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Make Judicial Referral) Statewide We heartily commend the spirit of a move by a . Manhattan state senator and seven prominent New York- City lawyers to replace a partisan-elected judiciary with a merit-selection plan. They propose a constitutional amendment, limited to sitting judges in all New York City courts,.' requiring that: nominations be made by . nonpartisan commissions instead of district polmcal leaders. / Our main reservation about this overdue reform initiative is its restriction to New York City. It is practically im- . possible' for voters in the largest population center to know anything about the qualifications of judicial candidates and the elective system there has given rise to particularly glaring evils of political manipulation and pay-offs for judicial office. But if this is a reform idea \whose time has come,\ as its legislative sponsor hopes, it deserves application to up- state as well as downstate courts. For in both, the true judgemakers tend to be the 'leaders' of, the dominant party-a condition that is neither wholesome nor con- 'ducive to selection of the best- qualified candidates in a court system urgently in need of restoring public confidence. —BUFFALO EVENING NEWS Os Sludge Hassle Goesto Court WASHINGTON (UPI) - The U. S. Supreme Court has been asked to settle a (dispute between New York and Vermont over a 300-acre sludge bed in Lake Champlam The lake divides New York and Vermont and Vermont officials said Tuesday the fed- gral court. should settle the case because it involves a state boundary Vermont filed a suit in December, 1970 charging the state of New York and the International Paper Co. with '\'creating and maintaining a public nuisance, creating a trespass and unlawfully altering an interstate boundry.\ International Paper deposited the sludge in the lake from its paper milling operation at Ticonderoga. Serving The Lake Plains Country-Orleans. : iagara, Genfesee _ Elf‘ffll/eaffielf Partly cloudy tonight, chance of flurries, low near zero, down to 10 below some rural see- tions. Wednesday sunny followed by increas- ing clouds, high 20-25. Wind NW 5-15 tonight. VOL. 70-NO, 14 Levitt in Court on Legallty of ALBANY, N. Y. (UPI)—-State Comptroller Arthur Levitt today went to court to have Governor Rockefeller's budget declared unconstitutional. | _ Levitt, in papers filed in State Supreme Court for Albany Coun- ty, said that the form of the Rockefeller budget \violates the intent of the state constitution.\ Levitt contends the exécutive budget Rockefeller sent 'to the legislature in January was not detailed enough. Similar suits have been filed in recent years by Democratic legislators. Those suits, howev- er, failed because the courts ruled the legislators did not have the power to sue. | \At issue are two questions,\ Levitt said. \The first is whether the pro- posed appropriations contain sufficient itemization to permlt the legislature to take meaning- Budget ful action,” he said. “The sec- ond is whether the broad grant of power to the budget director to make interchanges is 'an ex- cessive delegation of legislative authority. \My purpose in bringing the action is to settle a major ques- tion in public finance, so that we can enter the new fiscal year without danger of further litigation,\ he said, If Levitt's suit is successful, it could delay the April 1 im- plementation of the governor's $7.9 billion budget. Budget experts said the spend- ing program would need a con- siderable overhaul if found un- constititional, and the changes would take weeks or months. For the past several weeks, Levitt has been negotiating with Rockefeller and Atty. Gen. Louis J. Lefkowitz to find an out - of- court settlement to the dispute. County Clerk Seeking Legal Aid Audit ALBION - The clerk for the County of Orleans today called for an audit and investigation of the activities of the Orleans Legal Aid Bureau in the af- . termath of a New York State Supreme Court ruling issued late last week. Francis Rumble said the court decision, which involved an action brought by Legal Aid against the county clerk over a $1 filing fee, should be followed by a report of the organization's activities to be made a part of the public record. The decision, which was rendered by Justlce Joseph P. Kuszynski in Buffalo, held that a petition by Jason Karp, an at- torney with Legal Aid, did not set forth sufficient grounds for any action by the court. : At the same time, the demslon said there is “nothmg so complex about the estrangement of, the Legal Aid Bureau from the Orleans County Clerk which the payment of a $1 bill to the county clerk cannot solve.