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Page 2--Daily Messenger, Canandaigua, N.Y.--Friday, August 15, 1975 TT Sleeping Sickness trarbage Sorghum, Soybeans iriver, Her 7 Workers Helped By Rains Daughter ea ng On Strike Tax Rates Established By United Press taunutioaal Gaily-washing rams on the Central Ptaraa and western corn heft hare peried up aybean and sorghum crops. Hoc corn crops in Kansas and Missouri lay withered beyond help and drought is beginning to cut into Illinois crops. Up to six inches of rain soaked dost-cfry portions of Kansas three days. Other areas received teaser amoGnts- Ught rains dampened portions of Thursday and some southwestern communities received up to an inch. Bat it fell far short of the steady.

JI o-5-inch rain needed to revive crops. The showers also sent temperatures plummeting into the Us and 70s instead of in the blistering SO to ICO plus rangebf recent weeks. Corn crops were ret responding. "I think the corn is beyond any sabstantial improvemenl." Missouri Agriculture Director Jsmfs Bofliot said Thursda y. "Bat soybeans are another he said- "I thini this rain will help the soybeans tremendously." He said more rain would be needed but that the latest roend of showers the first of consequence in- weeks in main agricultural areas gives as more time and it gives some benefit to oar pastures," Don Bay of the U.S.

Crop and Livestock Reporting Service office la Columbia, also said the corn was beyond help, 'Mast of the com crop is past the point where it will be aided very much" he said. "The soybeans should be helped quite a bit." Kansas agricultural officials the rains should save some the state's sorghum grata ind soybean crops and wouJd late-season growth of pa store and range prices. Ray Hancock of the state's crop reporting service laid the rain also codd be heipruf to late-maturing com. "But a lot of it is already weil advanced and it's fired up too much," he said. "There's not ranch chance for it to make much recovery." The drought has spread to com crops in portions of northern and west Illinois.

Agronomist C.G. ChamWiss, stationed al Macomb, 111., said two inches of rain this week came too- late to prevent considerable drought damage to corn. Are Freed ROME (ITPIl A magistrate Thorsdayordered the release of a 24-year-old Italian woman who, with her e-mocth-old daughter, was sent to Jail for 50 days for driving without a h'cense. Anna Maria Pappalardo arrived in Rome Monday night to begin a vacation. Tuesday morning she and ber daughter were in jail on a conviction in absentia that sentenced her to days in prison- Anna Maria was stopped by a policeman in March 1S74 while driving in Rome.

Asked for her driver's license, she discovered she had lost it- The policeman fet her go, she said, "and I thocght everything was settled." Meaziwhile, Anna Maria married Robert Montgomery of Australia, moved lo Brussels and they had a daughter, Satasha. And meanwhile, Rome police pressed a charge of driving without a license. Anna Maria never formally reported the loss of her license and last May she was convicted in absentia and sentenced to three months in jail. Unaware of the conviction, she answered a knock on her hotel room door Tuesday morning. It was the police and they arrested her.

The conviction is being lawyer said. MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) Moaquito-spread sleeping sickness has claimed two lives in North Dakota and another ICO or more suspected cases have been reported. Threat of the disease, carried by infected mosquitoes breeding in pools left by flooding in the Red River Valley, has triggered warnings to residents to protect themselves from insect bites. Dr. Warren Lawson, state health commissioner, urged Mmcesotans Thursday Eo remain indoors after sunset when the culex tarsalis mosquito comes out to feed, or to wear protective clothing and use mosquito repellants- The same warnings were issued to Red River Valley residents of North Dakota when evidence of sleeping sickness -medically known as western equine encephalitis first appeared.

According to Dr. John Harris, staff member at the Center-for Disease Control in Kargo, N.D., the odds are better than 5O-30 in theearlyevening the dangerous mosquitoes will strike. "The other mosquitoes which bite at mid-day are just nuisance varieties and nothing to worry about," he said- Harris said "the odds are extremely great greater than 69 out of 100 that a person bitten by a virus carrier will become immune without being sick." The disease caues death 'Bumpy' Record Is Established Joan Little Case Now In 1 wo States jt 1 ace Jury'sHands Racial Violence N'J. (UP1 Roller coaster champion Michae! Boodley, tired and bruised from bumping along 1,000 continuous runs on Coney Island's Cyclone coaster lo beat a world record for the ride, says the effort was worth it because he got his name 'In the books." 17-year-ofd diabetic from Trenton who finished 1,600 "consecutive" rides on the roller coaster Thursday, logged 606 miles of drops, curves and banks on the stomach-grabbing "Cyclone" which features an as-foot first drop. "The worst part was late al riighl when every one had gone home and 1 the only one there." said Boodley who received a daily insulin shot when he pulled into the resting station where he slopped for a five rnjriutebreakeveryhour.

