mm TURII OH THE HEAT Danforth Towers residents are upset that workers have turned off the heat each day over the last three weeks to install temperature control valves. Story on 3B. SATURDAY JANUARY 7. 1984 ROCHESTER NEW YORK SECTIOIJ 3B HELP! SB OBITUARY 13B COMICS 14B PEOPLE Democrat anfc (fljrontck luwmJ A smile and her umbrella Lawyer wants Waymor landfill case reopened New evidence shows dump may be tainting groundwater, he says By Joseph Coccaro Democrat and Chronicle MACEDON A lawyer for a group of Macedon citizens said yesterday he will ask to reopen a court hearing on the Waymor Landfill because he has new evidence indicating the dump may be contaminating groundwater. But a state official says contamination is unlikely.
Rochester lawyer John M. Wilson II said he plans to make his request to Wayne County Justice Carmen R. Parenti on Monday. A report by a state Department of Environmental Conservation geologist indicates the 13.5 acre landfill near the hamlet of Macedon Center may be creating some "environmental problems" for the town, Wilson said. Paul Schmied, DEC regional engineer from Rochester, said yesterday there is little reason for alarm over the report.
The landfill poses no threat to Macedon's municipal water supply. Wilson represents the Macedon Citizens Committee, a group of residents who want the landfill closed. The group has charged that the landfill's operator, Waste Management of New York, Inc. of Rochester, has violated its contract with the town. The group, which also opposes expanding the landfill, has taken the company and town to court.
That case has not been re solved. Waste Management's District Manager Thomas Downing said yesterday that Wilson is using a state geologist's report to keep the landfill issue in court. The information in that report was derived from studies done by Wehran Engineering of Middletown, the engineering firm hired by Waste Management to draft landfill expansion plans, Downing said. Wehran had several test wells drilled and discovered that some pools of ground water beneath the landfill had high levels of iron. "As soon as we discovered this we reported it to the DEC," Downing said.
The local DEC office asked state DEC engineering geologist Dennis Woiterding to review Wehran 's findings. Woiterding did so and filed a seven-page report with the DEC office at Rochester. It is Woiterding 's report that Wilson wants to introduce in court on Monday. In a telephone interview yesterday, Woiterding said there is no immediate danger from the Waymor site, based on Wehran 's findings. Further studies are needed before determining whether the iron deposits are leaching from the landfill into the ground water or if they are coming from another source, he said.
Waste Management may have to revise its landfill expansion design because soil be- neath portions of the site is more porous than originally thought. This means that it would be easier for chemical and mineral deposits from the landfill to leach through the soil into the ground water, Woiterding said. Waste Management has responded to TURN TO PAGE 48 Canandaigua project delayed two months CANANDAIGUA City officials said yesterday that they are "disappointed" that a North Main Street reconstruction project has been delayed two months. Canandaigua City Manager Carl Luft said yesterday that the state Department of Transportation won't call for bids on the estimated $2 million project until May. The DOT had previously planned to call for bids in March, he said.
"We are disappointed but understand that they are doing the best they can," Luft said of the DOT. Canandaigua has sought DOT support for the project for several years, Luft said. The proposed plan includes widening the two-lane road to four lapes, adding curbs, reconstruction the drainage system and providing space for on-street parking, he said. The city has budgeted $91,000 to replace water mains along portions of the road when DOT begins the project, Luft said. The reconstruction will extend from Buffalo Street north to about 900 feet beyond the Canandaigua city line.
Luft said construction could begin in July. The project is tentatively scheduled for completion in October 1985, DOT officials said. Kick the smoking habit NEWARK A Freedom from Smoking Recovery Clinic will begin at 10 a.m. today and continue for five consecutive Saturdays at the Newark-Wayne Community Hospital in Newark. The clinic is sponsored by the American Lung Association-Finger Lakes Region, and the hospital.
Justice refuses to lower bail State Supreme Court Justice Robert P. Kennedy yesterday refused to lower reputed mobster Thomas M. Torpey's $200,000 bail, telling his lawyer nothing much had changed since bail was set. Torpey and his co-defendant, Thomas E. Taylor, are accused of second-degree murder in connection with the Dec.
17, 1981, shotgun slaying of John N. Fiorino. Their trial on those charges ended in a mistrial Monday night, when jurors declared themselves deadlocked. Torpey's lawyer, Felix V. Lapine, and Taylor's lawyer, John F.
Speranza, asked Kennedy's permission to withdraw as counsel in the case, which could be retried as early as March. Kennedy adjourned the matter until Jan. 16. Man dies in tractor accident WOODHULL A 71-year-old Steuben County man died yesterday after he was run over by a tractor he had been driving, state police said. Police identified the man as Earl Fenton of Addison.
Fenton was driving his four-wheel-drive tractor about 1 p.m. in a wooded area behind his home off Route 21 in the town of Woodhull when the accident occurred. Fenton apparently fell off the tractor and was run over by its front wheels, which stopped on top of him, state police said. Fenton was pronounced dead on arrival at St. James Hospital in Hornell, police said.
