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S-rr CLEARING Sunny to partly cloudy today and continued cold, high around 20, low 5 to 15. 16 at midnight. See weather map on page 1 GOOD MORNING The Post-Star and Times brings you a full local news report of happenings in Warren, Washington and Saratoga Counties. i AND Vol. LXVIII-No, 25 24 Pages 2 Sections GLENS FALLS, N.Y., MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1972 Dial 792-3131 Price 12 Certs Hit -Run Death I TIMES Police Probing 1111 The Saratoga County Sheriff's Department is continuing its probe into a hit-and-run accident early Saturday- which claimed the life of a Victory Mills man not far from his Police identified the victim' as Elmer E- Hopkins, 43, of Gates who suffered multiple injuries including a fractured neck when he was struck as he walked towards home about Donald Clark of South Glens Falls said an autopsy was performed, at his instruction later Saturday at Saratoga Hospital.

Clark is withholding a verdict pending the completion of the police investigation, he said! Police said the accident occurred on Gates Ave. about a quarter-mile south of Green St. Continuing the investigation are Investigator James Bowen, Sgt. Walter Woolley and Deputies Joseph Braim, Stanley Jones, Anthony Ellis and George Thompson, all of the Sheriff's Department. Hopkins; a native of Victory had lived there all his life.

He was employed by United Board and Carton Corp. of Victory Mills and was a member of the David Nevins Volunteer Fire Department of Victory Mills. He also was a member of the Spa' Radio Club. Survivors lare his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Sheldon Hopkins, Victory Mills; four sisters, Mrs. Arthur Beacom, East Meadow, L. Miss Doris Hopkins, Victory Mills, Mrs. Richard Jones, White River Junction, and Mrs. Frank Cody, Victory Mills.

The funeral will be conducted today at 2 p.m. at' the J. T. Still Funeral Home, by the Rev. James Town-ley, pastor of the Schuylerville United Methodist Church.

Interment will be in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Schuylerville. mi 3 a.m. i Saratoga County Coroner Hanoi HOW MUCH FOR WELFARE? What is the cost of welfare in Warren, Washington and Saratoga counties? How many persons are on the welfare rolls? The answers to these and other questions about welfare will be answered in a special series which will start Tuesday morning in The Post-Star and Times. Reporter Irv Dean was assigned to take an in-depth look at the program which is taking an ever- 1 2 Frontiers increasing portion of the OVERCOME Persons, one a girl with gas mask, carry a girl who fainted in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, yesterday after 13 persons were shot dead. Gunfire erupted when British paratroopers stormed a Roman Catholic protest rally.

His series will be of interest to everyone who pays taxes. Watch for the first, article in this Post-Star and Times special Tuesday. Halts Negotiations City Muskie Arizona Pick, Others Show Strength since late last fall when a new Bloomfield apprised Sharpe, of the city's1 position yesterday, and indicated that negotiations would not resume until the Pay Board makes its judgment. The question of the reduced hours has been the major issue in the stalemated negotiations. 1 Glens Falls and the PFA have been at a technical impasse in Londonderry contract was not agreed upon the required number of days prior to the date for submis sion of the city budget.

PERB stepped into the dis pute Jan. 6 at the request of the firemen. Up to that time, the city had offered a $200 across-the-board raise. diately called for and I have telegraphed the British- prime minister to this effect," Cardi nal Conway said in a state ment. But Miss Devlin charged that an official inquiry would only come up with a whitewash.

"This is mass murder by the British army," she added. SAIGON (AP- Thousands of Hanoi troops, including a reserve division normally held in North Vietnam, are moving across the demilitarized zone and through southern Laos to ward South Vietnam's northern and western frontiers, U.S. military sources said Sunday. North Vietnamese forces bombarded South Vietnamese bases guarding the demili tanzed zone with more than 200 rockets and mortars Saturday in the heaviest shelling attack along the northern frontier since last fall. In three ground clashes, 47 North Vietnamese troops and six South Vietnam ese defenders were killed, the Saigon Command Scores of U.S.

B52 heavy bombers, smaller tactical fight er-bombers and gunships were trying anew to slow the move ment of North Vietnamese troops and supplies southward. The bombers dropped between 700 and 900 tons of explosives along South- with Laos and inside the south ern half of the DMZ Many senior U.S. officials say the Communists main target may be Kontum, a provincial capital of 30,000 in South Viet nam central highlands. U.S. military sources said one regiment of the North Viet namese 324B Division had moved south across the DMZ in recent weeks, while units of an other division, not identified, were reported to have moved into the A Shau valley and the Khe Sanh region in the northwestern quadrant of South Vietnam adjacent to the Laotian border.

