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Rte. 96B Truck Traffic Nearly Ready to Show Study BPW Ithaca, and the report including this will be presented to the Board of Public Works in two weeks at its next meeting). Public Works Superintendent Francis J. Laverty said the situations in Ithaca and Montour Falls appear to be similar in that there is a steep hill in both places aimed at the heart of the community. "We have a flat route, Rte.

96 through Spencer, which is the official route for trucks," Laverty said. when trucks went down Rte. 224 out of control, the state Department of Public Works recently erected signs at Cayuta Junction in an effort to avoid such mishaps. Vehicles heavier than nine tons, unless making local deliveries, are directed to use Rte. 13 into Horseheads or Ithaca and reach Schuyler County from either of those places by Rtes.

79, 414, or 14.) (The Schuyler County sheriff's department and Montour Falls police conduct checks of drivers descending the hill. Those found guilty of "failure to obey a traffic control device" are arraigned in Justice of Peace Courts and fined). (The situation is different here, however, since the specific signs similar to those at Cayuta Junction have not been put up in Candor. The state presumably can't act on the latter until it gets specific data from 1. 4 1 44 4 r.

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44 1-1 44 1 i ii, -ftss 0 -1 4" I -A, Or Jr 010 0 10 0 MAXIMM SPEED 32 tvORK BNON ZONES ft 1 -0 I I 01 0 010 THE ITHACA JOURNAL By JERRY LANGDON A detailed study covering all aspects of truck traffic on Rte. 96B and S. Aurora St. hill is nearing completion in the City Engineer's Office, and the factual data will be presented to the Board of Public Works at its April 28 meeting, it was reported Wednesday to the BPW. The city is hoping for mandatory enforcement of the Rte.

96 truck bypass in Candor through Spencer. "The statistical information and facts now being gathered and assimilated will buttress our case to the state for enforcement of this bypass," said Commissioner Ralph C. Smith. The BPW in general expressed its dissatisfaction with more letter-writing and resolutions on the subject. They agreed that additional pressure might be needed.

What the city is aiming for are state signs at Candor specifically forbidding trucks over a certain weight from traveling on Rte. 96B to Ithaca. Exceptions would be for trucks making deliveries between Candor and Ithaca, such as at Danby or Ithaca College and National Cash Register, both outside the City. The present signs in Candor merely designate the Rte. 96 bypass to Spencer as a truck This can't be enforced and more specific signs forbidding truck traffic on Rte.

96B are needed, city officials contend. The city's study on the matter will be the basis for persuading the state to install the added signs which could then be enforced. The study covers volumes of truck traffic, relative speeds of trucks compared with other vehicles at 'carious points on S. Aurora St. and Danby an economic study of truck travel to Candor via Rte.

96 and Rte. 96B, and truck accident data provided by the Ithaca Police Department. "How can a little community like Montour Falls stop the trucks, and we can't?" asked Commissioner Frank S. Alo. (After 12 serious accidents the past two years in Montour Falls Thursday, April 15, 1965 PAGE 11 Photo hv BRrhara Bell SIDEWALK SUPERINTENDENTS' VEHICLES stand Creek Rd.

in Freeville. In fact, no active vehicles were idle at nap time at the site of construction on Fall at this particular location during the rain Tuesday afternoon. People to Vote For 4-Year State Terms ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Next November's ballot apparently will carry a constitutional amendment to extend the terms of state legislators from two to four years. A proposal calling for the extension was approved overwhelmingly by the Assembly Wednesday and sent to the Senate where approval also was expected.

Since the measure was approved by both houses last year, Senate support now would complete legislative requirements for a constitutional amendment. Voters would have the final say. In other action: Gov. Rockefeller announced that he had signed a bill establishing a six-months probation period for newly licensed motor-vehicle operators. Under the bill, part of Rockefeller's traffic safety program, new drivers would lose their licenses if convicted of speeding, reckless driving or other serious traffic violations during the probation period.

City Bus Books Show a Profit Dryden Board Declines 'Extremism' Censure Society had been organized in the town. The request for a resolution was referred to a special committee composed of Dr. Thomas Benson and Gary A. Lee, both town councilmen. A statement by the committee, and adopted by the board Tuesday night, states: "On advice of legal counsel this committee determined that the Dryden Town Board has no power or authority to make a resolution with regard to any extremist organizations or groups which may presently exist in the Town of Dryden.

