fnl 1 1 I I Li i iniiJ 3 SIDETRACKED A Rochester lawyer has a plan to create a complex of stores and offices out of some old railroad cars, but his proposal is sidetracked in Pittsford. Story on 5B THURSDAY JANUARY 19, 1984 ROCHESTER NEW YORK SECTION 4B MOVIES 6B HELP! Democrat ftbnmide on )V I I asked Wadem women's Group's recommendations include more discussion of women in priesthood months." Clark's pastoral letter did not call for the ordination of women as priests, disappointing some who had hoped for rapid changes in the church. But it sketched both sides of the argument for the ordination of women, thereby offering encouragement to some that the question was an open one. He said yesterday that he does not intend to go beyond statements made in his pastoral letter because they involve theological questions that are beyond his authority. "I tried to represent the basic questions before the community," he said.
Catholics. Clark has sent the task force report to a national committee of bishops that is studying the same issue. In November 1983, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops agreed to write a pastoral letter on women in the church, although it is not expected to be completed for several years. Clark, a member of the national committee chaired by Bishop Joseph L. Imesch of Joliet, 111., said he has mailed a copy of the local report to Imesch.
"I'm sure it will be given very serious consideration," Clark said. He said he also expects to offer a formal reply to the task force's report "within a few By John Hammond Democrat and Chronicle The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester should eliminate sexist language in liturgies and biblical translations used by parishes and should expand the roles of lay men and women in the church, according to a 28-page report received by the Most Rev. Matthew H. Clark. In recommendations given to the bishop on Monday, a task force on women said the diocese also should allow more deliberation on the ordination of women to the priesthood and should establish a permanent Commission on Women in the Church.
The points were among 31 recommenda tions for action needed to implement Clark's April 1982 pastoral letter, The Fire in the Thornbush. In the pastoral letter, Clark asked Catholics to discuss the harmful effects of sexism in the church and urged the church to be more supportive of women. The local task force, composed of clergy and laity in the diocese, on Monday issued a final report to Clark after nearly two years of discussion. About 37 percent of the 161 parishes in the 12-county diocese submitted written reports to the task force on numerous discussion sessions that they held on Clark's letter. The diocese represents more than 375,000 TURN TO PAGE 3B Maritime museum Burr Lswia Democrat and Chronicle Fertilizer spill kills fish in Keuka Outlet Hundreds of fish in Keuka Lake Outlet were killed yesterday when 24,000 gallons of liquid fertilizer spilled into the water after a storage tank wall collapsed in Penn Yan.
Department of Environmental Conservation officers said they expect the chemical soon will be diluted and will not damage nearby Seneca Lake. The fertilizer contained 30 percent nitrogen, which is oxygen-absorbing but non-flammable and non-corrosive. Yates County sheriffs deputies warned the few residents along the outlet about the spill and suggested they have no contact with the water. No one uses the outlet for drinking water. Keuka Lake Outlet flows easterly about six miles to Seneca Lake.
Dead fish were found as far as five miles from the spill. Charges possible in shooting A 17-year-old Letchworth High School student could face criminal charges after shooting himself in the stomach Tuesday in a school hallway, state police said yesterday. The student, whose name is being with-eld by state police because of his age, was listed in satisfactory condition yesterday afternoon at Wyoming County Community Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said. The student is expected to be released in a few days. The student did not have a permit for the handgun that he turned on himself at 9:45 a.m.
Tuesday, said Sgt. Patrick O'Reilly, a spokesman for the state police in Batavia. Audit criticizes center A state audit released yesterday charged the Monroe Developmental Center was lax in administering its finances and failed to address security problems in its high-security unit from 1979 to Sept 30, 1982. An official at the center said the administration had concurred with the audit's criticisms and had corrected the faults pointed out in the audit. According to the audit, prepared by the office of state Comptroller Edward V.