"Every once'in'a 'I ask myself, why am I doing this?" he said. "Well, it was worth it. I got my name in the books." For the pasl Ihree years, Boodley said, he has wanted to break the world's roller coaster riding record in the Guinness Book of Records. He wrote to Coney Island executives who agreed to give him all the free rides he would need. WITH THIS AD Discount I Rentals BY D.J.

HILL CUPI) -For nearly seven hours, the third- floor courtroom where Joan Li tile is on trial for murder rang with impassioned scripture, biting sarcasm and claims of divine guidance. Seven lawyers lef I scarcely a phrase unturned Thursday in Iheir efforts to sway the jury of six blacks and six whites, who Lake Miss Little's fate into their hands today after the judge's inslructions. Miss Little's chief defender, trying to convince the jury she stabbed jailer Clarence Alligood to death to stop his sexual abuse, announced God had been in charge of the defense. Prosecutors, who claim the 21-year-old black woman killed the white jailer' in a callous By United Press International Black leaders, responding to several days of racial outbreaks, are trying to ease tensions in racial incidents in Massachusetts and Ohio. But despite some coding off, five persons were injured Thursday in Boston, and firebombing and minorskirmisheswere reported in Elyria, Ohio.

Boston NAACP President Thomas ALkins was among a group of black leaders who toured sections of predominanl- black Roxbury where youths thrown rocks and bottles and occasionally attacked whiles the four previous nights. In Elyria, Ohio, several black leaders joined police in trying to persuade youths on the city's south side to go home peacefully. Police and highway patrolmen cruised the streets Thursday right to prevent a third night of the disturbances by ASK FOR GIL 716-223-3270 EastVicwMaH escape plot, quoted scripture interspersed with sarcasm. Miss Little faces a maximum of life in prison if convicted of a ar nl ere killing the 62-year-old Alligood. a a shooting of whose body was found nude from the waist down, stabbed a dozen times with an icepick, in Ihe cell where she had been awaiting appeal on a larceny conviction.

The trial began on a first- degree murder charge, which carries a mandatory death sentence. The judge reduced it to second-degree rhurder when the stale rested its case. small firebombing at a bar south of town Thursday night and said shots were fired in the area. injuries were reported. Skirmishes among youths were reported in the city limits.

Despite the outbreaks, one resident said "it's amazingly t(uiel in comparison to what happened the prior two nights." Patrolman H.R. Riley said "the situation might be over in a week if we're lucky." "Then again," he said, "we might not be lucky." Firebombs have damaged five buildings in the area. Among the damaged businesses was the Mayfair Bar where Daryl Maxwell, 19, of Elyria. was shot and killed by Patrolman Michael Killean as the youth crawled out of a window during an apparent burglary early Tuesday. most often in adults over 65 and is likely to cause permanent brain damage to infants.

Other persons usually recover without difficulty. Two eiderly North Daiola men have died as a result of the disease. Medical officials said another 1C6 persons are being watched for clinical symptoms of sleeping sickness. One victim is recovering. Thirteen suspected cases were reported in North Dakota Thursday and the patients were placed under observalion.

Barry Levy-, of the Minnesota Department of Health, said "each day that we don't turn up cases reduces the possibility that there will be a large out break" but that people must use caution to protect themselves. Grand Jury Subpoenas Mrs. Hearst By ROBERT D. I.lTRATl United Press International Catherine Hearst, mother of i i heiress Patricia been subpoenaed to answer questions by a federal grand jury investigating her daughter's underground life. Mrs.

Hearst, wife of San Francisco Examiner President and Editor Randolph Hearst, said Thursday in San Francisco she was handed a subpoena by Charles Bates, the FBI agent who has directed the search for their daughter sirre her abduction from a Berkeley. apartment in February-, 1974. Patricia later joined her abductors, the Symbionese Liberation Army, and now is wanted on federal bank roboery charges. Mrs. Hearst, ordered to appear before the grand jury in Harrisburg, Tuesday, said she did not know why she and not her husband was called as a witness.

There were reports the panel was interested in learning of her dealings with Jack Scott. 33, and a possible reward. Scott, a controversial sports critic, has had several meetings with the Hearsts. He allegedly rented a Pennsylvania farmhouse which was used by Miss Hearst last summer as a hideout, was alleged he sought the reward. Scott has been called to testify before the same grand jury Sept.

