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VOL. ixxx
Friday, October » , IMS
PHONE: Striuue Like
Israeli oil-tanker hit
by Egyptian forces?
Town shares
license fees,
talks timber
Egyptian troops reportecfty
studied « i UraeJi-ruB oil
tantar in the Gulf of Suez today
• Sinai Desert
to a major
breakdown <f the shaky statist
East cease-fire The outbreak
of fighting cam* as a UN
™«h-dteih.~-w
rusbedtothe region
The Tel Aviv military com
m « d said the Uisjristvraf>
tered tanker Stria* sprang a
conwWable talk when hit in
**JmB m the mid-mormog
attack off the tip of the Smai
moving north near the Gobs!
St/miU at the entrant* of fee
GtaY of Sue* The command had
earlier reported the «hip "sunk
by Egyptian enemy action 1
The command said surrounded Egyptian tank forces in the
Smai almost simultaneously
lawriwdanarmet^assauftin
an atteinpt to break through to
their supply lines The firthta*
was re^rtedstfB going t i ^
Theoutbreakof combat came
M U N t r e e observers t « * « p
petitions and watted for the
fir* centftatat of
The Egyptian mibtary
Oct i as* a*
I that thrBtorUo* had
71 per etet at
hwrhed
Jan Ptsnadore
hattet at fee pa**** el
TWameadsneatwottW.
tn tar coethat new say* thai in
oraW to erect a new county it
of
Fir»< da* briars
firm fatalit *
of b«Btitftfg »eaeon
«Kpfteia*d feat fee lawn* of
« trying far
ten \mn to fora* a new toant)
The f tv* towns new hev* a
ados of about taajaa list
Ant at? af the Wg
" —*f .mm aeaa#a tn
W*
marturt
The letter «o«a «n
a deer and shot ban Mr Fenny
a u s * out of fee « « • * and
**rtt»Kur* is fee
Mr Lrbda to Mercy
Hospital whert he was
wtthaJP
and chmet as he was aupartnU)
I ever in the arecees of
frani a attttag to a
Tht compiattM was filed by
Jesta Nicolo against htt
roommate Randall Antdes
Aasoas was arrested en the
warraVt pludid net guilty
when arraigned bef art Justict
LaMev and was retoa sad m lam
t o b t k e U a t t p m Wednesday
Weather
f Oboervat ions From Bob
Kasnpf ft official weather
stotton »t Htfltop Motel m
Ray Brook a t j a m with
4ssa ItrlMtM hourm <
71towft
« and (attmg
per cent
i»« at it mpfe
of
Supervwer LeRose said that
there is a fam intt retted in
buying some Umber rights en
about m acres of town land
located off Route s ta an area
located near A t state armory
The super* taoi said they
MMJd ittow no ieassasM of tht
bt cut The sense for
cutting would bt tar trass not
leas than i J mchei diameter at
a pecat chest higti to fee man
doing the umber erasing
Paul
PeJky,
highway
rt would bt sold by fee 1000
board feet and he s^aeseed feet
there was t to 7000 feet of
ttumpage tn the eligible
category
The board will check into
Adirondack Park Agency
clearance and other legal
<BM*tnm before artythuig etor
• dent
The board, in other actioo.
Phd Hyde as a
This wte settles seven years
of dsKMsston between fee town
and fee school board Hie
gto
l became fee
g
properiy oi vem usHiici wnen
fee two were merged.
Before fee vote, fee hoard
asked for statements
The audience, primarily
W> I m ing tomans, clapped
%sfofQMS|y at fee end of Mn
Betty
Petkey
Gonyea's
Mrs Gonye* at one time
pnnopal of the Wilmington
school, recounted its history:
bow it was built by donated
tabor cleaned by parents, and
served hot lunches cooked by
parents
The school is perfectly
situated for use as a Youth
Center and recreational
buikfcng and she asked that it
bt turned back to fee tows for
Her sentiments were echoed
m a statement- rvd by Tom
Randall <wi behalf of the
»rd
greater acres* to
give local
deetad official* a chance to
partjctpatt in fee <sscuas*oo of
Arms alert remains
but crisis passed
WASHINGTON <IFP!> - An
alert af America i 2J miiiton
rmltury personnel remained in
effect early this morning, bet
I S officuUifetttheenstthad
before ordering fee worldwide
alert of all VS. troops, m an
apparently successful bid to
keep Russian aoadtors from
being tenttofeeMiddte Eaat
fXr»aalssatdPres*deiit Nixon
had waMcd unul fee last
minute' Thursday
Sources said the alert probably would he discontinued a
little before noon EOT today,
although the process of reducing readiness throughout fee
armed farces might take up to
24 hour*
UFOs seen in Hawaii,
Los Angeles and Oregon
It? Uasto* ftem IttreattaasH
Hundred, of c*tten bombard
ed pobct and
swttchboardi in
Thursday reporting "shimmery, shiny" triangular
shaped objects® the sky, "Just
hanging up mere" or moving
very slowly.
