The Buffalo News from Buffalo, New York (2024)

December 1, 1975

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The Buffalo Newsi

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Buffalo, New York

Issue Date:

Monday, December 1, 1975

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2

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mNAA SPORTS SLV7i 7s wrf'J i ite UVr sWU A Ju 'MHH jJES'k lw whirl 1 III Bi Jil pl woSr Jhii liMw? wt 7 rwbMpfe SEES HDHw 'iw8R 1 IMWsh aM fi MR Bp i 1 EMb sjl 9M khA HUfe I I 'itr11 Or raMBSiisa: "TWrwyM fi 1800 AT LAST RITES Msgr Paul Juenker pas tor of St Cathedral celebrates the final Mass left in the soon to be demolished structure at noon Sunday About 1800 worshipers filled the pew'S and stood in the aisles right to witness the historic service Msgr Juenker told them the de mise was a painful decision for Bishop Edward Head of the Catholic Diocese who announced the Photos by Xtus Photographer William Dyviniak i' i fwm a fflf pifte jd a wWWw feMCWfel WwtJ few jjt A 'k MSaMaoB closing last week after reviewing the ad vice of a panel of concerned laymen The pastor urged the parishioners and other members of the Catholic community to accept in their grief that the decision could not he postponed He reminded them that the church not merely a building it is here a living people" 'But many in the final group of worshipers came earl' for a last look and left in tears Gift to News Camp Stores Up Happiness A large quantity of thoughtfulness and happiness is about to be stockpiled for next summer Supplied by friends of he Buffalo Evening News Rotary Club Crippled Children's Camp und it will begin to be dis tributed the day the camp opens late next June Contributions to the fund form an essential resource for two week periods of camping for about 400 crippled boys and girls Your dollars will make their summer days sparkle our groups of campers will have their turns at the camp in Angola and the places for children with physical limita tions can't be filled without a generous response by readers of The News Every dollar contributed goes directly to pay the costs for the handicapped campers assuring that the erstwhile weak have a new birth of st ength ur the cabins on the hill where the children with less than 100 per cent health live there must be a high number of counselors to keep watch and to adapt the busy days to the activities of bays and girls with a wide range of physical pow ers Contributions may he mailed and made payable to The Buf falo Evening News Charity und One News Plaza Buf falo 14240 No telephone soliciting or house to house canvassing is authorized Official receipts are issued only by The News and all contributions will be acknowledged in (he News oiaf Notebook aces Places OLA UB sez: Our big problem is making the young sters see things through our eyes ON I HIS HUE in I775 Gen Richard Montgomery at the head of 300 men from Mon treal joined up with Col Bene dict Arnold's forces setting the stage for an assault on Quebec A in Philadelphia Congress voted an appropria tion of $50(100(1 for troop wages in an effort to retain disen chanted soldiers BUMPER S1ICKIR: America a mess but 1 love you SUPREME COURT Justice I red Marshall a strong advo cate of a new Courthouse told jurors of the creaky County Hall facilities available to them during trial recess ''If you're unhappy with them gripe to the county legis he said DR IRA Singer 45 for merly with Board of Co opera tive Educational Services Dis tr i I here named superintendent of schools in Pittsfield Mass DR ELARA MAmbrits Dr Julian I Atnbrus and Dr Carl Ehmann named fellows of the American College of Physi cians AUD concessionaire Norm Etcnger spent a few days in Kenmore Mercy Hospi tal but is out and well again RECENT PASSING of Al Rosen recalls when he and his widow Mary ran that lively downtown hotel and restaurant the Sportstown on Washington St where visiting and local sports stars show people and news types made the scene in the 1950s INSURANCE MAN Owen Doyle returned home unexpect edly and to wife Sandy's ques tion he sheepishly pointed to his shoes one black one brown REUNIONS Cleveland Hill Class of '66 planning ses sion Dec 3 at 8 PM contact Marion Tornilla Iang 668 9323 or Diane Yax Bundt S73 5692 East High Class of '48 contacts Marie Busch Oss man 834 11101 or Mildred Dams Besecker 822 6021 DRINK BEING offered in Miami bars is called a New York disaster a Manhattan on the rocks Il is little Consolation To know that our nation No longer leads the world Even in injlation Mike Ellis HAPPY BIRTHDAY Cindy Bunte Carol Ann Singer Joanne Pitz Sherm Wright Jim Skobjak Sr Donald Woj towicz Ann Doctor Lawrence Palmisano Irene Patti Lucille ranke Molly Whelan Timo thy Coppola Victoria Smardz Chris Hess Marge Sthuessler Dick Schreckimgost Phil Wang Lou Schuckhardt Michael