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Rockland Watch B2 Wednesday, March 24, 1993 Rockland Journal-News MEETINGS TODAY FOR THE RECORD AROUND THE COUNTY Village Hall, 61 Washington Ave. EAST RAMAPO BOARD OF EDUCATION: 8:15 p.m., district office, 105 S. Madison Spring Valley. HILLBURN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: 7:30 p.m., Village Hall, 31 Mountain Ave. vr Stony Qamervllle, Spring Nw Valley 'city SJfRivor I 1 ROCKLAND BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: 8 p.m., Building 7, Parrott Road, West Nyack.

ROCKLAND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COUNCIL 8 p.m., grand jury room, basement of Allison-Parris County Office Building, 11 New Hempstead Road, New City. MONTEBELLO BOARD OF TRUSTEES: 8 p.m., Village Hall, 1 Montebello Road, Montebello. TOWN BOARD: 8 p.m., Town Hall, 237 Route 59, Airmont. Public hearing on zoning change to allow a nursing home as part of Heritage House senior housing planned on College Road, Monsey. SUFFERN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: 7:30 p.m.

workshop, other CLARKSTOWN ROBBERY CHARGED: Spring Valley resident Cornelius Lindsey was charged yesterday with first-degree robbery after Clarkstown and Spring Valley police spent a couple of weeks investigating two taxi robberies, police said. Lindsey, 23, of 167 Fred Hecht Drive, was arrested at his place of employment, the McDonald's restaurant on Route 59 in Spring Valley, Clarkstown Police Sgt. Tim O'Neill said. Lindsey robbed two cabs on March 5 and March 10, police say. In both cases, he hailed the cabs at the north end of Second Avenue.

He then threatened the drivers with a knife and demanded cash. Yesterday, Lindsey was held on $5,000 bail at the county jail. STOLEN PROPERTY ARREST) Suffern resident Alfie Taylor was charged with burglary after police found a stolen vehicle parked in front of his home, police said. Officers responded to a burglar alarm at the West Nyack Service Center at 155 Route 303 in West Nyack at 12:13 a.m. yesterday, Sgt.

Tim O'Neill said, and found the gas station had been entered and a 1990 Ford Ryder rental truck had been stolen. About three hours later, a Rockland Sheriff's Department patrolman found the truck parked and unoccupied on Second Avenue in Spring Valley, O'Neill said. Police determined that Taylor had driven the vehicle to Second Street and entered a home there. while one of them grabbed a deli clerk around her neck, Haverstraw Town Police said yesterday. At about 10 p.m., two unarmed men wearing ski masks entered the Route 202 Deli at the intersection of Hurd Avenue, police said.

One of the men grabbed a female clerk about the neck while the other pulled the cash drawer from the register, Rogers said. He said the woman was not hospitalized nor seriously hurt. The robbers fled on foot in an unknown direction, Rogers said. He said he could not give a more complete suspect description. Town police were assisted by the Haverstraw Village Police K-9 unit, the Stony Point Police and the County Sheriff's Department.

ORANGETOWN STOLEN CAR: Larry Gelman of 911 Goshen Washington-ville, N.Y., was arrested by state police Monday afternoon after he was found with a stolen car. Gelman, 31, was stopped by a state trooper on the Palisades Interstate Parkway for traffic violations. A check revealed the car had been stolen, police said. Gelman also gave police a false identity. He was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, second-degree forgery and obstructing governmental administration.

Gelman is also wanted by the New York City police on drug and larceny charges. He was held at the Rockland County Jail. power lines near schools He was arrested at 25 Second by Detective Juan Rocha. Police also seized keys from Taylor that belonged to other vehicles at the West Nyack service station and cash, O'Neill said. iTaylor, of 35 Park was also charged with criminal possession of stolen property, trespassing, criminal mischief, possession of burglary tools and unlawful possession of marijuana.

He was sent to the county jail on $10,000 cash bail. FAMILY COURT DISTURBANCE: Glenn H. Payne of 33 Prospect Spring Valley, was arrested yesterday after he assaulted officers from the Rockland Sheriff's patrol inside Rockland Family Court, police said. Payne, 30, became upset with the progress of a hearing in court and became abusive, said Sheriff's Patrol Chief Harry Stewart. When officers asked Payne to leave, he refused and attacked the officers, Stewart said.

