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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER www.philly.com West Bll Thursday, May 1, 2003 Obituaries Weather Weather conditions are updated throughout the day on www.philly.com Rhoda W. Richards, 85, preservation pioneer Vancouver 6548 Weather at noon today a and forecast highlow temperatures Seattle 6444 CANADA Montreal 5845 Toronto 6744 Boston 6456 Chicago 6245 Detroit New York 7048 6758 Philadelphia Pittsburgh Washington 8058 8062 St. Louis 7656 Memphis 8668 Fronts: Stationary Warm Cold Atlanta 8262 8868 New Orleans 8768 Miami 8273 Mrs. Richards' extensive charitable activities included serving on boards at Hahnemann University Hospital, the Emergency Aid Foundation, and Ing-lis House. She had been a member of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church for more than 50 years.

Her paintings were exhibited locally at the Newman Galleries and the American College Gallery. She was honored with the James Biddle Award for her work in preservation and was Rhoda Richards Rittenhouse group, with Mrs. Richards as its president, sought to preserve not only the town-houses, but several landmark structures in the area of 17th and Locust Streets. The coalition mounted one of the most successful preservation efforts in Philadelphia up to that time. The group's work was capped by the passage of a zoning change that banned new high-rises in the area just east of Rittenhouse Square.

Buoyed by its victory, the Rittenhouse group expanded to become the nucleus of a larger, citywide organization, now the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia. Mrs. Richards, a graduate of the former Wildcliff Junior College in Swarthmore, studied education and finance at the University of Pennsylvania. She married J. Permar Richards Jr.

in 1940. Wagner named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania by former Dick Thornburgh. Gov. At receiving the honor, Mrs. Richards said of historic preservation: "We must maintain our individuality, our sense of and Faulkner 3d, car dealership owner man of the board of Abington Memorial Hospital.

He was vice chairman of the Bensalem Economic Development Corp. and was a member or tne Pennypack Watershed Association. He was active with Abington Friends School and Abington Friends Meeting. He received an award for his service from Abington Memorial Hospital and a public service award from the Boy Scouts Henry By Kristin E. Holmes INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Rhoda Wagner Richards, 85, of Bryn Mawr, an artist and preservationist who founded what became an organization dedicated to preserving the historic character of the region, died of heart failure Sunday at home.

Mrs. Richards lobbied for many years on behalf of historic sites in the Philadelphia area. Her interest stemmed in part from her lineage. She was a descendant of Gen. Thomas Procter, a Revolutionary War hero who built the City Tavern at Second and Walnut Streets.

In 1982, Mrs. Richards founded the Rittenhouse Preservation Coalition when plans were announced to raze two turn-of-the-century townhouses to build a Center City high-rise. At the time, there was no citywide preservation organization. The By Sally A. Downey INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Henry "Hank" Faulkner 3d, 53, of Huntingdon Valley, a third-generation car dealership owner and a community activist, died of melanoma Monday at home.

Mr. Faulkner operated showrooms in Philadelphia, Trevose, Harrisburg and Bethlehem. He sold new General Motors cars and trucks and had franchises for several Japanese-owned automobile manufacturers. In 1990 in Trevose, he opened the area's first Saturn dealership. "He was proud of having taken the risk," said his wife, Gail Comly Faulkner.

His grandfather, Henry had taken a risk, too, in 1932, when he began selling new Olds-mobiles from his auto repair shop in Northeast Philadelphia. Mr. Faulkner grew up in Willow Grove and Huntingdon Val In the Region Isabel Duer Reath Volunteer, 92 Isabel Duer Reath, 92, a longtime Chestnut Hill resident who as a volunteer gave her time to children and the arts, died of pneumonia Saturday at Cathedral Village retirement community in Roxborough. Born in Merion Station, Mrs. Reath graduated from St.

Timothy's School in Baltimore in 1928. She was married to George Reath for 36 years before he died in 1967. Mrs. Reath, who lived in Chestnut Hill for almost 70 years, dedicated her life to helping others. Of her longtime volunteer work at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, her son George Reath Jr.

said: "She had a remarkable sense of humor. She always had the time to focus on a child's problems so that child felt like the center of the universe." After her husband's death, she became interested in art, took courses at the Barnes Foundation, and volunteered Henry 'Hank' Faulkner Portland 7048 Billings 5238 San Francisco 6453 Denver 6042 Los Angeles 7254 Low High Phoenix 8762 Dallas i 8864 Rain Thunderstorms Snow Ice MEXICO Today's highs and tonight's lows CONN. ouraruuri 7158 N.Y. N-J- New York Vt-V 6758 Allentown 7255 Trenton Manasquan 7456 6256 7258 Philadelphia 7458 Atlantic City PA. MD.

