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178 NO. 88 CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1974 SINGLE COPY 15c Nixon By WILBUR G. LAN DREY UPI Foreign Editor DAMASCUS (UPI) Secre- talry State. Henry A.

Kissinger brought his shuttle diplomacy to Damascus today, to seek 'an end-to the Israeli-Syrian fighting on the Golan Heights but ran Syrian pledge to continue battle: until every inch of Syrian territory is rid of "the Zionist- evil." Kissinger was the target of an assassination plot on his last visit to Damascus in January, and security today was unprecedented. He' also was traveling about the city in a second bullet proof Cadillac flown in from the United States. A bullet proof car also was flown to Israel. Kissinger had a last minute conversation in Tel Aviv with Prime Minister Meir before flying here for his talks with President Hafez Assad. seek security and peace, and not the imposition of views of any party on any other party," Kissinger said after the meeting with Mrs.

Meir. Maj. Rifaat Assad, brother of the Syrian president and commander, of the special troops battling Israelis on Mt.Hermon for the 53rd consecutive day, told the Beirut newspaper Al Yom today the fighting would continue until the Golan Heights are liberated completely. Israel has said there must be a cease-fire on the Golan Heights before there can be. "meaningful negotiations" on a troop disengagement program.

Syria, backed by Soviet arms and money, has rejected disengagement until Israel gives back at least some of the Golan Heights captured in th 1967 War. Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban cautioned after the talks with Kissinger, "We'do not have an agreement in our pocket at all. On the other hand we have by no means reached a stage of despair. We are going, on with the talks unconditionally." Syria Claims Success By United Press International Syria said its artillery knocked out Israeli armor today while Israel reported one. of its patrols killed two Syrians in a fresh outbreak of fighting prior to Secretary of State Henry.

A. Kissinger's negotiating visit to Damascus. A Syrian military communiqe said fighting on the Golan Heights cease-fire lines erupted- at 1 a.m. when a forward position exchanged machine- gun fire with an Israeli patrol. "Our forces opened fire on the-enemy and our artillery, units shelled enemy tanks and artillery emplacements, destroying one tank, one half-, track and an ammunition depot," the Syrians said.

Syria reported artillery duels on strategic Ml. Hermon were, still going on in mid-morning before Kissinger left Israel for Syria on a new peace mission at separating Ihe opposing armies. The Israeli command said a patrol enountered a Syrian unit Israelis crossed over the cease-fire line into territory east of the area captured in the October was and "in the ex- change of fire two Syrians were killed. The patrol returned with no casualties." Earlier, a military spokesman said one Israeli soldier, was wounded in a Syrian artillery barrage in the salient during the night. The war of attrition on the.

heights went into its 53rd day Rafter Israel shelled targets nine miles from Damascus and staged air strikes on Arab guerrillas in Lebanon. Israel reported five of itsi soldiers dead, two wounded and three missing Thursday, one of Ihe highest single 'day tolls the daily battles with Syria began after last October's 17-day war. Syria reported artillery and duels along (he entire 40- mile Golan front Thursday and two Israeli jets were shot down wilh ground-to-air missiles. Israeli pilots reported altack- ing guerrilas inside Lebanon six miles southwest of Mt. Hermon.

Lebanon said a civilian and four soldiers were! wounded. no soldiers or uniformed policemen in sight' but hundreds of armed plain-', clothes police patrolled Damascus for the Kissinger visit. On Wednesday sections of the crowd in a May Day parade of rifle-carrying tuden Is shouted slogans hostile to Kissinger and his mission, calling him a "Jewish traitor." Kissinger arrived in Damas cus at 2:10 a.m. EOT) after a one-hour flight from Israel. He was met by Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam and members of the American diplomatic mission headed by Thomas Scotes, who has been in 'the Syrian capital since January.

an airport news conference he was depart-' ing with "detailed clarification 1 of all the elements and criteria' involved i a disengagement agreement" and would "return here with all the Syrian ideas." The secretary said. that following his talks in Damascus, "We will then attempt to see whatever differences exist can be matched and dealt "We seek security and peace and not the imposition of views of any party on other party," Kissinger said. His blue and silver Boeing 707 jet was parked next to the terminal building at Bcn-Gurion International Airport. As on all his visits, border guards carrying machine guns patrolled the airport apron and the terminal roof. In Damascus; hundreds of armed plainclothes police were in position along the 12-mile route from the airport to the Rawdah guest palace hours before Kissinger's arrival.

