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See Special Section In Today's Issue: Business, Industrial Leaders Predict Solid Growth In 1969 Prank Murray Recipient of WW's Citizenship Award. — Story Page 20. VOL. 21, NO. 980 ooxxixxiezits.... By CHARGES W. KEU.V Msgr. Bailey issued a statement Satur- day night, which appears on Page 20- of this issue, stating that the decision to close St. Mary's Academy is final. The Bishopls decision to close the 81-year-old .'High School has been generally very well re- ceived. Although saddened, the people of the Cathedral parish realize that they < .{must face up to a state, and national prob- lem which has finally hit home. Without state aid, parochial schools are doomed. Schools all over the diocese are in'critical financial trouble. On Page 4 of this issue; an editorial which appeared in Friday's issue of the Pittsburgh Press Republican spells out the -problem in the Pittsburgh, area, and also comments on .a plan that is being tried in St. Albans, Vt. ' When will the Blaine Amendment be repealed? Apparently it's, too late to save St. Mary's, but pressure should be brought to bear to get the Blainp Amendment re- moved to save other'schools in the State. If the present trend to close schools - | grows, the school districts throughout the state are going to find themselves faced with a real disaster. What would happen in Ogdensburg if both Catholic elementary schools were to close in June? The Ogdens- burg Public School system couldn't possi-, bly begin to handle the influx. I'm not suggesting that they should close them, but it's time that the people of New York State opened their eyes, and put the pres- sure on our State Legislators like it has never been put on before. Had the BJaine Amendment been repealed last year, the decision to close St. Mary's wouldn't have been imminent. Msgr. Bailey did an ex- cellent job presenting the announcement last Sunday, and now it's time for the peo- ple to stand up and be counted on the antiquated Blaine, Amendment. * * * Y /. Ogdensburg lost another of its dis- 1 languished citizens in the death of Robert A. Sinipson. History will no doubt prove Mr. Sinipsou^ one of the most dedicated citizens to/liave served on the Board of Eduoation.flje was a member of the Board 15 years, and served as its president for 13 of those years. * * * We are still in the first month of 1969, and already there are reports flying about city elections which aren't scheduled to. take place until next November. In addi- tion to the whispers on whether or not the , Mayor will have to run for reelection this 'year, rumors are already flowing freely about the supervisor races. In regards to the Mayor's race, I'm sure that the Attor- ney General's office, given adequate time, will clear the air. Mayor Byrnes has done his job well and barring a major catastro- phe on his part, will be reelected with very little trouble. In the interest of the city, Byrnes should be endorsed by both politi- cal parties to assure that that City Charter is implemented as smoothly as possible. The Republicans and the Democrats, both endorsed the Charter. The only other city offices expected to cause any fuss this year, will be that of supervisor. The Democrats are considering four or five' possible candidates to oppose Supervisor Ed Johnson in the Second Ward. Mention- ed as possible candidates are Jim Duffy, Ourt Kennedy, Joe Lightfoot, Sr., Ned Hackett and Jim Pearson. Mr. Johnson •won by less than 30 votes in 1967. There is a strong possibility that he might an- nounce his retirement. Some prominent Republicans, concern- ed about losing the seat to the Democrats, are reportedly considering the possibility of opposing Mr. Johnson in a primary battle. Saturday the name of Police Chief Leo P. LeBeau was mentioned as a possible candidate, LeBeau is known to be consid- ering retirement, but was not available Saturday night for comment. The winds. '*of change have been blowing freely across our nation in the past few months and without a doubt, 1969 will produce some . real donnybrooks. Joe Sovie, Fourth Ward Supervisor, who only won by' a small mar- gin himself in 1967, could also find him- self in trouble in 1969. The County sales tax issue almost cost Sovie the seat he has held for 16 years. # # • * _ Two or three of the County. .Supervisors apparently are attempting to ' make an issue out of the fact that the Welfare Ooitt missioner resides in the County Home, • How would the taxpayer' be aiffected if the Commissioner moves out? Would it 'tie •neoessary to hire supervision around the clock that we don't already haVe on the payroll? The taxpayers have a right to know, and supervisors responsibility to kfje-p the taxpayers informed. If.the Colin- v ty* has to hire an additional person or two. at $7,000 or more, the taxpayers should be given the entire picture. LOCAL, COUNTY, S1FATE, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS REPORTED IN DEPTH Weather Variable cloudiness, windy and colder today, with oc- casional snow flurries and some locally heavy squalls likely in the west. High Sun- day mainly in the teens. •PUBLISHED IN OGDENSBUJRG, N.Y., 13669, SUNDAY, JAN, 26, 1969 nniversary Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Great Entain and t)hen Vice President, of the U. S. Richard M. Nixon as they drove from the Power Dam at Massena