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Obituaries 2B For the Record 2B Region news 4B Metro Editor Paul Brooks, 607734-5151, Ext. 275 Star-GazetteThursday, May 14, 1992 Prison tuberculosis epidemic reflects social ills Problem begins before arrest By JIM PFIFFER Star-Gazette rr 'iJ Kir down on cases of tuberculosis. "If we stop incarcerating people for drug abuse and pay attention to education and housing and income support, we can begin to eliminate this epidemic," Greifinger said. The nation's tuberculosis epidemic be disease an officer at Auburn Correctional Facility and that was because he had an weak immune system due to cancer. A person can test positive for tuberculosis but never develop the disease, Greifinger said.

But when the immune system is weakened as in the case of AIDS victims he disease causes illness and becomes contagious and known as "active tuberculosis," Greifinger said. Prison staff and inmates who tested positive, but who are not in the active state, are being monitored and treated, he said. Those who tested negative are being monitored to see how and if they contract tuberculosis in the future, he said. ates serious special problems," Greifinger said. Tuberculosis quickly spread to the state's 68 correctional facilities after 27 inmates being treated in a New York City hospital last year contracted a special drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, Greifinger said.

Those inmates returned to various prisons throughout the state before they were diagnosed with the disease, he added. Since December, the Department of Correctional Services has screened 92,000 employees and inmates in the prisons. Greifinger said he is aware of only one correction officer dying from the bership Meeting. The affair was held at Pierce's 1894 Restaurant, Elmira Heights. Greifinger met earlier Wednesday with the Star-Gazette to discuss his lecture.

"Tuberculosis is not a prison problem, it's a social problem and a public health problem," Greifinger said. Greifinger said the tuberculosis problem will continue to grow, but he has recommendations to stop it. Greifinger is calling for sentencing reforms to reduce the number of first-time drug offenders sent to prison, reduce prison overcrowding and thereby cut The tuberculosis epidemic in New York's prisons was not born behind bars, but come from poverty, ignorance and poor living conditions in New York City. So said Dr. Robert B.

Greifinger, chief medical officer for the Department of Correctional Services. Greifinger was the featured speaker Wednesday at the Chemung County Medical Society's 46th annual Elliot T. Bush Memorial Lecture and Mem GREIFINGER gan last year in New York City, predominantly among the poor, blacks and Hispanics. "And who do we have in prison? The poor blacks and Hispanics. And on top of that, they are HIV-infected.

That cre- nsurane urn Bradford commissioners weigh self-insurance By RICH HUSICK Sayre Bureau -v ft' i j( i i-iii imainiMiiniiniitiiiliBimifiiilllfii iii an" ri Bradford County workers' compensation premiums. All include retroactive adjustments except 1 991 which hasn't been audited yet. 1987 $109,273. 1988 $235,221. 1989 $219,540.

1990 $314,360 1991 TOWANDA The Bradford County Commissioners are considering using about $500,000 from a $1 million state grant to provide its own workers' compensation program. "We really haven't decided what we are going to do with that money yet," Bradford County Commissioner Chairman William McNett, R-Towanda, said. "What we would be saving by going to self-insurance is the charges the commercial insurance company makes in the way of profit and the percentage the insurance agent is paid." The county paid $314,360 in 1990 to insure its workers. The commissioners voted Wednesday to sign an agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections that will allow the county to receive the $1 million grant within the current fiscal year. The county is entitled to the money under the 1990 Prison Facilities Act for building JEFF RICHARDS-Star-Gazette FINGER PLAY: Members of the Arnot Art Museum Preschool program in Elmira perform the finger play Grandpa's Glasses for residents of Woodbrook Adult Home in Southport Wednesday morning.

From left: Christopher Trice, Madelyn Frachella and Chelsea Ambrose, all 5 years old. The visit was in conjunction with Elder Citizen Month, which is being celebrated in May. the Bradford County Jail. While half of the grant may go toward a self-insurance program, the rest will be used to lower the county's debt. McNett said the commissioners do not have an estimate as to how much the self-insurance plan would save the county.

Currently, the 500 county workers are insured by Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association Insurance a commercial firm based in Philadelphia. The commissioners said they also were considering going into See INSURANCE2B at CENTENARIAN POINT OF VIEW: Woodbrook Adult Home resident Minnie Carpenter, who is 1 04, left, meets Jack Forrest, 4, a member of the Arnot Art Museum preschool program Wednesday. Also pictured: Ethel Gould, 80, center, and Viola Smith, 84. Shooting, robbery victim upgraded from critical JEFF RICHARDSStor-Gozette By RICH HUSICK Sayre Bureau Waverly science wizards win CCC Chem Bowl By ED BOND Corning Bureau $10,000 bail each. Their car was stopped early Tuesday in Elmira by city police who found in the vehicle $1,763, jewelry, credit cards belonging to Brown's parents and four guns, including the rifle allegedly used in the shooting.

Kathryn Brown, Jenkins and their lawyers will be in Elmira City Court this morning for a meeting concerning charges of fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, police said. After the court session, Towanda state police said, the two will be asked to waive proceedings to extradite them to Pennsylvania, where they will be charged with burglary, criminal attempted homicide, aggravated assault, simple assault, robbery, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property and conspiracy to commit those crimes. The Bradford County man shot when his daughter and her boyfriend allegedly robbed his mobile home Monday was upgraded from critical to fair condition Wednesday in Arnot Ogden Medical Center, Elmira. Towanda state police said Wednesday it appeared Phillip E. Brown, 45, of Box 368, Congdon Road, Wells Township, would recover but said it was not known if doctors would be be able to save his injured right leg.

