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Regional ROCHESTER, N. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1971 Not That Long Needle! Larry Knox helps owner hold reluctant canine at rabies clinic yesterday at Lima Fire Hall. Dr. David Davis, assisted by Knox, vaccinated 431 dogs and cats. Sponsored by Livingston County Health clinic is special measure taken after three rabid foxes were killed in three months.

Memorial Rites Planned at Bath For Missionary By PETE Regional BATH A memorial service terian Church at 2 p.m. today ences as a missionary in China like a Hollywood film. The Rev. George G. Toole, service for Miss Bessie Hille, Burial will be in Bath's Grove Miss Hille arrived in China York City's teeming, ghetto-like founders of the first Christian social center in China.

It was in the slums of Shanghai. She adopted three Chinese daughters, was interned by the Japanese during World War II, returned to China and left again, finally, in 1951 in the wake of the communist takeover. She died Feb. 15 in Westminster Gardens at Duarate, a home for presbyterian missionaries started by a wealthy Chinese in gratitude for the education he had received in a mission school. She had resided there the past seven years and had been in ill health for some time before her death.

She was born in Bath in 1887, a daughter of the late Louis C. and Charlotte Morrison Hille. As a young woman, she conducted Sunday School in the local Presbyterian Church and services at the Steuben County Home. She was graduated in 1905 from the local Haverling High School. After completing a religious education course in 1910 in Northfield Seminary, she began social service work in New York City's East Side.

Three years later, she went to China with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions and began almost two years of Ianguage study. Because she was the ouly one of eight missionaries with social service experience, was assigned the task of planning settlement work at the south gate of the old native city of Shanghai. In 1943, the occupying Japanese interned her in a camp for eight months. She was repariated and returned to the United States on the famed Swedish exchange liner, the Gripsholm. In March, 1944, she was honored at a "Bessie Hille Recognition Night" in her home church in Bath.

She returned to China in SECTION and Chronicle Readers Ask HELP! Ghosts Now Have Gone Q. I'm sure you've encountered some unusual problems, but have you ever a person who had a problem with ghosts? recently moved to Penfield and have had severe problems with extraneous interference on my stereo equipment. The disturbance is most common between 8 and 11 p.m., and only when records are played on the turntable. A local stereo store recommended several steps to correct the interference, but none has I'm sure the ghost is the voice of a ham radio operator, but I can't identify the voice or the sender's call letter. Would you care to join the ghost hunt? -JAMES LENTZ, PENFIELD A.

HELP! joined the hunt and enlisted the aid of the Rochester Amateur Radio Association. They referred you to another radio buff who made some minor modifications to your equipment. As a result, the ghosts no longer haunt your listening pleasure. Sauna Belt Delivered Q. A few months ago, I ordered a Sauna Belt waistline reducer from Sauna Belt Inc.

of San Francisco. After waiting three weeks for delivery, I sent a letter inquiring about the delay. They advised me it had been sent and that I should see if the belt was being held in the local post office. It wasn't, so wrote the company again. This time, I heard nothing in response.

I'm tired of the run-around. Can you HELP! me get the belt? -BEVERLY BROWN, AVON A. Your belt has been delivered. Checks Cleared Q. We can't seem to get our Social Security benefits straightened out.

My husband's checks have been arriving irregularly since he retired last summer, and mine have been payable for only half the amount due. We have both received back payments in an attempt to catch up, but our payments are still not current. Can you -MRS. WILLIAM POTTS, ROCHESTER A. You're now both up-to-date on benefits due and your check has been amended to the correct amount.

Lost Trunk Located Q. Here's still another missing baggage problem with Greyhound Bus Lines. I had a trunk checked on my son's passenger ticket from Mound Bayou, to Rochester. The trunk was sent last June, but it still hasn't arrived. I filed several tracers, but still no sign of it has been found.

Can you HELP! find it? -R. ROCHESTER A. Your tracers apparently never made it to the proper authorities. Greyhound sent you another claim form which they soon followed up and located your missing trunk. HELP! is a public service column that attempts to solve problems after readers' efforts have failed.

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Regional Want Ads on 6B Weather 2B Dropouts Seek Cause of Dropouts BATH- Ten high school dropouts are being used in a David K. Hargrave of Avoca is director of the SCEOP project to determine why dropouts left schools across Steuben project, which has been underway about a month. County. The 300 youths to be interviewed will be those who left high They are being trained to interview about 300 youth 16-21 schools in the county without diplomas. years old.