Klein Karen Kelley And Sunday Grant Reinhold Linda Harkiewicz Mary Lockwood Paul Horn Joan Hillock Gene Bockstedt Bud Casheba Liz Newcomb rank La Rosa Bridget Guest Andrea I cvtilis Chris Wein holtz Brownie Bialoblocki Jennie Schowalter Pamela Ann Worley David Grasso Jef fery Springborn Rosaline Putt Mark Yetto Marilyn Gruszka Margie McDonald Karen Tuskes Andrew Sum merfield gr xiAVtAVACVV i uWdMs i sw iw I It's such a joy to give joy to others Buffalo Evening News SECOND RONT PAGE Monday Dei'cmber 1 1973 Page 13 Budget Director Urges A Small Capital und or City in 1976 77 By 1 RANKLYN BUELL Buffalo Budget Director Philip Cook today sug gested a small" capital budget for 197G 77 cov ering "necessary equipment purchases and essential maintenance items including sidewalks and street repairs Solemn Crowd Marks Requiem for Cathedral By DICK BURKE News Religion Reporter On ihe irst Sunday of Advent the beginning of the church's liturgical year they came to witness the requiem of St Cathedral in its 60th year i ney ruled the pews and stood in the side aisles an esti mated 1800 men women chil dren and infants in their par arms due to natural is how Msgr Paul Although no bonds have been sold to cover 1975 76 capital improvement projects and the city has placed a freeze on cap ital spending Mr Cook said new authorizations would pro vide an option for the city to attempt "small bond sales maybe $500000 in situations that will become He met with the Capital Budget Review Committee of the Citizens Advisory Commit tee which makes recommen dations to the mayor The annual budgeting process begins this month with requests from department heads for consideration The process this year will be in the constant shadow of the financial problems and a difficult bond market MR COOK said he would to the committee's dis cretion" whether it should rec ommend that authorizations in previous budgets for which money has not been raised be withdrawn The fact is he emphasized that priorities for all capital projects old and new are un der constant review "I don't see us going into the bond market except for the $83 million for the Waterfront Mr Cook said sale price two pieces of prop erty it owns on the conven tion center site Mr Cook was not optimistic about the ability to sell the bonds but emphasized the incentive involved in the oppor unity to save $13 million in ac quiring the convention center land if the city meets the UDC's deadline for buying the school 15 1976 Si TO COMMITTEE questions about the city's failure to fund capital projects planned as a local share of the federal com munity development revenue sharing program Mr Cook said the federal atti tude has not been defined He said guidelines for tenance of ate not spe cific and penalties that might he invoked are uncertain To date NU' Cook said the only effect of the freeze on capital spending has been to shift the cost of "some emerg ency to the operating budget He said between $500060 and $750000 of this type of unfore seen spending may be borne by the 1975 76 operating budget because there are no bond funds Next year Mr Cook said he will include a reserve fund in Technical Error Led to Home ine McGuire Says A technical violation rather than any attempt to conceal a planned ownership change led to a state Health Depart ment fine against the Seneca Manor Nursing Home West Seneca the operator of the home said today The News reported on Nov 22 that the nursing home was "fined $3000 in a bid to hide ownership" rank McGuire operator of the home told The News he gave a "nominal of the business to two employ es Donald Smith and Rob ert Hetzel He said he noti fied Health Department verbally in December 1974 be fore we opened the home and in writing in ebruary 1975 be fore we received any medicaid He added that "the Health Department agrees that this is so" The Health Department fine was imposed jointly on Mr Smith Mr Hetzel and Mr McGuire for failure to file the proper form Mr McGuire said ire at Hot Dog Stand LOCKPORT Damage was sot at $300 after grease ignited in a duct from a charcoal grill at Reid's Hot Dog Stand Lake Ave about 10:34 AM Sunday Juenker pastor described it when he talked to his parishion ers during the noon Mass last scheduled parish Mass there He said preparation of last week's announcement of the cathedral's demise was neither light nor careless: WAS A painful conclu he said and one of "very deep for Bishop Edward Head of the Cath olic Diocese of Buffalo who had to face the advice of the concerned laity who studied the problem for almost a year be fore the decision the monsignor said with considerable feeling "in accepting in this grief what was physically impossible to change impossible to delay be yond this week He re called the 37 years of service which Msgr rancis Garvey had given to the principal church of the diocese remark ing