Buffalo Criterion, 1984-12-05

              rochester wny's necessary minority newspaper - featuring paid legitimate circulation the buffalo criterion niagara region wednesday december 5-11 1984 ra * out-of-town ..'"><â–  _ vol 59 - no 50 abrams alerts consumers to used car lemon law consumer outreach in erie county announced attorney general rob ert abrams advises con sumers who purchase a used car after november 1 1984 that they will have important new pro tection provided by the used car lemon law if the used car they purchase turns out to be defective consumers who have encountered any sort of consumer-related prob lems should take advan tage of attorney general robert abrams consumer outreach program which meets as follows in buffalo on the third thursday at the 1490 senior citizen center at 2 p.m at 1490 jefferson aye and also at 5 p.m the next scheduled visit will be thursday dec 20th at which time assis tant attorney general veronica thomas will be present to discuss and offer advice on any type of consumer complaint under the used car lemon law a consumer receives a warranty relat ed to the mileage of the car they buy 30 days or 1,000 miles on a car with over 36,000 miles 60 days or 3,000 miles on a car with under 36,000 miles the warranty covers most essential mechanical components including engine transmission drive axle brakes steer ing starter ignition and radiator attorney general abrams said the new law will require the dealer to repair certain defects in the car or reimburse the consumer for the reasonable cost of the repair if the defect is not conected after three or more repair attempt or the car is out of service for a cumulative total of fifteen days during the warranty period the deal er must refund the car's full purchase price the consumer and the dealer may agree on a comparable used car re placement and deal are allowed an extra 30 days to fix the defect if the repair parts are unavailable the lemon law for used cars exempts classic cars and cars sold for less than 1,500 private sales between individuals are also not included this program is con ducted as a monthly service of the attorney general's office of new york sate nfta to hold graduation for non-ranking police pfficers the niagara frontier transportation authority announces the graduation of its first class of all non-ranking police officers of the newly formed niagara frontier transit authority pouce dept the ceremony will take place on sat dec bth at 2 p.m in the fine arts auditorium at niagara county college samborn n y this particular gradu ating class is unique among all others to gradu ate for a number of reasons 1 the niagara frontier transit authority pouce dept itself is newly established it began operation on jan 9th so the dept is not yet even one year old chief of the transit authority police is norman j birner a 22 year veteran who retired from the state pouce to assume this responsibility joining chief bimer are deputy chief john p fahey captain augustine j zogaria administra tive lt katherine robin son six sergeants and prior to graduation the 69 recruits 2 the recruits who range in age from 21-48 make this graduating class the largest in the history of the niagara county law engorcement academy it is anticipated that over 450 guests will be in atten dance for the graduation ceremony 3 finally as captain james e gray co-direc tor of the niagara county law enforcement acad emy stated this is the only time i can ever remember an entire police department being trained nt one time i've never neard of it happening her before nor anywhere else in the state gram for the cere mony will include the welcome address given by dr donald donate president of niagara county community col lege keynote speaker willbe supreme court jus tice edgar m nemoyer training of the recruits began in september un der the instruction of captain gray and ser geant gary w hacker co-directors of the ni agara county law en forcement academy in addition to the standard course given to all poten tial police officers captain gray and sergeant hacker covered topics that dealt specifically with transit systems after graduation every candidate will be certified by the new york state division of criminal jus tice as police officer transit authority police officers will receive 14 750 a year and will work 40 hours a week on a 24-hour basic patrolling the trains surface and subway por tions of the transit system visits albion sunday dec 2 brother joe louis courton the rochester/criterion edi tor paid a visit to the ullage of albion to cover the installation service of rev richard carter as pastor of the st paul baptist church rev dean preached the installation sermon on the importance of good leader ship and its value he also srx ke on how people want to gt rid of good leader ship dr smith gave his views on how the congre should treat their leader and how to take care of their pastor rev richard carter and his lovely wife are loaders of the church a wonderful dinner was served to all there was a good turn out for the installation guests were rev patter son rev harvey bishop nd pastor grant of albion daeman presents president's outstanding faculty & administrative awards pictured from left last wednesday night at daemen college's annual faculty trustee dinner held at daemen college's wick center are dr m-__ri s mar-hall president of daemen college james a allen professor of art and recipient of the 1984 president's outstanding faculty award brian d rusk director of public affairs and recipient of president's outstanding administrator award and charles l lumsden chairman of the board of trustees for daemen college many of professor allen's works have been displayed at the albright-knox art gallery mr rusk has administered dr marshall's daemen college forum which recently hosted members of both president reagan's grace and kissinger commission buffalo c of c's annual reception rescheduled the buffalo area cham ber of commerce annual legislative reception ori ginally set for friday dec 7th has been rescheduled for friday jan 4th in the buffalo convention cen ter according to chamber president r david smith the event was re scheduled because of the likelihood that erie county and new york officehold ers as well as other state and county government officials would be unable to attend erie county officials wiu be working on the 1985 budget because of the one-week extension voted by the legislature and signed by the county executive for passage of next year's revenue and spending plan the opening of the special session of the new york legislature has been delayed and there is a strong