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Murder Suspect Kills Partner, Surrenders OGDENSBURG ADVANCE-NEWS Weather Windy, with scattered smiv, urs'ics. ('hauce <>i an occa- (iiial viiow squall. High in VOL. 21, NO. 923 OGDENSBURG, N. Y., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1967 kelly comments... By CHARLES W KELL* It is expected that the announcement will be made in New York City Monday that James P. McGumness, a key member of the Port of New York Authority's staff at LaGuardia Airport, has been named Ex- ecutive Director of the Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority, effective last Friday. Mr. McGuinness is expected to be in Og- densburg Monday or Tuesday of this week. We hope that Mr. McGuinness has the sup- port, of all factions, regardless of party af- filiation in the St. Lawrence Valley. Now that Albany has made this big step, we feel that they should take the second big step and appoint a second Democrat to the five member authority. We expect there will be a change in City Attorney's come January 1. Attorney Pres- ton C. Carlisle was too closely associated with the Republican administration to be considered for reappointment. We feel that a change at this time in this key position, is very important. Attorney Jim Ingram might \be a logical choice. We have taken the position in the past that Mr. Carlisle was too busy with other interests to handle the city's legal affairs, and we have seen nothing recently that would suggest we should change our opinion. A new broom should sweep clean and Jack Byrnes, the mayor-elect, is the new broom. The Democratic mayor could decide that he will not appoint a city attorney at this time. This would mean that the city's legal business would be handed out on per diem basis, instead of the $4600 go- ing to one attorney. The city has found it necessary to call on a Watertown law firm to handle a case that is presently in the courts. If one case can be handled in this manner, why can't others? Monday we had the pleasure of ac- companying the members of the Board of Supervisors to the County Home for their inspection tour. We were very much im- pressed by what we saw and observed. We managed to talk to residents of the home and the morale at the home seems to be at an all time high. The whole atmosphere was one of warmth. One woman, who has been a resident for 23 years, commented on many delightful changes. It was obvious that the supervisors were pleased with what Commissioner Donald E. Kitchin has accomplished at the home in his first year. * * * Wednesday we talked to Mayor McFad- den on the telephone. He will be confined to his bed for about two weeks more, and then will be able to get up and about the house for awhile each day. The mayor sounded very cheerful on the phone. We hope to see him on the street in the not too distant future. * # * The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at the Presbyterian Church Thursday, 10 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. It is very important that every- one make a special effort to be at the bloodmobile. This is one positive thing we need. Please note the change in the hours. This is going to be extremely difficult for many people. But we hope that everyone will make a special sacrifice to get to the bloodmobile. This is one positive thing we can do and the bloodmobile is certainly in pint of blood Thursday. This is our respon- sibility. We would hope that the State Police might again give some serious thought to putting two troopers in a car. The death of Trooper William Doyle might not have been averted, but for safety sake it seems much more logical to have two men in a car while out on patrol. * * * Tuesday is the last meeting of the year for the Board of Supervisors. The county- tax roll for 1968 will be signed at that time. The organizational meeting for 1968 will be held Jan. 2. * * * The OFA Blue Devils lost a heartbreak- er Friday night, but let's be honest, the boys did a great job staying with Massena. Bob Hollembaek's Devils' are to be reck- oned with this year. They are young, but possess plenty of talent. Friday's game may have given them the confidence that they have lacked. We think the Blue and White will finish with better than a 500 average this year and we wouldn't be a bit surprised to see them in the playoffs. * * • Last week we suggested that persons who hold memberships on city boards, commissions or committees that are un- able to give the position the needed time, should resign. The city government can only be as strong as its weakest link. Peo- ple who are inactive are a drag, and should be willing to step down. People who are invited to serve in Mayor Byrnes' adminis- tration should be willing to do so. 33 Missing In Bridge Colla Gold Price Is Staying Firm, Says The U.S. WASHINGTON lAP) — The United States reaffirmed Satur- day its determination to main- tain the price of gold at $35 an ounce and said it has the full, backing of six European nations in this effort. A brief stalement issued by Secretary of the Treasury Hen- ry H. Fowler and Chairman Wil- liam McChesney Martin of the Federal Reserve Board said that operation of the London gold market \will continue un- changed.