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September 24, 1985 

Mr. John F. Riordan 

Executive Vice President 

Occidental Chemical Corporation 

360 Rainbow Boulevard South 

Niagara Falls, New Moirk14302 

Dear John: 

I very much appreciate your invitation requesting me 

to attend the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra's Fiftieth 

Anniversary Year Ball on Octo_ber_5A___1$5- 

As much as I would enjoy doing so, I must regret your 

thoughtful invitation. The heavy volume of requests that I 

have received for that time period has made it impossible 

for me to do all those events that I enjoy doing so much. 

I sincerely wish I could have given you a positive 

response and hope you can understand the problems of 

scheduling around the legislative calendar. 

JK/gh/bw 

Thank you so much for thinking of me. 

MS 

Very sincerely yours, 

Jack Kemp 

Member of Congress

Occidental Chemical Corporation 

Industrial & Specialty Chemicals Division 

John F. Riordan 

Executive Vice Presider* 

Honorable Jack Kemp 

Federal Building 

111 W. Huron Street 

Room 1101 

Buffalo, New York 14202 

Dear Jack: 

RECEIVED 

SE 2O'8 

JACK KEMP MC 

BUFFALO, NY 


On Saturday, October 5, 1985, the Women's Committee, the 

Philharmonic Ball Committee, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra 

Society Board will present a special Fiftieth Anniversary Year 

Ball. As a corporate benefactor of the Philharmonic, we will be 

hosting a table and would like to invite you to join us as our 

quest. 

The ball will take place at the State University of New York Alumni 

Arena at the Amherst Campus. The cocktail party will be 6-7 PM, 

with the patrons and benefactors dinner 7-9 PM. From 9-1 AM, the 

ball will take place in the main ballroom featuring the Buffalo 

Philharmonic Orchestra with special guest conductor Mitch Miller. 

Jack, I hope you and Judy can join us for this most exciting 

event. I look forward to hearing from you. 

Best regards, 

hn F. Riordan 

);;7 Executive Vice President 

3041P/ 

Occidental Chemical Center 

360 Rainbow Boulevard South, Box 728, Niagara Falls, New York 14302 716/286-3100

Mrs. Lucille Kaminski 

7050 East Eden Road 

Hamburg, New York 14075 

Dear Mrs. Kaminski: 

October 4, 1985 


to attend the Open House celebrating St. Mary's 100th 

anniversary on October 6, 1985. 






response and hope you can understand the problems of scheduling 

around the legislative calendar. 

JK:glh:bw 


MS 



Member of Congress

The Honorable Jack F. Kemp, 

The House of Representatives, 

Washington, D.C. 20025. 

Dear Representative Kemp:- 

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7050 East Eden Road, 

Hamburg, New York. 14075. 

September 10th, 1985. 

Please be advised that St. Mary's Roman 

Catholic Church, corner East Eden Road and Keller Road, 

Eden, New York, will be celebrating its 150th anniversary 

as a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, New 

York, on October 6th, 1985. 

St. Mary's Church has the unique distinction of 

being the oldest parish in the Diocese of Buffalo located 

outside the limits of the City of Buffalo. (St. Louis 

Church in the City of Buffalo is the oldest parish in the 

Diocese of Buffalo.) 

Reverend James A. Grimmer is the present Pastor 

of St. Mary's Church and administers to upwards of three 

hundred families in the area. 

St. Mary's Church will celebrate this special 

occasion with an Open House in the Church Hall on Keller 

Road on Sunday, October 6th, 1985 from 1:00 P.M. to 5:00 

P.M. and we should like to invite you to join us. We 

shall have on display the sesqui-centennial quilt made 

by the ladies of our parish, Thelma Winter's painting of 

the Church, Marian Piskor's hand painted china commemorative 

plate and many old photographs and memorabilia collected 

from our parishioners.

The Honorable Jack F. Kemp, 

September 10th, 1985, 

Page Two. 

We are all very much looking forward to this 

special occasion and truly hope your schedule will allow 

you to celebrate with us. 

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Yours very truly, 

Lucille B. Kaminski, 

Member of the Anniversary 

Committee of St. Mary's 

Church, Eden, New York.

MICHAEL SULLIVAN 

General Chairman 

KATHLEEN KNIGHT 

Treasurer 

DAVID WILSON, Esq. 

Special Counsel 

ROBERT SHEPHERD, Esq. 

Communication Director 


WOJTAN ECEivED 

For Cheektowaga Town Councilman OCT, 0 

0451N' 18 

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GAIL N I EE4RGALL 

A.0!, 

Activities Coordinator 


Congratulations on your 50th birthday. Sorry to miss the 

50th Year Salute Dinner. I was hoping you could do a personal 

favor for me. 

I am campaign manager for a former Young Republican, who is 

ANDREA SULLIVAN 

Publicity Director 

HERB N I EBERGALL 

Consultant 

WILLIAM P. ZENOSKY 

Research and Planning 

running for Councilman in Cheektowaga. His name is Gary J. iiojtan. 

The favor is when your in Buffalo, would you be able to meet 

with Gary, so he could talk with you, and have a picture taken. 

The picture would be used in the town papers and campaign materials. 

He agrees with President Reagan on his tax reform plan, and with 

your plan on taxes, his signs read across the top LOdER TAXES. 

tnclosed is a copy of his Biography and a response to one of 

the town papers inquiry. 

Jack, I know you have a very busy schedule. I know Uary would 

be verybonored to meet with you. Please let me know if you can 

wo-t.k it inot your schedule. Thanks Jack. Take care and hope to 

see you real soon. 

Sincerely yours 

■-P\ L4) 92L144„( 

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TI-1 FRIENDS OF GARY J. WOJTAN 

2956 UN ION ROAD 

CHEEKTOWAGA, NEW YORK 1422-7 

i. $: 

s-eLp

MICHAEL SULLIVAN 


KATHLEEN KN IGHT 

Treasurer 

DAVID WILSON, Esq. 

Special Counsel 

ROBERT SHEPHERD, Esq. 

Communication Director 

WOJTAN 

For Cheektowaga Town Councilman 

04E* 18 

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA 

ON 

GARY J. WOJTAN 

Cheektowaga native Gary . S tan is seeking a seat on the 

Cheektowaga Town Board with the endorsements of the Republican 

and Liberal parties. The 28-year-old attorney is with the 

GAIL N I EBERGALL 

Activities Coordinator 

ANDREA SULLIVAN 

Publicity Director 

HERB NI EBERGALL 

Consultant 

WILLIAM P. ZENOSKY 

Research and Planning 

Cheektowaga firm of Burgess and Wojtan located at 2956 Union Road. 

A 1981 graduate of the University of Buffalo School of Law 

and a 1978 graduate of Canisius College, Mr. Wojtan is active in 

a number of professional and community organizations. Former 

assistant Erie County District Attorney, . S tan is a member 

of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and the American 

Trial Lawyers Association. In addition, he currently serves as a 

director of the Professional and Businessmen's association of 

Western New York. 

Mr. Wojtan is also a member of the Polish Cadets Club, the 

Chopin Singing Society, and Mother of Divine Grace parish. paAt 

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THE FRIENDS OF GARY J. WOJTAN 

2956 UN ION ROAD 

CHEEKTOWAGA, NEW YORK 14227 

(716) 681-3355 

CONTACT: Andrea R. Sullivan 

834-2726

RESPONSE TO CHEEKTOWkGA TIMES INCTIRY 

6/24/e5 

Cheektowaga native Gary J. Wojtan is seeking a seat on the 

Town Board with the endorsements of the Republican and Liberal 

parties. The 28 year old attorney is with the Cheektowaga firm 

of Burgess and Wojtan. A graduate of Canisius High School, Mr. 

Wojtan received his Bachelor's Degree from Canisius College and 

is a graduate of the University of Ruffalo School of Law. 

Active in a number of professional and community organiza- 

tions, Mr. 'Tojtan serves as one of the directors of The Professional 

End Pusinessmen's Association of vestern New York. iq also a 

member of the New York state Trial T,awyers A,ssociation as well as 

the 'Tilerican mrial Tiawyers Association. TT e is involved in the 

Polish Calets Club the 'honin Singing Society and is active in 

Mother of Pivine Grace narish. 

How do you perceive the resnonsibilities/duties of tl-le office 

you are seeking? 

A town councilman must wear two hats. Of course, he must 

provide the legislative End nolitical leadership needed to attract 

new business End serve the town's established busines;es, thereby 

gg our young people the economic base they must ha,re to raise 

their families here End guarantee Cheektowaga's future. But he 

must also be an ombudsman to whom each resident can confidently 

turn with his or her rlaily nroblems, a middleman who makes sure 

that the Years of yovernmental administration do not grind un 

the individuals they were originally engineered to erve.

1.That background/qualifications do you possess which make 

you the best candidate for the nosition you are seeking? 

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'../Ty. experience in the general nractive of law has familiarized 

me with the daily concerns of Cheektowaga's citizens. I have 

already worked extensively to see my neighbors through their 

personal Rnd business plans. In all of these matters, I have 

dealt time and again behind the scenes with those who administer 

our town and county governments. 7ence, I have come to under- 

stand the an,laratus--the nitty gritty--of Cheektowaga's Public 

sector where it interacts most cruciRlly •-,ith the lives of our 

town's residents. 

'!Thy are you seeking this position? 

Cheektowaga is much more than a township- it is a vital and 

spirited community where I've been raised, educated, an(1 employed. 

I have a strong desire to repay this community by helping to 

insure that it will continue and grow as the ideal place to work 

and raise a family. And I firmly believe that I can make such a 

contribution because I fully apPreciate this community and have 

the personal and professional skills needed to translate that 

annreciation into the kind of forward-looking program oheektowaga 

needs. 

'That improvements/(!hanges would you like to see instituted 

through your office shoilld you be elcted, and how would you 

achieve these goRls? 

There are two major areas where I intend to --,1Ry a leader- 

shi- role.

First, I will, as Town Councilman, go to the neonle on a 

regular basis--to their church 7roups, their social rouns, 

their community centers--and renort to them just what is happening 

and listen to what they think should be happening. It is utterly 

imnractical for many of our citizens to come to Town Hall, but 

there is no reason why their councilman can't come to them. Such 

a orogram would give real meaning to the word "accessible." 

Second, the Western New-York area is in a state of commercial 

and economic change. Cheektowaga can benefit from this change if 

its government has a clear policy that anticipates the community's 

future and adapts to it, rather than muddling through individual 

problems as they arise. I plan to help town government become a 

forward-looking instrument of community growth, one that creates 

an atmosphere that :Iraws developing service and high-tech businesses 

rather than waiting for them to find us. 

I earnestly look forward to the chance to explain such a nro- 

gram in detail to the people of Cheektowaga as I camnaign vigorous- 

ly and nersonally for their narticination in my crusade for this 

community's future. 

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Orcbard ?aril aarober of Commerce 

preseqts 

ist Appual 

"Celebrity Roast" - 

Cocktail Reception 

at 

LaGalleria Regaurapt 

923 Southwestern Boulevard 

Supday, October 6, 1985 

7 p.m. uptil 10 p.m. 

