Wellsville Daily Reporter (Newspaper) - February 8, 1967, Wellsville, New York seventh Year Serving Potter Year NEW Wednesday February 1967 10 Cents Per Copy invest 19i te Ho using in Area A gathering of 40 civic and industrial leaders at the Fas sett Hotel last night heard hous ing in the des as a problem involving the entire with and considerations in need of action by the Entire I The housing hosted by the First pro vided representatives of finan cial con industrial and other groups with an Opportunity to exchange ideas about the local housing situation and possible solutions to problems now existing John vice president host banking intro representatives of var Eastern Blizzard idus firms who spoke on need for housing if the area is to grow in an orderly Consensus of opinion among those present was that rental of one and two family homes was not profitable enough to attract people into putting their homes on the with rent al acceptable to the public cited as too low to cover costs of re and other necessary out It was brought how that with all its can play a vital part in attracting people into the Several speakers made the point that people com ing here from other places pre fer to rent while investigating Bitter Cold Stalls C Activity NEW YORK AP Bitter cold hampered the massive snow removal job as the East struggled today to return to nor malcy after a paralyzing bliz The cold spread into the East from the Midwest and plunged overnight temperatures to be low zero on the heels of worst Eastern snowstorm in two At least 39 deaths were at to the In New where the mercury dropped to 11 degrees at 100 per sons took refuge in state armo ries opened by Nelson Rockefeller to house the snow bound and others whose apart Minor Main Street Blaze Wellsville volunteer firem e n answered a call to Smiths Shoe 105 North Main at Minor damage was done a an overhead lighting fix ture in the Firemen open ed hole in the ceiling and ex the which had charred woodwork around t he Extension of Truce Is Urged by Pope VATICAN CITY AP Pope Paul VI appealed today to the United States and to North and South Vietnam in direct mes sages their chiefs of turn the lunar new years truce into negotiations for The Pope asked that neither side perturb the calm of the which began today along with the start of Lenten He thanked President Johnson for what he said had been favorable reaction to pre vious papal peace He told North Vietnam dent Hp Chi Minn he was en by Hos expressions of sympathy and confidence made to The Pope asked in his sage Nguyen Thieu of SouthVietnam that neglected toward promoting a just and honora ble After the Vaticans announce ment that the peace appeals had been the Pope knelt at the confessional altar of Basilica where he led the worlds Roman Cath into the Lenten season by receiving a smudge of ashes on his forehead from Paolo Cardi nal the basilicas arch The Pope also appealed to school children in the United States in a special message to remember the millions of hungry and sick children of the The message was re corded in advance for broadcast over school address sys tems and radio stations in the United ments and homes had no Hotels did a booming business Tuesday Most schools were closed again today all along the including those in New the Hations largest In New Richard Hughes declared today a banking Major in the East remained closed overnight as crews worked to clear runways to illow at least a limited re sumption of These included Kennedy and LaGuar dla airports in New New ark Airport and Philadelphia international In where 14 inches of snow the city pressed a ma chine into duty on an experi mental basis but freezing tem proved it The machine sucks up melts it and pumps the water onto the street to run into sew But the water froze before it could run The city planned to use salt to combat The blizzard dumped 13 inch es of snow in 10 in and 9 in The snowfall New York was the heaviest in six The storm cut deeply into businesses in many as they came to a practical stand still by offices and department stores Restaurants and stores were virtually Business was said John senior president of Which persons in nine New York area Persons working in New York trie to soften the economic im pact of the blizzard by fighting drifts to their Some leaped over piles of snow to reach the Some York Citys Commerce apd Industry Association sur 160 concerns and reported that more than 80 per cent of York workers made it to offices and al most of them were clis The association normal absentee rate about 10 per Most public transportation facilities in the East were back in service by Tuesday but not on regular A spokesman for the Long Island Rail Road said the main difficulty was the freezing of While most schools were dosed in the Chicago returned to normal to day for the first time a blizzard there last The Chicago schools have been on shortened Snow removal problems con to plague Chicago as thousands of autos clogged