Democrats Sweep County Elections In Rural Troy Area
Democrats gained a landslide victory in Troy and surrounding towns, ousting multiple Republican officials including Stack and Meyer. Only GOP win was deputy corporation counsel Robert Reeves as Democrats sweep six of seven county legislature races. At-large city council seats approved for 1971 elections with seven seats, top three elected four years, rest two years.
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GOP
Troy
Robert P. Reeves
Reeves
Harry R. Ammian
George F. Nuttall
Board of Supervisors
Daniel Ashley
Rensselaer
Frank P. McDonald
McDonald
Genyea
John F. Eisner
James A. Walsh
Ninth Ward
Thomas J. Witkowski
Milkman Witkowski
Walsh
Sixth Ward
Daniel C. Ashley
Joan A. Piscitella
Eugene L. Couzzo
Earl R. Carrier
James W. Liney
Liney
City of
McGrath
Mayors, incumbents win across New York state in diverse races
In Ogdensburg Brynes led with 3 229 votes to 611 for Wood and 480 for Austin to pull three of four supervisor nominees into office. Fulton Oswego voters backed Percy Patrick Jr. over Joseph Fistick by about 300. Saratoga Springs chose Sarto Smaldone over William Ling with 3132 to 2701. Oswego re elected John Conway over Leslie Cloonan by over 1 000. Poughkeepsie ended Republican rule as Louis Fiore won 4670 to 4211 for Milano with Robert Dixon running as an independent. Salamanca saw Ronald Yehl defeat Keith Reed 1647 to 1581, and Kingston elected Francis R Hoe ning over James Tyrell.
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Ogdensburg
Brynes
William J Wood
J. Leo Austin
Byrnes
Fulton
Oswego County
Percy Patrick, Jr
D-Lib
Joseph Fistick
Saratoga Springs
Sarto Smaldone
James A. Murphy
Saratoga
Smaldone
William Ling
Murphy
Oswego
Poughkeepsie
Louis Fiore
Thomas Milano
Robert Dixon
Richard Mitchell
Salamanca
New York
Ronald Yehl
Keith Reed
Yehl
Kingston
Francis R. Hoenig
James J. Tyrell
Gloversville
Richard H. Hood
Robert P. Best
Johnstown
Peter S. Wilson
Donald B. Bellinger
Francis Steltzer
Plattsburgh
John Colver
Edmund C., Grainger
Rye
East Greenbush
Herbert L. Bauer Jr
David P. Cook
Schodack
Stephen F. Markell
Richard R. Dailey
Joseph E. Harrigan
Rensselaer
James C. Finucane
Finucane
State Voters Approve Four Amendments in Election
The ballot backed four amendments expanding state borrowing rules, tax policy, a conservation bill, and use of federal census data. Across New York towns and cities, voters chose challengers and incumbents in races from Yonkers to Jamestown, with many results showing GOP gains and council shifts.
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Rockefeller
Valve Shop Destroyed By Flames
Firefighters fought the blaze at a shop behind the main plant after surrounding the gutted structure from the rear. Officials said the exact cause was under investigation as utilities had been shut off. Attorney Robert E. Gray represented the owner at the scene.
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Robert E. Gray
Troy
Russell E. Sheehan
First Street
Ludlow
Jeffrey Herrington
Sheehan
John Grimmick
Troy Board of Education
Dan G. Farano
State Dept. of Education
Zaps
Edward Zapf
Thomas Nash
Jack Cahill
Willian Phoenix
James Doherty
John Givney
Joseph Elgeiser
Howard Campbell
William Norton
Anthony Oldsway
Nicholas Gulli
H. J. Flavin Jr
Louis Cochi
Albert DiRienzo
Michael Bruno
Michael Pastore
Democrats Take Control Of County Legislature In Historic Shift
The Democrats won a county legislature majority for the first time since 1937. Frank P. McDonald led the ticket with a 1,690 vote edge over John Eisner, while Edward J. Quinn defeated Thomas Carr for the Seventh District seat. Fire burned through the Troy plant as responders battled flames and spectators watched.
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Frank P. McDonald
John F. Eisner
McDonald
Eisner
14Th Ward
Edward J. Quinn
10Th Ward
Thomas J. Carr
Quinn
Carr
Corning Defeats Hartheimer For Eighth Term In Albany
Albany Mayor Erastus Corning II wins re election with 37 644 votes to Albert Hartheimer 14 981. Corning's long standing machine support and critics hope for urban renewal as Kennedy and Carhart trail. Hartheimer attacked urban decay and crime while Corning claimed progress and bold plans.
