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ional IJmofrataodtClinmiffc Briefly Obituaries Help! 6B 2B 6B 0 ROCHESTER. N.Y., MONDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1977 KiQO upervisor Voting power could change in election race: vs. Kempf 4 photos by Charles Wilson Dan Van Norman, The Count seems to have his vampire routine backwards. He appears in daylight to scare daughter Tracy but sticks to his coffin at night to greet Halloween visitors.

She plans plenty of tricks to give kids a spooky treat with tombstones and other trappings. Mrs. Keesler started the Halloween activity modestly five years ago by dressing as a witch to greet trick-or-treaters. Since then she has increased the number of scenery changes that bring the youngsters to her door. This year, in addition to the tombstones, spider webs, bats and spooky music of past Halloweens, there is a "vampire's cave" in her front yard and a ghost that will "float" along a pulley system over the simulated graveyard.

Black lights will give the front porch a purplish glow, and fluorescent i paint will cover skulls and other By CHARLES WILSON PHELPS Sheila Keesler expects to have more than 2,000 night visitors at her West Main Street home next weekend, and she and her friends have spent three weeks getting ready for them. Some people consider trick-or-treaters nothing more than a late October nuisance, but Mrs. Keesler spends a lot of time and money making Halloween special for those who come to her door. For the past four years she has transformed the front of her rather normal-looking house at 131 W. Main Street into an eerie sight complete By RUTH BENEDICT WALWORTH Councilman Gary Kempf faces incumbent supervisor Carlyle Darron for a two-year term as supervisor in the Nov.

8 election. Kempf, 35, of Orchard Street is completing his first term as town councilman. A Democrat, he has the endorsement of the county Conservative party. Darron, a Republican, who lives on Walworth Penfield Road, is completing his first elected term. He was appointed councilman in July 1975 to fill a vacancy and was appointed town supervisor several months later when supervisor Charles Hack died.

Darron was elected supervisor in 1975. Kempf, a seventh-grade science teacher at the Ontario Middle School, favors consolidation of part-time positions for greater efficiency and said he will advocated a county study on youth needs to supplement various youth programs. Kempf said he believes some money is being wasted and he would advocate using available youth funds for delinquent youths rather than recreation. A panel of educators could study the problem, he said. Darron, a dairy farmer, says he favors a countywide drainage study to improve farming, housing and industrial development land.

He said re-financing the town's water district loans at 5 per cent has saved hundreds of thousands of dollars over the 30-year duration of the $1,448,500 loan. The town's beautifica-tion program and completion of the Town Office in Walworth were two other accomplishments in 1977, Darron said. Darron called the town's negotiated settlement with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for Gananda an "important step because we derive about 25 per cent of our taxes from that area." He said future building there will give the town more tax revenue. Kempf said, "I would like to see a realignment of priorities for people, not things.

New roads we need, but they don't directly enhance the quality of life." He said he would continue to work to improve libraries, historic preservation and family recreation. Kempf said the town's three fire departments do "a superb job," but he's unhappy with the cost of fire district No. 1 in Walworth. He said taxpayers are still paying for the new building the district "ramrodded" through two years ago, and charged that the district spends more than twice what the town's other fire protection districts in Lincoln and West Walworth spend. Kempf called the state's $750 million bond issue a "joke" and a ''typical stopgap measure.

"No business would operate on tne premise of endless borrowing," he said. Both candidates support the proposed county charter. Kempf said he believes in avoiding state and federal "matching grant" programs because the money the government offers "is still our money anyway." He said he would work to retain local control over money, taxes and programs. Darron said he would like to establish a citizens' committee to invite small business and industry into the Gananda Development Park. He said Walworth's recent housing boom and "growing pains" have begun to level off, giving the Town Board more time Turn to Page 2B Assault victim dies; man to be charged spooky objects seen by trick-or-treaters reaching into the "candy pot" by the front porch steps.

Last year more than 1,000 people came to the Keeslers' home in three days including 800 in one night. A policeman directs traffic in front of the house during the evening. One of Mrs. Keesler's helpers is Dan Van Norman of Marion, who will be lying in his "coffin" in the vampire's cave Saturday night dressed as Count Dracula. Van Norman has been involved in the Halloween doings here for several years.

