Press and Sun-Bulletin from Binghamton, New York • 6

i Dec. 17, 1971 PRESS, Binghamton, N. Y. 5-A Delays, Court Orders Cause Deficit Union Prepares to Borrow $340,000 for '71 Welfare said many welfare departments consider themselves lucky if they are only $1 million over their budget. "It's too bad the state can't keep up on its makeup checks," Hess said, noting that Union was waiting for two such checks to cover them for the rest of 1971 He said the board this afternoon would authorize a one-year budget note for the $340,000.

Last June, the board was about to authorize the $580,000 note but held off until it was more urgently needed. "I think it was wise in holding this off as long as we did," Hess said. "We waited until we were past midmonth to see just what the cash flow would belike." they should have, as far back as 1968. Hess said that left $70,000 the towns regular welfare the towns regular welfare operation that the board didn't plan on last year. He said the town was lucky to have such a small welfare deficit.

A shortage in Union's welfare budget was predicted by town officials as far back as June, when Social Services Commissioner Clarence Sack-ey thought he would have to ask the board for $580,000 immediately. At that time, it appeared that the town's entire 1971 budget for the Social Services Department had been spent. BUT AT THE LAST minute, the town received a reimbursement check from the state which had' been delayed for several months. Hess noted that then, as now, a cash flow problem was the reason for much of the deficit. But he explained the budgeting of funds for a welfare department is extremely unpredictable.

"I don't think there are many welfare districts in the state who can accurately predict welfare costs one month in advance," he said. And, "we go in and budget for 12 months." He said that with unpredictable changes in welfare programs during the year, the figures established for the budget may be surpassed. SUPERVISOR Robert M. Kropp, in a recent discusion of deficits in welfare budgets, -PRESS PHOTO BY LEO F. FAHEY.

RABBIT IN KINDERGARTEN It isn't every kindergarten class that has its own personal bunny rabbit in residence, but the little people in the kindergarten at C. Fred Johnson school in Johnson City can brag all they want that "Spotty" the bunny is all theirs. From left are Michelle Briggs and Martin DiCesare. By PATRICK McGUIRE The Union town board was expected to borrow $340,000 at a special meeting this afternoon to cover a shortage in its social services department budget. The shortage was caused by a delay in the state's system of sending out makeup checks to the town for welfare, and by court orders for retroactive payments that Union didn't budget for.

Neil P. Hess, Union's comptroller, -'said $200,000 of the money the board will borrow to fake the Social Services Department through December will be returned when the state's checks eventually arrive OF THE REMAINING $140,000, he said half would go toward satisfying federal court orders that said certain welfare clients or former clients didn't receive what Endicott Death Called Suicide Sheriff's department investigators said today the death of Paul Hardman, 66, of 302 Dwight West Endicott, apparently was suicide. Hardman was found dead in the front seat of his car in the closed garage of his home at about 11 a.m. yesterday. Hardman was dead on arrival at Ideal Hospital.

A coroner's verdict by Dr. Melvin D. Jones is pending. Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Monday from the Allen Memorial Home, 511-513 E.

Main Endicott, and at 9:30 a.m. from Our Lady of Good Counsel Church. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Johnson City. Ubous Concedes Next Step Uncertain in Welfare Crisis No Back Pay, However Gaul Is Union Judge Earlier Than Expected Mayor Alfred J. Libous conceded yesterday that he does not know what his next step will be in trying to find a permanent solution to Bingham-ton's welfare crisis.

He said he will continue trying to work through Broome County's three members of the State Legislature for a merger of the three welfare departments of the county. But he has done this in the past without success. After the mayor had said he was grateful that the state advanced Binghamton $600,000 for January welfare payments, the mayor was asked at his daily press conference: "What do you plan to do now?" 'DON'T ASK me. I don't know," he answered. "I'm still trying to convince them at the state level that we are in desperate shape and need help." Meanwhile, the mauor replied to critics who have accused him of "playing games" and.

having "an ace up his saying: "I'll challenge anyone who makes those statements. "I'm willing, and I have been willing, to listen to anyone who thinks he has a solution to our welfare problems. He can come right into this office." THE MAYOR'S most critic has been Town of Union Supervisor Robert M. Kropp, who said Libous' tac-' tics in dealing with welfare problems have been "cruel" to persons on welfare. Kropp said Libous had known he would receive the special state advance of Woodruff A.

