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in Ford visit carried $8,000 price tag By ROB LAUFER Staff Writer The cost of President Gerald R. Ford's campaign stop in Rockland last week has been figured at about $8,000, approximately 60 per cent of which will be borne by local government. The largest share of the expenses was consumed by overtime pay for officers from the Sheriff's Patrol and the Clarkstown Police Department. Other expenditures resulted from the clean up of the courthouse grounds in New City, where Ford spoke in front of an estimated 10,000 persons, and the repair of damage to the lawn caused by the assembled crowds. Commenting on the expenses the county will have to assume, County Legislator John Grant (D- Haverstraw), chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee, said, "I think we're stuck with them.

It's our cost of having the President visit. visit) was strictly political, but it's something we're going to have to live with." The Sheriff's Department has estimated its cost in overtime to be about $2,000, while the Buildings and Grounds Department will need $650 to cover its expenses. The Town of Clarkstown spent slightly more than $2,400 on overtime, according to Supervisor George Gerber. Seventy-two officers were assigned during the Ford visit, roughly four times as many as on a normal day. "It strains our budget, but this is the President of the United States," said police Chief John Martz.

"He's the chief commander and I felt an obligation to protect him." The remainder of expenses incurred in the presidential stop in Rockland were paid by the President Ford Committee, according to its controller in Washington, Thomas Moran. He said that a typical campaign stop for Ford costs between primarily for communications equipment, such as telephones and a public address system. "We don't pay security service," he said. "That's normally the responsibility of the locality." While some local officials said that governments should be reimbursed for expenditures stemming from a presidential visit, County Republican Chairman Dr. Carmine Freda had a different view.

"When some of the other candidates came up, like Carter at the Pomona complex, questions were raised he said. A number of other local Militant Brown paroled; faces Louisiana trial STORMVILLE, N.Y. (AP) Federal marshals waited for black militant H. Rap Brown to be paroled from Green Haven Correctional Facility here today so they could take him to face trial in Louisiana. Brown, 33, won parole last month after serving almost five years for robbing a New York City saloon in 1971.

He was to have been released to federal authorities to begin a five-year sentence in Louisiana on a weapons conviction. But on the same day his parole was granted, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Or- leans overturned that 1968 conviction. The appeals court ordered a new trial for Brown after learning that the judge in the original trial, U.S. Dist.

Court Judge Lansing Mitchell, had told friends before the trial began, "I'm going to get that The marshals planned to return Brown to New Orleans for retrial on charges he carried a gun across state lines while under indictment for allegedly inciting a riot in Dorchester County, Maryland, and a related charge of jumping bail. William Kunstler, Brown's attorney, contends that all of his client's legal troubles, including the New York stickup and shootout that led to his arrest while he was on the FBI's most wanted list, stem from the weapons conviction. Kunstler says Brown was never informed of the Maryland indictment and could not know he was violating the federal firearms law. The Maryland charges were dropped in 1973. New York State prison officials did not disclose what time Brown would be turned over to federal officials.

Air riskier than rails LONDON (AP) Airline travel today is statistically nearly three times safer than travel by private car but more than three times riskier than travel by train, according to a British air safety expert. About 250,000 persons die violently on the world's roads each year, while fewer than 2.000 die in airlin- Ethel Porcha, 74, long-time resident Ethel Porcha, 74, died Wednesday at the Hillcrest Nursing Home after a long illness. Born in Georgetown, S.C, Mrs. Porcha was a Rockland resident for the past 54 years. She lived in Nyack for many, years and most recently lived at 6 Smith Nanuet.

Mrs. Porcha was a parishoner of the Pilgrim Baptist Church, Nyack. She is, survived by four grandchildren and 13 greatgrandchildren. Services will be held Friday at 10:30 a.m. at the Hugh Big White Funeral Home, S.

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2 While style While solids and Comfort-top beige, taupe Sizes Ladies Accessory (Continued from IB) heads to keep their budgets as low as possible. Overtime, the need for security, and utilities to keep offices open late make Crable's idea unworkable, he says. But while Hansen says he has been told more funds would be available, Crable contends the clerk has done nothing to push for them to improve the facility. He is not sure that extra money would be needed, Crable maintains, but if it is then it is the clerk's repsonsibility to lobby for it. One of Crable's chief proposals is to hire an outside agency to do an efficiency report on the clerk's facility to see what, if any, changes need to be made.

If Hansen, a veteran who lost his right at the Battle of the Bulge, is correct about the election being a popularity contest, then past races have shown him a pretty likeable guy. In 1972, Hansen downed Charles Young by a margin of about 39,000 to 27,000. Three years before that, he defeated Anne Bertussi by approximately 47,000 to 24.000. County Clerk ELECTION '76 But Crable has one statistical a advantage at his side, the 15,000 Democratic registration plurality over the Republicans in Rockland. Yet, the county legislator says he is not relying on that advantage to put him over the top, since Rocklanders are known "to go up and down all over the ballot.

"I don't think the election is going to be a popularity contest. I hold the voters in greater esteem than Crable said. Both men admit their campaigns have been relatively quiet. Crable said he expected that when he got into the race, but is bothered by the fact that he has not been able to publicly debate with Hansen since most organizations sponsoring debates have concentrated on the "higher" elected officials. Both candidates are Or- came a Democrat because "it is the party of the people, the have-nots." angetown residents, with Hansen living in Piermont and Crable residing in Sparkill.

A bachelor, Crable lives with his mother at the home in which he was born. The race marks the fourth try at elective office for Crable, although his first for a post other than county legislator. He was defeated in attempts to become legislator in 1969 and in a special election in 1972 before his victory the following year. Crable served as head of the unsuccessful County Legislature Reapportionment Committee and labels himself a "moderate conservative" interested in human services. The director of activities at St.

Dominic's School in Blauvelt, he says that he be- Though Hansen says the campaign is quiet, he admits it is also one of his toughest. He has missed some time campaigning and working when he was recently bedded by the flu for more than a week, and is hoping to make up for i it during the final days of the campaign. He wants to make sure he is "not going to wake up Nov. 3 and have to look for a job," he says. Hansen has the solid backing of the Republican and Conservative parties in his bid for re-election.

Crable was initially challenged by Clarkstown Legislator James Damiani for the Demoratic nod, but Damiani withdrew before the September primary. The county clerk candidates will be listed towards the end of the November ballot between county court judge and county treasurer contenders. The polls are open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Nov.

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at St. Peter's Church, Haverstraw. Burial at St. Peter's Cemetery will follow. He died Tuesday at Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern, of natural causes.

A local real estate broker, Mr. Townsend retired as a captain with the New York City Police Department after 30 years of service. He was a charter member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Rockland, a member of the Haverstraw Knights of Columbus, Lodge 581, of the Haverstraw Elks Lodge 877. Mr. Townsend A group of 100 Europeans using each of five types of transportation for 5,000 miles a year would have to travel 370 years by scheduled air transport before one of the 100 could expect to be killed.

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