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Girls Smarter _ Than Boys? Maybe you've seen the statuette of Lucy, the little loud-mouth of the Peanuts strip, standing with clenched fist raised and mouth, as usual, open. Underneath is the caption: \Girls are smarter than boys.\ Well, the Census Bureau doesn't go that far. But a just- released survey suggests that girls do perform better than boys in the elementary school. The study compared 13-year- olds who should have been in eighth grade. It found that 12 per cent of the girls and only 9 per cent of the boys had ad- vanced ahead of their class, while 27 per cent of the boys and only 18 per cent of the girls lagged behind that normal pace. The findings may reinforce what parents and teachers have long claimed, and Lucy and the Census Bureau may be right«in the early school years. But as every red- blooded - American - male knows, later on quality and male chauvinism begin to tell. -BUFFALO EVENING NEWS Two Injured In Collision MIDDLEPORT - A Middle- port driver and his passenger were taken to Medina Memorial Hospital following a two-car ac- cident Monday afternoon on the Rochester Road in this Niagara County community. Injured were Ronald W. Hage- man, Jackson Street, Middle port, the driver, and his passen- ger, Lawrence Casey, 106 Eagle St., Medina. ' Middleport police said the men were taken to the hospital after the car they were riding in col- lided with a vehicle driven by Francis B. Perry, 22, of 107 Roseland Ave., Medina. Police said the Perry car had been traveling éast on Rochester Road when the Hageman car, heading west on the highway, attempted to make a left turn into a shopping mail driveway. No charges have been filed. Re-Open Plant BUFFALO, N.Y. (UPI) - An Investment group headed by the Emprise Corp. of Buffalo Monday announced the purchase of the former Bliss and Laughlin steel plant on Hopkins Street. The new company, Ramco Steel Inc., expects to begin pro- duction at the plant in the near future. JOURNAL GIST ¥ Serving The Lake Plains Country-Orleans, Niagara, Genesee -_- Heather Snow tonight, may accumulate 6 inches or more. Low tonight in upper 20s. Cloudy and windy Wednesday, chance of snow flurries. High about 35. Rain probability 40 p.c. Wed. WE: MEDINA, NEw YoRK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1972 | TREACHEROUS AND TROUBLESOME Full-Scale Winter Is Here; Snow And Ice Full-scale winter moved into W.N.Y. last night while the population slept. Cold wet rain at bed-time turned into snow during the night-time hours and three inches covered the landscape this morning. Highways were slick and \greasy\ and several accidents were reported. When the hour came for traffic to move toward places of work, visibility was poor and heavy wet snow made travel difficult. The Orleans County Highway Garage at Albion has little in the way of optimism for area people as of Comptroller's Opinion... VILLAGE LAY, §$§90 ~ _ officer and village building -#, 175; GRNBERAL NONICIPAL “3.55801, 8061 The same person may hold the offices of village soning - code enforcement officer, and although administrative thers is no prohibited interest in contract when the person also performs subcontract remodeling work in the village, there appears to be a violation of the village's Code of Ethics. sanford L. Church, Esq. Village Attorney Village of Albion 3 Hast Bank Sireet Albion, Kew York 1M1i1 Re: Village of Albion Dear ir. Church: This is in reply to your letter of Augast 23, 1972, in which you ask: Inquiry May the same person hold the offices of village roning admin- istrative officer amd village building code enforcement officer and is there a prohibited conflict of interest if such person also performs subsontract renpdeling work in the vi®lage\ Statenent of Lay , a person may hold more than one public office, pro- -vided there is no constitutional or statutory prohibition, and the offices are Dot incompat:-ble. Public offices are incompatible when their functimns are inconsistent and their performance by the seme ine tes of both [*A erson results in antagonism and conflict of duty, so that the € of ome cannot Paithfully discharge with propriety the dut« (People ox ral Ryan v. Green, 58 MY 295, 87h). The holding of the offices in question by the same person is not subject to any constitutional or statutory prohibition, nor is there any aspect of either office which might render then incompat- Able. As a matter of fact, the duties of both offices sre couple» . Indeed, in 24 Op. State Coupt. 147, 1968 , it was suggest- nentary C ed that a building inspestor appointed to enforce a village building code could also be responsible for enforcing a village soning or- déinance. It has apparently also been the practice to create a sep- arate office for the latter function. - Maving concluded that the same may bold both offices, we amst now decide whether there is a prohibited conflict of inter- est if auch person also perforas subcontract remodeling work in the village. Assuming thet such werk is not performed for the v there is no prohibited interest in contract under nection 801 of 'the Generel Municipal Lew. b Movuever, singe as building inspector he would he required to inspect and der eling work he had . approve the remod arrow, this appears to be in vielation of section 3{g) ef the de of Ethics adopted by the v *s sto seervion 806 of the 1l1lage pursean General Municipal Law, and which provides that a village officer must not engage in private enpleyment or render services for private interests when auch cup or service esreates a conflict with or impairs the proper discharge of him officiel duties. Cenciusion The seme perso hold the offices of village so 1 mag admin- istrative officer and village building code enforeement officer and although there is mo prohibited interssat in son when t person also performs there appears to be a violation of the v tract h work in the village, Is Code of Bthics. ¥e trust the above has been of assistance to you. Yery truly yours, ArRPIUR LaYITr Atate Comptroller Jy Janss C., & p Goopar Counsel noon today. 