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NEW JERSEYOBITUARIES THE RECORD L-7 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1998 Casino hand-me-downs help social service groups thrive DORA JUERGENS SCHNEIDER, 91, of Dumont died Tuesday. Before retiring in 1983, she owned and managed The Laundromat of Dumont for 15 years. She was a member of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, Dumont She wa a member of the Dumont Senior. Arrangements: Freeh Funeral Home, Dumont. SONDRA SHAVELSON SERELS of Hackensack, formerly of Englewood, died Tuesday.

She was a former member of Temple Emanu-El, Englewood. Arrangement: Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn. DONALD TALMADGE, 35, of Paterson died Monday. He was an Army, National Guard, and Army Reserve veteran. Arrangements: Bragg Funeral Home, JOHN G.

TEMPSICK, 85, of Hawthorne, formerly of Prospect Park, died Monday. He was a parishioner of St. Anthony R.C. Church, Hawthorne, and a member of its Golden Horizon, An Army veteran of World War II, he received a Purple Heart and a Silver Star. Arrangements: Brownlng-Forshay Funeral Home, Hawthorne.

ALLEN F. WILL of Clifton clod Tuesday. Before retiring in 1978, he was director of personnel at St. Peter's College, Jersey City. Previously, he held the same position at Montclair State College.

He was a captain in the Army Air Corps during World War II and a major during the Korean War. He retired as a lieutenant colonel in 19G8 after 27 years of service. He was a parishioner of St. Andrew R.C. Church, Clifton.

He was a member of the Retired Officers Association. Arrangements: Allwood Funeral Home, Clifton. Silent screen star Molly O'Day, at 88; was in 'Our Gang' shorts ment to charity instead of selling it or throwing it away. But with many of the donations, the bottom line is community service, they say. "Any tax benefits really don't even offset the administrative costs of providing those types of items to charitable organizations," said Harrah's Casino Hotel spokesman Michael DiLeva.

"It's not about a tax deduction, even when they're available. It's about fulfilling the promise of bettering the community." In recent years, Harrah's has given computers to Absegami High School, the Atlantic City Public Library, the Inlet Public-Private Association, Our Lady Star of the Sea, and a veterans home. Donald J. Trump's three casinos also have given generously. In 1996, when Trump gutted his Trump Regency and turned it into Trump World's Fair casino, the company gave away $740,000 worth of theater aiid audiovisual equipment to the Richard J.

Stockton College of New Jersey. It was the biggest donation of equipment in the college's 25-year history. In some cases, the hand-me-downs are nearly new. Theme changes, name changes, corporate restructurings, and renovations all can lead to the decision to rip out the red carpeting and replace it with the blue. "The ranks of management seem to change all the time, and people come in and say.T don't like that; get it out of So out it goes.

If it were a tire, it would have one mile on it, but it has to go," said Jim Wise, a spokesman for the Sands Hotel Casino. letters a day. People say, 'Are they doing They're for-profit companies. What more are they supposed to do?" What casinos were supposed to do is revitalize Atlantic City. More than 20 years since the first one opened, the pace continues to lag.

But when it comes to hand-me-downs, the casinos do plenty. At the rescue mission, the evidence is everywhere. It starts in the cafeteria, which serves 570 meals a day without ever buying food. Trump Taj Mahal donates prepared food five days a week, and other casinos pitch in occasionally, said mission President Barry Durman. Sometimes it's prime rib, which the cooks cut up for use in chili or meat loaf.

Last year, the mission got $300,000 worth of food from casinos, Durman said. The play area in the mission's family life center got new carpeting over the summer when Caesars Atlantic City tore up some of its carpets during an expansion project. Office desks, banquet chairs, bar soap, bottled shampoo the mission gets it all. Sometimes the supplies go to people who have lost their bankrolls playing blackjack or dropping coins in casino slot machines. But Durman and others who benefit are reluctant to criticize.

"More than irony, it's a matter of corporations helping us serve "the community. I have people from other charities come to me saying, 'It's great you get their help. Here's what we get "The casinos really have taken on the social ills of the community by helping us take them on," Durman said. In some cases, the casinos get tax breaks by donating used equip By JOHN CURRAN The Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY -At the At-lantic City Rescue Mission, homeless families and tapped-out gamblers can get a free meal and a warm bed. And not just any free meal: One day recently, the luncheon fare was crab legs and lobster bisque soup.

At Our Lady Star of the Sea School in Cape May, students in kindergarten, third grade, and fifth grade had new personal computers waiting for them when they returned to classes two weeks ago. And when the Community Food Bank of New Jersey's branch in Egg Harbor Township needed a refrigerated truck to pick up donated food, it didn't have to buy one. The food bank got a 22-foot 1987 Ford truck for free, no strings attached. While they create some paupers on the one hand, Atlantic City's 12 casinos also share the wealth with schools, churches, libraries, shelters, retirement homes, and charitable organizations. Be it unused bottles of Trump Marina brand shampoo, old office furniture from the Sands Hotel Casino, prime rib that was cooked but never made it to the buffet line at Trump Taj Mahal, or secondhand computers from Harrah's Casino Hotel, the casinos give away millions of dollars' worth of merchandise annually.

Who needs St. Vincent de Paul when you have Caesars Atlantic City? Casinos "do more than people could ever imagine," said Evelyn Benton, executive director of the Food Bank branch. "And they get asked more than anyone could possibly imagine," she said. "They get hundreds of- contract if she could not fit into a specified size dress. So she resorted to "an operation for the removal of.

surplus fat" at a Los Angeles hospital. Miss O'Day largely abandoned her career after her marriage in 1934 to comedian Jack Durant of the vaudeville team Mitchell Durant. The couple had four children, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1951. Miss O'Day married oilman James McGregor Ken-aston on Nov. 9, 1952, but divorced him four years later.

As a resident of San Obispo County, Miss O'Day was active in the Old Mission Parish there and worked with the homeless. Survivors include her children, retired Col. John Durant, Suzanne Raymond Bromberg, Virginia Durant Robertson, and Jackie Baker; eight grandchildren, and 12 Leather Kid." That role led to major roles in "The Lovelorn," "Hard-Boiled Haggerty," "Shep-herd of the Hills," "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come," "Show of Shows," "Sisters," "Hired Wife," "Gigolettes of Paris," "Skull and Crown," and other features. Born Suzanne Noonan, Miss O'Day was the youngest of 11 children of Metropolitan Opera singer Hannah Kelly and Bayonne Judge Thomas Francis Patrick Noonan. After their father's death, O'Day and two sisters, along with their mother, moved to Hollywood.

One of the sisters became an equally successful actress, Sally O'Neil, who died in 1968. Miss O'Day suffered the rigors of early Hollywood including a much-reported two-year fight with her weight. At age 18, in 1928, she was threatened with loss of her By MYRNA OLIVER Special from the Los Angeles Times Molly O'Day, a silent screen actress who began her short but memorable career as a teenager in the "Our Gang" comedies, has died. She was 88. Miss O'Day, who had lived in Avila Beach, since 1980, died Oct.

15 in Arroyo Grande, near San Luis Obispo. The actress received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at the storied comer of Hollywood and Vine in the late 1920s. Hired by director Hal Roach for the "Our Gang" shorts when she was a schoolgirl, Miss O'Day worked in comedies with such stars as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Only 16, she defeated 2,000 contenders in an audition for the tough girl heroine of the 1927 prizefighter movie "The Patent 1 1 1st Quality Imported Ceramic Tile up to bS dDJFIF cm. s.

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