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L0C8 Elmira, N.Y. Monday, Jan. 6, 1975 Star-Gazette Power group to meet Page 8 Sports Pages 9-10 Page 7 Closing the Fleming file The aftermath: an explosion of happiness i properties. An hour after the acquittal verdict was read Friday in Chemung County Court, Sartori asked Fleming to report back to work starting this morning. Fleming planned to discuss the situation with Sartori at 9 a.m.

Saturday night Fleming's thoughts were not centered on today's meeting they were set on "thanking all the people that supported me through this long, hard ordeal." What Fleming did was to throw a party for those supporters. "We kept getting telephone calls from everybody just saying they were happy for me about the verdict, so my wife and I decided to have a party and to invite anyone who called." The supporters filled Fleming's 10-room home. About the only room that didn't have guests in it was Fleming's bedroom. There were coats piled two feet high on the bed. Fleming and a reporter moved into the coat-filled bedroom to discuss the feelings of the city official during his suspension.

"There were good moments. Those were the times when I realized I was spending more time with my wife, Rosalyn, and my two children, David and Laura, than I had spent during the entire 11 years of our mar- By dig; baumbach After almost 11 months of sadness, despair and disappointment for Clarence E. Fleming there was an explosion of happiness at his home at 1003 Maple Ave. Saturday night as friends and relatives poured into the house to congratulate him. Fleming was acquitted Friday of all charges in a 16-count indictment against him.

Fleming, deputy director of public works and city engineer, was suspended by City Manager Joseph E. Sartori at the end of January last year after he became involved in a police investigation into the removal of materials from urban renewal owned if ir'4 1 4 '4 riage," Fleming said. Fleming said he wasn't bitter about the trying experience, "but I was disappointed in a couple of people who were put under pressure by some city officials and who said things about me that weren't true. It wouldn't have been so bad if those people had come to me and said they were under pressure, but had to say something that wasn't true. I wouldn't lose respect for a guy who told me he had to do something because of the pressure." Fleming said he was also disappointed in seeing the projects he started at the city yard go down the drain.

"One of the most disappointing things in the whole affair is to see the work and planning that Jake (Leslie Hover, director of parks and recreation) and the fellows at the yard did to get something going and then in six months to look what's happened to it." Asked how he and his family lived while he was suspended and not drawing on his $18,000 a year city salary, Fleming said, "We borrowed a lot of money and we got some money from the houses we rent out. But, the rent money wasn't enough because we got the houses without any down-payment and we are pouring the money back into the houses to update and repair them." The city official said his biggest worry during the five-week-trial, was "that the jury was going to try and compromise their verdict because so much effort had been put into the investigation and then to realize that' nothing was wrong. That was our biggest worry." Fleming said he was "completely relaxed and happy to be with my friends. It's a great feeling, a wonderful feeling to have all these people stick by you." Fleming said that members' of the Centenary United Methodist Church, where he and his family are parishioners, were "really, really supportive during that trying time." As Fleming got up to walk back into a crowded living room, containing guests such as Fifth Dist. Councilman John J.

Keefe, Hover, former urban renewal director Stanley Roth, and more than a score of city yard workers, Fleming turned and said, "There was one other person that helped me. God helped me through the whole ordeal." HIGH PERCH Clarence E. Fleming clowns with daughter Laura, 4. Few arrests mar quiet Tiers Sunday SUPPORTERS GATHER Clarence E. Fleming is and current city yard employes during a victory party flanked by daughter Laura, son David, 7, and former at his house Saturday evening.

The probe: Pacitto took lie detector test Only a few minor arrests marred an otherwise quiet Sunday for Twin Tier police agencies. An Elmira man was charged with third degree criminal possession of stolen property after he was observed wearing a Chemung County Jail uniform jacket in a Southport store Saturday night, Chemung County sheriff's deputies said. Donald D. Crompton, 20, of 578 Post St. admitted the charge in Southport Town Court and was released on $25 bail for sentencing Friday.

An 18-year-old Little Marsh, Pa. youth was charged with second degree robbery Saturday night following an incident in the Town of Erwin, Painted Post state police said. State police declined to release the youth's name because they said he was eligible for youthful offender status. State police said the youth stopped a vehicle operated by a Painted Post youth on the Addison Road, in the Town of Erwin, Saturday night about 6 p.m. The Pennsylvania youth asked for a ride Chemung County Dist.

Atty. D. Bruce Crew said Sunday night that Joseph R. Pacitto, executive director of the Elmira Urban Renewal Agency, took a lie detector test concerning his testimony in the Clarence E. Fleming criminal trial and that Pacitto "passed the test with flying colors." Pacitto was one of Crew's chief witnesses during Fleming's five-week-trial, which ended Friday with Fleming's acquittal on all 16 charges in an indictment against him.

Pacitto testified that he gave Fleming permission to remove only one furnace and one hot water heater from one building owned by the urban renewal agency. He said he didn't give him blanket authority to take any items he wanted. Fleming's lawyer, Bertram A. Ziff, called Pacitto a liar during his closing summation Friday and Sunday night said that Pacitto committed perjury. Crew said, "To satisfy myself that we were not falsely accusing the wrong man I asked Mr.

