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; - } § THE DAILY JOURNAL-REGISTER * Daily Journal Feunded 1903 - Weekly Register Founded 1877 202 . +_ Other Merged Papers . Medina Tribune Zounded 1852 - Orleans County News Founded 1912 by The Medina Daily Jounal-Register, Inc. s ALONZO L. WATERS ~ President and Publisher __ Terms of Subscription Payable in Advance - For Home Dolivkfifiy \~Ccalt 798-1400 - By mail in Orleans, Niagara, Genesee Counties $15 per yea ROBERT E. WATERS ~ Editor & \a 'm ? ~ - or $4.00 per quarter, All other Mail $19 per year. ' Designated os an Official Paper by the Villoge of Medina, County of Orlean: the Vilage of Lyndonville, the townships of Ridgeway, Shelby and Yore: ond the Central School Districts of Medina and Lyndenvilie, ond its Tewnships | ~ Entered at the Post Office Medina, N. Y. 14103, as second class matter. Editorial AN APPALLING IDEA The proposal has been made in all serious- © ness that newspaper, radio and television news- men should be li¢ensed just like barbers, electri- cians, doctors and lawyers. The idea is \. . . just a thought that's occurred. . .\ to a state legislator. It is unlikely that the idea will become a national threat, but nevertheless, the potential for mischief - which it holds is worth contemplating, ' Licensing of newsmen is advocated on the theory that since standards of knowledge and per- > formance are set for other professions, who should- nt they be formalized by statute with respect to newsmen. Under such a proposal, if it became law, a news writer would have to take an examination to meet the requirements of a licensing law admin- istered by state guthorities Conceivably, owners of newspapers, magazines and radio and television stations would be subject to licensing if they supervised the content of the news that their out- lets offered. = Licensing and state surveillance of those who write the news and present it in the nation's press and over radio and television would reduce free- dom of expression to an incalculable degree. Li- censing means control and when the state controls newsmen the news won't be worth reading because the press will merely be the sounding board of the state. ge 00> LET'S NOT FUMBLE NOW The old verity of life used so generously in the field of sports, \you win one, you lose one\ seems to hold in commercial living as in the arena. Over the past couple of weeks Downtown Medina learned with regret that the Hickey Furniture Store - is closing its operation in the business section and consolidating at Gwinn Street, where a few years ago Mr. Hickey converted the former New York Central Freight Station into a show room. This week the Liberty National Bank & Trust Co. announced that it is opening a branch bank here and already work has been started in the Bent Building to Gpen temporary offices, al least, to accommodate the well known Buffalo based banking institution. We are also advised that the bank is considering a permanent home in the Main oo < . Street area rather than as originally planned on Maple Ridge. e We regret having the Hickey Store vacated as for nearly a century it has been the home of a succession of firms that has catered to the home furnishing needs of the community. In all prob- ability it will scon have a new tenant as it has much to offer in display space and other advantages. It is nice to see the corner at Main and Center where a drug store for over a century offered its - services to the Medina public, again to be utilized. Over the past several years the Village of Medina has expended in the vicini $75,000 in - surveys for Urban Renewal, the greater part of @ MEDINA JOURNAL-REGISTER _ MONDAY, MAY 8, 1972 ;: Nuclear Wastes Published xfiuw afternoon except Saturday and Sunday, (13 Main Streei ___! Despite Warnings, The -'Garbage®' Goes To S.C. By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International Despite warnings from repu- table scientists and others that a it may entail enormeus danger to millions of people on the Eastern seaboard, the Atomic Energy Commission is pressing ahead with plans to store highly radioactive nuclear wastes in South Carolina. The commission, which operates a huge plutonium plant on the Savannah River, is seeking a Washington go-ahead to spend $15 million sinking a shaft deep into bedrock under the plant to determine if it can provide leak-proof storage for: radioactive wastes. - Meanwhile, a few miles away from the AEC plant, a private Almanac Today is Monday, May 8, the 12th day of 1972. The moon is between its last quarter and new phase. The morning stars Mercury and Jupiter. 'The evening stars are Venus, Mars and Saturn. Those born on this day are under the sign of Taurus. On this day in history: In 1541 Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto discovered the Mississippi River. In 1879 George Selden of Rochester, N.Y., filed for the first patent of an automobile. It was granted in 1895. In 1945 President Harry S Truman officially announced VE Day, the signalling of victory in Europe in World War II. In 1964 on his 80th birthday, President Truman became the first former chief executive to address a regular session of Congress. - are A thought for today: Pres- ident Truman said shortly before the A-bomb was dropped on Japan in 1945, \The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.!