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*» o\ *• •'Vk.t r * 6 r . >>Vv«* *»>,*. ^4^»Jj$^^^V*'Vj ' By HAL OTLEY Chief Ticonderoga Bureau 9 ELIZABETHTOWN - Pub- lic apathy again apparently was again at work as the Es- sex County Board of Super- visors held a public hearing on its preliminarv budget for 1967. The big issue at stake was apparently the proposal of a 1-per-cent sales tax by Town of Schroon Supervisor Horace Noxon. Noxon patiently waited all during a rather calm discus- sion of the budget and talk of his expected proposal for the sales tax + -•»<* Doe count> resident, Dr. Wayne Lowe of Essex, said be stopped on hi.s way to Al- bany to see if anyone would be at the hearing Another. James Loeb of Sar- ar;ac Lake, spoke in favor of the sales tax plan in that if properly u>ed. it was not a regressive tax plan. The first bombshell to upset the tentative budget, and the supervisor?, came when budg- et officer Hu^h Morrison of K eerie noted a communication from William T. Smith, state Director of Probation The letter noted that the neu minimum salary for pro- bation officers, effective Jan. 1. would oe a starting salar\ of $6,500. 'There is no exception pro- vided (in the order) for any salary under fMN,\ Morri- ses pointed oat. Salaries in the tentative budget for the probation de- partment had a departmental request for the following: Chief probation officer, f*,- 300; probation officer at $$,190* and probation officer at $5,508. Tie tentative budget graat- ed the following salaries to these posts: Chief probation officer, $«,- 250, probation officer $5,7*6, and probation officer $£,500. Morrison noted that the state mandate would have the same posts in the new budget at: Probation officer (chief) $7,006; probation officer, $6,- 528, and probation officer, $6,500. j The mandated minimum sal- j ary must be met in order for the county to receive 50-per- cent state reimbursement on the salaries in the Probation Department. *•- * • This all means a net In-1 crease of $1,244 over the pre-' vious tentative budget figure, Morrison noted. He said that the budget would then have a $1.221.-1 888.36 tax. an increase of : $157.720.23 over the 1966 budg- s et j Morrison pointed out that ! state mandates each year ; noticeably affect the county i budget and tax. j He noted that they were ; forced to include a five-year j toad issue to pay for fttMBi el state-mandated new high- way signs and markm w all county roads. • • » EMB Cress ef Essex asked Morrisoo to explain reports that the budget did not in- clude money for the county planning board. \We didn't cut out planning. The situation is still the same and there is still the projected money left for planning from the past two years^\ he said. He noted that there had not been a budget request from the planning board and that some $10,000 was still left in a special planning project fund. WW all Us* complaints of mandates out of the way, Noxon took the floor to ask lor discussion on his tax plan. He said that the rock-bottom estimate for Income from the one-per-cent county sales tax would be $208,000 for a nine- month period. \I think that adoption ef a sales tax is inevitable. School and real estate taxes have gone up seven times as fast a&- the assesmeote/' Nojwm said. He noted that he would in- troduce the sales tax at the meeting to be held later Wed- nesday afternoon and would demand a roll call vote. '^fV. a HM» redact**^ *> tad twas based 03 the $2*0,000 tax \ NOOK© WSSL fie MM that ft* state kas taken over $1 million In sales tax monies from Essex County over the past year tinder the state's two-per-cent sales tax plan. Grown Point Supervisor Don* aid Titus argued that be didn't believe that everything had been (tone in the countyto see additional money before look- ing at any sales tax. \I think that the large cor- porations in the county — not utilities—should have a look takes Jt their renecthw *s» M I m that they abaM