Poughkeepsie Journal from Poughkeepsie, New York • Page 1

I "Ml A Newspaper for the Home Information and Enter Every Family tainment for Member of th wtgifcffe' Smmuxi THE WEATHER Vol. 184, No. 42 IMi by PtughkMpilt Nnnv MPrt Mwiwltl Sqvar I1W1 Established 1785 Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Tuesday Evening, September 24, 1968 Partly cloudy, mild tonight. Increasing cloud' iness Wednesday will chance of showers. High in 80s.

(Details on last page) 22 Pages 10 Cents Woman, 3 Children Perish In Fire By GEORGE BERNSTEIN and TOM MC ANDREW CLINTONDALE A woman, her two stepchildren and a grandchild perished early today in a lire which heavily damaged a two story frame house near this Ulster County community, Dead are Mrs. Eugene (Anna Maye) Johnson, 49; her two stepchildren, Jerry Kimball, 14 and his sister, Debbie, 7, and Marvin Davis, 4, a grandson. Eugene Johnson, 57, said his wife woke him when she smelled smoke coming from the cellar "I ran Johnson said, "and tried to throw water on the fire. But it seemed the more water I threw, the worse it got." Johnson said that when he realized the fire wai nut nf control he ran to the house of Charles Blake, about 75 varris away, to call the fire department. "He came to our house around 3am." Mrs.

Blake said. "He banced on the rionr and my husband answered and called the fire deDartment. Mr. Johnson ran back to the house while my husband was on the phone." "When I rnt hark." qontinued "the whole house was Durning. My wile, who had a broken hip and couldn't move, was in the front of the house on the ground floor.

Ii smashed the window, the I fire just leaped right out at me. I couldn get close. The Clintondale Fire Depart ment responded and, called for mutual aid from the New Paltz Fire Department shortly after wards. Two pumpers and a tanker from Clintondale and one tanker from New Paltz were at the scene. More than 50 men fought the fire, under the direction of Clintondale Chief Harry Ronk.

"When we got there," Robert Riley of Pumper No. 1 said, "the front of the house was gone." Investigator Roger Gardner of the Highland State Police bar racks is in charge of the inves tigation. '1 DONT KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO DO," said Eugene Johnson, 57, whose wife, two stepchildren and a grandson died In a fire today. "I just don't know what to do," he kept repeating. The three children were found dead in the bed room in the upper left side of the house, where firemen chopped through the wall in an effort to rescue them.

Four other children were apparently uninjured. Pouphtceepsle Journal Photo by Robert V. Nlltl Schoentag Urges $7.4 Million For Major County Projects (j'P'tew fan By BERT BURNS stalaltion of various facilities I for the new buildings. wiumy xecuuve udvia Th aDDroDrlation for the Dr0. benoentag disclosed toaay ne is posed county complex is design asking for $7,416,000 for capital ed to cover financing of the Droieets in the 1969 70 countv acquisition of land, demolition of structures, and the prepar ation of a site recommended ii approved oy me uoara 01 for devclooment of a coun ty governmental office complex Preliminary findings indicat ed the fire apparently started lrom an oil burner in the cellar.

Ulster County Coroner Arthur Chipp withheld his verdict on the causes of death, pending post mortem examination. Mrs. Johnson was found dead the basement, apparently having been trapped when the first floor of the house collapsed. The children were found dead irt a second floor bedroom. Four other children who es caped injury arc Jesse Fred Johnson, Harry Johnson, 2, Eugene Johnson 3, a Terry Kirkland, 10.

The children are being cared for by the Southern Ulster Migrant As sistance Committee, according to Mrs. rearl Lewis, president. QUESTION I know the Dutchess County Department of Health gives free chest rays at the main building on Tuesdays from 6 to 8 p.m but why is there no more mobile service? Where is the equipment now? HYDE PARK RESIDENT ANSWER: Dr. Matthew A. Vassallo, county health commissioner, says his department never owned a mobile unit.

It has from time, to time worked in conjunction with the Tuberculosis and Health Association to provide the ray service, but this is not a continuing program. QUESTION: I am a veteran of the first World War, a retired senior citizen 74 years of age with a heart condition, and have lived at my present address for the past 40 years. Both my wife and I are in desperate need of help to settle a situation which is now pending. Since August, 1967, both my wife and I have been carrying pails of water from a nearby spring because a nearby neighbor has illegally installed a septic tank close to my water well. This tank is overflowing, polluting my well water.

I have been negotiating with the Department of Health in Poughkeepsie since October, 1967, and have been pushed from one office to another. No one seems to know what to do. RED HOOK RESIDENT ANSWER: Ellis Adams, senior environmental engineer with the County Health Department, says he will investigate the matter. He says it the seepage is on the surface.the condition can be taken care of immediately. If it is below the surface, it is a matter for civil court action.

