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tonal SECTION Eegiohal Want Ads on6B Weather 2B ROCHESTER, N. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1971 flllfllMi I llll Seek Cause of Dropo Dropouts David K. Hargrave of Avoca is director of the SCEOP project, which has been underway about a month. The 300 youths to be interviewed will be those who left high schools in the county without diplomas. The state Office for Opportunity Affairs approved the grant for the project.

Consultant to the effort will be Otto J. Achtziger of Olean. He is director of a federally-funded study project involving Cattaraugus, Alleghany, Erie and Niagara counties. Aspects of that study for Alfred Ag-Tech are similar to the SCEOP effort. Achtziger's project is involved with planning on possible efforts for two year colleges to combat proverty.

HELP! i tf mmwm Lit" BATH Ten high school dropouts are being used in a project to determine why dropouts left schools across Steuben County. They are being trained to interview about 300 youth 16-21 years old. The project is expected to take five months. Steuben County Economic Opportunity Program, Inc. (SCEOP), yesterday announced it has received a $7,556 grant to conduct the "research and innovation" project.

SCEOP is the county's anti-poverty program agency. Aim of the project is to determine the reasons for and possible solutions to youths dropping out of school, a SCEOP spokesman said. Dog Quarantine Likely Deer Chase Toll Mounting (J-2Pisr II! which most of the counties take routinely and ban free running dogs entirely. The 24-hour quarantine has been effective in Yates County. It can be adopted selectively for certain townships and certain seasons.

The deer kill record in Livingston County this winter has been such that the law enforcement section will recommend a 24-hour quarantine in southern townships next Ghosts Now HaVG GonG Not That Long hind legs spread, fracturing the pelvis. Its hindquarters become paralyzed. The dogs get at it and into it while it is still alive "a 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. It 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. Pilot Charles Wolf 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.

ty jiff rill Memorial Rites Planned at Bath Q. I'm sure you've encountered some unusual problems, but have you ever HELPJed a person who had a problem with ghosts? I 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 Bone has HELPIed. 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 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 sens and that I should see if the belt was being held in the local post office. It wasn't, so I 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. For Missionary By PETE ESPOSITO Regional News Service BATH A memorial service will be held in Bath's Presbyterian Church at 2 p.m. today for a local woman whose experiences as a missionary in China for more than 35 years sounds like a Hollywood film.

The Rev. George G. Toole, church pastor, will conduct the service for Miss Bessie Hille, who died recently in California. Burial will be in Bath's Grove Cemetery. Miss Hille arrived in China in 1913 after social work in New York City's teeming, ghetto-like East Side and was among founders of the first Christian The best solution to deer killing, as with sheep killing, lies with owners, and it is a simple solution.

Keep dogs, all dogs, confined. Dont let them run. Law enforcement, the next best answer, has one weapon which it has not yet used, except in Yates County. Where deer kills get bad enough, the department can urge a county to go beyond the night quarantine enabled in the Ag and Markets Act a measure scans map while bolting for Emery observed, should provide an impetus for increased economic growth in this western section'of Genesee County. Nor will its impact be felt only locally.

In testimony to their county's interest in the new interchange, three members of the Orleans County Board of Supervisors, led by former Chairman William Kennedy of Ridgeway, joined the two state legislators, Genesee County Legislator Richard L. Kutter and Pembroke Supervisor La Verne E. Kruger, among others, for the brief ceremonies. Laverne, representing Sen. Majority Leader Earl W.

Democrats-three Republicans board. Churches Plan Day of Prayer DANSVILLE Women St. Mary's Church for the first time will serve as Hostesses for the Dansville World Day of Prayer at 8 p.m. next Friday. Representatives of all local churches are expected to participate in the program wilh the worldwide theme of "New Life Awaits." To benefit from the offering will be projects of evangelism and service in intercontinental mission.

By BOB BICKEL Regional News Service Five minutes after a state Department of Environmental helicopter passed over a spot known as Bald Ridge yesterday, a conservation officer 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 Ho-neoye 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 au-dio-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 eight-mile 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 From a third to half of this total have been shot by officers patroling in the region's two snowmo-.

biles. The machines are ideal for closing in on a chase, and a bigger fleet would unques-. tionably 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 Thruway Connection Opened at Oakfield Needle! 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 Dam- stetter was picked up by sheriff's deputy David Haskins, a Monroe County deputy, and a Slate 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 a.m. when he heard the truck take off. Boop chased the vehicle in another car until it went into a ditch, then waited for sheriffs department help. Deputy Kent Valtman and Caledonia Police Department Sgt.

Clifford Yates followed the trail of Damstetter, who had run from the wreck, whiie Haskins patrolled the surrounding area. Damstetter pleaded guilty to unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and driving without a license. Caledonia Town Jus-. tice William Elkins sentenced him to 60 days on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently. 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 Ge-neseo 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 deer-huntmg dogs. Brydges of nearby Niagara County, praised his colleague for his interest in the project and his leadership in Albany, and openly lamented the absence of former Sen.

William E. Adams, who was defeated fer re-election in 1970. Emery noted that not only will the interchange spur de-1 velopment of this region, but already it has been an economic boon in that a Genesee County firm held the construction contract. The contract with Potter-De Witt Corp. of Pavilion, was let in 1969.

Adjacent to the interchange, which runs off Route 77 a short way north of Route 5, a major petroleum company has made plans for a million-dollar truck stop-restaurant-motel complex. And business and homes construction is expected also to be hastened in the sector. The new interchange is about 11 miles west of Exit 48 at Batavia and some 16 east of Exit 49. at Depew. Genesee County's other gateway onto Interstate 90 is Exit 47 at Le Roy, with a direct link onto Route 490, the Rochester-Western Expressway.

Genesee's victory in getting the interchange here came in the face or pressures from leg- islalive representatives in nearby Erie County who vainly sought it for a location west of the Genesee-Erie line. Among others on hand for the opening were a number of Thruway officials, Sheriff Frank L. Gavel, former county GOP chairman James J. Beach oi Corfu and other members of the Pembroke Town Board. 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 presbyteri-an 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 1D10 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 language study. Because she was the only 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 re-pariated 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 Mayor Lacks Contest In Caledonia's Poll 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 jt 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. Letters MUST be signed with name, address and phone number of reader, though use of initials may be requested. Send problems and questions to: HELP, Democrat and Chronicle, 55 Exchange Rochester, N.Y. 14614.

Any supporting documents tent with letters MUST BE COPIES of the original documents. HELP I cannot accept phone calls, personal interviews or return materials. CALEDONIA Unless a surprise independent presents himself, J. J. Doley will be Village of Caledonia's mayor tor two more years.

The incumbent Doley, a registered Democrat, will be running as. an independent because his party failed to hold 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 cculd find no candidate to take on Doley. Since there are no Democratic trustee candidates, chances are good that Caledonia will keep its present two.