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wfe THEJOU Power of Words it was thoughtful of\ the Sertoma Club to dedicate its Freedom Week Dinner to the news media. Preservation of freedom and rights and individual dignity is the main role of those in this profession. The mission is to do one's utmost to assure the people's right to know and to guarantee that they are informed. It, in a sense, boils down to the \Power of Words,'' por- trayed in this manner by Leo Rosten in a special review of the 35 years covered by Look magazine. \\They sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first im- measurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past. For without these marvelous scribbles which build letters into words, words into sentences, sentences into systems and sciences and creeds, man would be forever confined to the self-isolated prison of the scuttiefish or the chimpaitzee. 'One picture is worth ten thousand words,' goes the time-worn Chinese maxim. 'But', one writer tartly said, 'It takes words to say that.' \'We live by words: Love, Truth, God. We fight for words: Freedom, Country, Fame. We die for words: Liberty, Glory, Honor. They bestow the priceless gift of articulacy on our minds and hearts-from 'Mama' to 'infinity.' \And the men who truly shape our destiny, the giants who teach us, inspire us, lead us to deeds of immortality, are © those who use words with clarity, grandeur and passion: Socrates, Jesus, Luther, Lincoln and Churchill\. —-BATAVIA DAILY NEWS Self-Defense Claimed in Assault Case ALBION - Opening remarks by counsel for one of two defendants charged with first degree assault against a Clarendon man last November contended yesterday in Orleans County Court the act was com- mitted in self-defense. Curtis Lyman, attorney for Sandra Nichols, 20, of Hemlock Ridge Rd., Albion, argued before the six-man, six-woman jury that his client feared for her personal safety at the time Harvey Bonk of Clarendon was seriously in- . jured by a shot-gun blast. The other defendant's counsel, Orleans County Public Defender John Russelli, maintained there was no criminal intent involved on the part of his client, Robert Roy White, 19, of Root Rd., Albion, who the district attorney alleged in opening remarks was an accessory in the shooting of Bonk. The shooting, which took place at the residence of James Reamer, of Upper Holley Rd., Holley, apparently resulted in injuries to Bonk which District - Attorney Hamilton Doherty said - yesterday constituted a per- manent handicap. The prosecution called three witnesses yesterday all of whom were near the scene of the shooting by their own accounts: James Reamer, Laura White, wife of the Defendant, and Morris Lamica, of Barker, a neighbor of the Reamers The trial will continue today before Judge J. Kenneth Serve. Protestant Extremists Threaten To Kill BELFAST, Northern Ireland (UPI)-A Protestant extremist ~ organization said today it would assassinate 10 Roman Catholics for every British soldier and policemen killed in Northern Ireland. It said each of the 10 will include a Catholic priest. The threat came as gunmen mounted a new wave of bombings in Londonderry and other cities in Northern Ireland which damaged a post office building, a pub, a tire depot and a motor firm. Snipers also traded shots with British troops during the day. The threat came from the Uister Volunteer Force (UVF) in a statement to a Belfast newspaper. A police official said security forces were taking the threat seriously. Deaths SOUTHCOTT, ALBERT VOL. 70—NO 25 Expenmental Schools May Receive Aid ALBANY, N.Y. (UPD Communities could set up small, experimental schools and still get state aid under a plan sponsored by the legislature's two education committee chair- men. Sen. Thomas Laverne, R-Ro- chester, and Assemblywoman Constance E. Cook, R - Ithaca, said Tuesday the schools would be governed by boards partially chosen by parents, to encourage classes not offered in regular schools. The bill, which is being offer- ed for study purposes this year, would let the state provide the regular school aid, provided all requirements were met. \It would be a community operated experiment, subject to control of the local school dis- trict,\ Laverne said. Mrs. Cook said the schools could be more innovative than they now are, largely for reasons of size. The experimen- tal schools also would be more controlled by parents, and might save costs by using vol- unteer teachers and avoiding large physical plants. For example, Mrs. Cook said the experunental East Hill School in Ithaca has an enroll- ment of 80 to 100 youngsters