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Assembly candidates spell out finances

By KENN PETERS

Assemblyman Hy Miller of DeWitt has

the most money in his campaign treasury
among the eight OnondagctGOunty assemblymen or candidates, bui-AssemWyman
Ronald A. Stott of North,
v, , .
far has spent more money than the others
in his re-election effort;' ,^y*i
The amounts each candidate-has in his;
or her campjugn^war chest.and the
amounts tbcy^ajgC'expended^are'.contained in ,f inahelal disclosure forms they
filed recently with the; State Board of
Elections."
Millerj Republican in the 119th District,
has spent only $1,512.27 so far, but hai a
cash balance of $9,395.18. Miller started
his campaign with $2,614,95 already in the
"Assemblyman Hy Miller Committee,"
and he has had, $8,292.50 in net receipts
since the campaign began. Of that total,
$184.94 is listed "as contributions other
than money.
i,
Miller's Democratic opponent, County
Legislator Elaine Lytel, filed a report

Gilford puts
burn unit
near goal

showing net expenses so far of $2,192.44

and a cash balance in the treasury of
$1,728,66;""" X

Du^ngHhe^campaign Mrs, Lytel

received $1,407\6$, and the "Lytel Assembly'Committee" began the campaign with
a balance-of $2,513^7.
\ Mrs. Lytel's report listed normal campaign expenses, but no contributions.
.Miller listed 23 monetary contributions,
most in the rangej)f,$10fli:"
those over the $i(JO limit include:
Pyramid Companies, $250; Bond,
Schoeneck & King^.b$500; Blitman and
.King, $300; ^Donald"Klein of 5891 Firestone Drive, $250; attorney James Spaulding. $450; Patrick Covino of Fisher Road,
East Syracuse, $200, and William
McGarry of Woodchuck Hill Road, Fayetteville, $150.
Stott, Democrat in the 118th District, is
leading the list of spenders at $4,911.72 to
date. Stott's campaign committee, "A
Lot of People For Ron Stott," collected
net receipts of $6,300 up to the reporting

Ht
combined wilh

period ended Oct. 8, but began the campaign with a balance of $2,588.50. At the
end of the reporting period the committee
had a balance of $3,977.38.
The financial report included contributions of $3,000 each from the New York
State Democratic Legislature Committee
and the Onondaga County Democratic
Committee.
Leonard F. Bersani, Stott's Republican
challenger, began his campaign with a
cash balance of $3,549.04, and picked up
an additional contribution of $300 and a
contribution other than money valued at
$25.
The ''Citizens to Return Bersani to the
New York State Assembly" committee
has spent $2,422.09 so far and had a cash
balance of $1,451.95 at the conclusion of
the reporting period.
Bersani listed a contribution of $300
from Dr. Robert B. Bersani, 407 University Bldg. The candidate listed several
regular campaign expenses.

Assemblyman Melvin N. Zimmer,

Democrat in the 120th District, reported
expenses of $3,446.76 and net receipts of
$4,192.53 for the reporting period.
The "Citizens for Zimmer" committee
began this year's campaign with a balance of $815.14, and completed the reporting period with a balance of $1,388.51.
Zimmer's report listed four $100 contributions and four over $100.
Those over $100 are: Santaro-Tarason
Inc., a trucking firm at 471 E. Manlius
St., East Syracuse, $200; the Greater
Syracuse Trade Council, 309 S. Franklin
St., $250; Charles and Suzanne Beeching,
145 Chatham Road, $150, and Iron Workers Union, Local 60, 617 Wolf St., $150.
Jack Kinsella, Zimmer's Republican
opponent, has expended $4,672.26 so far.
Most of the money, however, was spent in
Kinsella's primary campaign in which he
won the Conservative nomination from
Zimmer.
At the end of three reporting periods
for Kinsella, two during the primary and

* METROPOLITAN
Pages 57-68

THE POST-STANDARD
Sunday, October 17,

1976

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City Desk: Telephone 473-7820