possibility that the special session's length could interfere with the ability of the western new york delegation to attend the reception additionally the cham ber is extending a courtesy to the 100 black leaders reception honoring leroy r coles jr president of the buffalo urban league to avoid placing burdens on those who may have wanted to attend both events mortgage burning held the pre-burning of the mortgage of the light house church of god in christ 144 reynolds st in rochester was held sunday dec 2nd at 4:30 p.m the elder dupree pas tor of the lily of the valley church of god in christ was the speaker elder walter j monroe is pastor and missionary janet l monroe is the , first lady new member added to infant home board the membership cor poration of our lady of victory infant home re cently elected a new member and has re appointed four members to its board of directors newly elected to the board is dennis t gorski chairman of the new york state assembly commit tee for the 146 th district mr gorski a native of buffalo attended our lady of czestichowa ele mentary and bishop ti mon high schools he graduated from lcmoyne college in syracuse with a bachelor of arts degree in english literature he then enlisted in the united states marine corps served as a captain and was stationed in vietnam from 1967 to 1969 in 1971 mr gorski worked as an administra tive assistant to former supreme court justice arthur goldberg and commenced his political career with his election to the erie county legisla ture in 1972 currently he serves as chairman of the assembly committee on oversight analysis and investigation and is recognized for his notable accomplishments as state assemblyman he is also acredited with the effort to change the location of the empire state games from syra cuse to buffalo in 1985 and 1986 involved in a number of civic and community organizations in 1974 mr gorski was named citizen of the year by the . am-pol eagle a polish-american newspaper assemblyman gorski resides in cheektowaga with his wife mary jo and two sons joseph and thomas reappointed to the infant home board accepting an additional term of service to the infant home board of directors are richard sterling a photographer of lackawanna father leon m neu pastor of st martins church in south buffalo mrs annette peoples social worker at st augustine center and gerald bogacz of ham burg n y offiers of the board of directors re-elected as officers of the infant board of direc tors are annette peoples vice president william holcomb treasurer and marie c bauer secre tary msgr robert c wurtz is president of the board he also serves as general manager of our lady of victory homes of charity which is the parent organization to our ' lady of victory infant home in lackawanna our lady of victory infant home was founded in 1907 by the famed father nelson baker who is known internationally as the padre of the poor the home was established to care for the infants as well as to offer residential maternity services to un wed mothers today the institution offers total care for multi ply handicapped children provides services for pre schoolers with emotional and behavioral problems and continues the 78 year tradition of extending ma ternity care to pregnant mothers needy helping the needy jeffrey warrick of buffalo the push-up king will volunteer his skills once again on sunday dec 9th on behalf of families helping families warrick will perform bis kicking act which will begin at bailey and genesee sta and will culminate at the martin luther king statue in the mlx park last year he performed 5,000 kicks for the families christmas fund families helping families is sponsored by the langston hughes institute 25 high st and is founded by mrs orstella ramsey-easley of ram sey's beauty salon 47 youths receive scholarships from st john b c st john baptist church 184 goodell st and pastored by the dr bennett w smith recently announced its 1984-85 annual scholar ship recipients awards these scholarships are sponsored each year by the church under the auspices of the board of christian education over 6,000 were awarded on sun nov 4th at the morning church service forty-seven youth mem bers of the church who are full-time matriculated students attending a coll lege or university and who were active partici pants in one of the church auxiuary's at the time of enrollment will receive a scholarship students who received the scholarships were sharon hodges of how ard university elvage murphy edinboro col lege robert winn notre dame nicole braxton michigan state sony a d cornish syracuse univer sity dietra worthy can isius college shawnadre chews canisius college lisa hodges hampton v a institute lisa robin son v a union univer sity darryl mines suny at brockport joseph all good rev daemen col lege michelle r martin daemen college soma l banks niagara university wendy a whigham niagara uni versity deborah brown buffalo general hospital school of nursing timo thy card well suny at delhi tyrone a craw ford alfred state univer sity justine harris d'youville college chris tian hodge suny at cortland and regina mar tin d'youville college others are darryl c mines suny at brock port carlton price morris brown college sherman price morehouse college cicely reese trocaire college cheyne martin snellman college rhonda c thompson virginia union university leslie copeland university of ohio and richard mccar ley university of michi gan student attending suny at buff are kimbley ( ardwel carla cyrus felicia motley gregory thomas rochelle watts and paul wright attending state univer sity college at buffalo are timothy cardwell carolyn dinkins wanda thompson rochelle watts and karen wright students attending krie community college are harold cardwell attending medaille col lege are delria crippi n gregory davis and jason ryan kuhlmann cited by uncf fred l kuhlmann center vice chairman of the board of directors of anheuser-busch companies inc re ceives the united negro college fund flame of knowledge symbolizing the uncf motto that a mind is a terrible thing to waste presentation was made by uncf president christopher f edley left during a celebrity kick-off party for the 1984 lou rawls parade of stars television special which benefit the 42 private historically black colleges and universities of the uncf at right is lou rawls whose program has generated millions of dollars each year for the united negro college fund anheuser-busch is the national sponsor of the prapre tail provides promotional support through its budweiser beer brand j serving cms-ing leading in wny inner cities lsince 1923 i r price only 20 c per copy _