Gaul Sr. has taken office as justice of the peace earlier than the Union town board or Acting Justice George Shamulka originally expected him to. Gaul, a Republican, was elected to a four year justice term on Nov. 2, defeating Mrs. Ada Elwood, a Democrat.

As part of Gaul's requirements he recently attended a school for peace justices sponsored by the Judicial Conference of New York, since he is not an attorney. At the school, he said, he was told he should have assumed office on the day he was elected, providing he had taken his oath and had been given a temporary certificate from the conference. This apparently was not the way the town board understood the procedure. The justice seat was made vacant when veteran justice Carlton E. Popple died last June after a long illness.

The town board then appointed attorney George Shamulka to serve as acting justice until an election could be held. Shamulka's appointment was supposed to have run until Dec. 31 of this year, it was thought. Town attorney Richard Place said the state attorney general's office has confirmed an opinion of the Broome County Attorney's Office that Gaul was correct. Place said that on Nov.

2, when Gaul was elected justice, Shamulka's term theoretically Hpliday I Savings I WOODRUFF A. GAUL SR. ended and there was technically a vacancy in the job since Gaul could not serve without a permanent or tem-p a judicial conference certificate. But he said Shamulka was legally permitted to function in his acting post until Gaul received his certificate of qualification. On Dec.

3, after completing a special shcool, Gaul's permanent certificate was forwarded to the town. From that day Gaul was recognized by the town as serving in- his official capacity. Gual said he has already arraigned several defendants and has scheduled some trials. At this week's town board meeting, the board appoved a $6,500 annual salary for Gaul He said, however, he hasn't received any retroactive pay for the weeks he had technically been in office but hadn't been recognized. At that meeting, Gaul made an official request for an audit of the books of his office as soon as possible.

Town Comp- 1st Wife JAMES J. DeVIGILI SURE-TO-PLEASE GIFT IDEAS id Bad Check Count Trips NYC Man A Manhattan man working for a get-rich-quick company operating in Binghamton was arrested by state police last night on a charge of third degree grand larceny in connection with a $500 check that bounced. Ralph D. Sharpe, 40, of 711 West End Manhattan, was arrested at a meeting of Dare To Be Great, in the ballroom of the Treadway Inn, 2HawleySt. He was returned to the state police at Fishkill, Dutchess County, where the warrant originated, and was arraigned before a justice in the Town of Wappingers.

Sharpe was released in $500 bail, Fishkill investigators said. The nattily dressed Sharpe was arrested in the hotel lobby by Investigator H. Karl Chandler of the Kirkwood Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Sharpe is charged with having paid a Dutchess County bus company with a check for $483 for which there were not sufficient funds in the bank. The money was payment for transportation of busloads of persons from the Pough-keepsie area to Springfield, and Pittsfield, Mass.

Authorities said the bus trios were made in connection with promotional activity of Koscot Interplanetary, a sister organization of Dare To Be Great, Inc. Both corporations are subsidiaries of Turner Enterprises, a Florida corporation with many subsidiaries, authorities said. Koscot and Dare To Be Great both operate by selling "self-improvement" courses to persons and convincing them that through systems of multiple-level sales they can boost themselves into incomes, if not more. Both firms are reported to be under investigation by the office of the State Attorney General. Defense Pact Laxity Blasted WASHINGTON (AP) The Federal Renegotiation Board "fails to protect the public from excessive profits on defense contracts," a congressional subcommittee chairman has said.

Rep. Jack Brooks, head of the House Government Activities subcommittee, said Thursday a probe by his panel shows about one-third of defense procurement escapes renegotiation because of loopholes in the law. Anita Ekbcrg Must Pay Tax MADRID AP) Anita Ek-berg is among the 238 foreign film actors and actresses who have been ordered to pay a total of $177,560 in taxes for income while working in Spain. The deadline for payments is Jan. 25, 1972.

Other top names on the list isul Thursday by Spanish authorities are John Ireland, Richard Harrison, Guy Madison, George Sanders, Jack Pa-lance and Orson Welles. Miss Ekberg's bill, for $10,121, was the highest. ALL-WEATHER COATS I 3L VNT $600,000. He also charged Binghamton with having mismanaged its affairs and "look-i for a handout from Broome County." Libous also met yesterday with employes of Bingham-ton's Social Services Department to inform them of what he is trying to do to obtain a solution to the welfare problem. Libous also met late yesterday with employes of Bing-hamton's Services Department to inform them of what he is trying to do to ob-.

tain a solution to the welfare problem. lie urged them to try to al-. lay fears welfare recipients might have and to tell the, recipients that city officials are doing all they can to solve the problem. uu -HOOO VUf 0 'ft Ft, ft ft ft JL troller Neil Hess said today he would contact the Audit and Control office and ask them to send an auditor. Gaul explained that he merely wanted a fresh start with his books before any money was transferred into his account.

