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Too Bad Readers may recall that last tall, a group calling itself FLAG (Finger Lakes Action Group) wanted to arrange an organized program to get more residents of this area who are eligible registered so that they can vote in the up- coming election. Since most of those who aren't yet registered are young people who will be eligible under the new law giving the vote to those 18 and over, FLAG proposed first to conduct a voter education program in each of the area's high schools to be followed by a specified period for those eligible to register right then in their schools. FLAG would make all the arrangements and provide volunteer workers to insure the success of the program at each high school. All that would be required would be for staff of the appropriate Board of Elections to go to the - various schools at the ap- pointed time and sign up the new voters. It all seemed simple enough, and we thought it a fine public service. But the Ontario County Board of Elections thought otheriwse. It threw cold water on the proposal, despite the fact that one of its m o re i m port a nt functions is to make it easy for the unregistered to register. But if FLAG ran into a stone wall at the Ontario County Board of Elections, it found ° just the opposite greeting when it approached Yates County elections officials. A while back we carried a story from Rushville which reported that a - voter education - program - and registration session held for Yates County residents at the Marcus Whitman high school was a great success. Everyone, we are told, 'cooperated beautifully, in- cluding the students, FLAG volunteers and particularly the Yates County elections officials. As a result, 35 new voters were registered and democracy benefitted. isn't it too bad that Ontario County elections officials can't also see the light? -CANANDAIGUA MESSENGER $25 000 Is Lifetime Pay For Wmner O NEW YORK (UPD-A $2 bet turned into a $25,000-a-year for life meal ticket for a New York City transit worker Wednesday in the grand prize drawing of the New York State Lottery. The winner, Dublin - born James Killarney, of The Bronx, said he would use his first prize money \to buy a boat and a trip to Ireland.\ \But first, I'll have to change my phone number. I've got lots of relatives, you know,\ he said with a grin. Killarney, a bus mechanic for the city Transit Authority, was among 14 nervous finalists eli- gible for the grand prize who attended the drawing at the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan. said he wasn't ner- vous at all as Irish singer Car- mel Quinn picked the winner's name from the hopper. \I knew it would be me all the time,\ he said. Lottery official William M. Ham said Wednesday's draw- ing could be one of the last in the $2 lottery ticket series. The new 50 cent lottery tick- ets, with a first prize of $50,- 000, are proving so popular, he said, that the\state may discon- tinue the $2 lottery. Lottery ALBANY, N. Y. (UPI)- The winning number picked today in the weekly drawing of New York State's 50-cent lottery was 783- 090. Those holding tickets bearing the exact six-digit winning num- ber win $50,000; the last five dig- its, 15,000; the last four digits, $500; the last three digits, $50, and the last two digits, eligibi- lity for a bonus drawing. Repeating winning number - Deaths DIEBOLD, CHARLES M. fli‘Weafli er _ Vanable cloudmess a chance of snow flur- ries tonight. Low 10-15. Cloudy intervals Fri- day, a chance of snow late in the day, lngh in upper 20s. Winds N tonight, E Friday. vOL. 70-NO. 16 . MEDINA NEW YORK, THURSDAY FEB$UARY 24, 1972 Young And Full Of Energ -lm» © . CONDITIONING - Medina High School students from 10th to 12th grade have add ging to their gym class. elective by the students! and the course began at 1% mi advanced to two miles 4 the canal bank. Other future back riding, archery etc. cher Charles Mancuso watches in the photos here as his k finishes the last lap. —(J—R Photos) Holley Group Has Goal of HOLLEY - Mayor Bruce Rod- well has named a committee of Holley and Holley area residents to explore the possibility of lo- cating a Doctor to locate within the Village. Mayor Rodwell stated, \The function of this committee will be to attempt to locate a doctor.