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Legislators Eye Other Positions--Page 7 Tlic -Weather Forecast Cloudy 'tonight and clmnco of snow Tuesday. Details Pago 20. THE TIMES RECORD FINAL EDITION Series 1974, No. 66 2nd elm fild At Troy.iN.Y,, Illll MONDAY EVENING, MAKCII 18, 1974 48 PAGES S7A PRICE 15 CENTS Are Redeye Missiles Protecting The White House? lly RICHARD G. THOMAS llccord Washington Bureau WASHINGTON.

-'Tlio U.S. Secret Service for obvious reasons ot security remains tight-lipped oil Us dctciiso against another skyjacker bent on plunging an alrplano Kamikaze-like inlo the- White House. Hut congressmen and others forking and living In Washington, who used lo such lunacy only In- terms of Flcfelicr Knobel or Rdhcrt Scrling novels, are talking a lot abut protective measures planned by'the executive branch. Their concern stems from Samuel Byck, tlio unemployed Philadelphia lire salesman who on Feb. 22 was killed in attempting to skyjack a Delta Airlines DC- 9 at the nearby Baltimore airport.

In tapes sent lo columnist Jack Anderson and ilhers, Byck said his 'plan was crash-land into the White House. No layman is betting Byck wouldn't have made it because earlier in the month an Army enlisted man easily penetrated the White House air space in a stolen helicopter and landed on in a hail of bullets. One of many congressmen astounded by the two Incidents is Ohio Hep. Charles Wiialeii Jr. (R-Dayon), who urged the Secret Service lo consider.deploy- ing shoulder-mounted Redeye surface-to-air missiles to' stioot down hostile aircraft, "The While Ilouso can bo defended from such an air altuek, to use that phrase, by arming the Secret Service" with (he Redeyes, said Whalen, a lormcr member of tho House Armed Services Committee.

Aviation Week magazine went further by reporting that some White House guards actually have been equipped with Redeyes, which seek oiit Ilia heat of aircraft engines. Secret Service information chief Jack Warner termed the magazine report "inacurate," but declined to flatly deny it. Ho said the agency doesn'e give "yes" or "no" answers to questions about its arsenal. MEANTIME, a private Pentagon-watchdog organ- 123(1911, the Center for Defense Information, lias questioned whether the Redeye is accurate enough for firine in miropolilan Washington "As a'defense system for the White House, the Redeye is fairly impractical, because in order to lock onto iargcl with Its infrared seeker 11 hns (o be fired from roughly behind the aircraft," said lioli Bcrman, a center, official, In an cntorvlcw, Bcrman added that the anti-aircraft missile would most likely protect the While House it Iho Secret Service bad ample warning of Dio attacking aircraft, and it were, fired well before tho piano got clos to IGOOTennsylvania Ave. standing in thelawn of tho While-House with a Redeye missile on your shoulder hoping to stop a DC-9 or a 707 is sort of an Impossible mission," be said, because if it misses "it would fly wild and then come down when its heat-seeker finds something hot enough." The mistaken target, added Bcrman, "could be anything from the exhaust a D.C.

Transit bus to underground sewer pipes." Herman's organization is headed by Rear Adm. CJcne U. LaRocque (USN 11 describes itself as a citizens' watchdog over defense policy and, in part, gathers data on Deparlmenl of Defense weaponry. HERMAN SAID ilic Redeye uses a "conventiional explosive" u'bich on hilling the wrong target would be "like an triA blast in Tho missile would not knock down a building, he said, but "would put a holo In tlio Capitol dome or tako A 100 square-foot chunk out of. tile Agriculture Department." The Pentagon declined to discuss tlio Redeye Id relation to protecting tho White House, But a spokesman defended Ha accuracy, and pointed out that ils place in Ilio U.S.

arsenal soon bo taken hy Stinger shoulder-mounted missiles, an improvement over Redeyes because they lock onto air- crafl from any dircllon, not just from behind, While recommcndiig that tho Sccrect Service use shoulder-mounted missiles, if it is not doing so already, Whalen acknowledged the hazards to the Washington area. "It's no panacea," he said, "and I made my recommendation in the sense that tho Redeye would bo a last resort to protect the While House." Berman. noted that, despite its flaws, the Redoys has value in its deterrent effect on any future Samuel Bycks. "It helps to publicize the delerrent," he said, "because we have to have something." BIRD WATCHERS Residents ot Graceham, watch as starlings, blackbirds and grackles gather in (lie trees in their town. (AP Wirephoto) Millions Of Birds Invade Little Town In Maryland By DAVE GOELLER GRACEHAM, Md.

