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section News of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware Tuesday, July 29, 1980 fo falabelpfe Inquirer cityregion By TOM FOX N.J. Assembly passes bill for Camden prison WWWl I1 Jll www '4. A. Hfiii will agree to a high-rise prison that would take up less room and perhaps be less objectionable. But James Stabile, a spokesman for the Department of Corrections, said the state was thinking of building a spread-out prison similar to the one in Leesburg, which is two stories high and has dormitory-like quadrangles surrounding recreational courtyards.

The state has been looking for a site for a new medium-security prison since 1976, when the last prison bond issue passed. But each time a (See PRISONS on 2-B) sue, which would include $100 million for other state institutions. "What we're talking about now is all hypothetical depending on whether the bond issue passes," Errichetti said. "I fully realize that some people might oppose having a prison nearby, but if it will cost $34 million it should be secure and safe for other people." As for the county jail, Camden County has been under court order for two years to replace or expand the facility, which is on the sixth floor of City Hall. The jail, originally intended for about 80 prisoners, now aid, the city must agree to be the site a $34 million, medium-security state prison that the Department of Corrections has been trying to build for four years.

Camden Mayor and state Sen. Ange-lo Errichetti, a strong supporter of the bill, said he felt that the state prison would bring jobs to the city aritl could be accepted by residents if was properly located. lie would not discuss potential sites but indicated that the state would need more than 10 acres. The plan would depend on statewide voter approval of the bond is- routinely holds more than 200. It also lacks such basic items as visiting rooms.

The freeholders agree that jail conditions are deplorable but say they cannot afford to build a new county jail because the county has exhausted its bonding capacity. Under this plan, the state is offering to pay 75 percent, or $21 million, of the expected $28 million cost of the new 300-inmate jail. Errichetti said it was still undecided whether the county and state facilities would be contiguous or separate. He also said he hopes the state Lw i "MS1 'ii -7 ipi Ik :7 i hm 77 By Dale Mezzacappa Inquirer Stuff Writer TRENTON The General Assembly yesterday passed a bill that would require Camden to be the site of a 400-bed state prison in order for Camden County to get $21 million in state aid that it needs to replace the antiquated county jail. The measure, which passed the Assembly 54-7 and was sent to the Senate, is expected to pass both houses.

It would put on the November ballot a $60 million prisons bond issue that would earmark $21 million for Camden County. In return for the Streams of water are directed Fire guts By Thomas Hine inquirer Sic Writer A three-alarm fire of suspicion origin yesterday destroyed the roof and interior of the Peter A.B. Widener Mansion, a long-neglected Philadelphia landmark, at Broad Street and Girard Avenue. Fire Lt. Robert Fluellen, 39, suffered multiple injuries when he fell down an elevator shaft in a nearby building, where he had been direct fws-- tvMf" of it on Mansion Director of camp replaced Goode suspends five counselors By Ray Hoi ton Inquirer Stall Writer Managing Director W.

Wilson Goode yesterday replaced the director and suspended five counselors at city-operated Camp William Penn and ordered "a complete and total restructuring of the (camp) administration." In addition, Goode ordered a five-member team of officers from the Philadelphia Police Department to investigate allegations by children and their parents that counselors physically abused youngsters at the camp in the Pocono Mountains. The complaints were investigated last week by Recreation Department officials, including Recreation Commissioner Robert Crawford, who did not notify Goode of the allegations until Friday. "We were aware of the complaints as early as Tuesday, and we were investigating," said Deputy Recreation Commissioner Nathaniel Washington during a news briefing with Goode. "We planned to make our report known (to Goode) Monday, but then the paper came out." Complaints from campers aged 9 to 12 were published in the Bulletin Sunday. Crawford, who has direct responsibility for the camp for Children from low-income and moderate-income families, was not available for comment yesterday.

"He is on vacation," Goode said. Goode said he approved requests from city investigators from his office at the campsite yesterday to remove the acting director, Thomas L. Tull, 37, a doctoral candidate from the University of California at Berkeley. Goode said Tull might be offered another position at the camp. He also approved a request to suspend five counselors.

