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~ Unforgettable Bluets As individual flowers the bluets are so inconspicuous . that few people notice them. . But they colonize, and vast patches of their white or pale lilac blossoms are like frost on the grass in upland meadows. They please the countryman, who may also call them. quaker ladies or innocence, _ though the individual flower is only half an inch across its four small petals, at the center of which is a golden eye. Botanically the bivet is Houstonia caerulea and belongs to the madder family. It is a cousin, therefore, of the coffee tree and the cinchona free from which we get quinine. This, of course, is ridiculous, for there can't be even a trace of either caffein or quinine in those little in- nocent flowers. But they are also botanical cousins of the partridgeberry and the weed we call cleavers, bedstraw or goose grass. That is more plausible, particularly the partridgeberry kinship. .. One of the: particular charms of bluets is that they bloom in May and they are hosts to a number of the smaller butterflies, the suiphurs and the fritillarias, as well as to the bees. Find a patch of bluets and you can listen to bees as happy as they will be in a June field of clover and you can watch those little butterflies skip and glide and sip and dine. Somehow it makes one feel that the drone of summer is not too far away while the gentleness of spring is still all around. Con- fidentially, bluets aren't much as flowers ; but as an essential part'of May they are beautiful, and unforgettable. -NEW YORK TIMES Hijackings, Ransoms _ ALGIERS (UPI)-The United States believes Aigerian offi- cials will return the $500,000 given in ransom to a pot- smoking Black Panther and his bionde girlfriend who hijacked a jet from San Francisco, an American diplomat said Sun- day. Algerian officials today re- fused to comment on the statement of William Eagleg- ton, chief of the U.S. interests section of the Swiss embassy, who is negotiating for return of the money and the hijackers. The hijackers were identified as William Holder, 22, San Diego, Calif., a Vietnam veteran and a member of the Black Panther Party, and Katherine May Kerkow, 21, of the same address as Holder. They were taken away for questioning by Algerian authori- ties as soon as they landed Saturday. > In other hijackiing develoj ments, FBI agents in Reno said that the remaining $155,000 of $200,000 given to a hooded hijacker who bailed out of a United Airlines 727 jet Friday night was found in sagebrush near Reno Sunday. The hijack- er lost the money as he reached for his ripcord, and had left the other $45,000 behind when he jumped. Robb D. Heady, 22, a parking lot attendant and a former Vietnam paratrooper, has been charged with that hijacking. In Miami, Frederick W. Hahneman, accused of hijack- ing an Eastern Air Lines jet May 5 and parachuting out over Honduras with $303,000 in ransom, was to go before a U.S. Magistrate today. He surrendered to the U.S. embassy in Teguicigalpa, Hon- duras, Saturday and was flown to Miami the same day. Algerian government officials said they were investigating\ Holder's request for political asylum but offered no other indication as to the hijackers' fate. | Eagleton said the United States had asked for return of the money, and \we assume they will return the money.\ ° The hijackers commandeered a Western. Airlines Boeing 727 in the air over Washington state Friday night and demand- ed the ransom plus a longer- range Boeing 720 to take them to Algiers. Deaths LaFOREST, GERALD M. SEILER, MRS. ERMA A. MINER, MRS, HELEN WHIPPLE PHILLIPS, ELLA MAE bos - minutes. -. .- \\thoroughly > OURNAL - REGISTE * Sewing The Lake Plains Country-Orleans, Niagara, Genesee h Hi‘wtedflier L { I i t I I l Clear and cool tonight. Low about 50. In- creasing cloudiness Tuesday, a chance of showers latter in the day. High in the up- per 70s. Northeast to east winds. VOL. 70-NO. Wal $12,000 Mark Saturday g %% wien: the giant 11 BENEFITS- This is Wows CE cum la 9 vestock arena \3% # a« 6 , and the retirement of the mortgage was the Walk-A-Thon goal in the expansion of the fairgrounds. KNOWLESVILLE-The Orleans County Extension Service announced today the 1972 25-mile Walk-A-Thon Saturday raised $12,200 toward the $21,000 _ indebtedness on the livestock arena building built at the fairgrounds here last year. Sidney Cleveland, coordinator for the service, said the walk, won by 37-year-old Lester C. Meiers, of Roosevelt Highway, Kendall did not raise as much as last year's highly successful event, but did better than walks I in 1969 and 1970. With a total registration top- ping the 400 mark, the walk, winding through the hamlets of West Barre, East Shelby, Shelby Center and Millville, was completed by close to 80 p.c. of the registrants, according to Cleveland. \There were lots of sunburned legs and sore feet,\ the service's coordinator said, \but it's really amazing the number of kids who walked the entire 25 miles on the route.