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B-2 Syracuse Herald-Journal, Thursday, December 29, 1933 METRO

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Car hitsbus at intersection-, 4 injuredB.v Jeff Stag;*S t a f f Writer

A man who police say tried to b ea t a re;llight crashed his r.ar brondside into an Onondaga Coach Lines bus carrying 47 pec- :pie Thursday morning in the town of Onon-dagaThe driver of the car suffered minor in-juries and was ticketed tor three violations inthe accident just a f te r 8 a.m., police said.Three unidentified bus riders a lso s u f f e r e dminor injuries, police said.The accident occurred at the intersectionof Onondaga Boulevard and Fay Road, po-lice said.The car was extensively damaged; the bushad minor damage, police said. A secondOnondaga Coach Lines bus was sent to pickup the riders from the first bus, police said.Thedriver of thecar, William J. Sakran,23,of 5017 Onondaga Road, Syracuse, wastaken to Community-General Hospit al fortreatment of head cuts.Sakran was ticketed on charges of passinga red light, failure to slow down at an inter-section and having an uninspected vehicle,sheriff's Deputy L.R. Hurwitz said.The bus driver, Arthur Thibault, 56, ofGeddes, was uninjured, but three unidenti-fied passengers were taken to CommunityHospital for treatment of minor injuries, Hur-witz said.The bus was headed north on Fay Roadwhen it was hit by hecar, police said. Sakranwas headed east on Onondaga Boulevard.Cictro Icy road conditions were blamed as hecause of many area minor auto accidentsWednesday, including a multiple vehiclecrash on Interstate 81 which involved at leasteight cars.No one was reported seriously injured inthe mishap.Four cars had tb be towed from the acci-dent on 1-81 North, about a mile north of theTaft Road exit, sheriff's deputies said.All the cars involved were heading northover an ice-covered bridge when they wentout of control and smashed into each otherandthe guardrail, police said.Several other cars might have been in-volved in the accident but left the scene be-fore police arrived, police said.In another crash, one man was taken to ahospital for treatment of a neck injury follow-ing a head-on crash at around 10:40 p.m. onSouth Bay Road near PineGrove Road.Raymond L. Stevens,-20, of 8610 HenryClay Boulevard was driving a car with fourother passengers headed south on SouthBay Road, police said.Richard N. Dreher, 37, of CobblestoneDrive, Clay, was the lone occupant of a carheaded north.

When Stevens tried to move around a dis-abled car parked on the shoulder, the twocollided because of the ice-covered road,police said.Mark Rodgers, a passenger n the Stevenscar, was taken to Sta te University Hospitaiwith a neck injury, police said.Sheriff's deputy D.A. Richards said the dis-abled car was as far off the road as possibleand had its flas hers on.No tickets were issued.DeWitt

A DeWitt businessman whopolice say setoff an alarm on purpose earlier this month tose e how quickly help would respond hasbeen arrested by sheriff's detectives.Thomas J. Sawyer, 25, owner of SawyerIndustries, 4001 NewCourt Ave. , DeWitt wasarrested on a warrant early Tuesday morningat his home at 609 Church St., Cicero.He was issued an appearance ticket forDeWit t court Jan. 3 after being charged withfalsely reporting an incident.Sawyer is accused of falsely setting analarm at his business on Dec. 14 around10:15 p.m.Sheriff' s deputy Y.E. Bailey gave the ol-lowing report:Bailey was sentto Sawyer Industries on aburglary alarm and she arrived within threeminutes. Afte r checking thearea and findingnothing suspicous outside, she saw a mantalking on the phone in anoffice.Bailey and Sawyer met at the door.When

Bailey identified herself and said she wasthere on an alarm, Sw ay er said "I know, Iknow ... I wanted to see if you were on the

ball. Where w e r e you when they stole myChristmas tree?", police said.S a w y e r then complained oJ beingharassed by s t a t e and DeWit t police and thesher i f f 's department. Bailey said.When Bailey explained that police agen-cies checked buildings regularly for s a f e typurposes, Sawyer kept complaining, policesaid.Bailey was later told by two employees of asecurity company that Sawyer intentionallyse t the alarm.On Wednesday, S a w y e r declined com-m e n t on the incident, arrest or his com-plaints. Fabius A Fabius man escaped uninjured whenhis car went out of control on an ice-coveredroad, went of f the road and overturned ontoits side Wednesday night.Thomas R. Woodford, 49, of Bailey Road,walked away from the 8 p.m.accident onR o ute 80, just east of Apulia Road, policesaid.Wo o d fo rd was headed west when his carhit ice, w en t oft the right side andoverturned,police said. Although his car had heavydam-age, he was unhurt, police said.Syracuse A South Side teen-ager said ho waswait ing for a bus on a street corner whenthree youths robbed him Wednesday after-noon.