The counselors, Goode said, were implicated in the allegations of beatings. Earlier this month, Goode said, two counselors were fired because of similar complaints of camper abuse and Tull was named to replace Henry E. Windish, 41, who had been director of the camp for 12 years. Goode said he was immediately dispatching Robert Smith, 47, a Philadelphia history teacher and football coach, and Gary Henderson, 33, a senior management consultant in Goode's office, to the 672-acre camp to take over the administration of the program. Parents have removed at least 80 of the 350 children who are currently at the campgrounds near East Strouds-burg, Monroe County, Goode said, noting that the city planned to continue operating the camp through the middle of August.

Philadelphia Inquirer CHUCK ISAACS with the plane on top City bred, he lives for horses Mike Stack, the lawyer and, of late, horse owner, can't figure out how Chuck Andris ever got into thoroughbred racing. Chuck Andris grew up in Brewery-town, up around 27th and Oxford in Most Precious Blood parish, and he played football at Roman. And Mike Stack says it just doesn't make sense for a guy with all that asphalt in his background to end up training racehorses. "The only four-legged animals I ever heard of in Brewerytown were stray dogs and howling alley cats," Mike Stack says. Chuck Andris laughs when he hears this.

"We had horses in Brewerytown," he says. "Why, I made my first dollar cleaning stables for Dick Crean, who had a clothing store at 28th and Dauphin and a stable of horses across the street. "He had 14 horses in the stable, all Western show horses, and I got to ride 'em in Fairmount Park on the weekends. "In fact, I got pinched once for galloping a horse down North 27th Street on a Sunday morning. I kid you not.

Full gallop "I was going full gallop when the cop stopped me and made me walk the horse to the station house at 28th and Oxford. And he was all set to throw the book at me when Sgt. Bill Finnerty, my best friend's father, walked in and blew the case out. "Now where was Mike Stack then when I needed a lawyer? Well, since the galloping horse incident on North 27th Street took place a good 40 years ago when Charles Joseph Andris was a 10-year-old fifth-grader Mike Stack would have been a freshman at West Catholic and a few years removed from the law. But life is full of little surprises.

Today, Mike Stack and Chuck Andris are all caught up in horse racing. Mike Stack always wanted to own a racehorse. And Chuck Andris always wanted to train racehorses. Both have seen their dreams come true. Not too long ago, Mike Stack talked several lawyers, a retired cop and a printer into joining him in the Quig-nashee Stables.

In Gaelic lore, Quignashee is said to be the place where the banshees gather. So, naturally, the stable colors are orange, green and white the tricolors of the Free State. And, naturally, Chuck Andris is the Quignashee Stables trainer, but how he got there is a fascinating story. Lifelong dream "All my life I wanted to train horses," says Chuck Andris, who is 50 now. "And it all dates back to Dick Crean's stables.

That's when the bug bit me, when I decided that horse racing was for me. "But I was a poor kid, one of nine children, and I had to work. So for almost 20 years I was a lineman for Philadelphia Electric. And every single time I climbed a light pole, I heard horse hoofs. "So I took the plunge.

Chuck Engle, an old friend from Brewervtown. and I bought a racehorse for $700. We went 50-50 and ran the horse down in Delaware, and the horse won and paid $44. And I never climbed anoth er ngntpoie alter that." That was about 11 years ago and some of those years were lean ones for Chuck and Frances Andris and their four kids but today Chuck Andris is a successful trainer, and Mike Stack and his associates are laughing all the way to the bank. "We claimed a 4-year-old colt for $6,500, and the very first time the colt ran for Quignashee Stables, it won a $9,500 purse," Chuck Andris says.

"In one race the colt just about paid for ltselt. Best horse "But the colt's not my best horse. My best horse is Irish Vol, a 5-year-old mare owned by Jimmy Daley, a retired cop. The mare's won four al lowance races, but she won't make us rich." He looked off into the distance, like a man riding a big dream. "Oh, sure, sure I have a dream," he said.

"Like all horse trainers, I dream of someday finding the one horse that will take me to the top to the Kentucky Derby and the Triple Crown. "It's the dream all racehorse people dream, and I'm no different. But I don't dream of getting rich. I just dream of someday knowing the thrill of getting to the top, of being the best in horse racing. You see, I happy training horses.

It's all I've ever wanted in life. I'm going what I want to do and I'm doing it my way." "You're a fortunate man," I said. "Oh, I am, and I know it," Chuck Andris said. "After all, training horses sure beats hell out of climb ing light poles." and Girard; one firefighter was fire was declared under control at 12:36 p.m. The official investigation of the fire's cause, including the possibility of arson, was expected to be completed today.