Pacitto if he would undergo a polygraph test administered by the New York State Police. Bucks County wins again at farm show Mansfield council reappoints officials into Corning and then attacked the driver of the vehicle and took 75 cents from him. The youth was apprehended a short time later in Corning with the aid of city police, the state police said. Other charges are pending in the case, state police said. A simple assault charge filed against David J.

West, 19, of 21 Austin Wellsboro, by Jan A. Terry of 31 Fischler Wellsboro, was settled out of court last week. District Justice Mrs. Eleanor Trask of Mansfield said West will pay $19.50 in court costs to Tioga County. Terry had charged West with trying to force him off a roadway while both were driving in Wellsboro last Tuesday night.

When they stopped Terry said West grabbed and tried to kick him. Two Maple Shade, N. J. men, remain in satisfactory condition in Williamsport Hospital Sunday after their propane has tanker truck overturned on Rt. 14 near Graver.

Charles Kloss, 35, and William D. Bil-lington, 29, underwent surgery at the hospital following the accident Friday night. longtime borough treasurer Warren Davis. First Citizens National Bank of Mansfield was named trustee for the borough pension plan at a cost of $150 per year. The bank was also renamed the official depository for borough funds.

Council approved retaining the same regular meeting schedule for 1975. Meetings will be held the first Wednesday every month at 7: 30 p.m. in the borough hall. Correction The first name of Horseheads wrestler John Palladino was incorrectly reported as Joe in The Sunday Telegram. Erwin E.

Shaw, Mrs. Gladys J. Baker and Jonas R. Kilburn of Wellsboro RD; Mrs. Carol Ackley of Westfield; Mrs.

Marion Siciliano, Mrs. Etta Young, Mrs. Margaret A. Clemens and Mrs. Leona G.

Havens of Elk land; Mrs. Elaine M. Wilson of Covington; Mrs. Barbara A. Kelly of Blossburg and Jacob C.

Schneider of Morris. Discharged, Jan. 3-Mrs. Mary X. Sherman, Marvin E.

Focht, George W. Coolidge, Mrs. Florence S. Townsend and Mrs. Marion Faivre of Wellsboro; Mrs.

Lenora M. Booth of Wellsboro RD; Mrs. Anna Jean Whitney of Mansfield; Joe Lollo of Galeton; Lynnette E. Hartman of Knox-ville; Duane L. Andrews of Westfield; Terry O.

VanSkiver of Elkland; Mrs. Florence E. White and Mary Ellert Nagy of Middlebury Center; Charles Simmons of Lawrenceville; Richard, Kevin and Neoska Young of Tioga; Susan Houpt of Quakertown and Joseph K. Wright of Sullivan, Ind. ments during the interview, which was conducted in the early part of last year.

Wandell explained the reference made to politics by saying, "I think the comment was made because all the politicans were starting to issue statements about the investigation. The comment about the investigation reaching into high places can be attributed to all kinds of allegations we were getting. Those allegations were being made against some very prominent people, but if there was any truth to them we couldn't find it." Wandell said he did not know who the senator might have been. "We may have heard something. That's all I can say." Shea could not be reached for comment.

Crew said he did not know who the senator might have been. "I didn't get involved in politics throughout the entire investigation, in fact, throughout the entire case. I would have no idea what senator," if any, might have asked about the case. 2 youths found dead PAINTED POST Betty A. Doran; 17, of 33 Houghton Circle, Corning, and Kevin A.

Welty, 19, of Painted PostRD were found dead in his car at 8: 10 a.m. Sunday on the Erwin Hollow Road near here. Dr. Arvo Salo of Corning, a Steuben County Coroner, issued a verdict of accidental deaths by carbon monoxide PainterJ Post state police said one of the victims' parents reported the youth missing at 7:30 a.m. Sunday.

Troopers found the car with the victims inside, police said. The key was in the ignition and turned on, but the engine was not running and was out of gas, police said. Salo ruled the youths dead at the scene. The auto was in an area just off the road, about a half-mile from its intersection with Rt. 415, Salo said.

This morning, state police said that the windows were rolled up tight in the car. Police explained that there is no exhaust system that is absolutely leak free. They said that in newer model cars, switches for fans cannot be turned off. This is supposed to prevent the accumulation of carbon monoxide. Older model cars do not have this safety feature.

Winning number HARRISBURG (AP) The winning six-digit number in Monday's Holiday Double Play Lotter is 528992. The winning five-digit number is 46263. "Mr. Pacitto agreed to take the test and spent a good number of hours undergoing the testing. The examiner said he was convinced that regarding those matters that I was concerned with that Mr.

Pacitto was being truthful." Crew also said, "I absolutely don't believe that Mr. Pacitto committed perjury. I do believe that someone else committed perjury, but I don't care to comment on who it was." However, Crew said he had no plans to seek indictments for perjury made by any witnesses. Crew said he was "extremely incensed at the way some people have questioned Mr. Pacitto's character and I would never have told you about the polygraph test except to Jeff Leber Leber named Potter County public defender COUDERSPORT-Jeff Leber, 29, an associate of the John Duvall law firm, has been named public defender for Potter County.