\ The winner, a foreman at the General Electric Co. plant in Brockport, had $3.50 a mile on him for the race which he completed in three hours and 40 In second place was Ronald Vaderlaan who arrived at the fairgrounds at 11:45, almost an hour after Meiers crossed the line. A Lyndonville man, John Klatt, finished fourth.. Cleveland equaled his times in previous years with a five hour and 45 minute walk giving him sixth place. A Medina man, Paul McKee of Orient Street finished seventh with a 5 hour and 55 minute walk. McKee had $4.50 a mile. on the effort. | \A lot of people were finishing their 75 to 100 mile total Satur- day,\ Cleveland said about the participants who began walking in the event when it first started in 1969. Among those was 84-year-old Howard Baker of Medina, the oldest contestant registered. This is the fourth year for Baker who \personally has raised over $2,000 for the walk,\ Cleveland said. The Medina resident has Pordum Motion Denied BUFFALO, N.Y. (UPD-U.S. District Court Judge John O. Henderson denied a motion sought by former Erie County Legislator Frederick F. Pordum today and ordered he be re- turned to a federal prison to serve out his three - year sen- ‘gence. A Pordum, 35, was convicted legs} year of conspiracy to solicit bribes in connection with the proposed Erie County domed stadium project. f Pordum requested a grand jury probe into alleged conflict- ing testimony between the gov- ernment's chief witness, J.: Lloyd Walker, and an affidavit by Edward M. Cottrell. Walker was project engineer for the $50 million stadium, and Cottrell was an officer in a pri- ° vate firm which sought to oper- ate the facility under a lease or management contract. Cottrell had denied a sworn statement by Walker, who said Cottrell allegedly offered to make $10,000 available to Por- dum and. Frank C. Ludera, an- other Erie County legislator, if they voted for the stadium. . In denying the motion for an investigation, Henderson noted the affidavit, though not entered . into the trial record, was avail- - able to be questioned in court at the time of the trial but that Pordum and Ludera did. not do « LESTER MEIERS First finisher walked over 100 miles and in the contest Saturday had $20.90 a mile riding on his efforts. In 1969, and 1970, the walks raised $12,000 each year. In 1971, the event brought in a record $18,000. Cleveland said that next year's walk will, if the pattern continues, pay off the in- debtedness and allow the service to move on to other develop- ments. C Supervisors Theodore g HOWARD BAKER Veteran walker, 84 _ Bicycle, _ Car Collide ALBION-A 10-year-old Medina boy was examined at Medina Memorial Hospital and sent home following an accident Saturday morning in which the bicycle he was driving on Route 31 west of the Culvert Road in the Town of Ridgeway collided with an automobile. Swiereznski of Gaines and Orren According to the Orleans Roberts of Shelby were chairmen of the event along with Robert Nesbitt of Barre. They were in charge of the 50 or so volunteers who manned 10 checkpoints dispensing 75 cases of soft drinks, 30 watermelons and large quantities of milk, candy and cookies. * ''We had some excellent cooperation from the Orleans County Sheriff's Department and the auxiliary police, particularly on Route 31A through to Millville,\ CVleveland said. Barn Blaze HOLLEY - The Orleans County Sheriff's Department reported a fire of undetermined origin destroyed a large two- story and contents Friday owned by John P. Coughlin Jr. of North Main Street Road. Deputies said the blaze destroyed a 1972 automobile, a quantity of winter clothing, several pieces of antique. fur- niture, several bicycles, a snowmobile trailer and - a quantity of paneling and other materials. ' County Sheriff's Department, the boy, Steven Fortunato, 12026 Million Dollar Highway, was driving the bike west on Route 31 when he apparently turned suddenly into the pathway of a car driven by Ruth M. Barrett, 50, of 28 Meadowbrook Drive, Albion. Deputies also reported a 17- year-old Albion youth, Kevin S. Campbell, 4898 Pine Hill Rd., was arrested by authorities for misuse of a junior operator's license after his car, traveling east on Route 31A, east of the Culvert Road, left the highway, struck a telephone pole and flipped over at 3 a.m. Saturday in the Town of Shelby. Deputies said he was taken to Medina Memorial Hospital with cuts to his lower lip. Friday afternoon, two drivers escaped injuries when their vehicles collided on Route 98, 200° feet north of Route 104 in the Town of Gaines, according to the Sheriff's Department. _ Deputies said the drivers, Joe Ray Donahue, 16, of 13285 Roosevelt Highway, Waterport, and Joseph S. Repke, 52, of 35 North Main Street, Albion said the accident occurred as the cars \approached the