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-THE DAILY JOURNAL-REGISTER Dniyhumdfondcd‘lm-h Medina Tribune Zowvnded lug—mcogannmmulfl by The Medina: Daily and Sunday, 413 Moin Street bond-M ”5M. ALONZO L WATERS President and Publisher ROBERT E. WATERS Editor Terms of Subscription Payable in Advance -- For Home Delivery Call 798-1400 -- By mail in Orleans, Niagara, Genesee Counties $15 per year or $4.00 por quarter. All other Mail $19 per year, >- Designated as an Official Paper by the Vilage of Medina, County of“: the Vilage of lyndonville, the and Yates and the Central School rownships of Ridgeway Districts of Modina and Lyndonville, and its Township: Entered at the Post Office Medina, N. Y. 14103, as second class matter. _- Editorial CAPITALISTIC BREADBASKET It now turns out that only the U.S. can pro- duce the agricultural abundance that will give So- viet citizens the higher food production that Soviet leaders have promised. According to late reports, even U.S. help may fall short of age in Russian food supplies. Soviet Union is suffering 1963. The grain harvest is likely tons short of planned production. staving off a short- It is said that the the worst farm crisis since to fall 30 million This means less bread, less feed for livestock and less meat. | Ironically, American agriculture is the epitome of capitalism. U.S. tion of the highest principles farmers are a work demonstra- of the capitalistic society. They are independent, and they own their own homes and land. Their success vate initiative in the application of the hinges upon pri- latest agri- cultural techniques flowing from the halls of sci- ence, industry these are attributes of a freedom of action and to the maximum extent. This capitalistic system communism -- damned abroad e eudo intellectuals has now become the world's American farmer, the most by ps breadbasket. And the capitalistic of all capitalists, of the burden of feeding and chemical laboratories. democratic society, where freedom of inquiry flourish - the antithesis of and scorned at home must bear the brunt a good share of the world. A LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE Local legislators will have a ready-built pro- gram of they take up One of interest to the Orleans-Niagara area when their official duties in early January. the first items that will be placed in the dossier for Assemblyman Bill Knights will be the Lake Ontario Parkway and Lakeside State Park. While the State has spent millions on both of these projects they have been relegated into the step-child class. munication for Perhaps it has been lack of com- when once the purse-string hold- ers are informed of the situation, they seem to re- spond with a look of amazement. The Parkway has been completed. Now all that it needs are funds to maintain and police it. The State Park has been in operation for several .-- years and the demands for the recreational facili- - ~~: ties. that. are. offered. there have been many. . \it has been forced to: rem#in open fora limited ~ time because there is not enough money Yet, allocated to maintain the services for the entire summer sea- son ' Assemblyman Knights will find that for every dollar of income that the state receives there will be many legislative hands freshman it. Coming as a out-stretched to claim legislator it -will take some doing to stake-out his claim for projects that have an Orleans County tag on them. However, neither the Park nor the Parkway are local in the provincial broadened connotation concept as each serves a segment of the Western New York area and particularly that part from Rochester west to the Niagara Frontier. There are other facets of interest that have a direct influence on the operation of various coun- ty concerns. One is the matter of the inequity in the per-capita aid between the cities and the vil- lages. It is recognized in problems which the not as pro that there are many built- larger cities have which are rcunced in the smaller urban centers. However, there are no intermediate categories. A city of the same population as a village receives several times of its size. Should the same it will be the amount as the latter, irrespective the per-capita formula remaim incumbent upon the larger vil- lages to incorporate under the city charter law so that they qualify tance. These are but two of for the greater per-capita assis- the chores that the local legislators will have when they take their seats January 2rd in the State that Orleans will have freshmen in Capitol. Despite the fact both houses this year, we feel that their responsibility to their constituency will be such that the county should be well served. l» The Lighter Side By DICK WEST United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) -After so many years of neglect, it is good to see the U.S. govern- ment finally doing something about noise in the home. What it is doing is publishing a booklet titled \Noise in the Home,\ and if you would like a little peace and quiet around your place I would advise you to order one. (Consumer . Product Informa- tion, Washington. D.C., 15 cents per copy.) . Even if it doesn't promote peace and quiet, it will at least provide some peace of mind. Household noises are difficult to deal with owing to certain peculiarities. Here's a common scene: The Scene A couple sitting before the fire on a winter's eve, he composing sonnets and epi- - grams, sh knitting 'a basket bail cover. Suddenly he hark- ens. \Whats that noise?