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POTTSVILLE (PA.) REPUBLICAN FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1 990 Minersville policeman fired Obituaries Dr. James Giuffre, 77. was hospital founder The chief emphasized repeatedly after the meeting that the internal probe was not a criminal investigation, but only to determine if the officers followed proper procedures and regulations while performing their official duties. Councilmen Anthony Russian voted against the firing and the suspension. Charles E.

Wynosky voted against the firing only. Rowlands and the four other parents are pressing a lawsuit against the borough for not taking disciplinary action against the officer earlier, when his allegedly brutal tactics were reported. Rowlands, Joseph E. Boris 21, of Saint Clair, Richard Stevenosky, 22, of Tremont, Scott Chistakoff, 19, of Minersville, and William Marks, in his 60s, of Minersville, are being represented by a lawyer in Philadelphia. Willinsky said he was not ordered by council or Mayor Rizzi to look into the other cases and he did not have the time because the Rowlands investigation had been lengthy.

In voting no, Russian said the officers had not given their side to the council However, Post said the investigation followed standard procedures and Rose can be heard if he chooses to appeal the decision to the borough's three-member civil service commission. The commission comprises borough residents other than the councilmen, including former Mayor James Mendini, Gerald J. Trasatt and Peter Butsko. Councilman Wynosky said he voted no because he had not had the (Continued from page 1) be done. At least it's a start," Chistakoff said.

The local investigation was launched April 3, after Rowlands told the FBI he was beaten by Rose after being picked up for an underage-drinking violation. The teen was treated for cuts and bruises on his face at Good Samaritan Hospital before he was admitted to Schuylkill County Prison, according to hospital reports. The FBI, which confirmed on March 28 that a civil rights investigation was under way in the Rowlands case, then received several other complaints that Rose used excessive force. The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office is also looking into whether it will investigate the situation, but as of this morning had made no decision on whether to proceed. Thursday evening's 5-2 vote to remove Rose followed a 1-hour executive session with solicitor Edward M.

Brennan and Willinsky present. Speaking for his colleagues, Councilman Joseph J. Post Jr. said Rose was fired for: Failing to follow proper police procedures. Council mentioned that Rose did not properly file a crime report, but did not elaborate.

Failing to obey rules and regulations of the police department and set by council and Conduct unbecoming an officer. Willinsky would not comment on what procedures and rules Rose failed to follow. In general, he said, unbecoming conduct would refer to an officer's screaming, yelling or cursing in the street. chance to completely review Rose's history on the police force, information that played a significant part in the outcome of the investigation. Rose has been suspended twice from the department in his approximate 18 years of service, Willinsky said.

The chief said he did not remember what spurred the first suspension, which was for three days without pay. The second, for one day without pay, was for breaking rules and regulations and leaving his area of jurisdiction to raid a "booze party." According to law, an accumulation of verbal or writen reprimands is reason for suspension andor permanent dismissal of any officer, the chief said. He would give no details about Rose's warnings, saying that he did not want to reveal possible evidence that may be used in court if the dismissed officer appeals the firing. After the vote, Boris who is vice president of Home Savings Association of Pennsylvania in Pottsville, said he had been skeptical about the chief conducting a fair investigation. He apologized to Willinsky.

"I really didnt think he'd do what he did. I know one thing, that was the right verdict, it was the right decision," Boris Sr. said. Rowlands' mother, Carol Angst, had also been skeptical and said she was satisfied with the council's verdict "Now it won't happen again," Angst said, referring to beatings alleged by the victims. Chistakoff reported she was threatened by Rose along with her 69-year-old mother and her son, Scott, 19.

Deeter rites Services for Percy J. Deeter, 88, of Hegins area, who died Wednesday at home, will be held at 11 a.m Saturday at Salem United Methodist Church, Weishample. The Rev. Timothy Smith will officiate. There will be no viewing.

Interment will be in the parish cemetery. Buffington Funeral Home, Valley View, is in charge of arrangements. He was born in Barry Township, March 26, 1902, a son of the late Ezei-kel and Nora Header Deeter. He was a retired miner and farmer. He was a member of Salem UM Church and egins Fire Company.

He was preceded in death by his wife, the former Margaret Geist, who died in 1987; a son, Junior, in 1987; and two daughters, Blanche Kimmel, in 1987, and Leoma Carl, in 1989. He was the last member of his immediate family. Surviving are five sons, Glenn, Paul, Elwood, Donald and Richard, all of Hegins area; six daughters, Ruth Carl and June Sweinhart, both of Hegins area, Marlene Lucas and Dorothy Conniff, both of Lavelle, Margaret Richenbach, Shamokin, and LaRae Lucas, Hegins; 51 grandchildren, 75 great-grandchildren, a great-great-grandchild and nieces and nephews. Elizabeth Willingham Elizabeth Willingham, 1003 First St, Mechanicsville, died this morning at Good Samaritan HospitaL Robert A. Evans Funeral Home, Port Carbon, is in charge of the James C.

