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Readers Ask HELP! Jv afm 8B How to get ROCHESTER. N.Y.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1974 ship data Texas slayings suspect wanted in Wayne By LOU ZIEGLER and KATHARINE SEELYE WILLIAMSON Robert E. Kleason, charged Wednesday in Texas with murder in the deaths of two young Mormon missionaries, is also wanted in Wayne County in connection with the shooting in 1971 of a Williamson man.

Kleason was arraigned Wesnesday in Austin, on federal charges involving the falsification of papers during the purchase of firearms. Kleason apparently stated in the papers that he wasn't under indictment, police said, but there is a federal warrant out for his arrest on charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in connection with the shooting here. Kleason was sent Wednesd-j eral facility in Springfield, to determine if he was sane during the signing of the papers for the firearms and to determine if he would be mentally capable of standing trial on the Texas murder charges. He is to remain in Springfield for 90 days. Austin police have charged Kleason with killing two missionaries, Mark J.

Fischer, 19, of Milwaukee, and Gary Darley, 19, of Simi Valley, Calif. Austin police said the murders, during which the bodies were dismembered occurred during a robbery on or about Oct. 28. Murder during a robbery, in Texas, is punishable by death. The Wayne County district attorney's office has tried for nearly a year to have Kleason extradited from Texas to face reckless endangerment and assault charges here.

Kleason was to stand trial April 4, 1972, in connection with the shooting of Dennis Lee Du Bois of Williamson, but he jumped bail and fled to Denmark, Thomas Crowley, an investigator in the Wayne County district attorney's office said. Kleason has been in Austin for about one and a half years. He has been living in a trailer several miles west of Austin. He apparently moved there after returning from Denmark in early 1973, police said. Crowley said Texas Secretary of State Mark White has been instrumental in moving against Kleason's extradition.

Contacted yesterday in Austin, White Watergate propelled scholar into impeachment "is, i4 v' By JACK NOLAN This country's first genuine impeachment scholar asked for help with his suitcase as he stode the marble lobby floor at Rochester-Monroe County Airport last night. "I like to use my age at times like this," said Raoul Berger, releasing the suitcase to a solicitous reporter. Berger's 73 but that was one of the few signs of age he carries. His skin is tight around his face, his eyes twinkle and, perhaps most unexpected for a purported expert in constitutional law, he has a sense of humor. "Nixon's resignation to me is just like a burglar climbing out the second story window as he hears the police approaching," he said.

Berger's scholarly research into the history of impeachment was often cited by those who felt former President Nixon guilty during the House Judiciary Committee's inquiry into Nixon's Watergate involvement. In "Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems," Berger mustered evidence I tV spotlight 'Nixon's resignation to me is like a burglar climbing out the second story window as he hears the police mutMUfkllM1 ten on the subject, Berger said. "With a Constitution that's almost 185' years old every word should have been studied by then," he said. He recalled with relish that he was kidded by colleagues at Harvard University when they saw him poring over some 17th Century English law books. "It is something that happens once in a lifetime a scholar does something that becomes siad.

Berger, a native of Russia, was a concert violinist before becoming a lawyer. His later years have been spent in research. But Watergate has made him a sought-after lecturer. He was in th is area to speak to students at St. John Fisher College.

"My books are very dry so these stops give me a chance to explain them," Berger said. Scholar Berger like an elephant that a president could be guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanors" as the U.S. Constitution prescribed and still not be guilty of a criminal offense. At first it. looked as if Berger might have been an opportunist trying to capitalize on the Watergate affair by rushing a book into print.

But the book was started in 1967 and finished in 1971, a year before the illegal entry into Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate. "I'm like an elephant," Berger said of his deliberate pace. "It takes me a long time to get things done." He said he wrote the book when, after completing his first book, he began pursuing intellectual clues that led down to the subject of impeachment. Impeachment crawling with interesting intellectual problems" but not a single serious book had ever been writ abuse both failed last night to reach verdicts and were retired to the Flagship-Rochester. The jury deliberating the rape charges against Raul Alamo failed to reach a Q.