'The regional report received by the Highway Dept. as a forecast calls for a total ac- cumulation of up to a foot by tomorrow evening with continual intermittent snow and winds ranging from 15 to 20 mph and gusting at times to 45 mph, generally from the north or northeast. The total accumulation of 10 to 12 inches, however, does not take into account the melting which will occur during daytime hours. Night-time temperatures tonight Apparent will dip to 28, the northeast forecast said. Noon temperature was just around the freezing mark or slightly above. All high- way trucks were giving sand and salt applications, but caution was advised. _ Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. said through its district office in Medina that there were scattered outages during the night by wires down, limbs on wires and fuses blown. The Ridge Rd. area north of Medina and the area at the northeast of the village were among those affected for some J-R Analysis Conflict In Albion Post By CAREY ENGLISH ALBION - An August 30 opinion by the state found that a local official's work as both a building inspector and a private remodeling \appears to be in violation\ of this village's code of ethics, the Journal-Register has learned. The opinion, withheld from the public by Village Attorney Sanford Church pending action by the village's board of trustees, was obtained from the New York State Department of Audit and Control in Albany. A facsimile copy of the document appears today in the Journal-Register. The opinion stirred interest earlier this year after conflict of interest charges were levied before the board by Richard Dunmire, an officer of a federally subsidized housing development located here in the Village of Albion. Dunmire, secretary-treasurer of Newport Plaza, Inc., insisted Aug. 9 that the village's building code enforcement officer, Frank Sidari, could not hold that position because he also per- formed work privately as a remodeling sub-contractor. Circling the charges was a dispute: between Newport of- ficers and Sidari over the village official's enforcement of the State Building Code. Newport officers, including its president, Albion attorney Curtis Lyman, have charged publicly before the board that Sidari has discriminated against their development. Sidari, on the other hand, has subcontractor repeatedly defended his en- forcement of the code, saying that he has tried to use an even hand. At the same time, he has stressed that he feels the code must either be enforced or ignored. K Meanwhile, the - village trustees here have been put in the position of mediating the dispute. Supporters of Sidari have argued, however, that the board has not thrown its weight into the fracas, thus weakening Sidari's position. ' Opponents of the official's stand on the code have sought to tie political and personality differences to the conflict while the board has made attempts to tread as carefully as possible over some of the more emotional aspects of the controversy. Into this whirlwind came the finding by the state which Church acknowledged he had received. This was on Sept. 22. The letter was then forwarded to the board. But on Nov. 8 the board, meeting in regular session, told the Journal-Register no decision on the opinion -- no decision on whether or not any action would be required -- would be coming until the next meeting scheduled for Dec. 13. The letter to Church, a copy of which the Journal-Register received over the week end, is public information and because it came from a state agency, was not labeled as a confidential memo. The document's conclusion is based on a very fine distinction, hours. However, around 11 a.m. today the company lost a 34,500 volt transmission line and power was cut in Barker, Lyndonville, Waterport and Brockport areas. This type of trouble requires sectionalizing the lines and actually walking the lines to find the root of the trouble. Lyn- donville was restored with power at 11:30, the office said. About 1,800 customers were out as a result of this 11 a.m. break. |_ State Police reported moderate damage to two cars at 6:45 a.m. on Route 63 near Boxwood Cemetery north of Medina. There were no injuries. Jeanette B. Clay, 29, of Hall Rd., Barker, was headed south, troopers said, and John B. Sochia, 21, of 730 Church St., was headed north. Skidding caused the collision, but both drivers escaped being hurt. In another accident reported, this morning by the Orleans County Sheriff's Department, cars driven by Marlene Cox, 20, of West Transit Road, Albion and Gertrude M. Roberts, 58, of Orchard Place, Gasport, collided on Route 31 near the Allen- Bridge Road. A spokesman for the depart- ment said the cars were traveling in opposite directions when the Cox vehicle spun out of control about 6:40 a.m. and was struck by the Roberts auto. Stresses Bleak Piste, _ Picture for State By RICHARD CHADY HORSEHEADS, N.Y. (UPD)- Governor Rockefeller, returning to state issues after laboring for President Nixon's re-election, warns New York faces a \very tight\ budget next year because of a new federal welfare ceiling. Resuming his annual \town meetings\ with stops Monday in Syracuse and Horseheads, the governor stressed a bleak fiscal picture in contrast to Democrat» ic predictions of a rosy surplus this year. \We're going to make it through this year all right,\ he said, \but next year is going to be very tight, because that ceil- ing on social services is going to cost us $220 million.