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YWCA drive falls short; plans cut By ANITA KNOPF The Binghamlon-Broome County YWCA -after (ailing to reach a $15 million goal in fund-raising drive last spring has scrapped plans to demolish the east wing of its building and build a new three-story addition. Instead of building a new wing on Exchange Street in Bingham tun. the agency will remodel the current YWCA building at Exchange and Hawley streets. 1 The agency hopes that the st aled down plans will provide the same modern, versatile recreation and meeting rooms that had been planned for the new addition. However, the jgenry may have to delay renovations to the gymnasium, locker rooms and residences because of a lack of funds.

Carol Her, volunteer chairman of the YWCA building committee, said yesterday. After a five-month fund-raising drive ended in May, the YWCA raised only $803,000 of its $1.5 million The coordinator of the drive. Linda W. Cleveland, yesterday said the YWCA has received additional money since the campaign ended, raising the total to about $880,000. Because it is a Broome County -United Way agency, the YWCA can no longer actively solicit funds, but it is still accepting contributions.

Cleveland said if the YWCA raises at least $950,000. a private foundation has pledged a $50,000 contribution YWCA officials still hope to meet the original $1.5 million goal. However. Hen said $15 million would not be enough to pay for a new addition. She said the agency has learned that the actual cost of demolition and construction is much higher than when the project costs were estimated a year ago.

The east wing, formerly the Georgianna Hotel, is the oldest part of the YWCA building The YWCA bought the old hotel in 1922. and remodeled and expanded it. The east wing has been tested for structural soundness and been found safe for renovation by architects. Herz said the first and second floors will be completely gutted and renovated. She said the YWCA will be able to use the floor plans for the new wing in the renovated structure The YWCA had planned to use the first floor of the new building for the Meals on Wheels program.

Kids Corner, youth and teen groups and arts and crafts. The second and third floors were to be us-d as a women's center, meeting rooms and administrative offices She said the YWCA also hopes to build a second entrance and a veranda on Exchange Street. The agency also plans to clean the exterior of the building. Herz said if cuts are necessary because of a shortage of money, they will be made on what she called cosmetic areas. She said there is enough money to modernize the building to meet city codes and meet the primary iweds of the organization Among the cosmetic improvements she aid may be delayed are the renovation of residences, the pool, kxker and shower rooms and the gymnasium in the west wing of the building The YWCA board of directors will make a final decision on the revised plans in December The renovation work will begin in January TOAY the press sun-bulletin a gannett newspaper binghamton, n.y.

nov. 26, 1977 volume 3-21 4 sections 20 cents U.N. condemns 4 4 VV i Israeli land. nse J- urged the assembly to reject the resolution at a time when the Sadat visit "promises the first real hope for peace in our region." He asked the assembly to "desist at this crucial turning point in history from placing obstacles such as this resolution on the path to peace Let us rather reject fanaticism and hatred and give peace a chance." 4c I 4 7 I UNITED NATIONS (AP) The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution last night condemning Israel's continued occupation of Arab territories ignoring Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog's warning that it would be an obstacle to Middle East peace.

The vote for the resolution, drafted by no-naligned nations, was 102 to 4 with 29 abstentions. The roll call on the resolution wound up a four-day Middle East debate in the assembly. The resolution called for Israeli withdrawal from all Arab territories occupied in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and early reconvening of the Geneva peace conference with participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization to work out a just and lasting peace. It mentioned an Oct. 1 Soviet-American statement calling for a new Geneva conference that would include Palestinian representatives.

It did not mention Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's visit last weekend to Israel. The resolution, cleared with Arab countries bordering Israel, is only a recommendation and has no binding effect on members. The United States. Canada and El Salvador joined Israel in voting against it. Those abstaining were Japan.

Australia. New Zealand. Samoa. Papua-New Guinea. Fiji.

Barbados. Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic. Guatemala. Haiti. Honduras, Nicaragua.

Panama. Paraguay. Uruguay. Austria, Norway. Sweden.

Iceland and the European common market. Britain. France. West Germany. Ireland, Denmark.

Belgium, the Netherlands. Luxembourg and Italy. China. Albania. Iraq.

South Yemen and Swaziland did not participate in the vote. Cambodia was absent, but all other Communist countries, several European countries and the Third World generally voted for the resolution. In the 1976 assembly, a similar resolution was adopted by a vote of 91-11 with 29 abstentions. In debate yesterday preceding the vote. Herzog Israel finds oil in Gulf of Suez TEL AVIV.

Israel (UPI) Israel struck oil yesterday at an offshore well in the occupied Egyptian Gulf of Suez, the national oil company said. It said the well 19 miles southeast of Atur on the Sinai coast was producing 2,500 barrels of light, commercially salable oil a day. Energy Minister Ymitzhak Modai said it is capable of producing more. The National Oil Co. of Israel said the oil was found 5.400 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Suez by crews working for the Neptune Oil which is registered in Panama.

Modai said the company is owned by American interests. It marked the first time Israel struck oil in the territory captured from Egypt in the 1967 Middle East war, although it did take oil from Egypt's Italian-run Abu Rudeis fields north of Atur until they were given back in 1975. The gulf coast of Sinai is a contested area since it is occupied territory that Israel may have to return to Egypt in any future peace agreements. But Modai said Israel would likely get something from the new field if peace with Egypt were concluded. FRANK WOODRUFF PHOTO I i I i.f ouess wno oacKr It's Santa Claus, of course, here to Oakdale Mall, where Eddie Connors, 2, discuss Christmas gift plans with the tots, of 5 JGenesee Binghamton, was Santa set up shop last night at the one 'rs TO 9ei his ear.

