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Saturday, September 18, 1993 FROM PAGE 1A Hope dims for saving 300 jobs at Struthers-Dunn By ALAN GUENTHER Courier-Post Staff MANTUA Company officials met with workers at the Struthers-Dunn plant Friday, but offered little hope 300 jobs could be saved there. Company executives refused interview requests after the 90-minute meeting. But a union official said said Charles K. Rivard, chief executive officer of the company, made the following statements at the meeting: The plant will close in November unless the union agrees to permit the transfer of its operation to South Windsor, Conn. If the union agrees to the move, the company will keep its local operation running on Lambs Road in Mantua for "several more months." If the company can't move to Connecticut, it will declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

It will not offer severance pay to displaced workers, except to 28 employees with more than 20 years' experience. "We won't let them go to Connecticut," said the union official, Jo-Anne Sheppard. "No way." A clause in the union contract forbids the company from shipping work to Struthers-Dunn subsidiary companies, such as the Hi -G Co. in Connecticut. victims listed in critical condition Continued from Page 1A "Then there was the screams," he recounted.

"I told people to call the police." Rain-slicked roads may have contributed to the accident, said Patrolman Thomas Linardo. One of the vehicles apparently lost control before the accident, said Linardo, offering no details. The impact sheared the truck's front axle and caused the rears of the vehicles to slam together. Some passengers, trapped in the crumpled bus, had to be extricated with the jaws of life by rescue workers. The minibus was taking the center's clients home at the time of the accident.

A spokeswoman at Berlin Senior Care Center would not comment on the accident. The center is part of the Archway Medical Day Care Center at 260 Pine Edge Drive in Berlin Township. Victims in critical condition included the drivers of both vehicles: Thomas Langon, 31, of Sicklerville in the truck; and Angelo Zarro, 60, of Somerdale in the minibus. The drivers, along with an unidentified man and woman, were taken to Cooper HospitalUniversity Medical Center, Camden. All were listed in critical condition.

"It's safe to say it's going to be a busy night for the surgeons at Cooper," said Dr. Raymond Talucci, the attending trauma surgeon. Six victims taken to Kennedy Memorial Hospital, Washington division, were in critical condition. A hospital spokeswoman identified them as August Gibbons, a passenger in the delivery truck, and five women from the care center: Elizabeth Wells, Bernice Moore, Katherine Owens, Hazel Mullen and Mildred Jarrow. No ages or addresses were available.

James Buie, 55, was taken to William B. Kessler Memorial Hospital in Hammonton. Buie was in stable condition. Dolores Cappuccio, 59, was taken to the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, in unstable condition. Two unidentified men were COUNTY Township New Chews Brooklyn-Blackwood SITE ACCIDENT OF Road WilliamstownFreedom New CAMDEN COUNTY Sicklerville-New Brooklyn Road Road Atlantic City Winslow Expressway Township GLOUCESTER ENLARGED AREA COUNTY Courier-Post taken to West Jersey Hospital, Adkins, Jones' live-in attendant.

Berlin division. Both were in "I'm just hoping she lives stable condition. through the night." Some friends of victims responded with concern and confusion. Several women, who work as caretakers for the disabled, waited at Cooper for several hours, wondering if a woman in surgery was their friend. Tracy Adkins said she believed the victim was Gloria Jones, 50, of the 100 block of Center Avenue, Chesilhurst.

"She's in the operating room and I feel worse now," said Teen-ager held in shooting is gun theft suspect Associated Press SOMERVILLE A 17-yearold accused of shooting a fellow high school student is suspected of stealing the gun in Virginia, where it was used in a carjacking last month, authorities said. The suspect, a junior at Immaculata High School, was charged with attempted murder after he allegedly shot Raymond Guiliano, 16, during an argument Wednesday in the school parking lot, police said. 4 killed in 2 car accidents Associated Press A three-vehicle accident in Woodbridge killed two people and forced heavily traveled Route 1 to close for five hours. Also hours earlier Thursday, an elderly couple died in another accident on Route 287 in Piscataway. Police identified them Friday as Peter Bereznicki, 75, the driver, and his wife, Helen, 73, Struthers-Dunn laid off 40 workers Friday.

Rivard told workers he didn't know if more layoffs would be announced before the plant closed, said Sheppard, the union's secretary. Management and union officials plan to meet Sept. 23 to begin talks about closing the plant. The company, which makes electric relay parts for airplanes and missiles, has submitted drawings to a planning board in South Windsor, for a new 40,000 square-foot facility. Most workers at the local plant earn between $9 and $10 an hour.

