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A ^'\M •'\.&;? 'i%u^m &:•? (UNION COQNTY EDITION Press-Republicim mtw?*m mm$?k%: ^^^fc: JUT *totowifpito VOL 73—NO. 95 • * • v e many yeryone res •SI 22 US iallery 563-5890 HER oeenes )N ngers rs 5070 ii... «• to s«rv», beat for for homa 5*1.5160 >erie$ M5?0 ering •• 4p! 910 £Dt 9 ' 5* B «z< r I u Notttbiirglt, N. Y., 12901, Soturdoy Momii*, December 3, 1966 •» *tm*m Blinding snow squalls hit upstate New Y M; OY V^' •yr^M* ^5 BUFFALO, NY. (AP) —J of snow had fallen since 9 a,m. i the village, at the northern Up } Blinding winter squalls swept off \ Thursday, a aewwuaa passed I of Chautauqua Lake, were spee. Lakes Erie and Ontario Friday; off the storm by saying: ! Schools were closed, however, and battered two widely separat- People take \things like this A deputy sheriff described the ed sections of Upstate New in stride. The snow is high—so storm as the worst in M years. York One, in the southwest, uhal. It's only a minor an-; Soule said Mayville had about was buried under more than nosance to us.\ j \five or six bad ones a year\ 34 feet of snow. The Lake Erie storm also • and averaged 270 inches of snow The snow, whipped into a struck communities along the annually. frenzy by ewr-increasing winds, shore northeast of Mayville. ! At Dunkirk and Fredoaia, piled into car-high drifts that Dunkirk and Fredoaia were j schools aisc were closed and dogged highways, forced the coated by more than three feet merchants sent employes home closing of a stretch of the Thru- of snow. | early. way, stranded motorists and cur- • • • tailed business. No deaths were reported. Numerous persons were in- jured in a variety of traffic accidents. The storm of! Lake Ontario hit the southern Jefferson Coun- ty and parts of Lewis County, leaving from 14 to 30 inches of snow. * * * The Chautauqua County Red The Weather Bureau forecast Cross mobilized quickly and set continued squalls off the Great up disaster centers in schools at Lakes through Saturday — with Silver Creek. Westfield and Rip- 12 to 24 inches of new snow — ley. principally to aid Thru way and scattered snow flurries else- motorists, where, amid continued cold One of the first arrivals was weather. High temperatures M ISS Marjorie Zito. 23. of Eden, Saturda> are expected to range a nurse who was enroute home from 15 to 20 ;:: the western from St. Paul, Minn, where half of the state ;*. .r overnight she had worked at Midway readings down to zero. For the Hospital. eastern half, the Weather Bur- Nine employes of radio Sta- ttan WDQB-on the outskirts nft flan: Dunkirk were snowed In. The station cancelled normal pro* gramming to broadcast news of the storm. At Fredonia, school superin- tendent Rocco Doino said it was 'absolutely zero\ outside his office window. He said the Red Cross had ample food, bedding and cots for those nmHnt •> v$ for two nights a said. ~^~ Norbert A. Sctofe 1 grapher for The MMfe News, was forced to fc«wt car which bogged (tow* side Fredonia. Re walked miles to a (finer. u You cant see your hand Jn front of your face/' be taM Ha office by telephone. *&u&< Wm&?\*&<- %%£&*. fWr M*\ eau predicted Saturday highs in the 20s and 30s. after overnight readings also down to zero. State Police, driving in zero visibility, went to the aid of motorists and truck - drivers Mi>s Zito said she left Will- oughby, Ohio, Friday morning and drove in blinding snow until she was forced off the Thruway at Fredonia. \I could barelv see.