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Lexie Brockway'And Blue Stamps Are A Grand iUruon By JOHN DINARDO A A i A Granitelli casts an impressive a STP i Treatment. Then there's Josephine the Plumber who shows us how lo do it belter with Comet Cleanser. But Grand Union Company's got it all over the competition with Lcxie Brockway, a a i i charmer who hopes lo have us all saving our Blue Stamps before she's through. In September, after handing over her title as Miss World USA 1973-74 ending an ex. hausling 10-month, national promotional landed a promotional spot with Grand Union.

Now she's off again on another whirlwind tour. This lime as "Good Will Ambassador" for Blue Stamps and its Grand Catalog Showroom Division, both Grand Union subsidiaries. Meeting with newsmen during a Tuesday press conference al the Golden Fox Restaurant in Albany, Ms. Area Brockway talked her way through 10 personal interviews before cocktail hour ended. She had a hoarse throat by i a luncheon address.

She a about Blue Stamps, gave a brief account of her reign as Miss World USA. said she is most often asked about women's lib "I'm for equal pay, equal opportunities, the right to be yourself. 1 have Ihe righl lo be me, i stereotype you either way." and said her main ambition was lo one-day host her own television lalk show. Through most of it the 20 year-old beanly queen wore a warm, unclenched smile, She really enjoys talking to people. In a rare moment when she was left alone, she looked lost.

The interview: In a way she's a reporter's nightmare. You can tell she's heard it all before. She can't be shucked. She listens politely, pauses, then answers quickly, easily. What docs she say to libbers who call beauty contests "meat markels?" "I've never personally ex- perienced thai kind of thing," said Ms.

Brockway. "I think lo get a movement off Die ground people lent! lo go to extremes just to be think they're going through that now wilh women's liberation. A title is really what you make of it, just being Ihc person you are." How did she get involved in beauty pageants? "I took jazz and ballet lessons all my life. At one time I thought 1 wanted to a i a a so 1 thought a pageant could be a a good a i said. When she was 16 she was a Miss Teen finalist.

At 17, she was chosen Miss. Ludington, (he youngest girl lo ever win the conlesl. She was later a finalist in the Miss Michigan contest before winning the Miss Washington World pageant. In December 1973 stie was crowned Miss World IJSA. "People 1 have a lot of misconceptions about pageants," said Ms.

Brockway. "When I got into it (Miss World USA) I didn't know what lo expect, 1ml il really wasn't a competitive thing al all. Most of the girls were jusl glad to have gotten that far, It was really jusl a tot of fun. We did promotional work, modeling, things like thai for about a week. We didn't starl rehearsing for the show until three days There's no doubt she looks like the Ail-American dream girl, bill her biggest assel has to be'her personality.

She has a rare ability lo be charming without seeming shallow. "I guess I've always been pretly she explained, "Maybe il's because I moved all my life. Aly father's a construction field engineer, and every few years we had lo pick up and move.to another part of the country. 1 lo go outa and make new friends easily. I bad lo.

I'm jusl nol the loner type." Born in Clark Fork, Idaho, she later lived in Michigan, Oregon. Canlfornia, Florida and Washington. She now lives in York Cily. She has no steady boy friend, for which she said she is gralcftil. "Pageants are hard if a girl is you're jusl loo busy.

A lot of girls 1 knew were going crazy because of lhat." And she hasn't seen much of her family or close friends al home for over a year. For now, she's working on a career. H'Li'nii. employed her acting talents majored in communications a a a a a Washington Slate College) in a series of public service television commercials for U.S. Dept.

of slk c. In one. she is walking down a dark street, hysterical, after having been raped. In another, her purse is snatched. The broadcasts, which will be appearing in two or three weeks, arc aimed at encouraging women to report crimes.

"I think they might do some good," she said. "So many women are still afraid to report crimes of that nature, Many jusl don't know where lo uirn." The day's work completed, the roving ambassador shook her head. "1 think I'll just go crash out somewhere." She didn't, A few hours later she was answering the same questions on a two-hour radio lalk show. THE TIMES RECORD Stale iNews )AV. 20.

1 J7 Columbia County Group May Test Dairylea Levy PEARL HI VER, X.Y. (AP) Directors of the Dairylea Cooperative. have voled to levy a special assesssment on its dairy- farmer members in the Northeast lo wipe oul an Sis-million deficit. But just before the action was taken by the huge milk cooperative Tuesday, about 100 members in Columbia County threatened to go to court to prevent it. The Hssosscmenls will not effect the price of milk for consumers, according to Dairylea spokesman Bruce Snow.

The cooperative has 8,000 members in York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England. Snow said the directors voled by a "substantial" margin to require the farmers lo nay an average Of about S2.600. cither in a lump sum in December, or in six monthly payments. Dairylea Will also operate a loan-guarantee program for farmers in need of credit to mcel the payments, he said. The assessments will be based on 93 ccnls- per hundred pounds of milk for a seven- month period from April through October.