The company, saying it was losing money because of cutbacks in defense spending, has asked workers to take a pay cut of more than $2 per hour, according to union vice president Charles "Chip" MacKannan. The union has refused to take the pay cut. New Jersey government officials have offered Struthers-Dunn $5.5 million in loans to keep its Mantua plant open. But the company has said. it can't afford to pay back the loans.

Instead, the company has accepted a $3.5 million offer from Connecticut, which includes an outright grant of $2 million. New Jersey could not match that offer because state policy forbids giving outright grants to private companies, officials have said. Some of faithful are fuming over 'hell-bound' guide Hospital personnel would not release an identity for the patient, however. Accidents are common at the site of the collision, particularly when the road is wet, said Hasher, the gas station attendant. "There are always cars sliding and fender-benders here," he said.

Police, however, did not describe the road as dangerous. "It's only as bad as any heavily traveled road around here," said Linardo. McDuffie is a friend of the suspect in Wednesday's shooting, authorities said. Virginia authorities are expected to charge the shooting suspect with burglary, Bissell said. It is unclear if he was involved in the carjacking, he said.

Police arrested the Immaculata student Wednesday after a struggle at a mall in Bernards where his girlfriend works. The suspect was also charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. Bissell said he will he seek court approval to prosecute the 17-year-old as an adult. The suspect was being held at the Somerset County Juvenile Detention Center in Skillman, Bissell said. Guiliano was listed in fair condition Friday at Somerset Medical Center with a wound to the buttocks, the hospital said.

He was shot once with a .44 Magnum revolver. The gun was stolen Aug. 23 from a house in Fauquier County, Va. and used that day to hijack a vehicle i in Manassas, said Somerset County Prosecutor Nicholas L. Bissell Jr.

The shooting suspect was in Virginia during that time visiting his father, the prosecutor said. The stolen Jeep turned up in Piscataway Aug. 23 and police there arrested a 17-year-old Bedminster youth and Dammen McDuffie, 19, of Bridgewater in connection with the Virginia carjacking, police said. both of Somerville. In the Woodbridge accident at 2:07 p.m.

Thursday, police said a northbound car swerved out of control to avoid a car. The car became airborne and crossed the median, landing atop another car and hitting a southbound tractor-trailer. The occupants of the car that lost control were dead at the scene. freeholders again squabbling over budget Continued from Page 1A to foot the bill," said Simon. But county officials say the DOC has been forced to fill positions once staffed by Simon's non-correctional officers.

They also contend Simon's budget contains money to pay for services no longer provided by his department. As a result, county officials want to take money from Simon to offset the increased cost of running the jail. A spokesman for the Sheriff's Department called the county's position "budgetary "We are already in litigation over our budget," said the spokesman, Sgt. Phil Dollarton, referring to a pending lawsuit that seeks to recover $800,000 cut from the Sheriff's budget. "We will sue again at the drop of the hat if they try to take any more money from us." Dollarton denied Simon's budget has excess funds.

The Sheriff's Department contends it may run out of money next month, if it does not win its lawsuit. The department recently warned 110 workers of possible layoffs. This latest budgetary flap comes just three months before a contract with jail workers expires. The current contract offers workers compensatory time for overtime, rather than money. Jail employees accepted that arrangement in return for Simon's promise to limit job cuts.

But Simon no longer controls the jail and Owens said that, beginning next year, overtime likely would be paid in cash. Part of the budget flap may be decided by the state, said Frederick Schuck, first assistant county counsel. When county officials took over the jail, they sparred with Simon over which department would pay to perform various services, such as internal affairs, prisoner transport and prisoner identification. The issue is now before the state's Merit Systems Board and Mosconi Pocket billiards world champion dies Continued from Page 1A and use a broom stick to hit potatoes into the pockets," he was the best that son said. "Someone saw him five ever lived," said Stanley Cohen, playing and said to his father, who helped Mr.

Mosconi write his 'You've to see got autobiography, Willie's Game, By the time he was 10, Mr. published last spring. "He was Mosconi was playing against one of those legends whose name Ralph Greenleaf, the perennial is synonymous with the sport." world champion and legendary Mr. Mosconi was also known player of the 1920s. for his cordial and dignified Mr.