Representatives, it will consti the next year's portion of the $28,076,000 five year capital pro jects program previously an nounced. The 1969 projects include $4,061,000 for new construction at Dutchess Community College; $450,000 for site acquisition allied to the proposed county complex adjacent to the County Office Building; $25, 000 for a fire control center; $150,000 for a fire training center; $30,000 for paving the parking lot at Fallkill Park; $30,000 for parking lot improvement at Wilcox Park; $150,000 for park land acquisition; $2,000,000 for highway improvement, plus $20,000 for rights of way for the road projects. The expansion at Dutchess Community College, which re ceives the lion's share of at tention in the proposed 1969 capital projects program, includes a $1,260,198 business building; a $2,243,476 mathematics and science building; a $1,373,046 administration building; a $550,480 parking garage for staff and faculty vehicles; and a $758,644 service and maintenance build ing. Also included is $1,225,224 for preparation of the site and in on the tract now surrounding the County Office Building, bounded on the north by Main Street, on the east by Market Street, on the south by a parking lot and on the west by the proposed east west arterial highway. Schoentag said he will present the specifics on the $2,000,000 highway program 1969 when he submits his recom mendatjon for a $6.5 million bond issue covering' a five year road, improvement program.

He said he expects to have the bond issue before the Board of Representatives at its meet ing on Monday. Concurrently, he said the pro posed contract with the Civil Service Employes Association and a resolution for a county sponsored war memorial will be submitted at that time. Asked if his selection of a successor to Woody Klose as his management assistant would be submitted then, he answered that it "might be." He said he definitely would have a recommendation by the next regular meeting of the board on Oct. 14. QUESTION.

Why is the flashing yellow light at the exit to the Hyde Park Drive in Theater left on every night and most of the following day? It is a potential traffic hazard and a waste of someone's money not the taxpayers', I hope. HYDE PARKER ANSWER: Barry Horowitz, manager of the drive in, said State Police have asked that the light be left pn at all times so that people are aware that it's there. He said the cost of thelight, as well as the electricity, is paid for by the thdater. QUESTION: What can be done to stop property owners, along the Wappingers Creek, Town of Poughkeepsie from cutting trees and falling them in the Creek then trimming off the limbs and leaving them in the water to rot along with some old tires, old washing machne parts and just plain old junk? WAPPINGER RESIDENT ANSWER: Earl McCandlish, town zoniflg administrator, promises to conduct an investigatioo of the creek the area mentioned and also alert the State Conservation Department, to these, conditions. He says the state has authority to control 'debris and pollutants placed in the rivers and creeks in the state.

Bowles Is Promoted To Police Lieutenant S. Vietnamese Shell Enemy In Cambodia SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese forces fired 105mm howitzer shells into Cambodia to silence Viet Cone eunners shoot ing across the frontier, the com mander of South Vietnam's 3rd Corps said today. The disclosure by Lt. Gen. Do Uio iti came soon after Ameri can strategic bombers dropped 750 tons of bombs in saturation patterns aldng the Cambodian frontier during the nieht.

The four big raids on the infiltration route northwest of Saigon indi cated continuing apprehension that further Communist efforts are expected in the area. tisewncre in the air war. ground fire brought down a U.S Navy A4 Skyhawk attacking iNorin Vietnam and an Amen can helicopter in South Vietnam. The Skyhawk was the 899th American warplane lost over North Vietnam from ene my action, while the helicopter was the sixth chopper lost in combat in the past four days. The pilot of the Skyhawk was missing 12 miles northwest of Vinh; in the helicopter crash, one Vietnamese soldier was killed and three Americans and two South Vietnamese were wounded.

Gen. Tri said his troops fired their big howitzers into Cambo dia last Friday after Viet Cong troops from Cambodia attacked a South Vietnamese outpost at Phuoc Tan. He said the outpost's defend crs drove off the attackers as they fled, their mortars in side Cambodia opened up to cover their retreat across the border. Tri noted that Cambodia has repeatedly denied that the North Vietnamese and the Vict Cong are based on its territory. He said the Cambodian government is expected to complain about the attack.

However, the Saigon government contends that its forces have the right to fire on gunners shooting at them from inside Cambodia and to engage in "hot pursuit" across the border of enemy units which attack and then run for sanctuary in Cambodia. Income, Sales Taxes Due For Increases In State ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Gov. Rockefeller's fiscal advisers are considering a 20 per cent increase in the state income tax and a 50 per cent increase in the sales tax to help balance his next budget, it was learned today. Fiscally knowledgeable persons in the Legislature, which will have the final say on any tax increases, say that this is what they expect the governor to recommend in January.

"I don't see that he has any choice," said one high ranking legislative aide. "I just have to assume that he'll ask for 20 peri cent on income and another cent on the sales tax The income tax now Is levied at ranging from 2 per cent to 14 per cent of net taxable income that is, after all deductions. The rates rise as net income climbs. Increase Rejected Last January, Rockefeller proposed a 20 per cent, across the board Increase on income taxes he called it a "sur charge" to provide funds for the present budget. But the Legislature rejected the Idea as politically dangerous In this Troops Battle Mexico Students MEXICO CITY (AP) Army troops captured a vocational school on the northwest side of Mexico City today after an all night gun battle in which at least three persons were killed and 50 students and riot police were wounded.

