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SOUTH EDITION SOUTH EDITION The Buffalo NewsWednesday March 20 1985 Page 5 Metropolfcan News Area Colden Gets of limit 4 Stadium Wind Tests Will ocus On ly Balls Engineer Insists produced by its 28 support the Buffalo effects at the reve Seat Belts Given Credit in Crash Grants Boost the Area Housing announced by JCC to Raise Tuition UB Professor inds Hope for Son in TV Movie said just 12:40 Park UB profes different discovered on a tech more experience to make he has reason for that Mr Kerl previously had project would require cut acre of trees Mr Zywic million to gov and Niagara CHAIN REACTION A state trooper and motorists survey the damage this morning in a five vehicle pileup that was one of three accidents occurring between 7:30 and 8 am on the receptions to present academic awards a for year book distribution and prom prepa rations and a pre commencement banquet also were suggested School Superintendent George Drescher chairman of the gradua tion panel said nearly all of the parents who responded to a ques tionnaire on the graduation plans favored the proposals Some asked that the ceremony scheduled for a Sunday evening be held earlier that day so families can celebrate their children's graduation after the event he added Mr Drescher said the district was unable to secure a hall for this ceremony during a Sunday afternoon He said officials plan to conduct the graduation about 7:30 pm June 23 instead of the 8 pm as originally proposed Erie County investiga tors reported Tuesday night that the wearing of a seat belt probably saved the life of Gregory Mum bach 33 of Genesee Road Concord Mr Mumbach's vehicle was in volved in a head on collision with a car that went out of control on a snow covered section of Genesee Road in the town of Concord at 5 pm according to Deputies Bradley Roth and James Hatch Mr Mumbach suffered face head and internal injuries He was taken to Bertrand Chaffee Hospital in Springville where he was report ed in fair condition Nelson Winter 43 of Shirley Road North Collins the driver of the other car suffered minor in juries in the accident according to the investigators He was wearing a seat belt too Deputy Hatch report ed and suffered multiple injuries in cluding a crushed chest and multi ple fractures of both legs A spinal cord injury was discov ered after doctors diagnosed the other injuries Mr Garverick said The other injuries eventually heated but the spinal cord and the paralysis did not of the accident they may lose some of the quality of life they once had whether it is psycho logical emotional or Mr Garverick said advances have been made to help those who normally would have died The next step is to make them Simply put bio engineering tries to stimulate the body by sending electronic impulses through a small device similar to the implantable cardiac pacemaker (which was de veloped at the University of Buffalo in the early 1960s) The doctors at Wright State University in Ohio treating Nan Davis in jolted her body by sending electron ic impulses from outside her skin said Mr Garverick The electronic impulses take the place of the disa bled organs of the body JAMESTOWN The board jof trustees of Jamestown Com jmunity College voted Tuesday afternoon to increase tuition at the two year school by $100 a year effective in the 1985 86 school year The tuition will rise to $1150 College President Paul Benke said the increase is necessary to meet the budget needs The increase is the first since 1983 The board also voted to place a cap on laboratory fees at $60 a semester By KIM LUKASIAK Neus Cheektowaga Bureau The Depew Board of Education Tuesday night approved proposed changes in the high graduation procedures and activities The board adopted a report pre pared by a 16 member graduation study committee that included com ments submitted by about 40 parents The committee had proposed a schedule for review and notification of each graduation status The schedule is aimed at answering complaints lodged by parents and students last year when some sen iors were banned from the gradua tion ceremony the day of the event because they lacked enough credits or failed an exam The panel proposed scheduling this graduation on June 23 at Villa Maria College Departmental By DAVE CONDREN The town of Colden Planning Board declined Tuesday night to reconsider its recommendation in favor of a proposed 1000 foot tall television tower after listening to a long list of arguments against it I can say is come down to the Town Board when they make their decision and rattle the saber a little advised Planning Board Chairman Murray Warner at the conclusion of an informal 45 minute discussion The Planning Board last month recommended that the Town Board issue a special permit to Media Central the firm that wants to build the tower and to Albert and Ruth Kerl owners of the property on which the $750000 structure would be erected The tower would serve newly licensed Channel 49 Supervisor William Miller said after Tuesday session that the Town Board will consider the permit application at 7:30 pm March 28 Approval by four of the Town Board's five members is needed to grant the permit because more than 20 percent of the proper ty owners within a mile radius of the tower site oppose it he said Although the issue was not for mally before the Planning Board Tuesday night Mr Warner permit ted discussion of it because Ray mond Zywiczynski of Partridge Road had requested to be placed on the agenda The tower would be built about 2500 feet off Partridge Road on property adjacent to Mr Zywic is not a public hearing" Mr Warner pointed out reminding the 30 residents at the meeting that the Planning board already had made its decision Mr Zywiczynski raised a dozen or more objections to the project ranging from the possible need for a sanitary sewer to serve it to the he contended would be cables While said the ting one zynski claimed a total of 1473 acres would be affected by the structure and support facilities That being the case he argued the town