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J VOL. 26, NO. 3498 JOURNAL Daily Entered As Second Class Matter Post Office Ogdensburg, N.Y. OGDENSBURG, N.Y„ THURSDAY, DECEMBER16,197J Republican Established 1830 Journal Established- 1858 HIGHLIGHT Canton Grammar School Bids To Die—Story Page 11 SINGLE COPY 15 cents India Victorious In 12 Day War SEEK TO EXTEND SEAWAY SEASON. Among those of the General Working Gdmmittee who met in Massena at Schine Inn /Tuesday and Wednesday for the Great Lakes extension of the St. Lawrence Seaway season are John D. Officer, St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp.; George E. Wilson, assistant act ministrator for Development for the St. Lawrence Seaway; Col. Myron D. Shoke, chairman of the working committee, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District; <?apt. C. E. Meree Jr., vice ehairman of the working committee, U. S. Coast Guard, headquarters in Washington; George Lykowski, Chicago, liason between the working committee and the ex- tension of the Seaway season board.—Photo by Richard S. Podgurski. Inmates Free One Hostage on BORDENTOWN, N.J. (AP) — One of two hostages was released this morning by 100 rebellious inmates at the Yard- ville Correction Center while the release of the other hostage was contingent upon the radio broadcast of a statement out- lining the inmates' grievances. The grievances alleged that ail inmate had been hospitalized after being sub- jected to \ther-fascisrtaetics^of police brutality.\ The prisoners, in their statement, asked that the incident be investigated \by someone other than this in- stitutional administration.\ No details of the incident were available. The prisoners controlled one wing of the prison while 50 helmeted state policemen and other officers, armed with shotguns, were stationed inside the prison during negotiations between the state and the inmates. G. Thomas Durand, public in- formation officer for the State Depart- ment of Institutions and Agencies, said no ransom demands had been made for Winds And Ice Fell Tree Limbs, Cut Off Power Heavy winds and the weight of newly- formed ice felled tree limbs on power lines early Wednesday evening in the Morristown-Blaek Lake area, leaving nearly 1,000 Niagara Mohawk customers without power,' some for nearly four hours. Approximately 870 homes in the Morristown area went without power for' about 2 hours, from 5:30 to 7:14 p.m. and 86 others in the North Macomb-Black Lake area were without power for nearly four hours, from 5:30 to 9:20 p .m. Winds-with gusts reaching 70 miles an hour swept through western New York late Wednesday, injuring at least five persons and littering the landscape with fallen trees, power lines and loose shingles. The strongest winds were recorded in Erie and Niagara counties. At the Buffalo International- Airport wind guages read as high as 69 m.p.h., while in Niagara Falls one gust was measured • at 71. While charcoal gray clouds blew in from Lake Erie to make an early dusk, thermometers registered a record high of 65 degrees. The National Weather Service explained that the rushing air. mass had originated in the Gulf of Mexico several days ago. In Chautauqua County, three young women and one woman riding in two separate cars received minor injuries when winds blew a tree down on the cars as they approached each other in Siri- clairville. In the Buffalo suburb of Williamsville a man received a back injury when a windblown sign knocked him to 'the pavement- Winds in the Rochester area peaked at 55 m.p.h. and hampered firefighters as they battled a blaze at the Ontario Building Supply Co. Flames from the one-story lumber warehouse were fanned 50 feet into the air and burning debris was scattered over a wide area. Several house trailers in Niagara County were overturned by winds, but no injuries resulted, sheriff's deputies said. the release of the hostages before the statement was made. Durand refused to say how or why the insurrection started. He said the hostages,' Richard A. Seidl, assistant superintendent, and Ira Friedman, a guard, were believedio be uninjured. Friedman's wife, weeping as she entered the prison, arrived \Just before midnight. About 9:30 p.m., an official from the prison came outside and asked Associated Press newsman Carl Zeitz to enter the prison. Zeitz was one of three' newsmen who entered Rahway State Prison during a Thanksgiving Day riot. Officials temporarily barred Zeitz By Price Commission from making detailed statements on the situation. However, in a call to The Associated.Press, he said the\ trouble began about 1 p.m., adding: \Don't be surprised if i t lasts a few more hours. That's the way it looks to me.\ Durand said the disturbance - was confined to the south wing of the lQ^-wing institution- for youthful, offenders. Property damage was minimal, he said. He added that 43 inmates transferred to Yardville from Rahway State Prison after the insurrection there were not in- volved in the trouble. Earlier Wednesday, the New Jersey branch of the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal court suit charging that the 43 former Rahway inmates were drugged by authorities after the transfer and that their civil rights were being denied. YardviUe was opened in 1968 and is considered one of the state's most modem penal institutions. Most of the inmates are between 14 and 30-years old, and a. wide .range, of^vncatjbnal -and education programs are Gjpducted., The facility, eight mflgs^south 6f< Trenton, the capital, also ? %jids.' three reputed Cosa Nostra figures who were jailed when they refused to testify be- fore the- State Investigation