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to by the said an extradition hearing in the summer found the evidence insufficient -to send Kleason back to Wayne County. "He didn't have any convictions against him," White said. "In this society you're not guilty until proved guilty." Crowley- said White's reasons for allowing Kleason to avoid extradition were "very feeble." vv He also said the county has been billed $428 for Kleason's board during the time he was held in Texas for the extradition hearing. Crowley said Kleason is a former member of the Erie County Sheriff's Department, and is a state-certified 'social studies teacher. He lacks only a few credits for a' PhD degree, Crowley White said Kleason had steady employment as a carpenter in Austin, belonged to a church, and people well-thought-of in the community spoke in his behalf.

"We have about 800 extradition requests a year," White said. "A hearing was granted and conducted and facts were developed not to have him extradited." Crowley, however, said White would allow extradition if Kleason was guaranteed probation on the Wayne County charges. He said neither the court nor the district attorney's office would go along with the request. "It's very, very unusual that you would get the secretary of state involved in something like this," Crowley said. Crowley said Kleason's case history includes indictment by a Wayne County prand jury on Sept.

29, 1971, on charges of reckless endangerment and second-decree assault in the Du Boise shooting. Ten days later he was arrested at his Buffalo home on illegal weapons charges after $300,000 worth of guns were confiscated in the home. The disposition of that case hasn't been resolved. He was arrested in 1969 in the shooting of a buffalo on the ranch-of A.W. Mour-sund, a Texas attorney and former adviser to President Lyndon Johnson.

Those charges were dropped. When he returned to Texas in 1973, however, he was charged by the Texas Department of Wildlife with the theft of a buffalo, a felony. Police said the head of a buffalo was found mounted in a taxidermist's sbcp in front of Kleason's trailer. The disposition of this case could not be determined last night. Kleason was called by Sheriff Wallace H.ddle of Burnett County, "The most demanding person I have cer had in my 35 years as sheriff of Burnett County." Riddell wrote to Crowley earlier this year, "I hope the governor wi'd approve extradition soon so your office can come for him." At the time, Kleason was being held in the Burnett County Jail in connection with the shooting of the buffalo.

He also was held there to await the results ot his extradition hearing. Economy held blameless in Bafavh layoff BATAVIA -An impending- layoff of 50 production workers at the GTE-Syl-vania, entertainment products plant here was planned and not dictated by economic conditions, the plant's director of public relations said Ralph Emerson Jr. donfirmed that 50 persons are formally receiving termination notices today. But, he said, they were brought in on a temporary basis two months ago to handle a special afr signment. A layoff of some 225 workers about Novl, on the other hand, was the result cf what Emerson termed "the general turndown in the economy" which is felt also in the television business.

Industrywide, 1974 still is expected to be the third best sales year on record, he said. Those brought in on special assignment, Emerson explained, knew the work would be temporary. He said it involved solving a technical production problem. This now has been corrected. Emerson's, announcement was planned to dispel rumors of a- layoff of between 200 and 300 employes.

for debt of Goler had to be improved. "Unless a plan, is submitted I will request the commissioner of housing to authorize the preparation of a rent increase plan" for Goler. The letter from Philip Wagner, director of the housing division's finance bureau, prompted the University of Ro. Chester employes who control Goler" to draw up their rent hike proposal. Effie Salvage, the housing division lawyer who presided over yesterday's hearing, denied Fink's charge that the letter indicated that the housing division -has already decided a rent hike at Goler is needed.

Lee Goodwin, state commissioner of housing, will have to decide if and how much Goler rents are increased, Miss Salvage said, after the hearings are completed and she is given a report by Miss Salvage. Still no verdicts in 2 sex trial cases says other inmates beat him By KATHARINE SEELYE The juries in two separate trials one of a nan charged with rape and the other of a man charged with sexual Ontario inmafe CANANDAIGUA A Rochester man, htld on a grand jury indictment, complained in Ontario County Court yesterday that he had been assaulted by other inmates at the county jail here. Daniel W. Snider, 21, of 28 Short Rochester, lodged the complaint with County Judge George A. Reed.

Reed directed that the complaint be referred the current grand jury. Judge Reed also said he would personally investigate the matter at the county jail within the next 10 days. Snider yesterday pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. He is to be sentenced "I've found that very few students have read them and hardly any understand them." He feels that his books on "executive privilege" and "Congress vs Supreme Court" may have more impact on history than the impeachment work. And he doesn't discount the impact of the tapes of presidential.

conversations on ending the Nixon Administration. Could there have been a serious threat of impeachment without those tapes? Berger responded: "God looks after children, fools and the American people." asked for further instructions on one of the rape counts. Alamo, 38, of Bellehurst Drive, Ironde-quoit. is charged with first-degree rape, second-degree rape, first-degree sodomy and endangering the welfare of a child in a May 14 incident in a Rugby Street apartment involving five teenage girls. The jury will resume deliberations this morning at 9:30 in the court room of State Supreme Court Justice Lyman Smith.