Giuffre Medical Center, simultaneously was hit with federal charges that several hospital officials misused hospital funds. The hospital, formerly St. Luke's and Children's Medical Center, was named after Dr. Giuffre in 1978. It was renamed Girard Medical Center in 1989.

Prior to the scandals, Dr. Giuffre was known for his early work in drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Well-known for his community involvement, Dr. Giuffre was close friends with fellow Philadelphians, comedians Danny Thomas and Joey Bishop, and former mayor Frank Rizzo. The state closed the hospital for eight days in May 1988, ordering it to change many of its policies and appoint a new administration.

In a 36-page report, the state blamed Dr. Giuffre for many of the shortcomings. In alL the state investigation found some 124 medical deficiencies at the hospital including 12 questionable deaths after surgery and 29 cases of unnecessary surgery. During the same time period, the hospital's financial affairs were investigated by the FBI. Dr.

Giuffre had lived in an apartment at the hospital for many years until forced to leave after his retirement The hospital had few details available about Dr. Giuffre Thursday night. Survivors include a daughter, Cusick said. Funeral arrangements were PHILADELPHIA (AP) Dr. James C.

Giuffre, whose 40-year career at a North Philadelphia hospital ended in the wake of financial and medical scandals, died Thursday in a downtown hotel. He was 77. Giuffre died of cardiac complications, said William Cusick, a vice president of Girard Medical Center. His body was found in his room at the Warwick Hotel, where he had been living since his retirement from the hospital, Cusick said. Dr.

Giuffre had suffered at least three heart attacks since 1982. He had been chief executive at the medical center until 1988, when a three-month investigation by the Pennsylvania Department of Health forced his retirement: The, hospital at the time named Trumbull Higgins, military historian NEW YORK (AP) Trumbull Higgins, a military historian who wrote critiques of military strategy and policy, died of a heart attack at age 70 on Wednesday. Higgins, a professor of history at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, concentrated on World War II, the Korean War and the Bay of Pigs invasion. His latest work, "The Perfect Failure," attributed the Bay of Pigs debacle to a poorly conceived CIA plan that President Kennedy inherited from the Eisenhower administration. The book was published in 1987.

oor-to-door counting begins Hospita 1 log Ringtown: Jeffrey Ziolko. Schuylkill Haven Ethel Koenig. Shenandoah: James Kelly. Tamaqua: Jamie Everdale, Clara Krapf. Tremont: Richard Renninger.

Valley View: Benjamin Walker. -Wilberton: Frank GronskL Ashland Admissions: Cecelia Shivelhood, Ashland. Helen Bartasavage, Frackville. Olga Sheptock, Kulpmont. Mary Lorah, Mahanoy City.

Discharges: Edward Welsh, Helen Coroniti, John Shannon. census, beginning May 3, is to take the door-to-door counting to 300 smaller communities. Collecting data on about 250 million Americans couldn't be expected to be easy. But the 1990 count has been especially vexing. For one thing, there are more doorbells to be rung than during the last census.

Only 63 percent of households nationwide mailed back census forms this year, 12 percent fewer than in 1980, officials say. In some big cities the return rate is even lower. The Census Bureau says only 52 percent of New York City residents returned their census forms. That does not include households that never got forms: The city said 19 percent of 2,008 residents it polled had not received census forms in the mail "That translates to 600,000 households or 1.5 million people," said Hul-bert James, the New York City census coordinator. "That is very scary to us." Another potential problem will be getting and keeping enough enumerators to finish the census, said William M.

Hunt, who studies the project for the General Accounting Office. "It's going to be much tougher than the bureau thought it would be," Hunt said. "Well have to wait and see whether the recruitment is enough to sustain them through the process. They tend to lose a lot of people." Recruiters have been struggling in more affluent areas, like New York's Park Avenue and California's Silicon Valley, but have gotten more than enough applicants for counting jobs in poorer areas like New York's East Harlem and around Kentucky-coal mines, The New York Times reported today, citing a survey of district cen-sus'offices. The jobs pay between $5 and $8 an hour.

The 1,200 Boston area counters sworn in Thursday were looking at a long afternoon of dancing around potholes, befriending neighborhood dogs and knocking on doors when no one is at home. "I dont like going into strange people's houses," said Sheila MorettL a mother of two and lifelong fixture in this city's close-knit mostly Italian North End neighborhood. "But it helps that I'm a familiar face. People know they can trust me." Jenkins, John Baskeyfield, Kenneth Spotts, Florence Kocher, Sean Reeves, Irene Buleza. Auburn: Tracey Krebs, Dean Goldsmith.

Cressona: Andy Ebling. Gratz Melvin Bixler. Hegins: Denise Heisler. Mahanoy City Mae Davidson. Middlebury, Cynthia Deck.

Middleport: Joshua Setlock. Minersville: Judy Fetrow, Glennys Rowlands. Montgomery: Melvin StahL Orwigsburg: Darlene Snyder, Leonard Milioto. Pine Grove: Stephen Lagaza. Port Carbon: James Schwalm, Rosemary Connors.

