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SETTLING ARGUMENTS A community project at Marketview Heights is helping solve disagreements and teaching neighbors to do it themselves. Story on 6B. TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8, 1983 ROCHESTER NEW YORK SECTION 4B MOVIES 58 HELP! In Democrat anil (Chronicle Ail I III LJCJ murder trial Torpey Jury selection completed after 8 weeks; both sides give opening statements By Jody McPhillips Democrat and Chronicle After more than eight weeks of jury selection, the murder trial of Thomas E. Taylor Taylor's lawyer, John F. Speranza, dismissed DiGiulio's story as a self-serving lie.

DiGiulio was arrested the night Fiorino died but didn't begin talking to police until six months later, on the eve of his own murder trial, Speranza said. "We don't have a hero here the pressure was building up" as DiGiulio faced the prospect of life in prison, Speranza said. "So he decided he would play a part in a nurserv rhyme, Billy Goat Gruff. "If he could get someone else in trouble, he could extricate himself, shift the blame He sang. He became a prima donna, telling the troll under the bridge to catch somebody else and let him go." TURN TO PAGE 4B pire Plaza, Irondequoit DiGiulio was captured moments later near the scene after the getaway car he was driving crashed.

Sullivan, who was captured six weeks later, was convicted Sept. 23, 1982, of Fiorino's murder and is expected to testify as a defense witness in the current trial. Police informant DiGiulio will be the star prosecution witness in exchange for a reduced sentence in a federal, rather than a state, prison, Castro conceded. DiGiulio's brother Philip was sent to the same federal prison and Louis' former girlfriend relocated as part of the deal, he said. "But his testimony, and that of 60 or so witnesses, will convince you beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr.

Taylor and Mr. Torpey are guilty of the murder of John Fiorino," Castro said. woman, two-man jury was chosen yesterday afternoon. More than 700 prospective jurors were interviewed before the 12, plus three female alternate jurors, were chosen. Castro told jurors he would prove that Taylor and Torpey planned a murder as a signal to an established underworld faction that they were striking out on their own.

Defense lawyers dismissed the prosecution theory as nonsense, calling it a lie made up by a police informant, a man in jail desperate to save his own skin. The defendants are accused of conspiring with convicted killer Joseph John Sullivan and Louis A. DiGiulio to murder reputed mobster John N. Fiorino the night of Dec. 17, 1981.

Fiorino was shot to death outside the former Blue Gardenia Restaurant in the Em and Thomas M. Torpey opened yesterday afternoon in Monroe County court Assistant District Attorney Melchor E. Castro began his opening statement to the jury at 4:45 p.m., 15 minutes before the courts normally close for the day. Because of the late hour, both sides kept opening statements to less than 20 minutes. The trial opened after the last of the 10- Two Beirut Marines given heroes' funerals by family, neighbors and 'more-than-friends' 1 lift Cpl.

Stockton of Chili buried just yards from comrade from Greece By Barbara Vancheri Democrat and Chronicle A Chili man killed in Beirut six days shy of his 19th birthday was tearfully remembered yesterday as a faithful Marine, a loyal brother and a true friend of his high school classmates. In a sad scene being replayed for more than 200 servicemen across America, Lance Cpl. Craig Stockton was buried in Riverside Cemetery. His veteran's grave is a few yards from that of Lance Cpl. John McCaU of Greece, another Rochester-area Marine who died after the Oct.

23 terrorist bombing in Lebanon. They both now rest in the shadow of an American flag, flying yesterday at half-staff. Many of the estimated 300 people at the First Baptist Church in Chili wept yesterday as friends Richard Chacinski, Scott Singer and Mary Jean Trelly read passages from the Bible and then added their own brief tributes. "My friend Craig was the greatest," said Singer, his eyes red from crying and his voice trembling. City man accused of wounding bar owner Campbell Randolph, 39, accused of shooting the owner of a South Avenue bar, being held last night in the Monroe County jail in lieu of $1,000 bail.

Randolph, who told police he lives at 383 Beach was arraigned in City Court yesterday on charges of first-degree assault and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. John L. DiTondo, owner of The Desperado, 662 South was listed in satisfactory condition last night at Genesee Hospital. Police said he told an unruly patron to leave the bar early yesterday morning. They said the patron got a sawed-off 16-gauge shotgun from his pickup truck, returned to the bar and shot DiTondo in the hip.

No foul play in man's death The Rochester man whose body was found in a gravel pit Saturday in the town of Macedon apparently died from exposure, Wayne County Coroner C. Dupha Reeves ruied yesterday. "There was no sign of foul play. No bullet wounds or stabs wounds or anything that would indicate he was killed," Wayne County sheriffs Investigator Raymond Pulver said. Felipe Reitor, 50, of 501 Seneca Manor Drive, was found by two hunters in the pit on the south side of Quaker Road near Canandaigua Road, Pulver said.