intersection between Routes 98 and 104. IjavJéxA Chuckle .. : fiUFFALO, N. Y., UPI -Two men drove up in front of a home on Helen Street Sunday. ..One of them got out, went upto the house and rang the doorbell. He held his \special delivery\ package in his hand. The man who came downstairs to answer the bell was a member of the police narcotics squad con- ducting a raid there at the time. Assuming a startled expression, the man dashed to his car and he and his partner fied. Following a chase that reached speeds of up to 100 miles per hour, police arrested Joseph C. Insera, 24, and Michael Wilburn, 29, both of Buffalo. They. were charged with possession of two ounces of co- caine, valued at $5,000, and possession .of marijuana. . Four other persons were arrested for possession of LSD in the original raid. GUILDFORD, England, UPI-The smell gof so bad weekend Jane Barney, 26, couldn't‘slqep. For two weeks she tried to trace it while it got worse and worse. Fin- ally she called a public health inspector, who this found an ostrich egg, given Jane by her boy - friend as a birthday present, tucked and forgotten on a bedroom shelf with it contents intact. 4 sml MEDINA, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1972 Free SAN JOSE, Calif, (UPI) - Angela Davis was freed Sunday and kissed and embraced the all- white jurors who acquitted her. But she said she had not changed her mind about the injustice of the American court system. \The only fair trial would have been no trial,\ she said. Miss Davis, 28, the former UCLA instructor who is an ad- mitted Communist, was found innocent of all charges that she conspired in the San Rafael kidnaping of hostages and murder of a judge. Shrieks of joy filled the tiny courtroom on her acquittal and the usually stone-faced Miss Davis grinned broadly, said \Gee\ and then went out onto a mall to talk to some 400 sup- porters. \'This is not only the happiest day of my life,\ she said, but I am sure the people who struggled for me across this country and around the world are aware that it is a symbol that we are going to free all political prisoners and the oppressed.\ As the jurors filed out, the spectators in the 40 by 40 foot room stood and joined in thun- derous applause. At a news conference a short time later, she was asked what she thought of her acquittal by an American jury which included no blacks. \I didn't think of them as part of the judicial system,\ she said. \I thought of them as part of the people, people who have to be # brought into the fight against injustice. \If you are implying that my acquittal changes my mind about the American judicial system, then you are wrong. The fact of my acquittal means there was no fair trial at all. The only fair trial would have been nc trial.\ Despite a chain of cir- - cumstantial evidence from 97 state witnesses, the seven woman, five man jury found there was \reasonable doubt\ that Angela knew of or par- ticipated in Jonathan Jackson's break into a Marin County courthouse on Aug. 7, 1970. The state has charged Angela was a party to the plot, motivated by her love for George Renewal The next few weeks in Medina will bring the answer to two major questions, both of which have to be made in the final decision by the Medina Village Board. . The first will be the matter of 100 units of public housing, in- cluding 50 for low income families and 50 for the elderly. Five proposals received by the Medina Housing Authority are now under private'study. Following the announcement of selection of sites and proposals, the Village Board will be called upon for a \yes\ or \no' on the HUD financed public housing. Only then can Medina's ap plication for $622,113 in federal renewal money be considered. But Urban Renewal Chairman Dr. John McCarthy told the Journal-Register that \the renewal program money is definitely waiting and is directly tied to the acceptance of a public housing program.\ He put to rest any notion that 'the renewal program would be endangered by lack of govern- ment funding and that Medina might find itself accepting the public housing proposal and \losing out\ on UR money. As a timetable for both programs, McCarthy said, \Things will have to take shape within the next few weeks, because the final payments from the government for these programs have to be made . during the calendar year 1972.