4 and his Micki, Monday. Both said they would refuse to cooperate in the investigation. DETROIT UPI Detroit's 7CO sanitation treci drivers struck Thursday night, leaving city residents with a pQeop cf garbage. The strike by members of Teamsters Local 214 eipect- ed to be honored by the other SCO members of the local, including meter maids. catchers and health came after city officials tried get an injunction against the strike and lost- A Wayne County Circuit Court judge in refusing refused lo issue an injunction ordered both sides to fce in court a unless they had reached a settlement.

Local i Joseph Valenti said the dispute cen tered en seniority provisions. He said the city's provisiocs would result in layoffs of veteran drivers hired from the outside while drivers promoted from laborers" jobs would be kept on the trucks. "The city is forcing us into thestrike by making impossible demands," Valenti said. Both sides filed unfair lator practices charges with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission, an action which is ordinarily reserved for unions. J696.6W Equalization rates are: Victor 46.32 (previously Farmington-- 50.14 (60); East Bloomfield 41.79 (52); Macedon 49.33 (60); and Perinton 39.32 (43).

Now Knows Of VICTOR Town of Victor residents will have a sctco! lax rate of S23-7S per Jl.OOC assesssl valuation, up from the 1974-75 rate of $26.33. Carl Palumbo, district principal, announced the tax rates at tte Victor Board of Education meetitg last night T-I aoi added. "We feel that this is 3.111 CCl a very reasonable increase." rates for other towns in the district are as follows with the 1974-75 rate in parenthesis: Farrrm-gton S26.53 (124.14); East Bloomfield $31.70 Macedon J20.46 ($24.14: acd Perinton J30.03 It was coted that the reason fcr the tax rate decrease in Macedon ard Perinton is due to the fact thai the sales tax received from these towns has to fce subtracted from their individual levy. In past years these revenues have been received as general revenues bul now have to be set aside for the purpose of reducing the taxes for the town from which they were received. Assessed valuation figures, with 1974-75 totals in parenthesis, show: Victor Farm- ingtpn $21.615.523 East Bloomfield $336,408 Macedon 3566,333 Perinton MCALESTER, Okla.

(UP1) During the 1973 Oklahoma Slate Prison riots "Canteen Tom," the inmates' toothless feline mascot, learned the hard way not to tangle with police dogs. This week he learned the same abou! skunks. Bronfman Family Awaits New Word a black a white Arthur R. Schaefer Funeral Home 78 W. MAIN ST.

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The rock throwing prompted seal off traffic to three low-income housing projects in Roxbury. But by early today the areas were reopened. "It's been much betler than it has been," said police information officer George Landry. "It's been relatively quiet." The Committee Against Racism, a multiracial group. called off a planned weekend "wade-in" at South Boston's Carson Beach, scene of the confrontation Sunday.

In Thursday's fighling, a black man was pulled from a car and beaten by a group of white youths in South Boston, police said. John Wyman, 37, was Irealed al Boslon City Hospilal and released. A white man, George Blaney. 54. was treated for lacerations after he was beaten by three black youths near his Matlapan home.

Police reported a group of girls stoning cars in thai area. Two firemen were stoned by blacks when they responded lo a school fire in Roxbury and anolher man was treated after he was beaten by eight black youths in thai seclion. In the north central Ohio city 3f F.lyria, police reported a Relay Run School Llmch Along Canal Prices Raised Scheduled PALMYRA Between 12 and 20 runners from the area will each run a portion of the towpath along the Erie Barge Canal from Palmyra to Weedsport Saturday as part of a relay i from Tonawanda to A a in commemoralion of ihe Bicentennial and the Susquecentennial of the Erie Barge Canal. The runners will pass a baton, which will carry a message to be delivered to Gov. Hugh Carey at the end of the run at the state capitol.

Runners of all ages may participate. According to Dale Ladd, a gym teacher and track and cross-country coach at Newark Central School, who is coordinating the local segment, most of the 12 runners already signed up are in the 10 to 50 age range. More are expected to join the run, he said. A relay of cannons was fired along the length of the canal when it first opened in 1825. John Chew, chairman of the relay remembered that fact one day when he was running along the canal lowpath and was inspired to create what has grown to be the statewide Towpath Relay of 1975.

Anyone interested in running a portion of the relay from Palmyra can call Ladd in Clifton Springs at 462-9057. a a a i a City School students are going to pay an extra nickel for school lunches next year. The schoolboard last night approved the price increase, which rakes lunches at the primary, elementary -and junior academy from 45 to 50 cents. Senior Academy students will pay 55 cents, where Ihe rate before had been 50 cents. i John Skawski "noted a Canandaigua is one of the few school districts in the area that operates its lunch program at a profit (over $1,000 last year).

