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THE JOURNAL-NEWS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER, 22, 1983 Local Haverstraw ex-politician John F. Hines, at 92 By KEVIN McCOY Staff Writer John F. Hines, a former Haverstraw councilman, member of the town's Democratic machine and longtime civic group member, died Sunday at Castle Point (N.Y.) Veteran's Hospital. He was 92. The son of William and Margaret (McCabe) Hines, he was born April 1, 1891 in Haverstraw.

He attended local schools and lived for many years on Clove Avenue with his wife, the late Josephine (Monahan) Hines. Mr. Hines began a long career in Haverstraw Democratic politics with his election as a town councilmani in 1935. That year, he ran on an independent coalition ticket that brought former Democratic Supervisor Victor Shankey back to office after a two-year absence caused by party infighting. A member of Shankey's Democratic machine for the next decade, he won town board reelection bids in 1939 and 1943.

Mr. Hines ended his political career when an upset 1947 Republican win of two town board seats swept him out of office. "Johnny Hines was a fine gentleman and he served the town well for many years," said Haverstraw Supervisor Philip Rotella, Shankey's successor and inheritor of the Democratic machine. Mr. Hines also served for many years as therapy aide at Helen Hayes Hospital in West Haverstraw.

He retired from active employment more than 20 years ago. He was also a U.S. Army veteran who served in France during Allan B. Sniffen Allan B. Sniffen, a former Spring Valley funeral director, died Monday at his Hallandale, home at the age of 86.

Mr. Sniffen, who is survived by his second wife, Elsa, was born Nov. 14, 1897, in Amherst, to Clarence and Alice Sniffen. Mr. Sniffen, with his first wife, Margaret, owned the Sniffen Funeral Home in Spring Valley from 1933 to 1965.

Margaret Sniffen died in 1965, the year Mr. Sniffen retired. He moved to Florida 15 years ago. The business is operated by a surviving son, Stephen H. Sniffen, of Spring Valley.

Mr. Sniffen was a charter member of the Spring Valley Rotary Club as well as a member of the Aphelstane Lodge the Odd Fellows Lodge, the Moscarella American Legion Post and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, all in Spring Valley. He was also a member of the boards of directors of the Empire National Bank in Spring Valley and the Spring Valley Methodist Church. He was a member of the Spring Valley Hook and Ladder the Sons of the American Revolution, the United States Power Squadron, the Orange and Rockland Funeral Directors Association and the National Funeral Directors Association. Mr.

Sniffen served with the U.S. Army in France during World War I. During World War II, he was a Civilian Defense volunteer in Rockland County. Mr. Sniffen's other survivors include another son, Dr.

A. Mead Sniffen of Bedford Hills and three grandchildren. Services are scheduled for 8 p.m. today in Hollywood, Fla. Private entombment will be in Brick Church Cemetery in Spring Valley at the convenience of the family.

Pauline Pomerantz Pauline Pomerantz, the mother of Rena Moskowitz of Nanuet, died Sunday at the Elmwood Manor Nursing Home in Nanuet. She was 75. Born on April 26, 1908, to Meyer and Anna Sietz in New York City, Mrs. Pomerantzresided in the Bronx until 1977, when she moved to Spring Valley. She moved to the Elmwood Manor Nursing Home in 1980.

She was employed as a bookkeeper for Roman Cotton Goods until 1973, when she retired. Her husband, Harry, died in 1967. Besides her daughter, other survivors include a son, Martin of Dallas, a sister, Shirley Lipsky of Minneapolis, and five grandchildren. Funeral services are to be held at noon today at Riverside Memorial Chapel, Grand Concourse and 179th Street in the Bronx. Burial will be in the Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, Queens.

A period of mourning will take place at the home of her daughter. Michael J. O'Connell Michael J. O'Connell of 56 Secor Boulevard, Pearl River, died Sunday at Nyack Hospital of muscular dystrophy. He was 20.

The son of Loretta O'Connell and the late James O'Connell III, he was born in Ithaca, on July 19, 1963. He moved with his family to Pearl River in 1966. Mr. O'Connell, an avid sports fan, was a 1981 graduate of Pearl River High School. Besides his mother, survivors include two brothers, Kelly and Jimmy, and two sisters, Jill and Wendy, all of Pearl River.

Also surviving are his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Knapp, also of Pearl River. A Mass of Christian burial is to be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at St.

