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INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL B-1 OBITUARIES LANCASTER, PA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1 994 LOCALBUSINESS Colder temperatures lessen threat of flooding, for now Brian Wallace Intelligencer Journal Staff Zanzalari, who monitors the Susquehanna, said below-freezing temperatures and relatively clear skies will continue to slow the melting and runoff from streams that could add to flooding. But the weather will do little to break up the ice floes that are now clogging the river, he said. The ice, loosened by heavy rains, came downstream earlier this week from New York state in a powerful, 20-mile torrent that carried pieces as large as 3 feet thick. More FLOODING on B-2 stretches from Safe Harbor Dam north past Washington Boro toward Columbia, this week caused a backup of water that flooded streams, tributaries and roads near the river. By Friday night, the water level near Washington Boro had dropped about 6 inches, according to a Washington Boro Fire Company official, but the drop wasn't enough to open a portion of Water Street (Route 441) that had been closed since Thursday.

No other road closings or new flooding problems were reported Friday, according to the Lancaster County Emergency Management Agency. "The situation has stabilized, and the weather will stabilize it more," said Henry Kelley, hydro-coordination supervisor at Safe Harbor dam in Manor Township. Kelley said the water flow rate at Safe Harbor dropped from 162,000 cubic feet per second Thursday afternoon to 129,000 cubic feet per second Friday. The flow rate should slow to 103,000 cubic feet by Sunday, he said. The National Weather Service was calling for a snowfall of 1 to 3 inches in Lancaster County by this morning, but the snow isn't expected to melt much.

A high of 35 degrees and sunny skies are forecast before the temperature dips to 15 to 20 tonight. Sunday should be mostly sunny, with a high near 35, and the early part of the week should remain relatively cold as well, with temperatures mainly below freezing and little chance of rain. "So far, it's about the best scenario we could have dreamed of," said Dave Zan-zalari, a senior hydrologist with the National Weather Service. "What we don't want to see is heavy snow and then the snow starting to melt." Mother Nature has given residents along the Susquehanna River a reprieve from further flooding but it's likely to be a temporary one. Colder temperatures Friday and today have reduced the threat of flooding from melting snow, slowing the flow of the ice-clogged Susquehanna and giving residents some breathing room before the next thaw hits.

An 8-mile-long ice jam, which Judge rejects Buck's appeal for a new trial 1 9-year-old serving life sentence for 1991 murder of Laurie Show Intelligencer Journal photo by Suzette Wenger staetter's, while Barbara Seropian, center, mother of store owner Greg Seropian, lends a hand. Julie Peters, left, of Mohnton buys a basket of glass vases from clerk Joan Rineer, right, during the last days of business at Darm- TABITHA BUCK Downtown loses another 'family' member John P. Lines Intelligencer Journal Staff Tabitha Faith Buck, serving a life sentence for the murder of 16-year-old Laurie Show, has lost her bid for a new trial. Judge Michael J. Perezous, the Lancaster County Court judge who presided over her trial in September 1992, handed down the decision Thursday, refuting Buck's arguments in a 35-page opinion.

Buck, 19, may now appeal to the state Superior Court. Buck is incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution at Muncy. Co-defendant Lisa Michelle Lambert is at the state's other prison for women in Erie. The two women were convicted in separate trials and sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing Show on the morning of Dec. 20, 1991.

In her request for a new trial, Buck argued that Lambert's "prior bad acts" against the victim should not have been allowed as evidence. Buck was referring to Lambert's plot in the summer of 1991. Two other girls were to lure Show to a city street, where she was supposed to be tied to a pole, beaten, raped and have her hair cut and throat slit. That attack never happened, and Buck argued that Perezous was wrong to allow testimony about a scheme that was devised five months before Show's death and in which Buck was not a party. But Perezous said evidence of another crime is admissible when it's part of a "sequence of events which became part of the history of the case and formed part of the natural development of the facts." The prosecutors argued that without "the background information regarding the ongoing dispute between Ms.

Show and Ms. Lambert the jury would be unable to determine why Buck and Lambert appeared on the Shows' doorstep" on the morning of the murder. Perezous also wrote that the 66 It will be missed. I can remember Lancaster when it was a beautiful place clean. It was just a nice place to be, now I think it's just rundown and people don't really care.

facts in the case supported the conclusion that a conspiracy existed to harm Show. The judge noted several factors that were Drought out in trial testimony concerning the conspiracy among Buck. Lambert and Lambert's boyfriend, Lawrence Yun-kin. Yunkin, who is serving a 10- to 20-year prison sentence for his part in the crime, admitted that he drove the two women to and from Show's home. He described in both women's trials how the trio washed and disposed of bloody clothing and concocted an alibi.

'From this and other evidence," Perezous wrote, "we conclude that a conspiracy to cover up the parties' involvement in the crime existed." Perezous upheld his statement to the jury that "a defendant may be found to be an accomplice." in a crime if she "aids or agrees to aid or attempts to aid the other person in planning or committing it." Perezous also concluded he had not erred in allowing Buck's statements to police to be entered into trial testimony. card retailer, the Celebration store, which he moved next door to Darmstaetter's. But Celebration went out of business in December. Last month, he announced Darmstaetter's would close. According to federal bankruptcy court records in Reading, Greg Seropian filed for Chapter 13 personal reorganization.

Joan Rineer, a Darmstaetter's clerk for five years, said she will miss the customers, especially those who regularly played the lottery. In 1988, the store was the seventh busiest lottery retailer in the state. "They all say this is the nicest store they could come to. It didn't matter what card they needed, you could come here and get it," Rineer said. "People have come in and said they're really sorry to see us go.

