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'M 'Better to Eat In Cited Place-It'll Be Clean' Should An Old Pro Know Better? i Delegates: DR. ROBERT WEISS Dumped By PATRICK McGUIRE Dr. Robert Weiss, of the county's Environmental Management Council, said "I'd feel a lot better eating in a restaurant that was cited a -week ago for a violation, because I know it will be clean now. I "You spread it across the Jiewspaper and you see better compliance," he said. 4 I Weiss was answering a question of Assistant County Attorney Thomas Oakes at a discussion by the EMC last night on the adequacy of laws cov? "ering environment and health.

Council members had been talking about better ways to laws by levying fines, 'and possibly asking sheriff land police personnel to make arrests of violators and bring them to trial. Oakes asked if the philosophy of the council wasn't first to correct the violation and then educate the public on the laws. "What do you think of a corrective approach rather than pursuing fines or litigation?" he asked. Weiss then replied that fines and publicizing violators is needed to make people adhere to the laws. "DO WE EVER make an example out of people in these environmental affairs?" Weiss asked Patrick Mullens, an assistant public health engineer invited to the discussion.

Weiss alluded to the problem in which the City of Bing- Burns and Kramer an Conlony Kropp hamtonT a year ago, was charged by the state with polluting the Susquehanna River. A Supreme Court justice ruled the case must go to trial- to prove if the city is guilty. Weiss said "the City of Bin'g-hamton won't be pushing snow into the river again." Later he added "You spank a kid if he's bad. Do we spank?" Mullens said the health department hadn't levied any fines. Those at the meeting left the impression that the laws were there, though many were vague as to their being applied against certain environmental problems.

The example used was a resident living near a riv-erbank who dumps rubbish and trash of all kinds on his property. Under the law, dumping of trash on private property seems to have no restrictions. MULLENS TOLD the council his department has tried to get residents to clean areas up by applying the rodent harborage law that says if a rub- Continued on Page 2B) The Evening Press By CAROL R. RICHARDS Gannett News Service ALBANY Former Democratic State Chair- man John J. Burns yesterday had the tables turned on him by sharp-eyed backers of George McGovern's presidential candidacy, it A slate of uncommitted delegates to the Democratic convention, headed by none other than Burns, was knocked off the June primary ballot after McGovern supporters successfully challenged signatures on the nominating petitions filed with the Secretary of State.

The rejection of Burns' slate from the 27th Congressional District is also a blow to two local county Democratic organizations. Beside Burns, the slate included Broome County Democratic Chairman Thomas J. Con-Ion, Delaware County Chairman Francis R. Paternoster, and former Binghamton Mayor Donald W. Kramer, all political hands who ought to know better than to submit sloppy petitions.

Also dismissed for lack of valid signatures were the petitions of the 27th C. D. slate pledged to Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie, and headed by Robert M. Kropp, Town of Union supervisor.

Unless Burns and Kropp are successful in challenging the rejection of their slates in the courts, Democratic voters in the 27th Congressional District, centered around Binghamton, will have only one slate of convention delegates to vote for the McGovern slate headed by Bruce McDuffie, State University at Binghamton chemistry professor. The challenges to the Burns and Kropp slates were filed by Peter C. Stein of Ithaca. The hearing which resulted in the. rejection of the Burns and Kropp slate was held before Thomas W.

Wallace, director of the Election' and Law Bureau of the Department of State. Wallace said that the Burns slate claimed 1,431 signatures, with 1,250 required to get on the ballot. "We found 239 invalid signatures, reducing the total to 1192, some of which are still contested," Wallace said. The petitions were reviewed signature by signature, but the hearing ended when it became apparent that more than enough invalid signatures had been found to invalidate the entire slate. Binghamton attorney John Young represented Burns at the hearing.

He objected to the timing of the objection filed by Stein. He complained that the objections were received at the Secretary of State's office May 18, more than three days after the petitions had been filed. :5 Wallace overruled the Young protests, saying the postmark on the list of objections was May 16, just inside the three day limit. (Continued on Page 2B) Section Friday, May 26, 1972 Ask Us for HELP! Vis Is' Ms And That's Just What ll Means The Next Step Take Cause To Albany's Supreme Court PRESS PHOTO BY JOHN BOLAS, JR. WATER MIRROR-The massive abstract steel sculpture that will stand in the reflecting pool of the new governmental center at Binghamton is reflected in water that has been poured into a part of the pool.

Erection of work by Mafao Kinoshita, sculptor and landscape architect, is about two-thirds completed; Center of state, Broome County and Binghamton office buildings is to be completed in the fall. Parades to Mark Memorial Day By TOM CAWLEY Stunned at their rejection by the secretary of state's office at Albany, Broome County political leaders were preparing today to go into Supreme Court to try to get back on the June primary ballot with a list of uncommitted delegates to the National Democratic Convention. The uncommitted group, led by former State Democratic Chairman John J. Burns of Binghamton, will sue in Albany County, according to Donald Kramer, former Binghamton mayor, and Broome Democratic Chairman Thomas J. Conlon.

Not only was the Burns force thrown out after supporters of George McGovern successfully challenged its designating petitions as illegal, but the petitions of local delegate candidates ing Edmund Muskie were rejected also. TOWN OF UNION Supervisor Robert M. Kropp, leader of the Muskie group, said he would not appeal to the court, "because we can't afford it." He said, "We haven't, got a dime." He said, however, that if the Burns appeal is successful, he assumes the Muskie group could be reinstated. Kramer said the appeal will be made only on the ground that the challenges filed by Peter C. Stein of Ithaca, a McGovern backer, were not filed in time with the office of the secretary of state.

