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Moynihan to Speak At 1-481 CeremonyBy LUTHER F. BLIVENU.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan will speak at ceremonies at 10:30 a.m. today at Thruway Exit 34-A (Col-lamer), marking groundbreaking for the construction of the Interstate 481 extension.This will be a 5.4-mile link in the 1-481 project, which provides a traffic loop around Syracuse from the Ja-mesville-DeWitt area to Collamer, the Thruway and Interstate 81, with connections to Fulton and Oswego.State Transportation Commissioner William C. Hennessy also will , attend the ceremonies.-Moynihan is running for re-election this fall.In other local political developments:• Assemblyman Michael J. Brag-man, the Cicero Democrat who is seeking re-election in the 118th District, announced he will file legisla-: tion next year to establish a state-authorized loan fund to help paid and volunteer fire departments, ambulance corps and rescue squads modernize their facilities and repair or replace equipment and apparatus.• Democratic Assemblyman Melvin N. Zimmer of Syracuse announced Sunday he has received the assurance of Gov. Hugh L. Carey that state funding for the state’s independent living centers for the disabled will continue, without impoundment, throughout 1982.State retrenchments and hiring freezes created concern the living centers would be hit by the state fund shortage.Zimmer said he was assured appropriations will continue to flow to ARISE (Alternative For Reaching Independence Through Services And Engineering) in Syracuse. Such centers provide wide-ranging services to help the disabled lead independent lives. Zimmer also is seeking re-election this fall.• Former Onondaga County Legislator Elaine Lytel, one of two Democrats seeking the party nomination for Congress in the new 27th District, Sunday criticized Republican Reps. Gary Lee of Baldwinsville and George Wortley of Fayetteville for voting against a nuclear freeze resolution.If she had been in Congress, she said, she would have supported the resolution. Lee and Wortley, she said, voted for a Reagan administration plan to, as she put it, “continue atomic arms buildups until reductions can be officially negotiated,”Mrs. Lytel is battling town of Salina Supervisor Darrell Weston for the Democratic nomination and Lee and Wortley are seeking the Republican nomination. The nominees will be determined in the Sept. 23 primary election.• Wortley has announced the selection of Don R. Callahan of Cazenovia, chairman of the Madison County Board of Supervisors, to head his campaign in Madison County.Tbe Wortley campaign committee is planning a fund-raising golf tournament Sept. 13 at the Seven Oaks Golf Club in Hamilton.• The 27th Congressional District race has a new entrant. George Hyrcza of 6414 Hedgerow Lane, Ja-mesville, will be the candidate of the Onondaga County Right to Life Party.
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Syracuse Post Standard

Syracuse, New York, US

Mon, Aug 16, 1982

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