Aedan's Roman Catholic Church in Pearl River. Burial is to follow in St. Patrick's Cemetery in Catskill, N.Y. Calling hours are from 3 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.

today at the Wyman-Fisher Funeral Home, 100 Franklin Pearl River. DEATH NOTICES KUCHMA, Peter of Austin Tappan, N.Y. on Sat. Nov. 19, 1983, at the Nyack Hosp.

Beloved husband of Anna. Devoted father of Peter A. Kuchma of Tappan. Brother of Anton and Mary Sliwinski. Mass of Christian Burial at Our Lady of Sacred Heart Church, Tappan, N.

on Wednesday Nov. 23, at 10 a.m. Interment Rockland Cemetery, Sparkill, N. Y. Friends may call STEVENSON FUNERAL HOME, 790 Piermont Piermont, N.

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He was a member of the Harold B. Holt American Legion Post in Haverstraw and belonged to the Joyce Kilmer General Assembly of Rockland County. Mr. Hines was also a lifetime member of Knights of Columbus Council 581 in Haverstraw, a member of Haverstraw Rescue Hook and Ladder Co. No.

1 and a former scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 19 at St. Peter's Church in Haverstraw. He is survived by numerous cousins. The Mass of the Christian burial will be offered 11 a.m. Wednesday at St.

Peter's Church in Haverstraw. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Calling hours are at T.J. McGowan Sons Funeral Home, 133 Broadway, Haverstraw, today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Obituaries the Pearl River High School Athletic Athletic Director Tom T.

Doherty, Aage Norman Johannessen Donations to Department, would be appreciated. Aage Norman Johannessen of New City died Monday at Nyack Hospital. He was 50. Mr. Johannessen, who is survived by his wife, Aase, was born in Oslo, Norway, on Sept.

17, 1933, to Peder Marcus and Beta Elvira Johannessen. Mr. Johannessen came to this country in 1952 and settled in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., before moving to New City 25 years ago. mechanical engineer with the -Mech Corp. of Paramus, N.J., for the last 12 years, Mr.

Johannessen was a member of the Park Evangelical Free Church. Other survivors include a son, Keith of Hamden, four daughters, Nina Donley, Elizabeth and Emily, all of New City, and Ingrid Davis of Spring Valley; two brothers, Odd Johannessen of Upper Saddle River, N.J., and Kjell Johannessen of Ramsey, N.J.; a sister, Liv Christiansen of Williamsburg, and two grandchildren. Services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Park Evangelical Free Church, with the Rev. Wendell Hjertman officiating.

Burial will be in the Martinus Hogenkamp Cemetery in New City. Calling hours are from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the Higgins Funeral Home, 321 South Main Street, New City. Donations to the Park Evangelical Free Church Building Fund would be appreciated.

Stella Long Stella Long, a charter member of the Stony Point Senior Citizens, died Monday at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern. She was 76. The mother of Kathryn Landy of Stony Point, Mrs. Long moved to Rockland and to Stony Point 15 years ago, where she lived at 147 Dara Lane. The daughter of the late John and Emily (Webb) Donnelly, she was born in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx on April 4, 1907.

She retired in 1962 after working for many years as a private practical nurse. After her retirement, she also belonged to the Bon Aires Senior Citizens of Monsey, N.J. Other survivors include a daughter, Madelyn Just, of Orlando, three grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren. Her husband, Charles Long, died before she moved here. A Mass of Christian burial is to be held at 9:30 a.m.

Wednesday at St. Peter's Roman Catholic. Church in Haverstraw. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Paramus, N.J. Calling hours are from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

today at T.J. McGowan Sons Funeral Home at 133 Broadway in Haverstraw. Frank Carl Marquardt Frank Carl Marquardt of Singer Island, a former New City resident, died Saturday at Palm Beach Gardens Hospital. He was 75. Mr.

Marquardt had owned Frank's Auto Machine Shop in Pearl River until he retired 13 years ago and moved to Florida. Mr. Marquardt was born in Brooklyn, June 15, 1908, to Carl and Emma Marquardt. He is survived locally by his sister, Emily Gardineer of West Nyack. Other survivors include his wife, Marie (Bender); two sons, Robert J.

Marquardt of St. Louis, and William F. Marquardt of Boca Raton, a daughter, Nancy Ann Price of Anniston, another sister, Elinor Laing of Windham; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Services were to be held today at the Thomas L. Price Funeral Home in North Palm Beach, with burial to follow in Royal Palm Memorial Gardens in West Palm Beach.

