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By JOE ROBBINS (See Related Story on Page 1) The massive search under way in the Adirondacks for a suspected murderer, now in its nfth day, will have to go some to beat the 1954 manhunt for a cop killer, winch lasted 104 days and ended with the suspect's arrest in Reno, Nev. Then, more than 400 state and volunteers searched the Adirondacks looking for a "bushy-haired" man who soon became known as the "phantom killer of the Adirondacks." Post-Standard news files for 1954-55 teU the story. In the early morning hours of Aug. 5, 1954, Lake Placid Patrolmen Richard Pelkey, J. Bernard Fell and Sgt.

Domin-ick Valenze were cut down in a hail of gunfire when they tried to catch a prowler in the cellar of a summer cabin. 1-Act Plays To Be Staged For Tri-Lakes SARANAC LAKE "Lemonade" and "The Autograph Hound," two highly acclaimed one-act comedies by winning playwright James Prideaux, will be presented in the Adirondack Tri-Lakes on Aug. 10 and 11. o-starring Sonya Raimi and Marjorie Marson in "Lemonade" and Miss Raimi, Ted Schreppel and Bernadette Jones in "The Autograph Hound," performances will be presented at 8:30 p.m. Aug.

10 at the Harrietstown Town HaH and at 9 p.m. Aug. 11 at the Loon Lake Theater. A successful off-Broadway production, "Lemonade" recently appeared on the Na- MALONE An feature presen ts senior citi- Jail Inmate Found Dead priioner in the Franklin County jail was found hanging in his cell about 10:15 p.m. Tuesday.

State police said the youth, William Robert Height, Of 72 Perkins Road, Massena, was found by Sheriff's Deputy Wallace Gravel, who was making a routine bed check. According to police, Height bung himself by tying bed sheets to the ban over the He had been committed to the county jail July 20 following bis arrest in Tupper Lake on charges of public in- fit had pfceded guilty to the criminal mischief charge and was sentenced to 190 days in The search for the became one for a murderer when Pelkey died five days later. And at the height of the tourist season the search went on and on. Unlike the manhunt under way for suspected murderer Robert Garrow Sr. of Syracuse, troopers in 1954 had no name, description or much of anything to go on.

James Arlon Call, then 29, was an Air Force deserter and said he used Air Force survival techniques to elude his pursuers, walking more than 300 miles. He claimed to have been within the search area 76 days, living near his pursuers, always aware of their dragnet movements by listening to a stolen radio and reading search accounts in the newspapers. State police continued to search long after yolunteers dropped out. The revolver used in the shooting was CLARENCE A. PENF1ELD OGDENSBURG Services for Clarence A.

Penfield, 84, a resident of the United Helpers Home here for the last few years, who diedT uesday at Hepburn Hospital where he had been a patient since July wkh the JRev. John F. Pend-ergast, rector of St. Mary's. Cathedral, officiating.

Burial will be in Ogdensburg Cemetery. He had been In ill health for last few years. LOUIS H. LAMOUREUX OGDENSBURG Services for Louis H. Lamoureux, 68, of DeKalb Tuesday at E.

J. Noble Hospital, Gouverneur, where he month, will be at 9:30 a.m. Friday at al Home. 1 be at 10 a.m. in St Henry's Church, the Rev.

Wilfred, roche, pastor, officiating. Burial vjll be in St. Henry's Cemetety Early Canton 'Lawyer, Farmer, Statesman' Historical Unit Eyes Museum in Silas Wright Home By ELIZABETH NORTON CANTON Interest in the life and times of Wright once a governor the Empire Slate, has been revived in St. Lawrence County sfcce the county Historical Association announced tljat it has taken an option on the. Wright home in in hopes of making it into an historical Walter Gunnison of Canton, free lance writer and former newspaper editor, has contributed the following history about Silas Wright's life, and particularly his burial place: A weathered shaft of Vermont marble indicates the affection with which a young St.

Lawrence County regarded Silas Wright Canton's "farmer, lawyer, statesman and citizen." It dominates the Id cemetery at Canton's Miner and West streets a block north of the railroad. The shaft and the cemetery itself are reminder of the man andhis times. They are also part of a fabric, or complex, of memorials, along with the Wright House anl the village park, which face each other across E. Main Street in the heart of Canton village. The future of the cemetery and park seem assured.

As for the house, a climax is near in view of an approaching change in ownership. If the officers of the St. Lawrence County Historical Association, headed by Varick Chittenden, decide that funds can be raised for its acquisition and restoration as a museum and history center, they will have the blessings of the county Board of Supervisors. The prospects are being examined. The house, a graceful, white structure now owned by Anthony Zasa, stands between the new Canton Savings and Loan Association and the Uni-versalist Unitarian Church.

