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The Oneonta Star from Oneonta, New York • Page 37

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The Oneonta Stari
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Oneonta, New York
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Democrats make gains in State TTiurs, Nov. 6, 1969 Oneonra Star 13 THE ASSOCIATED PKESS Democrats drove deeply inio Republican power bases In the state in Tuesday's elections, elections, wresting control of three county governments, scoring Impressive gains in others and retaining control where they already held the majority. They surged to i landslide flctory on a protest vote In 'Rensselaer County. They captured Orleans County for the first time since the Civil War they overturned a Republican majority in Schoharie County by adding three of their number for a 9-7 majority. A concerted Republican drive to topple Democratic power in Albany County stumbled when the GOP failed to pick up a seat and came close to losing one.

The breakdown remained at 23 Democrats and 13 Republicans, with Ihreo seats In the hands of Independents who normally ally themselves with the GOP. Democrat. 1 registered near misses in fighting for control for county governments In Erie, Genesce and Montgomery Counties. The landslide In Rensselaer County gave the Democrats five county-wide offices besides solid 10 to 5 control of the new County Legislature. However, two county legislative seats still were in doubt when Gov.

Rockefeller ordered voting machines and records impounded, pending a recount because of the closeness of the vote. One had been won narrowly by a Democrat and in the other a Republican eased in. Elsewhere in the state, county legislatures were being elected (or lint time, Democrats were not as successful. In Orange; County Republicans won 17 of 21 seats. Tln-y took 24 of 31 In Niagara County, 15 of 25 In Cattaraugus and 12 of 15 in Allegany.

Also In Orange County, Democrat William Demerest went down to defeat by nearly 10,000 votes for former Middletown Mayor Louis Mills in the first race for county executive. Most of the new countrywide offices won by Democrats were in Rensselaer County, where three veteran Republicans and two recently appointed judges fell before the Democratic tide, which hadn't been as strong since the late 1930s. Timothy Fogarty was elected county court judge, Matthew M. Dunne won the surrogate's job, William Wade became County Clerk, Edward Pattison was elected county treasurer and William A. Uarkness sheriff.

In Albany County, Republicans and Democrats retained control of seats each already held, but in the suburb of Col- onle the Democrats came within 97 voUs of gaining one. Republicans held on to win Everything but the top office of County executive went to Democrats in Erie County. That was retained by B. John Tutus- ka, who was re-elected by 36,000 vote margin. But the Democrats elected their first sheriff in 30 yeari and Democratic District nty Michael Dillon won a vow victory and Democratic County comptroller Henry Nowak hid an M.OOD-vott plurality.

The new Erie County sheriff Is Democrat-Conservative Michael Arnica, who won by 72,000 votes. In Cayuga County, Peter E. Corning became the second Democratic district attorney in county history. He beat Edward Knecht and succeeds the first democrat, P. Alex Lipski who did not Sin for a second term.

Heat will be on Rocky 'Big Six 9 for funds NYC lesson to GOP Sen. Goodell says I By CHARLES DUMAS i Associated Press Writer ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) The i predictable upshot of Tuesday's is that Gov. Rockefeller 'will face even more urgent de- iinands for increased financial to the communities of New i York State. Since last January, when (Rockefeller decided to tighten the state's purse strings, he has 'been besieged on all sides by pleas for additional state aid jfor education, welfare and oth- Jer programs.

The most vocal demands i came from New York City, led (by the voice of the incumbent 'Republican mayor, John V. complaints. But, if he thought he had ttroubles then, Rockefeller really have his hands full when mayor returns to the Capitol with the spectacular re-election mandate he won Tuesday. Moreover, as a result of the 'balloting, Democrats will be in of of the five other cities in the state. Dem- locrats held Buffalo and Albany, taking Yonkers and Syracuse from the GOP.

Republicans ester. TheseX together with New York, are known at the State Capitol as the "Big and they often band together to present common cause. With Democrats commanding a majority of these influential city halls, the Republican governor can expect rough going in the legislature's 1970 session. What they are certain to seek what Rockefeller has said the state simply cannot afford --is massive doses of additional financial ease the strain on'city budgets. At the outset of the 1969 legislative session, Rockefeller decreed that the time had come for the state to begin living within its means.

With the support of the legislature's Republican majorities, he readjusted state-aid formulas with a view toward bringing them.into direct line with the state's present revenue-producing capcity. The alternative, Rockefeller' said, would be to raise taxes every year and he contended, the state's taxpayers are paying as much as they can afford already. The governor said it was up to the federal government to step in with its big revenue bankroll, and he has been preaching that theme ever since. All well and good, Lindsay said, but that wasn't helping State Police won't go to GE plants ALBANY; y. (AP) GOV, 'Rockefeller down I.Wednesday request to send trooperi to strike-bound ''General Electric plants in Sche- JMctady County to guard against conflicts between strik- en and non-striken.

