The Times Record from Troy, New York • Page 13

Aide Says Ufiioiis; (API government's top job rights cer accused' Thursday of "playing''all (hose cards" of its i in Congress to opening its unions fully lo Honwhites: feel they have lot of friends on the Hill; ihey.put a lot of money.into congressional Assistant' Secretary of Labor.Arthur A. Fletcher told a House subcommittee. -result, there is.a widespread feeling irn government, he'said, that ev.ori "though equal it programs arc President Nixon, labor II be a maintain white favoring membership practices.througrr friends on key congressional committees. 'pW is playing ail tliose cards," ho said; "It's playing all those cards, to be blunt with you. "I've found (hat labor unions have been a i civil rights and lining up with Congress on civil rights bills for so long that they feel they're above and beyond having io comply themselves," he said.

"Now the moment of tnilh has come They aren't being very cooperative." Fletcher, assistant secretary of labor for wages and stand' ards, testified before House Armed Services subcommittee studying the effects of -federal equal opportunity programs on defense contracts. He had said many industries ire. willing to comply although "the real hard cases" have to be taken to court. TROY, N. FRIDAY, 25, 1970 Sharon Tafe To Die 'LOS ANGEI.KS (AP) A myopic Icon-ager who once be longed to Charles M.

Manson's hippie style clan dung Thurs day under a barrage of defense qneslions lo her story that she heard a defendant in Ihe Tale murder (rial once say: "Sharon Tale was the last to die because she had la watch-thfe olhers die first." a a a conceded she was at one end a house at the group's Death Valley area commune and the persons doing he talking were at (he other end. But she said she heard them just the same. She has attributed the words about Miss Tale to Susan At- sins, 21. Hanson; 35; Miss At(ins and two other women m.cmbers of his family are on rial charged with murdering Miss Tale and six others in August; Miss Hoyt agreed that de- 'cnse diagram of the house was accurate. She said she was lying on a bed in a bedroom at one end of the house, and the conversation was in Ihe kitchen at he other end, with a living room in between.

She estimated Ihe convcrsa- ionalisls, Atkins and another family member were only 15 feet away. The delense esli- malwl (he distance at 26 feet. Miss Hoyt said the conversation was "very loud," lasted only a cw minutes, and she heard only wo voices. She said a iccn instructed to discuss only hat portion of the September, 19G9, talk a related to Miss Atkins. There was a three-hour closed discussion between the iudgc and defense prosccu- ion attorneys on the admissibil- ty of her testimony Wednesday.

Durante Says He'll Quit 'When They Don't Come' LAS VEGAS, Nev. (M 1 "The people will tell me when to quit," said i Durante. "When they don't come no Wore, I'll retire." Durante, now 78 but still doing two shows a night regularly, was stretched out on a couch in Ills dressing room at the Desert Inn Hotel on Ihe Las Vegas Strip. mmilhs ago, Durante collapsed while working across the Strip 1 at the Frontier Hotel. Scooters, cyclci and bkyclei of all sizei are always in demanaV FinrJ a cash buyer for your unused cycle with low-cost Want Ad.

272-2000 NEW! Jot spray GUMOUT Howl Thi lanoui dianing action of Gumout lit in airoinl Blast! gun and Bilni from hud-lt-nich a (sill engagement since the collapse. 'It was just a little lapse. I just got myself exhausted," said Duranle as he lay. in front of the dressing -room's open shouting "Hi'ya" lo all who passed and "Hello Sweetheart" to the chorus girls. "I lake it easy now." Golden Award Sunday night Durante awarded the Golden A a by the American Guild of Variety Artists.

The avyarri wss part the first annual Georgie presen lalions, named for the lale George M. The award, presented qri CBS 1 TV's Ed Sul livaii show, will be given each year to honor performer who has been on the stage for niore than 50 years. Uuranle was unable to appear (or the preservation because he was still-recuperating from'his collapse. Duranle and his famous nose "The Schnoz," began entertain ing'people 58 years ago in the of Neiv York's Coney Island. Stage, night clubs, radio, movies, television--he's done Ihcm all.