The sources disclosed thatj the North Vietnamese 308th Di- vision, normally held in re serve, has- been on the move through the southern panhandle of Laos, apparently headed for the triborder region, where the frontiers of Laos and Cambodia join South Vietnam's central highlands, about 300 miles north of Saigon. Two infantry regiments, one! district long "a hotbed of Catholic activism. William Cardinal Conway, Roman Catholic primate of all Ireland, said he was "deeply shocked at the hews of the awful slaughter in Derry this afternoon." "An impartial and independent public inquiry is imme Was Hughes Book Based On Computer Printout? thoughts of Howard Hits sapper regiment and one artil lery regiment are believed to have been operating in the re gion for some time. In addition. one regiment of the North Vietnamese 320th Division, which normally operates along the DMZ, has moved into the triborder region, and the 320th Division's two other regiments are still moving south toward the central the Grat AAfl a A.

Robins Die In Florida HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) -Thousands of dead birds, many of them robins, have been found in a field here. Conservationists believe they wer poisoned by chemical spraying. Willard Dilley, president of the South Dade Audubon Society, said the birds new into South Florida about a week ago on their annual southerly migration. He said he believed the birds died of paralysis caused by eat ing fruit off shrubs that had received some form of chemical spray.

"You would have to spend hours and hours counting the thousands of dead birds," said Dilley. "This is not an exaggerated situation. It just makes you sick." Couple Killed On Snowmobile SCOTIA, N.Y. (AP) A Schenectady couple was killed Saturday night when the snowmobile they were riding struck a chain stretched across a driveway in the Schenectady County Town of Glenville, sheriff's deputies reported. Marcelle Demarest, 24, was killed instantly.

Her husband. Daniel, 27, died sometime later in Schenectady's Ellis Hospital. Miami police released this picture of Garrett Trapnell, tentatively identified by federal officials as the man whe hijacked a TWA jet from Los Angeles to New York. and then turned over to Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Sgt Guard said. Trapnell successfully commandeered the airliner by secreting an automatic pistol in a fake cast on his arm.

Crew members said he cut sway ths cast with a razor blade to reveal the pistol and claimed had a bomb. I i i tax dollar. Registered Democrats choose between some 16,000 candidates for seats in the state con vention. Approximately one- third of the candidates were committed to Muskie, one-third were uncommitted, and another third divided between Lindsay, McGovern and eight other possible candidates. When the complicated count was completed Sunday, Muskie had 189 delegates, Lindsay lis, and McGovern 102, with 85 un committed.

Jackson and Humphrey re ceived two each despite their backing of the uncommitted slate, and Sen. Vance Hartke, and Rep. Shirley Chi- sholm, D-N. one each. All the major candidates campaigned for Arizona's delegates.

Guides Tell OfU.S. Life TBILISI. U. S.S.R. (AP) Twenty-three young Americans, all of whom speak Russian, have begun a six-month visit to the Soviet Union to try to show how people live in the United States.

They are guides at a U.S. ex hibit called "Research and Development U.S;A.' a display of American gadgetry ranging from computers to coffeema- kers which opened in this capital of Soviet Georgia Jan. 24. The guides are assigned to the exhibit to explain how the equipment works and what it's used for. But they have had to field questions on such varied tonics as the Vietnam war, cur rent American rock groups and the planned world championship chess match between American Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.

"The most common question concerns the purchasing power of the American said Al Estrin, 35, an industrial en gineer from Washington and one of the older guides, "xney want to know how much every thing costs." Most ot tne guides are in me early or mid-20s. Many of them studied the Russian language and Soviet affairs in college and view their visit to the So viet Union as a learning ex perience. Other guides have Russian parents and learned the language at home. terest and have close trade ties. Bhutto said he asked Britain and other Commonwealth coun tries to give him until he returns from China before recog nizing Bangladesh.

He is to re turn Wednesday. In London, diplomatic officials said privately that the British government had been in close consultation with a num ber of foreign governments, including Pakistan, on the ques tion of recognizing Bangladesh The officials said Britain al ready had decided it must rec ognize the new state and it was onlv a Question of timing the By IRV DEAN The City of Glens Falls has suspended contract talks with the Permanent Firemen's Assoc. until it can obtain an opinion from the U. Pay Board on whether a cut in hours equals a raise In pay. Last week the Pay Board's New York City office Indicated that city may consider the reduction in work hours for firemen a raise so long as wages are not cut because of reduced work week.

Councilman Joseph W. Bloom- fiAld chief ritv necrotiator. told -The Post-Star" and Times, -that the city will submit informaton on its employe wage structure and benefits to the Pay Board and ask for a firm, opinion as to whether the city is justified in Its stand In teh contract dispute Furthermore, he said, the Pay Board will be asked to deter mine the percentage of the raise if it finds that a raise has been effected through the cut in hours. Under the federal wage and price freeze, a 5.5 per cent ceiling has been placed on pay increases. 'W; BBy reducing firemen's work week from ,46 "to 40 hours, the vivy maintains, we iiremen have been panted a raise.

