loss in j 1956 and compared with a profit I of $o.2 million last year. Weather Mostly sunny Mostly sonny today with high* in tbe 4ts and tow Sto. Generally fair and moder- ately cool tonight and Wed- nesday. Winds, tight and variable soetheriy and n» der IS. WE MOMENT OF CAME* - 0*.jr«*,
