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ff DEACO REVIVAL Fixing up Ontario Sand Djrand-Eastman beaches is part of the county's six-year Capital Improvement Program. Story on 8B. SUNDAY FEBRUARY 19. 1984 ROCHESTER NEW YORK SECTION 2B RELIGION 5B BRIEFING 7B HaP! Democrat (Oinmtrk LIU 0 A Wayne historian seeks information on blades' roots Slaves arrived 300 years ago but their history isn't in books kinds of things relating to our minorities in this county. It's at least a start," she said.

The jamboree is planned for April 14 at the Williamson Middle School. It's the 12th annual jamboree, but the first to focus on ethnic history, she said. The jamboree is co-sponsored by Perei's office, the Wayne County Youth Board and the Wayne County Teachers' Committee. Mary Williams, a Lyons homemaker and community activist, is heading a group putting together the black history display at the jamboree. "We're going to have soul foods to taste, gospel singers, a break dancing competition, and a list of black superstitions.

I'm writing out phrases in black dialect with their meanings for people who don't understand that kind of talk. I'm going to wear a dashiki at the booth," she said. A dashiki is a loose-fitting, usually brightly colored robe or tunic modeled after an African tribal garment "I think it's a real shame that black children in this county have no real knowledge of their roots here, and no black role models today in the school systems. You can live your whole life in Wayne County and never see a black teacher or school administrator. We (blacks) get recognized TURN TO PAGE 10B By Carol Ritter Democrat and CTvomcie LYONS Black people have been living in Wayne County for nearly 300 years.

But their history, like that of other ethnic groups, cant be found in standard reference books. Wayne County Historian Marjory Allen Perei is trying to remedy hat she considers a serious omission. "Practically nothing has been published about the black people who have lived here," she said. "For the past eight years I've been doing as much research as I can to see if I can help fill this gap in the books. I'm trying to locate and identify materials relating to the black population in Wayne County, but it takes more time than I have available.

Still. I have a big bunch of stuff that I've gathered from a rariety of sources, and I'll keep doing it whenever I get the chance." She said she uses old court documents, census reports, cemetery records, wills and newspaper accounts to find references to black people and their families. The work is arduous and often frustrating, she said. But she thinks it's a job that must be done. "February is Black History Month, but we really don't know black history in this area," she said.

"I want to put together information that can be used in the schools, by Scout groups, and anyone interested in getting more than a partial picture of what has happened over the years in this county." Perez and a committee are planning this year's Wayne County History Jamboree, a Saturday event for school children of all ages, to highlight the history of ethnic groups in the county. "We're going to have exhibits, competitions, food, all word BT)fi Michaal Schwm Democrat and Chronicle This is a note written by Gow School student. It should read, 'Please announce that Bobby Haller has lost a sweat suit. II I II I I I llll I 1 i 1 t. i 'On cloud nine' after verdict in Craig case Clarence Herington said yesterday he 'never had any doubt" he would be cleared of charges that he had illicit sexual relations with a Craig Developmental Center patient "I'm feeling fantastic I'm on cloud nine.

People have been calling me all day and congratulating me," Herington said from his ML Morris, Livingston County, home. Herington, 52, was charged with the misdemeanor of endangering the welfare of an incompetent person and giving a patient of an institution alcoholic beverages. He was found innocent of the charges Friday by a Livingston County Court jury of nine men and three women. "I still have faith in the judicial system. My lawyer (James Hendricks of Rochester) did a fantastic job of bringing out the facts," he said.

Herington said he will try to win reinstatement at Craig, in Sonyea, Livingston County, where he had been employed as a bus driver. He was suspended when he was arrested in September 1982, and was later fired. "I love working with the mentally retarded. I would love to work with them again," he said. Lehrman backing Eckert Lew Lehrman was quoted as saying yesterday that the 1982 Republican-Conservative candidate for governor will do whatever he can to help Fred J.

Eckert, ambassador to the Fiji Islands, succeed Barber B. Conable Jr. in Congress. Dave Lovenheim, co-ordinator of the Committee to Draft Ambassador Eckert for Congress, issued a press release that quoted Lehrman as saying: "Ambassador Eckert is the obvious and perfect choice to succeed Congressman Barber Conable." Eckert is a former state senator. Conable will retire as a U.S.

representative at the end of the year. He repre-sents the 30th Congressional District Teen shot in basketball fray One youth was shot and another was struck on the head with the butt of a weapon Friday night when two groups of teen-agers fought over the use of a basketball court, police said. Fernando Lopez, 15, of 115 Dengler St, had a minor gunshot wound to his leg, said Investigator Gus D'Aprile of the Maple Patrol Section. Area hospitals didn't report him as a patient yesterday. None of the other youths involved was identified because they are juveniles.