\ Robert Kennedy's Son Aboard Hijacked Plane By United Press International A band of Arab guerrillas hijacked a Lufthansa 747 jumbo jet with 188 persons aboard to . the war-torn Red Sea state of southern Yemen today. They set free some of the passengers but kept the men, aboard, including Joseph P. Kennedy III, and then placed explosives aboard \t guard against any eventuality.\ Kennedy, the 19-year-old son .of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, boarded the plane at Mew Delhi after a brief visit to . India as a tourist. He had accompanied his uncle, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, on a tour € _ Bangladesh. The senator earlier. ‘ Egypt's semiofficial Middle East News Agency (MENA) said in a dispatch from ADEN that there were five hijackers, including a qualified pilot it identified as Youssef Khateeb, who seized the plane on a flight from New Delhi to Athens. It said the hijackers told officials they had landed in Yemen to refuel and that they permitted 52 persons to disem- bark-36 women, 15 children and one man. It did not identify the man but said the hijackers warned - Yemeni _ authorities from coming too close. MENA said the passengers were still aboard the plane at 9 a.m. EST. . Motives of the hijackers remained obscure but broad- .- casts indicated they ° were ' Palestinian guerrillas with a grudge against Israel and West Germany, which has close ties with Israel and has supplied it with aid. The - official . Iraqi - news agency said in a- dispatch from Aden, the capital of Southern Yemen, that a group calling itself the \Organization of the Victims of Israeli Aggression\ Deaths RUMBLE, WILLIAM SPARK, MISS GLADYS was responsible for the huack The group was not known in Arab eapitals and other Palesti- nian guerrilla organizations denied they were mvolved in the hijack. To complicate matters it appeared there had been: a war - -or possibly an attempted coup -under way in Southern Yemen. An Aden radio broad- cast reported local troops had beaten back 2,000 mercenaries Monday. The United States appealed to both the International Red : Cross in Geneva and the Southern Yemen government to intervene to gain the release of the passengers and' crew aboard the jumbo jet, which had been on a New Delhi to Athens flight when hijacked in the air over Pakistan. | (In Peking, President Nixon's Press Secretary. Ronald L. Ziegler, told reporters, \We're very much aware of the hijacking. We are being kept informed.\) Director Receives Word It was not known if the / hijackers knew Kennedy was on board. . _ . Rolf Bepper, director, of Lufthansa traffic at Frankfurt, said he had received word from his office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, that women and children aboard the plane were released and taken; to a restaurant at Aden rt. .. The Iraqi news agency also said that 50 women aboard the plane were released and were expected to be flown to Beirut later in the day. However, the agency said that Joseph Kenne- dy was not among the persons released, nor were members of the crew. The news agency quoted the hijackers as saying \We declare in the name of the Palestinian people that we refuse any type of surrender. The Nazi (Israeli) state will never sleep in peace. \We promise to continue our struggle in the occupied lands until the occupation ends.\ + t : - The- petmon which was brought on behalf of six clients of Legal Aid, apparently stemmed from the contention by the bureau attorney that a filing fee could not be charged for a standard dissolution of marriage paper. The county clerk, on the other hand, maintained that an opinion by the attorney general of the State of New York in November oflast year, entitled the county to charge for the filing. Rumble said today the county had been charging the fee for filing the papers for several years. He said he had heard at various county clerk meetings during the year that this was common practice throughout the state. Last year, the office of the county clerk collected and remitted to the county's treasurer the following fees: from the county clerk's office -- $28,352.38; from the motor vehicle bureau -- $39,520.65, and from the collection of the