MASSENA DELEGATION. Among those from Massena who attended thedinner honoring Cpl. Martin Relyea, who retired after 41 years of service,were Richard Relyea, son of Trooper Relyea and who is stationed in Mas-sena; Village Police Officer Joseph Greco, BCI Officer Wallace Story, Troop-

er Relyea, Trooper Gerald A. Matteo, Trooper Richard J. Babcock, Troop-er1 James Bauchard, Trooper Keith Bain, Trooper Earl Bleser, Trooper B.E. Ruckle, Trooper G. A. Hooper and David Donaldson.

Cpl. Relyea

Honored by

State Police

PRESENTATION. Sgt. Theodore Deluca,Carthage, vir-Rprpsiripnt of thp New YorkState Police Benevolent Association, pre-sents Cpl, Martin, Relyea, with a gift on be-

half of more than 200 persons who attendeda dinner in the corporal's honor. VernerIngram, Potsdam, former assemblyman, wasone of the speakers.

Corporal Martin D. Relyeahas retired from the New YorkState Police after serving 4years.

. And in those 41 years, Cpl.Relyea made many friends instate police work as was evi-denced by the 185 persons whoturned out at the Canton Clubto honor him last Thursdaynigh.t.

Verner Ingram, Potsdamformer assemblyman for St,Lawrence County, was one othe speakers at the dinner. In-

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TOP MEN. Capt. Norman Ward, Troop B,Malone, and Major Gus Robson, Troop C,were among, those who attended the dinner

honoring Cpl. Martin Relyea, who retiredafter 41 years service as a state policeman.

gram said that Cpl. Relyea entered state police work Julyi 1.1926, was made corporal Aug.1, 1929. He retired Dec. 7, 1966.

A native of Wateryliet, hegraduated from high school,attended New York State PoliceSchool in 1927 and NCO Schoolin 1963.

jCpl. Relyea has been sta-tioned at Clayton, Tupper Lake,Ogdensburg, Herrings, St. Re-gis, Waddington, Massena, andCanton, Zone 3 headquarters.

Former Assemblyman In-gram said that Cpl. Relyea wasone of the first state policemen"to be involved in' the ~lise: ofscale unit. He was a trafficsafety expert with the NYS po-lice. He gave many talks1 onautomobile safety.

Cpl. Relyea was widowed twoyears; ago. He has a son, Rich-ard Relyea, who is stationedwith the state police •- at theMassena station, r He has adaughter, Mrs. Martha Cutler,

The dinner was given by thePolice"~BenevoIenT Associationof the New York State PoliceTfckets'_for_the_ dinner wereavailable^ from __Htr~Zdiffefentstate police stations.

Sgt. Ernest Griebsch, Zone 3Canton, served as ticket chair-man of the testimonial.

Major Gus. Robson, commander of Troop C with head-quarters at Sidney, and formerIy of Troop B headquarters atSidney, and formerly of TroopB; Capt.- Norman. Ward, Ma-lone;- Gapf—Wells- Steckel:wereamong those who praised CplRelyea.

The invocation' was given bythe Rev. James T. CummingsPotsdam; Edson J. Martin wastoastmaster. Benediction wasdelivered by the Rt. Rev. Msgr.Joseph Luker, Lowville.

Sgt. Ted DeLuca, vicepresi=dent of the New York StatePolice Benevolent Associationand Troop B delegate to thestate organization, made a pre-sentation on behalf of thegroup.

Among the guestsjwere Sher-iff Ceylon Allen; Leo P. Le-Beau, Ogdensburg Police Chief;Former Assemblyman Orin Wil-cox, Jefferson County; DistrictAttorney_WiIIiam_Power ;LBlighDodds, Gouverneur..

RETIRES. Cpl. Martin Relyea retired af-ter 41 years service in Troop B, New YorkState Police. Sgt. Lyle Brown, in charge ofthe Alexandria Bay station, and Nick J.

Podgurski, assistant editor of The MassenaObserver, are shown with Cpl. Relyea at adinner held in Canton honoring the veterantrooper. . •

Happy Birthday -Many More,Barbershop per s of America!Seaway Group 8 Years Old

Seaway Barbcrshoppers thiswork join some 30,000 nlherharmonizrrs throughout theU.S. and Canada to celebrate"Harmony Week". It's the 29thAnniversary of the founding inTulsa, Oklahoma of The Socie-ty for the Preservation and En-couragement of Barber ShopQuartet Singing in America.

The local group has been or-ganized for eight years andnow numbers 25 men. Theymeet every Monday at MassenaCentral School. Any men in-terested in singing, please con-tact Wilbur Gronberg, 11 Clark-

son Ave., Massena, dial 769-9250.

Mayor of Massena, G. Laur-ence White, has issued a proc-lamaion proclaiming the weekof April 9 to 15, as BarbershopHarmony Week in Massena,and extended best wishes to theSeaway Chapter for continuedsuccess in promoting barber-shop quartet singing in ourcommunity.

By the end of 1966, almostfour out of every five U. S.families owned at least onecar.