"People always laugh at Ihe same things, he said. "You change it around a hit, a different song now and then, but it's all Ihe same." And it was all the same when a shoved a haltered felt hat onto his head, walked into the wings and paused as the applause swelled lo greel him. The house was full, as it had been every night since he opened. "Young at Heart," Durante sang as he clowned with six beautiful dancers. The girls come and go, but dancers have been part of his act for decades.

Everything he said got laughs Even when he said nothing, just stared at those dancers, mirth rippled through the crowd. Duranle sat at Ihe piano. Fingers slill nimble, he played and sang, Look Me Over. And again Ihe. applause as he lifled that felt hat from his balding head.

Texas Holds 3 In Bombing HILLSBORO, Texas authorities announced they were, holding Ihree men for questioning Thursday in connec, lion with the University of Wisconsin bombing Aug. 24 in which graduate student was killed and three persons Injured. The Department Public Safely issued it statement saying the men were de tained at the request of the FiU and were being hold at.Hills- boro, a town of 10,000 about 65 miles south of.Dallas. The FBI was investigating la determine the three men's ideti tics, the department said. Four young men have been charged in the bombing ant were placed on the FBI's mosl wanted list.

The men were detained Thursday afternoon after being slopped on-Interstate 35 in a ear with Wisconsin license plales Ihe rieparlmenl said. They were taken to Ihe sheriff's office in Hillsboro. The Aug. 24 bombing of the Army Mathematics Center on the university campus at Madison resulted in TBI'Di J. Edgar Hoover's announcing earlier Ihis month nationwide search for the 1 four young men.

In making that announcement the FBI identified the fugitives as Karlelon Lewis Armstrong, 22, Dwighl Alan his brother; David Sylvan Fine, IX, an Leo Frederick Hurt, 22, a summer sludcnt at the university. The four were charged with sabotage, destruction of government property and conspiracy. Dr. Robert E. Fassnacht, 33, a graduate student who was working in the research ccnler ivhcn the bomb went off, was killed.

Seven HVCC Curricula Receive Accreditation Seven of the engineering technology curricula at HVCC a received, the accreditation of the Engineer's Council for Professional college president James announced Thursday. Dr. Ernest Weber, president Army Plans To Cut Three Combat Units WASHINGTON (AP) The Army will trim three divisions from its combat force by mid bringing ils strength to (h lowest level I860, a hig. ranking Pentagon official dis closed Thursday. The man cut--each di vision has about 15,000 men--i part of Ihe Army's share in re ducing Ihe nation's total arm'ec force to 2.9 million men by Jun 1971.

This is the goal previously an nounceri by Secretary of De fense Mclvin R. Laird as part the Nixon administration's noli cy to reduce U.S. forces as the United States gradually with a from the Vietnam'war. By next the Armj 1 strength will total about 1.2 mil a drop of about 125,000 from June 1970. With Ihe excep tion of 45,000 men dropped in the three divisions, mosl of (he reductions will be in supporl units and will not affect combat strength.

The nation's over-nil armed forces now total slightly more than 3 million, down from the Vietnam war peak of j.5 million in 1S68. In action so far, the admii tration has cut the army from its peak in the Vietnam war to IB and two-thirds divisions from IS and two-thirds divisions. The Marines a been ordered lo cut back from four divisions lo three. Obsolete Code FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) (enlucky has revised its plumb- ng code to comply with federal An estimated $80 million a year in grants was en- langered because the federal lovcrnment said lhe-40-year-olrt code was obsolete, Lifer's Murder Conviction Upheld By Appeals Court ALBANY, N.

Y. (AP) The slate's highest court Thursday upheld the murder convictions of Richard Rohlcs, serving i life prison sentence for the hi slaying? of career girls Wiley and Kmily Hof- ferl in a a a seven years ago. The. Court of Appeals doniec Tiobles' appeal by a 5-2 vote rejecling his argument that his rights had been violated because his confession had been SERVICE STATION FOR LEASE Smith Ave. River St.

(791 RIVER ST.) TROY, NEW YORK I'or TnfnrntHtlon Call GULF OIL CORP. DAYS 463-4291 'J. LOMBARD! EVENINGS 377-4853 J. WARD obtained while his lawyer was absent. liohles, 2fi, a former dope ad- dicl and burglar, was convicted in December 1365 on two counts of first-degree murder.

