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EVENING PRES and cooler tonight Mostly cloudy Lcl's Chuckle A guest towel is what often persuades people that their hands don't need washing after all. chance of a few flurries, low in the mid 20s. Friday partly sunny, high in the low 30s. Details on Page 14B. METRO 36 Pages 20 Cents A Gannett Newspaper Binghamton, N.Y., Thursday, February 19, 1976 olume 99 223 2 Sections i uisqiiefaapsia Ice Jams Pose Flood Threats By STEVE HAMBALEK and BOB KOCHERSBERGER A Broome County Civil Defense worker today estimated that 80 per cent of the Susquehanna River from the Pennsylvania line to Ouaquaga is jammed with ice.

and its breaking loose cquld cause heavy ice and flooding problems along the river. Robert Hinman said the river is almost completely clogged with ice floes that could break loose and be carried downstream with the water, which has terrific flow beneath the ice. He told of heavy ice jammed along most parts of the Susquehanna as it flows from Delaware County, past Ouaquaga and Windsor, into Susquehanna County, and back into Broome County in the Stillwater area of Conklin He said all persons who live along low-lying areas near the Susquehanna and its tributaries should be on the lookout for rising water that could come from jams breaking up. Hinman said he could not predict what the odds were of the jams suddenly breaking up. rather than coming apart in small chunks.

But he said further flooding would result rapidly if there was a sudden breakup of the ice. The Stillwater jams have raised river water high enough to cause the evacuation of the Kirkwood Air Park. The aircraft has been moved to higher fields. One bright spot. Hinman said, was the jams breaking up near Hiawatha Island in Tioga (Continued on Page 3A) and Riverside area, of Kirk-wood.

Contributing to the ice jams from Ouaquaga to Windsor. Hinman said, were floes that had broken loose from jams in the Otego-Nineveh area, which are now hung up in the east Windsor area, where the river makes sharp turns. He said that area's jams also are breaking up slowly and contributing to jams in Ouaquaga. A jam near Great Bend. also started to break loose yesterday and has added to the Stillwater ice.

Hinman said the main danger from the ice is that its breaking up could cause further, more extensive and river flow-inhibiting jams further downstream, thereby causing extremely rapidly rising waters. PRESS PHOTO BY FRANK KOURT GRIM THREAT Before it broke up during the night, this ice jam proDiem as the busquehanna Kiver backed up behind it. Officials east of Hiawatha Bridge in Tioga County threatened a serious flood considered blasting but decided to let nature take its course Some N.Y. Pensions Face Cutback Faculty May Rescind Cantor's Suggestion By STEVE HIRSH the The Faculty Senate at For example, if the employe had an annual pension right of $9,000 and an annual Social Security benefit of (4.000. the amount deducted from the $9,000 would be $2,000.

This would leave a pension of $7,000 plus $4,000 in Social Security benefits, for a total annual payment of $11,000. Perry said the logic of using the one-half amount is that the employer and the employe each contribute 50 per cent of the Social Security amount. "What they'd be doing is to! reduce the pension benefit in proportion to the amount the government has been contributing to Social Security." he said. Escalating pension costs now are placed at more than $3 billion annually for the 1.2 million state, county and municipal employes in the state. Under the recommendations.

Perry said, public employes would contribute to their pension system on any salary above that on which Social Security taxes are paid. That figure now is $15,300. Government pension contributions would drop from the present 15 per cent of gross salary (25 per cent to pre-July 1973 employes) to 9 per cent for those hired after July 2. 1973. This would be more in line with private industry, which contributes an average of 6 to 7 per cent of gross salary to employes' pension funds, he said.

The commission also will not recommend that public employe pensions be taxed, as are private pensions, according to Perry. Some pension action is mandated by July 1. The Legislature placed a three-year moratorium on new pension benefits July 1. 1973. Perry said the Legislature is likely to extend the; temporary benefits until next year to allow state, county and municipal governments time to put the reforms into effect.

Any legislated changes would not affect public employes hired before July 1. 1973. because their rights are constitutionally pro- teeted. Perry estimated 80 per cent of all public employes are covered under those rights. The remaininng 20 per cent are new employes and would be affected by the changes providing the Legislature goes along.

GMHHtt Ntwt Sirvic ALBANY Higher-paid public employes in New York State would contribute to their pension fund for the first time. All public employes hired after July 1. 1973 would receive reduced pension benefits. These are two reforms to be recommended next month by a commission on pension and retirement systems, a member of the Senate Civil Service and Pension Committee said Wednesday. Sen.

