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The Daily Item from Port Chester, New York • 37

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kyiyrj yyy I 1 i' THE DAILY ITEM PORT ICHESTERt NYr WEDNESDAY APRIL 20 1966 i 'I I i 'k FAGS 1 '-bir Bombers EdseCl oser WittKsSilSt HaU fbr'tee news conference Visiting Americans bad planned to hold it earlier at their hotel but -the government stopped) them aaybty they did have a permit for mqre than persona to asaemMe-'-'t'-- After agredng to let tee group'1 meet the press at the City Hall government refused to ex- i9 i XXffir i'' -VVX' XtjYrm ert Furman 33 of Fails Moot said: fire was pretty accurate and we had to hover for a few minutes but we didn take any hls" The Strategic "Air Command's B52s came In from Guam-at noon today for what spokesmen called a moderate-slzeiatrika against positions In Jungles' 335 miles northwest of Da Nang South Viet second largest city The spokesmen said the area was known to be Infiltrated by fresh Communist units from the north and was also -an assembly and supply distribution point In the guerrilla raldrsix mor-ar sheila were fired Into the Aa Khe airstrip before dawn and about 15 Viet Cong Infiltrated the field and set off four satchel charges TMy opened up with small arms but troops of the US 1st Cavlary Airmobile Port Chester Board Meets 3 Homesite Variance By Zoners (Oonttnaei Ikon age 1) -I A grenade thrown by a motor cyclist wounded a Vietnamese woman and two children ra Saigon street tonight FWlce said the target apparently wu a small US billet but the grenade exploded In an aOeyiragr Instead The terrorist escaped Political cootlnued ln file northern partof the country desplte the jruce hetween the government and Buddhist leaders Aa estimated 3000 Roman Catholics marched on the outskirts of Da Nkng charging file Buddhist antigovemment -committee" In the northern dty with responsibility for a grenade Mast that wounded four persons Monday night Too of the Injured were Catholics "I'H In Quang Ngal 80 miles south of Da Nang a mysterious explosion Tuesday at the headquarters of the Viet Nam National party killed three pep sons and Wounded four after a dash between armed Buddhists and supporters of the Conservative party The raid near Haiphong lolloped up an attack by Navy bombers on the Uong B1 power plant 14 mdes northeast of the dty Monday-night On Sunday Air Force fighter-bombers hit two missile sites 15 and miles south of Hanoi and knocked out a major highway bridge linking Haiphong and Hanoi 60 miles to the west The Navy pilots returning from the new raids on the Hal phong-Hanoi area reported that highway traffic between the cities had been virtually halted the spokesman said Other Air Force and Navy Jets battered a wide range of communication targets up and down the North Vietnamese panhandle Pilots reported cutting roads In 10 places cratering river tod destroying an antiaircraft position and a highway bridge and blasting four truck parks An Air Force F105 Thunder-chief was shot down by automatic weapons fire near Dong Hoi The idiot did not eject and was presumed dead A Navy fighter-bomber was hit 29 miles south ofVinh and other filers did not see a para chute The Navy pilot was listed 18 wringing Capt John Abernathy 29 ot Wichita- Kan was luckier His Air Force Thunderchlef was bit this morning near Route 15 the key road to the strategic Mu Gia Pass 65 miles south of Vlnh He ejected from his flaming plane and landed in mounts-nous Jungle but maintained ra dlo contact with his squadron Four Air Force Skyralders i-'ft'- fe?" '7 i 'v Yk '7 rj HELSINKI Finland Val no Tuner gS FInland'a foreign minister during the 1339-40 win ter war with the Soviet Union died yesterday Dr Tanner as Sailed for five years tor being responslMa for the wer? hut wasrrieesed after serving half the sentence Tanner premier in 1926-27 was long a leader of the Social Democrats FBANK WARE PROVIDENCE ILL -EYank Watte 77 chairman of the department of educatloa at Rhode Island College forXJ3 years until his retirement In 1959 died yesterday CORRHCnON' i The name bf Mrs v' Charles Barbara was misspelled la an obituary la Monday's Dally Rem Mrs Barbara a former Port