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OURNAL Serving The Lake Plains Country-Orlean s. Niagara, Genesee - _ Variable cloudiness tonight and Saturday. Temps. dropping into mid 20s tonight and rising into upper 30s Saturday. Precipitation - probability 10 p.c. tonight and Saturday. Rootbed of Tomorrow November's simplicities actually are the avtumn clutter in the meadow and the woodland. Where the trees stand naked the leaves lie deep, their colors already fading. Where the winds of October have pruned the woods of their dead branches, the tangle lies awaiting the bacteria that will reduce it to litter and humus. The frosted fronds of summer ferns are brown embroidery on the rocky hillside. The ripe grasses are bronzed and stiffened, their seeds are all flown, their summer's work is done. Now the chill rains of mid- autumn - will - still the restlessness of the leaves and tuck them around the roots of the tender plants. The tangled grasses will catch the wind and with it the sifting snows of January, to shield the meadow and later to water it with March melt. The milkweed pods have spilled their floss- winged seeds to go sailing downwind and lodge in a new seedbed for April. The box elder, tasseled with ripe brown seeds, is ragged as a beggar but full of food for the hungry bird and the winter mouse. The stems of black ash leaves make a fjfackstraw jumble 'that catches dead leaves and will mat and leach to leaf mold by next June. Nature has no sense of autumn neatness, of leaf: raking and litter-gathering. The bush, the vine, the tree is rooted in its own clutter, the rich accumulation of its own past. All its tomorrows are rooted in its yesterdays. Here, in November, is next sum- mer's truth and the virtue of the days and years beyond. -NEW YORK TIMES Con-Ed Studying Ontario | NEW YORK (UPI) - Charles Luce, chairman and chief exe- cutive of Consolidated Edison, says the giant utility is consid- ering Lake Ontario and parts of Canada, among others, as sites for future generating facilities. Luce spoke at the company's new Hudson River Environmen- tal Laboratory at Verplanck, on Wednesday. He said that any proposed site in the state would first be subject to public hear- ings under New York's new power plant siting law, before it could be used. _ Other possible locations for a power plant, according to Luce, include the Atlantic Ocean. He denied that the utility has purchased any land in the Poughkeepsie area for possible construction of facilities there. Regents Budget NEW YORK (UPI) - A 1973- 74 budget of nearly $3 billion was unveiled Thursday by the state's Board of Regents. The proposal represents a 9.6 per cent increase, more than half of which would be spent to increase state aid to school districts. About 63 per cent of the pro- posed $270 million increase would go toward payments to local school districts under the Regents' proposals, released earlier this week, that would in- crease the maximum per-pupil aid from $860 to $1,037, put a six per cent limit on spending over the ceiling by rich dis- tricts, and \weight\ aid to re- flect the actual amount a dis- trict needs. Big Sur Buried BIG SUR, Calif. (UPI) - Rain stalled cleanup operations Thursday night in this rustic coastal community buried be- neath tons of mud, coze and rocks, some as large as automobiles. Walls of mud from - a mountainside denuded by sum- mer fires and softened by heavy - downpours - sloshed across the tiny village Wednes- day, stranding motorists, col- lapsing buildings and wrecking cars and trucks, but caused no deaths or injuries. More rain was forecast for “might. voL. 70-NO. 204 THEY CAME AND SAW- the \National Rose Ramble the office entrance with the company's president, vice-president for production, Robert Muchow, second jam, MEDINA, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1972 Medina's widely known rose growing firm, White Bros., was host to \tour Monday and the attendance hit 75. One group stops at C. Hubbard White, center, and the from left in the front row. Medina Came Up Smelling Like A Rose! One of Medina's oldest businesses still flourishing and still a widely-known name in its field is White Bros. Rose Corp. with 7 acres \under glass\ in greenhouses on W. Oak Orchard St. This week the White complex, employing about 70 persons here and others in a Buffalo sales office, was the focal point of an inspection known as the \Rose Ramble\. It brought rose growers and their representatives from all over the country to Medina by the busload to inspect the roses, crysanthemums and poinsettias _ grown by White Bros. Corp. | THIS IS HOW IT IS- Engaged in deep discussion of industry prob- lems is C. Hubbard White, president of the local rose firm, and a group of his tour guests. White is at left. In center is Charles Smith of Smith's Roses, Hartland. Park Land Bought With Bond Monies ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) - A 400-acre section described as a \key tract\ has been purchased by the state for $200,000 in its first use of the environmental bond issue money approved by voters last Tuesday. Environmental - Conservation Commissioner Henry L. Dia- mond announced Thursday that the land, east of Lake Placid and known as the Big Cherry Patch tract, was being sold by Harry W. Rose, an Albany businessman. \This is a key tract for the- protection of the wilderness area to the