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4 1' 11 yr i i 12 THE DAILY-ITEM Sunbury, August 22, 1985 Snyder County farmer files lawsuit against former judge -y if i price and the rest upon delivery of the deed, on or before 30 days of the sale date. Otherwise, the down payment would -be forfeited. MIDDLEBURG A Snyder County man has filed a civil action against former Union-Snyder County Judge A. Thomas Wilson saying that a 1979 court order that his farm be sold should be invalidated. Charles D.

Moad, 56, Salem, and formerly of McClure, said he would like the 89-acre farm in the McClure area returned to him. In the action filed in Snyder County Court, Moad said it i i Vmuii'. I0 -1 1 0s' r3 lie was ueniea aue process ui law, inereiore violating nis constitutional rights. Moad contends that the terms of a sales agreement were violated. "I'm seeking justice in this thing" he said, that it can't happen again in this county." In a brief filed Mondav.

Nancv Gilbere. attornev for I h'-rp 1 4 If Rufus Hostettler was high bidder on the farm at $100,100. He paid $20,200 on the day of the sale. Charles J. Ax, Rebecca Moad's attorney, deposited this amount in his name, Moad said.

The closing was not held within 30 as stipulated in the agreement and Hostettler wasn't able to obtain the balance of the purchase price. Ninety days after the sale, however, it was given to Hostettler without forfeit of down payment, Moad claims. Moad says exceptions were filed by Larry F. Knepp, Moad's attorney at the time, saying that the sale was invalid because the closing was not held within 30 days. Wilson, however, "determined that time was not of essence and that agreement of sale was valid," Moad alleges.

Moad said that without a hearing, Wilson appointed Ax and Knepp special masters to hold the proceeds from the farm sale without filing bond. Moad questions the legality of making the two attorneys involved in the case the special masters. Wilson allowed disbursements without a hearing or without notice to the parties, he alleges. At no time, he added, was a return of sale or confirmation of sale filed. He said this is required.

Moad takes exception to Wilson's appointment of Edward G. Mihalik an attorney, as master. The plaintiff states that Mihalik was without authority to make legal de-. terminations and thus there were added costs to the parties. The defense's brief asks that the complaint be dismissed because Moad didn't include in his complaint a notice to plead or a request for relief, as required by law.

fyi (Doily Item I ovM C. Howll the Court Administrator of Pennsylvania, representing Wilson, asks that the complaint be dismissed. Wilson is the former judge of Snyder and Union counties. Wilson, who lost in his bid for retention as judge during the November 1983 general election, ordered the sale of Moad's farm June 19, 1979, Moad claims. Prior to this, Wilson didn't appoint a master as required by law and didn't conduct preliminary steps to see if a private sale could be held between parties, according to the complaint.

The public sale was held Aug. 25, 1979. Moad and his wife. Rebecca, were divorced in August 1976. The action related to the sale of the farm began shortly thereafter, Moad says.

Rebecca Moad died Aug. 1, 1980. Moad claims that Wilson overruled a legal document signed by all parties to forfeit down payment as part of the agreement of sale. The defense's brief says the complaint should be dismissed because Moad didn't include a copy of the legal document. The agreement of sale was 20 percent of the purchase 86-year-old inventor of 'Scrabble markets 'Alfred's Other Game 1 Orientation Marion Stesney, a kindergarten teacher at Sha-mokin Elementary School, talks with three pupils during an orientation program Tuesday morning.

The children are, from leftJJanene Graboski, Jenny Lehman and Joelle Swank. School opens next Tuesday. Dornsife man injured in crash COAL TOWNSHIP An 18-year-old Dornsife RD1 man was injured yesterday at 10:06 p.m. in a one-vehicle accident on Route 125 near Burn-side. Police said Timothy D.

Keim was traveling south on Route 125, when he apparently fell asleep and his vehicle struck several trees. Keim was taken to Shamokin State General Hospital and later transferred to Geisinger Medical Center in Danville where he was treated and later released, according to a medical center spokeswoman. Diamond Solitaire $369 Reg. $650 14K Yellow or White Gold Use Walker's Charge Card or Major Credit Cards Ottaway News Service Fifty years from now. "Alfreds Other Game" may not draw international attention or a highly publicized tournament, but the game's inventor will most likely be remembered.

Alfred Butts, who invented Scrabble a half century ago and who admits to never having played Trivial Pursuit, has another word game coming on the market shortly. Alfred's Other Game. That's it. That's the name. Alfred's Other Game truly is Alfred's "other" game.

I wanted to call it something else, but when they said the name. I really couldn't quarrel with that," Butts, 86, said of the Other Game in a telephone interview from his home about 25 miles from Poughkeepsie.N.Y. Butts describes his Other Game as "simultaneous solitaire." Players are given 36 letters and try to come up with as many word combinations as possible. He wanted to call the game "Sixes." Selchow Righter, the New York company that soon will have produced 100 million Scrabble sets. will also market Alfred's Other Game.

If the new game sells half as many sets as Scrabble originally marketed by the late James Brunot of Newtown it will be a huge success, Butts says. He has just returned from an international Scrabble tournament in Boston that featured 300 competitors. Butts says he still cannot understand what the fuss was about, what with the television and newspaper coverage and interviews. "I wanted to go to the museum up there," he says. "Never got the chance." "I played games all my life.