The Red Cross Hospital re ported the deaths of an 18 year old science student and a riot policemen. Other sources re ported a 25 year old medical student killed earlier in the nighj. The government sent troops in more than 400 assault cars to the Santo Tomas Vocational School after riot police and stu dents inside the school had bat tled for more than five hours with guns, pistols, knives, clubs, Molotov cocktails, stones and tear gas. It was the most violent skir mish so far in the two month old student rebellion against President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Scattered shooting continued from student snipers on rooftops in the San Jacinto neighbor hood.

Using ,22 caliber pistols and rifles, the students picked off policemen as they patrolled in the morning darkness. Several blocks away, riot po lice lobbed tear gas grenades into apartments in the Tlatelol co district where residents sympathizing with the students shouted "pigs" and "assassins" at the police. Police drove sev eral hundred students from another vocational school there after being forced back by heavy gunfire. But 150 of the students took refuge in nearby buildings and hurled Molotov cocktails at the police. On the south side of the city, 5,000 other youths marched on the federal district penitentiary, vowing to free two labor leaders despite police manning machine guns.

But student leaders dis persed the urging the youths to return after they reor ganized and formulated a plan of action. Athletes continued to arrive for the 1968 Olympic Games, scheduled to start Oct. 12, and no Mexican Olympic official would comment on the possibili ty that the games might be can celed because of the violence, now in its seventh day. But many foreign spectators seemed certain to stay away. A government spokesman said he knew nothing about rumors that Diaz Ordaz was con sidering declaring martial law.

Such a declaration might endan ger the holding of the Olympics, alternatives for 1969. election year and substituted other measures instead. Now it is assumed that Rocke feller will renew the proposal to help raise the $700 million that Comptroller Arthur Levitt says uocKeieuer will need to keep pace with rising spending requirements next year. A 20 per cent income tax in crease would yield between $400 million and $450 million in the next fiscal year. At uie same time, Rockefeller is expected to reauest a maior increase in the sales tax.

The state now levies its tax at the rate of 2 per cent 2 cents on the dollar and allows local governments to levy an additional tax of up to 3 per cent, for a maximum of five per cent. a one cent one percentaee point increase in the state tax would yield an estimated $350 million a year, while rais ing the over all maximum rate to 6 per cent. Thus, a combination of the in come tax and sales tax Increas es would return at least $750 million to close the revenue eaD in the governor's next budget. Fiscal experts within Rocke feller's administration and in the Legislature are reluctant to discuss the tax increase outlook at this time, on the ground that it is too early to assess spend ing needs precisely. Levitt Accurate They agree privately, how ever, that Levitt recent estimate of a $700 million revenue gap appears accurate and that the only obvious way to produce extra revenue in such a large amount is to tap the so called "broad base" taxes that is, the big yielders.

These are the income and sales taxes, which now return a combined total of $2.7 billion. It is considered most unlikely that Rockefeller would seek further increases in business taxes, which were raised $171 million by the last Legislature, along with the levies on cigarettes, motor fuel and pari mutuel racing. That about ran the gamut of significant revenue producers, leaving the income and sales tax fields as the only remaining Stewart G. Bowles, 120 N. Hamilton has been appoint ed lieutenant on the city's po lice force, City Manager James J.

Mulcare announced today. The 38 year old Gowles was chosen from a selective service list to fill a vacancy credted PAGING THE INSIDE NEWS Bridge Page 12 Comics Page 21 Crossword Puzzle Page 8 Editorials, Columns Page 4 Financial Page 16 Horoscope Forecast Page 9 Obituaries Page 17 Society Page 13 Sports Page 14 Theaters Page 8 Television Page 3 by the death Sept. 14 of Lt. Edward J. (Bud) McLaughlin.

A native of Poughkeepsie, Bowles is a 1949 graduate of Poughkeepsie High School. He was appointed to the force in 1957 and, has been serving asJ a patrolman. He earned two commenda tions for outstanding police work, in September, 1965 and August 1966. Bowles was the only man to pass a civil service examination, for lieutenant of nine who took the test in August 1967. He scored 74.

5 per cent and had four seniontv credits that brought "him to 78.5. Prior to joining, the force, Bowles worked in the assembly department of a local electrical appliance firm. His wife is employed by a local bank. 1 tt sLi I flV I I il fill III I xJ 2ky 1 1 4 A felMtk sns: 2f2 kik'Kl A FULL SIZE REPLICA OF "AMERICA," a famous, racing schooner, visited Poughkeepsie Monday, and boats, a seaplane and sure enough a car went out into the Hudson River Jo ipspect her. The car, an amphibian owned by, Francis Peters, city, drew many second lopks itself.

The plane belongs to a couple of college students who put down to see what the excitement was about. All that was miss ing in the greeting line was a train. but one was likely to come along soon on Poijghkeepsie's railroad bridge in the background. The schooner, owned by the Schaefer Brewing Co is on a nine day tour of the historic river. (See story and photo on back page.) Poudbktepklt Journal Photo by Cvtwl.