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trtedas y that 5.5 per- o rose. 127.H is up 6 > to 233, riday's Plane slams into Big Haystack Mountain Family of 3 among crash victims Press-Republican Nor'nern Ci'nron Bureau 297 6566 ?? Smte Sf Roused Pom? Tuesday, March 21,1978 13 dS 6 95 6'* tsburgh UNCHIOTA — Authorities Mon- day carried /rom tke scene of a mountainside plane crash the bodies of five persons, including a prominent Maryland lawyer, his wife and their 21-month-old son. Gregory J. Hay ward, 35, of Myersville, Md„ died when the plane he was in smashed into the side of rugged Big Haystack Moun- tain in the Adirondacks on Sunday after flying to Franklin County from Frederick, Md. Also killed was Hayward's wife, Lisa Olson Hayward, 32, and their son Jonathan, 21 months, both of Myersville. *~y Hayward was campaign manager to Rep. Goodlow Byron, D-Md., and a well-known attorney in the state, according to a Byron aid. The aid also said Mrs. Hayward was the daughter of Dr. Frank Olson, an Army researcher who died in 1953 when he jumped from the 10th floor of the Hotel Statler in New Jtfork City after unknowingly taking LSD supplied as part of a CIA experiment. The government acknowledged that experiment in 1975 and agreed to pay the biochemist's family $1.25 million ini:ompensation. Also killed in the plane crash were the pilot, George D. Gunther, 40, of Frederick, Md., and businessman Ernest L. Lydell, 39, of Myersville. The plane had crashed into a ridge on Haystack Mountain at about 8:30 Sunday morning. The ridge, known to local people as Kate Mountain, is 2,200 feet ab<fve sea level. , Franklin County Coroner Ron Keough and a group of forest rangers and state policemen cut through the wreckage, aiyi brought Easierthan stairs With the help of a forklift a wheel parrel full of concrete gets airlifted to a Waiting construction worker in Elizabethtown. The concrete is for the addition to the Essex County Court House. (PR staff photo by Jeff Kelly) rangers, had to be flown to the crash scene by a state Department of Environmental Conservation heli- copter. Snow on the mountain was four feet deep. They wqrked'under brilliant blue skies. The weather had changed overnight. Twenty-four hours the bodies to a helicopter landing earlier, when the plane crashed, the spot about 20 yards away. sky was dark ind turbulent snow Keough, -the troopers and the squalls blanketed the mountains. After the wreckage was spotted late Sunday afternoon, a group of snowmobilers tried to scale the mountain. They were forced back by darkness and the foul weather. The victims had set out from Myersville Md., at 6 a.m. Sunday. Their bodies were loaded onto the EnCon helicopter at 1 p.m. Monday and flown to the town of Franklin landfill at Onchiota and then taken by hearse to Saranac Lake General Hospital for autopsy. Officials from the National Air Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Adminis- tration flew to the crash scene later Monday afternoon. Their report, along with the autopsy findings, are to be released today. > Series of events leads up to dead end > By JOHN ROBERTS Staff Writer LAKE CLEAR — Bob Ringrose of Tupper Lake was waiting for a chartered plane to land at the Adirondack Airport here early Sun- day morning. The plane carried 35-year-old Gregory Hayward of Myersville, Md., his wife, Lisa, and their two- year-old son, John. Also on the plane was Ernest Lydell of Myersville. The plane was piloted by 41-year-old George Gunther of Fredrick, Md. The plane was, chartered at Myersville, a suburb of Washington, D.C At 8:23 a.m. Gunther notified an air traffic controller at Burlington, Vt., that he was approaching Adirondack Airport. The plane dropped off the controllers' radar screen at 8:23 a.m. Ten miles east of the airport, Harold Minnie was riding his snowmobile near Onchiota. It was snowing. He stopped his machine in a meadow near Haystack Mountain for a cigarette break. He heard a strange noise on the mountain. It sounded like a loud' 'thump.'' At 9:05 a.m. John Coughtry, chief pilot at Adirondack Airport, took off to look for the missing plane from Maryland. He followed the landing path 1 trf the charter plane. He en- countered snow showers, ice pellets, turbulance and severe downdrafts. Later in the morning a U.S. Air Force helicopter from Plattsburgh Air Force Base began searching the ridge on the mountain, known to the local people as Katy Mountain. Another chopper from the state Department of Environmental Con- servation in Albany joined the search. A group of snowmobiless set out for the mountain from Onchiota. At 3:43 p.m. Gary Fitch, copilot of the DEC chopper, saw something on the ridge. \We saw the tail stickin