\ The statement followed one week of heavy speculative gold buying in Europe in fear that restrictions might be placed on sales of gold. But the statement issued jointly by the Treasury Depart- ment and Federal Reserve Board indicated that no major changes are in store, This was the second formal reaffirmation of U.S. gold policy since devaluation of the British pound on Nov 18. Immediately after the British action. Presi- dent Johnson, himself, reaf- firmed the policy. The statement said the cen- tral banks of Belgium. West Germany, Italy, the Nether- lands, Switzerland and Britain support the U.S. position \and continue to participate fully with the United States in poli- cies and practices in support of the price of gold at $35 an ounce.\ Officials said the policies and practices to be used will depend on the laws and regulations in each individual country. Switz- erland has already announced a bar on forward deliveries of gold and restrictions on credit buying. There were hints in the state- ment of some minor changes like those announced by Switz- erland. There had been published re- ports late in the week that the seven nations planned a major move to make the London gold pool more formal and back it with vast resources. Asked about these reports, the Treasury Department cited one line in the statement which read: \The operation of the London gold market will contin- ue unchanged.\ New Mexico Is Buried By 2 0-Inch Snowfall; 1,500 Trapped Overnight Grants, N.M. — (AP) — Stranded motorists, from truck drivers to honeymoon- ers, surveyed the 20-inch snow that trapped them at Grants and shared the senti- ment of one of their number: \It looks like an arctic wasteland out there,\ said Irving Rapaport of Albuquer- que, N.M. Rapaport, uranium mining official, was among an esti- mated 1,500 to 2,000 persons stranded Friday at Grants after a storm halted traffic on U.S. 66 and Interstate 40. Gov. David F. Cargo declared an emergency and National Guardsmen rushed in sup- plies. A chartered airplane with six persons aboard that dis- appeared Friday in the storm on aflight from Alamogordo north to Albuquerque still was missing. Aaerial and ground search teams were waiting for a break in the heavy cloud cover. Highways east and west of Grants were open for one lane emergency traffic only. The road east to Albuquerque was snow packed and the highway west was blocked at\ the Arizona border. Most of the transients stranded in Grants expected to stay most of the day as light snow continued falling. A National Guard unit and police officers from Zuni Pueblo were sent to check a report a family, with a baby, was stranded in the Fence Lake area near the Arizona border southwest of Grants. The storm held much of the Southwest in its grip. Forty-six inches of snow were reported at Flagstaff in northern Arizona, where traffic on U.S. 66 also had stopped for the most part. Twenty-eight inches of snow were repotted at Winslow. Mr. and Mrs. Jose Gonzales were enroute to San Diego, Calif., from Chicago. \What a way to spend a honeymoon,\ she said after 23 hours in a traffic jam 10 miles west of Grants. \It's a real disaster.\ Rouses Point Is Scene Of Two More Arrests In Big Narcotics Ring NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. and Canadian authorities have now arrested 13 persons over a four- day period in the roundup of an international narcotics smug- gling ring. Four were seized in Grand Centra] Terminal here—an Ar- gentine couple on Friday and two Frenchmen Thursday. Two other men were picked up Thursday night as they crossed the Canadian border at Rouses Point, N.Y. Canadian police earlier ar- rested six other alleged mem- bers of Che ring in Montreal, and another arrest was made in Boston. Some 176 pounds of heroin were confiscated during the roundup, authorities said. Its estimated worth on the illegal market is ?2 million at whole- sale, and many millions more when cut and diluted for retail sale, they said. Friday, Alfonso Vives, 34, and his wife, Ana Marie, 32, both of Buenos Aires, were