I guess that's fair to say." The youngest offiveboys, Alfred and his brothers were always making up games, usually anagrams. Except, he says, they never let the youngest Butts learn to play contract bridge because he would then be their equal. Butts admits he has never played Trivial Pursuit, a game that has become as popular now as -Scrabble was 30 years ago. "It just seems to me that someday they're going to run out of questions. You never run out of words," Butts says.

He still plays Scrabble quite often, along with bridge, now that he has learned that game. Invention, in the case of Scrabble, was born not out of necessity but out of leisure time. Butts, an architect by trade, lost his job during the Great Depression and started experimenting with games to keep busy He wanted to create something that adults could play. Butts began fashioning the sets out of plywood in the 1930s. He handed marketing duties over to Brunot, who wanted a quiet country business.

It was anything but an overnight success in 1949, 2,250 sets were sold, but the two men lost $450, Sophisticated marketing analysts, like those who came up with "Alfred's Other Game," may be able to explain the explosive interest in the game in the last months of 1953, when 107 sets were sold every day. Butts cannot. "My wife and I went on vacation and we expected to come back and see orders for 200 sets," he says. "Well, Jim Brunot sajd there were 2,500 orders." "Do I dare say I've become a celebrity? Butts asks, laughing. 348 Market Sunbury St.

Edward's, the first parochial school in Shamokin, was opened in September 1874 with lay teachers and 130 children. OPEN DAILY 9 to 5:30, Friday 9 to 9 CACHAREL Agency urges action to protect consumers against certain paint stripping solvents Wall Street Journal Ottaway News Service If 'I st' 'f fjpe. 1 miwim 1 T''" I I if I 'fc i i "i ir iniM-Tinr finf in i I The chemical was widely used to remove caffeine from coffee beans until coffee companies began switching to a steam process because of concerns about possible health effects of methylene chloride. The agency's briefing paper said that the greatest danger to consumers comes when paint strippers and other products containing the chemical are used in closed workrooms or basements. Based on exposure models, the paper said that under anticipated conditions, exposure to the suspected cancer-causing agent could reach 3,000 parts per million of air.

"Of the products we've looked at, the paint strippers have the highest exposure levels," said Andrew Ulsamer, the agency's acting director for health sciences. While OSHA established a 500 parts per million worker-exposure limit to the chemical in 1971, the National Institute of Occupational Safetyand Health, OSHA's research arm, has long urged reducing the standard to 75 parts per million. An OSHA spokeswoman said the agency is currently reviewing a petitipn filed by the United Auto Workers seeking immediate action to strengthen worker protection against the substance. Edwin F. Tinsworth, the EPA's deputy director for toxic substances, said that based on preliminary estimates, workers using solvents, paints and grease removers containing the chemical could face a significant cancer risk.

Tinsworth added that the agency is also studying the health threat posed by routine emissions of methylene chloride from chemical plants. Stephen R. Sides, manager of health affairs for the National Paint and Coatings Association, a trade group, said that companies are awaiting final results of stimulated consumer exposure tests to determine the best way to alert consumers to the threat. Sides said while the association doesn't dispute recent laboratory tests linking methylene chloride exposure to cancer in animals, a substitute product isn't available. NEW YORK Paint-stripping solvents and other consumer products containing methylene chloride, one of the chemicals that escaped from a Union Carbide Corp.

plant in West Virginia recently, may present a substantial can-certhreat. According to a recent federal Consumer Product Safety Commission briefing paper, laboratory tests indicate that cancer risks to consumers from methylene chloride are "among the highest ever calculated for chemicals from consumer products." As many as three of every 1,000 people exposed to paint strippers containing the chemical under "reasonably foreseeable consumer uses," may develop cancer, the com- mission estimated. "It is imperative that action be initiated to reduce consumer exposure from these products." the agency document concluded. Despite the warning, the agency apparently hasn't action to inform consumers about such hazards, but is considering working with industry to develop hazard guidelines. Industry officials say that they are still determining how to rewrite labels or provide other data to alert consumers to the chemical's possible long-term toxic effects.

Two other federal regulatory agencies are reviewing methylene chloride. In May, the Environmental Protection Agency said it would undertake a priority review of the substance based on tests linking methylene chloride to cancer in animals. Prompted by demands from the United Auto Workers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration also is reviewing the effectiveness of its workplace exposure guidelinesto the chemical. An EPA official estimated that about 600 million pounds of methylene chloride are produced annually in the U.S. The solvent is employed in paint strippers, coatings, wood stains, grease removers, hair sprays and in other consumer and industrial uses.

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Rabies continued to spread at epidemic levels among wild animals last year and the first human death caused by the disease since 1952 occurred last September, when a 12-year-old Williamsport-area boy died, the Health Department said. Witte said the increases for AIDS, giardiasis and rabies were unusually high, but increases in other diseases were generally within expected ranges. The number of toxic shock syndrome cases decreased from 29 in 1983 to 14 cases last year. Tampon use was associated with 10 of the 14 cases, the department said. The incidence of Legionnaires disease decreased to 68 cases last year, compared to 75 reported cases the previous year.

Allegheny County reported 18 cases, or 26 percent, of the cases, according to the report. HARRISBURG (APi Reported cases of AIDS increased 300 percent in Pennsylvania in 1984 and there was a four-fold increase in people who contracted the intestinal ailment giardiasis, according to a Health Department report. The 123 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome last year compares to only 46 cases reported in 1983, says the Health Department's yearly report on diseases. Only three cases of the fatal disease were reported in 1981. Cases of giardiasis, a painful intestinal ailment caused by a water-borne.