Chester resident died Friday at her home In South Boston Mass rtf -r- White Plains Marine Killed In Viet War WHITE A 21-yeaKdd Marine lance Corporal from White Plaliu who had volunteered for a second tour of duty In Viet Nam was killed In action Monday In the Da Nang vicinity The second White Plains casualty In the Viet Nam War Frederick Homeyerwas a 1963 graduate of White Plains High School His mother Is Mrs Salvatore Da vino of 30 Parkview Court According to the Marine Recruiting Office 203 Mamaroneck Ave CpL Hbmeyer died of gunshot wounds over Mi entire body while engaged In action against the enemy" A Reman Catholic he was given last rites at the scene by LL JJ Glynn base chaplain according to the recruiting office CpL Homeyer who was last home on leave In February and who turned 21 on April 6 had completed a tour of duty (usually 13 months) In Viet Nam but bad volunteered to serve another tour Be was an artilleryman with Battery A First Battalion lltfi Marines fed Marine Division at the Da Nang base A Jife-long JFMte Plains real dent CpL Homeyer was a graduate of the-Church Street School Eastview Junto High School and White Plaint High School He had played half-back on the Tiger football team CpL Homeyer haiTaerved' an altar boy at Assumption Church and had belonged to the Catholic Youth Organization Marbles "after' graduation' and underwent training at Camp Le-JeuneNC CpL Homeyer aw leaves a sister Mrs Joan Avila of the bome address His- stepfather Mr' Davlno la a dty fireman Wo Decision On vvfV a tend their seven-day stay in South Vtet Nam and 'ordered them to leave the country soon aq possible" Hie group said' they would' march to tee UJS Embassy Thursday and demonstrate there for an hour handing rout wmphlets demanding an end to he war They said they leave Saigon on an early after- noon flight If they had caTi! Meted 'their demonstration by' then The group arrived last Thurs- 1 day and as American could stay the country for seven days without visas Davldon said during their stay they had talked with students Suddhlsts Catholics and Intel- ectuate felt It is crucial to- alk of peace to stop this kill- j- tag to stop Intervene he said Meyer said the group had the possibility of going to Hanoi but no decision -Both Vietnamese and Ameri- can authorities in Saigon were taken by surprise by the public emergence of the pacifists after a week in the country deliberately did not tel tee US State Department oC our plans In advance" said Muste did not see any ipe-r rifle reason to- challenge ther State Department to stop The six bought round-the-world tickets and landed In Sal-' gon They received the normal1 no-vlsa seven-day layover per 1 mit permitted to all Americans expected to be stopped or our baggage thoroughly searched or other such said tee minister no oner said anything to us at aH The let us through without any 1 1- The pacifists said they ta qulred about getting visas at thrt Vietnamese Embassy in Waafet tagton but were told the UJSft government would have to apv prove them Since arriving in Saigon tee group hu been quietly making contact with known pacifists Theaejnduded Buddhist monkSy a Roman Catholic priest whq' wrote to the UJS Committee fox Nonviolent Action last year ana others said Mute -j-The pacifists got tee idea for 1 the trip to Viet Nam last year 4 'y first we thought we might cross the 17th Parallel into North Viet said? fog i Cambodia'- to Saigon M-'flis ftr-i sVrv -i1 i OO By ROBERT OHMAN SAIGON South Viet Nam AP) A news conference called by six American pacifists wound-up in pandemonium today as-angry Vietnamese youths hurled tomatoes and eggs at the Americans--and shouted home go to North Viet Nam!" The alx pacifist members of the UJS Committee for Nonviolent had 1 heir opposition to the war In 'net Nam and were answering questions when seversT questioners demanded that they say whether they were Viet friends ot Communists" Degplte half a dozen answers the youths kept repeating tee question and then swarmed around the speaker's tabfe at the conference In the Saigon City Hall Antiwar posters hung by tee pacifists were ripped from tee wall and torn up A light bulb smashed against the wall the pacifists