Sir° per pemon 

The Menu Will include: 

Unlimited Hot & Cold Hors d'Oeuvres 

and 

Open Bar 

The Roastipg 

Will ilegip Promptly 

Tickets Are Available From 

All Chamber Directors and the Chamber Office 

662-3366 

Re8ervatiop Deadlipe: September 30th

BULK RATE 

U. S. Postage Paid 

Orchard Park, N.Y. 14127 

PERMIT NO. 67 

The Honorable Jack Kemp 

1101 Federal Bldg 

111 Vest Huron St 

Buffalo, NY 14202 

Orchard Park Chamber of Commerce 

8519 E. Ouakor St. Orchard Park, N.Y. 14127 

BLUE CROSS/ Subscribers will be receiving their billing 

BLUE SHIELD... MID-September. Payment is due in the Chamber 

office no later than September 27, 1985. All 

checks must be made payable to the Orchard 

Park Chamber of Commerce. 

CHAMBER 

OFFICE... 

New subscriber, in order to become effective on 

January 1, 1986, must return their applications 

to the Chamber office no later than October 29, 

1985. 

6519 East Quaker Street 

Orchard Park, New York 14127 

662-3366 

9 A.M. tO 1 P.M. 

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COLLEGE FUND Presents the 28th 

OJ 

EXECUTIVE 

COMMITTEE 

Nellie R. Jenkins 

Chairperson 

Barbara Martin 

Co-chairperson 

Marlyn Wright 

Secretary 

Carolyn Aikens 

Hospitahty 

Candle Collins 

TI.? 

Charles Graham, Jr. 

Logistics I, 

Johnathan D. Brown 

Logistics 

Jean Garrett 

Lisa Moats 

Kenneth R. Harris 

New York Regional 

Director UNCF 

GRAND BALLROOM 

The New York Hilton Hotel 

52nd Street and 

Avenue of the Americas 

Sunday, October 6,1985 

2:00 P.M. Matinee 

8:00 P.M. Evening 

RECEIVED 

ACK KEMP MG 

BUFFALO, NY 

Win a trip to Wlexico via American Airhnes 

r—+

27th Annual 

EBONY FASHION FAIR 

United Negro College Fund 

500 E. 62 Street 

New York, NY 10021

2811 Annual 

aPORy kCAD/11:9/Igail 

UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND 

500 EAST 62nd STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10021

UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND 

500 East 62nd Street 

New York, New York 10021 

Benefit Telephone No. 644-9642 

28th ANNUAL EBONY FASHION FAIR 

Sunday, October 6, 1985 2:00 p.m. Matinee 

8:00 p.m. Evening 

All ticket holders will receive a one-year subscription to EBONY or a six-month 

subscription to JET. 

Please make checks payable to UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND 

Please send me the following tickets to "Body Language" '85-'86 

2:00 p.m. Matinee 

8:00 p.m. Evening 

Main Floor $40.00 Each Main Floor $30.00 Each 

30.00 Each 25.00 Each 

20.00 Each 20.00 Each 

Enclosed is my check for $ 

Name (Please print) 

Address 

Tel. No 

City State Zip Code 

I cannot attend the Fashion Fair, but enclose my check for $ in 

support of the United Negro College Fund. Contributions are tax deductible. 

Win an American Airlines Trip for two to Mexico

McKinley Mall

c,\\A 

george D. Eamias 

cordially invites you to attend the 

f RECEIVED 

SH 10 '85 

PUFFALO; trof 

1). I. P. Party and grand Opening Ceremonies 

Premier Showing of Mall 

Cocktail J?eception 

Sunday, October 6, 1985 

transportation from 

Hyatt _Regency at 5:30 p.m. 

return to Hyatt .Regency 7:00 p.m. 

of the 

McKinley Mall 

V. I. P. Party 

Sunday, October 6, 1985 

Hyatt Segency 

2 Fountain Plaza 

Pearl at Huron 

Buffalo, New York 

Buffet from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. 

Introductions from 9:30 to 10:00 p.m. 

Dancing from 10:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. 

grand Opening 

Ceremonies 

Monday, October 7, 1985 

at 9:30 a.m. 

McKnley Mall 

Milestrip _Road at McKinley Parkway

E I plan to attend Premier Showing 

D I will need transportation 

E I plan to attend V. I. P. Party 

E I plan to attend Grand Opening 

Name: Mr. 

Mrs./Miss/Guest 

Company 

number attending 

Please respond by September 27, 1985 

N2 296

August 13, 1985 

Congressman Jack Kemp 

111 West Huron Street 


Dear Congressman Kemp: 

1490 Enterprises int-% 

1490 Jefferson Avenue — Buffalo, New York 14208 

(716) 884-1490 

RECEIVEC 

JACK KEMP Mc 

BUTFALO, Ny 

The honor of your presence is requested at our 13th 

Annual Black Achievers in Industry Awards Dinner. The 

awards dinner will be held on Sunday, October 6, 1985 

at the Buffalo Convention Center. Dinner will be served 

at 7:00 P.M. 

We are looking forward to you giving brief remarks as 

you have done in the past. The V.I.P. cocktail hour 

will be held in Room 106B on the Marquee level at 6:00 P.M. 

Please R.S.V.P. by August 30, 1985 and include if a guest 

will attend. 

Sincerely, 

4t,06 

Herbert L. Bellamy 

Pres .dent 

esli G. Arries, Jr. 


HLB/LGA:kjp icr 

A I, 

LXECUTIVE BOARD 

Herbert L. Bellamy, 

President, Chairman of Board 

Clemmon Hodges 

V. President, Treasurer 

Charles Lee 

Secretary 

Thelma Hardiman 

Director 

ADWSORYTO 

EXECUTIVE BOARD 

Robert Adam 

Leslie G. Arries, Jr. 

Judge Samuel Green 

Stanley Kleeberg 

ADWSORY 

COMMITTEE 

Joseph Baskin 

Willie Brown 

Ida Cobb 

Earline Collier 

Anthony Coluccl, Esq. 

Reginald Cook 

Maxine Ernmons 

Julie Franklin 

Clarke Goforth 

Roland Hargroves 

Ida Hines 

Kleban Hodges 

Jessica Johnson 

Charliner Lee 

Dillard Mays 

Sandra McGowan 

Mary Randolph 

Thomas Randolph 

Marion Reynolds 

• Carolyn Rice 

Dorothy Simmons 

Lewis Varner 

Willie Walker

I RECEIVED 

SIP 10 

JACK KEMP Mc 

Established in 1965, Ilio's started as a smalliapUtzFzAerLiOa, NY 

and with continuous improvements has expanded to over 

70 employees. This most recent expansion is the work 

of many friends and employees and to this we celebrate 

the opening of the 

"Showcase of the Southtowns" 

"Compliments of Citibank" 

You are invited to the 

GRAND OPENING 

of 

Our newly enlarged Banquet Facility 

"Showcase of the Southtowns" 

and a celebration to the long friendships 

we've made over the past 20 years 

Monday, October 7, 1985 6-9 pm 

Ribbon Cutting at 7 pm 

Ili() DiPaolo's Restaurant and Ringside Lounge 

3785 South Park Avenue 

Blasdell, New York 

"Come and join us in these Festivities" 

Your Hosts, 

By Invitation Only Ilio DiPaolo and Family

ift 

The CFC Campaign 

cordially invites 

you and your Department Head 

to the 

1985 CFC KICK-OFF LUNCHEON 

Date: October 7 

Time: 11:00 A.M. 

Place: Aud Club, Memorial Auditorium 

Buffalo, New York 

RSVP, 887-2645, by October 4 

CFC 

Campaign materials will be ready for pick up 

4150, 

NIAGARA FRONTIER 

COMBINED FEDERAL CAMPAIGN 

742 Delaware Avenue 


(716) 887-2645

The Niagara Falls Area 

Chamber of Commerce 

The Carborundum Center, 345 Third Street, Niagara Falls, N.Y. 14303 • 716/285-9141 

NIAGARA FALLS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 

and the 

ROTARY CLUB OF NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK 

present their annual 

CANDIDATES' FORUM LUNCHEON 

Date: Monday, October 7th 

Time: Noon - 1:30 p.m. 

Place: Ballroom - RAMADA INN 

401 Buffalo Avenue 

Niagara Falls, New York 

LUNCHEON .... $6.00 per person 

Hear the candidates for seats on the Niagara Falls City Council 

answer questions on issues of vital interest to our business community! 

PARTICIPANTS: 

Victor Badorian 

Mervin Cook 

Barbara Geracitano 

Frank Soda 

Anthony Quaranto 

PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS PRIOR TO FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1985. 

Just call the Chamber Office at 285-9141 to indicate your attendance! 

Complete & Return to: NIAGARA FALLS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 

Carborundum Center - 345 Third Street 

Niagara Falls, New York 14303 

Please Reserve luncheons at $6 per person for the Candidates' 

Forum on October 7th at the Ramada Inn, Niagara Falls, New York. 

Check Enclosed Will Pay at Door 

Name: Phone: 

Company 

Address: 

Date: 

PLEASE MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: NIAGARA FALLS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 

RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1985!

NIAGARA FALLS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 

Carborundum Center - 345-3rd Street 

Niagara Falls, New York 14303 

U S DEPARTMENT OF 

MARILYN G K INSMAN 

1312 FEDERAL BLDG 

BUFFAL 0 

to, 

CCMMERCE 

14202 

Bulk Rate 

U.S. Postage 

PAID 

Permit No. 597 

Niag.Falls, NY

MAGUIRE 

ADVERTISING 

ASSOCIATES 

June 27, 1985 


Room 1101 



1 'fib 

. JACK KEM? tijG 

atIFIF/ALA 

Dear Representative Kemp: 

II 

On October 7, 1985 the 1,000,000 square foot McKinley Mall in Hamburg will 

c'ele-5-1--ate its grand opening after seven years' planning and developing. 

On behalf of George D. Zamias, Developer, I would like to invite you to 

in the "ribbon-cutting" ceremony to be held at the Mall at 

noon on October 7. We would be honored to have you present and hope you 

can make a few remarks. 

We expect excellent media coverage of the event. 

It is certainly a healthy sign for our economy to have an out-of-state 

company make a substantial commitment to our area. Mr. Zamias is proud to 

be part of our area's future. As you may know, Mr. Zamias had humble 

beginnings and — through our free enterprise system— is now a major 

American developer. 

The project has already had significant economic impact on your district 

and on all of Western New York. $50,000,000 has been invested and retained 

locally. Over 1000 jobs have been created during the construction of the 

Mall. And 1200 new jobs will be created as the stores in the Mall open. 

This is in addition to 1800 jobs which will result from development of 

peripheral pieces of land. 

I'll look forward to hearing from you. 

Thank you for your consideration. 

Sincerely, 

LTho,-u-A-eafi 

Maureen I. Maguire 

Vice President 

584 DELAWARE AVENUE 

BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14202 

716/882-1041

MAGUIRE 

ADVERTISING 

ASSOCIATES 

August 6, 1985 


Room 1101 



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There has been a slight change in our program for the GRAND OPENING/ 

RIBBON-CUTTING for McKinley Mall. 