with three regular teachers. Although about 75 such schools are now operating in the state, with an estimated enroll- ment of 6,000, Mrs. Cook said the bill was needed to insure state funding for such institu- tions. L Under the plan, the schools would have to meet require- | ments including: -Not charging tuition or fees, and not discriminating by race, creed, color or sex. -Being run by a board of di- rectors, at least half of whom would be elected by parents of the pupils. -Meeting state education re- quirements and having certified teachers. -Getting the written approv- al of the local school board for operation. Powell in Fair Condition After Florida Surgery MIAMI (UPI)-Adam Clay- ton Powell sat up in his hospital bed and managed a smile, but the former Harlem congress- man didn't give out with his customary, \keep the faith, baby.\ A \very uncomfortable\ Powell is recuperating in Jackson Memorial Hospital today from a recurrance of a prostate condition which forced him to undergo surgery four months ago. The hospital said Powell's condition is \fair.\ Powell, who now lives in self- imposed exile with his second wife, Darlene, on the tiny Bahamian island of Bimini, had to be evacuated by Coast Guard helicopter from the island 48 miles 'due east of Miami. He said he started bleeding Mon- day afternoon. The Commissioner of Bimini put in a request for the Coast Guard helicopter which arrived Monday night and flew Powell to Miami. Powell said he may have to undergo more surgery for his prostate condition. Powell and his present Wlfe have been living on Bimini about a year and a half. % % NA RGISTER Serving The Lake Plains Country-Orleans, Niagara, Genesee ces VISITOR-Anticipating the possibility of a shift in congressional districts which would place him as Orleans County's capitol lawmaker, Rep. Henry P. Smith III attended the Tast general election rally held by Orleans MEDINA NEW YORK WEDNESDAY MARCH 8, 1972 I can.\ -- Republicans at Apple Grove Inn. He is shown giving the cameraman a smile. Rep. Smith said from Washington today that he is \looking forward to meeting as many residents of Orleans County as (J-R' Photo) Smith Pledges Service To New Constituency Congressman Henry P. Smith III of North Tonawanda, slated to become Orleans County's congressional representative under the new state re- apportionment program, told the Journal-Register from his Washington office today that he s \delighted to have Orleans Avis Is Happy to Be Back NEW YORK (UPI) - Avis, the daimatian watchdog and mascot of Engine Co. No. 2 in Manhattan, is back after being missing since Feb. 16. | An involved and determined search by city detectives, all the firemen of the engine com- pany, and Massachusetts police ended Tuesday when Fire Capt. John Downs and Fireman Mi- chael Andreachie drove to Me- thuen, Mass., and returned with the dog. The 4 - year - old Avis, which accompanied firemen on routine inspection tours, stood guard at the stationhouse when alarms were being answered and holds an unusual citation from Fire Commissioner Robert O. Lowe- ry, was apparently stolen and taken to Methuen, 270 miles away. According to Andreachie, \witnesses got the license plate number of the car that picked Avis up.\ Andreachie said there are no plans to prosecute anyone. \We're just very happy about getting Avis back,\ he said. Avis won his citation after a New York resident, in a letter to the commissioner, described the dog's response when an alarm came in to the station- house. After the bells rang out, the letter said, \the doors opened and all of a sudden this very dedicated canine ran out and stood in the middle of the street barking.\ Despite trucks, cars and tax- is, \that dog stood barking and pacing back and forth in the middle of the street. 80 Applicants Seeking Albion School Post ALBION - More than 80 ap- plications for the office of super- intendent have been receiveed from throughout the United States by a school board com- mittee which expects to make an appointment by May 1. According to a release pre- pared by the school administra- tion, the committee has been screening the applications and interviewing is expected to be- gin shortly. The committee, headed by Mrs. Dales Burdett and com- posed of Gordon Gardner, Ron- ald Harling, John Paganelh and , Eugene Smith, will select a su- ' perintendent from a group of finalists. The new superinten- dent is expected to re- sponsibility on July 1. In other business, the school administration announced that 'the new high school building has the south portion of one wing completed. The roof and second floors will be completed shortly. Bids are being accepted for the purchase of new equipment for the building which will not be available for September 1972. A definite date for occupancy of the new building has not been determined yet, the school ad- ministration said, The administration also an- nounced that the Board of Edu- cation has approved the use of voting machines for school elec- tions and voting. These will be used in July in the voting for school board members and the budget. County in my new 36th District.