mor- tgage tax -- $61,626.46. Three-Car Collision At Ridgeway No personal injuries were reported following a three car accident yesterday morning at Routes 63 and 104 in the Town of Ridgeway, according to Wright's Corner State Police. The collision took place, authorities said, when a car driven by Betty Debrine, 50, 114 Maple Ave., Lyndonville, which had been traveling north on Route 63, slid through a stop sign .and struck a vehicle driven by 'Frank Bennett, 37, 1132% Ridge Rd., Medina. The Bennett vehicle had been traveling on Route 104 and was in the process of making a left hand turn onto 63 when the collision occurred. The Debrine car, State Police said, then spun around and hit a car driven by Herbert Walck, 46, 2640 Lyndonville Rd., Medma who had been travehng on Route 104. Authorities also reported an afternoon accident yesterday on Route 104 and Sawyer Rd. in- volving a truck driven by ken- neth Keller, 1113 S. Main Street, Medina and a car driven by Kent woman, Edith Morgan, age 38, who hsted her address as P.O. Box 1 State Police said both vehicles were traveling east on Route 104 when the Morgan car . attempted to make a left hand turn onto. Sawyer Rd. and was struck in the rear by the truck. Police said the Morgan woman was given a summons for failure to signal. A number of passengers in the Morgan car were injured in the accident and were taken to Arnold Gregory Memorial Hospital in Albion. They were Earl Coston, 54, P.O. Box 24, Kent; Stella® Vans, 63, Box 101, Kent; Eloise Hughes, 56, Box 17, Kent; Edgar Moody, 53, Box 101, Kent, and Verna Griffin, 29, no address listed, Kent. The driver, Edith Morgan, was also taken to thekhospital with pains in her neck. ~ MEDINA, NEW YORK, TUESDAY FEBRUARY 22|1972 Chang hPEKlNG-f z A I N G- INNER CIT-NT [An Street 7 -Forbidden City Temple of , Heaven PEKING POINTS of interest on President Nixon's | itinerary include a banquet in the Great Hall of Peo- ple, a visit to the Forbidden City and a visit to the hlstonc Great Wall Mood Grows Still _ Warmer for Nixon y HELEN THOMAS ~ PEKING (UPD-In high spir- its, [President Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai conferred for ngarly four hours today while 'Peking's people lined up to buy newspapers and clus- tered! around wall posters carrying accounts of their American guest's activities in China, The, crowds in .downtown department stores, almost as if ignal, warmed noticeably to ‘ Americans who accom- Nixon to Peking. The atmosphere was much more friendly, and Chou, 73, the old Comn un1st revolutlonary, ap- County Treasurer Plans Retirement This Year. In addition to the mterest that will be focused on the election of a president, a complete state legislature, members of the House of Representatives, and filling several judicial posts, Orleans County will be faced with the selection of the greater number of their elective offices: in the general election in November. Offices to be filled include that of district attorney, county treasurer, sheriff and one of the coroner posts. Geraldine Barry of Lyn- donville, presently county treasurer and budget director, has announced that she is con- cluding her 42-year association with the county treasurer's office at the conclusion of her present term on December 31, 1972. Miss Barry joined the staff at the county treasurer's office on March 23, 1930 as a typist-clerk, appointed to the post by the late Frank Buell, who was treasurer at the time. She served under succeeding treasurers and was appointed deputy by the late Burt Ludington. Following his sudden death in 1956, Treasurer Barry acted as treasurer until the following January 1, when she assumed full responsibility for the office, having been elected in November 1956 to the post. She has con- tinued to serve since that time. Having attained retirement age, Miss Barry states that she is concluding her county service at the end of her present term to \do q few of the things that I have wanted to do but haven't and Citizens Tickets p I Geraldine Barry had time to enjoy.