Syracuse Herald-American (Newspaper) - February 17, 1985, Syracuse, New York ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS ft V definitely tlie disease SU DOMINATES i DON'T TREAD iSU Addison Washington combine for 45 Dl ONUS residents call for Cl 4 Hera VOL 105 NO 5 SUNDAY FEBRUARY 444 THE 1985 The Company FINAL EDITION Record spending not enough to fix state's bridges By Jonathan Salant Albany Bureau ALBANY The number of bridges in New York needing repairs continues to rise despite levels of state highway spending liy the time the current fiscal year ends March 31 the state will have awarded a record million worth of highway projects Yet from 1983 to 1984 the number of deficient bridges grew by 124 to 8.300 42 percent of the state's 19.500 bridges Last year for example bridge in- found that rivets on the Clark Street bridge in Auburn were loose The bridge had to lie added to the repair list Money hasn't yet had a chance to turn those around said Dan Egan assistant commissioner for Girl 13 dies in DWI charged A Syracuse girl was killed Saturday by a hit-and-run driver later charged with lar manslaughter and driving while intoxicated He later re- turned to the scene and dered to police Kathleen Galvin of Killmore Ave died at Upstate Medical ter almost two hours after the p.m accident along the 1700 hlock of Valley Drive according to police spokesman Rod Carr She was the daughter of James and Galvin Bruce Helvie of 141 W Chaffee Ave the driver of the vehicle was charged with vehicular slaughter driving while in- and a count of leaving the scene of an accident Carr said Helvie was charged with DWI because he has a prior DWI conviction Carr said Carr said Galvin was walking along the shoulder of the road when she was struck by a brown pickup truck with a South of the Border bumper sticker She was tossed about 40 feet when hit by the vehicle Carr said Helvie had just left a tavern and was southbound on Valley Drive when the accident occurred Carr said At p.m Helvie returned on foot to the scene of the accident and surrendered to Sgt David Fix Carr said Investigators found the pickup truck in the driveway of residence Helvie is being held in the Public Safety Building jail for an ment on Monday Assistant District Attorneys vatore J Piemonte and James C Hopkins Til were at the scene of the accident The police tion was by U James P Boynton Regents seek faster reports of sex abuse By Jay I1 Goldman Staff Writer Less than three weeks after a North Syracuse School District teacher was charged with ing a student the stale Board of Regents is expected to propose requiring prompt ing of child abuse SEX ABUSE Page tration and finance of the state De- part of Transportation it takes time for repairs lo be made once the contracts are awarded the new money the slate is spending on bridge repairs isn't yet visible lo Egan said The state's five-year gram is being financed primarily by -i billion infrastructure bond issue and a increase in federal gasoline tax There is going to be a lag between the time we apply the money and the time the public sees the benefit Egan said As long as the contracts are awarded improved roads and bridges are just around the bend said Jim McGowan legislative director of the New York Slate Automobile tion the statewide group of AAA clubs A contract lelling means you've signed a lo do a segment of road or McGowan said Within a relatively short space of lime you're going lo sec the money into road or bridge improvements The new money already has bled DOT to stop the rate of along the state's highway tem and to begin to a long lisl of deferred state transportation officials said Over the last three years for example the backlog of re- pairs has been reduced by 286 miles Nevertheless there's a long way lo go An 12 percent of the highway needs re- pairs In DOT Region 3 Cayuga Onondaga Oswego Seneca Tompkins and Wayne REBUILDING Page miln Road conditions Bol highway Location ot highway Region U Fulton Hamilton Herkimer Madison Montgomery 393 221 Region III Cayuga Cortland Onondaga Oswego Seneca Tompkins 640 207 3.578 Region Vll Clinton Franklin Lewis St 578 Stale Department of HERE SHE IS Wells Miss America 1985 signs an autograph for an admirer at the Fay's Drug store in the eca Mall Saturday Wells held session later Saturday afternoon at Mall DeWitt Story on Page C5 Israelis pull back Sidon residents celebrate Time to decide Equal access to long-distance calls arrives By James T Mulder Staff Writer The most dramatic effect of the breakup of American Telephone Telegraph Co will he felt in Syracuse this week when about phone tomers get their first taste of real competition in long-distance phone service On Saturday the New York Telephone Co will introduce equal access to exchanges serving tomers in downtown Syracuse and parts of the city's South Side and East Side Under equal access consumers will be able to make long-distance calls just as easily through companies like MCI or GTE Sprint as they now can through The change means consumers will no longer have to dial up to 12 digits or have a touch-tone phone to use one of tors New York Telephone spokesman Steve Brady paid customers included in the first cutover have been asked to select one of the following six com- panies as their primary long-distance Long Distance MCI Telecommunications Corp RCI Corp ACC