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I THE DAILY ITEM 9TH YEAR OF SERVICE--NO. 89 PORT CHESTER, N.Y., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1967 TEN CENTS MAIN LEGION SQUARE vention host. Weekend program will include 8 p.m, opening meeting Friday and presentation of the 16th annual legion Americanism award, reopening of convention at 1:30 p.m. Saturday with election of county legion officers, and a parade through the village Saturday at 5 p.m. This will be followed by a dinner at which parade award will be About 2,500 legionaires are expected to attend.

Staff Photo by Doris B. Kirchoff. Russian Case Against Israel Is Taken To U.N. Assembly Va Federal Funds Okayed For Oak-Grove Study Federal funding for a feasibility study the proposed Oak-Grove Street low income, vest pocket, urban renewal site, has been approved by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to word received yesterday by Port Chester Mayor John L. Messina.

In a telegram from U.S. Sen. Jacob K. Javits, the mayor was advised that: "I am pleased to advise you that I have received notification today from the Department of Housing that Port Chester's application for a federal, grant has been accepted. I think a great deal of credit must go to your community for displaying such determination.

I was pleased to meet with all of you and to have been of assistance in this project." The funds will provide survey and planning for the OakGrove Street site. Funds have already been allocated by the federal agency for survey and planning of proposed middleincome, private development project. at the site of the old junior high school. Both low and middle income projects are needed for relocating persons from the south end of the village designated for, urban renewal. The application for funds for Dodd Defends His Honesty; LIBERTY SQUARE in Port Chester.

became Legion Square yesterday in honor of annual Westchester American Legion convention, being held in the village Friday and Saturday. Given boosts from a village lift truck, the, convention chairman, Robert D. Schmaling, places the temporary sign at the corner of N. Main St. as Port Chester Mayor John L.

Messina looks on. Port. Chester Post 93 is con- Hits Travel Bilking Charge By JOHN CHADWICK WASHINGTON (AP) In a stilled Senate chamber, Sen. Thomas J. Dodd defended today his honesty and his honor against the ethics committee's recommendation that he be cansured for financia Misconduct.

A member of the Senate since 1959, the white-haired Connecti- 1 cut Democrat spoke slowly and forcefully and appealed to his colleagues to decide the issue on its merits and without political considerations. He hit hardest at the charge he bilked the government on travel expenses, He said if he is judged a thief, he should be expelled from the Senate. School Board Deplores Move Mount Vernon Boycott By Teachers Assailed By JOSEPH W. SHANNON Staff Correspondent ALBANY The teacher boycott of the Mount Vernon public schools was condemned yesterday by the New York State School Boards Association as "irresponsible and contrary to public policy." Last week the leadership of the New York State Teachers' Association imposed "sanctions" against the Mount Vernon system telling affiliated teacher groups that: "Mount Vernon is not an appropriate place at present in which professional teachers should seek employment," and The Daily Item HOME DELIVERED 50c Weekly All the news, lively, complete and informative delivered to your doorstep each weekday afternoon. The whole family will enjoy it.

Phone: WE 9-0800 Va Moscow Pressing Demands the. feasibility survey for OakGrove Street was submitted Dec. 6, 1965 by the board of trustees. On May 23 of this year, Mayor Messina and a group of village residents went to Washington D.C. to speak with Don Hummel, assistant secretary for renewal and housing assistance, urging that the feasibility funds be granted village.

The meeting was arranged by Sen. Javits. At a board meeting on June 5, a resolution authorizing the Port Chester Housing Authority to submit a routine application "reserving" 125 units of low come housing, was defeated a 3-2 vote of the board. Mayor Messina has stated that he will resubmit the resolution at the board meeting of June 19, asking the board to reverse itself. The application the village in line for funding for the project, should the' village decide to go ahead with it on the basis of information received from the feasibility survey.

Mayor Messina has repeatedly stated the village board of trustees should make. up its mind whether or not to proceed with such a proposed use of the two sites on the basis of professional information received as a result of the two studies, He has stated a public hearing will be conducted and the taxpayers fully informed once all the facts are in. Ex-Boxing Commisioner Col. Eagan Of Rye Dies In NYC At 69 Edward P. F.

Eagan, 69, Rye, onetime Olympic champion boxer who became chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission and later headed former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's People-to-People Sports Committee, died today in New York City. Eagan succumbed at Roosevelt Hospital, where he had been a patient for some time. An attorney, and former Rhodes Eagan once served as an assistant U.S. attorney and had practiced law in New York since 1932.

Eagan formerly lived in the Lake Placid-Saranac Lake area COL. EDWARD P.F. EAGAN -A BREAK IN DEBATE commendation that Dodd be Sen. Thomas Dodd, censured. Long, at right, is and Sen.

