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Area Friday, January 29. 1982 Poughkeepsie Journal 3" Magnet school: programs proposed in By Jeff Summerford Journal lUtT new magnet school programs have been propoied lor the City of Pough keeptle In an effort to further desegregate city schools In the 1982 1983 year, Superintendent Peter Horoschak said Thursday. The plan also calls for the transfer of fourth and fifth grade students from Morse School on Mansion Street to other city elementary schools in the city. Morse would be devoted entirely to an early childhood magnet program already under way In the school's lower grades. Under the proposal, parents of and fifth graders from Morse would be allowed to place their children at the next closest or at either of the newly formed magnet schools.

The proposal, released this week by the school district's administrative recommends the establishment of an "academic Challenge at Krieger Elementary on Hooker Avenue and a "creative arts and sciences school" at Warring Elementary on Mansion Street. The elimination of foufth and fifth grades at Morse would displace 84 students Into other schools, according to the proposal, which was distributed to school board members and teachers. Horoschak said, the proposed changes would create a more equitable racial bal jnce in the city's elementary schools, the magnet program was instituted In schools two years ago in an attempt to voluntarily desegregate ra cially Imbalanced schools. The magnet program established unique programs at various schools, based on the theory that special curricula, would attract students to schools outside their immediate attendance areas. Parents can apply to place their children in special magnet programs anywhere in the city.

Since the establishment of the Initial magnet programs, the school district has almost achieved Its goal of reflecting, lO'percent, the city's racial makeup at each elementary school, Horoschak said. Only the upper grades at Morse remain Imbalanced, and the proposed school changes are expected to remedy that, he said. The racial balance of the city's school population Is SS percent non white and 44 percent white, Horoschak Desegregation efforts have been aimed solely at the elementary schools because Poughkeepsie has only one middle school and one high school. Horoschak said the proposed magnet programs at Warring and Krieger will enhance the city's schools educationally, in addition to their value as desegregation tools. See MAGNET PLAN, page 11 V.

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St. Francis confirmed Thursday that the state Department' of Health had approved the hospital's latest request tor the device. The approval was announced to the hospital in a letter dated Jan. 14. Donald Murphy, St.

Francis' chief administrator, said he was pleased with the decision. "The CT scanner belongs in the hospital," he Jack Bronson, a public relations officer for the hospital, said the decision would mean a saving of time and simplification in the treatment of patients needing scans. Until now, Vassar Hospital in the City of Poughkeepsie was the only Dutchess County hospital with state authorization for the device, known as a computed tomographic (CT) scanner. The machine electronically scans the body to find ailments. Use of the device has made possible the elimination of many exploratory operations because the device can look into the body.

But regulations have limited the use of scanners to regional centers because of concerns by hospital regulators that scanners at many hospitals would cause needless duplication of services and Increased patient charges to pay for the scanners. The Hospital Review and Planning Council of the state Department of Health had, since 1977, repeatedly denied St. Francis requests for its own scanner. The denials were based on the council's concern that there was not enough need for a second one in the Poughkeepsie The regulations were sidestepped last spring when a group of .12 doctors, claiming they could not adequately practice at St. Francis without a bought the $500,000 machine and installed it in the Sisters of St.

Francis convent on the hospital campus. The hospital and convent are connected by a tunnel. Under a' previous agreement between the dozen doctors and St. Francis, the. hospital will buy the scanner now in the convent and move it into the radiology department on the first floor of the newly completed Terence Cardinal Cook Pavilion, Bronson said.

He said the hospital would' make the move as quickly as possible, but he did not know how soon It would be. done. The latest ruling by the Hospltar Review 'and Planning Council, was' based on new. information showing there was a need for a second scanner in the Poughkeepsie area. In reaching the decision, the coun ell found that Yassar's scanner use' during 1980 was, nearly double the recommended optimum level of 2,500 scans a year.

Additionally, the council found that use of the doctor owned scanner In Its first five months of operation indicated a second scanner in Poughkeepsie could be expected to perform 2,139 scans The council estimated that purchase of the St. Francis scanner' would increase the' daily patient cost by about $2.58 and the. emergency; room fee. by 51 cents a visit. The council also estimated that; first year operating costs of would require an average charge of; $106 per scan.

Thousands expected to attend FDR commemoration Saturdav Nllis isie JournalRobert V. loe formations have developed around a fire hose that was left running at the Berncolors Pouchkeep dye factory to protect against a chemical fire or acid spDl. Ipe and 'cabin fever' rac6 Coast Guard crews By David Harris Jounill sUft HYDE PARK The sun will make only a brief appearance Saturday morning for the thousands of people expected to attend ceremonies commemorating the 100th birthday of the nation's 32nd president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The ceremonies) which begin at 10 a.m. with the laying of a wreath on FDR's grave, will be held at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt National Historic Site, off Route 9 in Hyde Pork Sunshine Is expected to give way to increasing cloudiness and afternoon rain, according to John Papp, a meteorologist for Fieetweather, a private forecasting firm in Wiccopee.

Temperatures are expected to be in the mid 20s. Park service officials have made only, rough estimates of how many people will attend "the ceremonies, which come exactly one week after a fire caused extensive smoke and water damage to the FDR home. They said weather will probably be the determining Crowd estimates range from 4,000 to 20,000 peoplepeople A long list of distinguished guests from around New York state and across the nation are expected to attend the day's events. The major television networks, as well as major print media will be there to record It all. Area residents have been urged by the park service to form car pools to reduce traffic.

