The Record from Hackensack, New Jersey • 19

Passcle Count FRIDAY. AUGUST 5. 1983 Close-up news (f Pages C-1-C-5 Classified Ads C-6-21 Obituaries 0-13 Pompton Ldtot Prospect Pert mngwood Tbtowo WanoQue Wayne WettkWord West Paterson The Record Ofton Hoteobn Hawlhome UrtiePoM North Poatatc Putenon Suspect in murder of bank guard told he may face death i By Rebecca Aikman Staff Writer The man indicted on charges of lulling a Paterson bank guard during an attempted robbery in March pleaded not guilty yesterday, and prosecutors put him on notice that he could face the death penalty if convicted. Asserts innocence It is the second case in Passaic County in which the prosecutor's office has notified the defendant that it might seek the death penalty under the capital punishment provisions added to state law last year. This week, Bergen County prosecutors announced their first capital case under the new law, that of Gumal Allah Complete, charged with mur dering a Pennsylvania woman in Teaneck.

In Superior Court in Paterson yesterday, Aaron Stamps, 25, asserted his innocence of the felony murder charge at his arraignment. He said he had been unable to find a private attorney willing to enter a not guilty plea. "All of them wanted me to plead guilty and fight the death penalty, which I'm not prepared to do," he said, asserting his innocence. Passaic County Prosecutor Joseph Falcone said yesterday that he was considering trying the case himself and would decide whether to do so over the weekend. A public defender will be assigned to represent Stamps.

See MURDER, Page C-2 A up a finger for every year over 100. Water engineers face questioning Joseph Tyrone, before eye surgery, holds Cataracts no more liirgery restores eyesight at 105 who performed the surgery. Dello Russo said the next oldest person he could identify as having undergone the surgery was a 99-year-old Florida man. During the 25-minute operation, Tyrone was fitted with an intraocular implant, which will enable him to see without thick glasses. Minutes before the operation, the Brooklyn native and former hotel manager was alert and smiling.

"I have confidence in everything," he said when asked if he was worried. Tyrone went home immediately after the operation, which was performed with the assistance of a second ophthalmologist, two reg Michael Flnneran Writer Decades ago, a doctor told Joseph Tyrone he shouldn't worry about the fading vision in his right eye. But as vision in his left also began to go, the situation changed. yesterday, the lOS-year-old Closter man into a Bergenfield ophthalmologist's for cataract surgery. He is, the doctor perhaps the oldest man ever to undergo such a procedure.

"We've done them in the nineties. We just did anyone over 100," said Dr. Joseph Russo of the New Jersey Eye Center, Family tries to leave condemned building Staff photo by Al PagHont istered nurses, and an anesthesiologist, who monitored Tyrone's vital functions. "He has the tissues of a young man, like perhaps a 50-year-old Dello Russo said. In my experience, the older people heal faster than the younger people." The surgery, which was done under local anesthetic, should restore much of the vision in Tyrone's right eye, Dello Russo said.

But despite his good spirits, Tyrone appeared bemused when photographers arrived to take his picture. "No one's told him," his daughter, Grace Hughes, whispered, pointing at the top of her father's head. "Either the apartments we have seen are too small or too expensive," she said. "But we definitely want to find a new place. Those earlier reports that we were going to barricade ourselves in here because we didn't want to leave were ridiculous.

"I guess because the front door is always locked and we didn't have a phone at the time, some people thought we were not going to leave. The only reason we always keep the front door locked is because of the crime problem." Mrs. Grajales was sitting in her apartment at 54 W. Palisade Ave. with her husband, Leonidas, and their two children, Patty, 18, and Anthony, 13.

The neat, decorated four-room apartment gives no hint of the unsafe wiring or the general deterioration in the two-story building the Grajales have lived in for a See FAMILY, Page C-2 saic County, and North Caldwell, West Caldwell, and Fairfield in Essex County. The senator, who is seeking his second term, said he would agree to hold the debates in front of Democratic organizations "to make my opponent more comfortable" about debating him. Roe countered that Bubba has been "playing games'" with the debate issue and had refused to agree to dates in mid-September when Roe would be available for debate. Bubba confirmed that despite his incumbency and the strong Republican leaning of the 34th District, his challenge to Roe to debate indicates that Bubba is not favored in the race. "I feel I'm the underdog," Bubba said.

"It seems to me to be a good position to be in." shorter timetable. Martha Green, a spokeswoman for the Hackensack Water Company said that although the utility was satisfied with Kupper's performance, it would ask Kupper to explain why it did not disclose the information about "litigation and so forth" when it applied for the Wanaque South work. Ms. Green took issue with The Record's report that Kupper's prices were higher and its schedule longer than other firms seeking the work. Will answer any questions "We read some things in the article which didn't come out in the interviews, and we're going to ask them why," said Ms.

