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Albs S t 6 L i b r a r y .\ b a t t y f 1 2 2 0 3 ' L e in V C M i i t y 'i No. I Marketplace A l : . ; l jJX The Fattest Growing Weekly Newspatwr la Northern New York a l a n d ^ R e p u b l i c a n F a t l - A r i i o n Classified* 376-3525 Serving the greater Lewie County area since i 950 1 4 S M D Y E A R N O . 2 1 L O W V I L L E , N . Y . 1 3 3 6 7 W E D N E S D A Y , J A N U A R Y 1 0 , 1 9 7 3 T H I S 22 P A G E S • IS C E N T S First b a b y . D a i r y I n d u s t r y E c o n o m i c K e y Fuel truck upsets FIRST BABY - Eight pound-eight ounce Jeffrey John Mathys, son of M r. and M rs. Robert Mathys, Glenfleld R J J. 1, became Lewis County's first baby of 1973 and the winner of the Annual F i r s t Baby Contest sponsored by a r e a merchants through the Journal and Republican. The stork arrived late In Lewis County this year, with Jeffrey being born on January 3 a t 11:46 a.m . M r. Mathys Is employed by AMF In Lowville and M rs. Matbys la employed by theNew YorkState Departm ent of Transportation. The couple h a s another daughter, (Photo by Jay Russell) Christina M a rie, aged five and a half years. M erchants participating in the contest and offering a bevy of prizes to the F i r s t Baby and h is parents include Beyer’s, Inc., Ver’s Restaurant, Lowvllle E lectric, Inc., A, H. Cummings Jew elry, Monnat’s and Glenfleld I.G.A., National Bank ofNorthern New York, Watertown M attress Company, John’s GrtU, Urbanlak Studio, The Margo Shop, Lewis County T rust Company. Rossdale F a rm s D a iry, Inc., Lyons Falls National Bank, Lowvllle Laundry, The Falls Pharm a c y , P and C M arket, Lloyd’s of Lowvllle and M iller’s General Store. Army Confirms Re-Route Order Further details of the d ir e c t. Ive Issued by F irst Army to ail units under its jurisdiction to re-route convoys up Route 81 to the m ilitary base and avoid the congested Route 12-26 cor ridor through Lowvllle and Lewis County w ere revealed today. The orders apparently were Issued from F o rt Mesde, Md., to all F ir s t Army training.units that have been using the Route 12-26 c o rridor. The decision o f F ir s t Army to re-route the convoy traffic came about through the efforts of Con gressm an Samuel S . Stratton, D., Amsterdam, working closely with Michael J . B lair, editor of the Journal and Republican and with the support of Lowvllle Police Chief Robert McCue and Assemblyman K , Daniel Haley, D., Waddlngton. The directive from F o rt Meade stated In p ari: ** . » .Recent criticism in volved traffic route through the Village of Lowvllle, New York State Highways t2and26.M lU t*ry traffic en route to andfrom C am p Drum should consider use of Interstate Highway 81 when feasible to avoid undue congestion in Lowvllle o r o ther sm all towns. Interstate highways, with limited access and constructed according to stric t Federal Specification, provide a greater degree of safety than two lane highways; therefore, should be used when possible for m ilitary s , J 1 “ . . .Commanders of units operating m ilitary vehicles over public highways will Insure convoys and individual vehicles are operated In accordance with m ilitary policy and regulations. Emphasis Is required to Insure minimum Interference with civilian traffic and strict adherence to state o r local tra f . flc law s .. The directive pointed out to unit commanders that ‘'M ilitary vehicles, whether traveling in dividually o r U. convoy, are r e quired to observe and conform to local laws and regulations. This Includes compliance with stop signs, red traffic lights, caution signs or lights and o ther regulatory devices. Vehicles should avoid travel through towns, villages or congested areas when feasible, to provide maximum safety to m ilitary and civilian traffic . . . ” (Photo by Urbantik) HEADS CRUSADE - D r. John Brooks, Lowvllle, president of the Lewis County Unit of the Am erican C a n c e r Society, has announced the appointment of Harvey L. Ingersoll,Turin, as the 1973 C rusade chairm an for Lewis County. (Continued on Pajxe I-B) How can agriculture better in fluence our nation’s urban Con gress and consum er o riented De partm ent of Agriculture? E a s t ern Milk Producers feels that this question needs an imm ediate solution If the dairy industry Is going to survive to the North east region of the United S tates. This past year has been one of trial and tribulation for Lewis County and area dairy f a r m e r s . T o rrential rains throughout the northeast hampered the planting, growing and h arvesting