\ Sheriff John A. Williams states that he will be a candidate for re- election. Sheriff Williams joined the Sheriff's Department January 28, 1955 as a dispatcher. He was first elected to the post of sheriff in November 1957, defeating Carl Kleindienst, who formerly had held the post as a Republican and whom he had defeated in the primaries, but who faced him again as a can- didate on both the Democrat}? in the general election. Williams has been re-elected each succeeding three years since that time. He will be concluding his sulth term on January 31 of this year. Except in 1960, when- Dennis Brennan of Lyndonville ran against him, Williams has been. Reporters Observe The China Scene... By United Press International ' Excerpts from the reports filed to their newspapers by some of the correspondents in Peking to cover President Nixon's visit to China: Max Frankel, The New York Times: \Although the Chinese have made it plain that they still harbor suspicions about American policy and what they call its 'imperialism,' the President did his best to bury the American fears of a Chinese menace that he himself had once helped to arouse...There was lively commerce in the little stores selling scarves and handker- shiefs and the ubiquitous blue costumes of the men and women.\ < ~ Stan Carter, New York Daily News: \Nixon and Chou appeared to be making a determined effort to improve relations between the United States and China after 23 years of bitter confrontation...Chou was all honey and sweetness at a banquet he gave for the American party last night. He called Chinese and American efforts to seek normalization of relations 'a positive step.\\ Stanley Karnow, the Washing- ton Post: “Pekmg continues to bear up under the biggest invasion of American journalists in its 2,000-year history. Television crews wan- der through the streets, baffling Chinese with their massive equipment and their peculiar antics. A large crowd was observed by this reporter today quipped. meanwhile, - (Monday) in one hutung, 'or alley; on closer inspection the center of the activity turned out to be Columbia Broadcasting . System news commentator Walter Cronkite, being filmed against the backdrop of Chingése in blue suits. 'I think I've ot an audience here,'' Cronki unopposed in each election since that time. He served as an under- sheriff for a short time under Kleindeinst prior to his seeking the two consecutive terms, law t and lfite the presidency at the present time, the inclumbent could) not succeed himself. However, a sheriff could again become a candidate after an intervening three-year term. The law was repealed in 1950. District Attorney Hamilton . Doherty, who was first elected to the post in November '63 and will be year term at the end of this year, could not be reached today for comment but it is expected that he will again be the Republican candiflate for re-election Democratic County Chairman William A. Monacelli at a recent public occasion stated that wh11e the Orleans Democrats have confined themselves to town offices over the past several year, this fall they will make an activ posts. In this event there should be an interesting election. For the past few years the county Democrats have fielded no candidate for county offices and the Republicans have won by default. Le Reagan Says U.S. WoJJId Aid Taiwan COLN, Neb. (UPD-Cali- form Gov. Ronald Reagan said Monday President Nixon has told him the Umted States gove ment he President only says he to open communication with ed China,\ Reagan said. Red Chmese try to take | Taiwan, the United W111 protect and defend e sheriff's post. ¢ For\ many years the office of 1 _ sheriff was restricted by state . ncluding his third three- : ed relaxed and less severe company of his capitalist F posters carrymg ac- nts of the Nixon meetings th [Chou and Mao Tse-tung, 78, the, father figure of all China, drew crowds along the streets on the second day of Nixon's eight-day mission to- China. The day was chilly but bright until the 'afternoon smoke caused by industrial smoke settled in once again. After a working session that lasted 'three hours and 50 minutes, White House Press Secrétary Ronald L. Ziegler declined to tell reporters anything about the substance of ° the falk. But his broad smile~ he impressmn that he felt things were going swimmingly. The President and his wife Pat had time for just a brief dinner in their guest house in west Pekmg before returning to: PRICE 10 CENTS isit until today to splash the story of Nixon's visit \in order that our American friends might have the opportunity to publish . the pictures first in their papers.! Such treatment of a guest is hlghly unusual in papers which, of course, take their cues from the government And the papers rarely print pictures. While Chou and Nixon-a Communist revolutionary and a capitalist lawyer-talked