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Perfect Squelch at the U.N. There is room for some argument about the current U.S. campaign in the United Nations to reduce its annual dues. The American economy is so far ahead of the rest of on ability to pay, the U.S. would be paying even more than the present 31.5 per cent of the regular U.N. budget. The U.S. is, however, making the case-and a good one, we think-that it is unhealthy for the world organization to depend so excessively on one member. Such arguments aside, the Soviet delegate displayed a supercolossal nerve when he stood up in the U.N. the other day and denounced the U.S. proposal as \unjustified and unfair\ and a threat to the solvency of the U.N. Someone in such a glass house as the Russians are in on this issue shouldn't throw stones, and U.S. Ambassador George Bush stepped forward with pertinent facts and figures. While the U.S. share of the regular - (administrative) budget was 31.5 per cent, he pointed - out, - America's voluntary contributions to U.N. : programs, such as UNICEF or foreign aid, were even more generous, totaling 45 per cent of the world's contributions in 1970. The Russian voluntary con- tribution, on the other hand, was an infinitesimal 1.47 per cent. Over the 27 years of the U.N. existence, the U.S. has paid in a total of $4.2 million, of which nearly $3 million has been completely voluntary. Inevitably, there's a certain unreality about many of the U.N. debates as delegates indulge | in - nationalistic posturing and play-acting (of poor dramatic quality, to be sure). But in this case, it was nice to see our man at the U.N. ready with the facts to put down the Russian's preachy pomposities with a perfect squelch. ® -BUFFALO EVENING . NEWS Mercu ry Again People in the area may have thought it was summer shower time since the mercury \soar- ed\ to 56 this morning, ac- cording to the Orleans High- way Dept. garage at Albion, but by 1 p.m. it was just under 40 and was forecast to drop to the low 20s by 6 p.m. Snow and rain mixtures, then snow squalls are expect- ed with a possible one to three inches of new snow. Winter is not abating. Cau- tion is urged for drivers, the department said. Toddler Lives; Fell 8 Stories HONOLULU (UPI) - A 22- month-old toddler escaped with only a couple of cuts and scrapes when she landed in a palm tree after falling from an eighth-floor hotel window. The child, Shannon Notley of Honolulu, was hospitalized for observation after suffering a cut lip, cut toe and scraped back. \'She's up running around and having a ball,\ reported a nurse at Kaiser Foundation Hospital, which planned to release her today. Police said the girl bounced off a metal awning above a ground floor restaurant and landed in a palm tree. A restaurant employe climbed the tree and plucked Shannon from the fronds. She was visiting her grand- parents at the hotel at the time of the Monday night fall. Deaths - FELLER, MRS. EDWIN WARREN, MRS. ML . FLORENCE J. the world that, based strictly | Lp 20012 suave cap 2222 1022. voL. 70-NO. 216 Serving The La _ Drops Eounty Appeals DeCiSiO\‘z.m;r1|man.’s Condition On Reapportionment Plan ALBION - Orleans County has appealed an Oct. 3 State Supreme - Court - decision disapproving a proposed reap- portionment plan that calls for the election of four additional supervisors, county sources confirmed today. The appeal notice was sent to Buffalo Friday following con- sultations Thursday between various members of the Orleans County Board of Supervisors, the sources said. The appeal came as the county was faced with a Dec. 1 deadline set by State Supreme Court Justice Harold P. Kelly for the submission of a revised proposal. Reached this morning in Albion, County Attorney Sanford Church would have no comment on the report. - \We're going to issue a release on it at the proper time,\\ Church said. \The board took no formal action and I believe that some formal action should be taken.\ The appeal is the latest in a series of steps taken by the county to come up with a reap- portionment plan inline with the U.S. Supreme Court's \one-man one-vote\ edict. ''County Supervisors'\ Last June, the county sub- mitted a plan to State Supreme Court following the adoption of a local law by the board which required that the county add \County Supervisors'\ for the towns of Albion, Shelby, Ridgeway and Murray. Justice Kelly, in disapproving the plan, said it did not meet the necessary criteria for reap- portionment. The appeal was filed in place of a revised plan. The action by the board last week means that the plan will be brought before the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court. Medina - attorney - Norris Webster, counsel for the tax- payers group that brought the original suit againstthe county to force reapportionment, declined comment this morning. \Not until I see the grounds for the