ar- rested in Grand Central Termi- nal while carrying 15 kilograms —about 33 pounds—of uncut heroin in two false-bottom bags, according to Asst. U.S. A My. William M Tendy. Customs agents picked up two other alleged couriers, Francis- co Paraja-Box, 45, and Ciro Cai- ise, 48, at Rouses Point, also carrying 15 kilograms of heroin in false-bottom luggage. Both also gave Buenos Aires as their hometown. Two men arrested at Grand Central earlier Thursday were identified as Pascal Grandi, 53, and Haigaz Vartanian, 43, both Corsirans. Trailed by customs men from the Canadian border at Rouses Point, Grandi led the agents to Vartanian at the New York railroad terminal, Tendy said. Both men are residents of Marseilles, France. SAIGON SHOWS PROGRESS ''< Deaths Sure: Call i-100 z LU u oi 75 LU Q_ m 50- O H < 25' _i D- O ^ 0 SECURE JAN. OCT. CONTESTED illllll r.'W^>:-F ! JAN. I OCT. VIET CONG ^B ^^^^^^^^^^^^i • JAN. OCT. U.S. authorities in Saigon have come up with a new computerized system to maintain a continuing check on the political state of the countryside. The more than 12,000 hamlets throughout South Vietnam are regularly evaluated according to 18 criteria covering security, economic progress, and health, education and welfare efforts. Statistics avail- able to date this year show a rise of 4 per cent in the \secure\ population. «\ 5 Z o z O 2 oo JJ V.C. FEVER - 5 - CHART (216) (354) (3,195) (2,221) (1,472) (3,989) Nearly 40 percent—2.8. million people—of South Vietnam's rural population lives in vil- lages heavily infected by the Viet Cong, according to Saigon's computerized check on political temperature. Computer-processed data rates all hamlets in the country on a six- point scale: ' A—Slight Viet Cong activity; government programs functioning well. B—Security high; government programs operating but need improving. C—Government dominant, but population subject to Viet Cong harassment D—Government presence, but Viet Cong taxation and terrorism continue. E—Little security; government activity entirely military. V—Viet Cong in control. Greek Junta Makes A Strong Effort To Influence The King To Return By GERALD MILLER Associated Press Writer ROME (AP) — The foreign minister and Orthodox primate of Greece talked with King Constantine for five hours at the Greek Embassy today in an at- tempt to get the monarch back Truck Rams Store; Driver Arrested On Five Counts Canton — A Toronto man, owner and operator of a trac- tor trailer involved in an acci- dent which resulted in property damage, Friday, near Potsdam, was arrested on five counts by Deputy Sheriff David Stacey. Delmer Dorey, 37, of 805 Euclid Ave., Toronto, was charged with driving while in- toxicated, being an unlicensed operator, having no insurance, having no log book, and having no tax plates. The mishap occurred at 5:40 p.m. in the parking yard of the Grand View grocery store on Route 11, one mile north of Potsdam. As Dorey attempted to turn the tractor trailer around, the right front struck the left front corner of the store, causing an undetermined amount of damage to the build- ing. Then, as he tried to back the vehicle onto the highway, the cab part struck a portion of the trailer which extended into the northbound lane. The tractor trailer was tow- ed away by Mott's Service Sta- tion, Potsdam. to Athens. The two envoys left im- mediately for Athens after the talks and the king, looking grim and haggard, returned to the Italian villa where he is staying with his family. Foreign Minister Panayiotis Pipinelis and Archbishop Ieron- ymos conferred with the king after the Greek military govern- ment offer him the chance—but on tough terms—to return to the throne he abandoned Wednes- day after calling unsuccessfully on his nation ti revolt against the junta. Informants said the Athens regime decided Constantine could return but only on the con- dition that he live \purely as a figurehead, with no powers.\ The 27-year-old monarch was described before his talks with Pipinelis and the archbishop as prepared to reject the terms, Informants said he was de- manding resignation of the mili- tary government as a require- ment for his return. There was no statement from any of the participants after the meeting at the embassy, The foreign minister and the arch- bishop left immediately for Rome's airport to catch the plane back to Athens. The archbishop carried the junta's terms to Constantine in Rome. The primate is the clos- est major figure in Greece to the royal family, and once was the king's personal confessor. The bearded 62-year-old churchman's hurried trip to Rome emphasized the regime's anxiousness to bring Constan- tine back. Without him, the United States held up its recog- nition and Britain said it consid- end its diplomatic relations with Greece \no longer valid.