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Standard-Speaker, Saturday, December 4, 1993 Obituaries Obituaries Anthony F. Calarco Anthony F. Calarco, of 225 W. First Hazleton, died Thursday evening at Hazleton-St. Joseph Medical Center after being in ill health for the past two years.

Born in Hazleton, he was the son of the late George and Nellie (Milano) Calarco. He was a member of Most Precious Blood Roman Catholic Church, Hazleton. Calarco was employed as a bus driver for the Hazleton Area School District and was associated with the Babe Ruth Baseball League. During World War II, he served in the Army in the European Theater of Operations. He was preceded in death, in addition to his parents, by brothers, Rocco and Pasquale.

Surviving are his wife of 46 years, the former Genney Geelen, formerly of Belgium; sons, Marcel, Denis and Anthony, Hazleton; Ron, New Ringgold; Bob, Berwick; sisters, Theodoria Charniga, and Mrs. John (Anna) Prusock, both of Hazleton; brothers, Vincent, Philadephia; Louis, Long Branch, N.J.; and 16 grandchildren. Several nieces and nephews also survive. The funeral will be held Monday at 10 a.m. from the DiPronio Funeral Home, 314 E.

Third Hazleton, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m. in the Most Precious Blood Church. Interment will be in Mount Laurel Park Cemetery, Hazleton. Friends may call Sunday from 7 to 9 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the Hospice St.

Johns, 768 E. Broad Hazleton. Harold Light Harold D. Light, 72, of R.R. 2, Tamaqua, (Hometown), died Dec.

3 at Miners Memorial Medical Center, Coaldale. Born in Mahanoy City, on Jan. 10, 1921, he was the son of the late Earl and Harriet (Hartung) Light. He was a member of St. John Lutheran Church, Tamaqua.

Before retiring he was employed by Parrish Steel and owned and operated a furniture upholstery business in Mahanoy City. During World II, he served with the Army Air Corps. He was preceded in death, in addition to his parents, by his wife, Laura (Bitting) Light, on Nov. 16, 1990. Surviving are daughters, Mrs.

Lee (Dorothy) Wehr, Barnesville; Mrs. Arthur (Nancy) Olerud, Moorehead, a son, George Hinton, Drums; brothers, Anson and Earl, both of Park Crest; David and Delmont, both of North Carolina; and sisters, Mildred Applegate, Mahanoy City; and June Freck, New Jersey. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. from the Lamar Christ Funeral Home, Hometown. Interment will be in the White Church Cemetery, Rush Township.

Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday. Josephine DeStefano Josephine (LaMonica) DeStefano, of 170 Frost Brooklyn, N.Y., died Thursday morning at her residence. Born in Hazleton, she also maintained a residence in the city. A registered nurse, she graduated from Hazle Township High School and St.

Agnes School of Nursing in Philadelphia. Preceding her i in death was her husband, Felice J. DeStefano, M.D. Surviving are sisters, Carmella Rossi, Sun City, Susan Pozzessere, Las Vegas, Adeline Hubbs, Danville, Jean Novia, Oreland, Lehigh County; and a brother, Joseph, Philadelphia. The funeral will be held Monday at 8 a.m.

from the Papavero Funeral Home, 7227 Grand Maspeth, N.Y. A Mass will be held at St. Francis Church, Brooklyn. Card Of Thanks JOSEPH MINNECI We wish to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to all our kind relatives, neighbors and friends who assisted and consoled us during the illness and death of our beloved husband, brother and uncle, Joseph Minneci. Also, to the pallbearers, those who sent floral bouquets, donors and drivers of cars and all others who assisted us in any other way.

Wife, Brothers, Sisters, Nieces and Nephews Joseph R. Angelo Joseph R. Angelo, 53, of E. 16th Craig Drive, Jessup, died Thursday at 939 W. Diamond Hazleton, after a lengthy illness.