The levies will range' from $1,500 to about $10,000, spokesmen have said. In a statement after the vote, the directors said Ihc levy would reslore "a healthy cash flow of capital reserves and reduce the drain on Ihc cooperative of heavy interest payments." Dairylea President James R. Donnan, a Giilway farmer, said in a letter to members: "I want lo stress that we acted not in Ihe face of we cmild have maintained the slums quo with a less drastic program, but il was clear that anything less would have lefl us in a slowly but steadily weakening situation." Dairylea was recently told by its bank, the Springfield, Bank of Cooperatives, thai Dairylea had to stabilize its cash reserves to prevent future losses. Harold Weaver of Glenco Mills, a director of Hie Dairylea local in Columbia County, said (hat a one-shot, one-month deduction would leave members with less than a third of their normal monthly payment for milk. "I'd have lo borruw money for a month to' get by," he said.

about 100 farmers from the area would attempt to obtain a courl injunction to prevent the assessment. Snow, asked if milk juices might increase because of the increased cost to farmers, said, "No. Milk prices arc set by competition--you jusl can'l go up willy-nilly. "This is strictly between Dairylea and its members and it has no effect on Ihe price of milk," he said. Kunstler May Begin Pretrial Questioning A THUEE ALARM fire Tuesday afternoon on busy Central Avenue in Albany spread through four stores.and threatened a fifth and loll nine persons homeless.

The fire apparenl- ly broke in the LaBella Femmina clothing shop al 227 Central Avc. and spread lo the China House Restaurant, Quality Corset Shoppe and Classic Shop at 223 lo 231 Central Ave. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Here, smoke billows from the burning structures. (Photo by Larry Roberts.) Only Courts Can Decide Executive Privilege: Memo ALBANY, N.Y.

(AP) Die a determine "when executive privilege can be overridden by public interest in New York, official slate memorandum says. The Committee on Public Access to Records cited the opinion in a memorandum contending lhat executive 'privilege lo a i a i the secrecy of some confidential i a i between public officers docs exist in state law. The seven-member committee has been charged with developing regulations and guidelines for the state's Freedom of Information Law. The new law guarantees the availability of many government records previously kept from public view. The question of how executive privilege might affect public access to records was raised at ,1 i of committee members last Two Men Take $2,500 From Colonie Store I I clean-cut young men robbed Ihe Colonie Food Market, 1558 Central of about $2,500 Tuesday nighl.

Theodore I.ubinicki, a store Colonie Detective Garry Gepferl of the theft, Ihaloccurred p.m. I.ubinicki said two men entered Ihe store and wenl to Hie back, returning with a can of beer apiece. One paid for his beer, said I.ubinicki, and started a conversation. The other went again lo beer cooler and returned lo Ihe Ironl, paid for his beer and lelt with.liis companion. A i a I.ubinicki checked Ihe safe mid.

found its door ajar and S2.500 apparently gone. Ltibinicki described the (wo bolh as clean-shaven, well- dressed black men, about 27 years old. One was aboul five feel, eight inches (all and weighed about 160 pounds. The oilier was aboul two inches taller and 20 pounds heavier. I.ubinicki said" they may have maroon Torino coupe.

He was not injured In ttie incident. summer, Ihe memorandum said, The committee died stale Courl of Appeals ruling made in a case involving a civil law- suil in which the plaintiff unsuccessfully sought a list of witnesses who had appeared before a closed board ol i i i i a i a explosive, its July ruling, the courl said, "official information in the bands of governmental agencies has been deemed in a i i i A legislature has rccenlly passed the" Freedom of Information Law, il does not abolish the Common Law privilege for official information." liul the court said that the state agency involved in the case could nol protect records by simply saying secrecy was in Ihe public interest. II was up lo (he agency lo prove in court that the public interest was served better by withholding information. "The court has clearly conveyed its message that it does nol concede the authority to make Ihe determination to any other governmental body, including this committee," the memorandum slated. BUFFALO (AP)-Defense lawyer William Kunsller could begin pretrial examination of some prosecution witnesses loday in ihc first Attica prison rebellion murder trial.

Kunstler and Ramsey Clark represent John Hill, 22, of Buffalo, and Charles Pernasilice, 22, of Syracuse, respectively. Both are charged in Ihe bcaling of guard William Quinn. the firsl man to die in: the Sept. 9-13, 1971 which cost the lives of 32 in-1 males and I I hostages. Justice Gilbert King of Stale Supreme Court cleared way Tuesday the beginning of Wade hearings in which certain prosecution witnesses a a i a i by the defense.