\ In naming the committee,. the Mayor said \I feel we have a good cross sec- tion of people. All age groups are represented , The committee consists of: Mrs. Lucille Moriss, Stanley Passarell, Mrs. Jane Hudy, An- drew DeCarlo, Donald Emanuel, Mrs. Betty Murphy, Michael Charles, Mrs. Blossom Born- camp and James Piedmonte. Alblon Eyes Future Cost New Doctor Of New Sewage Plant ALBION-This village's municipal debt limit, fixed by the New York State Constitution, may be hiked in order tocon- struct a waste water sewage treatment plant. In a letter to the Albion Village Board, Village Attorney Sanford Church asked for approval to apply to the New York State Department of Audit and Control for an exclusion in the debt limit. The authorization is needed, according to Church, to bring the overall village debt in line with a $3million bond issue which may be required for the treatment plant's construction. Sucha bond issue, Church said, could be more than the $1.5 or $1.2 million actual cost of the = Happy Ending To Lufthansa By United Press International A coded message from Beirut to Aden brought a happy ending today to the saga of a Lufthansa 747 hijacked to Southern Yemen Monday with 188 personsaboard. : The message reading \habib (always faithful) to the martyr Abu Talaat\ was hand-deliv- ered to five Arab guerrillas at midnight aboard the airliner booby trapped with 70 pounds of explosives, Aden airport officials said. The palestinian | hxjackers immediately released the 14 crewmembers they had held as hostage and the big plane took off from Aden's desert airstrip Drug Suspect Changes Plea ALBION -An Albion man who pleaded guilty earlier this month to three misdemeanor drug charges after the Orleans County Sheriff's Department searched his home, changed his plea last night before Town of Gaines Justice C. Eugene Leigh. Represented by Albion at- torney Gustave DiBianco, Gary Pescara, 20, of Brown Rd., with- drew his original plea and asked for a postponement of the proceedings. Pescara was charged Feb. 9 with criminal possession of a dangerous drug in the sixth degree, possesson of implements for the administration of a narcotic drug and for growing a narcotic plant known as marijuana by an unlicensed person. The youth, whofacesa possible maximum sentence of one year and or a $1,000 fine on each of the three counts, is scheduled to appear again March 8 at 7:30 p.m. before Justice Lelgh Hijack for Frankfurt with fresh crew members flying the aircraft. Aden police questioned the five hijackers and then released them but there was no word of what ransom., if any, had been paid. Unofficial reports said up to $3 million had been promised to the guerrilla organization and that three or four Arabs held in West German jails would be freed. The passengers had been freed earlier, including Joseph P. Kennedy III, the 19-year-old son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy who flew to Boston from Frankfurt. China- Made Guns SAIGON (UPI)-South Viet- . namese troops stumbled on four Chinese-made 160mm mortars hidden in hillside tunnels during a sweep of the Central Highlands, a U.S. spokesman said Wednesday. The mortars capable of firing a shell five miles, were the first of their kind seen in South Vietnam. They were hidden within range of the key Fire Base Five and the provincial capital of Kontum City. Intelligence reports said the Communists could have brought up the heavy guns for a new offensive in the Central High- lands. In the Mekong Delta Com- munist soldiers took heavy, losses when they assaulted two government outposts 40 miles north of Saigon, government spokesmen said. The Viet Cong softened up ene 30-man government outpost with an artillery barrage. f permlssmn plant which plans call for on Densmore Street. Church said this morning that final approval of the plans is expected \momentarily.\ After approving the village attorney's request, the board gave its OK to a contract with Alan J. McKenna for the disposal of the village's solid waste in his landfill operation on Yager Rd. The board stipulated, however, that the annual contract for this year would remain at last year's level -- $12,500 -- until McKenna could produce documentary evidence that his landfill operation has been approved by the Orleans County Board of Health. McKenna had requested, the board said last night, an annual contract at $14,000. It agreed to approve this figure on a pro rata basis when McKenna brings the documents forward. The board approved the sale of a piece of property owned by Eugene Raymond, 231 Cham- berlain St., to the