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Star-Gazette Good neighbor policy Page 12 Sports news Pages Elmira, N.Y., Friday, Sept. 24, 1976 FINAL Page 11 Debate turns off r. i 4 4 1 some Tier people iipuw V. "iJ BENT ON SHAPING UP Tony Lisi, 11, of the Southport Fire Department Small Fry football team, holds onto his helmet in a pre- game warmup his first of the season. (Photos by Anne Peters.) Debate between Carter and Ford? Nah.

We'd rather watch the Yankees and sip some brew. Besides, we can always read it in the and everybody knows that the candidates have been coached anyway. Those were the responses from some people around Elmira Thursday night during the first of three televised presi dential debates. In just three of six locations visited was there anyone watching the debates between Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter and President Gerald R. Ford.

Of the nine persons actually concen trating on the 90-minute debate, six were students at Elmira College, and three had to view the debate for classes today. Three patrons of Bus Horigan's tavern, 365 Davis were intent on the candidates' answers to questions from members of the media. The majority opinion at the bar was they'd rather see the Yankees. Three others, who declined to give their names, watched the debate. One said he wanted to hear what the candidates were saying although he felt they'd probably said most of it before.

The difference this time, he pointed out, was "they are saying what they have said before, but more carefully." Lisa Shapiro, a sophomore at Elmira College, from Maine, feels Carter's views toward equalizing the tax burden in the country are more liberal than Another sophomore, from Pennsylvania, Libby Keiser, had to watch the debate for class. But, she said, in political science class earlier in the day, she'd learned something which surprised her 50 per cent of the class were registered voters, and a quarter intended to vote in the election. The two patrons at the Arch Cafe, 120 S. Main were watching news from New York City. The bartender said no one had asked to see the debate.

At the Hi Bar Tavern, 600 S. Main the story was much the same. One group of bowlers had a vocal member, who wasn't interested in the debate, and was disillusioned with politicians as a result of the federal indictment of former Rep. James F. Hastings this week.

"I'll read it in the paper tomorrow," he said. 'Right after this Hastings thing, who's interested in pretty discouraging after everything and he appears to have done a good job, this happens. I'm not too enthusiastic when I see a guy who did a good job like he it takes a little of the heart oul of it." At the Connecticut Yankee Inn, 147 W. Gray only one patron stared blankly at the television. He was bored with talking to the chap next to him, he explained jokingly.

(Related story on Page 1.) all he game is footb small fry style Edison sports great, Richard Lyon, dies at 51 mageeverything coaches John Aycock, Jack Kelley and Harold Wood have been pounding into their heads for the last three weeks football fundamentals. And it's rough keeping everything straight so your tail doesn't split from your wingback while the quarterpounder lofts the ball to his middle running-back or something like that. This "is the first time most of the 10-13-year-olds have come in contact with the sport, the coaches explain. So they've got to start at the beginning and work No complicated game plans. No experimental team plays.

Just the basics. ByJOETTE RIEHLE "Wtiat's the name of the game?" "FOOTBALL!" "I can't hear you!" "FOOTBALL!" "Louder! I can't hear you!" "FOOTBALL!" Seventeen little purple and white bodies, padded, jerseyed, helmeted, psyched up for the battering to come, move from their Brand Park warmup exercises to the 70-yard field, ready to block, tackle, pass, ram and run against their opponents they hope. They're ready to score that TD. (That's a touchdown orth six points). It's the Southport Fire Department Small Fry against the Thatcher Manufacturing Co.

team in Pee Wee Football. It's Southport's first game. But nobody nervous. What they're trying to concentrate on is all those sweeps, passes, signals, who covers who, who's got the line of scrim Richard S. Lyon, a local native and one of Edison High School's sports greats, died Thursday night at his home in Elnora, N.

a suburb of Schenecla-' dy. He was 51. Mr. Lyon, the coordinator of physical education and athletics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., died of an apparent heart attack. RPI officials said he went jogging after watching the Presidential debate on TV and was stricken when he returned home.

A member of the Elmira football, Ithaca College and Section IV halls of fame, Mr. Lyon had been at RPI since 1973 and held the top athletic post. He was head football coach at Ithaca College from 1958 to 1967, compiling a 49-20 record. The Colgate graduate also served as assistant football coach at the U. S.

Military Academy from 1967 to 1972. Mr. Lyon coached the Clyde, N. High School football and basketball teams between 1948 and 1953.. His Clyde football teams were county champs between 1948 and 1952 and league champs between 1949 and 1951.

