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Save Us From This! _-_ A . Washington columnist reports that some congressmen would authorize environmental signs along federal roads. On the chance that he might not have been - kidding, something should be said to stop this aberration before it gets out of hand. The government is properly campaigning to rid us of our present roadside clutter of billboards. Are we going to replace them with an equally annoying clutter of proclamations to '\'Stop Pollution'' or '\Save the Earth\\? Perhaps the most upsetting aspect of the report was quotation of 'environmental rhymes suggested by public . officials and others. Their general tone can be shown by repeating this one, allegedly from Sen. Proxmire (D-Wis.): .. Roll on, Potomac, ever murky ; ..The smog is thick in Albuquerque; .. Acid eats Notre Dame's facade; .. Is Earth cursed, Marquis de Sade? Saturday Banking Is Set Medina Office of Marine Mid- land Bank- Western announced today that beginning immediate- ly (tomorrow) the local banking facility downtown and the drive- in bank on. E. Center St. will ob- serve Saturday business hours. The bank will operate the fa- cilities from 9 a.m. to noon each Saturday, according to Glenn Sparks, local manager. \'We have always been com- mitted as an institution to offer the best possible banking serv- ices, and previously we were not convinced that Saturday hours were needed or wanted to a great degree.\ He said that since a movement is gaining momentum in this direction in other communities, it will be instituted here. Saturdaybankinghas not been observed here since the post- depression days of the old Me- dina Trust Co. and other banks - of that era, but it is becoming more in demand among people who are employed on week days, and often out of town. Marine announced Saturday banking af several other loca- tions this week, including Albion, where Liberty National is also doing Saturday morning trans- actions. EJ OUR AL REGISTER Serving The Lake Plains Country-Orleans, Niagara, Genesee low about 10, Clear at times tonight, chance of flurries, eather down to near zero some rural sections. Saturday, becoming cloudy, chance of; occasmnal snow, high in lower 30s. MEDINA NEW YORK FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1972 Noon-Time Crash on Maple Ridge was ‘Head-on' Citizen Advisors Will Aid Urban Renewal! Two meetings concerned with \urban renewal\ or community re-development kept some people hopping back and forth from the Apple Grove Inn to the Village Hall last night. One ' session concerned the Chamber of Commerce discussion on renewal funds of $750,000 promised to Medina for the current year 1972 by the Federal Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Richard Kennedy, a community development representative and one of 150 staffers in the Buffalo regional HUD office, was the principal speaker. The other session was led by Urban Renewal Chairman Dr. John McCarthy at Village Hall and was a kick-off meeting of the advisory citizens committee on urban renewal named by Mayor John Cobb. Such a citizen's \sounding board\ committee is required under U.R.® Members are: George Brady, Fred Benson, Edward Bielak, Ward Bramer, Mrs. Robert Cavers, Dr. Robert Cogger, James Cook, James Corrieri, Harold DuVall, William Franchell, Anthony Gulinski, Thomas Mack, Henry Pollard, Mrs. Gerald Schuyler, John Shedrick, Charles R. Slack, Glenn Sparks, Frank Vahoviak, Leon Waszak, Ramon Watt, Mrs. Cecilia White. Dr. McCarthy said the evening was spent largely in' discussing aims of urban redevelopment here. The first phase will likely be a purchase and demolition of substandard properties in the Church, Starr and Orient St. areas, it is believed.; The citizens committee will meet again in early April. The Chamber of Commerce meeting dealt with the redevelopment funds of $750,000 TWA Confirms Talks With Extortionist - By United Press International TWA confirmed Thursday night that it had been negotiating with an extortionist over a $2 million demand to reveal where bombs allegedly had been planted on its jetliners, but the company's president said no ransom had been paid and he believed the threat had \run its course.\ Earlier in the day President Nixon ordered all airlines to take mandatory security mea- sures to prevent explosives or weapons from being placed aboard aircraft. Meanwhile a number of airlines around the country were plagued with anonymous but apparently unsubstantiated threats that their planes had been boobytrapped. President F. C. Wiser of Trans World Airlines said in his formal statement that \TWA believes that the bomb threat that caused the situation has run its course. There has been no contact with the extortionist since Tuesday and no ransom has been paid.