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a By CLAY F. RICHARDS ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) - The battle for \no-fault\ automobile insurance - shifted to - the Assembly today with debate of a bill Governor Rockefeller has threatened to veto. The Senate, shortly before midnight Tuesday, defeated 22- 33 the no-fault plan favored by the governor and sent the Assembly the weaker measure on a vote of 42-13. - |/ The Rockefeller-backed mea- sure by Sen. Bernard G. Gordon, R-Peekskill, chairman of the Joint Insurance Commit- tee, failed despite a last minute plea from the governor for its approval. < Instead, <the Senate approved what Gordon has labeled a \phony no-fault bill\ by Sen. Thomas Laverne, R- Rochester. \I could not sign a bill that was not a true no-fault bill,\ - Rockefeller told reporters recently. le n. ' The two bills were similar in many. respects, except that Laverne's proposal would have permitted.law suits in about half of all automobile accidents, while Gordon would have elim- inated court battles in 97 per cent of the cases. \In my opinion, the Laverne bill is so weak that it will actually increase the number of law suits, even though he claims it will cut it by half,\ Gordon said. > The Laverne plan would provide accident victims with $15,000 of coverage for loss of income and hospital bills if the case does not go to court. While both sponsors said their plans would cut the cost of auto insurance premiums, Gordon and Laverne said it would take 4 MEDINA JOURNAL-REGISTER WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1972 - No-fault Insurance: Struggle Drags on a year's experience under the bill before they could determine how much the savings would be. Laverne strongly defended his plan, saying \this brings in the no - fault concept, relieves the clogging in the courts, assures quick payments of all small claims, while still preserving the basic right to sue.\ Earlier, Rockefeller sent the legislature a special message urging they pass the Gordon bill. The governor said the Gordon plan would provide \prompt payment of the economic losses of substantially all accident victims'\ and, at the same time \eliminate .much - of the negligence litigation which to- day clogs our courts.\ Rockefeller said he favored an even stronger measure than the Gordon bill, but said he still hoped it passed. The no-fault plans provide for coverage of hospital bills, loss of income and other actual ex- pense for injured parties in automobile accidents. Neither plan covers property damage, which would continue under the fault system. o Laverne's bill also calls for an increase in the present required liability insurance from $10,000 per person and $20,000 per acci- dent to $15,000 per person and $60,000 per accident. Both plans would permit law- suits for \serious injury\ but defined the term in different ways-thus the main difference in the bills. ; Gordon's - strict - definition would permit fewer lawsuits. He claimed that the Laverne bill was so loosely written that a person could go to court with a sprained ankle. Court Reform Measure Awaits Assembly Action ALBANY, N.Y. (UPD ,- A pair of proposed constitutional amendments © that - would dramatically overhaul the state's judicial system - and allow the governor to appoint judges to the Court of Appeals await Assembly action today. - The Senate approved the measure Tuesday, thus giving Governor Rockefeller a major victory, in this year's legislative . session. ~-Court reform was ont of the governor's four major legislative goals. Before the proposed amend- ments can go into effect they must obtain approval in the Assembly this year and passage in both houses again next year. Thus, the earliest voters could decide on the changes would be November, 1973. The resolution permitting the governor to appoint judges of the Court of Appeals was passed, 43-15, and the com- panion measure gained approv- al, 46-11, with Democrats in the negative in both cases. | One of the resolutions would give the governor the power to appoint judges to the Court of Appeals, with the approval of the Senate. There could be no more than four judges of any one political party on the seven- member court. Judges of the Court of Claims also would be appointed by the governor, as they are now. All other judges of state and local courts would be elected. -The chief judge of the Court of Appeals would be able to appoint an administrative exe- cutive to oversee the day-to-day details of running the court _ COTkY’S Bake system. The other resolution would begin development of a unified court system-and would, even- tually, permit the state to take over the entire cost of running the courts in the state. It also provides that the chief judge of the Court of Appeals appoint an administrator who would have to be approved by the governor and ty‘e'j’Séfiag'e. tT TT It would abolish the present Judicial Conference, a 15-mem- ber panel of judges which es- tablishes court procedures, per- sonnel policy, scheduling and the equiping of courts. During the debate on the resolutions, Sen. John H. Hughes, R-Syracuse, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee and a leader in the drive for court reform, said the amendments would go far to- ward relieving judges of admi- > nistrative responsibility. \The judges have found this to be a great burden. There is nothing about them that quali- fies them particularly to be ad- ministrators. They are lawyers and were\elected as judges, not business managers,\ Hughes said. _- ~ Sen. Manfred Ohrenstein, D- Manhattan, called the resolu- tions \political\ and designed \to make possible