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5 rmgcmt ana (ghnrnif If jj Weather 2B Feminique 10, 11 i ROCHESTER, N. THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1969 SECTION 'Something Readers Ask HELP! lice Club Aide GROUND BREAKING CEREMONY STRONG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MAY 14. 1969 Urges 'Fix' Probe know they will be dismissed? Think of the wasted man-hours involved in those 33,000 tickets. "Either there must be strict, enforced regulations or citizens should be allowed to park wherever they please," he said. explored and the public should demand answers to these questions or a complete breakdown of police procedures will result.

"After all," Boryszewski continued, "why write traffic tickets in the cold of winter and the heat of summer if you Tax Collectors Seize Eatery State tax collectors yesterday seized and closed a Lake Avenue restaurant whose proprietor, they said, owes about $9,000 in sales taxes. They accused Lindolfo Hernandez, who operates the Little Square Restaurant, 1470 Lake of failing to pay state sales tax since March, 1966. Money, liquor and beer also were seized by the collectors. Willard E. Hardies, Rochester District tax supervisor, said the liquor and beer will be sold at public auction unless the due amount is paid.

The money will be applied against the tax liability, Hardies added. Drugs Center Delayed to Fall By ANNE STEARNS Ralph Boryszewski, president of the Rochester Police Locust Club, called for an investigation fthe charges by Public Safety Commissioner Henry E. Gillette that City Court Judges practice widespread "ticket fixing" for traffic violators. Gillette withdrew all the charges Tuesday following a meeting with the six City Court judges in a guarded room, later telling reporters he made a "terrible mistake" in making the charges. "The commissioner is an intelligent man and a former City Court judge," Boryszewski said yesterday.

"He certainly knew before the judges told him so that many tickets are dismissed because of mistakes. But 33,000 tickets in one year?" Boryszewski said an investigation of the charges should be made by "an independent grand jury not controlled by the District Attorney's office," or even the Police Advisory Board. "The Police Advisory Board has said they must exist because policemen can't be left to judge themselves," he said. "So I say to the Police Advisory Board let's have the courage not to have double standards. No judges can sit in judgment of themselves in an issue in which they are involved personally." He said he had told Rosario Guglielmino, president of the long-defuncl advisory board and of the Monroe County Bar Association, that if the advisory board should undertake the investigation Guglielmino should disqualify himself because he is a laywer.

The District Attorney also should disqualify himself in this case because of his connection to the courts, he said, so any grand jury acting in the matter should be separate from his office. "Why was there a guard outside that door when the six judges conferred with the commissioner?" Boryszewski said. "Was there something secret going on the public should know? "The whole area should be Photo by Gordon Massecar Dr. George Whipple, first dean, and nurse Barbara Pinckney turn dirt. $56 Million Complex Started at Strong The start of a state narcotics prevention center in Rochester, once targeted for this month, has been delayed at least until September, The problem is money, said Robert Dolins, assistant commissioner for drug education with the state Narcotics Addiction Control Commission.

working on blood disorders and, eventually, to the basic life processes. Dr. George Hoyt Whipple, founding dean of the school received his Nobel Prize in 1934 for his research on the formation of hemoglobin. Other Nobel Prize winners who have been associated with the school include Dr. Hendrik Dam and Dr.

Vincent du Vigneaud. The medical school now has about 950 fulltime and 250 part-time students and the new hospital, which is to be 'completed in 1973, will allow the school to expand both undergraduate and a a programs. The school is among the top six in the country in the number of graduate degrees awarded in medically-related fields and it is one of the top three in turning out doctors that become teachers at medi-, cal schools. Its faculty consists of 340 fulltime members about twice the U.S. average and 480 practicing physicians from the metropolitan area who help instruct medical students, interns and residents.

MVD Costs Alarm Senators Q. I have been following your stories about the costs of New York's vehicle licensing system. I was amazed to learn how much less other states with about the same number of vehicles as New York spend on their motor vehicle departments. What is being done now to implement HELPl's findings? G. ROCHESTER A.

Citing conclusions of HELPI's comparative survey of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois, both Rochester area state senators have become concerned about the costs of New York's auto licensing to varying extent. Sen. James Powers, D-51, has written the chairmen of the Senate and Assembly committees that oversee MVD operationsrequest- ing full investigations and public hearings Powers said also he would conduct his own investigation. He told HELP! he thinks the high cost may be due to the large number of license bureaus (110) doing work that can be handled by mail through the central Albany office. Sen.

