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&«*/? M-&fc K *&*^& jy**»-w»*.1t<*r* VOL. 73—NO. 99 mwm Hi.ii-i.ni „ii 'I ftoHsfaiffffc, N t Yv ^l Sttir*ty Mowing, Hwtmhtr U f 1H» mm^mmmmmmmmm*mmimm*jm\ WPP MOMPMaiVMffflV^MpfJpiHMHP^ Blackout hits 400-squarv* area of northern Essex *& iP%ft* £-».*• . * *.- * '-V .•*;j, % r* <V2 LAST OF THE STOCK - Mrs. Elizabeth Eddy hours after the 3:49 p. m., power failure •pens up the last of the Elizabethtown Grand Friday, every store in Elizabethtown was Union store's supply of candles. Within two out c< candles. Flashlights were scarce. Beauvais asks Council to dissolve beach unit By IRENE GUBORD John Beauvais, Beach Com- mission chairman, told Platts- burgh Common Council Friday a full-time manager for the municipal beach will be an ab- solute necessity as the beach development program gets und- er way, but that the Beach Com- mission would then no longer be necessary. He said the manager would report directly to the Council and would be responsible year- round far the overall manage- ment of the beach from coordin- ating planning and construction to sending employes home on rainy days in the summer. Beauvais said this position is not to be confused with that of summertime operations manag- er at the beach. Some position such as that would also be retained. The full-time manager's posi- tion would be covered by Civil Service with a salary range of ts,m to $8,100. \Right now there isn't enough work for a full-time beach man- ager but when we start expand- ing we will need someone,\ he said. \A manager would expe- dite the development of the beach '•And if >ou have a full-time manager you wouldn't need a beach commission. It would be my recommendation to do away with the Beach Commission when you hire a manager.\ He recommended hiring a temporary manager early m 1967 pending civil service exam- inations, and agreed with aider- men and the mayor that the Commission could be useful in an advisory capacity during a transitional period. There was some discussion among the aldermen regarding the Beach Commission itself. Beauvais said absenteeism at Commission meetings was such that the Commission was three weeks behind in its work a: present In response to questions from the aldermen. Beauvais said commission are \inactive to the point, in my opinion, that they should consider resigning ' It takes four «of s*x mem- bers.) to make a quorum,\ he sa*d, ' so when one of the four *ho regularly attend carjiot come, there can be no meeting \ Members of the Council agreed w-.tn Ward 3 Alderman Gilbert I^uicen that a policy should be established recuirmg the resig- nation of any commiss-oc mem- ber assert from three or more consecutive meetings withoc: cause Ward ! Alderman L>mn Kng sa.d corrjrjssioo members \are ser-lsg graus for the good of the community\ and perhaps personal responsibiirjes are such trt-at >orae members car no longer serve. *^*4 JOHN E. BEAUVAIS King said he would not want to see the commission abolished at this point. \I'd hate to lose the man • Beauvais < who's spent his: summer on this project and also works well with the urban renewal program in the total Northend project/' ' He recommended the commis- sion be made smaller and be re- i tained to work with the new beach manager. trance fees at the beach in 1967. He said, however, after the development program is under way fees might be reconsid- ered, particularly season pass- es. Mayor Francis D. Steltzer ob- served that the new attractions might be profitable enough in themselves to make fees unne- cessary. \In our planning/* Beauvais said, \we are trying to make as many buildings as possible seif-sustammg and income-pro- ducing so the project won't be- come a white elephant for the taxpayers.