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ADVANfF-NFW S SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1967 PAG E SEVEM Levitt Is Glad Owner 0 fBig Coin Collection Was A Good Democrat ALBANY. N.Y. I'API — State [lateral for a bank loan sioillv Comptroller Arthur Levitt's of-'belore his death in 1945. fice world be clogged with un- Cross' life insurance pro e> -. used boots, old furniture, even repaid the loan but no or^ livestock - if he didn't require claimed the collection, nhuli that abandoned properly be was placed in the vaults of ^ converted into cash before the Buffalo bank and turned A -1 state would accept it. to Levitt's office a few >•€\- In case of a 560-pieee coin ago. It is valued at severa m n collection Levitt made an ex-.dred dollars, ception. And he says he is \ex- While looking for the n\ '• - ceedingly pleased\ that lie did. [heirs. Levitt discovered ii ii In the course of tracing its!Cross was a Democrat, bair! ownership. Levitt, a Democrat, [Levitt: \Now lhat we have es- discovered thai it. belonged to'tablished Mr. Cross' relation- an aide to Franklin D. Roose-'ship with the late president veil when he was New York's Roosevelt, 1 am exceedingly governor. pleased that the collection was Guernsey T. Cross, who ser-[accepted.\ ved as Roosevelt's secretary; Under state laws, the comp- fi'om J929 to 1933 and later be- troller may hold the collection came a counsel for (he Veier-;for 15 months and. if il remains ans Administration a* BaLavia. [unclaimed, he will sell it to the used his coin collection as col-[highest bidder. Surveys Show 7 S 800 Governmental Agency Jobs In S.L. County \THE WORD BECAME FLESH\ was the theme of the Christmas program held last Sunday evening at the First Presbyterian Church. Shown here is Hie manger with Judy Armstrong as Mary and Kirk Ramsey as Joseph. Angels (at left): Mary K. Harper, Mary B. Sandwith, Paula Ramsey, Shannon Huff and Susie Wight. Shepherds 'at left): Tom Bartlett, Tim Durand, David Martin Douglas Lonngrcn and Mark MeKwen. Angels tat right Dianne Taylor, Carol Eustis. Debbie Wight, Debbie Dm i id and Glenda Young. Shepherds '.at right;: Ken Noble 1 Uu Bartlett, James Harper, Bill Bartlett, Scott Atkinson and Charles Crawford. — .lack Wood Phot i Local Merchants Reports Christmas Business To Set A New High Record | Antenna TV Delights The Public, Is Unloved Stepchild To Indus tr) Christmas sales in Ogdens-t One merchant said \Ogdens- burg were evidently exceptional;burg has evidently regained its this year according to the de-'position as the number one scriptive adjectives used by lo- shopping center of the north cal merchants when an Ad-[country.\ vance - News reporter visitedj Despite the lack of snow loj By JERRY BUCK [communities, their places of business on Sat-;dale many local and area young-: Associated Press Writer But even as CATV has urday. jsters will receive skates. skis[ NEW YORK tAP) - In the brought television to three mil- Wonderful, terrific, tremen-jand toboggans. The sale \f northwest corner of New Mexi- lion homes, it has brought dawn dous. exceptional, outstanding., winter wear from children has[co, 5 miles from the nearest [the wrath of the broadcasters, marvelous, phenomenal, were also reached a new high. 'television station, residents of CATV is plainly television's un- file words they used. Hundreds of homes will have.Farminglon have a choice of j loved stepchild. Robert A. Simpson, president new TV sets, both black and:five television channels of the Downtown Energetic Re-white and colored, and there tail Stores group said, \It[has also been a great demand i n 1 I i i * i n igt tinmen! unpb\meiii con mo t costk t motion of stale dirted b\ [he Tax Foundation In al goiernmenl accounting the Bureau of Laboi Statistics fot one hall ol then pei ma an 1 other i i jth \' \• » *• '\al [ i f iniiib | Inc , i uing unphdoi on