GTE Sprint and Western Union Long Distance Service Under Federal Communications Commission regulations customers who don't select a carrier will automatically have their long-distance calls routed through Brady said Customers in the following exchanges will be included in Saturday's 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 640 421 422 423 424 and 428 Brady said the next cutover to equal access is scheduled for May 25 in telephone exchanges 432 433 437 456 and 463 Most of Syracuse and its suburbs will be converted to equal access by the end of 1986 he said Depending on their long-distance calling habits equal access can result in savings of up to 50 percent or more for some customers said Robert Krughoff president of Consumers CHECKBOOK a Washington nonprofit consumer watchdog group But because of the multitude of differences in each company's and service choosing the best long-distance carrier can be as difficult as ing a needle in a Without the right Krughoff said consumers might as well toss a pair of dice when they pick a long-distance carrier The imminent change is being received with a mixture of cynicism and frustration by Syracuse consumers like Joseph E Delmonico III who is still accustomed to one giant company handling all of his telephone service LONG-DISTANCE Page Herald American wire services Lebanon Israeli troops pulled down their last flags I heir last encampments and withdrew from the Sidon area completing the first stage of their three-phase pullout from Lebanon The withdrawal involving 300 men the last units holding the Awali River bridge north of Sidon went off without incident Units from the Lebanese army's 12th Brigade entered Sidon shortly after the last Israeli personnel rier had pulled away Lebanese troops of the so-called South Lebanon Army had left the city earlier Thousands of Sidon residents free of Israeli troops for the first time since lined the streets cheering throwing rice and putting roses in the rifle rels of Lebanese troops who moved into the port city The last detachment of Israeli troops crammed into armored carriers and made tanks and rumbled east Some took up positions inside a new defense line and others con- south toward Israel with a crv of With the withdrawal Saturday Israel gave up about 200 square miles of Lebanese territory with a population of 400.000 11 is still holding square miles with about people In the second stage of the back expected in April troops will abandon positions facing Syrian forces in eastern Lebanon The third phase to be completed by next fall will bring them to northern border leaving a wide strip patrolled by the South Lebanon Army and token Israeli units After the withdrawal two Israeli Sky hawk fighters roared out of the clouds and swooped low over Sidon dropping pods that released leaflets Israel's basic the lets said lies in Lebanon's return to its original sovereign stable character South Lebanon will have rity stability and peace as long as northern Israel docs If Israeli forces come under attack they will have to respond with double the force and deal lethal blows to I he area from which the attacks come showing no mercy or any other considerations Israeli soldiers in armored personnel carriers and M- tanks drive out of the south Lebanese port city of Sidon Flurries Partly sunny A2 Today's chuckle Many people have will power It's won't power that's in short supply Today's features Bliven Local Lottery Guide GOP leaders defend programs on hit list By Robert Pear New York Times News Service WASHINGTON Leading Senate Republicans have rejected President Reagan's proposals to ish the Small Business the Job Corps and to restrict eligibility for federally teed student loans But they have agreed in ple to many spending cuts In the two weeks since Reagan proposed a budget for the fiscal year which begins Oct 1 the focus of attention has shifted to Capitol Hill where Senate Republicans are sifting through the dent's plans Most of the 16 committee chairmen have sent ters to Sens Bob Dole of Kansas the majority leader and Pete V of New Mexico the chairman of the Budget Committee assessing Dole and had asked for the ters in an effort to get the budget process off to an early start Senate Republican leaders have agreed on a goal of reducing federal spending by billion in the fiscal year 1986 and by a of billion in through 1988 The letters to Dole and Domenici represent the first efforts by committee chairmen to reach this goal They illustrate basic agreement on the need to reduce the deficit but not necessarily in the ways proposed by the president Senate Republican leaders said last week that they would propose eliminating the mg adjustments in many benefit programs ing Social Security However the chairmen stressed that the bunion of budget ruts in general must ho shared bly in the words of Son Frank 11 Murkowski of BUDGET Page AM You're licked if you didn't mail it WASHINGTON AP If you put off mailing those letters or bills Saturday you'll have to add more postage today The cost of mailing a letter rose today from 20 cents to 22 cents the first hike in first-class age in years Virtually all classes of mail were increasing in price by an amount similar to the 13 cent increase in first-class rates Postcards rose from 13 cents to 14 cents Sending a package by parcel post in- creased percent
