Press and Sun-Bulletin from Binghamton, New York • 19

Boost in State Aid Welcomed Hooray! More! School Chiefs Cheer Regents By W. C. HERBERT "Hooray!" Two of four school district superintendents voiced that response in interviews after learning the state Board of Regents had called for a 10 per cent increase in state financial assistance to local districts. They reflected what appeared to be uniform happiness with the recommendation among district superintendents in Broome County. Binghamton Superintendent Richard P.

McLean said the recommendation would increase money available in the district by about $95 a child. "It's. not enough," he said, "but it's welcome." The proposal would increase the a amount each district may spend per pupil, for which the state will partially reimburse the district, from a level of $860 to $1,037. McLEAN SAID Binghamton now spends more than $1,200 per pupil year, but the proposal brings the reimbursement level into the current range of spending among school districts. McLean also said he was pleased with the Regents' proposals to give added weight in state reimbursement to the costs of teaching handicapped THE EVENING PRESS Section Wednesday, Nov.

15, 1972 Ask Us for HELP! They Can't Pay Off If Can't Open Up Bill Paid Q. last December my husband had open heart surgery performed by Dr. Denton Cooley at St. Lukes Hospital in Houston, Tex. When we received the bills from the doctors 1 we submitted them to Blue Shield in Syracuse.

This was in February. Now its September. Some bills were paid in part and we are extremely unhappy with the amounts paid. But our main problem is that Dr. Cooley's $1,500 bill has not been paid.

We cannot understand because Blue Cross paid the hospital bills within two or three weeks. Perhaps some of it is the fault of Dr. Cooley's office. And It appears there was a mixup on the bills. If you can clear this up we'll be grateful.

MRS. PAUL PETCOSKY, VESTAL A. Upon receipt of additional information they requested, Blue Shield of Central New York, sent check for $820 to Dr. Cooley. And you received a copy of the claim forms for your records together with an apology "for any inconvenience" from Blue Shield.

You reported: "Our problems are all solved with your HELP." Sad Send-Off Q. As a native of your fair city and a former employe of The Evening Press, I now ask for HELP. My husband and I moved from Binghamton last February. The night before we left our car was struck by a hit-run driver and we are still trying to get the matter settled with our insurance company, Royal Globe. Our Binghamton agent sent the $450 damage estimate to the Syracuse office, but no results.

If we could have forseen this we might not have moved because it certainly isn't worth the frustration. MRS. EVELYN E. DUNBAR, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. A.

In a short time, you reported the problem was cleared up. Lost In Mails Q. I have been carrying American Progressive accident insurance since 1963 and have never had to collect on it. I was injured at work last July and my doctor reported it to the insurance company. I sent in two physicians' statements and also made several phone calls concerning my claim.

All I have had is promises that my check was in the mail but as yet (Oct. 18) I haven't received it. I hope that you can HELP. EDWARD PETHICK, HANCOCK A. Your problem apparently was with the mail rather than the insurance company at Mount Vernon.

Responding immediately to our inquiry, L. H. Weinstein, assistant vice president of the insurance firm, said your initial check for $130 was mailed Sept. 25, but -apparently was lost in the mails. A new check was processed and sent out.

You reported Noy. 6 that it was received. Mr. Weinstein also phoned you to apologize personally. Happily Licensed Q.

I am writing to HELP able to get an answer from Education since August when nursing license. My license a loss. I cannot get any out it. MRS. PATRICIA because I have not been the State Department of I sent $3 for renewal of my expired Aug.

30, so I at private duty nursing jobs with- BROWN, L.P.N., GREENE A. You changed your name and address which was not obvious to the professional licensing office in Albany until HELP sent a second inquiry to them. John Horn of that office told HELP you were licensed under the name of Patricia Pignatelli, Binghamton RD 2, whereas now it is Mrs. Patricia Brown of Greene. Anyway, you now have your new license and report you are happy again.

Ask Us for HELPI is a public service column that attempts to solve problems, after readers' efforts have failed. Send problems, questions and COPIES of supporting documents to Ask. Us for HELP! The Press, Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton, N. 13902. Letters should be signed with full name, address and phone numbers of reader.

HELPI cannot accept phone calls, grant personal interviews or return materials. Letters should be written in ink or typed on plain, white paper, one side only. We publish the most interesting and helpful answers. and disadvantaged sutdents. Binghamton educates its own retarded children, McLean said, and it has 2,000 children who come from lowincome families.

Maine-Endwell Superintendent Pierce F. Hoban said, "If these proposals were passed by the State Legislature, I would be a happy, smiling fellow." He said two thirds of the M-E budget is met by state as- sistance. "We at M-E desperately need an increase in aid. We can't go from one year to the next without an increase. We live and die on state aid." optimism," referring to their chances of passage by the State Legislature.