He was charged with resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and second-degree assault, Stewart said. He was being held by Sheriff's officers yesterday afternoon pending arraignment. One of the officers who arrested Payne was taken to Nyack Hospital for treatment of minor leg injuries, Stewart said. HAVERSTRAW DELI ROBBED: Two men robbed about $2,000 from a Gar-nerville delicatessen Sunday night Rose HI. Delia Valle Volunteer Rose M.

Delia Valle, home-maker and sister of a Rockland woman, died of a lung ailment yesterday at Phelps Memorial Hospital Center in North Tarry-town, Westchester County. She was 63. Mrs. Delia Valle did a lot of volunteer work for the Ossining Open Door Health Center. She was a first-grade teacher's aide at Park Elementary School in Ossining, Westchester.

Mrs. Delia Valle was born Nov. 16, 1929, in the Bronx, to John and Mary McDonnell Harrington. She was raised in the Bronx. She graduated from Immaculati Roman Catholic High School in Manhattan.

She lived in Yonkers before moving to Ossining in 1969. On May 13, 1950, she married Michael M. Delia Valle at St. Peter's Church in the Bronx. She was a parishioner of St.

Ann's Church in Ossining. She was a member of the Women of the Moose Lodge, also in Ossining. In addition to her husband, survivors include five sons, Anthony of Somers, Mark of Willsey-ville, N.Y., Brian of Ossining and Patrick and Vincent, both of Manhattan; two daughters, Mary Delia Valle Horigan of Ithaca and Theresa Greenberg of Manhattan; a sister, Mary Gambardella of Suffern; and two grandsons. Memorial contributions in her, name are being made to Maryk-' noli Fathers, Pinesbridge Road, Maryknoll, N.Y. 10545.

The Waterbury and Kelly Funeral Home in Ossining is handling the arrangements. Ina A. Jennings Homemaker Ina A. Jennings, a Suffern native, died Tuesday, March 23, 1993, at the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla. She was 55.

She was born in Suffern on July 5, 1937, to Roscoe and Catherine Conklin Harty. Mrs. Jennings, a homemaker, lived in Monticello, N.Y., for the past 10 years. She is survived by her husband, Elijaha S. Jennings Sr.

of Monti-cello; five sons, Elijaha S. Jr. of Warwick, N.Y., and Louis, Nelson, Hamford, and Roscoe, all of Monticello; one brother, Roscoe Harty of Spring Valley; five sisters, Dorothy Rooney, Catherine Deronde and Pauline Rickens, all of Spring Valley, Harriet Harty of Haverstraw, and Linda Harty of Valley Cottage; and 20 grandchildren. Graveside services will be held at 12:30 p.m. Friday at the Airmont Cemetery in Airmont.

Arrangements were made by Wanamaker and Carlough Funeral Home, Route 59, Suffern. Joseph R. Martini Department store buyer Joseph R. Martini of Spring Valley, a retired department store buyer, died Sunday, March 21, 1993, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern. He was 62.

He was born in the Bronx on July 29, 1930, to Cielia Morici and Albert Martini Sr. He lived in the Bronx before moving to Spring Valley 15 years ago. Mr. Martini I HMWBWft 1 TOWN TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE: 10 a.m., Town Andrew Jackson Room, 10 Maple New City. CLARKSTOWN PLANNING BOARD: 7:30 p.m., Town Hall, Room 311.

ORANGETOWN PLANNING BOARD: 8 p.m., Greenbush Auditorium, 1 Greenbush Road, Orange-' burg. ilities study and incidents of childhood Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. noted in a letter to Abrams that "scientific research is still uncertain" and that "we cannot interpret the results with respect to any possible health effects, if any, of EMF." Other utilities agreeing to the survey were: Long Island Lighting Consolidated Edison Central Hudson Gas Electric arid the New York Power Authority. ment in 1982. LEON RABIN, former president of the American Jewish died of pneumonia Sunday in Dallas, Texas.

He was 77. Rabin, who taught math at Southern Methodist University from 1957 to 1977, was president of the American Jewish Committee. DAN rodgers, former dent of Revlon died of cancer Friday in New York. He was 73. Rodgers was president of the cosmetics company from 1966 to 1969 and also had held posts at several advertising agencies.