Klebehnk Corp., represented by attorney Curtls Lyman, of Albion, for $2,500. The sale had 'been approved Feb. 3 by the County Board of Supervisors, but needed the stamp of approval from the village board. Approval was also given to the village attorney to get county .to sell seven delinquent tax properties in the village with total tax obligations of $2,671.97. The, village's Public Works Department was given per- mission last night to pick up a 2% Water District: Syracuse Firm Low In Shelby Biddi SHELBY - A North Syracuse construction company submitted the lowest among eight contract bids yesterday for the right to work on this town's new water district. The Onontario Corp., vying with seven other firms, mcludmg three based in Alblon Medina and Lockport undercut its ist competitor by $8,747. $192,173 asbestos cement bid was well under the $275,000 bond issue taken out by the town, and substantially lower than a bid submitted by the Marin Concrete Co., Inc., of Cheektowaga. The $275,000 bond issue, however, will. also. cover legal and engineering costs, while the bids submitted yesterday are limited to construction. The Marin company, whose bid came in at $200,920 for the so- 'the birds. Nayman su truck hich gram ton surplus U.S. Army located in Massachysetts the village. \won''/in a pr of drawings held by the Defense Director of Orlea Cost to the village in orfer to pick the truck up and tow it back to Albion was estimated at| about $250. The truck is a 1952 GMC six- wheel with no heater or defroster. The government, the of Medina, the Town of and the Holley Fire Dept. The Shelby Fire Dept. got the first truck. Others are expected. \Pigeons Pigeons, pigeons,\ Trustee Francis Nayman said last night as the board got|ready to wrap up its last minute business. Nayman said he had heard about a number of com- plaints, especially from| local merchants, regarding the pigeon nuisance in the downtown area. Mayor William Monacelli argued that it isn't the village's responsibility to rid several of the downtown buildings of their problem with pigeons. Nayman said something should be done about enforcing the building code on some) of the older buildings which apparently provide convenient shelter for ested that the board find out from agencies connected with pest control what can be done about the birds and pass formation along to the bui owners who have the problem. called \A.C.\ pipe, was the second lowest bidder followed by the Bieniek Contracting Co., Inc. of Eggertsville with $217 595 75 for the A.C. pipe Two of these three bidders also submitted estimates for the work on the water district should the town decide to build wit iron pipe rather than A.C. The low bidder, Onontario, submitted a cast iron bid for $208,802, while the number two bidder, Marin, pegged the cost at $223,420. Bieniek did not submit any bid for cast iron pipe The bid opening was col ducted under the auspices of a Lockport consulting engineér firm, Wendel . Associates, which will spend the next several days pouring over the mathematics of each bid to check for accuracy and con- formity with specificatio For this reason, the bids are Civil g‘ cast © | 1 w u By HELEN THOMAS PEKING (UPI) -President Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai held a three-hour secret sum- mit session today, exploring ways of opening future channels of friendship between the United States and China. They then spent two more hours together at a friendly, informal dinner. | Over-all the two leaders were in each other's company for five hours without interrup- tion but 'strict secrecy conti- nued to prevail on their discussions. \ Their meeting came a few hours after Nixon declared at the centuries-old Great Wall of China that he hoped his China visit would help break down walls of any kind -diplomatic as . well) as physical -that \divide the peoples of the world.