A spokesman for Rockefeller laid the governor's office was keeping the Schenectady strike ptuation under direct and iclose observation." Earlier in the day, Sheriff JUrold Calkins of Schenectady County had declared a "state of ipecial emergency" to begin at 8 a.m. Thursday. He said he Beared there would be trouble between the striking production employes and white-collor em- ployes who have tried several times to break through massed pickets. i Calkins had asked for State police in a telegram to Rockefeller, to help maintain order. I "Based on information now tvailable, we don't believe the issignment of State Police is rarranted," Calkins was told in i telegram from Rockefeller's lounsel, Robert Douglas.

telegram also said Cal- fclns would be expected to use ill mutual aid provisions open him with local law-enforce- $ient agencies, before calling for State Police aid. i By declaring a state of emer- lency, the governor's office the sheriff can get men, equipment and supplies from all tew-enforcement agencies in the wuiity and other sheriff departments in the state. Several times since the nation- Wide strike began on Oct. 27, and non-strikers have spiffled outside the main GE Plant in the company's home city, Schenectady. In one instance, while-collar Corkers charged a picket line of thousands of strikers.

Local police used their nightsticks to drive the chargers back, and white-collar workers were Mured. Fewer dim 100 Schenectady illcemen have been on duly nt, one time at the main plant, nwy stood between strikers and non-strikers who outnumbered them. One morning, about 60 policemen took a stance between an estimated 10,000 strikers and non strikers--about 5,000 on each side. The company has gone to court for sn injunction to prevent the union's mass picketing. GE officials also have asked the courts to force Schenectady city officials to provide sufficient police protection to open corridors in the picket lines for safe passage by those who want to work.

The court action still is pending. Israel warns Lebanon on any attacks By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Israel has warned Lebanon it will strike back hard for any- Arab i a assaults launched from Lebanese soil because of the new pact between the guerrillas and the Beirut government. Jerusalem sources said Tuesday that the Israeli government conveyed this view to the Lebanese government through various other governments. Israel, one source said, made clear that it not stand for "anarchy on its borders or hostile acts endangering the lives of its citizens." A rocket fired from the Lebanese side of the border landed in an Israeli frontier settlement in the upper Galilee early Tuesday. It damngcd the wall or a building, shattered several windows but caused no casualties, Israeli authorities said.

a a and photographic iuppllw bring a high price when you advertise them in The Star Want Ads. Dial 432.1000. him any. During his mayoral campaign, he protested repeatedly that his city's problems were directly attributable to parsimony at Albany. Rockefeller and his fiscal advisers fully expect Lindsay to bear down even heavier, now that he has been re-elected, and they expect extra pressure from the other cities' Democratic controlled administrations.

All. of this poses, a major headache for the governor, who will be up for re-election next year. Obviously he will not want to raise taxes to meet the state- aid demands--nor will the members of the legislature, also seeking re-election. But the heat from the big cities and other communities feeling the pinch of Rockefeller's retrenchment could be just as uncomfortable in the critical election year. As a sample of things to come, the Assembly's Democratic minority leader, Stanley Steingut of Brooklyn, fired off a congratulatory telegram to Lindsay on Wednesday and urged him to join in the.

Democrats' continuing campaign for state-aid increases. "I look forward to your cooperation and support for our, programs for meaningful tax reform and to restore budget cuts that have undermined our schools, that have driven our hospitals to the brink of bankruptcy and that have imposed upon the poor, the blind and the sick the burdens of Republican retrenchment." It's the kind of language that Rockefeller will be hearing and more in the months ahead. WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Charles E. Goodell, applauding the re-election of Mayor John V.

Lindsay of New York, said Wednesday that the Republican party in New York State must "respond to the lessons of New York City." Goodell said at a crowded news conference the election demonstrated that independent candidates are viable in New York City. Now, he said, it remains to be seen whether they are viable in the state. Goodell, at odds with state GOP leaders over his views, may have trouble, in the view of some observers, winning party support in his own bid for re-election next year. Lindsay, defeated as a republican in the spring primary, ran as a Liberal-Independent. "It is obvious-but let.

it be said anyway-that rumors concerning Mr. Lindsay's political demise were indeed greatly exaggerated," Goodell said. "And it is in the sure knowledge of this fact that those of us is the Republican party who bled some for the mayor may take hope," said Goodell, who broke with his party to endorse Lindsay. He said that unless the Democratic and Republican parties respond, as he put it, to the demands of the people, other independent movements will be initiated in the fashion of John Lindsay's. In response to a question, Goodell said he considers himself "an independent senator, not an independent candidate." Turning to the Vietnam issue on which the senator has been a strong critic of Nixon administration policy, Goodell said the New York election neither repudiated nor enhanced President Nixon's war policies.

It wasn't the chief issue, he said. However, he said, Nixon could take some pride in the fact that he went into New Jersey and Virginia to campaign for Republican candidates, who won the governorships of those two states. Goodell renewed his criticism of Nixon over Vietnam, saying his Monday speech was a disappointment "to those who were hoping for a new initiative; a new alternative." The President's Goodell said, will only serve to increase support for his-Goodell's-proposal calling for total withdrawal of all American troops from Vietnam by December 1970. "Instead of making a firm decision to disengage, the President's plan will make the pace of troop withdrawals depend on factors beyond our control," Goodell said. "It will keep American forces in Vietnam and continue American casualties well into the 1970s," he said.

The senator reaffirmed his support for nationwide peace demonstrations, but reserved his endorsement of next week's mass march on Washington planned by the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. He said he is concerned over the way it's organized and who's running it. The mobilization committee is a coalition of some 100 peace groups. First Democratic mayor since 1806 WELLSBORO, Pa. (AP) Wellsboro has elected its first Democratic mayor since the borough was founded in 1806.

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