The project is expected to take five months. The state Office for Opportunity Affairs approved the grant Steuben County Economic Opportunity Program, Inc. for the project. (SCEOP), yesterday announced it has received a $7,556 grant Consultant to the effort will be Otto J. Achtziger of Olean.

to conduct the "research and innovation" project. SCEOP is He is director of a federally-funded study project involving the county's anti-poverty program agency. Cattaraugus, Alleghany, Erie and Niagara counties. Aspects of Aim of the project is to determine the reasons for and that study for Alfred Ag-Tech are similar to the SCEOP effort. possible solutions to youths dropping out of school, a SCEOP Achtziger's project is involved with planning on possible spokesman said.

efforts for two year colleges to combat proverty. Dog Quarantine Likely Deer Chase Toll Mounting By BOB BICKEL Regional News Service Five minutes after a state Department of Environmental Conservation helicopter passed over a spot known as Bald Ridge yesterday, a conservation officer patrolling on the ground shot two dogs chasing deer on the ridge. That was as close as the observers in the helicopter got to the long-shot target of their mission, to spot a dog-deer chase while it was actually going on. The helicopter circled the dull white ice sheets of five of the Finger Lakes; covered more than 200 miles in three counties in four hours of flying; spotted a fox, black against the snow, streaking for a wood; looked down on soaring hawks; and circled three large herds of deer, one near the hamlet of Springwater, one at Hunts Hollow on Honeoye Lake and one in the Clyde Area in Wayne County. Making the trip were Frank Ely, head of Region 1 conservation law enforcement; pilots Jim McNamara and Chuck Wolf; Walter Fogg of the audio-visual section of the department; and two newsmen.

Though no predator dogs were spotted, the near miss on Bald Ridge and two other instances in which ground patrols were working on chasing reports while the helicopter was in their area proved what the enforcement record this winter has already established there have been so many deer kills this year that the damage done to the deer herds by the dogs has been great enough to warrant an air search to document and publicize the problem. This is the problem, as described by Ely: Last Thursday, conservation officers took six dead deer off the ice of Hemlock Lake alone. Dogs killed nearly 200 deer in Ely's region last year. There have been more complaints about dog chasing and, by implication, more kills this year. The toll is great enough to make "an appreciable difference" in the herds.

More than half of the killed deer are does. They are pregnant during the killing season and because forage in Region 1 is good enough so the does nearly always have twins and triplets, you can add another 200-plus unborn deer to the kill count. In many ways, deer killing is like sheep killing. Almost all the dogs have homes. More often than not their owners are shocked to learn their pets are killers.

All breeds and all sizes can become deer killers. The worst combination is a pack of small hounds to track, larger dogs to kill. The chase goes on until the deer drops, unless the dogs are scared off. Ely recently documented a chase which began on Clay Road, town of Lima, and covered an eightmile circle before it was interrupted. On a typical Region 1 day, the first chasing report comes in around 8 a.m., and there are others all day long.

So far this winter, the 15 Region 1 enforcement officers in the field have killed 51 dogs caught in the act. From a third to half of this total have been shot by officers patroling in the region's two snowmobiles. The machines are ideal for closing in on a chase, and a bigger fleet would unquestionably protect more deer and get more dogs. Being caught chasing is virtually an automatic, death sentence for a dog. The officers like dogs, have dogs of their own, take no pleasure in shooting them.

But most of them, too, have seen a deer brought down on ice. It slips, falls, rises, falls again. Its hind legs spread, fracturing the pelvis. Its hindquarters become paralyzed. The dogs get at it and into it while it is still terrible death," says Ely.

Authority for killing a chasing dog is provided by the Agriculture and Markets Act, and the act covers more than killing. covers more than chasing. It is against the law to let a dog run free in deer habitat--that means most of the rural areas of the six counties in Region 1. The best solution to deer which most of the counties killing, as with sheep killing, take routinely--and ban free lies with owners, and it is a running dogs entirely. simple solution.

Keep dogs, all The 24-hour quarantine has dogs, confined. Don't let them been effective in Yates run. County. It can be adopted selectively Law enforcement, the next for certain townships and cerbest answer, has one weapon tain seasons. which it has not yet used, ex- The deer kill record in Livcept in Yates County.

