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OAFIST SOUGHT Police say the rape yesterday of a 77-year-old Perinton woman is the latest in a series of sexual assaults on women in Rochester and its suburbs. Story on 4B. SATURDAY DECEMBER 7. 1985 ROCHESTER NEW YORK SECTION 0 8B DEATHS 9B COMICS 9 Democrat (Cbronidt Debbie Rice buried; 'she renewed the hope of others' pathic myocardial hydrotrophy, a thick By Jack Jonet Democrat and Chronicle PHELPS Debbie Rice, whose devotion to her five young children won admiration from friends and strangers alike, was eulogized at her funeral yesterday as a woman who "renewed the hope of others." She was buried at Rest Haven Cemetery, about four miles from the small country home she shared with her children. Rice, 30, died Monday at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, heart ailment "The hard, bitter sting of death is like the cold winter wind," DeLand said during the funeral ceremony attended by nearly 100 people.

Just as winter presages spring, death can be understood as a preface to a new life, he said. "And Debbie's faith, love, hope, dreams and expectations will grow and flower in the lives of her five children," DeLand said. "She instilled her Christian values in her children." Debbie Rice was diagnosed 12 years ago as having a hereditary heart disease, idio where she was awaiting a heart transplant that she hoped would enable her to do more things with her children. The woman's plight, chronicled in area newspaper and television reports, has resulted in donations of several thousand dollars to aid the family. The Rev.

Douglas DeLand, assistant pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Geneva, where Debbie Rice was a member, said yesterday's dismal weather offered an instructive context for mourners seeking meaning in the death of a woman who expected to overcome her serious ening of the heart tissue that reduces the flow of blood to the body. The disease claimed the lives of two of her sisters and two brothers, who died between the ages of 15 and 35. Her mother, Doris Crouch, died last month of heart failure at age 63. Family members said it hasn't been determined whether any of Debbie's children suffers from the heart malady, but Joey Rice, 8, has glaucoma and bears the disfigurements of a birth defect and Mi-chelle, 7, is being treated for a thyroid TURN TO PAGE 4B Geneva woman shot in shoulder GENEVA A Geneva woman was hospitalized with a gunshot wound and a man was in custody following an incident shortly before 5 p.m. yesterday in an apartment house at 396 Exchange St Geneva police said Delila Luciano, 29, who lives in a second-floor apartment at that address, was taken by ambulance to Geneva General Hospital and later transferred to Rochester General Hospital for treatment of severe injuries to her left shoulder.

Police said the injuries were the result of a shotgun wound. Minutes after receiving reports of a disturbance in the building, police arrived and found Luciano injured. Police shortly afterward arrested Larry Mai- lard, 23, who lives in a different apartment in the same building, and charged him with first-degree assault Mallard was placed in the city lockup to await arraignment Police said they had no details of the incident that led to the discharge of a shotgun. Two shots were fired; one struck Luciano and the other hit a wall Wayne man fined $10,000 A Wayne County man was sentenced yesterday to two years' probation, fined $10,000 and ordered to pay more than $40,000 in back taxes and penalties for his guilty plea to failing to file a federal income tax return for 1981. US.

District Judge Michael Telesca ordered Lawrence N. House of Sodus, a 1 -f iooa sales employee, to pay nis tine by Jan. 3 or face a prison sentence. House, 44, pleaded guilty Oct 22 to failing to file a federal income tax return on about $41,000 of income in 1981. He also was ordered yesterday to pay back taxes and penalties on about $170,000 worth of income he earned from 1979 to 1982, according to the U.S.

attorney's office in Rochester. Monson case judge drops sex charges Blood-stained bag found in defendant's car also disallowed as evidence By Carol Ritter Democrat and Chronicle AUBURN Defense lawyers in the Julie Monson homicide case claimed a victory yesterday when a judge ruled that a bloodstained grocery bag could not be used as evidence and, in a separate ruling, dismissed two of five charges against defendant Thomas Bianco. Judge Donald Wisner made the rulings in a pretrial hearing in Cayuga County Court. The judge also said he would no longer preside over the murder trial of Bianco, 23, of Auburn. Bianco is free on $100,000 bail and was not present in court.