\ It was the first admission by the airline that contact of some kind had been made with the unidentified extortionist al- though sources said Tuesday night that such negotiations were in progess. As late as Wednesday TWA officials re- fused to confirm or deny that such talks were going on. In Grand Rapids, Mich., the FBI Thursday arrested John Foster, 40, Benton Harbor, on charges he telephoned TWA today demanding $25,000 to reveal where two bombs were hidden. The FBI would release no other details and would not on say whether he was suspected of bemg the same person involved in the earlier extortion attempt. One TWA plane was damaged by a bomb while grounded at an airport in Las Vegas Wednesday morning about twelve hours after a trained German Shepherd dog had sniffed out a bomb in the cockpit of a TWA plane in New York. That bomb was defused only twelve minutes before it was set to explode. As a result of the Las Vegas explosion TWA ordered a second worldwide search of all its 250 jetliners in a hunt for additional explosive devices. The original threat to TWA had said that four bombs had been placed aboard the company's jetliners. Nixon's order to the airlines made effective immediately security measures orignally intended to become operative in June. The measures require air carriers to prevent or deter placing of weapons or explo- sives on aircraft; prevent or deter unauthorized access to aircraft; tighten baggage checking, and improve the security of cargo and baggage loading operations. Around the country, bomb threat hoaxes led to additional delays as authorities made futile searches of airliners awaiting takeoff. Airline authorities said, however, that flight cancella- tions have dwindled and one spokesman said \passengers are being very cooperative and. almost seem happy about the added security.\ in federal money to be used this year, plus a projected $2 million worth of public housing. This is embodied in 100 units, with 50 for the elderly and 50 for low-income people, presumably in the $4,000 to $5,000 total family income range. It was emphasized by Mr. Kennedy of the Buffalo HUD office that the success or failure ofthe operation of public housing developments is largely up to the local Housing Authonty In Medina this agency is headed by Donald Scheu. ‘ It is presumed that most of the people uprooted by the Church, Starr and Orient re-development will relocate in public housing. Walkley to Kennedy said rentals are predicated on 20 p.c. of total monthly income and people unable to meet this can apply for government rent subsidies. He also predicted that the several sites chosen for public housing developments once developers are chosen for Medina will probably be \land not now developed\ since this is now producing little tax revenue for the village and the required tax forgiveness thus would not work a hardship. Film strips shown by Kennedy indicated that 26 million new housing units, or housing upgrading will be needed in the U.S. in the 1970 decade. Succeed Wickham in Ag Post ALBANY, N.Y. (UPF)=-Don J. Wickham, commissioner of the State Department of Agriculture and Markets for the past 13 years, will retire effective June 30, United Press International learned today. A source said Republican Assemblyman Frank Walkley, 50, of Castile, would succeed Wickham in the $40,275 a year post. Walkley, a farmer, has been in the Assembly since 1965 and is a member of the Assembly Committee on Agriculture. Wickham, 68, was appointed commissioner bf agriculture by Governor Rockefeller when the Republican governor first took office in 1959. ' Among other duties, the de- partment administers the agri- culture and markets law dealing with food inspections, supervises migrant child day care centers and runs the New York State Fair. . A resident of Hector, Wick- ham graduated from the College of Agriculture at Cornell Uni- versity in 1924 and began operating a fruit farm at Hector, Schuyler County. In addition to the farm, Wick- ham also operates a fuel busi- ness in partnership with his two sons, William and David. Wickham was president of the Schuyler County Farm and Home Bureau and 4-H Associa- tion, master of his local Grange and deputy executive assistant of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in New York. He was named a vice president of the New York Farm Bureau in 1943 and was elected president of the Bureau in 1954. He also was a member of the American Farm Bureau Federa- tion Board of Directors and a member of the New York Tele- phone