Over Htto, on the big island
of Hawaii, three fireman and
an air traffic controller spotted
an unidentified flying object
UFCK three times the sue of
In Corvalhs Ore,, tht recent
rash of UFO sighting* prompted a radio station to offer
910,000 reward for fee first
living space visitor brought to
the station
Bob Houghun manager of
KLOO. stipulated that fee
extraterrestrial visitor, animal
or person, 'must never have
been on Earth before "
One woman caller in Los
Angeles &aid, "From my
there t a treat big
thing, and I'm not
nuts
My fnend called me to look
and we had our mailman look
We <hdn ! want to seem nutty
shrcaxi
The* wrr+ Tftrvom
The sfejsrt* tamed art ID bt
Irtroom plastic
by citueus The latest
was Thursday night over Hik>.
and was seen by firemen and
m mr traffic controller
U James HigashiU J r . a
fireman, said it was moving
tast^norfeeast and three times
as big as Venus He said we
are trained observers with
binocuUrs and telescopes, tt
looked like a large star but it
has artificial lighting * He and
two other firemen saw it
So did HUo airport traffic
controller Harry Marks Marks
said no flights were in the area,
and the object shot straiajit up
into the sky 10 minutes after it
appeared
Deputy Catches "
In Chilttcothe, Ohio, Sheriff's
Deputy Dale Gillette captured a
"spaceman" late Thursday
night The "spaceman" was
wrapped in industrial strength
aluminum fotl from head to toe
complete with antennae on his
head
Gillette said he found the
spaceman" infeemiddle of a
rural road wmJt on patrol,
I shook my head and dkin't
believe what I saw, ' said a
shaky GUlette
He explained he jumped out
ct hn cruiser put the spotlight
on tht spaceman.'* who took
off nsaaing Tht deputy said
the called for the spaceman
to halt thtfl ftr*d a warning
Thmt a
Last
two
day*
of
Harvest
The decisiontosend the UN
peace-keeping force to fee
Middle East cooled a possible
superpowef confronution feat
sent a wave of jitters across
the United State* and major
capitals of fee world
Observers hn Pesstfesi
UN observers moved into
position on fee northern and
southern fronts today as fee
first contingent of UN peace-
ii off
their
atgat tarnt h* fhaiajM fee tocal
Mr Plumadore. tn can
government relations ptaak
was fee most important in fee
w«s an important "principle
ptatferm
away
Hit cewhdates under Uu»
BtMfc ciatm. tf ejected. thr>
The
platform
wiS
be
printed
wm enact a rule feat each
county tagolator mmi mm the m Monday's Enterprise
populstMe is OJB> about ? lo I
per cent of the cwanty
papiiiatiaft they pay about m
pet cent offeecounty U s T V "
Votrm* drrtnion:
five tewns art nyrimolmi in
th*c«um> Itgtolattsft by mfy i
Wilmington
School
and oneself vote* out of It Tht
letter deacrAei fee rest of fee
will go to Town
county m primarily erbati
LAKE PLAHD - At a
sprawl mai indswtry
The mpw>teui» daim m
thfw wtter feat unless they art hoard. » ftwdents of fee
ab* to govern their own aflatn diatrict voted to turn tht
Witmtnftoo school over to fee
they w « ht faced with Urge Town of Witeungton Three
and waft49-wafl
The
EASY S T R U T - Town
Justk* Cawgt UMay awnsd a
fits,
local
t
rtiaiioni. county
ftnanoti capital coast ruction
stale
government
sriamarftly
b*J*v«d to he la another
!%e Tupper
SARANM LAKE - J
Plum adore
Rtpubtu
camfooatefar
en a
Towm of
rranktm.