Born in West Hazleton, he was the son of Beatrice (Kulbinsky) Angelo, Hazleton, and the late Michael Angelo. He was a member of Ss. Peter Paul Roman Catholic Church. He was employed by the National Security Agency after retiring from the Air Force, in which he served since 1957. Surviving, in addition to his mother, are a sister, Mrs.

Frederick (Mary) Krutz, with whom he was residing in Hazleton; and two nephews. The funeral will be held Monday at 9 a.m. from the Frank J. Bonin Funeral Home Inc. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m.

in Ss. Peter Paul R.C. Church, followed by interment in Calvary Cemetery, Drums. Friends may call Sunday from 7 to 9 p.m. Blanche McGrath Blanche McGrath, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and formerly of Hazleton, died Nov.

2 at the Clove Lakes Nursing Home, Staten Island, N. Y. She was the daughter of the late Frank and Mary (Yamulla) Mortash. Preceding her in death were her husband, Lawrence; brothers, Andrew and 1 Walter; and sisters, Helen Oswald and Violet Gadola. Surviving are daughters, Mrs.

John (Patricia) Kalish, Brooklyn, N. and Mrs. Lee (Debbie) Earl, Spring Hill, a sister, Leona Perlman, Croften, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. The funeral was held Nov. 6 in Brooklyn.

Pauline Sundra Pauline Sundra, 91, formerly of 119 W. Cranberry Hazleton, died Friday morning at Klingerman Nursing Home, Orangeville, where she had been a guest. Born in West Hazleton, she was the daughter of the late Adam and Mary Holodick. She was a member of St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, Hazleton.

Sundra was preceded in death, in addition to her parents, by her husband, Frank, in 1988; a son, Frank in 1976; and several brothers. Surviving are a son, Edward, Bloomsburg; a brother, Michael, Naugatuk, three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Several nieces and nephews also survive. funeral will be held Monday at 10 a.m. from the Frank J.

Bonin Funeral Home Inc. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. in St. Joseph R.C. Church.

Interment will be in the parish cemetery. Friends may call Sunday from 7 to 9 p.m. A Christian wake service will be held Sunday evening. ELKS SERVICE SUN. FOR DEPALMA The Hazleton Elks Lodge No.

200 will hold memorial services at the Fierro Funeral Home, 26 W. Second Hazleton, at 7 p.m. on Sunday for Anthony DePalma who died Thursday afternoon at his residence. NEW FLU STRAINS Virtually all new strains of flu arise in China and are harbored in pigs and ducks. Death notice CALARCO At Hazleton-St.

Joseph Medical Center, Thursday, December 2, 1993, Anthony F. Calarco. The funeral will be held Monday at 10 a a.m. from the DiPronio Funeral Home, 314 E. Third Hazleton, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m.

in Most Precious Blood Church. Interment in Mount Laurel Park Cemetery, Hazleton. Friends may call Sunday from 7 to 9 p.m. In Loving Memory Of MARK TODD HODGSON December 4, 1979 Today I found this poem and it reminded me of Nothing really ever dies That is not born anew The mystery of nature Tells us this is true. As flowers sleeping peacefully Beneath the Winter's snow, Awaken from their icy graves When Spring winds start to blow.

To tell us nothing really dies As we can see and realize That death is just a detour Along life's winding way, That leads God's chosen children To a bright and heavenly bay. Sadly missed every day. Mom, Dad, Terry and Grandmom Lewis Thomas, poet laureate, dies at 80 By RICK HAMPSON school appointments at Johns Associated Press Writer Hopkins, Tulane, and the UniverNEW YORK (AP) Lewis sity of Minnesota. Thomas, the physician whose He returned to New York in ruminations on biology won him 1954 as chairman of pathology at acclaim as the "poet laureate of New York University-Bellevue 20th century medical science," Medical Center. His experiments died Friday of cancer, a disease he showed that lab animals injected his life studying and with small amounts of certain spent fighting.