the major preventing pas sage by The city and tow ing from major streets and is a fine and a flO towing the local housing and that hesitate to buy until they have had a chance to in the local situation Several speakers brought out that the problem involved the entire community and surround ing and that concerted action by all concerned is nec essary if the problem is to be solved in an Al so emphasized was the point that the forum gave the repre of the various firms present an opportunity to learn other points of with sev eral speakers prefacing their remarks with I have learned a lot here The need for adequate hous ing for people com Mng to the large industrial firms and for teachers coming to either the local school system or the faculty of the Vocational Division of Alfred Ag Tech was with a shortage of suitable homes in the upper mid dle income being refer red to on several Donald of Ag asked If we go ahead with state master what hap pens We have in Wellsville some 26 new men and women on our with more com Since these people usually dont get tenure in less than we have a renting because they would naturally prefer to rent until certain that they will be re maining in the Jones pointed to the housing problems developing from the rapidly growing student body at the Vocational j stat ing that and apart ments student occupancy were becoming hard to With next years stu dent load expected to be up ward of we face a real challenge in finding space that meets minimum codes at Jones Builder George in a letter read to the said that his firm had construct ed about 30 new homes in five and that it was necessary to rent most of these because he could not afford to carry empty Builder Thomas said that he knew of no builders interested in building for Daniel coowner of the brought put the risk of building rental units for state schools and finding out five years later the state itself is the big gest competitor with Theodore vice presi dent of Citizens National said that Alfred Ag Tech has homes available to faculty members giving them a year iiv Which to investi gate and decide on purchase or construction j housing for He suggested that local industry might possibly adopt such a for its em Also suggesting subsidy by industry was Jaines of the Alfred Savings and Loan You to face some of the problems Al fred has he pre subsidization by industry was voiced by Arthur of Worthing ton Speaking for he we are not going real estate This is a community Daily Reporter editor and publisher John who brought the situation to pub lic attention two editor spoke about the need to consider the problem as one in 10 or 12 just one or He mention ed the need for planned action in the fields of and utilization of community Planner Arthur who is a consultant to the Allegany Planning and a member of the Wellsville Town Planning Board asked What is the future to like Are we to grow or remain static We must answer this before any planning can be 26 Are Dead Brush Fire 40 Dead MINOR BLAZE A member of the Wellsville Volunteer Fire Department examines damage done around electrical fixture inthe Smith Shoe Store last Reporter By SEYMOUR HERSH AP National Commission on Selec tive will recommend to President Johnson next week a lottery draft the induction of younger men sources indicated said the commis sion has decided the draft must be but needs a major revamping to eliminate ties and the panel will recommend that youths 18y2 and 19 be eligible for the instead of and 26 as now pro vided by the After reg and the eligible youths would be includ ed in a 1A pool and for the draft by a Informants said the commis sion plans to call for continuing student and other stipulating that after graduation a student again be included in the lottery pool and thus face the same exposure to the draft as without defer The great problem wtih the present system is the great un certainty that 18and 19year old youths one informant Defense Department statistics the average draftee age last year was Such a switch long has been endorsed by the which contends that younger men make soldiers and are easier to discipline and The Ed ward and advocated varying versions of a lottery Informants said to eliminate the have to do with the way of deciding who goes arid members decided to recommend limiting of They said the panel will urge Johnson to recommend setting up national standards for all men and eliminating present on the more than local draft boards each with interpreta tions of Selective Service guide In commission mem bers are to favor a na tional draft in place of the current procedure of establish ing local This would in sure that no area or locality would begin drafting men of a lower call priority until all other draft boards had exhausted the same Johnson named the 20mem ber last summer and ordered it jtp make an ex of the draft in the wake of mounting student protests and draft Since late about youths have been Tasmania AP Forty persons were known today