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\ ^ c'kad two- • ady >#ryd- trim. 14.00 trtli one Hr>*s • D«d your Tyr- 4.00 Exemptions growing LY BJf.lAillt M, IMA ^^\«; vr:^^^^p^ip: Over half city's real estate untaxed By AL VEERHOFF Ward 5 Alderman Richard Coffey's estimate on untaxable property in Plattsburgh was con- servative, The Press-Republican learned Monday. At Common Council's 1967 budget Hearing last week, Coffey noted for the record— no onaelse spoke at the meeting—that it appears 50 per cent of the real estate in Plattsburgh is exempt from property taxes. WUfe the Air Fen* Base and Wallace Hill area protests junkyard By IRENE GUBORD About 20 residents of the Wal- j lace Hill Rd area of the Town| of Plattsburgh appeared at a ! public hearing Monday night at, the town hal! to protest licens-j ing of a junkyard in their neigh- borhood. They protested against the general appearance of the junk- yard and its affects on property values and dangers to health and safety William Roushla of the Wal- lace Hill Rd. had asked the board, through his attorney Rob- ert W'ylie, to grant a license to operate a junk yard to the rear of his home on Ms 115-bv-345-foot lot. The area to be fenced in if the license is granted, would be approximately 90 by 160 feet. according to his application. Roushia already has collected about 20 cars in back of his house. He told the board he plans to cut up the wrecks with an acetylene torch and sell the parts. He said there would be no burning and that he planned to have only 32 cars at a time in the yard, bringing in a few at a time as various wrecks were disposed of. • • • Wylle noted his client owns the property and would be will- ing to comply with all \reason- able requirements\ established by the town board. Plattsburgh Attorney Andrew Ryan presented a petition from the residents opposed to the li- cense. \As all you gentlemen know.\ he told the board, \this area is considered residential, with two trailer parks and Thunderbird Heights as well as several resi- dential properties on the Wal- lace Hill Road itself.\ • • • The Junkyard, he said, is half way up the side of Wallace Hill and in a depression as well. where it cannot be concealed by an eight-foot fence, the mini- mum required by law. tl We could ask for a higher fence to block the view of a bunch of old junks lying around but which would be more offen- sive 19 The sight of a plain high fence would be just as objec- tionable as the sight of the junk- yard itself.\ said Ryan. He said the junkyard would lower land values and assess- ments and would prove detri- mental to the whole towx through loss of taxes. \We have no personal feeling against Mr. Roushia but we •Junk he should locate die junk- yard where it will not be offen- sive There are many locations more remote, off the highway and hidden by natural barriers which wouid be less offensive. 4 This area is all residential/' Ryan said. • • • Roushias property is on the south skie of Wallace Hill Rd with a frontage of 115 feet and is bounded en both east and west by private residential prop- erty homes and lots* The rear hne of Roushia's property is the entrance drive for Thunderbird Heights and Haoev H2ver. Estates, a com- bination of privately nr individ- ual y owned mobile home sites and re$ ; *dtr?e$ Karrnd \S~rf rr.ar.arer of the development, said a )r.: :•? time and mroe) r.a* zrvne imc. prtvtd- in£ resident.? \^ith a decent -'--^ •.- Vvo a\d re<trr.iaris or whs: the purc^.a^r? trf l\ts car d-~ w-;th their land are ?tnct what the-* :a' A- m > *~^ ^ -**>' rr~r. K ee: .: u: \^e people want It th.i\ wav ^r they wouid nrtt b--v !r*r. ^ \When '** car* r-ere \2 )ear^ ur trier\? **ere a . -- >-—..£«>*-*• Aacks :•- •'-•• ~-' **-** 7! * es * have bee* :>a-^d - tface* bu:/.t ~' *-* like th:> \>' y'*- -•• ii a TLT* ' Re*ar* the boiH 6ec$*-- M- v.: -J they *a^- ' *• lake a > t •Tlas *s ^^ • ' j& xrocfi ctj ct^..^\ oioe JartT'ird r.rh: g««t Arrf Irr. rr VOL Other? see it IMsf rooms a5 -e: -A tot * people dftfaxed dear ioti r ar.d ne* ^•rreth-r.z t.v rr..dd> , *nake« a t L*< *•- frsrr ther and tbeyre beautiful — and then this hap- pens.