Police said Brown's right thigh was shattered after David J. Jenkins, 30, of 356 W. Water Apt. 1, Elmira, allegedly shot him with a rifle inside Brown's home about 6:30 p.m. Monday.

Jenkins and Kathryn Brown, 19, the daughter who lived with her parents face several charges and are being held in Chemung County Jail, Elmira, on day's physics, there are three fundamental particles that make up all matter quarks, leptons and bosons but the scientists of the future may find sub-quarks, called squarks, Josbeno said. He has worked as an accelerator physicist at the particle accelerator at Cornell University, a facility a half-mile in circumference that studies subatomic matter. For Josbeno, a visiting scientist at Cornell in 1986-87, also has worked there for seven summers. "Hopefully, we'll understand what matter is and be able to change matter and energy into each other," thereby leading to new energy sources as well as breakthroughs in fighting diseases, he said. CCC chemistry professor who served as questioner in the Chem Bowl.

Four teams were in the final round after surviving a pre-. liminary round that included 14 area high school squads on May 1. Some of the questions from the competition (with answers in parentheses.) Consumed alcohol is detoxified in the (liver). When a solid is transformed directly into a gas it is called (sublimation). How many micrometers are in a centimeter? Josbeno's talk was titled "Quarks, Squarks, Strings and Things" and centered on the fundamental basis of matter.

In to The final four teams In the 1 7th annual Chem Bowl: 1) Waverly Junior-Senior High School teacher Ann Phinney-Foreman; students Kumar Raman, Laurie Salo, Tracie Zoeller. 2) Horseheads High School teacher Kevin Mclnerney; students Valerie Mercer, Rebecca Murphey, Anna Yu. 3) Corning East High School teacher Ruth Young: students Frank Coccho Geoffrey Moore. 4) Corning West High School teacher Andrea Bocko; students Joseph Deslderlo, Jontle Karden, Bryan Kerko, Scott Tabb. CORNING Potential pioneers of science battled each other to win the 17th annual Chem Bowl Wednesday at Corning Community College.

Waverly Junior-Senior High School students defeated their peers from Horseheads High School 275-130. "The young students in the Chem Bowl are the ones who are going to pick up from where we are," said Lawrence Josbeno, a physics professor at CCC and the speaker at a dinner following the competition. "We had two very good teams in the finals," said Don Nyberg, a MORNING STAR Acme employees ELMIRA Assistant manager Jim Rockwell and Acme Market, South-port, employees score a hole-in-one for donating to Chemung County's Task Force on Children and Families in Chemung County. Karen Aikman, task force co-chairwoman, says the employees and Rockwell sponsored a hole at the May 1 fund raising tournament at Wil-lowcreek Golf Club. "The fund raising is to provide a summer camp experience for Chemung County children in foster care," she said.

player matched seven of the 10 winning numbers drawn this Wednesday night, a lottery official said. Acting lottery director Charles W. Kline said 1 1 players matched six numbers and won 409 players matched five numbers and won 7,789 players matched four numbers and won $15. Lottery numbers PA Daily Number: 5-8-0. PA Big 4: 4-2-9-7.

PA Super 7: 1-8-13-18-21-29-45-46-52-56. NY Dally Number: 7-9-0. NYWinFour: 7-5-3-5. NY Lotto 54: 1-2-6-26-33-47. Supplemental: 15.

NY Pick 10: 1 -9-1 5-1 7-31 -35-39-46-54-56 60-66-69-70-71 -72-73-76-79-80. For New York tottery: 518388-3300. For Pennsylvania lottery: 717986-4700. i IN THE TIERS Waverly OKs school budget WAVERLY The Waverly school district's $13.2 million 1992-1993 budget passed Wednesday night by 202-66 vote. Under the new budget, taxes will increase by 1-2 percent, officials said.

Residents also voted: 212-60 to authorize the administration to move up to $400,000 from the capital reserve fund to the general fund to keep the tax hike to a minimum. 202-66 to place $50,000 in a bus replacement fund. School board incumbents Philip Schweiger and Harold Lambert received 212 votes and 187 votes, respectively, to retain their spots on the Waverly school board for another five-year term. Meeting addresses adult entertainment SAYRE A public meeting will held at 7 p.m. today at Sayre Borough Hall concerning a proposed adult entertainment ordinance for the borough.

The ordinance is scheduled to be voted on by Sayre Borough Council on Monday during its regular monthly meeting. The ordinance would restrict any adult entertainment business to the industrial section of the borough, near the old Lehigh Valley Railroad shops on the East Side. East Side landowner John Stetz has organized tonight's meeting along with other members of the community. "This is a general public meeting and anybody can attend," Stetz said. "Many of people have been wanting to express their opinion on the issue and haven't been able to." Town approves trailer park BARTON Barton town officials gave their permission Tuesday night to Kathy and Keith Pond of Waverly to build a trailer park.

The park will have four trailers. It will be located on a three-acre parcel of land at the corner of Ellis Creek and Sulphur Springs roads. Super 7 jackpot increases to S3.2M HARRISBURG Next Wednesday's Pennsylvania Super 7 jackpot will be worth at least $3.2 million because no Morning Star pays daily tribute to people who have done good deeds To nominate your Mornim: Star, call 800 836-8970, 607734-5151 or 607" 535-6909 and ask for Ext 238. 8 a to 4.30 m. Compiled from staff and wire reports.