and other missiles followed Eggs sputtered the shirt of William Davl-don 39 a physics professor at Haverford College in Pennsylvania A paper ball struck Bradford Lyttle 38 of Volun-town Cbnn who said they were students at Saigon University shouted and pounded on tee desks snd several threatened the pacifists Other members of the group on the week-long mi to Saigon are the Rev Muste 81 a Presbyterian minister from New York City Karl Meyer 28 associated editor id tne Catholic Worker In Chicago Charlotte Thurber 22 id Greenwich a student at Sarah Lawrence College and Barbara Demfolg 48 of Well-fleet Mass (Miss Thurber daughter 0 Mr and Mrs LeGrande Ttyur-her of Hawkwood Lane Green wlch attended the Greenwich Country Day and Shipley Schools into to entering Sarah Lawrence She became Inter ested In pacifism at the age of ten when ted family attend ed meetings id the Society o' Friends and she later Jolnea tee Friends meeting She became publldy actlve In pacifist movements only since going to college her mother said this morn tag (Mrs Thurber said she be believes that her daughter went to Saigon In response to people there Interested In non violent methods of who requested! meeting with persons familiar with such protest methods (When asked lf she knew If tee group her daughter Is traveltaj with plans to protest war to tee iNostfeiWetuaMSiAlsik Mnw Thurber replied think she is too realistic to expect to do She added that 'she believes her daughter would wish to protest to the Viet Cong (Miss -Thurber as three younger brothers) Before theJ conference ed lapsed in an uproar the Rev Mr Muste said the pacifist! felt they bad obligation to say here where the fighting Is going on what we have said In the United States In many cities" He sakl they -had con tempt or hostility toward the American GIs and no deilreio hurt destroy or Injure them but we are oppposed to the war teat has trapped them will lead to tragic results for the to kill any jmore he said Lyttle told the hecklers the group does not consider our are friends of both anti-Communists and Communists In Viet he said wish you could solve your problem without That brought shouts of go you say you are friends of both tides we do not guarantee shouted -The pacifists pleaded for order several times and then re turned to their hotel under police escort Miss Thurber charged the conference was disrupted by breakers professional- and Meyer declared was no that the government Supported the demonstrators -Nearly 100 newsmen and some Vietnamese officials were in the council roan of the City mission were at that time tell- The not 10 the 1 0HL ANDREW lake il fliwtiif MiiI Hilda UUk cfGreen-rood Ave Fort Chester died esterday at United HosMtal liter a brief fflnesl She was SI wars old H-fc-f Mrs Labikwas 4 native of Sennaiiy and had lived fn Port Chester lor 30 years She was an snploye of Avon Products Inc-peck Avenue Rye She was the widow of Andrew UUk and a parishioner of Coras Oiristt Church: la Pott Chester-" Shelssutvlvedby twodaught--rs-MreneJenabaM and drs Marilyn Jamroz both of port Chester and byfour grandchildren Also survlrinc are two listen Mrs Oscar Welse of qunttngton LX and Mrs Lena Kuhn of Germany' and several lieces and nephews fi ASTON FORTIN -Beaded Rye Finn A Requiem' Mass (war-said tiondayat Resurrection Church Rye for Gaston Fortin jcrmer resident 'of Manurting Island In Rye who died Friday it his home Lighthouse Point Pompano Beach Fla Ho 1 was 16 and the father of Mrs Marie Barringer of Larcbmoit President of the Me Rye construction firm Mr Fortin was a graduate die McGill University and the Royal Military Academy of Canada and had served during World War as a commander in the UJL Naval Reserve He was a member of the Am erican Yacht Club In Rye and the Royal St Lawrence YC In Canada Also surviving are his wife Elizabeth Kate Fortin a son Roger Fortin of Rye and eight grandchildren SAMUEL HARRIS Cos Cob Iasoranee Rrsfcer Samuel Harris 82 of 85 Valfeywood -Road Cbs Cob died today at Greenwich Hospital after a brief Alness A Cos Cob Insurance broker he was the father of Griffith Harris former first selectman of Greenwich Mr Harris who had lived in Greenwich for 44 years was