Democrat and Chronicle from Rochester, New York • Page 47

HENRY W. CHINE'S' and, ematttit DISASTER For more than a century, the volcano Gunung Agung, "the umbilicus of the universe," as its Hindu worshippers on Bali call it, had been silent, inactive and harmless. ROCHESTER 14, N. SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1963 Soon, the Balinese who lived in the villages at the base 21 of the mountain, and worshipped at the sacred temple on one side of its slope, planned to pay homage to Agung. It was to be a centennial ceremony.

It did not come off. Suddenly, one sunny mid-February day, a low growl began deep in the bowels of the mountain, black smoke puffed up from its crater; two weeks later, a thunderhead shaped like a great mush room capped the hole, and lava boiled over its jagged 2 City Laws Aim At Control of Fire Dept. Funds verge. Men, women and children by the hundreds died of suffocation or perished horribly in the streams of hot lava that poured from the mountain top. The Balinese found a reason for the eruption and the tragedy that attended it.

Angered by the presence of evil spirits on Bali, and Two local laws designed to give the city control of the funds of the privately-chartered Rochester Fire Department will go to City Council Tuesday. Councilman Charles T. Maloy, who will introduce the legislation, said yesterday the laws are designed to bring to an end the operations of the private department, which has no connection with the city. A special local law will! establish the city comptroller as the sole trustee of the advisers that the insurance department also lacks jurisdiction. $37,000 Check Due As preparation for possible court action, the citv has private department and will require the present holders to turn over the department's books, records and money to him.

Another will designate the city treasurer as the official to whom the state will pay determined to exorcise thsm, Agung had required, in this grisly enterprise, the sacrifice of more than 1,000 human beings. THE RICHARD C. REYNOLDS of Geneseo were in on the beginning of the eruption but had no notion at the time that what they witnessed was a portent of disaster. They were in Bali for a holiday week, enjoying the climate and the romantic scenery. "At night," Mrs.

Reynolds wrote to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Phelps Harding of Village Lane, "we would sit on a terrace of tile on the beach and watch the stars and listen to the ocean pound on the reef. No big waves we were sheltered by an island.

And across a 30-mile stretch of water we could see the volcano, Agung, inactive since 1836. But one day, during our stay, to our surprise, it started smoking. We could see fiery jets leaping from the crater, and red streams of lava bubbling from the hole. The great heat at the cone caused intense lightning. The Balinese were very excited.

The last day of our stay the volcano ash drifted our way and it seemed as though the whole world had become gray and gritty. The sand, trees, houses, everything was gray. The smoke was so heavy, it was like breathing through a blanket. The day we left, the volcano was still pouring black smoke toward the heavens. Our airplane kept well away from the crater.

We do not know what happened after we left." The Reynolds were back in Bandung, Java, where proceeds of a 2 per cent tax on fire insurance premiums paid to out-of-state companies asked the insurance office to hold up the fire department's check for $37,000 that was due in March. That sum represents the state tax on premiums paid to out-of-state stock companies. The levy on mutual companies is duo later. The city's position is: first, a public accounting of funds, payments to beneficiaries on Rochester property. The sum, $60,000 a year, now goes to the private organization.

Set Up by Statute The private fire depart ment was estaonsnea Dy a Photo by Chief Photographer Fred Powers The driver, Larry N. O'Brien, 37, of 197 Stony Point Road, Webster, who told police he fell asleep, was treated at Northside Hospital for back and wrist injuries. Irondequoit Patrolman Donald Heifer examines wreckage from crash which occurred at 4 a.m. special state statute in 1864i (but not their identity) and THREADING THE SEDAN This 1963 car hit the guard-rail along Sea Breeze Expressway just north of the city line in Irondequoit and did not stop until most of the 108 feet of rail torn loose had run through the car from windshield to rear window. to receive the proceeds of the expenses should be made; insurance levy.

and second, the money The authority by which a snould be paid to the citv in local law controls a state- the future for the benefit of iney mane iiieir neaaquaners, Dei ore iney learned mat chartered organization re paid firemen. Advisory Board ceiving state-collected funds Boxes Piled Near Heater Blamed in Fatal Fire Director Fired uab tuv uau AvsunisU uwvii 3 a DMvviavuiai uuluvuivuvu had turned out to be dreadful disaster. An associate professor of library science at the State University College at Geneseo, Mr. Reynolds has been lent by that institution to the Ford Foundation to serve two years as library consultant to three Indonesian colleges. He and Mrs.