"This is a major victory in our judgment," said defense lawyer William Lynn, who represents Bianco with co-counsel Joseph Fahey. "We're very pleased." Wisner dismissed attempted sodomy and first-degree rape charges against Bianco. "When you have to deal with those crimes, it puts such an emotional theme on the case," Lynn said. "Now we are facing a homicide. In my judgment, a jury can deal more effectively with this charge when it's not jumbled up with sex crimes." Wisner ruled during the 55-minute session that cutors could not use as evidence a Wegmans shopping bag found by police in a search of Bianco's car in May 1982, eight months after 18-year-old Julie Monson vanished from the neighborhood near her Auburn home.

Wisner said he found the search warrant used to obtain the bag "rather vague." Police found the bag in the trunk of Bianco's car. Julie Monson was a college student living at home when she was last seen alive in September 1981 after visiting an area bar with some friends. Her body was TURN TO PAGE 5B Reilly is sentenced to 100 years to life By Andy Pollack Democrat and Chronicle County Court Judge Andrew G. Celli yesterday sentenced Robert Reilly to 100 years to life in prison believed to be the longest sentence ever handed out in Monroe County for the Jan. 7 slayings of his wife Julian H.

Gonulu Democrat and Chronicle The Santucci brothers, Gino, left, and Guido, will be on duty behind the store counters for last time today. It's checEtout time tor old grocery store Santucci brothers closing family-run business today By Jim Myers Democrat and Chronicle Without fanfare or fuss, another of the city's old-time, family-run neighborhood meat and grocery stores is closing today. Santucci and Sons, which opened at 454 itforth St in 1946, survived many changes on a street that once was a commercial center for Italian residents on the city's east side. Tonight, Guido and Gino Santucci, two brothers who as teen-agers emigrated to the United States in 1939 from a small town near Rome, Italy, will close their store for the last time. "It's coming to an end," Guido Santucci said yesterday, "and to tell you the truth, I don't know how we're going to like it." The closing of Santucci's is one of those quiet stories of change in the city.

There is nothing terribly Santucci's Market at 454 North St. has been open as a grocery and meat market for almost 40 years. dramatic about it. The Santuccis are simply retiring. They haven't put up signs saying that the business has been sold or that they are closing.

Many of their customers do not even know it is happening. New owners will reopen the store soon. Santucci's, at least for one more day, remains one TURN TO PAGE 2B and three young "I just want you to know I could not have done what I did if I was in my state of mind. I was insane," Reilly told Celli. "I lost the four people I most dearly loved in the world," Reilly said, his voice quivering.

"If I could change what I have done, I would do it. May God forgive me for what I've done." Celli snapped back that Reilly deserved no forgiveness for the "unbelievable, incredible, atrocious" killings of his wife and children. Batavia told to close dump by Sept. 1, 1987 i if if it fh fir 1 1 ilifrmi nr. Speech therapy extended Park Ridge Hospital has extended its new speech therapy program to include an outpatient department, where victims of strokes and head injuries can now continue treatment after they are discharged.

The outpatient program is available to people from the community with lan- guage, voice or fluency problems, according to the director and therapist in charge, Susan N. Specter. Day-care worker indicted A Monroe County grand jury has again indicted a 27-year-old former day-care center worker and accused him of molesting two pre-school-age girls at the Pitts-ford school where he worked. A judge last month had dismissed six of eight charges against Anthony P. DiFabio, ruling that the grand jury did not have enough evidence to indict him.

The judge, however, allowed the case to be presented again to the grand jury; DiFabio was indicted Thursday on four counts of first-degree sexual abuse and four counts of endangering a child. The charges are the same as those he was indicted on in May. He is accused of fondling two girls, then 4 and 5 years old, in four separate incidents between Dec. 25, 1984, and March 1, 1985, at the Allendale Columbia School in Pittsford, where he worked for 2'2 years in the after-school day-care program. The new indictment replaces the two charges remaining against DiFabio.