At his death, he was president and chief executive of the Thompson Medical Co. in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was also a director of the Nonprescription Drug Man-' ufacturers Association. LIST OF DEATHS JONES, Luther D. of Stony Point, NY on 2393.

Btloved husband of Glaydt (Rote) Of Stony Point. Loving father of Carl of Stony Point. Dear grandfather of Nancy. Jones of Stony Point. Service on Saturday at HIGGINS FUNERAL HOME, RT 9W, Stony Point, NY.

Burial at Ml-Repose Cemetery, Haverstraw, NY. Visit- Ing at Funeral Home on Thurs. and Frl. 2-'. 4 7-9PM.

Oonatlons requested to Stony. Point Ambulance Corp, 6 Lee Ave, Stony Point, NY 1090 or 1st United Church, W. Main St, Stony Point, NY 10980. LALLY, David Alexander Graduate Of Bronx High School of Science, Student George Washington Univ. On March 21, 1993.

Beloved son of Maureen M. Lally and John M. Lally and friend and brother to John Lally, Jr. Nephew of Joanne Han-Ion and James and Emily McManus and great-nephew of Shelah McManus. Funeral 1PM Thursday, March 25 at St.

Barnabas Church, Revolutionary Ardsley, NY. Contributions In David's memory may be sent to New Staff Development Fund, Farm I Wilderness Foundation, Plymouth, VT 05056. SPECIAL NOTICES PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT PRAYER THROUGH application. To the holy Holy spirit you who solves all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my. goal.

You who gives me the divine gift to-forgive and forget all evil against me and' that In all Instances of my life you asre with me. I want In the short prayer to thank you for all things as you confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you ever and In spite of all. material Illusions I wish to be with you In. eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy' towards me and mine.

The person must: say the prayer for three consecutive After three days the favor requested will be granted even If it may appear The prayer must be published Immediately after the favor Is granted without mention of the favor. Only your Initials -shouyld appear at the bottom M.K. CARD OF THANKS DONATO, Thomas Thank you to the Ramapo Police, the Higgins Funeral Home all the many friends who were so kind during my loss, all the family members who also supported me. Mrs. Thomas Donato To Publish: Death Notices Card of Thanks In Memoriams St.

Jude Lodge Notices CALL: 914-694-5147 Before Day of Publication M-Fi 9:00 am 8:43 pm Sat.s 8 am 8:45 pm 3 pm 6:4 pm Local Gannett-Suburban Newspapers Listed in The Telephone Directory RAMAPO Meeting planned for street fair SPRING VALLEY Organizers of the Second Annual Spring Valley Multi-Cultural Street Fair invite the public to a fair planning meeting tomorrow at 8 p.m. The meeting is at the Open Door Center, 57 N. Main said Claudie Pierre, fair chairperson. She hopes more merchants will get involved and share their ideas for the event set for May 23. Cathy Carroll HAVERSTRAW Bus service applications due GARNERVILLE North Rockland school district students planning to attend a non-public school this fall are required to submit applications for bus transportation by Thursday, April 1.

According to Bernard Hughes, North Rockland's transportation coordinator, applications are required each year the student attends a non-public school. Applications are available at the non-public schools, the district's Administration Building on 65 Chapel Street or by calling Hughes at 942-3050. Maureen Carroll STONY POINT Opera company to visit students STONY POINT Farley Middle school seventh-graders will get a taste of opera when the "Spotlite on Opera" touring company visits the school tomorrow. The international group will introduce the students to the drama and story that unfolds through the music and lyrics of some of the world's most popular operas. Maureen Carroll ORANGETOWN Police chiefs to honor retiree PEARL RIVER the Rockland County Police Chiefs will hold a dinner party for retired Orange-town Police Chief William Crable on April 2 at the Pearl River Elks Lodge.

The cocktail hour will begin at 6:30 p.m. The 7:30 p.m. dinner will be followed by three hours of music and dancing. Tickets are $30 per person. For more information call Earl Lorence at 634-2737.

Maureen Carroll CLARKSTOWN Local planners to discuss area NEW CITY The "Tappan Zee Corridor" will be the topic of discussion at the fifth annual Rockland Municipal Federation dinner at the Terrace on the Hudson on 9W in Haverstraw. Anthony Gregory, the chief engineer for the state Thruway Authority, will discuss the corridor during the dinner, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday. The Tappan Zee Corridor runs from Suffern across the Tappan Zee Bridge and eastward to the Cross Westchester Expressway. Federation President Rudolph Yacyshyn, chairman of the Clarkstown Planning Board, said awards will be given to charter members of the organization.