Champlin said Johnson City schools suffered severe cuts in the budget last year, "almost to an austerity, budget," and they face a dire predicament this year. "We need relief from somewhere," he said. The Johnson City School District, he conceded, has the top amount of property value behind each of its children in the county. "We're paper rich, but dollar poor," he said, explaining that industry in the village reduces the level of assistance -PRESS PHOTO BY LEO F. FAHEY.

Audience listens to Robert J. Lampman at SUAB last night. Assistance Corp. HOBAN CHAMPLIN HOBAN equal partner in education, which it has not done in the last three years." He said he viewed the recommendations with "guarded Offices to Convent Nathanson said Mrs. Wagar took New York State Bar examinations last July, and still is awaiting word of the results.

In another change at the agency, Nathanson has applied to the Broome County Legislature for money to hire additional attorney and y-receptionist to referrals from Broome County Family Court. The agency has a heavy caseload originating from Family Court, Nathanson said. -PRESS PHOTO BY LEO F. FAHEY. BOYS CLUB BOY OF YEAR-John Bullard, 17, of 13 Crandall Binghamton, displays trophy he received last night, when he was named winner of Binghamton Boys Club Joseph R.

Levine Memorial Boy of the Year award. He now will be nominated for national boy of year award. Bullard plans to work in Boys Club as career. He attends Broome Community College. the district can receive from the state, and residents must face the greater burden of taxation along with industry.

WINDSOR Superintendent Jerald Quimby said, "Every school district would benefit from the regents' proposals. "Inflation has raised our budgets every year, but we have received credit from the state. We get no aid for Quimby said Windsor depends on state assistance for about 77 per cent of its budget, according to its aid ratio. "The aid ratio is a hoax," he said, explaining it only covered approved expenses up to $860 per pupil. "Our expenses must be higher than that to do justice to the people we serve, that is, the youngsters." Quimby said he thought the Regents' proposals provided adjustments in school financing, until the full intent of the Fleischmann Commission recommendations could be put into practice.

The Commission on the Quality, Cost and Financing of Elementary and Secondary Education headed by Manly Fleischmann, recommended full state funding of public education. McLEAN QUIMBY McLEAN QUIMBY JOHNSON CITY Superintendent John R. Champlin said, "I like what I hear. The proposals contain the concept of the state getting back as an Legal Moves Broome Legal Assistance Corp. was moving its office today from 230 Main St.

in Binghamton to the second floor of the St. Mary of the Assumption Church convent at 30 Fayette St. Seymour Nathanson, supervising attorney for the federally funded legal aid program for the poor, said the move gives the agency larger quarters and puts it closer to the courts, the poor 1 neighborhood and the agencies that serve the poor. The convent, vacant for several years, was sold recently by St. Mary's Church to Associated Catholic Charities for Community Development at Broome County, Inc." That organization, related to Catholic Social of Broome County, had Services, leased space in the Main Street building to Broome Legal Assistance Corp.

The sale of the three-story convent for $21,000 was approved last week in State Supreme Court in Broome County. Under terms of the sale agreement, Associated Catholic Charities paid $6,000 in cash and will pay the remaining $15,000 over 10 years at 5 per cent interest. Court papers said the fair market value of the real and personal property held by St. Mary's is $1 million. Broome Legal Assistance which provides legal aid for the poor in civil matters, is staffed by three fulltime lawyers and three secretary-receptionists.

In addition to Nathanson, the other staff lawyers are Mrs. Mona Nedlik and Mrs. Dorothy Wagar. Mrs. Wagar, a Cornell University Law School graduate, recently joined the staff to replace Ronald Slocum, who left the agency to enter private practive in Binghamton.

$5,500 Total in 3rd WSKG Auction Night The third night of WSKG's television auction netted about $5,500 for the educational television station, according to Carol Koffarnus, auction coordinator. This brings to about $12,700 the amount of money that the Southern Tier educational television station has raised since Sunday night. 'You Don't Talk Welfare And Win' By TOM MULLER One thing politicians McGovern's campaign fare and win." "Welfare is like foreign pman, a national authority "Anything you say about it can only lose you votes. If you're smart, just don't mention Lampman, a university of Wisconsin economics professor and federal advisor on welfare, spokes last night at State University at Binghamton. HIS WAS THE FOURTH in a series of lectures being sponsored by the SUAB Economics Department on public issues and economic policy.