He was 80. cellular poisons became resistant Thomas, former head of the to larger doses of the poisons, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer to trauma from burns and other Center, suffered from a rare form injuries. of cancer named after one of his In 1972, Thomas became dean friends, Jan Waldenstrom of of the Yale Medical School and Sweden. headed a National Academy of Waldenstrom's Disease, an ab- Sciences committee that normal proliferation of white evaluated a broad new federal blood cells and plasma cells, sap- cancer program. ped his strength and reduced his Typically, he favored a decenweight, but didn't stop his mind.

tralized assault. "What is most "There's really no such thing urgently needed," his committee as the of dying," he said in concluded, "is an abundance of agony a recent interview. "Something new ideas, and these are most happens when the body knows it's likely to emerge from the imagiabout to go. Peptide hormones nation and intuition of individual released by cells in the scientists" rather than from a are hypothalamus and pituitary centralized bureaucracy. glands.

Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain." Asked what dying felt like, Thomas replied, "'Weakness. I'm beginning to lose all respect for my body." Thomas won the National Book Award for The Lives of the Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. The collection of essays that had appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine was published in 1974. He won the American Book Award for The Medusa and the Snail, published in 1979.

When it awarded Thomas the Albert Laker Public Service Award in 1989, the jury said his writings "'have converted countless non-scientists into appreciative spectators and supporters of biomedical research" and justified the "Poet Laureate" sobriquet. Thomas was born and raised in New York City's Queens borough. The boy knew he wanted to be a doctor. He accompanied his father, a surgeon, on house calls, and worked in the infirmary of his summer camp. His resolve wavered at Princeton, where he considered becoming a writer, "only I couldn't figure out what I'd be writing about." That came later.

After Harvard Medical School, internships in Boston and New York, and Navy service in medical research during World War II, Thomas began a series of medical Funeral The funeral of William S. Jones, of 37 Butler Conyngham, who died Tuesday at his residence, was held Friday morning from the Mark S. Harman Funeral Home, Butler Road, Drums. The Rev. Leon Runner, pastor of Crusade Baptist Church, Hazleton, officiated at the services.

Interment was in Conyngham Union Cemetery. Pallbearers were Ernest, Kerry, James and William Jones, Andrew Petrushka and Justin Nesbitt. Corrections Gregory DePalma, of 677 Harrison Hazleton, who died Thursday afternoon at his resi- dence, was preceded in death by sisters, Judy Denicole and Bridget Shugard. Also surviving, in addition to those listed in the obituary, are sisters, Mrs. Anthony (Teresa) Surman, Mrs.

Clement (Rita) Zellner, Mrs. Stanley (Nancy) Wagner, Gean DePalma and Rose DePalma, all of Hazleton. Michael McAlarney, who appeared in Luzerne County Court and pleaded guilty to criminal attempt to commit burglary, does not list an address at Box 171, Lattimer Mines, as was previously reported. McAlarney was given special probation. A story in Wednesday's editions incorrectly stated how the Hazleton Area School Board voted on a computer contract.

The vote was 6 to 1, not 8 to 1 as reported. Director Francis Scarcella voted against the contract, while Remo Molino and Edmund Ferdinand were absent. Card of Thanks John J. Kopashy We wish to express sincere thanks and appreciation to all our kind relatives, friends, and neighbors who assisted and consoled during the recent death of our beloved John J. Kopashy, from his wife, father, brother, sisters, sister-in-law and brothers-in-law.

Special thanks to Father Doris, Father Jerry, St. Casimir's church, The Freeland Legion, Dr. Brown, The Wilczeks, pallbearers, donors, those who sent spiritual or floral bouquets and all others who assisted in any way. Wife, Son, Daughters and Families Singel signs tax changes into law; exemption aids non-profit groups HARRISBURG (AP) Non-profit groups that sell food and beverages to support youth athletics will not have to pay Pennsylvania's 6 percent sales tax under a new law signed Friday by acting Gov. Mark Singel.

