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f3 LANCASTER, NEW ERA WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1984 Was Drunk, Police Say Man Faces Trial in 3 In Financial Crunch i-t 4 World's Fair Seeks Help; From La. 4 last Hired, First Fired 4 Labor, Rights Leaders Split By Decision vaT Michael Ray Day, 24, of Elk-ton, Md. leaves a preliminary hearing Tuesday. New Era Photo by Marty Htiiey Road Deaths By JANET KELLEY New Era Staff Writer A 24-year-old Maryland man has been ordered to stand trial on three counts of homicide by vehicle while intoxicated for the deaths of three Lebanon people killed in a traffic accident last April. Michael Ray Day, of Elkton, will also be tried for three counts of homicide by vehicle, and single counts of driving under the influence of intoxicants, driving with a blood-alcohol content of 0.10 or higher, and failure to yield one-half of the highway.

Day was ordered to stand trial in Lancaster County Criminal Court by District Justice Marilyn Stoner at the conclusion of a preliminary hearing Tuesday afternoon. Trooper Wayne J. Canfield, the prosecutor in the case, claimed that Day was intoxicated last April 13 when his van struck a car head-on on Route 72 about four miles north of Manheim. All three people in the car died as a result of the accident. Julie K.

Pierce, 31, the driver of the car, and Lillian Pierce, 68, her mother-in-law, were pronounced dead at the scene. Scott Pierce, the younger Mrs. Pierces five-year-old son, died two days later at Lancaster General Hospital. Day, the sole survivor of the crash, nad a blood alcohol content of 0.24 percent, according to state police. Under Pennsylvania law, drivers are considered legally intoxicated if their blood alcohol content is 0.10 percent or higher.

The only witness to the accident, Glenn Davis Leber, Manheim R3, also testified at Tuesdays hearing, saying that he was driving north behind Mrs. Pierce on Route 72 around 9 p.m. when the accident happened. "There was a curve in the road, and I just saw it (Day's southbound van) come, well they didnt even come around the curve, it was like they were going to go straight, Leber said. "It wasn't going around the curve.

Leber, who said he had his wife and two sons in the car, said he saw the collision in the northbound lane and swerved sharply around both vehicles. Leber, a self-employed electrician, said he pulled his car over and then ran back to the accident site to if he could help. He said he could not remember which vehicle he ran to first. The driver of the van was slumped over and everything was dark, he said. "I didnt know what to do, really.

Leber said he looked inside the car carrying the Pierce family. At first I observed the driver of the Escort and then somebody came with a flashlight and 1 seen there was a little boy in the back, Leber said. Leber said that he then noticed a woman lying on an embankment in front of the van. He noted that the roadway was dry on the night of the accident and that both he and the Pierces were NEW ORLEANS (AP) Gdv. Edwin Edwards is asking an unsympathetic Legislature to again bail out the troublea worlds fair, with a provision that the exposition cut its payroll and operating expenses by $15 million.

None of us can even think about the fair closing, Edwards said Tues-V, day, because the impact of its closure would send a shock waye throughout the business community jh the New Orleans area and create 4 very serious PR problem for -ike state. Attendance is at the heart of the fair's cash problem. It has improved lately, but was so low in May tnat ifl-come was just enough to cover and payments on a $15 mjllior) bank loan. Edwards, called in Monday to soil out $14 million in unpaid construction bills that fell due May 20, said he would ask a joint session of the Legislature today to let the state back up a $15 million bank loan to the fair. 4 Edwards proposal to the contractors and fair officials included huge cutbacks in the fairs payroll and operating expenses to save $15 million.

Reportedly, $5 million of the sav- ings would go to pay for electricity, insurance, and trade costs. The remaining $10 million would go toward paying off the $14 million owed to contractors. The balance would be made up by the Rouse developers of Bostons Quincy Market complex, who are leasing the International Pavilion -the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition closesNov.il. The governors proposal does not affect the next round of construction bills, some $9 million falling due June 20. Edwards said, however, the $40 million pledged by the fairs 138 corporate guarantors including Delta Air Lines, Middle South Utilities, the Amoco, Shell, and Texaco oil companies is probably gone.

The governor said he is uncertain whether the state will be repaid the $10 million it loaned the fair to make its May 12 opening day. The only word that would be appropriate would be hopeful, Edwards said. House Speaker John Alario, the Legislatures official representative on the world exposition district board, said in Baton Rouge that lawmakers are reluctant to put up any more money for the fair. Alario said that with the layoffs and the fact that fair visitors are spending more money than projected, tne fair can break even with 9 million visitors rather than the 12 million originally projected. The Legislature only grudgingly loaned the $10 million and then to predictions by several lawmakers that the loan would be defaulted traveling at about 40 mph before the collision.

The speed limit along that stretch of the road is 45 mph. The trooper estimated that Day was traveling at about 60 mph at the time of impact. Canfield said he found 140 feet of skidmarks from the van and no skidmarks from the Escort. Canfield said in his opinion both the Pierce women were killed upon impact, the elder Mrs. Pierce having been thrown through the windshield.

