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CLERIC in COURT A minister who has been a fugitive for a year in a child custody battle turned himself in yesterday in Rochester City Court. Story, 3B. FRIDAY JULY 8. 1988 ROCHESTER NEW YORK SECTION 2B BRIEFING 4B NEW YORK 5B COMICS 0 Democrat nnii (fbronidc iT'iru nanf jwaat ia am Tirylbiedl (Semiewa Fyimdliry sDdl accepts $210,000 owner will reopen purchase offer; new pected to face competition for ownership. It had been rumored for a few weeks that another unidentified businessman was interested in buying the plant, Baker said.

But Rochester lawyer John Ninfo, who represents the unidentified businessman, said he did not attend because his client was not able to receive financing. He would not divulge the name of the client Geneva Foundry, formerly owned by Robert Brennan filed for financial reorganization in 1986 under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy laws, seeking to prevent a plant shutdown. In February, the Internal Revenue Service asked the court to convert the Chapter 11 reorganization to a liquidation proceeding. Since then, the company has been try know specifically when Forese would re open the 128-year-old plant. U.S.

Bankruptcy Judge Edward D. Hayes accepted the offer from Forese to pay $130,000 in cash, plus $33,000 to pay off a loan from the National Bank of Geneva to the foundry and $47,000 for overdue real estate taxes, Baker said. Out of the cash amount, the laid-off employees are to leceive the $15,000 in wages they are owed since the foundry halted operations on May 9. Yesterday's hearing was required by law, to give notice to any creditors that a sale was pending so they could have a chance to object No one appeared at the hearing to oppose the plan, Baker said. Forese, who did not attend, had ex Wyoming man dies in collision PAVILION A Wyoming County man died yesterday afternoon and a Florida man was in critical condition last night after a two-vehicle crash at Route 20 and Cook Road.

Gerald VV. Prescott, 88, of 11123 Starr Road, Wyoming, died at 3:36 p.m. at Genesee Memorial Hospital in Batavia. Hospital personnel were unable to operate on or transport him because his condition was unstable, a spokesman said. Norman Kennedy, 74, of Boynton Beach, was operated on for internal injuries and was in the hospital's intensive care unit State police in Batavia aren't sure who was at fault in the collision yesterday morning.

A northbound van, driven by Prescott, collided with a pickup truck, driven by Kennedy. The truck is believed to have been eastbound. 2 killed, 3 hurt as car hits flatbed truck in Steuben LINDLEY Two people were killed and three injured yesterday when their car collided head-on with a seven-ton flatbed truck in this Steuben County town. The accident happened on Route 15 at 7:45 a.m., when the southbound car crossed the center line and hit the truck, said Trooper Alan Morse. The truck, which was northbound, crushed the roof of the car.

Killed were Wanda Bermudez, 30, and Marissa Gonzales, 15. Injured were Lyd-ia Martinez, 49; Jessica Gonzales, and Elliott Gonzales, 5. They were taken to Corning Hospital and were being treated last night All are from Kissimmee, Fla. Investigators were unsure yesterday who was driving the car. The truck was driven by John Bergey, 20, of Morris, Pa.

Bergey and two passengers, brothers Joseph Bergey, 13, and Robert Bergey, 11, were not hurt. 5 jurors sworn in for trial of Lyndon Duane Goodell BATAVIA Four men and one woman were sworn in yesterday as jurors for the trial of Lyndon Duane Goodell, easing fears that the trial might have to be moved outside Genesee County. Bankruptcy judge By J. Leslie Sopko and Sherrie Negrea Democrat and Chronicle A federal judge in Rochester yesterday accepted a Pennsylvania businessman's purchase offer of about $210,000 for the bankrupt Geneva Foundry Corp. New owner George Forese, who also owns Foundry Co.

of Bloomsburg, is planning to reopen the foundry soon after the financial details are settled. He may hire back some of the 50 workers who lost their jobs, said his lawyer, Jeffrey Baker of Rochester. "He wants to get it back up and running as quickly as possible," Baker said. Forese did not return three phone calls to his office yesterday. Baker did not 30 years' waste ran into Bake Eight Geneva buildings are not hooked to system By Sherrie Negrea Democrat and Chronicle GENEVA City officials are investigating why eight downtown buildings have been dumping untreated sewage into Seneca Lake for at least 30 years.