ed of per oils, so-emp!o\ed has n Ration and tic m rease in tne sen inn h fa«-'ei n or-ppf va t nimbri f hudien ah c ->i linn tile un ktng p pith I i i i i jrl i 1 ld i j i I a whole It ^ noted tint flip numbf ''in f 1 iWi m< if 1 an tht p i i ) nhi i i j , f, t i I I n pt | If l i bf i Irl I i ii ,n,i j, m to public paviolls bunging the fiom 4J(1 000 in 1990 to 913 000 total this ^eai to 115 million in i*bfl In St LdHience Ccunh the Since Ihcn n onli 17 vears i nt nri H t mf 2D i p t u ii b t it 1 a n icti of tlx uoikiug foice ate I Dringiiig tne iiuniDet ot teachers public employes I to 1 8000 000 casting—that it has authority The aim of CATV when it wa over CATV, an authority that born in 1950 in Lansford. Pa the commission first asserted in was modest indeed. Residents of April 1965, 15 years after the in- lhat rural area, cut off by dustry came into existence. rugged terrain, simply wanted The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of | to watch television. Thev erect- seems that the downtown mer-jfor home appliances, according chants offered unusual values: to appliance dealers.' and thai the shoppers from ali; Another slore manager Appeals ruled in a case from :ed a master antenna lo bring in The stations see the CATV op-j San Diego that the FCC could [the distant signals, which were By wire and microwave sig-[ orators as pirating programs j not license CATV systems oper-. then relayed to the homes by nals from four stations in Albu- and selling Ihem to viewers at,ating solely by cable, .cable. querque and one in Durango,[charges that, average $5 a. The other, thornier case een-j The aim of CATV is still the Colo., programs arerelayeri loj month. ters on a decision by the 2nd) same, but it can hardly be 1090 sets Farmingtonj The issues have boiled up into parts of St. Lawrence County ; ported. \For some reason there[through CATV-Community An- two cases now before the U.S. responded. We are most appre ; has been very little sales re-,tenna Television. \ [Supreme Court, ciable of this and wish them distance this year. People want- ; CATV of len means the differ-; The first case concerns the as- ail a most happy holiday sea-ed tc'spend their money andi e nce between good television re-jsertion by the Federal Commu- s0 \i . , . : Merchandise.\ [ception and poor reception—orm i c a t i o n s Commission—theand Other spokesmen merchants; N 0 business place reported a; e ven none at all-in nearlv 2.000 agency that regulates broad- felt that the unseasonably good decline in sales but each in its, — — -— • weather, earlier shopping and turn reported business as won-l ._. additional evening shoppingdertul. Every one of the doxen hours should be credited with:stores chewed reported most the big splurge ol Christmas enthusiastically and many of buying. the stores were being flooded! Managers of the several large:with cus t 0 mers all day Satur-! chain department stores all re- d av , ; ported alike, calling this \the; Without mentioning namesi very best Christmas shopping : here are a few of the remarks i season ever. They said. \Most;heard during the survey: of the women shoppers started[ -Our business is very goodi early in November and since : an d will brobably match, at I then the trend has continued.[least, any Christmas in vears ...! There seems to have been lots! \Wonderful was the word] of money around and people USM j st on E mens c i 0 thing seemed to be willing to spend store and another reported,' Circuit Court of Appeals lhat [called modest. CATV constitutes a public per- formance for profit and is there- fore liable for copyright fees. The case is from Clarksburg Fairmont, W. Va. Since the average CATV sys-; Berliners Will Mostly Wave Across The Wall; Few Christmas Passes by Elizabeth Baxter City Historian By HUBERT J. ERB Associated Press Writer At latest count BERLIN (AP) - Again this 1,921 systems