Monday, Jan. 12, 1970 Olean Times Herald

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OLEAN, N. Y.STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF CATTARAUGUS SS:" CITY OF OCEAN COMMON COUNCIL CHAMBERS

The Regular Annual Meeting of the Common Council of the City of Olean was held Friday evening, January Z 1970. at 7:30 p.m.

Alderman Greene presided as Past President of the Common Council. He thanked everyone in the audience for attending the meeting and invited them to continue to attend Council meetings.

The opening prayer was given by The Reverend Nicholas Salios of the First Baptist Church, and followed by the salute to the flag.

Acting until the election of his successor, President Greene certified that the Common Council of the City of Olean, setting as a Board of Can­vassers of Elections on November 5,1969, pursuant to Article 2 of the Charter, did duly meet and form the certifica tes of the Inspectors of Election of the several election districts of the City of Olean, filed with the City Clerk as provided by law, the Board of Canvassers did duly canvass the votes each for all city officials voted at the general election in November, 1969, and declared that the following persons received the highest number of votes for each office of Alderman in the respective Wards:

Ward 1 — E. Neal Teachman Ward 2 — Harold Greene Ward 3 — Kenneth W. Crawforth Ward 4 — Clyde S. Campbell Ward 5 — John J. Ash, Jr.Ward 6 — Herbert E. Crandall Ward 7 — Ted Hoffman Ward 8 — Stanley K. Volz Ward 9 — Paul Pavlock Ward 10 — Al Hinz Ward 11 — Harry Smith

and he certified further that the Common Council acting as a Board of Canvassers did duly canvass the votes cast at the general election in November, 1969 for the office of Mayor of the City of Olean, and Pursuant to charter, he certified that William O. Smith was duly elected to serve as Mayor for *he City of Otear. for the term of office commencing January 1, 1970 and ending December 31, 1971. Pursuant to Charterrequirement, it was the duty of the Mayor of the City to preside at meetings of the Common Council. Before yielding the chair to Mayor Smith, Alderman Greene thanked the past Council for electing him last year _ and for their cooperation during the’ year, and because he had advised this Council that he would not be available for reelection, he wished his successor good fortune.

Judge J. Richmond Page stepped forward and administered the oath of office to Mayor William Smith. Judge Page then administered the oath of office to the aldermen.

Mayor William Smith now presided over the meeting He first introduced his fam ily who was sitting in the audience.

The Mayor asked the City Clerk to call the roll. '

PRESENT: Mayor w illiam Smith; Aldermen Teachman, Greene, Crawforth, Campbell, Ash, Crandall, Hoffman, Volz, Pavlock, Hinz, and Harry Smith.

ABSENT: None.The Mayor announced that now was

the time and place for nominations and election of a Council president for1970, and that he would entertain motions from the floor.

A lderman Greene nominated A lderm an Campbell as senior member of the Council for Council President. This was seconded by A derman Ash

Alderman Hinz nominated Alder­man Hoffman for Council President. This was seconded by Harry Smith.

By Alderman Crawforth — Motion that nominations be closed. Carried.

The City Clerk called the roll for A lderm an Campbell fo r Council President.Voting aye — Aldermen Ash, Camp­bell, Crandall, Crawforth, Greene, Pavlock and Teachman.Voting nay — Aldermen Hinz, Hoff­man, Harry Smith, and Volz.241 to 203.

The City Clerk called the roll for A lderm an Hoffman for Council President.Voting aye - Aldermen Hinz, Hoff­man, Harry Smith, and Volz.Voting nay — Aldermen Ash, Camp­bell, Crandall, Crawforth, Greene, Pavlock and Teachman.203 to 241.

The Mayor announced that Alderman Campbell had been elected, and he asked Aldermen Pavlock and Greene to escort President Campbell to the chair. President Campbell thanked the aide-^nen ‘or placing him at the head of the Council, and promised to endeavor to lead the Council in supporhng all the Mayor's projects. He also praised past President Greene for the outstanding job he did. He expressed best wishes to the new Mayor and then called on him for his annual message.

