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Lend Hanavl i i i rr 2 1 tfr 'i prf nr it fl tn4 (Ml FSSjftft-- The Sunday Press Autumn dusk falls on Trout Creek on Route 206 in western Delaware County, and Postmaster Ralph G. Clark has to turn on lights to sort mail and tend to his duties. At right, a patron picks up mail from a private box. CED CC5 SDL IL Won't you lend a hand to help the needy of Broome and Tioga counties? The Lend-A-Hand Fund of the Gan- nett Newspapers is an effort to provide relief for financial problems that do not fall within the regular jurisdiction of public and private social agencies. Families and individuals helped by Lend-A-Hand are referred by coopera- ting social agencies.

Contributions to the fund should be sent to: Lend-A-Hand, Gannett News-' papers, Vestal Parkway East, Bing-hamton, N.Y. 13902. Please make your contributions by or money order. They are tax deductible. Funds will be deposited in a special Lend-A-Hand account, and pay-; ments will be made to the agencies where the needy people need or want to spend money; i.e., the purchase of a gift certificate at a clothing store or a rent payment to a landlord.

Although Lend-A-Hand contributes money for material goods, it is not able to accept actual items of furni-i ture or clothing. If you have such items to donate, please call the Volunteers of America (729-2294) or the Salvation Army (723-5381) for truck pickup All money contributed to Lend-A-Hand will go to help needy persons. No operating or other expenses will be incurred by the Lend-A-Hand Fund. Last year's donations totaled $26,679.80. The coordinator of this year's Lend-A-Hand drive is Beth Coleman of "i Vestal.

Readers with questions may reach her by calling 797-7828 and ask-7 ing for Lend-A-Hand. For the past three years, the i Lend-A-Hand Fund of the Gan- nett Newspapers has been giv-i ing needy residents of Broome and Tioga counties a helping hand both at holiday time and year round. Today and tomorrow. The will describe cases as- sisted by Lend-A-Hand during the past year. Soon, both the Press and the Sun-Bulletin will begin featur-ing stories, based on informa- tion from various social agencies, about persons in need of assistance right now.

I In both of today's cases, the Lend-A-Hand Fund purchased common appliances, taken for granted by most persons, that helped change the lives of two lonely women. MSYictim Gets Electric He Put His Money Where His Mouth Is i 1 CM V. -PRESS PHOTO BY JOHN GUGLIELMI Sehoonmaker also is the county treasurer in Delaware. Mrs. Field is the Otsego County court stenographer in Cooperstown.

Inconsistent would appear to be an apt description of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, which is about to embark on its sixth year of existence. Since 1970. some of the 14 members have made a poi'nt of crying out for economy in county government and services. Downhold. downhold, downhold the costs, they wail.

Remember, this isn't our money, they moan, it belongs to the taxpayers. We've got to do what is best for them, they say. Yet the other day, the board spent four hours in an item-by-item review of the tentative 1975 budget in a prelude to impending adoption. The result is a net increase of $2,820. What is disturbing, though, is that the board was in session for a record 12 hours last Nov.

12, most of the time in a closed-door review of the preliminary budget. And then it comes back publicly and. you can surmise, duplicates much of the discussion that was unheard by reporters. Economies were not evident but, once again, at least one of the legislators reiterates the cry for economy in government. Out went a previously discussed $3,000 subsidy for the Catskill Symphony Orchestra, the Community Chorale of Oneonta.

and 26 other cultural organizations in Otsego County. In with a minimum of discussion went a $4,500 appropriation to underwrite additional training for emergency squad members throughout the county. Until the public hearing, only a few members of the board apparently were (Continued on Page2B) the Kold peared to be joining the KKK in its abortive effort to flare up again in the Northeast. THE BIG disappointment to the handful of Ku Kluxers as the sun went down was that the "noted speakers" who were to have arrived from Philadelphia did not come. Shivering reporters and faithful KKK members who were here did not blame them for their defection.

