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Ortloff reveals ag< Assemblyman points to issues he wants improved. Paige 3 Skills and strings Performers pause in their musical wanderings. Page 6 The Hometown Newspaper of publ Hp Clinton, Essex, Franklin Counties Vol. 103 - No. 128 © Copyright 1995, Prew-Republican Plottslpurgh, NY 12901, Friday, December 29,1995 Suggested Price: 50 c 24 Pages WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi- dent Clinton vetoed a $265 billion defense authorization bill Thursday, objecting to its de- mands for costly weapons systems he said are unneeded. Clinton also issued an execu- tive order raising military pay by 2 percent. And he asked Con- gress to quickly pass legislation bringing the total pay raise to 2.4 percent, the amount contained in the vetoed bill. In his veto message, Clinton Wai-Mart delayed By MARY THILL Staff Writer Saia-Placld Bureau LAKE PLACID - Prepared to reduce the size of a proposed Wal-Mart by 20,000 square feet, the North Elba Planning Board stalled on procedural issues Thursday night. Without taking any action, a frustrated Planning Board ad- journed after 20 minutes. Another meeting has not been •-scheduled. Sixty-five observers attended the meeting, believing that the • board would decide whether to give the retailer a permit to build a controversial store in North Elba. Instead, Planning Board members first decided not to vote on piecemeal aspects of Wal- Mart's application, and then they voted 3-tp-l not to consider it as a whole, either. \The boasi-doesn't want to do. it segmented, they don't want to do it as a whole,\ said Chairman Kimball Daby, who ; agreed to vote on the application either way. \I move we adjourn.\ Daby's appointment on the Planning Board expires Sunday, As the town's Republican chair- man, Daby campaigned against Shirley Seney, the supervisor who takes office Jan. 1. It is unknown whether he will be reappointed. With or without Daby, under the rules of state environmental review, the Planning Board must decide on Wal-Mart by Jan. 10. On Thursday afternoon, the Planning Board received a newly revised \statement of findings and decision\ on the proposed Wal-Mart from the board's con- sultant, LA Group of Saratoga. It contained a major change — a reduction of the store's size from 80,000 square feet to 60,000. Planning board members declined comment after the meeting, but sources close to the process said that two out of four members of the board, Don Nar- diello and Horst Weber, had re- quested the size reduction. ' LA Group consulted with indi- vidual Planning Board members over the telephone in writing the document. The board has never discussed it as a group in an open meeting. The reduction is just one of many mitigation measures pro- posed in the document. Planning Board members also intend to add more Adirondack-style archi- Coritinued to Page 3 said he particularly objected to the attempt written into the bill by the Republican Congress to compel him to build and deploy a Star Wars-style missile defense system by 2003. Clinton said building such a missile-defense system now would violate the .1972 Anti- Ballistic Missle Treaty with Russia and harm arms control ef- forts. But Clinton did not voice ob- jections to the bill's requirement that the Pentagon buy a new fleet of B-2 bombers. Military of- ficials had said earlier that the radar-evading bomber was a low priority. .' Indications are that Clinton's veto may be sustained on Capitol Hill. The Senate sent the fiscal 1996 defense authorization bill to the White House on a 51-43 vote. The House vote was 267 to 149. Neither vote mustered the two- thirds majorities needed to over- ride a veto. At $265 billion, the measure is only, slightly larger than last year's defense bill. But it is $7 billion more than Clinton had re- quested. Defense Secretary William Perry recommended Clinton veto the measure. Along with jeopardizing at least part of the 2.4 percent pay raise for all members of the mili- • tary that was to take effect Jan. 1, the veto puts at risk a 5.2 per- cent increase in housing allow- ances for married service members. The pay issue' is particularly troublesome now as thousands of American soldiers head to the Balkans on a tough mission to enforce peace in Bosnia. But Clinton's action was ex- pected to smooth over much of that problem. From the outset, Clinton op- posed policy language in the bill requiring the military to build a system designed to defend U.S. territory against potential attack from ballistic missiles. The president also objects to provisions requiring him to ask Congress for funding within 45 days of his ordering a troop deployment. Included in the bill is a $493 million installment toward buy- ing more B-2 components and language eliminating -the con- gressionally imposed ceiling of 20 bombers. this time the floodwkters of the ver. Staff Photos/Mike Dowd A dozen anglers (below) try their luck on the early-season ice at Ausable Point State Park in