An investigation into the death is iff i US 3J ji 1 i Palmyra mayor may retire Mary Lou Wilson considering leaving political arena Reed Hoffmann Democrat and Chronicle Anne Hartwig walking her Dalmatian, Teddy, in Ellison Park. She's been taking walks in the park every day, no matter the weather, 2 women dead, 2 hurt Car misses sharp turn, runs into a guardrail; driver charged with DWI By Dick Eisenhart Democrat and Chronicle BATH The father of one of two Bath women killed in a one-car crash Thursday said he felt sorry for the injured driver who has been charged with driving while intoxicated. "I feel very sorry for the driver," Robert D. Robinson of Bath said yesterday. "I hope she doesn't have to suffer any more than what she's already gone through.
We're praying for her. We've lost our daughter. We don't want to lose another." Betsy L. Robinson, 19, of 134 E. Washington St.
in Bath, and Diana Cwikla, 19, of Windfall Road, Bath RD 4, died Thursday a position he has held while serving on the village Board of Trustees. The four-year terms of office for Wilson, DePoint and McGrath expire in April. The remaining two trustees, Stephen G. Hays and Richard E. Rolland, are Democrats.
DePoint, a lawyer, plans to finish his term on the school board, which expires next year, but not as board president, he said. He will officially relinquish that position at the school board's organization meeting in March, he said. DePoint, 38, of 192 Salzburg Village has been a trustee for four years and deputy mayor for two. He has served on the Board of Education eight years and been its president for the past three. McGrath, 48, of 132 West Main Street TURN TO PAGE 4B car crash dition yesterday.
Robinson said his daughter and her companions were "the best of friends." All were former classmates at Haverling Central School in Bath. "They hadn't been gone from the house two hours," he said. "We don't know where they had been, but apparently they were coming back to Bath. They were just having a good time." The accident occurred two miles south of Hammondsport, Steuben County, in a rural area on the south edge of the Taylor Wine Co. property.
Deputies said the car was traveling south on County Road 88about 10 p.m. Thursday when the driver missed a sharp, left curve at the intersection of County Road 89, also known as Mitchellsville Road. The car crashed into a steel guard rail at the left side of the two-lane, blacktopped highway. The vehicle's left side was demolished; TURN TO PAGE 4B Penn Yan to vote on a $330,000 plan to upgrade schools By Dick Eisenhart Democrat and Chronicle PENN YAN Voters in the Penn Yan Central School District will decide next month whether to spend $330,000 on a project that would make the elementary and junior high buildings accessible to the handicapped. They also will vote on spending $109,000 for three, 60-passenger buses and two, 16-passenger vans.
Balloting will be Feb. 14 from 2 to 8 p.m. in the Penn Yan Elementary School. Superintendent Michael W. Thompson said renovations to the two buildings must be completed before the district can close the Dresden Elementary School.
Elementary handicapped students now attend Dresden. A study group appointed earlier this year by the Board of Education recommended closing both the Dresden and Branchport Elementary Schools, making the necessary renovations to the Penn Yan buildings and changing the district educational divisions to elementary, middle school and high school. Thompson said the renovations include installing elevators at both buildings, remodeling the balcony in the junior high auditorium into music TURN TO PAGE 4B By Joseph Coccaro Democrat and Chronicle PALMYRA Mayor Mary Lou Wilson probably won't run for another term in March or seek her party's nomination when village Republicans caucus this month, she said yesterday. "1 am seriously considering stepping down, but I haven't made the final decision yet," said Wilson, who has been mayor of this Wayne County village for five years. Deputy Mayor James I.
DePoint and village Trustee Mary Kay McGrath said yesterday that they would seek the mayoral nomination at the, Palmyra Republican Committee caucus Jan. 24. DePoint also announced that he would not continue as president of the Palmyra-Macedon Board of Education after March, in Steuben Betsy Robinson said. Steuben County sheriffs deputies have charged her with driving while intoxicated. Another passenger, Patricia Cullen, 18, of 54 Hudston Bath, was treated at Ira Davenport Hospital for multiple cuts and bruises and then transferred to Lornmg Hospital.
She was listed satisfactory con meet competitor ONE-STOP TREATMENT 4B 7 iatinnc aav mpmnArshin iq riQincr Kilt hp bruises and then transferred to Corning Hospital. She was listed in satisfactory con- izations say membership is rising. But Blue Cross and Blue Shield is steadily losing members more than 15,000 last year alone. As of Nov. 30, it had 753,695 members, Kneeland said.
Preferred Care became the largest of the three health maintenance organizations within the past few months, when it signed up more than 13,000 new members during membership drives at the city's largest industries, said James J. Sheremeta, director of finance and operations. It began in 1979, and now has about 45,000 members. The other two health maintenance organizations, Rochester Health Network and and Genesee Valley Group Health Association, have a combined membership of about 61,000. Neither had big increase in membership this year, spokesmen said.