Regan, the center's cash-handling procedures had too few checks and balances, and lacked any methods for independent monitoring of transactions. The audit report also said the Secure Unit for Intensive Treatment (SUIT), which houses retarded adults who have been involved or implicated in violent crimes, lacked sufficiently trained people to ensure security, or necessary security equipment. An examination of the center's credit card billings for vehicles showed some questionable purchases, the report said. Bruce May, deputy director for the cen- ter, said, "We have addressed those things since then." May took issue with the report's assertion that security at the SUIT wing of the center was approached "piecemeal." The developmental center treats mentally retarded residents in Monroe County. Charged in forged check case A Rochester man was arraigned in Gates Town Court yesterday, accused of attempting to cash a forged $480 check at the Security Trust Co.
bank in Westgate Plaza, Wiliiam J. Peller, 21, of 415 N. Clinton pleaded innocent before Gates Town Justice John J. Pisaturo, who set bail at $25,000. Peller is being held in the Monroe County Jail.
He is charged with criminal possession of a forged instrument, third-degree attempted grand larceny and second-degree criminal impersonation, said Gates Police Chief Thomas J. Roche. Sodus Point water restrictions Water Department officials for the village of Sodus Point, Wayne County, yesterday asked the village's 1,200 residents to restrict their water usage for the next few days because of a problem at the department's Lake Road pumping station. Earl Huff, chief water plant operator, said workers have discovered that vibrations from the plant's main pumps could cause the floor under them to collapse into a pit below. He said an area of about 25 square feet has to be reinforced.
"Every time you start the plant, you have vibration on the floors. We figure you can cut that in half by not operating as many hours" and limiting water use, he said. Huff said he expects the work to be within four days. Peters to seek nomination Donald M. Peters, 37, of Waterloo, a former high school social studies teacher, said tie plans to seek the Right to Life Party nomination to oppose incumbent U.S.
Rep. Frank L. Horton, R-Brighton, for the 29th congressional district seat. Peters plans to formally announce his candidacy Monday on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., during a daylong march by abortion opponents.
Peters is a state committeeman in the Right to Life Party. Probation for homicide A Webster man who pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide last November was granted youthful offender status and sentenced to five years' probation yesterday. Assistant Monroe County District Attorney Daniel Labowitz said County Court Judge Charles T. Maloy could have sentenced Roy Lubberts, 18, of 215 Meadow Lane, to up to four years in state prison. Lubberts had no prior record, Labowitz said.
Lubberts was charged with driving while intoxicated and following too closely after his car struck Mihajlo Bresovski, 51, of Echo Hill Drive, Irondequoit. Sodus Point. The U.S. government originally wanted to sell the building and adjacent land to the town, but turned it over for free after Rep. Frank Horton, R-Brighton, intervened at the town's request.
the Sodus Bay Historical Society. It was used for years by the Coast Guard to guide navigation on Sodus Bay. It was rendered obsolete several years ago when a new lighthouse was built farther out on Skies over Lake Ontario may be threatening, but the future is secure for the former Sodus Point lighthouse. The 1871 building will become a maritime museum, owned by the town of Sodus and leased to Scacchetti gets new chance for disability pay and thus wasn't entitled to benefits. By Jody McPhillips Scacchetti, 51, was convicted in January But before that, in April 1982, the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court had disbarred Scacchetti from practicing law.
Two months later the state Court of Ap- peals ruled he could never again hold judicial office. Telesca wrote, "The burden now shifts to (the government) to establish that (Scacchetti) is capable of other available work in the national economy." The government should "investigate the possibility that (Scacchetti's) coronary condition may be of such severity when coupled with his psychological condition, that even a sedentary job of medium emotional stress level would be beyond (his) capabilities," the ruling said. 1981 of improperly using his judicial office to extort a camera and car repairs from former Rochester businessman Albert Tantalo. Scacchetti was sentenced to serve a year and a day in a federal penitentiary and was released last May. His lawyer, Kenneth B.
Mason could not be reached for comment last night. Telesca's ruling sent the matter back to Social Security officials for a new hearing. Mason asked last March that Telesca either rule Scacchetti was entitled to benefits or order a new hearing. In July 1982, Administrative Judge Nicholas Haragos of the Social Security ministration ruled Scacchetti had the capacity to do "medium work," could practice law Democrat and Chronicle U.S. District Judge Michael A.