be ps| lag more, 1 quote Vermont Gov. Staffs campaign state- ment where he said that the estimated revenue from sales taxes would be only three per cent from tourists. * *tf ISssex Cwratjr tsolr iny~ different than Vermont, this means that 97 per cent will come from Essex County peo- ple,\ Titus added. • • * Nexoa cfafatted Tltns was \all wrong M in that 90 per cent of Essex County business was tourist - oriented. North Hudson Supervisor James DeZalia said that he bettemf snyr acHjioaal tat mmM only be mmt* aft* ttonal atolnistrattwetxpeMm. Board Chairrn*! William Hurley of North Sfta insisted tiut Noxon shook! hdng in bet- ter information t* support a sales tax plan. 'Thefel^w that has the most money wiH pay the leest with a sates tax, 1 * Hurley ar- gued. At one point, ft appeared tempers would flare in the en* suing argument over figures between Hurley and Noxon. \Gentlemen we are net Jest talking about today. We have got to look at tomorrow. Mor- rison will tell you that the future wil loniy bring increases be daroaed If jmH damned if you i»H be noted ft appwtf tax was gotag to. %*m® wsr ..v^.^.^,,,.., ,„ ^, amm , imm¥U ,\ r , . ^^i^jpft Ii }Tm \I'm indine to tateJc that the correct way to get that needed money far Mi budget is with a I don't like it/ 11 • >••«••••••• 1 nmmmmmtmmfmmm^^m^ Press-Republican The Hometown Newspaper of Clinton, Essex, Franklin Counties VOL. 73—NO. 93 Plattsburgh, N. Y., 12901, Thursday Morning, December 1, 1966 10 Cents 32 PAGES County one vote short of sales tax Freighter sinks in storm v Huron HARBOR BK.WH, Mk'h, 'Al 1 ' — Bo-ierea apart by 25- roo; waves. :ne freighter Daniel J. M:>rrell went to the bottom of Lake Huron before dawn Tues- dav ;r the worst Great Lakes :ec in eight >ears. A: least 12 o: he Morreli's 33 2 of crewmen died. Their bodies were plucked from the choppy water and taken to a morgue here. One survivor v*a> found. m * * The 603 • foot ore carrier *.a>hed by w;nd< o: up to t>0 rrjjes an hour, snapped in naif during the season's first major snowstorm about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, the Coast Guard said. *'There was no distress sig* ra!.\ a Coast Guard spokesman *aid. ,, Tha: was the wierd - •» The surviv >enrus Hale. 26. f Asr.tabuJa. Ohio, was taken by helicopter from a raft about exht miles northeast of Harbor Beach light. He was suffering: from exposure. Thre bodies were on the raft. • I *as asleep when I heard a hard thump.\ Hale said. \I :r.-ught the anchor was drop- ;:.r.g I heard the emergency a.arm. got dressed and ran top- -.de The ship was breaking m Hale said the ship had broken ..tt.e mere than naifwa;. from :e >:^ He iaunched a raft \ tre three other creamer IK out on •^e were floa 1 this raft. I could see the two halves hitting each other,\ he said They had separated, and the back part still had power and kept ramming the front part. ; 'She buckled and >he sank/*! he said. After talking with his wife, HaJe was hospitalized here. Doctors said they felt sure he ' would pull through. Two hours before the MorrelJ sank, the freighter G A. Tomlin-, son passed her and saw nothing ; wrong. Twelve hours later, the . G.G. Post found the first body ' from the Morrell near where J Hale was rescued. | That touched off an air and ; sea search by the Coast Guard. The search, by the light of flares dropped from aircraft, j continued into the night Gale j warnings remained in force; with winds of 25 to 35 knots; whipping up 12-foot waves. The Tomlin^on found the next: three bodies. ; \They were in a space of; about a mile.\ said Capt. Jo-; seph Fitch of the Tomlinson. All had on Rfe jackets with Morrell ; markings. .All were floating face : down.\ ; The sinking claimed the most; live- of any Great Lakes trage- j dy since Nov. 18, 1953 ? when the Carl D. Bradley and 33 of her crewmen went to the bottom of Lake Michigan during a similar siorm. HORACE NOXON Civil service unions seek 85.000 niiniinum p. _ T- :e ^ >:ate civil ,;>er= : were required to pei w.