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J PAGE 8 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17,1971 GENERAL MOORE PRESENTED SCULPTURE— General Ernest M. Moore, retired special assistant to the president at Clarkson College of Technology, is shown with a sculpture which was presented to him at a recent dinner held in his honor. The unique work of art, commissioned by his associates at Clarkson, was created by Don L. Vecchio of New Rochelle, N.Y., expressly for General Moore. The metal figure is wearing a mortarboard which represents General Moore's academic career; epaulets on the shoulders signify his career as a Major General in the U.S. Air Force; and the golf club in the left hand and cigarette in the right represent retirement. Sculptures in a similar style are owned by Frank Sinatra, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and Peter Lind Hayes. Each creation is an original and is styled to its owner. A member of the Clarkson administration since 1965, General Moore served as vice president and dean of student affairs prior to his appointmenf as speical assistant to President John W. Graham, Jr. School Boards Group Backs Revenue-Sharing ALBANY--\Our Association wholeheartedly endorses the call by Governor Nelson A. Kockefeller and a majority of New York representatives to Congress, made Dec. 3, for rapid action by the U.S.S Congress on a revenue- sharing, plan which would bring nearly $400 million to this state\ said A. Terry Weathers, president of the New York State School Boards Association. While federal revenue-sharing is a desirable goal because it will release state funds for other purposes, education remains primarily a state responsibility and must not be sacrificed. \Any cut in education aid would have a disastrous effect on both education itself and' on local school district taxpayers\ Mr. Weathers said. \Not only would any cut in education aid hit hardest those least able to afford it\ Mr. Weathers said, \but it would compound the very educational inequalities and tax inequities protested in the recent California decision. Indeed, it would have its worst effect on those Kuala Lampur Phases Out Trishaw KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — There was a time when many publicity brochures in Kuala Lumpur urged tourists to: \Just step out and enjoy a ride in a trishaw.\ Some brochures still carry the pic- tures, but tourists are finding it more and more difficult to step out and ride in a trishaw, because it is getting more and more difficult to get one. Reason: Authorities have decided trishaws are shabby, slow 'moving vehicular vagrants causing traffic jams and slowing down automobiles. The Kuala Lumpur municipality says the days of the bicycle-pulled trishaws are numbered and it has decided to phase them out. Henceforth, when a trishaw driver dies his license will be canceled automatically and not given to anybody else. They would like to ban the trishaw riders straightaway, but they do not want to deprive \these old men of their living.\ So they are being allowed to drive one till they die. The trishaw drivers are indeed old. The younger of them are already in their late 40s while the older ones are in their 70s. ' In 1945, when trishaws were having their day, there were 5,000 of them in Kuala Lumpur. Now there are harldy 300. Tourism might keep a . few of the trishaws around. Hotel managers and tourist agencies have said they want to keep trishaws for the tourists and have approached authorities on this. But these trishaws are not expected to be the \old boneshakers\ of today, with rusting chrome, and tearing parched roofs. They would probably be foam cushioned, with colorful awnings, and even a tape recorder for music and to tell tourists what they are seeing on the roads. The trishaw drivers themselves don't think they have a good future. They feel modern Malaysian youths don't like to travel in trishaws. They prefer taxis. THE JOURNAL Regional Board Plan Procedures Of Clearinghouse CANTON - Kenneth F. Rogers, chairman of the Black River-St. Lawrence Regional Planning Board, today announced that effective this past Nov. 9, the Regional Planning Board was designated as the official Regional Planning and Development Clearinghouse for the Region by Governor Rockefeller. The Governor, in 1969, had designated the Black River-St. Lawrence Region (covering Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence Counties) as an official planning and development region of the State. The designation, made under the federal Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, of 1968, the federal National En- vironmental Policy Act of 1969, and the U.S. Office of Management and Budget Circular A-95, provides for the establishment of a project notification and review system (PNRS) under which more than 50 different Federal assistance programs and projects originating in the Region, will be evaluated and reviewed so as- to . facilitate coordinated development planning and utilization of fiscal, natural and human resources. The PNRS, basically an