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IN THE POLITICAL BIG LEAGUE (1) TC Area Classroom At Focus of Power: The New Ingalls Officials TV OK'd by 2 Half -Hour Sessions Planned If Schools Will Approve Costs By JOHN F. MOORE Triple Cities area'school administrators are moving on a plan unveiled last night, to give school pupils their Bills Urge State to Aid TV Classes first regular course work via television starting this fall. The plan was endorsed last night at a meeting in the Sheraton Inn by the Broome County School Administrators Associa Area school districts employ ing television for instruction tion after it was put forward by the association's educational television (ETV) committee. would be reimbursed hy tne state for up to 70 per cent of their TV expenses under bills The administrators now will now before the Legislature. EVENING FUSS The bills are endorsed by the confer with school boards oi their districts to determine If the boards are willing to provide financing for the program from their 1961-62 budgets.

Board of Regents. Governor Rockefeller also has urged the Legislature to take action for The association agreed to de encouragement of educational cide at their next meeting, March use of the video medium. Until now the Triple Cities area has had no regular televl- 22 in Susquehanna Valley High School, whether to go ahead with the project. MORNING BROADCASTS jsion programing designed ex-I pressly for use in connection 'with elementary or secondary school instruction. 1 However, both Channels 40 The committee proposed a 39 March 1, 1961 start this fall on a schedule of morning telecasts supplemented by printed material mailed to land 12 are presenting college- reach a schedule of one-nour-a-ilevel instructional shows in early each participating scnooi.

ay leiecasis nve uays a h0urs. The program would cost an tne commuiee saia. EDITOR'S NOTE: Here is the first of a series of articles about Triple Cities area men who I have risen to prominence in politics and govern- ment on state and national levels. Other articles in the series will appear from time to time, By WOODIE FITCHETTE ALBANY The reviewers still have some time before they'll leave their seats on the aisle and write their critiques of the 1961 eion of the State Legisla- ture. They may have heard the same tune before, but they'll have to admit the harmony is a little better.

One of those most con-; cerned with the harmony is George Ingalls, a Binghamton attorney is In his freshman term in the demanding role of majority leader of the Assembly. Since he took over the majority leader's desk on Jan. 4, the 46 -year -old Republican has surprised many in the Capitol who had wondered whether he was the right man for the job. So far, the Rockefeller pro- gram has met with general ap-n proval in the Assembly. Much of the.

threatened opposition to the governor's controversial plan to give grants to college students seems to be subsiding. At the midway point of the legislative session, Ingalls appears unlikely to encounter 4 anything like the upstate Re- publican revolt that greeted Rockefeller's 1959 call for tax increases. It his espousal of the tax Increase that cost Ingalls' -predecessor, Charles A. Schoe-neck, of Syracuse, his seat In the Assembly. Ingalls' performance has surprised many Capitol observers.

One newsman who's been covering the Legislature for years said he was hard-pressed on the day Ingalls was named majority leader to recall having heard him make a apeech on the Assembly floor. Many Capitol correspondents say this is the very reason In-, galls was picked for the job by Assembly Speaker Joseph F. Carlino of Long Beach. "In. the eight years he's been up here," said Jack Ger- mond of the Gannett News Services, never done.

I anything to offend anyone. "Someone something" against everyone else who was Offerings this fall would include a course on local history of the Triple Cities area, directed to seventh graders, and an science course aimed COURSE IN RUSSIAN Channel 12 is televising a locally-originated course in Russian in cooperation with Broome Technical Community College. Channel 40 presents the NBC network's Continental Classroom series, which currently is giving instruction in mathematics. On the elementary and see- estimated $10,000 a year at the outset and would be financed from the budget of each participating school district. Costs would be shared on basis of pupil enrollment.

The committee said a full-time director preferably a person experienced both in teaching and in television work should be hired to operate the ETV programs. The director's salary of $5,000 to $6,000 would be included in at Grades 4 through 6. TUESDAY, THURSDAY The programs would be, presented from 10:30 to 11 a. "jTNto t.sf. 4 Y.A i i KmmMf on level, some teachers in Tuesdays and Thursdays Channel 12 (WNBF-TV).

the area link classroom sessions for i in social studies and English to WNBF-TV, a spokesman the educational television committee said, has offered the air the overall $10,000 cost estimate. start time free. The TV station also The program should modestly this September with has offered without charge its Press Photos by Gene Swierkosx A PLACE OF PROMINENCE-George L. Ingalls (circled) of Binghamton occupies majority leader's desk at two half-hour programs each various television programs of surrent-e vents or literary nature. For this purpose, printed supplementary materials are offered to schools by television networks and producers and sponsors of some television programs.