Its original portion was built in 1934 by Moses Whitcomb, a merchant, and was bought that same year for 11,000 by SUas Wright a transplanted Vermonter, and his wife. Clarissa Moody Wright, a Canton girl. It has 11 rooms with fireplaces and Franklin stoves. There was a single story wing. The only steps leading to a front entrance were attached tc the "upright" wing on the east side.

The style was Georgian and the outside was clapboardeL There were window blinds, probably painted green, A fanlight in the front gable illuminated the attic. Today, a few of the windows have their original while Mrs. Wright, who had been trying to make panes. The upper panes of some of the inside doors re cross-shaped and the lower sections form an open Bible, apparently to hex the devil. SUas Wright Jr.

died at the age of 52 in the extreme west room on Aug. 27, 1847. He became ill in the post office and was accompanied home by Dr. Darius Clark, who applied a mustard plaster and then left to attend other patients. Death came Garrow Hunt Recalls found Sept.

13 in a cabin near Tupper Lake, and troopers thought they'd missed the suspect by minutes. Call was closer than troopers thought many times. He sat for some days in a camp in back of the troopers' Ray Brook substation, watching the search parties. And another time, according to Post-Standard files, he went into Tupper Lake, played with some children and reportedly chatted with police. Bloodhounds picked up the scent occasionally, but lost it because, Call said later, he sprinkled pepper on his trail to lose the dogs.

The phantom killer got tired of the game, though, and calmly walked out of the woods, boarded a bus near Utica and went to Reno, to pursue the gaming tables. He was caught for burglary, and a sharp-eyed news- Services Today For John Degouff CANTON Services for John J. Degouff, 79, of 23 Mechanic who died Tuesday at Potsdam Hospital after being appatient 10 days, will be at 8:30 a.m. Friday at the O'Leary Funeral Home, Canton. There will be a requiem Mass at 10 a.m.

at St. Mary's Church, Caont. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Friends may call 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.

Thurseay at the funeral home. Survors are his wife, Margaret, two daughters, Mrs. Shirley Bessard of Vernon, and Mrs Richard J. (Margaret) Bartlett of Schaghticoke; three sons, Walter F. of Norwalk, John C.

of Kirkville, and John J. Jr. of Bangkok, Thqiland; two sisters, Mrs. William (Sa rah; Cornell of Potsdam, and Mrs. Stella Mousaw of Sodus; a brother, Phillip of Herkimer, several grandchildren and nieces and nepehws.

A son, Theodore was killed in action inweurope during World War II. Mr, De Gouff was a veteran of the army during World war l. He was Troot state lone for a time and later was associated with the International Paper of Pyrites and the Newton Falls Paper Co. from 1941 until his retirment in 1959. He was associated with the Massena Operations of Alcoa Co.

of America, He was a past member of the American Lgion and a member of the Canton Council of Knights of Columbus. He was a communicant of St. Mary's Church in Canton. Are a Iratfya JERRY A. BLANCH MERRILL Services for Jerry A.

Blanch, ft, who died Tuesday, will be at 0 a.m. Friday in St. Bernard's Church, Lyon Mountain. Burial will be in the parish ceme- HOLLIS L. CHILD MALONE HolHs L.

Child, 91, died Wednesday. Services will be at a.m. Friday at the SpauWing Funeral Home. Burial will be in Morningskfe Cemetery. MRS.

IRENE HOLDIN MASSENA Mrs. Irene ton, 58, of 8 Burney widow of Orville, died Wednesday morning at a local nursing home. Calling noun will be 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday at will be at 9 a.m. Sa- turda in Sacred Heart Church.

Burial will be in vary Cemetery, Lake Placid slaying in his York State authorities. And by an odd twist of who served 13 years in Attice State Prison on a seconddegree murder conviction, became eligible for release from his parole yesterday, according to a State Correctional Services Department spokesman. Essex County Sheriff Kenneth A. Goodspeed, who par ticipated in the 1954 manhunt as a state trooper, said Call's escape was "proof right there" that a man can elude even the most thorough search in the Adirondacks. "But don't forget he was agile and if the best physical condition.

We were looking lor him. All he had to do was stand stil and see us looking." NCCC Students May Put Courses On Credit Card SARANAC LAKE It will be possible to say "Charge it, please!" when enrolling for courses at North Country Community College this fall. Master-Charge, the interbank credit card, may now be used at the college's main campus in Saranac Lake and at either of its extension centers in Elizabethtown or Ma- lone to pay tuition and fees for any and all courses. College officials believe that mis service will be of greatest advantage to the part-time student who normally registers for one or two Last year, NCCC enrolled more than 500 persons on a part-time basis, mostly adults talcing evening courses at various locations throughout Essex and Franklin counties, including Ticonderoga, WM-sboro and Hogansburg. evening courses will also be offered in Port Henry and St Regis Falls.