Built in 1887, the mansion had suffered over the years from vandalism, especially during the last two years, during which it has been vacant. Even so, its extravagant brownstone exterior, complete with turrets, arch Ms. Strawn added. "She was released because they (Mrs. Wirth and at least three men believed to be aiding her) couldn't break her will," Ms.

Strawn said. "Basically, they gave up." Ms. Wirth, in an all-night, emotional discussion at the Pittsburgh airport, apparently persuaded her mother that she would not be swayed from her beliefs, according to Ms. Strawn. Ms.

Strawn said that early Saturday morning, Mrs. Wirth agreed to pay for her daughter's $235 plane ticket back to San Francisco. The two came to a "just lovely, just (See WIRTH on 2-B) Widener Philadelphia Inquirer BOB SACHA injured at the three-alarm blaze es, carvings and a stained-glass peacock, served as reminders of a time when North Broad Street was lined with the homes of people who possessed new industrial wealth. The richness of the Widener Mansion, whose interiors were covered with teak, oak, marble, bronze and alabaster, reflected the wealth that many entrepreneurs of the 19th century found could be made from oper-(See WIDENER on 2-B) Susan Wirth Allegedly abducted by mother 14f the Widener Mansion at Broad historic ing firefighting operations. He was reported in fair condition at Hahnemann Hospital yesterday.

The fire marshal's office said yesterday afternoon that several persons had said they saw people leaving the house shortly before the fire broke out. All four floors of the building were ablaze and flames were coming from the roof when the first alarm was sounded at 12:17 p.m. The periodically deprived of food and sleep and forced to listen to rock music at high noise levels 24 hours a day for several days. But her mother, Marie Wirth, when asked about those allegations, replied, "Oh, no, we had a lovely visit, just lovely. "Everything's fine.

She's fine, and that's all that matters." Ms. Wirth's friends and her attorney refused to allow her to speak to a reporter yesterday. A roommate, Clare Strawn, said she was "a little shaky and very tired, but otherwise in good spirits." Ms. Wirth was resting at her San Francisco apartment, Woman from Lansdowne is freed By David Zucchino Inquirer Sta Writer Susan Wirth, the San Francisco college professor from Lansdowne who was allegedly abducted June 24 by her mother in an attempt to "deprogram" her of her political beliefs, was released at Pittsburgh International Airport Saturday morning after spending 31 days, she said, in captivity in several locations across the country. Ms.

Wirth, 35, who returned to San Francisco, told friends there that she was freed after her mother gave up the deprogramming efforts. She told them that she had been tied to a bed, Turbulence for PenndeVs famous plane 7't kh- L.Stf 1 s's I IV Financial troubles threaten existence of Jim Flannery's restaurant plane on the roof because it seemed an interesting thing to do, adds, "Maybe I just ran out of steam for a while. Burned out, as they say. But I'm really charged up now. I really think I could turn it around." He wants to turn the place into a family restaurant, with special children's menus, and possibly attract some of the spinoff trade from the new Sesame Place amusement park going up a couple of miles away at the Oxford Valley Mall.

At this point, (See PLANE on 3-B) finances are pretty badly shot up. Unless Flannery can do some fancy flying, the airplane and the 52-year-old restaurant may shortly end up on the scrap heap. In September, Flannery filed for protection from his creditors under Chapter 12 of the federal bankruptcy act. He is almost apologetic when he explains why the family business has gone downhill in the last few years. Like many businessmen, Flannery blames the recession.

The former Air Force pilot, who put the By Russell Cooke Inquirer Stall Writer The four-engine Lockheed Constellation is locked up most of the time now. Jim Flan-nery had to duck behind the bar downstairs and get the key before taking a visitor on a tour of the airplane-turned-cocktail-lounge that has made his Route 1 restaurant a suburban Philadelphia landmark. Key in hand, he led the way up a staircase decorated with a peeling "history of flight" mural to the roof of Flannery's Restaurant in Penndel, Bucks County. There, the huge plane perches on three concrete columns. Flannery stepped aboard the remodeled plane and surveyed the bar and cozy booths fashioned out of the original airplane seats.

The plane, which for years has been an eyegrabber for motorists on Route 1, is empty, as if waiting for refueling and takeoff. But Flannery's "Constellation Lounge" hasn't soared physically or financially in years. And in fact, the lounge and Flannery's iflO.J' i.