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3 iocal Weather 2B ROCHESTER, N. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1973 Consumer Center: Stretching the Income Readers Ask HELP! Although the teachers spend much of their time out in the community, someone is at each center from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and each center has regular day classes as well as one evening class a week. The Jay Street center has a class for senior citizens Tuesdays from 10 a.m.

to 1 p.m., and a "mother's club" Mondays from 9 to 12. The Genesee Street centers has a sewing class from 1:30 to 4:30 on Wednesdays. Guest speakers from other agencies and from businesses often come to the classes. From Page 4B "It's really amazing," said Donna Phillips, in charge of the center at 54 Jay St. When the labels are ripped off, "they couldn't tell the difference." "We try to tell them to have long-range plans," said Mrs.

Evelyn Blackburn, in charge of the Genesee Street center. "We tell them to make a list of their needs and a list of their wants." "If we find a problem we handle it or refer it to the proper agency," she added. In one case, she said, they helped a confused Spanish-speaking mother get her 16 children into school. bilck, coordinator for the four centers. They may be frightened or uncomfortable, or may have trouble finding babysitters.

In these cases, the centers go to them, the teachers and their assistants going door to door in teams of two. They tell the stay-at-homes what different agencies and consumer laws exist to help them. They tell them how to stretch their money by renovating old clothes, refinishing furniture, avoiding impulse buying, comparing store brands with more expensive brands. is one of four inner city consumer education centers, funded by the federal government and administered by the city school district. The others are at 54 Jay 255 Bay and 926 N.

Clinton Ave. But although the tiny, inexpensively decorated offices host numerous classes in re-finishing, sewing, food preparation and money management, the four home economics teachers say their most important work is done outside. "Many people who need help won't come in" to the centers, said Donna 'Keirs- But when one of the women stood back and told the others in the authoritative tones of a practiced teacher how to cut the green fabric into pieces for a dress, the unwavering attention of the others showed that they hadn't come just for companionship. They were there on the serious business of learning how to manage on a small income. Before they left for the night, they had learned not only how to cut out a dress, but also how to replace a broken windowpane and fix a leaky faucet.

The room at 172 Genesee St. Irondequoit Teacher Strike Ex-Members Board Chief By BARBARA BURKE It looked more like a sewing bee than a class. On one side of the stuffy, store-front room, four women bent over a bolt of green fabric stretched out on a formica table. In another corner, a woman stood still while dramatic brown and white cotton was pinned over her clothes, caftan-style. In the back kitchen, two children bent over a card table a 15-year-old girl decorating her algebra notebook and a much younger child just as industriously crayoning a Donald Duck coloring book.

Michael 4u dissension and controversy created by one person: Mrs. Amelia Nugent." They conceded that they don't believe Mrs. Nugent will resign. Mrs. Nugent has been a taxpayer's advocate in the district for many years.

Though she's only been board president since July 2, she has served for several years as leader of a minority faction on the board. The former board members are also planning to ask State IK 1 i Rent Dispute Accord May Come Tomorrow Photo by Steve Groer trumpeter. The case of 27 Chatham Garden Apartments tenants who are holding back $4,251 in rent from their landlord, Rochester Management was adjourned until tomorrow so both sides can work out a settlement. The case was supposed to have come before City Court Judge Wilmer J. Patlow yesterday, but lawyers for both sides requested an adjournment.

More time is needed to work out a "memorandum of understanding" that will list items Rochester Management will agree to do before any 'Playing Your Hearts Out' Means More than Music How to Sell Old Buggy Q. I have an old buggy and a cutter (light sleigh) that were used many years ago to deliver mail in upstate New York. They are about 75 years old. Could you Si give me information about museum or antique dealers who would be interested? ORIS BAKER, Cedar Rapids, Iowa A. N.

W. Thomas'; chief curator for the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown, advises you to place an ad in the "Carriage Journal," 157 North Austins Place, Staten Island, N. Y. 10314. Thomas said many private collectors and museums are looking for such things but "We are not.

We have all we need." Deposit Returned Q. I had an operation in July through the out-patient clinic at Highland Hospital. I have Blue Cross and Blue Shield coverage which is to pay the total charge of $170, but I was told I had to pay $50 in i advance, which would be reimbursed by Blue Cross and Blue Shield. After the operation, I got a statement from Blue Cross and Blue Shield showing it had paid $120 as billed by Highland. I called Blue Cross and Blue Shield about reimbursement.

I was told to contact the hospital for reimbursement and have the hospital bill Blue Cross and Blue Shield the $50. I called Highland, was put on hold twice and disconnected twice. Then I was told someone would call back. No one did. Please Help.

CONSTANCE BANNING, Rochester A. Highland Hospital has sent you a check for $50. Sally Selnor, assistant administrator at the hospital, tracked down the problem. She says the deposit is only required if there isn't, a local insurance carrier. You shouldn't have paid the deposit because your insurance is through the local Blue Cross and Blue Shield office- You were told to pay the deposit by a new secretary who wasn't familiar with the procedure.