John Perry, ere would be no recommendation from the Permanent Commission on Public Employe Pension and Retirement Systems (Kinzel) for reduction in the mandatory retirement age of 70 or any significant recommended change in the early retirement opportunities for police, firemen or sheriff's deputies. Another major recommendation proposes that the equivalent of one-half of the Social Security payment a public employe would receive annually upon retirement be deducted from his pension benefit the so-called Social Security "fold-in." School of Management senior personnel committee until September 1976. The establishment of a new committee consisting of five faculty from outside the school. Disposing of the three decisions made by the senate personnel committee and reconsideration of those cases. Destroying all records of the cases considered.

Cantor also called for a vote of the School of Management faculty to see if they wanted to retain the personnel committee, said sources. Cantor's action was approved by All-University Personnel Committee, pending a vote by the School of Management faculty. Cantor, chairman of the committee, said he would consider the matter further if the faculty senate vote calling for rescinding his action is carried by a two-thirds majority. State University of New York at Binghamton was to meet in emergency session today to discuss the recommended suspension of a School of Management promotion committee. The recommendation came from Norman Cantor, acting vice president for student affairs, according to university sources.

Cantor also recommended disposing of three- decisions made by the committee and destroying all records from those cases, sources say. The move may be in violation of article seven of the university's Faculty Senate bylaws, according to Senate Vice Chairman Hugh E. Hunter, a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences. According to School of Management Dean Murray E. Polakoff, senior personnel committees are designed to provide university President Clifford D.

Clark with recommendations on promotion and tenure.for full professors. Full professors from each department form each unit's senior personnel committee. A department with fewer than the required five full professors completes the membership with faculty from other university sections. The School of Management N.H. Vote Ads Cost $1 Million New Probe Of Pardon Ruled Out NORMAN CANTOR has three full professors listed in the 1975-76 university directory, not including Polakoff.

The dean refused to give the names of members of the school's personnel committee. The university directory lists 38 faculty members in the school. Cantor made his suggestions to Polakoff and School of Man: agement professor Morris Budin in a memo dated Feb. 6. Budin is chairman of the School of Management personnel committee, said a university spokesman.

According to a university source, the Faculty Senate was to vote today on a resolution calling for rescinding Cantor's memo, which called for: The suspension of the day's primary showed that most of the ad dollars are being put into television, with only $6,000 going to New Hampshire's only commercial station. WMUR-TV in Manchester. Television is expensive, especially in Boston, where a 30-second commercial can cost as CONCORD. N.H. (AP) -Candidates in New Hampshire's leadoff presidential primary are spending close to $1 million to woo voters via radio, television and newspapers.

But most of that money is being spent outside the state, going to Boston television stations which beam into the lucrative southern New Hampshire market. A survey of advertising by the major candidates in Tues For instance. Lidall's budget has $42,000 for state radio and $6,000 for newspaper ads. Ford's campaign is spending $3,800 in New Hampshire for television. $10,000 for radio and $5,000 for newspapers.

"You can do a lot more with radio than with newspapers." said Grace Marie Prather. a Ford campaign aide in Washington. Similarly. Bayh has a $32,000 radio budget and a minimal allocation for newspaper (Continued on Page IDA) Among the other candidates. Democrat Jimmy Carter appeared to have the largest media bill.

$156,000. while President Ford had the lowest. $40,000. Birch Bavh's budget is $140,000. vMorris Udall's $146,000 and Fred Harris' $100,000.

Sargent Shriver's media budget is the smallest among the Democrats. $50,000 for Boston TV and $20,000 for New Hampshire media. Only George Wallace, who is not on the New Hampshire 5 Killed in I ire HONG KONG AP) A fire before dawn today destroyed the first three floors of a 10-story apartment and office building in Kowloon. killing five persons and injuring 28 others. Firemen rescued 62 persons from upper floors.

WASHINGTON (AP) A House Judiciary subcommittee today decided not to conduct a further inquiry into President Ford's pardon of Richard M. Nixon. The criminal judtice subcommittee voted 4 to 3 to table a motion by Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, which would have allowed the panel's staff to interview Philip W. Buchen.