\ he says. \What noise? I didn't hear any noise,\ she says. \What did it sound like?\ \It sounded. like someone unloading 907.18 kilograms of gravel on a large piece of corrugated sheet metal.\ \That's funny,\ she says. \I don't remember ordering any gravel.\ He gets up and the house a bit but there is no sign of gravel unloading opera- tions anywhere on the premi- ses. ' Mlustrated - in - this little vignette are two of the odd properties of household noise: (1) It frequently can only be heard by one person and more often than not it is sexually exclusive. That is, if the woman of the house hears a strange noise, the man of the house won't hear a thing. And vice versa . Presumably, certain noises pékos around' 2 MEDINA JOURNAL-RECGISTER TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1972 Washington Window Postal Service Tries Aerial Sales Pitch By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International The U.S. Postal Service is using hard-pitch salesmanship to recoup some of the revenue it lost when it passed up a one- cent increase in first class age rates:. | What it's selling, with all the skill that a Madison Avenue huckster might contrive, is the idea you really ought to send your letters by airmail. There was a lot of talk a while back of raising first class stamps from eight to nine cents. But the Postal Service announced it was going to do its bit for President Nixon's anti-inflation - program - by foregoing that increase. Shortly thereafter, local post offices blossomed with red, white and blue posters touting the advantages of airmail. Postal patrons were given pamphlets (also red, white and blue) lauding airmail as \The PEOPLE'S FORUM (Free expression is the mark of a progressive com- munity. This column be- longs to Journal - Register readers to set forth their views. Letters should be as brief as possible and must be signed in the writers' own hand). To The Editor: I would like to make an ad- dition to the Nov. 30 article that was not fully reported relative to my attorney, Thomas Calandra, requesting an investigation of the Orleans - County - Sheriff's Department and the District Attorney's Office. You somehow neglected to print that he requested the in- vestigation on my behalf because I do not believe the Grand Jury was furnished with all material testimony taken at my prior trial. Mr. Calandra pointed to specific pages of the transcript from my prior trail where other police officers gave damaging testimony implicating Sheriff Williams. and Undersheriff White in the commune shooting. He by no means pointed out all the damaging evidence which came out at the trial. Apparently the Grand Jury was only shown such testimony as the District Attorney felt necessary to indict me and did not investigate the incident in general. It appears the Grand Jury was only shown certain portions 'of the testimeny damaging to me and somehow believed ex-felons, yet chose to ignore the testimony of other police officers who implicated Sheriff Williams and Un- dersheriff White. I think your readers might be interested in knowing that the Federal Grand Jury did not hear this testimony and apparently neither did the Orleans County Grand Jury. It came out at my trial when some of it was un- covered as we prepared by defense. This is why an in- vestigation by either the At- torney General's Office (and not the Office of Local Government) as requested of the Orleans County Board of Supervisors, or by the County of Orleans itself is required as I feel strongly that a biased presentation was made by the District Attorney. (In- cidentally, the Genesee County Legislature saw fit to investigate their Sheriff's Department's involvement in the matter.) According to the newspapers, the District Attorney was going to take action and investigate the matter since late June, 1972. Apparently it took him over four months to obtain an indictment in the case. I imagine this was because of the exhaustive in- vestigation that was made into the matter. I wonder if I would have been indicted had someone pushed for Grand Jury action prior to the election? (If