The 1949 and 1950 teams went unbeaten. He also coached Wellsville, N. Clipboard in hand, Kelley goes over a wjupie ui oaMc mays uie youngsters iry to keep in their heads. "You cover anybody who comes through.your territory." Right. "There are gonna be a lot of sweeps which puts a lot of pressure on our de- 1- 1 1 t- i Underage drinking probe planned of wine festival tensive ends." Right.

"If yon see a play developing, if it's a pass, yell and get on it. Don't worry about not being understood with the mouthpiece in your Right. "Do you want us to play offense or defense?" a young gladiator asks. Ohhhh. No one along the sidelines isexcited as the defense misses the Thatcher sweep and TD on the first play.

"Whatsh shappened?" a purple-headed player asks through his mouthpiece? "Watch the ball boys. Come on, you're offsides," Dale Little, Southport's head coach and field official admonishes. No 29 looks up at him in amazement. what's offsides? Southport matches Thatcher score as a nicely completed pass to Robert Butler brings them downfidd, within scoring Kelley said the new statewide coalition is planning a grass roots membership campaign and will attempt to talk to every legislator and monitor their voting, record. Marshall said he was encouraged to see industry and labor working together to revise the no-growth thinking in state.

Smith put the onus on Gov. Hugh L. Carey to put pressure on the legislature, particularly the Democratic Assembly, They are not the only "Jackpot" winners in the Southern Tier. John Overacker, 213 Robin Rd Horseheads' and Walter J. Clinch, 200 L'Hommedieu Montour Falls, each won the "Jackpot" this week.

Mrs. James Burke 111 Country Club Elmira, this week won the $2,500 in groceries by spelling out "New York" with the letters on the bottom of the tickets. at Mall Dancers can use the area the island and tables will be up around the fringes, said Mrs. A. Lepak, ball chairman, Tickets will be available at the door.

a distance. But the defense on the sidelines still isn't enthused. Their parents are though. The ball changes hands. Thatcher scores again, and the ball is turned over to Southport.

Southport drives to within 10 yards of second TD. Dont let up, Gary. Get them feet movin'," his dad encourages. But Southport is stopped. No TD this time.

The 100-110 pound players hit, blocked, drove, passed and bruised during their first taste of football. "It was a fairly good game. There's nothing better than winning, but a tie's better than losing," Aycock said. No one went away a loser. The score was 18-18.

JUST LIKE WE TOLD YA Coach Jack Kelley of the Southport Fire Department Small Fry football team goes over a play one more time for David Cleary, 10, No. 17, just before the first football game of his to come up with legislation encouraging the development of energy sources and thus, industry. State laws and requlations have burdened industry to the point the state economy is expanding, but negatively. Industry is leaving and no one new is coming in, Kelley said. "We are not suggesting that the ground gained in cleaning up the environment be lost," said Robert D.

Badertscher, one of the coordinators of the Region 5 committee which includes Chemung and Steuben counties. "However, what we are looking for is a realistic, balanced concern for the environment and the development of additional energy sources." The Jobs and Energy Committee which was spearheaded by former Secretary of Libor Peter Brennan, now president of the State Building Trades Council, is supporting several forms of energy development including nuclear power plants. The group favors the development of any form of energy that is economically and environmentally acceptable. The group, however, espouses nuclear energy because there's "no way the state is going to be able to supply the amount of generation required without developing coal fired and nuclear generating stations," said Badertscher. RUN THAT BY ME AGAIN? Matthew Manning, 2, of 1651 Pine Hill Drive, Pine City, is surrounded by his football heroes but can't quite figure out that last play in the Southport Fire Department Small Fry football team game against Thatcher 'Manufacturing Co.

at Brand Park. Players are from left: Dave Townsend, Ron Wilcox and David Cleary. Richard S. Lyon Central School football and basketball teams between 1953 and 1955. Mr.

Lyon also coached football and wrestling at RPI from 1955 to 1958. The 1942 graduate of Edison High School was an outstanding basketball and football player during his high school years. under 18-years-old is usually a 10-day suspension of the establishment's liquor license. However, he said the penalty could become stiffer if more than one minor is involved. City, county consider tax breaks Action was reported today at city and county government levels on possible enactment of property tax exemptions for businesses and industries which expand or improve plants.