\ It is now the policy of HUD to grant only such monies as can be actually spent for public programs during any given calendar year, rather than setting aside money for a long- range project. - . ._ While. the 'public housing projects will not require public hearings unless a zoning change is- required, the downtown re- development project will require ° two public hearings, one by- the Planning Board and one by the Village Board. - e ‘ Phase 1, which is the 1972 phase, calls for. removal. of substandard properties on the first block of Church St., parts of Starr St., an old trestle and acquisition of property where the Rignel mill stood before destroyed by fire. The village is C PRICE 10 CENTS --- | Destroyer Sustains Moderate Shock Damage By BERT OKULEY SAIGON (UPI)-Two Com- munist artillery rounds Sunday nearly scored direct hits on a U.S. guided missile destroyer off North Vietnamese waters, causing \moderate shock da- mage\ but no casualties, military spokesmen said today. In South Vietnam, North Vietnamese troops retreated under a barrage of South Vietnamese gunfire Sunday and government troops walked un- opposed into a Kontum church that had been used as a 200000 Le Zee ve toZ «%s\a\o 2 222 2 2\2000000 \000005000000 0000 Se Gene ZeReCece cece cece cane sec e ~ -pe » 4, 0 Angela Davis, happy over court acquittal. Jackson and determination to free him and the other \Soledad Brothers.\ Superior Court Judge Harold Haley was kiled by a shotgun blast in the head in a getaway van. Jonathan Jackson, 17, and two convicts were also killed: Two women jurors were wounded and a deputy district . attorney paralyzed for life, Prosecutor Albert W. Harris Jr., downcast and almost overlooked in the tumult of celebration, left the Santa Clara County courthouse complex with no comment. The jury received the case at 11 a.m. Friday after 13 weeks of trail. They deliberated 13 hours before bringing in their verdicts. The jury, headed by forewoman Mary Timothy, a medical technician at Stanford University whose husband is a Palo Alto attorney, notified Judge Richard E. Arnason at 10:30 a.m. PDT that they had reached their verdicts. Arnason looked at the three written forms on the counts of the indictment-kidnap, murder and conspiracy. Then he handdd them to court clerk Art Vanek. When Vanek read the first not guilty verdict, there was a gasp in the courtroom, then the sound of sobbing and laughter mixed. When he concluded all three verdicts of innocence, Miss Davis rose and ran to her parents in the spectator section and embraced them and her two brothers and sister. Communist Headquarters for 11 days. Dol Spokesmen| said U.S. Marine jet fighter-bomber crews flew 260 strikes across North Viet- nam Sunday under improved weather conditions. The crews reported using 3,000-pound elec- tronically guided \Smart\ bombs to destroy the 150-foot- long Tria Hut railroad bridge 85 miles from. Hanoi on the northwest rail line to China. They * also knocked out the smaller Dong Khai bridge in the same area. The U.S. command . said in Saigon a U.S. - Marine F4 Phantom | fighter-bomber '\'crashed and was destroyed from unknown causes\ Sunday near Phy My, 265 miles north of Saigon. The two crewmem- bers were reported killed. Elsewhere in the air over South Vietnam, - spokesmen reported three U.S. helicopters were shot down and a fourth was crippled by Communist fire but managed to return safely. Only one crewmen was wound- ed in the four incidents, spokesmen said. Radio Hanoi, monitored in Saigon, said today a U.S. plane was shot down Sunday over North Vietnam about 20 miles .. northeast of Hanoi. The report gave no other details. Other U.S. warplanes based in Thai- land Sunday flew raids into North Vietnam, knocking out ground installations and cutting the tracks on the Hanoi-China railroad line in six places. The U.S. command said Communist frogmen early to- \ day blew : up two South Vietnamese landing craft on a river 48 miles northwest of Saigon in Tay Ninh Province. Two seamen were reported missing. _- . The Navy said none bf the 354 crewmen aboard the USS Joseph Strauss in Sunday's near hit was injured and the ship remained in the Tonkin Gulf. The, destroyers USS Bausell and USS Sarsfield were also fired on by Communist shore batteries but were not hit, spokesmen said. fP‘hase One' \LCIHd Cle‘qrane . askingfor only $622,113for its full federal share budget, rather than the maximum available which is $750,000. This is to keep the local share (one-eighth) within reasonable limits. Removal of the properties in the \first phase\ area will assumedly leave the (land available for parking, small parks, or future commercial _J ] development. , A detailed budget for the urban renewal program is expected to be released after the fate of the public housing program | is definitely established. It is established,. however, that. the U.K. Agency will have to hire full-time administrative per- sonnel to accomplish its work during 1972. There will also be East CENTER sizeable relocation costs in- volved in finding new housing for the families on Church and Starr Sts. which agre displaced under renewal. Purchase of real estate, site clearing and survey and planning work are other major cost categories. The total: \first phase\ re- development program is pegged at $847,100. - C _- « ~.\\\\\\‘ \ Sy STARR I al PHASE ONE- Dotted lines surround \Phase One\ of the local urban renewal (or nei development program) set for 1972. ghborhooq,