\ He reminded the Council that currently beach receipts for a single mid - summer Sunday may total as much as $10,000. Other items m the proposed 1967 beach budget include re- moval of dead poplar and elm trees, repair of the tram road- bed, purchase of new picnic ta- bles, purchase of the $8,000 'crawler\ for beach-cleaning, construction of a new mainten- ance building and planting of new trees Beauvais said no work would be done on the maintenance By LARRY PAYTON Chief, Etixabethtowa Bitreaa ELIZABETHTOWN - It was j already getting dark Friday afternoon and most residents in this northern Essex County vil- lage had already turned on the lights in their homes when the four hour and 25 minute black- out struck. The power failure blacked out approximately 400 square miles in Essex County from Keese- ville and Au Sable Forks on the north, Wilmington to the west, and Elizabethtown at the south. Tourists stopping for gas at service stations were held up in getting home because there was no power for the electric pumps. Most restaurants in the area stayed open serving all meals by candlelight and many fam- ilies which rely on electricity to cook their food ate out. Within 30 minutes stores were sold out of candles, flashiights> lantern fuel and lamps as cus- tomers remembered the big blackout of a year ago that left a large portion of New England in darkness. Darkness in a town at a time like Friday afternoon and eve- ning is unlike the normal night- time view a person would see on the streets. There are no street lights, no working traffic signals, no all-night glare of neon and no bright light stream- ing from houses. in the windows only the -dim glow of a flickering candle casts ; shadows through the houses or j flashlights flicker as their beams j dart from place to place. j Only facilities with emergency j electrical systems such as hos- ! pitals were lighted sufficiently. j But stores stocking emergency j lighting materials stayed open providing emergency items to? the families in the area. Chfldrea cried whea they were unable to watch the late after- noon cartoon shows. Mothers moaned as they stood I helplessly by while ice cream and other frozen items melted in refrigerators without power while half-cooked meals grew cold atop lifeless electric stoves. Homes with electric heat were chilly and the 101 appliances of the modern home were useless. As one woman put it, \I could not even open a can of beans to eat cold because my electric can opener wouldn't work.\ Cars parked along the light- ess streets bad lights on to warn oncoming drivers of their location. At Keene Valley's Neighbor- hood Hospital, emergency power was operative immediately aft- er the power went off with ade- quate light for hallways and treatment rooms, though wards and patients* rooms were dark. Darkened streets were made even more hazardous by fog, wind and rain and the amount of pedestrian traffic rushing to get emergency lighting items. New York State Electric ft [Gas Corp. officials estimated • V;? 2,4* feW the power f«tt*f* have teen caaee* by a shooting in the dlracttot voltage power tto Members of many <rf families owe a great dear to res- taurant and store ewaec* who opened their businesses tader the most advene conditions to help them through the dark hours. Union shop right-to-work unit's target WASHINGTON <AP» - The National Right To Work Com- mittee, saying the recent elec- tions turned the tables against organized labor, announced Fri- day a new drive to outlaw union shop contracts. The announcement signaled what could turn into the biggest battle in a decade over state iavvs and a renewed fight over the issue in Congress. Ninteen states now have such laws, and the committee said it is mounting immediate drives in 10 others. The committee said it had an building or tree replacement almost unprecedented chance to until after a master plan be- expand Lie number of states ing drawn for the beach de- that ban union shop contracts, velopment program is complet- under which all employes must ed. The planning is being done at dues. join the union or pay union The beach a cost of $12,000 half of which is to be reimbursed by the fed- eral government under Urban Beautification. And it said it will push In Con- 'e said the federal govern- manager s salary was pan of an overall beach budget of $89,307 tentatively ap- proved by the Council at a bud- ment had given the city author- get meeting in the mayor's of- izauon to proceed with the sur- fice. vey even though the grant had Tne Beach Commission is a not been officially approved. self-sustaining unit with plan- The Beach Commission in- ned expenditures based on an- tends to develop a huge recrea- te; pa ted