\ He continued, \I have many riends in the county now and am looking forward to meeting as many of the residents as I can. If I am re-elected to the Congress of the U.S., effort to serve the people of Orleans in the same outstanding - way they have been served by | my good friend, Barber Conable. - I anticipate nothing but a fine . Need for Race Harmony Smith was in Albany yesterday - relationship with this new part of my district.\ to take part in hearings and a workshop of the N.Y.S. Assoc. of Broadcasters on legal restric- tions of broadcasting. Today he was back in Washington to attend an executive meeting and hearings of a subcommittee on claims of the Judiciary Committee, of which he is a member. He is also a member of the Committee on the District of Columbia and has introduced a measure termed \moderate\ to 'try to solve the controversy over whether D.C. should be made a separate governmental entity or turned over to the State of Maryland. I shall make every - Man Dies to FLINT, Mich. L. Cabell Jr., a black school administrator who refused to : take sides in his quest to bring ' about racial harmony, sought to achieve in death what he was unable to accomplish alive. \I die to emphasize to you 'and all minority people who ever dream to be free that it : can only come through working together,\ he wrote his students . moments before taking his life. \It seems that there is no Says Dita Confronted Mitchell; Collapsed WASHINGTON - (UPI)-For- mer Gov. Louie B. Nunn of Kentucky told a Senate investi- gating committee Tuesday that Dita D. Beard lost. consciousness at a Kentucky Mrs. Derby party after trying to discuss the ITT antitrust case John N. Mitchell. The Judiciary Committee resumed its investigation today with acting Attorney General: Richard G. Kleindienst and ITT director Felix G. Rohatyn : tant to make a detailed report ' on the \financial hardship\ ITT among the expected witnesses. The committee is holding up the confirmation of Kleindienst' to succeed Mitchell-who re- signed March President Nixon's re-electlon campaign-until it can sort out! the facts surrounding the: Justice Department's 1971 deci- sion to drop an antitrust suit against International Telephone: an & Telegraph Corp. and alleged offer by an ITT. subsidiary to donate $400,000 to. the Republican National Cone vention in August. Syndicated columnist J acki Anderson in- citing memos written by Mrs. Beard as ITT's | in Washington has: lobbyist alleged the Justice Department dropped its suit against the: largest merger in U.S. corpor-, ate history in exchange for the: donation from the Sheraton: Corp., an ITT subsidiary. Mrs. Beard has not been able: to testify at the hearings because Dr. David Garland of: the Rocky Mountain Osteopath-: ic Hospital in Denver has her ; under intensive care for a serious heart condition. Garland 'with Mrs. Beard \laid .. on the floor'' apparently the 1 to head' . out victim of either a heart attack or \drinks and a few other things.\ _ An earlier committee witness Tuesday, Judge Richard M. r | ; McLaren of Chicago, defended with then Attorney General his policies as chief of the ' antitrust division at the time the ITT case was handled. McLaren said that a White House aide, Peter J. Flanigan, a former Wall Street executive, arranged for an outside consul- would experience if it was forced to shed Hartford Fire Insurance Co. Flanigan hired Richard J. Ramsden, a young investment consultant, whose report formed the basis for McLaren's decision July 31 to settle the suit with ITT keeping Hartford, but divesting control of six other corporations. The White House Tuesday absolved all its staff members ; of any impropriety in the ITT : settlement. Of N Eli‘ZIJea “er Variable eloudiness, cold, a chance of snow flurries tonight and Thursday : Low tonight near 15, high Thursday 20-25. Precipitation probablhty 40 p.c. tonight and 30 Thursday. i I PRiCE 10 CENTS Opes Primary Gives New | Boost To McGovern By STEVE GERSTEL | MANCHESTER, NH. (UPI) -Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, a tarnished frontrunner, and Sen. George S. McGovern, a