The exemption, retroactive to Jan. 1, 1991, would be limited to groups that sell the products at fixed locations on public property. The bill signed into law was sponsored by Sen. Michael M. Dawida, D-Allegheny.

The new law also provides tax exemptions for any interest or dividends from U.S. government obligations distributed to shareholders of mutual funds. Under the old law, tax exemptions were granted only if the obligations were held directly by individuals or corporations. Under another provision of the new law, gains from transactions of state and local government bonds will now be subject to state income taxes. The provisions relating to government bonds take effect Feb.

1. The mutual fund provision will apply to taxable years beginning on or after Jan. 1. Deaths Gunman (Continued from page 1) velopment Department's office manager, said she didn't remember seeing Winterbourne in the office before the shooting or seeing his case. Asked if any of the victims had worked with him, she said: "To my knowledge nobody had anything to do with him." Flowers and cards piled up Friday outside the bullet-marked entrance to the office, which was closed for the day.

One handwritten note on a red poinsettia read: "We have comfort in God. We know he took four people home. Please tell us the reason why." The California State Employees Association, meanwhile, complained that the shootings were the result of continued lax security at state facilities. "'These are deaths that should not have happened," said union President Yolanda Solari. A half-hour before the rampage, Winterbourne left documents with the Ventura Star-Free Press detailing a seven-year search for work.

He said he would call later to discuss them with an editor. Among the documents: want ads, job applications and 288 letters addressed to every major employer in the county. Winterbourne had been unemployed since 1986 after resigning as a computer engineer at Northrop citing an inability to adapt to a change in assignment. Six months after quitting, Winterbourne filed for jobless benefits at the Oxnard office, but was denied after Northrop argued he had left voluntarily. Talks (Continued from page 1) military standoff "to the brink of war." North Korean officials met in New York with U.S.

diplomats in an attempt to work out an agreement that would allow outside inspection of North Korea's nuclear program and to resume a dialogue with South Korea. White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers, traveling with the president in New Mexico, told reporters, "'We're going to evaluate (the North Korean response) then talk to our allies. We are not characterizing it." The State Department issued a similar statement. Privately, administration officials said "modest progress" had been made in the talks. And in Albuquerque, N.M., Clinton in interviews with Denver and Phoenix television stations, appeared optimistic about the North Korean talks.

"We're just going to be firm and keep the hand out at the same time and hope it works," he told one interviewer. Mirroring administration efforts to damp down the rhetorical fire, the head of the Air Force, Gen. Merrill McPeak, said he saw no reason to increase U.S. air power in South Korea now or to put U.S. forces there on higher alert.

"We have not sent additional forces, and we are not preparing to send additional forces," the four-star general said in an interview Friday. "What's there now on the ground in peacetime I consider Heightened tensions in Korea stem in part from the North's resistance to Western demands to inspect its nuclear facilities. The CIA believes North Korea may already have enough nuclear material for one or two weapons, although the North Koreans deny having a nuclear weapon or aspiring to build any. (Continued from page 1) side and shot her, also in the of the head. He walked back toward the door and, without hesitating, put a bullet into his own head.

Inside the bloodied room, police found a 13-page letter from Smith, pleading with O'Neill to reconsider. Another letter to her was found in Smith's apartment, torn into tiny pieces. Police are trying to tape it back together. These three young people had seemed to be the very definition of the American dream: exceptionally bright, remarkably athletic, superbly trained for success. They had met years before, part of an insular world that only the extraordinary, the brilliant can enter.

They were midshipmen at Annapolis, Md. David Lillefloren was there, too. He'd been Grizzard's best friend since they were 6 and played "pee wee' football together. He also knew O'Neill and Smith. Military academy students live by strict codes, and their society is tight.

"You go to school there, and you go through something that not everybody goes Lillefloren said. "'The camaraderie is unbelievable." Even after graduation Lt. j.g. Grizzard in 1991, Ensign Smith in 1992, Ensign O'Neill this past May their paths stayed close. Their final days were spent at Navy bases in San Diego.

