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Saturday May 25 1985 Picture Page 1 4 Impact 6 Television 9 Metropolitan News 5 Viewpoints 3 Third Date Suggested for Stadium Summit By JOE RITZ Metro Rail Income Number of Riders all Below Plan will operate State i fund com rela rail service this holiday he later opposed the alternate date Mr Ar thur would not call the June 5 date a com promise date saying only the date was and noting the Council date appeared for the mayor He said the mayor decided a meeting was necessary only after the Council already had PIE SHAMPOO Buffalo Seminary students and alumnae celebrated the annual Larkin ield Day riday with plenty of outdoor activi Labor Comment Metro Rail announced riday that there has been a change in the scheduled for weekend Rail service only today from 10 am until 6 pm from Seneca Street to the Amherst Station There will be no rail service tomorrow or Monday Buses will run on Sunday schedules on Monday The Council wants to meet with all the players in the stadium scenario to iron ouV the guarantees and review three agreements that spell out the roles of the city the state and the Erie County Industrial Agency To date the Council has seen only one of those agreements but members want drafts of the other two before the meeting which has become as controversial as the project itself Council members want to make sure the: city can afford to undertake its share of the' project as well as discuss with county offi cials a recommendation by City Comptroller Robert Whelan that the county participate: in some way to lighten the load of city tax payers for a project that will have regional benefits Mr Whelan and Delaware Council Member Alfred Coppola also have recoin mended more private sector participation in the project who used tokens bus transfers and school bus passes In explaining the feeder bus sys tem Curt Barber Metro vice presi dent for transportation said that beginning June 16 a number of buses that now approach Main Street from the east or west then follow Main Street downtown will instead let passengers off at sub way stations so they can ride trains downtown Mr Heinen said the system will be maintained for nearly the first month of rail service because: A continuation of Main Street bus service was an insurance policy in case the Metro Rail start was plagued by operational problems Mr Heinen said such problems have not developed Metro system officials felt it would be too confusing to change bus routes at the same time that rail service began The regular ire which drivers are assigned Metro: Bus routes based on seniority was slated for June 16 Mr Heinen also said Main Street bus service will continue between the Windermere Loop and down town primarily to transport riders to transit stations and to serve riders with destinations between! stations The buses which used to arrive at a particular stop every 6 or 7 minutes will instead stop roughly every 16 minutes Mr Bar ber added 7 tral said that once construction starts the tower should be erected in about two weeks Construction of the Hamburg studio is expected to take three weeks The new station initially will employ about 30 peo ple Mr Pauss said programming will be like any other successful independent Mr Pauss said He said programming will include of some sports news and situation comedies with vari ous demographic groups targeted at different times of the day Also a block of programming for children will be offered He said the audiences for independent television stations tend to be younger more affluent and more educated than those of other stations Channel 49 will have power of 26 million watts broadcasting to an area with a radius of about 60 miles Mr Pauss said participants appear and answer questions the lawmakers will not approve a $5 million bond amendment needed for start up funds for the project which the mayor is pushing Mr Arthur and the mayor also are oppos ing each other in this mayoral campaign When he received the invitation to the meeting scheduled for the conference room Mr Arthur said the Council would continue to plan for its June 7 gathering and expect everyone to be there 1 JOHN KENNEDY in a speech at Amherst College honoring the poet Robert rost said institutions must be judged not only by the men and women they produce but also for the men and women they honor Attention must be paid to men and women who have worked often in difficult cir cumstances for the benefit of wage earners zAt a time when labor must recruit young people and the numbers of women entering the labor force if it isto replenish its lost numbers attention must also be paid tojts newer members Absent among the many awards given by the AL CIO to longtime officers to politi cians and to community leaders is an award for an outstanding labor leader 7 A complaint I hear fromsome labor leaders is that they get the young interestedin joining or becoming active in the unions I first heard that complaint more than 30 years 'ago Yet the majority of the young people I have talked to in ithe 1980s are more sympathetic Ho unions than their counter parts in the 1950s Certainly I have met manyunion men and women in their 30s and 40s who are as least dedicated to the labor move 'ment and as active in its behalf as their elders CURRENT generation of says a report released early this year by the AL CIO Committee on the Evolution of Work given a fair chance to form a union at their workplace elects to do so Jn large True large numbers of 'young people attend union meetings