The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corp.

has made a "substantial" grant to Upstate Medical Center for its proposed sixbed burn unit.
Although medical center officials said
they could not release the specific
amount of the grant, they indicated the
donation would "considerably narrow the
gap" in providing funding for the remaining portions of the unit not under consideration for financing by the state.
The hospital was notified of the award
by Francis A. Feil, president of the Gifford Foundation board of trustees.
Total estimates for the burn u n i t
project are $300,000 for construction,
$100,000 for purchasing specialized equipment, and $50,000 for detailed architectural planning. The state supplemental
budget provides for $300,000 of this
Herald-American photo by Dick Blumc
needed funding.
Frank Sinatra vocalizes for 9,000 gathered last night at the War Memorial.
Medical Center President Dr. Richard
P. Schmidt said the Gifford Foundation
grant and the approximately $25,000
raised in drives spearheaded by local firefighters will "bring us much closer to
providing this badly needed resource.
By ANDREW RESCHKE
And that audience certainly seemed the War Memorial in a rented limousine,
"All of us at the medical center
Some may say the years have taken pleased with what they were offered. his entrance on stage was greeted with
sincerely appreciate the generosity of their toll on that mellow voice, but the Most had followed the career of this great
both the Gifford Foundation and those in magic, the aura, that surrounds Frank entertainer since his early days, but there thunderous applause, shrieks and the
the community who have contributed so Sinatra, "Old Blue Eyes," captivated an was a surprising number of younger fans glare of hundreds of flashing camera
lights.
substantially towards our proposed burn audience of 9,000 of his adoring fans at in the large crowd. Sinatra made sure
Opening the concert with "I Sing the
unit," he added.
the War Memorial last night.
there was something in his concert for Songs," his version of the Barry Manjlow
Sinatra and his large entourage, includ- everyone.
Hospital officials have estimated the
hit, the singer, whose career spans nearly
They began filing in to the auditorium 40 years, received long ovations after
cost for personnel and supplies for the ing comedian Pat Henry a fixture with
new unit will be about $734,000 for the a Sinatra performance Sam Mutera 90 minutes before the performance was each selection he sang.
and his combo, and a full orchestra pre- scheduled to begin, and because of the
unit's first full-year of operation.
"Stargazer," "The Lady Is a Tramp,"
Hospital officials will meet with State sented their concert in a unique set-up for slow-moving traffic outside the War "My Funny Valentine," "For Once in My
Memorial, they continued to take their Life," "Sometimes I Feel Like a Sad
Department of Health officials tomorrow the War Memorial, in the "round."
The
sta.'.e
was
erected
in
the
center
of
seats
30 minutes after show time. But the Song," "I Get Along without You Very
in Albany to discuss whether the new unit
must contain a separate operating room. the auditorium, with seats surrounding air was charged with anticipation when Well" and "Send In the Clowns" all were
Hospital officials said this is a luxury not the makeshift proscenium, and still more almost as one, everyone rose to their feet followed by warm responses from the
required by the American Burn Institute seats were arranged on the War Memori- to greet Sinatra on his first appearance in audience. But given special receptions
were two of his greatest hits, "It Was a
and have asked the department to waive al's permanent stage. This allowed for Syracuse.
the maximum number of those in attenArriving just minutes before show Very Good Year" and "My Way."
this requirement.

Sinatra's as great as ever

dance to see their idol close up.

time, and motoring from the airport to

(Concluded on Page 58)

Indian bargainers called frauds

The Oneida Indians seeking restoration

of police and fire protection on the reservation are a "fraud" and are actually the
ones responsible for the deaths of two

