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Greater Rochester This Morning 6B ROCHESTER, N. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1970 No Budget Hassle Sssk Sch Park Ban Protested to if i tjsSW Mil Reins the FIGHT youth drug prevention program into the schools1 to show films. George J. Rentsch, assistant superintendent for instruction, told the board that it's "hard to determine the right length of program for drug education." "But the FIGHT program The new ban on snowmobiles in all 15 county parks has caused dismay among area snowmobile enthusiasts. Snowmobile fans contacted last night said they doubted whether the law requiring posting of snowmobile routes had been correctly interpreted by County Parks Director Alvan R.

Grant. Grant maintains the ban is a result of a state law requiring standard signs marking snowmobile trails. He said the county won't have the money to put the signs up this winter. SYLVANI.VS DIVISION of Entertainment Products in Batavia today will lay off 175 employes in a cutback aimed at closing the plant. The company said the 300 remaining employes will continue for "probably several weeks more." The plant employed 1,700 last fall when the company announced transfer of its operation to Smithfield, N.C.

NORMAN G. ELLIS, 18, of 255 Stottle Road, Chili, will be arraigned Tuesday night before Wheatland Town Justice Herbert Carlberg on a charge of criminal possession of a dangerous drug and possession of a narcotics instrument. Wheatland Police Sgt. Donald L. Norris and Officer Thomas J.

Donovan arrested Ellis Monday on a warrant charging him with possession of marijuana and a pipe in Wheatland-Chili Central School Nov. 13. AN ELMGROVE ROAD segment closed to all but local traffic for about a year will be opened to through traffic at 10 a.m. today. But the State Transportation Department urges motorists to use caution because there will be workmen on the job sites.

The state has built a bridge over the Barge Canal and rebuilt a bridge under the Penn Central railroad tracks south of the canal. Elmgrove Road has been closed from Lyell Avenue to Ridge Road West in Greece. THE FIFTH LEADERSHIP Development Workshop class for inner city residents graduated yesterday in ceremonies at the University of Rochester Faculty Club. Riverton Plan Questioned Two Henrietta citizens" last night blasted the Henrietta Town Board for going against the wishes of its citizens by moving to change Henrietta's zoning laws to accommodate Riverton, the proposed' $250 million planned community to be developed on 1,300 acres in the towns of Henrietta and Wheatland. ISCd By KATHLEEN MATICHEK The City Board of Education last night agreed to ask City Council for immediate fiscal independence.

This can be done, if the council agrees, by freezing the city's $9 million of extra taxing power at its present level of two-thirds to-the school district and one-third to the city. Now council has the power to parcel out the percentages as it wishes. By freezing the current rate the board would be assured of responsibility of its spending wihout a hassle at budget tune. It takes three years to gain fiscal independence by law, passage by two consecutive State Legislatures and a statewide referendum. Since the council has said it favors fiscal independence for the schools," the board wants implement it as quickly as possible.

In other action at the meeting at John Marshall High School, the board approved Edwin A. Roberts as principal of Edison Technical and Industrial High School. Roberts, 47, will succeed Dec. 1 Ingra-ham Humphrey, who is retiring. Roberts, now vice principal at East High School, will earn $19,058.

Mrs. Sylvia Bloom has been reassigned as- instructional specialist at the Manpower Skills 'Center. She was acting director of the center. Her sal-ary is $16,635. Also, LaMarr J.

Jackson, assistant community affairs officer, is being dispatched for three weeks to the community schools council as project assistant for curriculum. After the meeting the board listened to two city parents complain, that the school district is "going overboard" on its drug education program. Mr. an Mrs. George Dear of 101 Ave.

E. said that too much emphasis on drugs "will cause the use of drugs." 1 They disagreed with the schools program of inviting Photo by Jim Laragy Sun Bather This squirrel basking in sun Britton Road, Greece, might advantage of one of the last of year. Increasing cloudiness and chance of rain is predicted for today. It was 53 degrees at 3 p.m. yesterday.

in tree off be taking good days Goldberg Appointment The workshop was started a year ago and is sponsored jointly by five area colleges: Rochester Institute of Technology, St. John Fisher College, Nazareth College, Monroe Community College and the University of Rochester, It is funded through federal grants. THE $7.5 MILLION capital funds drive of the Young Men's Christian Association has been extended for two weeks because it had attained only 72 per cent of its goal by Wednesday night, the scheduled campaign close. David Strasenburgh, chairman, said that about 40 per cent of the solicitation cards were still unreported. ABOUT 35 JEFFERSON High Students will tour the United Nations in New York City today.