also true of the majority of older members Un most locals In virtually every union only a small' minority ofmembers are willing to contrib ute the time required to rununion affairs Establishing an award for outstanding young union leader and an outstanding female lead er would not solve the perpetual problem of involving more members with their union Butit would give them needed and give labor amore up to date image A bigger and more contro versial move would be to limit the number of terms a union leader could hold the same top office There are many pros and £cons in a frequent change oft leadership Elections accom plish the task in many unions but in some challenging an en trenched leadership is difficult Bylaws that would force a in leadership in say every decade might result in a seating officers who have more recently been in the plant work force but there currently is no move in this direction It ap pears to be an idea whose time has not come Of Young arly this month this column expressed regret over the absence of young faces and female faces at the head table of AL CIO leadership ew columns have sparked such a stimulating and spirited response Reaction was evenly divided between praise and agreement and anger and denial It was pointed out that the Buffalo AL CIO Council has younger members and women as members of its executive council and of its Committee on Labor in the The existence of an inner cir cle of male labor leaders who have held office for a genera tion or more was denied There were a couple of mis "conceptions about the intent and thrust of the column By no means did it intend to suggest that the two men honored for long service to labor in thearea Peter Rybka and Jo seph Walter were not de serving of the award given this year by the Buffalo AL CIO Council As the column said they bear respected names for their union activities in Western New York It is right that such men be honored come to that conclusion and said of the subsequently scheduled meeting world is full of originators and But he repeated his warning that mayor and his advisers are treading on very thin and are in danger of killing the stadium project they keep playing Mr proposal would have the meeting at 10 am in the City Hall caucus room In a letter to the mayor he asks that Mayor Griffin help him notify those who were invited to both meetings and say that the agenda outlined by the mayor is acceptable A two thirds vote of the Council is needed to approve the $5 million bond amendment requested by the mayor to begin the project Mr Arthur said the project probably would receive that level of support provided certain conditions are met Russell Gugino: joins hospital University Binghamton Mr Gugino received his de gree in political science from State University at Albany in 1978 Prior to joining Mr Kemp office he was an employee rela tions associate in the office of faculty and staff relations for the State University of New York He also served as assistant to the SUNY vice chancellor for university affairs and director of student communications By PETER SIMON Ridership and revenue figures for the first two days of Metro operation fell far short of daily projections made before the system opened transit officials said Niagara rontier Transportation Authority figures show that 18263 persons rode Metro Rail trains on Monday the first day of subway service and that $6225 was collect ed in fares said Donald McIntyre Metro System Vice Presi dent for finance On Tuesday there were more than 19000 riders and revenue to taled about $6700 NTA projections put together before the system opened peg daily ridership at 24000 passengers and revenue at between 510000 ana 511 000 per day said Mr McIntyre However transit officials say that figures from the first two days should be considered in light of these factors: The system in which buses that currently run downtown will instead feed passen gers onto trains will not go into ef fect until June 16 As a result there is now a system in which passengers going down town from some areas can choose between buses and trains iThe public is still getting familiar with the Metro Rail sys tem and many people who may later ride the trains regularly now are driving a car or taking a bus instead of individual (transportation) decisions are being made out Mr McIntyre said On the other hand the ridership figures from early this week prob ably reflect a considerable number of who would not ride the trains regularly Overall however Metro officials say they are comfortable with the opening figures and feel the pub growing familiarity with the system and its favorable reaction to it will help draw new riders optimistic enough to be lieve that once people try it going to like said Jack Heinen Metro executive vice president He said it is already producing a short er commutation time for riders who previously took the bus Metro Rail ridership figures in clude those who deposited cash in vending machines as well as those When asked whether he had thrown a shoe out of his van on the way to work the next morning the de" fendant said he In a police canvass of the neighborhood on Nov 307 after the body was discovered George ield a neigh 7 bor said he happened to follow Mr Beaumariage'sT van in a meandering direction and saw I thrown from the side into a field along Niaga ra alls Boulevard Shortly afterward police located a shoe with blood on the heel that they contend is the) In the police interview he insisted he remember anything about a shoe Linda Poltar 25 a secretary