If the Ku Klux Klan ever tries again to do anything but stage what appeared to be what is called a ''media event." it had better do it in July ami in a more accessible spot. As last night grew darker, and the bonfire grew brighter, and more and more people gathered around the bonfire reporters. KKK members and just plain curious people it appeared to at least one observer that the Ku Klux Klan in thenortheastern part of te United States is dead. 8 "1 wanted to do what I could to help him," the Republican donor adds. "I felt he (Winsor) was the most qualified candidate for the office." As it turns out.

the county clerk-elect is Mrs. June B. Hotaling. 48. a legal stenographer and a former mayor of Milford.

She wins by a plurality of 3.349 with 11.589 votes, compared to 8,240 for Winsor. according to the official canvass. In his quest for countywide office. Winsor shows campaign receipts of $2,308.19 for political Besides his own money, his financing includes $800 from the Otsego County Democratic Committee and $25 from Democratic County Representative Stuart P. Taugher of Cooperstown.

In becoming the second woman to win countywide office in Otsego. Mrs. Hotaling spent $1,263.53 of her own money, according to the Otsego County Board of Elections in Cooperstown. Her receipts total $185, including $75 from the Otsego County Women's Republican Club and $15 from Richard ThompsonofHartwick She spent $1,448.53 for political advertising, says the Board of Elections. Republican James H.

Higgins, 44. of Burlington Flats, a member of the Otsego County Board of Representatives and county-treasurer elect, spent $546.32 for political advertising. His receipts are a paltry $5 indicating that he disbursed $541.32 in personal funds in winning election to a three-year term as county treasurer. Higgins' plurality is 5,042 votes, with 11,979 to 6,937 for Democrat James Renwick. 40, of Hartwick.

Under the circumstances, Renwick did surprisingly well, considering he was endorsed in absentia by the sego County Democratic Committee and was virtually an invisible candidate during the campaign. Mrs. Violet Schallert. deputy com- Binehamton. N.Y..

Dec. 1. 1974 1 tlt missioner of the Otsego County Board of Elections, says Renwick has failed to file a final statement of campaign receipts and expenditures. IN CAMPAIGNS to come, many state and local government employes in Otsego, Delaware and other counties can emergy from the shadows and become openly involved in partisan politics. President Gerald Ford, somewhat reluctantly, has signed the new Federal Campaign Act.

Mike Causey of the Washington Post reports that the act opens the door for partisan political activity for the first time in a generation to local government employes, the fastest growing segment of the American labor force. "The new-found political freedoms lor local government workers do not extend to the 2,800,000 federal civil servants and postal employes." he says. "But federal and postal union lead DEANE G. WINSOR Tom Cawley so that a cross they had fashioned could be burned. The man who runs the Independent Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania.

Albert Lentz. was busy putting records on his turntable, recordings of hymns and so-called country music. As the sun set and the temperature dropped much lower, and bystanders shivered in the cold, more and more sightseers came along in cars, clogging the road. MRS. WILLIAM DANNER of York.

4 ft ers are planning a major push in the next Congress to modify the 35-year-old Hatch Act, which limits the political rolse of federal employes and, until recently, of local and state government workers paid holly or in part by federal funds. "Until Congress makes the change, federal civil servants will remain limited to rather stringent rules' that keep many of them out of the political mainstream. "The Hatch Act was passed by a nervous Congress in 1939 to prevent President Roosevelt from politicizing federal agencies he had created to fight the Depression. "Under the new campaign act. the only political bars remaining for state and local government workers are those that prevent political arm-twisting or on-the-job financial solicitation, use of official authority to influence nominations or elections, and actual candidacy for elective or partisan political Causey continues.

"The employes now may serve as officers of national, state or local political parties and organize or reorganize political clubs." All of which should be welcome news to Delaware County Republican Chairman Cyrus kchoonmaker of Delhi, and Mrs. Hazel Field of Morris, chairman of the Otsego County Republican Committee. WALTER RICH who is the wife of Lentz's assistant, said that she has been through this many times before and that she enjoys the spectacle of taking a position on what she calls "the American way." Standing by a bonfire that was warming the spectators was a 19-year-old student from Pennsylvania State University whose first name is Dale. He refused to give his last name. He said he is a member of the Ku Klux Klan and that he believes that all blacks should be returned to slavery.