CITY OF OLEAN W ILLIAM O. SMITH, MAYOR

ANNUAL MESSAGE January 2,1970

Gentlemen of the Common Council, Members of the City Family, distinguished guests here with us tonight, and fellow Citizens of the City of Olean. If is not my intention tonight to speak to you at length about the past record of Olean, nor do I intend to outline a lengthy program of promises.

If you w ill think back for a moment to my campaign for this office, I said at that time that l would make no campaign promises except to say that l would do my very best in the interest of all the people of Olean. I sincerely hope to do just that, and would like to take a minute to expand that thought.

I promise that the office of Mayor, at all times, w ill keep the represer tatives of the City's main segments; industry. Business, Education and Citizens informed as to the thinking and planning of the City Government.I would also promise to maintain a well-informed Common Council, so that actions by this group could be accomplished only after thorough consideration and thought. I can also promise that the Office of Mayor will offer support and backing to all Department Heads within the City Family.

Before going any further, I would like to make it clear that l hold a great deal of respect for the Office of Mayor.It is a position which should not and cannot be taken lightly, and a position which l w ill treat with all the dignity, trust, dedication and sincerity of purpose that is due this most im­portant office.

The success of any city is based upon cooperation of the people, who« not only govern the community, but the complete cooperahon, trust and support of all the people living within and near its boundaries. It is with this thought in mind that I made my previous statement about assuring all concerned groups within the City as being well-inform ed about the thinking of the City Government. I will do my utmost to restore a spirit of fr ie n d ly cooperation between all groups who have anything at all to do with the general welfare of our fine c ity . "Cooperation must be our keynote."

In line with that desire, I have in­vited representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, the School Board, Merchants, Business Men, County Legislators and Industrial Leaders to join with us at this reorganization! meeting of the Council. It is my plan to invite these same people to a series of informal meetings in the near future; meetings at vrtiich we may all sit down and discuss our mutual problems and hopefully, find the right answers.

We are now beginning a new decade — the decade of the 70's and what this new era holds in store for Olean, no one can predict at this time. Our City has problems facing us in the new era,1 think we all realize that, but these problems can be solved if we all strive together, keeping the thought of cooperation foremost in our minds.

I mentioned some of these problems dur ing my campaign, such as the need for a qualified Water Superintendent, City Auditor, Landfill, along with the problem of our Urban Renewal program. Briefly, allow me to bring you up to date on our status as it af­fect% these four areas.

As outgoing chairman of the Water

and Sanitation Committee, I can report that several prospective candidates for the post of W ater Superintendent were interviewed in Olean, and that other interested ap­plicants are now being scheduled for interviews this month. I am confident that the new Water and Sanitation Committee will continue to search for a qualified man to fill this vital position. The Mayor's Office w ill lend its complete support to the Committee and i am confident that success will be forthcoming.

As for The post of City Auditor, a Civil Service examination was held late in November, with nine ap­plicants taking the test. I have been in contact with the Civil Service people in Albany and they have assured me that results of that test will be forth­coming this month. At that tim e the list of qualified personnel will be reviewed with the Cqbncil and the best qualified man w ill/be recommended for appointment./! shall recommend to the Council m at we expand the duties of the Auditor to include those of Budget Director and head of a Purchasing Department which I will recommend being established.

As for the problem of our landfill, I am happy to be able to report that steps have already been taken which, hopefully, will lead to a solution. Since my campaign I have discussed with M ayor Bill Dascomb of Allegany, and the County Planning Director, Roy Campbell, along w ith several members of the Board of Legislators, the landfill problem common to us and our neighbors. Our discussions have been held in a spirit of cooperation, and future meetings will be arranged at which we hope to find a mutual solution to this immediate area's landfill problems. I firm ly believe that this type of friendly relationship and cooperation between the City of Olean and its neighbors is the best way to reach our goals of a better community for all of us living and working in and around Olean.