Inquiries regarding the use of Master-Charge at North Country Community College should be directed to Ernest Wood, College business man- Car Victims Rites Slated CHATEAUGAY Joint services for Ross Allen Pulti-fer, 25, of Ellenburg Center, and Gerald W. Soulia, 22, who were killed in a one-car accident late Monday in the Town of Ellenburg, Clinton County, will be at 10 a.m. Friday in St. Patrick's Church. Mr.

Soulia will be buried in the parish cemetery, and Mr. Pulsifer wilt be buried in the Brainardsville Cemetery. Franklin J. Brynlarski 30, of Buffalo, also was killed in the crash. Services and burial will be in Buffalo.

I while Mrs.wWright, who had been trying to make him comfortable, was in naother room. The Wrights, who were childless, had been back in Canton only a year, following his term as governor. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Wright stayed on at the house, which eventually became the property of his youngest brother, After his death, the house was sold to the Universalis Church. A section of what is now the park was first held by Silas Wright Jr.

and Joseph Barnes as 'tenants in common." They donated the land to the First Presbyterian Church trustees with the standing that part would be used for a church site and the remainder held in common for public use. Another portion was donated by Nathiel S. Ezra P. and John H. Prentice.

The deed transfers were recorded Oct. 29 and Nov. 12, 1827. Title to what was known at one time as the Silas Wright Cemetery were conveyed to the church trustees by Henry Van Rensselaer in 1843. It holds most of the dead of the first 60 years of the life of the village.

It is now under village care. The Wright monument is a 154on shaft quarried at Weybridge, Vt, ner the Wright family home. It was ferried across Lake Champlain, towed by barge down the Richelieu River to the St. Lawrence River and to Ogdensburg. From there it was drawn on a series of bobsleds to Canton in the winter of 1947-48.

Chief Honored 54 Cop Killer Search At Rites JL OGDENSBURG Servic OGDENSBURG Services for Ogdensburg Police Chief David A. Bell who died Saturday of a self-inflicted shotgun wound, were Wednesday at the Latande-Briggs Funeral Home and in St. Mary's Cathedral. Burial was in the St. Mary's Cemetery.

More than 200 federal, state, county, city and village officials, as well as Canadian government officials, formed an honor guard. Represented were the Federal Bureau of Investigation offices in Albany and Water-town, the U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs, U.S. Immigration Service, state police at Canton, St.

Lawrence County Sheriff's Department, County Probation Department, district attorney's office and State Division of Parole. Also, village and city police from at Canton, Potsdam, Massena, Malone, Saranac Lake and North Syracuse. Also, city officials, the mayor and Common Council, city judge, special city judge, city manager, comptroller, city engineer and persons from other city offices, school guards and the fire depart- Mrs. Ackley, Ex-teacher, Rites Today OLD FORGE Private services for Mrs. Laura Wallace Ackley, 62, of 100 East Sixth St, Johnstown, formerly of Old Forge, who died Tuesday at Johnstown Hospital, will be at 10 ajm.

Thursday at the Browne-Ehle Funeral Home, Johnstown. Burial will be in Femdale Cemetery, Johnstown. A memorial service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday in the United First Presbyterian Church in Johnstown. Mrs.

Ackley was born in Old Forge and graduated from the Town of Webb High School She also was a graduate of SUNY at Oswego. Since her marriage to Harold J. Ackley, she resided in Johnstown where she taught at Pleasant Avenue School until retiring test year. She was a member of the United First Presbyterian Church and the State Teachers Association. Besides her husband, she is survived by a son, Robert of Johnstown; three sisters, Mrs.

Sioane Collins of Tor-rington, Mrs. Ira Hul-bert of Glens Falls and Mrs. M. Vrooman Ekfaidge, and several nieces and nephews. HARRIS TO SPEAK TUPPER LAKE Assemblyman and Mrs.

Glenn Harris of Canada lake will be guests at a supper-meeSing of the Adirondack Chapterofthe tiredP ersons at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Long Lake Town Hall. Harris will dttcusi items other maters of political interest. IHI Charged in Murder It was Daid for bv nublie donations, none more than $2. Many of the contributors were school ctuV dren.

The Wright plot is an elongated oval, graced and flowers. At the base of the shrubbery with shaft are stone markers for SUas and Clarissa Wright. The face of the shaft, toward Miner Street, is distinguished by a raised shield on which is lettered "Silas Wright born May 24, 1705 died August 27, 1847." Below that is a bronze tablet plated in 1031 by the Gouverneur Morris Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Gouverneur chapter of the organization, identifying the man as "farmer, lawyer, statesman and citizen of Canton' and noting his years as U.S. Senator (1833-1844) and governor (1845-46). On the reverse side is the notation, "Erected by the citizens of the County of St.

