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D2 THE JOURNAL-NEWS, MONDAY, MAY 15, 1989 Haverstraw drug store fire called suspicious WHAT'S AHEAD Meetings in Rockland today: LA WSUITA page B1 lawsuit against the county. He said it is uncertain when the lawsuits will come to trial, but estimates the cases should be cleared within one year. He said filing the lawsuits in federal court instead of state Supreme Court should speed their resolution by about two years. The county's budget for jail construction had to be increased by $300,000 to $20.9 million to cover the cost of fighting the contractors in court. County lawmakers originally had hoped to build the jail for $17.5 million.

Investigators were trying to determine the cause of a suspicious fire in the basement of a Haverstraw village drug store early yesterday. Police said they received a report at 9:15 a.m. of an explosion in Miller's Drug Store, 10 Broadway, in Haverstraw. Firefighters from the Haverstraw Volunteer Fire Department found the basement and part of the upper portions of the store on fire when they arrived, Sgt. Claudio Gatti said.

The fire began in the basement and spread up along a wall to a vacant apartment over the drug store, he said. The county Bureau of Criminal Investiga tion was called to investigate the cause of the fire because of the explosion, Gatti said. "We're just labeling it as a suspicious fire because there was an explosion," Gatti said, "They're (the BCI) trying to determine what caused the explosion." There were no injuries and the fire was extinguished in about an hour, Gatti said. Most of the damage was done to the building's basement, he said. The apartment and the drug store sustained mostly smoke and water damage.

None of the other buildings connected to the drug store were damaged, Gatti said. David Flores SOCCER SEEKERS COUNTY Rules and Confirmation Committee, 7:30 p.m., Legislative Chambers, Allison-Parris County Office Building, 11 New Hempstead Road, New City. RAMAPO Suffern Board of Trustees, 7:30 p.m., workshop, Village Hall, 61 Washington Suffern. CLARKSTOWN Consumer Affairs, 5:15 p.m., Room 301, Town Hall, 10 Maple New City. ORANGETOWN Orangetown Senior Citizens Advisory Board, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall, 26 Orangeburg Road, Orangeburg.

Nyack Reach Out To Youth Advisory committee, 7 p.m., Village Hall, 12 N. Broadway, Nyack. Grand View Board of Trustees, 8 p.m., Village Hall, River Road, Grand View. South Orangetown Board of Education, 7:30 p.m., middle school board room, Van Wyck Road, Blauvelt. In a workshop session, the board is scheduled to consider cuts in the budget defeated by voters in a recent referendum.

HAVERSTRAW Haverstraw village Board of Trustees, 8 p.m., Village Hall, Fairmount Avenue, Haverstraw. 5 rw .1 MM if E. jflrr jF Jtr -SP JBWWc 1M. 1V 4,. 'I t- PEACE, From page B1 journey on film and plotting the daily routes.

The three take turns driving a pair of vans, one ahead of Maleporo and one behind. The volunteer support staff is happy to assist in the peace effort, but they said that the driving effort is more exhausting than they had imagined. "It's eight to 10 hours a day, going 4 or 5 miles per hour," Desco-teaux explained. Maleporo, a native of the Central African Republic, began organizing his Peace Walk 2Vt years ago, inspired by his experience in a 100-mile group walk for peace from his home city of Sherbrooke to Montreal. As he prepared to complete his latest journey, Maleporo was already looking ahead to his next project for peace.

He has applied to the Canadian government for assistance in separate walks around the globe. He hopes to take his mission to nations including China, Great Britain, Italy and the Soviet Union in a series of walks of 160 kilometers each one kilometer for each of the United Nations member states. As he awaits word on approval for that venture, Maleporo, who makes a living as a free-lance marketing and publicity consultant, is also promoting a French-language record he composed and produced. The single, called "II a la Paix" (There is Peace), benefits UNICEF, OXFAM, the Red Cross, and the Quebec Cancer Foundation. As the group resumed its trip yesterday, setting out from Rockland Lake for Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Daigneault said that outside funds will be necesary for Maleporo to continue his efforts, for although he is traveling under UNICEF's auspices, he has funded this entire trip himself.