should make a formal environmen tal impact study of the project the town have a master plan for asked Betty Strub of Phillips Road another opponent of the project She and others noted that Cold en which has some of the highest terrain in Erie County already has two television towers four radio towers and several utility towers was concern that at some point we are going to reach a saturation Mr Warner con ceded majority of the board felt we have not reached that point ollowing the discussion Mr Warner informally polled the board to determine if anyone wanted to take another vote on the permit application No one did At the very least his father said research is finding ways to stop the tendency of paralyzed limbs to be come much thinner than normal Even if they already have disinte grated doctors are sometimes able to return them to their regular weight and appearance Mr Garv erick said in a position to know of remedies that give hope for the fu Mr Garverick said son was very down at first but he's had more and him feel That was a concern because of the nearby Marine Midland Center which catches wind and channels it down to the street level to create problems for people on foot Mr Rosenow said the study also would pinpoint how snow would accumu late around the stadium and allow planners and maintenance people to take corrective measures As evidence Tuesday he pointed to Downtown $23000 contract with the firm as well as promotional material from the company neither of which mention the possibility of testing for the ef fects on fly balls Mr Williams said this is the first time the company has performed such a study done measurements before inside an open dome so a unique study from that point of he said He noted measures proposed to eliminate the problem in Candle stick Park have been unsuccessful and that park probably was built in the wrong place Mr Rosenow said wind will not be a problem in Buffalo and the issue is just a smokescreen raised by opponents of the stadium site He points to data from the environ mental impact statement showing San rancisco's peak winds come during the baseball season while Buffalo peak winds occur in winter By ROD WATSON The engineer doing wind tunnel tests on the proposed downtown baseball stadium said Tuesday he is conducting a test to measure the effects wind might have on playing conditions in the facility His statement contradicts those from planners who said Mon day that the ball was not a target of the study The conflicting answers left Niagara Council Member Joel A Giambra bemused as he tried to figure out what information his Economic Development Committee will have as it ponders where the stadium should be built Preliminary wind tests results from Morrison Hershfield Ltd should be available riday when planners visit the Guelph Ont testing facility Colin Williams an engineer with the firm said part of the test includes watching how smoke swirls in a wind flow as a scale model of the stadium is subjected to the tests Mr Williams then mentioned accident even while doctors were telling his son Bryan he would never walk again Prof Garverick started discussing his son's situa tion with a network of sors from several departments Along the way he two professors working nique that if applicable to humans would improve the method shown in the movie Their efforts culminated in Tuesday meeting on the campus in which people from the university the community and private businesses met to discuss how they could attract more money to continue the research Their success will determine whether many paralyzed people will be confined to a wheelchair or whether the rapid advances in bio engineering can give them more than hope Mr Garverick 's son now attend ing a rehabilitation program in Rochester is an example of how doctors are able to save the lives of many people involved in serious accidents but cannot make them walk again Bryan was thrown 30 feet after being struck by the car News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The Depart ment of Housing and Urban Devel opment Tuesday awarded grants worth more than SI ernments in Erie counties The grants were Sen Alfonse NY Sen Daniel Moynihan NY and Rep Jack Kemp Hamburg Erie County will receive $119000 for rental rehabilitation work to in crease the private housing supply to low income families The county also was given authority to distrib ute HUD housing vouchers to 23 low income families The vouchers which operate like food stamps enable families to rent housing anywhere they choose riorthbound Niagara Thruway Hamburg Street exits No serious injuries were reported in the accidents which involved 10 vehicles San Candlestick Park which is notorious for the effect its swirling winds have on fly balls making sure that sort of thing going to happen in your stadium he told News Council members had expressed concern about wind Seneca Street site preferred by the Griffin administration Preservationists opposed to a stadium at that site bounded by Washington Swan Oak and Ex change streets also had express ed that concern and warned that such problems during minor league games could hurt the chances of attracting a major league team But on Monday planners called that issue a and told Mr Giambra that type of informa tion would not be a focus of the study The study would focus on how the wind outside the stadium would impact on pedestrians ac cording to Charles Rosenow president of Development Down town Inc and project coordinator for the stadium Disaster Loan Help The US Small Business Administration will open an outreach office here riday to help small businesses in Erie and Niagara counties that may be eligible to borrow up to $500000 to cover damages from the January blizzard and the ebruary floods The outreach office will be open riday and Saturday at the Gen Donovan State Office Building across Main Street from Memorial Auditorium Loan applications also will be accepted through Dec 16 at the area disaster office at 1501 Broadway air Lawn NJ Small business loans carry an interest rate of 4 percent with up