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DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE, ROCHESTER. N.Y.. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 31. 1983 3B Fire leaves 11 homeless and injures four DIARY THE WAY WE WERE by Del Ray What was life in Rochester like 150 years ago? Now you can go back in time to Rochester's roots.

Read about its politics, laws, customs. Enjoy anecdotes about its people, events, activities and accomplishments. Experience the style and tone of life as it was 150 years ago. The people in this daily feature marking Rochester's sesquicentennial are real. Based on diaries, early Rochester newspapers and other authentic materials, 1834 DIARY -The Way We Were is written by Del Ray, a retired Times-Union writer and editor.

Enjoy it Monday through Friday. 1834 THE WAY WE WERE begins Tuesday, January 3rd and will appear daily in the TIMES-UNION firefighters pied by Victoria McGowan and her daughter, who wasn't identified, Gormly said. Both were home, but escaped uninjured. Lisa Roberson, 15, and her mother, Diane, also were home when the fire broke out They shared the other upstairs apartment "All I know is that me and my mother were in the house watching television, when my mother jumped up and looked out the window and saw flames and smoke," Lisa said. Gormly was unsure whether the residents of the first-floor apartments were home when the fire began.

He said one apartment was shared by Beauregard King, Ed Walker and Murray Maye, and the other by Mamie James and her three children. The building is owned by Fred Maye of 64 Archer Road, Gates, Gormly said. He said the house was not habitable because of fire, smoke and water damage throughout Most of the residents planned to stay with relatives and friends last night, but the Disaster Action Team of the American Red Cross placed one family in a hotel because they had no place to stay, said Susan Piccirilli, assistant director of disaster services. The Disaster Action Team, which is manned by a group of about 45 volunteers, is called whenever fire victims need assistance, Piccirilli said. A $50,000 disaster relief budget provides money for emergency housing, food and clothes for about 400 families a year.

Piccirilli didn't have specific figures on how many people had been helped so far this year. The Red Cross pays for fire victims to stay in hotels for a few days while trying to find a new place to live, Piccirilli said. It also allows between $50 and $100 to buy clothes. Food money is based on family size. Two Disaster Action Teams of three volunteers each are on call around the clock for one-week periods scheduled every six weeks, Piccirilli said.

cline to answer questions from legislators or provide information and reports to the lawmakers. Previously, the administration was obligated to answer any such request. Morin, rather than the legislature president, will make appointments to a number of boards and commissions. Some of those appointed positions are on powerful boards. All such appointments are plums for the appointor.

Among the more important groups to which Morin rather than the president will make appointments are the Pure Waters Administrative Board, the county Board of Health, the Human Relations Commission and the board of Arts for Greater Rochester, Inc. end of a fire." The stories also said Fox helped fight many of the fires he was charged with setting. One of those fires heavily damaged the Pines of Perinton apartment complex, where Fox worked as a maintenance man at the time. Young said a state hearing is already underway to have Fox's parole revoked, which means he could have to serve the remainder of his 0-10 year sentence in addition to any sentence imposed if he's convicted of the new charges, Young said. "What makes this investigation so unique to me, as a law enforcement administrator, is that the work was accomplished by eight fire investigators from seven different agencies," Picciotti said yesterday.

than this year. Korn also revealed yesterday that private homes account for 48 percent of the city's total property value. In keeping with previously announced policy, however, homeowners will be asked to pay only 34 percent of the city's total property tax bill at a rate projected at $18.83 per $1,000 of assessed value. Business and industry will pay at a projected rate of $32.91 per $1,000. The city began the current fiscal year with a $5.8 million deficit and only recently has received assurances of sufficient aid to close the gap.

City officials have said next year's gap could approach $14 million if the city does not find alternate sources of revenue. County officials must join the city in approving the plan, because it affects portions of the county-controlled Genesee Valley Park and may involve streets that would be rebuilt with county capital improvement funds. The university and Lane, Frenchman and Associates, the Boston-based consulting firm preparing the development plan, have said they plan to beautify parkland on the riverbank, give the public greater access to the river and provide housing for at least 500 more families. The Rev. Judy Hay of the South Wedge Planning Committee and other neighborhood representatives acknowledge they don't know enough to say for sure what the proposed developments may cost the community.

But they are asking several questions: Will the closing of Wilson Boulevard jam up traffic on Mount Hope Avenue and McLean Street? Will community residents be cut off from the river's east bank after Wilson Boulevard is closed off? What will happen to residents on both sides of the river if they lose their homes under the development scheme? Will low- and moderate-income residents many of them members of minority groups be pushed out? Angle said the proposal needs support from people on both sides of the river. "It's a community plan," he said yesterday. "Not just an east bank plan, not just a west bank plan." He believes the plan deserves that support. "There's no plan to force anybody out," he said. 8y Laura Meade democrat and Chronicle JJJ Four firefighters were injured and 11 people left homeless after a two-alarm 3jre on Shelter Street yesterday morning.