Where ingston County this winter has deer kills get bad enough, the been such that the law endepartment can urge a county forcement section will recomto go beyond the night quaran- mend a 24-hour quarantine in tine enabled in the Ag and southern townships next DeMarkets Act-a measure cember. Hop ESPOSITO News Service will be held in Bath's Presbyfor a local woman whose experifor more than 35 years sounds church pastor, will conduct the who died recently in California. Cemetery. in 1913 after social work in New East Side and was among 1946 to resume Christian training in Shanghai. Soon the Missionary Board began withdrawing with the growth of communism and in 1951 she returned home and retired as a missionary.

Boy Jailed For Theft Of Truck CALEDONIA A runaway from State School at Industry stole a truck in the Town of Caledonia, was caught, charged, and convicted yesterday, and has begun serving a 60-day sentence in Livingston County Jail. Sixteen-year-old Craig Damstetter was picked up by sheriff's deputy David Haskins, a Monroe County deputy, and a State School at Industry staff member shortly after he ran the truck off River Road. The theft was reported by William Boop, the truck's owner, who was working in a barn on Cameron Road about 6: when he heard the truck take off. Boop chased the vehicle in another car until it went into a ditch, then waited for sheriff's department help. Deputy Kent Waltman and Caledonia Police Department Sgt.

Clifford Yates followed the trail of Damstetter, who had run from the wreck, while Haskins patrolled the surrounding area. Damstetter pleaded guilty to unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and driving without a license. Caledonia Town Justice William Elkins sentenced him to 60 days on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently. Pilot Charles Wolf scans map while looking for deer-hunting dogs. Thruway Connection Opened at Oakfield By BOB EMENS Regional News Service PEMBROKE Genesee County's third "door" to the teeming State Thruway was swung open yesterday, at the same time breaking up what had been the cross-state superhighway's longest uninterrupted stretch.

State Sen. Thomas Laverne of Rochester and Assemblyman James L. Emery of Geneseo grasped the shears to gether to clip the symbolic ribbon officially opening Interchange 48-A. The opening marked the completion of a better than $2.2 million project which, as Mayor Lacks In Caledonia's CALEDONIA Unless a surprise independent presents himself, J. J.

Doley will be Village of Caledonia's mayor for two more years. The incumbent Doley, a registered Democrat, will be running as an independent because his party failed to hoid a caucus this year. He will have no Republican opponent. At its caucus, the village GOP nominated incumbent Republican Trustees Robert Bostwick and John Keenan for re-election, but could find no candidate to take on Doley. Since there are no Democratic trustee candidates, chances are good that Caledonia will keep its present two Emery observed, should pro- Brydges of nearby Niagara vide an impetus for increased County, praised his colleague economic growth in this west- for his interest in the project ern section of Genesee County.

and his leadership in Albany, Nor will its be felt and openly lamented the abimpact only locally. In testimony to sence of former Sen. William their county's interest in the E. Adams, who was defeated new interchange, three mem- fer re-election in 1970. bers of the Orleans County Emery noted that not only Board of Supervisors, led by will the interchange spur deformer Chairman William velopment of this region, but Kennedy of Ridgeway, joined already it has been an ecothe two state legislators, Ge- nomic boon in that a Genesee nesee County Legislator Rich- County firm held the construcard L.

Kutter and Pembroke tion contract. The contract Supervisor La Verne E. with Potter-De Witt Corp. of Kruger, among others, for the Pavilion, was let in 1969. brief ceremonies.

Adjacent to the interchange, Laverne, representing Sen. which runs off Route 77 a Majority Leader Earl W. short way north of Route 5, a major petroleum company has made plans for a million-dollar truck stop-restaurant-moContest tel homes complex. And business and construction is expected also to be hastened in Poll the The sector. new interchange is about 11 miles west of Exit 48 Democrats-three Republicans at Batavia and some 16 east of board.

Exit: 49. at: Depew. Genesee County's other gateway onto Interstate 90 is Exit 47 at Le Churches Plan Roy, with a direct link onto Route 490, the Rochester-WestDay of Prayer ern Genesee's Expressway. victory in getting DANSVILLE Women o2 the interchange here came in St. Mary's Church for the first the face pressures from legtime will serve as Hostesses islative representatives in for the Dansville World Day of nearby Erie County who Prayer at 8 p.m.

next Friday. vainly sought it for a location Representatives of all local west of the Genesee-Erie line. churches are expected to par- Among others on hand for ticipate in the program with the opening were a number of the worldwide theme of "New Thruway officials, Sheriff Life Awaits." Frank L. Gavel, former To benefit from the offering county GOP chairman James will be projects of evangelism J. Beach of Corfu and other and service in intercontinental members of the Pembroke mission.

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