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AIDS ALERT A Rochester health group is doubling its effort to warn people of acquired immune deficiency syndrome after two 'cases are to have originated here. Story 6B FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17. 1984 ROCHESTER NEW YORK SECTION 2B HELP! 4B OBITUARIES 6B RELIGION In Democrat (Chronicle CD a a be mm I Olympics on TV like old-home week for Yugoslavs here i Country is being accurately portrayed, they say my tVf Jj 11 wTr Ex-Mumford fire chief indicted in bingo case A Monroe County grand jury yesterday indicted former Mumford Volunteer Fire Department Chief Bruce A. Kinmond on a felony charge stemming from an investigation into discrepancies in the department's bingo records. i Kinmond, 48, of 824 State St, Mumford, is accused of first-degree falsifying business records, a Class felony punishable by up to four years in prison, and petit larceny.

Glen C. O'Donnell, president of the fire department and chairman of its board of directors, said yesterday Kinmond resigned as chief shortly after his arrest Sept 8 last jyear. O'Donnell said in September that an investigation of bingo records by fire department officials revealed more than $10,000 have been skimmed from bingo proceeds over the past four or five years. Fire officials began noticing "little discrepancies here and there" last spring in bingo records and began an internal investigation, O'Donnell said. Milk truck driver injured The driver of a Webster milk company was injured yesterday afternoon 'when the truck hit a guardrail and flipped on Interstate 590, Monroe County sheriffs deputies said.

Deputies said Brian P. Julian, 36, of 125 Rodessa Road, Greece, was driving a truck owned by Culver Dairy southbound on I-590 about 12:45 p.m. yesterday when it skidded into a guardrail and flipped onto its side near the Elmwood Avenue overpass. Julian was taken to Rochester General Hospjtal, where he was in satisfactory condition last night, hospital officials said. Holdups may be linked Rochester police officers are investigating possible connections between two armed robberies of pedestrians within a week in the Park Avenue area on the city's east side.

Two men, one armed with a handgun, robbed a 27-year-old woman about 9 p.m. Tuesday in front of 160 Meigs St The woman was on her way home when she was robbed of $100 after being dropped off by a friend at the corner of Meigs Street -and Park Avenue, according to police re- ports. Sgt Anthony DeBellis, of the city's Highland patrol section, yesterday said cash was taken from another woman last week when she was robbed shortly before 1 4 "It is kind of fun to walk into a faculty room and have somebody recognize the Old Town (in Sarajevo) or the name of a restaurant where they are doing an interview," said Lee Johnson, assistant principal at Barker Road Junior High School. Pittsford sends teachers to English-speaking schools in the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade, to Zagreb in northern Yugoslavia and to Sofia, capital of neighboring Bulgaria, said Superintendent Richard D. Hibschman.

Pupils at the schools are mostly children of diplomats and business executives, Hibschman said. Most teachers go for a week or two, to train staff in a specific area. Some take leaves of absence to teach there for a year or more, he said. Johnson, and his wife, Maurine, lived and taught at the International School of Belgrade from 1975 through 1977. They re- TURN TO PAGE 4B Sformie making progress 'She's breathing normally is alert, say little girl's doctors By Barbara Vancheri and George Murphy Democral ant) Chronicle Doctors treating Stormie Jones yesterday said they were "cautiously optimistic" about the 6-year-old girl's chances of recovering from the world's first heart-liver transplant "She is breathing normally on her own with only minimal support from her respirator," said Dr.

Basil Zitelli at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh. "She's awake, alert and responsive and answers questions with affirmative nods and shakes of her head." The little girl from Cumby, Texas who suffers from a rare genetic disease that creates extremely high cholesterol levels in her blood has been unable to speak because of tubes in her throat. "We are pleased with her progress to date and are cautiously optimistic," the pediatrician added. Contributing to that optimism are several factors: Stormie 's heart is beating in a normal fashion; results of a test that measures liver function have improved; and the girl's chest X-rays looked "very good." She also has been taken off her bkxxl -pressure medicine; The donor of the organs, 4 year-old Kathryn "Katie" Rebstock of Macedon in Wayne County, will be remembered at a funeral Mass today at 10:30 a.m. at St Patrick's Church in Macedon.

Her parents, Phil and Jacqueline Rebstock, decided to donate their daughter's heart, liver, kidneys and corneas after Katie was fatally injured in a two-car traffic acci- dent on Saturday. Five people will benefit from their decision. On Wednesday, the corneas were transplanted in two young adults from the Rochester area. Linda S. Spear of the Rochester Eye and Human Parts Bank would not identify the recipients but said the operations, performed at Strong Memorial Hospital, were successful.