receipts a: the c 11 y uonai park including, in addi- gress for \federal laws to strict comDuisorv unionism ' re- has The labor movement fought the right to work drive to a virtual standstill in state leg- islatures since 1958. but lost its fight to wipe out all such state laws at one stroke m the last Congress. .eft beach during 1967 as well as balance of about 110 DOG over from 1966. Beauvais said the Beach Com- mission has no plans at pres- the present beach fa- a lagoon scooped out uon to cilices. of the area away from the * with the soil used as fill sw-ampy areas in for ent to charge local residents en- of the project FBI chief of Warren Commission raps critics Warrer L->e as- '•vhn F WASHINGTON <'AP,— FBI Direcvr J. Edgar Hoover rapped cnt*c? of the Commission report on sassmation of Presiden; < JI Kenned*.- saying they ^>ored cer-air. facts, mistnterpreced :,triers and expressed pure spec- ulatjoc ts truth- • • • Ii i fUte-oesc Fridty. Book- er said also* — Net one shred o* evidence has been developed to hnk art; :t>er pe~*-- :r a cotvpirsry w-.th l^e Har-ey '.<waid u: as- sassinate President Kesaedy.\ The AFL-CIO. leader of the campaign against Sudti laws, acknowledged the new danger to its position in a state-by-state other parts iti^c^ 0 ^ analysis. j Both the committee and the ; AFLCIO cued big GOP gains in 4t One obvious result of the election «n!l be a renewed dnve by the National Right To Work Committee, already embokJeoed by the failure of the congres- sional HB repeal effort, to add to the 19 states which have oat- 4 the AFLr the infonnauon : CIO said. — 'A'hile there is a difference tne informauor rtpontd by k^ ^ , jnxXi ^ the FBI and contained m the atriopsy report; coTK^err.ing the vroimds. there is DC' corJict. \ ; Weather r- _ *^e FBI never altered the —.*. of the assasstnaiioc taken by Abraham Zapnader i by- stander the Hccver zaade the coezmectx m repiy to a letter froc a re- porter for a IXJL ne^^spepe- ibe Evean^ >tar. and cade avaiMtte to aL^r am media Clearing, cool desrtef Mi t* «MBd St. fair mi IwlfkL Wvt h the w* Sta te lew ML taaday. \rncr*** tef rliaftnu mi c+*l. WWi, hr i iMlig westerh »t 11 * II COFFEE BY CANDLELIGIff - OaSHeTigM UtTt always romantic as thousands of persons in northern Essex County discovered during an electrical power loss in excess of four tann Friday. Here, Gonton McDongal *f Keen* Is serod coffee by candlelight at Brassards Restaurant in Lewis by waitress Janet Soperneau. Rifle shot blamed for Essex blackout It was a rifle shot by an un- known hunter that blacked out half of Essex County last night. S. L GiamBruno, Plattsburgh district manager for the New York State Electric and Gas Corp., reported an insulator on a 46,000 volt transmission line had been shattered allowing a conductor to fall on a steel crossarm. The four hour and 25 minute blackout of Northern Essex County villages started at 3:49 p.m. and affected the viUages of Keeseville, Au Sable Forks, Jay. Upper Jay, Wilmington, Keene, Keene Valley, Essex, Reber, Willsboro, Elizabeth- town, Lewis, Whallonsburg, Bo- quet and Ausable Chasm. Intermittent flashes of power marked the beginning of t h e power failure as workmen tried to restore light through master switch systems. However, the master systems kept clicking back off, indicat- ing a major power loss. It was necessary for the pow- er company to sectionali^e — turn on power in isolated sec- tions one at a time in order to locate the power loss. The break in the line was fin- ally pinpointed bwtween the North substation in Upper Jay and the Barton Brook area near Elizabethtown, and power was restored to all sections except Elizabethtown and Lewis by <:16 p.m. GiamBruno said that 635 con- sumers had been out of power the entire duration of the black- out, although a total of 2,555 customers had suffered power failure at one time or another. The last darkened area was lighted at 8:14 p.m. There were no serious conse- quences despite the many in- operative traffic signals and temporarily powerless area hos- pitals. GiamBruno said the matter has been placed in the hands of the State Police, but pre- dicts difficulty in determining source of the shot in the re- mote wooded area. Arab-Israel fight