At least 2,000 auto mobiles are expected. The fire last which was believed to have been caused by faulty electrical wiring, has meant only minor changes In the schedule of according to Edie Shean Hannond, a spokesman for the National Park Service, which operates See FDR EVENTS, page 11 By Jeff Summerford Jural Matt Through the windows of the U.S. Coast Guard's mobile" command pos Vjtist off North Water Street, one can look across the Ice encrusted Fallklll. Creek to the rubble that Is left of the Bernoolors Poughkeepsie dye plant. Bizarre ice sculptures have formed around fire hose left running to combat possible, chemical fires or acid and a shattered skeleton of the old factory still looms above the Hudson After 15 days of coordinating the cleanup of the dye factory site, it is a view with which some Coast Guard officers have grown intimately familiar.

They, agree the frosty, chemical drenched explosion site is not the nicest place to spend the winter, but tbey are bearing up. under the cleanup ordeal with a sense of purpose and a sense of humor vn 'At least, they say, the accommodations have gotten better. For several days before the mobile command post a large, modified recreational vehicle arrived from; a North Carolina base on Jan. II, the guardsmen shuttled, back! and forth between a drafty storage room Iq a nearby Central. HudsonUtillty building and a plastic lean to workers' Things could only get better, several guardsmen agreed as they sipped coffee in tight cluster in the front of the crowded command post.

At least. Coast Guard officers sy, their schedule has gotten easier since the tat hectic days after the' explosion and fir at! the some officers worked 12 to lsV hour shifts. Now. they work standard eight a Chemicals put on trucks for shipment upstate Workers, at, the Berncolors Poughkeepsie explosion site loaded six trailer sized dump trucks, with barrels of hazardous chemicals and mounds of contaminated debris Thursday. The chemicals and debris are being shipped to the Chemical Environmental Conservation Systems disposal site, near Niagara Falls, 'federally approved facility tor hazardous wastes.

Coast Guard spokesman Dewell said. Dewell said eight of the 38 yard dump trucks would be filled today at lh site of the Jan. 14 explosion ontjorth Water Street that killed two factory workers and released toxic chemicals. Five trucks were filled with contaminated 'rubble Thursday and one with 40 barrels of chemicals. Dewell estimated it would take 50 truckloads to remove the debris.

Contractors from New England Pollution Control Company also demolished much of the skeleton that remained from the four story factory Thursday, Dewell said. hour day, and spend the evening fighting ''cabin fever" at Marlst basketball games, city bars and the various motels in which they are staying throughout the area. For Petty; Officer. Richard Goes, Poughkeepsie seems like a a welcome relief from Elizabeth City, N.C.. Where the Atlantic Strike Team is "The town we come from is farm; little behind the times," he said.

"You like to get out on the road. Instead of Just stay ins; at the base and being prepared." Goes saidv. Goss and several of his coworkers agreed they tike to spend their free evenings seeking female When asked about hit stay in Bench said, with single. I don't mind this at all." Several guardsmen heartily agreed. Some officers also said they enjoy the challenge of working with the site.

"During (chemical) spills you always realize you've never seen one like It DeweU said. "There's no cookbook." As the agency responsible for overseeing. the cleanup of pollution on navigable waterways, such as the Hudson River, the Coast Guard took' over operations at the site hours after toe Jan. 14 explosion. The blast ripped through the factory, releasing toxic chemicals stored at the plant.

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The crossing guard is Bertha Ed gerton of Poughkeepsie. Area fishermen assail proposals 0 on river fishing By Dennis Klpp Journal suit NEW PALTZ Hudson River commercial fishermen! seeing themselves as already overregulated, on Thursday attacked a series of new state proposedproposed restrictions on striped bass catches from the river, One of the proposals, a ban on the use of nets with mesh sizes between 3V and 5V4 inches, would literally wipe out commercial striped bass fishing, said Donald Hardy of the Village of Piermont, president of the New York State Commercial Fishermen's Association. Those net sizes, said Hardy, are the most popular among commercial fishermen. It they are outlawed, fishermen will have to throw away a large number of nets now used, according to John Cronin of Garrison, a spokesman for the fishermen's For now, regulation of striped bass fishing Is a moot point. Commercial catching of the species has been banded since 1976 because of contamination by.

PCBs a class of toxic Industrial oil once used in the manufacture of capacitators. But the DEC wants to be ready to protect the striped bass population when PC levels drop to safe amounts and commercial fishing resumes, said Wayne P. Elliot of DEC. Striped bass were always the most popular river catch. Another proposal to increase the legal length of fish caught from It to It inches would be even harder on sport fishing because of the difficulty In catching the larger sized fish with book and line," said Thomas Gentalen of Catskill, representing sport fishermen.

Limits on the total number of fish that could be caught a proposal rejected by the state would I be betterfor sport fishermen than the' fish length limitations, Gentalen said. Cronin said most of the new proposed regulations were unnecessary and the result of pressure on the state by ocean nsnermen rrora Long island. Thursday's meeting, held at the Mid Hudson re gional headquarters of the state Department of Ebkt vlronmental Conservation, was the fourth and final one on the new regulations. About SO persons attended, most of them commercial fishermen. 1 A.