The students will attend a briefing on current issues, followed by a luncheon and a meeting with a United Nations delegate. JOHN G. ROBINSON, board chairman and vice president of Information Associates Inc. of Fairport, has been elected to the Highland inges on Senate Action mm mW! wi twit Jiiwwt'jwwwt-a I' has some value and no school is forced to use FIGHT'S films," Rentsch said. Bernard R.

Gifford, FIGHT president, said later last night that the program "has been so popular that we're booked to February to show the government-issued films in the schools." HAROLD E. FARNETH i New Dean Named At MCC Monroe Community College trustees yesterday appointed a Pennsylvania community college administrator dean of curriculum to replace Dr. Arthur L. Assum, who died last June. Dr.

Harold E. Farneth, academic dean of Community College of Allegany County, West Mifflin, assumes the $21,300 position Jan. 1. He will be one of four academic deans at MCC. Prior to his position at West Mifflin, Farneth was dean of students at Butler Community College, Butler, from 1965 to 1967.

He began his education career as a junior high school teacher in 1950. Farneth received a bachelor of arts in history, a master's in secondary education and a doctorate in education, all from the University of Pitsburgh. He is married and has two daughters. BERNARD R. GIFFORD 'too premature' to talk i 1 iSjr gJh Post I "background as a superior educator." Marland was nominated Sept.

22 by President Nixon. Yesterday Marland began to testify before the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. He said he expected testimony to last several weeks. If the Senate confirms him as commissioner, he said, Goldberg will be his associate commissioner for elementary and secondary education. Like Goldberg, Marland is a strong advocate of integration By KATHLEEN MATICHEK Dr.

Sydney P. Marland the. designated U.S. Commissioner of Education, last night confirmed that City Schools' Supt. Herman R.

Goldberg will get a job in Washington if Marland's own appointment is confirmed. "It all hinges on my confirmation by the Senate. Right now it would be premature to say when Mr. Goldberg will be named," Marland said. He added that Goldberg is a "close friend" and that he sought him because of his Hospital noara of directors.

Robinson, who lives at 202 Brunswick is a member of the Rochester Investment Rochester Chapter of the Data Processing Management Association, the Genesee Valley Club and Oak Hill Country Club. JOHN G. ROBINSON programs. One of the reasons he hasn't been confirmed yet is because of strong opposition to his desegregation stand by Southern senators. Marland, 56, is on the same national committee that Goldberg heads, the President's National Advisory Commission on Disadvantaged Children.

He has the backing of the National Education Association but organized labor is op- posed to him because of what they call his "opposition to collective bargaining for teachers when he was superintendent in Pittsburgh." He was in Pittsburgh for five years. In 1968 Marland became president of the Institute for Educational Development in New York City. Speculation in Washington, D.C., is that Elliot Richardson, secretary of HEW, is waiting to announce the positions under the ommissioner until Marland's appointment is confirmed. At first it was thought that Richardson would name them before so that the Senate would be voting on a package of educators. Frank J.

Lang Jr. 6070 E. River Road, told, a gathering of about 125 persons at Roth School in Henrietta that the Town Board was "catering to big developers and big 'contractors." Lang, organizer of a citizens' group to oppose the Riverton project, called it "planned urban destruction." Godfrey Guerrette, 126 Authors also an opponent of the development, said that he supported the concept of planned communities, but that it requires good planning and inspection. "If past experienc in Henrietta holds up," said Guerrette, "we have the-biggest disaster area in the world coming up." Lang said that it was "ridiculous to think of doubling the population of Henrietta when the town has not planned well enough for its present needs." He said that the Henrietta school system could not accommodate tne approximately 3,960 students that would be added to the Rush-Henrietta School District. studied radiation biology and biophysics.

He is working on a thesis in biophysics that may be completed in time for him to receive his doctorate from the UR in June. Gifford has been a controversial figure in city affairs since defeating former FIGHT President Minister Franklin Florence in a hotly contested 1969 convention. In June, he defeated Minister Florence again. In that convention, the organization's bylaws were changed to grant the president a two-year term. Under the revised bylaws, one FIGHT' member said, leadership would be handed to Vice President Rev.

Raymond Scott if Gifford should leave. FIGHT 2 Students Held In School Fires UR Plans 'Rail' Road The University of Rochester is planning to build a road nearly two miles long along an Erie-Lackawanna Railroad track to connect three of its campuses. The two-lane private road would run north from Crittenden Road almost to River Boulevard at the River Campus. No date has been set for construction, said George M. Angle, vice president for business affairs, but removal of the railroad track was completed last week.