\ she said whose vehicles skidded off the in a telephone interview. \There 41-rmle streuh were cars and trucks off the Thruway in a between the Pennsylvania line and Silver Creek. That section ELEABETHTOWN COLLECTOR - Col. John B. Hoist of Elizabethtown holds a 13th- century French clock—minute hands hadn't been invented then—that is probably most prized timepiece in his large collection. A retired Air Force commander, he started collection while stationed in Paris. Story, more pictures, Page 16. News in brief Makes target of thoroughbred ARLINGTON, Vt. (AP> -A reward is beir.£ offered for in- formation leading to identifica- tion of the hunter who brought down a $15 000. 2-year-oid thor- oughbred mare '.a-: Sunday. The pelvis of the mare. Hul- dah J. was shattered by a hun- ter's bullet. The mare was de- s roved. November jobs at all-time high \ was closed. • • * In Mayville, 55 miles south- west of Buffalo, where 44 inches Ford plans S -million Yule bonus road — in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. *T could see the roofs of cars sticking out of the drifts. I wonder if people still were in the car< or what happened to them.\ Although deluged with snow, Mayville's roads were open. \The plow crews do a fabu- lous job around here.\ reporter i>avid Soule. 40, of the Mayville Sentinel sadi. He said all business places in THRUWAY CLOSED - State police Friday closed the Ne\* York Stale Thruway frtm Silver Creek to the Pennsylvania State line because of drifting snow and zero visibility m* A section oi the road was hit by over four feet of snow and tcmns along the route were buried. WASHINGTON \?) —The vember election \I: d Labor Department reported Fri- peared the following week.\ day that more Americans held said. jobs last month than in any No- vember in history, and the White Hou^e predicted a pros- perous 1967. Total employment climbed to 75 million whiie the nation's job- less rate edzed back to a 13- year low of 3 7 per cent, the Bu- reau of Labor Statistics said President Johnson said in DETROIT AP: - Ford Mo- tor Co. employes will snare in a Christmas bonus of more than $7 million, it was reported Fri- day by Ken Bannon. Ford director of the United Auto The iobles? rate, which nad W'orkers Union. ac- he Rogers Co. sets river cleanup by '70 been \ 9 pe: cent in October, fell to 3.7 per cent of the civilian labor force for the third month this Near—lowest since 195-3. f^ Herbert H:> M.ll River rr.c c.-.a^K. >:ua Lorp.. ; w orKini: Texas that the forecast for con- oer vj V /v tinued prosperity next year came after he and his chief eco- nomic adviser. Gardner Ackley. reviewed the new employment figures and other economic md:- W.thout the usual adjustment Dr sea>onal factors, it wa :-wer—3 4 per cer.: '* ! re lo>: in N:*»em- 5 million persons unable to find jobs was 3 9 per cent of total estimated working time— the lowest -ir.ce the bu- reau started tabula:.:^ this firure in 1955. While the exact number eligi- ble is yet undetermined. Bannon said that assuming 145.000 are eligible, each amoum will be $48.75. It will be paid the last s even payday failing before Dec. 25. * * * To share, a worker must ha\e . least a vear's semontv. has a 3.000-acre farm straddling cators. the New York-Vermont border, • * • said the amount of the reward Ackley also predicted for next wasn't fixed, but that anybody year an easing of ir.££tionar> who comes fon*-ard with the pressures, now the worst ir. wt.ich Taauo; care c The farm L- owned by Joseph- ine Br>ce of New York, an heir- ess to the A&P fortune. Troops thwart Coujr ambush SAIGON. South Viet Construction employment, is beer, .