The discovery that the buildings are not hooked into the city's sewage treatment plant was made about three weeks ago during construction on Routes 5 and 20. The highway is being relocated from the lakeshore to make room for the $60 million lakefront project "It's not any sort of public health problem," said City Engineer William Wright "But it's not right, and it has to be fixed." Wright said the problem came to light when inspectors found sewage in a manhole behind the Cinema Theater on Exchange Street The workers were in the process of replacing a storm drainage pipe that leads into the lake. The sewage from the buildings, which are located on Seneca, Exchange, Castle, and North Main streets, has been entering the lake through the Old Cemetery Creek, which normally should carry rainwater. Wright said the sewage is not a pollution problem to the lake because it is "completely diluted" in the storm pipe. Wright said the most baffling aspect of the investigation is the claim, made by some property owners, that the city had paid a contractor in the early 1950s to connect the buildings to the sewage sys- TURN TO PAGE 6B If Coleen Gragen going through a nunchaku kata exercise with Sarah Ludden yesterday.

Both are from Oakland, Calif. Women find discipline, spiritualism in martial arts i ing to arrange a reorganization plan. The firm owes about $400,000 in state and federal taxes. Meanwhile, the city of Geneva, Ontario County and the Gene-seeFinger Lakes Regional Planning Council will recover only about $40,000 of the $290,000 they have loaned the firm. A petition signed by neighbors living near the foundry apparently did not influence Hayes decision to approve the sale.

The neighbors, who complained of noise and pollution problems at the foundry on Jackson Street, wanted the court to keep the company closed. Mayor Jack P. Starr said he signed the petition to show support for the neighbors, but he said he was also not opposed to the foundry reopening. aim Kamn Mitchell Democrat and Chronicle Smith colleges. In a five-minute display, she confidently swung two sets of nunchaku, an Okinawan weapon made from bamboo sticks, in what she described as a Chinese soft-striking art.

The performances by 30 martial arts trainers in the sweltering college gymnasium yesterday opened a four-day training camp called Special Training '88. During the conference, which is now in its 12th year, women from 29 states and six foreign countries will learn a variety of martial arts disciplines that traditionally have been practiced by men. "A lot of women are one or two TURN TO PAGE 6B boat launch tion last December in the love triangle. Monroe County Court Judge Patricia D. Marks ruled in February there was insufficient grand jury evidence to support the indictment The appellate court called Marks' ruling "improper," adding that the evidence, "if unexplained and uncontroverted, would warrant a conviction by a jury," to the decision.

First Assistant District Attorney Charles Siragusa and sheriffs investigators contended Johnson supplied Ford with the shotgun that Ford allegedly later used to kill Stephen Dart, 36, at Dart's home on Chili-Riga Center Road. Ford, 18, is charged with second-degree murder and is scheduled to go to trial Aug. 22. Ford and Dart were rivals for the affections of Darlene Dart, the victim's ex-wife. TURN TO PAGE 6B Monroe County legislator and lawyer from East Rochester.

Slaughter's commercials come early in the political season, but are timed to coincide with the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, which begins in 10 days. Several of the ads are scheduled to appear on channels 8 and 10 during national network news coverage of the convention, according to station records. Slaughter's ads also face none of the usual competition from other political spots, a persistent problem to candidates who advertise close to Election Day. Slaughter's two 30-second commercials highlight what she touts as major accomplishments of her first term in Congress: Passage of a railroad safety bill that is expected to mean more business for Rochester's General Railway Signal Gaining federal money for a pedestrian tunnel to be built beneath Route 63 in Pavilion, Genesee County, which allows school children to walk from the high TURN TO PAGE 6B Ht Court hach3 plan for It went better than I expected, said county court clerk Nelson Green. "We could start trial next week." Goodell is accused of manslaughter and driving while intoxicated in the deaths of three Pembroke Central School students and their driver education teacher.

The four died after their driver training car collided head on with Goodell's vehicle on Route 5 in the town of Batavia. PrtliVo nam Crt- Goodell dell was driving drunk that afternoon, June 10, 1987. The crash made the national news, as well as spurring story after story in the local press about the junior and two seniors killed in the crash. There had been speculation that because of the publicity, a fair jury couldn't be found in Genesee County. But even Public Defender Fern K.

Acomb, who is assigned to defend Goodell, said last night that she was optimistic a local, non-biased panel of 12 jurors and four alternates will be chosen. Swan Library backers rally for new vote to raise funds ALBION About 150 people turned out for a Save the Swan Library Rally at the Village Hall last night. The 89-year-old library, housed in an old mansion on the northwest corner of Main and State streets, closed its doors for the summer July 1. Trustees believed it was their only choice after Albion Central School District voters in May and June turned down proposals to raise taxes for the library. C.W.