following the dedication of the St. Lawrence Seaway on June 28, 1959. This dramatic picture was taken by Nick Podgur- ski, Assistant Editor and prize winning photographer of the Massena Observer. Queen Elizabeth and PrliiGe Philip had come from England on the Royal Yacht Britannia and the Queen and President Eiseiihcrwer Had dedicated the Seaway canals and looks at Montreal' two days before. The Royal Yacht came up through the Seaway to Massena where the Queen was met by Vice President Nixon. Robert Moses, then Chairman of the Power Authority of the State of New York arranged the program for the joint dedication of the $1 billion Seaway and Power project. Governor Nelson Rockefeller attended, as did the Gover- nor General of Canada, the Prime Minister of Canada, the Premier of Ontario. The dedication nearly 10 years ago focused world attention on Massena, the St. Law- rence Seaway ar^d the New York State Power Develop- ment. T Strenuous efforts are being made to bring President Richard Nixon and Queen Elizabeth back next June 28 for a 10th anniversary of this historic event of 1959. Governor Rockefeller has indicated his interest and support as has Secretary of State William P. Roger's, a native of Norfolk and graduate of Canton High School. James A. FitzPatrick, Chairman of the Power Authority is actively cooperating as is tne St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation in arranging an outstanding and historic 10th anniversary observance next June. Hanoi, VC Stick To Hard Line Policies By WILLIAM MIYAN • AV Special Correspondent PAMS {NP\ - The United States met stony rejection Sat- urday for the. first of \vihat it . called concrete proposals to start the. new full-scale Vietnani talks on the highway l(t peace, U.S. Ambassador Henry Ca- bot Lodge at the first full-diress, meeting lasting 6% hours pro- posed immediate Te<estabisll- ment of the demilitarized zone buffer between Norlll.aiid South Vietnam. He also offered' ilo work to- ward agreement on mutual' withdrawal of foreign troops from South Vietnam and prom- ised to make further \concroto Nguyen Thanh Le, the Not'tli Vietnamese spokosinan, said after the meeting that \all the arguments of the United States concerning the DM have al- ready been rejected by the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam.\ The NLF concurred, Both North Vietnam and th front laid down what sounded like their toughest hard-line pol- icies, which would counten^/j no settlement in Vietnam that, did not mean a decisive role for the NLF. Both the front and Hanoi backed a demand that the Sai- gon government be replaced by a \peace government\ which could negotiate in Paris for an over-all peace. The four principals—Lodge for the Americans, Ambassador Pham Dang Lam for South Viet- nam, Xuan Thuy for North Viet- nam and Tran Buu Kiem for the NLF—will meet again Thursday in the International Conference Center across the enormous round table covered in green baize. There will be no-fixed schedule of meetings, which will be called by agreement of the four parties. After the meeting, Lodge told reporters that on behalf of his government he bad. made a \specific proposal concerning the DMZ which we hoped was definite enough, something we couldmove ahead on.\ \But he added, \the other side didn't take it up, We also made proposals concerning ex- change of prisoners and toith- drawl of troops, but the other side didn't make any propos- als.\ The proposal m fche DMZ was spelled out in detail and charac- terized by President Nixon's en- voy as \a practical move to- ward peace,\ Lodge invited pro- posals from the other side, and offered to give them \serious and', open-minded considera- tion.\ \Our real task is not a partial but a complete peace,\ he told the conference, \For this reason the United States belives that all external farces -should foe Withdrawn from South Vietna and that all military and sub- versive forces of North Vietnam must be withdrawn into North Vietnani. We are ready to work toward the implementation of the objective of mutual with- drawai,\ North Vietnam has never a* mitted 'having troops in the South, despite long American prodding. The first session, said Ameri- can spokesman William J. Jor- den, was \just about what we expected it would be,\ He said there were no positive, specific proposals from the otherside. He added that while the Ian- ' guage sometimes sounded harsh, the .atmosphere was one of courtesy. South Vietnamese spokesman Nguyen Thieu Dan did' not e* tirely agrep with this, nor did Ambassador Lam, head Of Sgi-t gon's delegation. Dan protested that tha Hanoi*. NLF side violated an under., standing on avoidence of polem- ics and added that \if they pejv sist, it will be impossible to eon- duct negotiation*.\ Lam said \it was a good meeting—we worked well, but he eomplainedof what he called the other side's \lack tif courte- sy\ in some instances, He did not elaborate. The language of three of the four speeches—the front's, the North Vietnamese and the South Vitnamese-^sounded far from peaceful or restrained, \The U.S. policy is utterly perfidious and barbarous,\ said .Kiem.in. the NLF's policy states ment. \The 1 United States has rigged, up, in South V'iethstm most ferocious and bloodthirsty puppet .administration serving as an instrument to suppress the South .Vietnamese people's aspii'f|tions.\ '