Peru Thursday. Fishing began at the park two weeks ago after the ice had crept a mere 30 feet from shore. Today, the ice is seven inches thick about 100 feet from land and some are drilling holes even further out. Above, Carl Nadeau of Plattsburgh wat- ches for movement at the end of his line. Nadeau uses small red and white grubs to lure perch onto his hook at left. greet Federal workers get partial paychecks By TERRENCEPETTY ^ii&fejl PWe ZUPA;NJA, Croatia (A?). - Under cover of night, .the enemy crept up the riverbank and in- filtrated sleeping American troops' ten^s ' before' they covtld react. The soldiers had two choices: run or be overrun. So they fled. This retreat, though, involved' none of the armed factions 1 .Jthe troops had come to keep apatt: Instead, it was the first fpe NATO troops have encountered in their fledgling mi^sidi^tOi'Jte' 6p. Bosnia's peace •?- bad we\atHei£ By LARRY MARGASAK Associated Press Writer \We gsab^be'd 6Cir M-16s, our night-vision goggles and what bags we cduld get .hold of and threw 'them ontto trucks,\ Ellsworth said late) 1 Thursday as he was checked for 'frostbite in a MASH tent. ••;.>;' . Even before, Rencountering Continued Page 2 AP Photo Floods soak troops in Bosnia. WASHINGTON (AP) - Negotiations to end the budget stalemate that has partially shut down the government inched forward Thursday, but too late for thousands of federal workers preparing to receive truncated paychecks. Republican leaders said they were hopeful of making.a deal as congressional and White House staffers met through the day, assessing negotiating positions and grounds for a compromise. The flurry of activity will cul- minate in a White House meeting Friday, when President Clinton and Congress' top lead- ers will attempt to nail together a deal to balance the budget over seven years. Five House Republicans, from a freshman class that has rigidly opposed reopening the governm- ent without a seven-year budget deal, said it was time to lock Clinton, Dole and Gingrich in a room — and not letthem out un- til they forged an agreement. Continued Page 2 WEATHER Clouds will mix with some sun. High around 30. West wind around 10 mph. Tonight, mostly cloudy. Low in teens. INDEX ..;'4-:>.,?>-,: ' Bridge Business News Classified Comics Editorial Ann Landers 21 • Arts.....,, .••..iCisiiis^v^.';,^.^^ 12 Newsmakers....:,,.;..,..^^,^,:...^', 20-24 Public Record .::.; f .n.^.S4$i 19 Speakout.... ^J^Zu.iXM 4 Sports^.a..^ ^.>.«i!^..l^TfJ 19 Weather^.., ;;...,.v.:-;,...'.;.^;*H : HY.Utteiy:441/Piek4':9242. . PJdt i<fc 5,7.8, 16,20,22,26,29,3V. 32,43,49,58,59,64,67,68,69,78,79. New England: Pick 3\: 273. Pick 4': 8271 outlives man who paid to get her home PARIS (AP) - Aridre-Francois Raffray thought he haE a great deal 30\years ago; He ^would pay a : 9py&i&-pld wontaft $#00 a ^li&^^^ &'. ^er 'MMi^M^M ^:nep^fe^p'liv4p;:; .Raffray forked .\f - On the sarte day, 1 ..:Jeanne %Iment, how, th6 wmd'i-s\ oldest persbn at 120, diiied on'foie gras, duck thighs, Cheese aria choco : late cake at her nursing home near the sought-after apartment in Aries, northwest 6f Marseilles in the south of fran.ee. She need •hot worry about losing income. Al- though .the amount Raf- fray already paid is more' than twice, the apart- ment's cur- rent market value, his wi.dow is . obligated to keep sending that monthly, check. If/Mrs. Calment outlives her, too, tli£ii the Raf- fray •children and grandchildren will have to pay. \In life, one sometimes makes bad deals,\ Mrs. Calment said on her birthday last Feb. 21. Buying apartments \en viager,\or \for life,\: is common in France. The elderly owner gets to enjoy a monthly income from the buyer, who gambles on getting a real estate.bargain — provided the owner drops dead in due time. Upon the owner's death, the buyer inherits the apartment, regardless of how much was paid. Mrs. Calmeiit,. who has lived through the administrations of 17 French presidents, has proven the nightmare of all those who buy real estate \en viager.\ Mrs. Calment, physically ac- tive all her life, rode a bicycle up to age 100 and until 1985 oc- cupied the several large rooms of her apartment on the second floor of a classic old Provencal building in the center of Aries, where Raffray was her notary public. She moved that year into a nursing home that is now nam- ed after her. She survived her husband, her daughter and her grandson, who died in a car crash, and has no direct descendants. Mrs. Calment seemed to offer some consolation to the Raffrays . when, asked on her last birthday for her vision of the future, she replied: \Very brief.\ Born in Aries in 1875, Mrs. Calment recalls working in her father's shop at age 14 and sell- ing colored pencils and canvases to Van Gogh, the Dutch impres- sionist who depicted Aries in several of his vibrant paintings. On Oct. 18, the Guinness Book of Records officially listed her as the world's oldest person able to authenticate her age with official records, mostly civil and religious documents. xrh #*»«• •
