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jf4 Sept. 21, 1971 PRESS, Binghamton, N. Y. 5-A Womanh Kin Died at A ttica ll'T i City By DAVE MACK Reports Claim Hess Stabbed Before Assault called the family home a short time after state troopers stormed the prison. MRS.

BLAZHISER, who said her contact with her cousin had not been extensive during recent years, said he was 34 and left a wife and three small children ranging in age from 5 to 10. Reflecting on the Attica uprising she characterized her father as "a non-violent man," and said she hopes "only that he did not die in vain; that something constructive will come out of all this." She said her father gave her no indication during the Labor Day holiday that he suspected any trouble might be brewing inside the prison. While it was a shock to learn that two members of their family were among the dead hostages at Attica, Mrs. BaU zhiser said the family had had time to accustom itself to the possibility during the four-day wait between the first uprising and the state police assault. "WE KNEW THAT somebody probably would be hurt," she said today.

Besides his daughter and wife, Mr. Warner is survived by a son, Dr. Wayne Warner, of Auburn, and several grandchildren. Mrs. Balzhiser said she and her family have lived in Binghamton for 11 years.

She was born in Batavia, near Attica. The father and a cousin of a Binghamton housewife were among the nine hostages slain in last week's uprising at Attica Correctional Facility. Elon F. Werner, of Attica, a civilian, and guard Ronald D. Werner, of Attica, both killed by gunfire in the state police assault on the prison eight days ago, were the father and cousin, respectively, of Mrs.

William E. Balzhiser, of 12 Decatur Street, Binghamton. Mrs. Balzhiser, contacted at her home today, said she had last heard from her father when she and her husband and three young children traveled to Attica for the Labor Day weekend. SHE SAID HER FATHER, who would have been 64 Thursday, was a civilian senior account clerk working in the industrial department of the prison.

He had worked there for 13 years, she said. A lifelong resident of Attica, Mr. Werner was buried there last Friday. Mrs. Balzhiser said he first learned of her relatives' captivity when she called her mother at Attica the evening of Sept.

9 after reading in newspapers of the uprising at Attica that day. She went to her parents' home Friday and was informed of the deaths of father and cousin Monday morning I j5Hff'? ft 1 Press Photo. NAME CHANGE-Riverside Drive, formerly Route 17H, is now Route 201. The State Highway Department changed the name last week, after the opening of the new span of Route 17. The photo was taken at the Riverside Drive traffic circle facing the Johnson City-Vestal Bridge.

.1 3 Charged in Thefts Among 15 Grand Jury Indictments U-E to Raze Clubhouse Build New Facility Town of Barton in late July, which resulted in more than $1,500 worth of damage. Harold William Knox, 18, of Union Center, was indicted oh counts of criminally selling dangerous drug in the fourth degree and criminal possession of a dangerous drug in the fifth degree. He allegedly sold and possessed Seconal capsules. night of July 2 or the morning of July 29 and removed a safe containing items worth more than $2,000. The indictments state that the men gained entry to the building by breaking a window on a rear door of the building.

The men were arrested by Tioga County Sheriff's deputies shortly after the burglary and were allegedly found in possession of some of the stolen property. All three men are free on bail. William M. Apgar, '19, of Smithboro, was indicted on a count of criminal mischief in the third degree in connection with vandalism at the Barton Methodist Cemetery in the The Union-Endicott Board of Education has decided to raze the present En Joie Clubhouse at Ty Cobb Stadium and build an entirely new' locker room and storage facility on the razed clubhouse site. It was earlier i announced that the Broome-Tioga Board of Cooperative Services building trades classes will provide the manpower for rebuilding the clubhouse.

The large frame structure, which housed lockers and stor-a facilities for several sports and also served as a lunchroom of U-E High School, was badly damaged by fire Dec. 24, 1970. Superintendent of Schools William A. Zimmerman said the board decided to raze the present, building and build anew after inspecting the burned-out shell. He said the present clubhouse is too old Hemp Ancient T' PARIS Hemp was cultivated for its fiber in China as early as 2800 B.

but was not grown in Europe until the Middle Ages. ELON F. WERNER MRS. WILLIAM E. BALZHISER ST A when a spokesman for the prison superintendent's office and badly damaged by the fire to be restored.

THE BOARD awarded a contract to the Gorick Construction Co. of Binghamton to demolish the present clubhouse for $2,500. The Gorick bid was not the lowest. The board awarded the contract to Gorick because the low bidder, Illsley Brothers of Binghamton, indicated it might take up to 30 days for them to complete the job. Gorick agreed to do the job within two days after notification of being awarded the contract.

Board members said it is important to raze the building soon so that the BOCES classes can start the rebuilding. The new clubhouse will contain locker rooms for inter-scholastic athletics and a storage area for athletic equipment and supplies. The build Deyo Hill. The noise was said to loudly reverberate up to the hill. But Mr.