appeal,\ Webster told the Journal-Register. Webster said, however, that he had been unaware that an appeal had been made. - Special Committee Responsibility for overseeing the development of a reap- portionment plan for the county has rested with a special com- mittee of the board of super- visors. Three supervisors sit on the committee: Maynard Reed of Albion, Theodore Swiereznski of Gaines and Michael Paduchak of Kendall. On Wednesday, Nov. 29, Church told the Journal-Register that several alternative reap- portionment plans ''not necessarily'' - excluding proposals for a - county legislature would be submitted to the board the following day in preparation for the Dec. 1 deadline. Church said at that time the plans would either be discussed with the entire board (probably in executive session) or with the special committee. The decision,then, to make the appeal apparently emanated from this committee although the Journal-Register learned yesterday at least one member of the committee is apparently dissatisfied with the action. Smaller Towns County sources continued to insist yesterday that the decision to appeal Kelly's disapproval of the reapportionment plan was pushed by supervisors from the smaller townships of Orleans County. At dispute has been the un- willingness of the supervisors from the smaller municipalities to accept a system of reap- portionment that would call for a county legislature. According to the sources, this opposition, led by Kendall Supervisor Michael Paduchak, has centered on their fear that a county legislature would reduce their power in the county. Currently, the board: operating under a system of weighted voting, a plan that was brought into being on the board as an interim measure until a reapportionment - plan - ac- ceptable to the court could be found. Even this system is looked at by the supervisors from the smaller towns with some dismay because it has reduced their is. voting power in proportion to other larger townships. ‘ Legislature A county legislative system here in Orleans could, for example, call for the creation of, say five districts® with a representative, probably full- time, sitting in the legislature from each district. That district could very easily take in parts of several different towns. In essence, it would represent another, separate level of government in the county. Accordingly, town supervisors would be just that: supervisors for their town. They would have no seat at a county level and this is why the supervisors from the smaller towns are so adamant about avoiding a county legislature: they are afraid that their county power would be severed. An appeal, according to legal observers, could delay any further reapportionment action until sometime in the spring of 1973 at the earliest. Indictments for Draft Violators In Western N.Y. BUFFALO, N.Y. (UPD)-U.S. Atty. John T. Elfvin said more indictments were forthcoming after a federal grand jury in- dicted 98 men from Western New York on charges of violat- ing the selective service act. Elfvin said about 100 others would be indicted on the same charges in the next few weeks. He said \enormous'' backlogs of draft evasion cases have built up in many districts throughout the country. The indictments, which, were handed up Tuesday to U.S. Dis- trict Court Judge John T. Cur- tin, charged the defendants with either refusing to submit to military induction, failing to re- port for induction, or refusing to perform civilian work in lieu of military service. Elfvin said summonses for those named in the indictments would be issued and arraign- ments will probably be spread out over the next two weeks. _ meeting is set for Open House PUBLIC WELCOME- For 2 days, tonight and to- morrow the public is welcome to stop in at the Trolley Bldg. at the 4-H Fairgrounds and view a complete exhibit set-up of the Extension Service Assoc. activities. Shown setting these in place are Richard Norton (top) and in bottom photo, Bruce smith and Sidney Cleveland. The ann- ual Extension Assoc. tonight. - (J-R ~ - _ Photos) U ............... OURNAL REGISTER | ' ino ke Plains Country— Orleans, N iagdr a, Genesee NEw yonk, wEpNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1972 ___ Seen for By CHARLES E. TAYLOR CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) - Weathermen issued an im- proved forecast for tonight's blastoff of the three Apollo 17 astronauts in a - star-blazing finale to the $25 billion lunar exploration program set in motion by President John F. Kennedy 11 years ago. All was in readiness for the 9:53 p.m. EST takeoff of Navy Capt. Eugene A. Cernan, Navy Cmdr. Ronald E. Evans and civilian geologist Harrison H. \Jack\ Schmitt on an expedi- tion to a lunar valley that may have been the scene of the moon's last volcanic gasp of life a billinn years ago. Cernan and Schmitt will spend a record 75 hours on the moon. \It will be cloudy, but nothing to preclude the launch,\ said spaceflight meteorologist Er- nest Amman after a morning review of weather data. He said a cold front moving swiftly eastward would be in north Florida by launch time, pushing cloudy skies several hundred miles in advance. But Amman said the clouds over the spaceport \won't be so thick as to be of any concern.