Russell Long, Dodd's only defender. The Ethics publicly announced get together outside the Senate Committee blamed Dodd for chamber yesterday during a directing testimonial dinner break in the debate on the funds for his own personal Senate Ethics Committee's re- use. AP Wirephoto, by WILLIAM N. OATIS UNITED NATIONS. N.Y.

(AP) The Soviet Union pressed today for an emergency session of the U.N. General Assembly to take action against Israel amid speculation that Premier Alexei N. Kosygin might attend. The Security Council was scheduled to meet today on a Soviet resolution calling for Isr. ael to withdraw immediately from the territory it seized in its blitz war against Egypt, Jordan and Syria.

Council delegates believed the resolution would get only four of the nine votes needed for adoption, clearing the way for action on the Soviet request for a the assembly to meet. Following defeat of the Soviet resolution, Secretary-General U. Thant' would poll the 122 U.N. members by telegram, and the necessary majority of 62 countries was expected to agree to the emergency session. Thant then was likely to call the session on 24 hours' notice.

Speculation that the Soviet premier would attend stemmed from a letter from Soviet Minister Andrei Gromyko Thant Tuesday saying "leading statesmen of the Soviet Union" would attend. Soviet other Communist sources United 'Nations and, said they did not know to whom Gromyko was referring and Soviet spokesmen in Moscow refused to comment on the speculation sabout Kosygin. The Soobtained a permit to land a special, plane in New York about Thursday but postponed the flight, apparently awaiting the scheduling of the assembly session. 'The U.S. Embassy in said the Soviet govern- See SOVIET on Page 14 Tampa Negro Youth Killing Ruled Justifiable Homicide TAMPA, Fla.

(AP) The killing of a Negro youth by a white policeman -the incident that triggered Tampa's first major race riots- was ruled justifiable homicide today by. State Atty. Paul Antinori. Negro leaders had predicted that such a decision would lead to renewed violence in the city, and Tampa's NAACP president, BULLETIN MAMARONECK JAILHOUSE BLUES olent Coordinating Committee Stokely Carmichael leaves the chairman Sunday on a disor. Autauga County jail at Pratt- conduct charge sparked ville, Ala.

Tuesday. The arrest racial turmoil. (See story on of the former Student Nonvi- Page 32.) AP Wirephoto. Robert Gilder, was asked immediately afterward about his own plans. "My plans are to go pray," Gilder replied.

"And I definitely suggest that the whole of Tampa do the News that Patrolman James R. Calvert had shot Where To Art, Drama, Music 20-21 Business, Finance 46-47 Comics 48 Editorials, Comment 18-19 Family Features 27-28 Food Ann Chester 29 Greenwich 6 Chambers, 19, in the back flashed through Negro neighborhoods Sunday night, triggering three nights of shooting, burning and looting. Antinori said that Chambers had committed burglary and See TAMPA on Page 32 Find It Harrison 3 Obituaries 14 Rye 2 Sports 50-52 Television 42 Theater 49 Women's News 24-26 THE WEATHER OUTLOOK: FAIR knots today, easterly 10 Official Forecast south by Fair today, high temperature in 70s. Partly cloudy tonight, low in upper 50s. Fair after some morning cloudiness tomorrow, high in 80s.

Precipitation probability 30 per cent today, 20 per cent tonight and tomorrow. Wind east 10 to 15 today, becoming southeast '10 m.p.h. or less tonight and south by southwest 10 15 m.p.h. tomorrow. Extended outlook, Fair and warm Friday.

Long Island Sound: Easterly by southeasterly winds 10 to 15 TIDES (Daylight Saving Time) High: 4:03 a.m. p.m. Low: 10:30 a.m, 11 p.m. Thursday High: 5:03 a.m. 5:39 Low: 11:30 a.m.

p.m. (U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) TODAY'S CHUCKLE window of dress shop: "The new short skirt is a mini-splendored thing." AT OR Dodd acknowledged the use of some campaign and testimonial funds for personal but not to the extent reported by the bi-partisan ethics committee. The wife of he 60-year-old senator and four of their children listened from the gallery as he man's reputation is his most precious possession" and appealed for justice, not mercy. More than 80 of the 100 tors were in their seats and listened attentatively.

The start of Dodd's speech was delayed when Sen. Russell B. Long, raised the question of how many senators had answered to their names when the roll was called at the start of the session. Long, who has volunteered to serve as Dodd's chief defender, said he wanted the record to reflect how many senators were present to hear the defense, In any court, he said, it would be a reversible error if a single juror were absent. Sen.

