Obituaries 2B For the record 2B State news 3B Iempo 4B pL(SSilMgS(S)ia To): ,0) Star-GazetteTuesday, August 1 1 989 Metro Editor Larry Wilson, 734-5151, Ext. 275 Pizza shop worker arrested in ial Assistant manager at Pudgie's Pizza in Corning with stealing $1,700 early Monday morning He admitted that he had made up the story. 55 Corning Police Lt. Hugh Simmons vehicle to police, Simmons said. When police-asked Stansfield about his vehicle, Simmons said that the vehicle was "very close to the description of the vehicle picking up the green, bag at the bridge." Police then questioned Stansfield.
"He admitted that he had made up the story," Simmons said. "He said he had taken the appeared the suspects had been waiting for him. He told police the two men ripped the bag out of his hands and shoved him down the steps. But Monday night, Corning Police Lt. Hugh Simmons said that two people saw someone go under the Denmark Hill Bridge Monday and pull what they said was a green bag out from under the bridge.
They also described a Road, Horseheads, was arrested after being questioned about the incident that allegedly occured at 1:20 a.m. Monday when he was leaving the store. Stansfield told police that two men attacked him when he left the store to deposit money. Stansfield said he came out of the store with a green deposit bag and was turning back to close the door: He told police it By ED BOND AND GEORGE HAWKE Star-Gazette CORNING The assistant manager of Pudgie's Pizza Sub Shop, 80 Denison Parkway East, Was arrested Monday by Corning Police, accused of staging a robbery at the business early Monday morning and stealing $1,700. Matt Stansfield, 20, 543 Ithaca porting an incident.
Police also said there were two other persons with Stansfield; sometime during the. said an investigation is' continuing. Stansfield, who injured his; knee and head in the was taken to Corning hospital where he was treated and re-i leased. money and put it over there (at the bridge) early in the morning and picked it up this afternoon." Simmons said that Stansfield was in Corning City Jail, without bail, awaiting arraignment at a.m. today.
Simmons said Stansfield is charged with fourth-degree grand larceny, a felony, and falsely re Fair game for early birds Gates open today for 1 47th event By GARTH WADE Star-Gazette Operation starts despite pending legal action By JIM LOWMAN Valley Bureau VI 5 Lycoming. Who calls Guthrie One: Emergency medical service personnel, police, firefighters, hospitals and physicians. Service is through the hospital's communications center, 1 -800-535-0911. Dispatching: Each flight is dispatched and guided by a communications center. Required landing area: A 1 00- by-1 00 foot zone free of wires and obstructions cleared of loose debris.
Guthrie hangar: To be constructed at the former Lehigh Valley Railroad yards. The following are some features -and transport facts about Guthrie Medical Center's new $2.5 million helicopter. Patient capacity: Two. Flight crew: Pilot, paramedic and flight nurse. Cruise speed: 145 miles per hour.
Maximum altitude: 10,000 Weight capacity: Up to 7,000 pounds. Craft make: German BK 1 17, Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm. Assembled in the U.S. Engines: Two 101 jet turbine: engines manufactured by 1 I scene up to 80 percent faster than ground ambulance Martyak said. He said studies show that there is a 35 percent increase in loss of life when ve-; hicle crashes occur in rural Christine Beebe and James English are hoping the Chemung County Fair will help them pay off Beebe's grandma this week.
Meanwhile, Barbara Howe and Verena Rattray were on hand Monday to judge dozens of hand-sewn items submitted by county residents. Gates for the 147th annual shindig open at 9 a.m. today, exhibits at 10 a.m. and rides at 3 p.m. Official opening ceremonies will be at 7 p.m.
in front of the grandstand. Beebe, 17, and English, 29, both of Berkshire, were busy Monday unloading their converted 1964 Chevrolet milk truck to set up their "Speidie" (others spell it sandwich stand along the midway; "I'm nervous about it," English said- The venture, which was Beebe's idea, began last June with a $1,500 loan from her grandmother Frances Beebe, 65, of Berkshire. "I said, 'You're Grandmother Beebe recalled. "Then I thought it over and said, 'If you want to work that hard, go The first $900 of the. loan bought the truck, which had 127,000 miles on it.
