Daily Times (Newspaper) - March 8, 1977, Primos, Pennsylvania N Red Arrow pact deadline 5 Delaware County HOME DELIVERY 90 CENTS Tuesday March FIFTEEN CENTS capsule have done no wrong Talis break off CHESTER tions resumed Monday between Sun Co and Local 8901 of the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union and continued until mid- night According to U S mediator Charles Butler negotiations broke off sub- ject to one hour call on the part of either party No negotiations are scheduled for today Butler said Sun Co employes re- flyers passed out at plant gates Monday ing the issues The union's hot line service however contained nothing new this morning The contract expired at noon March 1 and negotiations have been ing on since then while union members continue to work There has been no re- ported change in the status of the OCAW local in Toledo Ohio has been on strike for more than a month Help Needed Mr and Mrs Bernard and their six children aged 12 to 20 whose home was destroyed in -a recent fire at 413 Poplar St Darby are in need of a new place to rent according to a sister-in-law Mrs Veronica Horan of 138 Stratford Road Glenolden Mrs Horan said the family has been staying at her home and that of friends at 920 Pine St Darby What they mainly need is a roof over their head right said Mrs Horan The Horan family would like to rent a home in the Darby area at a reasonable price Horan is an employe at Boeing Vertol Co Ridley Township The family needs food and household items Veronica Horan said Persons in- in helping obtain new living quarters for the fire victims should call Veronica Horan at or Mr and Mrs Charles Union Elects Carmen Scarduzio has been re-elected president of Local 2607 American Federation of State County and Municipal Employes Union AFL-CIO 2607 covers the Southeast section of Pennsylvania including Delaware County includes employes of construction inspectors real estate division general services and hospital technicians Daily Times A index Sweeney denies trip profit State Sen John J Sweeney Upper Darby Democrat today to a story about his travel expenses with the ing I want to comment on the article concerning me which on the front of Friday's edition The prominence of the article the headlines the picture all project the image that I did something wrong I resent that inference I have done no wrong To connote otherwise is blatantly unfair and unwarranted I have served this Commonwealth and my constituents honorably and well and have always acted in the public interest Your reporter interviewed me in Harrisburg late Thursday I offered to furnish him the information he requested by the following day He told me that he could not wait because he had a to meet thus 1 became the victim of a deadline I should like therefore to correct some of the in the article I DID NOT at any time infer imply state admit acknowledge to your reporter that I made a profit That was an uninformed and erroneous assumption of his The di- I received was absolutely legal and in full com- with all rules and forty-three miles a difference of the State's expense In four days four hundred and thirty-two miles I inspected two major airports an of private airports the sixty-four dollars and eighty Southwest Metroplex and met cents with federal county airport and airline officials The information That error was detected by and experience will better enable me last October On Oct 25 1976 as Chairman of the Military I refunded to State Account Affairs and Aeronautics Com- the sum of thirty dollars to deal more effectively and credited the balance of witn tne problems and needs of tne more hundred andl private airports in four dollars and eighty cents to Mobil Oil Company Account The latter sum was Pennsylvania tions pertaining to all state employes State federal union and business employes are bursed for official mileage and are given per diem allowances The prevailing rate for most is fifteen cents per mile regardless of the mode of used The total mileage for my trip as computed by a State Di- Clerk was thirty-five hundred and seventy-five miles That calculation was in error because it represented in- stead of air miles The correct figure is thirty-one hundred and in payment for that portion of my billing which represented official travel in the District during the months of August and tember 1976 It is interesting to note that although I am legally authorized to do so that is the first time in my twenty-seven months in the Senate that I charged the State for official travel in Delaware County That represents a savings to the taxpayers of about five hundred dollars expense The article has been construed by some as linking my trip with the current controversy con- Senator Nolan's re- to render a public counting for all funds under his control Such a conclusion is absolutely without merit The resolution will provide for the appointment of a Blue Ribbon Commission which will be vested with the authority to examine audit evaluate and make public any and all records pertaining to funds allocated dispersed to the Senate leadership and all members of the Senate The resolution will specifically state the names positions of those to be appointed none of whom will be officeholders I welcome such an inquiry Those of us who have nothing to hide will be the beneficiaries of such an investigation THE INDIGNATION manifested by the press and the public is understandable and justified However a diligent pursuit of the truth should not be so unbridled as to tar everyone with the same brush We must first get the facts and then judge To do otherwise would further undermine the basic tenets upon I HAVE consistently supported and voted for the Sunshine principle I have always advocated the that the public's business must be done money which is rightfully mine publicly There is no other option which this country was founded and which I have not claimed if we are to restore the public's If decent and dedicated people are subjected to unfair public abuse they will instinctively be discouraged from holding or seeking public office Our then towards reform will be in This despite the fact that the allowance allocated to me by the State for expenses and for tions of my District Office have never been sufficient to cover my expenditures I pay all losses out of my own pocket confidence in government at all levels Various attempts during the past two years to induce the Senate leadership to make available to the public all MY TRIP to and was no junket and was my first out-of-state trip at cial records have been unsuccessful Last week I initiated the preparation of a resolution which will be com- and introduced shortly like manner diminished To ig- nore that reality is myopic To be insensitive to it is to perpetuate the mediocrity in which we wallow Vadino post with Guthrie By MARLENE FAZIO Dally Times Staff Writer