Baltimore Wilmington two 7457 Atlantic Ocean temperature: P658 Washington 8062 nc. Cape Henlopen UtL 6760 Today's Forecast A warm front will cross the region today into this evening. Initially, a flow from the ocean may cause low clouds and spotty drizzle. Later in the day, a more southwesterly flow of air should break up the clouds, but showers or thunderstorms could erupt. How warm it gets will depend on the amount of sunshine.

A cold front approaching tomorrow should trigger more numerous showers and thunderstorms. Ahead of the front, a flow of warm and more humid air will be in control. A storm on that front could bring steady rain later tomorrow night into the first part of the weekend. Five-Day Forecast Today 74 Clouds and sun with a shower possible Tonight 58 A shower possible early; mild with variable clouds Friday ft CO Cloudy, warm, I humid; storms Saturday 1 I A ft Possible a.m. rain, Ql then clearing Sunday JC AC Sun, a few clouds; vl a breezy afternoon Monday CQ I AO Sun followed by increasing clouds Sun and Moon Sun 6:01 a.m.

Sets 7:55 p.m. Moon Rises ..6:12 a.m. Sets 8:15 p.m. Philadelphia Almanac Temperatures High yesterday 74 (3:00 p.m.) Record high for yesterday 91 (1888) Low yesterday 54 (7:00 a.m.) Record low for yesterday 34 (1874) Normal highlow 6749 Yesterday's barometer 6 a.m 30.08 rising Noon 30.15 falling 6 p.m 30.08 steady 9 p.m 30.13 rising Daylight sky conditions yesterday 40 clouds with 60 sunshine. Precipitation Wednesday 0.00 in.

Month through Wednesday 2.20 in. Year through Wednesday 13.23 in. Normal through Wednesday 13.56 in. Deficit 0.33 in. Degree days for cooling Wednesday 0 Month through Wednesday .7 Season through Wednesday 7 Normal through Wednesday 0 Last season through yesterday 63 A degree day for cooling is an index of energy consumption for cooling.

It indicates the number of degrees the mean temperature was above 65 degrees. Yesterday In Philadelphia Minneapolis 6041 Houston respect for the past, and not become just another high-rise, windy, shadowy, typical U.S.A. metropolis." In addition to her husband of 62 years, Mrs. Rich ards is survived by son J. Permar 3d; daughter Patricia R.

Cosgrave; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Services are at 3 p.m. tomorrow at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, 625 Montgomery Bryn Mawr. Memorial dona tions may be sent the Emergency Aid Foundation, 221 Conestoga Wayne, Pa. 19087.

Contact staff writer Kristin E. Holmes at 215-854-2791 or kholmesphillynews.com. ters Juliet, Jocelyn and Lucin-da; a son, Henry 4th; a brother; a sister; and his stepmother, Elaine Kline Faulkner. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Abington Friends Meeting, Jen-kintown Road and Greenwood Avenue, Jenkintown.

Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday at Hel-weg Funeral Home, 463 Old York Jenkintown. Burial is private. Memorial dona tions may be made to the Hank Faulkner Library, Abington Friends School, 575 Washington Lane, Jenkintown, Pa. 19046.

Contact staff writer Sally A. Downey at 215-854-2913 or sdowneyphillynews.com. 1961. He was a cabinetmaker in the Society Hill area until 1969. After buying a home in the Tacony section, he renovated it and added a kitchen, bedrooms and a dining room, said his daughter, Sandy Paduano.

On his lot next to his home, he built Padua-no's Pizza, which he operated from 1987 until it closed in 1991. He and his son, Dino, opened another Paduano's Pizza that year, this time on Bustleton Avenue. It closed the next year. Carpentry was his passion and art. In 1993, he became a self-employed general contractor for masonry, plumbing, electricity and carpentry, building and repairing homes and furniture.

Mr. Paduano is survived by his wife, daughter and son. Friends may visit at 7 tonight at Galzerano Funeral Home, 7158 Torresdale Ave. A Funeral Mass will be said at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at Our Lady of Consolation, 7051 Tulip Tacony.

Burial will follow in Sunset Memorial Park, 333 W. County Line Feasterville. units were crushed," he wrote. Bernard Katz Nobel laureate, 92 Bernard Katz, 92, a British physiologist who shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering how nerve cells communicate with one another and with the muscles they control, died April 20 in London. He shared the prize with Ulf von Euler, a Swede, and Julius Axelrod, an American, for elucidating the workings of neurotransmitters chemicals that carry messages with lightning speed across gaps between cells.