The fourth vital problem. Urban Renewal, needs our immediate a t­tention and ac*io«. -h e seriousness of the renewal situation should be known to everyone in our community. It is rot something that must be kept a secret. On reviewing the financial statement of the present Olean Urban Renewal Agency, as of December 31,1969, there appears to be less than 58,000.00 left from the GNRP Federal advance of three years ago. As a City we are now at a point of making a vital decision. At the wishes of the Common Council, I will contact the responsible Urban Renewal agencies to see if additional Federal planning funds are available to us to continue this very important program, or likewise at the desire of the Council, I will look into the possibility of the City underwriting a Department of Development of its own.

As your Mayor, I automatically assume the position as responsible head of the Urban Renewal Agency in Olean, and in the near future, I will present a complete financial break­down of this program encompassing the past three years.

You, the people of Olean, have shown your trust in the members of the Council now seated before me. You know who they are, but I should like to introduce them to you, and to point out that they are available to assist you in any way they can. Your Council is composed of Alderman Harry Smith, Alderman Alvah Hinz, Alderman Paul Pavlock, Alderman Stanley Volz, Alderman Ted Hoffman, Alderman Herbert Crandall, Alder man John Ash, Alderman Clyde Campbell. Alperman Ken Crawforth, Alderm an Harold Greene and Aiderman Neal Teachman. I am proud to serve with these dedicated and sincere gentlemen. This is your Common Council, people of Olean; you have placed these gentlemen in office. M ay l ask once again that they have your cooperation, your trust and your patience; that they may work for the betterment of Olean.

Believing that no government can operate efficiently without faith in its personnel, I will make some ap­pointments tonight which I hope will be accepted. I fee! that the people I am about to appoint are the most capable in their respective posts; dedicated members of the City Family, whose main interest as is mine, a finer Olean for all of us.

Thank you for being so attentive and may I ask once more before dosing my first annual message, to think of my comments on cooperation. I firm ly believe this is the route to success, and if we all strive for mutual un­derstanding, Olean will surely suc­ceed in the new era of the 70's.

In closing, I sincerely wish you a healthy, happy, and prosperous New Year.BY ALDERMAN G R EEN E, seconded by Aiderman Crawforth — Motion that the Mayor's message be accepted and placed on file.Carried, 444 votes.

Mayor Smith called on the Council for any discussion on their rules for1970.BY A LD E R M A N C A M P B E L L , seconded by Alderman Harry Smith — Motion that the Common Council rules for 1969 be adopted for 1970. Carried, 444 votes.

M ayor Smith asked Council President Campbell if he was ready to announce the Council committees for 1970. President Campbell replied that he would defer this until the next regular Council meeting.BY ALDERMAN CAMPBELL,

Motion to convene into regular session.Carried, 444 votes.TO THE COMMON COUNCIL:

I hereby nominate and appoint William J. O'Reilly, 117 South Third Street, as Attorney for the City of Olean at the prevailing rate of salary, effective immediately.Carried, 444 votes.

W 1LLIAM O. SM ITH Mayor

TO THE COMMON COUNCIL: l hereby nominate and appoint

Thomas R. Olson, 1015 North Union Street, as City Clerk-Treasurer of the City of Olean, at the prevailing rate of salary, effective immediately.On Roll Call, carried 444 votes.

W ILLI A M O . SM ITH Mayor

TO THE COMMON COUNCIL:I hereby nominate and appoint

Thomas R. Olson, 1015 North Union Street, as Registratof Vital Statistics, to serve without compensation, ef fective immediately.On Roll-Call, carried, 444 votes.

W ILLI AM O. SM ITH M ayor

TO THE COMMON COUNCIL:I hereby nominate and appoint

Bernard Kenney, 214 South 9th Street, as Deputy City Clerk of the City of Olean, at the prevailing rate of salary, effective immediately.On Roll Call, carried, 444 votes.