The stale prosecutors have indicaled lhal several of (heir witnesses will be asked to identify ihc defendants before Ihe jury once the trial gels underway. Of those prospective witnesses, any who made initial identification of the defendants through Ihe use of photographs are subject lo Wade examination. If Kunsller or Clark can prove thai a prospective witness was shown photographs of the defendants in a tainted or suggestive way, they can ask King to disqualify the witness from testifying. Dennis Cunningham, one of six persons assisting Kunstler, Clark and their respective co- counscl.s, has said there will be 1.1 Wade witnesses, two of whom a Attica prison guards. Hill, Mohawk Indian who dresses for in a feathered headband, beads, blue jeans and boots, was twice i Tuesday for his courtroom behavior.

At one point, while King was hearing prelnal arguments. Hill left the defense table and walked out of the courtroom. The prosecution refused lo proceed, and King was forced to call a recess. "You're not going lo walk out ol this courtroom and jusl leave everyone else sitting here," King told Hill when the defendant returned about 15 minutes later. And rmmcnts before King adjourned proceedings for the day, Hill rqseum! indicated he wished to address the rigid, while-haired jurist.

"You have a lawyer, you can speak your lawyer," King told Hill. Bin Hill replied, "I have a mouth. I can speak for myself." King ignored the comment and walked off the'bench. Some spectators hissed as King stepped down, and aboul five refused lo stand for the judge's exit. The Erie County sheriff's deputies who police the courtroom said those who refused to sland would be banned from the court for Hie remainder of Position For LEXtE BROCKWAY, MISS WORLD (Photo by C.W, McKeen) A NEW YORK Judgment.

Filed Against Doctor (AP) A summary judgement of 5350,000 has been filed against a doctor convicted of causing the death of a woman who underwent an abortion in his clinic. Dr. Jesse Kelclnnn. who operated the clinic here, was convicted in Oc- lobcr, 1973. of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Margaret L.

Smith of Ypsilanli, Mich. Kidnaped Man Released A A $750,000 ransom lias led to the release of a Ixng Island businessman who bad been kidnaped from 'his Kings Point home at gunpoint a week ago. the Fiil reported early loday. Jack J. Teich, 34, co-owner of Acme Steel Partition Brooklyn, was released near Kennedy Airport late Tuedsay, He was reported in good con- dilion.

Child Placement Method Fair NEW YORK (AP) Placing foster care children in homes and inslitutions according to religious' or racial background is "fair and reasonable," a three-judge federal panct has ruled. The decision dismissed a suit by the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Legal Aid Society which, claimed lliHl laws and policies discriminated against black and Protestant children. Police, Searching For Prisoner WELI.SVIL1.E, N.Y. (AP) --Slate Police continued tlieir search today for an Allegany County prisoner who escaped with the sheriff's revolver, then "mailed" the gun back. Robert: Orr.

37, was being escorted from the county jail at nearby Belmont lo a mental health clinic here Monday by Sheriff Richard Uurdick. Orr was to undergo a prelrial examination. the trial. King demands decorum in" Hie courl, and Tuesday's relatively minor disturbances could signal more dramatic personality clashes between the ten persons at Ihe defense table and the judge once ihc trial begins. Thraway Workers Accept Pad ALBANY, X.Y.

(AP) State Thruway employes volrrt Tuesday to accept a two-year contract providing 7 per ccnl wage increases each year for 2.200 toll, maintenance and clerical workers. The employes, who had twice rejected proposals since Ihe contract expired June 30, accepted the pact by a vole of BOO-480. Aide A A (AP) Gerald Mcl.aughlin. deputy press secretary lo Gov. Malcolm Wilson, will move lo the legislature next year as press secretary lo Ihe chairman of I a i a Committee.

McLaughlin, will lake a cut in pay from $Mfff a year lo $29.000 a year. Democrats caplurcd Ihe governor's office and look a majority in the Assembly in the November elections, hut Itcpublicans retained control of Ihe Senate, Spill hi Canal Causes Odor I Waleriord WATKKKOHD- A spill of oily green liquid into the Erie Canal from the Ki iedrichsohn Cooperage company was (lie source ol a strong odor which bothered canal area residents Tuesday, according to Coast a a Malhew Wocul.s. a Woods who called lo investigate the a 7 Tuesday, said the spill was "small, less than 40 gallons." Woods said he traced the i to I'licdrichsohn's, and Ihe lirm called in and Pollution Control of Schcncclady lo clean the water. The clean-up operation was completed about 1:.10 a.m. a a employe said.

Commander Woods said lliere was a "probability" thai a refuse law had been violated. The refuse law "is tlie joint responsibility of the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Army Corps of i and Woods said il was possible Ihiil otic of Ihose would investigate Hie spill. The spill was centralized near Iflck 2.

PKOPI.K DIHVl.N't; down Italic 17 in Dinghanilnn may have noticed a friendly lace smiling al them from the back of a Link '-jj truck. A Caynga Bulk Service truck from Cayuga is Hie hearer of Ihe friendly message, 'Have A Nice.