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7B 8B 8B 8B ocal News SECTION ROCHESTER, N. THURSDAY, FEB. 16, 1967 Track Plans War on Urban Blight Weather Watch Private Firms Add Punch TV-Radio Buchwald Bombeck McCabe Cold with Snow Flurries Offrd Forecast for Rochester and vicinitv Pnlri families are to make up 20 per cent of those built. Organization of MRF was announced last week.) The new emphasis on a more viable role for private enterprise represents a recognition that traditional government programs have failed to attain their objectives. "Our record of achievement is depressing," said Carl F.

Stover, president of the National Institute of Public Affairs, a nonprofit research organization. "Roughly one-third of America's families still live in substandard homes." Hummel and Stover spoke at a housing policy forum sponsored by the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO). Federal officials deny that the record is as dismal as Stover painted it, and place some of the blame on the private sector. "It is alarming and unfortunate," Hummel said, "that the various forces of private enterprise have shown so little initiative and ingenuity in finding rolutions to the problems of housing poor and moderate-income families." Whether the blame lies with government or the private sector, or Loth, the search is under way for new techniques of harnessing private enterprise to government goals. It is already bearing fruit in such areas as the "turnkey" method of constructing public housing.

Private contractors, under this method, agree to construct housing and sell it to local housing authorities after it is completed. The experience with the technique so far indicates that savings of $3,000 to $5,000 per dwelling unit can be ex- Please turn to 3B By ROBERT SPELLMAN Democrat and Chronicle Urban Affairs Writer WASHINGTON The men who run federal housing and urban renewal programs are looking to private enterprise to put more punch into city rebuilding efforts. "Government can urge, stimulate and offer opportunities, but only if we involve the dynamic forces of our civic and commercial organizations can we expect to make the progress that our cities so urgently require," Don Hummel, an assistant secretary for housing and urban development, said yesterday. Private enterprise always has been involved to some extent in federal housing and renewal programs. But government bureaucrats have tended to accept the private sector's role reluctantly and to view it with suspicion.

(An approach to the problem along those lines led to the formation of Metropolitan Rochester Foundation, by some 25 financial and industrial institutions to provide 500 housing units for workers within two years. Units for low income OEO Aide snow flurries, and a high of 28. Winds northerly 20 to 30 miles per hour. Tomorrow: Snow flurries and colder. Western New York, northern and southern Finger Lakes, east of Lake Ontario: Windy and turning cold with rain or wet snow changing to snow flurries.

Background- Low pressure over the central states will move across the Great Lakes, followed by colder air and high winds. Sun rises 7:07, sets 5:43 TRIP FORECAST Western Pennsylvania: Windy, cold, snow flurries, and a high in the 30s. New York City: Cloudy, windy, and a high in the 60s, dropping sharply in the afternoon. Interior eastern New York: Cloudy, snow flurries, colder and a high in the 30s. THRUWAY New York City to Pennsylvania state line Clear with wet spots.

For r.iap, data, please turn page. It's Due to Cool Off By LEONARD LOCKWOOD There should be a change in the weather touay. John Williams, head weatherman at the Rochester-Monroe County Airport, yesterday was expecting a cold front through the area, possibly before you read this. The cold front was part of a weather system that yesterday was out in the Midwest. Williams expected this low pressure area would move by Rochester to the north.

Before the cold front passed, Williams said, southerly winds could send the temperature up to or past the 50 mark. Once the front goes through, Williams expected westerly winds and a drop in temperature. In this type of situation the warmest temperature of the day could be just past midnight with the mercury falling steadily after that. There was a wide variety in temperatures over the nation yesterday. At 2 p.m.

it was 22 below zero at Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., while the East was having balmy weather. Kansas City at 7 a.m. yesterday was 60. Then a cold front went through and by 1 p.m. the mercury read 19.

Complains of Short Staff By BRIAN DONOVAN Democrat and Chronicle Staff Writer WASHINGTON A top antipoverty official claims that the federal government is unable to correct suspected civil rights violations in a "substantial" number of antipoverty projects across the country. Samuel Yette, who is in charge of civil rights enforcement for the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), blamed staff short I tir kv Hmmi hhmiii immiMftliNhni i mi nwwmw WSmLmmmtm Coffee Cup Reading DRIVER FREED Arthur Mason, 55, of 244 Columbia was freed from his auto by firemen after his hand caught ill steering wheel as result of accident at Buffalo Road and Mt. Read Blvd. about 3 p.m. yesterday.