Martha Crum Ryder Martha Crum Ryder of 89 E. Main Stony Point, died Sunday at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern at the age of 94. Mrs. Ryder was born in Stony Point on June 6, 1889, to Spencer and Eliza (Smalley) Crum. She was a housewife.

Her husband, Daniel L. Ryder, died in 1955. She is survived by one son, Charles W. Ryder, and a daughter, Edith M. Ryder, both of Stony Point; and three grandchildren, a great-granddaughter and several nieces and nephews.

Services will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at A.W. Dutcher's Sons Funeral Home, 18 Lincoln Haverstraw, with Pastor Michael J. Russin officiating. Burial will be in Mount Rest Cemetery in Stony Point.

Calling hours will be today from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Contributions may be made to the Tomkins Memorial Protestant Church, Route 9W, Tomkins Cove. Petition on school sale due in Wednesday SETH MENDELSON signatures of at least 10 percent of the district's qualified voters. District officials said that By about Staff Writer 1,100 signatures are needed.

The deadline for a petition to force a referen- A group of residents said they they would most dum on the sale of a shuttered elementary school probably have enough signatures by Wednesday. in the South Orangetown School District is WednesArthur Prindle, attorney for the district, said day, not Dec. 5, as previously stated by school 30 from the date of the officials. that residents have days However, informal of residents signing of the contract, which was done at a School an group opposing the sale of the Tappan Zee Elementary School Board meeting Oct. 24, to submit a petition.

in Piermont believes it will have enough signatures "I think we are getting pretty close," said Linda by then anyway. Werner of Tappan. The district wants to sell the school to devel- Mrs. Werner, who has two children in the oper Daniel Regan for $750,000. Regan hopes to Schaefer School in Tappan, the district's only convert the school, which was built in 1969 and elementary facility, said she was opposed to the closed in 1981, to 44 condominium units.

sale of the school because of overcrowding at residents At a public hearing last week, a number of Schaefer. She said the group has been collecting the spoke out would against the need proposed another sale, signatures since last Friday. saying district soon elementary school because of a recent increase in South Orangetown officials had thought sale that a enrollment. petition on the Tappan Zee Elementary could However, school officials contend that enroll- be filed within 30 days of the date the legal notice ment in the district will continue to decline overall, appeared, which announced the intended sale. In citing a 1981 demographic study.

addition, a district official mistakenly thought the In order to prevent the sale, residents would legal notice was published Nov. 5 rather than the have to submit a petition to the district with actual date of Oct. 29. Reward offered in vandalism vandalism The Clarkstown Central School District is offering a $500 cash reward for information concerning the vandalism of property last month at the Felix V. Festa Junior High School in West Nyack.

In a paid advertisement in today's editions of The JournalNews, the School Board says it is offering the reward for information "leading to the arrest and conviction of vandals" who, police say, did more than $20,000 worth of damage to vehicles, athletic fields and a bus compound. The ad says that anyone with information about the incident should call Detective James Doyle, a Clarkstown Police Department youth officer, at 634-2447, ext. 228. All information, according to the ad, will be kept confidential. "We are hoping that a reward may bring out an individual who witnessed or may have knowledge of the incident." ATTACK Continued from B1 Williams.

She had sought a divorce, she said, but Williams had refused to agree to it. Gordon testified Monday that Williams told him of his fears concerning his wife, about three hours before the girl was found severely beaten. "I tried to calm him down, and I had a cup of tea with him," Gordon said of that conversation. "I said how could she marry someone else when she's still married to you? I told him I'd call Audrey about it later in the day." He said Williams appeared calm when he left after that conversation, but that Williams had been depressed since his wife left him the previous May. "He was always miserable without Audrey," Gordon said.

TALKS Continued from B1 emanating from one or both of the two sewage treatment plants operated by the town and county in Orangeburg. Finally, Haverstraw Supervisor Philip Rotella was there, just to make sure his town had a say in the matter. Mrs. Winikow said Haverstraw and Stony Point were the only two towns in the county that did not have a waste disposal problem. Rotella said he was at the meeting to make it known he intends to keep it that way.

"You're dealing with people, that makes the site (of the landfill) the key. No politician wants the (landfill) in his backyard with petitions galore and elections coming up," the Haverstraw Democrat said. But, Rotella's plea was not the only impassioned one made at the meeting. Ramapo Supervisor Frederick Rella told the audience that about 36 percent of his town's budget currently has to do with garbage disposal and the landfill. The added cost of trucking to another landfill and paying a higher price for it would only add another burden for Ramapo taxpayers.

