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JJn iiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiniiiiiiiiii inn i in iiiunii limn iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin im 1111 I Flying Record for Broome Replace 2 Curb 25-County Road Officials County legislators in recent years have placed increasing emphasis on highway and bridge reconstruction. The Capital Projects Committee of the County Legislature recently urged approval of a $2,600,000 highway spending program for the next six years. Mr. Aston said town boards soon will be receiving notices of bridges in their communities that should be posted with weight restriction signs. J.

Bruce Orr, public works commissioner, said the list of bridges that need such signs has not yet been completed and could not be released. EVENING ram bus containing 15 children was crossing it. None of the students was hurt. Mr. Aston said he worked on the bridge survey for "six months off and on." It showed that some' bridges are "perfectly all right, but they need replacing due to lack of capacity," he explained.

"ONE GOOD example of a bridge we would like to replace is the Vestal Endicott bridge. Since they did the Route 17 work, this bridge has four-lane traffic on both sides but it is only two lanes wide. "We'd like to put a new bridge there. It's in the talking stage now." Rutbell of Endwell and her daughter, Marjorie. These warblers nest in ravines, but not usually this far north.

GETTING BACK to the vireos, Mrs. Marsi said they are small olive or gray-backed birds resembling wood warblers, but' with more complex songs and "much more deliberate in their movements." Five varieties of vireo are common in Broome: yellow-throated, solitary, Philadelphia, red-eyed and warbling. Winds that averaged 20 m.p.h. and reached 33 m.p.h. in frequent gusts made it a bad day generally for the birdwatchers.

Small birds, Mrs. Marsi explained, do not try to fly in high winds and their songs, if any, are impossible to hear. Only 124 species were seen, compared with a normal spring total of 135-137. Weak areas included shorebirds, especially sandpipers, hawks and owls. One other good sighting was a mocking bird, reported by a non-member of the club.

They are rarely seen in Broome. Kirch and his son, Michael, were other members of the party that saw the white-eyed vireo. Mrs. Marsi said some bird books refer to sightings of white-eyed vireo in the Tap-pan Zee area of the lower Hudson Valley. One book, she said, claims a sighting near Rochester, but other ornithological authorities think there must have been a mistake about that.

Thus, it is possible that the sighting gives Broome naturalists an all-time farthest-north record. THE WHITE-EYED vireo is a small bird, yellowish-green above and white below, except for yellow along the flanks. It has two white wing bars. There are yellow rings around its eyes, which have white irises, and there is a yellow line across the nose, giving the bird a bespectacled look. Another unusual finding was the nest of a Louisiana water thrush which is not a thrush but a warbler also in the IBM glen, where it was seen by Mrs.

Clarence C. By JERRY HANDTE Broome County no longer can be reckoned safely and without qualification as the boondocks. A party of birdwatchers changed all that last weekend, during the annual spring count of the Broome County Naturalists Club, when they identified the first white-eyed vireo ever seen in Broome, according to records that go back to the turn of the century. Mrs. Frederick V.

Marsi, a club official, said yesterday that the farthest north that white-eyed vireos normally breed, or venture, is Long Island or Staten Island, communities noted for their suburban sophistication. Leslie E. Bemont was leader ofthedetachment that tracked down the historic vireo in the IBM glen, near the IBM Homestead in En-dwell. THE CLUE that broke the case was the white-eyed i persistent, sharply-enunciated but complex song. Mr.

Bemont's sons, Donald and Thomas; Mrs. J. Warren Corderman, and J. Eugene Section Tuesday, May 20, 1969 1 v'L -5 1 i 1 1 if" 1 Albany Will STETA Audit formation about the audit during a visit to Albany last week. He was told by a spokesman for Ewald B.

Nyquist, acting commissioner of education, that the audit is not yet complete. MR. NYQUIST also said the audit, when it is completed, will become part of a privileged file on the investigation of WSKG-TV. As such, he said, the audit will not be made available for public scrutiny. Mr.

Nyquist said, however, that his office will make a I 1 I I I I I Screen Details summary of the audit's findings available. The summary will contain information the Education Department choses to include. Earlier, Bernar Cooper, a department functionary, challenged the reporter's motives, or more specifically the motives of his newspaper in trying to find out about the audit. He said the fact that the reporter's newspaper operates a commercial television station (WINR-TV) raised the question of a conflict of interest in relation to WSKG-TV. TV's general manager and James Gow, STETA'S attorney, also attended.