\ Informed sources reported the U.S., British, French, Italian and West German ambassadors declined official invitations from Col. George Papadopoulos, the Greek premier, to meet with him. They said they had no in- structions from their govern- ments. The U.S. Embassy has maintained informal contacts with the regime, but they can- no official significance. A Mission To Moscow Is Success VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican's first full-scale mission to Moscow reported today it had established \fraternal\ contact with the Orthodox Church in Communist Russia. The work of the five-man mis- sion was seen as a significant step toward a possible visit by Pope Paul VI to the Soviet Un- ion. The mission was headed by Bishop John Willebrands, secre- tary of the Vatican's Christian Unity Secretarial. The mission's report said it had discussed the evolution of tlie Catholic Church's social thought with the Orthodox. \The conversations took place in a fraternal ecumenical (Christian unity) atmosphere,\ it said. \The participants felt the close spiritual bonds exist- ing among them...were emphas- ized...by the clearer understand- ing of each other's religious tra- dition*...\ Di- vers BY IA.MES PHILLIPS and HOLGER JENSEN Associated Press Writers POINT PLEASANT. W.Va. IAP' - Mere than Ml skin div- ers <-.mvi'!-£;-d ,-,;] ih; S Ohio Riv- er town Saturday (o start the grisly search for bodies as the toll from Friday's bridge col- l^t' fosfj to e:aiu dead and 33 A tio-iila ..if boats was also ready at, the .site where the 1,750-fcot bridge linking Ohio amd West Virginia plummeted into the near-freezing waters. An estimated 75 cars were on Che span when it collapsed. Rescue workers said they spotted three bo-dies in a partial- ly submerged car early today but did not have the necessary equipment to remove the vic- tims from the vehicle. The three bodies were in addi- tion to the five persons killed when the two-lane U.S. 35 bridge fell odf its piers and dis- appeared in the quarter-mi ie wide stream while loaded with bumper-to- bumper traffic State Police*'.-.aid ihts-y were certa> the dearh toll would go higher.^ -;»•*' A 35-Wt '•' stretch of the river was sealed off from ail commer- cial traffic and U.S. A'wv Engi- neers were discussion ine possi- bility of closing gates on an up- stream dam to '. wer the water level in the ,.r-M where the bridge once s'.va. Eyewitnesses said about 75 vehicles, invhiriing numerous large trucks, were on the span when -I collapsed into water 3fl to 70 feet deep. About hall the vehicles feli onto the banks o.f the river. Some were crushed by large steel beams. The bridge floor, superstruc- ture and missing vehicles plunged completely out of sight bene... 'he water. \Anyone who comes out of the river will not be breathing.\ said John Epilog, Gallia County, Ohio, prosecutor. He was named by Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes to supervise operatiwis on the Ohio side. West Virginia Gov. Hulett C. Smith and Gov. Rhodes pledged the resources of the two stales in an investigation to determine the cause of the collapse. Both came here Friday night. \That old bridge was bounc- ing up and down like it always does,\ sobbed Howard Bogss. His 18-year-old wife and 17- •m o n t h -o 1 d daughter—both among [he missing—were in the car with him when it plunged into the channel where the depth was variously estimated from 30 to 70 feet. \Then all of a sudden every- thing was falling down,\ he said. \My feet touched the bot- tom of the damned river.\ He said he didn't know how he got out of the car. \I just hope to Gcd Marjorie and the kid got out okay.\ H.L. Whobrey. who was sell- ing Christmas trees at an inter- section in Gaillipolis, said, \The bridge just keeled over, starting slowly on the Ohio side, then fol- lowing like a deck of cards to •the West Virginia side. \It was fantastic. There was a big flash and a puiK of simoke when the last of the bridge caved in. I guess the power line snapped. \I saw three lo four people swimming around in the water screaming. I couldn't do any- thing. I jusl stood mere arid watched. Then 1 saw a city ice and fuel boat come and pick them up.\ \I looked up and the bridge wa,s gone.\ said Todd Mayes, a French teacher at the Kyger Creek tOhio) High School, who normally crosses the bridge at 3 o'clock daily. Returning to his home here, Mayes stopped Fri- day to buy a can of tout-hup paM for bis car and a traffic light held him up on the bridge MK* «o &« Qim ante.