Oneidas in a trailer fire last June, the exCity of Oneida fire fighters failed to reNegotiations to restore the services are
ecutive board of the Oneida Nation of spond to a fire call June 25 because of a going on now and reportedly are nearing
New York contended yesterday in standing policy prohibiting their admit- agreement. However, executive board
Syracuse.
tance to the 32-acre territory.
members, who claim they are the official
representatives of the people, say they
have been excluded.
"We are the duly elected representatives," Board Vice President Robert Burr
Jr. said in a press conference at the Huntington Family Center.
The Warrior Society, the group handling the negotiations, he said, is trying to
oust the board, which is elected every two
years to represent all Oneida Indians in
the state. Burr said board members don't
live in the territory and have been denied
access to offices.
City officials want the board excluded
because it was successful in its court suit
to regain sovereignty over the territory,
Burr said. And for that reason other government agencies refuse to deal with the
board.
Burr blasted the Warrior Society for
"harassing" families into leaving the territory and said it was responsible for the
revocation of police and fire protection
initially.
The executive board, said Burr, never
wanted police or fire fighters shut out,
Oneida Indian executive board leaders, from left, Judith yesterday an unauthorized group is speaking for the
but simply wants Oneida city officials to
Square, clerk; Robert Burr Jr., vice president; Ruth Oneida Nation and trying to oust them from power
refrain from interference in internal InBurr, secretary; and Lorna Jones, treasurer, charged They've called another meeting Nov. 7.
dian matters. Under the law, he said, residents of the reservation are entitled to
"equal protection."
The board, Burr said, is asserting its
authority by calling a meeting of all Oneidas Nov. 7 to discuss filing a lawsuit
against the city for denying the Indians of
"their"civil rights" and consider institutThe Metropolitan Development Associ- lion for employment-producing public of Archbold in 1978 because of old age, ing
criminal action against the Warrior
ation has selected the architect-engineer- works projects which can be started in but will also provide a great number of Society
"for its role in denying fire proing team to prepare the preliminary plans spring, 1977. The regulations under this needed jobs.
tection,
which
resulted in the death of two
for the proposed Central New York Stadi- act are expected to require that the counThe
preliminary
plans
are
expected
to
people."
um.
ty's application be filed by Nov. 15. The be finished by Nov. 1, he said.
They are Hueber, Hares, Glavin Asso- Economic Development Administration
If the county receives the federal
ciates; John Stopen of Quinlivan, Pierik of the U.S. Department of Commerce will
and Krause; Robson and Woese, and the act on the application within 60 days, and grant, there will be sufficient revenue
Finch-Heery Joint Venture of Atlanta, construction is expected to begin within from stadium ticket sales, parking and
The Oneida Lake Association has asked
concessions to defray any additional costs Democrat Michael Bragman to stop using
Ga.
90 days after approval.
of financing by the county, Searles said. the association's name in paid political
The selection was made upon the recThe County Legislature's Public Works
commercials.
ommendation of the stadium committee
The proposed stadium will contain
and after consultation with Syracuse Uni- Committee will consider the stadium pro- 50.000
association president,
seats and will be the type of facility saidEarllastPearson,
posal Tuesday. If it is approved, it must
versity and Onondaga County officials.
night
the
association is a nonfor Class One college football and profesThe team will be responsible for pre- also go before the Ways and Means Com- sional exhibition games, he said. The sta- partisan group formed for the betterment
paring plans which can be used by Onon- mittee and then the full legislature.
dium also will be used for high school and of Oneida Lake. Historically, he said, the
daga County in filing an application for
John R. Searles, secretary of the sta- semi-professional sports, concerts and association has not endorsed candidates
for political office and will not endorse
federal financial assistance under the re- dium committee, said the schedule is ex- field days.
candidates in this year's election.
cently signed Federal Public Works and tremely tight, but that the proposed staIf the federal grant is approved, the
A Bragman spokesman called area
Employment Act of 1976.
dium will not only fill a great need in stadium should be ready for occupancy by
newsrooms last night to say the commerThis act provides grants of up to $5 mil- Central New York with the expected loss August 1978, Searles said.

