Star Gazette The First Gannett Newspaper ttlrrra, N.Y.,July 22, 1982 25 Cents I I I rp, 'V School impressions controversy il 1 II I llw Seven children from Ireland The Troy School Seven children from Ireland The Troy School Liverpool ousts Horscheacls Liverpool breaks open a one-run Babe Ruth Tournament baseball game with a nine-run inning to eliminate host Horseheads, 15-5. Page 4B Committee wants some answers to hard questions put to members of the board of the Troy Area School District. Page IB. enjoy a temporary escape from a battle-torn nation while being hosted this summer by area families. At the same time, a group of Japanese students staying in Elmlra reflect upon the impressions of their visit.
Page 8A Thursday TODAY'S WEATHER: Sunny. High, 83. Tonight: Cloudy. Low, 50. (Details, Page 2A.) ft Problem plagues Bradford County Assessor delays costing taxpayers LOCAL- curacy.
Then they were supposed to notify Chief Assessor Klas Anderson of any changes by the end of July, in time for the county to officially adopt the assessment roles. Did he plan to pick them up soon? "Well, no, I don't expect to," he said. "I don't get out In South Waverly, Assessor Eva Havens said she hadn't gotten around to it because she had been sick. 'I haven't picked mine up because I haven't been up that way lately an assessor commenting on why he hasn't gotten his tax books A new health facility is dedicated in Waverly and it will be ready to take its first patients in August. Page IB.
A fire in Chemung County destroys a two-story barn and kills 60 head of cattle on a Holstein breeding farm. Page IB. By RICHARD PRICE Staff writer Scattered on the floor in one corner of the Bradford County chief assessor's office is a pile of books, their royal-blue covers gathering cobwebs and dust. They are a monument to a system of local tax assessment in such disrepair that it has made Bradford County a laughing-stock among assessors around the state and could be costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. The books are property assessment rolls.
Tax assessors in municipalities around the county, who are elected officials paid $4 an hour for their work, were notified at the beginning of June to pick them up and check them for ac been hearing about taxes," he said. In Tuscarora Township, Assessor David Mullicsn denied he had neglected to pick up his copy of the rolls. "I got that a couple of months ago," he said. But Tuscarora's book still lies in the chief assessor's office. And Mullican never initialed the chief assessor's log indicating that he had picked up the book.
Anderson says there are no other copies. Adding to the problem is the fact that at least a half-dozen municipalities don't even have an assessor. "We haven't had one in the last eight years," said Leo Dalpiaz, a council member in Monroe. "We've left it up to the county." (See Assessments on Page IB.) Had she notified the chief assessor's office? "Well, no," she said. "I'm feel-ing a little better; maybe I can get down there in a day or two." In New Albany, Assessor Victor He-verly said he wouldn't pick up the books because he had decided to resign.
"I'm tired of all the static I've Some assessors did pick up the books. Some didn't. And with just 10 days left in July, their books sit on the chief assessor's floor. "I haven't picked mine up because I haven't been up that way lately," explained Ralph Hutchinson, assessor in West Burlington Township. STATE Legislature Democrats are demanding that an investigation into allegations that a probe into American Telephone Towanda hospital to expand and Telegraph's tax status was covered up by the state administration.
Page 3A. Pictures are taken inside the reactor at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Page 3A. NATION join larger, more financially secure health care organizations. In Tioga County (N.Y.), Tioga General Hospital, a 65-bed facility, has already agreed to come under the wing of the larger Packer Hospital in Sayre, and in Bradford County, the Troy Community Hospital is now considering a similar offer from Packer.
Memorial Hospital campaign director Lansing A. Gordon said Wednesday the move has been planned for more than two years and was done after an exhaustive feasibility and need study. The campaign drive starts Sept.7 and will run until December. By then, hospital administrators said, the arrangements for the hospital to float a bond issue should be completed. (See Expansion on Page 3B.) BY TIMOTHY DOUGHERTY Waverly bureau chief TOWANDA A major campaign to raise $1.3 'million for the expansion of Memorial Hospital here will get under way in early September and will help fund the estimated $7 million cost.
The expansion will be in the emergency room and the coronary intensive care unit. No beds will be added to the 97-bed hospital and skilled nursing unit. The plan, already under consideration by the state Department of Health, Division of Need Review and the NY-Penn Health Systems Agency, will add several new staff members and more size to the physical layout of the facility. It comes at a time when the national and regional trends are for small community hospitals to give up their independence and 2. WP, -Jr yr jf ill.
a s. Interior Secretary James Watt opens most of U.S. coastline to gas and oil drilling. Page 5A. Democrats lose in bid to fight Republican-favored tax increase.
Page 5A. I) Watt The gross national product shows improvement but tough times remain. Ha era ft A House supports Reagan on missiles, planes Three banks may suffer losses of $390 million on bad loans. Page 7B. WORLD Moslems march despite the Israeli- PLO shelling exchange.