were operating, year, Christmas in Berlin is a They are in every state of the season of being divided. Union except. Connecticut-and; For a few West Berliners authorization for systems hasithere will be \hardship\ passes been granted there. [to cross through the Communist Cable television-as CATV|wall to visit friends or relatives tern carries aoout o.OOO copy-; also & known—has $500 millionij n the East. For a few East Ber- righfed programs a month, it is [tied up ii, investments and m n pensioners there also will be [are issued and\ usually a \west estimated that damages for the! brings in $300 million a year in special crossing passes. Berliner can obtain one, for copyright infringe-j revenues. Leaders in the field! But the vast majority of the |such things as weddings, city's 3.3 million people, 2.2 mil-[deaths, births or serious illness said litis week that the pass is- sue was part of an East German campaign to promote uneasi- ness among West Berlin's peo- ple. The East Germans, however, have been operating a hardship pass office for months without any formal agreement. About 3,000 passes a month claimed ments would total ?1 billion a [expect revenue within the next month. [ 10 years to reach $3 billion an- Past liabilities would exceed I nually. the entire assets of the industry itself, said Frederick W. Ford, president of the National Cable Television Association of Wash- ington \It would be. So sorry, fel- lows, you've made a little mis- 1 Amfl \S those with CATV in. take, so turn over your business : t . ere ?, ts ai .'? President Johnson's to the copyright owners.' Well, I don't think Congress or the Daniels said CATV systems return 40 per cent of their in- vestment annually down to 10 per cent. The failure rate is less than 1 per cent, he said Seek To Persuade Weight-Watchers To Drink Milk This is one of a series on the p.m 'Business here has been tre-;City of Ogdensburg, founded in[ A new ice bridge formed over cour t s operate thai way \ Ford jmendous, the best Christmas; 1749. an incorporated village in [the St. Lawrence on Dec. 30, [ s£uci lever in the long history of our 1817 and a city in 1868. The city land many persons walked from [ r^h Daniels of Denver, a bro- !storti.' .-will celebrate its Centennial injthe lighthouse to the Canadian ;jj e r and major operator said [ All department store manag-'i968. [shore. Down river, however, the -There is a need for orderly jers agreed that, \This has been [steamer St. Lawrence contin-[ growth . b ut it must be liberal. !pn(rpn( , hpri j n rilips . crh ,, 7 g , i nS ^ aS ( \T 011 ', 0N NEW YEAR ' S UAY 1N!ued lri P s trom th e Ogdensburgh;The FCC has been very arbi- p\ 1 '^.,,f? n % M whi-h h 3 , a ,„„,„„..„. , D T , land several added that, \It real-- 1868| the citizens of the old vil-[and Lake Champlain railroad j trary. They have protected the \CKef 24 000 TheNafion WASHINGTON IAP. - Iheily has been the best in years, llag e o [ Ogdensburgh were ap- depot to Prescotl. Ont. !broadcaster, period and to hell :P \ pU,ailo n ° 24 ' M °' The Natl ° n \ Agriculture Department is out probably the best of all time: pre hensive about the shrinking New Year's Eve was quiet. | with the public.\ to convince weight-watchmg when final figures are known. [ st _ Lawretlce R ive r, and The newspaper said: ! William Carlisle family, Hughes Aircraft Co. AT&T, Bing Crosby, Time Inc., Westing-house, General Electric and the Gannett. Cowles, New- house and Annenberg publishing East-West pass agreement were companies. ; broken off over the issue of an r , [East German demand for recog- ...^jLi ^ -l^ 10 \ 11 ^lu 11 ^ 1 1 tuti° n - The West does not recog- , „ J .„ .......... -,.