* ci hat are two or three *.a.' e -n.'-rs '^'ednes- clcsssjications above the one they are being paid to do Joseph O v SoJlivan. assisun: z~' : n'.'.^t * r s. created *zZ?$ r . a? \...^<: j on* ar.u Lounci. yj * • • Tboff demands ^ere ouU;ned : ; >:.\e-~\.eh f:: ine -tate .-1 ^e*\ .it 1 Zrr.p.*;es A-ss-r*.ia*-1n \i :-e *•*•* V'rk ^'a:e E^- : :.>e> ;'-:--:i. >* AFL-ITO a: y} '.' m >er~-\ re •**.r.*.er* Tl^e meeu.'g -*as he.d z : ' r^ir. Ke..tr- i. f, >.-. ^. *->e a.-j CompehsaL\' J -rseph Z l*x hhe:. execvtivs :.r?-r.or of t>e C>£A.rpressed '— a r**>grade &i> rause for *^z :; 5U5te jr-7grzr~j \•* sa>d : • >er is * h t \>e fai tr. / -. >r r -.-.: r^e< i- ^ecL:a-- r* . --j - - ^ - 'o^- -J cfcr- .^ k all state work- 'p; /-••• -. V -TV er* a. 4 u cs ; am el ad i\ see rzed New photos show lunar 'badlands' WASHINGTON (AP) - Strik- ingly clear new photographs of the moon, made public Wednes- day, showed one of the most prominent lunar features — Crater Copernicus — to be a rough and barren badlands des- ert. Mountains rise 1.000 feet from the flat floor of the center of the crater, and they have slopes up to 30 degrees, * * * One picture, looking due north from the crater's southern rim, shows on the horizon the 3,000- foot-high Gay-Lussac promonto- ry in the Carpathian Mountains. Cliffs on the crater's rim are 1,000 feet high and show clear tracks of the continual slippage, or downward movement, of de- bris. The pictures were released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Langley Research Center at Hampton, Va. Tbey were taken by Lunar Obiter 2 at 7:05 p.m. EST Nov. 23. when the spacecraft\ was\ 28 1 ? miles above the moon's surface and 150 miles due south of the center of Copernicus. They are the firs: cioseup pic- tures of the crater Copernicus. 60 miles across and two rruies deep, dominates tse upper left quarter of the moon as seen from the earth. ELIZABETHTOWN - One more vote and Essex County would have a one per cent sales tax for 1SK>7. The Essex County Board of Supervisors Wednesday voted down the sales tax pro- posal of Town of Schroon Supervisor Horace Noxon when the required majority vote of the board 110 out of 18 ) failed to be reached by a 9-8 vote in favor of the tax. It took a few minutes before tbe super- visors were able to get serious about Noxons attempt to get his resolution introduced. however, once the resoluiion was intro- duced and seconded by Town of Westport Supervisor Ray Bender, it was all serious business for the supervisors. Those voting in favor of the one cent sales tax were James Martin of Chesterfield, Frank Stevens of Elizabethtown, Holland Miller of Lewis, Domimck Ida of Moriah, Cil- bern Vandon of Newcomb, Noxon, Thomas Norman of St. Armand, Bender, and Patrick Ryan of Willsboro. Crown Point Supervisor Donald Titus had left the session, but had been on record as being against the sales tax plan. Voting against the resolution for the sales tax were Jfifefin Cross of Essex, Art Dtagfcas of Jay, xragh Morn son of Keene, Francis Donnelly of Minerva, William Hur- ley of N'orth Elba, James DeZalia of North Hudson, Charles Schwerdtfeger of Hcon- deroga, and George Haselton of Wilmington. Ida was able to call for and receive a 10 minute executive session in the middle of the heated discussion on the sales tax. However, this apparently was not enough to gain votes to pass the sales tax. Noxon had led the county sales tax adoption in 1962 that was soon thereafter rescinded in face of public pressure. \I don't want to embarrass anyone, but now is the time to be counted. I think it's about time that we make up our minds if we are going to continue the way we are,\ Noxon said. In seconding the resolution Bender noted that the county needs a new tax source in that a recent county tax sale had some $68.- 429 in taxes and fees on properties up for sale. He noted that the county was only able to sell about 10 per cent of these, realizing only $5,900. \We need a broader tax base.