\ Joseph Fish of Happy Haven said he has spent a lot of time and money on developing his homesite and pays about $800 in taxes each year on his lots. 'This is right in our front yard. \If it were out in the boon- docks somewhere, I'd be the last to say anything. It's knock- ing the value of our property down and it's a hazard for chil- dren as well,\ he said. Edmund Manley said he lives across the road from Roushia and his taxes are \high enough\ and he doesn't want \a junk- yard at my front door when I'm trying to make my house look nice.\ • • • Both Manley and Joseph Yo- dis of Thunderbird Heights ques- tioned whether an eight-foot high fence would be sufficient to contain or conceal the junk. Yodis also said he feared traffic safety problems as the right-angle entrance to the junk- yard is near the top of Wallace Hill and the road is narrow and \cars come over the top of the hill at 40 miles per hour.\ Andre Lavigne of Happy Hav- en said it took him six months after coming to Plattsburgh to find a desirable home. \I bought property in Happy Haven because it is beautiful there and people are interested in improving their homes. \I don't want a junkyard and Happy Haven doesn't want it.' • • • He said the junkyard would mean rats, noise and danger to children. * \My taxes were raised be- cause I made improvements in my property. I'm not against the taxes because I have a nice place. \But if this permit is granted I will put a sign up in front of my home, sell it and circulate a petition to get the taxes of all the property up there lower- ed. \It may be his back yard, but it's our front yard.\ • • * Mrs. Hilma Aldrich, Roushia's next door neighbor, said since he began collecting wrecks in the yard 4< I can't give my prop- erty away. \I saw its value drop in three days' time. My house is not the most exclusive but it's all I have and I work hard to keep it up \ She said she lives uphill from Roushia and no eight-foot fence would hide the junk from her view. \It's the first thing I see in the morning. That lot is not very large but it's just ter- rible.\ The board promised Roushia a decision on the application for a license Dec. 30. the State University College, the two biggest landowners in the city, doat pay taxes, Coffey added, tbey pour tens of minions of dollars into the area every year. One-third of the city of Syra- cuse is exempt, be said. An incomplete study of the Plattsburgh tax roll, the alder- man said, shows at least half of the city's real property is ex- empt. He felt city taxpayers should be aware of what that means in terms of property taxes. • • » .As the present city tax rate is projected (it won't be final until Jan. 15), residents next year will pay $69.74 per thou- sand dollars' assessed value for city, county and school taxes. If there were no exempt land, the tax would be just half that, i On the other hand, if the tax rate were the same and the tax base were increased, revenues would be twice as large next year: nearly $2.5 million more for city, county and school dis- trict Newsmen and city officials were generaUy skeptical last week after they heard Coffey speak. Certainly, the general opinion was, there is a large amount of untaxed land but it cant be THAT much! If Ike city's rwgfc p*m at the base bousing is correct, the units within the city-about Ml homes~*re worth roughly $U»- 060 apiece. (This includes all the stone buildings where the field officers hve and afl the ranch-style 5-bedroomers along So. Peru St.) The exempt property list does not include some buildings that were standing in 1956, when Cleminshaw made the last coun- tywide reappraisal. The Chicago firm's experts concentrated on the taxable land. They omitted surveys of Ward Hall, the PSUC classroom on Draper Ave. and some base installations erected since 1948. The list of exempt property has been virtually frozen since Cleminshaw came in. That is why the Veterans of Foreign Wars are listed with a vacant lot at 110 Boynton Ave.; ! the Sacred Heart Nursing