The Stein challenges went to the secretary of state five days after the petitions were filed. Kramer contends such challenges must be filed within three days, and therefore, he argued, the challenges were not effective. The uncommitted delegate candidates and the Muskie delegate candidates were erased from the ballot because of many errors. TYPICAL of the errors was an instance where one person was found to have signed not only one of the challenged petitions, but also petitions for another candidate. Under the Election Law, this is illegal and voids the entire petition.

The Burns group cannot go into court and appeal on the grounds that the errors are not errors. It must rely only on a provision of the law, Kramer said, that challenges to petitions must be made within three days after filing, not (Continued on Page 2B) Memorial Day parades and services will be held Monday morning at Binghamton, John-s City, Endicott-Vestal, Maine and Chenango Forks. The Binghamton, Johnson City and Endicott-Vestal parades will begin at 10 a.m. The Maine parade will start at 8:30 a.m. With the exception of some discount centers, restaurants, drug, food and liquor stores, virtually all educational, governmental, industrial and commercial institutions will bi closed in observance of the holiday.

THE PARADE AT CHE nies at the American Legion clubhouse at 429 Main the veterans will parade to Jenni- sori Park, where the dead of the Korean conflict will be honored by the Jaycees. The parade then will proceed along Willow Street, Grand Avenue, and Sherman Street to Floral Park Cemetery, where Lt. Col. James Barton of the National Guard will be the principal speaker at memorial ceremonies. THE UNION-ENDICOTT, West Endicott and Vestal- (Continued on Page 2B) NANGO Forks will be part of the community's Booster Day program.

Post offices will provide only box. collections and special delivery services on the holiday. The Binghamton parade will begin at American Legion Post 80, at 76 Main and-proceed along Front Street, Memorial Bridge, Washington Street, Court Street, Exchange Street, disbanding at Exchange and Hawley Streets. Johnson City veterans will conduct memorial services at Calvary Cemetery at 8 a.m. Monday.

After brief ceremo Q. Last October, I bought a used. car from Frank P. Fortunato, Binghamton, and found that he had put a New York State inspection sticker on the car even though there was a crack in the windshield, which I believe to be illegal. Since then, the crack has spread.

A glass dealer told me it will cost $129 to replace the windshield, but I feel the dealer should take care of it without charge. Can you HELP? DONNA L. KOWALSKI, BINGHAMTON A. The dealer replied that when the car was sold, the crack in the windshield was noticeable, but that inspection of the car at the time showed it would pass the New York State Inspection Code. He did, however, say he could have it replaced at a cost to you of $90.

This did not satisfy you, you said, and you had a windshield installed elsewhere. Incidentally, the car was sold "as is," which means just that. Too Much of a Good Thing Q. I ordered a five-piece porcelain coffee service from Colonial Studios three months ago. I sent the necessary payment, but I have never received my order.

I have written them, but they keep telling me the order is being processed. Can you help me? -CHRISTINA O'CONNELL, BINGHAMTON A. You said that after writing HELP, you received a. check from Colonial studios for the amount of the order. Two days later, you added, you received the coffee set.

You returned the check, certified mail. You then got another coffee set in the mail, which you said you also returned. 'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII From the Mail iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii I have received a check from Records Unlimited, Harmony, for the full amount $11.80 owed me. I'm sure I would never have heard from them without your help. MRS.

SYBIL W. TITMAN, BINGHAMTON Ask Us lor HELP! is a public service column that attempts to solve problems, alter readers' efforts have failed. Send problems, questions and COPIES of supporting documents to Ask Us for HELP! The Press, Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton, N. 13902. Letters should be signed with full name, address and phone numbers of reader.

HELP! cannot accept phone calls, grant personal interviews or return materials. Letters should be written in ink or typed on plain, white paper, one side only. We publish the most interesting and helpful answers. City Nickname Suggests Bad Case of Blahs The Binghamton Chronicle shuddered whenever heard the phrase and asked all its readers never to let that cornball phrase pass their lips. It asked other newspapers to have mercy.

But so enamored of it were some they stoutly refused the Chronicle's simple sane request. Of all the corny things the boosters hung on us is the phrase "Parlor City." the "Parlor City." It carries with it the images of paper collars, dickey shirts, high-button shoes and linament salesmen shilling from the tailgate of a buckboard wagon. It is an urishakeable tag that might have been coined by Sinclair Lewis when he was at his best satirizing small town America bursting with stuffed shirts. We have been fretting about this for years and gnash our teeth when we see someone using it literally as in the Indignant Reader's Question: "What has happened our beautiful Parlor City?" It's hung on, like a bad cold, for 98 years. Tom Cawley THE BAINBRIDGE REPUBLICAN, for instance, said: "The Chronicle calls upon its contemporaries to boycott the word 'Parlor' in connection with Binghamton.

It seems to us that the Chronicle is considerably off in its request for, instead of being the soubriquet suggests beauty, taste, refinement-an accumulation of the best things which Binghamton possesses in a marked degree, united with bustling commercial activity. ''Binghamton is a charming city and we hope will continue to remain the 'Parlor City' of this section of the state." i It was done to us by, of all people, a newspaper editor from Scranton, Pa. This guy came along with the Scranton firemen when there was a convention here 1874. mitted a wild piece of ecstatic prose about the town and called it "The Parlor City." The boosterism in the town caught fire and from then on it was a shambles. The phrase appeared on Chamber of Commerce propaganda, on billboards and envelopes and even a few businesses christened themselves with it.

Not everybody was happy, and its the minority report we'd like to tell you about. WE ARE CERTAIN he had a hell of a time at the Firemen's Convention for when he went home he com- Pooh to you, Bainbridge Republican. Right on, Binghamton Chronicle..