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motorist. Further press time. photo by Shelby Young information was unavailable at Fairmont was listed last night in satisfactory condition at the hospital. Preston County Sheriff Clarence Fike and two deputies were at the scene of the accident for several hours last night THE DRIVER OF THIS GMC tractor-trailer was taken to Preston Memorial Hospital for treatment after it overturned on Rt. 7 west of Manown in Preston County.

Martin Dalton of as two wreckers attempted to move the truck back onto the road. The Sheriff's Office said they were called to the scene at 1:21 p.m. Mr. Dalton had been taken to the hospital by a passing Second Front Page NEWS PHONE 292-6301 MORGANTOWN. W.VA..

WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1969 WANT City Sewer Charge Increase Predicted Council's Traffic Plans Described as Illegal ADS PHONE 292-3381 By TONY CONSTANTINE necessary new sewer lines. City Manager James A. Ashburn admitted the Sanitary Board may not have the funds to provide sewers on Wagner during 1969-70. but discounted the bankruptcy danger. He said the board would have approximately $123,000 available during the next fiscal year for internal sewer construction.

Mr. Buehler read to Council a letter from the Morgantown High School student government asking for better recreation facilities for youth, and for parking limits on streets near their school. Council tabled a motion by Terry T. Jones, Seventh, for the immediate reapportionment of the city's seven wards as requested by Theodore M. Judy, a resident of the Seventh.

The vote was 8-5. Mr. Judy claimed to Council that the present wards, with unequal populations, violated the City Charter and the State and Federal Constitutions. Mr. Buehler said the City was waiting for the County Court to act on its realignment of magisterial districts, because it sets the precinct boundaries for voting.

Council passed to second reading the ordinance for the paving of Gordon Street from Grand to Sherman. Mr. Shuman said his committee is studying further the proposed ordinance to prohibit We're afraid it might prevent motorists from stopping and picking up their he said. Mr. Jones presented a petition, signed by six property owners, for rescinding the ordinance to pave Eastern Avenue.

One reason cited for the petition was the cost of $14.75 a foot, regarded as excessive. The matter was referred to the Finance Committee, headed by Mr. Jones. board, he estimated that the following project needs by the city would cause the -increase: millions of dollars for badly needed storm sewers, thousands for a normal paving program. funds for Marilla Peninsula storm sewer covers.

funds for secondary sewage treatment that will soon be ordered by the Water Resources Board. money to meet the possibility of major replacement requirements at the treatment plant. funds for supplemental treatment facilities when present facilities become prematurely overloaded. Mr. Delardas, in his statement to the city manager, pointed out that the Sanitary Board was in sound financial condition during Elmer Prince's tenure as city manager, and claims that following proposals recommended during the Prince term of office would permit the lowering of sewer fees to 50 per cent of the water bill.

(Presently the rate is 100 percent.) The statement to Mr. Ashburn contained the history of Sanitary Board finances, and said that the board needed a member who was familiar with the administration of large-scale operations and aware of the importance of fiscal responsibility. Mr. Delardas also asked for a clear definition from the state of the area Morgantown Sanitary Board is compelled to serve, and asks that the service be limited to that area. Lack of knowledge of the service area, thus serving a wider one than necessary, is his reason for believing that the Sewage Treatment Plant will become overloaded.

Describing the Morgantown Sanitary Board financial status for the coming fiscal year as "one of the most schocking disclosures I have ever been made aware of in all my experiences around City Hall." a former Board member said yesterday in presenting a report. William T. Delardas, in a statement yesterday to the board's chairman. City Manager James A. Ashburn.

predicted that the sewer fees in Morgantown. already among the highest in the nation, would double or triple within the next few Basing his predictions on the possibility of continuing the present policies of the Westover To Open New Street General Paving Co. will begin grading operations this morning to open and lengthen Fourth Street in Westover. The street will be lengthened to Sharon Street. Mayor John McKinney said that building applications had already been filed for that area, but were delayed because of lack of access routes.

Grades were established and accepted by council on Columbus Street. A request to open the street, which has been a grass field for the past few years, was made by the heirs of the Jenkins Estate. The heirs explained that the land was to be partitioned into lots and then sold. Your Hometown News Page William B. Duff.