\ The three astronauts slept late today in their quarters at the moonport to be well rested for the start of the 12-day, 16- hour mission which Cernan predicts will be America's most - productive flight to the moon. It also will be the last for at least a decade, and perhaps for this century. 'Fraffic-around the spaceport was picking up early in the day and more than - half-million rocket watchers were expected to be on the beaches and at other seaside vantage points by Called 'Serious' KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) - Former President Harry S Truman's condition worsened during the night and was assessed today by his personal physician as serious. A spokesman for Research Hospital where the 88-year-old former President is under treatment for \fluid in the lungs\ made an unscheduled conference call to reporters at g:20 a.m. CST that \Dr. Wallace Graham has assessed President Truman's condition as serious as of 7:55 a.m. CST.\ The spokesman said 'there would be another report on the president's condition at 10:30 am. CST as previously sche- duled. ' | Truman's condition - earlier was listed as \fair.\ Graham said Truman was being treated with antibiotics. Neighbors said an ambulance drove up to the Truman's Victorian home in suburban Independence, - Mo., _ shortly after 5 pm. and pulled away a few minutes later with lights flashing. By 5:30 p.m. official announcement was received of the hospitalization. A - news conference - was scheduled for 10:30 a.m. today. A hospital spokesman said a second conference would be called for 8 p.m., and the two-a- day schedule would be followed as long as the former president remained in fair condition. Sources said Bess Truman, 87, was with her husband in his sixth-floor hospital room. Ac- cess to the floor was blocked by police and Secret - Service agents. Mrs. Truman was driven to the hospital in the family limousine by Mike Westwood, Truman's bodyguard since his years in the White House. Mrs. Truman arrived at the hospital about 5:30 p.m. and left at 8:30 p.m. In past hospitalizations, Mrs. Truman has visited her hus- band each day and shared at least one meal with him. ' The hospitalization was the eighth for Truman since he left the White House in 1952. He was last hospitalized for 15 days in July for \a colon irritation.\ > Research Hospital spokesman John Dreves said Tuesday that the current hospital stay was w $70éaifier Chance of snow flurries and heavy snows squalls tonight and Thursday. Temps tum- bling into teens by morning with little rise Thursday. Precipitation 30 p.c. Thursday. Weather Improvement Tonight launch hour. The weathermen said that unseasonable warm, moist air would keep tempera- tures in the middle 70s for the launch. School children in Brevard County were ordered sent home at midday so that school buses would not have to tangle with the growing traffic push. All was quiet at launch Complex 39, where the Saturn 5 rocket and its - spacecraft modules stood poised, awaiting the start of the final hours of the countdown. The six-day countdown went into a J-hour, 53-minute planned hold at 2 a.m. to give ground crews a chance to make up lost time correcting minor prob- lems, and to provide a last long PRICE 10 CENTS rest. . | The 363-foot combination of the Saturn 5 rocket with the Apollo spacecraft on its nose gleamed white in the play of powerful lights through the night. Thousands of gallons of liquid oxygen and liquid hydro- gen were brought to the launch pad to pour into Saturn's three stages with resumption of the count at 11:53 a.m. _ The goal of the final Apollo mission is to bring back rocks and observations from the most scientifically intriguing arca visited in five previous moon landings, in hopes of fitting the final pieces into the puzzle of the moon's 4.5 billion-year history. - - A Record 75 Hours 'Cernan and Schmitt will spend a record 75 hours on the moon between two. massive mountains 6,500 feet high. They plan to sef another record by driving their moon buggy 23 miles over the dark, pock- marked valley floor Transport Plane Jet Collide; 13 Dead BAYBORO, S.C. (UPI) - A military transport plane carry- ing 12 crewmen and a jet fighter with a lone occupant collided in flight and exploded, apparently carrying all 13 to their death, officials reported - today. The accident happened about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday over the coastal swamps near this small community, located about 25 miles northwest of Myrtle Beach. 