McCabe said last night a tree line, once it grew in, should soak up the noise. Mr. Federick also told him of plans to landscape the corner of Fourth and Main, which is adjacent to the Riverside Drive Interchange overpass. A SIMILAR corner at North Arch and Brocton streets was converted into a passive park by the Transportation Department, as a token gesture to the incdnvenience the village has gone through during the construction. Plans in Brocton also call for a sidewalk, to be constructed soon, the mayor said.

Trustee Bruce W. Myers said "I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, but and wondered if a bicycle path in the highway right of way was a possibility. The mayor agreed to explore the possibility. In other action last night the board decided to contact R. J.

Press Bureau OWEGO Three persons charged in the theft of a safe from Roger F. Dibble an Owego automobile dealership, were among those named in indictments handed up by a Tioga County grand jury yesterday. Five of the thirteen indictments handed up were open the remainder sealed. STEVEN M. ROLLINS, 20, of Willseyville; RONALD E.

ROSE, 20 of Willseyville; and LAWRENCE W. ENGLISH 21, of Brooktondale, were each indicted on a count of burglary in the third degree, grand larceny in the second degree and criminal posession of stolen property in the first degree, all class felonies. Each of the men was named on three counts in separate indictments. The indictments charged that the men broke into the auto dealership, located in Fifth Avenue, Owego, on the SAM SAYS: ON ALL NAME APPLIANCES ABSOLUTELY WE GIVE YOU THE BEST PRICE SAM KLIOIl'S Discount Appliance Center 142 Water OPEN MONDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHTS Til 9 A PRACTICAL QUESTION Would you buy a suit that didn't fit you? I bet not. Why should you do less when you buy insurance? Call us to make sure your insurance premium investment buys you the insurance, that fits your needs.

An upstate funeral director and the New York Times have confirmed the fact that Ken-netn E. Hess, 22, of Glen Aubrey, an inmate killed in the Attica Correctional Facility uprising, was stabbed, not shot, to death, Hess was stabbed "more than 100 times," according to Herman Yarbrough, funeral director of the Weeks Funeral Home, Warsaw, who said the Hess stabbing was "the worst stabbing I've ever seen. He said Hess' throat had been cut. MICHAEL BADEN, deputy chief medical examiner of New York City called in to examine bodies of persons slain at Attica, said Hess was one of three men who died of a slashed throat and more than 20 stab wounds. Dr.

Baden placed the time of death of all three as a day or two before the Sept. 13 assault on the rebelling prisoners by about 1,000 rifie-and-shotgun firing state troopers and sheriff's deputies, The Times said. Correction officials have attributed the deaths to fellow inmates, sources said, since the deaths reportedly occurred before the storming of the prison, while inmates held control of a large portion of the prison. THE OTHER MEN stabbed and-or slashed to death were identified by the Times as: Barry Jay Schwartz of Queens, serving 10 to 20 years for first degree manslaughter and five to 10 years for third degree attempted robbery. Michael Privitera 'of Buf- Windows Shot Out In Endicott Endicott police are investigating damage by vandals who used either.

BB or pellet' guns to puncture the windows of downtown Endicott merchants Sunday night. Several hundred dollars damage was estimated by the 12 businesses who found their windows punctured when they opened for business yesterday morning. First City National Bank, 2 Garfield Avenue, Endicott, estimated about $500 damage after a second floor window in the bank was shattered by a BB or pellet. foodstore, 2001 Main Street, Endicott, estimated $200 damage, while Bunker's Lunch, 1312 Monroe, Endicott, said about $100 damage was done with nine holes in their east window. Other Endicott businesses reporting weekend window damage were: Burt Company, 38-44 Washington Avenue, Astro Travel Agency, 1 Washington Avenue, Elk's Bake Shop, 110 Washington Avenue, Juvenile Boot Shop, 61 Washington Avenue, Lee Auto', Top and Glass Company, 200 East Main Street, Dwyers' Shoe Store, 46 Washington Avenue, Woolworths, 124 Washington Avenue, Texas Hots, 211 Harrison Avenue.

Peking Dinner Honors Doctors TOKYO (AP) Dr. Paul Dudley White, the Boston heart specialist who treated the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower, was honored at a dinner in Peking on Monday with several other American doctors who are visiting Communist China, the New China News Agency reported today. The other doctors were Samuel Rosen, an ear specialist and Edmunds Grey Dimond, a cardiologist. They were accompanied by their wives.

Health Benefits Up NEW YORK A record $17.4 billion in health insurance benefits was paid out in 1970, the Health Insurance Institute estimates. This was an increase of more than $3,000,000,000 over 1969. JG Will Get Another Mini-Park Area From State KENNETH E. HESS falo, serving 25 years to life for first degree murder. Hess was serving an indeterminate sentence not to exceed four years for third degree grand larceny.