Hess said it is routine for a newly elected official to make such a request. Gaul said he wasn't sure how closely he would follow the court calendar system set up by Shamulka in October. "I am going to try and have a system where, if there's a trial set for a certain day, I won't let lawyers change the date at the last minute, he "I'm going to try very hard to come up with a good system." Shamulka today said "I think it's definitely a must to continue this system." He added he was now in the process of turning his records over to Gaul. Gaul said he and the other Union Town Justice, attorney Kaipn Hansen of Johnson City nave arranged to share a single secretary in their offices in the town hall, to preserve continuity in their caseload. He noted that previously each justice had his own part-time secretary.

Hansen, who absorbed the caseload of Popple from January of last year until his death, was given a $500 merit raise by the town board in recognition of that work. Hansen went from $6,500 to $7,000. Bull) Thief Can Land In Court Triple Cities area law en-forcement agencies have warned young thieves of Christmas light bulbs and other outside ornamentation that their pilfering can land them in Family Court, or, if they are 16 or older, jail. Local agencies have reported they are swamped with complaints from home owners about outside lights being taken, power cords being cut and ornaments being destroyed. The sheriff's department and state police report a heavy incidence of the vandalism and thievery in the areas outside municipalities, especially in Endwell and the Town of Chenango.

The City of Binghamton, the Village of Johnson City and the Town of Vestal also have reported high Christmas decoration damage and theft rates. Some departments have reported as many as a dozen such complaints each day this week. Persons caught in the act of stealing or damaging ornaments could be prosecuted for criminal trespassing, harassment, petty larceny or malicious mischief, police warn. Agencies have said their pa saia ineir pa- ffi jt vkT-fe-fi. 'va 30.00 black, DeVigili Denies tan, brown, olive zip-out pile lining perma press Daeron polyestercotton sizes 36-46 reg.

and long 1 SPORT 35.00 T1 KOO British COATS for 3.00 ea. S00 plaids, stripes, solids wool and rayon assorted styles sizes 38-46 Murdering James J. DeVigili yesterday pleaded innocent to an indictment charging him with the murder of his first wife, Bernadette, in May, 1970. DeVigili appeared for his arT raignment before Madison County Judge Ross A. Patane in Broome County Court.

Patane officially appointed Broome County Public Defender Louis J. Casella to represent him, after DeVigili said he could not afford to hire his own attorney. Casella said later he "may possibly seek a further review of bail." Last week, Broome County Family Court Judge Kenneth P. Whiting denied bail to DeVigili after reviewing the question for two weeks. After his arraignment, DeVigili, walking with crutches because of a recent injury, was returned to his cell in Broome County Jail.

The 29-year-old defendant has been in jail since his release Saturday from W'ilson Memorial Hospital, where he has been recovering from a dislocated and broken "right hip. Casella asked the court to give him 30 days to make motions in the case. Patane granted his motion when Broome County District Attorney Patrick D. Monserrate said he had no objection. TIES 3 vol.

2.50 solids. The former barber is accused of asphyxiating his first wife, then 23. Her body was found May 26, 1970, in a bathtub half-filled with water in their West Chenango Road home in the Town, of Chenango. Meanwhile, it was learned that a Delaware County loan company is foreclosing a mortgage on the Town of Che nango home owned by DeVigili. According to Richard S.

Ringwood of Endicott, attorney for the Delaware County Federal Savings Loan Association of Walton, DeVigili owes the firm $13,873 on the mortgage plus interest from July. The Delaware County loan company, which also has an office in Endicott, holds DeVi-gili's first mortgage, dated December, 1367. i f----, patterns rayonacetate or Daeron polyesterwool BASEMENT MEN'S WEAR 9:30 NOW'TIL CHRISTMAS EVE OPEN MONDAY uimlzz-izoi thru SATURDAY 9:30 to am tKHUUKb FROM nwFr.n7 tjttt''rfitittM trolmen are pnblem and watch for vandals and thieves..