early warning system, will seek to identify and con- sider regional implications of the proposed project, identify plans, programs and standards that provide a framework and guidelines for project - development, investigate the project's potential for joint development and the possibility of extending the service area or joint development with other projects in the area, ensure that the project does not duplicate efforts already underway, identify possible conflicts with other developments existing or proposed, and identify the nature of environmental impact to be caused by the proposed project. Local governments and their agencies which may be concerned with aspects of a particular project will have the op- portunity to contribute to the Regional Planning Board's review of.the proposed project. The Regional Planning Board staff is presently developing the Regional Clearinghouse procedures to be followed by potential applicants, and these procedures will be made available to all local governments, their agencies and their consultants in the near future. Dog Licenses Due Jan. 1 In New York State Albany—When the clock rings in the New \Year dog\ owners in New York State must have a new dog license for their animal, reminds the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets. Jan. 1 is the deadline to have your dog licensed for the first time or re-licensed, said Helen Kehrer, supervisor of dog licensing in the State Department of Agriculture. If you have a new puppy, she added, and it is allowed to roam off your property then you must have your dog licnesed right away. However, if the puppy is confined to your home or property then he or she doesn't have to be licensed until six-months of age. The licenses may be purchased from (he clerk's office in any city or town in which the dog is kept. In Nassau- and Westchester counties, certain villages also have the licenses for sale. Check with your local clerk to see if your dog must have a rabies vaccination to get licensed. Certain counties in the state require proof of vaccination before a license can be issued. It will cost you $5.35 to have an un- spayed female dog licensed for the year and $2.35 to have a spayed female or male dog licensed. However, if you do not get your animal licensed and it is seized.and impounded for that reason, it will cost you a $5 seizure fee, plus the cost of the license to retrieve your pet. In any city in the state you must retrieve your dog within three days.' In rural parts of the state you have five days to retrieve your dog after he is seized. None of these licensing rules apply to New York City. That metropolis has its own licensing system administered by (he City's American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). Dogs licensed in the first nine months of 1971 totaled 1,064,037 as compared with the 12 months total of 1,026,764 in 1970. Again, licensed dogs have passed the million mark. License fees through September of this year amounted to $2,661,282. Ninty-percent of this money is retained in the localities where it is collected to provide for indemnities for damage by dogs, maintenance of pounds, wardens' salaries. Ten percent is sent to the state treasury to pay for tags, licenses and th.e supervision of the licensing law. For the first time in 1971, an additional $106,493 was collected from dog owners to be used for the study of diseases of dogs. These studies will be carried on at the Research Laboratory for Diseases of Dogs, a unit of the Cornell Veterinary Virus Institute, IthacaN. Y.'This laboratory is not engaged in surgical research, but confines itself to inquiry into the disease producing viruses which plagUe dogs. The people there are completely devoted to the welfare of dogs and have already made numerous and notable contributions to • that welfare. Any questions .concerning dog licensing should be addressed to the Division of Animal Industry, New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, State Campus, Albany, N. Y. 12226. same elderly people President Richard M. Nixon was speaking to on December 2 in Washington - retired persons trying to hold on to the home they have worked all their lives to. own.\ Westhefs' expressed his strong op- position to talk of cutting state aid to public schools for the present year. \These are funds,\ he said, \that school districts had counted on as they prepared the budgets under which they are now operating.