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TUESDAY'S REGIONAL A fits ''fss fur 'trs "ii nnnniEG nnEn'T just ran EunoPE nnvnonE That's the hope of a Rochester family business that's starting a school to train and certify people who think Mary Poppins MILKING All IDEA for all it's uonTn Eastman Kodak Co. is sending scientists to a Tennessee farm to test new animal feeds, including one that raised milk production by 1 0 percent, story on Page sd had a good thing going. story on Page ib 1 35 CENTS NEWSSTAND ROCHESTER, N.Y. TUESDAY, JULY 17. 1984 ill Cuomo draws huddles with Hart, Jackson By Clay F.

Richards United Press International SAN FRANCISCO The Democratic Party opened its 1984 convention yesterday with an electrifying keynote speech by New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, as Walter Mondale met his two presidential rivals in a move to clear the final hurdle to party unity. Mondale's peace overture came midway in Campaign posters and delegates crowding 'J l- wM session last night. "I really had no deep objections so I went ahead and that's what it'll be today," he said. "That's what each wanted to do." As a sea of blue "Mondale" posters and red "Hart" posters swept across the vast floor of the cavernous Moscone Convention Center, Cuomo outlined a rip-roaring, emotional battle plan for the Democrats.

He TURN TO PAGE 2A Cuomo sets campaign's tone, theme Reagan's 'shining city' is tarnished, he says By Michael Clements Democrat and Chronicle SAN FRANCISCO Using themes and expressions familiar to many New Yorkers, Gov. Mario Cuomo compared government to the "idea of family" and called for a Democratic restoration based on "common sense and compassion." In a 27-minute keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention here yesterday, Cuomo also assailed the economic and defense policies of the Reagan administration. It was a speech that Cuomo said he hoped would set the tone and themes for the fall campaign. "Today our great Democratic Party, which has saved this nation from depression, from fascism, from racism, from corruption, is called upon to do it again," he said. "This time to same the nation from confusion and division, from the threat of eventual fiscal disaster and most of all from a fear of nuclear holocaust." TURN TO PAGE 5A Convention is natural arena for gossiping Stories grow as delegates play one-upmanship game By Marylouise Oates Los Angeles Times SAN FRANCISCO In the posh hotels atop Nob Hill, the Bloody Marys' were cool, the conversations were cold and bloody.

Democratic fat cats were gathering, to feed on trendy food and self-satisfactions. But in the lobby of the Fairmont, in the suites of the Mark Hopkins, at a brunch at the Stanford Court that most-feared political guest an uncontrollable rumor had shown up at the Democratic National Convention: Democratic Chairman Charles T. Manatt was out. Was almost out. Was staying in.

Was fighting back. Everyone had a story, and, as the party big-wigs exchanged rumor and tips, the stories grew. Gossip trading information, being in TURN TO PAGE 5A High costs force to quit steam business Move leaves some firms in Rochester in the cold By Phil Ebersole (IP vjAnn SHOWERS LIKELY TONIGHT DETAILS ON 6A TODAY Painkiller might stop adult dental disease Associated Press BOSTON A powerful form of a newly approved over-the-counter painkiller dramatically reduces one form of dental disease in animals, and researchers soon hope to learn if it will save people's teeth. An experiment begins this month at' the Harvard School of Dental Medicine to see if daily doses of the drug, called ibuprofen, can slow or stop periodontal disease, the No. 1 dental problem of adulthood.

The disease erodes the bone that supports the teeth and is a major cause of tooth loss. Flurbiprofen is a more potent version of ibuprofen, which was approved in May for over-the-counter sales and is used to treat arthritis, pain and other problems. 8 MIAs to be returned today United Press International MANILA, Philippines A U.S. C-130 transport plane will fly to Vietnam today to retrieve the remains of eight missing American soldiers in what may be a pre-' cursor to a thaw in relations between Hanoi and Washington. Making it pay to not smoke Associated Press SPENCER, Mass.

A specialty paper company is offering its employees a little extra incentive $30 a month to give up their cigarettes, and 42 have chosen cleaner lungs and fatter wallets. "Most of them wouldn't do it if it wasn't for the 30 bucks," said Bob Quintin, data processing manager of the Flexcon Co. Every third Thursday of the month, the company puts $30 gift certicates into the paychecks of employees who quit smoking and those who remain non-smokers. It also gives $15 certificates to 59 employees who have reduced their smoking. A feud over diapering mules Associated Press JEFFERSON, Texas Mule droppings have become the topic of fierce debate in one of the dirtiest political fights anyone in this eastern Texas town can remember.

One faction wants the mules diapered. A rival group has declared itself anti-diaper, or as an antique dealer says, "I'm pro-poop." Caught in the middle are the mule buggies that have been a tourist attraction for 18 years in this town of 2,600 people. The mules travel a three-mile tour of antebellum homes and churches. The squabble over the mules heated up last month when downtown businesses started a petition asking that each buggy-pulling mule wear a diaper a baglike apparatus worn by police horses in New Orleans and some other cities. CLARIFICATION An article in the Sunday Democrat and Chronicle from The Washington Post about the tentative settlement of litigation involving the drug Bendectin said that all children and families who have sued Mer-rell Dow Pharmaceuticals in connection with birth defects will be free either to participate or to take a chance in the courts.