D'Aprile said one group of youths apparently tried to kick another group off the basketball court in the playground of School 28 at 158 Orchard St around 9:30 p.m. Friday. The two groups began fighting, and a shot was fired. The weapon, apparently a rifle, hasn't been recovered, D'Aprile said. No one has been charged in the shooting.

2 drivers injured in Attica A Wyoming County man was in guarded condition at Strong Memorial Hospital last night after his car smashed into a tree and split in half in a two-car accident in Attica. Ronald W. Amberger, 19, of Halls Corner Road, Attica, was driving south on Exchange Street in Attica when his car spun out of control and went off the road around 11:20 p.m. Friday, according to Wyoming County sheriff's deputies. He was taken to Strong for treatment of head injuries.

A driver following Amberger also lost control of his vehicle. Mark R. Mattia, 20, of Route 18, North Java, was trapped in his car when the vehicle flipped onto its side. Mattia was treated at St Jerome's Hospital in Batavia for an arm injury and cuts on his face. The accident is still under investigation, and no charges have been filed.

Car overheats, is destroyed A Darien, Genesee County, man's car was destroyed yesterday after it overheated and burned when he tried to drive it out of a muddy field. County sheriffs deputies said George Diehl's 1983 Mercury Marquis became stuck in a muddy field near his home at 10979 Warner Road about 6 a.m. Deputies said the $15,000 car was a loss. Diehl was taken to the Deaconess Hospital in Buffalo to be treated for a bump, on his head, deputies said. 3 accused in beating, robbery Three men were arrested early yesterday on charges of beating and robbing a Goodman Street man Jan.

16. Nejat "Nick" Kirac, 24, of 552 Seneca Selcuk "Sal" Sarisaltik, 19, of 51 Morrill and Habtp Turhan, also known as Nejal Kirac, 28, of 76 Hollenbeck St, pleaded innocent yesterday to charges of second-degree assault, third-degree grand larceny, and two counts of second-degree robbery. During their arraignment, City Court Judge William Bristol said they were accused of beating and robbing a man at his home at 340 S. Goodman St around 4 a.m. Jan.

16. Sarisaltik recently came to the Rochester area from Turkey and told Bristol he couldn't speak English. Because no interpreters were available, Bristol had Turhan translate the charges for Sarisaltik. All three are from Turkey. The three were arrested at 615 South Ave.

at 12:45 a.m. yesterday. They are being held in Monroe County Jail on $2,500 cash bail and are scheduled to appear in court again Wednesday. There's no cure for the dyslexic, but school in Erie gives students hope By Jolie N. Griffin Democrat and Chronicle When Graeme Hepburn attended elementary school, he never handed in his assignments.

He failed the second grade. His parents suspected they knew why he failed. It wasn't merely because he didn't work; the problem was much deeper, and possibly one he inherited. He and his older brother, Warren, both have dyslexia a disorder that makes it difficult for them to read. Six years ago, Hepburn, now 17, followed his brother to the Gow School in South Wales, Erie County, the only school for dyslexic boys in the United States.

"It's just something you accept," he said last week as he walked across the school's snow-covered campus. The school, where students live, is located in a rural, hilly portion of the county about 15 miles southwest of Buffalo. Hepburn attends classes six days a week from September to May, along with other boys aged 12 to 19. They come from throughout the United States, Canada, and the Middle East; this year, 133 boys are enrolled. Three of the students now attending the school are from the Rochester area, and about 40 of the school's alumni live around Rochester.

In an interview in his book-lined study on the school's campus, headmaster David Gow recalled that teachers used to think there were two possible reasons why students didn't achieve: either they were "stupid" or they were "unmotivated." Gow's father, Peter, who taught at the Nichols School in Buffalo, believed there could be a neurological reason that an otherwise bright student couldn't read or write. And, it turned out, there was. Dyslexia, "a condition in which an individual with normal vision is unable to interpret written language and therefore is unable to read," was first diagnosed by New York neurologist Dr. Samuel T. Orton in the 1920s.

The elder Gow believed dyslexic students could be taught to read, write and spell through practice. So, he started the Gow School in 1926 hoping to fill it with students referred to him by Orton. "This school is for boys of above average intelligence who want to go to college," Gow said. "They have a language problem. "It's never cured.

We help them overcome it so that it's no longer a problem in their lives or careers." Students at Gow attend classes Monday through Saturday and attend a study hall session every night In the summer, when school is out of session, students are required to keep up their reading and regularly submit book reports. During school, they must wear ties and jackets to class. They cannot wear jeans, even during their free time. Tuition, room and board at the school costs $9,100 annually. ft' Jjf learn letters and words is to trace a letter and speak the sound it represents at the same time, Gow said.