At least one network television series offers films of its programs to schools. week but should eventually session of State Assembly. Mr. Ingalls is in his first session as GOP floor leader. for the Job," he mentibned added.

studic facilities for live production of the programs, and the services of a WNBF director. The committee in its report last night proposed that the ETV system be operated by a new organization to be called "Southern Tier Educational Television Association, or by its initials "STETA." The committee has been studying possible utilization of television by schools for about a year. It reported to the administrators that it found "educational television has proven itself as an excellent means of aiding the instructional process, REGENTS BACKING The bills which have fceen presented to the Legislature with Regents backing would provide state aid for various forms of educational use of television. Chief ways in which television can be employed are in "single camera" set-ups, in "closed circuit" systems and in "broadcast" systems. Ingalls' Phi Beta Kappa education (Amherst College and Syracuse Law School) apparently never showed through in his years in the Assembly.

Most of the newsmen who covered him in those days say he impressed them only as "run of the mill." THINGS CHANGED fast, however, once he moved into the majority leader's role. "I was surprised by his acceptance speech (on the Assembly floor the day he was named majority leader)," said Warren Weaver' of the "New York Times. "It was just right, not corny, Single-camera use is exempll- and rif Jfr tMi 11 (f that it is time for area fied in a case where a teacher (Continued on Page SO) (Continued on Page SI) Was Aid for Jail, IDoctor IllScgal? Has Broome County been receiving federal and state reimbursement illegally for several years for the medical' care of jailed prisoners? This question has arisen in the wake of a request by and it easily could have been," said Weaver. In that speech, Ingalls said: "We are all aware that it is our responsibility to review all legislative proposals and determine what is good, and when we find what is good, to pass it. "We are all aware that each of us has the responsibility to balance the delicate interests of our own localities against the state as a whole." A few days later, Ingalls provided at least a partial answer for those who wondered what kind of leader he would be.

The issue before the bly was Rockefeller's proposed 10 per cent income tax rebate. After Democrats had tried to forestall passage of the ure and had attacked the GOP administration's fiscal policies. Ingalls took the floor to sayf "We're riot running this state on a give-away basis. This state will be run on a program of soudd fiscal responsibility." The tax refund measure was probably one of the less difficult pieces of legislation that the GOP leader must push through before the session ends. But it provided an opportunity for him to show that in his poised, soft-spoken way he can be the strong leader an administration needs.

SINCE THAT DAY, he has shown his unswerving devotion to the Rockefeller program (something he had not done in earlier days). He is a logical and persuasive speaker, who, as a colleague says, "drives home his point hard" without using "the old tricks." For Ingalls, the pace of his new job is sometimes "mur Sheriff John M. Perhach for per-i mission to hire an attending physician for prisoners in the County Jail and County Jail Farm. 1 VIM subject to state-federal reimbursement. In 1953, Dr.

LaRusso held three jobs physician to the County Home, medical consult-" ant to the Welfare Department, and jail physician. At that time the budget contained $500 for his salary as jail physician, $1,600 for his salary Until this year, Dr. Anthony LISTENING LEADER-Mr. Ingalls scribbles a note as he sits at desk and listens to Assembly debate on legislation. J.

LaRusso had served as attending physician for the Dr. LaRusso had received two salaries from the' county one nes irom me couniy-one medIcal consultant and $3 medical consultant to the Rnn as Countv Welfare Department and one as attending physician for physician. i That wan the last year there was a budgeted position of jail In 1954, Dr. LaRusso was given substantial raises to $7,500 as County Home physician and to $2,500 as medical consultant to the Welfare De partment. The budget gave him no sal- arv iail nhveirian Vinf Via AA himvSelf because the final GOP argument on major measures always is handled by him, The Monday session only night session of the week -starts at 8:30 p.m.

and lasts for two hours or more. Ingalls doesn't get back to his hotel until midnight or so. Even though the rest of the sessions are held during daytime hours, Ingalls' day seldom ends before midnight, and his stay in the Capitol usually lasts until Thursday. Then, it's back home to Binghamton for a weekend (Continued on Page 61) ested in some bill or other drops in to acqu at villi its views. Then there are the lobbyists and they, too, get a hearing.

In the afternoon there are more meetings with Republican legislators to plot the course of the argument the GOP will put forth in the Monday night session. At these meetings, Ingalls assigns various phases of the Republican argument, to different assemblymen. Others are prepared to answer points the Democrats are expected to raise. Ingalls also must prepare "leaders' meeting" in the executive mansion. At this session, legislative leaders talk over with Governor Rockefeller the measures that will come up during the week.

Monday morning starts for Ingalls at 6:30 a.m. when he awakes in his Sheraton-Ten Eyck Hotel suite. An assemblyman or two might join him for breakfast and a discussion of legislation. Later in the morning, he makes his way to his suite in the Capitol where the "door is always open." Every kind of group inter the County Home and Infirmary. Salaries for both jobs qualify for some reimbursement from the state or from both the state and federal governments.