a member of the Greenwich Lions Chib His wife the former Edith Edwards died In 1959 Mr Harris was a native of Rochester New York 1 Mr Harris la survived by second son Rowland Hams also of Cm Cob a sister Mrs Gardner Kavanagh of Rochester four brothers Emmet Har-- rls otRochester Harold Bar ris of Hew York City and Fred andGeoige Harris of Los An geles CaUL and eleven grand children Rye SWWH'1' ventloh' Sccorang com-mlttee statement- In other Action former Republican Supervisor Lester Cook of Ryewka endorsed as Rye's can didate aa delegate to the state Conaitufional convention If aetocted at the county level for the 110000 post Mr Cook would attend a special convention In Albany to completely re-draw the state constitution Tbe committee also named two attorneys -Thomas Keane and Leoaird Vecchiolla as Rye delegates to the Republican state petty convention with Frederick Ha tern and Joseph ivWu as alternate dele Mr! VelchtaUa and Isaac Rubin will be delegates to the county conference to name candidates Jbr JudgeAlps with Mr Keane and Mr Hatem alternates V' Also It was announced that Mrs Janet Rogers a city councilman had been renamed a member of the Republican State Committee DEATH NOTICES i-iferfaaaKis (4-m riSa DrWfc teMfc Graham FuiMral Horn from SM OJn MW () IN MEMORIAL D'Ambraila Taraw in tevinn mMnnra oar WmW 'ImSSwWT u3j WILLIAM GJIAHAM IThlwetil 1934 IOSTON rOSI IP in ht lATANBNISHTSflYKI ITOsAiM 7-9129 Division stationed at the Add drove them off There wu no report of Communist casualties 1-r-- Although-the Viet GoogJiave shunned contact with allied troops in the field In recent weeks the guerriQu have con-tinued to strike airfldds In night UJ3 and Vietnamese mil-Nary eommanda have ordered lncrused security around air bases but officials'- tnluding Gen wllllsm Westmoreland commander of UJ5' forces In Viet Nam havd said repeatedly it la Impossible to ring the fieioi with airtight defenses Only Korean troops reputed any battlefield contact with the enemy For the second day South Korea's Tiger Division tangled with a reinforced Viet Cong company near Tinh Hoa along the central coast 260 miles northeast of Saigon a one or two family home would be permitted The application of Vincent Cscdola 138 Ninth Regent St was approved allowing" him to extend his Columbus Avenue lot line at the northwest corner by five feet thereby creating a ten foot back yard Instead a the present five feet and then cutting into the lot at the northeast corner thus making an adjacent lot fivit feet wider at the Cblumbus Avenue front Mr Ckcdola stated that ho bought the property which he called Irregular five yean ago and hopes to build a home on It The third approval went to Anthony DeCTescenzo 14 Fawcett St The approval reduces his lot setback Une from 30 feet to 15 feet to enable construction of a new addition an four new bedrooms two on each floor of the present structure The original application for this variance was fifed March 29 but since It then called for the construction of a three-lamlly house In a two family zonor-re-appllcatlon was per mltted Mr DeCkescenzo pointed ou that he has ten children eight id whom are living with him married son upstairs and tee rest of them with me He expects hte other two children to move in when the additions are completed i The Tire? From 8 a jn yesterday to 8 am this morning PORT CHESTER 5:11 pm headquarters brush and railroad ties near-S Mate St railroad bridge Cause 1:30 pm headquarters rub- Msh behind Grant's store at Korvette Shopping Center Post Road- HARRISON prasiTTJnlonAvenueT 2:15 pm railroad ties Feck Avenue GREENWICH 11:17 am Central brush Daycroft School Brookskle Lane 12:53 pm Old Greenwich short circuit In electric motor aLOld Green 280 Sound Beach Ave no dam age 3 pm Cos Gob grass property of Ernest Manncttl Cat Rock Road 5:55 pm Central railroad ties at Steamboat Road 9:15 pm auto engine limousine owned by Rudy 1 Spcz-zano's Llmouslne-Servlce Post Road car parked on Byram Shore Road $200 damage to engine parts cause not determined Issue line connecting-- this with the new county facility would host $988000 and the cost to tee village for the enlarged county faculties would be $1500000 or a