and 10 were missing after a raging holocaust of bush fires devastated the southern tier of Fanned by 70mile the worst fire in the history of ths Australian island state roared across rural areas Tuesday and virtually wiped out 12 A total of 612 houses and 50 other buildings were burned out at an estimated cost of more than Rural areas were a blackened expanse littered with dead sheep and Three of the states biggest industries were blackened ruins a a carbide compa ny and a big fish Their employes stood stunned in the Many had lost their homes also and some had lost The fire began as several in seasonal summer blazes in the foothills of They joined and the awful moment when the 000 residents of the cap realized they had an ad fire in front and only water behind It was our Black said the deputy Dame Mabel The sky became black as midnight at 2 oclock in the There were no no no We groped and As the topped 102 sparks ignited new fires in houses ahead of those being with decreasing water Housewives ran screaming into the begging motor ists to stop and them fight the But the motorists hurrying to their own Steadily the fire engulf ing houses side and apple orchards of The Apple Isle the Intense heat the trees heavily laden with fruit and turned them to Following Fire In Restaurant AP A fire which began as tiny flickers in a cloakroom raced through a fashionable rooftop dining room in downtown Mont gomery Tuesday leaving at least 26 persons includ ing a former state official who was indicted Identification was difficult because of the condition of the which were taken to four funeral A police fication team assisted by FBI experts was set up to help es the Water pouring from the black ened ruins of Dales Penthouse atop the 11story Walter Bragg Smith apartment hotel froze on the sidewalks and streets in the wintry 28degree making it treacherous for firemen and police to move A city maintenance truck spread sand over the icy coat A spokesman at one funeral home said positive identification had been made of the bodies of former Public Service Commis Ed Pepper and his wife The Peppers were dining with friends at the plush cafe when the fire started about 11 Pepper was indicted on two extortion Tuesday by a federal grand jury at Birm The indictments charged he obstructed and de layed the transportation of goods and commodities in inter state commerce while a PSC A indictment was brought against Pepper last November by the grand Also missing was Jack wife sports editor of the Montgomery She was a hostess at the dining Accompanied by other Advertiser choking back the watched horrified as the flames high into the sky above the Lurleen Wallace ex pressed sympathy for the fami lies of the victims of this ter rible She and her former George stayed up past mid night at the executive mansion half a dozen blocks get ting reports from an John assistant man ager of the restaurant and one of its said the fire be gan in a cloakroom off the cock tail lounge adjoining the main dining He said it started as a very small fire but the flames spread Many of the 75 or more diners trapped by the flames made their way to safety by breaking out windows and crawling onto the roof surrounding the pent One of them was White of a truck line president who wa swith and his hand bleeding after he had smashed a window and led others to said he saw no trace of the former cial or his wife after the fire erupted with a whoosh into a raging A cook who tried in vain to put out the flames with a fire Jesse said the fire had spread too swiftly by the time he could across the The fire was confined to Ihe dining and none of the 75 to 100 guests living in the apartment hotel was in depart ment evac took in the stranded the at least persons were most of them by smoke inhala Tax Information Secret Congressman Says ANo Children wandered aimlessly through their eyes streaming with Schools were turned Into and relief and the army opened its Brighton camp for those who were Police rushed to West Hobart where a dazed old woman sat in the gutter and said that while 16 homes were looters stole elec goods and television Near Margate a policeman saw 150 children sheltering from flames after being hurriedly let out of Ordering them to lie in a the policeman turned a hose on them and kept the flames away until school buses arrived to evacuate Prime Minister Harold Holt returned from his New Zealand tour and went into conference with Tasmanian Premier Eric discussing substantial longterm Plane Downed Other Incidents Mar Truce WASHINGTON AP Your income tax return is going tell Uncle Sam more just how much tax you Statistics on popula tion and a host of other social analyses be compiled from the tax returns due by April Information from your return might even be used in a federal check if you apply for a govern ment If you think your income tax is strictly youre one congres source said lining up with critics who say the gov should be satisfied to learn what the