\ He said New York would suf- fer the loss because Congress voted a $2.5 billion ceiling on welfare payments to states-thus causing the state to get less federal aid than in this year. With the fiscal message out of the way, Rockefeller dealt with a range of politically touchy issues in the two stops, particul- arly abortions, parochial aid, and flood recovery efforts. | _ Despite speculation the jaunt was the start of his bid for a 5th term in 1974, Rockefeller insisted, \This is not a cam- paign trip.\ \This is the fifth year we've done this, and it's a trip to get the public feeling on these is- sues for next year.\ About a dozen aides and state cabinet members flanked the governor at tables in the two stops, answering questions as needed from the orderly, well- dressed groups of about 300 Board of Education Tax Relief Voted About 115 Medina School District senior citizens will bear a smaller portion of next year's school tax levy as the result of action taken at last night's regular monthly meeting of the Board of Education. Following a public hearing in the Oak Orchard Elementary School Auditorium attended by over 50 local senior citizens, the Board approved a 50 p.c. exemption on assessment on real property owned by eligible one that some officials may not have anticipated when the conflict of interest charges were first raised. e For one thing, the finding points out that as long as none of the subcontracting work is done for the village, \there is no prohibited interest in contract under Section 801 of the General Municipal Law. \However since as building inspector he would be required to inspect and approve the remodeling work he had per- formed, this appears to be in violation of section 3(g) of the Code of Ethics adopted by the village pursuant to section 806 of the General Municipal Law...\ This provides, according to the letter, \that a village officer must not engage in private employment or render services for private interests when such employment or service creates a conflict with or impairs the proper discharge of his official duties.\ Part of the inquiry from Church's office was directed at Sidari's right to hold both the position of village zoning ad- ministrative officer and building code enforcement officer, two jobs he now carries along with the official village designations of Zoning Board, Housing Code and Fire Warden. The state letter, sent by James C. Cooper, associate counsel, on behalf of State Comptroller Arthur Levitt's office, informed Church that the \holding of the offices in question by the same person is not subject to any constitutional or statutory prohibition, nor is there any aspect of either office which might render them incompatible. \As amatter of fact, the duties of both offices are com- plementary,\ the letter reads. persons 65 years of age and over with total incomes under $3,000. The newly enacted tax relief will not take effect until the 73-74 school year. Medina Central School District becomes the first school district in Orleans County to grant the 50 p.c. tax relief to the low-income elderly, although villages, towns and the county have already given it. Mrs. C. O. Eddy, Clifford Wise and several other senior citizens took the floor last night during the public hearing and gave clearly defined case-histories. A Gwinn St. resident, clearly emotionally upset, told the crowd: \Since my back injury I've been unable to work. My home is just a little one, but it's home to me and has been for 27 years. I don't want to give it up. But how far can you go on $141 a month. I went to pay my electric - bill and they said the \increase amounted to only 17 per cent. That's plenty. Now the telephone wants more.\ Mr. Wise noted that his own tax bill would be increased less than a total of $1.50 next year by the school's granting of tax relief to the low-income group. \I'm glad to pay that little extra to help others,\ he said. Mrs. Joyce Snyder, executive director of the Senior Citizens of Western Orleans took the microphone and cited in- terviews. \My concern is for the health of older people. Moving and giving up their home is a traumatic experience which often brings on illnesses from which they never recover. These older people are victims of taxation, inflation, rising food costs, and consequently live in a state of tension about their future.\ Mrs. Eddy cited the general move in the United States toward helping the elderly to keep their own homes. ''Hopefully the day will come when the cost of public education in the U.S. will be less dependent on real property taxes,\ she said. County Budget Hearing 7:30 Court House persons at Syracuse and 200 in Horseheads. * On the abortion question, th governor was politely but firm- ly criticized by several women at Syracuse for his support of the liberalized abortion law. He- answered that he had \made the best decision' I could,\ and that both the infant mortality and maternal death rates had declined under the law. ‘ After the governor's reply, a> well - dressed, middle - aged woman received scattered . ap- plause by saying: \The mortal- ity rate for the 500,000 babies we have destroyed under this law is 100 per cent.