(AP) The birds started arriving in Graceham last fall. And, says a local minister, "the flocks came and came and came and came and came." i i of starlings, grackles, redwings and other assorted blackbirds arc nested in a thick stand of pine halt a block from the only intersection in Graceham, a town of 400 (hat is located about seven miles from the presidential retreat at Camp David. "Most of the' houses In town are white, so it doesn't show up very badly," said the Rev. Frank Jones, pastor of Graceham Moravian Church. State officials will offer their solution at a lown meeting Wednesday night.

T-he presence of Ihc THE BIRDS Millions of'birds have invaded the Maryland town of Graceham, making people there think of Alfred Hitchcock's drama, "Tho Birds," where a seashore community is overtaken by birds. (AP Wirc- photo) blackbirds has prompted "The Birds." Some of the people lo lalk about Alfred talk is serious, Ihc 31-year- Hitchcock's hoi'ror movie old minister Friends Of St. Patrick Gel 'Surprise Streak' By 2 Women By KRIC ANDERSON Assistant City Editor THE SOLEMN annual gathering of the Society of the Friends of St. Patrick of Troy was turned into frenzy Saturday night al Mario's Theatre Ucslau- rant, when two young women "streaked" the dinner. The mihctl pnlr.

who unlilcnllllcil, run lliroupli (lie Imllroom, startling several hundred men iillcmllng the formal (dag iiffnlr. They Mustered (lie Micukni'i Troy SnvliigH II president Herbert Knilclcy Jr. (o such degree llwl II WHS ficvornl minutes hctoro he could continue In his folc us loMliunMor for Iho ovcul. The streaking incident was the highlight of the C8lh annual dinner of the society. The group, composed of business and community leaders in Troy, heard ils president, Assemblyman Noil Kollolior, a Troy Republican, assnll (ho moral dccny of Iho country and Inlk of tlio clmlleiigo to America's moral mid per- somil Integrity.

Knrlicr, Iho (r.uliliomil toast lo Iho President of Iho Unllcil Stnlcs by the mombcrs of Iho society had received only mixed response. In Albnuy, Iho annual St. Piilrlck's Day parade wont iis scheduled Suliirdiiy, In Pays Ransom For Release spile of pcriadk; rain. Protesters, members of Ihc Capital District Northern Ireland Aid Sociely, sta- lioncd themselves across from tho reviewing slnnd on North Pearl Sired, but I i remained peaceful. A group, tlio James Connolly Irish Republican Club from Troy, put down a casket It was planning lo carry in Iho pa- when police snkl it wouldn't be permitted.

The group wanted lo uso Iho ciiskol ns ri protest of whnt they termed Drllish oppression In Northern Irclmid, TIIKV MAHCI1KI) peacefully al (ho end of Ihe parade, currying only (liclr stuns. (I'liolt), Page 5,) Sunday Gas Sales Begun In Area "THE NO SUNDAY Gas may soon become a dated song. Wild more gas stations opening up on a regular basis due' to increased gasoline allocations, anil the subsequent end of panic buying, several area stations have begun to open up on Sundays again. Such' was the case this Sunday wilh gas stations reported open in Troy, Latham and surrounding communities. Gasoline was also available on the'New'York State Thruway for the second week as the tense crisis ot only a few weeks ago appears lo be winding down.

William Rice, owner of the Route 7 Hess Station in Latham, opened up his sta- from 9 a.m. lo 5 p.m. Sunday, after posting a sign all last week that he would do so. "I'd say we had an average volume of customers, there were no lines," said Rice, Mr-. Simon (Federal Energy Chief William Simon) ncverhad a law that we had lo shut down Sund a 'it was only a request." "Primarily, the reason wo closed down was be- causo we didn't have gas, but it's a temporary ililng.

we'll have to take it from week to week, we'll keep it up as long as we have gas," Rice concluded. Hess is apparently in yood supply for another Hess station on Route 9 in Latham was also open Sunday. Though few people knew it, Ricgerl's Gulf Station on Congress Street in Troy was also open Sunday. Gen. A.