Co. Board of Directors. He is a member of the State University Board of Trustees and is an ex-officio member of Cornell University's Board of Trustees. Wickham is married to the former Florence V. Miner. In addition to their two sons, they have a daughter, Mrs. John H. Hoare Jr. Walkley was born in Oneida and graduated from Cornell University. He operates a dairy farm in Castile, Wyoming County. He is a member of the . Farm Bureau, the Grange, the American Legion and is a past president of the Castile Com- munity Club. He is a former county presi- dent of the Dairymen's League Cooperative, former president of the Erie - Niagara Regional Water Resources Board and a former member of the Regional Fish and Wildlife Management Board. Chamber Elects President for '72 Ward Bramer, a long-nme Medina retailer and active in downtown affairs to a high degree over two decades, was elected last night as pre31dent of Medina Chamber of Commerce. He succeeds Jack Botsford, local auto dealer, who has been president for the 1971-72 fiscal year. Nominations were offered last night by James DiGiulio of the appropriate committee. No opposition occurred. Elected vice president was William Keim, office manager for Niagara Mohawk here. Jerome Hackett, personnel director of Fisher-Price Toy Co. here, is the new secretary. Jack J. McCarthy is named treasurer. Named to the board of \X directors were Dr. John Gantner, James VanSlooten (of Bern- zOmatic Corp.), Frank Urbancic (local Fisher-Price plant manager), and Fred Benson Jr. The chamber now has 140 members and a member cam- paign is planned later this year. Mr. Bramer is now a local appliance dealer and came to Medina originally from Perry when he purchased a bakery here. He has been active almost continually in downtown affairs, including service several times as retail division chairman of the Chamber and lately as a member of the Downtown Action Com- mittee. Ward Bramér Cars Crash, Several Injured SHELBY - Three people were admitted to Medina Memorial Hospital today following a two car head-on collision at 11:55 this morning on Route 31, 120 feet west of Salt Works Rd. in the Town of Shelby. Taken to the hospital with lacerations of the face, a frac- tured nose and possible internal injuries was Pauline F. Chestnut, 56, of 34 State St., Middleport. Also admitted to the hospital were Gloria J. Walker, 28, of R.D. 3, Dunlap Rd., Medina with a lower lip and eye laceration and possible internal injuries and her four year old son, Timothy, a passenger in her car at the time of the accident. The boy has a contusion of the left side of his forehead. . According to the State Police, the Chestnut vehicle was traveling west on Rt. 31 when the Walker car crossed over the center line as it was traveling in the opposite direction. State Police said the accident occurred entirely in the lane in which the Chestnut car was heading. The Walker woman was issued a summons by State Police for failure to keep right. She is scheduled to appear in Ridgeway Town Court before Justice William Blackburn Mar. 31. Bulletin Knights A Candidate It was learned at presstime today that William Knights Jr., Ridge Rd., Knowlesville, has . declared himself as a candi- date from Orleans County for State Assembly in the new 137th District. - VMr. Knights, 55, was a Ridgeway supervisor for four years, a one-time town coun- cilman, has been in real estate and auctioneering services and was formerly a farm imple- ment dealer. He has been joined by his son in operation of large acreages in beef cat- tle, dairying and fruit farm- ing. He is the first announced. Orleans candidate (See Mancuso story - Page 3.) Resigns PHNOM PENH (UPID)-Cam- bodian Chief of State Cheng Heng resigned today because he said he had failed to resolve internal difficulties which threa- tened the stability of the country. He said only Prime Minister Lon Nol \has the capacity to lead the country.\ Cheng Heng made the an- nouncement in a broadcast over national radio. Shortly afterwards, govern- ment sources said Lon Nol, crippled by a stroke last year had appointed his deputy, Gen. Sirik Matak, prime minister. Matak had been acting prime minister since Lon Nol was stricken. In the broadcast, Cheng Heng said he had trled all means possible to reconcile internal . difficulties but failed. \In these last few weeks I have observed with regret that the situation has worsened because of differences harmful to the stability of the country,\ Cheng Heng said. \'Only Lon Nol has the capacity to lead the country,\ he said. \On this date I cede to him full powers as chief of state.