PFA representatives, counter that since the reduction in hours is mandated by state law, it is not a negotiable matter. Bloomfield disclosed he was Instructed by-' the Common Council to cease negotiations with the PFA Fridav during a special session of the Council behind closed doors. He 'met Thursday, he said, with PFA negotiators and James the mediator appointed by the State Public Employment Relations Board to intervene in thes contract dis pute. The PFA negotiators at that time presented a proposal un der which firemen would receive a $200 pay increase retroactive to Jan. 1 and a second across- the-board $20C raise July 2.

In addition, the city would change the longevity increment schedule, so that it is identical to mat contained in tne new contract with the 1 1 Benevolent Assoc. The PBA's new schedule gives employes more pay at earlier points in their careers. The city rejected the PFA offer. (' PFA negotiators had been demanding a contract similar to that negotiated with the police On the Inside Ann Landers Page 7 Bombeck 4 Boyd Column 3 Bridge by Goren 18 Chamberlain 4 Classified Ads 20-23 Comics 18 Considine 4 Dr. Van pellen 4 Editorials 4 Entertainment 14 Evans and Novak 4 Horoscope 18 Obituaries 6 Radio .19 Saratoga County 14 Social News 7 Sports 9, 10, 11 Television 19 Washington County 5 PHOENIX, Ariz.

(AP) Sen. Edmund S. Muskie has emerged from a vote of 35,000 Arizona Democrats as their fa-voriate for the presidential nom ination, but they vote in urban areas cut his share of delegates to the state convention. In the cities, New York May or Jo: v. unasay ana sen.

George S. McGovern of South Dakota showed strength and, between them, accumulated more delegates than Muskie, considered the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. They will battle the Maine senator for -control- -of --the state's 25 delegates to the Dem ocratic National Convention Miami Beach, next August. Arizona Democrats votea bat-! urday to select 500 delegates to state convention Feb. 12 Those 500 will choose the 25 delegates to the national convention.

Muskie won 38 per cent of the 300 delegates elected Saturday, ev 24 oer ana McGovern 20 per cent. Uncom mitted delegates, favored by hackers of Sens. Henry Jackson, and Hubert Humphrey, won 17 per cent. Bennington Man Hit-Run Victim HOOSICK FALLS, Y. (AP) A hit-and-run accident tooK the life of a Bennington, Vt man who was seeking help aft er his automobile ran oif Koute 22 near this Rensselaer County community early Sunday, State Police reported.

He was identified as wiiuam Cone, 23. Troopers said he ap parently climbed back to the highway after his car rolled down an embankment and was trying to flag down help when struck by a passing car. Police said the driver ot tne alleged hit-run vehicle, Gerald Vanderkar, 28 of Hoosick Falls, was involved in a collision with a truck about seven miles away after leaving the accident scene. Sign of Progress ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) New York Secretary of State John P.

Lomenzo reported Sunday that more business firms filed certificates of incorporation in his office last year than in any year except 1969. Bhutto said: "National honor is more important than pounds, shillings and pences." He said Pakistan has no ran cor for the British people and he urged the Pakistani press not to attack Britain. He said he did not like "the parting of the with the Commonwealth but maintained that Pakistan would be failing in its duty a self-respecting nation if it did not take the decision. Pakistan has been a member of the Commonwealth since it became independent in August 1947 along with India. Nations with Commonwealth status are fully autonomous.

but recognize British leadership including a $400 across-the-board raise immediately'- Plus the amended longevity increment The verbal opinion on the reduction in hours from the Pay Board's New, York office was obtained by Sharpe at the insistence of the firemen, Bloom-field said. 13 Die nivmnwriirpnv Northern Ireland (AP Thirteen civil ians were shot and killed Sun day in gunfire that erupted when British paratroopers stormed a Roman Catholic pro test rally in order to grab rock throwing youths, authorities re ported. f-' The deaths touched off outraged protest from some North era Irish leaders', who called the shootings an "awful slaughter," and "mass murder." The death toll was London derry's worst in more than three years of communal strife pitting Roman Catholic mili tants against Protectants and the British soldiers sent to re store order. The British said they knew of at least five dead, described as thre snipers and two throwers of gasoline bombs. But hospital authorities reported 13 civilians killed and 16 others including two women treated for gun shot wounds.