This seemed to be the theme here on this cold hillside where there were two portable toilets. On one of the portable toilets were painted the words "White Woman Only." The only discomfort anyone seemed to undergo at this bomb the Ku Klux Klan has dropped on the countryside was caused by the weather. No one ap By PETE DOBINSKY In the GOP precincts around One-onta. it's akin to heresy for a Republican to admit that Democrats can offer a decent candidate for countywide office. Or it was.

anyway. Of course, in the privacy of the polls, many Republicans obviously step up or down a line, as the case may be. and vote for Democrats. 1 And vice versa. But rare, indeed, is the Republican who proclaims the Democrats fielded a better candidate, and puts his money where his mouth is.

Especially a guy who benefits from Republican patronage. Credit the benchmark in politically-conscious Otsego and Delaware counties to Walter Rich of Franklin, who is the GOP election commissioner in Delaware County. His salary of $4,580 this year will rise to $4,620 in 1975. Rich, it develops, contributed $400 to the unsuccessful campaign of Deane G. Winsor.

52. of Milford. the Democratic choice for county clerk in Otsego County. Something strange here. Winsor.

a member of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, also is chairman of the board of the Coop-erstown Charlotte Valley Railway. Rich is president of the line, which operates between Cooperstown and Cooperstown Junction. His father is George Rich, a GOP member of the Delaware County Board of Supervisors, representing the Town of Franklin. Why. then, would a seemingly solid Republican like Walter Rich come up with $400 to help a Democrat at the polls? Friendship.

"We're close, personal friends." says Rich, adding that he and Winsor were associated in formation of the Railway. Kii Klux WINDHAM CENTER. Pa. The Ku Klux Klan. after 50 years, went public again in the northeast last night and laid an egg.

In 20-dcgree weather, with snow covering a knoll about 40 miles southwest of the Triple Cities, the Klan collected a small band of a dozen persons to burn a cross near a blacktop highway along which sightseers were driving to see what was going on. The Independent Ku Klux Klan a splinter group from the United Klans of America is playing third fiddle to a rape-murder trial and the news of the deaths of two railroad men. This is freight railhead country, and to the local press the trial and the deaths of the railroad men come first. The attempt of the KKK to revive itself in the Triple Cities and northern Pennsylvania appeared to be bombing badly late last night as a half-dozen people from York. arrived here and put records on a turntable in the freezing temperatures so that the and the reporters, who out Klan Konvention Klobbered by Typewriter For Wendy, a victim, of multiple sclerosis, life does not extend far beyond her wheelchair.

Her eyesight is poor, and she cannot write legibly. Her hands are too weak to use a manual typewriter. The Broome County Department of Social Services hoped to find an electric typewriter for the 27-year-old woman to use. Rehabilitation experts at the, MS Society had told the social services department that typing would both be a good exercise for Wendy and a boost to her morale. It would provide a way for her to communicate with the world she had, been separated from nine years ago.

Lend-A-Hand purchased an electric typewriter for Wendy, using $180 of the money contributed by concerned members of the public last year. TV Lifeline For Invalid To it is the "idiot box" or the "boob tube." but to one Bingham-ton woman in her 60s. a television is a vital lifeline with the world around her. Pauline, fully alert but bedridden, was leading a lonely existence at River Mede Manor nursing home. No visitors came to perk up her day.

She was unable to sit up enough to do crafts and lacked even the strength to go to the television room. Early last spring, the home requested a television for Pauline, a request that Lend-A-Hand was able to fill. With $118 of publicly-donated mon-. the Lend-A-Hand Fund purchased a for Pauline. numbered the members of the Klan.

could hear such hymns as "Rock of Ages." Nine miles west of this cold countryside is the Borough of Sayre, Pa. The fact that the Ku Klux Klan was meeting last night at Windham Center in an attempt to give new birth to the bigoted organization did not make much impression, from what a reporter who had been here for more than 24 hours could gather. AT 6 O'CLOCK, up on the hillside east of Sayre. two young men from York put on their white robes and hoods that covered their faces and paraded through the snow for the benefit of reporters and photographers. They refused to give their names.

They and two other young men from York who refused to give reporters their names wrapped pine boughs in be lap and soaked them with gasoline 4..