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Sept. 5, 1967 PRESS, Binghamion, N. Y. 5-A Mil -Lake Ontario JC Father Tries to Save Local Girl, 3 Others; Dies three sisters, Mrs. William Skal-I of Einghamton, William and Burial will be in the Spring Forest Cemetery.

By PHIL HAND A 36-year-old Johnson City mack of Oregon, Mrs. Lloyd Roger Donahue of Susquehanna. Mr. Donahue was a member Landsey of castle ureeK ana Mrs. James Brady of Susque- father of six children drowned in Lake Ontario Sunday while hanna, eight brothers, making his second attempt to rescue a Town of Maine girl James of Johnson City, The 10:30 a.

m. Thursday at the J-jchurch, a member of American F. Rice Funeral Home, 150 Legion Post 357, VFW Post 478 Maine Street, Johnson i y. of Binghamton and the Loyal The Rev. Robert Kellerman will Order of Moose 784 of Susque- Rev.

Howard Donahue of Chila-cothe. 111., Frank, Richard, Nor and three other -4 persons trapped 1 hanna. officiate. man and Donald Donahue, all in the choppy waters of lake. 17 A i 1 Endwell Street, Johnson i was pronounced i dead a Family's Happiness Chilled by Tragedy members of the Oswego County Sheriff's De partment and an emergency mr.

donahue rescue squad worked over him for about 45 minutes, according to his brother-in-law Broome County Sheriff's Deputy Robert Truesdell. Deputy Truesdell, who went to Lake Ontario after hearing about the tragedy, gave the following account of the drowning based on information from Mrs Donahue and others at the scene: PRESS AIR PHOTO BY BOB GARVIN. whether he tried again to come to Roxe-Anne's aid. (Investigating officers said Mr. Donahue apparently had gone back to the scene when the accident occurred.

AFTER THE children were out of the water, Mr. Donahue's body was discovered and Mr. Lawson and Mr. Warner gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation for about 30 minutes, Mrs. Warner said.

She said "It all happened so fast and furious. "It's hard to believe that anything so beautiful tould be so deadly." "Ordinarily it (the1 U.ke is quiet, but Sunday was unbe Mr. Donahue, owner of the Superior Tool Machine Co. in Endwell, had taken his family Change at the Crossroads to Green's Point on Lake On tario for a weekend of camping By ANNE DOLL "We were very, very, very fortunate and are grateful to a lot of people, but we feel terrible' about the man who drowned," the mother of a 12-year-old Maine girl who was rescued Sunday from Lake Ontario said today. Mrs.

Raymond A. Warner, of Lewis Street, Maine, said her family had gone up to the lake Sunday to visit some friends when her 12-year-old daughter, Roxe-Anne, became trapped in an undertow and could not swim to shore. In an attempt to rescue the girl, Edwin J. Donahue, 36, of 261 Endwell Street, Johnson City, drowned. Mrs.

Warner said she and her husband, a project manager at IBM Owego, Roxe-Anne and three other Warner children, Scott, 9, and Robin, 4, had joined a group of about 30 friends for the day at the lake. A 12 YEA R- OLD Town of Maine girl, identified by Oswego County deputies as Roxe-Anne warner, was swimming in me THE CHILDREN had been swimming in the water around a sand bar but when the parents noticed the water was getting they called in the youngsters, she said. Scott Warner and Michael Bradley, 16, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bradley of Union Center were the first to come in when Mrs.

Warner asked about Roxe-Anne, they discovered she was in trouble because of the undertow. Mrs. Warner said Roxe-Anne, a sixth grade student at Maine Memorial School, tried to swim ashore but was not able, so the two boys went back into the water and held her jip. While they were in the water, she said, Mrs. James Lawson of Endwell helped get Roxe-Anne on a raft while Scott went to help another man, who got in trouble while participating in the rescue effort.

In the meantime, Mrs. Warner continued, Mr. Donahue came to the scene in a boat, but a wave swamped the boat and it is not clear exactly what happened to him. Mrs. Warner said she heard conflicting stories about whether Mr.

Donahue was washed out ot the boat or lake Sunday afternoon and be gan to flounder the choppy lievable. water. An unidentified man went to her aid and he also began to $350 in Parts. Stolen Parts valued at $350 were flounder. Two teenage boys then at The S.

J. Groves Sons Con tsruction Co. continues to make major changes in the former Five Corners of the Town of Vestal as part of its $13,000,000 Route 17 Expressway construction project. The photo above centers on the former crossroads of the Vestal Parkway East and West, South Main Street, North Main Street and Front Street. Traffic already flows on the new Front Street connection with South Main Street a short distance to the south of where it used to be.

The S. J. Groves Sons construction company has repaved the eastbound lanes of the Parkway West. It has since moved all traffic onto these lanes and has started to improve the westbound lanes of both the Parkway East and West at this intersection," It has also started to widen and improve North Main Street north across the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad tracks to the old bridge over the Susquehanna River to Endi-cott. Once the new North Main Street is opened (passing under new Expressway bridges) the old Bridge Street connection between the old bridge and the Vestal Parkway East over the railroad viaduct will be removed.

The state has promised to give the new quadrangle to the town as a green that will hold! a live Christmas tree. School buses at left are parked on Vestal Central Junior High School and Red Bulding grounds. The Vestal Methodist Church and Vestal Cemetery are at upper left. The round structure at lower right is the Vestal branch of the Endicott National Bank off the Grandway parking lot. stolen sometime last week from two pieces of farm equipment tempted a rescue in a rowboat but the boat capsized at T.