o f c r o p s . Flood devastation to Pennsyl vania and severe dam age to L ewis County and New York placed a additional burden on dairym e n , It will take several years for those who survived these r a n g e s to rebuild their o p erations. Compounded Indebtedness has been forced upon these farm e rs because of a diminishing n e t r e turn fo r the raw product they produce. O v er-capitalization h as caused an exodus of dairy far m e rs, both large and s m a ll. E a stern, as well as other farm organizations, has experienced this loss to producer m em ber ship which may never return to the business of farm ing. The Incentive to rem a in to farm ing is diminishing. In a Justifiable attem p t to furnish h is family with a home com parable to that of the non-farm fam ily, the farm e r to going deeper to dept while laboring longer hours with lower net income. For example, it to estim ated that New York State fan n e r s netted 3780 less per year to 1971, as compared to 1970. In 1972, costs have risen on the average of 1450 p e r producer over 1971 figures. Because c o s ts of production con tinue to outgain f a rm e r Income by two per cent aasnally, f a rm e r s to this ares have experienced an average toss to net Income at approximately 11,230, as com pared to the beginning of this decade. P rices have spiraled upward to r feed, machinery and live stock, to s a y nothing of the in flationary p r ices paid by far m e rs a s an Integral p a r t o f con sum e r buying of o ther goods and S y racuse Regional Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit the Beaver F a lls area on Thursday, Jan. 11, from tl a.ra, to 4:45 p .m . at theB e a - ver F a lls Community Hall. The com m ittee has set a goal of 125 pinto. When the Bloodmobile last visit ed Beaver F a lls a total of 224 pints w ere donated, which broke a record for the area. The last visit to county by the Bloodmobl!\ was la the South Lewis a r e a , al which tim e 98 pints w ere contributed. WELDING CLASSES - Two classes In welding a r e beginning o« Thursday, J a n . 18, at 7 p„m. Both men andwomen a re welcome to participate. LeRoy Nichols, teacher of Ag riculture Mechanics at the Oc cupational C e n ter, will present a ten-week course In electrlc- are welding. Theory and practice are Included. Marvin M cLear, auto body r e pair teacher, will teach a ten services. Other areas of concern tor farm e rs to this part of the coun try a r e the environmental prob lem s and quality milk standards. These Items a r e of considerable expense and present a hardship for those in precarious financial stra i ts. The question here to not one of whether o r not these prob lem s must be solved and the standards m et, but one of bow to m eet the c o s ts Involved. Eastern Milk Producers Co operative requested a hearing to increase the C lass 1 milk p rice by 44 cents p e r hundredweight fol lowing toe sum m er floods and ad verse weather conditions throughout toe Northeastern marketing area. D airy farm e rs would have realized up to 25 cents per hundred pounds of mtlk more AMF ’72 Banner Year AMF in Lowville bad a banner year tor 1972, according to Garth Yauchxy, general manager. Bowling pin production exceeded toe 200,000 set level, coupled with sales of bowling ajley lum ber and parts to J a p a n . These sales and production figures rose to fantastic heights because Of the demand tor bowling alley installations In Japan. Employment to 1972 exceeded 350 employee*. Although tola report looks un believable, thing* were not all toe best tor long range planning, the heavy demand f o r maple lum ber tor export pushed the m a r ket price to unheard-of heights. T h is created a hardship cm all products produced for domestic u s e , as well as causing a short age for all furniture Industries that were using maple lum ber. The effect of this will c a r r y over tnto 1973. The year 1972 was also one of corrective action to curtailing environmental pollution. A new dust collector was Installed and State approved at AMF’s South State S treet plant. The Solvent Recovery System s tarted to 1971 was completed in 1972, cutting over 90% of all vapor em issions to the atmosphere. The outlook for 1973 is good. However, there will be a dras tic curtailment in lum b er and bowling alley m a terial. Bowling pin production will rem a in good with levels of production back to the 1971 level. \W e ex pect employment to hold a t about 270 people for 1973,’’ Yauchzy said. Our plans and budget call for continued efforts in environ mental control with concentra