Reynolds and the couple's two small sons flew to Bandung last August. One of the colleges Mr. Reynolds serves is in that city, another is at Medan, 1,200 miles away in northwestern Sumatra, and a third at Malang, near the eastern edge of Java. To reach Medan, Reynolds Philadelphia wasnt immediately clear. City officials said legal aspects are being thoroughly studied in advance of Tuesday's council meeting but declined to be more specific.

The dispute between the city and the private organization may end up in a court battle. The department trustees have refused the city's demand for an accounting of the funds. As a counter-move, the trustees asked the Boxes of clothing piled hospitalization, Greece police against a gas wall heater said. The executive director of the Philadelphia Police Ad ignited to cause the fire which claimed the lives of two Greece youngsters, in piled next to the heater because the quarters were rather cramped, investigators said. Greece Detective Willian Gray and city fire investiga tors, Battalion Chief Joseph Nalore and Fireman Nicholas The fire department trustees, in their only public statement, said 80 per cent of the benefits went to paid firemen and their families and 20 per cent to volunteer firemen.

The only volunteer company remaining in the city is the Protectives, which does salvage work under city contract. Sketchy financial reports filed with the city indicate that the department spends $1 on administration for every $4 paid in benefits and that a surplus of about 000 has accumulated. 4-Month Term Suspended in Drinking Case After he pleaded guilty to 1 charge of public intoxica vestigators reported last Firemen weren't able to reach the two youngsters until the blaze was controlled. Bonnie was in bed and James was on the floor only a few feet away, it was reported. They died of multiple visory Board, whose advice was followed here in drafting legislation for a similar agency, has been fired.

Martin S. Barol, a Philadelphia attorney, was fired this week as executive director of that city's advisory board. state supenntenaent ot in night. James Fisher, 4, and his sister, Bonnie, 3, of 530 Maiden Lane, were the vic surance to make an audit of has to fly to Singapore, and to Kula Lumpur, capital of Malay, and then across the Strait of Malay to Sumatra, which is like going around Robin Hood's barn. The Reynolds have lived for several years in Geneseo and have many friends in the upper valley.

Before she left for Indonesia, Mrs. Reynolds was active in the York Opera Company. IF YOU DIALED your radio during the past few weeks, you must have heard "The End of the World." It would be difficult to miss; it's the No. 1 song hit of the nation. It was written by a former Rochester woman, whose their books, which would later Bilyk, said they established it was the clothing that caught be made public.

Durns ana caroon monoxide tims. Barol came here last month State legal authorities are poisoning, the Medical Ex Their parents, Ronald, 32, to explain the operations of lire irom neat released from vents in the heater. A utility aminer's Office said. studying the department's ana Arlene, 30, and three request for an audit. The of Investigators said the Fish the Philadelphia board to Rochester city councilmen fice of State Comptroller and area clergymen.

Arthur Levitt turned down the city's request for an ex other Fisher children, Linda, Michael, 5, and Deborah, lVz escaped from the blaze which occurred about 3:30 a.m. yesterday. company omcial report coincided with theirs, the fire investigators said. The Fisher family are staying with relatives at 3110 Lyell Road, Gates. Red Cross Barols dismissal led Dr.

Thorstoin Sellin, head of the er family have lived in a one-story, four-room wing attached to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Heffer for the past five years. The Heffer home did not burn. The boxes of clothing were University of Pennsylvania's amination of the department's books on grounds that Levitt doesn't have jurisdiction.

It tion, Dellis Clay Ellison. 39. of 364 Island Cottage Road, aides were notified of their plight, police said. is the belief of the city's legal pen name is Sylvia Dee, daughter of Elizabeth de Sylva, food editor of The Democrat and Chronicle. Sylvia Dee, the former Miss Josephine Proffitt, who studied at Monroe High School and the Rochester Institute of Technology before she went to work in the advertising department of the Sibley store, is no one-shot hit writer.