northeast of the High Peaks,\ Diamond said. The land, mostly wooded, will become part of the adjacent Sentinel Range Wilderness Area. Although the tract is only about four miles from the village, and next to the Lake Placid Golf Course, Diamond said \it would be unlikely\ the area would be needed if the 1976 Winter Olym- pics are given to Lake Placid. Diamond said the land, which includes one mile along the West Branch of the Ausable River, would be set aside for hunting, fishing and hiking. The tract includes 322 acres sold to the state outright, and another 78 acres given to the Nature Conservancy for ulti- mate dedication to the state. The current owners, Rose In- dustrial Products Corp. and its subsidiary, Cherrypatch Realty Co., will keep rights to harvest Christmas trees on the small- er tract over the next five years, but Diamond said suffi- cient trees would be kept as a \satisfactory natural buffer area.\ Rose said he \had been con- sidering\ subdividing the area into lots, but decided the state's purpose was \a worthy cause.\ There was no immediate es- timate what the commercial value was. Diamond said he wanted to move \absolutely as fast as we Ex-Belly Dancer to Defend Youth Center BRADFORD, Pa. (UPI) Tullah Hanley, one-time belly dancer and now wealthy patroness of the arts, receives a hearing today on charges of operating a disorderly house aqd corrupting the morals of minors. The alleged disorderly house, police said, was the \Hanley Crebtive Youth Club,\ which she set up in a former furniture mart seven months ago for Bradford's younger set. She spent $300,000 to remodel and furnish the building. The hearing before District Magistrate Joseph J. Frampton was scheduled for 2 p.m., EST, at nearby Derrick City. Mrs. Hanley, widow of an oil tycoon, was arrested Oct. 18 following an investigation by Bradford and state police. The exact nature of the charges community's __ against her was not announced. \Some of the people here want to run me out of town because I was a belly dancer,\ Mrs. Hanley charged. She cited herself as an example of the resentment - of \foreigners especially \any- one who tries to do something for their throw-away kids.\ \I have rehabilitated dozens of young people, gotten them off drugs, paid doctors to treat them for venereal disease, given them an interest in art, music, dance. Yet I receive several calls a week threaten- ing to kill me and burn down the club,\ she said. Mrs. Hanley, is in her 60s but says she is 48, was born in Hungary. She was a traveling belly dancer when she met oil millionaire Edward Hanley in Buffalo, N.Y., 30 years ago. and married him. can spend public money wisely\ but said it would probably take 1- 2 years before commiting all the $175 million for land acqui- sition included in the $1.15 bil- lion bond issue. Although the is- sue was only approved by the voters Nov. 7, Diamond said negotiations had begun with Rose last summer. He said he hoped the 1973 leg- islature would approve a \lump sum\ for land acquisition as the final step, Kendall Raid More A ALBION - Two more men are expected to be arraigned next Tuesday in Orleans County Court in line with a sealed indictment opened yesterday charging them with burglary and assault on a group of young people in the Town of Kendall less than two years ago > District Attorney Hamilton Doherty told the Journal- Register yesterday that Byron J. Nichols, 29, of Cheektowaga and formerly of Batavia, and Alan R. Magee, 23, of Batavia, will probably be brought before the court of Judge J. K enneth Serve then to enter their pleas. Yesterday, - Richard - J. Wagner, 60, of Albion, a former deputy with the Orleans County Sheriff's Department pleaded innocent in court to two counts of burlary in the first degree and two counts of first degree assault. A plea of innocent was also entered by Judge Serve on behalf of Fred E. Spoon, 30, of LeRoy, indicted on the same charges. The plea was entered by the court because. Spoon was not represented _ by counsel yesterday at his arraignment. All together, five men were named in the indictment which charged them with \acting in concert and pursuant to a common plan or scheme\ Dec. 27, 1969 by entering a commune called \Bag Ends\ at night, with intent to commit a crime therein and while in the dwelling were armed with one or more deadly weapons.\ ‘ In the course of that action, the indictment alleges that the men **caused serious physical injury to Michael Hackett\ by means of C. Hubbard White, president, and Robert Muchow, another member - of _ the _ local management, said upwards of 75 were in the tour group. They checked in at Charter House on Transit Rd. south of Lockport the night before and then lunched at Medina's Apple Grove Inn on the day of the tour which was Monday. They came from Minnesota, Ilinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio, California, New Hampshire, some provinces of Canada, etc., etc. \It was quite a representation and an honor for us,\ said Mr. White, who was host to this particular \'National Rose Ramble\ group for the first time. a shotgun. The fifth man, Richard Williams, 26, of Washington, D.C., is a former Batavia resident who taught junior high school there. Heis a cousin of Nichols. Yesterday, Doherty said his office is seeking to determine whether Williams will waive extradition from Washington where he is a graduate