Com- mission. Physician, Hospital Fees Regulated WASHINGTON (AP) —If your doctor now charges $15 for an office call, he can tack on another 37M> cents, but not a penny more unless the government approves it. A hospital which charges $50 a day for a room can add $3, but no more unless the government says it's okay. The Price 'Commission handed the medical profession ' those guidelines Wednesday in what is believed to be government's first attempt to regulate medical costs across the board in the United States. The American Medical Association, which has consistently fought govern- ment regulation, had no immediate comment pending a review of the guide- lines by AMA officials. An AMA spokesman, Dayton Moore, said his preliminary research turned up .no past effort at such widespread government regulation of medical costs. The commission guidelines, issued in implementation of President Nixon's Phase 2 economic program, limit in- creases in doctors' fees to 2.5 per cent a year and in hospital charges to 6 per cent a year. To raise prices even to those cutoff points, medical professionals must prove their expenses have gone up. And, to raise prices above those ceilings, they must request specific government approval. Doctors, hospitals and others in the health-care field may not raise prices to give themselves larger profits, the commission ruled. The commission plan, however, would permit health-care costs to rise twice as .fast as other costs. Chairman C. Jackson Grayson Jr. said the commission hopes to halve the 12.9-per-cent rate of inflation in medical costs, while its goal for the economy as a whole i_s to keep price increases to a maximum 2.5-per-K:ent average. \We were concerned with not reducing the quality Of health care in the country,\ Grayson said. \That was very important to us.\ The guidelines split the medical field into two divisions, institutional and non- institutional providers, and set up dif- ferent regulations for them. In the first category, which includes- hospitals and other institutions, prices may be raised only to reflect allocable costs, offset by productivity increases. But prices may not be raised to reflect higher labor costs of more than 5.5 per cent, the Pay Board ceiling for per- missible wage increases. Hospitals and other medical in- stitutions may raise prices up to 2.5 per cent without notifying the government, but for raises higher than that, they must tell the Internal Revenue Service and Medicare officials. • India's 12-day war in East Pakistan ended in victory; today as the com- mander of Pakistan's forces there surrendered unconditionally. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi told the Indian parliament in New Delhi. The prime minister said the surrender was signed in Dacca, East Pakistan's capit$l,.at 4:31p.m.—6:01 a.m. EST—by Lt. Gen. A.A.K. Niazi, the commander of the estimated 80,000 Pakistani troops >4n ; the province. ..,£ The surrender was f ecieved, she said, iby LtGen. J.S. Aurora,' the commander' .Cof India's eastern command, who flew to v;Bacca this afternoon. -..- -As Mrs. Gandhi spoke in Parliament, \'Radio Pakistan announced that fighting <had stopped in East Pakistan following .\Sn agreement between the local Indian :and Pakistani commanders. Monitors 'said the broadcast, in the Urdu lan- guage, made no mention of surrender. --'-%TiaM. surrendered nearly 24 hours 4fier India gave him an -111111113111111 to quit and Suspended bombing of the East Pakistani capital. . \Half an hour before the ultimatum Expired this morning, the Pakistani commander asked for ah extension and for an Indian staff officer to come to Dacca to discuss the surrender. The Indians dispatched the chief Of staff of the Eastern Command, Maj. Gen. J. F. R. Jacob, with instructions to give Niazi until 5 p.m. to give up. Gen. Aurora followed a few hours later. Meanwhile, Indian troops had entered Dacca, at 10:48 a.m., Mrs. Gandhi told Parliament earlier.today. She said one of Niazi's subordinates, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Jamshed of the 36th Pakistani Division, surrendered to them. \The Indian armed forces will not remain in Bangla Desh longer than they are needed,\ Mrs. Gandhi declared. The Indian parliament erupted with cheers and desk pounding when Mrs. Gandhi-read her one-minute statement, SECOND GRADERS-Michael Vernsey and David LaRbse, both second graders at Bishop Conroy School, are shown as they act out their skit in Christmas program at the Home and School meeting Wednesday night. The skit was written by Ray Dillon, second grade teacher. The music for the Christmas program was under the direction of Mrs. Thomas (Joan) Dalton, music teacher. (Como Photo). Second Ship Seized In 10 Days Cuban Exile-Owned Fre: just as it did last week when the Si-year^ old prime minister announced that India had recognized the People's Republic of Bangla fiesh. Indian troops invaded East Pakistan on the riight of £>ec. 3^4 with the declared aim of helping the Mukti Bahini, the East Pakistani guerrilla forces, es- tablish an independent republic. Bangla Desh—the Bengali Nation—is the rebel name for the eastern province, which is separated from West Pakistan by 1,000 miles of Indian territory. No fighting was reported today from the Western front where a Pakistani attempt to drive into Kashmir appeared to be bogged down several miles inside the border. Radio Pakistan said 54 civilians were killed and about 90 injured in an Indian air raid Wednesday night on Karachi, West Pakistan's major city. It said 32 civilians were killed in Lahore and 11 others died in other sections of West Pakistan ih Indian air attacks - In other developments: Britain and France introduced a resolution in the U.N. Security Council calling for a cease-fire and a political settlement with the Bangla Desh forces who won a majority in the national elections a year ago. In Washington, presidential Press Secretary Ronald L. Zieglef said any continuation or expansion of the war\ could affect U.S.