He was in "satisfactory" condition at St. Mary's Hospital later. By ANNE STEARNS By canceling all outstanding Class A and stock, obtaining a $3 million mortgage, and lending $1.5 million to a reorganized Canandaigua Enter-prises Finger Lakes Trustee Francis J. D' Amanda hopes to get the debt-ridden horse racing track back in the black. His plan was one of two presented yesterday in U.S.

District Court to Judge Harold P. Burke. Judge Burke scheduled a hearing on the plan for 10 a.m. March 13, at which time an appraisal of the track also will be presented. Second Plan The second plan was presented by Milton D.

Goldman of New York City, an attorney for the track and a creditor and stockholder. That plan would retain the present stockholders, and calls for a $2 million refinancing of the existing $1.5 million first mortgage on the track, held by Emprise a part of Jacobs Brothers sports catering chain. That mortgage and its interest represent $2.5 million of the $7.5 million debt of the two corporations involved in the track, Canandaigua Enterprises Corp. and its subsidiary, Finger Lakes Racing Association, which operated the track. Both corporations are undergoing Chapter proceedings under the Bankruptcy Law, arranging for the benefit of creditors.

D'Amanda is the court appointed trustee under the proceedings. Three Men The trustee's plan was seen yesterday as an attempt to consolidate formerly far-flung control and operation of the track into the hands of three men. They are Milton A. Abelove, a Utica attorney and former director of the track; Edward D. Braverman of 520 Winton Road Brighton, president of I.

Gordon Realty Style House, Genesee Bus Co. and Airport Motel, and director and major stockholder in First National Bank of Rochester; and Mario P. Cerame of 6 Simpson Road, Irondequoit, a contractor with large real Turn to Page 4B Witness' Act Results in Mistrial Rule A woman witness who inadvertently wandered into the jury room as jurors were assembling for the afternoon session of the second degree murder trial of Mattie Jane Cook caused a mistrial ruling in County Court yesterday. Mrs. Evelyn D'Angelo, who testified Tuesday for the prosecution in the trial, which began Feb.

8, told County Judge Harry L. Rosenthal she had become ill and was searching for a rest-room when she entered the jury room. Judge Rosenthal ruled the mistrial on motion of Mrs. Cook's attorney, Sidney Z. Davidson, after hearing testimony from two court attendants who said they had seen Mrs.

D'Angelo, who also is known as Evelyn Johnson, leave the jury room. Conversation between witnesses and the jury in a trial is forbidden. First Asst. Dist. Atty.

John A. Mastrella, who had been prosecuting the case, asked that the jurors be brought into the room and questioned to determine if actual conversation had taken place between the witness and an of the male jurors. But Davidson contended that her mere presence in the jury room was enough to bring about a mistrial. The case was placed on the trial calendar again for Monday. Mrs.

Cook, 55, of 43 Manhattan a widow who police said is the mother of 13, is accused of the knife-slaying of her boyfriend, David Dennis Man-gram, 26, of the same address in a friend's apartment on Aug. 3. Police said Mangram was stabbed twice in the chest. They said Mrs. Cook believed Man-gram was seeing other women.

The State of the Theater Reading Time: 2 50 Sec. By JEAN WALRATH Tyrone Guthrie, a giant in the theater (6 feet 5 both ways), who is currently touring the country to talk about the performing arts, testily took off at Gillette's Vote Plea Backed By PAT BRASLEY Democrat and Chronicle Political Writer The Citizens Tax League yesterday endorsed the proposal of Democratic Council man Henry E. Gillette for a referendum in November on a metropolitan police agency. "We not only endorse the proposal to bring this subject directly to the voters, but we also volunteer to work for its passage," Robert J. Menzies, the League's executive secretary, said.