re- juvenated challenger, were locked in a close race today for New Hampshire's 20 delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Muskie, a well-known neigh- bor from Maine, claimed his \'third victory in a row\ by winning the New Hampshire presidential primary-but he fell slightly short of a majority in what was anticipated as a big win destined to propel him to the Democratic presidential ' nomination. McGovern, the South Dakota senator who began his active campaign more than ayear ago. and spent much more time in New Hampshire than Muskie, exceeded by a wide margin his expectations of 25 per cent of the vote. It was the kind of effort he wanted to spur his campaign in succeeding prima- ries. 7 ' Muskie's role as the front- running candidate was placed in even graver doubt in the balloting for New Hampshire's 20 delegates to the Democratic convention. With fewer than Emphasize other way for me to get your attention.\ Cabell, 26, for two years had been assistant principal at Beecher High School, whose school population of 1,000 students is 65 per cent white and 35 per cent black. Proud of his blackness, convinced of his need to- be just, frustrated by his inability to reach hotheads of both races and distressed by the apathy of those in the middle, Cabell put the shotgun to his head in the early morning hours of Feb. 24 and pulled the trigger. First, however, he wrote two letters-one to his wife of three years, Carlitta, and the other addressed Simply \For Bee- cher.\ That letter, made public by Mrs. Cabell Tuesday, said in part: \I am a leader but I cannot march alone. To all those black students... who worked hard at bringing sense to the errant and foolish brothers and sisters at Beecher, thanks for your efforts-I appreciate them. \To the white student body, I commended you for keeping your cool as long as you did. Tolerance and patience be yours forever. \To the vast majority of black students who did not take a stand but let the words of a few hotheads ... turn your mind away from what it was all about-I say it was for you I- die.\ It was this passage, accord- ing to School Principal Robert Towns, that epitomized Cabell's plight. \He was a black man and there were those students who could not accept the fact that he was working diligently for the equality of all students,\ Towns said. - Walkley Special Guest For Firemen's Program ALBION - Assemblyman ' Frank Walkley of Castile, who now is a veteran Albany lawmaker, but who has declined to seek re-election, will be the featured speaker here Friday night at the annual dinner-dance of the Orleans County Vol. { Firemen's Assoc. Assemblyman said Tuesday that Mrs. Beard” Walkley is expected to be named 53, suffered a. relapse after: commissioner of the State Dept. reading newspaper accounts of, the Senate investigation. Nunn, a Republican whose term ended in December}, testified Tuesday night that the , whis of Agricultural and Markets and retirement from the Assembly is seen as a re-infore- ment of this. rumor. incident between Mrs. Beard, Assemblyman Walkley and his and Mitchell took place at the wife, Pat, will be featured guests governor's mansion last May at the firemens affair, planned after the Kentucky Derby horse in the Firemen's Recreation race. Nunn testified that th \embarrassing\ incident endfi1 -| Bldg. here with Robert Batt, Michael Mathern, Fritz Neidert Earl Dunham (Waterport) and Lyman Clark (Waterport) as the committee in charge. The affair will begin at 6, with dinner at 7 and dancing at 9 after a brief program of addresses. Other special guests will be Richard Watson of Lockport, a vice pmxdent of the State Vol. Firemen's Assoc.; Lloyd LaDue of Brockport, head of the WNY Vol. Firemen's Assoc., and Gerald Buckenmeyer of Alexander, first V-P of the WNY association. The County Vol. Firemen's Auxiliary is also invited to participate in the dinner-dance program and a capacity crowd is anticipated. Charles Furness of Shelby, Raymond Withey of Ridgeway and' Alex Hewitt of Medina have tickets in the western Orleans area. l Sen. Gerge McGovern. , half the precmcts reporting, Muskie and McGovern each had 10 delegates. The final results may not be known for days. Commenting at a news conference today. on Mc- Govern's showing, Muskie said, \Sen. McGovern made a good showing here and I should think that would be helpful to him.\ However, Muskie said he never tried for a \maximum showing\ in New Hampshire. \We did the best we could with what we had and we won,\ said the Maine senator. \We didn't have the time or the resources to make a maximum showing. I've got to- win in the other primaries or at least make a consistent show- ing, so of what revelance is the percentage to me?