\ 06 ~~ somni d rete tracers O e 000 0000000 “5.0.5.9; -°-§'-'~:}e’-'e:-,'~\ ' radioactive corporation called Allied-Gulf Nuclear Services is construct- ing, with AEC blessing, an $80 million facility for reprocessing spent fuel elements from nuclear power plants all over the southeast. This operation also will generate large quanti- ties of deadly goo that must be stored somewhere. The ABC's plan is to use western South Carolina as a dumping ground for a quantity of nuclear waste that, one scientist has estimated, even- tually will contain radioactivity equivalent to 192,000 atomic bombs of the size» dropped on Hiroshima. Scientist Issues Warning A committee of the National Academy of Sciences warned in 1965 that storage of highly wastes in the Carolina bedrock \is in essence dangerous.\\ The committee said after lengthy investigation it had \doubts that a per- manently leakproof chamber can be constructed in the bedrock.\ . * The South Carolina legisla- ture last year set up a special committee to check the safety of the private Allied-Gulf operation at Barnwell, S.C. The committee heard . assurances from a long string of AEC and Allied-Gulf experts that there was no cause for concern. The came <« Dr. John W. Gofman, a nuclear chemist on the faculty of the University of California. Speaking quietly from a prepared text, Gofman said he disliked to engage in \doomsday predictions\ but felt it his duty as a scientist to point out that accidental escape of as little as one per cent of the radioactive materials to be stored at the Allied-Gulf plant would so contaminate the atmosphere as to render cities such as Washington, Philadel- phia and New York \uninhabi- table\ within 24 hours. Earthquake Poses Danger Officials of Allied-Gulf re- sponded next day with a statement saying they found \simply incredible\ Gofman's \assumption <- that somehow fadioactive materials contained in double stainless\ steel\ tanks, meld \:t eerie np RAY CROMLEY Pressures Await Hoover Successor _ By RAY CROMLEY WASHINGTON (NEA) surrounded by four feet of reinforced concrete and then covered by some 10 feet of compacted earth, could some- - how get out into the air ...\ Townsend M. Belser Jr., a nuclear engineer formerly on the staff of the AEC plant, offered one suggestion as to how the \incredible\ mishap might occur: an earthquake. The official scoffing which initially greeted this suggestion was silenced when that very area of South Carolina was shaken last month by an earthquake registering 4.5 on the Richter scale. File Features Interesting Bits Taken From Files of The Medina Daily Journal ° . Medina Register Five Years Ago * . Chase Building at United Methodist Church of Medina consecrated in ceremo Rev. Robert Root, superintendent. Floyd Rutherford, Medinan, fatally injured accident in Royalton. Mrs. Franklin Axtell hostess to Medina Women's Study Club. Welcome Rebekah Lodge receives certificate of merit from Mrs. Virginia Wetherbee of Albion, district deputy president. Ten Years Ago ' Death of Dr. E. Scott Francis, 35, of Middleport. Robert DiGuilio, student at Notre Dame University elected president of Buffalo Club. Gary Wilson named president of Student Council at L.A. Webber High School, Lyn- donville. Richard Crowley assumes ownership of Bronson's Store. Fifteen Years Ago © Mr. and Mrs. Edward O'Reilly, Pearl St., returned after spen- ding winter months in Miami, Fla. ' I victorious over Niagara-Orleans League foe mp if\; ** u 2.2\ - t 3 Sk PEANUTS® (.\ _ Bérker', 3-2:at Vets Park. Miss Belle Cooper, W. Center St. hostess to Philathea Class of C_ Méthodist Church: Tenth annual concert presented in high school auditorium by local tenor, William McGrath. . Twenty Years Ago fSocial Security payments w1thm Orleans County total 1139. The dollar value was $37,270 for area. [Beaver weighing ap- proximately 30 pounds seen . swimming west in the Barge Canal. 'The Rev. Merle Watkins, xgissionary to Africa won $50 on the Break the Bank program Whiile enroute to Africa. it '- . 'wenty-Five Years Ago . : Mrs. Harold Waterson nam rand regent of Court Santa Maria Catholic Daughters of imerica. fo . go | Alphonzo E. Lindke of Lock- port an employee of the New York Telephone Company electrocuted while working at Hartland. ‘ aar s k sae se Medina Chapter Eastern Star held Mother's Day program. Boys: of . Honor Legion of Medina High School plan picnic. 'Thirty Years Ago ' 105 men called in county for selective service. Medina Eastern Stars receive a visit from district officials. - Miss Jeanette Hoyt selected to go to Girls State. Rebekah's observe Mother's Night. © ' Thirty-Five Years Ago . Oliver Meyer of Oakfield was speaker before Rotary Club. Mrs. John Raymond hostess to South Side Area of Baptist Women. 