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swimming hole in Livingston County town, jd look right at home on old Norman Rockwell f. At least part of it Jd. ne east end of the pond jjd fit right in where Dgsters swing from a e into the chilly waters ji arms and legs Hailing. Jie rest of the pond, where Je sunbathers go, might a little too strong for the jurday Evening Post. gut it's not too strong for I "World Guide to Nude 3 dies and Recreation," ;ich lists Bullhead as one seven places to go in upjte New York to sun in the Iff The latest edition of the jiide, which lists for $14 95, as released late last year. ; was first issued in 1980 by je Harmony Books Division t Crown Publishers, New fork City. The pond's- use by aturists has been known for *ars to clothed swimmers it the pond, mostly teenagers and college students, &ut not to the rest of the. county. W. Austin Wadsworth of Geneseo, who owns the pond, is skeptical that nude bathers really swim there. But he says no one with or without clothes should be swimming there anyway. Rochester resident who speaks for the group, says members suggested to guide author Lee Baxandall of Oshkpsh, Wis., that Bullhead be listed. That was sometime before 1980, when there was less community acceptance of public nudity and the pond was getting good play, Schloss said. Bui since then. Bullhead has lost its popularity, he said. "Nowadays Bullhead gets very little naturist use," Schloss said. "There are better places to go. The sides are steep and it doesn't have a good beach. It's hard to get to. There's trouble with beer drinkers who use the pond and make fun of mirfitv ". The guide, which mistakenly calls Bullhead Pond, Triphammer Pond, "also mistakenly directs visitors to park in the nearby Lion's Club parkins lot.

prtsei ;ing die borhood, it may be worth a try," she '-aid. Arthur Kremer, chairman of the commission and the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, saidjhe division failed to follow _its own regulations about Supervising the neighborhood preservation companies. Ms. Scruggs-Leftwich said a lack of staff has prevented her^agency from monitoring the neighborhood groups as closely as she would have liked and said an effort to computerize some of the work might allow staff employees to spend more time in the field with the groups. Since the program was

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and budgeu-d ai $10.6 million for 1984-85 -I ?Sl 1*33. The program was begun to help existing pfiv^t'e gr'oOps working to preserve. .arid restore old neighborhoods .-It was designed to pr6vide:.up to $500.000 in aid tea group fh a three-year perted; butthe three r year ,fimi;t~*r afs repealed and tne'dollar'-cajp has been circuniveritejt ,';r Although the!aim",was!to provide state aid. to groups formed where thje .private sector created them,- -Uie commission criticized state housing officials "for raiting to prepare a sta^ewltlfrpTa'n to set goals ahiljqbjectives and measure their ijrpgiesjj.

Topic: Gillette
BY ANDREW MILNER

Would Chester Gillette, convicted murderer of South Otselic resident Grace (Billy) Brown, have been found guilty if the murder trial took place today? Craig Brandon says no. William Van Norman, who Brando , a Ut manages the clubhouse, said newspaper neditor, spokei c a on out-of-state cars began the 1906 Gillette case, the showing up for the first time. basis for Theodore Dreiser's last summer. "Canada, "An American Tragedy," on Texas, Ohio...you name it," Saturday at the spring he said. meeting of the Chenango "Sometimes our lot is half- County Historical Society at filled with them and I have to the Rexford Street Museum, ask them to move on." Van Norwich. According to Brandon, Norman said Gillette's trial, which received national The pond is so hard to get was an unfair one attention, Brown's to that most Livingston .fabled love letters, which County residents have never "I've heard rumors <about seen it. There's no road, or swayed the public's opinion nude bathers > . I'm not sure I even a trail. After leaving against Gillette, had been obtained Gillettte's really believed them. That their cars, visitors have to Cortland, from apartment N.Y. walk a mile on the limestone listing baffles me." he said. ballast or the unevenly without a search warrant. Wadsworth says the guide spaced ties of the Livonia, Today that evidence would fails to point out that the Avon a n d L a k e v i l l e be thrown out of court. Another piece of sensational pond is private property, and Railroad. evidence, the fetus Brown uninvited visitors are not welcome. "This pond is so pleasant it was carrying, allegedly fathered by Gillette, would "The property is posted. draws people from a wide probably be inadmissible area," the guide states. "It today. We put new signs up every , summer because people take lacks good flat swimming Brandon's well-research the old ones down." Wad- areas, but remains popular program included an exand beautiful " sworth said. "I have no obcellent side show with rare jection to the naturist photos of both Gillette and The favorable review is Brown. Brandon also inmovement in principle, but they should know that they tempered by a note that cluded thorough biographies absolutely h'ave no right to "some folks in swim garb" of both Gillette and Brown. go to Bullhead. They are also use the pond. Following his talk, there The other upstate listings was a question and answer trespassing and I do not in the guide are Lake Min- session where it was * ant them there " The guide found out about newaska. New Paltz; Em- revealed there is still doubt Bullhead from the Naturist pire Lake. Binghamton; Six whether or npt Gillettte ever Rochester organization a Mile Creek. Ithaca: South- confessed to the murder. State Park, Grace Brown was found loosely knit group that wick Beach Zoar Valley Watertown; believes nudity is physically Shale Beach near Gowanda dead in Big Moose Lake in and psychologically healthy. and Chautauqua Gorge, the Town of Webb in the Adirondacks on July 12, 1906. M o r l e y S c h l o s s . a Westfield. Two days later Gillette was
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arrested and charged with the murder. The Vial" Cook three weeks and on Dec:- 4, 1906, the jury found Gillette guilty of first degree" ' murder. After an unsuccesful'attempt to appeal, Gillette w~as electrocuted on March 30, 1908. Saturday's meeting 'was attended by many residents of South Otselic, some .of whom were childreff". .and. grandchildren of people who knew Grace Brown. ._. Brandon has put his findings in a book w-hjch/will J>e published in Noyerhber ~}y North Country Books, - '.".

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ALBANY, N.Y, While the state has movedto ~ make its penalties for drunken driving some <rf the toughest in the nation, two New York legislalors would like, to do the same -fur boaters who have more than their ration of rum , '. On Sunday, state Sen. IS'orman Levy, R-N'assau. and Assemblyman Michael -,||cNulty, D-Albany, 'announced Sunday that they have introduced legisla.tion'J-'to toughen penalties for 'drtJHks caught on the state/s.'w.'aterways. They said half, of .all boating accidents involve drinking boaters.- ^r;v;>f Other fines and\sentences for drunken boatecstVould be made the same aj^lor drivers of land vehicles, they said.

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