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JANUARY 29, 1988
Beleaguered agency to drop state contract •yJo«R.
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m* R. Traded * < H N T AU ROCHE -toftard R. Trudell 60, died
ty, Jan. 28, 1988, at the JJVPH Medical Center. % He was born in Belmont Aug. 6, 1927, the son of Archibald and Lillian (LaMere) Trudell. He WBB a farmer all his life and worked for Alfred Fessette for the past 25 years after moving from Malone. He was a member of St. Joseph's Church in West Chazy.
Survivors include his wife, the Jormer Winifred T. Bigness of Point Au Roche; two sons, Robert Trudell of Saranac Lake and Donald Trudell of Chazy; two daughters, Mrs. David (Joyce) Durant of Moira and Donna Trudell of Point Au Cloche; two brothers, Roy TVudeU of Saranac Lake and Francis Trudell of Burke; two sisters, Marie Johnson of Water-town and Mrs. Gordon (Betty) Crawford of Burke; four grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. : Calling hours will be today -from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the R.W. Walker Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at St. Joseph's Church in West Chazy on Saturday at 11 a.m. Burial will be in Notre Dame Cemetery in Malone in the sprang.
Anno M. Voilloncoiirt TUPPER LAKE - Anna M.
Vaillancourt, 74, died Thursday ^an. 28, 1988, at Saranac Lake General Hospital.
She was born May 31, 1913. in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., the daughter of Benjamin and Catherine (Caufer) Tyson.
She moved to Albany in 1936 and lived there a number of years. She later worked as a waitress in the Speculator area and then was employed as a cook for the Hitchins Corp. in Sabattis. She was married to Armand Vaillancourt Dec. 25, 1955, in Promise Land, Pa. They made their home on Moody Road in Tupper Lake.
Survivors include her husband of Tupper Lake; one daughter, Dorothy Head of Mountain Home, Pa.; one son, William Rosengrant of Cresco, Pa.; a brother, Fermas Tyson of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; five grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
There will be no calling hours. Cremation took place at the Whispering Maples Memorial Gardens Crematory in EUenburg Depot.
Memorial donations may be made to the American Diabetes Association. Arrangements were by the Rennell Funeral Home in Tupper Lake.
Philip D. Killmeier PLATTSBURGH - Philip D.
Killmeier, 37. of Lewis, died Wednesday, Jan. 27. 1988, at the CVPH Medical Center after a long illness.
He was born March 1. 1950, in Albany, the son of Edward and Elsie (Traver) Killmeier.
Mr. Killmeier was a computer programmer for Schenectady Service Center in Scotia. He was a member of the Green Mountain Woodcarvers of Vermont. He was a noted blind wood-carver in New York and Vermont.
Besides his parents of Lewis, he leaves a sister, April Glenn of Eden Mills. Vt.: a brother. Edward F. Killmeier of Tucson, Ariz.; and several aunts, uncles. cousins, nieces and nephews
Calling hours will be this evening from 7 to 9 at Palmer and Shay lor Funeral Home. 63 River St.. Mkidieburgh. NY Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at the funeral home. Burial will fc* in Breakabeen Cemetery. Breaicabeen. NY.
Memorial donations may be made to the Kkzabethtown-Lewis Ambulance Squad
Elizabeth Tyler TUPPER LAKE - Elizabeth
Tyler, 86. died Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1988, at United Helpers Nursing Home in Canton. , She had been a resident there
since October 24, 1985. She was born July 1, 1901, in
Boston, the daughter of Andrew and Katherine (Kiley) Mahoney.
In 1957, she married Wayne Tyler at St. Alphonsus Church in Tupper Lake. They made their home on Pimstein Ave. in Tupper Lake. He died March 22, 1976.
Survivors include a sister, Nora Murtha of Hyde Park, Mass.; and a nephew, James Mahoney of Boston, Mass.
Calling hours will be 2-4 and 7*9 p.m. today at the Rennell Funeral Home in Tupper Lake. Calling hours will also be 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Sunday at the J.G. M alloy Funeral Home in Dorchester, Mass. A mass of Christian burial will be celebrated Monday. Feb. 1, at St. Gregorys Church in Dorchester, Mass.
Burial will follow in New Calvary Cemetery in Mattapan, Mass.
Jesse A. Queried SARANAC LAKE - Jesse A.
Quenell, 74, died Tuesday, Jan. 26. 1988. after a long illness.
He had been a resident of Saranac Lake since 1984. He was born in Massena Aug. 2, 1913, the son of George and Edith (Day) Quenell.
He had been a section foreman for Eastman Kodak prior to his retirement. His wife, Ruth (Tyler) Quenell, died in 1985.
He is survived by two sons, Gerald Quenell and John Quenell, both of—Rochester; a sister, Mrs. Henry (Doris) Douglas of Rochester; a grandson and a granddaughter.
Services will be private and followed by cremation. Funeral arrangements are by the Keough & Son Funeral Home, Saranac Lake. Memorial donations may be made to the Saranac Lake Rescue Squad or the General Hospital of Saranac Lake.