Saint Clair: Kevin Roberts, William Hughes. Schuylkill Haven: Carl Bernd, Tammy DiCello. Shenandoah: Michael Hudock, Nellie Nicholas. Sinking Spring: Denise Weir. Hershey Medical Center Admissions: Beth Croneberger, Valley View.

Geisinger Medical Center, Danville Admissions: Johanna Zapotocky, Wilburton. Discharges: Sarah Devine, Aristes. By Leslie Dreyfous Associated Press BOSTON An army of census counters has hit the streets to fill in the blanks on some 37 million American households whose residents have yet to be counted. Thousands of "enumerators" began their door-to-door mission Thursday in 100 metropolitan areas nationwide. U.S.

Census Bureau officials, concerned about the response to the pavement beaters, sought to assure people that it was safe to open doors. "They're people from your neighborhood," said B.J. Welborn, a spokeswoman for the Boston regional office of the U.S. Census Bureau. "We're trying to put a human face on the count" Nearly 40 percent of more than 95 million census questionnaires sent out in March haven't been returned, and millions more people never received forms.

The door-to-door canvassing is aimed at filling in all those missing names. The next phase in the $1.3 billion Council antes (Continued from page 1) Theresa Dawe and Patrick McCabe agreed. Councilman John Pitko was absent. In January, Blum appealed to the Gilberton Coal Co. to buy the borough a new car.

In March, Blum said Brian W. Rich, one of the coal company owners, had asked if a used car would do, but the borough has not heard anything from him since then. The borough, which has been without a police officer or cruiser since February 1986, is dependent upon the state police from the Frackville barracks to handle any problems in the borough. Council did not make any recommendations as to how it will pay the salary of a police officer. Good Samaritan Admissions: Ethel BernheiseL Schuylkill Haven.

Thomas Ferhat, Schuylkill Haven. Robert Kreiser, Orwigsburg. Irvin Shade, Hegins. Joseph Spotts, New Philadelphia. Discharges: Michael Brennan, Helen Burge, Adrianne Chicora, Kelly Kavanaugh, Vernon Klinger, Sophia Korab, Mary Morris, Daniel O'Neill, Melissa Pizzi-co, Alicia Polites, Shannon Sullivan, Dennis Wiederhold.

Dispensary: Pottsville: Kristofor Kostura, Jes-sey Long, Marguerite Maley, Jordin Mitchell Donald Osborne, Chaim Popkave, Margaret Price, Thomas Ricketts, Mary Schlitzer, Edward Slish, George Sophy, Thomas Stone-lake, Jennifer Wonn. Ashland: Huldah Gibson, Kelly Huben, Christopher Morgan. Auburn: Eugene Kissinger, Dennis Reber. Cressona: Gary Leibensperger. Donaldson: Robert Barry.

Gilberton: Michelle Howay. Girardville: Beverly Balthaser. Locust Gap: Charles Klingerman. Mahanoy City: William Flaherty, Linda Senglar, Bernice Wagner. Middleport: Howard MengeL Minersville: Colleen Cauley, Dawn Chimokosky, Sherri Hendricks, Thomas Mundy, Christina Roshannon.

New Ringgold: Bruce Neifert. Orwigsburg: John Dzurek, John Park, Mark Weachock. Palo Alto: Deborah Miller, Jayne Ney. Pine Grove: Michael Bebelheimer, Tyler Witmer. Port Carbon: Dorothy Tolan, Helen Wilchusky.

EMFJ mm Coaldale Admissions: Patricia Manness, Tamaqua. Sallie KoreiseL Nesquehoning. Terri HetUer, Hazleton. Russell Heffelfinger, Lansford. Ellen Parke, Lansford.

Amanda Cope, Tamaqua. Discharges: Erma Mantz, Jennie Hoppes, Ka-thryn Hegarty, Lucia D'Ancona. Pottsville Admissions: Alvin Bobbin, Schuylkill Haven. Claire Brady, Palo Alto. John Hinkle, Frackville.

Joshua Setlock, Middleport. Dustin WetzeL Tremont. Discharges: Susan Corby, Lillian Klitsch, Henrietta McClay, Debbie Nelson, Ronald Rowlands, Norman Symons, Lisa Tray. Dispensary: Pottsville: Joseph Borinsky Ja-nine Stine, Joseph Kotch, Herbert Rhoades, Kimberly Bruen, Jacqueline Ebert, Catherine Hammer, Melvin CAMPBELLS CHIX NOODLE SOUP TONY'S PIZZA is or 3Jl 10.5 QZ. Births CAMPBELLS S0UPER GROUND TURKEY 79 OUR OWN MADE Mn BAKED HAM u3.49 POTATOES 1.99 FAMILY PACK GROUND .11.69 COMBOS BEAUTY QUEEN ROSEBUSH 70 10-11 01 Good Samaritan Hospital To Keith and Ann McGowan Price, Tamaqua, a son, April 26.

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