Wellsville Daily Reporter from Wellsville, New York • Page 1

£atty Reporter Serving Allegany, Potter Counties Ninety-Second Year Wellsville, New July 1, 1972 10 Cents Per Copy Burglary arrest at 1 a.m. today may solve 18 cases Village police said this morning that they expect to close "at least" 13 burglary investigations as the result of the arrest of a 24-year-old unemployed Wellsville man early this morning Police said that Terrence Eugene Knox, Genesee Street, was charged with burglary, third degree, after he was found inside the VFW Club on Maple Avenue shortly after 1 a.m. today. Police dispatcher Harold Kiefer received a call about 1 a.m. from a woman who lives near the VFW Club, reporting the sound of breaking glass.

Police officers Richard Lee and James Cicirello responded, and found a first floor window had been broken out. They called for Patrolman Michael Yurcic, who had just gone off duty, to come to the scene also, and also called Club Manager Michael Pasquale. A search of the large club house was initiated, and police said they found Mr. Knox on the second floor of the building. Mr.

Knox was advised of his legal rights, police said, and then brought to the village police station for further questioning. While police would not say what the result of that questioning was, Chief James McKinley, who participated in the questioning, did say that he expects to present "numerous" charges to the Allegany County grand jury later this month. State police this morning said they were interested in questioning Mr. Knox regarding burglaries at Dandy drive-in, Milt Sweet's motors, the Airport drive-in, Harrison Ford and at Short's Service Station. Chief McKinley said that Mr.

Knox will also be charged with disorderly conduct in connection with violating the curfew in effect in the village as a result of the flooding emergency. Investigation of burglaries in the village in recent months involves May 1 entries at Rock- wells, Arnoys Dye, Cannon's and the Wellsville Dry Cleaners; a May 23 break in at the Modern Diner; June 3 break ins at Hetzel Motors, Speedtown Laundrymat and Silvers; June 19 break ins at Ludden's Shoe Store, Melaro's Barber Shop and Stevens' Men's Shop; and two earlier brealc ins at the Agway store. Chief McKinley said that stater police will also be brought into the case in regard to several burglaries at business places outside of but near the village. Chief McKinley said also that he does not feel the "safe jobs" at Burrous Furniture and Argentieri Laundry are related to the burglaries, since they gave the appearance of being "more professional jobs." Mr. Knox was being fingerprinted at 3:30 a.m.

this morning and, police said, would be held in the village jail pending an arraignment later this morning. As he was being fingerprinted, Mr. Knox was overheard by a Daily Reporter newsman as saying that he "couldn't get a job anywhere. No one would hire me." Police said nothing was taken from the VFW Club, possibly because police were called to the scene so quickly after apparent entry was made. When arrested, Mr.

Knox had $3 on his person, police said. Police also reported that the man was to be married this morning. Crackdown set on unsafe fireworks By JOHN STOWELL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Federal inspectors posing as tourists, are cruising heavily-traveled highways in the Midwest and Southeast this Fourth of July weekend in search of bootleg fireworks. A similar crackdown last year resulted in more than 80 seizures of illegal explosives and the shutdown of one plant, and netted Food and Drug Administration agents thousands of dollars worth of fireworks. "We know there are still some clandestine plants operating," said Dale C.

Miller, chief of compliance in the FDA's Bureau of Product Safety. "In addition to the manufacturers and sellers, we're also trying to find the middlemen, because, without them, stands have a tougher time getting the stuff," he said. Miller said Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio, Wyoming, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana are states where illegal fireworks have been a particular problem in past years. He said FDA agents in out-of- state cars check roadside stands, gift shops, novelty shops and gas stations for contraband explosives. After the agent purchases the fireworks, he said, the FDA either seeks a federal seizure order or turns the information over to state police.

Meanwhile, the president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association assailed the FDA for failing to ban all fireworks. Will cross nation in replica of famous 'pusher' aircraft By TIM KLASS Associated Press Writer MOSES LAKE, Wash. (AP) Forty years and 50,000 flying hours after his first solo flight, J. D. Morrison is back at the controls of the type plane in which he received his first Curtis-Wright pusher.

Morrison, 59, took off from here Friday in the tiny, single- engine craft, a replica of the original model, bound for his home at Miami Shores, Fla. He figures the trip will take about two weeks. It would take less than half a day in his regular job as a flight captain for Eastern Airlines. Wearing a football helmet, smoked goggles and an old flight suit over his regular clothes, Morrison is exposed to Curfew here The curfew in the Village of Wellsville is still in effect, from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.

daily. During that period, no unauthorized travel is allowed in the village. the elements while flying a plane scarcely wider than the cabin of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet he usually pilots. Arrests here result from round up by five agencies DOWN BUT NOT OUT Typical of many portions of the village in the past ten days is the condition of this sign near the entrance to Wellsville on the Andover Road battered, bent, ripped, and down but not out. Efforts by many local individuals and groups will put things back to normal, just as this sign someday will once again herald the entrance into the village.