Dinner is $25 and reservations must be made by Friday. For more information, call Arlene Miller at the Rockland Planning Department, 638-5474. David McClendon Transit money is being sought WEST NYACK Rockland Legislator Harriet Cornell, D-Clarkstown, says she's lobbying for transportation funding for Rockland as the state budget process heats up. She's eyeing the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority's $90 million surplus and thinks some of it could be put to better use in suburbia. She says she met with state Legislative leaders to show them Rockland's unity in fighting for transportation funding.

The Associated Press ALBANY New York's eight utilities have agreed to conduct a first-in-the-nation survey of high voltage power lines near schools, state attorney general Robert Abrams said yesterday. Abrams said he requested the utilities conduct the survey after recent studies cited a possible link between electromagnetic fields called EMFs from power lines Saul Weiskopf Electrician Saul Weiskopf of Monsey, an electrician, died Monday, March 22, 1993, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern. He was 64. Mr. Weiskopf was born in the Bronx on April 11, 1928, to Max and Rose Zepnick Weiskopf.

He attended Samuel Gompers Vocational and Technical High School and earned an associate's degree in electrical technology from Pratt Institute. He lived in the Bronx and Queens before moving to Monsey 32 years ago. Mr. Weiskopf was an electrician and a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3. He was a charter member of the Monsey Jewish Center and a member of the center's Daled Group.

He was a member of the Fred Hecht Post of the Jewish War Veterans. He also was a member of the Electrical Welfare Club of Flushing, Queens, and the Retirees Local 3 of the IBEW. He loved baseball and was an avid New York Yankees fan. He married his wife, Judith, in 1951. He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Jill Weiskopf of Providence, R.I., and Cindy Weiskopf of Baltimore, and a brother, Al of New York City.

A service will be held at noon today at the Monsey Jewish Center, Route 306, Monsey, with burial in Gates of Zion Cemetery in Monsey. A period of mourning will be observed at Judith Weiskopf's Monsey home through Tuesday morning. Arrangements are being handled by Hellman Memorial Chapels, 15 State Spring Valley. ELSEWHERE WILLIAM A. DYER president of Indianapolis Newspapers the parent company of The Indianapolis Star and The Indianapolis News, died Sunday at 90 in Indianapolis, Ind.

He became vice president and general manager of The Indianapolis Star in 1944 and general manager of The Indianapolis News in 1949. He was named vice president and general manager of Indianapolis Newspapers in 1974 and president in 1975. Survivors include two sons and two grandchildren. LOUIS J. JENN, founder of Jenn-Air a pioneer in the design of kitchen ranges, died Thursday in Indianapolis, Ind.

He was 77. Jenn founded Jenn-Air in 1961. He invented an indoor grill for home use in 1970, as well as glass-ceramic cooktop modules. POLYKARP KUSCH, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, died Saturday in Dallas, Texas. He was 82.

Kusch was awarded the Nobel jointly with Willis E. Lamb in 1955 for determining the magnetic moment of the electron, one of the particle's most important properties. He was a member of the University of Texas at Dallas physics faculty from 1972 until his retire OBITUARIES worked as a buyer for Lord Taylor in New York City. He stopped working about 40 years ago because of multiple sclerosis. He was a member of St.

Joseph's Church. He is survived by a brother, Albert S. Martini Jr. of the Bronx; his longtime nurse, Rachel Polos of West Nyack; and three nephews, Joseph M. and Keith of Staten Island and Steven of Los Angeles, Calif.

A brother, Mario R. Martini, died January 7, 1981. A service is scheduled today at 11 a.m. at the Sniffen-Sagala Funeral Home, Route 59, Spring Valley. Burial will be in the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, N.Y.

This obituary was reprinted because of incorrect and incomplete information supplied to the Rockland Journal-News. Nora Minwegen Homemaker Nora Minwegen, a homemaker, died Tuesday, March 23, 1993, at Ramapo Manor Nursing Home. She was 93. She was born in Grassy Point on Dec. 31, 1899, to Patrick and Margaret Sullivan Ford.