Fourth, presented a petition asking for installation of a blinker signal light at the intersection of Dille Street with University Ave. He said close to 100 per cent of the Dille Street residents signed the petition. Mr. McCartney requested the police to partrol Richwood Avenue to curtail the speeding reported by residents. Council approved, on his motion, a resolution calling on the State Road Commission to install a traffic light at the Route 7 intersection with Green Bag Road.

The resolution is to be sent to Gov. Arch A. Moore and other State officials. Council knocked down an amendment calling for the to include a signal light at the intersection of Chestnut Ridge and Van Voorhis roads. Patrolman Dale Rice of the Police Department accused Mr.

McCartney of slandering him and his family before Council at its previous meeting, and demanded a public apology. He referred to the councilman's reading of a letter from Lt. Charles Cira that charged him with insubordination against that officer and recommended suspension. Mr. Rice called the statements in the letter "false." He said he had been found innocent in two hearings before the Police Civil Service Commission.

He blamed the matter on a "personal conflict" with the accusing officer. He asked why his name had been read to Council and not that Mr. Cira. "I have nothing to hide," Mr. Rice said.

"Please don't harass me any more in the future." Mr. McCartney defended his action by saying he had read only what was in the letter, and had not made personal charges against the policeman. maintenance superintendent in Preston County. The district engineer said there has been no change in the status of Mr. Roberts, and that George Schmidle is serving as assistant superintendent at the Kingwood office.

Mr. Roberts said there had been some confusion over newspaper reports that Mr. Schmilde has assumed the position of superintendent. He said that he was not concerned over his own title, but that he merely wanted to clarify the situation. Charles Whetsell.

chairman of the Preston County Republican Executive Committee, last week stated that Mr. Schmidle has been appointed as assistant superintendent and that he would serve in that capacity for the next few days until the heavy snowfall could be removed. Mr Schmilde has been working as the assistant superintendent for one week, and Mr. Stamp said Mr. Roberts will continue to serve as superintendent until he has other instructions from Charleston.

Mr Roberts did not say what he planned to do if and when Mr. Schmidle is elevated to the position of superintendent. "I will cross that bridge when I come to it." he said. Mr Stamp said that the generally confused situation over the naming of new supervisory personnel in the district had developed because these changes were being made while SRC emploves were on strike over their demand for union recognition. Morgantown's City Council discovered last night that the new traffic plan it approved recently, and earlier traffic changes adopted in similar fashion apparently are illegal.

It learned that the City Charter prescribes such matters as one-way streets and other controls for the regulation of traffic are to be designated "by ordinance." Councilman G. Cliff Hough, Fourth Ward, opened the Pandora's Box when he proposed a motion that all traffic pattern changes in the future be made by ordinance. Earl L. McCartney, Sixth, questioned if such a motion would affect the traffic plan Council adopted by order recently on a trial basis. The plan covers six streets in the University town campus area.

It changed some streets to one-way. Other councilmen asked during the discussion whether earlier Council orders to control traffic, not established by ordinance, would remain in effect. City Solicitor Donald E. Price gave an opinion that the motion by Mr. Hough, if adopted, would be retroactive, although that councilman explained that such was not his intention.

Raymond M. Haas. Seventh, then read from the Charter that its regulations already specified that traffic controls must be adopted by ordinance. Mr. Price agreed with that interpretation, though he declined to use the word "illegal" in reference to traffic controls imposed without an ordinance.

He described them as "contradictory" to ordinances. Mr. Haas suggested that the Ordinance Committee would have to get busy writing ordinances as required to cover old traffic orders of Council. Mr. McCartney said the committee probably would have to go back several years, because so many traffic changes had been made by order only.

Mayor Arthur W. Buehler ruled Mr. Hough's motion unnecessary, since his proposed ordinance already was covered in the Charter. An ordinance banning parking on a stretch of Monongahela Boulevard, connecting with the University access road to the Engineering Building, provoked an argument between Mr. Buehler and Mr.

McCartney. The ordinance would prohibit parking 600 feet north and 400 feet south of the access road, on the east side of the boulevard. It passed easily to second reading, but a controversy developed when William A. Shuman. chairman of the Ordinance Committee, proposed that the law also be passed through the second and third reading last night.

