Centre Daily Times from State College, Pennsylvania • 10

2B CENTRE DAILY TIMES Tuesday November 24 1992 LOCAL STATE LIBRARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS Beech Creek bank robbed State College may cut 1 parking-law officer Holmes said the third parking enforcement officer would be transferred to one of the borough parking garages where the person would work as a cashier The 1993 budget calls for parking enforcement personnel expenditures of $146343 or $8- 917 less than the amount appropriated for the current budget The total preliminary 1 budget for 1993 is $16il million or 28 Jercent more than this 157 million budget and includes no tax increases The document calls for an $81 million general budget The current fiscal year operated on an $82 million budget A public hearing on the budget is scheduled for Dec 7 at 7:30 pm at the borough building 118 Fraser St A public hearing to adopt the budget is set for Dec 14 at 7:30 pm at the borough PARKING ConUnuod from page IB who keep tabs on the enforcement If we do start having problems in the neighborhood then going to have to go back and the new policy on enforcement residents wanted the roll back and they have a very good program in place now I certainly want to see it abused" Holmes said he foresees no major rise in parking violations in the neighborhoods looking for a way to cut staff requirements difficult to justify having somebody out there if there are no Holmes said think we can do-it" he said think going to have to work a little smarter hitting everything else less frequently going to be an effort but I think we will be able to manage The Commonwealth Bank and Trust branch on' state Route 150 in Beech Creek Borough Clinton County was robbed at gunpoint around 2 -pm Monday according to Lock Haven state police No one was injured Police said a lone man entered the bank and asked to open an account A short time later police said he produced a gun and ordered the tellers to give him their money Police said the robber took about $14700 Police said that before fleeing the man ordered everyone POUCE REPORT Lucky lottery Someone stole 77 lottery tickets from a convenience store and cashed them in for $44 in winnings Sunday State College police said According to police the clerk at the Uni-Mart 1381 College Ave went into the back room to get cigarettes and when he returned an entire plastic dispenser of instant lotteiy tickets was gone Later that shift the winning tickets were cashed in Police have a suspect Bad Impression A United Parcel Service bag foil of dental impressions was found on the 100 block of McAllister Street Monday State College police said The bag was returned to dentist Robert Carney of 234 1 College Ave Bike theft A $750 Trek mountain bike was Peoples plans new branch in the bank into a vault and fired his gun twice at a security camera Police described the man as white 5 foot 11 inches to 6 feet tall' weighing about 180 pounds with brown hair and possibly a mustache He was wearing a dark coat dress shirt and necktie and carried a briefcase He fled in a small dark-colored vehicle police said No further details were available stolen from a locked bicycle locker outside Penn Tener Hall overnight Sunday Penn State police said Someone kicked the locker door open and stole the bike owned by Carrie Reinhardt of Tener Hall Man charged A Bellefonte man was charged with aggravated and simple assault after police say he punched his stepfather according to court records Thomas Reitz 28 of 420 Bishop SL was charged by Rock-view state police with hitting Charles Wolfe according to records He was also charged with making terroristic threats Reitz was arraigned before District Justice Robert May and placed in the Centre County Prison on $1000 bail He remained in prison Monday night according to a prison official A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec 2 Steff wrote: four public safety organizations think the enhanced 911 system should be implemented however they are uncertain whether the proposed relocation of the communications center will have a positive negative or neutral impact on the quality of dispatch Among the questions posed by the emergency-response officials were: Whether the county would hire qualified dispatchers Whether the county intended to pay the dispatchers a salary high enough to attract well-trained staff Whether users of the communications system (would be) integrated into the decisionmaking process in terms of budgetary operational and planning decisions" How the transition from one system to another would work Whether the level of services would remain the same for emergency and non-emergency calls such as calls for people locked out of their cars Whether the implementation of geographical information systems (GIS) mapping by the county and Centre Region would avoid duplication of efforts GIS mapping enables dispatchers to see a map representation of a call's origin thus providing for quicker more reliable service BANK Continued from paga IB