Thomas Laverne, R-50, said he has asked the MVD for a copy of a report it is preparing for HELP! He said also he tried to contact the chairman of the Senate committee, but was unable to reach him. "I cannot fairly comment on what my recommendations would be until I obtain the (MVD) report. In any event, until I obtain all the facts, I do not intend to make myself a hero at the expense of the hard-working MVD. If, when the facts are developed, changes are indicated, you can be sure I shall take whatever action is necessary," said Laverne. He said he has not yet read the stories that appeared May 4 and 5.

The MVD report Laverne referred to is being prepared as a "formal answer" to the HELP! ON TAXES stories of May 4 and 5. An MVD spokesman said the report may be ready by today. The department immediately began studying HELPJ's findings, and a cost analysis of centralizing New York's system had been due last week on the desk of director of program development. The spokesman declined to comment on whether the analysis would be included in the "formal answer." Incidentally, G. you were one of 1,537 readers who have returned the-coupon about auto licensing costs so far; HELP! Free Wheeling Again Q.

It's a small problem, I know. But it is as aggravating as a big one. I've been trying since January to get a ball caster for our new sofa which we purchased new at a local fur niture store on January 15. The sofa was delivered without the caster. I have called the store four times since January and each time I have been told that I will receive the caster in "a week" and to "be patient." I now have a book under this corner of the sofa so a sharp part which protrudes (where the caster should be) will not put a hole in my rug.

This remedy was a suggestion from the store's customer service manager! Can you HELP! me get this caster? MRS. JOHN LARABY, ROCHESTER A. Small problems big problems. We cheerfully take them all. You now have your caster.

HELP! Lost Coat, No Check Q. In April of 1968, I took three coats to Perfecto Dry Cleaners of Brockport to be cleaned and stored for the summer. In September when I came to pick up my clothes, they couldn't find them and asked me to stop in the next week. After several trips to the store, they had found only two of the three items. I stopped in every week for the next three or four weeks, but they still couldn't find the missing one.

In November, I was given an insurance form and was told it would be 10 days to two weeks before I would hear from them. I haven't heard a word. I have called the store many times, but the manager is not in. It wasn't a large amount. The coat was $35 new and used four months before I took it to the store.

I put the value at $30. Can you please MRS. W. FANCHER A. The store's manager told HELP! he would pay you $25 to settle the claim and advised us to tell you to stop in for it.

We did. You did. But the check wasn't ready when you went to the store a few days later. We tried contacting the manager again about this, but he wasn't in and hasn't returned the messages. Maybe the check will be ready soon.

feedback Last Sunday, HELP! advised W. M. Mac-Intyre of Avon that there wasn't much we could do for him because he had paid a 1966 parking ticket in cash. Apparently the City of Rochester could find no record of his cash payment and sent him another bill. Since our advice to Reader Maclntyre, our City Court judges have clarified that tickets older than two years old do not have to be paid.

Sections 142 and 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure provide a statute of limitations for traffic tickets over two years old. We suggest you send the ticket back to the court with a note citing Sections 142 and 144. We assume this applies to those New York City attempts to collect old traffic tickets, as well. House That's Not a Home Draper St. Girls Face Pen' By DON BYINGTON A bulldozer started tearing up pavement yesterday afternoon as the first step toward building a new $56 million Strong Memorial Hospital complex, It will be the most expensive building in Rochester to date and represents 10 years of planning and fund-raising by University of Rochester and Medical Center officials.

A luncheon and groundbreaking ceremony was given over to a numbed realization that, construction was finally starting after so many years of planning and to reminiscences of the first Strong Memorial Hospital. Dr. Nathaniel W. Faxon, first medical director and now living in West Falmouth, recalled that in 1922, there was $10 million to build a School of Medicine and Dentistry, a hospital, and to set up an endowment to run them. Today, the school spends more than $10 million a year on research and has a total annual budget of close to $40 million.

The medical school has also averaged one Nobel Prize winner per decade since it opened. Dr. Arthur Romberg, synthesizer of DNA which supervises the growth of the body, first became interested in research when he got jaundice while a medical student at the school. "I decided I wanted to know more about what caused the disease," he once said in an interview. This led him to "That schedule is backed up now," he said yesterday.

"I just got my budget authorization last Friday. If we can open an office by fall, I'll be very happy." The center's major role will be with those who are not drug users, Dolins said. It's staff will coordinate local campaigns to keep persons from starting the narcotics habit. It also will provide counseling for addicts and conduct a training course to help high school teachers spot drug users. Dolins said the commission is still trying to hire a staff to run the center and rent office space for it.