I "We ll never forget it," vow ed Bernadette the 24 year-old civil rights leader and member of the British Parliament. "We'll just have to con tinue the struggle to end this savagery." The gunfire erupted as about 3,000 marchers from Roman Catholic districts gathered to hear an address by Miss Devlin at a protest rally held in defiance of a government ban. The army said paratroopers moved into the crowd to snatch youngsters who were hurling rocks and bottles. The soldiers came under guerrilla sniper fire from a high apartment block, officers reported, and the exchanges began. "At no time did any of our units open fire on the British army prior to the army's opening fire." countered a leader of the Irish Republican Amy, the uiegai guernua group.

"The British army murdered innocent civilians in Derry he added. "We leave the world to judge who are the real terrorists. The extremist Provisional wing of the IRA swore to avenge the deaths. Witnesses said most victims were shot during gunfire near tne scene of the rally, in Lon donderry's Roman Catholic Hayes Tops Grammy Bids NEW YORK (AP) Soul singer Isaac Hayes was nomi nated Monday for eight Grammy awards, the most for any one artist in the annual awards for the previous year's best recordings. Songwriter-singer Carole King "and the Carpenters, featuring Karen Carpenter singing her brother's arrangements, received four Grammy nominations each, Plane Hijacker Nabbed In Moreau 5 Years Ago NEW YORK (AP) Clifford Irving may have ob tained the material for his Howard Hughes book from computer printout compiled for the billionaire's eventual use and leaked to Irving by an ang ry former Hughes employe, Time magazine said Sunday.

Meanwhile, federal investiga tors in Florida Confirmed that they subpoenaed hotel records to check Irving's claim that he met with Hughes in Key Bis-cayne last September. It was one of several probes on both sides the Atlantic into mysteries surrounding the book Irving says is an autobiography he compiled with Hughes' Irving, who has been quoted as saying that his wife was the woman who withdrew from a Swiss bank $650,000 McGraw-Hill Publishing had in tended for Hughes, is to appear Monday before a Manhattan grand jury. Another date witn a federal grand jury also was reported pending for Irving, 41. Time, saying those who have seen the Irving manuscript agree it contains the words Author.and Hughes," added: "Time has learned that such material may in fact have come from an extraordinary computer printout that has beei. compiled for eventual use by Hughes.

"The document, supposedly available to a few current or former members of the Hughes organization, contains virtually everything that has ever been published about Hughes, as wen as thousands of memoranda dictated for and by Hughes material enough for a dozen 'authentic books. "The likeliest scenario is that Irving somehow obtained some or all of the material in the printout. It has been rumored. for example, that an angry former employe from the Hughes operation brought the material to Irving. "If this story happens to be true, Irving would probably not have needed many accomplicesexcept for an excellent forger and his wife, who opened the bank account," Time said.

Neither Irving, nor his attorney could be reached immediately for comment. the eve of his planned visit to Peking at the invitation of the Chinese government. He said he would not automatically break diplomatic relations with Commonwealth countries recognizing Bangladesh, but would consider each case on its merits. "We are prepared to have excellent bilateral relations with Britain and other Commonwealth countries," he said. Pakistan- has broken off relations with Communist bloc countries recognizing Bangladesh but has not severed ner relations with the Soviet Union, which also recognized the new nation.

On hit Commonwealth deci- Pakistan Quits Commonwealth The 33-year-old former men tal patient who hijacked a jet liner Saturday on a transcon tinental flight had a long criminal record that included an arrest nearly five years ago in the Town of Moreau. Garrett Brock Trapnell, 33, most recently of Miami, was identified as the man who hijacked a Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 over Iowa on a flight from Los Angeles to New York. He was captured by an EBI agent who posed as a crew member to board the airliner at Kennedy Airport. Zone Sgt. Russell Guard of Moreau zone State Police head quarters said Trapnell, calling himself John Garrett, was ar rested at the Howard Johnson restaurant on Rte.

9, Moreau, May 29, 1967, as a fugitive from justice wanted in the Canadian Province of Quebec, Guard said Trapnell ana a woman with him, Miss Susan McGreery, were accused of robbery in connection with a bank hold-up in Quebec. Trapnell and Miss McCreery, police learned, had rented a house at Hague on Lake George, under the names John and Susan Garrett. Their car was spotted in the Howard Johnson parking lot by Trooper Edward A. Lane and they were arrested oy Guard and Senior Investigator William E. Kiernan.

then assigned to the BCI at Moreau The pair was arraigned in Federal District Court, Albany, RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) President Zulfikar All Bhutto withdrew his country from the British Com monwealth Sunday, vowing that the world "will no longer use Pakistan as a football." A government statement said Pakistan quit the organization of former British colonies after learning that two members, New Zealand and Australia, planned to announce recognition of Bangladesh on Monday and that British recognition would follow soon. Pakistan lost Bangladesh, the former province of East Paki stan, In a two-week war with India last month. spoks to newsmen on announcement, i to soma matters of mutual in.