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2-Bj Friday, Sept. 11, 1987 The Philadelphia Inquirer 4 9 charged in child pornography case The Scene In Philadelphia and its suburbs mick, now an investment counselor, I 3 This photo doesnt do justice to the color poster from which it was taken. But what do we look like, USA Today? The poster was created by the Center City architectural firm of Ueland Junker in honor of the bicentennial of the Constitution, and it is titled, "Celebrating the Architects of the Two thousand copies of the poster were donated by the firm to We the People 200. Prisonerst Securing the blessings of liberty The names Nikos Ploumbidis, Kim Hyon-Jang, Wei Jingsheng, Ra-miro Olivares, the Rev. Abraham Maja, Hanna Mykhaylenko and Jiri Wols probably don't mean anything to you.

Except for their own, those names probably don't mean anything to the people mentioned. One is a Greek Jehovah's Witness, one is a Korean writer, one is a Chinese newspaper editor, one is a Chil- By CLARK DeLEON ean doctor, one is a South African clergyman, one is a Soviet human rights activist and one is a Czechoslovakian short-story writer. What they have in common is that they are all imprisoned in their homelands for a variety of activities deemed as crimes by the governments involved. Their crimes include refusal to I tP, I WirLZ phy. Until yesterday, the indictments were sealed.

The remaining two defendants were charged in criminal complaints in Florida and Philadelphia. Much of the background material about their activities was revealed in affidavits attached to applications for search warrants. None were charged with molestation, but the affidavits indicate that some had engaged in sexual acts with young boys. For example, according to one affidavit, New York Daily News writer Donald C. Hallenbeck Jr.

talked on tape about going to Daytona, "to do Chad," adding, "He came down the boardwalk 60 miles an hour on his skateboard. He goes around and goes up the corner. He sits down in the dark doorway. I mean, isn't that an invitation." Hallenbeck declined to comment, and Daily News editor F. Gilman Spencer said his paper planned an in-house investigation of the charges.

None was charged with manufacturing child pornography, although the Hallenbeck affidavit said that Hallenbeck admitted to Feltman that he photographed many young men. Nimick, who was a trustee at Germantown Academy until June 1986, is the only local man to be arrested in a two-year federal investigation that began with the April 8, 1985, arrest of a school photographer in Woodbury. Ten thousand photographs and film slides were seized at the home of Henry O. Feltman of the first' block of Progress Avenue. Some of those photographs and film slides included photos of boys, between the ages of 10 and 14, in nude and semi- 4 4f i Bill Beck, a quadriplegic who has ied, I wouldn't really consider doing," he says.

"It's like jogging, it's the exercise. "I still have all my friends, but as far as activities go, there's not much available. There's wheelchair basketball, but that's really rough that's like ice hockey on wheels," says Manning. As Manning hoists himself into his boat, Bill Beck, a quadriplegic with cerebral palsy, is lifted from his motorized wheelchair and strapped into the front seat of a two-person boat. Settling Beck takes a long time.

His hands must be fastened to the oars with yards of bandaging. Finally, he and the boat are lifted into the water. An able-bodied partner climbs in the back seat to steer and help row. Beck, 35, has been rowing for three years. He enjoys the socializing, but the real benefit, he says, is the improvement in his muscle tone, balance and torso control and coordination.

Able-bodied volunteers are an important part of the club. They haul the boats to the water, help the rowers down the ramp, lift them in and out of the boats and serve as rowing partners. One of the volunteers, Jeff Johnson, 29, of Bryn Mawr, describes him Metro News in vice chairwoman. Long, a member of the county Democratic Committee, once ran unsuccessfully for the Lumberton Township Committee, Trainor said. Mitchell, 61, was running with Harrison B.

"Scoop" Slack of Bordentown Township against incumbent Republicans Harold Colburn of Moorestown and Robert Shinn Jr. of Hainesport. Medford Lakes panel urges limits on new sewer hookups fuui-iuuiiili siuujr, iue five-member Medford Lakes sewer-hookup task force recommended last night that the Borough Council not permit hookups to borough lines by outside developers. John Holtz, chairman of the task force, made a presentation before the council in which he outlined the reasons why the committee felt it would "not be in the best interests of Medford Lakes to allow future sewer tie-ins." According to Holtz, the sewer system is running at a higher capacity than the council previously believed. He said that meeting anticipated environmental standards might become too expensive if the added hookups were allowed now.

Assembly endorses measure on Camden aquarium project Efforts to build a $42 million aquarium in Camden cleared a key hurdle By Jane M. Von Bergen Inquirer Staff Writer The former business manager of the Germantown Academy in Fort Washington is among nine men charged with trading and mailing pictures of children in sexual acts, Samuel A. Alito the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, announced yesterday. Reade B.