The ceremonies have been moved to 9:30 a.m. on the same day, Monday, 

October 7. 

We certainly hope you can join us. Your presence would make the day 

very special. 

Sincerely, 



MIM:bf 

584 DELAWARE AVENUE 

BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14202 

716/882-7047 

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Maguire Advertising Associates 

584 Delaware Avenue 


Dear Miss Maguire: 


Just a note to thank you for your kiniff invitation to hhve 

Congrewsman Kemp particinate in the ribbon cutting ceremony at the 

McKinley Mall on October 7, 1985. 

While it is understandable that you need a commitment as 

soon as possible, there are some circumstances which make it 

difficult for Congressman germ to give you a decisinn at this 

time. 

I realize this may prove inconvenient for you, but we would 

certainly apprecitee your understanding. 

Please he assured that I will get back to you as enenkilsas 

possible with a definite response. 

MS:gb 

My kindest regards, 

Sincerely, 

Marie Shattuck 

Executive Secretary

Irving Bank 

Corporation 

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The Honorable Jack F. Kemp 

1101 Federal Building 



January 22, 1985 


R. Carlos (.70e,. 

etntral Trust Company 

President 2ift, 

Exchange Street 

Chief Executive Oiticc; lochester, NY 14692 

716 546-4500 Ext. 3444 

I appreciate your willingness to consider being our speaker at 

the Fall Meeting of the New York State Bankers Association, Group 

II. The selection of dates that we are considering are: 

October 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, or 17, 1985. 

Any one of these dates which would be convenient for you would 

be satisfactory to our Group. Tentatively we are planning to 

have the meeting at DiPacific's which is about one mile south 

of the Canandaigua exit of the NYS Thruway at the intersection 

of Routes 96 and 322. Should you accept our invitation, we will 

be glad to arrange local press coverage. 

Members of Group II represent banks in the counties of: 

Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Seneca, Wayne and Yates. We 

anticipate attendance of 125 - 150 people. I would be pleased 

to receive a positive response. 

Warmest personal regards, 

R. Carlos Carballada 

President and 

Chief Executive Officer 

RCC/mh

Mr. R. Carlos Carbaliada 

Central Cgrust Company 

44 Exchange Street 

Rochester, New York 14692 

Dear Carlos: 


Thanks very much for your recent invitation to 

speak at the Fall Meeting of the New York State Bankers 

Association, Croup II. 

I have not yet finalized my schedule for October, so I 

would like to ask for your patience awhile longer. As soon 

as I am in a position to complete my calendar for that month, I 

will promptly contact you again. 

Thanks very much, Carlos, and you will be hearing from 

me in the near future. 

JK:ms 

Sincerely, 


Member of Congress

Congressman, Hon. Jack Kemp 


111 W. Huron St. 

Buffalo, N. Y. 14202 

Honorable Mr. Kemp; 

AILIAMSI 

COURT NO. 12 

Buffalo, N. Y. 

AM 30 

J,,CK KEMP M( 

FFALO, 

May 28, 1985 

I am the High Priestess of Ailiamsi COurt # 12, Ladies Oriental Shrine of 

North America. Our philanthropy is to assist our men "Shriners" in their 

endeavors with their hospitals for crippled and burns centers' for children, 

On a national scale, we donate monies, purchase equipment, and sew bedding, 

clothing, tors, etc. for the twenty-two hospitals. We are a non-prafit 

organization with one hundred courts in North America. 

On October 7, 1985, we are having our official visitation from our Grand 

High Priestess of all North America, Mrs. (Lady) Dorothy Tandler of Toronto, 

Ontario, Canada. We are having a dinner in the auditorium at the Arabian 

Oasis (Ismailia Temple), 1600 Southwestern Blvd., Buffalo, N. Y. 14224 at 

7 P. M. and cocktails at 6:30 P. M.' .We anticipate several hundred men and 

women attending and also a large contingency from Toronto (about 100 people)* 

I would like to invite you and your lady to be our guests at this gala event, 

I would also like to ask you to give us a speech. Should you find the date 

inconvtnient to your busy schedule, maybe you could appoint a designate to 

do this, but we would be thrilled to have you attend our event, 

Kindly advise me in any event if it is possible that you can do this, 

My phone number is (days) 826-9050. My address is: E5209 Mayer Rd., 

Hamburg, N. Y. 14075. 

Respectfully,

Emma Scheer, H.P. 

Ailiamsi Court #12 

Ladies Oriental Shrine of N.A. 

E5209 Mayer Road 

Hamburg, New York 14075 

Dear Emma: 

June 10, 1985 

Thank you very much for your kind invitation to attend 

the October 7th dinner to welcome your High Priestess of all 

North America. 

While I would greatly enjoy being with you, there are 

circumstances which will make it impossible for me to attend. 

Congress is now scheduled to be in session on October 7th and 

that will !lean that I will have to remain in Washington to 

attend to ny legislative duties. For this reason,I must send 

my regrets. 

Please be assured that I deeply appreciate your interest 

and understanding and hope that you will convey my best wishes 

to your membership and especially to Mrs. Dorothy Tandler, your 

honored guest. 

JK:ns 


Sincerely, 


Mamber of Congress

Irving Bank 

Corporation 

Central 

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President and 


I appreciate your willingness to consider being our speaker at 

the Fall Meeting of the New York State Bankers Association, Group 

II. The selection of dates that we are considering are: 

October 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, or 17, 1985. 

Any one of these dates which would be convenient for you would 

be satisfactory to our Croup. Tentatively we are planning to 

have the meeting at DiPacific's which is about one mile south 

of the Canandaigua exit of the NYS Thruway at the intersection 

of Routes 96 and 322. Should you accept our invitation, we will 

be glad to arrange local press coverage. 

Members of Group II represent banks in the counties of: 

Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Seneca, Wayne and Yates. We 

anticipate attendance of 125 - 150 people. I would be pleased 

to receive a positive response. 

Warmest personal regards, 


President and 


RCC/mh 

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Central Trust Company 

44 Exchange Street 

Rochester, NY 14692 

716 546-4500 Ext. 3444

Mr. David Brace 

11600 Genesee Street 

Alden, New York 14004 

Dear Mr. Brace: 



to attend the opening of your new office and showroom 

facility on October 8,___19a5. 






response and hope you can understand the problems of scheduling 

around the legislative calendar. 

JK:glh:bw 




Member of Congress

DAVID BRACE DISPLAYS, INC. 


Honorable Jack Kemp 

House of Representatives 

House Office Building 

Washington, DC 20515 

Dear Honorable Kemp: 

I would like to extend my personal invitation to you 

to attend the opening of our new office and showroom 

facility Tuesday, October 8, 1985, at 5:00 p.m. 

Our new facility is located at 2781 Townline Road 

in Alden. 

Your continued commitment to the economic growth and 

development of Western New York's business community 

helped to make this celebration possible, and we would 

be honored to have you join us. 

Sincerely, 

David Brace 

President 

DB/slw 

Enc. 

R.S.V.P. Susan Westphal @ 685-1500 

General Offices • Manufacturing 

11600 Genesee Street, Alden, N.Y 14004 • 716-937-9187 

Sales • Showroom • Warehouse 

2781 Townline Road, Alden N.Y. 14004 • 716-685-1500 

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Please join us as we celebrate 

the start of our third decade 

with the opening of our new 

showroom and sales office. 

Tuesday, October 8, 1985 

5:00-7:30 p.m. 

DAVID BRACE DISPLAYS, INC. 

2781 Townline Road, Alden, NY 

RSVP 

Susan Westphal 685-1500 

Deborah Soper 937-9187

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503 Crosby Building 

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RECEIVED 

SEP 25 '85 

JACK KEMP MC 

BUFFALO,, NY 


The C7 - -aign to re-elect District Attorney Richard 

in full swing, and a tremendous effort is 

A_ the people of Erie County of Richard's 

- ess in the continui•ng fight against crime. 

It mportant that everyone realize that during 

Richard's t _re as District Attorney, he has implemented 

many new ana effective methods of dealing with criminal 

acI ivity in our community. 

However, getting this message out to the people 

is expensive. That's why we need your financial support 

now so that we can mount an effective television and radio 

campaign on Richard's behalf. 

We are asking you to join us on Tuesday evening, 

October 8, 1985 _for a reception at the Executive Motor 

Inn. Proceeds- from this event will be used primarily to 

pay for television and radio ads for the last weeks of 

the campaign. 

Enclosed you will find one (1) ticket to the October 

8th reception. We really need your support now during 

the final home stretch! 

See you on October 8th. 

Michael J. DeRose 

E.W. Dann Stevens 

Sincerely, 

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A. Willax

You are cordially invited to a Reception 

In Honor Of 

RICHARD J. ARCARA 

ERIE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1985 

Executive Motor Inn 

Victorian Courtyard 

4243 Genesee Street 

Cheektowaga, New York 

Cocktails 

Hors d'oeuvres 

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. N° 3600 

Make checks payable to: 

Arcara for District Attorney Committee 

503 Crosby Bldg., Buffalo, N.Y. 14202 

$125.00 

Per Person

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11106 966 CONGRESSMEN 

JAOK KEW* HENRY NOWAK, JACK KEMP and JOHN LA FALCE 

BUFFALO, 

cordially invite you to the 

SEVENTH ANNUAL 

"BUFFALO NIGHT in WASHINGTON, D.C." 

Donation: $13.50 per person 

PLEASE no cash at the door 

Payment required before September 30, 1985 

Information: 202-225-3306 or 225-5265 

Wednesday, October 9, 1985 

6:00 to 9:00 p.m. 

LONGWORTH CAFETERIA 

Longworth House Office Building 

featuring: 

Beef on Weck — Chicken Wings 

Pizza Music 

Raffles For 

Trips & Brunches 

All proceeds donated to charity 

Checks may be sent to: 

BUFFALO PARTY 

P.O. BOX 75734 

Washington, D.C. 20013-5734

P.O. Box 75734 

Washington, D.C. 20013-5734 

Honorable Jack Kemp & Staff 

Federal Building 

111 West Huron 


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Supervisor 

JACK QUINN, JR. 

Councilmen 

D. MARK CAVALCOLI 

JAMES F. CONNOLLY 

DANIEL J. HENRY 

SALLY A. STEPHENSON 

Town of am urg 

RECEIVET 

Oef 4 '65 

JACK KEMP 

BUFFALO_ NY 

S-6100 SOUTH PARK AVENUE - HAMBURG, NEVV YORK 14075 

TEL: (716) 649-6111 

HAMBURG SHORELINE REVITALIZATION COMMITTEE 


This is to notify you that the next regular 

meeting of the Shoreline Revitalization Committee will 

Town Attorney 

JEAN PETERSON 

Town Clerk 

PATRICIA A. MEAD 

Supt. of Highways 

RICHARD A. SMITH 

Receiver of Taxes 

ROBERT A. MARS 

be Wednesday, October 9, 1985 in the Town Hall at 7:30 p.m. 

in the Planning Room (downstairs). 