Yesterday, however, the source of the information, plaintiffs' lawyer Allen Eaton of Washington, said he may have been misleading. The option all current plaintiffs do have, Eaton said, is to object to the settlement at or before a fairness hearing that will be held by Chief U.S. District Judge Carl Rubin. If a substantial majority accepts the plan, Rubin is expected to approve it All litigants including those whose lawsuits are not before him then would be required to participate and would be barred from persisting in litigation. QUOTE OF THE DAY 'The Republicans believe the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of our old, some of our young, and some of our weak are left behind by the side of the trail.

We Democrats believe that we can make it all the way with the family New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, in his keynote address to the Democratic National Convention Last night. Story on 1A. INSIDE tears; Mondale the opening session of the convention at which former President Jimmy Carter condemned the foreign policy of the Reagan administration. Cuomo brought some delegates to tears in a keynote address in which he spelled out his dream for America and blamed Reagan for dividing the nation into "the luck and the left-out, the royalty and the rabble." Mondale, expecting his party's presiden the floor of Moscone Center last night as AFJALYSI5 course of redefinition of the oldest political party in the world was the choice of Rep.

Geraldine A. Ferraro to run for vice president, a move that renews the party's image as the Ellis Island of American politics, the entry port for new participants, from the Irish to the blacks and now to women. The Ferraro choice is the something old and something new of this year's Democratic politics: a candidate expected to appeal to old values and to ethnic groups who have drifted away from the Democrats or who think the party has drifted away from them, and one whose sex says the party is open to TURN TO PAGE 5A Stun Gun hits local market as defense device Can produce electricity to overwhelm attacker By Laura Meade Democrat and Chronicle It's billed as the space-age wonder of self-defense. It looks like an instamatic camera, but it packs 40,000 volts of electricity that's supposed to stop an attacker in his tracks. It's called the Nova XR-5000 Stun Gun, and it's the hottest seller at the Magnum Gun Shop and Range Ltd.

on West Ridge Road in Greece. "Imagine the confidence you would have if you knew, that simply by touching someone, you could immediately stun them and drop them to the ground! Well, that's exactly how much TURN TO PAGE 5A pl tial nomination tomorrow night, made a triumphal arrival at the convention city earlier in the day, with running mate Geraldine Ferraro stealing much of the attention. The former vice president, who at first said he wanted to meet one-on-one with his rivals, told reporters he relented to the request for a joint meeting because it was the desire of both Jackson and Hart. The meeting began just after the opening convention United Press International the Democratic National Convention opens. ELECTION CAISPfllGK DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION N.Y.

DELEGATES REACT 2A JACKSON'S SPEECH TONIGHT 3A THE 'GOOSE BUMP FACTOR 4A FERRARO ON THE ECONOMY 8D Burr Lewis Democrat and Chronicle Hot arc can be seen sparking on top of test section of Stun Gun i i i s.W Democrats reshaping their image Party makes a move away from grass-roots activism By Adam Clymer New York Times SAN FRANCISCO This week, in their quadrennial effort to define themselves, the Democrats will be looking for a way to shake the image of being mired in the New Deal without turning off the kinds of voters brought to the party's colors by that age in American politics. The most deliberately planned device in this attempt has been an open turn away from the trend toward grass-roots activism of the last. 15 years with the deliberate re-establishmeht of party regulars as a legitimate power center. That effort has already helped produce a platform that avoids odd promises to obscure special interests. The newest, most sudden move in that Justice Dept.

seeks to void quotas on trooper promotions Associated Press WASHINGTON The Reagan administration said yesterday it has asked an appeals court to overturn a promotion-quota system for black state troopers in Alabama on grounds it violates a recent Supreme Court affirmative action ruling. The Department of Justice asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to apply last month's high-court ruling that courts cannot overrule seniority systems to protect affirmative-action gains. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 last month that Memphis, firefighters must be laid off on the basis of seniority despite an affirmative-action program intended to increase the number of black employees. In the Alabama case, a federal judge ordered state police in 1983 to promote one black trooper for each white until every rank from corporal to major was 25 percent black or until state police devised an acceptable promotion plan.

The order was issued by U.S. District TURN TO PAGE 5A Democrat and Chronicle Business Rochester Gas and Electric Corp. plans to go out of the steam business by Oct, 1, 1985, a move that could force downtown and westside Rochester businesses and agencies to spend millions of dollars for heating systems to replace steam. Their alternative is to figure out a way to continue operating the steam system under other ownership than Such ideas have been discussed for years. But the New York Public Service Commission brought the issue to a head last week by giving 30 days to come up with a plan for abandoning the steam system by Oct 1, 1985.

The system was becoming too expensive for to maintain. steam customers have until next TURN TO PAGE 5A BUSINESS 8D 4A EDITORIALS COLUMNISTS 3C 2C MOVIES COMICS 9C 9C PUZZLES CLASSIFIED 3C 1D SPORTS DEATHS 4B 2C TELEVISION Four news sections 152nd year Published by Gannett Co. Inc..