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Aug. 26, 1970 PRESS, Binghamton, N. Y. 3-A Broome Probe Witnesses Acknowledge Solicitations 4 y4tm)i. jV3l A Sit, There were six County Clerk's Office employes questioned in closed session yesterday morning and four more, including County Clerk Howard Davis, yesterday afternoon.

MR. RENDA SAID the com-m i 1 1 concluded its investigation of the County Clerk's Office yesterday afternoon and would report its finding to the County Legislature during its regular meeting Tuesday night. The committee was instructed by the County Legislature to investigate possible improprieties by county employes. The investigation was triggered by disclosure that Mr. Davis had used county sta- committee makes a report to the County Legislature Tuesday.

THE PRESS learned through other sources, however, that most of the employes questioned in the morning and afternoon sessions yesterday said they had been solicited in the past for money contributions to the Republican Party. Solicitation of political funds from Civil Service employes on county property is a misdemeanor. The Press also learned recently that employes in at least three other county departments have been solicited regularly in past years for Republican campaign funds. By PHIL HAND Most of the Broome County Clerk's Office employes questioned by a County Legislature investigating committee yesterday acknowledged having been solicited in past years for political campaign contributions to the county Republican organization, The Press has' learned. Christopher C.

Renda, 15th District Republican legislator and chairman of the Rules Committee making the investigation, was asked today to confirm The Press' Mr. Renda said he would make no comment on the information developed in yesterday's questioning until the 'as tionery and county employes in a private real estate transaction. It also was prompted by an accusation by Miss Marie Pangburn, a former employe in the Department of Audit and Control, that she had been fired because she refused to contribute to the Republican Party. Miss Pangburn's case is now in the courts. Mr.

Renda said the Rules Committee's investigation will continue until all county departments have been checked. He did not say which department the committee will go to next. Committee members, in addition to Mr. Renda, are 19th District Republican John Hudanich, and 13th District Democrat Victor Lacatena. Serving as a temporary nonvoting member of the committee at Mr.

Renda's invitation is Fifth District Democrat Joseph F. Garba-rino, the man who called for the investigation after disclosing Davis' real estate transaction. Norivich GOP Snubs Goodell Press Bureau NORWICH The Norwich City Republican Committee last night snubbed Republican Senator Charles E. Goodell while endorsing the rest of the. party's state ticket.

The snub resulted from a request by four members of the committee to abstain from voting on the question of Mr. Goodell's endorsement. Since only eight of the 11 committee members were present, the four abstentions blocked any chance of a majority vote in favor of the Philadelphia Sales to Open TC Stores on Sundays PRESS PHOTO BY JOHN BOLAS. TO MAKE SUSQUEHANNA PURE The $8,500,000 addition to. the Binghamton-Johnson City sewage treatment plant on the Old Vestal Road is growing as concrete is poured for base of new settling beds to be used in the secondary treatment of the two communities' sewage.

State Bar $4A50M0 for '70-7I Broome Legislature1 chains, Hamlin's and Kent's, would stop selling items banned under the Blue Laws. Soon after, Fay's Drugs, next door to Westons, opened Sundays, and the store subsequently was charged with five counts of illegal sales after employes of competitors made about 100 Sunday purchases. Fay's was found innocent by a Vestal jury. The verdict is being appealed in Broome County Court by the District Attorney's Office. Mr.

Stein said the Sunday opening of Philadelphia Sales, making it a seven-day a week operation, will be difficult for employes. But he said, "This seems to be what the customers want." THE REOPENING of West-ons has not resulted in any of-f i i a 1 complaints to the Broome County District Attorney's Office, according to Francis C. Flynn, special investigator for the office. The district attorney's office follows a policy of not attempting to enforce the Blue Laws against Sunday sales unless it receives complaints. Westons, a Manhattan-based store chain, early this year agreed to close Sundays at the request of Triple Cities merchants affiliated with the Broome County Chamber of Commerce.