Home has not been recorded there is no change listed for the vestry and vicarage added to Trinity J Church; the Church of God is! credited with a lot containing j a $180 barn at 45 Tom Miller! Rd.; and the new senior high school does not exist on city tax records. After a 24 - hour search of public records in Building In- spector Robert Ladue's office on Monday afternoon, a Press- Republican reporter found that AT LEAST 50 per cent—and un- doubtedly more — of Platts- burgh's real estate is not tax- able. Furthermore, most new con- struction in the city is on ex- empt iand. and is going on at such a rapid pace that the per- centage of untaxable property here can be expected to increase within the next few years. Taxable construction is going at a snail's pace by comparison. • * • The list of exempt properties does not include any of the build- ings on the Plattsburgh State University College campus erected since 1961. Omitted are Mason. Kent, and Saranac Halls —aU dormitories; the health and physical education building. Hudson Hall, and the Feinberg Memorial Library. For the air base, the city rec- ords list $8,670,000 as exempt federal land on city property. It includes the Capehart housing project on the base. The housing area (the part within city boundaries) is ap- praised at $6,950,000: the old base at $1,719,000; and the land at $1,500. The prices set are a combin- ation of land as appraised in 194S (the old base), in 1956 (the acreage), and whenever bids were opened on Capehart proj- ects. Ladue said he does not know when that was. There has never been an ap- praisal of the Capehart area: Ladue thinks it is probably the value set for the housing section is simply an estimate of half the bid offering. Normally appraisals are made on a formula which computes a building's replacement cost less depreciation. It is adjusted to include the property's fair I market value. Calkins new president of Clinton realty board Keeping track of exempt prop- erty, Ladue said, is not as im- portant to the city as the tax- able property rolls. It's really a matter of priorities. The unpaid Commission on Taxation and Assessment is ap- pointed by the mayor. All mem- bers have full-time jobs. In then- spare time they try to insure that the appraisals and taxes throughout the city are uni- form and proper. That is where the most work is needed. Untaxable property, of course. does not have to be figured in when the city administration and | the school board compute their tax levies or their debt limits. State aid to the district is only on taxable property. • • • It is not surprising, there- fore, that the commissioners have largely ignored the tax- exempt property. As Ladue pointed out. once land becomes exempt, it stays exempt, no matter what build- ings are put on it or taken off. But the most significant thing about the increase in exempt property is the rate at which it has improved. There is no record for the nearly $10 million worth of con- struction at PSUC since 1959 covering the Campus Demon- stration School, the heating plant and service group build- ing and the three dormitories, two classrooms and library men- tioned earlier. By the middle of next year. some $13 million in new build- ings will be under construction at the college—three more dor- mitories and a dining hall, a communications lecture hall, an administration building and a fine arts building. New college structures put up since 1964 are worth over $6 mil- lion alone. • • • .All school property i$ also exempt Only the land, where St. Peter's Academy and the high school stand, is listed on city books. The Broad and Oak Street schools are only partially listed— at half the value of con- structs, including no estimate for any internal changes. Physicians Hospital has beer. mm V*9 mm?