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Albany, Fs
Albany
Erastus Corning II
Albert Hartheimer
Corning
Daniel P O’connell
Hartheimer
Police ambush recovers paintings from Italian theft raid
Acting on a tip, police ambushed three Italians near Como close to the Swiss border and recovered 50 of 256 paintings stolen in a wholesale raid on a private collection at Leghorn ten months earlier. The works, valued at $240,000, were mostly by 19th century Italian masters.
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Como
Italy
Leghorn
Nixon invites 3000 business leaders to inflation policy meeting
President Nixon invited more than 3,000 of the nation's top businessmen to a meeting this month to spur enthusiasm for his inflation control policies. Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans issued the invitations to bolster business confidence and participation in the administration's deliberations.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Commerce
Maurice H. Stans
West Coast Sees Season's First Major Storm
The Pacific coast faces its season’s first big storm with heavy rain and 70 mph winds. Gale warnings stretch from Point Arena California to northern Oregon and along the Washington coast. Cape Blanco reports 70 mph gusts and Port New Port notes over 1 inch of rain.
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Pacific
West
Point Arena
Calif
Oregon
Washington
Strait of
Juan de Fuca
Cape Blanco
Pacific Northwest
New Port
Plains
Florida
Gulf Coast
Sonar Contact May Be Tug Lost At Sea
A Navy minesweeper reported a strong sonar contact 19 miles south of Cape Lookout near the missing tug Marjorie McAllister. The vessel was en route from New York to Jacksonville when it took water in a storm. Divers faced poor visibility as search crews found a life jacket and a towing hawser near the contact area.
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Portsmouth
Marjorie McAllister
Coast Guard
Cape Lookout
N.C
Recovery
New York
Jacksonville
Fla
Robert Davis
Edwin G. Piner
Lincoln E. Piner
Williston
Edwin K Piner
Newport
Joseph B. Clark
High Falls
N.Y
Atonia Lomba
Jersey City
N.J
Cohoes Elects First Woman Mayor and McShane Victory
City voters backed Theodore McShane for Albany County Coroner with 3930 votes to Gordon Holmes 1504. James Gibson won Associate Judge race with 807 votes. Amendments to the State Constitution approved, with strong Cohoes support across wards.
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24Th
Theodore McShane
Albany County
Gordon Holmes
McShane
James Gibson
State Court of Appeals
Cohoesters
Reader's Digest excerpt on a woman's descent into insanity
A promotional note for a Reader's Digest feature describes a woman's severe menopause triggered crisis that led her to threaten her husband. It mentions treatment, therapy, and love aiding her recovery, framed as part of a broader November issue.
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State Commission of Investigation
Stack
Popp
Meyer
Sullivan
Francis Flynn
Fogarty
Bizzarro
Dunne
Mirch
Pattison
Brahan
William Harkness
Cornell
Ned Harkness
Harriman
Connally
George F. Breen
Lindsay
Sedita
Buffalo
John O. Conway
Leslie Cloonan
New York State
Loenig
Percy Patrick Jr
Joseph A. Fistick
Ithaca
Hanna Johns
Cornell University
Arnold Tolles
Jack Kiely
Yonkers
Alfred Delbello
James F. X. O’rourke
Richard S. Hendy
White Plains
Beacon
IBM
Robert Cahill
Joseph Stella
John Warden
Richard Glander
Broome County
Johnson City
James W. McCabe
Port Jervis
Sydney Sakofsky
Phillip Parker
Middletown
Jerome Markovits
Walter Deisseroth
Robert J. Cronin
James T. Donnelly
Glens Falls
Andrew Mazella
Hornell
Harold Crandall
Chautauqua County
Jamestown
Dunkirk
Stanley Lundine
Charles Magnuson
F. Neil Chaffie
Joseph J. Steger
Chaffie
Mayville
Jamestown Post- Journal
Valve Shop
Sand Lake
Thomas J. McGrath Jr
Warren
Gordon L. Banker
Goper
Clifford J. Stevens
John A. Murphy
Earl R. Goodermere
Bruns
Wick
Joseph I. O’brian
Hiram F. Sheffer Jr
North Greenbush
Alson J. Spain
Frank M. Calarusso
Joseph L. Kennedy
Edward Carhart
Rey
HowaRas
Corner River & State
Wultex
Weatherman
Warren St
CMAN
West Coast
THE
Associated Press
Hi Ai Eri
Ueller
Cohoes
CABLE
Koratron
Dacron
DuPont
Deep Orion
Denby’s
Stuyvesant Plaza
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