It will be an important meeting for all S.R.C. members 

to attend because Mr. Dennis Rimmer from the U.S. Army Corps 

of Engineers will be at this meeting. 

If you are unable to attend this meeting, please call 

_Sally Stephenson at 648-1412 or leave a message with the 

Supervisor's Office at 649-6111. 

PK/mpr 

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Sincerely, 

N

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small business council of rochaster 

July 25, 1985 

CONGRESSMAN JACK KEMP 




,c RECEIVED 

JUl 26 It 

JACK .KEMP MC 

BUFFALO., NY 

As President of the Small Business Council of Rochester, 

a Council under the umbrella of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce, 

I would like to invite you to address our members and 

invited guests at our October 9th meeting. 

The week of October 6th is being proclaimed "SMALL BUS- 

INESS WEEK" in Rochester and the County of Monroe. 

At this meeting we will present the SMALL BUSINESS PERSON 

OF THE YEAR AWARD. This is an annual presentation made to an 

outstanding community leader. 

The meeting is scheduled as cocktails at 5:30 and dinner 

at 6:30 P.M. You are, of course, invited for both. 

Sincerely, 

./Joy ie A. L n say 

, /Pr ident 

S ALL BUSINESS COUNCIL OF ROCHESTER 

JAL/lm 

547 West Ave., Rochester,' New York 14611 

716-235-3860 

A Council of the Rochester Area 

Chamber of Commerce, Inc. 

55 St. Paul Street 


454-2220

Joyce A. Lindsay 

President 

Lindsay Cornoration 

547 West Avenue 


Dear Ms. Lindsay: 


Thanks very much for your kind invitation to attend thee 

meeting given by the Small Business Council of Rochester on 

October 9, 1985. 

While I would greatly enjoy being with you, there are 

circumstances which will make it impossible for metto attend. 

I have already committed my schedule for the 9th and 

unfortunately, at this time I am unahte to change those nlans. 

For this reason, I must send my regrets. 

Please be assured that I ffeenly appreciate your interest 

and understanding and I know that your meeting will be a 

tremedous success. 

JK:ms:sk 


Vincerelv, 


Member of Congress

BURT P. FLICKINGER, JR. 

EXECUTI.VE VICE PRESIDENT 

NORTHEAST GROUP 


New York State Senator 

House Office Building 

Washington, D. C. 20515 


S. M. FLICKINGER GO.,INC. 

CORPORATE OFFICES 

2732 TRANSIT ROAD 

WEST SENECA., NEW YoRK 14224 

May 23, 1985 

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RECEIVED 

Si 

JACK KEW' IWO' 

BI IFFALO, NY 

The New York State Food Merchants Association Annual Convention 

will be held this year at the Concord Hotel from Sunday, October 6, 

through Wednesday, October 9. 

This is the largest state food convention in the country and the 

second-I argest of any type of food show. 

I am Chairman of the Association this year and my term expires 

at the conclusion of this year's convention. The Convention Committee 

would very much like to have you speak before our group Wednesday 

morning on October 9 and have asked me to contact you to see if 

this could be worked out. 

I will give you a call in a few days to see if you can work this 

into your schedule. 

BPF/db 

Many thanks for your consideration. 

cc: 111 West Huron 

R-O"O-rn 2252 


Sincere yours, 

, 

Burt P. Flickinger, Jr.

Mr. Burt P. Flickinger, Jr. 

S.M. Flickinger Co., Inc. 

2732 Transit Road 

West Seneca, New York 14224 

Dear Burt: 

June 12, 1985 

Thanks very much fS• your kind invitation to address 

The New York State Food Merchants Association Annual 

Convention on Wednesday morning, October 9th. 

While I would greatly enjoy being with you, there 

are circumstances which will now make it impossible for 

me to attend. I have just received the legislative calendar 

for the Fall and it indicated that Congress will still be in 

session on October 9th and that I must remain in Washington 

that day to attend to ny legislative duties. 

Please be assured that I deeply appreciate your interest 

and understadding and I certainly would have liked to accommodate 

your request since you will be Chairman of this year's 

convention if it was at all possible. 

JK:ns 

As always Burt, thanks for your support and your friendship. 


Sincerely, 


Member of Congress


Mr. David L. Noto 

Independent Insurance Agents Association 

of Western New York, Inc. 

41 Elmwood Avenue 


Dear Mr. Noto: 

I very much appreciate your invitation requesting me to 

attend your 144th Annual Legghlative Day Program on October 9, 

1985. 


thoughtful invitation. Unfortunately, October 9 is also 

"Buffalo Night" this year in Washington, and I have a longstanding 

commitment to be present at this annual event to help 

"boost Buffalo" in the Washington, D. C. area. 


response and hope you can understand the problems of 

scheduling around the legislative calendar. 

JK:gh:bw 




Member of Congress

James M. Propis 

President 

If 

Board of Directors 

John E. Workley. Chairman 

JoAnn Decker 

Gil Evans 

Daniel E. Fogel 

James N. McCormick 

Joseph S. Millemaci 

Robert B. Ruh, Jr. 

Congressman Jack F. Kemp 




Thomas F. Friedman Davis R. Heussler 

Vice President Treasurer 

David L. Noto 

Secretary 

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41 ELMWOOD AVENUE 

BUFFALO, NY 14201 

Area Code 716-881-4422 

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Affiliated vvith 

INDEPENDENT INSURANCE AGENTS 

ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK, INC. 


OF AMERICA, INC. 

. 

RECEIVE 

SEP 19 '81 

Our Local Association is holding its 144th Annual Legislative Day Program on 

October 9, 1985 at the Buffalo Club, 388 Delaware Avenue, between 4:00 and 

6:00 pm. 

We have always invited our State Assemblymen and Senators traditionally for 

a luncheon or cocktail party. This year we have decided to go with a cocktail 

party format and have also invited Democratic Chairman, Joseph Crangle 

and Republican Chairman, Victor Farley. We would be honored if you could 

also accept our invitation and stop in to'spend a few minutes with us at 

our program. As you know I normally call on you in Washington every year 

and have always reported your cooperation to our Association. I am sure 

that our members would be honored to have the opportunity to meet you and 

have a few minutes to talk with you personally. 

We would appreciate it if you could RSVP to my office, 716-877-1250. 

DLN:dlb 

Very truly yours, 


ASSOCIATION or WESTERN NY, INC. 

David L. Noto 

Legislatice Chairman 

Aunde.dav 1841 

JACK KEMP MC, 

BUFFALO, NY

ELMA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION 

10/10/85 General Meeting Elma Steak House 

8:00PM Program: "Moneymatters, Inc." 

Bonnie Hayest & Bruce Supernault 

to discuss financial planning 

10/21/85 Open House at Steuben Foods 

10/28/85 Board of Directors Meeting 

8:00PM Elma Conservation Club


111 West Huron 

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Sinclair-Lewis

Dear WNY Legislator: 

Serving New York State 

and Northwestern Pennsylvania 

PRINTING INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATIoN 

OF NEW YORK STAT-E, INC. 

5586 MAIN STREET • WILLIAMSVILLE, NEW YORK 14221 

TELEPHONE (716) 634-2290 


On behalf of the Printing Industries Association of 

Western New York, I would like to thank you in advance for 

agreeing to attend our Legislative Breakfast on Thursday, 

October 10, 1985. We have had an excellent response, from 

both the printing community and our elected representatives. 

We anticipate a productive session. 

The timetable for the function is as follows: 

8:00 a.m. 

8:30 a.m. 

8:35 a.m. 

9:30 a.m. 

Hyatt Regency 

Grand Ballroom 

Registration - Coffee Bar 

Opening Remarks 

Introduction of Guests 

Breakfast 

Speakers and Informal Discussion 

If you would like to make a brief presentation during 

the discussion period, please contact me at my office or see 

me during registration and I will make the appropriate 

arrangements. 

Thank you again and please let me know if I can be of 

assistance. 

TF:kr 

Best re ards, 

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Timothy Freeman 

Vice President

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PRINTING INDUSTRIES ASSOCIAUFION 

OF WESTERN NEW YORK 


TELEPHONE (716) 634-2290 

August 20, 1985 

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RECEIVED 

VIII 21 '85 

JACK 

As I'm sure you are aware, the Printing Industries 

Association of Western New York represents many printing 

firms in the Buffalo area. On behalf of the Board of 

Directors of the PIA of Buffalo, I would like to extend an 

invitation to you to attend a Legislative Breakfast on 

Thursday, October 10, 1985. This meeting will be held at the 

Buffalo Hyatt Regency and will begin at 8:00 a.m. 

The purpose of this meeting will be to allow our segment 

of the WNY business community to become acquainted with their 

elected representatives and to provide a vehicle for informal 

discussion of the many issues affecting the printing industry 

as well as the small business community in general. 

Please let me know, at your earliest convenience, 

whether you will be available to attend this important 

function. Please complete the enclosed form and return to my 

office, so we may make the necessary arrangements. 

Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing 

from you. 

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Enclosures 

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Timothy Fr eman 

Vice President

S-14AIRotO 

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7-67-6Y 

Serving New York State 

and Northwestern Pennsylvania 

PRINTING INDUSIMIES ASSOCIATION 

OF NEW YORK SI-ATE, INC. 


TELEPHONE (716) 634-2290 


RECEIVED 

SEP '85 

JACK KEMP MC 

BUFFALO, NY 

A short while ago we sent you a note regarding a 

Legislative Breakfast we are holding on Thursday, October 10, 

1985 at the Buffalo Hyatt Regency. To date we have had an 

excellent response. Approximately ten State and Federal 

legislators have agreed to attend this function, or send a 

staff person from their office. 

Of course, the more participants f•rom government that 

attend the breakfast, the more productive we believe it will 

be. We would be most honored if you could fit this meeting 

into your schedule, or send a staff representative. 

Although I am sure you are aware of the extent of the 

printing industry in Western New York, I have included an 

excellent article, giving you an overview of the industry. 

This article was published in the Buffalo News in late 1984 

and effectively analyzes the significance of the printing 

industry in the Western New York economy. 

TF:kr 

Enclosures 

Thank you again and we look forward to hearing from you. 



Vice President

A PRINTING INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION 

T • OF NEW YORK STATE, INC. 



5586 Main Street 

Williamsville, New York 14221 Phone: 716-634-2290

PRINTING INDLISTRIES ASSOCIATION 

OF WESTERN NEW YOltliC 


TELEPHONE (716) 634-2290 

1985 LEGISLATIVE BREAKFAST 

PRINTING INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK 

Yes, I will be able to attend the Printing Industries 

Association of Western New York's Legislative 

Breakfast on October 10, 1985. 

I will be accompanied by people from my office. 

No, I will not be able to attend. 

However, I would like to send 

from my office as my representative. 

No, I will not be attending. 

Name Date 

Please return the completed copy of this form to the following 

address as soon as possible. Thank you. 