Duvall recently resigned the position. Leber said about his new post, "I am eager to do it it's a good opportunity to do something meaningful in law and learn quite a bit." As public defender, Leber will represent any client unable to afford a lawyer in a criminal case. Born in Harrisburg, Leber who arrived in Potter County in August 1974 said, "I like it a lot the country's great." Leber recently purchased nine acres with a house on: Sweden Hill. show that he is a very credible witness. I couldn't use the polygraph tests in court because they are not admissible evidence, but I knew all along that Mr.

Pacitto was being truthful, I had the polygraph results." Crew said none of his other witnesses took the lie detector tests. In a related matter there were reports Sunday night that a U.S. senator inquired into the status of the six-month investigation concerning properties being taken from urban renewal homes. The investigation resulted in Fleming's indictment. The inference that the senator, who was not named, was interested in the case was made during a taped interview city detectives, Lts.

Richard Wandell and Phillip Shea, had with former urban renewal director Stanle Roth, Roth said. Roth said, "I'm going to paraphase for you, but one of the two men, I can't remember which one, said that politics had entered into the investigation, that it was reaching into high places and that there had been an inquiry from a U.S. senator." Wandell said he did not make the com- Elkland budget approved ELKLAND The Elkland Borough Council has approved a 1975 budget of $220,388. A total of $213,188 is set for expenditures for operation, maintenance, interest and capital outlay, and $7,200 will be used to take care of a 1974 deficit. Two ordinances were passed, setting the taxation for real estate at 28 mills, a reduction of 2 mills over last year and a $5 per capita tax was passed for general purposes.

In the past, a $5 per capita tax has been set for police and $5 per capita tax for the dike. The dike debt has been paid. Extra unemployed benefits begin HARRISBURG Special Unemployment Assistance (SUA), a temporary program for paying compensation to many unemployed persons normally ineligible for such benfits, goes into effect today. Paul J. Smith, secretary of the state Department of Labor and Industry has announced that the unemployed covered by SUA can begin filing for compensation today in local offices of the Bureau of Employment Security throughout the state.

MANSFIELD Several reappointments were made by Borough Council last week at its reorganizational meeting. Richard Howe was reappointed to a five year term and Ronald Day to a two year term on the borough's Municipal Authority. Martin Barrett Jr. was reappointed to a one year term as Mansfield's wage tax Leon Lunn was selected to serve another five year term on the planning commission, Mrs. Virginia Smith was reappointed to a three year term on the zoning-hearing board.

The job of treasurer was added to Mrs. Ethel E. Hanford's duties as secretary. The consolidation was done at the request of Hospital Notes HARRISBURG (AP) The Bucks County Vegetable Growers Association has won its 10th straight annual title for the best county exhibit at the state Farm Show, officials said Sunday night. The 59th annual show gave top honors to Solly Brothers of Ivyland, Bucks County, for the best farmer's display and Matt Heist, also of Ivyland, for the best vegetable growers collection.

Other early winners were: Glenn Frey, Germansville, Lehigh County, potatoes; David Kershner, New Tripoli, Lehigh, oats; Wayne Bruch, Zionsville, Lehigh, barley; Clark Mantz, New Tripoli, Lehigh, Japanese buckwheat; A. Schreiber, Jersey Shore, Clinton, wheat; James Weeter, Knox, Clarion, soybean; Bruce Mattis, Halifax, Dauphin, buckwheat. Jay McCarrell, Eighty Four, Washington, Dauphin County Beekeepers Association, county honey; David Hacken-burg, Lewisburg, Union, individual honey. Donald Boshnaugle, Columbia, Lancaster, 10-ear hybrid dent and 30-ear hybrid dent corn; Daniel Brubaker, Ephrata, Lancaster, 10-ear open pollinated corn; Kenneth Brubaker, Lancaster, 30-ear open pollinated corn. Pine Grove High School, Schuylkill, homemaking school window exhibit.

Another farm show story on Page 8. Soldiers Sailors Hospital, Wellsboro: Admitted, Jan. 2-Mrs. Grace D. White, Mrs.

ReJbekah M. Short, Elizabeth Ann Ayers and George Coolidge of Wellsboro; Lester E. English, Mrs. Sandra L. Ogden and William E.

Badman of Wellsboro RD; Michael L. Manning of Mansfield; Mrs. Shirley Mead, Arnold Ruef and Mrs. 1 Margaret I. Moon of Westfield; Gurnie Taylor of-Middlebury Center; Mrs.

Judy Anne Borden and Alvan L. VanOrder of Tioga; Mrs. Shirley W. Ogden of Blossburg and Charles E. Pierce of Morris.

Discharged, Jan. 2 William F. Davis and Mrs. Kathleen Largey and infant daughter of Wellsboro; Kathryn Ostrosky of Galeton; Mrs. Frances M.

Lehman of Ulysses; Mrs. Nancy D. Burrell of Sabins-ville and George Gilmour, Stephen D. Cole-grove and Ardeen Selbig of Lawrenceville. Admitted, Jan.

Mrs. Denise M. Topi-chak and Herbert L. Sears of Wellsboro;.