Firms named to plan stadium

Lakers protest

cials wor'd be withdrawn tomorrow.

one for the regular campaign, Kinsella's

"Citizens for Kinsella" committee had a
cash balance of $185.81.
Kinsella's Oct. 8 report didn't contain
any contributions, but the report filed by
his committee Sept. 7 listed contributions
of $150 from J. Patrick Barrett and $500
from John L. Baldwin of 1072 James St.
Zimmer wasn't required to file reports
during the primary campaign because he
was an undesignated candidate for the
Conservative nomination.
In the 121st District, the "Citizens for
Monsour" committee listed net expenses
up to Oct. 8 of $4,139.02 and a cash balance of $3,657.82.
Ronald Monsour, the Democratic candidate in the district, started the campaign with a zero balance, but picked up
$7,796.84 in monetary and in-kind contributions.
Monsour reported 15 contributions of
$100 each and a $125 contribution from
Mr. and Mrs. Terrance Fitzpatrick of 168
Robineau Road.

Monsour, like the other candidates,

doesn't have to itemize contributions on
the financial reports of $50 or less/His
unitemized contributions amounted to
$4,334.
Monsour's Republican opponent, William Bush, has spent $3,454.24 so far; and
all of it, with the exception of $655, was
his own money.

Bush, like Kinsella, campaigned heavily during August and September in a

five-way primary fight for the Republican
nomination.
Bush's report shows he .started the
campaign with a zero balance and finished the reporting period with a zero balance.
;i
In between, he spent $2,799.24, and his
brother, Kenneth L., contributed $655
toward the campaign. The most recent
report showed no financial activity except for a $25 contribution.
AH the candidates in the Nov. 2 election
must file reports again Oct. 26.

'Moonlighting'
ban may cut
hospital care
The level of care at Central New York
mental health facilities will be endangered by a state ruling severely restricting the number of hours top level State
Department of Mental Hygiene employes
can "moonlight," the Syracuse regional
director predicts.
Dr. Judson Albaugh said a State Board
of Public Disclosure decision limiting to
five hours the amount of outside work
employes making $30,000-a-year or more
can involve themselves in, will threaten
care at Hutchings and Binghamton Psychiatric Centers. His office already is
having trouble filling vacancies, he said.
A spokesman for the Board of Public
Disclosure claims, however, that Dr. Albaugh and other Mental Hygiene administrators are "overreacting" to last Thursday's ruling.
Further complicating the matter is a
lawsuit filed by union employes seeking
exemption.
"I'm worried about how we're going to
provide even skeleton medical coverage,"
said Dr. Albaugh, who added he has never
had any outside work since becoming a
state employe. "We hear complaints already that doctors don't see patients often enough. If we lose more people and
we can't recruit, we're in trouble."
This region, he said, is facing a
"marked shortage" of psychiatrists now.
(State psychiatrists' pay ranges from
$27,942 to $38,451.) There are 30 per cent
fewer psychiatrists employed in the region than there were two years ago, Dr.
Albaugh said, and of 15 budgeted psychiatric jobs at Hutchings only nine are filled.
This is because the going rate in private
practice or in other forms of public service is so much higher, he said.
Governmental rulings in the recent
past, coupled with salary freezes and this
new decision, he said, make having a
state job less attractive than private
practice.
"It's a seller's market," he said. This
fact has long been recognized and for this
reason skilled medical people have always been allowed to take on freelance
work, he said.
William Cabin, adminstrative officer of
the disclosure hoard, said the Mental Hygiene arguments are an overreaction to
the decision.
A case by case review will be undertaken to determine those worthy of
exemptions, he said.
About a year ago, said Cabin, Gov.
Hugh Carey issued an executive order

eliminating outside work for high salaried

state employes under the jurisdiction of
the executive branch. The Health Department and Mental Hygiene applied for
blanket exemptions, which were denied
The Health Department then complied,
he said.
However, said Cabin, a group of Mental
Hygiene workers at Roswell Park in Buffalo who are members of the state Civil
Service Employes Association's Professional, Scientific and Technical unit, went
to court and got an injunction halting implementation of the board's ruling.
Therefore, as of today, only about 500
of Mental Hygiene's 1,500 people in the
$30,000-plus bracket are affected.
The disclosure board filed an appeal
and the case is on the November docket
of the State Court of Appeals, according
to Cabin.
Under the recent board ruling, most
workers would be able to use their five
hours in any manner they wanted to
(Concluded on Page 66)