20. ee A search of the area today turned up no survivors, al- though one man . did report seeing what he thought to be a flaming parachute. Another source said the \parachute\ may have been a piece of flaming debris. Officials initially reported that pieces of four bodies had been recovered. It wasn't until today that it was confirmed that a total of 13 men was involved. The transport plane was a C130 Flying from Pope Air Force Base, N,C. and the A fighter, an F102,*was -based at - McEntire Air National.. Guard Base, near Columbia. Officials said the planes were on a routine training mission. Many such missions involve the mock intercept by fighters of other planes. Justice Vacancy Nears in Albion Resignation of Parker Is Seen not related to Truman's past . health problems. . . Since the July hospitalization, sources close to the Truman family have reported - the former president's health fai- ling. None of the sources would permit use of his name, but one said Truman no longer takes walks outdoors as he has done throughout his retirement years. \He mainly just sits in a rocking chair and thinks,\ the source said. Inmates Arrive; Now Total of 25 ALBION - The inmate popt- lation at the Community Prepar- ation Correction Center here, the former Western New York Reformatory, has been increas- ed to 25, Superintendent Theo- dore Reid stated today. A few more are expected shortly. These men being received from - maximum - correctional centers in the state are those who being \phased back into society\ again and the opera- tion here is devised to complete the adjustment processes. Men will be received in small groups until the complete com- plement of employees is estab- lished at the local facility. This will take some time at it takes work to rebuild the administra- tive and custodial staffs back to their previous capacities before the two former correctional in- stutitions were retired in 1971. The total inmate population of the local facility is expected to reach 300 next year. ALBION Albion Town Justice Lee Parker said yesterday he will submit his resignation from the post ef- fective Dec. 31 when the Albion Town Board holds its regular monthly meeting tonight. Parker, who is moving to Searcy, Arkansas to accept a position- there with his current employer, General Foods, is in the process of serving the first year ofhis second four-year term as town justice. - A former town councilman for 12 years, Parker said he fully intends to move back to this area after his two year stay in Arkansas. He said he will then be eligible for retirement from the company. The - 52-year-old - Albion resident, whose wife will con- tinue to reside here during the two year period, said he expects the town board to appoint a successor who will serve until the next general election. ' Barrage SAIGON (UPI) -- Communist gunners today attacked Tan Seon Nhut, South Vietnam's largest allied military airbase, in the heaviest rocket barrage there in fours years. Nine persons were killed, including an American, and 54 were wounded. \ ' The attack by 53 Soviet-built 122mm rockets on the base just outside Saigon sent U.S. airmen on the base scurrying for cover. Have A Chuckle Ries Makes Bid For Both Posts ALBION -. The leading con- tender for appointment to fill a vacancy for town justice on the Albion Town Board as of Jan. 1, 1973 appears to be Albion Village Justice Harmon W. Ries. - According to information made available to the Journal- Register, Ries has already secured \an informal and unofficial expression of view\ from the State Attorney General's office that he could hold both jobs. In addition, Ries is a Democrat and the Albion Town Board, headed by Supervisor Maynard 'Duke\ Reed, is Democratically . controlled, Reed acknowledged last night that there are several candidates for the appointment but that because of Ries' experience and training as a justice, he would appear to have the best chance of aiding the town's other justice in handling what Reed described as an ever increasing case load. According to a letter dated Nov. 2, 1972, the State Attorney General's office informed Ries that \There is no constitutional bar to a village justice serving at the same time as town justice.\ The letter, which notes that \the general rule\ in matters of this sort \is that the same person may hold two public offices at the same time unless there is some constitutional or statutory prohibition or some in- compatibility between the of- fices\ finds that no' statutory prohibition exists either. LEXINGTON, Ky. (UPI) - Next time Michael Flan- nery may just bum a dime for a cup ofcoffee. The last free cup Flannery got cost him a day of hard labor at the Fayette County police headquarters. ’ lol Flannery got the sentence Tuesday, because he took a cup of coffee off the checkout counter of a restaurant last month and w walked out. The cup happened to be- long to Policeman Joe Conder.\