The cost totals more than 14,000. "Instead of using the money for leisure (activities)," Maleporo said, "I spend it for the world." Staff PhotoJaroslav Waznee Chris Miller of Westfield, N.J., foreground, and Tom Taylor of Berkeley Heights, N.J., watch the action yesterday at the North Rockland Soccer Association fields in Haverstraw. Silent-screen actress Marion Mack, Buster Keaton co-star, dies at 87 MONUMENT monument, and the monument's design has received preliminary approval from city and federal officials, Floyd said. "We think we can raise the rest of the money to reach $5 million between now and October," he said, noting that the memorial is due to be dedicated and open by "Peace Officers Memorial Day" on May 15, 1990, a year from today. When the first fund-raising run to Washington was proposed, Fisher said, many other police groups were sceptical.

However, this year as many as 60 other officers from five other police groups are scheduled to join the 28-hour run to Washington. "The calls are pouring in from police departments all along the route of the run with departments asking how they can participate," Fisher said. The 1988 run was dedicated to the memory of Nyack policemen Waverly Brown and Edward O'Gra-dy, who were killed while trying to block the getaway route used by self-proclaimed radicals in the 1981 Brink's truck holdup at the Nanuet Mall. This year, Fisher said, the marathon is dedicated to Orangetown patrolmen Thomas Kennedy and Michael Reedy, killed Aug. 2, 1973, when they were struck by a car on Route 303 in Orangeburg.

Kennedy and Reedy were assisting in the investigation of an auto accident near, Leber Road when a speeding car ran through a police barrier. Both men were married and had OBITUARIES Arthur F. Kadish: retired personnel manager Arthur F. Kadish of Suffern, a former longtime resident of Tarry-town and a retired personnel manager, died Friday of a heart attack at the Hackensack (N.J.) Medical Center. He was 67.

Mr. Kadish had lived in Suffern for 12 years. Before moving to Suffern, he lived in Tarrytown for more than 25 years. As a personnel manager with American Cyanamid Co. for 38 years, Mr.

Kadish traveled extensively. He began his career with the Lederle Division of American Cyanamid in Pearl River. He had also worked in American Cyanamid's offices in Beacon, N.Y., Norwalk, Lakeland, and Ewing Township, N.J. He retired five years ago. Mr.

Kadish was born Feb. 9, 1922, in Albany to D. Ben and Mary Gill Kadish. He attended schools in Tarrytown and graduated from Sleepy Hollow High School in 1938. He also graduated in 1943 from Lafayette College in Easton, DEATH NOTICES FERRARA, Maria O.

(Dux) of Old Tappan on May 13, 1989. Beloved wife of the late Ralph R. Devoted mother of Patricia Planz Arp of Garnervllle and Ralph M. Ferrara of Old Tappan. Loving grandmother of Deborah Plant Smith of Garnervllle, Michael Ferrara of Pearl River, Jeffrey Ferrara ot Old Tappan, John Plant Jr.

of Highland Mills, and Stephen Ferrara of Berkeley Calif. Dear great grandmother ot Dustln and Trisha. Funeral from the Anthony R. Pliil Funeral Home 120 Paris Northvale, on Wed. 9am.

Funeral Mass at St. Plus RC Church Old Tappan at 10am. Interment St. Peter's Cemetery Haverstraw. Visiting hours Monday and Tuesday 2-4 and 7-9pm.

To Publish: Death Notices Card of Thanks In Memoriams St. Jude Lodge Notices Call: 694-5147 Before Day of Publication M-f: 7:30 am 8:45 pm Sat.i 8 am 8:45 pm 3 pm 6:45 pm Obituaries Call Local Gannett-Wettchester Rockland Papers listed in Telephone Directory w.i children, and Kennedy had only been in the department for six months. Reedy had been an Orange-town patrolman for four years. The second marathon is scheduled to begin 8:30 a.m. tomorrow from Orangetown Town Hall in Orangeburg.

The runners will travel Route 303 to Route 340, and then take Route 9W to the George Wash ington Bridge in Fort Lee, N.J. Crossing into Manhattan, the runners will travel down Broadway and then to the Holland Tunnel, back into New Jersey. They will run along U.S. Route 1 south to Trenton, to Philadelphia, Baltimore and into Washington, D.C. A welcoming ceremony is planned for Wednesday afternoon at the site for the new memorial, Floyd said.