at a long, green table in the Great - Hall of the People, a glowing Pat Nixon got close to the 'people. She tasted and nibbled her way through the huge, immacu- late kitchen of e ornate, ° Victorian-style : Peking Hotel, where 110 cooks and chefs were - preparing some of the best food in China. Then she visited the summer palace used by China' s rulers in the 18th century. Secretary of State William P. Rogers met separately with Chi Peng-fei, the Chinese foreign minister, while Nixon and: Chou : had thelr formal conversation. evolutionary ballet “The Detachment of Women,” ’ nmunist village's struggle inst the Japanese during the f the 1930s. . u sat at Nixon's side at of the six-page \Peoples' ,'' which devoted seven Rogers said he took a walk \down the street to see the people'\ in the morning. 'So far, we didn't buy anythmg,” he sand . 'A long, green table under a huge painting depicting the red army's \long march'\'-where . Chou and party chairman Mao Tse-tung solidified their leader- _ship-set the scene for the talks. ' The march was a 6,000-mile 'trek of 90,000 Communist troops. led by Mao in 1934-35 to escape encirclement by Chiang Kai- shek's Nationalist forces. The f © march, considered \an epic of human perseverance,'' is the event that unified its survivors - to an extent unmatched in any campaign for county - _ Seeks New ree special goals are set up for the Medina Red Cross \blood. bank\ to be held March 8 at the First - United Presbyterian Church, Main St. (1) \First and foremost, we need to perk up our flow of new: blood donors and get back the support of some who have fallen by the wayside,\ said Paul Pollard of the blood committee. (2) The segond goal is to fulfill a need for Beven pints of O- Negative blood whlch are needed for gpen heart. surgery on a 73- - year-old man. | (3] Thirdly, the March 8th blood bank will need 11 pints of A- Positive blood for open heart surgery to be performed on a 40- year-old woman. - Mr. thest cases the need is urgent, but he also stressed that Medina, Lyndonville and vicinity need to \get back on the bandwagon\ in support of the blood program. Recent collections eof blood have fallen considerably below quota, he said. \We need the support of faith- . ful lug-term donors, but we also need to get newcomers in the ranks whenever we hold a bloodmobile day,\ he stated. He stressed that giving blood is qulk and painless. clude, besides Peking; a boat ride and banquet in Hangchow and a c a visit to the city's al show in industrial |exposition. . Shanghai along with fie.blood bank hours on March 8 will be 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the church parlors: Donors are advised to eat their regular ve A Chuckle . Pollard said that in both . Communist regime. Normal Relations Possible Chou said that \normal state relations'\ between the two . nations are possible. But formal diplomatic recognition is not expected to be an outgrowth of leon s Peking mission. Support | meals but they should avoid . cream, butter or fatty foods for four hours before giving blood. Too much fat content can cause a reaction in the patient who receives it. * Fire Chief Cites Town Cooperation Medina Fire Chief Dell Stork had a message of appreciation today: . - \Over the week end, during the storm, we had nine ambu- lance calls The co-operation was excellent between the two townships and village. The high- way superintendent for town of Shelby, William Howe, had called and stated that if we were need- _ed in the Town of Shelby to call him and he would accompany | with a snow plow. t \On Sunday morning we did have a call into Shelby and with - their assistance, got through. !\The same held with the Town of Ridgeway. Fred Roth, super- intendent of highways, dispatch- ed a plow which led us to a house on the Marshall Road for an ambulance call.\> - CORONA, Calif. (UP]) - Orange County sheriff’s Jleputies, alerted by vigilant citizens to a big-teen-age . narcohcs party\ in the foothills of the Santa Ana ountains Monday, surrounded the area, closed off ape routes, and moved i: They awoke 50 sleeping Boy Scouts on a camping trip. The deputies apologized to the scouts and left. BOURNEMOUTH En land (UPI) - A Bournemouth court fined Michael Day $130 for \breach of peace\ or posing as a cripple and asking girls to help him pss the street. The prosecution charged Day, a 27- oar-dd bachelor, held the girls hands and spent considerable time\ crossing. .
