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26 Monday, March 28, 2011 DAILY NEWS NYDailyNews.com Right to Life presidential candidate McCormack, 84 McCormack launched a campaign for President as a Democrat in 1976, and made it onto the ballot in 18 states. She won more than 200,000 votes and became the first female presidential candidate to qualify for federal matching funds. BY ERIN DURKIN DAILYNEWS WRITER ELLEN McCormack, a two-time candidate for President, died yesterday. She was 84. Originally from the Bronx, McCormack raised four kids in Merrick, L.I., with her husband, Francis, a deputy inspector in the NYPD.

She was part of a group of Long Island housewives who founded the "It was a real grassroots movement," John McCormack said. She ran again in 1980 as a third-party candidate for the Right to Life party. Ellen and Francis McCormack, who Ellen McCormack state's Right to Life party. She went on to run for Presidentin 1976and 1980. Her son, John McCormack, 45, a retired NYPD homicide sergeant, said his mom had a serious heart problem when she was pregnant with him.

"The doctors were recommending that she have an abortion and she refused, and that was her inspiration to enterthat cause," he said. died in 1993, had four kids, John, Kathleen, Anne and Ellen; 11 grand-kids and four great- was a tough lady. She was able to juggle things," John McCormack said. A wake will be held at Walker Funeral Home in Merrick Friday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The funeral will be Sunday at Cure of Ars Church. Firefighters ski down slope on way to starting line before competing in 21st Annual Firefighters Fundraising Race yesterday in Bethel, Maine. The race benefits the Maine Handicapped Skiing program.

Photo by AP Bright idea to fix Super Glue inventor Coover was 94 KINGSPORT, Tenn. Harry Wesley Coover who invented Super Glue, has died. He was 94. Coover, who died at home, was working for a division of Eastman Kodak when an accident helped lead to the popular adhesive being discovered, according to his grandson, Adam Paul. An assistant was distressed that some brand-new refractometer prisms were ruined when they were glued together by the substance.

Coover and another researcher recognized the potential for the strong adhesive, and it was first sold in 1958, according to the Super Glue website. Coover also had a part in early TVhistory, appearing on "I've Got a Secret." Gary Moore, the show's host, and Coover were hung in the air on bars stuck to metal supports with a single drop of the glue during a live television broadcast. Cyanoacrylate, the chemical name for the glue, was first uncovered during World War II in a search for materials to make clear plastic gun sights. But researchers rejected the compound because it stuck to everything. Last year President Barack Obama honored Coover -who was educated at Hobart College and Cornell University with the National Medal of Science.

The Associated Press light fixtures BY JENNIFER H. CUNNINGHAM DAILYNEWS STAFFWRITER THE CITY SAYS it needs a decade and $708 million to replace old school-light fixtures that may contain PCBs but private companies say they can do it faster and cheaper. "We're saying, we'll do it for no outlay of cash," said Ted Bier, president of T.M. Bier Associates, a Glen Cove-based company that creates and installs lighting-control systems. Bier said his company could switch out the old lights at hundreds of schools and absorb all the city's upfront costs.

In return, education officials would have to let T.M. Bier Associates keep the money the city would save on energy for three years. "We think wecanbedoneand paid for in three years," Bier said. After the city announced its 10-year remediation plan for 772 schools last month, critics began calling for a faster time line. Two weeks ago, City Council members sent a letter to EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck, asking the agency to adopt a two-year plan using private contractors who will pay upfront costs in exchange for energy savings.

In Memorial). Enck agrees that a decade is too long. "They need to find a way to do the lighting replacements quicker," she said. Rick Schuett, a vice president at Encelium Technologies in Teaneck, N.J., said his firm could retrofit all the affected light fixtures for $1.50 to $3 per square foot. Encelium workers could include a control system with motion sensors, a dimming feature that takes advantage of natural sunlight and can be controlled via a computer.

Schuett said Encelium could complete the project in three years and save the city 50 to 75 in energy costs. The city's plan will replace antiquated "T12" lights in 772 schools as well as aging boilers. The move will save on energy costs and lower the city's greenhouse gas emissions -the equivalent of removing more than 40,000 cars off the road, officials said. Education department spokeswoman Margie Feinberg said companies should submit their plans when the city goes out to bid on the project. "We are not surprised that a project of this magnitude would attract the attention of other companies, and we welcome as much competition as possible," Feinberg said in a statement.

Miranda Massie, director of litigation for New York Lawyers for the Public Interest which assisted a Bronx mom who sued the city Department of Education over the cleanup of high PCB levels in her children's Co-op City school said the city should work to accelerate its time line. "There's no excuse for taking an extra eight years to protect students and school employees," Massie said. jcunninghamnydailynews.com COOPER Thomas Jr. On your 7th year in Heaven, we love and miss you every day. Your wife Earlene, sons Thomas, Charles, sister Willie and the rest of the family.

Rest In Peace. DePAOLO John C. Happy 20th birthday in heaven with Jesus and mom. We'll always miss you. Pray for us.

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