released
tht
Repuhbcan pUtform to tht
<
The UMMm vessel, chart
ered by tsracTs Zun Stepping
Co > was heading toward fee
town and village heard m his Ras Abu Rude* oil field in fee
dtttnrf at least three times a fsractt-oGcispied Sinai Desert at
year and they pled* feat fee fee time of the attack, the slap
county hoard wffi hold one normally ferries otl to tsraef s
Red Sea port of Elat
beard meeting a rear to each
The mUiUry command said
dsstrfct
fee tanker was apparently
Mr H t f a a d o r * said people
empty when hit as it was
The platform make* fHre
The f tvr leva i
i letter * tht Hamotaaswn
tot* teem feat he had jm killed
Jan Plumadore
unveils platform
Cyprus lo police the on-agatn,
offHsfBln cease-fa* aimed at
« g t h * tanker and said the «dtog the fourth Arab-Israel,
weasel apparently struck a mine war in a quarter century
m an area banned to shipping
m wraspoadnats at the
sincetht rtart of the war
^eene reported the c e a s e d *
The Israel wnimand said the rirmfy in effect on the Golan
s h ^ s m*nm crew, mostly
He^hU northern front Thurs^cte.wastrytegtokeap&e
4«y and only sporadic artillery
crippM feaaei afloat T h e r e
mt along the Suei Canal in the
were no reported
of
GOIttt*
Values
keeping troops prepared to
leave Cyprus for fee canal
region to police the truce.
U.N. Secretary General Kurt
Waldheim issued orders Thursday night for too Swedish,
Austrian and Finnish troops to
head for fee eanal-fee first of
several thousand U.N. soldiers
expected lo be sent to fee
Middle E « t
The U.N. Security Council
agreed Thursday en a U S
resolution to head off a
superpower conflict by barring
the five nuclear powers—the
Untied States, Soviet Union,
Britain, Prance and Cbinafromfeepeace force.
The United States put its 2 3
million troops on alert early
Thursday following receipt of
what Sen. Henry M Jackson,
D-Wasb , described as a *bruUl and threatening" Soviet not*
setting forth Russian pians to
send troopstothe region
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger told a Washington
news conference later » fee
day any dispatch of Soviet
troopstothe Middle East might
result in a confontation threatening all mankind
The war, which began Oct 6,
was the regions btoodteet, wife
US military sources estimating total Israeli and Arab losses
at up to 20.000 dead and
wounded The U N Security
Council catted for a ceasefire
Monday evening, hut waa
forced to paaa tore otter truce
resotsitoaB altor oantinued re>
ports of violations,
Military sources tn Tei Aviv
said the few reported dashes
on fee southern front Thursday
involved Egypt's 3rd Army, a
force ef about Mjm warn and
200 tank* encircled by Israeli
troops at the southern end of
the canal.
The sources said many of fee
Egyptians - short af food,
water, ammunition and medical
supptes—were surrendering to
the Israelis.
UP! correspondent Gerard
Loughran visited Israeli troop*
on the southern front J and
backed op Tel Aviv's account of
the cease-fire He sai^Arabs
fired occaskmalartjUery raunds
at Uradi positions just outside
Suez, but the Israelis did not
return the fire.
A4itsieaal Territory Seised
Israel, which captured
Egypt s Steal Desert, fee
Syrian Golan Heights and
Jordan's West Bank region ID
the 1967 Middte East war,
reported seeing an additional
500 square miles of Egyptian
territory and 325 sajoare mites
of Syrian land in the latest
conflict.
The Israelis said Egyptian
troops recaptured about 250
square miles of fee Smai
Desert along fee east bank of
the Suez Canal
The semi-official Cairo newspaper Al Ahram, in an
apparent attempt to justify
Egypt's about-face daemon to
stop fighting, accused fee
United States today of i
volunteer pifets, military
perts and ultra-modern weapons to tsraei
Egyptian decision-makers
found themselves facing direct
American wterventson in fee
batt)efle»V' fee newspaper
U quoted Egyptian
Anwar Sadat as
saying, "I could not tell my
troops to go on righting fee
linked Stales.**
•lie alert, oescribed by
military official* as the most
widespread since the 196
Cuban missile crisis, won the
President support from many
members of Oongress. But a
few expressed suspicions that
he acted to divert attention
from Watergate,
Sources dose to events said
the alerting of an undisclosed
number of Soviet ground
combat troops, detected by
highly classified means, played
a major role in Nixon's decision
to put U S forces on a
precautionary general alert
Thursday, shortly after midnight.
Port Henry man
is charged with
kidnaping woman
PLATTSBURGH, NY. (UPI)
—Clayton R. LaDuke, 23, of
Port Henry was being held
without bail today in the Clinton
County jail on second degree
kidnaping charges in the nifepotnt abduction of a 17-year-old
PUttsburgh woman
State police said the woman
picked up LaDuke. who was
httchiking on the North*ay near
Pittsburgh
Troopers said LaDuke then
allegedly pulled a hunting knife
on the woman and forced her
lo turn off the Northway onto
Route 9 rm*r Keeaeville
The woman drove her car
Mito a ditch ntmr where a rood
crew WM worting arid LaDukt
aUe§)K§> struck her hand wtth
tht knife before ftaesnf into the
*tmd» troopers MK1
Friday
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