The balance paid for a new floor, paint and sinks. So far, the entrepreneurs have sold their $2 sandwiches, consisting of marinated meats, at local baseball games and motorcycle events. "I don't know how we're going to do here," Christine Beebe said, adding she's confident she'll make enough to pay her grandmother off after she pays the $250 it's costing her to set up at the fair. Grandma's interest rate? "We (- A SAYRE ban on patient delivery to. New York hospitals failed to stop Guthrie Medical Center from launching a 21-county-critical care helicopter service Monday.
The center's 22-member flight and trauma crew' officially started operating at noon. The service will run 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Coverage in both New York and Pennsylvania is limited pending appeals before the New York State Health Department. The legal action was brought by a consortium of Southern Tier hospitals that, comprise'United Health Services. The group includes Elmira's Arnot-Ogden Memorial and St.
Joseph's hospitals. Guthrie filed appeal to the protest and another against tingencies placed by the Susquehanna Regional Medical Council The consortium challenge is based on fears that Guthrie would bypass New York hospitals and fly" trauma patients to Sayre. Guthrie officials say until an' administrative law judge makes, a decision, possibly this month, the air ambulance can still take calls for trauma patient pickups anywhere in New York. But those patients will have to be taken to Pennsylvania hospitals for treatment. Guthrie President Ralph H.
Meyer said the new service culminates more than two years of planning. "Extensive research has gone into the design of this program," he said. "Our objective has been to develop a quality medical helicopter program. We have met that objective and are confident that Guthrie One's v.r5- i areas. The center expects to handfe 300-00 patient calls the first year, said Dr.
Anthony R. Gillot't, Guthrie trauma care director. About 500 trauma lifts are pro-" jected by 1992, said Mark Webster, vice president of plan-: ning at the hospital. Referring to plans for a similar service in the Southern Tier, Webster said "We feel that competition is Patients will be taken to the closest accredited trauma center. "We are here to operate for the; benefit of the patient.
We are in GARTH WADEStor-Gozette FAIR JUDGES: Barbara Howe, left, and Verena Rattray display a handmade belly dancer's dress, one of hundreds they'll judge at the Chemung County Fair this week. fully experienced team of professionals will enhance the level of health care throughout, the region." Covering a 150-mile radius, Guthrie One will be used in two types of patient transport: situations where a trauma team is transported to the patient' quickly. transport of critically ill patients to and between hospitals. Each round trip flight will cost The flight team consists of paramedics and flight nurses. Each of the four former Army helicopter pilots has more than 8,000 hours of flight experience.
Lead pilot Stanley Rose is a Vietnam veteran. Meyer said the hilly, often sparsely populated region makes it vital to have such a service for the "first golden hour after an accident." "I know that it works," said Dr. Gabriel Martyak, air ambulance medical "I've been there." The former director at Geisinger Medical Center said, "Trauma happens to everyone. Half the people who would have died before today will live." Helicopters can arrive at the tray, 45, who has been assisting Howe for 13 years. "My mother used to be in charge of the building." Howe, 57, said she's been in-v volved in handicrafts since her days in 4-H.
That was hundreds of blue ribbons and 41 years' ago, she said. "It gets in your blood." Preparations for the fair pro-ceeded smoothly Monday, said don't talk about that," Grandmother Beebe said. Meanwhile, Howe and Rattray of Horseheads, prepared to judge an array of dresses, stuffed animals, rugs and other hand-sewn items in the county Agriculture Society's exhibit. Howe is the judge, Rattray her assistant. Together, they'll hand out numerous first, second and third prize ribbons, good for $5, $4 and $3, respec business tor the patient and the patient's welfare," Webster said.
According to Dr. Martyak, nine1 of 10 ambulance calls can still be handled with local ground transportation. "We recognize that Guthrie One is part of an entire system of care, and we will be called upon in specific situations. We now have the ability to move the critical care patient up the chain of care quickly, and that will save; lives," Martyak said. Manager Allen Edwards.
"It's incredible, the activity. It boggles my mind!" tively. "I grew up with it," said Rat Hospitals merger talks continue State and Corning meeting privately on N.Y. audit of city By ED BOND Corning Bureau By SARAH JANE PEERY Star-Gazette i The merger of Elmira's two hospitals is still in the works, de-Spite recently revealed troubles. In a Monday meeting, the executive committee of the board planning the merger of Arnot-Og-den Memorial and St.