Nimick, 60, of the 400 block of Glyn-Wynne Road in Haver-ford, was released on bail after posting 10 percent of a $25,000 bail set yesterday by U.S. Magistrate Richard A. Powers 3d in Philadelphia. Federal agents would not say whether Nimick either molested or photographed students at the school. Nimick referred calls to his lawyer, Carmen C.

Nasuti, who did not return a message left at his Philadelphia office. Others arrested include an agent for child actors in California, a New York Daily News writer, and a former country-club manager. One man, Richard Steen Williams, 56, of Gaithersburg, is also charged with transporting an 11-year-old Philadelphia boy to Gloucester City with the intent that the boy engage in prostitution. The image many people have of child molesters as "dirty old men in trenchcoats is a falsehood," said Dick Ross, special agent in charge of the Philadelphia FBI office. "These people have held different and respectable positions.

It is their nature to use these positions for the advancement of pornography." Seven of the men were indicted in July, August and September by a federal grand jury in Camden and charged with the interstate transport or mailing of child pornogra- Disabled rowers set for the race ROWING, from 1-B window in 1979 broke his back his may be a surprising passion, but certainly not a lonely one. The seventh annual Bayada Regatta for disabled rowers will be tomorrow on the Schuylkill. Bocsardy, 49, will compete as he has the last six years, since the first regatta. He wants to be in shape for the competition. "I'm really not that interested in the medals," said Bocsardy, a native of Hungary who now lives in Kensington.

"I do it for health reasons, not just for sport. Thank God I enjoy it, and it's good for me." Bocsardy will be one of 10 members of the Philadelphia Rowing Pre gram for the Disabled to compete in the regatta. An additional 30 out-of-state rowers also are registered. The competitors will include men and women with disabilities of all sorts, ranging from quadriplegics to amputees. Some will row alone, while others will compete with an able-bodied partner.

The regatta will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., beginning near the Strawberry Mansion Bridge on Kelly Drive. In case of bad weather, the races will be postponed a day. The annual competition climaxes the organization's summer program, a program that participants say is more than just an athletic opportunity. "It gets you out of your car, gets you out of your house, and gets you out of your wheelchair," says Mark Manning, 33, of Devon.

His legs were paralyzed 3'i years ago, as the result of a blood clot in his spine. "It's a unique situation," he says of the rowing club. "Everybody is pretty well beat up physically It's real important to me, just to be able to function. It's so traumatic (becoming that if there weren't other people that had conquered it people for me to talk to, relate to, to see as an example it'd be a lot more lonely for me." Before he tilts his lightweight wheelchair backward and lets it coast rapidly down the incline toward the water. Manning confesses that rowing isn't his favorite activity.

"It's something, if I were able-bod- New Jersey and Escapee from mental hospital recaptured at Camden hotel A patient at Ancora State Hospital who had a record of sexual assaults against children escaped from custody Tuesday when he was taken on an outing at the Deptford Mall and was recaptured yesterday by Camden County sheriff's officers, according to authorities. The patient, Joseph Denof, 33, was caught at 9:30 a.m. at the Towne Park Holei at Eighth and Federal Sli ccls in Camden by members of the Special Investigations Unit of the Camden County Sheriff's Office who were acting on a tip, said Sgt. George Fallon, a spokesman for the sheriffs office. Denof was transferred to Ancora in July from another psychiatric facility, the Vroom Building in Trenton, Fallon said.

Democrats select candidate in 8th District Assembly race Thomas Long, 42, of Lumberton, was selected last night by Burlington County Democrats as their candidate for the Assembly in the Eighth Legislative District. Long replaces Robert J. Mitchell of Woodland Township, who died of a heart attack Tuesday. Long, who earns his living in the financial field, was the unanimous choice of district Democratic Committee members meeting in Mount Holly, said Midge Trainor, committee nude poses. After his arrest by Woodbury police, Feltman negotiated a plea bargain with the federal government and became an informant in the investigation.

Tapping into a network of people interested in receiving pictures of naked children or children performing sex acts with each other, Feltman taped conversations and made photographic copies of pictures given or sent to him. A former Navy communications specialist, Feltman said he enjoyed his role as an informant. He said he hoped that after all the negative publicity that followed his arrest two years ago, he would have a chance to look like a "good guy, bringing down all these people." "I was wrong," said Feltman, sitting on his porch Wednesday evening. "I'll be the first to admit." But, he said that although he had photographed children, including some children in swimsuits, he had never taken a picture of a child engaged in sexual contact. "I'm not the kind of person dangling candy in front of a kid," he said.