\ he argued. Donnelly said he had aa obligation to the people of his town to vote against it but agreed that it soon must come to the county. De Zaiia said he promised his people during the last campaign to not support a sales tax plan. The tax, had it been adopted, could have been eannarked for specific county purposes. U.S. male retreating, psychiatrist tells AM A LAS VEGAS. New (AP) -J American males are growing! indifferent to sex — and a] •shocking\ number want to change their gender, a psychi- atrist told the .American Medi- cal Association's clinical meet- ing Wednesday. Dr. Ralph Greenson, of Bev-j erly Hills, Calif., said women at the same time are becoming i more assertive and demanding i in sexual relationships, and this repulses some males. \It's horrifying — a danger to the future of the human race.\ said Dr. Greenson, clinical pro-] fessor of psychiatry at the UnH versity of California at Los An- geles. \\ ^urmly-Wpe~ is that basic - instincts will eventually win out, that a true equality of the sexes will emerge and sex will be fur again.\ he said Elaborating at a news confer- ence. Dr. Greenson toid of a project at UCLA to study more than 100 persons who have asked to have their gender; changed by surgery and hor- mone treatment. \Always before people thought it was the women who envied the men/* he said. \But we have found that more than two-thirds of those who wanted to change their gender were males. \What is shocking is that this is more widespread than was believed These people are not psychotic, they are not crack- pots. \The mother is by far the source of the greatest pleasure and security in childhood. It is an all too human tendency to envy, to want to possess for one- self, that which is so valuable. ~ x *i&ttt~- have- contempt lor women orriy on the surface. Un- derneath is a repressed envy and repressed envy arouses fear. This has grown as women have become more liberated and more powerful. All these elements play a role in the in- crease in sexual apathy among men/' Dr. Greenson said that among his patients were girls who com- plained that boys were not very interested in sex. 4 The more willing and anx- ious a girl is.\ he said, \the more this brines out a latent fear in the male of what he en- vies » » • **One reason the male envies the woman so much is that she is always sure of herself as a woman. A man is never quite j sure he is a man — be has to | prove ;t over and over again.\ Weather Sttotc xth&tui Considerable cloudiness and occasional snow flurries today and Friday. Chance of heavy snow squalls develop- ; ing today and Friday in the . western Adirondack*. Tarn- teg much coWer totifbt and 1 Friday. Chest chiefs diagnose the trouble The overall picture of the 1967 Clinton County Community Chest drive isn't good, according to the comments of Chest mem* bers during a meeting Wednes- day afternoon. Only $74,464.92 of a goal of $133,380 had been collected. The only major amounts to be counted are contributions from Plattsburgh Air Force Base drive and the federal employes division. \I feel we have accomplished something, although it doesn't look as if we're going to make our goal at all.\ Sigmund I. GiamBruno, general drive chair- man; said. ! *Td hoped that the agencies J we added would stimulate more day that U Thant has decided to j giving on the local level, but we accept another term as secre-1 haven't done very well.\ tary-general, but there was no • \This is not the time to start confirmation from him or any i analyzing the situation, though/' official U.N. source. j Jerome Stewart, chairman of \He will stay\ was the confi-1 the Public and Service Division, dent prediction of many close said, associates of the 57-year-old Burmese, who has been the U.NVs chief executive for five years. None would add that they knew for sure. * * • Members ol the 15-nation Se- curity Council met informally to draft an appeal acceptable to Thant, who has been under con- stant pressure to remain on the job ever since he announced on Sept. 1 that he would not offer himself for another term. He agreed later in the month to stay on until the end of the cur- rent General Assembly, expect- ed on Dec. 20. U.S. Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg, president of the council for November, was tak- ing a leading role In persuadrnf Thant to remain. U Thant may accept second term UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (AP) — The belief mounted among U.N. diplomats Wednes- U.S. moves to foil going _lbu * -dded o many ; *: '..'.* \jr~ * r..5is .r. the r. kZ. and ?.7T. r.Bt>r* - to c -ee the} are return ~-:re m*Ltar,t. . .They >.re te*.r.? ;•'••-- Mr Kelly, that .„, 0± • - - - - - • -» • - • m v*»rr* ~~%£. * — ;< er - a t w ednesda >' s r*k—z .&r,e fror. Nassau i v V - - the r-ar* V^rk C*tv and — o-Ke--r*r £i>o ?.: vr^t the;- termed ~ * \* t_ ~ a '\*»\-. 5 r\?\C7\u^ *-.rtg r. s, *.JT , e> C*K . \ sa. t-\» ? -»\.tr acvTOjf COCXTY EDITION •j* frtr.r? 5er«ef.L? -f?er*d. # -her. :r>? <^i> .t ±5f;w.t :.: ;±SLL!; :zre r**c for enrurutsg recrurt- rnerr. exa.T^.r-i-or-5 :** fiT. ?^ch She said that payt^ Merest rrunrrgsr. sur^g *v^ cr *- at&s salary aec-:-^ arnocg state employes houLng ibe same tf3e, bet entployed :z 4- & ar^as at the su^e. WASHINGTON fAP; - Tte State Department has stepped up its war against overseas electronic snooping and espion- age, sources said Wednesday. The Navy now is supplying 100 Seabees to. enrersee construction of U.S diplomatic missions abroad and prevent installation of listening devices The oe *f Seabees to keep an eye on foreign construction *•«* began imtiaJty after the -^covery of hidden mirr> pf>ones in US embassies in Moscrw and Warsaw. It grew He*4«.'.v aad by nr**d-2S6& aboc: T S-r^^ees were informally at- ta:r.*: \r> the Sute Deoarsmas: y^e: :::jca.s sa.: vs Ae program • ?T^ar.c^ zr*c s^t -z .\ ir« *o rr.%r:*.or - recert :^s been d perrr.a- JTJ: has S:a:e Z*?&r>' •j* Seabees are * tfe rigkt TV drtvoi u pmrty #t pretext *{ R^t MV Seabees are M the pc J: VI« Nan. Maz^a. Indu, AipJiaiur: Ira^ a^d Lefaanon. Zz receai moctfcs. they have m- pemsed caKtrjctjon wort ta every SertH-itoc \There are many examples of lethargy in our community and in our own organization. \There are a few cases where our people didn't reach all the people in their categories. Of course/' he stressed, \aJl the directors are not at fault.\ \As a last resort, Giam- Bruno said, \we might run a newspaper ad and hope that the people who cfidn't give or were not reacted would clip the form and mail it with their donation. \In some places, employers wouldn't speak with their em- ployes for fear of putting pres- sure on them. In other cases,\ he said, \spokesmen for the companies said they wouldn't participate in the drive because it was against company polio.\ \Because we missed these 900 people,\ GiamBruno said, \our projected figures are art so ac- curate.** 4 1 hope well be able to reach the people hi Booses Point and Champtttn,\ Gkm Gfitt, chair- man et the bodfeet committee, said, \became they en anally be counted on for this sort of thing.\ Mrs. Derethy Berth, repre- senting the Children's Home erf Northern New York, said: \The people in the county wiD need a long period of education before w€Hbt kb£ X6 count OD them to the foBest extent dur- ing future ckives. \This is because this Is tte first year the county has bees asked to coatribote.\ GiamBruno disagreed: \Some areas.\ he said, eves though sorely depressed, managed to donate.\ Tm mainly concerned about the lack of social :>n the part of 9cme *n the Commanity Chest group,\ Stewarr said we have apathy in oar group, we can't expect to get the results we aeed. We've had to beg sea* of the organizations benefitted by die Chest to tana over tacts le m fcfltfNi dfctat recefoe tey. \Ve*Bfft«|y If