Israel says a cease-fire with Syria is necessary in the Golan Heights -before. "meaningful negotiations" can be held. Syriaj however, has rejected disengagement unless Israel pulls back from at least some Golan Heights' land captured in the 1967 Kissinger also met with families of Israeli prisoners of war in Syria and those listed as missing on Egyptian front. He told them Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has reported that the search for bodies in the Sinai is continuing. An American official said Kissinger advanced his schedule to return to Israel Saturday night for new talks before the Israeli cabinet meets Sunday.

Sources in Jerusalem said the crucial stage of the disengagement talks would. almost certainly come with Kissinger's return here. They said the secretary would probably' be commuting between Jerusalem and Damascus well into next secretary, of state was scheduled to fly from Israel to' Syria this morning on his fifth Middle East peace mission in an attempt to separate opposing armies along the embattled heights. Information Minister Shimon: Peres said Thursday night Israeli officials did not give Kissinger any new "geographic specifics" during the secretary: of state's one-day visit to Jerusalem. West (UPI) -President Nixon today to have made a strategic decision to stand on the release of the more than 1,200 pages of edited transcripts and resist demands for more material.

In three instances Thursday his aides took positions against furnishing requested information: --Deputy White House Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren, said the House impeachment committee full story of Watergate" and there are no plans.to furnish tape recordings it has subpoenaed. While not closing the door to negotiation, Warren said, referring to the fat book of transcripts: "We feel that it is complete and we feel that it gives the House Judiciary Committee thefacts with which to make a judgmenj." --On the day it was due, the President's lawyers went to federal court to block a subpoena from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, seeking House tape recordings to use in the Watergate cover-up trial in September. Judge John J. Sirica set a hearing for next Wednesday, on the subpoena.

--Under written instructions from the President, White House chief of staff Alexander M. Haig, declined to answer questions by the Senate Watergate committee. It was the first time Nixon had cited the doctrine of executive privilege to bar one of his aides from testifying before this committee. In other Watergate 'developments: --The U.S. Court of Appeals gave the Senate Watergate committee's appeal for original House tapes a partial rebuff.

It ordered the committee to try to make do with transcripts and copies of tapes. If the panel still needs more, the court said, it should come back and explain why. '--Formerpresidentlaladviser Charles W. Colson serit federal court 5,000 newspaper clippings to back his argument that pretrial publicity would deny him a fair trial in the Watergate cover-up case. He said even the derogatory stories about him.

--The court-appointed panel 'that has been studying an 18 V4- minute gap on one of President Nixon's tapes will make a. report to Judge Sirica Satur- l'day, it was announced. Eyesore Ban To Be Fought (UPI) --The gasoline jpumps of Bill Noyes' Exxon filling station are so ugly, state officials ruled, they should be moved back off the main street-of this farming, town. Noyes, who has run the same -service'station in Shiloh since .1942, says the pumps will stay right where they are. He has taken the matter to court.

The state Transportation Department has said the pumps are an eyesore and want them moved under the Sign Encroachment Removal Program, partially funded by a 1965 federal law inspired by Lady Bird Johnson's highway beautificationprogram.Usually only billboards are ordered removed from the roadside. Up To Governor To Aid HGS Passed In Senate By S.K.FERRIS RICHMOND A bill'-Education Commissioner directing the State Education EwaldNyquist for his failure to Department to pay the Honeoye School District some $540,000 in back payment of state construction 'aid was approved by the state senate yesterday. A similar bill passed the' assembly two weeks ago. The Governor must now sign the bill if it is to become effective. Yesterday's' vote in the Senate was unanimous.

Sen. Frederick Warder (R-Geneva) sponsored the bill in the Senate. "This bill would direct the State Education Department to apportion school building aid to portion of the town of Livonia in the Honeoye Central School Livingston County is also included in the district. Senator Warder expressed pleasure that the senate approved the bill for assistance to the Honeoye School District. Honeoye Central School's Supervising Principal Harlow' 1969.

In February of last year. Fisher said today that he too school officials were notified was pleased by the vote. "That that the school would not be is good news," Fisher said. He receiving any state aid for the added that be hopes that Gov. $730,000 addition to the school.