AT THAT TIME, a Westons official said that the decision was made with the understanding that two drugstore OK Tech Budget The three Philadelphia Sales Co. stores in the Triple Cities will be open for business on Sundays. "This is something new and different for us, but competition has forced us to open on Sundays," Stephen Stein, supervisor coordinator for Philadelphia Sales, announced today. Last Sunday, Westons Shoppers City resumed Sunday sales in its Vestal Parkway store because of competition. Mr.

Stein said the Philadelphia Sales stores in Clinton Street, Binghamton; Grand Avenue in Johnson City and in the Endicott Shopping Plaza have not been open on Sundays since December of 1968. They closed after one Sunday opening because of "the Blue Laws conflict," he said. Now The Broome County Legislature today approved an operating budget of about $4,450,000 for operations of Broome Technical Community College in the year beginning Sept. 1. The budget will be about $650,000 higher than the 1969-70 figure, but the county taxpayers' share will drop from $1,298,400 for 1969-70 to about $1,215,000.

THE REASON is that the State University Board of Trustees yesterday at Albany approved inclusion of Broome Tech in the state's new full-opportunity program, thereby increasing the state's share of the operating cost from 33 per cent to 40 per cent. wo csiid pay yoo iroftsrisst mhidis. iiMoiMe County Advised to The total figure for the budget adopted today was approximate because the net effect of minor last-minute changes has not been computed. County Executive Edwin L. Crawford said corrections of minor errors in the salary schedules would amount to less than $3,800 in the budget originally figured at $4,450,165.99.

LEGISLATORS ALSO authorized an increase in tuition fees for evening adult classes in the Division of Continuing Education from $15 to $17 a credit hour. It is estimated that increased revenues resulting Service fied that, if relatives of the public assistance clients are able to contribute toward death costs, that such contributions first be used to eliminate the $150 cemetery and grave contributions by the county before any of the money goes to funeral directors. The county Funeral Directors Association has complained for more than a year that members have been losing as much as $600 on welfare funerals and burial costs. THE ASSOCIATION has maintained that such losses amount to a special tax against them. They have said they are willing to provide services to welfare clients at cost, but not at a loss.

The same committee today California, so if that source is shut off the price of lettuce grown in the New York State area will soar, they predicted. About three-quarters of the field workers were on strike in California's Salinas and Santa Maria valleys in a dispute over what union would represent certain laborers. They ignored court restraining orders In Social Funeral directors in Broome County will receive a $100 increase in the county allowance for funerals of social service clients, if a recommendation of a county legislative committee is followed. The Social Services Committee, headed by Ninth District Republican Melbourne E. Niles, today recommended that the county allow $350 for welfare funerals instead of the present $250, a 40 per cent increase.

THE COMMITTEE ALSO recommended that the county make an additional allowance of up to $150 for cemetery plots and grave opening and closing charges for welfare clients. There is no county payment for these costs now. The committee also speci a year, guaranteed for two years a year, guaranteed for one year The Broome County Bar Association's board of directors is turning over to the state bar the question of the propriety of the district attorney's annual golf buffet for area magistrates and lawmen. Robert Eckelberger, Broome County bar president, said the association directors' last night decided to ask the New York State Bar Association "for an opinion on the question of the ethics" of the golf buffet. "THERE ALSO IS a question whether the county bar has jurisdiction in such questions," he said.

The county bar was asked by Thomas F. O'Connor, a Binghamton lawyer who is the Democratic nominee for Broome County judge, to "look into this annual golf buffet, determine its propriety and act accordingly." He made the request after the district attorney's office, headed by Stephen Smyk, sponsored a golf buffet July 20 at Endwell Greens. MR. O'CONNOR will oppose Mr. Smyk, Republican nominee for county judge, in the November elections.

Mr. Eckelberger said the District Attorney's Office has sponsored the golf buffets as a yearly event over the past 10 or 11 years, and "To my recol-lection, the question of propriety has never been raised." The District Attorney's Office apparently began sponsorship of the golf buffets when Broome County Supreme Court Judge Louis M. Green-blott was district attorney. Mr. Smyk succeeded him in 1962.