'Nothing Is Free' Q. I sent away for a cookware set six months ago to Longines Symphonette Society, New Rochelle. If I didn't like the set, I could send it back in seven days, but keep a free frying pan. I didn't like the set, kept the frying pan, and five days later took it to the post office to send back. The postage amounted to $6, which I refused to pay.

I wrote Longines five letters in a month, asking if I could send the set back postage due. I finally got a reply that Longines would pay United Parcel Service to pick up the set, which it did. To this day, I receive monthly bills for $76.11, plus" interest, for the cook set. And every month, I write explaining that the set was returned. The last bill said my credit would be demolished if I didn't pay up.

Help! ELAINE TROTTA, Gates A. "If she sent the pans back, our beef is with UPS (United Parcel Service)," says F. P. Dobyns, manager of customer relations. He's sent you a letter stating that your account has been cleared and that you might receive another bill before the accounting department catches the error.

Dobyns offered no reason why Longines didn't reply to your many letters. "Put my letter in the paper," you say, "to teach everyone not to send away for anything free. Nothing is free." To Call the Start or discuss delivery: Subscriber Service, 232-5550. Place a Want Ad: Rochester, 434-4200; WanU Ad Customer Service, 546-8150; Brockport Albion: 627-3115; Office in Batavia, Canan-daigua, Dansville, Gencsco, Geneva, Newark, News tips: City Editor 232-7100. Discuss bill, other purposes 232-7100.

Two Die as Car, Truck Collide in Clarkson Seek Ouster Education Commissioner Ewald Nyquist to intervene in the present crisis if an end doesn't come soon. The from Concerned Parents contained 3,797 signatures, equal to more than one-third of the district's voters. That petition asked Mrs. Nugent to settle the strike by Thursday. If there's no settlement, the parents say, they'll send a different petition with Please turn page money is paid from the October rent.

The money is now deposited with City Court. "We haven't reached an agreement on the memo yet," said Richard Horwitz, a lawyer representing Rochester Management. "We're still negotiating and things are kind of in a delicate situation now." The rent strike began Oct. 9. Tenants are protesting rent increases and lack of maintenance and security.

Chatham Gardens is a 1H6-unit complex on Jospeh Avenue and Kelly Street. leans County. They were not injured. Also riding in the car was Roger Kleiner, 31, whose address was not immediately known. He was admitted to Lakeside Hospital in Brock-port, with scalp and internal injuries.

The crash oraned at the intersection of Ridge Road West and Redman Road, Stale Police troopers said the front of the pickup collided broadside with the car. Legislature. The legislators operate in districts that combine several wards. That move eliminated the super visors. So now the only one left is the constable.

You can't eliminate the wards until you eliminate the consta- bles. Chiavaroli said. And to eliminate the consta- bles, it would bo necessary to hold a referendum-a move which would be as bothersome as leaving the post on the ballot. So today, the slate looks like this: The Republicans have nominated candidates for the post of constable in 10 wards. The Democrats have nominees for the post in 11.

And the Conservatives are contesting the post in the 22nd Ward only. At day's end, the voter may ask "What does a constable or "Why am I voting for someone to fill the post of constable?" Ask Dady. He'll tell yflS that the answers to both an steeped in a long, enduring history. Huffman, 12, be with the children and I love to work with them." This year alone, Scott said, for operating the drum corps have exceeded $9,000 in his quest to keep it alive as a deterrent to delinquency. Scotv said his idea has worked well.

"I can look around Rochester and every day I can point to adults who participated in the corps. There are lawyers, businessmen, policemen, politicians and others who have made it," he said. "And I feel good, because I know that I had something to do with their success." Of 55 engagements this year, the corps has received 11 first prizes in competitions, Scott said. "I think this is all pretty re Sabers By MARY RITA KURYCKI Twenty-five former district board members yesterday asked for the resignation of East Irondequoit school board president Amelia as the district teachers entered the second week of their strike. There was no action, however, in court or at the bargaining table.

In State Supreme Court, teachers' lawyers argued against a temporary court order against the strike. Justice Joseph Ark reserved decision until later this week and continued the order pending his ruling. The former board members who asked for Mrs. Nugcnt's resignation also asked her fellow board members to consider removing her from office if she doesn't voluntarily step down. "I'm not a negotiable item," Mrs.

Nugent said after receiving the petition asking for her resignation and one from a group called Concerned Parents asking her to settle the strike by Thursday. "They brought them to me, and I think they expected me to collapse or something. But I don't collapse that easy," Mrs. Nugent said, laughing. 'These past board members are fanning the strike.

If they want to get rid of me why don't they stick around and throw me out after the strike?" Mrs. Nugent said she and the rest of the board are prepared to join their negotiators at the bargains table if their presence will help solve the present crisis. "But I don't think sitting down together will do much good if we just hurl emotional statements at each other." She said the last time she sat down with State United Teachers union field representative Jeff Cloutier, he used a vulgar term to describe her. Former board members said yesterday that they're asking for Mrs. Nugent's resignation because "this crisis is the end result of 15 years of harassment, undermining, ble: To help the Democratic party.