„ _. ^^ ^^ Germany ion in the West, will be able Lo jin his East Berlin family. do nothing more than wave! Except for the elderly. East across the wall. j Berliners have been shut off It is the second Christmas in a [from the West since 1961. row that the Communist East j On Christmas Day, some of Germans have refused to issue [the many people waving across passes for the West Berliners to [will have written and told rela- go to the East. It is the fourth I fives to lie at a certain place at passless Christmas since the a certain time. They will hold wall went up in August 1961. up children, especially new born It is now 18 months since the babies. last seasonal passes were issued! Carefully watching will be and since negotiations for a new j beefed up East German border patrols with their machine-guns, bunkers, watch towers, al Cable Television Association said in October that 88 per cent consumers that milk and milk products are moderately low in calories. This campaign is being con- The same story came from blamed earthquakes. lie newspaper saia: : Wiliam Carlisle, vice presi-1 of «,„ .„ kt j n . ..-stem- arc i.rr»i_ i r* i_i_ ii r- I. i: , , r , • • r , »T - oi me exisiing sv&iem^ are Ihe annual Sabbath School]dent for television of the .Nation-[, m , rn „ „, i; ,u , JL,,'!,..;,.,. „< •>= The Dailv Journal on Jan. 3]Festival of the First Presby-al Association of Broadcasters. towns with a population of 25,000 trip wires, sirens, searchlights, flares and motorcycles. The guards have orders to shoot any West German Foreign Minis-j fleeing East German caught in ter Willy Brandt, himself West the final \death strip\ before Berlin mayor until a year ago, I the wall. Supreme Court Trial , s , - ,\\ ° ceme lng uai | V Juuma i (j U Jd ii. ajreauvai ui uie ru»i JTICSUJ- ai Association 01 DioaucasLers. ,,,, u,.„ where crowds o shoppers waej reported: ' iterfan Church of this village [in Washington, said his organd-' 01 ^ suit jamming tne aisles, iftej u Mos t evervone acquainted [took place in the basement of Nation believes the FCC should. r m* i-v u» ¥ A A 1 ducted through the pubUcationinf *i'^ b ' £ ^fjwith the St. Lawrence RiverDr. Miller's new church on: regulate CAW \because televi-^ ay C McDOJiald IS j IlirOrS A^ ^1111000(^(1 •nH riUtribuHon of a buUelin on <™J f T 11a f h ^snd its periodica* rise and fall;New Year's Eve. It was largely sion is in effect a continuous « f J . , «, v JU1UI311H/ / 1.I11IL?U1IV,\/U end>t I1 but 1 on - ofa - bu[l€lin T On, njng fd l ahead o f the 19t>b- must J e note d lh e fact that [attended and unusually bril- [conduit between the broadL-ast-jMaiTied To VemOll Decorations, mottos and' ers and the viewers \Milk m 1-amily Meals. Re-,Christmas trade. ,. L , „ , , : ,. . ports show consumer buying of [it has fallen from its extreme;liant . , w , , .. whole milk has been declining [ AH types of stores, men's,'high point since June, till it is'exercises were of the most. To have the first 90 per een for a number of years. This decline has been accom- panied by an increase in buying of lower-calory skim milk. An 8- ounce cup of whole milk con- tains about 160 calories com- pared with 90 for a cup of skim milk. The bulletin gives a number of recipes using milk and gives j Even tn e stores Ula t seJ 1 the calory content of an individ-. Christmas cheer in bottles were ual serving—information which; enjoying very active sales, the department hopes will help! The stores visited during Sat- spike a generally held belief,;urday's survey included the women's, department, fumiturejlower than ever before from drug, appliance, shoes, cigars-natural causes. The fall can and confectionary, jewelry inhardly be explained as having fact every type of retail busi-'occurred from natural drain- ness reported the same, which'age. Mihill In Rites Miss Faye McDoanld, daugh- ter of the Rev. and Airs. Otis meant conclusively that busi ness here in Ogdensbur this Christmas must have reached a new high. \Is it possible that subterr- anean seams leading to the in- ternal fires of the earth have proved an avenue to draw from the natural supplies of the Great Lakes and at the same time caused these repeated shocks of Earthquake? Will some scientific mind hives pleasing character.