Lampman quipped about McGovern's controversial r- every- person- incountry" welfare proposal that cost him much support early in the campaign and which he later discarded. congressman suggested that the response would have been much more favorable if McGovern had phrased it as 'No more than $1,000 in welfare benefits for any one Lampman said that more than $160 billion a year is spent on what can be considered welfare in its broadest sense. THAT TAB includes public assistance and other cash benefits programs (such as veteran and retirement subsidies), hospital and medical care sistance, food stamps, public housing and rent subsidies, and educational and training benefits provided by both the government and private industry. Lampman said that the $160 billion represents more than twice what the so-called "milit a y-industrial complex" spends each year. Efforts at "turning around the welfare state development in this country," have produced a major political crisis, he said.

Lampman said there are four "contradictory notions" about what should be the goal of welfare. ONE IS THE "mentality of minimum provision" which holds that welfare benefits should be provided to families that have no other assets and no other recourse but to go to the government for help. A second is the social insurance philosophy or "doctrine of social fault" that holds that society should share in the accidents and events that strike some people and leave them momentarily without enough resources. Such a system would provile temporary assistance for replacement of loss and any individual has a right to the benefits. A third notion is that of "horizontal and vertical equity." It says that the welfare system should preserve differences of earnings but treat people in the same money range equally.

The system would provent a situation that now occurs quite often, Lampman said, in which "we leapfrog a welfare beneficiary over the standard of living of his neighbor who is learned from Sen. George "You don't talk about wel- aid," said Robert J. Lamon the welfare situation. ROBERT J. LAMPMAN THE FOURTH NOTION is "the investment in human beings school." "These people seek a sonable rate of return from.

public assstance, looking at; the state as somewhat of a banking operation," Lampman said. "They would give out benefits in terms of future GAF Chemist Zappert Dies At Age 63 Robert H. Zappert, 63, of 91 Seminary Binghamton, a GAF Corp. chemist active in local civic affairs, died yesterday at Lourdes Hospital after a short illness. Zappert, a native of New York City, worked at GAF for 34 years before his death.

He had been a patent agent in the firm's patent department since 1949. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna, Austria, in chemistry in 1935, and from 1935 to 1938 was an assistant production manager of the Wiener Margarine Co. in that city. He returned to the United States in 1938 to assume a position of research chemist with Ansco, forerunner of GAF.

Zappert held the presidency and other offices of the Binghamton Chapter of the American Civic Association, and was a member of the local World Affairs Council. He was a founder of Temple Concord of Binghamton, according to members of his family. Zappert is survived by his wife, Mrs. Angela K. Zappert of Binghamton; a daughter, Mrs.

Alice J. Bonis of Stow, a son, Frederick G. Zappert of Lima, Peru; and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Temple Concord.

Dramatic Reading Of Berrigan Works Four area residents will present a dramatic reading at Civic Theatre's general meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Sears-Harkness Theater at Roberson Center. Reading the poetry of Daniel Berrigan and excerpts from his play, "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine," will be William Gorman, Carlisle Herbert, David Mack and Adrianna Warner. The public is invited. Conn.

Pair Ahead (AP) A Connecticut pair, Arthur Waldmann of Wethersfield and Marvin Rosenblatt of Bristol, held a healthy lead going into today's final sessions in the Blue Ribbon Pairs competition at the American Contract Bridge League fall nationals here. Lampman said that the "runaway spending" welfare crisis must be solved, if it is to be solved, by reforming the welfare system or reforming (Continued on Page 2B) County Adds To Price Of Building It will be mid-February before Broome County employes can move into the new $5 million office building in the governmental center south of Hawley Street, according to County Executive Edwin L. Crawford. Last summer's strike of building trades unions has delayed completion of the new building by about two months, Crawford said. The county's Board of Acquisition and Contract has approved change orders that will add about $18,500 to cost of the building.

Matco Electric Co. of Binghamton will receive an additional $12.962 for ceiling lights in the legislative chamber on the sixth floor. Other change orders include $4,902 for locks on file cabinets and $1,693 for moveable partitions on the fifth floor. BAC also approved change order adding $8.624 to the Triple Cities Construction Co. contract for surface water drainage in the Upper Front Street area where the county will have a health and welfare campus in addition to expanding Broome Community College.

The federal government will share in the additional drainage costs. The Jack DeNinis Construction Co. was awarded a contract by the board for $3,425 to build curbs and sidewalks for the artificial ice skating rink nearing completion at Grippen Park in Endicott. DeNinis was the sole bidder. Crash Kills Pa.

Man Thomas H. Collins 52, of Thompson, was pronounced dead at the scene of a one-car crash at 12:30 o'clock this morning on Route 171 near Lanesboro, Pa. Gibson-based Pennsylvania state police said Collins, who was alone in the car, was driv. ing east on the road when his car crossed the center line and hit an embankment. They say he may have suffered a heart attack before the accident.

Susquehanna County Coroner John Conarton has scheduled an autopsy to determine cause of death..