Fire officials don't know the cause of fire, which destroyed most of the second floor, attic and roof of the four-fami-Jy house at 174-176 Shelter St, which -runs between Genesee Street and Jefferson Avenue on the city's west side. firefighter Vince Reitano chops vent holes -Morin is sworn in, Out 0 offers 'challenge' FROM PAGE 1B change from an appointed manager a countywide leader. T6 date, Morin worked under contract the county. He was hired on the vote of the legislature in 1972, and has been appointed twice more to four-year terms. Substantial powers were given the bounty manager in the county charter.

Morin combined those powers with his own acumen to become a political figure to be reckoned with. former firefighter -Charged in arsons fROM PAGE 1B damaged Apton Antiques at '62 Main Street, Picciotti said. He also Wi charged with four counts of third-degree arson in connection with fires at a house at 17 Roselawn Ave. on Aug. at H.P, Neun Co.

box factory, 6 N. Main on Nov. 12; at Beck Frigidaire Service, 55 N. Main on Dec. and at Genesee Valley Industries, 3 Railroad on Dec.

16, the chief said. The fires were all within a few blocks 2jf one another, mostly in the village's old Beassessment fROM PAGE 1B value assessment of $4,711 billion in 1983-84. Korn said the figure could drop a further 5 percent after the new assessment figures are adjusted. So far, about 2,800 irf the city's ,70,000 property owners have Jew heart helps him to 'get on with life' FROM PAGE 1B Cardiomyopathy is caused by a virus 4hat weakens the heart muscle and progressively destroys the cells that are responsible for the contraction of the heart, Jaid Rochester cardiologist Dr. Arthur J.

Moss, clinical professor of medicine at the XJniversity of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and head of the UR ijleart Research Follow-up Program. Moss said Sweet's medical outlook is 2very good" because he survived the first hree months after the transplant, which irfe the most critical. Sweet's success may be partially attri-feyted to the drug cyclosporin-a, which Jhelps the body accept a transplanted organ, said Mary Nelson Campbell, a jjiedical center spokeswoman. Of 71 former Stanford patients given jihe drug, 81 percent were alive after the Jirst year with a transplanted heart and 111 percent were alive after two years, Campbell said. Sweet's transplant cost $250,000.

Most jyas paid by insurance. The Gannett Co. fnp. Lend-a-Hand Fund paid the family's travel expenses to and from Palo Alto in A community fund drive led by the local chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Yfjas netted $12,000 for the family, Mrs. 3weet said.

Sweet is a former U.S. Ma-JfiSe. JJweet has made several trips to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New Yrk City for heart biopsies to determine whether his body is rejecting the heart. In the biopsy, an incision is made Xf Sweet's neck and heart cells are re-Jnoved to-be sent to Stanford for analysis. A biopsy is the only way to deter- June whether the body is rejecting the eart, Sweet said.

The fire was raging when firefighters were called at 10:44 a.m. A second alarm was called because of the severity of the fire and the icy conditions, said Battalion Chief Thomas Gormly. "Because of the snow and ice, it takes longer to do what we have to do and it takes longer for the (truck) companies to get there," Gormly said. The fire was under control at 11:22 a.m. Two firefighters slipped on ice and hurt in roof of Shelter Street house which was But he remained reserved, especially in public.

His actions always were tempered by the knowledge that he worked for the legislators and, when his contract expired, they could remove him. He no longer will have that fear. Morin, who will serve a four-year term, can pursue his own agenda without concern about retribution from the legislature. He can appeal directly to the voters if he chooses. There is no way to tell now whether the new executive form of government will cause any substantive change in services provided to the public by the county.

The new form of government will, however, have significant impact on the relationship of the executive and the legisla commercial district on North Main Street, bordered by the Barge Canal and the Penn Central Railroad tracks. Mayor Vincent Kennelly said the arrest is probably the greatest gift that the residents of the village of Fairport could receive and I'm just so grateful that there are no widows of the Fairport Fire Department today." Nobody was injured in the fires. "I think that's why we're so relieved this morning because we felt the next building may have been a tragedy," Picciotti said. Fox has been free on parole since October 1981, said Paul Young, spokesman for the state Division of Parole. He was arrested in 1977 and later indicted on eight challenged the reassessment figures, hoping their taxes will be lowered.

Under the state constitution, cities can collect in taxes no more than 2 percent of the estimated value of city property averaged over the past five years. The state conducts periodic market surveys that are used to calculate the city's total assessed value during each of those years. His most recent biopsy Dec. 11 showed there was no rejection of the heart, he said. Sweet also visits Moss every three months and Dr.

