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D2 THE JOURNAL-NEWS, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1989 VOTERS, From page B1 Orangetown to hold public budget hearing; vehicular deaths and high truck traffic. Other residents cited Western Highway in Blauvelt as another problem road in need of lower speed limits and more police. Despite the major highways' attraction to businesses, the hamlets are primarily residential a lifestyle residents want to preserve. In Ramapo, numerous residents in Monsey and outlying areas were not satisfied with the leadership in Ramapo Town Hall on zoning laws and their enforcement. Some village residents had concerns about costs of services charged by Ramapo.

"For the kind of money we're paying, a lot of the roads are crappy," Kenneth Steinman said. "They should be paved with gold for these taxes." ing parking and traffic problems. Illegal drug use and dealing was a major problem cited by all residents, but especially in the villages of Spring Valley, Nyack and Hav-erstraw. In those villages, police are cracking down on illicit drug dealing and crimes. Some residents had few complaints.

"I've lived here for 31 years, and Blauvelt's the nicest place to live," Kathleen Fitzpatrick said. "I have no gripes about our hamlet; I love it." Traffic and safety were the chief concerns of residents in the Orangetown hamlets of Orangeburg and Tappan. The hamlets are dominated by Route 303, a highway plagued by West Nyack residents in Clarks-town felt they were bearing the brunt of Clarkstown's burdens, such as the town's Route 303 landfill and the proposed Palisades Center mall just to the north as another source of congestion on major roads. When many Rocklanders view county government, they also feel frustration. "The profit-loss motive is what makes our country run free enterprise," said Ed Bassett of New City.

"So often what we see on all levels of government is waste and political patronage. If a small-business owner operated that way, he would never survive." Staff writers Greg Clary, Cathy Carroll, Jane DeNoyelles, Tim Henderson and Stephanie Chang contributed to this report. increases ranging from 6 to 8 percent for town employees and officials. Under the preliminary budget, Supervisor Joseph Colello's salary would rise from this year's $57,240 to $62,000, an 8 percent increase. Other full-time appointed and elected officials would also receive an 8 percent salary hike.

The salaries of Town Coun-cilmen Roger Pellegrini, Connie O'Sullivan, Thomas Swift and Charles McLiverty will rise from. $15,000 to $15,900 each, 6 percent increases. The salaries of Town Justices Paul Phinney and Robert Fee nick, Stuart, Receiver of Taxes Eileen Bonner, Tax Assessor Jo-sette Polzella, and Town Clerk Patricia Haugh all would increase by 7 percent next year. The budget also includes a '7 percent increase in salaries for police, and 6 percent raises for part-time officials. The nearly $2 million increase in spending in next year's budget includes about $230,000 in startup costs for a day camp in Nike Park on Clausland Mountain in Blauvelt and $90,000 for ballfield lights, picnic grounds and soccer goals at Veterans Memorial Park in Orangetown.

In addition, between $75,000 and $100,000 is being allocated in next year's budget for drug education and awareness. The offices of the receiver of taxes and tax assessor will be computerized at a cost of $20,000, Irene Michalak of New City said the taxes are driving away people young and old. "The senior citizens have literally been dying out and the widows are struggling to make ends meet," she said. "We are not asking for additional services. Of course I'd like better highway service, but whatever better things you want, you're going to pay for." Keeping taxes down and maintaining growth at a manageable level were key issues in Nyack and Piermont, where riverfront developments have again risen to the top of the issues chart.

A similar philosophy was espoused on the western end of Route 59 in Suffern, where the reigning concerns in the Ramapo village are controlling development and solv MASCH, From page Brooklyn. Dorothy Masch is the president of the Upper Nyack Democratic Committee and, like her husband, a longtime town committee member." The Masches lived in the Clarks-town village of Upper Nyack for 22 years. They have three children: Julia, a law student; Raquel, a medical student; and Jason, an actuary-trainee for an insurance company. Born Oct. 24, 1931, in Brooklyn to Joseph and Edda Masch, Dr.

Masch graduated from Stuyvesant High School in Brooklyn. He later served with the U.S. Coast Guard. Dr. Masch was described as a liberal, soft-spoken Democrat in the mold of Adlai Stevenson, the late senator from Illinois who twice lost presidential campaigns to Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower. "Mark was an intellectual Democrat who never was ashamed of the word Zebrowski said. "Mark looked out for the people who had less." Dr. Masch was a member of I DEATH NOTICES Lynn G.

of Park Ridge, N.J. on Oct 20, 1989. beloved husband of Elea- nor. Father of Dorothy Bradford Keene of Lafayette, N.J. and the late Lynda Rae Doty.