student at Georgetown University. Doherty said he does not know when Williams will be arraigned here. Federal Indictment Of the five men named in the county indictment, four Wagner, Nichols, Magee and Williams -- were indicted by the federal government in February of this year. * The federal charges alleged that the four violated the civil rights of the commune residents. In June, Nichols pleaded guilty to the federal conspiracy charges. That plea resulted Oct. 25 in a one-year federal prison sentence. Magee, who pleadedguilty to forcible entry, also received a one-year federal prison sentence. However, while Magee (who, during federal court testimony, said he was the one who fired the shot that wounded Michael Hackett) is currently serving the one-year term at the Danbury, Cotnn. Federal Prison, Nichols is not. «- Genesee Charges Instead, Nichols, the govern- ment's \key\ witness in the federal case against Wagner, was also sentenced to three years in prison September 20, on a Genesee County Court conviction on charges of burlary and petit Resume: Kissinger Will Be Winging WASHINGTON (UPI) -Ne- gotiations to reach a Vietnam peace settlement will resume in Paris on Monday, the White House announced today. A spokesman indicated it may be some time before a final agreement is concluded. Presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger will leave at 10 a.m. EST Sunday for the French capital where his Communist counterpart, Le Duc Tho, arrived Friday. Kissinger was meeting with President Nixon at Camp David outside Wash- ington when the announcement was made. Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said he expected the next session would probably last \several days or perhaps more.'\ And he said additional consultations would be needed with both North and South Vietnam following the meeting. Ziegler also left open the possibility that Kissinger would fly from Paris to Saigon for more talks with South Vietna- mese President Nguyen Van Thieu who has raised objections to parts of the agreement. He said simply that further consul- tations would be held. Kill Two Students BATON ROUGE, La. (UPI) -Deputies, state police and National Guard troops in full ~ riot gear patrolled a quiet and empty - Southern - University campus today where two black students were killed Thursday in a battle over control of the school administration building. There was no further violence during the night. Students and authorities blamed each other for the deaths. \They (students) had small military bombs,\ said Sheriff Al Amiss. \The two students were killed by the bombs - thrown right by them from a building window.\ Students denied they had bombs. They said a law officer must have killed the youths with a shotgun blast. A coroner's report on the bodies was inconclusive as to the cause of death. larceny. Those charges stemmed from the March, 1971 theft of a snow blower and a boat motor in Batavia. He has been granted a stay of execution pending appeal of his conviction. In addition, Nichols is facing another charge in Genesee County. That charge, third degree criminal possession of stolen property, was lodged in connection with the alleged theft of a window from a home under construction in the Town of Bergen in September, 1969. Wednesday, Nichols appeared in Genesee County Court to with- draw a guilty plea to that charge. County Judge Glenn R. Morton heard Nichols' attorney, Michael Rose of Rochester, withdraw the plea, filed Oct. 14 as attorneys were in the process of selecting a jury for the trial, because, ac- cording to the attorney, Nichols believed the action was in his best interests. Williams, meanwhile, was freedof the federal charges after he agreed to co-operate with the government and provide them with information on the raid. Federal Trial Wagner, the former deputy sheriff, was the only one of the four to stand trial. Represented by Brockport attorney Thomas Calandra, Wagner was finally acquitted of the charges just this past June. No sooner had those charges been disposed of than Doherty began looking into the case from the county's angle-- as a local assault and burglary incident. - Finally, after a grand jury investigation here which required the presence of a Par to Paris Kissinger will be accompa- nied by his chief deputy, Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr., and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State William H. Sullivan, a - Southeast Asian expert who participated in some of the earlier meetings. \ Four members of Kissinger's national security council staff who have accompanied him to previous sessions -Winston Lynd'ville Judge Calls Bluff: LYNDONVILLE - Town Jus- tice Gerald Hughes visited the Junior and Senior History classes of Lyndonville Central School on November 13. He came upon the invitation of Joan Thomas, So- cial Studies teacher, who stated that many of the students had expressed a desire to know more about the duties of the town justice and justice court pro- ceedings. Because of the inter- est and the questions that were presented. Justice Hughes sched- uled a public meeting at the Town Hall on November 15. However, the only persons to present themselves at that time were local member of the State Police and a representative of the press. Justice Hughes expressed his disappointment that there was . not more general interest in the Wednesday night meeting. Said Hughes, \When I spoke to the students of the history classes earlier in the week, it was my understanding that there were a few 'beefs' about the Lyndon- ville police. Consequently, I ar- ranged for a subsequent meet- ing at the Town Hall at which the public might attend. The local police were there ready and willing to answer any ques- tions that might arise. State Trooper Douglas Hedges of N+- agara County also. took time from his busy schedule to be present. Since no persons show- ed up, I have come to the con- clusion that the so-called 'beefs' were pure fantasy.