\ President Weathers also deplored suggestions for \rolling over\ some of (he 1971-72 state aid payments to school districts. \Any payment delays will cost local districts additional funds because they Will be forced to borrow to meet unanticipated expenditures\ he noted. The New York State School Boards Association, which represents the publicly selected leadership of nearly 3,500,000 school children in the state, has its headquarters, in Albany. Its staff is headed by Executive Director Everett R. Dyer. One trishaw driver, Koh Eng Swee, 53, switched over to driving a taxi recently and says the way things are going there is no future for trishaw drivers— what with authorities troubling them and passengers arguing over fares and prefering taxis. St. Joe Minerals Names Walthier To New Position NEW YORK—Thomas N. Walthier has been named Director - Corporate Exploration for St. Joe Minerals Cor- poration. in announcing the new position, St. Joe President, John C. Duncan, said that Dr. Walthier would be responsible for the development and direction of new domestic and international exploration programs, including the examination and appraisal of potential mineral deposits andl the investigation of mineralbased investment opportunities. Prior to joining St. Joe, Dr. Walthier was international exploration manager for Occidental Minerals Corporation and executive vice president of Occidental Worldwide Minerals Corporation, both subsidiary organizations of Occidental Petroleum Corporation. Dr. Walthjer earned his graduate degrees in geology at Columbia University. In addition to previous association with Bear Creek Mining • Company and the Atomic. Energy Commission, he has served on the faculty of Brown and New York Universities. He is a member of the Society of Mining Engineers (AIME), the Marine Technological Society, and is chairman of the Mining Panel, National Security Industrial Association. PRE-1750 TECHNOLOGY STUDIES At CLARKSON— -Students in the course, \The History of Technology to 1750\ at Clarkson College of Technology have been exposed to the problems that faced early engineers when the students began course projects that consisted of constructing models of historical machines. Above, Dr. Monte Calvert (center), associate professor of history at Clarkson, is shown with two of his students and their projects. Left, Gary Norton, an industrial distribution majors is Shown With his Newcomen steam engine that was developed in 1712. Norton is a senior at Clarkson and is from Horseheads, N. Y. Right, Joseph Mondillo, Scotia, N. Y., a junior civil engineering major at Clarkson, displays his early 18th century post windmill. Court Tells Prison French Government Tries officials To Give Tb Unload 'White Elephant' Inmates Hearings WASHINGTON—\For sale to top bidder: \Underground defense system, one owner, impregnable construction, repossessed from squatters, undamaged by warfare, maintained in good working order/ all comforts and conveniences, many splended panoramic views of Gernam border.\ That in effect is the sort of come-on the French government is suing in the latest attempt to unload one of the world's biggest white elephants: the Maginot Line. ; Thirteen of the line's smaller and presumably more appealing forts are to be sold at auction by Christmas or by the year's end. Such a fate would have been un- thinkable in the early spring of 1940, the National Geographic Society says. \Buried Battleship's\ Named for one of the country's defense ministers, the Maginot Line was the pride of la belle France. It was a new wonder of the modern world, a sure-fire guarantee against the sort of German invasion that killed almost a generation of French fathers between 1914 and 1918. More than a basic barrier like the Great Wall of China, the Maginot Line resembled a 300-mile chain of buried battleships. Beneath hills and fields was hiddena network of immense forts, many in- terconnected by tunnels said to be as long as the entire Paris Metro system. Underground trains carried am- munition and food. Pillboxes and 150 self-elevating turrets bristling with cannon were built to cover the border with merciless firepower. After nine years and $600 million in building, 10,000 soldiers, moved in and war-worried Frenchmen complacently relaxed. Ignored was the call for a highly mobile reserve force to counter any breakthrough, the proposal of an obscure tank corps colonel named Chalres De Gaulle. Defintely \Invincible\ The Germans had just completed the Siegfried Line, their own defense system on the other side of the Rhine River, and they were impressed with French boasts of the Maginot Line's invincibility. So, when they attacked in the spring of 1940, ^they went around it, swinging through the lSO^miie section left without forts because Belgian neighbors ironically felt a defense line would only invite invasion through their country. Forty-seven days later it was all over, but not before frustrated Maginot Line defenders looked through their periscopes and found Germans at- tacking from the rear where their guns could not be aimed. The forts withstood the worst of German bombing. After the war a handful of French troops kept them in working order. Farmers sometimes were startled by a • turret suddenly, silently poking out of a cow-studded hill, like a long sleeping giant unexpectedly opening an eye. Finally the Maginot Line forts were surrendered for a sale as warehouses, though a few pillboxes were sold to l?oth French and German buyers hunting Unusual vacation hideways. Up to now, sales have been slow. As one Frenchman put it, \Who needs an underground fort^-if you don't raise mushrooms and dbn't need a wine cellar that big?