at Bell identified as a longtime girlfriend of Beaumariage confirmed he ar rived at work about 7:30 am on Nov 30 Although nothing was mentioned about his death she said: talked about the situation Beaumariage having told his wife earlier that week! that he was unhappy and wanted to break tip the mar 7 riage) I told him he leave her for Direct questioning by Assistant District Attorney Claude A Joerg revealed that she had not seen the de fendant often from mid October because she was dat ing another man However she testified that about Thanksgiving time (Nov 22) Beaumariage had come to her desk early one morning and said he would get a divorce said I think he she stated When asked by defense attorney Louis Cacciato' whether she ever planned to marry Beaumariage Polter answered but later said she had stayed with him at his home a few times since January She said he was a software engineer when she first met him but his title changed two years and now he had 30 people working under him By ANNE SHERWOOD LOCKPORT The tape recorded confession of Carl Beaumariage 48 of North Tonawanda revealing that he grabbed his wife Cora than hit her head against the refrigerator the wall and the stereo set at their Meadowbrook Drive home on Nov 29 was played riday in the courtroom for the Niagara County jury that will deliberate the case Each jury member also was given a written tran script of the taped confession taken in the early hours of Dec 1 at North Tonawanda Police Headquarters after several hours of questioning The defendant who faces two counts of second de gree murder did not ask for an attorney to be present and agreed to having a court stenographer take the statement according to testimony by William Patti investigator for the Niagara County district office and Detective Lt Richard Clute of the Niagara alls Police Department Beaumariage said that after the assault his wife ran into the living room fell on the floor then went into the garage He said the assault happened between 10 and 11 pm as his wife was baking cookies in the kitchen Her body was discovered shortly after 5 pm the next day by the son John Beaumariage of Hamburg who returned to spend the weekend The defendant on the tape rambled at length about his work on a navigational system that was complex and behind schedule and his job pressures as chief engineer of computer software at Bell Aerosystems Textron complained bitterly because I have time to do anything with her became enraged We hollered at one another I grabbed her the taped confession continued Hi I By BARBARA O'BRIEN News Cheektowaga Bureau Media Central Inc of Chattanooga Tenn is in the process of closing a real estate deal to buy a plot in Ravenwood Park North in Hamburg to build a studio for the newest television station Media Central is buying three quarters of an acre in the park on Bayview Road and will be erecting a transmitting tower in Colden for Bison City TV Chan nel 49 Spokesman John Pauss said the call letters for the UH station will be WNYB The company hopes to have the station on the air this year The town of Colden issued a special use permit this week allowing construction of the 1000 foot tower south of Partridge Road and about l1 miles east of Center Street Hamburg real estate agent Jeffery Jackson who is handling the purchase for Media Cen By ROD WATSON Common Council President George Ar thur late riday proposed a compromise date for the planned stadium summit meet ing that splits the difference between the original date set by the Council and one pro posed earlier riday by Mayor Griffin Mr Arthur suggested a June 5 meeting among the mayor County Executive Rut kowski the Council the city comptroller county Legislature leaders stadium planners and state officials The Council last week scheduled a meet ing among the same beonle for June 7 after most of them skipped a similar session May But after conferring with some colleagues 17 Instead of agreeing Mayor Griffin riday invited the same group to his meeting and set the date for June 3 Council members accused the mayor of political gamesmanship and Mr Arthur warned the mayor was threatening the fu ture of the $623 million stadium Unless key Rail Service Is Altered Kemp Aide To Join Staff At Children's The head of Rep Jack Buffalo district office is resigning to become senior vice president for community and government relations at Chil Hospital Russell Gugino who has been Mr district administra tive assistant since 1979 will as sume his new position Aug 1 according to an announcement riday by the hospital Mr Kemp in a statement released by his Washington of fice saTd he was accepting Mr resignation great reluctance because Russ has been such an asset not only to my office but to the people in my district whom he has There were reports Mr Gugi no had wanted to join the con Washington staff but it was understood the vacancies on both the office and political action committee staff have been filled by people with national experience Mr responsibilities at Children will include raising and working on munity and governmental tions projects A 1971 graduate of the RONALD COLLERANBuffalo News ties including pie throwing Gretchen Diefen bach sure whether to laugh or cry as whipped cream concoction plasters her Recognition Due Efforts The Buffalo News Local ews Jury in Beaumariage Murder Trial Hears Tape Recorded Confession Media irm Will Build Tower Studio for New Area TV Station A W'? 1 'L 27 Vi 'St VtWi nA' ySgBan? fl 'z mEv V' BOMlWMr OTMWrr 2 at 1 A A A RMBfM llEe Sir' A 4 I I.