PIA of Western New York 

5586 Main Street 

Williamsville, NY 14221

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4222 S. TAYLOR ROAD 

CO 0 ORCHARD PARK, NY 1.4127 

Kenneth J. Bubar 

49" V4 (716) 662-9720 

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Marie Shattuck 




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4222 S. TAYLOR ROAD • ORCHARD PARK, NEW YORK 14127 • (716) 662-9720 


Thank you very much for representing Congressman Jack 

Kemp, at the Printing Industries Legislative Breakfast last 

Thursday morning. I had a very enjoyable time talking with 

you. 

I thank you for your interest in our problem with 

printing which is done in Canada and shipped to the U.S. 

We are at a competative disadvantage because of the exchange 

rate and the lack of a tariff on printing coming into the. 

U.S. from Canada. Unfortunately Canada does impose a tariff 

on printed matter which is shipped into Canada from the U.S. 

KJB/clg 

Sincerely 

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Kenneth J. Bubar 

Chairman, Boncraft, Inc. 

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PRINTIING INCWSTRIES I%SSOCIATIoN 

OF INESTEF1N NEW YOFtK 


TELEPHONE (716) 634-2290 

PIA OF WESTERN NEW YORK 

Legislative Breakfast 


Legislative Attendees 

UNITED STATES SENATE 

Jane M. O'Bannon, 

Office of Senator Alfonse D'Amato 

Susan Lojacano, 

Office of Senator Daniel P. Moynihan 

UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

Marie Shattuck, 

Office of Congressman Jack Kemp 

Pat Kinney, 

Office of Congressman Stan Lundine 

Jim Schmidt, 

Office of Congressman Henry J. Nowak 

NEW YORK STATE SENATE 

Peter Sigurdson, 

Office of Senator Walter J. Floss Jr. 

Joseph Lotempio, 

Office of Senator Anthony M. Masiello 

Senator William T. Stachowski

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY 

Assemblyman Artnur O. Eve 

Michael Masiello, 

Office of Assemblyman Dennis T. Gorski 

Christopher Walsh, 

Office of Assemblyman Vincent J. Graber Sr. 

Assemblyman William B. Hoyt 

Arthur Beilein, 

Office of Assemblyman Matthew J. Murphy 

Assemblyman Joseph T. Pillittere 

James Lodico 

Assemblyman Francis J. Pordum 

Susan Westling 

John Cappellino 

Assemblyman John B. Scheffer II 

Marina Woolcock 

Richard Rosso, 

Office of Assemblyman Robin Schimminger

, 

PRINTING INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION 

, OF WESTIERN NEW YORK 


TELEPHONE (716) 634-2290 

PIA OF WESTERN NEW YORK 

Legislative Breakfast 


Legislative Attendees 

UNITED STATES SENATE 

Jane M. O'Bannon, 

Office of Senator Alfonse D'Amato 

Susan Lojacano, 

Office of Senator Daniel P. Moynihan 

UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

Marie Shattuck, 

Office of Congressman Jack Kemp 

Pat Kinney, 

Office of Congressman Stan Lundine 

Jim Schmidt, 

Office of Congressman Henry J. Nowak 

NEW YORK STATE SENATE 

Peter Sigurdson, 

Office of Senator Walter J. Floss Jr. 

Joseph Lotempio, 

Office of Senator Anthony M. Masiello 

Senator William T. Stachowski

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY 

Assemblyman Arthur 0. Eve 

Michael Masiello, 

Office of Assemblyman Dennis T. Gorski 

Christopher Walsh, 

Office of Assemblyman Vincent J. Graber Sr. 

Assemblyman William B. Hoyt 

Arthur Beilein, 

Office of Assemblyman Matthew J. Murphy 

Assemblyman Joseph T. Pillittere 

James Lodico 

Assemblyman Francis J. Pordum 

Susan Westling 

John Cappellino 

Assemblyman John B. Scheffer II 

Marina Woolcock 

Richard Rosso, 

Office of Assemblyman Robin Schimminger

P BUFFALO MAGAZINE/JANUARY 6, 1985 

INK BY THE BARREL 

PAPER BY THE TON 

Leading national magazines, paperback books by 

the millions, color comics for cities all over 

the United States — they're just part of 

Buffalo's nationally prominent printing industry. 

6 l.,1113= 015 

•III t is Western New 

York's second-largest 

industry — a $750 million 

annual business employing 

9,000 and 

manufacturing products that 

are touched, used or eyed by 

virtually everyone in the 

United States. 

When most people think of 

Buffalo's leading products, 

they think of steelmaking — 

now gone by; of flour milling 

— dying; and of the making 

of auto parts — currently 

the industry employing the 

largest number of area 

workers. 

They rarely think of printing. 

And yet, hardly a day 

passes when a doctor in Spokane, 

a homemaker in Denver 

or a businessman in Boston 

doesn't read, use or 

glance at something printed 

in Western New York. 

Each month 20 million 

copies of the Reader's Digest 

are printed and mailed from 

Depew. They are carried by post office personnel 

who also deliver copies of Time, Consumer Reports 

and Playgirl that are printed here. 

Daily, a million and a half copies of paperbacks 

offering the reader mystery, romance and adventure 

run off Western New York presses. 

Almost every Sunday color comic strip in the 

United States is either printed by Greater Buffalo 

Press or owes its existence to highly technical 

pre-press work done at its plant. 

The gaily colored box in which you received a 

gift bottle of whiskey, the pastel carton from 

which you took a bottle of expensive perfume, the 

brilliantly shaded Fisher-Price box ripped open by 

BY JOSEPH P. RITZ 

SUPERSTAR POSTER: Ken Peterson of Sale- 

Niagara examines poster sheets of Marvel 

comics super heroes. 

eager fingers anxious to possess 

the toy inside — all are 

likely to have been printed 

here. 

So, too, are advertising 

brochures of such nationally 

known firms as Sony, Eastman 

Kodak, General Electric 

and Corning Glass. 

So are greeting cards, 

maps, college binders, art 

museum catalogs, art posters 

and those charts your doctor 

uses to record the results of 

your electrocardiogram. 

Connecticut's current 

vacation guide, Better Yet 

Connecticut, was printed 

here. So was UCLA's Olympic 

press folder. 

(The local printing industry 

also includes newspapers, 

The Buffalo News, which 

prints well over 2 million 

papers a week, and a smattering 

of smaller newspapers, 

pennysavers and the like.) 

Albert N. Abgott, president 

of Partners Press and 

chairman of the Buffalo Board of Publishers Industry 

Association, says this area is among the top 

ten in the United States in the amount of printing 

done, though behind such cities as Chicago, New 

York City, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and St. Louis. 

The 200 or so printing companies in Western 

New York include two of the ten largest in North 

America: Arcata Graphics (Number Three) and 

Greater Buffalo Press (Number Eight). 

Most of the printing companies are familyowned, 

including the largest printing firm with 

headquarters here, the giant Greater Buffalo 

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Printing 

Continued from Page 6 

Press. Many are reluctant to 

disclose earnings or even a 

list of clients for fear they 

may become targets of 

competitors. 

By far the largest area 

printing plant is that of the 

Connecticut-based Arcata 

Graphics Co., which bought 

Buffalo's J.W. Clement Co. in 

1965 and changed its name 

to Arcata in 1970. 

Arcata's Depew plant — 

where the Reader's Digest is 

printed every month — employs 

1,800 in the nation's 

largest printing plant under 

one roof. 

Arnong other publications 

that come off the presses in 

its eighteen-acre facility are 

the National Enquirer, Time, 

Playgirl, New York, People, 

Consumer Reports and the 

American Automobile Association's 

famous tour guides. 

Every weekend Arcata receives 

copy for Tirne magazine 

via satellite. Late Saturday 

night the presses, which 

print 450,000 copies of the 

newsweekly, start rolling, and 

by Sunday afternoon the first 

copies of the magazine are in 

the mail to subscribers. 

Arcata's annual postage 

bill is $30 million, making the 

Depew post office, which has 

a 24-hour branch in the Arcata 

plant, a bigger revenue 

producer than the post office 

of the city of Seattle. 

Arcata also prints 

one-third of the nation's 

paperbacks 

— for such publishers 

as Warner, 

Simon & Schuster and 

Harlequin. 

While Arcata is part of a 

corporation that does a half 

billion dollars worth of business 

a year with headquarters 

elsewhere, Greater 

Buffalo Press, at $300 million 

mammoth operation out oi 

distinctly unassuming digs on 

the second floor of a former 

Pierce-Arrow wire-wheel 

factory. 

"We're kind of low-key. 

It's our way of doing things," 

says Paul J. Koessler, who, 

with his brother, Jack, commands 

Greater Buffalo, far 

and away the nation's biggest 

printer of color cornics. 

So inconspicuous is the 

Grote Street headquarters — 

identified only by the initials 

"GBP" in small letters above 

its door — that most strangers 

drive by without realizing 

they have passed the command 

post of a major international 

printing firm with 

plants in Canada, California, 

Texas, Alabama, Pennsylvania 

and Iowa as well as in Dunkirk. 

Of Greater Buffalo's 2,000 

employees, 1,100 work in 

plants in the Buffalo area, in 

Dunkirk and in nearby Stevensville, 

Ontario. 

The company prints 220 

million four-page color comics 

sections per week, many of 

them on the world's largest 

letterpress in its Dunkirk facility, 

Great Lakes Color 

Printing Corp. GBP's inks are 

also mixed in Dunkirk. 

Besides printing Sunday 

comics for some 500 newspapers, 

Greater Buffalo 

makes the photographic negatives 

used for press plates for 

all the color comics printed in 

North America. Much of the 

sophisticated, computerized 

equipment used in the process 

has been developed by 

Greater Buffalo and Calspan. 

Besides containing the 

cornics, the nation's Sunday 

papers are likely to be delivered 

to readers with color 

advertising inserts from such 

national retail chains as K- 

Mart, Sears Roebuck and 

Montgomery-Ward, many of 

them printed by Greater 

Buffalo. 

Greater Buffalo owes 

much of its grol,vth to its 

development of a technique 

that made newspaper color 

simpler and less expensive to 

print. 

The traditional process for 

printing color on newsprint 

— the kind of paper used for 

newspapers — was rotogravure, 

a method in which the 

ink is held in tiny pits on a 

roller and transferred to 

paper. Greater Buffalo's new 

method is called heatset-offset, 

and it uses offset presses 

On a iiat pia! e. 

"We came along with a 

product that began to approach 

rotogravure in quality 

on the same kind of paper 

stock that roto was using, but 

now we can produce the 

product in five plants across 

the country for less than roto 

can do it in two plants," says 

company president Paul 

Koessler. (Brother Jack is 

chairman.) 

The new technique, Paul 

says, offers large advertisers 

two advantages: "It cuts 

transportation costs, and it 

cuts your advance time because 

if you are going to 

print in five plants at the 

same time you are going to 

do the job weeks ahead of the 

time of printing it in two 

plants." 

The new process has also 

enabled it to print Sunday 

magazine sections for many 

of the nation's big newspapers, 

including BUFFALO, 

the magazine you are 

reading. 