(Reporter Photo) Congress dodges COST issue; approves major boost in SS With five area police agencies cooperating, Friday evening saw the arrest of several persons, some on charges of criminal selling of dangerous drugs, and two other arrests made during a drug round-up. Charged with criminal selling of dangerous drugs were: Warren Green, 21, of 88 E. Main Cuba; Kevin Knowles, 19, 10 Green Cuba; and Edward Smith, 21, Main Street, Friendship. All had been named in sealed indictments handed down by the May Allegany County grand jury. Police said that Mr.

Smith was charged with four counts of sales of a dangerous drug, the other two with one count each. One police spokesman said that the arrests came as a result of work by an undercover agent. Also arrested Friday evening by participating officers were: Ronald R. Hubbard, 26, of 71 Sherman Belfast; and Stephen C. Bloye, 18, Bennett Road, Franklinville.

Mr. Bloye was arrested as AWOL and Mr. Hubbard was charged with menacing and with obstructing governmental administration. Police said that during the flooding emergency Mr. Hubbard threatened fire- police at a roadblock, with a shotgun.

All five of the subjects were arraigned or held'for further action and await such action in the Allegany County jail at Belmont. Participating in the round-up were State Police Senior Investigator Robert Jackson, Investigators William Goet- schius and Stanley Pawelek; as well as Sheriff Richard Burdick, Cuba Police Chief Loren Sweet, Friendship police officer John Doren and Franklinville Police Chief Walter Dzienski. The round-up started at about 5:30 p.m. Friday, and by 9:30 p.m. all five of the subjects had been brought to the state police barracks on Bolivar Road near Wellsville.

Investigator Pawelek, who was participating in the roundup, noticed Mr. Hubbard driving along the road, and knowing that he was wanted in connection with the roadblock incident, made the arrest even though he was assigned to the drug round-up. The May grand jury returned several additional sealed indictments, which police said are being worked on currently. Denial of Daley convention seat threatens Demo accord By EDMOND LeBRETON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Congress has disregarded warnings that President Nixon might veto a 20-per-cent increase in Social Security benefits and has sent the measure to the White House. Nixon was expected to act on the bill before leaving today for a two-week stay in San Clemente, Calif.

The Senate and House acted Friday night before recessing until July 17 for the Fourth of July holiday and the Democratic National Convention. The Social Security the biggest money increase in the program's history, was tied a bill extending the $450-billion debt ceiling through October. Without such action, members were told, the government would have to stop paying its bills by Thursday. Also included in the hybrid increasing the difficulty Nixon would face in provisions for future automatic Social Security increases to cover cost-of- living rises. It also includes procedures by which those who suffered from the floods of Hurricane Agnes and the earlier disasters in South Dakota can get prompt tax refunds.

Nevertheless, the Senate ap- dispute in chess tourney REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Considerable progress was reported Friday night in llth hour negotiations over Bobby Fischer's demand for more money from the world chess championship with Boris Spassky of Russia. Officials of the sponsoring Icelandic Chess Federation met with Andrew Davis, Fischer's lawyer and confidant, but said there was still no guarantee that the 29-year-old American would show up- The 24-game match starts Sunday. A federation spokesman said Davis was seeking a compromise over the money snarl. proved the boost, 82 to 4, and the House, 302 to 35. Payroll taxes would be increased in 1973 and again in 1974 to finance the higher benefits.

From $9,000 this year, the base would go to $10,800 in 1973 and $12,000 starting in 1974. The maximum tax a worker pays this year if $468. The maximum, for a person earning at least $10,800, would go to $594 next year and, for a person earning at least $12,000, to $660 in 1974. Employers pay a matching amount. War costs up, Nixon asks $2.25 billion By JIM ADAMS WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon has asked Congress for an extra $2.25 billion primarily for the Indochina war- nearly a one-third increase in war costs in the wake of renewed U.S.

bombing of North Vietnam. The President made the request Friday without indicating whether it is all or only part of the extra war costs Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird has said could go up to $5 billion if the United States continues bombing, mining and other war operations at the present pace through the end of the year. The President indicated at his news conference Thursday night he intends to continue U.S. war operations at that pace until Hanoi is willing to accept a cease-fire and release American prisoners.