"This determination, however, An American's Work Brightens Morocco torocco The Community Transit System, operator of the city-owned bus, is in the "black" in the two month period February and March that the new rate charges have been in effect, it was revealed at Wednesday's meeting of the Board of Public Works. Profit after amortization in February was $385.18. Loss after amortization in March was $164.28, which means a net profit of $219.00 or in other words a break-even point has apparently been reached, at this stage, since the higher rates were announced Jan. 28. Taylor near Hook owned by Dr.

Charles V. Brown, in an attempt to open a large area of development on West Hill. 2. The request of Ithaca City School District for use of a portion of the old Stewart Park boathouse for establishment of a boating club was denied. "The structure is urgently needed by the Parks division for the storage of equipment and tools, and there is no other available space to store this equipment," Commissioner Michael J.

Leary re V. Brown, in an attempt to open a large area of development on West Hill. 2. The request of Ithaca City School District for use of a por- of the old Stewart Park boathouse for establishment of a boating club was denied. "The structure is urgently needed by the Parks division for the stor- age of equipment and tools, and there is no other available space to store this equipment," Corn- missioner Michael J.

Leary re- Public Works Superintendent bid for cast iron pipe and fitting sibility of using smaller buses Foundry and low bid for Francis J. Laverty said the pos- was awarded to U.S. Pipe and on hills at certain times during cement asbestos pipe and fit-the day should be explored. tings was awarded to OrangeASCAP which was established "We are approaching the burg Manufacturing Co. for in 1914.

We still have Victor break-even point now," he said. $4,634. Herbert's old Steinway down "Now we should look toward 8. A request from Wallace there on Madison Ave." reducing operating costs and Steel Co. to extend an overhead Rule said that Marks' lecture putting the system in the black." crane in a westerly direction at Ithaca College is the first The DPW says that the operat- across Sherry St.

was referred of an extensive program plan- ing cost of small buses on hills to the Highway Committee for ned by ASCAP to acquaint col- is less than large buses. study. lege students throughout the na- In other business Wednesday: 9. The BPW in a resolution tion with the lives and works 1. Common Council was re- extended "heartiest congratula- tions" to Commissioner James of American composers, authors quested to proceed with con- Conley, who had his 52nd wed- ad publishers.

demnation of a portion of the 01 ding anniversary Wednesday. I. Common Council was requested to proceed with condemnation of a portion of the north end of Pl. "We have got to get some sort of approval from the State Traffic Commission or someone in the state to enforce it," Layerty. said.

After the report is made by the City Engineer's office April 28 to the BPW, it will presumably be forwarded to Common Council and the state, and a meeting set up in the near future with the Traffic Commission, area legislators, city personnel, and other interested persons to see if a solution to a 10-year-old problem can be reached. 5. Common Council was requested for $1,200 to restore the fairways at Newman olf Course to a playable condition. 6. Gordon M.

Houseworth was probationally appointed to the position of motor equipment operator, two additional lights were authorized for Stewart Park, and two lights were okayed for the 300 block of Titus Ave. 7. Low bid for an air compressor was awarded to the At 'antic Tug and Equipment Co. for $4,285, low bid for tire changer was awarded to A. L.

Barnum Son for $1,028. low Confederate soldiers. Both times the plots failed because his intended victim failed to appear. The plot that led to Lincoln's death, according to Potter, was planned hastily on the morning of April 14, 1865, when Booth learned that Lincoln would attend Ford's Theater. He quickly planned to kill Lincoln, Vice President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward in hopes that the South could rally and win a last-minute victory in the Civil War.

Booth succeeded and escaped to a farm area in nearby Virginia. The other two attempts failed. Booth was shot during his capture two weeks later, four of his fellow conspirators were hanged and others imprisoned. The plots did not end with Lincoln's death. There were several plans to steal his body from the tomb in Springfield and hold it for ransom.

One group of men was caught while removing the casket. Potter, author of a book on plots against Lincoln, said "It is unlikely that we will ever know about all the plots and attempts to kill or kidnap or otherwise do harm to Lincoln." DRYDEN The Town Board Tuesday night, upon the advice of legal counsel, declined to adopt a resolution censuring "extremism." In March, four Dryden townspeople appeared before the board to decry extremists. Their spokesman was the Rev. Frederick Turner of the Dryden Methodist Church. The action has been prompted by the news that a John Birch Faculty Names Candidates For Trustee The Cornell University faculty has selected three candidates for a faculty post on the university Board of Trustees.