NO JOB LISTING Thert is not and has not been for several years any position listed on the county payroll as WITH THE BOSS Mr. Ingalls accompanies Speaker Joseph F. Carlino, left, into Assembly chamber to open Carlino, Long Beach Republican, chose ingalls for majority leader post. derous. His week night when jail physician Nor was continue to serve a's physician salary specifically listed for th nrisnnpr.

starts Sunday he attends the This arrangement, with fur- a position. Any such salary for a jail physician would not be One Marts Outlook- HDnck-lTliey'rc Shooting on Both ides? ther salary increases for the two paid jobs, continued until the first of this year. Dr. LaRusso was replaced as medical consultant at the beginning of this year by Carroll A. Smythe, county welfare commissioner.

Simultaneously, Dr. LaRusso stopped treating Jailed prisoners free of charge to the county. Actually, he has been paid on a patient fee basis by Sheriff Perhach since the first By TOM CAWLEY tounded at the results. Binghamton is about 10 years behind the times, and, at the slow rate of progress, the hope for catch rIERE'S this war, see, between Binghamton and St. Petersburg, Fla.

You must have read about it. Papers are full of It. St. Petersburg is firing on City Hall any day ing up with the rest of America of the J'ear St. Petersburg, sore at us, but people who live HERE, too.

One of the local ladies who doesn't like us is Mrs. Ellen Miller of 4 Chase Avenue, Hillcrest. She wrote me a letter, after reading the Articles of War as laid down by the St. Petersburg contingent. is pretty dim." a St.

Dick Then, a columnist on Petersburg newspaper, now. The thing is bigger than Ft. Sumter. It all started when a local guy wrote a letter to the edi C4 AFTER," she wrote, "read il ing your comments in if vV, i.Ciff 1 ii 'i A I I If xT have found the natives valley Thursday's edition of the Press and I have many $3,000 AS CONSULTANT For. the last five years, Dr.

LaRusso's annual salary as medical consultant was $3,000. In each of these years, the federal and state reimbursements for the salary totaled about $2,000. Thj salary for the position was less, in varying amounts, in previous years. But federal-state reimbursements amounted to two-thirds of the annual salary in at least several of the previous years. It could not be determined immediately how much of Dr.

LaRusso's time was spent as consultant to Mr. Smythe in medical matters involving welfare patients and how much of it actually was spent as physician for I am moved to extoll the merits indifferentl tor of the Press. friends who share this belief. As of one Mrs. Jane Hansen (Mrs beefing about Hansen is a one-time Bingham- a defense, we have banded to- Florida.

He said the cops- lie in tonian who is sore at us because gether and that's the only hope she thinks we're all newcomers. We do very if you're still following us). Be-jlimited shopping in the Bing-lieve me, she does not stand hamton area, but, for important ambush and the store clerks lie in ambush, and mr pawlei i alone In her opinion of Bineham-purchases, we co out of town. Bothwell, got sore, too. "Yon can get 'taken' or 'hooked anywhere in the world," he wrote, "Binghamton included.

We suppose that people get just as mad about being fined up there as they do hereand that Binghamton may have a high price or two, just like us. "We're sure that our letter-writer runs into this situation wherever he goes. By now, he's probably getting off scorching letters to the Sunday Press denouncing the local authorities for imposing taxes or letting ice freeze in the rivers. "We all know this type of mentality if he can't find trouble where he goes, hell make some." gouge the Binghamtonian ton stores!" either Syracuse or New York. (Mrs Hansen said our shop- "Why don't the merchants was real sore.

the jaiied prisoners. But statistics provided the Well, sir, we started getting pmg tenter is a in the wake UD? Wny do they treat Us letters from people in St. llike backwoodsmen? Whv do burg, calling the original guy been here for 10 they always have such limited County Employes Committee of the Board of Supervisors yesterday by Sheriff Perhach indicated that as many as 240 patient calls would be required of the physician each year at the whiner. One former Binghamton years wrotc Mrs Miller, "ar-inventories? Why are they al-lady (she's a former Bingham-riving newlyweds, and, sad to 'ways last to bring in something tonian, not a former lady) got tnere hasn-t Deen much I could go on ad infinitum, sore she announced from St.provement In tne shopping fa-'but you get the general idea, Pete that she was abandoning since that time. In fact I'm sure.

County Jad in Courthouse us for all time. Square. This was aside from the calls which he would be required to make etch year at the County Jail Farm in Upper Front Street. about the only Improvement I "As a native (I was born in can point i out is the develop-, Peckville, honey), all this ment of Roberson Memorial, criticism no doubt will make thanks largely to the large ef your hair bristle, but if you Commissioner Smythe re Oh, dear. Well, it tarns out that not only are the former Binghamtonlans, How living in COME on, Mr.

Bothwell. placed Dr. LaRusso as medical WHEN TWAIN MEET Mr. Ingalls' pauses in Capitol corridor for quick confer-n on piece of legislation vith Democratic Minority Leader Anthony J. Travia of Brooklyn.

forts of Mr. Keith Martin. ever made a survey of this consultant as of Jan. 1 with two Awc Cheer up. "Those of us who came to this shopping problem, you'd be as- (Continued on Page 42).