Man charged after dogfight A Monroe County grand jury yesterday indicted a Rochester man on a charge of instigating animals to fight in connection with a July 20 fight between two dogs. The grand jury also charged him with cruelty to animals. Adam Junious, 28, is accused of forcing his dog known as a pit bull to attack another pit bull that was being walked by its owner on the sidewalk at Nellis Park and Jefferson Avenue. The indictment charges that Junious' actions caused the other dog to suffer an injury. When Junious was arrested in July, police said he was the second person in the state to be charged with felony for animal fighting under a law enacted Nov.

1, 1984. Reading will aid campaign Last year, Rochester-area children read more than 27,000 books and 2,000 newspaper articles and raised $23,000 for the March of Dimes' fight against birth defects. The fifth annual March of Dimes reading champions program begins this month and aims to reach even more than the 2,000 children in grades K-9 who participated last year, said the organization's coordinator of chapter services, Jacqueline E. Skrzypczak. The children sign up sponsors among parents and family friends, who pledge money to the March of Dimes for each book or newspaper article read, Skrzypczak said.

Depending on the number of books read, they can earn medals and certificates, while each participating school with an active coordinator will receive a set of National Geographic books. Sponsored by Gannett Rochester Newspapers, the program is open to both individuals and schools. Forms are available at public libraries, libraries of participating schools, and the March of Dimes office, 11 State St, Pittsford. AREA DEATHS Doolittle, Russell 87, Wolcott, Dec. 5.

Sands, Ellsworth 74, Albion, Dec. 6. Robert Reilly By John Hartsock Democrat and Chronicle BATAVIA The state Department of Environmental Conservation has Ordered the town of Batavia to close its landfill by Sept. 1, 1987, which could be costly for the town and city of Batavia, the major users. Town Manager Arthur K.

Posluszny said the town, which does not levy a property tax, may be forced to do so in order to pay for the closing and the cost of finding an alternative means of waste disposal. "One way or another this issue of solid waste may eliminate the zero tax base in the town of Batavia," Posluszny said. The closure order was in the form of a Dec. 2 letter from the DEC in Avon. Posluszny said the letter "comes as a surprise" because the town and city were negotiating with the DEC to postpone closing the facility for three years.

TURN TO PAGE 2B "This case will go down as the most horrendous group of criminal acts ever done in this county," Celli said. "Meaghan, Caitlin and Cory Reilly had a right to live. Eileen Kane Reilly had a right to live." "I want to make sure that you do not, that you are TURN TO PAGE 2B Methodist minister says his congregation hard-working family is a very committed, By Dick Eisenhart Democrat and Chronicle BATH The pastor of the Centenary United Methodist Church in Bath, Steuben County, credits "the high percentage of deeply committed lay people" with both his and the church's success. "As pastor, I appreciate the core of active, committed Christian people we have in the church," said the Rev. Wendell Minnigh who has been minister at Centenary for 14 years.

"Our faith in Jesus Christ has been important to us. As far as worship is concerned, in our services, we seek to incorporate both celebration and contemplation. We encourage active involvement of the worshippers and have a good strong lay leadership." Minnigh said the commitment of lay leaders, whom he called "a neat bunch," enables him to expand his ministry to other areas, such as community service. The church is people, he said, and they offer much to keep themselves growing. "I see my role as being sort of the player-coach," said Minnigh, who uses the analogy out of his love for both athletics and his church of 650 members.

"I like all sports. I enjoy jogging and biking," he said, and he has a bicycle Century Club patch to mark riding 100 miles in one day. He's often circled Keuka Lake on the 12-speed bicycle given him by his family. Minnigh said he thinks of the church as family, and that's the way most of the members view it, too. "There have been some exciting things which have happened since I've been here.

Obviously completing the new sanctuary eight years ago is one. "But I think the most exciting thing is the growth of the congregation, as evidenced in the Sunday School, the youth clubs, the adult fellowship groups. I perceive it as a very open and celebrative atmosphere of worship," he said. Minnigh, 48, a third-generation Methodist minister, conducts three weekly worship services two Sunday mornings and one Wednesday evening. "All are a little bit different from each other," he said.

TURN TO PAGE 2B Dick Eiwnhart Democrat and Chronicle Rev. Wendell Minnigh Jr. says he considers himself the player-coach of his congregation in Bath. Democrat and Chronicle.