QUICK QUIZQ—Does the Library of

'Congress keep in its perm-anent files one copy of everybook ever published in theUnited States?

A—No. The copyright lawpermits the librarian of Con-gress to determine whichbooks and articles shallbere-tained in the library's perm-anent collection and whichshall be placed in its reservecollection, or otherwise dis-posed of.

Q—What exactly it thestrike zone in baseball?

A—Major league rule de-fines the strike zone u "thatspace over home plate whichis between the top of thebatter's shoulder and bitknees when he amntHif hisnatural stance."

WORLD ALMANACFACTS

The world's largest build-ing was completed in 1966,says The world Almanac.The huge structure, part ofthe NASA space programand located near Cape Ken-nedy in Florida, is calledthe Vehicle Assembly Build-ing (VAB). It has an en-closed area of 129 millioncubic feet—almost as largeas the combined volume ofthe Pentagon and the Chi-cago Merchandise Mart. Itsfire-protection system re-quires a reservoir of onemillion gallons. Completelyair-conditioned it has doorsso large (hat a 40-storybuilding could pass throughthem.

XO Masiena, N. Y. Observe' Thursday, April 8,1987

FATHER, SON, TROOPERS. Trooper Rich-ard Relyea and Cpl. Martin Relyea, troop-ers of Troop B, are a father and son team

in New York State Police. Cpl. RelyeaJr>tired after 41 years service and was honoredat a dinner held at Canton. , .

• WASHINGTON COLUMN •

Our Reg Istration Laws-—Throwback to Oxcart Days

By BRUCE BI OSS ATWashington CorrespondentNewspaper Enterprise Assn.

WASHINGTON (NEA)The United States has the most highly mobile population

in the world, but in many states the voting registration lawswould hardly be suitable if nobody ever moved at all.

About one-fifth of all Americans move every year, and afair proportion of that number shift from state-to state. Yet,in nearly three-quarters_pi the states a citizen has to live inthe state a year and often in his county for six months inorder to be eligible to vote. ( .

Probably eight to 10 million Americans will be disenfran-jchisedjn _the_ IMOlections byLantiquated jregistrationJawsand procedures. ' - / • . - " • - - - - . ' " • -;\

The one saving grace is that there does seem to be a trendaway from these pointlessly crippling regulations. Some 20states now have loosened their residence requirements forvoting just for president and vice president.- Others are joining them. ConstitutionaLiamendmentsadopted by the people-last year authorize legislatures inGeorgia, Florida, Texas and Oklahoma to shorten materiallythe residence-time requirements for presidential and sometimes other voting. '

Some states which begin by easing presidential voting re-quirements soon spread the new rules to all statewide voting,at least^. ; ._„.^ . :__^_^, ^_, !_ ._„- . -—,-

Where the loosening occurs, generally it takes the form ofreducing residence requirements to 60 days or less, thoughNew York sets the necessary span at three months.—Another growing-feature of in?POrtance^is^more: genen :absentee balloting, to allow citizens who move out 6f-a siafto keep voting there until they have met the perhaps toeextended registration requirements of another state.— ^—

The Democrats, who-outraged one of their most accorrpushed professionals by abandoning the registration activit-of their national committee more than a year ago, have revived it under Billie Farnum, new deputy committee chaiiman and former Michigan congressman.

Farnum reminded the national committee at its recenWashington meeting that it is easier to get a hunting or fishmg license thari register to vote.

He observed that registration periods are usually too short,that procedures are too cumbersome and inconvenient, thatsome Americans consequently are disenfranchised merelybecause they fall ill, take a business or vacation trip, or areotherwise occupied at registration time.- _7 • .

No other free country, he noted, requires its citizens toassume the obligation of getting registered in order to voteIn other lands, government performs the registration func-tion. —

The latter answer may not attract Americans. But obvi-ously, with more motion in the population than ever beforethe country quickly needs laws and rules making it easy's i m £ l e

4a n d convem"ent to get registered and stay that way.

. ?.ne_toP Democrat who was disturbed at his party's laxitvbelieves that realistically the registratioh~effort has to bealmost continuous. Granting the point, it ought aiso to be soautomatically manageable that the parties do not have tospend large amounts of money and manpower to assure it.

B A R B SBy WALTER C.JPARkES

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ADMINISTRATIVE NATIONAL INCOME CONSOLIDATEDIUDGET ACCOUNTS CASH IUDGET

President Johnson's budget message to Congress actuallycovered three different budgets, or different ways of meas-uring income and outgo of federal funds. The most familiarversion is the Administrative Budget. This abridged pictureof receipts and expenditures omits all federal trust funds,such as the huge Social Security fund. The National IncomeAccounts Budget includes these'funds and is regarded asthe best measure of the over-all impact of federal financeson the economy. The. Consolidated Cash Budget measuresthe government's total cash transactions, including lendingoperations net figured into the National Income Account;Budget. AH three budgets for fiscal 1968 show a deficibut of varying sixes—$8.1 billion for the AdministrativeBudget, $2.1 billion for National Income Accounts am$4 j billion for Consolidated Cash.

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