\ The. woman, later identified herself as Mrs. Janet Nolan of Syracuse, wife of a steel busin- essman, who said she had 11 children and had suffered five miscarriages. She said she went to the meeting after being cal- led about it by a local nun ac- tive in anti -. abortion affairs. Ridgeway: Discussed RIDGEWAY - A controversy over soil percolation test proce- dures conducted by the Orleans County Health Department ap- parently is not yet a dead issue here in the Town of Ridgeway. Last night, as the Ridgeway Town Board finished up a brief, 45 minute regular session dur- ing which they postponed adop- tion of a town budget, Supervi- sor Stanley Kubatek called for an executive session. Kubatek, who acknowledged that the board would be dis- cussing the controversy, barred the press and the public from the closed meeting because, as he explained, the board would be talking about individuals. Earlier, Kubatek told the board that a debate November 2 before the Orleans County Board of Supervisors, apparent- ly had not brought about any concrete solutions to what some Ridgeway residents consider a serious problem. e The controversy has ranged around the manner in which the health department conducts soil percolation tests locally and the municipal requirement that land be passed by the agency before any building construction can begin. Ostensibly, the town's concern has been directed at the alleged effect of strict test enforcement on building progress in the town. Opponents of the precedures .. argue that Ridgeway is suffering . - tax wise because of the require- ments. . The head of the health depart- ment, Constantine Markellis, has- PRICE 10 CENTS Rocky Resumes Town Tours a ~The issues of parochial school aid was raised by about 500 yelling, sign - carrying private school pupils and parents at Chemung County Airport. They wondered what happened to $300,000 in emergency state funds promised in October to re- pair flood - damaged private schools in the Elmira - Corning area. o ; Rockefeller was cheered after telling them over a small megaphone that the papers had to be redrawn for constitutional reasons. . I \Hopefully either today o r tomorrow, the problem will be solved,\ the governor said, \and the checks will be on their way.” Rockeféller had to turn to his - assistants several times when the complex matter of flood re- covery efforts were brought up by local officials at the South- ern Tier stop. Rockefeller also noted that several necessary reservoirs for future flood control have yet to be approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. | - Rockefeller plans to continue the town meetings Wednesday. Soil Test Privately \out of whack.\ In other business last night, board: 7 - passed a resolution author- izing Wendel Associates of Lock- port to go ahead with a feasibi- lity study on a proposed water district for the Jeddo area. - informed Edgewood Inn owner Stanley Saj, that the next step in his proposal to build middle-income housing at the eastern edge-of the Village of Medina will be to hire an attor- ney to prepare petitions for sub- mission to the Medina and the Town of Ridgeway boards prior to a public hearing on the need to annex the land to the village. - approved the private sale of two town-owned truck bodies and hoists at $125 apiece. High- way Superintendent Fred Roth, who told the board of the offer, said he thought the price was fair. _ . - discussed the purchase of new road signs for 13 locations throughout the town. Superin- tendent Roth told the board 'the price on signs, depending on 'the type, would range from $21 or $22 to about $30. ‘ U.F. Needs - Harder Effort A much harder United Fund effort is being asked this week \or failure will be the result\. repeatedly asserted that he feels _ That is today's report from politics has played a large role in the development of the con- troversy before the public. Kubatek, who pressed the board of supervisors to field a study of the problem, is expect- ed to also try for a solution on the town level. Whether this will mean that Ridgeway at- temps to pull out, if this is pos- sible, of a locally-adopted ordi- nance requiring the tests prior to construction, remains to be seen, town officials believe. Markellis has already indi- cated that & county-wide sani- tary code requiring the tests for all towns is in the works and he hopes to see it adopted by the end of this year. Meanwhile, the board backed- off from adopting a 1973 budget calling for tax receipts of $156,- 661 and decided instead to hold another board meeting Novem- ber 20 at 7:30 p.m. to give the budget a formal okay. Although the board did not give any official reason for the delay, one member of the board, Justice William Blackburn, was not present last night and one town official indicated that wage schedules had thrown the budget Deaths j ANSTEY, THOMAS E. United Fund headquarters. The Western Orleans United Fund still lags $12,526 behind its goal of just under $60,000 for 11 agencies. Today was to have been the deadline, but an extension is obviously requir- ed. \The report chart stands at 80 p.c. and we have picked up only a little over $2,000 since last Friday,\ said Campaign Chairman William Bellavia, He said special effor is the \only answer\. : Give pp 100% 1: H L go MH 70 fft « HL 50 | ao 55320 ' hfe 20 f 10 4 4 * & ©B o k s {oll ma the UNITED WAY -
