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cnii'T nEr.iEr.iBEn A reluctant witness tells the court.he can't remember telling a grand jury that his brother admitting killing a man. Story, 3B. FMDAY JULY 27. 1984 ROCHESTER NEW YORK SECTION Democrat and (Chronicle Reagaim DDTDnGocdls, Esiuitl is be welcome? Decision reached in case of principal A state Department of Education panel has reached a decision in the case of Wheatland-Chili High School principal Dennis Feldmann, who was suspended last October after charges he treated students and teachers in a "demeaning and abusive manner." But panel chairman Robert Doherty last night refused to reveal the three-member panel's decision, although he said it was unanimous. "I don't want anybody who's affected by the decision to read about it in the newspaper before they are officially notified," Doherty said.

Women to protest if he officiates at Seneca landmark By Carol Ritter Democrat and Chronicle President Reagan has been invited to officially open the restored Elizabeth Cady Stanton house in Seneca Falls Aug. 26. If he accepts, he may be met by throngs of demonstrators prepared to keep him away from the house and challenge his record on schedule is not announced more than a week in advance for security reasons. So unless he declines, it will be another three weeks at least before the president's visit here will be announced. But feminists and peace crusaders are getting ready.

"We think this is going to be much, much bigger than last Aug. 1," said Pam Flanigan, a spokeswoman for the Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice, last night. She was referring to a major anti-nuclear demonstration last August at Seneca Army Depot in Romulus that drew an estimated 1,600 women protesters. She said the presi- women issues. A coalition of women's group and peace groups all over the eastern seaboard and in the Midwest is forming to plan two days of demonstrations in Seneca Falls the weekend of Aug.

26. That date marks Women's Equality Day and the anniversary of ratification of the 19th Amendment that gave women the vote. Reagan was invited through the office of Rep. Frank Horton, R-Brighton, to officiate when the National Park Service formally opens the Stanton house at 32 Washington St A spokeswoman in the White House press office said this week the president's dent could draw a crowd of thousands of protesters if he appears in Seneca Falls. "We think of this as a win-only situation," she said.

"If he comes, we can confront him on the issues he has failed to face. We can use our bodies to blockade the Stanton house so he can't get near it If he backs out, it means he's afraid to confront women on women's issues." Flanigan said meetings are set for this weekend and next week in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Madison, and Toronto to gather support for a massive demonstration in Seneca Falls Aug. 25 and 26. TURN TO PAGE 4B Mothballs today for trash plant Nearly 70 workers left without jobs as county seeks long-term solution By Steve Orr Democrat and Chronicle The Resource Recovery Facility, born in optimism a decade ago as a revolutionary merger of high technology and environmental concern, officially goes into mothballs today. The last worker leaves the plant this afternoon.

Monroe County officials do not know when the problem-plagued plant will reopen, if ever. At the plant yesterday, workers finished up preparations for the shutdown as the smell of garbage still lingered. "It is too bad," said Mario Velez, a maintenance helper who has worked at the plant for 4 Vt years. "Tomorrow is the end." Absent yesterday was the uneven clanking of moving conveyors, the rumble of giant refuse shredders, the roar of the huge rotating drum where finely ground glass was dried. All the equipment has been oiled, greased and secured.

"I didn't think they'd make that brash decision to shut it down completely," said Howard Christensen, the county's solid waste director. "I really thought what would happen is we would get an order to reduce costs until we get our direction (about the future course of action)." Christensen said the plant won't be used for temporary storage of refuse, as had been announced previously. The facility will remain closed until county officials determine what should be done with it, and all garbage will be taken to landfills. The Resource Recovery Facility opened in 1979 at a cost of about $50 million. Facilities at Rochester Gas and Electric Russell Station where a paper-based fuel made at the refuse plant is burned cost another $13 million or so.

The county has spent another $20 million running the plant and trying to make it work as intended. Parts of the complex machinery, designed to process refuse and extract marketable materials from it, did not always perform as intended. The plant proved far more expensive to operate than simply dumping gar- bage in landfills. TURN TO PAGE 3B Sprucing up the tower The 1 10-foot, gargoyle-adorned tower of All Souls Chapel in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery along Lake Avenue, left, is undergoing a six-week restoration. The copper-roofed tower was built in 1 896.