Next Halloween he wants to make the Keeslers' basement into a "dungeon." Mrs. Keesler said her husband, Wilson, "won't have anything to do with it" the Halloween hoopla, but his mother, Dorothy Keesler of Newark, has been helping and will play "Igor" Saturday night. Asked why she does this each Halloween, Mrs. Keesler, who has no children of her own, said, "Because I love kids and nobody does that much for the kids anymore The neighbors hate me, but the kids all seem to love it." She stressed that all her Halloween decorations are built with the children's safety in mind and that she has two large cases of individually wrapped candy so that parents can be sure it is safe. Dracula and his cohorts will be waiting for trick-or-treaters Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m.

Just candy will be available Sunday and Monday evenings. By CAROL RITTER SENECA FALLS Control of the Seneca County Board of Supervisors could be shifted from the Republicans in the Nov. 8 election. The 14-member board now has a total of 749 votes divided on the basis of population in each member's area. Although the county has 10 towns, the board has 14 members because a computerized system of weighting the vote determined that four extra people were needed to make the system fair.

The Towns of Seneca Falls and Waterloo, which together have more than half the total population in the county, controled the board with only two people voting when there were only 10 supervisors. The weighted voting system, in effect for several years, calls for two extra supervisors in each of those towns to serve only at the county level, with no town function. That's to divide the large lumps of votes into more manageable portions. Now, four of the six Seneca Falls-Waterloo representatives are Republicans, the other two Democrats. If all six were from the same party, vote-splitting might not be as likely.

The Republican Party now has 433 of the total votes, with eight Republican supervisors, while the six Democrats control the other 316 votes. Two supervisors are running unopposed. They are Board Chairman Frank Saracino (67 votes) of Seneca Falls and Ovid Supervisor Lawrence Wilkins (56 votes). Both are Republicans. With two three-way contests for supervisor posts, there's the possibility of a board that has Democrats, Republicans, a Conservative and a Democrat elected as an independent.

In Fayette, Ciro "Sam" Alongi is a Democrat running on the Taxpayers' Party ticket against incumbent Democrat James Somerville and Republican Richard Morse. The Fayette supervisor, with 72 votes, has the largest number of votes of any board member. In Waterloo, only three candidates are running for two county-level supervisor seats. Since two of them are Republicans, one Republican is sure to win election there. Two Republicans and two Democrats are running for the two county-level seats in Seneca Falls.

In Waterloo, Conservative Edward Ryder is running against incumbent Democrat Franklin "Bert" Lanphear and Republican Laverne Sessler. The seat controls 63 votes. Republicans on the board are Wilkins, John Swanson of Covert (53 votes), Saracino, Albert Capacci and Allyn Morehouse, all of Seneca Falls (67 votes each); Harry Amidon of Tyre (22 votes), Leo Davids of Varick (38) and Dr. William Schoenleber of Waterloo (63 votes). Democrats now serving are somerville, Wade Townsend of Junius (28 votes), Francis Hurd of Lodi (33), Ray Zajac of Romulus (57), Lanphear, and Anthony Di Pronio of Waterloo (63).

Townsend and Morehouse are not seeking reelection. consultant Vivienne Tellier met with 24 Rochester area wine retailers and wholesalers to discuss November's "Wine Month" promotion. For the first time, members of the wine industry have organized through the Department of Agriculture and Markets and are financing the promotion of their product. "You can't imagine how fractured the wine industry is," Mrs. Cadoux said.

"Big wineries compete with the little ones, big wineries compete with each other. The state plays an important role in drawing them together. We can do it, because we have no axe to grind. We want to benefit all of them. If any one faction in the industry tried, there immediately would have been mistrust." The first goal of the promotional campaign is to educate the public about the availability and quality of wines produced in their home state.

The next target group will be restaurant owners and wine merchants, many of whom stock New York wines but don't promote them. "Some restaurants are dedicated to the promotion of New York wines," said Ms. Tellier, a free-lance consultant hired by the state. "But most offer only one or two on a wine list dominated by California and imported wines." The long-range goal will be national promotion, possibly through arrangements in which New York agrees to promote a product of another state and in return, that other state will Turn to Page 5B State Police Investigator Edward DeFisher said yesterday Berrios lived for 24 hours following the assault. He said the Monroe County Medical Examiner's Office yesterday ruled the cause of death to be a fractured skull.

Wayne County Dist. Atty. Stephen Sirkin said Delgado is being held without bail in the Wayne County Jail. He said the case will be presented to a Wayne County grand jury following the second arraignment and he expects the grand jury to hand down its findings on Nov. 14.