As a very young woman, she was still working for Sibley's when her song, "Chicksry Chick," went zooming to top place on the Hit Parade. After that, she stopped writing advertisements to remove to New York, where, in a highly successful career in that city, she has written many published short stories, three novels, and hundreds of songs. sociology department, to resign as advisory board chairman in protest. Here's the background: Philadelphia's acting mayor, James H. J.

Tate, a Democrat who is running in the May primaries for a full term as mayor, asked Barol to re Mrs. Fisher discovered the fire when she was awakened by heat and saw a flickering light. She roused Linda and Michael who were sleeping in a rear bedroom where the wall heater was situated. Mrs. Fisher then awakened her husband and picked up Deborah from a crib in a living room where the rest of the family sleeps, Greece police said.

Flames and smoke prevented the couple from reaching Bonnie and James who appar ureece, was given a suspended four-month sentence in the Monroe County Penitentiary by Pittsford Peace Justice Charles D. Burnham. In other cases before Burn-ham, Robert I. Green, 19, of Woodridge, N.Y., a Rochester Institute of Technology student, was fined $25 after he admitted being disorderly last Friday night in front of the Pittsford Inn; William J. Law, 32, of 23 Aberdeen was sign last month.

Barol refused and was fired. "Chickery Chick," a hit in the 1940's, may not be remembered by the teen-agers who have bought 700,000 The only paid employe of the lecords of the present hit, but they may recall "Too board, he operated on a budget. Mayor Tate then appointed Young," which broke all records on the Hit Parade when Nat "King" Cole featured it, and which has since become a standard. a Negro Baptist minister, Rev. 1 xrrusrw I iff rill A 'X 'V, William H.

Gray, to succeed ently didn't hear their parents' cries. Mr. and Mrs. Barol at $7,500 yearly. fined $10 after he admitted he did not display the legal weights for his truck: Samuel When Sellin resigned in Fisher and the other three children made their way out Frosini, 31, of 292 Fernwood protest, the board picked its vice chairman, Clarence through a side door.

Pickett, as chairman. forfeited $10 bail on a charge of speeding 47 miles per hour in a 35 m.p.h. zone. Fisher broke a window and Barol claims his firing was tried to reach the other children but was driven back bv politically motivated in an attempt by Tate to obtain the and Sara Walters, 28, of 11 Landing Road Brighton, was fined $5 after she admit Negro vote. heat.

Neighbors also tried to enter the home without success, investigators said. ted crossing a double white line. The Democratic controlled City Council here, spurred by allegations of police brutality Fisher suffered burns and the baby, Deborah, a nose burn but they did not require In private life, Miss Dee is Mrs. Jere B. Faison, wife of a New York physician.

"The End of the World" was first recorded in Nashville, Tenn. Recently interviewed by the "Tennesseean" of that city, Miss Dee said: "In New York they told me the title would never go. 'The End of the World' sounded like the hydrogen bomb, or something. (Actually, it's a song of lost love.) I persisted. I always wanted a country hit because I once lived in Little Rock, Ark.

But I had to wait 20 years to get one and then I didn't write it as a country song." Miss Dee's other sings include "Moonlight Swim," featured by Elvis Presley in "Blue Hawaii," "It Couldn't Be True," "After Graduation Day," and "That's the Chance You Take." Perhaps you wonder why she took Sylvia Dee as a pen name. Well, turn it around, drop an and an and it comes out "de Sylva," which is her Mama's name. MKE GOODMAN is another former Rochesterian who has just been published. Mr. Goodman's work is not on a song sheet or on a record, however; it's in paperback, under the title, "How to Win at Gambling." Born in Rochester, Mr.

Goodman once worked as a waiter in Cohen's Restaurant in Joseph Avenue. He says to Negroes, created a police advisory board last month. Speeder Fined In Rush Court Keneth L. Evans. 55.

of Man Admits City Manager Porter W. Homer has not yet named the board's nine unsalaried Pellet Gun Count Honeoye Falls was fined $25 by Rush Peace Justice John William H. Osterhout, 32, of 247 Tremont St. vester- F. DeLelys after he admitted speeding 37 miles per hour in a 35 m.p.h.

zone. It was his 6 UR Students Speech Winners These six University of day pleaded guilty in City uourt to illegal possession of pellet gun. Judge Sidnev second speeding offense within 18 months, DeLelys said. Other admitted speeders. Rochester students have won Davidson ordered suspended sentence.