The league endorsement underscored the irony of Gillette's position. Gillette, in introducing the legislation for a referendum, made it clear at Tuesday's City Council meeting that he opposes the metropolitan police setup and will work and vote against it in the referendum. Minority Republicans on City Council and the Republican county administration are the outspoken advocates of a metropolitan police agency to be operated by the county on a countywide basis. Gillette's Democratic party opposes the concept. Gillette's legislation for a countywide referendum clearly was intended as a "put up or shut up" challenge to the GOP.

Republican Councilman Robert F. Wood, one of the most outspoken advocates of a metropolitan police setup, attacked Gillette's proposal as premature. He introduced his own legisl-tion for a "high-level commission" of police specialists to study the proppsal. Because of the absence of Democratic Councilman Mario Pirrello, Democrats lacked their usual majority Tuesday. The council was deadlocked, 4 to 4, on party lines.

So both Gillette's and Wood's measures went to committee. Wood's is expected to stay Please turn to 3B High, Fairport, with scores of 284. Tied at 283 were Theodore D. Tarbell, 16, of West High; Alan R. Plutzik, of Harley School; and Edward M.

Salzberg, 16, of Monroe High. About 160,000 high school seniors took the October examination, with 18,743 winning four-year scholarships good for from $250 to $1,000 per year, depending on financial need, at any approved college or university in the state. Winners may also be eligible for additional scholarship incentive grants of up to $500. Mayer Shevin Samuel Beer ff'Vl feS? reporters yesterday when their eyes lit up at the mention of jelly. When he said, in an interview at Nazareth College, that his tour is providing Home Cross $25,000, "in view of the humanitarian nature" of the center, which is supported by the Community Chest.

Sibiey Hall library, one of the 19th Century buildings that comprised the UR campus, where the Memorial Art Gallery now stands, was built in 1874 at cost of $100,000. It was given to the university by Hiram Sibley, founder of Western Union. the money he needs to finance his jam factory in Scotland, he flashed his eyes around the room and caught the reaction. "Ah -ha!" he sprang back. "That's the American of it, isn't it? ages and an inadequate budget.

He told a press seminar at the OEO's headquarters that the agency's civil rights section "doesn't have enough (staff workers) even to read all the complaints." Yette's charges were disputed by two of his superiors, Sargent Shriver, the OEO's director, and Theodore Berry, director of OEO community action programs. Berry said Yette had never reported his suspicion of "substantial" civil rights violations through normal OEO channels. Shriver read statistics showing that OEO had many more non-white staff workers than most governmental agencies and said: "All these men have a tremendous interest in civil rights and they watch it very closely." Yette did not mention by name any cities or local agencies that allegedly practice discrimination in their poverty programs. But he said he believed that many local programs, especially in the Deep South, were at best "marginal in their effect upon "This we haven't been able to change," he said. Yette accused the OEO of submitting an inadequate budget request to the White House for the civil rights section's operations in fiscal 1968.

At present, he said, the section is authorized only 12 persons to enforce civil rights requirements for the programs operated by the 1100 antipoverty Score Shevin, who modestly ascribed his high test ranking to "pure chance," is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Shevin of 153 Shepard St. His father is a real estate broker. The Monroe High senior has applied to Cornell and Harvand universities and the Universifcv of Chicago.

He plans to stud) political science, preparatory to a career as a college teacher, Shevin is. a member of Temple Beth El and chairman of Aspire, a student pacifist group. He works on the school newspaper and is editor of the school literary magazine. He is a Alan Plutzik Linda C. Smith agencies in the country.

Four i of the positions are now vacant. He said a confidential, yearlong study prepared at his request by "a private nonprofit organization" has found it was impossible for OEO to enforce antidiscrimination laws in poverty programs without a "siza- Please turn page Storm Rocks Area; Trees, Wires Down A line of severe thunder-storms moving before a low pressure rain, hail and wind gusts up to 68 miles an hour into the Rochester area early this morning. the winds broke power lines and uprooted trees all over Monroe County. A blackout hit the Wheatland-Scottsville-Mum-ford area, served by Niagra Mohawk Power soon after the storms broke about 1 a.m. The Sheriff's Office and city police reported several calls of utility poles and trees snapped off by the wind.