Arnong those newspapers 

are the Milwaukee Journal, 

the Minneapolis Tribune, the 

Boston Herald and the Memphis 

Commercial Appeal. In 

addition, Greater Buffalo 

prints the TV magazine for 

the nation's largest-circulation 

newspaper, The Sunday 

New York Daily News, as 

well as its color comics. 

0 ver 

in Cheektowaga, 

the F.N. Burt 

Co. does a far different 

type of 

printing for national 

companies. It produces eyecatching 

boxes for the consumer 

trade for companies 

such as Eastman Kodak, Seagram's, 

Faberge, Avon, Danskin 

and Bausch & Lomb. 

Recently, its designers 

have been working on a special 

gift box to hold a crystal 

work being created by Steuben 

Glass for the recommissioning 

of the famed battleship 

the USS Missouri, on 

which the peace treaty was 

signed ending World War II 

nearly 40 years ago. 

"People always think of us 

as box makers, but we're 

really printers," says coowner 

W. Russell Hurd. Hurd 

and his partner, C. Taylor 

Kew, both from the Buffalo 

area, bought the 98-year-old 

company from the Moore 

Corp. in 1983. 

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About 400 companies, 

ranging from Turtle Wax and 

Smith-Corona to Estee Lauder, 

are Burt customers. The 

company employs 350 workers 

at its ten-acre Cheektowaga 

site and 150 more at 

its plant in Oneonta. 

Together, the Burt facilities 

produce up to three 

lion boxes a day. The main 

plant in Cheektowaga uses 

16,000 tons of paperboard 

and 150,000 pounds of glue 

annually. 

Buffalo's Graphic Controls' 

Corp. — now owned by the 

Los Angeles Times-Mirror 

company — is a multinational 

company and the world's 

leading printer of recording 

charts. They're used widely 

in hospitals and doctor's offices. 

They're used by NASA 

in satellite communications 

and in the testing of rocket 

engines. They're used to 

record the severity of earthquakes, 

the pressure of the 

oceans and the amount of 

pollution in the air. All told, 

the company prints more 

than 100,000 kinds of charts 

for use in 65 countries. 

Graphic Controls employs 

500 in its international headquarters 

in the former Larkin 

Co. warehouse at 189 Van 

Rensselaer St. Sales figures 

are guarded, but they're believed 

to exceed $100 million 

annually. 

Nearby, in another former 

Larkin building, is Colad Inc., 

the nation's largest printer of 

vinyl book covers and binders. 

irtually every major 

college and university 

in the United 

States has its binders 

— the ones you 

see sold in the college bookstore 

— printed by Colad. 

Among this year's products 

was the UCLA press kit for 

the Olympics. 

The corporation, which 

employs 225 at its headquarters 

on Seneca Street, does a 

$30 million annual business. 

Colad also has plants in Los 

Angeles, New York City and 

Lawrenceville, Georgia. 

Besides its college work, it 

prints vinyl book covers, folders 

and store displays for 

most of the nation's largest 

companies, such as Ford, 

Apple Computers, Eastman 

Kodak, Ata ri, CS B and Coca- 

Cola. 

Although it no longer has a 

cosq 

wcnch used to own the Burt 

company -- employs nearly 

800 people in this area. Most 

of them work at its Niagara 

Falls regional headquarters or 

at its research center on 

Grand Island, each of which 

has a total staff of slightly 

mI - than 300. A telephone 

marketing office in Lockport 

emI, ys nearly 100. 

Below the giants — Arcata, 

Greater Buffalo Press, 

F.N. Burt and Graphic Controls 

— are half a dozen commercial 

printers with annual 

sales of $3 million to more 

than $10 million. Some have 

out-If-town branch sales offices 

and national clients. 

Of these, the largest is 

Sale-Niagara, with a total of 

160 employees at its Niagara 

Street and Cheektowaga 

plants. They're the people 

About 400 

companies from 

Turtle Wax to 

Estee Lauder 

buy printed 

boxes from 

F.N. Burt. 

who print those handsome 

National Wildlife stamps. 

The company also prints 

stamps for a variety of mailorder 

firms, including Publisher's 

Clearing House, and 

it produces many of the National 

Geographic maps as 

C.onservation Department' 

magazine, the Conservationist. 

It also prints 80 percent 

of the material used in the "I 

Love New York" campaign, 

including the state's annual 

travel brochure. (It has also 

printed the Connecticut 

travel booklet.) 

College catalogs are another 

big part of the company's 

business. Among its customers 

are West Point, Cornell 

University, the Maritime and 

Merchant Marine academies, 

Syracuse University, Mount 

Holyoke and Sniith lleges 

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and the State University of 

New York. 

Commercial clients include 

IBM, Timex, Panasonic, 

Sylvania and General Electric. 

Melvin Hoffmn, a president 

of the family-owned company, 

estimates that 80 percent of 

its business comes from outside 

the Buffalo area, up from 

20 percent a decade or more 

ago. 

Hoffrnan 8z Sons, which 

has annual sales of approximately 

$10 million, has sales 

offices in cities throughout 

the Northeast, including 

Pittsburgh and Boston. 

Also claiming sales of approximately 

$10 million annually 

is Thorner-Sidney, which 

employs 100 in its Seneca 

T 

Street plant and has branch 

offices in New York City, 

Boston and Plainfield, New 

Jersey. 

horner-Sidney has a 

repu tation of 

produc- 

ing high-quality color 

brochures, annual reports 

and catalogs 

for such corporations as CBS- 

Fox, General Electric, Sony, 

Fisher-Price, Rossignol and 

Dunlop. 

well as packaging for Fisher- 

Price and other companies. 

One of Sale-Niagara's main 

products is paperback book 

covers, which it prints for 

such publishers as Doubleday, 

Random House, Pocket Books 

and Simon & Schuster. Many 

of its covers are shipped to 

the Arcata Graphics plant 

here when that firm's presses 

can't meet a special requirement, 

such as for printing on 

f. oil 

Sales are more than $10 

million annually. 

Next in size is Harry Hoffman 

& Sons, which employs 

135 in its modern Jefferson 

Avenue plant. 

One of Hoffman's biggest 

customers is the State of 

New York. From the firm's 

"Food and furniture are 

the most difficult in printing, 

because it takes skill and a 

high quality of cr II reproducton 

to bring out the subt 

I e color tone says 

Thornedney president Arnold 

N. Kahn. His firm's 

clients include Rich Products, 

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the R.T. French Co. Welch 

Foods Inc. and such iurniture 

m%anufacturers as Kittinger, 

Bnieton, John Stuart and 

Kimball. 

Thorner-Sidney also reproduces 

art works for such galleries 

as the Detroit Institute 

Sf Fine Arts„klbright-Knox 

and the Pace, Andrew Crisp° 

and Matisse galleries in New 

York City. 

Other large commercial 

Is.rs — with sales of be-

tween $3 million and $7 million 

annually — include: 

Holling Press — The 

irea's biggest printer of 

greeting cards. It prints 50 

million to 60 million a year 

'or various companies in its 

Washington Street plant. It 

as° prints Bills and Sabres 

)rograms and labels. Cornnercial 

customers include 

)unlop and Fisher-Price. Emiloys 

87 workers. 

Manhardt-Alexander — 

:orning Glass is a major cusomer, 

so big that Manhardt- 

Uexander has a Corning ofice, 

as well as one in New 

'ork City. Other companies 

)r which it prints advertising 

rochures, catalogs and annu- 

1 reports are Danskin, Dun- 

)p Tire, Zippo, Welch Foods 

ad Fisher-Price. Employs 

0. Savage Litho — Prints 

3talogs, brochures, forms in 

00 shapes and sizes for 

3mpanies such as Continend 

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and Buffalo Forge. Employs 

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Rhyme University. The latter 

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plays for tots, growth 

charts and awards for such 

achievements as shoe-tying. 

It requires each member of 

its board of directors to be 

under 8 years old. 

Partners Press — Probably 

the biggest of the printers 

with mostly local clients. 

Prints Studio Arena programs, 

brochures and other 

work for the state Knights of 

Columbus, local magazines for 

unions such as the Newspaper 

Guild, company and 

union newsletters, brochures, 

catalogs and newspapers for 

the State University of Buffalo, 

Canisius, D'Youville. Employs 

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Of the approximately 200 

printing firms in Western 

New York, however, approximately 

150 employ fifteen or 

fewer workers doing commercial 

work for small busi- 

nesses, local organizations 

and politicians and printing 

letterheads and other personal 

stationery for individuals. 

According to Artcraft- 

Burow president Fred P. 

Weyler, who is the historian 

of the local printing trade, 

Buffalo has been a major 

printing center since the late 

1800s. From that period up 

until the mid-1920s, the 

Courier Co. was the largest 

printer of circus posters in 

the world. 

The Matthews-Northrup 

Works, owned by the Buffalo 

Express until it was acquired 

by the J.W. Clement Co. in 

1926, was one of the world's 

largest printers of maps. 

One of the factors that led 

Clement, now Arcata Graphics, 

to become one of the nation's 

biggest printers was its 

success in getting the order 

to print annual catalogs for 

the Buffalo-headquartered 

Larkin Co., which early in the 

century was one of the na- 

tion's leading mail-order 

companies. From 1915 to 

1946, in fact, Clement was 

located on Seneca Street near 

the Larkin plant. 

Historically, the growth of 

the printing industry here 

owes much to Buffalo's being 

a major railroad hub and to 

the geographic fact that 70 

percent of the nation's population 

is within 600 miles. 

But William D. Roesser, 

former Clement president and 

now a consultant for the 

company, gives men like 

David L. Johnson and J. Walter 

Koessler primary credit 

for creating what is now 

Buffalo's second-largest 

product-making industry. 

Johnson, who started his 

career as a newsboy for the 

Buffalo Express, took over 

J.W. Clement after the founder 

died in 1907 and changed 

it from a local print shop into 

a national company. 

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Under Johnson, Clement 

became a major edition printer 

filling orders for millions 

of booklets as early as 1909, 

when it began printing for 

the Western Electric Co. 

The following year it 

added the Chesebrough 

Manufacturing Co. — maker 

of Vaseline — and the 

Columbia Phonograph Co. to 

its list of customers. Standard 

Oil, the Singer Sewing Machine 

Co., the Corn Products 

Refining Co., Remington 

Arms and Thomas A. Edison 

Lnc. became clients in the 

next five years. 

By the time of Johnson's 

death in 1932, Clement was a 

major national printer. 

J. Walter Koessler was a 

young reporter for the Buffalo 

Courier who lost his job in 

1926 when the paper merged 

with the Express. With 

$1,000 of his own money and 

$2,000 from two partners, he 

founded Greater Buffalo 

Press that year in a garage at 

Hertel and Starin avenues. 

His company moved into 

color printing in 1932 when it 

bought the four-color press of 

the Syracuse Herald and 

began producing that newspaper's 

Sunday comics. Three 

years later it won the contract 

to print the color cornic 

section of the Chicago Times, 

and it was on its way to 

becoming the leader in the 

field. 