The work yielded "basic information about how messages are mediated between nerve cells" and has "greatly stimulated the search for remedies against nervous and mental disturbances," leaders of the Nobel Foundation said when the award was announced. TO SUBSCRIBE, CALL 1-800-222-2765 Ask about our Easy Pay program, and never write a check again. Regional Forecast Poconos Variably cloudy and breezy with a shower or thunderstorm. High 68. Some clouds and maybe a shower tonight.

Low 54. Showers and a thunderstorm tomorrow. High 64. Jersey shore Clouds, some sun and a cool wind. High 59.

Partly cloudy with patchy fog tonight. Low 58. Clouds, some sun and a shower or thunderstorm tomorrow. High 68. Delaware Clouds and sunshine; breezy at times.

High 64. Mild with a few clouds tonight. Low 60. Some sun, then a shower or thunderstorm tomorrow. High 71.

Marine Forecast Manasquan to Cape Henlopen Cloudy to partly sunny today; a stray shower. Wind south at 12-22 knots. Visibility 3-5 miles. Waves building to 4-7 feet. Delaware Bay Clouds, some sun and a shower possible today.

Wind south at 10-20 knots. Visibility generally 3-5 miles. Waves building to 2-3 feet. Cape Henlopen to Virginia Beach Breaks of sunshine with a stray shower today. Wind south to southwest at 10-20 knots.

Visibility 3-5 miles. Waves building to 3-6 feet. Tides Today Philadelphia (Chestnut Street) High tide 2:37 a.m., 2:58 p.m. Low tide 9:35 a.m., 9:44 p.m. Delaware Breakwater High tide 9:31 a.m., 9:43 p.m.

Low tide 3:25 a.m., 3:20 p.m. Cape May (Municipal Pier) High tide 8:45 a.m., 8:56 p.m. Low tide 2:34 a.m., 2:33 p.m. Atlantic City (Steel Pier) High tide 8:17 a.m., 8:28 p.m. Low tide 2:14 a.m., 2:13 p.m.

Beach Haven (Little Egg Harbor) High tide 7:43 a.m., 7:54 p.m. Low tide 1:46 a.m., 1:45 p.m. Barnegat Inlet High tide 8:23 a.m., 8:34 p.m. Low tide 2:30 a.m., 2:29 p.m. NWS radio forecasts: 162.475 VHF-FM.

In the Region Weather indications sunny; pc partly cloudy; sh showers; thunderstorms; snow flurries; sn snow; i ice. City Yesterday Today Tomorrow Allentown 7244sh 7255c 7249t Atlantic City 6847s 5958pc 6851c Baltimore 7355pc 7658pc 7854c Harrisburg 7244pc 7258c 7550t New York City 6853pc 6758c 7052t Pittsburgh 7647c 8058t 7046c Salisbury, Md. 7145s 7360pc 7658c Scranton 6738sh 7158c 6844t Washington 7454c 8062pc 8056c Wilmington 7251 7457c 7550c U.S. Cities City Yesterday Today Tomorrow Albany, N.Y. 6737s 6854sh 6042t Albuquerque 7454pc 7448s 7748s Anchorage, Alsk.

5936s 5938s 5436pc Atlanta 8362pc 8262pc 8260pc Billings 4842sh 5238sh 6542pc Boston 5951 pc 6456pc 6445c Buffalo 6240sh 6951 5840sh Charleston, S.C. 8559pc 8059pc 8565s 8453t 7956t 7453c Chicago 6846t 6245t 5641c Cincinnati 7857t 7857t 6744c Cleveland 7552c 7552t 5843c Dallas 8463pc 8864pc 8667pc Denver 6139t 6042pc 6946pc Des Moines 6349t 6047c 6346c Detroit 6350sh 7048t 5641c Honolulu 8568s 8368s 8368s Houston 8668t 8868pc 9068pc Indianapolis 8260t 7854t 6145c Jacksonville 8360pc 8465pc 8866s Kansas City, Mo. 8460t 7152c 6750pc Las Vegas 7752pc 7856pc 7858pc Los Angeles 7053s 7254pc 7054r Memphis, Tenn. 8566pc 8668t 8060c Miami 7874t 8273t 8873s Minneapolis 6050r 6041 pc 6240pc New Orleans 8563pc 8768s 8468pc Orlando 8770t 8068t 8868s Phoenix 8560pc 8762s 8862s Portland, Maine 6143s 5652sh 6139t Portland, Ore. 6550sh 7048pc 6846pc Richmond 8055pc 8261 pc 8254c St.