However, he noted, reduced participation and increasing food costs could result in a loss this year, and i corresponding increases in the cost of labor the five cent increase was recommended at this time. A further increase may be required later this year. A (UPI) --The family cf Samuel Bronfman il, breaking a two- day silence, has called upon his kidnapers to renew contact and provide further proof the 21- year-old heir to the Seagram liqu or fortune isstill alive. A statement read by a family spokesman Thursday outside Lutheran Split Is Possible CHICAGO (UPI) Moderates of the Lulherari Church- Missouri Synod were sel for a split with the main body of the church today but kept a'live the possibility some of the moderate faction of the church may choose to stay with the main body. More than 2,000 members of the moderate Evalengelical Lutherans in Mission voted unanimously Thursday to adopt a resolution clearing the way for some moderates to leave the synod but supporting others who choose to stay.

The prospective split stemmed from a dispute over interpretation of the Bible with theconservative Synod insisting OR literal interpretation and the moderales allowing for an allegorical interpretation. The Rev. Samuel J. Roth, president of ELIM. moderate's umbrella group, said 15 to 20 per cent of the synod's 2.8 million members may leave leave the synod within a year.

"A lot of congregations wanted to leave before, or felt that they had to. and yet they did not know what to do," Roth said. "I think this resolution gave them some direction. "I'm not kidding myself that we're talking about huge numbers here." Roth said he expects veterans of the conservative-moderate fight wilhin the Missouri Synod to split away immediately and join the Lutherans in Mission, a corporate structure set up in anticipation of a split. the -150-aere Bronfman estate said the family had done its part in following the abductors' instructions arid now wants a response by way of a special telephone It was not known, however, whether a S4.5 million ransom reportedly demanded has been delivered.

"We need additional evidence rxw that Sam is still alive and well," family spokesman Jonathan Rinehart told newsmen gathered outside the Bronfman home in Westchester County, 25 miles north of New York City. Appealing to the abductors almost six days after young Bronfman disappeared, Rinehart said the family had received "a tape recording containing instruclions and evidence thai these people have Sam. "We are very graleful for lhal evidence. We want to assure them that we intend to comply with instruclions and we have done so. "However.

Ihe abductors so far have failed to follow through," he said. "We ask Ihem now to renew their contacts by calling us at the number Ihey originally indicated." Rinehart said Ihe family is "prepared to comply with instructions which must be clear, specific and practical." Another family spokesman declined comment Thursdav night on been an; appeal. Young Bronfman, a Williams College graduate, was last seen Friday night when he dined with his father, Seagram Co. Ltd. board chairman Edgar Bronfman, at the family home.

He called home at 2 a.m. Saturday to report he had been abducted by three masked men. His car was found i keys in the ignition at the home he shares with his divorced mother. Ann Margaret Locb, in Purchase.N.Y A ransom letter reportedly demanding $4.5 million and saying the boy was "buried" with a 10-day supply cf air and water was received Monday. A tape recording said to contain Bronfman's voice was sent lo the family Wednesday.

Tom is being treated at the prison veterinary hospital, bul Deputy Warden Patrick O'Reilly said the latesl battle (lid more damage to the cat's ego than anything else. O'Reilly said Tom was lucky the skunk settled for a few. well-placed bites and scratches rather than gassing him. It would not have been Tom's first gassing. He got that when guards tried to discourage his attack on the police dogs who crossed into his domain during the riots.

Canleen Tom gained nalional attention after the riots when inmates tried to win a "pardon" for Ihe prison-born cat, whose age has been estimated between 8 and i Obituaries Mrs. Delvin Porter NAPLES Myrtle Porter, 84, of the Town of Naples, died today at her home. She was a member of the South Bristol Grange and the Ladies Auxiliary of the Jacob. Schaeffer Post of American Legion in Naples. She is survived by her husband, Delvin; a daughter, Mrs.

Ralph (Leona) Ren- noldson Sr. of Naples; four grandchildren; .11 great- grandchildren; two brothers, Murray Washburn of Honeoye and Raymond Washburn cf Victor; several nieces and nephews. Calling hours at the Moore Funeral are tomorrow trom 2 to i and 7'lo9 p.m. where a funeral will, be held Sunday at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Rose Ridge Cemelery in Naples.