Brother of Donald Bradford of Old Tappan, N.J., Virginia Humphries of Fla. Also survived by 3 grandsons. Funeral Services to be held Monday i p.m. at the WYMAN-FISHER FUNERAL HOME, 100 Franklin Ave, Pearl River, N.Y. Burial Nanuet Cemetery.

Visiting at the Funeral Home, Sun 3-S and 7-9 p.m. O'BOYLE, John F. Age 55 of Monroe, N.Y. on Oct 20, 1989 in Goshen, N.Y. Mass of Christian Burial 10 a.m.

Monday Oct 23 at the Sacred Heart Church, Monroe, N.Y. Friends may call 7-9 p.m. Sat, 2-4 and 7-9 i p.m. Sun at the SMITH, SEAMAN QUAKENBUSH FUNERAL HOME, 117 Maple Ave, Monroe, N.Y. Interment St.

Anastasia Cemetery, Harrlman, N.Y. Con- tributlons may be made to the Sacred Heart Church Development Fund. 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 8 am 8:45 pm 3 pm 6:45 pm Obituaries Call Local Gannett-Westchester Rockland Papers Listed in Telephone Directory By Jane DeNoyelles Staff Writer Orangetown residents may voice their opinions on the 1990 preliminary Orangetown budget at a public hearing at 8 p.m. tomorrow night in Town Hall.

The $24.7 million budget, about $1.7 million more than this year's budget, projects an average 5 percent increase in town taxes for homeowners next year. For the average homeowner with a house assessed at $200,000, that means a $975 town tax bill. A village homeowner with a residence of the same value would pay about $650 to the town, which is little or no increase over this year. This year's increase is less than last year's 15 percent increase, brought about by higher garbage pickup fees, sewage expenses, and a new recycling program. That budget was widely protested by town residents who found their tax bills raised by an average $150 but were told it was too late to lower the increase.

Spending increases for next year are offset by higher than anticipated revenues in mortgage taxes, town officials have said. At a workshop meeting Tuesday night, town Finance Director Dave Stuart said the preliminary budget, publicized Oct. 3, is basically unchanged from the tentative budget presented Sept. 25 to the Town Board. The budget allows for salary TOR, From page B1 "We conducted employee surveys at corporations and met with several recruitment and personnel officers, which indicated a need for the service and a strong support for public transportation," Spiegel said.

"We were told that employment opportunities existed, but could not be filled, in many cases, because of a lack of public transportation." He noted the new TOR 92 route will also provide improved transportation to St. Thomas Aquinas College and the Thorpe Village senior housing complex in Sparkill, and Domin-ican College and Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg. The TOR 94 bus, which previously served the Chestnut Ridge area, will terminate at Spring Valley. The route will run from Spring Valley, Rockland Community College and the Dr. Robert L.

Veager County Health Complex in northern Ramapo from 6 a.m. to 8:50 p.m. Passengers from the TOR 92 bus can transfer to the TOR 94 bus, providing improved access to RCC, especially for Pearl River residents. Schedule changes on the Tappan ZEExpress to provide improved service to the Nyack area were IgM- I 1 VJ 1IVLJ GET Reiss retired. Town Democratic Chairman Paul Adler and Town Board members Anne Marie Smith and John Maloney credited Dr.

Masch with bringing peace and unity to the party. Under his tutorship, the party took control of the Town Board and maintained its county Legislature seats. His illness forced him to resign in March 1989. "Mark was the epitome of good government; he served for no personal gain," Adler said. "Mark's Hippocratic Oath transcended medicine.

He served with quiet dignity and was able to put the party back together. Clarkstown came first and that was the Mark Masch litmus test." Legislator Harriet Cornell began working politically with the Masches when she was county Democratic chairwoman in the 1970s. "Mark brought to the Democratic Party his own very real intelligence, moral courage and concern for people," Cornell said. "He the state, after a recommendation by the county Department of Social Services. Ferreira said her agency is still working under the 1988 rate because the state has not yet set this year's rate.