Each student also attends a "reconstructive language" class, in addition to college preparatory classes such as math, chemistry, English and history. In the language classes, the students memorize 119 yellow cards printed1 with letters. On the back of each card is the phonetic pronunciation of the letter or group of letters. Memorizing these teaches students the way to pronounce and spell an unfamiliar word and consistently spell correctly the words they know. Gow devised another reading tool, something he calls "medicine" sentences.

Students memorize the sentences to help them improve their spelling. Here is an example of a medicine sentence: "My purpose is to pursue the purchaser and purveyor of the purloined purple purse to Purgatory." If a student is asked to spell a word starting with the sound "pur," and he doesn't know whether to use an 'e' or a after the he can try to recall a medicine sentence. In this case, if the word he needs to spell is "purple," then the student knows he should use a because the letter is in the sentence he memorized. One of every l6 young boys in the United States and Canada may have dyslexia, Gow said. Its cause is unknown but many researchers believe it is inherited, Gow said.

Children who learn to talk after they learn to walk, children who do not like to be read to, and children who have difficulty learning basic skills such as tying their shoelaces may be exhibiting some of the first symptoms of dyslexia, Gow said. As these children get older, they may exhibit poor handwriting, have a short tention span and be restless, Gow said. Their spelling may be poor. For example, a student may spell 'began' as 'degan' TURN TO PAGE 4B Patrick Kelly and Trey Roski, two of the 133 students enrolled at Gow School. I I i Most teachers take for granted that a child will remember the appearance of a letter or word, Gow said.

But dyslexic students don't always remember. Tony Inksater, 17, of Toronto, did well in math and chemistry, but ncft in reading while he was a student in a conventional school. It used to take him twice as long as his classmates to struggle through a paragraph, he said. "I can decipher everything I read," Inksater said of his improved reading abilities. But he's still struggling.

"It takes me longer. I'm reading it but not fully understanding it" Part of the reason Inksater and others can even decipher what they read is be- cause of the various techniques that the 23 teachers, including Gow, use at the school. For instance, one way students Headmaster David Gow, son of the school's founder, Peter Gow, and student Graeme Hepburn, 17, whose brother also attended the school. Of his disorder, Hepburn says, 'It's just something you wwwwtfk mjii.iumw 'if i WJ ill yJPfe sj Baby was in water since September Boy found in Seneca Lake less than a month old at death By Laura Meade Democrat and Chronicle An unidentified baby boy, whose naked body was found Friday on the eastern edge of Seneca Lake, was less than a month old when he died and had been in the water at least since September, Seneca County Coroner Arthur Schroeder said yesterday. Schroeder said an autopsy was performed yesterday by the Monroe County medical examiner's office, but the cause of death could not be determined.

He said the baby was a white male infant, 21 inches long, 6 pounds, 6 ounces, and anywhere from newborn to four weeks old. State police say the case is being handled as a "possible homicide." A state police dispatcher in Auburn last night said era are interviewing all cottage owners on both sides of the lake. In an attempt to identify the mother, they are asking doctors and hospitals to report any "symptoms or TURN TO PAGE 23 It's art, it's science and to succeed at it students really have to know their stuff By Joseph Coccaro Democrat and Chronicle HOPEWELL Dennis Wischman steps back to look at the mounted buffiehead duck perched on the table before him. He notices that some of the bird's neck feathers are ruffled. He grabs one of an assortment of combs and begins meticulously stroking the feathers into place, much like a beautician putting on finishing touches.

"This can really get to be like an art," he 6aid. Students like Wischman come to the Community College of the Finger Lakes from throughout the Northeast to study taxidermy and to get an appreciation for wildlife. CCFL is the only school in New York and one of three in the nation that offers a certificate program in taxidermy, says William A. Banaszewski, chairman of the college's conservation department Taxidermy is considered both a science and an art, Banaszewski says. "An artist can do a mount and make it look beautiful.

JoMpfc Coccaro Democrat and Chronicle Dennis Wischman applying his feathery touch to a buffiehead duck. He's a student in taxidermy at CCFL. But they probably wouldn't have any idea of how a weasel lives or how a bird should be perched. They don't know what a beaver eats and would probably have one eating on a tree that a beaver would never touch," he said. That's where the program's required wildlife science courses come in.

TURN TO PAGE 11B AiiEA DEATHS Metz. Elizabeth 58, Palmyra, Feb. 18. Gotro, Ernestine, 79, Castile, Feb. 18..