He said operational costs, including salaries, will run between $30,000 and $35,000 a year. The director of the center will earn a minimum salary of $9,660 a year. He will have an assistant, two professional persons and a secretary under him. Dolins said the professional employes will be sociologists. The delay in opening an office here, Dolins said, was caused by legislative cuts in the commission's budget.

He said it had to submit a supplemental spending program to have the funds restored. The commission will open similar centers in Bingham-ton, Utica, Westchester County and on Long Island, bringing the total of such offices in the state to 16. Dolins said he will dispatch the director of the center, once he is hired, to Rochester this summer to begin setting up the a i whether ble with the law was an Inmate charge stemming from a raid at the Draper Street house last year. He said he did not feel a fine would be a deterrent in her case and stipulated in her sentence that she would be sent to the penitentiary if brought back into court. Miss Robinson, originally charged with prostitution, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of being an inmate of a disorderly house and was fined $100.

Judge Barr said she had a 'conditional discharge stemming from an arrest in March and was told she, too, would be sent to the "pen" if rearrested. Miss Robinson told authorities she was leaving the house to be married shortly. Five other women arrested The girls from a house at 7 Draper St. pleaded guilty yesterday in City Court to morals charges. Five immediately left town and two others were told they would face penitentiary terms if rearrested.

Judge Culver K. Barr issued the a i to Lorraine Davis, 28, and Audrey Robinson, 26, who gave their address as 538 Joseph Ave. Miss Davis admitted a charge of promoting prostitution and was given a conditional discharge for one year. Police said she is the daughter of Mrs. Marion Davis, 49, who they said owns the Draper Street house and who has a long record of morals arrests.

Judge Barr noted that Miss Davis' only other recent trou in the police raid on Draper Street Monday night also admitted inmate charges and were given unconditional discharges (suspended sentences). They were Terri Lee, 23, Angela Meadows, 24, Vicky Carter, 28, and Tina Gordon, 24, all of New York City, and Angela Jones, 29, of Buffalo. Barr said the women agreed to leave town immediately after their cases were disposed of. None had prior arrest records here, the judge noted. Vice investigators said they raided the house on Draper Street six times last year and twice this year.

Yesterday's warnings penitentiary sentences for any future arrests is hoped to end activities at the house that police said is not a home. there is an office for him or not. "I'll have him there if he has to work in a phone booth," Dolins said. He said the center's education program will concentrate on adults as well as students. "Adult users are often over, looked," he said.

Four social agencies now conduct drug education programs in Rochester. Robbery Slaying Motive? By TOM RYAN Investigators last night said a man whose body was found in the Genesee River in Genesee Valley Park yesterday morning had been beaten about the head and shoulders with a blunt instrument and bled to death. Robbery was the apparent motive for the slaying of Wil-' liam Bradweir, 23, of 58 Hickory who worked two jobs and was separated from his wife and daughter, said Detective Lt. Anthony Fanti- grossi. Six teams of detectives are working on the homicide, the 14th this year.

Police last night found Bradwell's 1964 yellow and white Oldsmobile coupe in Hancock Street near West Avenue. It was otwed into headquarters for examination. Bradwell was last seen entering the auto about 9 p.m. Tuesday when he left his home and told neighbors he would be back before midnight to go to work at his guard's job for Continental Security. Fantigrossi said Bradwell is believed to have been slain between 9 and midnight.

His pockets were turned inside out and his wallet was missing. Fantigrossi said there was a clothesline around the victim's neck and chin when his Please turn page Human Rights Unit Names Chief, Aides Rochester Office of the State division are Edward D. Lynch, who heads regulatory activities, and Jose J. Torres, a specialist in community action programs. While a lawyer in Tennessee, Lynch successfully defended 20 persons white and Negro who had been charged with disturbing the peace in trying to build an integrated work camp near Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Torres formerly was a pro- equal opportunity in employment, public accommodations, housing and education. The new regional director holds a master's degree in ed-u a i from Shippenburg State College at Shippenburg, Pa. He entered the Army in 1942 as a private and later served in the Korean War as a combat Wilson helped draw the demarcation line between North and South Korea. Other appointees to the Appointment of Charles W. Wilson, a retired Army colonel, as director of a State Human Rights Division region which includes 10 Rochester area counties was announced yesterday.

The region includes Monroe, Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming, Livingston, Ontario, Steuben, 'Schuyler, Seneca and Wayne counties. Wilson and four field representatives will administer the State Human Rights Law on LI rdO Charles Wilson Jose Torres Edward Lynch gram director for Action For a Better Community IAC here. He taught school on his coming here 10 years ago..

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