-Soviet relations. He said cancellation of President Nixon's trip to Moscow next May would be considered only if the South Asia situation deteriorated. Pentagon sources in Washington said the U.S. Navy task force led by the carrier Enterprise was several hundred miles inside the Bay of Bengal, with no indication from the U.S. government what it was doing there. While some offi- cials indicated it was- standing by to evacuate Americans— there are only 182 left in East Pakistan—some ob^ servers thought it looked like a show of force. Odd Ccmfigurations Appear ALBANY, N.Y.*CAP) -* Several odd configurations appear in the legislative reapportionment plan presented by Re- publican designers to the legislature. „One proposed Senate district stretches • from the Finger Lakes to the St. Lawfence River; another extends ffbm the Pennsylvania border to the fludson River and eventually to the. Mohawk River. ' x Several Assembly districts Cross the Hudson River wherever there is a bridge. Cities are divided and, in some cases, the districts resemble tadpoles. The plan, submitted Wednesday during the second day of the legislature's special session, placed incumbents in opposition in 10 districts and created.several districts with no in- cumbents. The realignment forced the elimination of some districts, including the district held by newly elected Sen. George Murphy of Nassau County. Murphy was sworn in before the special session to Consider reapportionment. Now it turns out that his first vote in the legislature will be on a proposal to eliminate his district. .Incumbents in the same district are: —Assemblymen Albert Blumenthal and Franz Leichter, Democrats of Manhattan. —-Assemblymen Hulan Jack and Frank Rossetti, Democrats of Manhattan. Rossetti is -expected to retire. —Assemblymen Joseph Martuseello and Frank J. Verderame, Democrats of Brooklyn. mmeM —Assemblymen Frederick Schmidt, a Democrat,, and Albert Delli Bovl, a Republican, in Queens. —Assemblymen Eli' Wager and Arthur J. Kremer, Democrats of Nassau County. —Assemblymen Peter R. Bioiido and J. Edward Meyer, Republicans of Westchester. .—Assemblymen Edwyn Mason, a Republican from Hobart, and Mary Anne\ Krupsak, a Democrat from Canajoharie. —Assemblymen Joseph Finley of Newarlc and Frederick. Warder of Geneva, both Republicans. ^-Assemblymen Arthur Or Eve and Michael L. McCarthy, Democrats of Buffalo. • ' The Senate added three seats to a new membership, of 60 while the Assembly remained at 150 seats. The State Con^ stitution prescribes the exact mem- bership of the Assembly but says the Senate can grow according to increases in population as determined in a com- plex formula. • Suffolk County was the big gainer in the plan, winning one new Senate seat and three new Assembly seats. At the same time, Brooklyn and Manhattan lost two Assembly seats each. INDEX Women's Page Sports Classified. Editorial Art Buchwald Jack Anderson TVKorner Comics Local Page Page 4 Page 15 Page 17 Page 18 Page 1.8 Page 18 Page 16 Page19 Page 11 SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS Mostly cloudy tonight and continued mild, chahfce of light snow developing, lows in the upper 20s to mid 30s. Tomorrow mostly cloudy and cooler with occasional light snow, highs in the 30s. MIAMI (AP) — A Cuban exile-owned freighter, crippled by fire from a Cuban gunboat, was under tow toward' the Communist island today following a bloody attack on the high seas. \The deck is covered with blood. I am dying ... ,\ the freighter's captain, 55- year-old Jose Villa, said in a final and .desperate radio message received here Wednesday. \Tell the Coast Guard to come quickly,\ Villa said. \Tell them>here are dead and wounded here.\ The Johnny Express was the second ship owned by Bahama Lines of Miami—a firm operated by Cuban exiles-to be seized by Cuba in 10 days. A Bahama Lines official said the Johnny Express had been taken in tow by Cuban patrol boats about 118 miles. north of the island's east coast. \It is on its way to Cuba by force,\ the spokesman said. \It is piracy and no one will do anything to help us.\ The Johnny Express had a crew of 14, including two American citizens, ac- cording to Bahama Lines. It is the sister ship of the Lyla Express, which was seized Dec. 5 and taken to Cuba. U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Ron Wright said planes with medics were dispatched purely on a humanitarian mission in efforts to provide medical aid for the crew and \we can't get involved in the fight.\ A spokesman added that the ship was of Panamanian registry and not in U.S. waters when attacked so \our hands are tied.\ The plight of the ship became known Wednesday when Bahama Lines received a distress signal. The Johnny Express, like the Lyla Express, had been returning from a run to Haiti. It was attacked about two miles off the coast of Little Inagua in the Bahamas. Bahama Lines radio operator Francisco Blanco said Villa told him the Johnny Express was being pursued by a Cuban gunboat. As the office struggled to stay in contact with the ship, Viila later reported the Johnny Express was under fire and was being rammed by the gunboat. \They are shooting at us from close range,\ Villa said in one message. \Tell them they are finishing the boat off. Tell the Coast Guard they are finishing us. Tell them to come get the wounded.\