Malcolm Wilson will sign the School officials sued State bill. provide construction aid to the school. Voters in the school district were later asked to vote on whether they wanted the matter pursued. That vote taken in July 1973 and voters approved by a 373-104 margin to have the school board and school officials continue their suit against Nyqulst. The Honeoye School District includes the towns of Richmond and Canadice, as well as portions of Bristol, West Bloomfield and South Bristol.

A District for the addition and alterations to its high school commenced in I960," Warder said. A $730,000 expansion program was approved by voters by a 3-vote margin in Nixon Says More Watergate Data To Be Withheld WASHINGTON (UPI) -President Nixon takes off on a two-day Western swing today aimed at demonstrating he still has a resevoir of grassroots' support despite the Watergate scandal. While Congress is weighing what evidence of presidential complicity is contained in the excerpted transcripts of his private conversations, Nixon be testing public reaction in appearances at Phoenix, and Spokane, Wash. Accompanied by Sens. Barry Goldwaler and Paul J.

Fannin and three other members of the Arizona congressional delegation, President and Mrs. Nixon are scheduled lo arrive in Phoenix in midafternoon for an evening rally at the Phoenix Coliseum. The speech, before an audience raised by Arizona Republicans, is his first appearanceoutside Washington since publication earlier this week of Ihe transcripts of 48 conversations with key aides on the Watergate affair. The President has claimed the excerpts show he knew nothing about plans for breaking into the Democratic National headquarters and did not participate in efforts to cover up the complicity of his key aides. He is hoping for an outpouring of support which will demonstrate that the country, if not the Congress, believes him on this critical The only member of the Arizona delegation not accompanying Nixon is Democratic Hep.

Morris K. Udall, who will be addressing a Phoenix meeting of Democrats from nine -Western states shortly after Nixon's speech. In remarks prepared for delivery to the group, Udall said neither the nation nor the presidency will be destroyed if Nixon is kicked out of office. Following an overnight stay in Phoenix, the President and First Lady will fly to Spokane to officially open Expo '74, a world's fair beginning a six- month run. Jockey Admits Transcripts in i Become Illegal Bet Best-Seller PRESIDENT NIXON nearer Impeachment Hearings Set WASHINGTON (UPI) --The House Judiciary Committee has to begin impeachment hearings next week without waiting for the uncertain delivery of more evidence from President Nixon.

On Wednesday or Thursday, a committee of Congress for the first time in a' century will embark upon the sole constitu- More Steel Price Hikes Announced PITTSBURGH (UPI) -Major steel producers, including No.l-ranked U.S. Steel today began raising prices on steel products. Other steelmakers announcing various price increases after the expiration of federal price controls included Allegheny Ludlum Steel Youngstown Sheet Tube National Steel and Wheeling-PittsburghSteelCorp. The upward price trend was expected to be adopted indus- trywide within the next few days. The companies cited rising costs of labor and materials as the reasons for the price hikes.

'New three-year wage contracts covering about 450,000 steelworkers, negotiated last month, were formally signed here today by the country's 10 major basic steel companies ana the United Steelworkers of America (USWA). U.S. Steel raised prices "on a broad range of steel products," effective today. The company said the hikes averaged 5.7 per cent on its "total steel product line." Additional extra charges will become effective May 20, U.S. Steel said.

Wheeling-Pittsburgh raised prices on all its steel products an average of 6 per cent, also effective today, and Youngstown Sheet and Tube upped prices across the board on all tubular products. National Steel raised the price of tin mill products 9.5 per cent. The Weather Overcast with periods of rain tonight. low 40 (o Saturday variable cloudiness and cooler with a chance of showers. High in the mid 50s.

Southerly winds 10 to 20 miles per hour today, becoming westerly 15 to 25 mph with higher gusts tonight. Precipitation probability 70 per cent today and tonight and 30 per cent Saturday. The Cananclaigua Weather Station reportsa 24-hour high of 59; low, 38. The temperature at 8 a.m. was 46.

There was .21 of an inch precipitation. This date last year the temperature was, high, 71; low, 52. At 8 a.m. it was 56. LAKE LEV EL May 2,1974 688.38 May 2,1973 688.61 tional procedure for dismissing a chief executive.

The first days of hearings will be closed for sensitive evidence. But most sessions are expected to be public and open live television coverage, rarely permitted In the House. The White House signaled that requests for more tapes will be brushed aside. Spokesman Gerald Warren have "the full story of Watergate." They still seek evidence on the cover- up and campaign contributions. The committee decided Thursday to give James D.