tion on reducing In-plant noise levels which ta-tnrn wilt also r e duce noise levels emitting from the plants.” than they are now receiving tf this request had not been dented following the November e- lectlons. Most consum ers a r e aw a re of the financial plight of d airym en to toe Northeast and many of the reasops leading to It. They also know of the increased costs to processing, packaging and d istri bution shouldered by efficient In dependent milk companies. Many of these sam e consum ers have stated their willingness to pay more so they could continue r e ceiving their needed supply of fresh wholesome milk. However, federal government and operating cooperative of ficials have not made an effort to improve toe Income ol dairy farm e rs in this sector by ob taining the kind of prtces for them necessary to meet their skyrocketing c o s ts of production. In fact. Just the r e v e r s e seem s to be toe o r d e r of the day. Oper ating cooperatives (those who process, package and distribute milk) recently tried, through a federal mtlk order hearing, to extract m o re money from New York-New Jersey m a rket d a iry men by levying a $1.50 c h a rge on bulk tank p roducers. Furtherm o re, numerous c a s e s of underbidding the independent mtlk companies by one o p erating cooperative to particular, to order to com e r the m a rket to many a r e a s , h a s resulted in finan cial losses to both and higher cooperative m em bership a s s e s s m ents. T h ese actions have had the effect on milk producers of lowering their annual average net Income. E a stern Mtlk Producers (a bargaining cooperative) and score* of Independent milk com pany bayers are oppoaed to toe aforementioned stop charge, and are to agreem ent that p roducers must receive a higher n e t Income tf our growing population ts to enjoy a fresh wholesome supply of milk and our mtlk industry In the Northeast is to survive. As long a s our federal govern ment rem ains consum e rorient- ed, we a r e pessim istic over the possibility of better Income for dairy farm e r s to 1973. Farm p r ices a r e expected to creep upward this y e a r , but the impact of the c o s t-prlce squeeze now choking farm e rs will h it Its peak during the spring months. The government em ergency loan and feed program s . Institu ted after this year’s floods, a re one storm —one year deals and their current status Jeopardizes those to need, tt was recently announced that the federal goven- m ent has shut off em ergency d isaster loans to farm e r s , ef fective January 15, in desig nated disaster areas along the E a stern seaboard hit by tropi cal s torm Agnes. Hurrlcan Agnes’ losses cannot be offset by one y e a r assistance program s. To overcom e the full extent of these losses, II - 111 take an overall improvement of farm net income. Key Bankers ’73 Forecast Promising weeks course in oxygen acetelyn welding. Both coursps will be conducted at the Occupational Center to Glenfleld. To register, in dividuals m u st be present a t the ftrsf class meeting on J a n . 18, A $5 registration fee Is charged for all new adults enrolling At that tim e. No additional charge will be made to those Individual* who attended toe A ral ten-MMfc course. Wits peace in Vietnam ap pearing near and with toe P r e s i dent’s economic m e a s u res hold ing prom ise of positive resu lts, the prospects for 1973 in Lewis County appear to be good. Three leading bankers of Lew is County today outlined thetr forecasts for 1973 to exclusive statem e n ts to the Journal and Republican. C a rl ,H. Kleimann, president, Lewis County T rust Company « \V a rious banking and financial reports that a r e available to toe T rust Company Indicate that o u r •catom y should turn in a strong perform ance to 1973 , Most eco nom ists expert that to-recovery, which approached boom propor tions during parts of 1972, will be maintained well into the new year. Economic indicators point fo a continued tip-swlng In toe first six months of 1973 w ltoan easing In the second half, \Econom ists *e*m to anti cipate real economic growth to toe area of 9% to 10% with a - (Contlnued on Page l-B) Douglas S. Brodte, vice p r e s ident to charge of Lowvllle Of fice of toe National Bank o f Nor thern New York - \If rain were a m easure of economic growth, 1972 surely was a b anner year for Lewis County. The large accum ulation of m o isture did, however, have an adverse effect on our agricultural community. \T h e dairy farm e r to parti cular suffered direct lo s s of in come from lower milk pro duction. F u