RonaldJ. Hagenbach, 16. of Midland Ave-nue said he was standing on the corner ofColivin Street and MidlandAve.at 2:10 p.m.when three teen-agers approached him. Oneof the three threatened Hagenbach with aknife and took his Sanyo walkman radiohwhile another grabbed $1.50 from him, po-lice said.

Hagenbach wasuninjured, police said.

Intruder makes tracks straight^ fo r Bridgeport kitchenPaul Wclenc of Bridgeport had anunexpected visitor Wednesday.The intruder came through hi."

sliding glass door and knocked intosome of his furniture. When it wasall over, Welenc had a snowmobilein his kitchen and an injured rideroutside.No one was ut home at the Wel-lenc residence at 7863 Rinaldo Bou-levard in th e morning when thesnowmobile hit the house, policesaid. The runaway snowmobile.smashed through the glass door.

slid iuio the kitchen and hit somef u r n i t u r e before stopping against awall.

Members of the Onondaga CountySheriff's Department's snowmobileunit gave the following roport of theincident:

Lawrence Spencpr. 20, of 7894MacArthur Boulevard, Bridgeportwas riding his snowmobile near theWelenc home at around 10:30 a.m.when he hit a bump in the snow.Spencer was thrown from thesnow-mobile and got a bump on his head.

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Blizzard-like conditionsin northern counties

Winter's onslaught continued today acrossmuch of the state; as .several Northern Countrycounties were hit this morning by heavy snowand high winds that produced blizzard-like con-ditions, according to police officials.

A spokesman for the Jefferson County Sher-i f f ' s Department said it was snowing very heav-ily in Watcrtown and surrounding areas.Watertown-bascd state police said snowbegan f a l l i n g heavily about 7:20 a.m.

Reagan w on'trun,Hanley saysHANLEYContinued from Page Bl

Hanley said he bases what he calls the "Han-ley theory" of the president's impending Jan-uary 29 decision on Reagan's age and the pressures and co mplexities of the presidency inth e 1980s.

"I'm probably one of eight or ni ne people in allthe U.S. who still thinks there's a very strongpossibility Fionnld Reagan won't be the candi-date. I base it on common sense and logic," hesaid.

The president will bo 73 in February, andamong the thoughts that have to be swirlingaround in his head are the continual jolts he hassustained, Hanley said.Even when the president seeks relaxation, asduring his trip to Augusta National Golf Club, hereceives the jolt of a potential assailant bargingonto the course with a gun, the former con-gressman said.Hanley said he believes Reagan will balanceal l this against the fact that a two-term presi-dent gains no more honor than a one-term presi-dent, and step aside. Hanley long has favored aconstitutional amendment that would limit pres-idents to one six-year term in office.Today's press conference was at the GreaterSyracuse Labor Council, 301 Pulaski St. Mazursaid, "we are backing a candidate we fee!willput this country back to a more humanitarianposture it w i l l not have a heartless president.That's where we arc right now, and that has tochange."

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The committee's recommendation, now in thehands of County Executive John H. Mulroy andunion leaders, calls for continuation of the cur-rent 26 pay period ayslem, "with accrual."Such a system would have workers paid for2G O work days a year, the same as now,withfunds appropriated to cover any extra days inthe first paycheck of the following year.

Mulroy could not be reached for comment thismorning, but it is known that some of his ad-visers are not satisfied with the recommendedsolution, because it would not eliminate "calen-dar creep" and might create budgeting and ac-counting problems.

Smith stressed that the county has alwayspaid its workers the f u l l amount of pay requiredin their contracts. The dispute has been overwhen and how th e money would be paid, notover the amount owed, ho said.

Unless a change is made in the payment sys-tem, the county w i l l face the same situation atth e en d of 1084.Next venr, workers would get their 26thchock mi Doc. 1 * 1 . The next "every two weeks"chock would f a l l duo on Fr ida y, Doc. 28. hut ihocounty presumably would date it Tuesday. Jan.1. Workers couldn ' t cash their checks u n t i lMonday, Doc. 31 three days a f t e r receiving it even under Iho next day's business routine.