The large number of men 

and women with printing 

skills has been an important 

factor in the creation of the 

industry here. In many firms 

it's an important reason for 

keeping the company in 

Western New York. 

Thomas Honney, 

executive vice president 

of Colad, says: 

"We plan to stay 

here because this 

conununity's loaded with very 

good printing skills. It's a 

damn good place to have a 

business. We have the work 

ethic here. Building a new 

plant in another location is a 

minor cost compared to getting 

people with the necessary 

skills." 

But in an industry in which 

new technology is rapidly 

changing, many skills that 

once went into the printed 

product are no longer 

needed. 

Paul Koessler says: "Today, 

we can start up an 

people wno nave never seen a 

printing press and be up and 

running as fast as we can put 

up a new press in Dunkirk 

and take people off another 

kind of press. As a matter of 

fact, it's easier to take people 

who have never seen a press 

and get them to operate one 

of these new offset presses 

than it is to take them off a 

letterpress and put them on 

offset. There are so many ingrained 

ideas that have to be 

changed." 

Don Brown, president of 

the Buffalo Typographical 

Union, has seen its membership 

decline from 900 in the 

1960s to approximately 350 

today. Much of the decline is 

the result of the closing of 

the Buffalo Courier-Express, 

but the technology that has 

done away with the old linotypes 

and metal type in large 

printing operations is also a 

factor. 

The old, unionized craft 

jobs have declined as more 

The supply of 

labor skilled in 

printing is 

important in 

keeping the 

industry here. 

technical, non-unionized ones 

in the industry have grown. 

So far is the technology 

changing in the age of the 

computer and the laser that it 

seems sometimes that the 

larger firms are constantly 

buying new equipment. 

"The printing business will 

leave you behind if you don't 

buy new equipment," says 

Honney, whose firm has recently 

bought new presses. 

Arcata has installed two 

new presses and new bindery 

equipment within the last few 

months. They will increase 

its capacity to print magazines 

by 45 percent and allow 

publishers more flexibility in 

accepting advertising inserts, 

such as foldouts. With the 

new equipment, employment 

is expected to increase by 80. 

Greater Buffalo Press is 

purchasing a Phoenix-based 

company, American Color 

Corp., which has several 

branches around the country. 

American Color in mid- 

November opened a Buffalo 

ply 4..itiP with what is luiown 

in the trade as color separations 

— high-quality negatives 

in the prunary colors 

that enable modern printers 

to produce bright, realistic 

colors. 

Greater Buffalo has also 

announced the purchase of 

three new high-speed offset 

presses, and it plans to buy 

seven more. 

Hoffman and Savage Litho 

are among Buffalo companies 

that have spent millions for 

equipment in the last couple 

of years. 

Besides those who work 

directly for the printing 

comparues, the industry provides 

jobs for workers who 

build the plants and install 

the equipment, postal employees 

and suppliers of machinery 

and materials. 

Arcata uses 175,000 tons 

of paper a year; Greater 

Buffalo Press, 270,000 tons. 

Th.at's enough to fill 23 railroad 

cars every day. 

"You keep hearing of the 

sick industries in Buffalo like 

steel and grain. Here is one 

that is grawing and viable," 

says Dale English, a spokesman 

for Greater Buffalo 

Press, referring to the printing 

industry. 

It is the very adversity 

Buffalo has suffered in 

the last decade — with 

the closing of steel 

plants and grain elevators 

and the exodus of national 

corporate headquarters like 

those of Houdaille and National 

Gypsum — that has 

forced many of the large 

printing companies here to 

seek work from multinational 

corporations. 

Corporations tend to order 

their printing from firms in 

the area in which they have 

their headquarters. Without 

that market, this city's printing 

firms have to maintain a 

reputation for quality work at 

a competitive price to 

survive. 

Kahn, of Thorner-Sidney, 

says that companies like his 

are finding it easier to get 

out-of-town customers than it 

was a decade ago because of 

the reputation his firm and 

other large commercial printers 

here have acquired for 

high-quality color work. 

"It's nice to know that you 

can compete with New York 

and Boston and bring the 

work back to Buffalo," he 

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Senate Committee on Commerce, 

Economic Development and Smalll3usiness 

The Senate's 1984 Tax Cut Proposals 

Finally Enacted in 1985 

By late 1982 and early 1983 New York State began to 

feel the impact of the major tax cuts made in 1981 at the 

federal level. New York's economy began to improve 

considerably and tax revenues for the state went up 

I. stically. Thus, in 1984, Senator Anderson and the other 

members of the Majority in the Senate proposed legislation 

I I Iovide major cuts in personal income tax for New York 

State residents. This committee II in the Senate 

have consistently maintained that the greatest stimulation to 

economic development in our state comes from a reduction 

in personal income tax levels. One of our major competitive 

I isadvantages is our personal income tax level. This tax has 

fI rced businesses IIffer substantially higher salaries to 

attract quaed technical I Irofessional I 

workers and to 

cI mpensate them for these high tax levels. 

The Governor and the Assembly maintained in 1984 that 

there was not sufficient money available to make tax cuts. 

The Senate, as it has for the past five years, used revenue 

projections arrived at by Wharton Econometrics Incorporated, 

which proved once again to be accurate and to 

I emonstrate that there were sufficient funds for a substantial 

tax cut in New York State. 

Thus, in 1985, a majority of the Senate's proposals were 

enacted. The final tax cut package includes: a three-year 

I hase-in of a reduction in the maximum tax rate on 

unearned income from 14 to 13 percent; a decrease from 10 

tII ercent in the maximum tax rate on personal service 

incI me; an increase from $800 to $900 in the personal 

exemption; a change from the current graduated standard 

deduction schedule I. flat rate standard deduction to a 

maximum of $2,500 for singles (increased to $2,600 for 1986 

taxes and $2,800 for 1987 taxes) and $2,750 for married 

cI uples, heads of households and surviving spouses 

(increased to $3,000 for 1986 taxes and to $3,800 for 1987 

taxes); a reduction in the personal income tax rate by the 

I hase-in of tax bracket increases, and an increase for both 

sinI les and others in the threshold level of New York State 

adjusted gross income, under which no tax should be 

payable. 

During this legislative session, the Assembly proposed 

major changes in the corporate taxing system for New York 

State. The Senate has consistently held that those proposals 

represent, at the very least, a small tax increase and in some 

I f the proposals, it appeared there would be a substantial 

increase in taxes for some segments of the business 

cI mmunity. The Assembly maintained that their revenue 

projections would allow these tax changes to come about 

without any net change in the amount of revenue to the 

state. 

Once again, the Senate believes that there is sufficient 

mI ney in the State Budget and revenues are coming in 

I nce again ahead of projections. Both of these factors 

wI uld permit not merely a revenue neutral change in the 

corporate tax system, but also a substantial tax decrease for 

corporations in our state. Therefore, toward the en II the 

Legislative Session, the Senate proposed an amendment to 

the tax changes passed in the Assembly that would have 

created a tax cut for small businesses. Unfortunately, this 

legislation was not passed by the Assembly and thus 

cIII. te tax reduction has not yet been affected for 1985. 

However, the Senate is wng to work with the Governor 

and the Assembly as well as with the business community to 

effect a major tax reduction in the corporate franchise taxes 

in our state. We believe that by this fall the magnitude of 

revenue surpluses will be apparent to everyone and that 

such tax changes can indeed still be made in 1985. 

Senator Walter J. Floss, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, 

shown with Robert Dorgan, President of Trojan Industries, 

one of the heavy industrial companies in Western New York hard 

pressed by Japanese and Korean competitors. Job Training Partnership 

Act monies placed in the State Budget by the Senate have been 

used here to retrain workers dislocated by this foreign competition. 

We urge the Assembly to enter into discussions with the 

Governor and the Senate, as well as with the business 

community, to effect such change. We believe it is important 

that you, the business community of our state, make your 

Assemblymen aware of the need for corporate tax reduction, 

not just revenue neutral change. Therefore, we urge 

you to write your Assemblyman and ask him or her to work 

for corporate tax reduction this year. 

Bad Check Reimbursement 

Passes Both Houses 

We are pleased to announce passage of two major 

pieces of legislation that will give relief to the business 

cI mmunity for the cost of processing non-sufficient fund 

checks and for prosecuting people using bad checks. 

Last year Governor Cuomo vetoed legislation, initiated in 

the Senate, which would have permitted businesses to 

recover the amount of a bad check returned due to 

insufficient funds or because the account was closed. This 

year working with the Assembly, we once again passed 

legislation that we believe has met the objections that were 

raised by the Governor in his Veto Message, but that would 

still meet the needs of the business community. This 

legislation, sponsored by Sen. Floss, would permit recovery 

of two times the amount of the bad check at the discretion of 

the judge with a limit of $500 per check. 

This legislation is one of the major priorities for the small 

business community in our state. We urge each of you to 

write the Governor expressing your desire that he sign this 

leI islation in order that the business community not be 

victiI ized by those who intentionally pay for items purchased 

with checks that have no funds to back them. 

We are hopeful that the Governor has given a positive 

signal as to his intentions about this legislation by signing 

another bill (S.2432, Sen. Floss), which deals with an other 

major problem for the business community with respect to

Senator Dean Skelos, sponsor of a proposed Constitutional Amendment 

to increase the JDA lending authority, is pictured here with 

members of the West End Merchants Association of Long Beach. 

Most of these merchants are participants in the $1 million rehabilitation 

of storefronts on Long Beach's West End. Pictured here from left to 

right are: Ted Nicolosi, President of Nat Levin Services; Ron Cassiere, 

President of the West End Merchants and owner of Beach Street West 

Wines & Liquors; Senator Skelos; John Farese, proprietor of the 

Hampshire Deli; Jack Murphy, vice president of the West End 

Merchants and owner of Petrey Reafty; and Rob Koff, Vice President 

of C-Town and treasurer of the West End Merchants Association. 

insufficient fund checks. This legislation permits retailers 

and those who provide installment credit services to collect 

a fee of up to $10 for any insufficient funds check they must 

process, even if the writer of the check makes good on the 

face value of the check. As many of you are aware, the 

businessperson's bank charges a fee for processing the 

insufficient funds check to the business itself, even though 

the business has no responsibility for this bad check. This 

law permits the businesspersons to recover that fee for 

which they have no responsibility. 

Sencrte Passes Bills Making 

Working and Expansion 

Capital More Available 

Small businesses have a great deal of difficulty finding a 

I. nk that will lend small dollar amounts at affordable interest 

rates and finding long-term commercial mortgages at fixed 

interest rates for expansion purposes. Two measures have 

been passed this Session by the Senate and concurred with 

I y the Assembly that we are hopeful will help to resolve 

these problems to some degree. 

This year we passed for the second time a proposed 

Constitutional Amendment that, if approved by voters in 

November, would increase the lending authority of the Job 

Development Authority from $300 million to $600 million, 

and also increase the maximum percentage that the JDA 

can participate in a loan from 40 to 60 percent (Sen. Skelos 

sponsor). 