Both the child and Day were taken by ambulance to Lancaster General Hospital. Canfield said that when he approached Day while he was still in the van, he noticed an odor of alcohol. The next day he went to see Day See MAN FACES fag 47 James P. Cullen, a Lancaster attorney, is expected to be selected chairman of the Lancaster City Republican Committee at its reorganization meeting tonight. Party officials said they believed Cullen, shown above in his law office this morning, was unopposed for the leadership post.

Vote for New Chairman Tonight City GOP Expected To Select Cullen By RANDY MONTGOMERY New Era Staff Writer County Sets Auction Of Vehicles, Office Equipment July 15 Lancaster County officials will auction used office equipment and vehicles at a public sale July 15. The auction, scheduled for 10 a.m. in Buchmiller Park, will include sale of a 1975 GMC truck, a 1980 Dodge sedan, vacuum cleaners, intercoms, keypunch machines, and other no longer used supplies. State law requires public sale of county property whenever the value of goods scheduled for disposal exceeds $200. tively seeking the post, but you never know whats going to happen until you get to the committee meeting, Cullen said.

Lancaster Mayor Arthur E. Morris and state Rep. Marvin E. Miller Jr. both back Cullen.

Though neither has a vote on the committee, their support is expected to carry considerable weight with voting commit-teepeople. I think Jim Cullen would do a good job as committee chairman, said Morris. I would be very happy to work with him. There appears to be a very strong recommendation for Mr. Cullen, said Miller, who said that he is See CITY GOP Page 47 By The Associated Press A U.S.

Supreme Court ruling upholding "last nired, first fired policies has sharply split organized labor leaders who support the seniority system and civil rights leaders seeking economic opportunity for blacks ana women. "It reverses affirmative action programs which are already in place and those being contemplated, said Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP. We certainly believe in affirmative action, but we dont believe it ought to take priority over negotiated contracts, said William King, president of the International Union of Electrical Workers local at the General Electric plant in Tiffin, Ohio. The 6-3 decision Tuesday overturned a lower court decision that barred the Memphis, Fire Department from laying off firefighters according to seniority during the citys economic cutbacks in 1981. The lower court ruling protected black firefighters hired under a department affirmative action program.

The Reagan administration led the battle against protection for the affirmative action employees, saying that keeping black workers on the job would amount to racial discrimination against white workers who had been hired earlier. Attorney General William French Smith called the ruling "the correct decision and said it does not in any way affect those persons who have been victims of discrimination. In Newark, N.J., a federal judge had ruled earlier that white senior firefighters can be laid off to ensure opportunities for minorities. Michael Prigoff, an attorney for the New Jersey Firemens Mutual Benevolent Association, said he plans to go to court in the next few days to ask U.S. District Judge H.

Lee Sarokin to reconsider his May 3 ruling in light of the high court decision. In Boston, Michael Mullane, president of Boston Firefighters Local 718, said the ruling may raise an issue of back pay for more than 400 firefighters and police officers laid off in 1981. If the city illegally laid off the firefighters, then clearly there is a back pay issue, and were going to seek that for those men, he said. Justice Byron R. Whites majority opinion said Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects seniority systems which are not discriminatory, "and it is inappropriate to deny an innocent employee the benefits of his White also noted that there had been no finding of racial discrimination against any of the individual black firefighters whose jobs were protected.

The dissenters were Justices Harry A. Blackmun, Thurgood Marshall and William J. Brennan. They argued that since the Memphis firefighter layoffs have been rescinded, the decision was moot and the case should have been thrown out of court. This decision insulates decades of discrimination against women and minorities," said Rita Bernstein, an attorney for the Womens Law Project in Philadelphia.

It advances the Reagan administrations goal of protecting a white, male work force. Its terrible, said Ramona Rips-ton, director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern Califor- Sea LABOR Page 47 Hectic Week Under Way County Beauty 'Very Relaxed' For Pa. Pageant Victoria Boomsma, Miss Lancaster County, isnt likely to forget the Spring of 84 heat wave. Shes in Altoona this week trying to stay cool and collected during interviews, rehearals, and preliminary judging for the Miss Pennsylvania pageant Saturday night. Amita Miller, executive director of the Miss Lancaster County pageant and her adviser in Altoona, said Miss Boomsma will compete in the swimsuit and evening gown competitions Thursday night, and Friday night she will perform Sing, Sing, Sing in the talent competition.

Some of the contest winners will be named on Thursday and Friday nights, and ten finalists will be announced at the pageant on Saturday night, when the new Miss Pennsylvania is chosen. Although Miss Boomsma, 19, could not be reached this morning, Mrs. Miller said, She looks good. She has performed so many times before, so she is very relaxed. The Jaffa Mosque stage where the 28 contestants have been rehearsing has been veiy warm because there is no air conditioning, said Mrs.

Miller. The contestant's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Boomsma, Peach Bottom Rl, will travel to Altoona day with their daughter and son-in-law, and will be met on Friday by Miss Boomsma 's two brothers. Mrs.

Boomsma said that many family friends have bought tickets to the pageant. "There will be a wonderful crowd, she predicted. Rights to televise the competition have been bought by CBS, ana about 15 stations will show the pageant on Saturday night. Heart Association Elects President Dr. Leslie R.

