Supervisor

All Natalie Gunshannon wanted was to be paid a fair wage for her work, she said. Gunshannon, 27, of Dallas Township, worked at McDonald's Restaurant on the Dallas Highway from April 24 to May 15. When she received her first paycheck, enclosed was a Chase Bank debit card with instructions on how to use it and the fees attached. Her future earnings would be deposited into the debit card account and she could access her money from there. Gunshannon never signed the card and when she returned to work she asked her supervisor if she could be paid by check or by direct deposit.

A former Chester County township supervisor has been arrested and charged with possession of child pornography, the District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday. Warren Reynolds, 51, who had been a supervisor in New Garden Township, resigned during a police investigation into the allegations. His term would have ended in January. According to the announcement, the defendant's wife called a computer technician to have their computer serviced. The technician came upon child pornography and reported the findings to state police.

At a special meeting last week, the Edgewater Park Township Committee voted to hire Tim Cooper, a township resident, to fill the vacant position of Public Works Department supervisor. "We're comfortable that he has the personality and the ability to make a difference in the department," said Paul Guidry, the township's administrator. "We're very positive that there will be improvements. " The $25,000-a-year position was left vacant after John Shedosky, the last superintendent, retired in 1984.

George Martin Cloud will be making a return appearance as a supervisor of East Marlborough Township. On Monday, the board unanimously voted to appoint Cloud to fill the unexpired term of John Hufford, a 13-year veteran of the board who died last month. Cloud had been a supervisor for 27 years but did not run for re- election in 1987 and has been off the board since January. "I believe he was first elected to the supervisors when Eisenhower was elected president. And he had been appointed to serve on the board about 18 months before that," township manager Jane Laslo said.

A supervisor at the Embreeville Center for the mentally retarded, who last year received a five-day suspension after a state investigation into neglect and abuse of the retarded, was cleared by the state yesterday. After the state action, a union official who represented the Embreeville employee said the state probe had been a political show. "It's now perfectly clear that the state was politically motivated in disciplining our member," said Paul Gottlieb, business agent for the Pennsylvania Social Services Union.

Herman John, who two years ago lost a write-in campaign to win re-election to the Schuylkill Township Board of Supervisors, is back on the ballot. "I am running because the only announced candidate is G. Edward Heit," John, 68, said Tuesday in an interview. Heit, 60, is finishing his first six-year term as a supervisor and is the only other candidate for the single opening. Both men are Republicans, but John's position hurt him last week when it was time for the township's eight GOP committee members to make their endorsements.

As she has done several times before, Eileen Lemma is running alone. The Republican supervisor will seek reelection without the backing of the local Republican Party. The party, which has never endorsed Lemma in various runs for supervisor, instead picked elected auditor Keith Froggatt and incumbent Darwin Dobson for nomination to run for this year's two open seats. Political newcomer Jerry Petrowski also is running for the nomination. "I don't know why anybody voted the way they did," said Fred Koelble, president of the Upper Southampton Republican Club.

A Philadelphia man was sentenced yesterday to 11 1/2 to 23 months in Delaware County Prison for sexually assaulting a 24-year-old Drexel Hill woman at a department store in January. Donald Ranson, 48, of the 700 block of North 46th Street, pleaded guilty in Delaware County Court to assaulting the woman in a fitting room at Macy's in Springfield Mall. Ranson was a store supervisor. The attack occurred before the store opened on a Saturday. Ranson approached the woman, who worked as a housekeeper, in the fitting room and asked her to have sex with him. When she refused, Ranson tried to force himself on her; she broke free and ran. Later, he told her that he would try again and threatened to use a gun if she did not remain quiet.

In the former barn in Doe Run that serves as township garage and meeting room, Landis Hess made the usual pot of coffee before Tuesday night's supervisors meeting. Then he took his seat. But for the first time since 1946, Hess - who resigned last month as West Marlborough supervisor - sat in the audience, not with the board. He was surrounded by an unusually large number of people, listening as township business proceeded for about half an hour. Then Chairman Charles Brosius said the time had come to honor the township's longest-serving supervisor.

Norman E. Simpson, 80, of Tacony, a cemetery supervisor and an active supporter of Livengrin Foundation for Addiction Recovery, died of kidney failure Thursday at Aria Health-Frankford Campus. In 1976, after his wife and children confronted him about his alcoholism, Mr. Simpson became a patient at Livengrin's inpatient program in Bensalem. "He was a wonderful man, but he had a serious addiction. It was ruining his life," said his wife, Dorothy Alley Simpson. Mr. Simpson and his wife were so grateful to Livengrin for his successful treatment and the counseling it offered their family that they became Livengrin volunteers, answering phones, working with families, and even parking cars, his wife said.