-uffenng the effects of bad weather and hizt mortgage interest rates, de- cuned i>:.'DO0 to about 3 3 mil- lion las: month, failing far the first time tr.i- year under 1965 levels. The jobless rate among ment that the November \>b construction workers at 9 3 per wnl be well taken nearly 10 years. But the assistant commas- er, Harold Goldstein, of the Bu- reau of Labor Statistics sa.d before the Wh.te House state- Bom the 1964 Ford and Gener- al Motors contracts carry Christmas bonus clauses, but GM will not be paying tn;s year because the amount in its sup- plemental uT:employment bene- fit fund is not sufficient Last December. GM paid $43 eacr. to 345.000 hourly workers. That year. Ford paid nothing The b-'n-s clause does not ap- pear r. tne I'AW-Crrysler con- tract. Bv AL YEERHOFF Au SABLE FORKS - The J & .T Rogers Paper Co. Friday agreed to curb t h e discharge of industrial waste into the West Branch of the Au Sable River Frank Zeitim. the com- pany's operation- director, said Roger- has signed a stip- ulation to end tr.e >tream pollution :iy November 1970. » • * The state • industry agree- icnt w : Alba uncec Friday P'^iu'-.-'-n can- ned b*>- * n e here t*> 7\he can. ^*« agreed ->:n h- turned b;. tr.e He exnres^ec The us comes j figures indicated rer^ew ed pres- I sures on the nation's ught labor 1 supply. , Labor shona^es :a economists to worry about in- Nam . creased InfiaLorar- pressures rrom tne un employ- ee -j-ca^ed .P.i — US armored cavalr>- because they tend men trwanted a massive Y!et* wages, andthrr pr^i-e* Cong ambusr w.un help from * * • artery and warplanes Friday Total employment, which nsu n.zht. A spokesman announced ally droops 600.000 :n trat. while tre Amer.cani s-f- clinbed* .nstead of 300.K)0 r fered some wounded, me; ted 88 enerr.v r*. co^n- Gotdstem said seme of tr .Cd^ temDora: ^ cent was also higher-than a amount of companv year ago ment fund exceeds But emplc>mert rose 10C.000 1 maximum funding le-.rl use some in manufacturing ^'.000 in state 1 offs drain on these :uru, and local governments and «,-' plementing regular state •>XJ S. service trade-. plo\-ment compensau:r.i Over the > ear. nonfarm env workers at least 62 per pi^-mew p^yrwi.-have risen hy^theirjtraight-ume hour.;, near;-, three million workers, • while out of work t*>e hurea. sa,c * \ # • * * There is no Christmas pa>out The total number of iroem- «^>en tr.ere is insufficient ex:ess pi'yed fetl .T25 WJ over the same to gi^e workers at least $25 A Derr^i. ;t added limit of HOD is put on tr>:- xr/us ^iU -v. waee at n.s ro>me ress-Republi- ti me: able n.--t been re- late .he rr-pe that most of tne c>vnarge into the Au Saoje can be control- led through uitra-factory im- provements already under way and that costs will be witr.in the company's resourc- es. * • » If the Health Department fo:.ows its previous custom on po..-t*^n control heanngs, ire formal' Dec ?! tfearm? L J Rogers .•ec-,ec H ' •K ^e N> r.:e tr?e ag -f l .-d eeme* been sirr ; ed Is :: ;^e were worked out. Zeitim said, through telephone calls and letters between Rogers and the Health Department Plattsburgh lawyer John . ? Bennett siened the agreement as the mill's attornev. The pollution abatement schedule give- the company a year to make internal im- provement- for eliminating the waste discharge. • * w If Rogers cannot sol\e all of the problems tnr^ucr. in- ternal change-, the firm will be required :» -tar. jr. en- gmeenng stud;, -n f-r,ner pollution contr'.l Ire t.meta- ble sets deadlines for -.om.-- sion of preliminary pier.