*. READY TO GO — The crew of the KC-135 that was respoos- Mt for saving the pilots of three F 105 fighter planet during action over North Vietnam stand in frost of an alert force vehicle that will take them back to the alert area where they will again await the call of My. They are, foot left, James Nualey, boom epenrtar, UL David Fltafarald, tor, Capt. Cornelius Coaentino, etfttet, aad Capt Eigel, aircraft Plattsburgh crew saves fighter pilot in race against time over No. Vietnam By KATHY MOORE \Jolly Green Giants\ are slow fivers, according to the crew erf a KC-135 air refuel- ing tankar stationed at Platts- burgh Air Force Base. And they should know. It was during 60 days of temporary duty in the West- ern Pacific that the 380th Air Refueling Squadron crew monitored a \Mayday dis- tress call from an F-105 fight- er plane. They had just finished their normal mission — one of 36 completed during their tour- by refueling six F-105s and were ready to return when the call for help came. The fighter pilot was fly- ing RESCAP i rescue combat air patrol) for his downed wing man and was running out of fuel. The pilot of the downed plane had bailed out when hit by enemy fire over North Vietnam and was still alive. Due to the mountainous ter- rain and dense jungle foliage his flying companions kept circling overhead to make him easier to find. They would also provide cover fire in case of enemy attack. But rescue helicopters — nicknamed Jolly Green Gi- ants — don't fly too fast so the wait can sometimes be quite long. In this case rescue came in two and one-halt hours arxi the fuel in the three F- 105s was getting low. In fact. the pilot of the plane that made the radio distress call didn't have enough fuel to return to his assigned base. Capt. Thomas Eigel. air- craft commander of the KC- 135 tanker, said his crew had •sort of a personal interest in the rescue because only 15 minutes earlier they had re- fueled the downed plane Capt. Eigei went on to ex- plain that fly ing at such low levels bumed mure fuel than at higher altitudes. For this reason the fighter pilots took turns, some flying high while others flew at low- er altitiudes. ''The pilot's voice sounded real excited, so he obviously didn't have enough fuel to get home,'* Eigel said. The fighter pilot was so low on fuel. Capt Cornelius Co- sent inc. co-pilot said, that even the refueling approach was nonstandard. \Usually.\ he said, \the tanker and fighter fly toward each other and the tanker makes a turn when the two planes are 18 miles apart and the tighter speeds up to catch the tanker for refueling \ In this case, ftie fighter did the turning because it lacked the fuel to make the stern chase. When asked if navigation was more difficult under these conditions. Lt. David Fitz- gerald navigator, said no at first but then conceded that perhaps ' it is a little more difticult because navigation must be a little more precise due to the sensitive areas over which we were flying.\ F-106s are easy to refuel, boom operator H-Sgt. James Nunley said, because they are more maneuverable than, for instance. B-52 bombers. And since fighters do not fly alone but in groups of two or more, there is considerable competition over who is most stable during refueling or who is the best pilot. ir * » As far as their own plane was concerned. Capt Cosen- tino said they had only the minimum amount to get back to their base. Since the KC-135 can draw upon all its tanks for fuel, this meant that in the whole plane there was only a mini- mum amount of fuel left. \All we did back there was to perform our routine duty,\ Eigel said, \and if and when it's time to go back we're ready to go.\ Au Sable Valley churches to join for interfaith pravers for uiiitv AL' SABLE FORKS—An invi- tation was given to all clergv- men :r. the AuSable Valley to attend a dinner meeting at the Holy Name rectory in Au Sable Forks, by the Rev. Wilfred A. Nucer.t. pastor of the host cnur^r and the Re\ , T -hn L IV •* r.?. a < s; - ran t nas* ^r After c.rn< and a time fc St Mathews of Biack Brook; the Rev Robert Gattc. pastor of >: Jamev Episcopal Church G;de Ward, pastor of Keene Valley and Upper Jay Metho- dist Churches, the Rev. Clyde Sieferth. pastor of the Wilming- ton and Jav Methodist Churches, the Re\ with ail churches participating. It was decided to work out the mechanics of schedule