Mr. Anderson, a retired Maine-Endwell Central School District superintendent, has been acting as STETA overseer since March 20. He said in the two months since he took over direction of the financially stricken station, an average $100 per working day has trickled into the station's offices in donations from persons anxious to keep the station alive. "That's proof that a whale of a lot of people want to save the station," Mr. Anderson said.

"But I'm not a miracle worker. We need a campaign that is going to produce large donations. "WE ARE GOING to be dead in a very real sense unless the dollars start coming," he said. Mr. Anderson noted that $75,000 appropriated for WSKG-TV in the state's 1969-70 supplementary budget will be available only as matching money, that is, after a comparable amount is raised PRESS PHOTO BY EDOUARD GRENIER.

PROPHET OF NEW LIFE Carl Oglesby, a founder of Students for a Democratic Society, tells State University at Binghamton students that the New Left is a movement worth a lifetime of courage and hard work, and not just a campus pastime. SUAE Lacks 'Causes' Which Create Militancy By DAVE ROSSIE An educational television station may be largely supported by public subscription, but the public is not necessarily entitled to an accounting of how it spends its money. That, apparently is how the New York State Education Department feels about the financial status of the Southern Tier Educational Television Association before March 20. An educational television station is a corporation chartered by the New York State Education Commissioner. It is controlled by the Board of Regents.

STETA, has been in pre-carious financial condition since then, March 20, when it was discovered that its station, WSKG-TV, was floundering in debts that have been estimated at anywhere from $250,000 to $1,000,000. AT THAT TIME the station's general manager, Jerry R. Brown, resigned, and the State Education Department sent in an examiner who arranged for an audit of the station's operation. That audit has since become the subject of considerable speculation. It appears now that the audit is not going to be made public-in its entirety.

A reporter tried to obtain in OM 'Birthday Party' The "new" WSKG-TV, the Southern Tier Educational Television Association station, celebrated its second month of life today. The occasion was a less than By KEITH GEORGE Broome County highway of- ficials are recommending that two town bridges be replaced and about 25 others posted with weight restriction signs for safety purposes. The advice comes as the re- suit of an extensive study of all bridges in the county of more than 20 feet in length. Broome officials also would like to replace at least one large county bridge the old span across the Susquehanna River linking Vestal and Endi- cott. THE VESTAL-ENDICOTT bridge is structurally sound, according to Walter G.

Aston, an engineer with the Public works Department who was in charge of the study. But the bridge is too narrow for modern traffic demands, he added. The study of bridges was an indirect result of a tragedy in West Virginia 18 months ago. A bridge across the Ohio River collapsed under the strain of heavy automobile traffic, resulting in 46 deaths. New York and many other states then undertook inspection of all bridges.

A state engineer worked with Mr. Aston in the study of county and town bridges. THE TWO TOWN bridges considered too old and hazardous for present use, Mr. Aston said, are these: IN COLESVILLE A span in Death Valley Road which, according to Mr. Aston, is used by a few families for automobile crossings.

It is not safe for trucks, school buses, fire equipment or other heavy vehicles, the county engineer stated. The town already has begun work to replace the small bridge. Colesville officials have obtained' a sturdier bridge that was put out of operation by a highway project, he said. The town is in the process of installing the new bridge, according to Mr. "Aston.

IN CONKLIN An "old, decrepit" bridge in Fall Brook Road. Mr. Aston said the town is aware that the bridge is "dangerous for large vehicles" and has been putting money aside for its replacement. "These are the only two bridges that are really in need of replacing from a safety standpoint," he said. The rest of the bridges are such that repairs would put them in good shape, considering the traffic they bear.

The repairs, while minor, would cost a lot of money in some cases, he said. "There are a number of bridges in the towns we feel are of limited capacity, and the towns will be advised to post these bridges with weight limit signs." COMMUNITIES in Broome County have had problems with highway bridges recently. Last month city engineers ordered the closing of South Washington Street Bridge because they feared it no longer was structurally sound. Professional bridge experts now are studying the span. About a year ago a town bridge in Windsor's Blatchley Road collapsed while a school Windsor Youth P'incd James R.

Smith, 18, of Windsor RD 3, was fined $25 in City Court because of prior violations after pleading guilty to a charge of driving 47 miles per hour in a 30-mile zone in Tompkins Street, Binghamton. er sources of water." He said there are lakes in the Wyoming County region north and west of Scranton. "We are in the second year of our studies," he said, "and I MVHOPPl Af joyous one, according to William A. Anderson, because of the number of persons who came to the party. A board of directors meeting, which was to have put the finishing touches on a fund-raising campaign plan, never developed, Mr.