Me. Eckelberger said he is "hopeful for an expedient reply on the matter" from the state bar. "Perhaps the question has been raised in other areas of the state," he said. UF Chairmen, Aides Named A full roster of 17 division chairmen has been enrolled to lead an estimated 4,000 volunteers in the effort to raise $1,789,686 for the 1971 Broome County United Fund campaign. I.

Glenn Stevenson, chairman of the drive, announced the addition of four "supporting division" chairmen, whd will head volunteers to supply and train campaign workers, direct the drive's publicity ef-f and audit campaign receipts. The four supporting chairmen are: MRS. EDWARD P. GRACE of A West End Avenue, Binghamton, supplies; BERNARD C. DUNNE, an instructor in the customer executive education program at IBM-Endicott, training; JOHN C.

TUFFY, manager of communications at IBM-Endicott, public relations, and RICHARD R. HUGHES, agency secretary for Security Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, audit. Hurt in Crash A 16-year-old Town of Dickinson youth was admitted today to Wilson Memorial Hospital in Johnson City after a a r-motorcycle collision in Main Street, Westover, late this morning. Sheriff's deputies identified the injured youth as Michael Cermak, of Glenwood Road.

Details of the accident were not immediately available. Hospital authorities did not release details of the youth's injuries, pending examination. from the change will bring in, $20,000 to provide hourly pay increases for teachers in the evening program. About half of the college faculty shares evening teaching duties with instructors not on the full-time staff. The chief reason for the budget increase is higher pay for employes, including 2.8 per cent for faculty members, 9 per cent increases for administrators at the lower levels and 11.8 per cent increases for six deans.

The college also will have 16 new faculty and six new non-teaching positions in 1970-71 to serve an enrollment expected to increase from 1,960 to 2,284. Pay More recommended that the county create an additional caseworker position in the Social Services Department because of asharp increase this year in the Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) case load. Last year the department's caseload was 289, including 120 ADC cases. The present caseload is 347, including 157 in ADC. The State Social Services Department has recommended that individual caseworkers not have more than 60 cases.

The Broome department has five caseworkers for the 347 cases, or nearly 70 for each. The department serves all towns outside of Union. The City of Binghamton, and Town of Union have their own welfare departments. issued yesterday. Only 68 railroad freight cars loaded with fresh-picked produce left the Salinas Valley yesterday, compared to the normal departure total of more than 200 cars.

Lettuce prices had doubled by this morning in some parts of California. lage, asking they attend the meeting at the village hall. Mr. McCabe has also invited County health commissioner Roland Austin and a member of the Public Service Commis-sion. Village officials recently expressed dismay at a PSC report that said New York State Electric Gas efforts to con-, tain the smoke at Goudey were sufficient.

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The wholesalers reported they had not yet had an increase in charges for lettuce. "I think it will take a couple of days to hit us, but when it does I think you'll see some lettuce selling for 39 cents a head in the stores," one man said. The price of lettuce now is about 29 cents for a large head or two for 39 cents for smaller heads. One wholesaler said that if the California workers return to their jobs within a week, prices here will not rise sharply." "They always have a lot of lettuce picked and on the way East," he explained. About 60 per cent of the lettuce sold in the Southern Tier this time of year comes from for my Name TO THE BINGHAMTON Savings Bank 66 Echange street, Binghamton, N.Y.

50-64 Hooper Road. Endwell, N.V. Social Security No. Address City Certificate(s) as indicated below year Savings Certificate year Savings Certificate days Savings Certificate Account I enclose Trust Savings 6 2 53i 1 5' 90 Individual The problem of soot and fly ash emissions from Goudey Station will be discussed at a conference next Wednesday night at 7:30 by Johnson City officials, representatives of Broome County and the Public Service Commission. Johnson City Mayor James W.

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