that he strenuously opposes any idea that Msgr Garvey now living in Ireland was re sponsible for the cathedral deterioration "because he was last in command" Msgr Juenker offered both parishioners and those present from the larger Catholic com unity hope and encouragement: CHURCH is not mere ly a building it is here a liv ing At the end of the Mass in that vast and monumental edifice those present joined in singing hymn God We Praise Thy High above in the choir loft the Casavant organ added i voice played by Rev Jacob Ledwon associate pastor The people came early out of the rain and into the Cathe dral Some out of curiosity Some wanting to be pari of the event Others were there as Msgr Juenker noted an guished They were there before Mdss to get the feel of the cathedral for the last time i THEY SCUED their feet purposefully across its massive marble floor Curious fingers traced the mosaic figures on the large Stations of the Cross on the walls They ran their hands over the wood of the pews felt the floral decoration of the large baptismal font Some stood silently in the middle aisle head back to let their eyes feel the giant ribbing of the vaulted ceiling above the nave Large groups stood in front of the stained glass windows each a three panel dramatiza tion of a Biblical event They admired too the bish op's chair symbolic of the teaching office of the bishop Children found the magic of flickering candles beneath the vast transept that part of the cathedral which gives it its cross like shape IN THE sanctuary at the gos pel side of the altar was the marble sarcophagus of Bishop Charles Henry Colton fourth bishop of Buffalo and builder of the cathedral He died May 9 1915 before its dedication His funeral was the first service in the New Cathedral This coffin now will be moved to the Old Cathedral The Cathedral of the Diocese of Buffalo where Msgr James A Healy is pastor After Mass ended the church goers left reluctantly many an guished and tearful Gunman ires Misses In Delicatessen Holdup Two men robbed the Perry Center Delicatessen 289 Ham burg St of $60 about 1:15 PM Sunday police said One of the young men fired a rifle at Leonard Burszynski a customer who was at the rear of the store police said the shot missed The other man ordered Mrs Patricia Burst 41 the clerk to open the cash register police said Culprit in Setting ires Blames Drinking Now Has ound Cod These bonds authorized by the Common Council Inst week will enable the city to buy out the State Urban Development Corp which is constructing the school and has included in the the operating budget to meet capital spending needs In the current budget he hopes a "substantial surplus" in salary accounts will he sufficient to meet these needs City Asks act inding With Police Be Public The city today asked tliat fact finding sessions In the bar gaining impisse with the police union be open lb lite press and the public The request was made in a telegram to Dr Robert Uelsby chairman of the state Public Employment Relations Board Normally the meetings at which government and union spokesmen present their ne gotiating stands to a PERB ap pointed fact finder are closed to the press and public But Limes Burns acting for Mayor Makowski told Dr Uelsby that the state's new reedom of Informal imi Law mandates at least "in open sessions in the fact find ing process THE ACT finder in the im passe between the city and the Police Benevolent Association is Robert A eldman a Rochester lawyer The meet ings start Thursday at 10 AM in City Hall Mr Burns commissioner of administration mid finance contended that the ict finder's recommendations lot a settle ment will piny an "essential in any award by a bimling bit rat ion panel should the sMletnite go that far He said thnt since the mayor and Common Council cannot change tin arbitration award where police and fire unions arc Involved "It Is vital that the tax paying public have the fullest possible access to all that lakes place in the fact finding Mr Burns also noted thnt the state's chicl labor negotiator has called for open negotiating sessions because of the finan cial crisis confronting the state IN JULY 1974 the Makowski administration sought to have both police and fire fact finding meetings open to the public but the fact finder Dr Robert rance refused' Dr ranre said the sessions were another opportunity resolve the issues" and ex pressed concern thnt open meetings would serve "to emphasize adversarial a ters" Mr Bums today cited the reedom of Information Law which says: people's right to know the process of govern ment decision making and the documents and statistics lead ing to determinations is basic to our society Act ess to such information should not be thwarted by shrouding It with the cloak of secrecy or confi dentiality" Dairylea District 3 To Meet Candidates WARSAW Dairylea Co operative