\ Payroll T ef PRICE 10 CENTS \ Clues orfed Kodak Heist Was: Done in Fast Time ROCHESTER, N. Y. (UPI)- Detectives worked today to pigéce together details of the theft of several hundred thou- sand dollars from a parked ar- mored truck here Thursday, while somewhere the two men responsible were probably S. Viet in Cambodia SAIGON (UPI)-The South Vietnamese sent a 10,000-man task force into eastern Cambo- dia Thursday in a move designed to keep guerrillas off balance, military sources said today. Details of the offensive, described as a \spoiling opera- tion,\ were kept secret for security reasons. The South Vietnamese also reported killing 35 guerrillas in a battle near their permanent Cambodian base at Neak Luong and the U.S. Command said American warplanes attacked Communist antiaircraft posi- tions in North Vietnam for the ninth straight day of \protec- tive reaction\ strikes. Sources said the new Cambo- dian offensive \will continue off and on for a comparatively lengthy period.\ Taking part in thedrive are South Vietnamese rangers, armored cavalry, artil- lery, infantry and air force elements, they said. Two Americans were wound-. ed Thursday in - separate incidents near Saigon. One soldier from the 3rd Brigade, ist Air Cavalry Division was burt . in a skirmish 32 miles northeast of Saigon. Another was wounded when his OH6 Loach light observation helicop- ter was shot down by ground fire 21 miles northeast of the capital. The U.S. command said the strike-the 23rd in nine days and the 90th so far this year- took place about 40 miles north of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). A spokesman said Air Force F4s attacked the site with bombs after Communist gun- ners opened fire on an unarmed RF4 reconnaissance plane. All told in military action from 6 a.m. Thursday until noon today, 102 casualties were reported on both sides. Figures included 75 guerrillas and seven South Vietnamese killed and 18 South Vietnamese and two Americans wounded. The air war continued at a heavy pace. F-P Profit Sharing Total profit sharing for Fisher: Price, Kast Aurora, Medina and Holland plants (mcludmg that initially paid just prior to Christ- mas) amounted to 3.4 million dollars today. Medina's profit sharing total is over 525,000 dollars. Over 550 employees will share in this amount, the plant said. Profit sharing is 20 p.c. of eli- gible 1971 earnings. The gross on the deferred profit sharing fund was 13.7 p.c. In March the plant here ex- pects to add about a 100 addi- tional people, pushing total em- ployed in Medina to over 600. A meeting is to be held this afternoon in the new molding - building in which the 10th in- jection molding press was start- ed today completing the first phase of the molding addition, approximately two months early. Speakers for the occasion are Richard Harsch, vice-president of administration, speaking on profit sharing; Henry H. Coords, president, speaking on phlloso- phy of success and Toy Fair re- sults; . Robert Hicks, vice-presi- dent of research and develop- ment, speaking and showing slides of the new toy line; John Vahorjan, vice-president of man- ufacturing, speaking on manu- facturing operations. Also pres- ent was Harvey Busch, vice- president of facilities planning. counting the loot, which could total as much as $835,300. Two men, believed to have used a key to the steel-plated vehicle, snatched six money bags from the truck, threw them into a car and sped away while the driver and messenger were inside an Eastman Kodak Co. plant making another deliv- ery, witnesses told police. Po- lice at first thought four men | were involved in the theft, that only took four. to five minutes. The exact amount involved could not be determined until a bank check was made, John A. Doyle president of Doyle Armor- ed Service, said. Police, howev- er, said the total missing could range from $500,000 to the $835,- 000 figure. Driver Les Parker, 46, and messenger Harry Willis, 47, said they did not discover the theft until they had driven a | block from the plant. The self- Mitchell locking door to their truck was closed when they returned to the vehicle. Police said a check of all Doyle employes would be made, and a report by a key maker that he had cut an unusual key for a man only two hours be- fore the heist was being inves- tigated. The cash, in unmarked bills of various denommatlons was intended for the Eastman Sav- ings and Loan Co., which cash- és pay checks for Kodak em- ployes. seen by a number of persons, © police said they had only a de- scription that they were of me- dium build and 35 to 40 years old. They also had conflicting de- scriptions of the getaway car. Doyle said, \We maintain strong controls on our keys. They are checked out in the morning and back in at the end of the day, but anything could happen.