"It will be missed. I can remember Lancaster when it was a beautiful place clean. It was just a nice place to be, now I think it's just run-down and people don't really care." Darmstaetter's opened in 1905 when the late Rev. Jacob Darmstaetter bought the Lancaster Photographic Supply store at 23 E. Orange from a close friend of George Eastman, of Eastman Kodak fame.

More DARMSTAETTER'S on B-2 The last days of Darmstaetter's store have been quiet. The Pennsylvania Lottery machine that printed tickets at phenomenal rates is gone. Readers of its magazines and out-of-town newspapers shop elsewhere. Shoppers silently read greeting cards that are now 50 percent off. One of the oldest retailers in Lancaster is going out of business today, after more than 87 years of selling everything from sympathy cards for pet funerals to cameras and outboard motors.

Barbara Seropian, mother of Darmstaetter's owner Greg Seropian, said the store at 35 N. Queen always enjoyed strong business. Seropian bought the store in 1991 and sold Hallmark cards, gifts and stationary. Regrettably, the Seropian family is leaving Lancaster and unable to find a suitable party to operate the store. Greg lives in California and Barbara is moving to Oregon to live with her parents.

"Greg would like everybody to realize it has nothing to do with the viability of downtown Barbara said Thursday. Joan Rineer Oarmslaetier's clerk 99 "It's just that he wanted to pursue something that he's been interested in for a long time. "We tried to make a comfortable place for customers to shop, and when you're that far away, you just don't have a handle on things. To take over a large operation as that, there didn't seem to be anybody out there that was interested." Greg Seropian owned another downtown Teen describes alleged rape at hands of former boyfriend Firefighters warn of a rash of blazes started by children Jeff Hawkes Intelligencer Journal Staff Chip Patterson Intelligencer Journal Staff But she decided to break their friendship off after she learned how much older he was than her. Walking to Hand Junior High on the morning of Nov.

13, 1991, she said she saw Pineda at a corner near the school and handed him a letter explaining her decision. She said he became upset, went inside his nearby home and started throwing his trophies. Pineda had been a track standout at McCaskey High School. The girl encountered Pineda again that day as she walked home from school on Chesapeake Street, near Lancaster County Central Park. She said he expressed anger about her leaving him, and then sprayed her in the eyes with Mace.

trial in Lancaster County Court on charges of rape, statutory rape, aggravated indecent assault, corruption of minors and unlawful restraint. Arraignment is March 30. Before the hearing. Pineda, a lean, dark-haired man in blue jeans and a light blue shirt, sat at the defense table mumbling and vigorously shaking his head. At one point he raised and shook his handcuffed hands as if in prayer.

The young victim spoke softly but confidently for most of her 40 minutes on the witness stand, but some painful memories caused tears to flow. She said she and Pineda met at church and for a couple of months he spent a lot of time visiting at her home. A 15-year-old girl fought back tears Friday morning in testifying at a preliminary hearing how her boyfriend sprayed her with Mace and raped her at knifepoint after she broke up with him. "Every time I tried to scream, he sprayed me in the mouth," said the girl, who was 13 when Daniel Pineda allegedly attacked her Nov.13, stop. I couldn't breathe." Pineda.

20. formerly of the 500 block of South Ann Street, eluded arrest until Jan. 12, when police found him in Puerto Rico. District Justice Louise B. Williams ordered Pineda to stand DANIEL PINEDA "I said, It and he pushed me down the hill." the girl recalled.

"I couldn't breathe. I couldn't see." At the bottom of the hill, near a More PINEDA on B-2 which one of them started about 12:30 p.m., officials said. A month ago today, three toddlers and their grandfather died in a smoky fire on New Green Street. The blaze had been started by one of the children. More CHILDREN on B-2 Council plans hearing today on public safety Lancaster residents with comments or complaints about public safety will have the attention of City Council members this morning during a forum at Southern Market Center, Queen and Vine streets.

And one idea that has the county district attorney 's attention is a toll-free hotline allowing students who see classmates with guns to anonymously tip of police. During the public safety ses- More HEARING on -Z 4 Children have started three fires in less than a week, and city firefighters worry that another tragedy is just one lighted match away. A 6-year-old playing with a cigarette lighter set a mattress on fire in a 2 v2 -story house in the 500 block of Rockland Street at 10:45 a.m. Friday, fire officials said. The child, three younger children, and two adults in the building escaped unhurt.

When firefighters arrived they met smoke rolling down the stairwell and a sounding smoke detector. On Tuesday evening, a 12-year-old boy stacked paper and debris against the back of a home in the 400 block of West Walnut Street and lighted it. The boy's father put the fire out, and there was little damage, firefighters said. A week ago. 10 children left alone in an apartment house at 307 West King Street escaped a fire Children get to share secret hideaway, adventures REVJEW Theater Daina Savage Intelligencer Journal Staff yields money-earning odd jobs and groceries, and the wildflower-strewn meadows hide a sparkling secret.

Director Craig Davis adapted the story from the children's book series by Gertrude Chandler Warner. The adaption proved delightful, featuring four young actors singing and dancing their way through this energetic play. More REVIEW on B-2 Newly orphaned, the children find a home in an abandoned railroad boxcar rather than risk breaking up their family. The tragedy of losing their parents turns to triumph when the children discover their self-sufficiency. A nearby garbage dump provides cookware and furniture, a creek over the hill offers both baths and fish, a short walk to town What child hasn't found a clearing in the woods, a space under the stairs or even hidden under a tablecloth just to create a world free from adults a place for adventure? Four siblings find such a world as they become "The Boxcar Children," in a new musical at First Stage Theatre..