only Bill Monacelli were alive.) In reality what occurred before the Grand Jury was nothing more than a com- plete rehashing of selected portions of prior testimony. I submit that anyone can delay procedures to fit timetables and make numerous excuses why a matter cannot be completed. How does one go about ob- taining a fair shake if higher authorities are not called in? have feminine characteristics while others are of masculine: gender, but that has never been scientifically verified. & (2) It frequently is impossible to identify the source of household noise. Strange sounds occur that can't be recognized or tracked down. Anyone who has ever been baffled by the latter phenomen- on will be pleased to learn from the booklet that \electrical appliances are among the chief household noise polluters.\ In the example given above, it is quite likely that the noise heard by the man of the house was the clicking of his wife's electric knitting needles, which give off masculine vibrations that -the female ear cannot detect. > This is an important disclo- sure. For once we know what is causing a noise, we can pull the plug. Why is it always myself and my family that has to be ruined while other persons seem to be immune from any type of charges or publicity? How many times does a person have to be found innocent of the same charges? ‘ I've already faced my charges and 12 jurors from every walk of life found me innocent. It is my understanding from talking with them after the trial that they did not bave a very difficult time in reaching this decision. I fully discussed the case with the District Attorney when these charges were first made and gave statements to the FBI on two different occasions. I an- swered all questions to the best of my knowledge - the Orleans County Sheriff's Department decided to make an inquiry - this was done under the direction of Undersheriff White, who to my knowledge made no depart- mental statement, but who was himself a potential defendant in the federal investigation. I then felt it necessary to obtain counsel because I was the lowest ranking officer involved and I could very easily be made the scapegoat of this unfortunate situation. As you can see -- my suspicions were correct. The above factors never seem to come out in the newspapers and regardless of what the District Attorney says the Grand Jury only heard the testimony he chose it to hear. Maybe the candidates for Sheriff chose not to discuss this issue but because of the second indictment, I can no longer stand stilent and allow my reputation to once again be smeared by a prosecutor who chooses to be selective in tailoring an indictment against me. I personally believe these four men acted on their own; however, I refuse to sit back and once again turn the other cheek. I am contident that reading of the testimony will show that certain other members of the Sheriff's Department, although they may very well be innocent, should also have to face these charges along with me. The District Attorney has attempted to dispose of this case in a manner which would cause the least embarrassment to the Orleans County Republican Party. I would greatly appreciate your printing this letter in its entirety and if you wish, I will see that the portions of transcript that I have discussed in this letter are made available to you. Everyone who has read them cannot understand why other persons have also not been in- dicted. i RICHARD J, WAGNER Appeal WASHINGTON (UPI) - The nation's highest court has re- fused to get involved with the division of revenue from the state's off-track betting opera- tions. ' The Supreme Court Monday dismissed an appeal by the Finger Lakes Racing Associa- tion against a state court ruling last March that the legislature can determine the track's split. The court in a brief order said the case did not present \a substantial federal question.\ ates a flat-racing track, appeal- ed after the state Court of Appeals ruled 4 to 3 that the lawmakers had provided race track owners with fair com- pensation. The racetracks receive 1 per cent of the offtrack take, under the present law, and the horse- men receive half a per cent. \It is certainly not grossly un- just or unreasonable,\ a major- ity of the appeals court ruled. In a written brief to the high court, the complainants argued that the off-track pari - mutuel betting law \fails to meet the constitutional test for a proper taking of private property for public use.\ ' They maintained that they were not compensated for \all of the items necessary to be taken for off - track betting . purposes.\ The association, which oper-. Preferred Service.