total capital expenditure for village property owners of 000 This $3 million tab wu to be financed over a period at 30 years at an annual debt service cost of $225700 In addition Fort Chester wu to pay all operating costa id preliminary treatment and pumping at $57-000 annually share In the operating costs of the county plant at $56000 annually and pay an annual rental to Blind Brook District to use of existing faculties at $5400 annually The total annual costs to the village for to the county line was estimated at $344100 and would have required: a $573 Increase In tee tax raw The board of trustees also NATHAN CARTER ls dlrec-to of the Knoxville College Choir which wUl appear In concert Sunday at 6 pm at tee Rye Community Synagogue Forest Avenue Rye The concert Is sponsored by the Beteesda Baptist Churph of Fort Chester The 40-voice choir will present a varied program Including early liturgical music contemporary compositions spirituals and Broadway show tunes Mr' Carter received hte musical training at Hampton Institute and Juillard School of Music He was previously assistant director of the Jull-llard Chorus and director of Fort Bet he ad a wimsemr fit Beteesda church building fund No Objection From County On Ford Site The County Planning Commission has made no reoom mendatkm pn the proposed re- zoning of tee Protano property on South Ridge Street in Rye Town wMcmus been tee cen ter of a storm of confroversy recently The property if rezonteg granted will be used as showroom for Ryd Ford Inc Ridge Street Is a county riuu and therefore the county Manners were consulted on an ad vlsory basis in a fetter received this morn teg by Supervisor Anthony FosiUlpo County Planning Commissioner Sy Shulman said hte board was aware of the hardship the reaming may cause residents of the area bu also could see tho strong market value of the property The parcel currently a va cant lot lies on the east side of Ridge St directly behind the Corpus Christl Church playing fields It is bounded on the north snd south by houses The county) bosiun-didPs Wvfe' two suggestions if the rezonte were voted The recommends that more shrubs be placed on the north and south sides screen the showroom from nearbTesidents and teat tee town board restrict the emplacement of signs to those that wUl be attached to tee building Mr FosUllpo said the ream vening of an adjourned hearts 5 on the" rezonteg would iwhl tee transcript of last Wednesday night's embrogllo where some 60 residents id the area vocally opposed the rezimteg Mr PosUllpo said he was unsure when the transcripts would be ready Coming Events TODAY 8 pm PTA King Street School 8 BOCES Board Berkley Drive 8 Republican Rally Village Inn 8 Democratic Rally Sherman Restaurant 24 Sherman St 8 pm School PTA King Street daily 8:30 Conservative -48 Bonwit Road r-TT-y- TOMORROV 8 Republican Rally Shopman Restaurant 24 Sherman St 8 Democratic Rally Park GrlU 107 Regent St 8 :30 Conservative Rally Fritz and Tavern 179 Rectory-St had a fetter dated' August -31 1960 from tee consulting engineers Bowe Albertson and Associates of New York giving comparative costs Bowe Albertson said that Port Chester could buUd its own treatment plant complete with an outfaU Une Into Long Island Sound to an estimated $1-800000 compared to the $3078-000 county expense This plant could be financed and operated at an estimated total annual cost to the village rather than the county costs of $344120 The Increase In the tax rate would have been only $328 compared to the Increase If the village Joined the county of $573 The second- point which must be taken into consideration Is the fact teat neither the county engineers nor the village's consulting engineers nor the county or state boards of health nor the Interstate Sanitation Com- Komney Ass ails LdJ By BRUCE Lowrrr The Put Chester Zoning Board of Appeals last night heard and later approved three variance requests one of which permits the start of construction of one or two-family house on Armett Street within six months The throe applications were the only ones beard by the zoning board at ffie 40 minute meeting in the village police headquarters court room Hearing the applications were board