Erie-Lackawanna trains have been using the adjacent Lehigh Valley Railroad track for the past month, in accordance with an agreement-made between the two railroads and the university in August 1969. The road probably will be completed in several phases. The first phase may connect the Medical School campus with the River Campus. Eventually the South Campus, which now consists of the Nuclear Structure Laboratory on East River Road and vacant university land, also will be connected. A parking lot, using the railroad right-of-way where it adjoins River Cam-pus, may precede the road if funds are available, Angle said.

OTETIANA COUNCIL, Boy Scouts of America, will be helping the Monroe County Parks Department in its 1971 program with a new project entitled Save Our American Resources (SOAR). The project will include tree planting, plant care, soil erosion correction and stream control, trail development and marking and clearing of brush for new camping areas and park facilities. The project will help meet some of the low priority items of development that may be deleted from the 1971 parks' program. ABOUT 50 INNER-CITY youngsters received 4-H certificates of achievement last night from Mayor Stephen May. The presentation ceremony, held in the auditorium of the Monroe County Farm and Home Center at 249 Highland recognized work done by the 4-H youths in gardening, woodworking, sewing, cooking and other crafts.

A special plaque for meritorious service went to Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Brucker of 280 Phillips Road, Webster, for their work with the inner-city clubs. By TOM RYAN Two 15-year-old boys yesterday were accused of starting three fires in West High School, 501 Genesee Monday night.

Police and fire investigators said the boys, both West students, have been charged with first degree arson, third degree burglary, second degree reckless endangerment and petit larceny. Has Coll egeJobOffe Regional Deaths Gifforcl May Leave Detective John Vadas said a large quantity of food was taken from the school's cafeteria and figured the thieves may have been runaway boys. Vadas checked the missing persons reports and found the names of two boys who live in the Genesee Street area. Vadas, Officer William Young and Fire Investigators John Chiavetta and Donald Wilson located and questioned them. Chiavetta said afterward that two boys entered West about 9 p.m.

Monday by pushing in a boarded-up girls' locker room window. He said they went to the cafeteria where they ate and tossed food around. They returned to the girls' locker room, started a fire in a laundry cart filled with towels and added chair cushions to the blaze. Chiavetta said the boys then entered a towel room off the boys' locker room, sprayed a flammable fluid they found onto contents of another laundry cart and set it afire. Joseph L.

Licata, 56, of LeRoy, Wednesday in Batavia. Among survivors are brothers Samuel and Michael Licata of Rochester. Samuel J. Breckenridge, 72, of Stafford, Wednesday. Mark A.

Armstorng, 3-year-old son of Mrs. Londa Armstrong of Covington, yesterday. William D. Burns, fifi, of Canandaigua, Wednesday in his home. He was a Fairport native.

Clifford M. Nielsen, 65, of Penn Yan, yesterday. Mrs. John G. Kommer, 70, of Shortsville, Wednesday in a Canandaigua hospital.

Her survivors include a sister, Mrs. Helen Curran of East Rochester. Mrs. Bessie Smith, 82, of Newark, yesterday in a Newark hospital. George A.

O'Brien, 62, of Canandaigua, yesterday in Rochester after a long illness. He was a statistician for 38 years in the Rochester office of the Rochester Gas Electric Corp. Survivors include a sister, Mrs. George McLaughlin of Rochester. Mrs.

Nellie MacDonald. 84. of Seneca Falls, yesterday in a Geneva nursing home. Mrs. Theodore Ersfeld Jr.

71 of Cohocton, yesterday in her home. By FRANK ZORETICH FIGHT President Bernard R. Gifford said yesterday he may leave Rochester in June to take a position offered him by the City College of New York. The job associate provost in charge of community relations and special student affairs-would pay the leader of this city's largest black organization from $22,000 to $30,000 annually. Gifford, 27, said it is "too premature" to make a statement on the offer, but added that "under no circumstances" will he leave Rochester before June.

He said he didn't actively seek the job, which he described as a "third-tier posi tion, under the provost and the president of CCNY." Gifford said if he took the job he would work with "an urban studies institute( an inter-disciplinary approach to the problems of the city," and how to make the college, the oldest branch of the City University of New York, useful to the entire community. Dr. Robert E. Marshak, fomer University of Rochester physicist who has been president of CCNY since Sept. 1, said last night the college is "in the middle of a black and Puerto Rican Harlem community.

Mr. Gifford has been offered a job, and we are awaiting his final answer." Dr. Abraham Schwartz, CCNY provost and viee president for academic affairs, last night said the position offered Gifford is one of two associate provost posts being created by the college. "We're talking about speculation, at best," Schwartz said. "There are no associate provosts now; tentatively there will be two.

But both the jobs and the appointees have yet to be approved through several groups, including the New York City Board of Higher Education." Schwartz said the salary of an associate provost would depend on the individual's experience and academic rank. Gifford received a master's degree in 1968 from the University of Rochester, where he.