"It's pretty wonderful to know there are people in this area who are able to look beyond their own grief and reach out to help others," Spear said. As Rose Curtis, a registered nurse and a transplant coordinator at Strong, phrased it: "Katie has given others a tomorrow." Although Strong performs kidney and cornea transplants, it does not do heart, lung or liver transplants. However, Curtis said the hospital plays "a big part" in the placement and procurement of organs via a 24-hour alert phone number of the North American Transplant Coordinators Center in Pittsburgh. That organization provides coordinators with a current list of organs other than kidneys urgently needed by participating centers in this country and Canada. The kidneys donated this week were too small for use in Rochester.

1 -5? i i 1 f- 4 i BA Brink Democrat and Chronic! donated ty parent church in Yugoslavia. Keith Huttenlocker cuts rails into sections 4 miles of rail line now being torn up A six-man crew is removing a four-mile section of Conrail track that runs along the west side of the Genesee River from the Troup-Howell Bridge, where Interstate 490 crosses the river, south to near Elmwood Avenue, across from the University of Rochester. Ken Barber, foreman for Sheldon Construction Co. of South Wales, Erie County, said his crew uses a bulldozer to rip the steel track from the wooden ties and a crane with a large magnet to lift the track. They hope to finish the job by the end of February.

it 5 JTt 1 By Stv Crosby Democrat and Crvonicie Before the Winter Olympics began last week in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, few people in this country had ever heard of that city. But in a Henrietta church and in faculty rooms at Pittsford Central School District, it's old-home week every time a television is turned on. "We lov) it" said Bob Lazarevski, secretary of St Dimitria Macedonian Orthodox Church. "It's a great feeling to see your The Olympics are being held about 300 miles northwest of the city of Bitola, in the Republic of Macedonia, the ancestral home of most of Rochester's Yugoslavs. In Pittsford, between 25 and 30 teachers and administrators have visited Yugoslavia and Bulgaria during the past 20 years as part of a school advisory program sponsored by the U.S.

State Department. Burr Lwi Democrat and Chronicle for shipment to a New Jersey mill Electric magnet carries rails away after they've been torn up. second-degree grand larceny and are being held without hail in the county jail. Monroe County Sheriff Andrew P. Meloni Jr.

said deputies apprehended the suspects on Route 59(1 near the Empire Boulevard exit ramp in Irondequoit about 2:15 p.m., about 20 minutes after the bank was held up. Police accused Crumity of robbing the bank at 31 State St. in the village of Pittsford at gunpoint while Saylor waited in a parked car on a side street near the bank. "There is a distinct possibility, quite a distinct possibility" that Crumity will be draw the several thousand who attended a similar rally at Sampson State Park last fall and participated in peace demonstrations staged by the Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice last summer. "I think to some extent it (the turnout) will depend on what plans finally get settled," said Denise Young of Rochester, spokeswoman for Metro Act, which is involved in the planning.

Metro Act is a group involved in many social issues and Father Risto Ristovski with oil-painted icons Agostinelli intends to sue police By Jody McPhillips Democrat and Chronicle Donald W. Agostinelli, the former Monroe County department administrator who resigned last September after he was indicted on cocaine charges, has filed a notice saying he intends to sue unidentified city policemen for libel, slander and defamation stemming from a separate incident Agostinelli's lawyer, Norman A. Palmiere, said the claim involves menacing charges lodged against Agostinelli May 18 after two women claimed he threatened them with a gun in a cocaine deal. The misdemeanor menacing charges were dismissed Sept. 15 because the district attorney's office failed to prosecute the case within 60 days.

That dismissal came one week before Agostinelli and co-defendant Anthony Warren were arrested and charged with first-degree attempted possession of cocaine stemming from an unrelated incident. Those charges were also dismissed. District Attorney Howard R. Relin said yesterday, "That (menacing) case became -moot when we indicted him on he drug charges. We don't 'think anyfeivil case1 (Agostinelli might file) would have any merit" Agostinelli and Warren were arrested Sept 22 at the Genesee PlazaDowntown Holiday Inn after undercover officers claimed the pair tried to buy six ounces of cocaine for more than $20,000.

The cocaine charges against both defendants were dismissed Jan. 27 after County Court Judge Charles T. Maloy ruled there was insufficient evidence to support them. Agostinelli, 40, lives at 3019 Latta Road, Greece. A member of the Greece Republican Committee, he was administrator of the county's Child Support Enforcement Unit TURN TO PAGE 48 Cheese plan cost $132,457 Officials seek volunteers to distribute the surplus By James Goodman Democrat and Chronicle A task force of community leaders and government officials estimates that it will cost $132,457 to distribute more than 1.1 million pounds of surplus cheese and butter earmarked for Monroe County.

But the task force hopes it can cut that cost by asking volunteers and town governments to help distribute the federal surplus food. Organizers hope to begin distribution in April to between 35,000 and 50,000 needy households in the county. A subcommittee of the task force will meet in the next two weeks to review the distribution plan and attempt to reduce the cost. It will determine "what resources are available, including volunteer time, in-kind support, donated truckers," said Milton Van Dussen, a task force member who is director of program development for Action for a Better Community. The draft budget for the distribution was approved yesterday by about a dozen members of the Surplus Commodities Task Force during a 1 -hour meeting at St.