chairman Alex Margolls and members Alan Guernsey Nlch-olu LaRusso and Robert Red-nick" Absent wu Howard Veraay In the only application In which persons other than the property owner spoke Salvatore Sabia 39 Sands SI was granted permission to change the size of a lot on Armett Street from 50 to 100 feet to 50 by 85 feet adding these 35 feet to another lot of the 'same lection and block on Sands Street and removing the rear porch of the present Salute Street building wnTTeavbouTseVeiTleet back yard In one lot making the remaining lot a bulldaMe property Mr Sabia stated that he his wife and their four children now live In a two-bedroom house and consider it Inadequate He hopes to buDd a larger home on the QgSgh Sal who wu elected trustee Democratic backing At that time the board had the option to hook into the new plant In tee Blind Brook Sewer District located In Rye City Here a new disposal plant was to be constructed which could have been enlarged to provide secondary treatment for Port Chester's sewage The decision by the board and announced at a board meeting on Oct 4 I960 hy Democratic Mayor Zaccagnl-no was that the village would not hook Into the county line What factors precipitated this decision? First the board had estimates of comparative costs On July 20 I960 Mayor Zac-cagntao received a fetter Iron puy Griffin deputy county commissioner of public works estimating the cost of building Port Chester primary treatment plant at $590000 a sewer ear- rjes: three conditions 4 which must be mei I First the applicant Mr Sa-Ms must occupy at least one apartment In the proposed new house Second construction on the new house must begin within six months from application approval date upon the start of construction the rear porch of the present house must be demol- Asked by Mr Guernsey whether an addition to the front or sides id the present structure was possible Mr Sabia said but why put a $14000 addition on a 120 or 130 year old house? Eventually I irauld like to knock it The feet that-the proposed house would front on Armett Street brought a protest from Leonard Sabia 35 Armett St next -to whose house the proposed building would be located He claimed the houses would be Jammed together" This however was' protested hy Joseph Storlno who pointed out that with completion id the proposed" houser there would bemore room between It and the present home than between house aiid garage He too emphasized the need for additional pwe Domenick Vemstro representing his father Vito 27 -Ar mett St- asked what construction would be permitted on the new lot He was told by Mr from the real cause of accidents 1 Margolls that the area is zon against'" North Vietnamese groundpoditlons while a' helicopter crew came through modern ate 5Tmm ground fire and hoisted Abernathy out of enemy territory The chopper pilot Capt Rob- rigid bureaucratic federal pro The results be said are campus demonstrations and unrest and discomfort The resulting tension he asserted Is Just below the surface qf our affluent American Ud Mew off In Watts and Harlem and It will blow and Mow again until we learn to bring power back down to a level where people themselves can shape their own destinies and rebuild their-own-communlties by their own be strictly R2F and that only He Said that whefl-rivU rio-fence broke out In Saigon and other Vietnamese dtfeeyeame weeks ago the group hanged its thought we would have the Mggest Impact by flying right in and seeking opinions in Saigon he said Briarcliff (Gonttauel From Page 1) and trucking- concerns in Queens lncludong Mellllo Rub- blsh Removal 2431 84th St Jackson Heights Mellllo truck- 1 teg Co 38-15 Queens Blvd and 7 Mellllo Carting Co of tee same-address r- Mellllo was also a founder with bis father Mellllo of the Queens Trade Waste Association successor organization to the Greater New York' Association which dissolved In 1958 when its head Vbcpnt Squiltente was found to have been Involved ln a of certain Independent garbage companies Florlllols the bwnef-and operator of several refuse companies In the metropolitan" area: Floillo Brothers 56 Willow Drive Briarcliff Manor Florillo Brothers of New Jersey 1545 Bergen Fort Lee NJ and