anticipate any problems with that process It will be the 17th branch office 16 of which are in Centre County Frederick said the office will probably have three or four tellers to handle transactions a MAC machine and a customer-service representative He said more services be offered at the site because of its small size Lack of space is the reason that Gary Marco president and owner of Electronics closed Hi Fi House and moved the businesses to its new location Board to limit tax TAXES- Continued from page IB buses and other necessities like toilet paper and the cost of like retirement banquets and framed recognition certificates think all troubled a great deal by said board member George McMurtry concerned overemphasizing the cost aspect to the point where we begin to hurt things in the district I've struggled to find areas where comfortable cutting and I have to say I found Officials to work on 91 1 issue 911 Continued from pags IB i But a number of Centre Region officials have opposed the move arguing that the dispatch center should remain in the Fraser Street garage The commissioners will decide on Dec 1 whether to submit a re-location911 enhancement plan for state approval To fond the expansion of the 911 system the commissioners have said they would tack onto phone bills a $125 monthly fee Currently most residents of the Centre Region or about half of the county's population of 123786 can dial 911 and immediately reach a dispatcher for police fire and ambulance services The remaining residents most of whom live in rural areas of the county must dial a seven-digit number to reach emergency service dispatchers Commissioners plan to make direct 911 available to them In a letter Monday to members of the General Forum COG Executive Director James Steff noted a number of concerns and questions about the proposed move to Willowbank Steff wrote that he had spoken with four emergency-response officials about potential -problems associated with the move Summarizing their comments Coal executive gets probation fine Judith Anchel and Edward Anchel VO of Milford Edward Anchel ii preii-dent and chairman of the board of Spar-komatic Corp Louil Benzak 81 of New York president of the New York investment firm of Spears Benzak Salomon A Far- tell Inc Nancy Cline dean of the University Libraries since 1988 and a member of the Penn State faculty since 1970 Donald Cook Jr '52 of Cherry Hill NJ president of SEMCOR Elouise Eberly and Robert Eberly 39 of Uniontown Robert Eberly is chairman of the board of Eberly Meade and board member of the Eberly Foundation and the Eberly Family Charitable Trust Ellen Foster '49 and Lawrence Foster Jr of Westfield NJ Lawrence Foster is a public relations counsel and former vice president of public relations for Johnson Johnson Waiter Goldstein '47 of New York president and CEO of Underhill Industries Donald Hamer '68 of State College president and chairman of State oftheArtlnc Harold Hein '45 of Thorn wood NY president of Mid-City Press Inc Helen Hints 60 and Edward Hints '59 of Chatham NJ Edward Hints is president of the New York investment firm of Hints Holman A Hecksher Inc COURT BRIEFS Man sentenced on check charges A 26-year-old State College man was sentenced Monday to one to two years in state prison on charges he wrote nearly 35 bad checks including one for a car James Buckley also known as James Matherson put his head on the table and stared at the ground as Centre County President Judge Charles Brown Jr read the sentence for the long list of charges Buckley's attorney Centre County First Assistant Public Defender Deborah Lux asked that he be sentenced to time served and a lengthy probation because he faces federal charges in Vermont and possible criminal charges in Rhode Island Buckley who pleaded guilty to the charges has been in the Centre County Prison for at least 131 days She said the lengthy probation would give Buckley a chance to make restitution estimated at about $15000 Assistant District Attorney April Chamberlain asked for the sentence Brown eventually imposed Brown also sentenced Buckley to probation for three years to run consecutively with the prison sentence Arson charges net man 6-month term A rural Centre Hall man was sentenced Monday to six months in the Centre County Prison for two arsons Clarence Frank Boob 45 of Centre Hall RD 1 was charged with setting several outbuildings on fire outside of Boalsburg in May and starting a small forest fire in April Boob pleaded guilty but mentally ill to the two arson charges filed by State College police and the state Department of Environmental Resources Bureau of For IN OTHER BUSINESS Centre County The solid waste authority on Wednesday: GRANT: Heard recycling coordinator Joanne Shafer has applied for a $329409 grant from the state Department of Environmental Resources Shafer said the authority pledged $29946 in matching fluids Most of the grant would be a reimbursement for public education efforts about 10 recycling drop-off centers and processing equipment Another $166000 would be used to buy two trucks for collecting recydables from businesses The authority's current truck bought in 1989 for $75000 has had chronic mechanical problems Shafer said Authority members said the truck was one of the only types on the market at the time INCINERATOR: Received a proposal from consultants Gershman Brickner Bratton Inc (GBB) to prepare a feasibility study of an incinerator that could dispose of trash from Centre Mifflin and Juniata counties The study would cost the Centre authority $12500 as proposed but authority Executive Director Ted Onufrak said he would negotiate with GBB to reduce the contract ACCIDENT REPORT Man Injured A Willow Grove man was treated at Centre Community Hospital Monday after his bicycle collided with a car on East College Avenue at South Garner Street in State College according to police and hospital officials Hung Le 20 suffered bruises and abrasions in the 1:10 accident Police said Le who was traveling south on Shortlidge Road across College Avenue collided with a car driven by Christopher Michael Conti 20 of Clearfield 1A Dorothy Huck '43 and Lloyd Huck '43 of New Vernon NJ Lloyd Huck is former chairman of the board of Merck Pharmaceutical Inc Bruce A Murphy of Port Matilda Penn State professor of history and polities Sue Pate mo of State College cofounder of the Patemo Libraries Endowment and also head football coach Joe Paternai Kenneth Pollock of Wilkes-Barre chairman of the board of Pennsylvania Enterprises Inc Joan Schieyer and William A Schreyer '48 of Princeton NJ William Schreyer is chairman of the board of Merrill Lynch A Co Inc Samuel Sidewater '59 of Bensalem executive vice president and director of merchandising Charming Shoppes Inc Judith 0 Sieg '59 and Philip Sieg '57 of Bellefonte Philip Sieg js president of the Sieg Financial Group Mary Jean Smeal '42 and Frank Smeal '42 of Rumson NJ Frank Smeal is a limited partner in the investment firm of Goldman Sachs Corp New York Mason Walsh Jr '57 of Pittsburgh senior vice president and counsel Richard Mellon and Sons estry do believe incarceration is called said Centre County President Judge Charles Brown Jr He said Boob who works part time at the Tate Tree Farm across US Route 322 from one of the fires would be eligible for work release The sentence was in accord with a plea agreement Boob who has a prior arson arrest for burning down a $10000 barn because the owner took away his hunting card is mentally retarded and on disability The judge ordered him to pay about $4500 in restitution for the three outbuildings that were burned Indecent assault prompts jail term A 78-year-old Bellefonte man was sentenced Monday to 140 days to 2 years minus one day in prison on charges he indecently touched a 5-year-old girl Kenneth Robinson of 122 Penn SL pleaded no contest in October to the charges of aggravated indecent assault indecent assault indecent exposure and corruption of a minor filed by Bellefonte police He was credited with the 140 days he served in the Centre County Prison Robinson was ordered to spend an additional two years on probation attorney Centre County First Assistant Public Defender Deborah Lux told President Judge Charles Brown Jr that her client is believed to be suffer ing from dementia When Robinson was charged in June he was on parole for a similar incident in 1989 involving an 8-year-old girl He also pleaded no contest to the charge price The results of the study would be considered as an option for handling waste from Centre County after the current contract for landfill space in Clinton County ends in 1997 EMPLOYEES: Agreed to give the 29 hourly employees a 25-cents-an-hour raise on Jan 1 as part of the 1993 budget In addition workers will be given a $75 allowance for the year to purchase one pair of work boots Wages for hourly employees in the transfer station the recycling processing center and the office range from $6 an hour to $12 an hour The raise will mean an average raise of about 3 Mi percent Raises for the five salaried employees will be given on the anniversary of the hire date A total of $5000 was included in the budget for the 1993 portion of the raises which been set yet Onufrak said Current rates for those employees are: executive director $40000 operations manager recycling coordinator $27000 office manager $28250 enforcement officer $23000 Conti was attempting to make a left turn from Garner Street onto College Avenue Roundup Centre County accidents in which no injuries required emergency transportation to the hospital include: ROUTE 84 A threeehiele accident at 10:15 aBL Sunday ia Walker Township The driven were James Stitser 29 of Boalsburg Delbert Alien 47 of Belie-Ibnte and Barters A Crawford S3 of Loganton RD 1 Rockriew stale police investigated 1 Library goal $10 million The Associated Press PITTSBURGH A coal company executive who admitted falsifying documents about the disposal of a low-level nuclear material was sentenced Monday to three years 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