taxpayer But the supplementary data processing will easier this year because every return read by Its against the law for an em ploye of the Internal Revenue Service to divulge the losses and spending or any other information listed in tax but this doesnt mean the date are always a Anyone may ask a district director of Internal Revenue whether you filed a tax return for a given year and the district director can say yes or no but divulge no further But government agencies can obtain tax returns under provi sions spelled out by IRS and executive So can state taxing some fpr eign governments with which the United States has tax trea Three congressional commit tees the House Ways the Senate Finance and the Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation have access to any IRS For a federal agency to obtain a tax the request must be signed by the agency head and sent to the Internal Reve nue commissioner who acts on the request He must be satisfied that the reason given is The Senate Judiciary on Administrative Prac tice and Procedure found that federal agencies sought access to tax records for reasons in an investigation of an Air Force a disbar ment a Civil Service Com mission inquiry into an applica tion for a federal job and an investigation by the Federal Communications Commission of a radio station Many of statistics pub the federal govern ment are derived from tax re and there are constant proposals extracting more information from Flurries Regional Forecast Fair and with a chance of a few snow High in the Cloudy intervals and not as with periods of snow Low 510 a bovei except down to zero or lower in some inland rural or valley South to south west High Local Report The thermometer slid to 20 at definitely the low for the 24hour period and perhaps a The Wa ter and Light Plant recorded a high of 12 at Tues in a period which saw more readings below zero than The temperature shortly before noon today was only Precipitation snow amount ing to of an inch of Barometer inches and shortly before noon to The temperatures Yesterday noon 3 6 9 mid night 3 6 9 South Vietnam AP A photo reconnaissance plane was downed in North Vietnam and more than score of shooting incidents re ported in South Vietnam fol lowing the start of the lunar new year truce Most of the incidents were and both sides appeared disposed to hold their The American reconnaissance plane went down at five hours after the truce took and presumably was the of Communist The pilot bailed out and a de stroyer rescued him from the Gulf of Tonkin 15 miles north of Dong It was the 472nd plane reported lost over North Viet Of 22 incidents reported by the and South Vietnamese military commands in the first 10 hours of the eight were classified as Most were exchanges of fire by pa or sniper fire at The Command said the plane lost in the north was an unarmed jet on a photo The United States has suspended bombing missions against North Vietnam for the truce period but is con reconnaissance On the Communist the truce was declared only by the Viet Thus North Vietnam feels free tp fire on planes in truding into its air North Vietnam does not concede that its troops are fighting in the officials in Saigon re fused to comment oh reports that the truce may be prolonged beyond the four days announced by the but a State De spokesman in Wash ington held open such a We will see what said State Department press officer Robert The Viet Cong has declared a truce for the new year celebration as Its ceasefire is scheduled to run three days beyond the end of the allied truce at 7 Sunday 6 EST A spokesman in Saigon said that under the truce dec the allies would not initiate any offensive opera he said because of numerous violations of previous the allies assumed a alert This increased patrol and security activity and uair and naval he Saigon the incessant ers as the Vietnamese prepared to welcome in the Year of the Goat at Celebrations will continue until the end of the week at In the two days before the truce planes waged a mammoth propaganda dropping 18 million leaflets over North Vietnam and 89 million leaflets over South The leaflets over the Commu nist north were news bulle tins telling of the rift between the Soviet Union and Red of defections from the Commu nist ranks and of Communist forces in South Viet During the truce last the and South Vietnamese military commands reported 122 In war action just before the Tet truce forces reported killing 113 Communist troops in fighting in several sec South Vietnamese troops reported killing 31 Viet Cong in three scattered bombers made tWo raids in South Vietnam at dawn just before the ceasefire One hit at troop concentrations 17 miles northwest of Quang Ngai City on the the other at a storage area 14 miles northwest of Bong also on the central A Viet Cong terrorist also was busy just before the Ear ly this morning an explosion ripped through the napalm stores at the air base at Bien 15 miles north of Sai