- :-.:^t final plars, a- we.l as 0 c^te for construction and c^mp^- tion of control facuitiC- TThe i 'proo;em^ ' c ;o:r 0;- ing J. L J Roger-. Ze.tir. said, are common throughout the papermaking indtistr. Dyes and a fine powder used in paper prodJCtier, are dis- charged into the r.ver By their very nature tne^e waste products are cff.cu.t to eliminate completely from the mill's outfa.l into the Au CnKU cfatTie. • • • At a water reclassification hearing in Plattsburgh earlier this year, Zeitim said he imetabie thought it was possible to re- mo\e the dye by bleaching it The finely-suspended n 0 n- fibrous powder, he comment- ed at the March 2 hearing. will be more difficult to e.v t **T, •• v.. dU. The powder is suspended in the water. Zeitim said Fri- chr. mu.h the same a- din 1- -uspendec :n -unace wa- ter after a beaw rainstorm. Although he has kept in t,.»joo with Albany. Ze.tlm .-a;d he ha- heard r.^thir.c on the water reclassification hearrx. called to upgrade the West Branch from Via-.- \F\ < waste dispovcil u>ei to a higher olas-ificau^n At the Plattsburgr hearinr. Zeitim testified hi- firm ^;- w.lling to cooperate if toe -t^te would ke€*p in ' the precariou- -tate • J. k J. Rogers Co \ -~t .he w ne- ar, cia I He did not say Fnda ther the compan> s fi condition ha.- unpro\-ed since then, but cautioned that the •i»V> tate $ay$ agreement wot nothing about the o\»st of the abatement measures ancelied has ai- ^Tbe impliratinp in this or- der.\ he said, is that the stream must be corrected re- cardies- of cost The law doesn t say how much we will Winds, westerly II to 21 have to -pend miles per hour. • The only reply that most of us in the papermaking industry i can make is that it 1- quite possible the only way we can comply is to serious- ly curtail or give up our op- eration \ ^jch a mo\e. he added, would have a severe impact on the community around Au <able Fork-, where most of Ro^er-' worker- iive • * * Closing the company, bow- e\er. will be the last step .• d. J Rogers will have to con-ider In order, the com- p^.y noust 1 F.nd out whether inber- nal change.- will improve the waste central 2 See if tho^e changes are sufficient to meet state re- 1 Continued on Page 2) Weather Cold iceehend Continued very cold this weekend. Partly cloudy *ith a few snow flurries in the eastern part and more fre- quent flurries and chance of occasional heavy snow squalls in the »esters half through the weekend. Highs today and Sunday is the teens. Near zero tomgfct Sunday dinner costs here parallel New York City By HARTT JOHNSON A simple ^uada home for 2 famil > di.nrer a: .7 i~ .. ^ Pla^tsiyurzh will cos: ab^ct *r« same tom---row a« an ider- :.: = '. orye r metropouta.' New York Tne vartatjer. w-.il be or/y a matte* \f s f?> cen*.s 3 compares--- of f--x prices S ^O w'S Tt>e ^orr.narjrr. is between meupjyoLtar. \-rto-ber p-ces ^ablu^ed tr^s T»+Z by the ; - Depar.r^*: of l.abr s Bureau of Labor itat*^jC3 arxi a Press - Repu^ucar szmy made tb-s week by a reporter m r«D ct^iTt stores and an i->depcadec: grocery 3J Fiaus- borzh. Tvo men were At terti Tf tbe two wrveys Tlwy «• fered *?> the entree H the ectree were fU&dteg \Zm cost far a taoij -f f-nr ^^Ufd i» %LH r. P.aitso.r^. a.n<i $5 *~, Oct-^er pr:f r. th* metropoiitan 1 * ur. e e \. r ee w ere c hi eke n re : a~? -re :am.l;> would be -^ .-: I \ r 7 l lattsbuno ^.- f \c \>w York . o-e re-\ \. t.o^ r*-\• ~u -e.ei'- Ma:..-\o : r - -ce ^ ^arr>ed fruit -\•'.•tail oar.- nec :»r^ I^K^. prv-at.v-- uz/ssrC ^ar.r h\-.^: -re ys~er .ce o^am - t\ err-*-*'2** ; ;~ 'standard zczrtds -' :a.--^d ^>xi- '*^r« u5ed r ir« Plari- bcrgt surrey • • a Seass were bt«*4 oe BI- trl^oca. *»\alues ar< the Ub- eral family foxxi plan*\ of th« U.S. AgncaJUire Departr>er: For *oi5ie item? {J» pcrze^ et «lig^y larnr than us^al because m>s; fam.