Mosconi began playing in manner. tournaments after school hours. "He was a gentleman in a sport When he graduated high school, not known for gentlemen," Cohen he tried his hand at some odd said. jobs but soon found he could Cohen downplayed Mr. Mos- make a good living playing pool.

coni's rivalry with Rudolph Wanbetter known as Minneso- Mr. Mosconi holds the world derone, ta Fats. In fact, both men were in record for the most consecutive their 60's when they became balls sunk 526, set in 1954. He rivals. Wanderone was a great was also known for his trick trick shooter, but never played shots, including shooting balls professional pool and was no from one table to another.

match for Mosconi in "straight "Dad had the most beautiful pool," Cohen said. stroke fluid, easy," Dickson When Mr. Mosconi was a said. "Some players have a jerky child, his father owned a billiards style. He hit the ball smoothly parlor but wanted young Willie to with his pinky finger stuck in the become a Vaudeville dancer, not a air.

He just glided around the pool player. So he locked the balls table." and cues in cabinets. In addition to his wife and Dad used to sneak down daughter, Mr. Mosconi is By JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. God only knows who gets to heaven, but the Southern Baptists estimate 46.1 percent of people in Alabama risk going to hell.

Since the figure from church research on potentially doomed souls was made public, it is Baptists who are feeling the fire, however. The Southern Baptist Convention's county-by-county breakdown of who's bound for heaven and who isn't unless they are born again and accept Jesus Christ as their savior hit The Birmingham News on Sept. 5. It's been the buzz in some Alabama pews ever since. Under the headline: "Baptists count the lost," the front- page story included a detailed map and box listing the 1.86 million "unsaved" by county in precise percentages.

The Baptists said the numbers were only guide on where to establish new churches and find more followers. But some of the faithful, Baptists as well as others, are incensed. "It is the pinnacle of presumptuousness to construct a formula for quantifying the unsaved," Jack Denver of Homewood, a self-described "practicing Christian" wrote in a letter that was among about a dozen the newspaper published from irate readers. The Southern Baptists have done such demographic research for years, said Martin King, a spokesman for the denomination's Atlanta-based Home Mission Board, which compiled the study and has national figures he would not disclose. King added that the Baptists don't claim to be passing judgment.

"We don't know who's lost and who's saved," King said. "All we know is that as we understand the doctrine of salvation, a lot of people are lost." But being lost means going to hell, King said, and he understands why others are upset with the list. "People take offense when we say, according to Scripture, if you have not accepted Jesus as your personal lord and savior, you are not going to heaven," he said. "They don't like hearing that they're not going to heaven." Still some are asking whether America's largest Protestant denomination with close to 15 million followers is trying to play God instead of preaching the Gospel. It seemed especially insulting in this Bible Belt state where religion may be the only thing more sacred than college football.

As elsewhere in the South, the common salutation on meeting someone for the first time. is "What church do you go to?" The Rev. Patrick Cullen of the Cathedral of Saint Paul in Birmingham said Roman Catholics viewed the index with amusement more than anything else. "One gentleman leaving church last Sunday said we should get T-shirts saying, 'I'm one of the 46 percent," Rev. Cullen said.

About 3 percent of Alabama's 4 million residents are Catholic. The Rev. Mickey Morgan of the First United Methodist Church of Birmingham said Friday his denomination places more importance on individuals and relating their own ways then, in everyone one experiencing single, life-changing event of be-ing "born again." "The way we would define the. lost is not the way they would define the lost," Rev. Morgan said.

"I think God is more interested in making sure everyone is in a right relationship to each other and to God than in tallying up the lost." The study took each county's population and subtracted from it membership of all churches. After that, Baptist researchers used a secret formula to estimate how many people from different denominations and faiths were probably going to heaven. King said estimates of the unsaved from other creeds were based on how closely those groups' beliefs matched Southern Baptist doctrine. That means, for instance, that a higher percentage of Methodists are saved than are Roman Catholics, according to the study. The index applied the traditional Baptist view that Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and members of other non-Christian religions are not saved, the paper said.

Virtually everyone not belonging to a church congregation was counted among the lost, King said. a ruling is expected soon. If the state rules that Simon must provide the services, then he will have to provide the personnel. However, if the state rules that the jobs must be provided by the DOC, then the county will take the money from Simon's budget. "They are not taking any money out of our budget," said Dollarton.

"The DOC is being funded for six positions jobs the sheriff's department was previously performing. It just goes to show that the takeover was poorly planned. I think it vindicates our position that we should run the jail." vived by a son, William; another daughter, Candace Fritch; and five grandchildren. Friends and relatives may call Sunday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Foster's Funeral Home, 250 White Horse Pike, Audubon.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 10 a.m. Monday at the Church of St. Rose of Lima, 4th Avenue and King's Highway in Haddon Heights. Memorial contributions may be made to Children's Hospital Cardiac Care Unit, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104.

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