Mr. Yarbrough said he believed Hess was busied yesterday in the Triple Cities area from the Coleman Daniels Funeral Home, of Endicott. A spokesman at Coleman Daniels today refused to confirm the funeral arrangements, saying the family had requested no information on Hess be given out. WHILE THE MOTIVES for the slayings remain unclear, The Times quotes an recently retired prison guard as saying that Hess was "a lieutenant" to Privitera, who the guard said ran a of underground gambling syndicate inside the prison. "Inmates would bet on baseball and football games," The Times reported the guard said, "and play poker with dominoes." "Cigarets were the form of payment," the Times report continues.

"I've seen Privitera with a footlocker with loads of the Times quotes the guard. ') The guard told The Times Privitera and Hess wielded great power within the prison walls. Poll: Hoover Should Resign NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -A congressman from suburban, Republican, Montgomery County says a poll shows more than half the voters in his district believe J. Edgar Hoover should retire as head of the FBI.

Rep. Lawrence Coughlin says 56 per cent of 29,000 persons who responded to his poll felt Hoover should resign at once; 33 per cent wanteo. Hoover to stay on; 11 per cent were undecided. 2 Million Fires NEW YORK There were about 2.47 million fires in the United States in 1970, with losses totaling about $2.8 billion. 90-Day Charge Account Open Monday and Thursday until 9 p.

Free Parking in Rear of Store However; will 20 ESTABROOK, KOERBEL ESTABROOK, Inc. ,102 BACHE BUILDING, Binghamton, N.Y. 723-6446 on Site ing will not have a lunchroom. i n-Endicott High students will continue using the American Legion Post 82 dining room to eat lunch until a cafeteria, in the proposed addition to the high school is opened. THE DISTRICT has received $44,063.62 in an insurance payment for the loss caused by the fire.

Mr. Zimmerman said the insurance carrier has indicated it will pay up to $59,000 to build the new structure. In other action taken by the board of education last night, the board accepted the resignation of Miss Marion L. Grif ith as acting director of guidance. Miss Griffith resigned to return to full time counseling.

The district is conducting a search to find a new guidance director. Martin consulting engineering firm about what steps should be taken next on the CFJ swimming pool. The board also agreed to allow the Triple Cities Jets football team to use the Floral Avenue park for "dummy" football drills on a conditional basis. THE JETS LIKE the park because it has lights and they want their players to practice playing under a lighted park. Their regular heavy workouts are held at MacArthur Park in Binghamton.

If Floral Park holds up under the drill, the Jets will be allowed further use. The board received only one bid on a new police ambulance, that of $2,975 including a $1,925 trade in from Scoville Ford Co. The present station wagon ambulance is said to be nearly worn out. The board has questioned whether it can afford the new ambulance since it was not included in the budget. The bid was referred to the chief of police.

gesting great savings of money and time through a city government. That report was filed last December and this committee is the first attempt by anyone to comment on it. Mr. Kropp said he will chair the first meeting, an organizational one, and will then let the committee go its own way, without any outside political or government pressure. ize We Apolog for the inconvenience the remodeling of second floor may be causing Johnson City has gained another mini-park from the state Department of Transportation.

The northeast corner of Fourth and Main Street, chewed up in the construction of the Route 17 Expressway through the village, will be landscaped and provided with trees. Regional director of the Transportation Department, Joseph C. Federick, made the announcement yesterday to Johnson City Mayor James W. McCabe, and told of plans to line part of the Expressway with AT LAST NIGHT'S village board meeting, Mr. McCabe said the plan is to put trees along the state's right of way to the Expressway as it passes through Johnson City.

Mr. Federick had told the mayor that the Transportation Department policy was to try and "soften the project" where it cut through an urban area, and make it "blend with the community." Not long ago some complaints of noise, caused by traffic on the were heard at the board meeting. The noise said to affect residents living adjacent to the highway arterial and those living above the road in Moonshiner Resists Reform NEW GLASGOW, Que. (AP) -t When the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested a man for running an illegal still on a farm here, they found he was supposer to be serving a six-month jail sentence on another moonshining charge. And when they checked to find out how he could be out of jail, they discovered he was allowed out of prison every day on a work-release pro- gram designed to rehabilitate convicts and help them change their ways.

we think if will be worth the inconvenience! When completed we have the MOST MODERN, COMPLETE MEN'S SHOP IN THE AREA. fit. ONE SPECIAL GROUP Called by Kropp Union City-Study Group To Meet Next Tuesday The initial meeting of the citizens committee to explore the possibilities of consolidating the Town of Union into a city, will be held next Tuesday at 8 p. m. in the Union town hall.

MEN'S SUITS 50 off mini SHOP Only 9 out of 25 groups contacted by Supervisor Robert M. Kropp have replied saying they will send a representative to serve with the panel. A 10th panel member invited by Mr. Kropp is a private citizen, not connected with a club, who has expressed strong interest in joining the group. The town board is forming this committee to study a report made by the Economic Consultants Organization sug 56 WASHINGTON AVENUE ENDICOTT 748-8257.