Dutchess Sanitation Service Inc Van Wagner' Road Poughkeepsie These companies have a total fleet of about 20 trucks Edward Meyer the assistant United States attorney who pre- sented the cases to the grand Jury stated that Mellllo la chuged with lying to the grand jury when he said he did not use tee alias of Nicky Nelson Jn certain of his business 'ventures According to the indictment tee grand Jury was Inquiring Into Mellllo's activities In West- Chester the Bronx and Queens In connection with an Investigation under the Hobbs Antiracketeering Act' Mr Meyer also stated that Florillo Is charged with lying to the grand: Jury about certain telephone conversations he allegedly had regarding hte associations and contacts with ether Westchester garbage deafen Nicholas Rattennl of Yonkers also known as Nick Perry Toby DeMlcco Tony Vone and Carl of New Rochelle This indictment also resulted from an -Investigation under the Hobbs Anti-Racketeering Act 1 If convicted of the charges Mellllo and Florillo each lace a Jail sentence of up to live years and a fine of $2000 Mr Morgenthau said that he had had the 'Cooperation of Westchester Dial Atty Leonard Rubenleld la the Investigation Mr Morgenthau said the rack- et was a multlmilUoa dollar one Behind The Sewage Decision9 PROVIDENCE RX(AP) -Michigan Gov George Romhey hu charged the Johnson administration wlth maklng mlstakea In handling the Viet Nam war Romney in Rhode Island to address MOO-a-plate Republican fund-raising dinner told newsmen it la right for to assist people who are fighting Communism'' However he added the light of recent developments It la not dear whether they do or they don't- The Johnson administration's handling of the Viet Nam conflict and public dissatisfaction among the public with the war he said be to the expected Republican galu la Congress this fall As for his own political Intentions Romney said have made no decision with respect to Later at a In Qran-ston Romney criticized the Johnson administration further concentrating particularly on the liberal policies He said America'a of greatness lay in individual Independence In political social and economic mat ters and that these In gravest 1 have seen the concentration of governmental power and responsibility steadily increase" he declared under President Johnson It la increasing mare-rapidly-than ever Romney maintained that federal subsidy and consequential control of various projects la undermining voluntary agencies and replacing them by The Riverside Church In New York hu a 20-ton Bourdon (hour-bell) the largest and heaviest tuned bell In the world IOiaTiSOilUUTI reSSEIlin-KstMnMU! Hindsight Often Found Dmlopmg Campaigns (Osntereel Tram Fags 1) a-trustee he (along with Trustee Irving participated In making unanimous certain decisions of the board such approving revised Mann and specifications for tee new Port Chester treatment planL And on May 281963 Triis-tee Messina and Walt along with new Triistees Stover and JJ Glandurco Joined with the two Democrats left on the board In a slx-mlnute deliberation below approving a $L5 million bond lsaie to finance the new treatment plant and a three-minute deliberation on awarding contracts Neither Trustees Messina Walt Stover nor Gtandurco at that time bad anything to say about this derisk" The decision wlch they now condemn waf made by a village board composed of six Democrats and an Independent tag the board that the village must have an out-fall Into the sound' Nor was there at that time the atmosphere of urgency about cleaning up the waters such as exists today at all levels of government Maybralty candidate Zaccag-nlno today called the- charge political Issue" He said la a little puzzling tq me at this late date that the Republican admtalstra-tlon Is once again questioning tee decision made by the board of trustees In 1960 Both Mr Walt and Mr Messina were members of the board when the amended specifications were approved and bote voted for these amended specifications without -pnee questioning or Indicating their disagreement with the decision to build a new plant In (Port Chester strictly a political charge" 1 Sm- 7.

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