C. O'llnru, Iho stale's energy cznr, snld rccenlly gas slaHons might consider open on Sundays. SENDS HEl'ORT TO HOUSE U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica today ordered the secret Watergate jury report delivered to the House Judiciary Committee for ils impeachment inquiry.

Sirica delayed implementation of liis order for two days to permit filing ot appeals. Sirica said in his opinion that the grand jury "strongly recommends" that its report had a satchel filled with evidence should go to tho impeachment com- mille because: "Having carefully examined the contents of the grand jury report, the court is satisfied that Ihcro can be no question regarding their materiality to Ihe House Judiciary Committee's in- vcsligalion." Sunday Record Brings Latest Sports And News Index lirldgo Lesson 32 Classified 30, 31, 33, 35 Comics 32, at Crossword I'uulc 32 Dealh Notices 2(1 Kditorinls i Fliuinclal 20 Horoscope 32 Mfcslylo 8, 0, 10 Movlo Tlmolnblo 2(I Oblliuiry 20, 21 Piilso of Hie People Sports 15, lii, 17, li), Telovlslou-lladlu Thenlcrs 20 Till? SUNDAY HHCOUD, tho area's nowcst Sunday newspaper which begins publication this week, will strike balnnce between Iho latest local, urea and world news and Ihc longtime favorites of Ilic daily features in The Times He- cord. "We'll Include our renders' favorite columns on Sunday," muDiigliijf nlllor Frank Doblsky suld this morning, "bin we'll also hnvc the Inlcsl news -from the arcn, Iho stale, the nallmi and the world, We'll Imvo (ho lulcsl sporls scores, coverage of Into sports news, and complete horse raring results." Sunday Record's business section will In- cliido it look at llio week's slock exchange news, complete closing prices on the New York and American slock exchanges and a look lit (rends in business across the country as well as in our own area. Tho Sunday Record, l)o- bisky said, will "lake a hard look ill Ihe people who make headlines In politics, lii show business and in sporls," The paper will also feature stories about Ihe mrm-on-lhe-strccl, the people who don't necessarily make Iho headlines, "We'll have a Lifestyle section dial takes a look at Iho tilings people do when Iliey'ro not working," Do- blsky said, "find an ails and leisure section Ihnl will Include not Just Iho latest on people and events in show business, but such Times Record favorites as the "Know Your Antiques column tbe weekend crossword puzzle." TlliO I'APKIl will include (ravel news and a page ot farm news, Dobisky said, as well as a Sunday version of tho popular Hot lino column that helps readers cut through the red tape in solving tliolr problems. "We also (hink our renders will enjoy our six-page cakir comics section," Do- lilsky added, "where yon'H IIml all your fnvorltc car- loon diameters." "The Sunday Record," Doblsky said, "will bo lively and exciting Sunday newspaper which think nil our readers will enjoy." MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.

(AP) Ransom lias been paid for tho return of Eunice Kronholm, and her ab- ductors have promised to let her hanker husband know her whereabouts today, a family spokesman -'said. Mrs. Kronholm, whose husband, Gunnar, is president of Drovers State Bank in South -Sti'- -Paul, disap- a from her Lino. Lakes Friday morning. Her brplher-in-law, the Rev.

Bruce Fleming, read a brief statement in a telephone call lo The Asso- cialed Press early today. "The ransom money has been delivered to the abductors as instructed," the Rev. Mr. Fleming said, "They have promised to lit a Kronholm know this morning where his wife being held. We now prayerfully and with hope awaiting for this information." The FBF said her Buick Skylark was found parked in a lot at the in tho Minneapolis suburb of Edina.

Mrs. Kronliolm, 46, was last seen by her husband when ho left their home Friday morning for Friday afternoon, Kronholm received a telephone call from someone who tolc! him to deliver "all the money you can" to a "station." Tlio caller lnmg up before Kronholm could clarify (he demand. Kronliolm, 60, had asked the. FBI not lo interfere in the case. At a Saturday news conference on tho front steps of his home, he pleaded for some- contact from (lie kidnapers.

Ifa said: "I await their demands and I will dp my utmost lo their expectations whenever and wherever (hey Indicate. Tho kidnap victim is his second wife. His first died of cancer several years ago. MllS, XKONI10UK.