Ralph Yarborough, D- See DODD on Page 6 of of the Adirondacks but more cently made his home in Rye. Eagan, a native of Denver, won his Olympic championship as a light heavyweight at Antwerp in 1920 after serving as an artillery lieutenant in World War I. -In 1924 he. was a heavyweight on the American Olympic Team. He also was one of the few people in the world who had won Olympic medals in two sports.

His other medal was in bobsledding, won in 1932 at Lake Placid as a member of a four-man bobsled teams. Eagan was graduated from Yale in 1921 and attended Harvard Law School before going to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar in 1924. For many years he served as legal counsel to the New York Daily News. In 1945 then Gov. Thomas E.

Dewey named Eagan to head the State Athletic Commission and he held that post until 1951. Eagan was the author of a book "Fighting for Fun" and magazine articles. He also had collaborated with Dr. Joyce Brothers, TV psychologist, on a titled "Ten Days to a Successful Memory." Eagan was married in 1927 at Saranac Lake to Miss Margaret Colgate, daughter of Jersey City manufacturer Sidney Colgate. He was a member of the Bar Association of the City of New York, the American Legion, Beta Theta Pi and the Republican, Book and Snake, Yale, Circumnavigators of New York, American Yacht and Apawamis Clubs in Rye and New York City.

Mr. and Mrs. Eagan had two children, Sidney and Carline. During World War II he advanced in ranks from captain to lieutenant colonel in the Army Air Transport Command. called on teachers not to apply for or take jobs there "until the dispute is resolved." It also announced establishment of an office in Mount Vernon "to help any teachers presently teaching in Mount Vernon who desire to seek employment elsewhere." Walter L.

Hunt, president of the School Boards Association, said the directors "cannot believe that this action represents the attitude of the majority of the members of the Teachers' Association." "Not only is the leadership," of the teacher. group, "acting contrary public policy established by the Legislature," Mr. Hunt said, "but it is disregarding the educational needs of the children of a community." The SBA expressed concern at the "precedent-setting aspects" of the teacher action "as an indication of a policy to be pursued by an organization which has had reputation of representing. the professional interests of its members." 'Grievance' Days Set. Frank S.

assessor of the Town of Rye, today announced the date of commencement of the annual hearings held by the Tax Board of Review in accordance with the Westchester County Charter. Mr. Tarascio said, "Hearings will start on Tuesday, 20 at 10 a.m. at the town rooms, 10 Pearl Street, Port Chester. Anyone feeling himself aggrieved by the 1967 assessment may file an application on or before June 20 at the office of the assessor in the town rooms.

The Tax Board of Review is a lay body, consisting of three members constituted in accordance See GRIEVANCE on Page 14 A large fire broke out in the heart of the main business area on Mamaroneck Ave. shortly before noon today. Three stores were reported involved. The fire reportedly started in the United Shoe Repair store and spread through the Victory Tailors, Aluminum Products and Channel TV repair shop. Eastchester Also Leaving Harrison Votes To Bolt School Sports League By BETTY SHEPARD proved separation from the county leagues.

Harrison has declared its in- The rebellions of Harrison and dependence from high school Eastchester are a result of the league alignments in Westches- general shakeup in leagues ter. County as of December 1, which has been going on since intends to go it alone. the School County Administrators Council of Chief 1967, and The independence movement ed last December a plan for re. was recommended by Superin- alignment of leagues, based on enrollment balances. tendent Louis Klein and approved by the Harri- Mr.

Council's Klein is Curriculum chairman of Commit- the imously son District 6 Board of tion at its regular meeting 1 last ment project. He issued a tee which handled the realignnight. minority opinion which took Independence has also been exception to the committee's declared by Eastchester. Mr. majority recommendations.

Klein stated last night the same Rye and Pelham had earlier recommendation has been made this year also, had expressed by that school district's super. dissatisfaction with the new intendent, Dr. George Quinn, plans but have since accepted and in a separate memorandum the alignments which would dated June 9, noted the Eastchester board had already ap- See HARRISON on Page 3 becoming southknots tonight and southwesterly 10 to 15 knots tomorrow; visibility 5 miles or more, except 1 to 2 miles in haze and patchy fog early tomorrow. 9:40 a.m. Westchester County Airport weather station temperature 58, yesterday's 60, 24-hour high 70, 24-hour low 56; visibility 15 miles; wind calm.

Precipitation, County Office Building, 24-hours to 9 a.m. trace, total June. 1967 trace, normal June, 2.93 inches, 1967 to date 17.45 inches, total 1966 to date 14.82 inches. ALMANAC (Daylight Saving Time) Wednesday Sunrise 5:24 a.m. Sunset 8:36 p.m.

Moonrise 11:52 a.m, Moonset 12:53 a.m. Thursday Sunrise 5:24 a.m. Sunset 8:37 p.m. Moonrise 1:04 p.m. Moonset 1:19 a.m.

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