rther losses wiii be felt throughout the winter months when the quality and quantity oi hay will be a factor. Despite this, 1973 should show a like trend. The recent surge to toe stock m arket provides for some of this optim istic outlook. Most economist* feel that 1973 will show a healthier economy wlto a possibility of a s tab ler Inflation. This Just might bring about a termination of the wage and p rice control during toe year, but this la not v ery likely. \A s predicted, lnleresl rates (Continued on Page I-B) • ■ • TRUCK OVERTURNS - A Low ville Oil Company fuel oil tank truck overturned Friday, Jan. 5, al 1:30 p.m. on Rural Avenue to Lowvllle, c reatlnga potentially hazardous situation. According to Lowvllle Village Police, Daniel Fay, Lyons F a lls, operator of toe truck, was back ing the vehicle from the drive way entering toe Lowvllle Rural Cem etery Into toe driveway to toe NUes Monnat residence when It skidded sideways and went off fTony Urbanlak Photo) toe road, overturning. About 2,000 gallons of fuel ojl w ere removed from toe o v e r turned vehicle before It was righted and returned to the road. Paul Forte Elected Chamber President Robert B . Holcomb, board chairm an, Jeff-Lew ls Savings and Loan Association- \W e have passed toe election year with the usual references to economics, pros and cons. We have e x p e r ienced a better than average year by v irtue of m o redeposits. M ort gage funds have been readily available for good and sound Investments. \Lew is County Is fortunate to have the recreation area for skiing and snowmobilLng, a s well »a beautiful sum m er recreation, lakes for boating, fishing, cot tages, etc. We a r e proud of our staff at our branch. Surely, toe participation from lhat are* indicates that you, toe public, are also fond of our two Marys* and Pete Grogan. We from Wa tertown also try to participate In civic affairs In your area. Suggestions of how we may b e tter our services are always wel comed by m e. \Hopefully the unemployment rate will be much lower the coming y e a r,” The Lewis County Chamber of Commerce, Inc., held Its first meeting for the year of 1973 Monday night at 7 p.m. a t toe Castorland Hotel. At this meeting the officers for toe year w ere elected aad toe newly elected directors w ere Installed. The Chamber this year will be represented by the fol lowing officers: President, Paul F o rte, Niagara Mohawk, Low vllle; F irst Vice - President, Richard Monnat, Monnat’s Coun- try S to r e , Croghan; Second V ice- President, O s c a r Zurbrugg, Lyons F a lls. Farm e r’s Co-op., Lyons Falls; S. J . H arris and K, Jam e s B u rt were appointed ex ecutive secretary and treasu r e r respectfully. The newly elected directors Installed were as follows: Joseph Brooks, Beaverlte Corporation, Beaver F a lls; Joseph Plourde, CUmax Manufacturing Company, Castorland; H, Robert N o rte, Norte tt V lrkler, Inc., Lowvllle; Leslie Fey, Fey Manufacturing Company, West Leyden; and Oscar Zurbrugg, Lyons Falls Farm e r’s Co-op., Lyons F a lls. The D irectors whose term of Report Summary Presented At toe regular meeting of the Board of Education of Lowvllle Academy and Central School on January' 8, D istrict S u p e r intendent Kenneth E. Ford pre sented a sllde-lape presentation of the Fletschmann Commission Report, The Commission was e s tablished three years ago fo In vestigate the cost and quality of education In New York S late. Its recommendations are now being studied throughout the s tate. Members of the Board of Ed ucation and toe adm inistrative staff have been invited to meet at the Lowvllle Dairy Producers Coop on Thursday, January I I , t o consider ways of adding a g r i cultural educaflon to toe c u r riculum. A report on the Title 1 read ing program was discussed. It shows that considerable gains in reading have been made by the children participating In the spp- cial program . M rs, Marilyn Stacy, M rs. Colette Vanya, M rs. Helen Whalen, and Mrs. Marilyn Jones are toe reading teachers. Because of the roll-over of state funding, three quarters of the slate aid received by the district Is received during the last three months of the school year. This necessitates borrow , lug fo meet payrolls and monthly bill*. Perm ission was granted fo borrow toe needed funds through revenue anticipation note*. Perm ission was also granted the administration to p repare and advertise for bids f o r supplying (Continued on Page I-B ) office expired w ere Jam e s A rv- onites, Vocational School, Glen fleld; Francis Fay, Insurance B roker, D e e r