up with the number on it,\ said pilot Ace Howland. \We wece lucky to see it. The airplane was practically pure white with just a little brown show- mg. The Air Force helicopter hovered over the wreckage and lowered a medic onto the mountain. He found the pilot and four passengers inside the plane. They were all dead. Village to clean pipes, look By STEVE MANOR Staff Writer Northern Clinton Bureau CHAMPLAIN - Village officials here are describing water pressure problems in the village as critical and have adopted a two-phase plan to deal with them. The village board has held eight emergency sessions over the past two weeks in an attempt to find a way to deal with the low water pressure problems plaguing the village. Two engineering firms were call- ed in to investigate the problem, which has reached critical stages, village officials said. The engineering firms have been concentrating their efforts on the main waterline running from the village pumping station to the cor- ner of Elm and Main streets. This waterline is felt to be the root of the problem. One engineering firm recom- mended the replacement of the old water line with a new one. That would cost around $120,000. The other engineering firm recommended the cleaning of the existing line. That would cost about $10,000. 'The village board weighed one recommendation against the other. There are no quarantees either way we go. We decided we would go ahead with the cleaning of the line,\ Mayor Aurel Parsons-mid. The engineering firm of Morrell Vroomah has put together a list of eight or nine firms that can do the pipe cleaning work, the mayor said. Bids will be submitted on the work and they are scheduled to be open this week probably tonight at 5 p.m. at the village office. If the bids are opened today. Par- sons said the contract could be awarded and work started by Mon- day. The actual cleaning will be done from 3 until 5 p.m. according to a schedule approved by the village board. The process could take from two to three days. During the 3 until 5 p.m. cleaning for leaks time each day, the water will have to be shut down. It is the only way that the work can be done, it was pointed out. Based on what has been recom- mended and discussed with the engineering firm, village officials feel water line cleaning should help solve the water pressure problem. The cleaning, Parsons said is ac- tually only the first phase of the pro- ject. The second phase, is to check for leaks. \Once the cleaning is done, then we can go to bid again, and hire another outfit to check for leaks in the waterlines. The cleaning of the lines itself may cause some leaks. We just don^t know at this time,\ the mayor said. Food stamp user recertification CHAMPLAIN — Local residents who must be recertified for food stamps this month may do so at the Champlain Outreach Center today. Recertification of individuals will take place at the center throughout the day. Those who will attend may con- tact Alice Mossey, center coor- dinator, at 298-8121 for more in- formation or to make an appoint- ment. Library-aid group to be organized CHAMPLAIN — An organiza- tional meeting for a \Champlain Friends of the Library ^Association\ has been scheduled for tonight. The meeting will be held at the Champlain Library building at 7:30 p.m. Anyone interested in the growth and development of the library and th$ services it provides is encourag- ed to attend the meeting, according to organizers. \Young and old alike are invited to attend,\ one spokesman said. Senior Housing press conference set PHAMPT AW — A.-press-con- ference has been scheduled today in connection with the Northern Tier senior housing project. The press conference will be held\\ at 2 p.m. at the Three Steeples United Methodist Church on Route \Hi in the town of Champlain. >Local news media have been in- vited to \participate in the finaliz- ing for the Northern Tier senior housing festivities,\ according to an organizer. . Also scheduled to participate\ in the press conference and presenta- tion of the project, are local political figures, various agency officials, businessmen, clergymen and senior citizens interested in the project. Refreshments will be served by Episcopal women's students-for Northeastern Clinton^ Central School Home Economics Department. The refreshments are being donated by the senior citizens. The senior housing project was in- itiated for them. > « unit meeting on tap CHAMPLAIN — The Episcopal Church Women of Christ and St. John's Episcopal Church here will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday to make Easter baskets. The—meeting, which will take place at the church hall. 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