City Council is scheduled Monday night to set Oct. 11 as the date of a public hearing on a local law to permit tax breaks in certain instances. The city's action would grant 100 per cent tax exemptions for up to 10 years to firms which improve the value of their holdings. The exemption would apply only to the improved portion of the property, not the entire parcel or facility. County Executive Morris E.

Blostein Thursday heard arguments for and against a similar exemption at the county level. Several citizens appeared for and against the plan. in death case home near the Elmira Humane Society animal shelter on Rt. 17. James W.

Fretz, 19, of 258 W. Hudson St. charged with attempted first, degree sexual abuse, was sentenced to an indeterminate term not to exceed four years when he appeared in court. The term is to run concurrently with a similar sentence imposed for violation of probation. Fretz was arrested in April and charged with trying to assault a 15-year-old girl near the Erie Lackawanna Railroad tracks off E.

Miller St. Gordon N. Strobridge, 28, of 1007 Cottage Drive Big Flats, a five year probation term when he was sentenced on a charge of criminal possession of a dangerous weapon. Strobridge was arrested in September of last year after three shots were fired in his home that ripped into the home of a next door neighbor. Nobody was injured.

Energy group urges jobs emphasis Windmills and solar cells are not the answer to the state's energy problems, job problems or environmental problems, a group of utility, labor and industry representatives learned Thursday. "Too long there was has not been a strong enough interest in employment and jobs," said Richard Kelley, who is on the state executive council of the New York State Committee for Jobs and CORNING The state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control has launched an investigation into possible underage drinking at the recent Wine Festival '76 held at Corning Community College. David Coffey, deputy commissioner of the division's Buffalo 'office, said Thursday that recent Sunday Telegram photographs of minors imbiding alcoholic beverages at the festival have been turned over to the investigative force of his office. He said the probe will concern a caterer's license issued to Lando's Hotel on Bridge St. for the festival.

Coffey said Lando's has catered for college functions on several occasions including the Wine Festival last year and a social for the Inter-Club Council on April 10. "A person can apply to cater an affair after paying a fee;" he said. "They are responsible for any violations." Coffey said his office received an application from Lando's in July to cater the Wine Festival held Sept. 11 and it was approved since there had been no problems in previous years. He said the penally for selling, delivering or giving away alcoholic beverages to a person Probation given Richard W.

Rice, 23, of 199 Main Newfield, charged with criminally negligent homicide in the shooting death of his brother July 11, was sentenced to a five year probation term when he appeared in Chemung County Court this morning. Rice was arrested in connection with the death of his brother John, 16, of Lowman RD 2. The Rice youth was killed when a bullet fired from a 357-cal, magnum revolver held by his brother struck him in the shoulder blade and deflected into a lung, Chemung County Medical Examiner Dr. Edward J. P.

Droleski said. A witness told police that as the elder Rice pointed the gun at his brother, it discharged. The charge of criminally negligent homicide assumes there was no intent to kill a person, according to a spokesman for the district attorney's office. The shooting took place at the Rice New lottery's a jackpot for some Energy Independence and is employed by Rochester Gas and Electric. What has been heard is the voices of no-growth, Kelley said, so that the state now is ranked 49th as far as getting new business.

Also attending the luncheon meeting of Region 5 of the state group was State Sen. William T. Smith and Assemblyman L. Richard Marshall along with 25 person representing industry and labor. squares and won $2.

Burdick bought two more tickets with the winnings. They hit the Jackpot with the next ticket. With "Jackpot" written in all six squares they automatically had won and chances at later drawings for a week for life, or prizes of $10,000 or BiCen Ball to be The Mall in Big Flats will become a ballroom Saturday night at 10 for Chemung County's Bicentennial Ball. The Lcs and Larry Elgart Orchestra will occupy the island at mid- Mall. around set Becky BATH Margo Polmanteer bought the old New York State lottery tickets about once a week 'but never won anything.

But on Tuesday she hit the Jackpot with a new ticket. Mrs. Polmanteer, Bath RD 4, and Arthur Burdick of Canisteo were having, lunch around 12:30 p. m. at the Acme Market, Cook St.

and Washington where they both work. Burdick said he wanted to buy a ticket and Mrs. Polmanteer gave him 50 cents to split the cost. This was the third time they had bought a ticket in the past two weeks, since the lottery started. Mis.

Polmanteer had bought three by herself, losing each time. They scraped the covering off the six.