Lawrence." Nealy 80 years ago the cemetery was abandoned, and it became overgrown and neglected. In 1903, thanks to a letter to the St. Lawrence Plain-dealer in Canton, it was put back in shape and graded. At that point, village authorities agreed to take over the care and maintenance. A similar situation arose in 1923, and was called to the attention of the Plaindealer by Judge Ledyard P.

Hale. Once more sentiment was aroused and steps were taken. Since then there has been no lapse in care given to the cemetery. LOCAL NEWS. Cmge Sutoyie.

SUU Editor Dm MASSENA POTSDAM MALONE CANTON OGDENSBURG PLATTSBURGH SYRACUSE POST-STANDARD, Aug. 2, 1973 Jack Friedberg, 46, a patient at St. Lawrence State Hospital, charged by Ogdensburg police with murder, a class A felony, is escorted by Patrolman Anthony Corrice following arraignment before City Judge B. Leonard. The proceedings were adjourned until Friedberg can be assigned counsel.

Friedberg is accused of strangling another patient, Edward Hinkel, 49, on the hospital grounds Monday night. Mayor Replies To Criticism MALONE Criticism contained in a State Department of Audit and Control report released last week pertaining to telephone calls made by Malone Mayor Kenneth Tul- Golfers to Vie In Tupper Match TUPPER LAKE The 37th annual Northern New York Golf Association championship will be Friday and Saturday at the Tupper Lake Country Club. Defending champion is Wa-tertown Country Club who last year defeated Ives Hill in the playoff. Others expected to compete ar Canton, Car-iowden, Potsdam, Gouverneur, Malone, Massena and Tupper Lake Fred Baker will be representing Tupper Lake in the senior division and Robert Sa-bin is junior division representative. Members of the team include Peter Farrell, Jim Brooks, Don Donah, Bill LaRocque and Mark Gilligan.

KREHL GRADUATES DENVER Airman Thomas Krehl, son of Wal-ter P. Krehl, 424 Pari Tupper Lake, H.Y., has grauated at Lowry Air Force Base, from the Air Force weapons mechanic course conducted by the Air Training Command. Krehl is being assigned to Plattsburgh, AFB, N.Y. The airman graduated last year upper Uke School. loch from his private business office were answered Wednesday by the mayor.

Tulloch, who was away from Malone on vacation when the report was released, defended the calls, stating that almost without exception they were directly related to village affairs. Regarding toll charges on calls identified as being to stock brokerage firms in New York City, he said all were related to the possibility of the village issuing bonds for the purchase of fire and highway equipment, for the construction of a secondary sewage treatment plant and interceptor sewer line and for street, water line and building construction. The other calls criticized in the report, Tulloch stated, were for similar reasons, each directly pertaining to the conduct of village business. He further noted that the phone in his stock brokerage office, listed as the mayor's phone, had been made available to every agency within the village gov- that any calls by these agencies legal and wor thy expense. Regarding collect calls from Florida, the mayor said that in his discussions with the auditors only one such call was mentioned, that it amounted to less than $5 and lhat he had no idea where the call originated or what it was Mates Speaker PLATTSBURGH Mrs.

Judith Duken, who will be commencement speaker Frieay at Plattsburgh State University College, will be the first speaker to receive a gree during the graduation exercise. Mrs. Duken will be presented a master of science degree in elementary education. She is a member of the College Council. The topic of Mrs.

Duken's speech will be "It's All in the Mind." Dr. Joseph C. Burke, who became vice president for academic affairs Wednesday, will perform his first official act in that office by presenting the candidates for degrees. Commencement exercises are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday in Room 200 of the Communications College President George will preside over the ceremonies and confer degrees.

About 170 students are eligible to receive degrees. A4eet to Feature Water-Ski Flyers TUPPER LAKE Some thirty contestants have indicated they will be participating in the third annual water-ski kite tournamentAu g. 4 and Aug. 5 on Raquette Pond in the village of Tupper Lake. Many outstanding performers in the sport from Canada and the United States are expected to attend.

The meet is sanctioned by the American Water-ski Kite Kite Flyers i The event will be the east- Competition involves trick and slslom flying. One event will start each day at 9 a.m. There will also be a ski and kite show each day at 2 p.m. featuring water-ski experts and kite flyers. Troupe Lists Performance LAKE PLACID The Sixth summer recital of the Martha Graham Dance Co.

will be at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Lake Placid's Center for Music, Drama and Art. Presentations win be "Errand Into the "Embattled Garden" and "Secular Games." The dance company will of fer a ance Aug. 14. Clemmo Promoted To AF Sergeant and Mrs.

John H. Clemmo. Massena Rd 3, has been po-moted to sergeant in the Air Force. Clemmo, a weapons ist at Alconbury Royal Air Force Station, England, is assigned to a unit of the U.S. air forces in Europe.

The sergeant is a 1971 mi uate of SchooL.