Anderson said, because only three directors, himself included, showed up for the meeting. PHILIP JACKSON, WSKG- liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin Building Talks Progress Negotiations between labor and management in the building construction industry in the Southern Tier were reportedly progressing today but still have a long way to go before the June 1 deadline when old work contracts expire. Although settlement has not been reached, the comments today were much more optimistic than they were a couple of weeks ago when almost anyone related to the construction industry would have given long odds on a massive strike next month. IN ANTICIPATION of bargaining problems, officials of the Associated Building Contractors of the Triple Cities, and 12 of the building trades unions this year agreed upon a unique bargaining arrangement whereby the unions bargain as a group on major economic issues. John M.

Lyons, secretary-treasurer of the Binghamton Building and Construction I Trades Council, today said he I is optimistic about negotia-tions because "we're not at a stalemate. We are meeting and we are progressing." I Officials of both sides of the negotiations have been meet-; ing almost daily but are refus-; ing to comment for fear of up-' setting what progress has been made. But the negotia-. tions are being widely dis-' cussed in the community. Progress on more than worth of building construction in the Southern Tier hinges on whether there is a strike.

If agreement is not reached and a strike is called, it almost certainly would shut down building construction in the Southern Tier at the height of the contruction season. THE BARGAINING started out on a hard line this year with the unions all asking a raise in a three-year contract. This would be raise in each year of the contract, which amounts to $50 a week on a 40-hour week in each year of the contract. It was similar wage increase demands by unions in Buffalo that prompted Gov. Nelson A.

Rockefeller and Senate Majority Leader Earl W. Brydges to say, in effect, that some sort of wage controls are needed in the construction industry. Governor Rockefeller also insinuated that the state would simply call off plans for some of its building construction if the high wage increases were "put into effect. The state would not be able to absorb the cost of the wage increases, he said. THE THREAT of a moratorium on building, both by public and private concerns, is one of the pressure points working against union officials involved in the Southern Tier negotiations.

Another thing working against the union side is the fact that construction volume in the Southern Tier is beginning to level off after several years of unprecedented building and the advantage is beginning to swing from labor to management. An unusually large number of construction employes are presently unemployed and this is not conducive to harmony in the ranks during the season when these men count on making their money. AWLEY Jr per cent "which would per cent unemployment, mean 20 to 30 unemployment among blacks." young people and The former SDS president acknowledged a claim by the mechanic that "a 10 per cent increase" in Left Wing agitation could trigger "90 per cent increase" in Right Wing neo-fascist pressures for a swing toward Right Wing totalitarian control of the U. S. He also said members of the New Left are not to be confused with liberals, because they side with the Black Panther militants rather than with integrationists and because, unlike liberals, they have been attacking Great Society and War on Poverty programs as "$1 for the poor and $4 for the bureaucrats." He said students must not be ashamed of not being black or factory workers because they have an important job to do after they leave the campus.

JERRY HANDTE Heavy Rains Skip Sticky Triple Cities The first onslaught of humidity and a high temperature made the weather sticky late yesterday and a series of showers laid more than a half inch of rain on the Triple Cities in 24 hours. The Triple Cities was in the eye of a ring of heavy rains in the Southern Tier, which ranged from 1.60 inches in Elmira on the west to 1.15 inches in Delaware County on the east, and .82 of an inch upstream on the Susquehanna River at Bainbridge. Only .57 of an inch of rain fell in the Triple Cities starting at 7 a. m. yesterday.

Yesterday afternoon the temperature hit 70 degrees with humidity readings in the high 80s. As the temperatures cooled off and humidity rose, there was considerable shower activity throughout the night. The U. S. Weather Bureau at the Broome County Airport forecast showers and thunder-shouers in 50-degree temperatures tonight.

It expects the skies to clear partially tomorrow, with a hieh temperature of 70 degrees. Thursday's outlook is for clear and cool weather. State University at Binghamton is outside the mainstream of New Left campus demonstrations, to the embarrassment of at least some students, because, frankly, the SUAB scene is pretty dull ideologywise. This confession was made by a number of students last night at a meeting with Carl Oglesby, former national president and one of the founders of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Several students in the audience of about 100 who discussed the New Left with Mr.