Green. Kupper Associates, she added, has agreed to answer any questions from her company or the North Jersey District See WATER, Page C-5 Anthony, Patty, and Olga Grajales in Dates and rules to be By Roger Cohen Staff Writer The political campaign that offers to be Passaic County's most hotly contested this fall will be enlivened even further by head-to-head debates if the two candidates can agree on a format, dates, and rules. Freeholder James Roe of Wayne, the Democratic candidate for state Senate in the 34th Legislative District, says he is willing to accept Republican incumbent Joseph Bubba's challenge to debate. Roe says be is willing to meet in any public setting, including a broadcast, but he wants the debate format limited to "senatorial -Jr7 i Candidates By Staff that eye So walked office believes, never Dello By Jim Dwyer Staff Writer The Hackensack Water Company will ask Kupper Associates, a Pis-cataway engineering firm that is designing the $96-million Wanaque South water project, to explain why it withheld information about its background including an ongoing grand Jury investigation when it applied for the job. An article in The Record July 24 reported on the investigaton and on criticisms of Kupper by former clients and regulators.

A federal grand jury is currently investigating allegations of "fraud and collusion'' in the awarding of a sewer contract to Kupper by the Hudson County Utilities Authority. The story also said Kupper's price proposal was $2 million to $3 million higher than other firms seeking the work and that a Fort Lee firm had proposed completing the job on a Pin found; doughnuts recalled By David Brooks Staff Writer General Foods Corporation yesterday recalled Entenmann's chocolate-covered doughnuts from its Little Falls distribution center, which serves North Jersey, after a Washington Township man said he bit into a pin lodged in a doughnut The Washington Township Food-town supermarket that sold the doughnuts removed all Entenmann's doughnuts from its shelves early yesterday morning after Richard Meyers, 43, told police that he had found a pin in the chocolate-covered doughnut he was eating. John Hellik, the acting store manager, said that nine Food town supermarkets would not sell Entenmann's doughnuts until Food town Excelsior Panbro, which owns the nine stores, directs the stores to stock them. Six of the nine in Washington Township, Teaneck, Dumont, Montvale, Ramsey, and River Edge are in Bergen County. Meyers, who was treated at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, said last night that he had bought the doughnuts at the all-night supermarket on Pascack Road shortly before eating them.

He said he was eating his second doughnut when he felt a sharp prick and discovered the back of his mouth bleeding. Meyers said he removed the doughnut and found the pin, slightly longer than an inch. "I was absolutely shocked, really flabbergasted," said Meyers, who owns a restaurant in Manhattan. He said he called the police and had them take him to the emergency room at Valley Hospital. "When I got there, my mouth had started to tingle, and I felt a little See DOUGHNUTS, Page C-2 J.

I VP By Tom Toolen Staff Writer The Grajales family wants to move. Their home is in an apartment building in Englewood that the city has condemned as a fire hazard and in which a tenant died July 23, four days after she was hit with ceiling plaster. City officials are helping in the search for another apartment, but the Grajales have discovered that suitable apartments in their price range in Bergen County are about as common as polar bears roaming Route 4. Too small, too expensive "We have looked and looked for something nice, and the city has been helping us, but so far we have not found anything," said Olga Grajales, who teaches Spanish in the Englewood school system. Staff photo by Stevo Auchard their apartment building, condemned as a fire hazard.

decided in 34th agree to debate man Rocco Motta as county public works director. Opposed outer The ouster of Motta, Bubba's arch political enemy, was engineered by Bubba's Republican freeholder allies. Roe said he opposed the ouster to avoid embroiling the county in litigation. Motta has sued the county over his firing, and a Superior Court decision was expected today. Bubba said he is willing to stage the debates in front of Democratic clubs around the 34th District, which comprises Clifton, Wayne, Little Falls, Totowa, and West Paterson in Pas Bubba, also of Wayne, issued the challenge last week, stating that Roe "ought to be willing to stand before our people and explain his actions as a freeholder, and describe what he intends to do in Trenton." Roe said in response that his freeholder record is not a valid issue in the race.

"I am a sitting freeholder and am running for the Senate," he said. "I want to discuss senatorial issues." Bubba said that the debate will show that "what the freeholder has done all his political life is be a backroom wheeler and dealer." Bubba first leveled that charge against Roe after the Democrat voted with the minority against the firing of county Republican Chair.