a Republican governor stacking the deck\ in the courts. , Sen. Jeremiah B. Bloom, D- Brooklyn, complained that the changes would streamline ad- ministration but nothing was be- ing done to improve court fa- cilities. Morocco Journey Related Mrs: Ethel Dunlap presented the program at the recent meeting of the Medina Women's Study Club. She told of her trip to Morocco in company with her sister. They flew to Madrid, the Spanish city of three million people that welcomes twenty- four million tourists a year. She described the Royal Palace with its 2,800 rooms. One room has 450 clocks with a caretaker that has no other responsibility. Another attendant is in charge of the chandeliers. Beautiful rugs on the wall would measure ten miles long if placed end to end. In Granada, where the best olives are grown, is the old Moorish palace \Alhambra\, of which Washington Irving wrote. The choice olives areipicked by hand and most of them are sent to the United States. Ripe olives are not green olives 'that have matured, but a different variety. After the hand picking, they shake the trees and most of the olives are made into pil. Casa Blanca has a Catholic church that has two sides made completely of stained glass. The altar is beautiful with its sim- plicity of construction and character of wood. In Madeira they saw em- broidery pieces being stamped and later, six and seven year old children doing the hand work on handkerchiefs. There, medical and hospital care are free to those who cannot pay. The state also pays for university education. They also visited Lisbon and saw the world's largest dry dock. During the business: meeting it was voted to give $25 to the Journal-Register Camp Fund. Refreshments were served at the close of the meeting by Miss Marian Perry, hostess. Sixty Trial Jurors Drawn ALBION - Sixty frial jurors have been drawn for a term of supreme court scheduled to start here on Tuesday, y 30 with Supreme Court Justice Norman ra A. Stiller presiding.\ They-are? 20g ® vets +4) t , ALBION - Katherine Eibl, Ruth Stevenson, Levia Monacelli, Richar? Forder, Nunzio Tortorice, Shirley. Stevens, John Monacelli, Rina Lourette, Ruth Pratt, BARRE - Marvin Durrant, Grace Hales, Wilbur' Hill, John E. Squires, Warren Harvey, Milton Boyer. CARLTON - Irene Barstow, Dorothy - Ingraham, Donald Landauer, Jean Bailey, Ellen London, :Irene ; Shepard, Catherine Covell. - CLARENDON - Betty States, Arlene Ditzel. , KENDALL - Veda Lemecke, Viola Wolfe. I MURRAY - Harold Howard, James LeStorti, Victor March, goseph Albanese, George Luce r. - RIDGEWAY - Lavona Canfield, Edward: Andrews, Walter Caldwell, ris Plum- mer, Edsel Grinnell, Ronald Felstead, Alethe Munn, Wesley Newman, Albert Benson, Eugene Woodroe, Ethel Kyle, Delores Williams, Gail Newman, Sharon P. Vosberg, Walter Stack, Florence Waszak. | SHELBY - Lawrence Gray, Gail Fuller, Mary Knights, Frederick Watson, Melvin VanAuker, Albert Miles and Audrey ON SCHOOL STAGE - Medina High School's drama group has chosen the cast for \Lovers'\ which will be performed on the MHS Lynn Collins, James Champ- the \Winners\ segment of stage May 12-13. Shown above, left to right, Paul Owen, [ Ann Mazzo. Special minimum prices will prevail with lin and Mary tickets planned. the play door sales of -(MHS Photo) Califbmia Shbwdown Twin Primaries Fail To Produce Decisive Leader By STEVE GERSTEL United Press International Hubert H. Humphrey won his fourth - presidential - primary today, swamping George C. Wallace by a two-to-one margin in West Virginia, and George S. McGovern barely escaped his first serious setback with a come-from-behind victory in Nebraska. The twin primaries in border state West Virginia and corn- belt Nebraska again proved - indecisive to the presidential campaigns of Humphrey and McGovern, enhancing the im- portance of a major, pre- convention showdown in Califor- nia, June 6. In a \beauty contest\ prima- ry limited to just two candi- dates, Humphrey trounced Wal- lace. in West Virginia % an ever}, bigger margin than fie did last week in Indiana and, once again,... stopped Alabama's governor 'from breaking through for a victory north of the Mason-Dixon line. Beset by charges that his positions on abortion, marijua-. na, and amnesty for draft evaders were \radical Mc- Govern was rescued by a heavy student vote in Lincoln and the ballots of farmers and small townsmen after ceding to Humphrey in populous Omaha. But, even in victory, the narrow margin of his win failed to give him any edge over Humphrey. Most Impressive Win West Virginia was by far Humphrey's most impressive win since the primaries began in New Hampshire last March. For the first time, Humphrey managed to earn a majority of 'the vote, a goal that had eluded him in previous primaries. Although McGovern fell well shomgg of a majority: in Nebraska, he picked up his third primary victory to go with earlier first-place finishes in Wisconsin and Massa- chusetts. With 91 per cent of Nebras- ka's precincts reporting, Mc- Govern had 41 per cent (70,036) .of the Democrati¢ votes com- pared to 35 per cent (59,575) for Humphrey. Wallace did not campaign in the state but got for Wallace. In separate contests, West Virginia elected 35 delegates to the Democratic National Con- vention in Miami Beach July 10 and Nebraska elected 22 of its 24. But the number of delegates entered were so large and the ballot so complicated, no results were ekpected before later today, at the earliest. McGovern's lead in delegate votes was not threatened. President Nixon strolled away in Nebraska's Republican pri- mary over token opposition. There was no- perference primary for the GOP in Nebraska. John D. \Jay\\ Rockefeller IV easily won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in West Virginia and a shot at incumbent Governor Arch Moore:. | < m $o & As the votes came in: + gene } West Virginia and Nebraska, . Humphrey, - McGovern, - and Wallace were looking ahead, Wallace to Michigan and Maryland next week; Hum- phrey and McGovern to Califor- nia. \Here We Come\ _ \California here we come,\ Humphrey told his Nebraska supporters over the telephone but earlier said he would again take on Wallace, head-to-head, in Michigan and Maryland, May 16. Humphrey said \I've had the courage to meet Wallace head- on and the rest of them have run out.