Chosen by faculty vote were W. Keith Kennedy, professor of agronomy and director of research at the State College of Agriculture: Milton R. Konvitz, professor of industrial and labor relations and of law; and Harold A. Scheraga, professor and chairman of chemistry. One of the candidates will be chosen by university President James A.

Perkins. At a meeting Wednesday, the faculty also elected members of the Faculty Council and eight university committees. Grand Prix Music ConZesymlirn Cornell Symphony Bailey Hall Karel Husa conducted the Cornell Symphony in a program featuring Morris Bishop and the New York Woodwind Quintet as guest performers Wednesday evening. The concert opened with Brahms' "Academic Overture." The orchestra was in good form and at moments achieved a radiant blend. In his conducting, Mr.

Husa minimized metrical patterns and concen4rated on gestural ideas. Sibslius' "Tapiola," a typically long, dark, and brooding tone pocm with occasional flickers of light, received on the whole a notable reading. Next was Husa's own "Serenade for Woodwind Quintet with Strings, Xylophone and Harp," with the members of the New York Woodwind Quintet as soloists. The players were successful in capturing the spontaniety of the piece. The first movement, The Mountain, with soaring entrances of the woodwinds and improvisatory solos throughout, seemed the most interesting.

It had an intriguing aura of mystery. The second, Night, had a bare sound due to the fifth and the horn cantilenas. The third, Dance, contained few surprises and was somewhat too reminiscent of Bartok. Robert Palmer's "Memorial Music" followed. It is in two parts, Solemn Observance and Traditional Festivities.

A typical Memorial Day is supposed to be represented. The first movement is very Brahmsian. The soloist i sparse, coloristic trend in present-day music is ignored as the composer emphasizes vertical aggregations, a rich musical fabric, and constantly thick orchestration. The second movement is rather serious and inhibited, and, for this listener, patently un-festive. The orchestral players admirably negotiated their way through the metrical changes of which Mr.

Palmer is so fond. Morris Bishop was narrator in Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" (1942). The work opens with a long orchestral exposition containing a slow section followed by a fast one. Eventually the music calms, and the speaker reads, at intervals, Carl Sandburg's poem of the same title. A climax is finally reached, with the speaker intoning his peroration over the full instrumental contingent.

Copland caught here the rough-hewn, hardy, noble optimistic spirit we like to think of as Americanthe pioneer ideal. It is a very effective work, marred if at all only by the too obviously dramatic tympani rolls and string tremolos following immediately upon statements of the narrator. The orchestra gave a stunning performance, with Mr. Ilusa conducting energetically, even effusively. The audience, apparently delighted with both the music and Mr.

Bishop's resonant declamation, gave standing applause. DALE A. CRAIG No One Appeared MONTOUR FALLS No one appeared at the public hearing Wednesday night concerning the proposed budget for the village of Montour Falls. The tentative budget of $100,625 is expected to be adopted at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 19, in the village hall, Tree Pickup Day In Ithaca Apnl 22 Distribution date for tree seedtion lings in Tompkins County is Thursday, April 22, according to Robert Bock, Chairman of the Tompkins County Soil and Water Conservation District.

On that day, Soil Conservation Service technicians and 4-H Club agents will distribute 203,000 ported. seedlings to 99 landowners, 4-H Club and FFA members, at the 3. Common Council was re- Tompkins County Fair Grounds quested to standardize on on Meadow St. Hours will be 9 Crouse-Hinds Co. traffic signals a.m.

to 5 p.m. and traffic signal controllers, Bock said all the 4-H and FFA and on Darling valves and hy- trees and about half the other drants for water main construe- 175,000 trees will be hand planted tion and replacement. The city by the persons who ordered presently also standardizes on them. The remaining trees parking meters, at the rate of mostly orders of 5,000 or more 100 every year. will be planted by a contract The annual Spring Clean-up tor with a tractor-pulled planting Week was designated as May machine and by Sea Scouts and 10-14.

Explorer Scouts. May Be Watkins Glen shall not be considered an indication of the board's endorsement of any such organization or group which exists within the town." William Bailey of Dryden, lieutenant governor of the Chemung Kiwanis District, presented a blank check from the Dryden Kiwanis Club to the Town Board. The check is to be used for community service. Dryden Supervisor Lewis Gridley asked the board to decide how it will use the offer of service for community benefit, and to report its decision at the May meeting. The local club presented the gift in commemoration of the Golden Anniversary of Kiwanis International.