"The only way we are going to get our POWs back," he said, "is to be doing something to them' and that means hitting military targets in North Vietnam, retaining a residual force in South Vietnam and continue the mining of the harbors of Vietnam." The request is for money in addition to some $7 billion already in the President's regular defense request for the 1973 fiscal year starting today. Agency advises care in drying fragile materials ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) In an effort to assist organizations and individuals in saving cultural materials and personal valuables damaged by flood waters, the Office of Cultural Education in the New York State Education Department Friday issued advice on preserving fragile materials, Among its general maxims the office advises that water- soaked valuables should not be mixed with dry material, that fans should be used to circulate air in dampened areas and that wet textiles, books and papers should be frozen to halt decomposition. A number of organizations are fighting flood-aided deterioration process of many of their valuable records and possessions. Picnics beckon, but cleanup vital By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Fourth of July weekend beckoned most New York State residents to picnics, parades and firework displays, but in the Southern Tier flood cleanup chores preempted the holiday.

In Corning, one of the most severely damaged cities, a search team Friday recovered the body of woman state authorities identified as Lena M. Moulton, 88, a Corning resident. She became No. 25 on the statewide flood death list. Eighteen of those 25 victims have been found in Corning and nearby Painted Post alone.

Spirits lifted a bit when the National Weather Service ended a flash-flood watch for most sections of the state. Despite persistent rain Friday, rivers remained below flood stage and only a few scattered streams were reported on the rise. Those streams included East Valley Creek in Andover, Alleghany County, and Oatka and Canaseraga creeks, tributaries of the Genesee River. The weather forecasters saw little chance of rain today and tomorrow. Looking back on the downpours of June 20-26, the NWS, compiled preliminary totals on the amount of rainfall various communities received.

In Western New York, Friendship recorded 9.24 inches for that period, while Olean had 8.49 inches. In Port Allegheny, near Olean, 11.09 inches fell. While the weather forecasts turned toward optimism, military authorities decided to play it on the safe side. An Army National Guard battalion scheduled to be sent back to its Buffalo home Friday was ordered to remain on duty in Elmira at least through today. Prison inmates remained on flood cleanup duty, too, except for one who, according to troopers, went AWOL in the Chemung County village of Big Flats Friday afternoon.

The search continued today for Stewart Stiles, an Elmira state prison inmate missing from cleanup detail. Stiles, 26, formerly of Hazleton, was serving a term for third-degree forgery, state police said. In the Finger Lakes area, high water levels and debris prompted authorities to ban some boating activities. The Ontario County sheriff's department told power boat traffic to stay off Conesus and Honeoye lakes. A similar warning was posted for Keuka Lake.

Roiled water in these and other lakes ruined holiday swim plans for those able to schedule outings. Many of the Corning Glass have been literally frozen in an attempt to save them. Catalogues and accession records have been placed in a freezer in Albany and library and manuscript records in freezers in Watkins Glen and Syracuse. At the company's glass museum many priceless works of art are broken and buried in six inches of mud in the display room. "We dare not walk in there for fear of pulverizing them," said G.

Carroll Lindsay, director of the Dvision of Museum Services in the State Education Department. He sent four associates to help in the delicate salvage process. Extensive damage has also been reported by the Chemung County Historical Society in Elmira. The preservation service of the department has urged all in need of advice on rescuing paper, books, leather goods, textiles, paintings, ceramics and other artifacts to contact it for advice. By JOHN BECKLER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Chicago Mayor Richard J.

Daley, boss of the biggest Democratic organization in the country, has been shorn of his convention seat in a move that left the party teetering on the edge of discord. The convention's Credentials Committee, firmly controlled by supporters of Sen. George McGovern, voted 71 to 61 Friday night to deny seats to Daley and 58 other uncommitted Illinois delegates. The committee voted instead to seat a rival slate of 41 delegates pledged to McGovern and another 18 leaning toward him. The vote was the second explosive challenge decided by the committee, triggering extreme emotional responses and setting the stage for a discordant convention floor fight.

But, after the Daley vote, a leader of the insurgents called for a healing compromise. McGovern also picked up eight convention votes in another successful challenge involving downstate Illinois delegates and so gained back at least 49 of the delegates he lost Thursday when the Credentials Committee outlawed California's winner-take-all primary, stripping him of more than half its 271 delegates. All of the committee's actions are subject to final approval by the national convention, which opens in Miami Beach July 10, and both the California and Illinois challenges are expected to be refought there. The Daley delegation is also planning a court fight to overturn the committee ruling. In Chicago, Daley did not disclose his immediate plans, but the Rev.

Jesse Jackson, a leader of the challenge, said he hoped a compromise could be worked out before the convention "Rather than having a fight in Miami, there should be a solution in Chicago," Jackson said. "It is clear we have the power to cut him off, and he has CLOUDY, Regional Forecast Partly cloudy today and a chance of a few brief showers. High in the mid 70s. Mostly clear tonight with a chance of patchy ground fog developing. Low 55 to 60.