at another meeting Week of Prayer for Christian unity :s recommended by the Bishops Commission for Ecu- DAVID B. WALTER Who's Who lists citv student David B. Walter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Diecener J. Wa-ter, 55 So Prospect Ave a seruor at Camsius College. Buffalo, has been nominated to W\r»o's Who Among Students in Amen- \ a 11(1 all £111 can Universities and Coiieges. o: tne Au Sable Forks and < tonville Methodist Churches The Rev Kenneth Huffman of Wilmington Church of the Naz- arene, was unable to attend but voiced h.s desire for his church to participate. It was expressed by all faiths their urgency to unite It was Downs to continue and fur.her decided that each host church fellow snip ened the d.>eu>5:on meetm - T Fat meet for t He brought St Paul would vcf Father N ask:: u ha u;:er. her . n t he r out . *». \ p : a Nuzem with ea-.v-.- the • Lo' me sked a b:\ief of fact -d w to d' Fat op- the of hat *, * • • her memcal Affairs, a commission Alfred Mlhaiy. pastor, of the Roman Catholic Bishops in- of the United Sta:e> and spon- sored by the National and World Council of Churches' Commis- sion on Faith and Order. FRESH DRESSED TURKEYS DUCKS geese 561-5278 We- bref the gathennc Plans were presented for the coming Week of Praver for Chnstmas Unity \ Jam *I8-25 Present at the meeting were the Rev J Everett Denesha. pastor of >t Margaret - Cath- olic Ch'urcn of W .Im^ngton and invite fus speak brother in Christ to Walter is a 1963 graduate of remodeled over the last few, Plattsburgh High Sctoo:. Paul W Calkins has been elected to succeed Norman ! Foote as president of the Clin- ton County Board of Realtors at a recent meeting. On taking office. Calkins said. \Even though 1967 rs earmarked , as perhaps a banner year in view of the expected influx of travelers through Clinton Coun- ty on their way to Montreal * Expo m Canada I fee! any market for mortgage funds will st£ be very selective.\ • • • He said tkat properties listed with the :x*ard through a broker of tr* seZtr's choice wcxitd be exposed to more potential buy- ers, as a~ brokers of the board utrough multi-listing ^^Aitd offer tr.-e xyer a greater rar^ge o*. .vrnes %-<, businesses for sale \i.f.ns r.a- beer, an active -~rr.y*r y t>e Czz:zr. County rror: -tree entering ^>e real ~r~'~ f:e.d 1C yean ago r*5 •**? als-c inclosed that m v *•* :f a tight market for a vail- sr * r-Ttra*! money tr*e r«*er- all ia*e< tf ** boar* -.:•<•.•:serf - %f>-*r~i iz »rti*e year :* »as pc- -r.ee >-*. tra: ~ v-m< 'i?^ *~-e~e -trmal rta\- riels y r i-arctr4 Decart-e mere iJfirjtt, sajei **rt r_ m years But the building has the same assessed value from the days of Geminshaw $1742 000 According to the base comp- troller's 1966 report, there «-L1 be SI \5 miT.ior. ;r new construct- or., mairter.arrce repairs ar?d alterauons at the i>aae for the 1966-67 fiscal >eir • • • The statistic* for tax-exempt construction are an .ndicatiT* of a oor-strjctior. boom m tne city, yet r.~>ne sf it wtll ever a> pear or, Lie taxab-e property lists. At Cams;us ne is president of Alpha Kappa Psi Fraternity and trie American Management Assoc. In add. L.or. he *5 cj-ector oi p^>.ic re.aLf>r;5 >f Camsius FL* Arts **ee* an*: a erector at Lie Yo-tg Republicans A Dear's L*^t stuoest Walter *~.. rrachate m jju.e. reports mounting Retorts - •* a nc a.-5 m ? :> n tin u e to :._fer tne b:tr.er at police r,eadc-arter. ; ^•e:i. -f the nepTt* ;r.v:./»e L-.e the* :f ~hrtitma- trees and yys.z* cee>ra:.~n c from -various hr.mes .n the western part of t.v :;t; H-oca:« *ere stolen fr^^n several .e.->c.e? ;r. tbe Piatts- it \*as also agreed by the clergy presert that \Hope** would be the general theme throughout this united week of prayer. That hope is the keynote of the unity for 196\ For despite the divisions of the Christian family and the dangers which overshadow mankind, there is basis for unwavering hope. Fath- er Nugent said Services will be heid each evening, except Sunday, at c finest in Motion Pictures ENDS TODAY Twin Hit Show! 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