In other action, the board: Began the discussion of new fire protection contracts with the fire departments of Varna and McLean. The present contracts expire Dec. 31. Adopted a new town map, made by aerial survey, approved by the Planning Board. Voted to install a new heating system in the Town Hall at a cost of $995.

Approved turning over to the DeWitt Historical Society, the records of School District 23, written in 1826. Scouter Event Lists 472 The Boy Scout Service Center has received 472 reservations for the Scouters Recognition Dinner to be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 24, at the IBM Space Guidance Center, Owego. The dinner, the biggest Scouter event of the year in the Louis Agassiz Fuertes Council, is for adults only with some Scouts and Explorers present as aides. T.

J. Laskoski, manager of operations for the IBM center, will be toastmaster. He will be introduced by Edward F. Arnold, Council president. Dana Miller of Tioga Center will present awards to unit leaders, and Percy Dunn of Ithaca will present training awards.

Walter De Ned of Dryden will be in charge of the four Silver Beaver Awards given for outstanding service. J. Heston Heald, who was scoutmaster for astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, will be the featured speaker. Other participants will be Ernest Newman of Catatonk, organist; Bruce Keller of Owego, song leader; and the Rev.

George Paboojian of Berkshire, who will give the invocation. Owego Garden Club will provide flowers. Service units will be Troop 32 of Apalachin and Explorer Post 76, which is sponsored by the IBM center. Harold Newcomb is chairman for the dinner. Women's Club Elects WATKINS GLENMrs.

John J. Thompson of Watkins Glen was elected president of the Watkins Glen Business and Professional Women's Club at the April meeting. Other new officers are: First vice president, Miss Ida M. Orr of Rock Stream; second, Miss Lucy Viglione; recording secretary, Mrs. Robert Gehr; corresponding secretary, Mrs.

Winifred Cleveland and treasurer, Mrs Earl W. Drake, all of Watkins Glen. WATKINS GLENIf Watkins Glen is awarded the 1966 Grand Prix, the area will probably be one of five on-location sites for the filming of a color movie, "Grand Prix." Already signed for the film are Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Shirley Mc- Lame. In a newsletter to members of the Watkins-Montour Rotary Club this week, Malcolm Currie of Watkins Glen said the script is now being written by a for- mer New York Times racing editor. The film has a 10-million By JOHN PECK Over a spot of lunch prior to his lecture at Ithaca College Wednesday, song writer Gerald Marks was saying that one night he found himself in a Morrocan night club of a considerably lower calibre than a .22 rifle.

The food was lousy, the floor unswept, the drinks watered and the band indescribably inadequate. But suddenly things began to brighten when a bit of America began to reach Marks' ears. The band in that far-off, pungent corner of the world was playing "I Want a Girl," written by Ithaca's William Dillon. Marks said that, if a song is good enough, it is played and sung wherever human beings gather on this globe; and Dillon's song has definitely proven to be that good. Dillon beamed at the telling, because he too was a member of the small group dining in a dimly lit comer of the Kent Steak House.

Marks was here to lecture on "Song Writing from King David to Jules Stein" but at the moment was satisfying the inner man and carrying on his share of the somewhat disjointed conversation among Dillon, James Rule, newsmen; and the Ithaca College student who did so well in "The Chalk Garden," Muriel Guattery. Rule is coordinator of public affairs for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, better known in the trade as ASCAP. Miss Guattery is his granddaughter. The conversation, strangely enough, centered around song writing, and the greats and the near-greats who strode through Tin Pan Alley, although the latter phrase was never voiced. Marks did not speak about his own songs, some of the more popular of which are "Is It True What They Say About "That's What I Want for Christmas" and "Oh Suzannah, Dust Off That Old Pianna." The diners dispatched such information as: "Did you know that Hoagy Carmichael, Richard Rodgers and Del Schwartz all have law degrees? "John Philip Sousa was one of the original members of Pistol Stolen In Break-In A break-in at The Outdoor Store, 206 E.

State St. was reported to Ithaca police at 9:35 a.m. today by the proprietor, Paul Philipson. A .22 caliber pellet pistol was stolen, police said. Entry to the store was made, police said, sometime during the night through a rear door.

Police said there were no visible signs of forced entry. Tom en Voters Name Officers MONTOUR FALLSMrs. Clifford Homer of Townsend was elected president Wednesday of Schuyler County League of Women Voters at a luncheon meeting at the Club in Montour Falls. Other new officers are: First vice president, Mrs. William Mourey of Reading Center; secretary, Mrs.