John J. Gaidula of Victor once a month. Sweet said some of the medications he takes increase his chances of contracting some forms of cancer. But without them, he would be in greater danger of rejecting the transplanted organ, Moss said. Sweet must eat a low-salt diet and excercise regularly, in addition to taking his medicines, he said.

Doctors have placed no other restrictions on his activities, except to use "common sense," Sweet ORCflH THAFISPLflFITS Transplant surgery can be performed on the pancreas, heart, lungs, veins, inner ear, pituitary gland, kidneys, liver, heart and cornea. The most recent figures from 1981 show the growing need for transplants. Surgery Number Cost Heart about 150 about $110,000 Kidney about 5,000 about $35,000 About 25,000 could have benefited from kidney transplants. The success rate about 80 percent. Liver about 200 about $200,000 Around 25,000 people have liver-related problems.

One-third could be helped by transplants. Cornea about 15,000 about $5,000 Numbers have gone up considerably since 1981. It is estimated that 25,000 people could actually benefit from cornea transplants. Source of data: The Living Bank. Houston.

Texas their backs, Gormly said. Firefighter Bruce Cycyk of Engine 13 and Battalion Chief Michael Biondi were treated at Rochester General Hospital and released. CapL Anthony Orlando and Lt Richard Courtright, both of Engine 7, were treated at St Mary's hospital for cuts, Gormly said. No resident was hurt The fire apparently started in the living room of a second-floor apartment occu- Ann Lennox Democrat and Chronicle destroyed by the blaze yesterday. tive leaders who have final say over those services.

1 Among the major changes: Morin can veto resolutions, acts and laws approved by the legislature. The veto must be exercised within 10 days of the legislative vote. The legislature can override the veto by a three-fifths vote, or 18 or the 29 legislators. Previously, there was no veto. Morin also will have the ability to exercise line-item vetos of any legislative changes in the budget proposal submitted by the executive each fall.

The legislature also can override those vetos by a three-fifths vote. Morin and his staff say they can de- counts of arson in connection with fires set around that time. Under a plea-bargaining arrangement, Fox plead guilty to one count each of second- and third-degree arson and criminal mischief, Young said. He could have been sentenced to up. to 25 years in jail.

He was given sentences of 0-10, 0-7 and 0-5 years, to be served concurrently, Young said. Fox served about three years of those sentences in the Elmira Correctional Facility before he was paroled. According to past news stories, Fox had served as a volunteer firefighter in Fair-port for about two years before his arrest. The fire chief at that time, Jack Kenny, described Fox as "a good fireman who always worked hard and stayed until the Korn's latest calculations take into account an anticipated revision in the city's constitutional tax limit based on the state's latest survey. But he said his tax collection estimates for 1984-85 could change anyway if the state Board of Equalization and Assessment determines that the value of city property is higher or lower than the amount reflected in the new assessment figures.

Depending on the state's findings, which will not be known until May or June, the total property tax revenue available to the city could increase or decrease by as much as $1 million. If the state found that the city had overvalued its property, for example, city property tax revenues could actually be lower UR assures groups on development plan FROM PAGE 1B on the river's west bank. The preliminary plan also recommends realigning streets and adding new landscaping and park trails on both sides of the river. In recent meetings with city and UR officials, members of the South Wedge Planning Committee on the east side of the river and the Montgomery Neighborhood Center on the west have questioned the plan. The neighborhood groups want assurances that the closing of Wilson Boulevard won't isolate the university from the neighborhoods and re-route traffic on streets that can't handle the flow.

Members of a third group, the 19th Ward Neighborhood Association, want guaran- tees that a footbridge will be built to connect the university with neighborhoods across the river. But the consultant assembling the plan says the bridge should not be built until later, if at all. The 10-year development plan covers the area bounded by Mount Hope Avenue on the east, Genesee Street and Plymouth Avenue on the west, Ford Street on the north and the Barge Canal on the south. The cost of the plan hasn't been determined, but Jonathan Lane, the chief consultant, has estimated private housing and retail development alone would cost $50 million. Regional Newsdealer of the Waterloo News 32 Main Street Waterloo Milt and Jean Avery (above), owners of Waterloo News, have been selected Regional Newsdealers of the Month for November.

Excellent point-of-purchase displays and effective control of returns have resulted in an increase of daily newspaper sales of 8.3, Saturday sales 14.1, and Sunday sales are up 5.2. For earning the monthly honors, the Averys will receive a specially-engraved plaque and are now eligible to compete for the News- dealer of the Year Award, featuring an all-' expenses-paid trip to Toronto. Honorable Mention November, 1983 Oatka Deli Warsaw Jim's AM-PM Mini Market Caledonia Federal Hollow Rushville Bramers Clyde Democrat anfc (Chronicle TIMES-UNION.