\ [regulated by the commission .ON NEW. YEAR'S DAY, [and the final 10 per cent unregu- scheduled trotting races at the lated doesn't make sense.\ Car-; J' McDoanldTFrant Lake. N.Y., grounds of the Ogdensburgh j lisle said. .became the bride of Vernon Driving Park association were; „ 0ur objectior ! t 0 C ATV is to He ™T MiWU. son of Mr. and spoiled by an eight-mch snovv-j OATV un HW €( i we're highiv- Mrs - Raymond Mihill, Potters- fall Tho i-uirco ivac Slim- art-1 . . .. . ... P. \ \,;n r t v v „ « \r rtl , n,t r rw« ,w,„ officials said, that milk should!Busy Corner, Welt's Liquor i igaip this subiecf\ be consumed in limited amounts 1 ^ c„'„„u : _„ o,„„ M ,uJ u g ale _ lllis _ _? u °^-_ by the weight conscious. Rites For Retired Border Patrolmen Held Wednesday Ellsworth, Me. —. Funeral services were held Wednesday for Ernest Doe LeBlanc. 69, a retired U.S. Border Patrolman, who formerlv served at Rouses Point and 'Ogdensburg. N.Y. Cremation look place at Grace Lawn Memorial Park. Auburn. Mr. LeBlanc died Monday at a hospital in Ellsworth after a long illness. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Hilda LeBlanc of Ells- worth and Rouses Point: two brothers. Elmer of Brunswick, and Francis of Presque Isle; one niece, Clare LeBlanc of Brunswick: and several cou- Store, the Sunshine Store, the Triangle Shoe Stores, Milia's Shoe Store, Newberry's, Wool- worth's, LaMacchia Appliance Store, Simpson's, Kinney's, Grant's, all local food markets, t h e Surprise, Greenbzlatt's, Sperling's. Hess Furniture Com- pany, the Goodyear Store, Shurtleff's, Fisher's, Al's Men Shop, St. Lawrence Business Machines, Carbino's, Hulett's — and they were all busy. THE ONLY TOPIC OF CON- versation among the villagers of equal interest was the issue of continuing the community's village status or seeking to be- come a city. fall. The purse was $100; ad mission, 25 cents. Fancy skater John Powers appeared at the village skating rink Jan. 3. A masquerade at the Pres- cott skating rink was cancelled Jan. 4 because of bad weather but was held Jan. 7, when the Streamer St. Lawrence took a ! audience. The more station in favor of the use of CATV to: vlJle - *- Y - o n Nov - 24 - lh<? wr \ su-pplement our services. But! emon y was Performed in the the import, of distant signals is :B ™nt Lake Wesleyan Method- our primary objection. We're is t Church with the Rev. Tho- also against origination of pro-[mas Boghosian and the bride's grams by CATV.\ [father, the Rev. McDonald, of- ficiating. A reception followed A major worry of (he broad-[ m the Brant Lake Town Hall, casters is fragmentation of the; Mrs Min jn, a 1963 graduate of Salmon River Central School is presently attending- Adiron- dack Community College, Glens Falls, where she is studying crowd from Ogdensburgh at 7[viewer can get on his set, the p.m. and returned at 10. [smaller the audience for each P.D. Law and Company on mme a stations advertisingj nl . r „ in „ s.h<» evneoK to sradu- New Year's Eve sold speckled rates ^nursing. S>ne expects to graou trout, venison, quail wild'™* 5 ' ^in June 1968. ducks prairie chickens and' Small local stations see them-! Mr. Mihill attended honcon The inhabitants were to meet Mrtri li ees [selves suffering when television ^Central School, Brant Lake, and, on that subject at 11 a.m. Jan. v B ' signals from large metropolitan|served with the U.S. Army, be- [ ||g (jOUlltV Bank 3, Friday, in the Town house.I On Jan. 2, the dry goods areas are brought in, \Ulti-[ing stationed in Germany dur- J On Dec. 31, 1867, there were (merchants in Ogdensburgh star- mately there would be no need-ing most of his enlistment, brief, minor earthquakes, ted closing their stores at 7-30'for local television