\ | ~ Nixon and Chou began thelr latest talk at 5:15 p.m. Peking time and were closeted together until 8: 15 p.m. They then joined their wives, advisers and other guests for the two-hour dinner in another room of | the mammoth Great Hall of the Peoples in central Peking. Since Nixon's arrival in China four days ago, the two world leaders have been together approximately 25 hours, more than half of that time devoted to official discussions. Taiwan Discussed It was definitely learned that the thorny issue of Taiwan where the Nationalist regime of Chiang Kar-shek holds forth was a {principal topic of dlscussmn by Nixon and Chou. Before : the two heads of government held their third extended | session, Secretary of State Wllham P. Rogers and Chinese Forelgn Minister Chi Peng-fei; held a three-hour afternoon meeting -their third session of the trip. Rogers 'and. Chi were believed hammermg out specific lan- guage of general agreements reached by Nixon and Chou on cultural exchanges and continu- ing diplomatic contact, short of formal relations. A formal communique is expected 'to be issued at the conclusmn of the Nixon-Chou talks. The two are scheduled for another meeting Friday, followed by a formal banquet by Nixon for his hosts in response ito one for him and Mrs. Nixon Monday night. Nixon's first public comment on his yisit came when he halted his tour df the Great Wall to chat with American newsmen: accompanymg him. Standing in winter sunshine on the longest wall ever erected by mankind, he observed: \We do not want walls of any kind.\ The President said his talks with Chou were \very interest- ing\ and prompted Secretary of State William P. Rogers to agree they are \going well.\ . Nixon Philosophizes Visibly: impressed by ' his inspection of the Great Wall, « t j | i I I still considered tentative or, as Leon Wendel of the firm ex- plained, “apparent \ The town has 45 days to reach a decision on which of the firms submitted the lowest \correct\ bid. Mr. Wendel said some an- nouncement could be for- thcoming next week. Should the lowest \apparent\ bidder be in error, the next lowest : bidder would have priority 'and so on. Of the local construction firms, Frank J. Balcerzak & Son, Inc., of Medina submitted a bid of $229,107, for the A.C. pipe and $245,142 for the cast iron pipe. Keeler Construction Co., Inc., Albion, bid in at $264,664. 50 for A.C., and $284,759.25 for the cast iron, while Bullard Contracting Corp., Lockport, pegged the bid at $268,954.75 for A.C., and $286,564 for cast iron. old ecre ummlo Greater U.S.-China Friendship Stressed erected three centuries before Christ's birth, which snakes 1,500 milesacross China from the Yellow Sea to the Gobi Desert, Nixon phxlosoplnzed on his mission to China. \We do not want walls of any kind between peoples and I think one of the results of our trip-we hope-may be that the walls that are erected, whether: they be physical walls like this or whether they are walls of ideology or philosophy, will not divide the peoples of the world. \As we look at this wall,\ he said, \what is most‘ important is that we have an open world. \My hope is that as a result of the beginning -we made many, many Americans may have the opportunity to come here and see this wall and to know the history of China and to see the Chinese people.\ Li Beams That brought a beam to the face of the Chinese vice premier, serving as a guide for Nixon and the First Lady on a sunny but chilly mornmg in China. At the wall, 35 miles outside Peking, and later at the underground tombs in a valley floor northwest of Peking where lie buried 13 emperors of the Ming dynasty, the Nixons were swarmed by Chinese photogra- phers, minor Chinese officials and Chinese tourists. The trip outisde Peking was the President's first crack at daytime sightseeing. ° Hundreds, perhaps thousands of Chinese laborers had worked through the night to clear away fresh snow with shovels and bamboo brooms for Nixon's trip to the wall. Orders Press Report Bundled up in a fur-collared suburban coat, rubber ribbed shoes for climb- ing the wall. But after a long: and bumpy ride in a limousine flying the Stars and Stripes from its fenders, he decided against it. Instead, he said with a laugh, \I order all the press to climb to the top and glve me a report.\ After resting in a tea house with <the 75 people who accompanied them, the Nixons drove to the Ming tombs, where they paused in awe at gngantxc , marble camels, elephants. and lions which lined the road. Three. plump, rosy-cheeked little girls in red, pink and blue jackets gave a rope-jumping - demonstration for the Nixons. Their pigtails each were tied with a brightly colored bow. \It's worth coming here,\ the President said. Would he recommend that Americans apply for Chinese visas so they could? \I would not comment on that until after the meetings.