\ 7 McGovern went to his. head- quarters around midnight, still unwilling to claim victory before retiring for the night. He said it was \too early to be absolutely sure\\ but later added he was becoming more convinced that \we are in fact going to win.\ . Reading the results in Michi- gan, Wallace said he only expected 15 to 20 per cent of the vote in West Virginia. \We weren't able to get to West Virginia so we feel pretty good about it,\ Wallace said. Even more surprising was his respectable third-place finish in Nebraska, a primary he com- . pletely ignored. SLUMBER DISTURBED - Alabama Awaits Court ALABAMA - The town of Alabama's zoning ordinance, the subject of a legal challenge initiated by five citizens, remains in limbo while State Supreme Court proceedings in the case continue. Justice James P. Moore of Buffalo, who is presiding over the current term in Genesee County, has granted a further stay of the ordinance, at least pending the submission of briefs by attorneys for the plaintiffs. - In the most recent develop- ment, attorneys representing the town and the plaintiffs appeared in court on a motion by the town's counsel for dismissal of the action. The ordinance remains unenforceable so long as the issue is undecided. If the dismissal is denied, proceedings would be scheduled on the actual court challenge. The town currently is under order to show cause why the ordinance, which is challenged by the taxpayers as having been adopted illegally, should not be voided. In a second action, it - also has been directed to show cause why a Lancaster firm . which sought to run a gravel pit in the town should not be per- mitted to be a party to the proceedings. The firm was served with a copy of the ordinance almost as - soon as it was enacted, thus - preventing it from launching its planned operation on Ledge Road. f Rocky Prom i565 Veto of Abortion Repeal Bill By RICHARD CHADY | ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) - The Assembly voted 79-68 Tuesday night to repeal the state's lib- eralized abortion law, but the controversial bill faced a close Senate vote today and ; a promised veto by Governor Rockefeller. be Senate Majority Leader Earl W. Brydges predicted the vote would be \very close\ when the adjournment-bound smaller house took up the repealer. The sponsor, - Sen: James :H. Donovan, R- Utica, was opti- mistic, saying: \I have reason to believe it will pass.\ A spokesman for . the gover- nor, however, said there was ''no change' in Rockefeller's determination to veto the bill, which would return' the state to the pre - 1970 law permitting abortions only to save the 'life of the mother. ' 4 Approved by the As-semblgv with three votes to spare, the measure would repeal the 1970 statute allowing the operatic?) up to the 24th week of preg- nancy. tod An estimated 300,000 - 350,000 legal abortions have been per- formed in the state - half of them on non-residents - tstjncfe ' the liberalized law took e fecit on July 1, 1970. - od The Assembly passage reveal- ed the conservative shift by that house in the past 'two years, and the success of the \Right To Life\ lobby for re- peal. Five members who voted for the law in 1970 switched and favored repeal; and, of the 28 new members since then, 16 backed repeal. e As the six hours of debate began before packed galleries and a bank of TV [cameras Tuesday, Assemblyman Edward F. Crawford, R - Oswego, cited the biblical injunction 'Thou shalt not kill'. ~ ' \Abortion as it stands now, is nothing less than legalized . murder,\ he said. Crawford, a short} soft-spoken 53-year-old attorney, had said he persisted |in the face of a 'veto \to put this right on the gov: ernor's doorstep.\ e Assemblywoman Constance E. Cook, R-Ithaca, a sponsor of the liberalized law, countered that _ the measure had decreased - maternal deaths and pregnancy complications, and that repeal would: force poor women . into smarter But with the ' are available for act Unusual Offer curing m «Even if your trifyia months away L \back alley\ abortions. But, noting the certain veto, she added \we are HEW engaged in a pure political action in the midst of the primary season. I'm convinced the public is an this.\ . Assemblyman - (Neil - W. Kelleher, | a Troy| used car dealer, Democrat and an out- spoken abortion foe, caused a gasp from onlookers when he displayed a. small ibott'le con- taining what he said was a - human fetus. | . \Here's the victim, right here in this jar,\ he said. \Life is . what all this debate is about.\ Rockefeller had tried to head off the repeal by | offering a \compromise\ to cut the per- missible time for abortions from 24 to 18 weeks of | pregnancy. \compromise\ winning little apparent support from conservatives jor liberals, the governor reiterated last Fri- day that the same] convictions which led him to sign 'the 1970 law \require me to}... veto the Assembly bill if it omes - before me\? , R + Kenan Center a Planning Two. 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