\ Muskie said. The cast of candidates for the Democratic presidential nomin- ation now moves south to Florida where four major eZeZeZe a.- TWA Plane But No One Hu NEW YORK ex- plosion ripped through a \thoroughly ~searched\ Trans World Airlines jetliner parked at a Las Vegas airport early today less than 24 hours after a- live bomb had been discovered. in a TWA jet at Kennedy Airport in New York. There were no injuries in the blast that almost totally de- stroyed thecockpit of the plane at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas. - Charles Wyre, TWA general | manager in Las Vegas, said the plane had beensearched before it left Kennedy Airport Tuesday night and was again searched after passengers debarked in . Las Vegas shortly after mid- night. . \'The plane was thoroughly searched,\ Wyre said. The line carried out searches on all its 250 aircraft following a claim by an extortionist demanding $2 million that four explosive devices had. been placed on TWA aircraft. A live bomb had been sniffed out by a trained dog in the cockpit .of a TWA jet at Kennedy Airport Tuesday and was defused at 12:48 p.m. EST, only 12 minutes before it was set to go off. The Las Vegas explosion came at 6:45 a.m. EST, 15 minutes before the last deadline in the extortionist's threat to blow. up a TWA plane every six hours for 24 hours. The plane was positioned in a parking ramp area only yards from the terminal awaiting refueling for a flight to London. - Federal officials said the bomb apparently had been placed in a restroom in the front of the craft. Authorities immediately sealed off the airport terminal and the roadways leading to it after the blast, permitting no one to enter or leave for about an hour. TWA earlier had said the FBI was investigating the case but the federal agency only had a terse \no comment\ in re- sponse to questions by repor- ters. The live plastic bomb was discovered by a German entrants who bypassed the New Hampshire primary waited to challenge Muskie and Mc- Govern. | The Democratic primary ballot showed, “Wlth 90 per cent Sen. Edmlgmd S. Muskie of the precincts counted: Muskie 38,689 votes and 48 per cent of the yote; McGovern 30,022 votes and 37 per cent; Mayor Sam | Yorty of Los Angeles 4,777 votes and 6 per cent; Sen. Vance Hartke of Indiana 2,236 votes and 3 per cent; Rep Wilbur Mills of Arkansas 3, 383 votes and 4 per cent; and Sen. Edward M. ‘Kennedy of Massachusetts 741 votes and 1 per cent. The Republican ballot, with 90 per cent of the precincts counted showed Nixon with 72,875 votes and 69 per cent of the vote; McCloskey 21,601 votes and 20 per cent; and Ashbrook 10,603 votes and 10 per cent. 1 >-Nixon swept all 14 delegates to the GOP National Conven- tion. With 42 per cent of the precincts reporting, Muskie and McGovern each had 10 dele- gates to thet Democratic con- \ventlon u c-oo Bomb d rt - Shepherd dog named Brandy in the cockpit of the TWA Boeing 707 at Kennedy International Airport. A bomb squad detec- tive defused the device at 12:48 p.m. EST Tuesday, 12 minutes 'before it was set to detonate. The plane, flight 7 en route ~ from Kennedy to Los Angeles, had been in the air 15 minutes with 45 passengers aboard when it was ordered to return to the airport about 11:45 a.m. At least half a dozen other TWA planes were returned to their ports of origin or diverted to. intermediate points to search for bombs. Passengers baggage also was checked. TWA officials were alerted to - the extortion plot by an anonymous r telephone call , directing them to a storage locker at the TWA terminal at Kennedy. : The locker contained two army type duffel bags and a note to TWA board chairman Charles Tillinghast demanding ' that each bag be filled - with $1 million. Otherwise, the note said, four bombs on different TWA planes would be detonated at six-hour intervals Lyndonwlle to Replace Water Tower Control l . LYNDONVILLE-A new pres- sure control 'switch for a 120 foot water tower which over- flowed this weekend flooding a home on Eagle Street was order- ed by the village yesterday. Mayor Harty E. Maines, Jr., - said the switch should arrive within the next two. weeks. It is hoped installation of the new control mechanism will prevent future overflows. One home,! at 15 Eagle St. owned by Ralph Mapes, was particularly hard hit recently when the tower spewed gallons of water over his home, yard and car covering them With a sheet of ice.: The tower over- flows, aCcording to public works officials, during several changes of temperature. { [-