He was reported missing to the Rochester Police Department on Oct 11 by his wife, Nancy, Pulver said. Reitor had a "history of mental problems" and had "drifted off" from his home before, he said. He had apparently been traveling on foot and wandered into Macedon, which is about 15 miles southeast of Rochester, Pulver said. The coroner estimated that Reitor has been dead two weeks, Pulver said. He was found barefoot, wearing only a shirt and pants.

When he was last seen, Reitor was wearing shoes, a hat and a leather jacket, he said. Grocer threatened, robbed One man armed with a sawed-off shotgun and another armed with a knife threatened an unidentified employee of Elgin And Cottage Grocery, 371 Cottage St, before stealing upwards of $500 in cash and food stamps yesterday. The employee told police he was sitting in a back office at the store when the two men entered at 11:25 a.m. and said "Don't move and don't hit the (alarm) button." They ran off with a blue Marine Midland Bank bag with $500 cash, assorted change and foodstamps. No arrests were made.

Fund sets $3.5 million goal The annual United Jewish Welfare Fund campaign has set a 1984 goal of $3.5 million, according to campaign officials. The campaign will begin with a daylong telethon on Dec. 11, and Super Week, Dec. 12-15. Last year's fund drive raised more than $3 million.

The fund-raising campaign supports Jewish needs in Rochester, Israel and in over 40 countries around the world. Locally, money raised by the drive support programs such as the Bureau of Jewish Education, the Jewish Community Center, Jewish Family Service, and the Rochester Area Hillel foundation, which serves Jewish youth on all college campuses in the area. More than 40 agencies in all receive money from the Jewish Community Federation of Rochester, the "Jewish United Way," via its annual campaign, according to Betty M. Solodar, spokeswoman for the federation. 4 agencies receive funding Four Rochester-area agencies have been awarded a total of $10,500 in grants from the Gannett Foundation, part of a total of $365,669 awarded in 87 grants nationally by the philanthropic organization.

The following area agencies were awarded grants: Baden Street Settlement, Rochester, received a $3,500 grant to provide remedial education in reading and math to players in its Pop Warner Football pro- OTflTTl. Jim Laragy Democrat and Chronicle Donald and Dona Stockton receiving flags from Lt. Col. Michael Ferguson at Riverside Cemetery as high school friends of their son, Craig, look on. Stockton was a Churchville-Chili graduate.

TURN TO PAGE 4B Chamber to set rules on groups' use of facilities Gay Alliance hopes committee will set 'affirmative action' guide By Kinsey Wilson Democrat and Chronicle The Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce yesterday announced it will develop "firm guidelines" for the use of its facilities by outside groups because of controversy over the Chamber's refusal to rent banquet facilities to a homosexual organization. The announcement was contained in a two-sentence news release stating that the Chamber's seven-member executive committee had approved the formation of a "facilities committee" to develop the guidelines. The decision was ratified yesterday at a monthly meeting of the Board of Trustees. Spokeswoman Wyoma Best said Chamber officials would have no further comment on the action. However, she said it was "fair to assume" that the committee was formed because of continuing controversy over the organization's refusal to rent ballroom facilities to the Gay Alliance of Genesee Valley.

Best would not name the individuals appointed to the facilities committee or say when the group would present its guidelines. Jackie Nudd, president-elect of the Gay Alliance, said last night she hoped the committee would propose "affirmative action" guidelines rather than devise a restrictive code designed to exclude groups such as the Alliance. Chamber officials have steadfastly refused to comment on the issue since Oct. 11, when Chamber President Thomas T. Mooney questioned the Gay Alliance's morality in an interview with a reporter.

Mooney said he had refused to rent facilities for the Alliance's 10th anniversary dinner because he feared the group "would use that to show that their organization is accepted by the mainstream of the business community." He said he believes the community "docs not condone the philosophy or morality that the Alliance espouses," adding that the Chamber "should stand up for what it thinks is right (Otherwise) our country, our values, our morality is right down the drain." Since that time, Mooney has said only that the majority of letters he received on the issue expressed support for his stand. The Gay Alliance has responded by filing a complaint with the Monroe County Human Relations Commission and announcing that it would lobby for a legal ban on all forms of discrimination within the city. Several religious organizations and community groups, including the Urban League of Rochester, the local chapter of the National Organization for Women, and the Presbytery of Genesee Valley, have expressed support for the Alliance in the wake of the incident. Nudd will appear before the City Council tomorrow night to call for adoption of an ordinance or executive order banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. 10 reputed mobsters to be tried together Judge Telesca refuses to order separate trials for defendants By Jody McPhillips Democrat and Chronicle A federal judge has refused to order separate trials for 10 reputed mobsters under indictment on conspiracy and racketeering charges.

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth R. Fisher said yesterday the ruling clears the way for pretrial hearings on issues such as suppression of evidence, but that the case still isn't expected to come to trial until late spring. Defense lawyers had sought separate trials, charging individual defendants would be prejudiced by being tried with nine others. Not all defendants are accused in all crimes, they noted.