A. Penningroth bon, Mr. Donahue and his brother Lisle Road, Whitney Point, James, tried to reach the four of them in a motor boat, but a state police reported. large wave swamped their boat causing the motor to stop, They managed to get the Endicott Man Denies Charge Of Trespassing boat back to the dock. Several persons in the area began form ing a chain to reach the four persons still in the water and Mr.

Donahue apparently started An Endicott man, Howard T. back out into the water by him Lints, 40, of 112 Grant Avenue self to make a second attempt pleaded innocent in Endicott at a rescue. EJ Assessment Is Reduced In Endicott by $297,800 Enjoy a Three-Veek Post-Season Bargain European Holiday TOUR OF THE HEARTLAND OF EUROPE under the friendly leadership of Father John J. TOOMEY Pastor, Blessed Sacrament Parish, Johnson City "NO ONE SAW him go back Police Court today to a charge of criminal trespass in the first degree after being arrested yes in, but he apparently wjnt back out and the next thing they knew they saw his body floating in toward shore," Dep terday. Mr.

Lints is accused of unlawfully entering the home of WE BOY 1st and 2nd MORTGAGES KLING REALTY CORP. 96 HAWLEY ST, RA 3-2583 uty Truesdell said. "There was an awfully strong undertow in that area and it north of the -Erie Lackawanna The Calfskin Tannery in Railroad tracks and west of Oak Oak Hill Avenue $70,800 from Hill Avenue, $100,000 from $330,000 to $259,200. apparently pulled him under and Stanley H. Vandermark at 117 Fillmore Avenue.

Endicott Justice Camille M. Roach reserved the defendant's rights and appointed the public defender to the case. new Route 17 Expressway. The assessment of the town area outside the villages rose $823,782 to $41,107,571, bringing the grand total for the town up a net $139,857 to $100,427,618. 000 to $91,000, and then washed him.

right back By STEVE HAMBALEK The Endicott Johnson Corp. has received a reduction of $297,800 in of Union assessed value for 1968 on six industrial properties in the Village -The Ideal Factory, which towarcr shore, he said The Upper Leather Tannery and annex buildings on both contains the major Fine Welt and Fine Welt Annex production plants, $50,000 from $423,000 to The Warner girl and the other three persons were rescued by Bail was set at $500.. Trial The Sole Leather and the Up will be held at a later date. the chain of volunteers and ap sides of Clark Street along the east side of Oak Hill Avenue, $83,600 from $267,400 to $183,000. of Endicott, according to As $373,300.

per lannenes were the last to close last fall when EJ dropped its tanning operations. parently were unhurt, although the unidentified man needed sessor R. Boyd Huff cut. The EJ assessment in Endi treatment, the deputy said. EJ would expect to get even cott was cut from $2,967,100 to $2,669,300 because of deprecia He said observers told him more reductions in its assessments were it to raze some of the empty buildings at Endicott.

the waves on the lake were five to six feet high when the resuce The Mechanical Building in Clark Street near Robbie Avenue, $40,000 from $70,000 to The Machine Shop in Clark Street at Oak Hill Avenue from $68,000 to $28,000. THE REDUCED EJ assessment of $2,967,100 is part of the tion on the buildings, all of which were built 50 years ago or earlier, the assessor said. Republican Women Will Hear Robison The Endicott Women's Republican Club will honor its past attempts were bemg made. He took his family up there He added that the EJ indus trial buildings at Johnson City camping whenever he could get time off from work and they presidents at a dinner at 6:30 received a "minor" cut of about Unsafe Tires Cost Injured Oivegoan $5 $30,000, also for depreciation, to'P- m-. SeptK in the Masonic Village of Endicott roll of for 1968, which is $29,604 were thinking of buying a cottage up there," Deputy Trues dell said.

Temple in East Main Street. a total of about $4,000,000. higher than this year's. mk. donahue was a na The Johnson City roll fell $713,529 to $25,589,565 because of the loss of more than 100 Representative Howard W.

Robison of Owego will be the speaker. Mrs. Frederick O. Hel-mer of Johnson City is in charge of reservations. Press Bureau THESE WERE the reductions on EJ holdings at Endicott, according to Mr.

Huff cut: The Sole Leather Tannery tive of Tunkhannock, Pa. and Owego Glenn A. Nichols, lived for several years in Lanes- structures to the path of the 18, of 204 Hoffman Avenue, Ves Douglas, Michael and Paul; boro, Pa. before moving to the tal, paid a $5 fine in Town of Owego Peace Justice Court last week after pleading guilty to a Triple Cities. He has been in the machine charge of driving a car with shop business since his dis unsafe tires.

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1370 I Pleas send colorful Spare Tire Stolen COMPlONUfDUM 25. Chenango Hinghaniton KA Free Parking Al Hear of 'Store musiraiwo roiavr, to PHOTO BY'jOHN NUZZELA. UNCORKING A LAKE Life Guard Alex Began of 44 Baxter Street lifts cover to get at a valve he then opened to start draining the lake in Chenango Valley State Park. All the water will be gone in a week so contractors can start paving bed near beach with concrete and build new docks and diving boards for next season. Name A spare tire valued at was taken last week from a car parked in a lot by a gas station in Bridge Street.

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