\ Airmail, of course, costs three cents more than first class. Millions of people had stopped paying the premium because postal officials said nearly all long-distanee mail was going by air anyway. Delicate Problem When it set out to push airmail, the Postal Service faced a delicate problem. It had to make airmail sound worth the extra three cents - without making liars of the postal officials who previously had said most first class letters already were being delivered by air. The pamphlet resolves this problem. It acknowledges that \in many instances, regular first class letters are airlifted if they are going beyond 600 miles and if space is available on an airplane.\ \But the airmail letter goes to the head of the line the minute it arrives at the post offices -first to be canceled and sorted, and first to go on the airplane. \The airmail letter has a reservation on the first flight after it is processed. The first class letter is on 'standby,' depending upon available space after all the airmail 'and passengers are aboard.... Ringing Assurance \At destinations, the airmail letters again get preference over first class letters in sorting and distribution to letter carriers.\ The pamphlet closes with a ringing assurance that \the slightly higher airmail postage provides fastest mail service available between most points.\ Well, perhaps. But nowhere in the pamphlet can youfind an explanation of why it often takes two or three days for any kind of letter -first class or airmail -to meander from, say, New York to Washington. File Features Interesting Bits Taken From Files of The --= Medina Daily Journal Media Register Five Years Ago Supervisor Veedor Howard of Murray charges series of fires in his township the work of ar- sonists. Green Kettle Restaurant at Middleport entered and $50 taken. _ Ladies Auxiliary of Middleport Fire Department give $1,000 toward the purchase of new fire truck. Medina Police handed out 91 PEANUTS® summons during October ac- cording to Lt. Homer Phillips, department head. Ten Years Ago State, - Department of Correction presses for new jail in the county. Medina firemen busy with annual toy repair program for Christmas giving. Medina Athletic Council holds \gas day\ to raise funds. Fifteen Years Ago Medina firemen received $531 in Muscular Dystrophy fund drive. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bates of Marshall Rd. left to spend winter in Bradenton, Fla. Robert Hawley, USN, of Elm St. assigned to Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Va. Richard Woodside, E. Oak Orchard St. left to visit Mr. and Mrs. - Oaklin - Kibler - of Jacksonville, Fla. Twenty Years Ago O.R. Marrh, formerly of Medina named controller for the Watson - Elevator ° Co. Englewood, N.J. A Death of Charles: D. Johnson; 78, \of Shelby Center. St. John's Church Auxiliary staged a musical program. Twenty-Five Years Ago Dr. Louis D. Kress of Buffalo speaker at meeting of Medina Chamber of Commerce. Miss Grace Gleason of Buffalo visiting friends in Medina. A flooded oil stove calls Medina Fire Dept. to home of Delbert Sprague on West Avenue. ) at\ Ridgeway Church helpers hold Christmas party. - Thirty Years Ago Forty-one members of . the Orleans County Farm Bureau receive pins at meeting. Judge David A. White speaker at Elks Memorial Day program. Many spotters being sought to man observation posts. Nineteen receive football letters at high school. Thirty-Five Years Ago Death of Orrin Butts, age 78. Baptist Society relaying flag stones around church property. Forty Years Ago Mrs. Ernest Boyle hostess to the ME. Philathea Class. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Bacon entertaining the organization meeting of the Baptist Young Married People. Forty-Five Years Ago Death of Mrs. Charles Prit- chard, age 48. 20. Marriage of Joseph Higgins and - Hazel - Lenhart - of Knowlesville. . Fifty. Years Ago oe e £ po c Death of Mrs. L.A. Benns; 89. Fifty-Five Years Ago Miss Nettie Stoddard won a $400 piano given away by Frank © Howard in store contest. _ Death of Homer D. Waldo, for 30 years a justice of the peace in W. Barre. Sixty-Five Years Ago . Methodist ladies packing a barrel to be sent to Texas. Death of Mrs. Clarence Holmes, age 39. =C Suen '72 Seventy Years Ago | Ridgeway Universalist Ladies Aid held a handkerchief bazaar and sale. _ Coal $7 per ton delivered in Shelby Center. ' , Almanac m7 I - By United Press International Today is Tuesday, Dec. 5, the 340th day of 1972 with 26 to follow. ' : The moon is in its new phase. The - morning stars - are Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn. The evening star is Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of Sagittarius. American movie maker Walt Disney was born Dec. 5, 1901. On this day in history: In 1776, the first scholastic fraternity - in - America-Phi Beta Kappa-was organized at william & Mary College in Virginia. 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