District 3 locals will hold a special Meet the Can didates night as part of its re organization program at the Grange Unit Dec 9 Alnswoith of At tica Harold 0 Lusk of Pitts ford and Raymond Strahan of riendship dairymen candi dates will (tike pact in a ques lion aiul nnswer period They are running for nomination to the position of District 3 tor Members from Allegany Genesee MOnroe Orleuns and Wyoming Counties are ex pected "I opened another desk and set fire to the drawer and set two filing cabinet drawers on fire did you set these fires?" I didn't think I should have been fired" By I ONY CARDINALE (Sren)ui In try to get even with people who hurt Michael says between bites "A kid next door kept picking on me so I sec fire to his house so gel blamed for it" Michael is 21 now but looks somewhat younger sit ting at this restaurant table His pale features have that freshly scrubbed teen ager look Hie Kenmore youth was one of several troubled youths in the suburbs and the city who were interviewed recently by The News for this scries They talked about their problems how they tried to escape through alcohol or drugs and their hopes for the future Michael is hungry He hinted that he have money for lunch and when invited io this restaurant he ordered the double steak special with onion rings french fries salad toast and a pot of coffee "MV MAIN PROBLEM was drinking" Michael says "I stinted as soon as I tin ned IS I drank highballs I drank whisky and beer together He recalls the time when he was 19 without a license and think i ng with a friend who couldn't drive home Mich ael took the wheel and began going down Dela ware Ave at 70 mph Michael says he had been drinking on the night last ebruary when he set fire to his former employ cr's office He recently fin ished serving five months at the Erie County Correc tional acility in Alden for starting the $25000 blaze A few years earlier the fire ai his next door neighbor's house caused $1700 damage His father paid the bill mid Michael says he worked lo pay back his father ATER IBS recent release Michael returned to his parents in Kenmore but he gel along with his father He says one day his father got di imk and in a heated argument pulled a knife Michael says he hit his fa her with a chair and moved out He now lives under close supervision at a home for youths where ho receives psychiatric therapy Michael started the fire in his house short ly after his release in 1972 from the West Seneca Devel opmental Center where he lived six years because of minor brain damage suffered at birth Today he still suffers from feelings of inadequacy according to one report and has inability to express anger and feelings of rejection in a socially acceptable MICHAEL SAYS he a Christian" a few weeks ago and finds that when he helps someone else as in group therapy sessions makes you fee! one guy with a bad temper He is in and out of jail because of it helping him out As long as I know the Lord is with me not he says Has he ever taken any drugs besides alcohol? he says brother and both sisters got messed up with drugs but I didn't One of my sisters is on drugs and the other is a HOW DOES his family take this? father don't give a damn but my mother she's he says When psychologist Joseph Liebcrgall writes reports for the court on troubled teen agers he has examined he makes it a point to use the phase "alcohol and other dan gerous drugs" He says alcohol is still the most dangerous drug It is the first drug that children see adults using and it is the only legal and socially accepted drug with the power of human destruction The young psychologist at the Erie County orensic Mental Health Lab also feels that the teen aged criminal doesn't just suddenly set fires mug old folks vandalize property or start taking hard drugs "Other factors predate the use of the drug" he says a progressive thing You can't legislate the solution The whole idea of telling a family to be a good family is DR LIEBERGALL feels strongly that most violent criminals mentally ill a social problem he says "Ten per cent of the population is seriously ill men tally If you go over to the Erie County Holding Center Only 15 to 20 per cent of the inmates are seriously dis turbed they know what they're doing Thcv start with a candy store theft and end up mugging an old man ant! he happens to die so they burn the house down to hide the evidence" Dr I lebergall says "The other day my son came home with a note say ing that he threw food in the cafeteria Well as far as concerned they didn't do enough to punish him We took away several privileges at home "But in a crime accommodating family it's differ ent Excuses got made and the tencher and school are at fault Anyone can make them but not many of us can raise them" NEXT A Day in lhe Ghetto 1 4 A 'J:.

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