Workers will get retroactive pay once the rate is approved, but that does not help the immediate situation, Ferreira said. Other suggestions made during the hearings included a transportation system, such as a shuttle bus, for the elderly who live in residential areas, as well as a crisis intervention service for care giving families. The service would provide mediators to help resolve family conflicts between elderly dependents and those who care for them. Marjorie Lipson, executive director of Volunteer Counseling Service, announced the opening of a care-giver resource center at the VCS office, 151 S. Main New City.

The center provides informa made last Monday as a result of suggestions from the public, Gurski. said. In the morning, one bus. -will leave the Tarrytown railroad station, at 8:11 a.m. for Rockland, making stops in South Nyack at 8:58 a.m., in Nyack at 9:01 a.m., and then in.

Central Nyack at 9:06 a.m. The next stop will be the Park and Ride pt at' the Route 303 and Route 59 interchange in West Nyack at then a 9:21 a.m. stop at the Exit, 14 Park and Ride lot off the New York State Thruway in NanuetThe last stop will be 9:26 a.m. at the Spring Valley Transportation Center. In the afternoon, the TAP PAN ZEExpress bus that formerly left at 1:59 p.m.

will depart at 1:52 p.m. The change allows for connection with the 2:44 p.m. train that stops at the Tarrytown station, arriving at Grand Central Terminal at 3:35 pjn. Copies of the revised schedules for the TAPPAN ZEExpress, TOR. 92 and TOR 94 buses are available at village and town halls throughout Rockland, as well as local liberies and on the buses themselves.

For schedules or other information, call the Department of Public Transportation at (914)634-1100. exemplified the best of everything." Dr. Masch's intergrity also won the hearts of political leaders outside Clarkstown. Spring Valley Na-tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People President Bill Scott said he often sought advice from Dr. Masch, who also was his doctor.

Ramapo Democratic Chairwoman Rhoda Friedman recalled "Dr. Masch as the nicest of men, a quiet leader." Dr. Masch is also survived by a sister, Jeanne Baum, and a brother in Pennsylvania. Services for Dr. Mark Masch will be held at noon tomorrow at Congregation Sons of Israel on Broadway in Upper Nyack, followed by burial in the synagoue's cemetery in Blauvelt.

A period of mourning will be observed starting tomorrow at the Masch home in Upper Nyack. Arrangements were made by Hellman Memorial Chapels in Spring Valley. tion, training and support programs to those who care for the elderly, Lipson said. "Our whole focus is to give support to men and women feeling very burdened with elder care," she said. "We tell them what is available and who to call." Cornell said care giving often becomes the responsibility of women, which is why the commission became interested in exploring its problems.

"Many women are caught in what is called the sandwich generation," she said. "They're caught between caring for their beloved parents and their children, while still trying to find time for themselves." The commission will meet to discuss testimony from the hearings, then issue a report to state and local officials with recommendations, Cornell said. Designed and supervised by prominent endocrinologists (specialists in blood pressure, diabetic and cholesterol disorders). Complete medical monitoring from physicals to blood work by a team of experienced doctors, nurses and nutritionists. No clinics or crowds.

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Quoting the literary passage, "Be ashamed to die unless you did one good thing for humanity," Nyack resident Irv Feiner, Emily Feiner's father, said Dr. Masch did many good things for humanity. Feiner said Dr. Masch struggled with his social conscience and his need to provide for his family. "He always struggled with the contradiction, but some people don't struggle with it at all," Feiner said.

"Mark had a clear vision of what the world should be like and what it was. He was troubled by what he saw." But Feiner also said Dr. Masch could bluff, recalling the Friday night to Saturday morning poker games they played in. "He was a good poker player. I never told him that," Feiner said, laughing softly.

"We use to argue about who was the better player." Dr. Masch agreed to became Clarkstown Democratic chairman in September 1985, when Stephanie CARE, From page B1 Sandra Ayers, of Home Health Aides of Rockland, said there is a strong need for more aides in the county and increases in their salaries and health benefits. The starting salary for a health aide is $5.35 per hour, and health insurance costs an aide $60 a month, said Ayers, whose agency is one of seven in the county that provide care for Medicaid clients. Patricia Ferreira, executive director of Home Health Aides of Rockland, said the low salaries and expensive health coverage have made it difficult for the non-profit agency to compete in the job market, as the waiting list for home health care expands. In order to compete with other jobs, Ferreira said, the starting salary would need to be raised to around $7.50 per hour.

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