The runners will include three brothers: Christopher, James and Robert Goldrick, the sons of Rockland Sheriff Thomas Goldrick. Robert and James are Orangetown patrolmen, and Christopher is a detective with the District Attorney's office. Also from the District Attorney's office will be William Michel-la and William Englebrecht. From the Clarkstown Police Department are Vinny White, Bobby Mahon, Tom Prendergast, Peter Noonan and Stan Gorzka. Tom Crowe and Terrence Hut-macher of the Orangetown police will drive the escort cars for the trip.

where he was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. On Jan. 21, 1945, he married Ebba Chicachee at Church of the Transfiguration in Tarrytown. During World War II, he was a lieutenant junior grade aboard the USS Mobile in the Pacific. He was a fourth-degree member of the Joyce Kilmer Council of the Knights of Columbus in Suffern.

A member of the Branford Gridiron Club in Branford, he served as chairman of the Spook Rock Golf Committee at the Spook Rock Golf Course in Suffern. Mr. Kadish was a parishioner of Sacred Heart Church in Suffern. In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons, Kenneth Kadish of Colchester, and Arthur F. Kadish Jr.

of New Haven, a daughter, Kathleen Bonn of East Haven, and seven grandchildren. Contributions in his memory may be made to the Ramapo Valley Ambulance Corps, P.O. Box 476, Suffern, N.Y. 10901 or to any other charitable organization of the donor's preference. Arrangements are being handled by Dwyer Funeral Home in Tarrytown.

James 'Ken' Palmer. retired truck driver James "Ken" Palmer, a lifelong resident of Stony Point, died Saturday at the Ellenville Hospital in Ellenville, N.Y. He was 72. He was born Sept. 25, 1916, in Stony Point to James B.

and Sara Babcock Palmer. During World War II he served in the Army. Mr. Palmer worked as a truck driver for Raia Industries Inc. in Mahwah N.J., retiring in 1980.

He was married to Viola Jones Palmer. She died in 1970. Mr. Palmer was a resident of Gate Hill Road in Stony Point. He was a member of St.

John's Church in the Wilderness in Haverstraw. Mr. Palmer was also a member of the Kearsing Edwards American Legion Post 1600 in Pomona. Surviving are one son, Eugene K. Palmer of Stony Point; two daughters, Elaine M.

Wheeler of Stony Point and Sheila I. Sherrick of Mount Ivy, two sisters, Mary McCormick of Haverstraw and Gladys Manglass of Tomkins Cove; eight grandchildren and four great- born in Mammoth, Utah, and came to Hollywood in April 1920. As a bathing beauty, she appeared in a number of short films, then went on to make comedies and features for other studios before writing and starring in a semi-autobiographical film, "Mary of the Movies." She eventually adopted the screen name Marion Mack. Her best-known role was in Keaton's 1926 Civil War comedy, "The General," in which she played his estranged girlfriend, Annabelle Lee, who is accidentally kidnapped by Yankee spies. B1 sisted in prepaing the female wing of the new jail, which was opened early as an emergency step to ease severe crowding in the women's wing of the old jail.

Workers supervised by Clark also have been operating the laundry in the new jail. Winsome Downie-Rainford, president of the Martin Luther King Multi-Purpose Center in Spring Valley, praised the community service program last week for the work it did in renovating the center. "What a great job they performed," Downie-Rainford said in a letter of commendation. "Not only did they repair andor replace malfunctioning electrical items, they installed electric base heaters, fans, and thanks to them, we can now use our marquee to provide a welcome upon sundown." Besides the work that is accomplished by the community service program, Clark said, he is proud of the program's success with the prisoners. He said 98 percent of people sentenced to community service complete their sentences without trouble.

He notes that of prisoners sentenced to the County Jail, 78 percent have either already served time there or are likely to serve time again. ORANGE COUNTIES The Associated Press COSTA MESA, Calif. Silent film actress Marion Mack, a smalltown girl who went on to become a Mack Sennett bathing beauty and Buster Keaton's co-star in the classic "The General," has died. She was 87. Miss Mack died May 1 of heart failure after a lingering heart condition.

She was buried Saturday in a private service. Miss Mack, whose real name was Joey Marion McCreery, was AWARD page open," said County Executive John Grant. "Hopefully, we will have the jail open sometime in May." Goldrick and Grant gave Clark his award at a small ceremony Friday at the Allison-Parris County Office Building in New City. The ceremony culminated national Correctional Officers Week, which was declared by President George Bush. "If we think we have a problem with the County Jail, if we didn't have the community service program, we'd be out of business," Grant said.