\\ The FBI was also working on the case. Denies ITT Meddling WASHINGTON (UPI) -For- mer Attorney General John N.. Mitchell has denied as \totally false and without foundation\ a new intimation that President Nixon was involved in the government's decision to drop an antitrust suit against Inter- national Telephone & Telegraph (ITT). Mitchell, before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, issued his most blunt denial 'on the controversy to date after the President's name was linked to the controversy Thursday for the first time. Brit Hume, an assoc1ate of columnist Jack Anderson, who first wrote about the controver- sy, told the committee Thurs- day that ITT lobbyist Dita Beard quoted Mitchell as telling her that Nixon had ordered him to \make a reasonable settle- ment'' of the ITT case. Hume also said Mrs. Beard, now recuperating from a heart called to testify - vention involving vast sums of money improperly received from big business and involving activities ... which may well be in Vlolatlon of the law.\ He called for public hearings on Democratic convention financ- ing. ~ Kleindienst Called a Liar According <to Hume, Mrs. Beard said Mitchell angrily berated her for lobbying against the Justice Depart- ment's antitrust action and said it was \making trouble for her.\ Mrs. Beard said, accord- ing to Hume, that Mltchell was upset because he had received a telephone call from Nixon urging him to \lay off ITT.\ Eastland said he had agreed 'to summon or invite several other witnesses to testify at the re-opened jhearings on the fitness of Richard G. Klein- dienst to be attorney general succeeding Mitchell. ailment in -a Denver hospital, said she and Mitchell had reached a \politician's agree- ment'' on 'the settlement at a Kentucky Derby party last year in Frankfort, Ky. The mention of Nixon's name shocked the committee. It was the first time his name had been mentioned in connection with the case, Mitchell Denies All Mitchell issued the following statement denying Hume's-tes- timony : \The testimony attributing statements to me involving the President is totally false and- without foundation. I categori- cally deny that I ever had any. such conversation or that I ever made any such statement anywhere or at any time. The President: has never, repeat never, made any request to me directly or indirectly concern- ing the settlement of the ITT case and I took no part in that settlement.\ The judiciary panel is investi- gating whether there was any link between the Justice De- partment's decision to drop an antitrust action against the conglomerate and ITT's report- ed promise to subsidize the GOP National Convention this summer with a $400,000 contri- bution. The Justice Department did settle the case out of court, and ITT was permitted to hold on to Hartford Fire Insurance Co., as it desired. Republican National Chair- man Robert, Dole, meanwhile, said he had uncovered \truly improper activities involving the Democratic National Con- Have A Chuckle Hume and Anderson have called Kleindienst, the attorney general demgnate a liar for asserting that the antitrust division of the Justice Depart- ment exclusively handled the ITT case. 'It. was their charge, linking Kleindienst to the settlement, and publication of an mternal memorandum by Mrs. Beard, linking the settlement to the - contribution, that set off the investigation. Anderson . testified earlier Thursday at the hearing, saying he thought. Kleindienst was \unfit to be att/orney general.\ Collision Today Involves Auto, High-Rail Truck MIDDLEPORT - A Gasport woman driving north on South Vernon Street escaped injury this morning when her car col- lided with a utility truck of the Penn Central Railroad. Middleport Village Police said a car driven by Alice Woijtkow- ski, 24, of 9729 Chestnut Ridge Rd., was struck at a railroad crossmg by a \high-rail\ truck traveling west on the railroad , tracks. The truck, which can be used as a utility vehlcle on roadways and railroad tracks, was driven by Lynn Dunn, 28, of 4683 East Shelby Road, Medina who vil- lage police said apparently did not see the car. L # ~ PALMA DE MAlLORCA (UPI) - The Palma court prosecutor has demanded a total of 384,912 years in jail for postman Gabriel March Granados, 22, for allegedly failing to deliver 42,768 letters. The prosecutor said Granados got tired of trying to deliver the mail and instead opened the letters and removed anything of value. The verdict will be issued within a few days, court sources said Thursday Although the two men were ;. .