Mrs. Minwegen lived in Sloats-burg for the past 10 years. She was formerly of Stony Point. She is survived by one son, Thomas of Croton, N.Y.; three daughters, Mary Sutherland of Sloatsburg, Honor Minwegen of Suffern, and Margo Sawyer of Garrison, N.Y.; nine grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m.

tomorrow at St. Joan of Arc Church, Eagle Valley Road, Sloatsburg. Burial will follow at Frederick W. Loescher Veterans Memorial Cemetery in New Hempstead. Calling hours will be from 7 to 9 tonight at Wanamaker and Carlough Funeral Home, 37 Eagle Valley Road, Sloatsburg.

Pauline N. Sharko Former Rocklander Pauline N. Sharko, a former Nanuet resident, died Monday, March 22, 1993, at the Carteret General Hospital in Carteret, N.C. She was 94. Born in the Ukraine on June 29, 1898, to Nicholas and Pauline Nawroski, Mrs.

Sharko came to the United States in 1913, settling in Brooklyn. She lived in Nanuet for 31 years before moving to Cape Carteret, N.C, eight years ago. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Church in Spring Valley. Her husband, Alexander Sharko, died in 1985.

A son, Michael Sharko, died in 1972 and a daughter, Katherine Frank, died in 1970. She is survived by a daughter, Stephanie Niles of Cape Carteret, N.C; five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. A service will be held Friday at 10 a.m. at the St. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Church in Spring Valley.

Burial will be at the Holy Rood Cemetery in Westbury, N.Y. Calling hours will be tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Higgins Funeral Home, 24 S. Middletown Road, Nanuet. Marguerite 'Rita' Burkert Lifelong Rocklander Marguerite "Rita" Burkert, a lifelong North Rockland resident, died at the Robert L.

Yeager Health Center in Ramapo on Tuesday, March 23, 1993. She was 67. Born on Feb. 5, 1926, in Stony Point, to Alonzo and Matilda Griffin Berean, Mrs. Burkert grew up in North Rockland and graduated from Haverstraw High School.

During World War II, Mrs. Burkert worked at the Iona Island munitions depot. She is survived by a daughter, Sandra Loverchio of Pomona; three sons, Joseph of Stony Point, Chris of Fairfax, and Michael of Haverstraw; a sister, Jean Bro-phy of Stony Point; seven grand-children and three great grandchildren. Her husband, Joseph, died in 1988. A brother, James, also died previously.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Peter's Church in Haverstraw. Burial will be at the Frederick W. Loescher Veterans Memorial Cemetery in New Hempstead.

Calling hours will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the T.J. McGowan Sons Funeral Home, 133 Broadway, Haverstraw. Cecilia Fowler Retired nurse Cecilia Fowler of West Haverstraw died on Monday, March 22, 1993, at the Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, N.Y. She was 86.

She was born on March 1, 1907, in Dunkirk, N.Y., to Joseph J. and Constance Popielarz Nowak. Mrs. Fowler lived at the Walnut Hill Apartments in West Haverstraw for four years. Prior to that she lived in Haverstraw, Spring Valley and Nyack.

A graduate of Fr. Bakers School of Nursing in Lackawanna, N.Y., she retired in 1986 after 57 years as a nurse, 30 of which she was employed by Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. Mrs. Fowler also worked at Nyack Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern and Letchworth Village in Thiells. She was an artist who painted landscapes and seascapes of the Hudson Valley area and performed in various music halls in New York City with her sisters.

Mrs. Fowler's husband Ernest died in 1969, and her sister Sophie L. Rowley of Stony Point died on March 8, 1993. She is survived by four sisters, Renee and Helen Nowak of Stony Point, Martha Nowak of Spring Valley, and Marie Keppler of Spring Valley; a brother, Leon Nowak of Stony Point; a son, Ernie W. of Marlboro, N.Y.; and two grandchildren, Matthew and Jor-don Fowler of Marlboro.

A service is scheduled for Friday at 11 a.m. at Immaculate Conception Church, John Street, Stony Point. Burial will be in St. Peter's Cemetery, Haverstraw. Calling hours are Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

at the Higgins Funeral Home, Route 9W, Stony Point. This obituary was reprinted because of incomplete information supplied to the Rockland.