He admitted slabbing Ihe girii repeatedly a i them wilh drink bottles after tying Ihem back to back wilh strips of bed sheet. The girls were killed in the With street apartment they shared alter nobles was surprised during a hurglary. Miss Wylie, 21, was a research assistant for Newsweek Magazine and (he niece of author Philip Wylie. Miss Holferl, 23, a school tcachnr, was Ihe daughter of a Minneapolis surgeon. The widely reported murder case look a strange when police firs'l arrested another man, George Wlntmorc, a Brooklyn driller, and held him for nine months In connection with the crimes, lie withdrew a confession he made, however, and further Investigation led lo Rpbles' arrest In January 1865.

nobles' appeal previously had been denied by the Stale Supreme Court's Appellate Division In Manhallan. Thursday's decision by Ihe Court of Appeals sustained the lower courl'i action, in Juniorjand other equipment for the en- High School auditorium. ilorlaincrs, TONIGHT'S are forecast for a line extending from Gulf Coast'slates up the-Mississippi Valley into the western Great Lakes. Rain is predicled 'for the southern plains states and portions of the Southwest. a air will sweep into Ihe South off the Gulf of Mexico.

Cooler weather is expected for Ihe -western half of the nation and the Northeast. (AP WJrephoto Map) of the ECPD, notified Fitzgib ions of the accrcliiation by let- er. Official engineering Icchnol- igy accreditation 'was approved or the following: Civil technology, with highway oplion; civil technology, vilh architectural option; chem- al technology; electrical tech- lology, mechanical technology, vifh air conditioning option; mechanical technology, with design oplion, and mechanical echnology, with production opfion. All of Ihe above curric- ilums are full-time, two-year engineering technology programs, leading to the associate degree. The Idler from Dr.

Weber miner indicated that the ECPD lad coiiimended the college on ts excellent administration-and ts altitude, toward the engi- iceririg technology program, and ils. dedication lo serve the people industries of tiie stale. Professor Paul F. Goliber, 'ector of HVCC's Engineering lessor Leonard Spcigel, a i man of the college's Civil Technology a coordinated flhe three-day ECPD'team visit. White House Has No Comment On Senatorial Race WASHINGTON (DPI) White House refused Thursday to endorse 'Sen.

Charles' E. Goodell, for re-election. It said it was taking no position race with James Buckley, the Conservative fy candidate. Assistant Press Secretary Gerald Warren was asked to comment on a New York Times story, saying a the White House actually might prefer Buckley over Goodell. "No," said Warren.

no reaction lo those, stories. I a that the President has taken uo position on that Technologies Division, and Pro- particular race." The Lansingburgh PTA.Coun- cil Committee ivill sponsor Sing Out Upstate in a presentation of Up with People Explosion; on Oct. 2 at 8 Out Event Proceeds event.will liable the Cultural Committee ID continue willi its ideas toe the coming year and a obtain new i Sing Out Upstate proviso tertainment for orphansiej, horned for the aged and organizations, free of charge. Ohio's entire 435 fnlle southern boundary is the Ohio River. Easy, Elegant, and' Masculine BOSTONIAN FLEXAIRES In the were boots and buckles were found on beds.

But Bostonian did a new old thing. They squared the toe and put the buckle bock on the boot. It's fashion, function and comfort! It's easy, elegant and qnasculine! Who says you can't teach a new boot some old tricks. 29.50 Shop Tues. Fri.

till 9 P.M. 336 River St. Charge THIS IS Come PREPARED BUY on SPOT SLASHED rf Belief You'H Never See Like This Again EASY CREDIT Terms Free Delivery Open Every 9 'IB 5 BEN KATZ 4 FLOORS OF FURNITURE MUST BE SOLD FROM THE PICTURES ON THE WALLS TO THE RUGS ON THE FLOOR! olt held Puriunnt I. Clly Liecnit hih eVplrcl 2238 FIFTH AVE, (Wi Blocks i St.) TROY.