St. Clair, Nixon's Watergate lawyer, an active role during the hearings. St. Clair may nominate and question witnesses, present evidence, make speeches and object to questions, even from congressmen. Some liberals protested.

Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, said St. Clair, a skillful ROCHESTER A female jockey, who is the prosecution's chief witness, in a trial here in Court today admitted betting on a horse other than her own in an Oct. 24 race at Finger 1 Lakes Race Track. Mrs.

Edith Hinsley Masters, 29, during a cross-examination, said she bet $2 on a horse other than the one she was riding in an alleged ''fixed" ninth race, which is illegal. She was being questioned by Robert C. Napier, attorney for Claudio Valeri, 33, of Canandaigua, a jockey, one of three defendants in the trial. Valeri, Keith Robinson, 33, of Ontario, Canada, also a jockey, and Robert Burnett, 46, of Providence, R.I.,' a horse trainer, are accused of paying Mrs. Masters $100 to hold back her mount in the Oct.

24 race. Napier asked Mrs. 'Masters questions about her testimony given to a federal grand jury during'a 1972 investigation into the race then read back to her her actual testimony. He told Judge Harold P. Burke, "I am trying to question her on her credibility.

Many of her answers to Napier's specific questions were an- Most Trusted Are Chosen BANGOR, Maine (UPI) -Alabama Gov. George Wallace courtroom lawyer, "could turn and conservative New York these proceedings into a cir- James Buckley are the cus. But Chairman Peter W. Rodino trying to avoid a split with Republicans, convinced Democrats to go along. Even Hep.

Robert F. Drinan, an avid advocate of impeachment, acquiesced. "It is better to let him become the 39th member of the committee than to deny him his procedural rights," Drinan said of St. Clair. Rodino hopes the hearings can end by June 30 with a vote to recommend either impeachment or exoneration.

But that deadline is uncertain. Long Session most trusted public officials in America, according to a poll conducted by an Italian restaurant. Wallace and Buckley were awarded the Momma Carparelli Award Wednesday night by Baldacci's restaurant here. iRestaurant owners based the awards on a newspaper poll which garnered some 3,000 responsesfromMainecitizens. Voters were asked to choose the Republican and Democrat they felt were the most honest and frank with the public.

The award was named after the grandmother of restaurant owner, John Baldacci. swered" by, "I don't remember." Mrs. Masters said she bet on the ninth race "through another person." Her horse came in fourth in the supcr- fecta race. "I tried to the best of my ability to win," she said. Serious Violation She did agree that it was a most serious violation.

Mrs. Masters said, "It was said.to me by Mr. Jordan (an FBI agent) that if I make a few bets to get to know people, I'd be reimbursed later on." Mrs. Masters was working with the FBI and carried a "bug" that transmitted conversations to an agent in a car near the race track. The jockette testified that she still had the transmitter on her person while riding in the ninth race but that she was told by the FBI agents that they ran out of tape during the race.

Napier.asked her if she was 1 'bumped'' in the ninth race and she answered, "I think I was bumped but I wasn't positive. If I was positive I would have claimed a foul." Napier noted that grand jury testimony quoted her as saying, "I was bumped three or four that a jockey tried to get a leg lock on her. The government is using the tapes obtained with the transmitter Mrs. Masters wore on Oct. 24, 1972, and Oct.

27, 1972, in its case against the defendants. Seven other persons also await trials in connection with a federal probe into activities at the town of Farmington track. Candidates Speak Out An election for two positions on the Canandaigua Board of Education will be held on Tuesday. Statements by (he candidates appear today on page 5. Wesf Bloomfield Sludge Dumpers Are Found Guilty By KATIIIE MEREDITH WEST BLOOMFIELD A justice court trial, which kept participants and some 26 observers at the West Bloomfield Town Hall for four hours last night, resulted iri guilty verdicts for Mrs.

Josephine Polvino and her son, Allen. The two, who had entered innocent pleas, were each fined the maximum penalty of $50. They were charged with dumping and depositing waste in violation of the town zoning ordinance. Nicholas R. Santoro, attorney for the Pol vinos, had asked that Justice James Warren disqualify himself because, as a town justice, Warren is also a town board member.