0 Niagara Sprayer Co. con- structed new office building. Forty Years Ago D. of U.V. presented Mother's Day Service. ' Born to Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Martino, a daughter. Forty-Five Years Ago Death of Robert, Ramshaw, 81, | AUL < tn Gen Glee in np sane - * x i ' 50. - < ae > 4 Kou <%. uke ~ Prag a & trim \C> -Civil War veteran. . -. Death of Henry Barclay, 69. Mrs. LE. Bacon hostess to Baptist Ladies Aid, Fifty-Five Years Ago - G.L. Pratt becomes owner of N. Main Drive Barn. . . Medina Bicycle Club took a _ trip to Lyndonville. Capt. Sanderson Ross, elected Lt.. Col. of the 3rd Regt. Sixty Years Ago ._. Death of James O'Connell, 42. _ __ Christian holding service in Odd Fellows rooms. - I cience Society Sixty-Five Years Ago 40 _ Both Medina closing Saturday| afternoons during the summer|months. Cheroke Girls| held a ceremonial program in home of Anna Cavanaugh. Seventy Years Ago > Death of William Sullivan of Orient St. , * Lawrence Brennan jpurchased the old © covert builping' and moved it to his lot on Main St. _,, . By Charles M. Schulzi ymr HERES Joe [ (As.I see it, 1 HAVE ) TWO CHOICES \rege rone - UNION ANP EYE CHICKS, OR |I CAN 60 TO THE LIBRARY AND STUDY FOR MY FINALS... 1 CAN 60 740 Thie stubpent | E COOL H - AROUND THE STUDENT UNION __ EYEING CHICKS. HERE'S JOE COOL HANEING _} which has been directed to the restructuring of the business district. Thus far it is only on the \drawing boards\ and not very far on at that. The business interests of the downtown sector 'have taken it upon themselves to do something about modernizing their own front yards and under the direction of former. Mayor John P. Kennedy we look for some positive results. He has received the united support of the downtown business com- munity in his endeavor. \_ ~The lack of administrative rapport between the Village of Medina and the Federal Agencies and particularly H.U.D. since the demise of a vil- lage manager plan is another testimonial for the necessity for an on-the-job administrator. No mat- ter how well meaning members of the board of trustees may be, present day municipal administra- tion is not a part-time operation. * <0 -_ Medina seems to have the ball on 'the one- yard line, let's not fumble away the game at, this i © | Another view We : - 5.8 ' « © 1972 byUnited Feature Syndicate, Inc.. UUsT TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE, RUN NEXT POOR AND ASK WHAT THEY USED ON. THEIR LINDSAY STICKER.\ . - JOURNAL CLASSIFIED ADS HAVE A REPUTATION FOR FAST RESPONSE The kind of man the new FBI director turns out to be may have a greater bearing on your life and mine than any other appointment made by a U.S. president. | __ . If J. Edgar Hoover's 48 years in the post are at all indi- cative of the future, his successor will, from time to time, face political pressure of the strongest type aimed, at using the very considerable power of the FBI in ways dangerous to democracy and to our liberties. If history is any judge, these pressures will come both from \liberals\ and \conservatives'\'-or men who use these labels to describe themselves. Hoover faced down these pressures with guts and with some very able marshalling of his political and public defenses, For courage alone is not enough. To defend against such pressures.you must have political resources and the ability to use them. . Three examples will illustrate what Hoover's successor will face: . . . e After watching the FBI in opération for something over two decades, this reporter has, on.occasion these past few years, awakened at night worrying over who might be Hoover's successor. I would think of the infor- mation in those millions of files. A ruthless politician with that data could come close to destroying much 'of his opposition. ' Not too many years ago, this reporter knows that a very high U.S. government official made direct personal attempts to secure the FBI's files for use against his poli- tical enemies. Among other things, he had a list of oppo- sition congressmen he wished to tarnish. Hoover faced him down. Though this powerful politician then set out to destroy him,; Hoover was by then so well ensconced 'and had so much prestige that this man, with all his high connections, could not force Hoover to do his gmihBUt Hoover bore the marks of these attacks until his eath. P The question is, could a new man, however courageous, face this type of pressure? ‘ e Then again, there has long been a movement within Congress for enlarilélg the police powers of the federal government. There have been moves to give the FBI more power on the college campuses, to make more crimes federal crimes, thus giving the FBI more authority. In these piecemeal moves Hoover saw danger-the risk of making the FBI a national police force. He repeatedly told colleagues he would have no part in this-that a national police would be a step toward a police state. Most assuredly Hoover's successor will also face this problem time and again-as local violence threateng to get out of hand and Congress moves toward stronger fed- ' eral crime laws. Hoover's answer was that these prob- lems, great as they are, are for local communities and local police-and that the FBI role was in providing infor- mation, training and backup for local police forces, on {equate-and. for work on a few truly national crime prob- ems. ' , | e A succession of political figures have attempted to bring their men into the FBI-either as. a means of mould- ing the institution to their own partisan objectives, or as ~ a means of providing jobs for faithful retainers. . Here Hoover was particularly fierce. For the ineffective agency he inherited was a shambles because it was hack- ridden and dominated by politics. © , It is certain that at one time or another men with poli- tical authority will again attempt such infiltration. 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