Reed Hoffmann Democrat and Chronicle crane to caulk seam near top. Feldmann, who has been principal at Wheatland-Chili High School for eight years, said he had received no notification of any decision. School board members said they received the panel's decision yesterday, but they too refused to disclose it. Board Member Thomas Nersinger said a copy of the decision had been delivered to his home. "I would like to meet with the rest of the board before saying anything," he said.

The panel was to decide whether the school board was justified in suspending Feldmann and whether any disciplinary action should be taken against the principal. Last October, Feldmann was suspended with pay as principal after charges were made that he used foul language at school, used corporal punishment when he hit a 'student with a newspaper on the upper arm, and refused to attend the superintendent's meetings and obey his order. Mediator in Ch. 13 strike Striking employees of Channel 13 and the station '8 management will meet today with state mediator James McGourty in -hopes of ending the 27-day-old walkout. The two sides last sat down together July 17, but talks between the union and WOKR-TV management broke off when two hours of negotiations brought no progress.

Commenting on chances of any movement in talks today, union spokesman Paul Singer said, "I am hoping we can find a crack and widen it There has to be some movement" Members of Teamsters Local 719, which represents 42 technicians, camera operators, production engineers and news photographers, walked off their jobs July 1. The union has complained of a "zipper clause," which would negate all benefits not specifically mentioned in the proposed new contract. Striking employees will hold a "garage sale" from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow along the 4200 block of Henrietta Road directly across from the station.

"People are really starting to get hit financially now from the strike," Singer said. He said money raised from the sale will help strikers, who are currently receiving $45 a week in strike benefits. Murder trial faces delay The second murder trial of Thomas M. Torpey and Thomas E. Taylor may be delayed until the end of a federal racketeering trial scheduled to begin Sept.

17. State Supreme Court Justice Robert P. Kennedy yesterday scheduled Aug. 16 for lawyers to make oral arguments on pretrial motions in the Torpey-Taylor case. Taylor's lawyer, Robert M.

Murphy, also represents one of 10 defendants in the federal case, which is expected to last for several months. Torpey and Taylor are accused of hiring Joseph J. "Mad Dog" Sullivan to kill reputed mobster John N. Fiorino. Their first trial, which ended Jan.

2 in a hung jury, lasted four months the longest criminal trial in Monroe County history. It appears unlikely there is enough time to complete the second Torpey-Taylor trial in the month between the Aug. 16 oral arguments and Sept 17, when Murphy is required to appear in federal court for the start of the racketeering trial. Scutti died of head injuries Jay Scutti, the 27-year-old son of Rochester car dealer Dale Scutti, died of massive head trauma after his sports car crashed into a telephone pole in a highspeed accident on Mendon Center Road in Mendon late Wednesday. The Monroe County Medical Examiner's office, which performed the autopsy yesterday, has ruled the death an accident.

Scutti, of 1080 Mile Square Road in Mendon, was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:13 p.m. Sobriety Checkpoint coming State police from Troop will set up a Sobriety Checkpoint somewhere in the 10-county area around Rochester this weekend, said Sgt David Treat They won't announce when or where they will establish the roadblock, but it will be in place between Friday and Sunday nights, Treat said. This is Troop E's seventh Sobriety Checkpoint. So far troopers have stopped 3,441 cars and arrested four people on charges of driving while intoxicated. Mormon pageant opening Two non-Mormons are making an appearance at the annual Hill Cumorah Pageant, which starts tonight in Palmyra Nathaniel Rochester and George Eastman.

CoL Rochester, Eastman and a supporting cast of 50 are featured in a salute to the Rochester sesquicentennial. A large City of Rochester seal is unfurled at the climax of the scene. The pageant covers the history and beliefs of the Mormon people, drawing from both the Bible and the Book of Mormon, in 90 minutes and about 15 scenes. The pageant opens at 9 p.m. and contin ues through Aug.

4 except on Sunday and I Monday. Admission and parking are free. Regan files petition to force Democratic judicial primary Al Miller of A Construction on to file petitions of 2,000 signatures of registered voters, and elections officials say candidates sometimes file as many as 3,000 signatures to provide a margin of safety. In Regan's case, if 437 or more of the signatures are ruled invalid, he will not be allowed on the ballot In other filings before yesterday's deadline, two state assemblymen submitted petitions to run on the ballot line of the Right to Life Party in addition to the Democratic line. Rochester assemblymen Roger Robach and Gary Proud were the only Assembly incumbents from Monroe County who filed to run as Right to Life candidates.