He described the ordinance as urgent, because of the traffic hazards caused by the parking. Mr. McCartney argued that a unanimous vote was required to present the ordinance for a second reading. Mr. Buehler claimed otherwise.

He agreed only that unanimity was mandatory on the vote for passage. J. Thearle Jamison. Second, proposed an amendment extending the parking ban 400 more feet north, beyond the intersection with Patteson Drive. It lost.

The ordinance also failed when John W. Doane. Second, cast against it the single vote needed for passage to third reading. Council voted down, during the marathon session lasting 34 hours, a motion by Henry A. Comley.

First, that in effect would rescind the ordinance for the paving of Wagner Road from Simpson to Dorsey. The roll call was 8-5. Mr. Comley claimed the paving of Wagner possibly would bankrupt the Morgantown Sanitary Board, because of the $35,000 cost to the board of the WITH THE SRC Parker In, Kelly Out, Roberts Still in Job By GEORGE A.CRAGO MAJ. EARL J.

SNYDER Air Foree Promotes Snyder MASONTOWN Earl J. Synder, Rt. 1. Masontown was promoted to the rank of major in the United States Air Force. Major Snyder is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Glenn B. Snyder of Masontown. He is married to the former Dorothy Bonafield of Kingwood. They now reside at 901 S.

Pine Street in Stillwater. Okla. They have four children, Deborah, Blair, Suzanne, and Brian. Major Snyder is a 1951 graduate of Mastontown High School and a 1955 graduate of West Virginia University. He entered the Air Force in 1957 and was commissioned in 1958 through the Aviation Cadet Program.

Land Use Seminar Set Today A land planning and use seminar will be held this afternoon in the Agricultural Sciences auditorium on the Evansdale Campus of West Virginia University, sponsored by the WVU landscape architectural faculty and the North Central West Virginia Home Builders Association. Prof. Don Girouard said the seminar is designed to acquaint landscape architecture and home builders' classes at the University with actual land planning practices. Lee A. Syracuse, director of land use and development for the National Association of Home Builders, will be the main speaker.

He joined the NAHB staff in 1962 and is presently an instructor in housing and redevelopment in the planning department of Catholic University. Washington. D. C. Chief among his concepts is that of open space communities.

This incorporates open space for recreational uses, schools, churches and shopping facilities into residential neighborhoods. Among area home builders who will participate on a panel answering students' questions on land use problems will be Lou Cavellero. Clarksburg: Ben Harvey Kingwood and John Bellotti. Max Messenger. John Batlas.

and Jack Britton. all of Morgantown. Mr. Syracuse will present an additional program at the regular meeting of the North Central builders' group at 7:30 o'clock tonight at Holiday Inn. Mr.

Britton, president of the local Builders' Association, said that University students of landscaping are invited to attend the evening program beginning at 8:30. Br 1SBfv flr 'iBBBB flfl Br M. D. Parker. 68.

of Blacksville, a retired roadway engineer and construction consultant, yesterday became maintenance supervisor for the State Road Commission in Monongalia County. Thomas L. Stamp. SRC District 4 engineer, said that Mr. Parker was in Clarksburg yesterday and was advised of his duties as supervisor.

The district engineer said he had received confirmation of Mr. Parker's appointment from State Road Commissioner William S. Ritchie Mr. Parker replaces Gerald L. Kelly, who has served in the office for the past four years.

Mr. Parker indicated that hs choice as assistant superintendent will be Raymond Stewart, SRC employe at the Clay-Battelle garage. "That's up to him. but I would like to review the man's qualifications," Mr. Stamp said.

Mr. Parker met yesterday with a group of local SRC workers who had been discharged by Governor Moore and offered to accept their applications for reemployment. The men decided not to submit their applications until they had an opportunity to call a union meeting to discuss the offer. The time of the union meeting was not announced. Mr.

Stamp also confirmed a statement made yesterday by Robert R. Roberts that he is continuing to serve as SRC GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY of the American Legion's founding in France in 1919 was marked last night at the Flame by members of Post No. 2 and its Auxiliary Unit. Charles A. Kuhn, left, of Fairmont, state department commander cuts the special cake as Lyle Haines, post commander, and Richard E.

Davies, toastmaster, looks on..