Louis 8662pc 7656t 6450c Salt Lake City 5840pc 6042pc 6847pc San Diego 6654s 6656pc 6656pc San Francisco 6349pc 6453pc 6052r San Juan 9174sh 8874pc 8874pc Seattle 6147sh 6444pc 6244pc Tampa, Fla. 8471c 8372t 8672s Cities Abroad City Yesterday Today Tomorrow Acapulco 9869s 8872s 9072s Amsterdam 5948r 5346r 5443r Athens 7957s 8165s 8367s Auckland 6849pc 6755pc 6757t Bangkok 9576t 8773t 9379pc Barbados 9073pc 9071pc 9071pc Beijing 8556s 9170s 8965s Beirut 7157s 7462s 8465s Berlin 7151t 6043c 6846c Bermuda 7462s 7666s 7766pc Bogota 6950pc 7255pc 7054c Brussels 6145t 5740sh 5839r Budapest 8155s 7856pc 7959c Buenos Aires 6348r 6650s 6654s Cairo 8452s 8857s 9060s Copenhagen 6043r 5138r 5239r Dublin 5635t 5536t 5537c Geneva 6455r 6549pc 7044pc Havana 8968t 8870c 8569t Hong Kong 8672pc 7968r 8073c Istanbul 7348s 7355s 7862s Jerusalem 7444s 7957s 8261s Johannesburg 8255pc 7854s 7557s London 6343sh 5641r 5643r Madrid 6642pc 6945c 7048s Manila 9575pc 9475pc 9480pc Melbourne 6349sh 5940pc 5744c Mexico City 8754s 8654s 8455s Milan 6854t 7555pc 6453r Montego Bay 9075pc 9073pc 9072pc Montreal 5736pc 5845r 5334sh Moscow 5738r 5739r 4932r Nairobi 7653r 6952r 7351r Nassau 8569t 8273t 8673t New Delhi 10474s 11 081 Is 10873s Oslo 5834c 5134r 5131c Paris 6344r 5843c 5839sh Perth 8656s 8563s Prague 7851 Is 6347pc Rio de Janeiro 9472pc 8572c 7259t Rome 8454s 7961c 8060pc St. Petersburg 5432r 5434r 4627r Seoul 6741s 7251s 7051s Singapore 9177t 9177t 9078pc Stockholm 6134pc 4729r 5233c Sydney 7555s 6854c 6752pc Taipei 7669r 7664c 8167c Tokyo 7261r 6251s 7157s Toronto 5839sh 6744r 5533c Vancouver 6448pc 6548pc 5938pc ley and met his future wife when they were students at Upper Moreland Junior High School. He earned a bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University and a law degree from Dickinson School of Law. In 1974, he joined the family business and operated an Olds-mobile dealership in Lancaster.

He opened a dealership in Trevose in 1981, which became his headquarters. As he expanded the business, his wife said, Mr. Faulkner was mindful not to venture too far out of the area. "It was important for him to be home with his family for dinner," she said. He was past president of the Automobile Dealers Association of Greater Philadelphia and had been a director of the Philadelphia Presidents' Organization.

Mr. Faulkner's community involvement included being a former chairman and vice chair at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She served two terms as president of the academy's Women's Committee, 1965 to 1967 and 1977 to 1979, and led several art tours of the United States and Europe for the benefit of the academy. She was a member of the Acorn Club and a past member of the Sunnybrook Golf Club, where she played on a women's team. In addition to her son, Mrs.

Reath is survived by a daughter, Margaret R. Stewart, and four grandchildren. Her son, Timothy, died in 1993. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. May 10 at St.

Paul's Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill. Burial arrangements are private. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 22 E. Chestnut Hill Philadelphia 19118 or to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia 19104.

ly and then to Inchon, where he started an English-language school and continued to deal in international business circles. Jerry Williams Talk-radio pioneer, 79 Jerry Williams, 79, a pioneer of talk radio who is credited with making the format a force for political change, died Tuesday. He died at Massachusetts General Hospital after a long illness, said Rod Fritz, news director of Boston's WRKO-AM, where Mr. Williams hosted a popular afternoon drive-time program in the 1980s. "He started doing issues-oriented talk shows back in the 1950s, and it just blossomed from there," Fritz said.

"He's probably best known for his time in Boston, but he made waves everywhere he went Philadelphia, New York, Chicago." Mr. Williams started his radio career in Bristol, in 1946 and later went to Boston to work for WMEX-AM. He became widely known at Boston's WBZ-AM, where he was on the air for eight years beginning in 1968 to an audience that covered 38 states and Canada. In 1976, he joined WMCA in New York, and the following year moved to WWDB in Philadelphia, where he became the first FM talk host, according to or America. He was a member of the Upper Moreland High School Hall of Fame.