Page 6A. tion money in May. In early evening, after nearly five hours of debate, the House defeated, 289-127, an amendment to delete $510 million from the $860 million the bill earmarked for the first of 50 Lockheed C-5B and use the other $350 million to buy Boeing 747 planes for long-haul cargo use. Rep. Robert Badham, championing yet another candidate airplane McDonnell Douglas' proposed C-17 design' first moved to delete all of the money for either the 747 or C-5B.
But hie, too, lost, 344-74. The airplane issue emerged as the most fiercely lobbied military-hardware issue in the defense bill, and the sales pitches picked up steam after the Senate last May chose the 747 over the C-5B in a floor fight. The two choices will have to be reconciled by a conference committee that eventually will iron out differences in the Senate and House versions of the overall authorization bill. WASHINGTON (AP) The House on Wednesday narrowly endorsed President Reagan's proposal to begin production of the MX missile without a basing plan for it, then hours later solidly supported his request for a new fleet of Lockheed Corp. C-5B cargo planes.
Acting on amendments to a $177.1 billion defense authorization bill, the House voted 212-209 to accept a proposal that would earmark $1.14 billion for production of the first nine MX missiles but put a temporary hold on $260 million of that amount until the administration makes a decision on how to base the weapon. Reagan and Pentagon officials have promised that the decision will be forwarded to Congress in December. Rep. Samuel Stratton, offered the MX amendment as a substitute to a measure by Reps. Nicholas Mavroules, and Beverly Byron, that would have removed all production funds for the missile from the bill.
The Senate voted to delete MX produc 4 ti-y AP Loserphoto Girder falls; 1 killed Police examine a girder after a construction worker was killed and five others injured Wednesday when the 300-foot, 130-ton hunk of metal fell from a crane at the site of a construction project on Interstate 81 in Syracuse. Prime Minister Thatcher visits injured bandsman (above) from Tuesday's terrrorist attack while the Household Calvary rides on in London. Page 6A. Signs of hope in Poland 1,227 dissidents freed; martial law relaxed phia suburb for an autopsy, said the wound was self-inflicted and the weapon was a shotgun. The spokesman asked not to be identified.
Garroway, with his gentle, relaxed manner and his wry sense of humor brought a new style to the 1st Today' show host kills self INDEX WARSAW, Poland (AP) Gen. Woj-ciech Jaruzelski granted freedom to 1,227 interned dissidents Wednesday, relaxed martial law and said military rule might end this year if Poland remains calm. Business 7B Classified 9.10.11B Comics 11A Crossword 9B Deaths 8B Editorials 4A Horoscope 9A Local 1B-3B, 8B Movies 9A News obits 2B Pennsylvania 3A People 2A Sports 4B-6B, 12B TV HA Weather 2A 2 NEWS SECTIONS Authorities said later that Solidarity leader a fill W7q Inca Ufiiil1 ia fledgling world of morning television news and talk shows when he inaugurated "Today" on NBC in 1952. He often appeared with the lovable chimp, J. Fred Muggs, and was noted for his his bow ties, ain in custodv "for his Jumble 11B jtoRK own safetv." Other 8A-10A, 12A prominent leaders of the ernment would welcome a visit by Pope John Paul II but "proper conditions must be created.
There must be peace in the country." As he spoke, Poland's Roman Catholic primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp, announced in Rome that the pontiff had scrapped plans to visit Poland next month but might return to his homeland sometime before September 1983. The pope did not mention the trip during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square. Jaruzelski, addressing Poland's Sejm, or Parliament, announced relaxations of martial law which will make it easier for Poles to travel abroad, allow them. to make international telephone calls and receive and send packages.
"It is the intention of the WRON (the ac- ronym for the ruling military council) that the conditions making possible the suspension of martial law turn out to be right by the end of this year," the. general said. Customer service Garroway To start or chanee vour subscription: Pall SWARTHMORE, Pa. (AP) -Dave Garroway, the original "Today" show host who signed off his broadcasts with a raised right palm and a wish for "Peace," killed himself Wednesday with a shotgun blast to his head, authorities said. He was 69.
His son, Michael, said Garroway had been suffering complications following open-heart surgery and "we believe that he unfortunately succumbed to the traumatic effects of his illness." A spokesman for the Delaware County Medical Examiner's office where the body was taken from Garroway's home in this Philadel suspended laDor leaer-ation were also among the 637 internees denied release. A spokesman for Poland's ruling military council, Mai. Wieslaw 734-5151 (in Chemune Countv): 962.4000 (tmm horned-rimmed glasses and above all his trademark signoff. Cornine area): 565-2065 (from Waverlv-Savro. Athens area), and ask for Ext.
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To solve delivery oroblem: Firrt call vour He left the show in 1961 and never again achieved equal success or popularity. His last TV appearance came earlier this year on a 30th anniversary retrospective for the "Today" show. Gornicki, said 913 internees were being freed outright and 314 placed on leave, including all women detainees. Jaruzelski, who is premier and head of i the Communist Party, also said the gov- carrier. If unsuccessful, call the appropriate number listed above during the same hours..