U.S. District Judge Michael A. Telesca, in a written decision, said, "As a general matter the interests of convenience, economy and efficient administration of justice dictate that persons joined in the same indictment should be tried together, particularly where the proof will be extensive and numerous witnesses must be summoned." He continued, "Merely because defendants would have a better chance of acquittal at a separate trial does not constitute substantial prejudice." TURN TO PAGE 4B Carol Ritter Democrat and Chronicle Marine honor guard carrying the casket of Lance Cpl. John J. Ingalls at Lake View Cemetery, Interlaken.

In school gym, lifelong friends honor Interlaken native nnonlv fnr the classmate thev had loved and lost. Western New York Child Care Council was awarded $3,500 to help replace lost government funding for the Day Care Resource Proiect. which coordinates support services for child day care center programs By Carol Ritter Democrat and Chronicle Marine Lance Cpl. John J. Ingalls, 19, was laid to rest yesterday in the sun-dappled hillside cemetery in his home town of Interlaken, an ocean and a lifetime away from Beirut.

As his slender blonde fiancee, 18-year-old Laurie Porter, clutched his parents' arms and wept, the young Marine received the honors reserved for American heroes: a gun salute, the playing of taps, an honor guard of eight uniformed Marines and a veterans' color guard. When the brief funeral and graveside services were over, the silent crowd that had stood among the maple trees at a respectful distance from the Ingalls family turned and walked back through a carpet of golden leaves to a string of cars waiting on the road outside Lake View Cemetery. But two young men in the crowd tall, handsome young men, one in a sailor suit and the other in Air Force dress blues embraced each other and wept "The human family seeks peace, but some pay the price with their lives. The human race has to struggle to overcome war," said Rev. Nicholas VanderWeide, pastor of the Interlaken Reformed Church, as he led the 20-minute funeral service before 700 people in the gymnasium of the South Seneca Middle School in Interlaken.

Ingalls died in the Oct. 23 suicide terrorist attack on the U.S. Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon. He was the only one of four Seneca County Marines in Beirut to die that day. The others John Grover of Lodi, Steven Perthel of Waterloo and Richard VonBergen of Seneca Falls survived without harm.

Ingalls graduated from South Seneca High School in 1982. He had already enlisted in the Marines when he accepted his diploma and celebrated with classmates he had known all his life. TURN TO PAGE 4B for low-income families. The Women's Career Center will receive $2,000 to help subsidize career counseling for low-incomer unemployed or underemployed women. In Albion, Orleans County, Arnold Gregory Memorial Hospital was awarded $1,500 toward the $6,000 cost of an emergency response system to connect elderly patients living alone with the hospital.

The independent foundation was established by the late founder of the Gannett Group of Newspapers, Frank E. Gannett The foundation contributes locally to char- itable causes in more than 100 communities in the United States and Canada wWfi Gannett Co. Inc. properties are lo Road bond issue, police plan hold top interest in oaiioi propositions April. crat and Chronicle on Page 3A.

cated, and nationally to journalism-related Voters will decide today on 8 state proposals, 2 from Monroe County By Dan Bowerman programs. So far this year the foundation has authorized contributions totaling more than $7 million. On the lookout for thief Forty-eight pairs of glasses valued at $1,500 were stolen from Temple Optical, 14 Franklin police said yesterday. Employees told police someone entered the office when it was closed Saturday by tlirnuph a vent window. Stolen Without the bond issue, Cuomo says, New York couldn't raise the matching money to acquire the federal dollars unless the state increased regular taxes.

And the bond issue has the backing of nearly all the state's political leaders from all parties. A wide range of diverse organizations also support it, from the National Safety Council, which calls it an accident-prevention program, to the state's Catholic bishops, who say "justice and the common good will be served" by a yes vote on the bond issue. Of the $1.25 billion, $1,005 billion TURN TO PAGE 2B York Through Transportation Infrastructure Renewal Bond Issue." If the title doesn't confuse voters, then the 98-word explanation below it surely will. Despite the gobbledygook, the proposal is straightforward. If voters approve, the state will borrow $1.25 billion to help finance a massive five-year construction program to repair roads and bridges and improve airports, rail systems, waterways and bus services throughout the state.

But the bond issue is just the first of the proposals that stretch across the top line of the ballot. There are 10 in all for Monroe County voters, including eight state issues and two county issues. A sample ballot appears in today's Demo Democrat and Chronicle The bond issue and a Monroe County proposal to create a county-wide police force, which will appear as proposal No. 9, have received the most attention locally. If the bond issue is approved, Cuomo has said the $1.25 billion would be combined with regular state appropriations and federal matching funds to create a $7.3 billion fund to pay for the repairs and improvements during the next five years.

And $400 million from the bond issue would make the state eligible to receive $1.9 billion in federal money that it wouldn't otherwise receive, Cuomo says. The additional federal dollars come from the nickel-a-gallon gasoline tax that was instituted in Rebuild New York has been the catch nhrase. and Gov. Mario Cuomo has been pushing it hard since July. were 33 pairs of sunglasses and 15 pairs of Voters will see the words on me top nne of the ballot when they step into the voting booth today.

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