"People cannot take it anymore. Especially people on fixed incomes. has to be taken into consideration," Rella said. County Legislator Edward Clark, D-Orangetown, New FULL COLOR 20" x30" poster prints Made by from 35 mm Kodak! Kodacolor $16 film negatives or EACH transparencies. Bouton's SHOPS CAMERA Ask PROCESSING Kodak BY 7 "More Than Just a Camera Store" NANUET MALL, Upper level 13 N.

MAIN Pearl River CLARKSTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION $500 RE REWARD FOR INFORMATION leading to the arrest and conviction of vandals who caused damage to vehicles, athletic fields and bus compound at the Felix V. Festa Junior High School on the night of October 21, 1983. INFORMATION may be given to Detective Doyle, Clarkstown Police Department, 634-2447, or the Business Office of the Clarkstown School District, 634- 4941, Ext. 228. All information will be kept strictly confidential.

The incident took place on the night of Friday, Oct. 21. At least 17 school buses were affected when vandals removed the chemical contents from fire extinguishers in 11 buses and stole extinguishers from six others. Five buses were a also sprayed with paint on the outside, police said. Doyle said the advertisement was taken out because his investigation has reached a de SETH MENDELSON He described the defendant as an intelligent person who spent much of his time reading.

He also said Williams was confined to an alcoholic treatment center during the summer of 1982. But at no time in the hours preceding the attack, Gordon said, did Williams 1 mention Tanya or his intention to hurt anyone. Before the attack, Mrs. Gordon said, Williams "was angry, he was swearing, he was saying that he was talking with Audrey, saying that she said she was getting married. He said he was talking to a man who told him they were married, and that Audrey was in his arms." Earlier in the court session, Mrs.

Gordon told of the anxious minutes the family spent awaiting the arrival of the police. She said, "He (Williams) kept saying over and over again that he killed Tanya; that he hit her on the head. He kept saying it over and over again. he said that he should die." County Judge Howard Miller said the trial would resume today at 1 p.m. questioned whether a controversial odor-control station should be built in Pearl River, as proposed by the County Sewer District.

"How in good conscience can you put an odorcontrol station in Orangetown when the sewage comes from Clarkstown and Ramapo? If we are all serious about this, let's do something now. Let's make a commitment," Clark said. What's ahead Here is a list of government meetings for today: COUNTY Rockland Legislature, 8 p.m., County Office Building, New City. Community Services Board, 8 p.m., County Health Complex, mental health building, Pomona. RAMAPO Spring Valley Village Board, 8 p.m.

Village Hall. Ramapo Planning Board, 8 p.m. Town Hall. Spring Valley Parking Authority, 8 p.m. Village Hall.

CLARKSTOWN Town Board, 8 p.m. town hall auditorium. Regular meeting. ORANGETOWN Town Board 7:30 p.m. Town Hall.

Workshop meeting. Nyack Village Board 8 p.m. Village Hall. Public hearing on senior citizen tax exemptions. South Nyack Village Board 8 p.m.

Village Hall. Public hearing amusement law. Pearl River School Board 8 p.m. Administration offices. NORTH ROCKLAND North Rockland High School Committee of the Whole, 8 p.m.

Administration Building, Stony Point. 1983. Beloved son of Loretta and the late James J. O'Connell the Ill, brother of Kelly, Jill, Jimmy and Wendy O'Connell of Pearl River, N.Y. Grandson of Mr.

and Mrs. Michael Knapp of Pearl River and the late Mrs. and Mrs. James O'Connell Jr. Mass of Christian Burial at St.

Aedan's R.C. Church Pearl River on Wednesday, November 23rd, at 9:30 a.m. Visiting at the WYMAN-FISHER FUNERAL HOME, 100 Franklin p.m. Interment Patrick's Pearl River, 3-5 and 7-9 today, Cemetery, Catskills, N. Y.

In lieu of flowers and Mass cards it is requested donations be made to the Pearl River Athletic Department, Pearl River High School, Pearl River, N.Y., Care of Tom T. Doherty, Athletic Director. CAPUTO, Umberto Beloved husband of Teresa (nee Zannini). Devoted father of Graziano, Robert and Anna Maria. Loving son of Maria Caputo.

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