The jury deliberating the charges against Jesse James Tisdale, 39, of Ames Street, went out yesterday morning and was retired at 11 last night. It will resume at 9:30 this morning before State Supreme Court Justice James Boomer. Tisdale is charged with two counts of first-degree sexual abuse and three counts of endangering the welfare of a child in a Feb. 11 incident involving three girls, ages 12, 13 and 14. None of the girls reported the incident until more than one month after it allegedly occurred.

blamed at Goler would jump to $224 for a one-bedroom, unfurnished apartment, $226 for a two-bedroom and $284 for a two-bedroom with two bathrooms. Rents include all utlities and local telephone service. Tenant association lawyer Thomas A. Fink threw question after question at Trenchard yesterday to try and make one point. His point was that Goler House is in financial trouble because of poor management and raising rents will only drive away tenants.

The only way to save Goler, Fink concluded, is to improve its management. Fink also frequently attacked the state housing division. Fink produced a letter from the housing division to the management of Goler House dated May 10 that said: The "rapidly deteriorating financial condition" verdict for the second day in a row and was ratired last night at 8:30. The jury began deliberations Wednesday morning. The members yesterday requested testimony read back and bail.

When contacted on Snider's assault complaint, Sheriff Edward M. Guinan said the defendant had never complained to him. Guinan said he discussed the matter with Snider after yesterday's court appearance. Guinan said the defendant told him the alleged assault, involving an argument over the television set in the cellblock, resulted in Snider's being cut and occurred "some time ago." Guinan said he asked Snider why he didn't complain to the sheriff and Snider replied that he had told a guard about the incident. vacancies In a 1969 estimate, the company building Goler estimated that interest rates on its state-subsidized mortgage would amount to 6 per cent.

The rates turned out to be 6.27 per cent, not much higher than the company had expected. Angry tenants formed an association and hired a lawyer to fight the proposed Goler rent increase, which they said would make the state-subsidized, tax-exempt Goler project more costly to live in than many private apartment projects. Many tenants' at Goler are young single persons who live with roommates. Only persons affiliated with the University of Rochester Medical Center are eligible to live in the project, and they aren't allowed to earn more than six times the annual rent of their apartment. If the $47 Goler rent increase wins the required state approval, monthly Costs, low rents, Dec.

19. In the meantime, on direction of Judge Reed, Snider will be segregated from other prisoners while in jail and given protection. The defendant was indicted on a felony charge of first-degree criminal possession of stolen property. He is accused of taking a car owned by a Canandaiguan last June 10. After Snider was arrested on the stolen car charges, he made a motion for release ffom custody because his case wasn't acted on by the grand jury within the required 45 days after arrest.

However, he was re-arrested on the indictment charge, committed to jail in lieu of $5,000 Dec. 13, when it will resume in the City Public Safety Building. During his testimony and in interviews, Trenchard revealed these facts about Goler: When the project was planned in 1969, construction of the 13-story apartment building, housing 325 units, was supposed to cost $7.2 million. But Goler wound up costing $8.5 million to build, creating an unexpected financial burden on the project. When the project opened in June 1972, rents, were lowered by $24 per month.

Because of the rent reduction "there were insufficient rents from the beginning" at Goler to make the project self-supporting. Goler lost $244,000 in fiscal year 1973 and $109,000 in the 1974 fiscal year, which ended March 31, becaused of vacancies, even after rents were reduced. By DAVID EGNER A high vacancy rate, low rents and underestimating building costs are all responsible for the growing half-million-dollar debt of a subsidized apartment project run by the University of Rochester, a housing company executive testified yesterday. James Trenchard of Rochester Management Inc. testified at a hearing called the State Division of Housing and Community Renewal.

A housing division lawyer heard testimony on the University of Rochester's request, through a housing company it controls, to raise rents at George Washington Goler apartments about $47 per month. Trenchard's company manages the apartments on Crittenden Boulevard for University of Rochester. Yesterday's hearing was adjourned to.