prizes in a speech competi Police said Osterhout did the charges and the fines were: Arthur E. Callipeau, 19, of Honeoye Falls. 55 not have a permit for the weapon as required here un in tne introduction to his work that when he was a kid of 8 he renounced the toys used by other boys of his age to try to make seven the hard way with crap dice. He later became associated with the late Pat Mangin, one of the best known (and gamest) professional gamblers in Rochester. From here, he went east, south and west; and is now an executive in the big casino-gambling hell, the Dunes, on the Las Vegas strip.

tion at Hush Rhees Library: Davis prizes for senior men: Robert Pincus, $25; Eugene Ulterino, $15; and Norman Zimmerman, $10. Dewey Prizes for sophomores: Richard Page, $20; and m.p.h. in a 35 m.p.h. zone, $20; Patricia A. Gavhart.

24. der the municipal code. Rifles, shotguns, a revolver, ammunition, knives and two of Avon, 50 m.p.h. in a 35 m.p.h. zone, $15: Thomas Cot- dummy hand grenades were FATAL FIRE SCENE Investigators look over charred bedroom where two small children met death at 530 Maiden Lane, Greece.

Left are Nicholas Bilyk, Bruce Rusell, $10. arson inspector for Rochester Fire Bureau, Greece Detective W. Gray, Bat-talian Chief Joseph Nalore of RBF. Three other children were saved in fire. trone, 44, of Mt.

Morris, 46 m.p.h. in a 35 m.p.h. zone. found in the Osterhout home The Susan B. Anthony when police searched it dur $10.

ing an investigation into why usterhout had withdrawn his Prize, Andrea Kende, $20. Boy, 7, Injured; Struck by Car Mr. Goodman professes to tell you how to beat every gambling dodge except slot machines, which he implies are for idiots. "Slots," he writes, "there's only one way to beat those 'one-arm but unfortunately it is against the law. It is a lively book, Mike has written; and an expert one.

It should, with all of his experience. Ittwo children from a citv Economy Empties Lefchworth Pool school. Police temporarily confiscated the other Struck by a car when he darted into the street in front of his home about 8:30 There may be a pool, bath a.m. yesterday, Fred Patter house and restaurant at Ridgeway Trucks Opposed by GOP Letchworth State Park this weapons. MAN SENTENCED Johnnie D.

Mobley, 33, of 215 Chestnut who pleaded guilty March 15 in City son 7, of 89 Rosewood suffered leg injuries. summer but they may not open for business. trailer traffic on Ridgeway as The son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred The 10th Ward Republican Committee is opposed to through truck traffic on That because the bath Patterson was treated at Genesee Hospital.

The driver omitted any appropriation from the supplemental budget. The decision whether there is to be swimming this summer at Letchworth. west of Nunda, will be made by the Genesee State Park Commission at annual meeting April 17 in the park. Actually, there is not one but four new pools in Letch- worth's north end. Two of the pools are for children, one is a diving pool.

The main facility is 165 feet long and 75 feet wide, bordered by a grandstand. The pools, bathhouse and restaurant cost the state over $1 million. With the legislature adjourning today the supplemental budget, which appeared yesterday, failed to house is without lockers and provide $100,000 for a bathhouse and comfort stations at Seneca Lake State Park at Geneva and $150,000 for a new camping area at Letchworth. Laurance S. Rockefeller, chairman of the State Council of Parks, decried the budget cuts and said the public will be denied the use of the facilities for another year.

Court to a misdemeanor charging him with living off was Robert Quinlan, 42, of 4 Hazardous to the residents of this area, especially to children." The resolution, Ritz said, urged use of Ridge Road West as an "alternative route (for) heavy trucking pass Parkside Ave. Patrolman Ray the restaurant is without chairs, tables and equipment. The legislature knocked out the $36,500 cost item from the Ridgeway Avenue. John Ritz, committee chair man, said a resolution adopted Tuesday criticized tractor- mond Cudzillo said the boy the proceeds of a prostitute, yesterday was sentenced to a one-year term in Monroe County Penitentiary. came from behind a stopped ing through the area." truck.

Cover no r'i budget then.