DeFisher said he was preparing to file papers to strike the assault charge and enter a second-degree murder charge on Delgado yesterday. He said it has not yet been determined where the new arraignment will take place. WILLIAMSON A Newark man is to be arraigned on a charge of second-degree murder this week in connection with the death of another Newark man who was assaulted late Friday night. Luis Angel Delgado, 27, of 4 Fillmore will be charged in the death of Pedro Berrios, 40, of 101 East Ave. Berrios died in Rochester General Hospital at 10 p.m.

Saturday night from head wounds. Delgado was arrested late Friday night and charged with first-degree assault in connection with the incident and was arraigned before Williamson Town Justice Walden Collward. Berrios, a fellow employe at the Duffy-Mott processing plant in Williamson, was struck on the head with a shovel about 10 p.m. Friday. Gary Kempf Walworth clerk is challenged for 8th term WALWORTH Town Clerk Joyce Scott of Canandaigua Road is running for an eighth term against Republican lewcomer Marcia Englert.

Mrs. Englert of Walworth Penfield Road, works at Englert Welding as a bookkeeper and secretary. She says she will work a six-day, 42-hour week at the Town Clerk's office if elected. Democrats Charles G. Bills and Bonnie Kowalski face incumbent Republican Councilmen Gary Bork-huis and Edward Lonneville for four-year councilmen posts.

Bills, who lives on Canandaigua Road, is a remedial reading teacher at Ontario Middle School. Mrs. Kowalski of Orchard Street believes she is the first woman ever to run for own councilman. She is a lomemaker. Borkhuis, appointed to fill a vacancy in January, is a skilled machinist at the'Eastman Kodak Co.

He lives on Walworth Road. Lonneville, deputy supervisor, was appointed councilman in 1975 and elected that November. He lives on Walworth Ontario Road. Democrat Milton O'Brien faces incumbent Ronald Brown for a four-year term, as justice. Democrat Frank Guelli of Ontario Center Road faces appointed incumbent James Cole of Lincoln Road for a two-year councilman term.

Cole was appointed Aug. 1 to a vacancy created by the resignation of Councilman John Edmunds. Guelli ran unsuccessfully for supervisor against the late Charles Hack in 1973 and against incumbent Carlyle Darron in 1975. Guelli owns a restaurant in Rochester. Cole is a research employe for Rochester Gas Electric Corp.

Incumbent Highway Superintendent Daniel Keyes opposed by Democrat -Robert Lemmey for the two-year superintendent's seat. Keyes of Ontario Center Road is completing his third termj Lemmey of Bills Road is head of the signal department for Conrail in Walworth's Hamlet of Wayneport. Lemmey, Walworth Democratic Party (Jhairman, was narrowly defeated for Carlyle Darron Drink up, drink ours, state says By DEDE MURPHY Some of the finest wines in the world are being produced in your own backyard or at least that's the message the state Department of Agriculture and Markets is trying to spread with its new campaign promoting state vintages. Unfortunately, New York State wines have cornered only about one-twentieth of the nation's wine market, according to Doris Cadoux, deputy commissioner of the state Department of Agriculture and Markets. "It's the same problem as with many of our agriculture products.

People aren't aware our wine exists, or of the quality of it," she said. It's not just the rest of the world that's popping corks on imported and California wine instead of New York's product. New Yorkers themselves are buying other wines first. "People just don't realize we're the second largest wine state in this country," Mrs. Cadoux said.

"Down-state is the worst. New York City is hopelessly unaware of this." She said more than half the wines sold in New York City are imported. Nationally, California bottles and sells about 10 times the amount of wine New York does. California wines are widely known and distributed because that state organized a promotional Wine Institute 34 years ago. Mrs.

Cadoux said New York's wine industry is trying to develop in a few years the kind of market California did in 34 years. Wednesday, Mrs. Cadoux and wine Fire evicts family of 3 BATH A family of three was left homeless after fire heavily damaged the Claude Stephens home along Bath-Cameron Road near Coss Corners yesterday afternoon. Ronald Stephens, 16, was burned on a forearm when propane gas ignited, said Bath fire fighter Spencer Longwell. The youth was using a cigarette lighter to find a leak in the propane gas line near the tank when the gas ignited and caught the house on fire, said John Crane, an assistant fire chief.

The youth was treated at the scene by, members of the Bath Volunteer Ambulance Corps. His parents were at home, but no one else was injured, Crane said. Nothing was believed to have been saved from the small, one-story frame home, and the family was believed to be staying temporarily in a camper nearby. Crane said. town councilman in 1975.

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