Joseph Roberts of Watkins Glen; two-year directors, Mrs. George Gould and Mrs. Robert Flack, Watkins Glen. "Study and Evaluation of Planning" is the study topic for the year. Film Site dollar budget and will be produced and directed by John Frankenheimer.

Currie said that 20th Century Fox "will pay in five figures for all movie rights." About film coverage of the races, he said that Triangle Films of Philadelphia is on the second leg of a three-year contract for exclusive film coverage of the June races and CBS television's Sports Spectacular will have exclusive rights to the October U.S. Grand Prix at the Glen track as it has for four dollar duced Franli 20th 0 five rights Abo races, Films secom tract age televi! will Octobl Glen years. the filthy language we do not allow in our home." Their protest has been over language in one passage of "Black Boy," which appeared on a suggested reading list and was sold to their son at the school store. The Reuleins were notified Tuesday by Curtis L. Rohm, DeWitt principal, that the book would remain on sale despite their requests that it be removed.

Rohm noted in the letter, "no student has been required to read the book." "Social studies teachers have recommended that the book in question remain on sale in the school store because of its educational value related to a unit studied in social studies," he said. School Plans Concert Dryden Central School student council will present The Colgate Thirteen in an 8:30 p.m. concert Friday, April 23, in the school gymnasium. Proceeds of the concert will be used to fiance a foreign exchange student program during 1965-60. Many Attempts Cited To Assassinate Lincoln He said ASCAP has recently established a department, designed solely for carrying on that work.

For many years, ASCAP has awarded scholarships to law students who are planning to specialize in copyright work. Incidentally, Rule will soon go to Washington to discuss proposed changes in the copyright law with a congressional committee. The law hasn't been changed since 1909. Laboratory Construction Starts Soon Cornell University officials announced today that, with the selection of a contractor for the job, construction will begin within about two weeks on the new $4 million addition to the Baker (chemistry) Laboratory. John E.

Burton, Cornell vice president for business, said Irwin Leighton, a Philadelphia concern, submitted the low bid, and has been chosen to undertake construction of the new building, which will boost space for the Chemistry Department about 50 per cent. Burton said that this company built three other Cornell structuresHollister Hall for the College of Engineering, Malott Hall for business and public administration, and the Grumman Aeronautical Laboratory. Completion of the nine-story, 107,000 square-foot addition to Baker Laboratory is scheduled for the fall of 1966, Burton said. Prof. Harold A.

Scheraga, head of the Chemistry Department, said the new wing will mean teaching and research activities in chemistry can be expanded and it will permit the department to extend its work into important new fields such as solid state chemistry and the chemistry of molecular biology. Jaycee Topic 'Festival' J. Wesley Zeigler, managing director, will talk about "The Ithaca Festival" at a 7:30 p.m. meeting of the Jaycees today at Hotel Leonardo. Zeigler will comment on the progress that has been made and what lies ahead.

Boy Kept at Home in Protest "No other president was so much the objective of plots and conspiracies aimed at doing him physical violence as was the Great Emancipator," said John Mason Potter in a lecture at Ithaca College Wednesday night. Potter, author and official at the college, spoke on the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He said it was not strange that there were plots against Lincoln's life. "Lincoln became president at a time when passions ran high in this country, when dispute over slavery was frequently marked by violence, and when men often resorted to gun, whip, torch and rope to settle differences of opinion, personal and political," he said. On Lincoln's journey from Springfield to Washington in February, 1861, a grenade was found on the train, an obstruction was discovered on the tracks that might have wrecked it, and a train preceding it was derailed, Potter said.

John Wilkes Booth often spoke of killing the President and twice planned to kidnap him and hold him for a ransom of The parents of a DeWitt Junior High School boy who are protesting the sale of "Black Boy" at the school have kept their son at home for the second day. School authorities confirmed today that Douglas Reulein, eighth grade son of Mr. and Mrs. Seville S. Reulein Jr.

of 406 Itillview is again on the absentee list. No explanation has been received by the schools. Superintendent James I. Mason said today the usual procedure in absentee cases is to call the home after the third day of absence. If the reason is not one permitted by state law, the parents may be charged and a court hearing may result.

Mrs. Reulein refused today to discuss the issue. She said their attorney, John Lo Pinto, was in charge. IA Pinto could not be reached by telephone this morning. The Reuleins reportedly have issued a statement that they would not send Douglas to school until they are assured he would not be "exposed to I 1 i I A.