\ In May,, 1971, the Buffalo newsman wrote a series of ar- ticles for his paper telling of the incident. As a result, the federal grand jury investigation was - launched. Because of his role in the af- fair, Hill testified briefly at Wagner's trial under a special protective order granting him immunity from - answering certain questions he felt might jeopardize his news sources who were not identified in his articles. According to published reports at the time the raid was made public; the residents of the commune in Kendall told authorities that three hooded men had forced their way into the 1%4 story frame farmhouse at gunpoint, shot Hackett in the legs when he made a move toward a shotgun and then ordered the residents upstairs and ransacked the house before fleeing. Both Nichols and Magee told authorities on the federal level that they had been hired by Genesee County sheriff's of- ficials and told to frighten the \hippies\ at the commune in order to force them out of Orleans County. Genesee County Sheriff Frank D. Gavel immediately denied the charges and no one in his department was indicted by the federal grand jury even after an FBI probe. « , Wagner's role in the raid was alleged by Nichols during testimony to have included the. police officials, a. ~~ PRICE 10 CENTS ey to ixon ~ Lord, Peter Rodman, John Negroponte and David Engel - will also be in the party. 'Barby' Drugs WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Bureau of - Narcotics - and Dangerous Drugs has proposed restricting sales of nine \highly addictive'' barbiturates linked to 1,771 suicides and deaths in. 17 months. The bureau said the barbitu- rates are more dangerous than. heroin, . \Withdrawal from the use of these drugs can be fatal and, in | many instances, withdrawal symptoms are more severe from a barbiturate habit than from heroin addiction,\ BNDD Director John E. Ingersoll told a news conference Thursday.: Ingersoll identified the barbi- turates as amobarbital, buta- barbital, cyclobarbital, hepta- barbital, pentobarbital, probar- bital, secobarbital, talbutal and - vinbarbital. These are the so-called generic or chemical names of the compounds, not the names under which they usually are prescribed or sold. The chemi- cal name might appear in a listing of ingredients, Ingersoll said. - Ingersoll listed only five brand-name drugs which con- tain compounds from the list: Seconal (secobarbital), Tuinal (amobarbital and secobarbital), Amytol (amobarbital), Nembu- tal (pentobarbital) and Butisol (butabarbital). BNDD said the barbiturates cited by Ingersoll fell in the category of \sedative-hypno- tics\ and were used frequently as general anesthetics or in treatment of acute convulsions, tension and insomnia. \They are highly addictive and create a high psychic and . physical dependency,\ Ingersoll said. The BNDD director asked the Food and Drug Administration to place the nine barbiturates under the same controls for : cocaine, morphine, codeine, methadone and amphetamine. © These controls permit BNDD to set manufacturing quotas, pro- hibit issuance of refillable prescriptions, prohibit export or import and ban public sale without federal authorization. rraignments to Come Buffalo Evening News reporter, Ray Hill, an indictment was handed up Monday of this week. Hill, more than anyone else, was responsible for bringing the 1969 incident to public attention. former deputy's knowledge that the raid was going to take place. Nichols testified that Wagner knew the men were going to the commune with masks and guns to harass the residents. Nichols said the guns were turned over to Wagner after the raid for \safekeeping\. Authorities, including Genesee County Undersheriff Gordon Garner, said during Wagner's trial, that Nichols had indeed _ been recruited after Wagner had asked about obtaining a possible undercover agent to try a nar- cotic purchase at the Kendall site, thus. enabling officials to get search . warrants. Full Protection || Nichols' testimony that their would be full police protection for the raid was denied during Wagner's trial when Garner said he had no knowledge of the raid. Nichols also testified that guns were turned over to Wagner and that he (Nichols) contacted Garner to see if he could get return of the guns. Garner denied receiving the call. Wagner, meanwhile, said he had never seen the guns or hooded masks used in the raid, but Nichols maintained he turned these over to Wagner after the incident. . . Wagner testified that he was called to the Orleans County Sheriff's office on the morning of - the raid and Nichols was there. Wagner told the FBI he heard, a report of the shooting but did not .. _ connect Nichols with it. Vim ee added that he thought it might - have been a rival narcotics gang that staged the raid.