Telesca yesterday ordered federal officials to reconsider a decision denying Social Security disability benefits to former Rochester City Court Judge Carl R. Scacchetti Jr. Doctors have testified that Scacchetti is suffering from coronary-artery disease and depression. That condition "can be aggravated not only by physical exertion, but also by emotional distress," Telesca wrote in a four-page decision. (Due) to the stressful nature of his former occupation, I would hold notwithstanding his disbarment, (Scacchetti) has met his burden of establishing inability to perform his past relevant work." Mr Carl Scacchetti Morin opposing shift of costs to county raised since 1975.
But Morin said the Cuomo administration did not give the counties enough time to include it in their 1984 budget. It will cost the county an estimated $4.5 million. "I firmly believe that what he did was the right thing to do, but it was the time it was introduced that gives the counties a problem," Morin said. Monroe County and 40 other counties did not budget for the increase, although six counties did, said Edwin L. Crawford, executive director of the New York State Asso- TURN TO PAGE 3B and we hope they'll listen," Morin said in an interview yesterday.
Commencing the lobbying effort, Morin mailed a letter to Cuomo Tuesday asking him "to join with the state Legislature to pick up the local share" of an increase ordered in payments to welfare clients for their housing. Morin said the county already has contacted the members of the county's state legislative delegation to solicit their support in putting the extra welfare money into the state budget. Morin's complaint is not with the increase itself in the housing payments called the shelter allowance which have not been By Michael Clements Democrat and Chronicle County Executive Lucien A. Morin said yesterday that he and other county leaders will lobby "very strongly" in Albany to convince the state Legislature to pick up some costs that Gov. Mario Cuomo wants to give to the counties.
The state budget that Cuomo proposed this week would pass along nearly $7 million in additional costs to Monroe County, with the major impact coming from two program changes. "We are going to plead the case for counties and we're going to do that very strongly ildly radioactive Maureen Gates gets probation for trying to kill newborn girl Judge tells 18-year-old to put the past behind her By Jody McPhillips Democrat and Chronicle Maureen Gates, convicted last November of attempted first-degree manslaughter for leaving her new-born daughter in a motel toilet bowl Nov. 15, 1982, was sentenced to five years' probation yesterday. The child, dubbed Baby Donna in honor of the nurse who helped revive her, is thriving in foster care. Gates, 18, could have been sentenced to up to 15 years in state prison for the Class felony conviction.
State Supreme Court Justice Eugene W. Bergin granted her youthful offender-' Status, which means her criminal record will be sealed. Asked if she had anything to say before sentencing, Gates shook her head and said, "No, thank you," in a barely audible voice. Her parents, friends and -relatives watched silently from the spectators' gallery. Bergin told her that what she had done "was a criminal act That, Maureen, is past.
It's history now. I hope you can go forward from today and put this behind you It's going to be very difficult. TURN TO PAGE 2B be to expand the men's athletic program. The Nazareth board of trustees yesterday selected Beston to succeed retiring president Robert A. Kidera, who took over in 1976.
Beston will take office July 1. Beston was one of 57 candidates screened by a selection committee comprising trust New president's Nazareth goal: enroll more men It's more than just a college for women, Rose Beston says By Kinsey Wilson Democrat and Chronicle Rose Marie Beston, named president of Nazareth College yesterday, said her first priority will be to attract more men to what traditionally has been viewed as a women's college. Although the school has been coeducational for more than 10 years, women make up about 78 percent of the student body. "There is a perception that Nazareth is a women's college," Beston said. She said one strategy in her plan would isotope missing at UR med center By Andy Pollack Democrat and Chronicle Part of a shipment of a low-level radioactive chemical bound from Boston to the University of Rochester Medical Center was missing when the package arrived last week, officials said yesterday.
Medical center officials last night said the chemical Cerium 141 would pose a risk only if swallowed, and even then the risk would be minimal. The chemical, packed in a lead -shielded glass vial, was shipped Jan. 11 from a Boston plant of the New England Nuclear Corp. of Billerica, said Mike Ricciu-to, public affairs manager for the company. TURN TO PAGE 3B ees, administrators, alumni, faculty members and students.
She has served for the past four years as academic dean at Castleton State College in Vermont. Beston, 46, said she hones to expand jaN at ma-d nirfi mm Rose Marie Beston 0n Nazareth's existing career programs, such as computer science, and introduce new areas of study that TURN TO PAGE 3B.