\ But, he added, \I hope one of the developments . is that the American people will come here and the Chinese people | Truck Skids On Grade A tractor trailer belonging to. Starkweather Freight Lines of Albion reached the top of a grade at the intersection of Routes 98 and 31A last night and - went into a skid that left the truck stranded one the shoulder of the road. The Orleans County Sheriff's Department said the driver, Gary W. Leistman, 969¥4 Rldge Rd. West, Brockport, escaped injury after the truck, which had been headed south on Rt. 98 in the Town of Barre crossed the center line and came to rest along. the roadside agamst a fence. Facial Burns David Robbins of Lewiston was treated at Lockport Mem- orial Hospital today for facial \flash burns\ sustained while at work as an installer for mold- ing machines being set up in the new Fisher-Price Toy Co. annex here. He was taken in the Me- dina municipal ambulance and the hospital said he was released . after treatment. al Nixon wore PRICE 10 CENTS will go to the United States.\ . Exchange Agreed Upon A- broad exchange of stu- dents, scholars and newsmen, it was learned Wednesday by UPI diplomatic reporter: Stewart Hensley has been agreed upon during the Nixon-Chou talks. Nixon seemed pleased with what 'he had achieved in his talks with Chou and his hour- long meeting Monday >with Communist party Chairman Mao Tse-tung, the father figure of 800 million Chinese. In addition to the people-to- people exchanges, Western di- plomats stationed permanently in Peking reported, the two leaders have made progress in working out a declaration of '\peaceful coexistence.\ n It was said to acknowledge - the deep ideological differences which divide their societies, but pledge to cooperate whever possible to eliminate points 'of conflict in Asia. State Tuition Boosts Shown At-A-Glance ALBANY, N. Y. (UPD)-Here, at a glance, is the State Uni- yersxty tuition and room rent hike. - All students living in SUNY dormitories will pay $650 a year for rent, an increase of $100 a year. The tuition hike for freshmen and sophomores will mean: _ -If the taxable family income is $2,000 a year or below, the students pays no tuition now and will pay none under the increase. -If the taxable family income . is between $2,000 and $4,000, the student pays $250 tuition now and will pay the same amount under the increase. -I the taxable family income is between $4,000 and $6,000, the student pays $250 now and will pay $350 under the increase. -If the taxable family income is between $6,000 and- $8,000, the student is paying $350 now and will pay $450 under the increase. -If the taxable family income _ is between $8,000 and $20,000 the student is paying $450 now and will pay $550. -If the taxable family mcome is over $20,000, the student is paying the maximum of $550 now and will pay the new maximum of $650 a year. For juniors and seniors, the new tuition hike means: -If the family income is $2,000 or less, the student is paying nothing now and will 'pay nothing under the increase. -If the taxable family income is between $2,000 and $4,000, the student is paying $250 now and will pay $300 under the increase. -If the taxable family income is between $4,000 and $6,000, the student is paying $250 now and will pay $400 under the increase. -If the taxable family income is between $6,000 and $8,000, the student is paying $350 now and will pay $500 under the increase. -If the taxable family income is between $8,000 and $12,000, 'the student is paying $450 now and. will pay $600 under the increase. -If the taxable family income is between $12,000 and $20,000, the student is paying $450 now and will pay $700. -If the taxable family income is over $20,000, the student is paymg the maximum of $550 now and will pay the new max- imum of $800. The above levels apply to all New York State undergraduates. Out-of-state . undergraduates are now paying $900 a year. Under the increase, they will pay $1,075 a year for the freshmen and sophomore years and $1,300 a year for the junior and senior years. All graduate students from New York State are now paying $800 a year; they will pay $1,200 a- year under the increase. All out - of-state graduate students now pay $1,000 a year; the will pay $1,500 a year under the increase. All professional students in medicine, dentistry, law, optometry and- pharmacy now pay $1,200 a; year if they are from New York State; they will pay $1,600 a year under the increase. All out-of-state students in the professional category now pay $1,500 a year, and they will pay $2,000 a year under the in- crease. \