River; Claude Gleaaman, Gleasman’s cottages, Bran tin gham; C.H. (Nell) Handy, Lewis County Extenatoa S e n d e e , LowvUle; Robert McCabe, Latex Fiber Indue t r i e s . B e a rer F a lls. The following p ersons are also directors of the Chamber: Kenneth Gordon. Sbenrtn W illiams, LowvUle; Gerald Reed, Moderate Snowfall Recorded The first 1973 snow survey results have been announced by toe Board of the Hudson-Black River Regulating D istrict and other cooperators at 19 regular stations throughout toe upper r e gion of the Black River d rainage basin. This year, toe average snow depth is about two Inches g reat e r than last y e a r 's but four Inches le s s than in 1971. M o re Importantly, toe water content is about double last year’s and about equal to that of 197 L. Water content is considered to be the amount of water stored la the snow pack In the farm of snow, crust or Ice particles and represents stored precipitation. As a guide, toe norm al pre cipitation in toe unland regions of toe Black River W atershed is considered to b e about four Inches per month. T h e refore, this s u r vey shows that there Is presently over one month’s norm al pre cipitation being stored as snow and considered as potential run -off water to case of * January thaw. The drainage area maxtmumof 24 laches- snow depth and 6,50 Inches water content was re corded at Blghmarket on the western slopes of Tug HUl.Sears Pond, another station on the Tug HlH Plateau, was a c lose second wtih 23 Inches of snow but with toe sam eam ountof storage water. The snow depth o f 16.6 inches at Stillwater Reservoir this year Is about equal to the 33 year average with the w a ter content of 4.80 laches being over 50% greater than norm al for tots p e r iod. Due to toe exceptionally high precipitation of Decem ber, coupled with a thaw at the end of the month, aH stream s are open, all ponds and lakes full, tf ahy bodies are Ice covered, there would be only a minimum of thickness and hazardous to any kind of travel. As of Jan uary 3, toe snow packhadcrusled sufficiently to sustain toe weight of an average person without the use of s k is o r snowshoes. The ground water Is M im o U y high in representative teatr#e»a and the ground I* not frozen at any of toe Survey locations. farm e r , Glenfleld; Garth Yaoshzy, A M .P., Lowvllle; Gary Buckingham, G A B M arket, Hor* rlsvllle; C a rl M iller, M iller's Store, LowvUle; Martin ScblU, Snow Ridge, Turin; Edward Sicker, D istrict Principal, South Lewis S chools, Turin; and Jam es Shea, Georgia Pacific, Lyons F a lls. Guests present at the meeting Included Paul Merz, Chairman of the Board at Legislators, Lewis County, Urban K archer, Comity T reasu r e r; Ezra M oshter, Mayor of Castorland; Bernard S ullivan, Office of Local Government, Plans for the year 1973 were discussed and a r e p o rt was given by Edward S teber on d octor p r o curem ent for Lewis County. Those present were urged to attend If possible a meeting to be held a t the Court House T hursday evening at 7 p.m . by the Adirondack Park Agency where posalble plans will be discussed co toe development of the Adiron dack Park, part of which Is to Lewis County. The member# w ere also urged to attend a meeting Wednesday evening at the Oneida County Airport on the Future develop ment of the Nu-Way. Election Official Resigns M rs, Fern W„ Munn, Boonvttle RJD. i , has resigned, effective Jan, 1, as the Republican Lewis County Commissioner of toe Board of Elections, M rs. Munn said today that she has submitted h e r resignation to Paul C. Merz, chairm an-of the Lewis County Board o f Legis lators. No action has been taken »s yet by the Legislature In naming a successor. M r*. Munn Joined toe Board of Elections as a com m issioner on Oct. 11, 1951, succeeding the late Marlon HOI, Copenhagen. M rs, Munu Is m a rried to Otis Munn and the couple operates a dairy term along Route 12-D, n e a r Talcottvllle. The farm has been in toe family since 1835. M rs, Munn has served a s vice chairm an of toe Lewis County Republican Committee aince 1954. She Is a member of the Lewis County Women's Re publican Club, having served as treasu r e r and corresponding secretary. M rs, Munn has been an active worker to the Republican P a rty since she was f irst able to vote at toe age of 21. Until M rs. Munn’s poattlon la filled, wlto two years remaining on her four year term , M rs. Phyllis Duffy, Lowvllle, the Democratic com m issioner, Maintains the Board of Elections Office at the Court House. M rs, Duffy was recently reappointed to a four-year term .