Ford's counsel; Alexander Haie. Nixon's chief of Jackie Is ballot. Ford and Bayh are Hamp" Rocky Bicentennial staff, and "other appropriate Vrkr Sihrilior persons" regarding the presi- M. vJI Of If IUkZI dential pardon. Trip to Cover 6 Nations Rep.

Holtzman called for the N.H. Race 13A little as $25 or as much as $1,500 depending on the time of day it is aired. The television advertising figures can be misleading, however, because the Boston TV spots are used to promote the candidates not only in New Hampshire's primary but Massachusetts' March 12 election as well. Only one of the major candidates' campaigns, that of former California Gov. Ronald Reagan, declined to provide dollar amounts being spent on advertising.

The campaign of Henry Jackson, who is not on the ballot in New Hampshire, but who has a slate of delegates in the primary, also was unable to provide dollar figures. "They're spending about $2,000 apiece." said Sam Phillips, general manager of WMUR-TV. "I wish we had never heard of the primary it's a "They buy one day. cancel the next day. It's been like that ever since I've been here and that's 14 years." he said.

Most of the media money being spent by the candidates in the state is going to radio stations, with little to newspapers. BOSTON (AP) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis today endorsed Sargent Shriver for the Democratic nomination for president. Mrs. Onassis is the widow of President John F. Kennedy, and Shriver is the husband of Kennedy's sister.

Eunice. In a statement released by Shriver's campaign headquarters here. Mrs. Onassis said. "He is a man of action, deep commitment and warm concern." inquiry on the basis of a news story which appeared in the Washington Post.

She said the Post article suggested that Haig, on or about Aug. 28, 1974. actively sought to persuade President Ford to pardon Nixon. Nixon resigned on Aug. 9 and was pardoned for his alleged involvement in the Watergate scandal on Sept.

8, 1974. (Continued on Page 10A) panied by Mrs. Rockefeller, will visit France. Iran, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. In Canberra.

Australia. Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser said Rockefeller will visit Australia from March 29 to April 1. Fraser said Rockefeller would also confer with him and senior ministers. WASHINGTON (AP) -President Ford has asked Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller to travel to six nations between March 20 and April 4 to represent the United States at Bicentennial observances and conduct foreign policy discussions, the White House announced today.

The vice president, accom The Inside Press Sports Baseball showman Bill Veeck has a new gimmick: Exposing the knees of his White Sox as part of a new uniform designed for greater speed and attention. Page 14A. State The Adirondack Park Agency is tying up small property owners in red tape, critics tell a state Assembly committee. Page 7A. Business A major atomic power plant disaster is likely within 24 years, say three former General Electric Co.

employes. However, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission rejects the claim. Page 9B. Leisure Composer Michel Legrand is a Music Factory. Page B4.

Drive On to Restore Mary' Medal of Honor legally restore the dignity of this award to her according to Miss Walker, a Washington-based science and medical reporter. And. although she has recorded some enthusiastic support from Congress. Miss Walker believes it will take a "ground-swell operation'" to convince legislators and. eventually, the President, to return the medal.

The medal itself, which Dr. Mary wore until she died." according to her kinsmen, was given by the family to the Oswego Countv Historical Societv where it rests to Oswego, where she was born in 1832. The medal, which Dr. Walker always wore pinned to her chest, was revoked by a congressional select committee because of "insufficient reason indicated in available record." But her modern champion and great-grandniece. Anne Walker of Washington.

DC. believes the reasons were social and political. She feels "Dr. Mary." as she was known, was wronged. There is good and sufficient reason to Ntwhtuit Newt Servict OSWEGO A campaign is under way to restore the Congressional Medal of Honor to the only woman in American history who ever received one Dr.

Mary E. Walker. Dr. Walker, a feisty feminist who served as a battlefield doctor during the Civil War. was given the medal by President Andrew Johnson in 1865.

Abraham Lincoln had recommended the award shortly before his assassination. She lost it by congressional action 52 vears later, in 1917. two years before she died a recluse in a farmhouse southwest of day. According to Miss Walker. Dr.

Mary "died alone, lonely, indigent and ill after a fall on the Capitol steps where she had gone to get Congress to restore her medal." Dr. Mary attended medical school in Syracuse and practiced at Roine. before working her way to the front lines of the Civil War. where she was accepted by fellow surgeons all men but didn get an officer's commission until the end of the war. She was a prisoner of war and eventually was exchanged for a Confederate ma jor.

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