A burning pole fell across Jefferson Road near Ballantyne Road, Chili, and Washington Street, Pittsford, was reported blocked by trees. In Gates, a tree fell across the New York Central railroad1 tracks behind 150 Downsville Drive. High National Merit Scholarship semifinalist and a member of the National Honor Society. Miss Richardson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

James A. Richardson of 185 Shirewood Drive, Penfield. Her father is an industrial engineer at Eastman Kodak Co. She is awaiting word from six alleges where she has made application. Though interested in tne social sciences and humanities, she hasn't chosen a major but is leaning toward the idea of college teaching.

Please turn to 3B Theodore D. Tarbell Edward M. Salzberg Regents Scholarship Winners County Students A New For Red Rochester-Monroe County Chapter, American Red Cross, said yesterday it will buy the 50 Prince St. site of the Rochester Rehabilitation Center for Louis A. Langie chapter chairman, said the is necessary because plans call for slicing a 40-foot section from the front of the chapter building at 276 Clinton Ave.

S. for an overpass to span the Inner Loop. The Rehabilitation Center is awaiting completion, possibly in November, of its $3.8 million headquarters, being built at Elmwood and South avenues. The architectural firm of Waasdorp, Northrup Kaelber, 740 East is drawing plans for the chapter building, which the Red Cross hopes to occupy in the fall of 1968. After estimates for the new building are received and indemnification rights determined for the old the Red Cross will stage a capital fund, campaign, with the amount to be raised based on those figures.

The Red Cross has occupied its present quarters since April 1950. When the 50 Prince St. building is demolished, it will mark the passing of a Rochester landmark. The 92-year-old, three-story, stone building once housed Sibley Hall library, a part of the University of Rochester's old campus. The university sold the building to the Rehabilitation Center in 1955 for the bargain price of CASH, JEWELS TAKEN Burglars ransacked the home of Joseph M.

Saverinas at 90 Watkin Ter. and took more than $500 in cash and $200 worth of jewelry, police reported yesterday. a of H. of UCu uremum TYRONE GUTHRIE hockin Up to that time, the visitor had engaged in a rather formal conversation around the topic on which he has much to say about the emergence of the regional professional theater, which he sees as the strength of the theater in America. In 10 years, there will be 75 such theaters in the country, he predicted.

But that will be a small number if one compares it with the theater in Europe. Guthrie was here to address a Nazareth College-sponsored meeting last night. The college is now building an art center which includes facilities for an extensive performing arts teaching program. The founding director of the Tyrone Guthrie Repertory Theater in Minnesota, first director of the Stratford Festival in Ontario and director of three current successes of this season, protesting that "success is beside the point," is more concerned over public tastes and public response to theater. The shortage of good plays doesn't alarm him.

There are undoubtedly good playwrights around, but if all the public wants is "Mary, Mary," "Cactus Flower" and the musicals, one can't expect that any season is going to bring forth more than one good play, he said. The fact that one good playwright has appeared Edward Albee is cause for optimism, in his opinion. Neither is the Scots-Ulster Irishman much disturbed by shocking drama, dirty words, etc. There was never a time when older people didn't think younger people were shocking, he recalled. "Just see what we did to our aunts in the '20s," he said.

"What was more shocking than the dance, the Black Bottom?" The subject of government subsidies for the art evoked another rather sharp lecture from Guthrie. We'd better know, he said, that aside from Africa, the United States is alone in its failure to subsidize the arts. The way things are now in "showbiz" the arts are dependent upon success; that's too bad, he holds. Some of the best things that have happened on stage, he pointed out, were "failures." County winners, Page SB The top scorers among Monroe County's 777 Regents scholarship winners tied for the fifth highest mark in the state, a bare four points below the state leader. Scoring 288 out of a possible 300 points re onna Richard-j son, 18, of Pen-A field High, and 1 Mayer Shevin, 16, of Monroe High.

Both plan teaching careers. Donna Richardson Tied for the state lead were Paul R. Pierson Rye, a student at Rye High School, and David C. Zuroff of Merrick, a student at Sanford Calhoun High School, with scores of 292. Ties were the rule, local deadlocks expanding the list of top county scorers from the usual five to seven.

After Miss Richardson and Shevin came Linda C. Smith, 18, Irondequoit High, and Samuel C.Beer, 17, of Minerva Deland rwx rrVi h-, -a.