to 30 years to repay The federal agency is making the loans available based on a certification by Gov Cuomo that businesses in the two coun ties counties suffered economic injury as a result of the storm and flooding Park Vigil Set A vigil will be held at pm riday in Cathedral to commemorate the anniver sary of the death of Archbishop Oscar Romero who was slain in 1980 in El Salvador while offer ing Mass After the vigil ather Robert Perelli of campus ministry will offer Mass in St Cathedral The vigil is being organized by the Buffalo Committee for Medical Aid to El Salvador I I iODDArObw2iJ between the Smith Street and Speed Limit Stays The State Department Transportation noting that limits which are reasonable will generally be obeyed and that speed limits set unreasonably low will not be voluntarily has re fused the joint requests of the town and village of Alden to lower Exchange Street speed limits A letter from Regional Direc tor Donald Ketchum added that unrealistic speed limits I would serve no useful purpose unless constantly enforced A DOT investigation of road conditions from Henskee Street into the village included the study of physical conditions intersections traffic volume and accident records The Department of Transpor tation ruled that speed limits will remain at 30 mph from Broadway to the railroad tracks and 40 mph from the tracks to town boundaries and then in crease to the state speed of 55 mph experimenting with implanting small electrodes into nerves to di rectly stimulate the body he said This method moves what is now being done from the outside of the body to the inside Both researchers Dr rank Mendel and Dr Dale ish are experimenting with frogs and need additional grant money to continue their work Mr Garverick said Bryan Garverick is still at least a year away from any kind of treat ment his father said The accident left him with heterotropic ossifica tion a hardening of soft tissue in the hip that prevents movement If this process can be stopped he may be in line for some of the bio engi neering feats now in experimental stages If not he will have to resign himself to the fact he will probably never walk again At this time the movie and the advances in the field give him valid grounds for hope feels that someday he might get Mr Garverick said want him to think that way because it gives him a more positive outlook on life than those people who think The two researchers at UB are is it' Robbed of $125 Kensington Station police are searching for three suspects who threatened a Chelsea Place resident with a gun and robbed him of about $125 this morning Officer James Sands reported that Charles Quinnley 31 of 301 Chelsea told police that the three men surprised him in his driveway at 6:15 am and that one of the suspects held a gun to his head The suspects fled with the cash down Appenheim er Avenue By CHARLES ANZALONE or Charles Garverick watching Tuesday television broadcast of was both a source of hope and a remind er The movie showed that computer driven bio engineering can help paralyzed patients walk again something he believes will someday be available in the Buffalo area But even though the program which tells the story of a paralyzed college student from Ohio should help spur his efforts and those of others at the State University of Buffalo to develop this research Mr 19 year old son still sits in a wheelchair after being struck by a car 2 years ago If his son is ever to walk again much remains to be done an academic I had a prob lem My son was hit by a said Mr Garverick a professor at the UB School of Dentistry whose son was injured while walking along Millersport Highway in October 1982 had a situation that was incurable and what was I going to do about Almost immediately after the $191 Eyed As Tax Hike Cheektowaga Sets Bicycle Registration A bicycle registration session will be sponsored by Cheektowaga Youth Engaged in Service in three different sites during Easter vacation The program aids In identifying the owners of lost and stolen bicy cles as they are recovered by po lice It is cosponsored by the Cheek towaga Youth Bureau and Cheek towaga Police Department Registration will be held from 1 to 3 pm April at the North Branch Library 735 Maryvale Drive April 10 at Stiglmeier Park Losson Road and April 11 at the Cheektowaga Recreation Center in the Town Park on Harlem Road Argument on TV Tower In Hamburg A 1985 budget calling for a $191 tax rate increase was unveiled today by the village of Hamburg The proposal would increase vil lage property taxes 2 percent to $8719 per $1000 of assessed valua tion The sewer fee would rise to $2914 per $1000 Clerk Treasurer Coleta A Glass attributed the increases to wildly escalating insurance costs plus in creases in utility bills and employee benefits The spending plan will hold the line on salaries she said is an extreme flux in the insurance business which is of tremendous she insurance has A portion of the added tax nues about $158000 will go toward the construction of waterlines and the purchase of new fire hoses under the $472000 capital improvement program for 1985 Miss Glass said The budget will be the subject of a public hearing at 8 pm March 28 in the Village Hall Depew School Board OKs Agenda Affecting Grads Phillips Gets Award News Albany Bureau ALBANY James Phil lips chairman of the Niagara alls Area Chamber of Com merce since 1979 was cited by the Business Council of New State Tuesday for his ac tivities in improving the busi ness climate in the state Gov Cuomo presented the Commit tment to awards to Mr Phillips and two other busi ness activists at a dinner here Mr Phillips president of the Abrasive Division of'Dresser Industries Inc in Niagara alls helped launch the estival of Lights The festi val has produced a sizable eco jjomic benefit to the area the noted Under his lead ership the member ship has doubled and a small business division and a Niagara alls Area Economic Develop Agency division have'been established in the Cham ber Briefs bJI jl? 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