W IL L IA M O . SM ITH Mayor

TO TH E COMMON COUNCIL:I. hereby nominate and appoint

Harold E. Lundberg, 757 BishopStreet, as Commissioner of Assessments and Taxation of the City of Olean, at the prevailing rate of salary, effective immediately.On Roll-Call, carried, 444 votes.

W lL L IA M O . SM ITH Mayor

M ayor Smith commented that the positions of Police Chief and Fire Chief had been placed under Civil Service by the prior Council so it was not necessary for such appointments this evening. He then introduced Chief Luty and Chief Page as dedicated employes of the City.TO THE COMMON COUNCIL:

I hereby nominate and apooint Joseph Connelly, 11Q2Vj North Union Street, as Patrolman, permanent, for the City of Olean Police Department, at the prevailing rate of salary, e f­fective January 12, 1970.On Roll Call, carried, 444 votes.

W IL L IA M O . SM ITH -Mayor

Mayor Smith introduced Joseph Connelly who was sifting in the audience as the son of Captain Francis Connelly, an honored and respected police officer for over 28 years.BY A LD E R M A N H O F F M A N , seconded by Alderman Smith

Motion to adjourn.Carried, 444 votes.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — If, among us, there still are those who believe that $4.7 billion is a considerable sum, then this is a considerable story. These billions are the team sters’ price for peace on the highways this Spring — the “ ra is e ” the truckers must pay if they want their wheels to turn on the nation’s highways and inner city streets.

So the news . , is not in the

letter Jimmy Hoffa has sent President Nix- on, via the Jus-

j tice Dept., ask- \ ing for a par- jdon. Nor in the

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- T e a m s t e r s president has sent all along P e n nsylvania

Ave. from the Hill to the White House. Nor in the rum ors that he w ill “ sing” about the un­derworld. He can’t. He’s too close to some men, such as the Cosa N ostra’s John Dio, to talk and walk freely.

The news is in the fantastic price placed on peace in the transportation industry — and in the fact that the tru ck ers association just won’t pay it.

Truth is that both sides — and the White House — are locked in because Jimmy Hoffa is locked in prison. During past negotiations over what is called the National M aster F reig h t over-the-road and city cartage agreement, covering 450,000 drivers, expiring m idnight M arch 31, G eneral President Hoffa would come in roaring, raving, running wildly through hotel corridors. But he could come in with demands close to the m ark which the truckers could toe.

But the old iron hand is making m attresses now — and will continue to, in the Lewisburg, Pa., Federal Penitentiary. That iron hand picked his former batm an, General Vice President F ra n k Fitzsim m ons, as c a re ta k e r for the enforced duration. But Mr. Fitzsimmons has grown fond of the lush, huge picture-windowed office of the presidency in the Team sters Brotherhood marble palace. He has grown with the times from a provincial to a cosmopolite — a gourmet and golfer of note. And twice in the past six months he has let it be known that he is a v ailab le for the presidency when it comes up at the July 4, 1971 quadrennial convention in Las Vegas.

VIRTUALLY ALL insiders had expected Jimmy Hoffa to run for reelection, in ab sen tia , if necessary. Now he has been told off by “Fitz” of all people.

This is tantamount to Vice P resid e n t Agnew announcing publicly he will have to consider permitting Richard Nixon to run with him again.

General Vice President Fitz­simmons has developed stature as well as taste. He has the finest of speech writers. He now talks of the ravages of war, the need of the hungry, evils of a social system he had hardly decried, or

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Lindsay Worries GOP HierarchyBy EMMET N. O’BRIEN

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Lindsay is giving Gov. Rockefel­ler and other top Republicans catfits. They don’t know if he will be running for Governor in November. ‘

The odds are against the mayor breaking with his party — Republican — and taking on the entire Republican establish­ment as an “ independent” with Democratic backing.

But the fears are strong in the Nixon wing of the party in the state, and they are worrying the Rockefeller elements. They are justified only on basis of politi­cal speculation.