Joseph's hospitals took no action and made no recommendation, said Anthony J. Cooper president and chief executive officer of He and St. Joseph's Hospital President Sister Marie Castagnaro have said that serious problems have come up in planning the merger. The chairman of the state committee that approves such plans, Kurt A. Wohl, who has advised the hospitals on the matter, predicted last week that merger plans will fall through soon.
Wohl chairs the Project Review Committee of the state Hos-pital Review and Planning Council. Cooper refused to detail what was discussed at Monday's meeting or to predict what the full" board of the Elmira Medical Center the name given to the hos-pitals' merged operations might do when it meets Aug. 7. The board's chairman-designate, Ben Lynch, did likewise. A mortgage of about $35 million from a St.
Joseph's construe-, tion project completed in 1986 and plans for dividing services between the two hospitals are-the issues blocking a merger, of-' ficials say. council chambers, by Mayor John C. Kostolansky in a memo received over the weekend. Kostolansky said it was a state decision to close the' meeting. A state spokesman called it an "informal meeting," held as a courtesy to the city, to go -over the preliminary -J See AUDIT2B D-8, criticized the decision by the state to bar the public from the meeting, saying that because it was a gathering of the city government, it fell under the state Open Public Meetings laws.
City aldermen, the city clerk and the city chamberlain were all invited to attend the meeting, scheduled for 2 p.m. in the CORNING State auditors will meet with the Corning city government behind closed doors on Wednesday to discuss the state's audit of the city's financial records. Alderman Frank P. Coccho, MORNING STAR IN THE TIERS I Second trial set for drug defendant TOWANDA Jury selection in the second drug trial of Stephen Timchack is expected to be completed this morning in Bradford County Court. j' Several prospective jurors were interviewed Monday.
The trial resumes this afternoon. tent to sell marijuana was dropped by Bradford County District Attorney Robert Fleury. Freed on $2,000 bail, Timchack is reportedly residing in Nichols after federal agents seized his home and 107-acres earlier this year. Postal booth will be at Chemung fair ELMIRA Fair-goers can buy postage stamps again this year at the Chemung County Fair. For the fifth consecutive year the Elmira post office will operate a booth at the fair.
Those visiting the booth can purchase stamps, money orders and other stamp products such as collector kits and commemorative stamps. The Postal Service booth will be under the grandstand on the fairgrounds. The fair begins today and runs through Sunday. will visit Alfred University Wednesday afternoon'. Cuomo's tour of the College of Ceramics at Alfred University will include demonstrations of superconductivity and the formation of glass fibers used in bio-medical applications.
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from staff and wire reports. Lifeguard meet set for Wednesday ELMIRA The Chemung County Department of Parks and Recreation will hold its fifth annual lifeguard competition at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Harris Hill Pool. The purpose of the competition is to provide additional incentive for rigorous training, increase camaraderie between local water safety staffs and to encour-, age spirit and competition, a parks spokesman said. Five events will take place at the com-petition, which is based on the annual New York state lifeguard competition.
Spectators are welcome. Gov. Cuomo to visit Alfred University ALFRED Governor Mario Cuomo Ellis Winger TROY Michelle Ferraro of Elmira wants to salute David Ellis and Paul Winger, directors of a camp for asthmat? ic children held last week at Mt. Pisgatt State Park in Troy. "This is the first year of the camp; and I was very impressed with the iob they did," said Ferraro, who said her children, Carmen, 10, and Sara, 8, at tended the camp, learned about the dis- order, and had fun as well.
i She said the American Lung Associa-i tion and Troy Community Hospital sponsored the free, three-day camp. Morning Star pays tribute to people who have done good deds. To nominate your Morning Star, caH the Metro Desk at 607734-51 51, ext. 275. 'v in rcuiuaiy, uiauiuiu iiuuiuy juugc Jeffery Smith ruled a mistrial after the prosecution presented evidence which police said linked Timchack to other drugs not listed in original charges.
is charged with possession and manufacturing marijuana. A charge of in-.