Denying the motion, Warren said he felt he was capable of making a fair, impartial decision. "I do not feel I am biased in this matter," he noted. Chief Witnesses Trial testimony was offered by Deputy John Kurzejeski Jr. of the Ontario County Sheriff's Department; Frank E. Clark, sanitary engineer with the State Department of Environmental Conservation in Avon; Town Zoning Officer Oscar Erickson; Robert Sehm, a mechanic; and George F.

Harris, a Rochester attorney. Kurzejeski, questioned by Town Attorney Robert Nessler and Santoro, said he was assigned to investigate a complaint on Routes 5 and 20. He said he was instructed by the sheriff to go in an unmarked vehicle and in clothes other than his regular uniform. On Oct. 25, 1973.

he said he sewage sludge, Clark said. The engineer said he was unaware of a zoning ordinance and did not check about the existence of an ordinance before issuing the permit. During his testimony, Erickson said he had been zoning officer for 2V4 years but had not examined town records relative to the zoning ordinance adoption. He also related that he was not on the Polvino land Oct. 25 and didn't know what took place then.

Previous to Oct. 25, Erickson By United Press International The long-awaited transcripts of President Nixon's secretly Watergate conversations turning into a runaway best-seller --at least for a book selling at $12.95 a copy. Either for historical or personal reasons, the American public is interested --even in an abridged form --in what was said by Nixon and his former top aides at those confidential White House meetings. The Government Printing Office bookstore sold 99 copies of the blue, soft-bound, page book within an hour after opening Thursday, and all 706 copies available for the day were gone by 11:15 a.m. The cumbersome, four-inch thick book has the unlikely title of "Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the Committee on the Judicary of the House of Richard M.

Nixon. A spokesman for the GPO said he had no idea the transcript was going to be a sellout. Only 1,000 copies will be available today, but the printing office has decided to print another 10,000 copies --double the original press run. If sales continue at that rate the transcript would be one of the. most popular GPO books since the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President Kennedy in 1964.

The Chicago Tribune got into the book publishing business Wednesday, underselling the GPO with their own edition of theNixon-Watergate transcripts at 50 cents a copy over the counter. It is available by mail at $1.50. Readers of the Trib's final edition got the complete transcript text for the regular price is cents in the form of a 44- page supplement. The paper also gave away 1,200 copies around the Capitol and at government offices. Another 1,200 copies were flown in and put on sale at Washington news lands where they vanished in less than an hour.

Tribune Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick said the decision to publish the transcripts was made only minutes after the President finished speaking Monday night. "While we were talking we agreed it would be a fascinating document," hesaid. The printing was done in "cold type," a process involving the use of computerized magnetic tapes and photographs. In New York, Dell Books said it will rush to press a paperback edition of the transcripts, including a commentary by Washington Post reporters. Dell said the almost half a million copies of the 700- page paperback would be on sale the week of May 6 for $2.45.

Author Hired By Princeton PRINCETON (UPI) "Love Story" author Eric Segal has been hired by Princeton Uni- fnff lie CKaiu in; A ITIUUO kv HfllUAAUII VCrSity tO teaCh, but hlS saw solid and liquid material on said. "I observed the dumping subjects will be "The Age of the land. The solid material Comedy," and was "mushy," he said, adding. The material measured about the Roman poet "Propertius" two feet deep and was located 'It had a distinct smell to it. After a truck left the property, the deputy said he pulled it over to the side of the road.

He said the truck was driven by Robert Sehm with Polvino as a passenger. 'Digestive Sewage' DEC Engineer Clark said Polvino, representing Polvino Construction was issued a DEC permit allowing dumping on the Josephine Polvino land. Polvino informed DEC thai he would be dumping digestive in an area not under cultivation, he said. Erickson said he was not a chemist and did not have the material chemically analyzed. Fecal Matter Witness Robert Sehm said he was a Polvino employe and was stopped by a deputy on Routes 5 and 20.

Discussing a truck parked on the Polvino land, Sehm was asked the contents of the truck, He conferred with (Continued on Page3, Col. 7) and not popular romance. "We're hiring him because we have a high impression of his scholarly work, not because he wrote 'Love said W. Robert Connor, chairman of the classics department, about the one-year appointment as visiting professor. A university spokesman refused to disclose Segal's salary.

Segal is a Roman classics scholar and former member of the Yale University faculty..