Proud also filed a petition to run on the Liberal Party line, as did Assemblyman David F. Gantt, D-Rochester. In another filing, veteran U.S. Rep. Frank Horton, R-Brighton, picked up a Republican primary opponent for the first time in his 11 terms in Congress.

E. Kevan Rowlee II of Fulton, Oswego County, filed petitions in Albany Wednesday to challenge Horton, according to the State Board of Elections. Also in Monroe County, the Conservative, Democratic and Republican parties filed pe county-owned Highland Park South, has been redirected to another part of the site until further investigation, said foreman William Hanna. The bones have been taken to the Monroe County medical examiner's office for study. Lorraine Saunders, an anthropologist at the Rochester Museum and Science Center, said the bones appear to be those of an infant, a child, two adult males and an adult female.

According to maps of the area, Saunders said, there was an alms house and an insane asylum on the site in the 1800s. The bones found in Highland Park remains a mystery titions for their designated candidates in all races. Regan, 52, whose petition filled 263 pages, said his family and about 35 other people worked almost 1,000 hours to collect the signatures. He is challenging the candidates designated by the Democrats in June, County Court Judge John J. Connell and Assistant District Attorney Patricia Marks.

Regan said a primary will give the entire Democratic Party a chance to decide the nominees for County Court rather than leaving the choice to the Democrats' execu- TURN TO PAGE 4B Monroe County Penitentiary was built near the site in 1854. Saunders said "it seems logical" the alms house and asylum "would have had their own little burial ground." Tests have not been conducted to determine the approximate dates of the deaths, Saunders said. City Historian Joseph Barnes said the land was worked as a 46-acre farm by residents of the alms house, the asylum and penitentiary. The alms house had 32 residents TURN TO PAGE 2B An autopsy by pathologist Dr. William Dean of Geneva indicated the female baby had been dead seven to 14 days before its body was found Wednesday.

A series of tissue and chemical test have been ordered, but the results of which will not be known immediately. State police are studying hotel registration records in an attempt to locate TURN TO PAGE SB Says race would give party a chance to pick nominees By Andy Pollack and Michael Clements Democrat and Chronicle City Court Judge John Manning Regan filed a petition with 2,436 signatures yesterday in a bid to force a primary for the Democratic nomination for County Court His total was less than 25 percent more than the required number of signatures, and Democrats say his petition likely will be carefully examined. Candidates for County Court are required Origin of human Several theories range from burial grounds for alms house, asylum to Quaker cemetery By David Galante Democrat and Chronicle Several theories have emerged as to the origin of about 30 human bones unearthed Wednesday by a construction worker in Highland Park. An anthropologist believes the bones are from several people who were either residents of an alms house for the poor or patients of an insane asylum. Clerk candidate criticizes Adduci for late deposits By Michael Clements Democrat and Chronicle Republican county clerk candidate Dale E.

Rath criticized County Clerk Patricia B. Adduci yesterday for missing monthly deadlines for depositing fees and mortgage tax One historian said the bones may be from a Quaker cemetery that was in the area from 1875 to 1888. Its precise location, however, is unclear. Another historian favors the alms house theory, adding that the bones may be from people who died during a cholera epidemic in 1832. The bones were found about 7:30 a.m.

Wednesday by John Bush, 28, a bulldozer operator for Titus Construction Inc. who was working his machine on a hill at the southeast corner of Highland and South avenues. The construction work, part of a $2.7 million improvement project to 39 acres of collections with the county treasury. Although the clerk's office now deposits $7,000 to $9,000 daily in fees that it collects. Rath said the clerk has continued to miss the monthly deadline for depositing mortgage tax collections.

Adduci said the clerk's office plans to switch to daily deposits of the mortgage collections on Sept 1. Rath said the depositing delays have cost the county "thousands of dollars" in interest and he called them "a reaffirmation of the disarray and disorganization in the TURN TO PAGE 5B Baby found in hotel born alive, but was suffocated, coroner rules By Carol Ritter Democrat and Chronicle A baby whose body was found hidden in a Seneca County Holiday Inn was bom alive, but was suffocated immediately after birth, the county coroner said last night. Seneca County Coroner Arthur Schroeder said it has not been determined whether the suffocation had been accidental or.