\ Cautions Motorists Against Leaving Cars Unlocked NEW YORK-A11 car thieves want for Christmas this year from New York residents is an unlocked car chock full of brightly wrapped presents, the Insurance Information Institute warns, to make their holidays happy and profitable. Last year, more than a million cars were stolen across the country — more than 124,000 in New York alone. The majority of (he stolen cars were left BUFFALO (AP) — Attica prison officials are under court order to start informing 38 inmates Confined to a special security area what disciplinary charges they face. The order issued by Judge John T. Curtin in U.S. District Court Monday requires that prison authorities start granting hearings to the inmates by Thursday. The action stems from a class-action suit filed on behalf of the inmates several weeks ago. The suit charged the inmates had been subjected to a more rigorous con- finement ever since the inmate in- surrection in September, but had not been notified of charges, against them nor given the opportunity to offer a • defense. Uder Curtin's order, prisoners would be brought before the prison's Adjust- ment Committee, told why they were in segregation and asked to respond. In earlier court hearings, prison of- ficials said inmates suspected of being \active participants\ in the bloody insurrection had been put in the security area. Confinement in this section means a prisoner is kept in a cell all the time except for a 30«ninute period each day. Meals are served through the bars. In another Attica-related action, Curtin. fulfilled the instructions of a higher court by enjoining prison officials from-subjecting inmates to \physical abuse, torture, beatings or other forms of brutality and from threatening such conduct.\ Curtin earlier had refused to issue the injunction, saying that the inmates' lawyers\ had failed to prove that brutality was being committed on a continuing basis. That ruling was overturned by the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan. Meet Safety First And North Western SEAL BEACH, Calif. (AP) — If you want to know what's in a name, ask Safety First or North Western. They are the unusual names of two men who live in a retirement village car thieves feel older cars are less conspicuous. Protect your merry Christmas and your automobile this year by locking' your car and putting your Christmas packages where they cannot be see, the institute urges all shoppers and motorists; unless,- of course, you drive a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer. DATES NAMED ALBANY', N.Y. (AP) - Gov. ,.., unlocked, and many with the keys in the Rockefeller has appointed to the state the years, such as the time he was cited i< ™ iK \\ ' Crime Control Planning Board Harris B. ' \ ' \ * ' ' J ' e \ here. Safety First, whose family name was First, was actually given the name on his birth certificate by his parents, who Hked the idea of safety. First, 77, said he had problems over ignition The institute reminds motorists that lhe Christmas season is also' the car theft season -with thieves often stealing cars in the hopes of obtaining additional loot in the form of gifts meant for others. The. institute advises shoppers to lock their packages in the trunk where they won't serve as bait to a potential car theif or prowler. Besides suggesting that you lock your car and pocket the keys, the institute also advises shoppers to park their cars in well-lighted areas for additional safety. Statistics indicate just how big the automobile theft business has become, particularly among cars that are more than three years old. The Institute speculates that the primary reason for this is that the newer cars have modem anti-theft devices and that they are treated a bit more carefully than older cars, whose owners become negligent in protecting their property from theft as the newness wears off. Other possible reasons for the popularity of old cars among car thieves is their desirability as sources of spare parts and accessories needed more as replacements for or additions to older model cars. One other possibility is that Dates of Ludlowvilie, chairman of the Tompkins County Board of Represent latives, the Tompkins County Sewer Agency and the Tompkins County Water Agency. Dates, assistant to the director of general services at Cornell University, succeeds Richard O. Evans of Mayvijle, who resigned from the advisory panel that also reviews funding applications for federal Safe Streets Act projects. before a Los Angeles judge for a defec- tive windshield. Upon giving his name the jurist snapped, \ I want yquf name, not your traffic slogan.\ North Western explained that Western was his family name and his parents named him North after another old family name. _ _ , 'He said he had problems explaining the name when he used to commute in the Chicago area aboard the North- western Railroad- . . Christmas Carols Now Available The Journal and the Advance-News have published their annual Christmas Carol sorig sheets. The sheets which are printed in color, are now available at the business office. The copies are free.