Fleischer has been elected president of the American Heart Associations Lancaster Chapter, succeeding Dr. Joseph A. Knepper of Leola. Dr. David M.

Loss has been elected vice president, succeeding Dr. Laurence E. Carroll. Fleischer, who resides at 233 Mary chairs the Department of Medicine and Special Care Unit Committee and directs the cardiac catheterization laborary at St; Joseph Hospital where he has been an active medical staff member since 1980. Loss is associated with Drs.

Berel Arrow, Vincent Glielmi and Jeffrey Levine at 955 E. King St. State College Bans Drinking On Public Streets STATE COLLEGE (AP) -Residents of this college town face a $25 fine if caught with open liquor containers on public streets, under a new ordinance approved by the borough council. The ordinance, approved Monday night, was designed to eliminate rowdy behavior due to drinking on the boroughs streets, sidewalks and in parking areas. The councils vote was unanimous.

But a bar owner said he envisions problems with enforcement in the community, home of Penn State University. I think its going to create a lot of animosity with alumni coming back, said John O'Connell, owner of the Rathskeller. The Lancaster City Republican Committee, in the midst of what one official termed its most important rebuilding effort in more than a decade, is expected to tap local attorney James P. Cul'm to spearhead that effort. Committee members will meet tonight at 7 oclock in the Elks Club on North Duke Street to reorganize for 1984, and members are pointing to Cullen as the apparent replacement for John H.

Oren, the retiring committee chairman. Oren annouced last week that he would not seek re-election to the post hes held the past two years. Cullen, 35, of 407 Church is an assistant public defender who also maintains a private law practice. Several city GOP committeepeo-ple and party officials, in conversations the past several days, said Cullen appears to be unopposed for the leadership post. No one else has surfaced, that I know of, said Robert F.

Raubenstine, a committeeman, chairman of the GOPs nominating committee and one whose name originally was mentioned as a possible successor to Oren. Raubenstine has since said he is not interested in the post. And although some party members have said theyd like to see Oren reconsider he has said he will not Cullens name repeatedly surfaces as the primary, ana only, candidate for the chairmanship. One official, who asked to remain anonymous, said Cullen was a consensus candidate among the many factions of the party. I most probably expect Jim will win (the nomination).

That official also said that the party is conducting a major project within to rebuild. The city GOP, attempting to rebound from last Novembers Democratic sweep of three City Council seats, is currently undertaking its most serious rebuilding effort 12 or 13 years, the spokesman said. He said the committee is looking for a chairman who would handle (the post) full-time, with intense work activity." Most apparently believe Cullen is that man, though several, like Oren, cautioned that you just dont know whats going to happen at the meeting. Cullen has continually low-keyed his favored status. He said he was flattered that people believe he would be the right man for the job, but said, Ill just have to wait and see what happens.

People have said they would support me, he said today, (but) I have not had any large-scale campaign for the post. I nave heard no one else is ac 'Suspicious' Disappearance Is Under Investigation State police have entered the case of a 25-year-old West Willow woman who has been missing for the past six days. This morning a state police helicopter was circling the home of the missing woman, Mary Ann Bagen-stose, of West Willow Road, while Trooper Richard Johnson, Officer Donald Klugh of Pequea Township police, and other police officers were interviewing her husband, friends and acquaintances. Lets just say her disappearance is suspicious, state police Sgt. Edward Spewak reported at noon today.

Her parents havent heard from her for two weeks. Thats unusual. She checked in with them regularly. Mrs. Bagenstose was last seen about 12:30 p.m.

last Thursday, June 7, when she left her husband, Jere, a note telling him she planned to walk to a Turkey Hill store that is about a mile from her home. Spewak said the store clerk "didnt see her that day. Were talking to anyone who may have had contact with her, Spewak said. Were asking anyone with information to please contact us New Era Photo by Jm ftertoerlch Girls Rescue Abandoned Pups Daily Lottery The winning daily lottery number for June 12 is: 7-1-7. Lotto The winning lotto numbers for June 12 are: 31,28,16.

20,29,27 Alternate Number 09 or Pequea Township police. The missing woman has a 2-year-old son who currently is staying with the missing womans mother-in-law, police said. Both of Mrs. Bagenstoses parents live out-of-state. The father is in Florida and the mother in New Jersey, police said.

The missing woman stands 5-foot-5, weighs 140 pounds, has shoulder-length blonde nair and green eyes. When last seen she was wearing blue jeans, a black shirt and brown sandals and was carrying a blue pocketbook. the highway while driving home from work Monday night and brought them to their home at 333 S. Prince St. The black and white puppies of mixed breed appear to be uninjured, mother Barbara Reed said, but very thirsty from the heat.

They said they plan to take the dogs to the Humane League of Lancaster County for These three little puppies got a warm reception from three city girls after the pups were found abandoned Monday nignt along the Willow Street Pike. The girls are, from left, Brenda Reed, Michele Reed and Jeane Mejill. A member of the Reed family noticed the pups abandoned alongside.