stations,\ Mr and Mrs Mihill are re- starting at 11:30 a.m. and 8-30 p.m., on petitilion of the clerks. Carlisle said. siding in Chestertown, N.Y, Canotn — The names of 6U Beverly W. Adams, Msssena; trial jurors for the trial term oflJoAnne Adams. Potsdam; Supreme Court to be held atiLeRoy E. Akley, Canton; Canton starting Jan. 3 at 9:30 [Ralph L. Barr. Norfolk; a.m. have been released byjBasil I. Bass, Hammond; County Commissioner of Jurors IWillard G. Beyer, Raymond- David J. Cleland. jville; Alita H. Brown, Canton; _, ,. . . , . „. c IDavid S. Cordwell. Jr., Mass- The list includes ftv* from |e n wil]jam T> Delano Mags . the Ogdensburg area, namely jena ; Frederick C . Delisle, Pots- John A. Burham, RD 2, Ger- [dam. aid E. Dickinson, RD 1, Joseph [ W. Forth, RD 2, Harold J. j Also, Joan V. Drake, No. Frank, 418 Franklin Street, and (Lawrence; Norman F. Drum- Roert G. Volglit of 823 Picker-[mond, Heuvelton: Keith L. Ed- ing St. Others listed are Lynn C. Thompson of Justine Street in Heuvelton and M. Allen Nel- son of Lisbon. The complete list of the other 53 chosen follows: January Dividend Will Be Paid By gerly, Norfolk: Agnes R. Feist- hamel, Gouverneur; W. Doris Frank, Canton: George P . Green, Win-throp; Vernon A. Haggett, Massena; Miles L. Harrington, Star Lake; Shirley M. Harris, Potsdam; Mar- garet S. Haskell, Nn, Lawre- jnce; Stephen J. Huczel, Nor- 'wood; John W. Hurlbut, Cran- berry Lake: Fred J, Jones, iHermon: Robert Jones. Canton. j Also. John F. Kelly, Mas- ofisena: Harold P . Kennehan, Alexander S. The Board of Directors The St. Lawrence County Na- J Brasher Falls tiona! Bank, at their last meet- Kozsan. Massena; Margaret E 11 —jing of the year ,held on DellRrum, Gouverneur; James L. cember 13, 1967. voted to pay a'Lenahan, Gouverneur: Frank regular 3 r ? dividend and an j. Lennev, Potsdam: John E. extra T- dividend, making a MacAIeese, Cranberry Lake; dividend of I0 r > on the par Virginia M Moore, Canton, J. value of the stock. This will be Maxwell Morrison. Star Lake; a 62c dividend per share, being Clarence T Morrow, DeKalb paid on 69,935 shares for a total ,] ci : Samuel H McAdoo, Can- January dividend of $43,359.70 t, 0 n.- j,,hn F Mrrarthv, Can- to 5,37 stockholders. Dividenditon: Phillip M. McCarthv. Can- No, 117 will be payable on Jan-| tw : .Jolsu M. McKentia, Nor- uary 2fi. 1968, to stockholders | wooc j ; Robert S. McKnighl, Ma- of record as of Jan, 9, 1968. id r id; Dorothy M. Nichols, Mas- The staff of The St, Lawrence f\ 31 l? hn , C , N ' or i' lru P' ^ Mr. LeBlanc was born Nov. 23, 1898, in Veazie. the son of Godfrey and Abbie Doe Le- Blanc. He was a veteran of World War 1, He joined the U.S. Border Patrol in 1926 at Rouses | Point, N V, He had been a sen- • jor patrol inspector, assistant u h o? msp S ^or°hi Maine^RousesI CAROLING AT ST. LAWRENCE STATE HOSPITAL - Twenty-seven af- At left in the picture is Mrs. Dorothy Adams, housemother and choral di- Poinf. Ogdensburg and Havre,! filiating student nurses at the St. Lawrence State Hospital School of Nurs- rector. (Official St, Lawrea«a &U« Hospital Photo) Mont,, where he retired in 1955.1 ing, caroled throughout the hospital buildings and grounds Wednesday, County National Bank held a dam: Elizabeth T. Novak, Mas- IChirstmas party at the Univer-| sena - J , anie s T - f\ 11 '^ Haro >itv Treadwav Inn for the 83 mond: llocca J, Segar, Canton; employes. A ten per cent bonus l \ ez K ' S j? ea ' So ; ColtM1 : c of their salaries was paid as a Raymond Smith, Canton; Will- Christmas gift, and dancing fol-i [*\ J- stra » e . Ru£seil ; faul lowed with music by Josephi^- Sullivan Massena; Andrew Calipari and his orchestra. ^ ,, arKa r Mass «n a j Also, Bermce B. Thompson, Gouverneur: Ralph H. Van- Ttoe Cameili* was nained in Brocklin, Canton; John P . honor of George Kamel, 17thJWhite, Potsdam; Raymond centary Jesuit mlssi<»ai.'y. , Zenger, Conifer.