MEDIA COURTHOUSE The Delaware County Board of Judges Monday named Donald S Guthrie as deputy district court administrator to fill the vacancy created last by the death of D Vadino Guthrie who has been de- administrator for Delaware County's district justice system since 1971 will assume the duties immediately I am very pleased and a bit he said following the appointment This represents a real challenge I am extremely happy that they the board of judges have the confidence in me and I hope I can do the job for them GUTHRIE a Chester attorney succeeds Vadino in the a year post Vadino who was appointed in Feb 1976 was the first person to serve as district court administrator for the county In his new position Guthrie will supervise the scheduling and overall operation of both civil and criminal court President Judge Francis J Catania who made the cement said Guthrie will con- to serve in both capacities until a successor is named to his district justice post on March 16 GUTHRIE WAS selected to that post in April 1971 Prior to that he served as a justice of the peace in Swarthmore He received his bachelor's de- gree from College and received his law degree in 1959 from Temple University and was admitted to the Delawre County Bar Association in 1960 A member of the county state and American Bar Associations he is solicitor for the Delaware me differ on butchers P DONALD GUTHRIE County Campus of Perm State and the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Chester Last year he was also appointed as a member of the statewide task force on con- stables Officials of Acme and A P supermarkets apparently have made opposite decisions about letting striking butchers work The Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union is on strike against the two chains as well as Pantry Pride But only the Pantry Pride stores have been targeted for picketing Union officials said butchers at Acme and A P would report for work However when butchers showed up Monday at the A P at 601 W Baltimore Pike He and his wife Carol have Springfield they were told to two sons Dorm 11 and David 8 The family lives in Middletown The board of judges also pointed Mrs Anna Vadino as Mental Health Examiner for Haverford State Hospital her late leave James Simmons declined to call the action a lockout by the company They management are not calling it Simmons said The union does not have a contract In Norwood auto death Plea upsets victim's family Pennsylvania Transportation Authority con- tract with United Transportation Union on its Red Arrow Division expires April 1 Page 5 Weeks calls attention to silent war being waged in this country 10 High wrestler Steve Smith owns record Page 13 Amuse Bridge Classified Comics Crossword Editorials Horoscope 17 Obits 22 Outlook Sports Stocks 23 TV 6 Weather 23 Youth 8 22 2 9 By MARLENE FAZIO Times Staff Writer MEDIA COURTHOUSE A year-old man who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter Monday was costed outside the courtroom by the victim's brother who charged justice wasn't served The defendant David terson 25 of Jansen Ave had just left the courtroom when Ronald ciane ran up and attempted to take a punch at him In the emotional confrontation Ranald screamed this guy killed my brother and he's only going to get five years Mrs Peter Contrisciane the victim's mother broke into tears and weeped he killed Kenny and he Patterson didn't even have a driver's license Now he's going to be free to kill somebody else SHERIFF'S deputies quickly separated Contrisciane and terson and led the defendant from the courthouse The case involved the death of Kenneth A Contrisciane 25 of 3600 Williamson Ave Brookhaven who was struck and killed by a car driven by terson last Christmas morning at the intersection of Chester Pike and Ave Norwood According to testimony terson was intoxicated and ing at a high rate of when he struck Contrisciane who was thrown 100 feet The accident occurred after the victim had stepped out of his car and was talking to police about a previous collision Police reports also indicated that after striking defendant's car S rammed into two parked cars and a Prospect Park police vehicle before smashing through a pharmacy window THE VICTIM'S family was in the courtroom Monday as specifics of the plea bargain worked out between Asst Dist Atty David Breen and defense attorney Jack Brian was ex- to Judge Domenic D Jerome who presided The family listened intently to Judge Jerome's remarks that five years was the maximum sentence Patterson could receive under the law Then Ronald Contrisciane walked to the front of the and said he was speaking on behalf of my brother This guy Patterson was ing 100 miles an hour How can he get off with involuntary Contrisciane contended the de- fendant should have received third degree murder Breen told Judge Jerome that he had talked to the family as well as members of the district attorney's office and it was de- the case did not rise above involuntary manslaughter The union A P of locking out its members Contracts between the chains and five union locals expired at midnight Saturday Business is normal with the exception that the meat case is almost Simmons said Butchers at a county Acme were allowed to work manager of the Clifton Heights store on Bishop Road David Brandt said the workers reported as usual and were not turned away The situation at the Acme and A P markets apparently was in keeping with separate positions adopted by them despite an agreement between the three chains that says a strike against one is a strike against ail It looks like their agreement is breaking Joseph a spokesman for the union said The strike closed all county Pantry Pride stores as members of the Teamsters and Retail Clerks unions honored picket lines set up by the Federal mediator Charles Deussing had been conducting talks which broke off at 5 Sunday No new talks have been scheduled but Deussing said he was in touch with both parties on a regular basis Nettleton said the main issue in the dispute is premium pay double time and a half for JUDGE Jerome accepted the day double time for Saturday plea but indicated he was willing night and an extra for the to communicate with attorney midnight shift communicate Peter Rohana Jr who represents the family He also deferred any ing pending an investigation into the defendant's background Following adjournment Ronald left the back of the courtroom and then raced down the corridor to confront Patterson who companied by sheriff's deputies was exiting from the front Patterson made no comment as authorities quickly stepped into the confrontation Boyle hearing MEDIA COURTHOUSE Judge Francis J Catania has set Thursday for a second hearing on former United Mine Workers union president W A Tony Boyle's request for bail in connection with the killing of union dissident Joseph Jock Yablonski his wife and daughter