Oglesby in the Assembly Hall of the SUAB Student Center told him there is a "Hamlet syndrome" on campus, a reluctance on the part of students to take militant action unless they are certain they are right. ONE STUDENT, as if in apology for the tameness of student demonstration thus far, ticked off for Mr. Oglesby the disadvantages at SUAB, compared with such schools as Harvard, Columbia and University of California at Berkeley: No Reserve Officers N-Plant we are not even near a commitment, and won't be until at least 1970." Meshoppen is a small town at the southern end of Route 26-267, which starts at Vestal. WHATEVER source of water should be used, the company is studying the practicality of so-called "cooling towers," high structures like huge smokestacks in which water can be cooled down and prevent the discharge of heated water back into the source to change its natural balance. The nuclear plant target of Pennsylvania Electric is a 350-mcgawatt station, about half the output contemplated for the station north of Ithaca.

Pennsylvania Electric and are 50-50 partners in the construction and operation of a conventional power plant, coal-fueled, at Homer City, north of Johnstown. The local utility is not involved in Pennsylvania Electric's nuclear plans. Training Corps program, as at Harvard. No significant research into military weaponry, as at Berkeley. No conversion of the use of real estate away from the disadvantaged and for the students, as at Columbia.

An administration that "pretty much goes along with student demands," in contrast to places like San Francisco State where President S. I. Hayakawa has taken a militant stand. No significant number of students or black demands for black studies and separate facilities, as at Cornell. Such a tepid response to military recruiters on campus, despite blockading of a marine recruiter last December, that antirecruiter action does not seem worth a "major disruption." MR.

OGLESBY, despite a rather dour attitude toward the student audience and especially student interruptions once he started into the main body of his talk when the three-hour meeting was an hour old, ended by being charitable about the lack of SUAB fireworks. He said students of the New Left have had the "most difficult role" forced upon them that of revolutionaries "seeking a mass to give their movement political credibility" at a time when the U. S. and other great powers are suffering "the malaise of an affluent society." After graduation, he said, they must work for this society and while they are in school they must not feel compelled to use force merely as an avenue of self-expression. One man in the audience, identifying himself as a worker who has been a mechanic for 20 years, told Mr.

Oglesby he was a "Utopian" whose "dream might come true, but not in our lifetime." HE SAID the New Left ignores the fact that greed is the primary human emotion and added that its social visions will not make any impact on workers who are employed at adequate wages. Mr. Oglesby said reform of society may become a hard necessity quickly if the policies of the Nixon administration, as they seem likely to, lead to collapse of the dollar and a deliberate policy of 7 Pa. Utility Studying Walter Fedourich, who is running for mayor, is boring in for the voodoo vote by buying radio time to reveal he is an Aquarian. "The song is from he was explaining to a horoscopic ignoramus yesterday, "you know, about the age of Aquarius dawning, and I'm an Aquarius, and the commercial mentions all the famous Aquarians, the famous writers, famous poets, famous partists, famous musicians and the Fedo the Famous Sign Painter (Mr.

Fedourich owns and operates a firm known as the Fedo Sign "It was my idea, but I had a public relations man do the research. I kept hearing a lot of people are interested in horoscopes, and so I thought, well, it's new, and why not? The one people are hearing now is on WENE and the voice about me is the jolly green giant." "WHAT?" "The Jolly Green Giant," he said in upper case. "He's a disc jockey." "I've got 12 of them, all on tape," he said. "The Age of Aquarius." The Horoscopist in Residence around here tells us Aquarius people are pretty hot sluff, and so are Capr-icorns (William P. Burns), Saggitariuses (Robert W.

Cou-tant) and Libras (Alfred J. Libous). -MR. FEDOURICH. after we had asked him where he has all the radio commercials hidden away (he is bringing them out one by one) played one on the telephone, and it proved what the United States Department of Labor already has established: That the average rock-and-roll decibel count is 138 (140 is the edge of pain).

One of the commercials compares him to Francis Bacon, Charles Darwin and Thomas Alva Edison. This amiable nonsense fits well into a political campaign that is so open-ended that is has aroused the voters to a high pitch of ennui. Seated ovations are being heard on all sides. A Pennsylvania utility company is wondering whether to build a nuclear power plant on the Susquehanna River 35 miles south of Binghamton at Meshoppen, Pa. It has its doubts, however, about pulling water out of the Susquehanna to make steam and then return the heated water to the river.

The major stumbling block to plans of the New York State Electric Gas to build a nuclear plant near Ithaca plans now indefinitely postponed was criticism of the discharge of heated water into Cayuga Lake. SANFORD POLLON. public relations manager for the Pennsylvania Electric Co. of Johnstown, said his firm is studying the feasibility of constructing the nuclear station in the Meshoppen area. Asked whether the studies include the use of the Susquehanna River, and eventual discharge of heated water back into the river, Mr.

Pollon said, "Not necessarily. Studies are being made also of uses of oth- i.