Helen R. Mose SARANAC LAKE - Helen
R. Mose, 89, of 3 Riverside Drive. Saranac Lake, died Wednesday, Jan. 27. 1988, at General Hospital of Saranac Lake.
She was born May 2. 1898, in Standish, the daughter of Frank and Roseanna (Amell) Macey.
Mrs. Mose had been a resident of the Saranac Lake area for the past 33 years and had been employed as a foster grandmother at the Sunmount Developmental Center in Tupper Lake, retiring in 1973. She was a member of the St. Bernard* s Altar and Rosary Society and a member of the Arch Confraternity of the Sacred Heart and the Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood, both of Watertown.
Her husband, Frank Mose, died in 1950.
Survivors include three sons, Francis Mose of Dickenson Center. Elmer Mose of Gabriels and James Mose of Plattsburgh: two daughters. Mrs. Eva Soliwoda of Saranac Lake and Mrs. D o r o t h y Makay of Roanoke. Va.; two sisters. Mrs. Alma Monaghan and Mrs. Alphina Murray, both of Saranac Lake: 28 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren, four great-great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Calling hours—at the Fortune Funeral Home will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today. A Bible vigil will be said this evening at 7:30 at the funeral home. A mass of Christian burial will be said Saturday at 11 a.m. at St. Bernard s Church, with the Rev. Raymond Moreau officiating. Bunal will be in Assumption Cemetery m Redford in May Memorial donations may be made to the Saranac Lake Rescue Squad.
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ALBANY — More than $9 million over budget and a year behind schedule, a politically connected* non-profit agency has agreed to drop its state contract to build five homes for the mentally ill.
Dr. Richard Surlest the state's new mental health commissioner, told state legislators this week that Human Support Services Corp. will build only three of the eight homes ordered by the state, Ot-taway News Service has learned.
The agency will relinquish $500,000 for land purchases, Surles said. The state will also negotiate a new contract with HSSC to operate three centers, known as Residential Care Centers for Adults, the commissioner said.
But the fate of Human Support Services Corp. (HSSC) remains uncertain as an investigation continues into how the non-profit agency won those contracts.
The probe by the State Commission of Investigations reportedly centers on the fact that HSSCs former president, Robert Norris, is married to Ilene Margolin, a top mental-health adviser to Gov. Mario Cuomo. Norris resigned from HSSC last month, citing the contract controversy.
State officials make no secret that HSSC was created with state funds in order to launch a new housing program for the mentally ill. The plan would have brought in additional funds from the federal government and allow workers in state mental hospitals to work for HSSC without diminishing their state pensions, officials said.
But an official in the state Office of Mental Health and an aide to the state Assembly claim they were pressured by administration and legislative officials into approving certain aspects of the project.
The Investigations Commission and auditors of the state Comptroller are also trying to determine whether other non-profit agencies were influenced by HSSCs connections to the Cuomo administration.
The state senator who called for both probes said he is not satisfied with HSSC's withdrawl from five of the housing contracts.
Queens Sen. Frank Padavan has asked the Senate Finance Committee to withhold future funding of HSSC until the investigators publish their findings. Sen. Nicholas Spano, who succeeded Padavan as chairman of the Senate Mental Hygiene Committee, said he will ask the SIC to finish its work as soon as possible.
"Until today, no allegations of any wrongdoing by HSSC" have been officially lodged, the Yonkers Republican said. "HSSC deserves its day in court and until I see specific facts, Fro not prepared to make a recommendation" on whether HSSC should
receive additional funding. Three years after the program was created, only two Residential
Care Centers have opened. HSSC hopes to open two other centers this year, both located on the grounds of two state hospitals.
Those centers were originally scheduled for completion last year. Their costs have also skyrocketed. , . The $2 million center proposed at the Kings Park Psychiatric Center on Long Island is now expected to cost $8.4 million, state officials estimate. The $4.3 million center at the Rockland Psychiatric Center will cost at least $9 million, they predict.
The estimates were $3 million lower last year. A spokesman for the state Office of Mental Health attributed the
cost overruns to health and safety standards required by the state and general construction costs in those areas.
HSSC has had little success finding sites for six other homes. Clarence Sundram, chairman of a state oversight agency, speculates that the investigations of HSSCs contracts have contributed to its delays.
"When an investigation is underway, everyone becomes more cautious in processing even routine requests," said Sundram, chairman of the Commission on Quality Care for the Mentally Disabled.
"The normal process of just moving work along through different stages (of the government) becomes difficult because much of this kind of work requires approval at many levels of government," Sundram said.
Sundram, Surles and even Padavan echoed the sentiments of a variety of mental health professionals in expressing support for the concept of Residential Care Centers.
Spano said he will soon introduce legislation to extend the program beyond its March 31 expiration date. With Surles* support, Spano said he will propose completion deadlines for the housing contracts.