Sunny intervals Sunday, high near 80. Mainly southwest to west winds 10 to 20 today and 10 or less tonight. the power to cut us off," said Jackson. "The question is how can we survive together." Daley called the vote "regrettable and a great disservice to the Democratic party." Although there had been talk in the committee of a compromise on the Illinois challenge, the mood changed abruptly to bitterness following the California vote. The challenge to the Daley delegation was based on the report of a hearing examiner appointed by the Credentials Committee to investigate the dispute.

The examiner, Cecil F. Poole, concluded that the Chicago Democratic organization had violated nearly every party guideline for delegate selection. Those guidelines, drafted by a reform commission launched by McGovern after the 1968 convention, require states to give the proper representation to women, youth, blacks and other minority interests, and to select delegatesin open well- publicized meetings. Poole found "deliberate, covert and calculated" violations in the Chicago delegation. Of the 59 Daley delegates, 12 were black, eight young and six 'women.

Attorney Wayne W. Whalen, who represented the Chicago challengers, said 38 were committeemen in the Daley organization and the rest were either relatives of organization members or other party officials. Jerome Torshen, a lawyer for the Daley delegation, said it had been elected under Illinois laws by 900,000 Democratic voters whereas the rival slate was put together in back rooms by "a small self-anointed elite group." One delegate, James P. Harrelson of South Carolina, said 'the committee, in its anxiety to get, Daley, was endangering the party's election chances in November. But another, Matthew Troy, Queens County party leader in New York City, declared, "I spent seven months breaking my back to get my delegates into line with the McGovern guidelines.

And I'll be damned if I'm going to let Richard Daley stay outside those guidelines and do what he likes. All he did was put in old-line party hacks who would do what Dick Daley told them to do." S. Viets report vital highlands road opened SAIGON (AP) Highway 14 between Pleiku and Kontum in the central highlands has been opened to military traffic for the first time since mid-May, South Vietnamese spokesmen announced today. They said a 40-truck convoy carrying food and ammunition drove the 25 miles from Pleiku to Kontum on Friday without incident. The route had been closed by Communist forces and all efforts by South Vietnamese troops to dislodge them had failed.

Rangers searching the area around Chu Pao mountain, the location of most of the fighting along the road, found 250 dead North Vietnamese soldiers in mass graves, the spokesman said. Another 53 were found in another location nearby. On Friday South Vietnamese forces drove within three miles of Quang Tri City as they battled to retake the northernmost territory. The task force encountered sporadic enemy resistance as the drive was in its third day. The province fell to the North Vietnamese two months ago.

The South Vietnamese advance appeared to be moving on schedule, but the absence of bridges spanning two rivers south of Quang Tri slowed the drive somewhat. Many of the bridges were destroyed by allied air strikes after the province fell. Some problems seem so far away By LEW FONS Somehow all of the other problems in the world seem to be so far away when nature presents a problem right in your own living room. What has happened in Vietnam in the past ten days? Are the battles still going on in Belfast? Are we still bombing Hanoi? What's McGovern's score now? These questions, so pressing only ten days ago, were pushed into the farthest reaches of our minds by torrents of flood water. How can one care about a war in the jungles when he's fighting his own war against three feet of water in the living room? The only Irish concern heard expressed recently was that of many of Wellsville's fine Irish folks, who were lucky if they saved any of the old country linen.

The planes bombing North Vietnam were forgotten as helicopters flew over our own village, bringing in needed supplies and manpower. And McGovern's delegate count somehow seems unimportant when you're trying to refinish the antique cherry table that you found floating in your garage after the flood. In spite of the shuttle of these once-all-important issues to the background, the rest of the world has gone on, like normal, while Wellsville has fought the greatest battle many of us have ever known. Missed, even overlooked in the turmoil at home, was the fact that Howard Johnson died, or the number of home runs hit in the majors last week, or even who was married, or supposed to have been, last week. But as it always has in the past, and hopefully will in the future, life does go on, arid return to what some may call normal.

For a few davs Wellsville was on the front pages of newspapers across the country. Now, we're back to our rightful spot in the world, where we do more listening to news than making of news. We have some marks left, some of which will always be here. We have our memories, our newspaper clippings, our Brownie or Polaroid pictures which will long remind us of the experiences of the past ten days. But even these will fade, as will our memories.

Stories will be told from generation to generation about the "flood of '72." And sometime, maybe soon, it'll be nothing but a memory, as the bombing, the fighting and the skyjacking take over the front pages once again. but somehow these disasters will seem even farther away from home than ever before.