Mr. Faulkner enjoyed golf, travel, family ski trips and spending time at his beach house in Avalon, N.J. In addition to his wife of 28 years, he is survived by daugh- Angelo Maria Paduano Craftsman, 67 Angelo Maria Paduano, 67, an Italian immigrant whose grandfather taught wooden wag- on wheels without mod- A- ern tools, electricity or metal fasteners, died of multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer, Monday at his Angelo Paduano home in Taco- ny. Mr. Paduano was born in Rog-giano Gravina (Cosenza), Italy.

He was not formally educated, but from the age of 9, he learned to build homes, furniture, and just about anything made of wood or masonry. He was conscripted into the Italian army and served in Rome in 1957 and 1958 as an encoder. Mr. Paduano married Elvira Vignieri in 1959 in Italy and moved to the United States in the Web site of the Radio Hall of Fame. Mr.

Williams was inducted into the hall in 1996. Janko Bobetko Croatian general, 84 Gen. Janko Bobetko, 84, the wartime military chief hailed at home as a hero of Croatia's struggle for independence but charged with war crimes by a U.N. court, died Tuesday in Zagreb of organ failure, his doctor said. Gen.

Bobetko, the most senior Croatian officer sought by the U.N. war-crimes tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands, was never tried because of his ill health. The court, which revealed his indictment in September, acknowledged in February that he was too ill to stand trial. The tribunal indictment charged him with responsibility in the killings of at least 100 Serbian civilians and soldiers during Croatia's 1993 offensive to retake a central Croatian area seized by Serbian rebels. Gen.

Bobetko refused to surrender to the tribunal, and Croatian nationalists and war veterans threatened to fight against his extradition. In his memoirs, All My Battles, Gen. Bobetko said the 1993 action aimed to end the rebels' siege and bombardment of the central Croatian city of Gospic was "brilliant." "In only four hours, Serb W. In the Nation and the World Temp.Hum. Temp.Hum.

1 a.m 6072 1 p.m .6930 2 a.m 5955 2 p.m .7128 3 a.m 5949 3 p.m .7429 4 a.m 5947 4 p.m .7328 5 a.m 5552 5 p.m .7434 6 a.m 5548 6 p.m .7336 7 a.m 5450 7 p.m .6943 8 a.m 5740 8 p.m .6446 9 a.m 6038 9 p.m .6151 10 a.m 6237 11 a.m 6536 Noon 6733 Albert A. Hakim Iran-contra figure, 66 Albert A. Hakim, 66, an Iranian-born former Silicon Valley businessman who was a central figure in the Reagan administration's Iran-contra scandal of the 1980s, has died. Mr. Hakim died Friday of a heart attack in Inchon, South Korea, where he had moved a few years ago with his second wife, Soony Oh, to be near her aging parents.

Charged with five felony counts of conspiracy to divert funds illegally to the Nicara-guan contras and theft of government property for his part in the affair, Mr. Hakim pleaded guilty in 1989 to a single misdemeanor count of making an illegal payment to a U.S. government employee. Specifically, he admitted paying for a $13,800 security fence for Marine Lt. Col.

Oliver L. North's home in suburban Virginia. Mr. Hakim, who also agreed to abandon his claim to share $7.3 million in profits from the arms sales to Iran for use in its war against Iraq, was sentenced to two years' probation and a $5,000 fine. Even though he never went to prison, he said the scandal ruined his career.

He declared bankruptcy in 1996 and lost his expensive Los Gatos, home to foreclosure. He and his wife moved to Los Angeles brief Air Quality The worst pollutant in the region yesterday was produced mainly by sunlight reacting with vehicle emissions. The first column in the table shows yesterday's code and Pollution Standard Index, the second column shows yesterday's highest pollutant, and the third column shows today's forecast. Good (G) 0-50 Carbon monoxide CO Moderate 51-100 Nitrogen dioxide NO Unhealthful (U) 101 -200 Particulates PA Very Unhealthful (V) 201-300 Sulfur dioxide SO Hazardous (H) 301-400 Ozone At a Pollution Standard Index rating of 100, the general population begins to experience irritation and other unhealthful effects. Yesterday's High Pollution Pollution Pollutant Forecast Standard Index Yesterday Today Chester G33 OZ Norristown G31 PA Philadelphia G29 OZ Trenton Source: Clean Air Council, 21 5-567-4004.

Ozone forecast available daily at 1-800-872-7261 and at http:www.dvrpc.org Yesterday's pollen, count and discomfort levels: Trees 3686 very high Grass 25 moderate Mold spores 3257 very high Source: The Asthma Center, www.asthmacenter.com.