An affidavit attached to an application for a search warrant of Nimick's house says Feltman described Nimick as a "boy lover" he had known since the early 1970s. In August 1986, Feltman wrote to Nimick at the Academy. In November 1986, Nimick wrote back that he was "completely inactive." In their correspondence, the affidavit said, the two referred to child pornography as "stamp collecting." The two met for lunch on March 4, 1987. According to the affidavit, Ni rowed for 3 years in a two-person self as "just a hired back on feet." But J.D. Mitchell, vice chairman of this year's regatta, said the volunteers make the program possible.

The goal of the rowing club is to allow the disabled rowers to function as much as possible like able-bodied rowers. Club members started with specially designed catamarans, using fixed seats. Some members are now able to row using sliding seats, similar to those used in regular racing craft. At first, everyone rowed with a partner. Boscardy, an accomplished swimmer with his powerful chest and arms, was the first club member to row without an able-bodied partner.

Now, some club members use a canoe-like boat fitted with a seat-and-oar mechanism, which is either fixed or slides, depending on the rower's abilities. Mitchell will pilot one of these adaptive boats in a regular racing event soon, the first disabled rower in an event for able-bodied athletes. Mitchell, 34, lives in Fairmount. He was completely paralyzed in 1974 with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological disorder. He regained Brief last night when the state Assembly approved a bill authorizing the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority to build and operate the facility.

The bill was sent to the Senate on a 58-1 vote; the Senate is expected to approve the aquarium bill Monday, sending it to the governor, who supports it. "There have been a lot of promises made to Camden over the years and a lot of intangibles," said a sponsor, Assemblyman John A. Rocco Camden). "This is the first tangible effort. The evuuuwy of lins area should be greatly stimulated by this." "This legislation is a tremendous boost for Camden's image, economy and revitalization," said Assemblyman Wayne R.

Bryant Camden). The state has already appropriated $10 million for the project. The remaining $32 million would be provided through bonds issued by the sports authority or through a direct state appropriation. Edgewater Park panel names police officer, zoning official The Edgewater Park Township Committee has unanimously appointed a zoning board member and hired a police officer. At a special Wednesday night session, the committee appointed Ray Graziani to fill the zoning post vacated by Dan Kirk, according to township administrator Paul Guidry.

Also, Michael Kempton was hired as a patrolman to fill a vacancy created by visited Feltman house and showed him some pictures of boys in sexual contact with other boys and with an adult male. When they went for lunch, federal agents photographed tne pictures. According to the affidavit, Nimick told Feltman that he concealed his interests from his wife and "was leading two lives and it was tough." Nimick, who had also been a tennis coach at Germantown Academy, was charged with the possession of 10 black-and-white photographs showing pictures of boys engaging in sexual contact with each other. If con victed, he could face up to a 10-year prison term and a $250,000 fine. Academy headmaster James Le- dyard said yesterday that the staff was "shocked and surprised" by the news of Nimick's arrest.

"Reade's record was exemplary," he said. "Many of his friends don't believe that it was possible." A few years ago, he said, Nimick was honored for his service to the school. In addition to Nimick, Williams and Hallenbeck. 44, of the 200 block of East 76th Street, New York, the following people were arrested: Computer analyst Alan Kenneth Lefcourt, 42, of Murrysville, near Pittsburgh; warehouseman Joseph Fela 45, of the 100 block of Robert Place, South Plainfield. N.J.; Richard F.

Calligan, of the 2100 block of Pleasamhill Road, Kissimmee, Paul Mad-sen, of the first block of Nancy Place, Gaithersburg, and child-actor agent Robert David Villard, 40, of the 14100 block of Gilmore Street, Van Nuys, Calif. Indicted, but not arrested, was Herbert Bow Cruickshank, of the first block of Collington Avenue, Baltimore. Cruickshank, a British citizen who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, is in a hospital, Alito said. The Philadelphia Inquirer JOHN COSTELLO boat, is helped into a wheelchair. the use of all his limbs but is still affected by severe side effects of the paralysis.

Like Mitchell, the other members of the rowing club keep pushing to advance their skills. Manning, for instance, recently tested one of the single-hulled boats. "It was scary," he said, "but it was a lot faster, and I like to go fast." When it began eight years ago, the rowing club was the first of its kind in the country. It is supported solely by private money, says Dolly Dris-coll, a quadriplegic who is chairwoman of the regatta. "Originally, I called my wealthy classmates (for donations," says Driscoll, a Radcliffe graduate and one of the club's founding members.

"Now we have a group of loyal supporters, and we sell T-shirts and such." Manning, who said he sometimes feels like "I'm the only disabled person on the Main Line," sums up the value of the rowing program: "It makes you feel better. You feel better about yourself, as time goes by. This makes you feel better about yourself." the dismissal of Patrolman Anthony Patti, Guidry said. Graziani, an insurance agent, will serve till the end of the year, according to Guidry. Kirk, who had been on the board since January, resigned because prior business commitments kept him from attending board meetings, Guidry said.