Carter, UFO spotter, seeking new probe Oklahoma scores touchdown. Good Morning Oklahoma wins Oklahoma beat Nebraska 38-8 yesterday to win a Big 8 conference championship and a berth in the Orange Bowl against Arkansas, on January 2. 8C Coal strike looms The United Mine Workers yesterday broke off negotiations with the Bitumjnous Coal Operators tion, and UMW president Arnold Miller said a Dec. 6 strike appears "inevitable." Microwave ovens Microwave ovens can't fry or broil too well. But their ability to do many other things and to do them well is making them fast sellers across the nation.

Congress rapped A lobbying group associated with Ralph Nader has rated the members of the 95th congress on their sensitivity to consumer needs. Overall, Congress gets low marks. 4A The excursion They leave for places like New York City, Philadelphia and Buffalo on an early Sunday morning. They are "the boys on the bus," out for a good time and the excitement of a National Football League game. Take a ride with them, along the concrete ribbon of highway that stretches between Binghamton and New York City's Shea Stadium.

It's the Jets vs. the Raiders, a 28-27 thriller that somehow gets lost amidst 552 cans of beer. PLAY-BOOK, 1,2 and 3D What's inside WASHINGTON (AP) The White House, whose chief occupant once spotted a strange glowing blob in the sky. wants NASA to look into reopening the government's probe of unidentified flying objects. But NASA officials aren't eager to do it without some solid evidence such as a "little green man." or at least a piece of metal from a UFO.

"We're not anxious to do it because we're not Sure what we can do," said Dave Williamson. NASA assistant for special "It's my personal opinion that it's not wise to do research on something that is not a measurable phenome "I don't laugh at people any more when they say they have seen UFOs because I've seen one myself," Carter was quoted as saying. Williamson heads a group of experts who will recommend by the end of the year what NASA should do about the request for a UFO inquiry to take up where the Air Force left off 10 years ago when it closed its investigation. Project Blue Book. The Air Force concluded that, without significant findings, continuing the project was unwarranted.

Williamson will make the recommendation to NASA administrator Robert A. Frosch. who then will pass along his own decision to Carter's science adviser. Dr. Frank Press.

Press, in a letter to Frosch. asked that NASA become the government's focal point in a "national revival" of interest in the reports of UFO sightings. Frosch noted setting up a panel would cost a lot of money and suggested his technical staff make a study to see if it is justified. Press said his office had received an upsurge of letters, especially from young people, asking about UFOs. He said his staff is too small to answer all of them and assigned the job to the space agency.

A NASA official said the letters average two or three a day. He speculated Press might have acted because some of them suggest that Carter carry out his promise to investigate UFOs. a piece of metal, flesh or cloth. We don't even have any radio signals." he said. "A photograph ts not a "Give me one little green man not a theory or memory of one and we can have a multimillion dollar program." he said.

"It's a scientific dilemma. How do you prove something that doesn't exist?" A White" House spokesman said he vaguely recalls Carter making a campaign pledge about a UFO probe, but could not pinpoint the time or place. In 1973. when Carter was governor of Georgia, he reported sighting a UFO near Griffin. Ga.

He described the object as "bluish at first, then reddish, then luminous but not solid." i ami Mtih- -v- i i. 4 LjfU non. Spending public money for such research is questionable. "There is no measurable UFO evidence such as Town fetes its hijacker ARIEL. Wash.

LTD The little town of Ariel will hold a party today for D.B. Cooper, but residents have little hope the legendary airline hijacker will show up. Cooper parachuted from an airplane with 10.000 $20 bills somewhere near Ariel on Thanksgiving Eve in 1971. Not one of the bills has turned up and there has been no trace of the man who gave his name as Dan Cooper when he bought the ticket that carried him into legend. The party begins at noon at the Ariel Store and' Tavern and features skyjumpers and David R.

Butterfield's buffalo stew. Festivities in the community 30 miles north of Portland. will continue throughout the day. "Maybe old D.B. will show up this year." said Vince and Germaine Tricola.

host and hostess of the party. "To D.B. Cooper we say, Come out wherever you are and bring your $20 bills with Cooper boarded the Seattle-bound airliner at Portland, threatened the crew with a gun and showed a note demanding four parachutes and $200,000. After the 36 other passengers had left the plane and he had the money and parachutes. Cooper ordered the crew to fly to Reno.

When the plane arrived at Reno. Cooper was gone. 2B 7A 4B 4A 9B-18B 8B 5B 5B 9B 6A 8B IB Section 7B 6B-7B Sections 7A-8A IB 5B 2A Action Line Business Calendar Church Classified Comics Crossword Cryptoquote Deaths Editorials Horoscope Landers Leisure Senior Citizens Society Sports Stocks Thostesort TV Weather AP PHOTO Brushing off dieting snow James Renfro of Milwaukee sweeps snow from the top of his automobile yesterday in the wake of the storm system that has moved across the country and brought to the Binghamton area the conditions being experienced today. Forecasters are pre will continue falling today. 3.

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