Debris turns
into 'gold'
Fortune arose from misfortune for the
Ba me veld office of Marine Midland Bank
in Oneida County when a motorist decided to dump a pile of debris from the
back of a station wagon onto the office's
front parking lot.
Charles Joy, a courier for Marine Midland, went to the rescue. With shovel and
broom he cleared the unslightly mess.
Later, the woman responsible arrived
at the bank with an apology and a dollar
she wanted to give the man whom she
saw do the clean-up.
Teller Elaine Vert told her it wasn't
necessary but the woman insisted.
Joy didn't want the money, suggesting
it be placed in the office's coffee fund.
Manager Jack Warcup felt this wasn't
right.
A solution was found when someone
suggested that the dollar be used to purchase a New York State lottery ticket.
Joy thought it was a good idea on condition that any winnings be turned over to
the office.
It was the courier's lucky day!
He won $100 in the lottery, and distributed it among the Barneveld office staff
and himself.

Two trials to begin

Shooting, child abuse charges
Trial is scheduled to start in County
Court tomorrow for a Syracuse man
accused in the Feb. 29 shooting deaths of
a man and woman, and for a LaFayette
man charged with punching his 13months-old daughter to death last Feb. 23.
Facing two counts of second degree
murder, three counts of fourth degree
weapon possession, and one count of second degree possession of gambling records is Sammie Lewis, 21, of 2003 E
Fayette St.
Lewis has been held in custody since
his arrest March 1 for the fatal shooting
of Duane Eure, 22, of 1733 E. Genesee St.,
and Beverly Gunn, 21, at her 1123 S.
Townsend St. home.
He has pleaded innocent to the charges.
A county grand jury indictment accuses Lewis of shooting Eure once in the
chest and twice in the back with a .22 caliber handgun, and shooting Miss Gunn
once in the back and once in the neck.
Sources said Lewis and Miss Gunn had
broken off a relationship last November,
and Miss Gunn had been dating Eure
since December. Prosecutors declined to
give a motive for the 6:30 p.m. shootings.
Both victims were employes of the
Syracuse Housing Authority.
Lewis is the father of Miss Gunn's 3year-old daughter, who was asleep in a
rear bedroom at the time of the shootings, prosecutors said. She was placed in
v
:aw<
the ca*
of her maternal grandparents.

Police arrested Lewis at his home on a

traffic warrant several hours after the
shootings, and later charged him with the
killings. The gambling charge arose after
booking officers reported finding a paper
reflecting 14 lottery bets in his possession.
Asst. Dist. Atty. Michael C. Cogswell is
prosecuting, and attorneys John Vita and
Earl Boyle are defending Lewis, in the
case before Judge Patrick Cunningham.
In the other case. Douglas Paul Eaton,
23, of Apulia Road, is facing a second degree manslaughter charge in the beating
death of Renee Marie Eaton.
The defendant, who has denied the
charge, has been held in lieu of $5,000 bail
since his arrest.
Eaton reportedly told police his daughter was playing at the top of a flight of
stairs at her grandmother's house in Tully, and fell. Believing Renee was not seriously injured, Eaton told police, he put
the child and his three-year-old son in the
family car and drove to Cortland to collect his unemployment check. Rescuers
later failed to revive the child.
The medical examiner's office concluded the child died of the "battered
child syndrome," after she was punched
in the face and body, investigators said.
In the case before County Judge William J. Burke, Asst. Dist. Atty. Norman
Mordue is prosecuting and attorneys Michael Harris and Robert Dehore are defcndiF/aton.