I was a legman, a party man. I helped at the polls; I got to know the people. "As a younger man, I used the position of constable to test my voting power. I've been invited to run for County Legislature or something bigger, but with a big family and my health, I had to take it easy," Dady said. At 52, Dady, a packaging foreman at E.

I. DuPont Nemours Company's photographic products department, says he would like to see his six children sound out politics. "Listen, I had to know what was going on in my party. I bad to be nosy. If they ask, I'll tell my childern that they can forget the country be- cause of the present setbacks.

markable, considering we get so little i'inancial support from local business," Scott said. "A lot of the $9,000 spent this year has come out of my own pocket." "Everyone always remarks how good we are and they're so proud to see us in a parade," he continued. "But so few of those same people contribute toward the corp's upkeep uniforms and instruments." The kids seem to respect Scott. Ranging in age from 6 to 21, they all say they devote most of their spare time to the corps. "My boyfriend brought me to one of the practices about a year ago," said 15-year-old Madonna Reed of 115 Mill- Please turn to 4D A Piece of Tradition-Ward Constable By KEVIN DILWORTII "And now ladies and gentlemen," the announcer said, "we're coming home.

Introducing to you at this time, Scott's Sabre Drum Corps from Rochester, N.Y." Immediately the Community War Memorial was filled with cheers for a group of inner-city youths about to wail their hearts out through their musical instruments. A rhythmic pulsating beat burst out of the drum section of the 90-member entourage. The horn and brass section filled the air with regal overtones. With chests out and bodies erect, Scott's Sabres choreo-graphically strutted out center stage in their royal blue uniforms. In the sparkling eyes of William J.

Soctt, their 68-year-old mentor, it was just another day in his 36-year career with the drum corps. He beamed proudly at his charges. His work began in 1937, when Scott started the corps, and to date there have been about 3,000 Scott's Sabres. This time they were performing at the Urban Expo '73. Their performance was the same scene that had been repeated in travel and competition throughout the United States and Canada since the beginning of Scott's Sabres.

They were third on the bill, and the pre-exhibition exctie-ment backstage began well in advance of their performance. "Shut, up and listen," said Corky Singleton, one of six volunteers who aid Scott in training and supervising the youths. "If there's one thing you people are going to remember, it's that you're going to play your hearts out." And so they did for some 20 foot-stomping and finger-snapping minutes. They went through renditions of "Vehicle," "Oh Happy Day," "Fanfare" and "Black Saddle." "It's been almost a one-man operation all these years," Scott said at the end of the show. "I guess what keeps me going is the idea that I like to 7 can say I've found Two persons were killed at 11:20 p.m.' yesterday when a car and a pickup truck collided on snow-slicked Route KM in Clarkson.

Killed was the driver of the car, Cathy Rhodes, 25, of 4()B Victor Lane, Hamlin, and her 2-ycar-old son Douglas, who was riding with her. The driver of the truck was James Sisson of Hulbcrton, also in the truck was Frederick Robinson of Kendall, Or if useful' Watergate is one big reason to get involved in ics, not to stay away from it," Dady said. For all his overt resignation over the fading role of constable in the electoral process, Dady is proud to be a piece of a tradition which he has made useful and relevant even now. It is because of men like Dady said that wards still exist, V. James Chiavaroli, Monroe County's elections commissioner.

"The wards were first set up for aldermen, supervisors and constables," said Chiavaroli. "But when the mayor-city form of government was voted out in 1925 and replaced by the city manager form of government, that eliminated the aldermen. "Then in 1966, the old Board of Supervisors was dissolved and replaced by the County By MAURICE THOMPSON Six years ago when he was a political novice, William E. Dady hustled around and knocked on doors, rallying support for his bid for constable in the 10th Ward. He won handily over his Republican opponent.

Now, two elections and one open-heart operation later, a gimlet-eyed politico is taking it easy. He is earnest still, but since there is no opponent for the post of constable in the 1st Ward, where he now lives, Dady can spend "the night before" sipping ginger ale, watching television and, perhaps, making a phone call or two. He feels sure the people near 335 Lakeview Park, where he lives, will make him ward constable again. Every so often, Dady has had to answer questions about his role as constable, a role which most people regard as an anachronistic hang-over from colonial times, when a constable was a law-and-order busybody, with uniform, gun and baton. Dady knows there have been moves to remove the post of constable from the ballot.

Dady knows that most people think of constables as something of a joke. "I don't mind if it's phased out," Daly says resignedly. "I can say I've found it useful." While some constables wear a badge and earn tees as process-servers for lawyers, a role which allows them to serve a subpoena or eviction notice, others have been content to earn whatever status the job could impart, or to use it as a steppingstone for official office. "With all that's going on in the world today, I feel everyone should take part in polities Dalv said. "This is how I used my position as consta- HELP! tries to solve problems and answe questions.

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