A former Chester County township supervisor has been arrested and charged with possession of child pornography, the District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday. Warren Reynolds, 51, who had been a supervisor in New Garden Township, resigned during a police investigation into the allegations. His term would have ended in January. According to the announcement, the defendant's wife called a computer technician to have their computer serviced. The technician came upon child pornography and reported the findings to state police.

John J. McDermott, 73, of Delran, supervisor in the Riverside post office from 1979 until 1990, died of complications from Parkinson's disease Friday, May 24, at his home. Born in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Mr. McDermott graduated in 1957 from West Philadelphia Catholic High School for Boys. He began his post office career in 1959 as a sorting clerk in the Philadelphia main post office at 30th and Market Streets, his daughter, Jennifer Parker, said. He then worked as a mail carrier from the West Oak Lane and Frankford offices before becoming a supervisor in the Holmesburg office.

JABEZ AUSTIN wrote everything down. A thought or idea or opinion didn't pop into his head without his writing it in his journal. He also recorded the everyday doings of his life. He even had a title for the book he hoped his musings would someday create: The Tale that Wags the Dog: An Essay of Black Influence in America . Jabez Thomas Austin Jr., son of a Southern Baptist preacher, 33-year employee of the Postal Service, Air Force veteran and devoted family man, died May 5 of heart failure.

D EAR ABBY: I work in a skilled-care facility. I am also preparing for law school. Today one of my co-workers humiliated me in the presence of others by asking if I have been gaining weight. I giggled and said, "Probably. " She proceeded to say that I have gained "a lot" of weight in my "fat face" and told me to get on the scale so she could see how much. I told her it's none of her business. She has done this to me and other co-workers before. Our supervisor likes her and doesn't reprimand her. How should I handle this?

James E. Kinney, 79, of Northampton Township, where he was a former longtime Republican supervisor and an avid golfer, died Friday, April 19, of a heart attack at home. His daughter, Carolyn K. DuMont, said he had been recovering from the partial amputation of a foot because of diabetes. The Kinney family moved to Northampton in 1972 from Northeast Philadelphia, and Mr. Kinney quickly got involved in local politics. He was elected a supervisor in 1978 and served for 24 years, though not all consecutively.

Marla Pietrowski hasn't collected a dime of the $1.7 million a Philadelphia jury awarded her last month. But the 56-year-old former administrator of a rehabilitation program for prison parolees has a message for other would-be whistle-blowers: "Don't give up, even when it looks like all is against you," she said. "Pursue what you believe is right, and in the end, it does work out. " Pietrowski hasn't received her money because on Monday, her former employer, the Kintock Group in King of Prussia, filed a motion to overturn the verdict reached March 22 in the courtroom presided over by Common Pleas Court Judge Annette Rizzo.

BACK IN 1944, George V. Bochanski took a sad train ride through Philadelphia on his way to New York to be shipped overseas to fight in World War II. George wasn't sad about going to war. He was sad because the train rolled behind a Westinghouse plant where his then-girlfriend was working. "He said it was one of his saddest days," said his son George Jr. "He knew she was in there working, and he couldn't tell her where he was going. " It all worked out happily, however, because when George got back from the war, he married the girl, Irene M. McLaughlin, and they had 56 years of wedded bliss.

Walter A. Lamont, 83, of Holland, retired music supervisor for the School District of Philadelphia, died Sunday, Feb. 3, at Abington Hospice at Warminster of end-stage renal disease. Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Lamont graduated from Olney High School. In 1951, he earned his bachelor of science degree in music education from West Chester State University. He served in the Army during the Korean War and was honorably discharged in 1953. Mr. Lamont worked for the Centennial School District for two years before he was hired by the Philadelphia School District in the 1950s.

A former Pennsylvania Department of Transportation supervisor has been convicted by a Chester County jury of creating fake driver's licenses for criminals using the identities of innocent people. Khalif Abdullah Ali, 44, worked at the PennDot driver's license center in Frazer and used his position to make fake licenses with the photos of wanted criminals. One of the criminals was caught and testified against Ali. Others remain at large. Ali was convicted Wednesday of identity theft, tampering with public records, computer trespass, and related offenses.

Out of sight of their patients, the doctors and staff of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia were holding onto each other and crying in back offices, in shock over the slaying of Melissa Ketunuti. At some point, the news reports describing details of the CHOP pediatrician's death Monday had become so relentless that her colleagues needed desperately to end the noise and talk about her life. "So we simply commandeered the hospital's chapel on Thursday," said Paul Offit, chief of the division of infectious diseases and Ketunuti's supervisor.