reaches Jerusalem JERUSALEM. Jordan Sector AP) — Jordan's .Arab Legion opened fire from the walls Fri- day or. ant.government demon- strators m Jerusalem as disor- ders arming from a recent Is- raeli arm; raid spread for the first time to the Hoiy City. Eight persons uere mounded serious.;* But demonstrators said mare than 40 more uere rut by Duiiets and taken to hospi- tals where most were released after treatment • • • Ten miles to the nortk, tbe legionnaire? — veteran deser. fignters — f^ed over the heads of crouas rz&rchxtg through Ramallah demanding arms to fi2£t Israel Pentagon gives rules in naval retaliation WASHINGTON -AP\' - An American warship is empew. ?red to bombard North Viet- namese radar installations if tne commander believes the enemy is zeroing in on his ship for an attack, Pentagon sources said Friday. This authority, first used only a few days ago. represents a slight expansion in the use of naval power against tne Com- munists. Previously. U S. ships fired at North Vietnamese vesseis or shore batteries only after being fired upon The sitnatjofi changed on Nor. 18 when, before any enemy bar- rage was launched, two U.S. destroyers shelled a radar in- stallation on North Viet Nam's coast two miles norm of the demilitarized zone Tbe destroyers John R Craig and Hamner hurled more than 200 shells from their S-inch guns at the radar site, then an hour ater blasted away at 12 Com- munist cargo vessels which had beached in the same vicinity. Half the enemy vessels were damaged or destroyed. The Pentagon, in response to questions, said the Navy was taking defensive action in strik- ing first. The radar which was hit. the Pentagon said, acted as fc locater for the shore-based gun systems. \In this instance it was con- sidered an immediate threat to the destroyers and was there- fore destroyed.\ a Defense De- partment statement said. America* thips are equipped witfc electronic devices which can teH *ben a vessel is under surveillance by radar. may he delayed — Cong troops reported in flight SAIGON. South Viet Nam •AP) — Viet Cong troops were reported in flight Friday night after another heavy fight in War Zone C. where they have been hunted and mauled in the most massive American drive erf the *ar, Operation Attieboro. A Communist detachment of undetermined size, and two Vietnamese Special Forces companies, made up erf perhaps 240 irregulars and their U.S. Green Beret advisers, battled for hours in Tay sink Province jungles about 45 miles north- west of Saigon. American Air strikes and artillery pounded the Bed positions. • • • <TV Viet Cttg fied,\ a C3. Command spokesman Uh Bounced, after an American in- fantry company linked tfp wtt The relief By LARRY PAYTON WESTPORT In all probabil- ity, the Northway will not be completed through Essex Cour>- ty m time for the opening of Montreal's Expo '6T early next summer The opinion is that of Essex Gsurty s resides! engmeer, Ra*pfc Ztewsor.. who predicted Route T wouidn't be complet- ed USUI nsd-ftimmer Dcwtea aba re>ee*e4 raman that ocx two-iaae strip migtrt be opeaed e*riy sing Roate t as the tecood bJtlf •^One-way traffic on Route f is completely unfeasible. Srst of all he peaked act *it woold a sz*B fortune to re-do highway signs and then there's the problem of residents aioog Route f who need two-way tra- vel from their homes.\ He simJUrty discwated spec- ulation that one side might open earty for r*o - way traffic 'Again, road sigas for a tem- porary two or three monft pe- riod wouid 'De urj^aiistk.' : be said Dawson explained feat hie progress oa the highway is proensmg He predicted aa ear- ly spring opening ot the stretch from Potter sv2> north to U** derwood. He said LangeoMdv Constructor Co wfek± has the of toffewry is \jsst about finished/* He did a* criticiie ether ew»- j 5 to 5^^^ the Viet structioo firms who have not ^ Division from the come as dose to camptox*L wiach ^j^ ^ba however. The Lane Construe - txm Company wfakfe has most of the road in the northern por- tion of tbe county, be pointed \ CD ^ s *J i oat **has beeo \han^«ed byi L v -, ^, some pretty rugged terrain.\ ij\5* R»-I> : tiM Be cafled feat partioc of tte;«« • Northvay running through Bh sex Coaoty nhe fai aamm of rws is moactaia OdL