Stephen's Episcopal Church, 350 Chili Ave. Task force members have been trying since last fall to find ways to distribute the surplus dairy products, including 20,000 pounds of butter. Two weeks ago, the task force adopted a preliminary plan asking the county and the United Way of Rochester Inc. to help pay the costs. Both are on the task force.

"The county has expressed an interest in receiving a (proposed) budget and proposed support funding," said ABC Director James McCuller, who chairs the task force. The county put ABC in charge of distribution. United Way will decide how much money it will contribute after it sees the contributions of time and money made by the county and volunteers, said William McCul-lough, director of corporate operations for United Way. Volunteers are especially needed, McCul-lough and other task force members said. TURN TO PAGE 3B midnight on a sidewalk in the Park Avenue area by a man carrying a gun.

46 may share $35,000 Lawyer Carl Shoolman is looking for up to 46 people who may be entitled to a share of a $35,000 settlement reached this week in a 7-year-old lawsuit stemming from the Pines of Perinton housing project To qualify, employees of Herb Wright Stucco Inc. who worked on the project from Sept 9, 1975, to mid-1976 must send a letter to state Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth W. Pine at the Hall of Justice. Letters must be postmarked by Feb. 23.

Shoolman filed the lawsuit on behalf of four workers in 1977 against Inland Steel charging that plasterers and mason tenders were paid less than the prevailing wage in violation of state labor law. The project was financed by the state Urban Development Corp. and built by Inland Steel which subcontracted with Herb Wright Stucco Inc. of Ohio. All contracts required workers be paid the prevailing wage.

Workers claimed they were underpaid for their work and sought from $100,000 to $200,000 in back wages. On July 1, Pine granted the lawsuit class action status. Shoolman said the lump-sum settlement would probably work out to about 25 cents on the dollar for wages owed. RIT tuition increase likely The board of trustees of Rochester Institute of Technology will meet Monday to decide on tuition increases for the 1984-85 academic year. Total cost per student for the current academic year is $8,841, up 9.3 percent from 1982-83.

H. Donald Scott, RIT's vice-president for finance and administration, said an increase in tuition, room and board is likely, but refused to specify the amounts, saying no announcement had yet been made. Leaky gas tank removed A underground gasoline storage tank at a school bus garage in East Bloomfield, Ontario County, was removed yesterday after leaking about 1,000 gallons of gasoline over the past two weeks. The state Department of Environmental Conservation ordered the steel tank removed after Bloomfield Central School District officials on Tuesday told the DEC that gasoline was missing. The district's junior-senior high school, next to the bus garage, was closed yesterday while excavation crews removed the storage tank and the soil around it.

District Superintendent R. Jack Siring said the school's 650 students were told to stay home as a precautioa Classes are scheduled to resume today. Man stabbed by youth gang A 33-year-old man was stabbed last night while he waited for a bus on the city's north side, police said. Capt. Edgar Bastian said Bruce Sivus, whose address was not known, was approached by a group of youths about 10 p.m.

at the corner of Scranton and North Clinton streets. Sivus told police the youths thought he owed them money and stabbed him when he had none. Sivus was taken to Rochester General Hospital, where he was in satisfactory condition early this morning. 2 suspects in Pittsford bank robbery nabbed after chase Getaway car stopped 20 minutes after holdup By David Galante Democrat and Chronicle A Rochester man and woman were arrested yesterday after a high-speed chase by police officers and charged with the armed robbery of the Pittsford branch of Lincoln First Bank. The suspects were identified as Raymond M.

Crumity, 32, of 204 Merriman and Kathy Saylor, 24, of 27 Potomac St. They -are charged with first-degree robbery and charged in other bank robberies in Monroe County, Meloni said. FBI agents, Rochester Police Department investigators and district attorney's assistants were meeting with sheriffs officials last night to discuss details of other recent bank holdups. Authorities said Crumity is a suspect in the Jan. 19 robbery of the Gates branch of First Federal Savings Loan at 2315 Lyell and the Jan.

6 holdup of the Key Bank branch at 295 E. Ridge Road in Rochester. Gerald G. Barker, the sheriffs chief of TURN TO PAGE 68 Army Depot in May formed 19 years ago in Rochester. "If we can line up the facilities so that bus parking is available, we'd aim for a large response," Young said.

Although the spring walk and rally is sponsored by the Finger Iakes Peace Alliance, several other peace organizations will take part. It is part of an annual Jobs With Peace Week celebrated nationally, Matlin said. TURN TO PAGE 38 2-day peace march, rally scheduled at Seneca By Laura Meade Democrat and Chronicle Another major peace demonstration will be held in Seneca County this spring, when demonstrators walk from the Seneca Army Depot to Cayuga Lake State Park in a two-day march and rally on May 5 and 6. Dr. Arnold Matlin, spokesman for the Finger Lakes Peace Alliance, said it is too early to tell how many people will participate.

But the events aren't expected to.