Grizzard had been here more than a year. O'Neill arrived in October, Smith just days ago. Six feet tall and 200 pounds, the hazel-eyed Grizzard grew up in Virginia Beach, and excelled in the classroom and on the football field. He was the Navy's all-time offense leader and held seven Fuel (Continued from page 1) "The number of customers in the United States who will shortly be paying double is ever increasing," she said. Currently, most reactors store spent fuel in pools of water, but by 1998, 20 of those will exceed their capacity, DOE officials estimated.

While a permanent site is being developed, Congress had mandated a temporary federal storage site be established by 1998, but so far no one has been willing to accept such a site. Congress in 1986 picked Yucca Mountain, Nevada as the most acceptable site for permanently disposing of the highly radioactive spent fuel rods from commercial reactors. But Nevadans heatedly opposed using the site for permanent nuclear waste storage, and it's not certain it ever will be built. At the earliest it might be available by 2013, officials have said. O'Leary said she plans to talks with the utility companies and state utility commissions to examine individual state needs "and try to balance the equities here against expectations." Under one possible scenario, the Energy Department could spend an estimated $25 million a year to help pay for additional above-ground spent fuel canisters.

They cost about $400,000 apiece. The department also will look into the possibility that utility companies be given credit against their payments into the permanent storage fund. Companies pay one tenth of a cent per kilowatt hour generated by the reactors. Another option would be a cash payment to the utilities to help cover their storage costs. Janice Owens, of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, said O'Leary's pledge was positive step," but added that "in the longterm it's in the interest of the country to have a national storage sight rather than to leave (the used fuel) at each individual reactor." academy records.

This Saturday, Navy players competing in Grizzard's beloved annual ArmyNavy showdown will wear decals with the name "Griz" on their gold helmets. Grizzard took his math studies at Annapolis seriously, but his friends said he was always quick with an off-the-cuff quip. He had long dreamed of joining a Navy SEAL commando team, a secretive amphibious group whose members are called to the world's worst trouble spots. In summer 1992, he joined SEAL Team 1 at the U.S. Naval Amphibious Base at Coronado, just across San Diego Bay.

He was assistant platoon commander and spent about three months doing reconnaissance missions in Somalia. "I always thought we'd get the news someday that Alton had been killed doing something heroic for his country. I never thought I'd hear about him going like this," said Tommy Rhodes, Grizzard's high school football coach. Teachers (Continued from page 1) dress its decision, which came along with the furloughs, that increased the number of teaching periods per day for secondary teachers. Schwartz ruled that the decision was made without consideration of provisions made in the teachers' contract.

William McCann, a retired district teacher who will begin his first term on the board Tuesday along with his two running mates in this year's election, said the current majority "ignored the teachers' contract" when making the decision to increase teaching time. "'This is the old story," he said. "They don't understand a contract is a contract. You don't just do what you want to do." McCann said the ramifications of the arbitrator's decision "could be real 1 serious" if the furloughed teachers get back pay, and the teachers forced to take extra class time also get compensation. District Superintendent Geraldine Shepperson, who was not superintendent at the time the teachers were furloughed, could not be reached for comment Friday night.

Christina said the union will contact district officials to set up a meeting on the decision. "I personally don't know what the procedure will be now," he said. "I don't know if they can appeal or ask for continuances. We're sort of waiting until we can meet with our legal staff to go over (the decision) page by page." Russell said the district can appeal the decision to Luzerne County Court. The board cut about positions when it consolidated its three high schools into one and closed three junior highs to consolidate them.

Under state law, districts cannot furlough teachers for financial reasons. "I'm hoping the district realizes they were wrong," Christina said. "The bottom line is people lost their jobs, we fought to get them back and we were successful." Standard-Speaker Published Daily Except Sundays a and Holidays by Hazleton Inc. 21 North Wyoming Street Hazleton, Pa. 18201 Telephone 455-3636 Second Class Postage Paid at Hazleton, Pa.

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