Contributions may be given in her memory to the Maxfield Hose Company A a Fund. Lloyd C. Hoyt NAPLES Lloyd C. Hoyt, 84, of Cohocton died today in Thompson Hospital in Canandaigua. He was a former owner of the Hornell Hotel and also the Arkport Inn.

Recently Governor Finds Similarities In Bureaucrats, Alligators ALEXANDER'S Open 7 Daystill 10 P.M. Groceries Hardware Furniture 1 feulh Miifl St. ntndiigtia, N.Y, Please send me free information about your lax preparation course. I understand there (s no obligation. Name Address- state 1 Phone CM.

CLIP MAIL TODAY A A I Sakrete Ready To Use Products TOPEKA, Kan. I There aren't any alligators on the Kansas prairies, so a new federal regulation protecting theendangered reptile wouldn't seem to apply lo the state. Bul Gov. Robert Bennett has some other thoughts. Bennetl decided Ihere were some, marked similarities between the American alligator and the federal bureaucrat.

"It now appears abundantly clear lo me that there is a high probability your regulation is designed to protect federal bureaucrats as it has been suggested the comparisons are quite obvious," the governor said in a letter to the U.S. Deparlmentof Interior. "Both Ihe alligator and the federal bureaucrat have Ihe capability of devouring Iheir prey both thoroughly and exoeditiouslv. Likewise, both have extremely thick hides totally impervious to outside force just as neither are known for their beauty." The governor recently received notice of an Interior Department regulation dealing with the American alligator -alligator mississippiensis. The detailed sections spelled out stales' responsibilities in protecting the vanishing reptile and invited comments.

Bennett has long been a critic Concrete Mix Mortar Mix Sand Mix Blacktop Honeoye Art, Craft Antique Show Sale Sunday, Aug. 17 10 A.M.-6 P.M. (RAIN DATE: SUNDAY, AUG. 14) BY Richmond Volunteer Firemen 50 EXHIBITS and BAKED FOOD BOOTHS CHICKEN BAR-B-0 Adults: (3.75 -Children (under 12) S1.75 Raffle: First Prize $100 --Stcond Prize SSO PEPPERTREE-Honwye of the federal government's encroachment into slate government. The governor said he was -especially interested in a section giving Ihe director power to expand protection whenever he delermines specific wildlife is neither endangered northrealened but should be protected because il resembles endangered or threatened species.

"I have given this matter great deal of thought realizing the unique propensities of federal bureaucrats to enlarge their baronies and fiefdoms at each opportunily and frequently without much reason or justification," Bennetl said. "I am constrained to note that as a result of these federal intrusions through bureaucratic expansions the most endangered and Ihrealened species are clearly now the citizens ami the states. "While to my knowledge neither bears much resem blance to the alligator missis sippiensis their plights arc similar which hopefully could give a modicum of encourage ment lo you lo embrace Ihem with your protective governmental bureaucratic wings," Beruiettsaid. Want Ads Pay He is survived by his wife, Alberta; two sons, Charles of Hornell and Chester of Naples; a daughter, Mrs. Raymond (Luella) Smith o( Hornell; six grandchildren; and 19 great- grandchildren.

Friends may call at the Willis C. Moore Funeral Home today from 7 to 9 p.m. Prayer service will be held there "tonight at 8:30. A funeral Mass will be held tomorrow at 10 a.m. al St.

Januarius Church. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemelerv in Hornell. Elizabeth Huxley MANCHESTER Mrs. Elizabeth Anne Huxley, 49.

of 20 Center died yesterday at Highland Hospital. Rochester after a long illness. Mrs. Huxley was born in Clifton Springs and was graduated from Clifton Springs schools and Ihe Community College of the Finger Lakes school of nursing. She married Harry Huxley in 1945 and they have since lived in Manchester.

She was a former bus driver for the a a a i a public schools and a member of the Manchester United Methodist Church where she served in various capacities on the official board. She was also a pasl Sunday school superintendent and belonged lo a sewing club. In addition to her husband, she is survived by two sons. William of Syracuse -and Thomns of Rochester; two daughters, Donald a Brown and a i Huxley, both of Manchester; three grand-, children; her mother, Mrs. Floyd (Cecile) Goodman of Shorlsville RD; a brother, i i a Goodman, also of sistors, Mrs.

William (Jane) Gregory and Mrs. James (Gayle) Roeland. both of Clifton Springs; and several nieces and nephews. Friends may call at Ihe Halstcd Funeral Home tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 2 lo 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

A funeral service will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at Ihe Manchester United Methodist Church with burial in Pioneer Cemetery. Donations in her memory may be.madc to the American Cancer Fund..

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