Padavan said he will present a bill, allowing other non-profit groups to enter the state pension system. HSSC's membership in the pension system gave HSSC an advantage over other non-profit groups in winning housing contracts, Padavan said.
Referring to Norris's departure and the contract controversy, HSSC's acting executive director, John Rodat, said, "It's history; it's done; i t s over." *
"I'm not saying we're not going to take our licks" once the investigations are completed, Rodat said. "The mission of this agency hasn't changed one iota."
He said the investigations commission and Padavan have refused to meet with HSSC lawyers, who investigated the matter and no found no impropriety in the contract awards.
One dies as police standoff with polygamist ends By Sob Block
Associated Press Writer
MARION. Utah - A quick burst of gunfire Thursday ended a tense, 13-day standoff between a polygamist clan and police, killing an officer and seriously wounding the group's leader, who was suspected of bombing a Mormon chapel.
The shooting erupted just after dawn as police who had infiltrated the clan's compound used a police dog to try to isolate Addam Swapp and his brother from the log house they had left moments before, officials said.
In the exchange of shots, the dog's handler was shot in the abdomen and Swapp fell in the snow with bullet wounds in the arm and chest, said John T. Nielsen, state public safety director.
Robert H. Williams ONCHIOTA - Robert H.
Williams, 72, died suddenly Thursday morning, Jan. 28, 1988, at General Hospital of Saranac Lake.
Funeral arrangements with the Fortune Funeral Home in Saranac Lake were incomplete Thursday evening.
Ida E. Barcomb MOOERS FORKS - A
funeral mass for Ida E. Bar-comb. 80. who died Monday, Jan. 25. 1988. at the Alice Hyde Hospital in Malone, were held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 28. 1988, at St. Anns Church in Mooers Forks. The Revs. Howard Mac-Casland. Norman Cote and Gilbert Menard celebrated the mass.
Bearers were B.J. Barcomb, Nicholas Barcomb. Francois Barcomb. John Barcomb, Tina Barcomb. Lorraine Barcomb, all grandchildren. Burial will be in the spring in the parish cemetery in Mooers Forks.
4'It's my understanding that the officer was fired upon first, by whom we don't know yet,'' Nielsen said. He said an FBI agent was shot in the chest, but was unhurt because he was wearing a bulletproof vest.
"In the succeeding, following moments after the gunfire, the agents moved in an armored personnel carrier to evacuate those who were wounded and they came under extremely heavy gunfire from the . . . residence," he said.
However, the shots ended moments later and the clan's four other adults and nine children filed from the house in two groups with their arms raised above their heads.
"We are very happy to report in this — that's if there's anything to be happy about in this tragic situation — that all of the children are safe," Nielsen said. "That was the number one priority of all of the officers."
The siege had begun within
Cumberland Head reading program set
PLATTSBURGH - The third-annual Parents as Reading Partners program is scheduled to begin at the Cumberland Head Elementary School today, with an all-school kickoff.
The reading program will continue through the month of February with the theme "Teddy Bears." If a family participates, each person must sign a contract that states he or she will read with an adult in his or her family for a minumum of 15 minutes per day, at least five days a week. Reading progress sheets must be kept weekly.
Several special events are planned for the program. The kickoff assembly will feature a teddy bear song by a special group, a film and a special guest. For further information, call the school at 563-8321.
hours of the predawn bombing Jan. 16 of the Mormon Church's chapel a half-mile from the compound. That night, police talked by telephone with Swapp, who said the bombing was revenge against the church and state for the 1979 police slaying of polygamist patriarch John Singer. He told others he sought an armed confrontation to trigger Singer's resurrection.
Nielsen said the decision to seize Swapp, 27, on federal warrants was made after a family
friend delivered to police Wednesday afternoon Swapp's response to a letter from Gov. Norm Bangerter pleading with him to surrender. He said Swapp "declared his ranch and people an independent and free nation" and warned he would use an^ means to defend the 2l/2-acre compound.
"It was not veiled. It was clearly taken as a threat that any attempt to effect an arrest of him would be met with forced-Nielsen said.
Fire destroys Brushton barn BRUSHTON - An early
morning blaze Thursday partially destroyed a barn at the Fred Mitchell farm on the Sayles Road in Brushton. Firefighters from eight area departments were called in to fight the fire and remained at the scene for nearly 12 hours.
Brushton Fire Chief John Mayer said that the fire, which started in the milk house, was spotted by a neighbor at 3:48 a.m. The firefighters were able to save all but two of Mitchell's 100 cows. Mitchell had found
another barn for the cows by Thursday afternoon, Mayer said.
Mayer said that the fire spread from the milk house into the haymow, c a u s i n g an-estimated $100,000 in damage. The barn was insured, Mayet said. *
About 40 firefighters fought the blaze, finally returning ta their stations at 3:35 p.mf Mutual aid was received from Malone, Bangor, Bombayr Dickinson, St. Regis Falls, Westville and Fort Covington.
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