The program, which started with a handful of prisoners, had 112 people sentenced to it as of Friday. Clark said that already this year, 248 people have served out sentences in the program, which operates throughout the week. The "prisoners" on the program frequently serve as highway cleanup crews, but they also help prepare meals for the Rockland Meals-on-Wheels program that serves many elderly people. Community service workers have repaired churches, cleaned up parks, and most recently have been helped the county do last-minute painting and minor repair work in the new County Jail in New City. Community service workers as ROCKLAND AND grandchildren.

Religious services will be held Wednesday at the A.W. Dutcher's Sons Funeral Home, 18 Lincoln Haverstraw. Interment will follow at St. John's Cemetery in Haverstraw. At 7:30 p.m.

tomorrow, the Kearsing Edwards American Legion Post will hold a memorial service at the funeral home. Visiting hours will be held at the funeral home today and tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Betty Robinson: owned Spring Valley shop Betty Robinson, a resident of Fort Lauderdale, and a former Spring Valley resident, died yesterday at Bennett-Humana Hospital in Fort Lauderdale. She was 77. She was born April 5, 1912, to Jacob and Ida Nydick in Pinsk, Poland.

Mrs. Robinson came to the United States as a child, settling in Jersey City, N.J. She later moved to Spring Valley, where she lived for mamy years before moving to Florida 10 years ago. Mrs. Robinson was the original owner of The White House Fashion Centre on Route 59 in Spring Valley.

She was an active member of the Spring Valley chapter of Hadas-sah. Surviving is her husband, Leon Robinson of Fort Lauderdale; one daughter, Sandra A. Lefkowitz of Suffern; one son, Robert W. Robinson of Calgary, Alberta, Canada; one sister, Minnie Edelman of Hal-landale, and four grandchildren. One brother, Samuel Nydick and one sister, Fannie Meltzer, died earlier.

Services will be held at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Louis Suburban Chapel, 13-01 Broadway in Fairlawn, N.J. Interment will follow at Cedar Park Cemetery in Westwood, N.J. A period of mourning will be observed at the home of Sandra Lefkowitz in Suffern. Donations may be made to the Spring Valley chapter of Hadassah or the American Heart Association.

Estelle Baffa Seaman: native of Brazil Estelle Baffa Seaman, a Nanuet resident, died yesterday at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern. She was 89. She was born Sept. 9, 1899 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to Dmitri and Madeline Magnacavallo Solga. Mrs.

Seaman came to the United States in 1903. She spent most of her life in New Jersey and was a resident of Rivervale, South Branch and Jersey City. Mrs. Seaman moved from Rivervale to the New Holland Village condominium complex in Nanuet four years ago. She was a homemaker.

Surviving are her husband, William W. Seaman, of Nanuet; three daughters, Madeline B. Donofrio of Suffern, June Tonelli of New City and Alice Ventura of Paramus, N.J.; five brothers, Joseph Solga of Sarasota, Mark Solga of Scotch Plains, N.J., Alexander Solga of Paris, Albert Solga of Englewood, N.J., and Raymond Solga of Bergenfield, N.J.; three sisters, Adele Rider of Wallington, N.J., Carol Solga of Bricktown, N.J., and Marie Potash of Flagtown, N.J.; 12 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at St.

Anthony's Church in Nanuet. Burial will follow at Holy Name Cemetery in Jersey City. Visiting hours were scheduled for today and tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Higgins Funeral Home, 24 S. Middletown Road, Nanuet.

Marion E. Shores: mother of county man Marion E. Shores, a retired cashier and lifelong White Plains resident, died Thursday at White Plains Hospital Center. She was 67. The cause of death was not disclosed.

Mrs. Shores was a cafeteria cashier for the Greenburgh Central 7 School District for 18 years before retiring in 1984. She was born April 5, 1922, in White Plains to Thomas and Catherine Feeney Leonard. She attended White Plains public schools, graduating from White Plains High School in 1941. On July 8, 1945, she married Lawrence Shores at St.

John the Evangelist Church in White Plains. She was a parishioner of St. John's Church. Mrs. Shores is survived by her husband; a daughter, Deborah Shores Stachura of Beacon, N.Y.; a son, Edward Shores of Pomona; and a brother, Thomas Leonard of White Plains.

Arrangements are being handled by McMahon, Lyon and Hartnett Funeral Home in White Plains. CARPENTERS APPRENTICESHIP SCHOOL NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS The Rockland and Orange Counties Apprenticeship School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin In administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other school-administered programs. For more information about the program write to Rockland and Orange Counties Apprenticeship School, 130 North Main Street, New City, New York 10956 or telephone Vito Licata, Administrator at (914) 786-5103..