Lattin, a member of the library board for 13 years, said there was an upbeat feeling at last night's rally. Lattin said the school board wants 70 signatures before the proposition can be put to another vote. "We expect there will probably be several hundred signatures," Lattin said, optimistic that when the board meets Monday night it will allow a revote. GOOD HORNING "We would like to thank the city of Rochester animal control workers for helping us relocate to local parks a family of five raccoons that took up residence in our garage. We appreciated their prompt and courteous response to our calls." The Kanthor family Rochester If you would like to salute someone for a good deed, call the Good Morning line, 258-2400.

Appellate Division rejects DEC claim of eminent domain By Susan Tomaro and J. Leslie Sopko Democrat and Chronicle The state Department of Environmental Conservation can't use its power of eminent domain to acquire land for a public boat launch on Keuka Lake, the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The DEC had planned to build the launch on 3.2 acres owned by the Bath and Hammondsport Railroad Co. on the south shore of the lake at Mill and Liberty streets in Hammondsport The state claimed power to acquire the land under the Environmental Conservation Law. The railroad company peti By Sherrie Negrea Democrat and Chronicle GENEVA Fifteen years ago, Coleen Gragen was working as a high school teacher in New York City when she was attacked by a man on the streets of Manhattan.

Gragen, who was 21 at the time, was able to escape from her assailant, but the incident opened up a new possibility for hen instead of walking alone in fear, she could learn to defend herself. Yesterday, Gragen, wearing the honored black belt around a loose-fitting white top, did not seem like a frightened woman as she demonstrated the art of Kajukenbo kung fu to a crowd of 400 women at Hobart and William KySca Lafcs duced record brown trout and offers exceptional smallmouth bass fishing. In other decisions by the court yesterday, Monroe County prosecutors were permitted to reinstate a second-degree murder charge against a Riga man they say is involved in a love-triangle murder. The court also reversed a decision in a Rochester lawsuit brought by Eastwood Apartments as a result of the massive Can of Worms construction project. The appellate court vacated a preliminary injunction issued in May by state Supreme Court Justice Henry J.

Scudder that prevented the city of Rochester from interfering with plans to open a gate onto Gould Street from the East Avenue complex. In the Riga case, the higher court ordered the murder indictment reinstated against Daniel J. Johnson, 18, of Glen-wood Avenue, who is accused of helping a friend, Jeffrey N. Ford, kill his competi Oanwcrat and Chrome) Slaughter in an ad that aired yesterday. really establish what we stand for and what Louise has done." Slaughter's Republican opponent John Bouchard, said the summer start on the airwaves is an admission by the incumbent that "she is in a real horse race here." "She must be running scared if she is going on TV in July," said Bouchard, a If i '2- Pi ibf" Laurie Cahn demonstrates striking.

tioned the court to stop the DEC. The appeals court ruled that under the law, land for public fishing grounds cannot be gained by eminent domain, and that the DEC would have to enter into an agreement with the railroad company to acquire the land. Opposition to the boat-launch site surfaced at a public hearing as early as 1983. Village residents considered the land to be more suitable for other waterfront development and suggested an alternative site. The DEC rejected an alternative site, located nearby in the town of Urbana in the Champlin Beach area, because of potential damage to wetlands and shoreline, lack of deep-water access and lack of year-round access because of ice conditions.

Keuka Lake, for years accessible only on its north end, is considered one of the best fishing lakes in the state. It has pro purchased 129 spots for 30- and 60-sec-ond commercials on WHEC-TV Channel 10 and WROC-TV Channel 8 during the next three weeks, according to records provided by the stations. The commercials cost almost $60,000 to broadcast on the two stations, according to station records. Slaughter also will air political ads on WOKR-TV Channel 13, although station sales officials could not be reached yesterday for specific information. Slaughter's campaign manager, Andrea LaRue, declined to say how many commercials will be broadcast nor how much money will be spent on the early, three-week television blitz.

As for their early appearance, LaRue said, "The summer is a very good time to Big Slaughter starts early blitz of television campaign ads Two Rochester stations will show 129 spots over next three weeks By Andy Pollack Democrat and Chronicle Along with Oprah Winfrey, the Golden Girls and Peter Jennings, Rochester area television viewers will see much of VS. Rep. Louise Slaughter during the next three weeks. Slaughter's television advertisements made their first appearance yesterday, signaling an early summer start to the Perinton Democrat's re-election campaign for her 30th Congressional District seat Slaughter's campaign committee has.