Kempton was hired as a freshman police officer and will begin receiving a yearly salary of $19,383 while training in the police academy. He is due to graduate from the academy in January, Guidry said. Patu was aieu oa May 29 after being charged with burglary and theft in connection with an incident at Cramp's Liquor Store in Edgewater Park in October 1984. Wenonah council confirms 5 for emergency committee The Wenonah Borough Council last night approved Mayor Jack Shep-pard's five appointments to an emergency management committee. The committee, required by the state's emergency management program, will be made up of the police chief, the fire chief, the emergency management coordinator, the deputy coordinator and the mayor.

They will be responsible for drafting an emergency management plan to cover any possible disasters, Sheppard said. In other business, the council voted to pay $9,000 annually for the next 25 years to transfer the five-member Police Department from the serve in the military for religious reasons, giving medical treatment to an injured man, and signing a petition calling for adherence to the Helsinki human rights accords. Amnesty International, the human rights organization that attempts to publicize the plights of "prisoners of conscience" throughout the world, has placed these people on its list of people wrongfully imprisoned for political reasons. On Sunday at 5:30 a.m., there will be a sunrise service at Old Swedes Church at Delaware Avenue and Christian Street "to secure the blessings of liberty" for 12 people currently imprisoned, including those mentioned above. The service also will honor 12 who died pursuing the cause of nonviolence.

They include the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Steven Biko. The Bicent Singing on the Soapbox "From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with (hit it, Flyers fans!) FOAMl God bless America, my home sweet home." If those words put you in the mood to sing, you are invited to air out your vocal cords today at noon at America's Soapbox on Independence Mall to sing "God Bless America." Radio station KISS 100 and Provident Mutual are sponsoring the sing-along as a tribute to Freedom of Speech (not to mention the Freedom to Sing Off-key).

Coincidences! Is that deodorant's first name Donna? You have to wonder if this wasn't planned. During a break in Gary-Hart's Scarlet Letter appearance on Nightline Tuesday, there was commercial featuring a man speaking conspiratorially into the "I don't usually discuss my private life. But, yes, I do have a new roommate." His new roommate is a deodorant. Citizens. Naturalbed baseball fans What could be more American than baseball? OK, OK, Las Vegas maybe, but let's try to keep this item on a higher level because this is about something special that will happen before Thursday's Phillies-Cubs game at the Vet.

About 200 people will be sworn in as citizens of the United States preceding the game, and they will see their first baseball game as Americans as guests of the Phillies. Philadelphia Bar Association Chancellor Seymour Kurland said the event would be "the most exciting, dramatic and memorable naturalization ceremony ever held in Philadelphia." So play ball, citizens. state's Public Employee Retirement System to the state's Police and Fire Retirement System. The change, which would provide more benefits and earlier retirement but which would cost more, will be on the November ballot, Sheppard said. N.J.

man gets 100 years after admitting 5 robberies Donald Lee Burns, 22, of Bridgeton, Cumberland County, was sentenced yesterday in Cumberland County Su- inn in nvlnn Cfl years to be served without parole, after pleading guilty Aug. 19 to five armed robberies in Bridgeton. Burns admitted robbing a gas station in September 1986, two corner grocery stores and a pizza shop in October, and a lottery sales booth in November. He was sentenced to the maximum amount of time 20 years on each incident, all terms to be served consecutively. Assistant Cumberland County Prosecutor Jeffrey Klavens said Burns was facing trial on several other charges, including a prison rape and illegal possession of a gun.

Phila. man, 23, pleads guilty in N.J. drug-conspiracy case Joseph D'Adamo, 23, of the 2700 block of South Marvine Street, Philadelphia, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Trenton to conspiring in October 1986 to possess amphetamine with the intent to distribute it. D'Adamo faces up to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced Nov. 9 before U.S.

District Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise. Scheduled to be sentenced with him is Kevin Baird, 23, of Brigantine, Atlantic County. According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeremy D.

Frey, the case against the two men developed on May 15, when they were arrested on the New Jersey Turnpike after paying $60,000 tO liiHorr-nvor 1w pnfnrremowt officer. Frey said the two men thought they were buying P-2-P, a chemical required in the manufacture of methamphetamine. Four Miami residents charged with cocaine possession in J. Four Miami residents, including a former Miami police officer, were being held at Salem County Jail last night on charges of possession with intent to distribute cocaine after state police found $500,000 worth of cocaine in their car early yesterday on the New Jersey Turnpike at Car-neys Point, state police said. Jailed after not making $500,000 bail were Raul Monroe, 28, the former police officer; his wife, Elena 22; Phyllis Wheeler, 32, and Joseph Miaot, 35, state police said.

The four also were charged with possession of cocaine and illegal possession of two handguns, state police said. I.