Mayor Lindsay has made sev­eral key appointments recently that have political eyebrows meeting hairlines. When Presi­dent Nixon dumped U.S. Attor­ney Robert Morgenthau, a Dem­ocrat, ( a 1962 Rockefeller vic­tim in the bid for Governor), Lindsay hired him as deputy mayor at a fancy salary.

He also picked up Assembly-

man Benjamin Altman, D.- Bronx, for the housing and rent agency in the city, a post he will take Feb. 1. Altman is a re­form Demcrat.

Richard Auriello, the very sharp public relations man and campaign director, who ran the Lindsay campaign for mayor, has joined his staff as a de­puty mayor. He handled U.S. Senator Jacob K. Javits in his overwhelming re-election two years ago.

Actually, the mayor has picked up men competent to do their jobs. But their political background adds up the specu­lation he seeks higher office, such as governor.

The weird primary and elec­tion campaign last year add to the speculation. Lindsay, who should have won, lost to State Sen. John Marchi in the Repub­lican primary. Then he went on to win the election on the Lib­eral Party line and with an in­dependent label. He had the support of many key Manhattan Republicans and U.S. Sen.

Charles Goodelb Republican, who has to run in November.

Lindsay will be torn by con­flicts with his Republican back­ers and his Liberal Party sup­porters if he should run in them .

But should he decide to run for Governor, it will be a very interesting campaign. In the meantime, he has the Republi­can top command worried.

It’s back — the Legislature has returned. Both sides of the aisle proclaimed that it re­turned for the 1970 session bet­

ter informed on issues than any previous Legislature. This is be­cause of the between session work done by both houses.

The best test will depend on what they produce. They will start to work this week grinding out the tails.

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well noted, two years ago. Somehow, though no one believed it at the beginning, the day Jimmy Hoffa went to prison, March 7, 1967, “Fitz” has grown into Mr. Fitzsim m ons and assumed the stature of one who actually leads the world’s biggest union. It’s membership now is at 2,041,000.

BUT NOW Mr. Fitzsimmons is upon his first major crisis — the first of five major contracts affecting 1.5 million of his people. He and his aides are bargaining in hidden hotel rooms all over town. To make the presidency in 1971, he must make good now in the first months of 1970.

Unlike the little iron man, Hoffa, Mr. Fitzsimmons does not have the image, the power nor the hold over the rank and file needed to keep them in line. They’re young, many of them. They’re new to unionism. They’re significantly reflective of union rank and file everywhere. They were asked for recommendations — and they sent in more than 2,500 pages of them which were screened on Dec. 8. I t would be easier to get enough moon rock for individual tie clasps for each than to get what they ask.

THEY WANT at least $l-an- hour cash increase each year during the three-year contract. This makes it a $120 per-week- per-man raise. They want at least $2 an hour each in fringe benefits. Thus the total for the freight haulers division comes to $4.7 billion — at least. No com­puter can predict what fringes actually will cost — but it’s at least a 100 per cent raise.

With four other divisions of the Teamsters upcoming, this first contract will cut the pattern not only for the rest of the union but for the nation as well. Billions on billions of dollars are involved.

T R U C K I N G c o m p a n y executives are saying that “Fitz is reaching for the moon — and we’re not about to heat up his p a d .” Truckers, like heavy construction contractors, mostly are tough self-made men. They slugged it out with Jimmy Hoffa three years ago. They’re ready to take on “Fitz” now.

The team sters say no wheel will turn if they don’t get the $5- an-hour hike. Last time the truckers locked them out. This time the stoppage will be a m utual sm ashing of the bargaining table.

There’s never been a national over-the-road and city cartage strike. If there is one the nation will go into limbo for its duration. Without long freight hauls there will be no deliveries to the freight terminals and exchange depots. Without allied intracity trucking, who will move food, fuel, and the supplies for merchants and all commerce and industry.

THE HOT stove would be tossed to the White House.

There the belief is that $4.7 billion in raises still is a lot of money especially in these still inflated times.

And what the teamsters get, everybody will want. This neo­class struggle is on.

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