The JDA has contributed to the economic development 

of our state by participating in loan packages to businesses 

fS r capital expansion. The business community has 

formly applauded JDA's efforts, which represent the best 

traditions of public-private sector cooperation. If this amendment 

is to secure passage on the November ballot it is 

important that •Iusiness community make voters aware 

S f JDA's significant role in the creation of new jobs in our 

state and encourage in every way possible the passage of 

this amendment. 

Thirty years ago, the Business Development Corporation 

(BDC) was created to provide financing for businesses 

at competitive rates. Last year, the Senate passed legislation 

that would have substantially expanded the role of the 

Business Development Corporation as a lender to the 

S usiness community. This is strictly a private sector organization 

that has secured its money from its member banks and 

lent it at competitive interest rates to the business community. 

The legislation the Senate passed last year would 

have permitted the Business Development Corporation to 

expand its lending authority by seeking new sources of 

funS s in the private sector and to offer new types of loans in 

areas such as export assistance, working capital loans and 

lS ng-term fixed rate commercial mortgages. 

Since the Assembly did not act on this legislation Last 

year, a task force was created to examine more closely what 

role the Business Development Corporation could have in 

economic development in our state. After several months of 

deliberation, the task force made recommendations that 

were substantially the same as those included in last year's 

legislation. The task force also recommended other possible 

sources of capital for the BDC. It also hired Arthur Young, 

Inc. to IS at the staffing needed to provide these new 

resources. We are pleased that this year the Assembly 

fS llowed last year's Senate lead and passed the legislation, 

which has now been signed into law by the Governor 

(Chapter 384). 

In this year's law the Business Development Corporation 

is permitted to raise up to $250 million and may approach 

the trustees of the pension funds of our state and negotiate 

with them to attempt to arrive at an agreement that will 

permit the pension funds to loan money to the BDC at rates 

that will provide an adequate return on investment for the 

funS s. Since the BDC cannot function in its new role without 

enhanced financial capability, the Senate insisted that the 

BDC Board be given the leeway not 5 5 5oceed with new 

staffing or programatic expenditures until it felt it had 

sufficient capital in hand to successfully operate under its 

new mandate. 

Prompt Pcryment and 

Regulatory Reform Lcrws 

Expanded and Extended 

Last year legislation was passed and signed into law by 

the Goveror that required •- .S to IS. their bills on 

time to their vendors or to pay interest on those late 

S. yments. This year that legislation has been expanded to 

include payments made by public authorities to those with 

whS m they contract. Since public authorities are quasiindependent 

agencies and not direct state-funded agencies, 

the legislation permits them to create regulations patterned 

after last year's law, in order to allow them to tailor the 

prompt payment law to their individual circumstances and 

I. yment process (Sen. Floss sponsor). 

Unfortunately, the agreement reached last year SS. 

with the extension of Prompt Payment to public authorities 

has been abrogated by the Governor's recent -SI this 

eminently reasonable bill. Both the Senate and Assembly 

sponsors of this legislation have repeatedly made clear their 

willinS ness SS.l with any technical objections in time to 

S. ss such modifications at the fall Special Session. There 

can be no excuse for the Governor's precipitous action. 

Two years ago legislation was passed requiring state 

agencies to eliminate forms and regulations that were 

S uplicates of federal regulations or forms. This legislation 

was due to expire on December 31 of this year but has been 

extended until the end of 1987 under legislation passed and 

signed into law. The law further requires that the new Office 

of Business Permits and Regulatory Assistance take a mI- 

•ctive role in the monitoring of this process and in 

encouraging state agencies to eliminate their overlapping 

regulations. 

We believe that these two pieces of legislation will 

cI ntinue a process begun by the actions of Senate Majority 

Leader Warren Anderson seven years ago, when he 

proposed the creation of the Office of Business Permits and 

the Senate Subcommittee on Small Business Concerns as 

twI first steps in the process of reducing the burdensome 

regulatory environment that existed for the business community 

in New York State at that time. 

BUSINESS UPDATE is the official publication of the New York State 

Senate Committee on Commerce, Economic Development and 

Small Business, 905 Legislative Office Building, Albany, N.Y. 12247. 

Senator Walter J. Floss, Chairman 

Committee Members: Senators Joseph Bruno, Charles Cook, 

Owen Johnson, L. Paul Kehoe, Eugene Levy, Dean Skelos, Howard 

Babbush, Olga Mendez, Velmanette Montgomery, Suzi Oppenheimer 

and Leonard Stavisky. 

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ARTHRITIS 

FOUNDATION 

JACK KEMP MC 

BUFFALO, NY 

Western New York Chapter 

requests your presence at our 

5th Annual 

Awards Dinner/Dance 

with the -Musicales- 

Norcross a 112obins Medical Award 

Evan Calkins, M.D. 

Volunteer of the Year Award 

112obert Nesslin 

Past President's Award 

Edward T. Greck 

Thursday, October 10, 1985 

The Park Country Club 

4949 6heridan Drive, Williamsville 

Cash bar 6:00 PM 

Hors d' oeuvre S Served 

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Dinner 7:00 PM 

Valet parking 

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Arthritis Foundation 5th Annual Awards Dinner/Dance 

Thursday, October 10. 7 PM 

The Park Country Club 

Name or Corporate Name 

Address Phone 

S $50.00 Single E1 Corporate Table $400.00 (8) El Corporate Table $500.00 (10) 

$100.00 Couple I Patron Listing $25 additional. 

My check for $ is enclosed for reservations 

R.S.V.P. No later than September 27, 1985. 

I will be unable to attend, but have enclosed a tax deductible contribution to support the 

Arthritis Foundation of W.N.Y. 

Enclosed is a contribution of $ 

Please make checks payable to: ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION OF WNY 

For information call 837-8600 

All. I.

RECE WED 

SEP 3O'8 

JACK KEMP MC 

BUFFALO, NY 

A.N/,&A's & Coty 

cordially invite you 

to a cocktail party 

to meet the guest of honor 

SOPHIA LOREN 

Thursday, October:10, 1985 

at 6:30 p.m1 

at the Golden Ballroom, 

Buffalo Hilton 

R.S.V.P 

847-9556 I 847-9626

TO: SHARON 

FROM: MARIE 

MEMO 

SEPT 16, 1985 

MICKEY BUCKLEY CALLED TODAY TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING REQUESTS 

OF JACK: 

1. MICKEY WOULD LIKE JACK TO BE THE HONORARY CHAIRMAN 

2. 

OF A COCKTAIL PARTY FOR SALLY SAUNDERS AND DAN HENRY 

ON OCTOBER-1-0 (HE ALREADY KNOWS JK CAN'T ATTEND) 

MICKEY WOULD LIKE JACK TO WRITE A LETTER FOR DAN HENRY 

(LIKE HE DID BEFORE) AND SALLY SAUNDERS THAT CAN BE 

SENT OUT IN THE NEXT MAILING TO CONSTITUENTS. 

THEY WOULD PREPARE THE LETTER FOR OUR APPROVAL. 

3. MICKEY WOULD LIKE A LETTER SUPPORTING DAN HENRY AND SALLY 

SAUNDERS TO BE READ AT THE OCTOBER 10TH FUNCTION. 

DAN HENRY AND SALLY SAUNDERS ARE RUNNING FOR THE TOWN COUNCIL IN 

HAMBURG. DAN IS ALREADY SERVING ON THE TOWN BOARD AND IS RUNNING 

FOR A FULL FOUR YEAR TERM THIS TIME. SALLY IS RUNNING FOR THE 

TOWN COUNCIL FOR THE FIRST TIME. 

MICKEY SAID THIS IS IMPORTANT AND NEEDS AN ANSWER ON #1 TODAY. 

PLEASE ADVISE. 

P.S. JACK HAS ALEADY DONATED $50.00 TO EACH OF THESE TWO 

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BUFFALO, NY, 

The Sister Mechtilde 

Memorial Award 

Reception, 1985

Reception Committee 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Moravec, Chairmen 

Sister Mary Joel Schimscheinet, Honorary Chairman 

Sub-Committee Chairmen 

Mr. and Mrs. William A. O'Loughlin, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. James Sutherland 

Mr. and Mrs. James G. Kelly 

Committee Members 

Gen. and Mrs. Thomas W. Bowen 

Dr. and Mrs. Norman Chassin 

Mr. Christopher C. Collins 

Rev. Monsignor Robert J. Cunningham 

Mr. Norman F. Ernst, Jr. 

Dr. and Mrs. George W. Fugitt 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Gibbons 

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald H. Greene 

Mr. and Mrs. William L. Holcomb 

Miss Shirley A. Krise 

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Lawley 

Dr. and Mrs. Kuochin Liu 

Mr. and Mrs. Norton R. Lowe 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. McDermid 

Mr. and Mrs. Leo A. Metz 

Dr. and Mrs. Cornelius J. O'Connor 

Mr. and Mrs. John P. Quinn, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Morton H. Stovroff 

Ms. Sharon L. Wick. 

Dr. and Mrs. Everett W. Woodworth 

You are 

cordially invited 

to the 

Sister Mechtilde 

Memorial Award Reception, 1985 

R.S.V.P by 

September 30 

to honor 

Kathryn (Koessler) Juhasz 

and 

John L. Conboy, M.D. 

Thursday, October 10, 1985 

Marriott Inn 

Amherst, New York 

to benefit 

Kenmore Mercy Hospital 

Cocktails and Hors d'oeuvres 

6:00-8:00 p.m. 

Award Presentation Ceremony 

7:00 p.m. 

Donation: $75 per couple 

$50 per person

Sister Mary Mechtilde 

Memorial Award Recipients, 1985 

John L. Conboy, M.D. 

• Chief of Metheine — 


• Assistant Clinical Proftssor — 

State University of New York at Buffido 

• Member, American Medical Association 

• Member, New York Saw Medizal Society 

• Member, Erie County Medical Society 

• Member, American Society of 

Internal Medicine 

• Board Certified in Inurnal Medicine 

Kathryn (Koessler) Juhasz 

• Chairman, Board of Regents — 

Canisius College 

• Vice Chairman, Board of' Trustees — 

Nardin Academy 

• Boani of Directors, Greater Bufflik Press 

• Member, American Cancer Society 

Hope Lodge Committee 

• Member, Women's C,ommittee of the 

Buffiilo Philharmonic 

• Volunteer, Ambulatory SurgiCal Center — 


• Member, Scholarship Associates of 

Canisius College

M 

Ill Yes, I will attend. 

Check enclosed for $ 

0 Sorry, I am unable to attend, but 

have enclosed my donation of $ 

Please make checks payable to: 

Kenmore Mercy Foundation 

Donation: $75 per Couple 

$50 per Person 

All donations are tax deductible 

and will benefit Kenmore Mercy Hospital 

The Sister Mechtilde 

Memorial Award Reception, 1985

BUSINESS REPLY MAIL 

FIRST CLASS PERMIT NO. 22 BUFFALO, N.Y. 

POSTAGE WILL BE PAID BY ADDRESSEE 

ICenmore Mercy Foundation 

2950 Elmwood Avenue 

Kenmore, New Nrk 14217 

NO POSTAGE 

NECESSARY 

IF MAILED 

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