TURN TO PAGE 3B 'morale booster' bv some leaders of the black community in response to the Nov. 13 police shooting of a black woman, Alecia McCuller, by a white police officer, Thomas L. Whitmore. The shooting is being investigated. "I think it just states a fact that police protect people," Mrs.
Stockslader said. "It is no political reaction. It has nothing to do with the Whitmore buttons." Ron Evangelista, president of the Rochester Police Locust Club, said the police union fully supports Mrs. Stocklader's idea. TURN TO PAGE 38 night shortly after arrival at Ira Davenport being treated for a neck injury, broken col- Hospital in Bath, Steuben County.
Both larbone and other multiple injuries, officials Blue Cross prepares HMO plan to ProforroH ParP CI IPnPQQ ter-area health insurance subscribers have riCICIICU VCUC OUOCOO joined health maintenace organizations V. "for at least 15 years," she said. She says she's now on her second Dalmatian. Teddy is 7 years old. They live nearby at Ellison Heights.
Kathleen Farrell Diana Cwikla died of massive internal injuries, according to hospital reports. The driver, Kathleen Farrell, 19, of 36 Hudson St. in Bath, was reported in guarded conditio last night in the intensive care unit at Ira Davenport Hospital. She was called HMOs which provide low-cost medical care through groups of doctors or medical centers who join the center in a commitment to keep medical costs down. The health maintenance organizations are comprehensive health care plans that encourage patients and doctors to keep medical costs down.
The patient pays premiums, but little or no fee toward doctor and hospital bills, including surgery. In return, he agrees to have all treatment done by an HMO physician, or have that physician authorize treatment elsewhere. The doctor or medical center is encouraged to use cost-efficient treatment methods because salaries and profits are based on the amount of money spent during the year. They could lose money if the HMO's costs are too high. The three local health maintenance organ quarter-sized buttons have been sold for 50 cents each, many to citizens who have seen officers wearing them on lapels, jackets and ties.
The buttons were worn by Rochester police officers about 10 years ago "and it's something that was just brought back," she said yesterday. She said the buttons are not a response to "No More Whitmore" buttons distributed continuing pending an autopsy, police said. Raceway to aid blast victims Officials of Buffalo Raceway have announced they will donate the track's general admission receipts from Thursday's races to the American Red Cross to aid homeless victims of the Dec. 27 fire and blast in a warehouse in Buffalo. Gaston Valiquette, the track's president and general manager, said he could not guarantee a dollar amount, but said it could be a "very substantial" check.
"Had we donated last Thursday's (Jan. 5) general admission receipts a normal Thursday without promotional and media support the contribution would have been in excess of $2,500," he said. "We're hopeful harness race fans will rally to the support of the explosion and fire victims in far greater than the normal Thursday crowds." E. Ridge Road bank robbed A man wearing a ski mask robbed a branch bank on East Ridge Road at gunpoint yesterday afternoon and escaped on foot with an undisclosed sum of money, law enforcement and bank officials said. George Mahoney, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said the man walked into the Ridge-Seneca office of the Key Bank, 295 East Ridge Road, about 2 p.m.
He displayed a handgun, ordered the bank's three tellers to empty their cash drawers. He then fled. Two customers and two supervisors also were in the bank at the time of the robbery, according to Kathaleen Lowenthal, a bank vice president No shots were fired and there were no injuries. Lowenthal said the security cameras and alarms were activated while the man was in the bank, and part of the robbery was on film. Lowenthal and Mahoney declined to say how much money was taken.
AHEA DEATHS Ames, Stuart 75, Elmira, Jan. 5. Cramer, Milo 72, Palmyra, Jan. 4. Guelzow, William 77, Holcomb, Jan.
5. Kimble, Harold 77, Canandaigua, Jan. 5. Westcott, Ethel, 92, Mt Morris, Jan. 5.
Wilson, Otho 79, Clifton Springs, Jan. 4. Smith, John, 79, Warsaw, Jan. 5. Miles, Meredith L.
"Skip," 37, Livonia, Jan. 5. Bendzus, Martin C. 54, Conesus, Jan. 5.
Helene E. Frantz, 61, Warsaw, Jan. 6. prompts the proposal to retain subscribers By Laura Meade Democrat and Chronicle Rochester Blue Cross and Blue Shield will create a new health maintenance organization to compete with the area's newest and fastest-growing insurance program, Preferred Care. "We want to retain our subscribers and provide them with whatever option is available," said Donald Kneeland, spokesman for Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
The program should be available for in- surance customers around mid-year, Knee-land said. Specific details, costs and fees are still being worked out. In the last decade, thousands of Roches 'Police Protect People' button called a By Andy Pollack Democrat and Chronicle Some Rochester police officers are sporting an accessory to their uniforms a small blue-and-white button that reads "Police Protect People," The button, described by officers as "a good morale was the idea of Mary Jane Stockslader, wife of Highland patrol section officer Daniel Stockslader. Mrs. Stockslader said she ordered the buttons to give officers a positive way to combat frequent criticism she hears as an officer's wife.
She said about 1,000 of the.