>« tend to nave ther bluest dinner on Sunday, the bureau s^ti Pr.ces * ere gathered by the bureau from char, and rd- >e^dert ?*:-r?< in N^ York ,\:> arc Westchester Kxk- land Nassau ar?d SuffoJR Oxr^ t*e- a.nc nure r^rrwLtar. O\our>te5 t r. \'rtoxm New J**r- 7ne :r.ces w*?re averaeed f-r ea:n item acoordLig tc tae - • .w-. *.,- -.^- • - w • z$ r^ruirec f*r a ^unda** &>- ire * ••- :hiiwrer. Srce une bursa- p^.oes are ar *->*T\ijf*: tr* :-*-ns--mer cntJMi-d pc ; mcrt \*r <tss t^an Id >-< dr-^ige -he rar^e ^f ra*re 0; r*.oe- The cost of rfi) roast la PI 5 * t- r rz n '.are- r. 1 s w -«^ »• - end from f.» cents per >ound at -n* char. ^^ & ce-ts st aether ard $1 C* a: an ir>depe*vdent meat market Patmr^ of these store- ma> n'tice a duf^ererc-e .r o-al/o- a_> well as prtoe tees each .te- ?r.oes -jcted :\:• -o-e Rer^t-can samplin? are noc Tbey racbea^e a ch^in rt;>re specua. Th# bureau e^tirtate* that for 2 r»T?f:a. ; surda* ; irj>er a family of r^o adt.t> ard tw'o ch*;dre*\. '••^*uld eat trree DCKirvLs , o»\. r. *- ro»^i -. ur .—ree p«u*iiC- r *. ciu\.oxen \Tbe :o^t sf three pour.ils of r.z TJ*.< SI Platts5ur5h thus •*^ek»d ^ocid fall heD»eea CM tod nr \rje r>o -f tr^s rem ^ f^ tr-> mei. ar^ ioes nc-t r.<l-<je wba: *s jeft frocn uae average r.b r-a-t of ; ix to eight po*m£j Tr>e average coft yi three p»our.ds of r.b roast m the rr>e trope-litan area ^rui6 be t2 51. according to- the oureau. • • • TV cwtt af cit-ip rhickea in ?;a*t-bu-rh '.aroe- 'rom 59 ce\t- a >o*md at an rdepend- ent meat market f & cents a DC^-.\\^ at cn\aj Trr^e x.-n^s tne far-ly'- >-ur-da;. dtr^er v^r^-d thu? 'oe between. Jl 1\ a-d $ .** r ?:att^^-r v Irt r.-e rietri-po-jta* ar°a it --ould ave^aze $1 2! for rree pcur^is of cmccei Herber, Rieristock. regi0nai head ^ the tw«aiL ec^a- <ar*d that throogSn carefsd bey* is* .v-^^^o-.^s x^uld prepare lc*-ooso mea^- «ss expeinsn'e *Ju* the area average A-sy houarsife ka7w» tao, that earned and packaged itonsin large QuanUty is oft- en cheaper than m sma* quantities • • • The canned fruit cocktail ap- petizer averaged 26 cents r the bureau sur»-ey ard ranged ber*-een 25 ce.nts and 50 cerrts m the F.ausburgh rur.*ey Baked potatoes for a famuly of four iltj pounds* would average 12 cents in the metr> pclutar. area In Plattsburrh they would cost berweer, 15 aod 1* cents if the heme maker tx.ys ;iist five pocrxis at a time. The co& of tossed salad. ussag H head of iettoce, 4 poend tomatoes. ^ pocEad rj- ccmbers. ooe-f5fth pxzd green pepper, and ^ ocace OBJO«I, wgcM be ber»=eec 90 and 6 eeots is Plat&Jxargfc- OctDber figares give the c\-st in metropo'Litan areas as 34 cents Italian dressing I?r Flatts- bur^) is 10 cents for two ounces (estimated amount for one meal). It is rur?e cents m the metropolitan area. Ice ereaiB bi vanes from J8 cents to 45 45 cents a quart (the estimat- ed amount for one meal) when booght by the haif-gaBor*. The bureaa average is 4! cents in the metropoiitafl area. FcH*r ocaces oi chocolate topping for the family : s Ke creaja in Plattsburgh wooid come to five cesfc In the Met- ropottaa area* it wotid !•* One pint of milk in Platts- burgh is 12 or 13 cents com* pared ta B-m th§ metmpofr. tait irea. ^ The estimated amruflt of bread for a Sunday dtaner was set at ^ pocod bj the Departmeol of Agrtctdtare. 1» both Plattsburgh ad tie tropolitan area this would U ceots.. « tor fte poimd) costs a cents ia burgh and 23 ceots is mecropoixtau area. The bareaa also ktt from October ot Coffee 8 or 9 The po&aa in Plailshorgfe- ts the i .-» •^-itf !»• uTT ••ma inir «riyeai wri njirrn