Poughkeepsie Journal from Poughkeepsie, New York • Page 1B

tl Ajjonda Busy wooKond traffic has Mlllorton sooklng moro porting spacq, 3D benny mcnulty city editor qh) 437 4034 Poltflhkeqw 3ournal ID 'J Obltuarios 2 Stato 7 Woothor 0 THURSDAY APniL 20 1Q94 IN BRIE iity woman iuei SSto of accident A Putnam toomdn was SQriously hurtihQn accident yVednosday IIUidlnqtonvHIol Srf AcclcJpnt tloo up 1 84; Putnam clrlvor Injured HOLMES A Putnam Count WaS SCrlollSlv Inllll ml In an nr rlilnnt nn Interstate 81 In East Flsliklll Wednesday state police said Theresa Bosse, 55, of Cartnel, was taken tb St Francis Hospital In Pough kccpslc by hcll copter After the 1215 pm accl' dentj She was listed In critical condition' Wednesday eve nlng I'ollco said Dosse was drlv ing eastbQund OtI04wheri her car1 went Okada Journal off thn rloht shoulder of the road Police suspect she. over corrected her steering when getting back onto thfe pavement and her vehicle crossed both castbpund lanes before strik ing luin. tuiuiiiiMUL'iii in inc center 01 the road, Boss'O was extricated py members of the East Flshklll fire department The accident delayed traffic along I 84 for about tWo hours Thundortorm cnuao outngos Lightning and winds from severe thun derstorms Wednesday caused scattered power outages in Dutchess and Ulster counties and sparked several brush fires officials said About two dozen residents pear Clinton Corners in Dutchess County were without electricity for short periods after the storm hit at 3 because of downed power lines jSaid. Central Hudson Gas 4 fclcctricCOrp spokesman Paul Tesoro About 500 customers in Ulster County lost power due to downed lines he said "We lcd the problems bnc by one as they oceurred'Tesprfrsaid, "When we heard the storm was coming1 we decided to keep our offices manned throughout the arly evening'' The stbrm developed over the Atlantic, said National Weather Service meteorologist John Cannon Fre stotm temperatures that soared Into the 80s cause the storm to increase in intensity when it hit the mid Hudson. Valley, Cannon said I "The higher temperatures added mois turc to the storm and it became quite ac tive' Cannon 3,400 In city loso oloctrlc A cable failure at a Centrpl Hudson electric Substation on Smith Street disrupted power to an estimated 3,400 utility customers in the City of PougMeepsie for about a half hour Wednesday Denise VanBurcn a Central Hudson spokeswoman, said the cable failed at 11 nun uiivvtvvvwiuuivis npu orulf rttrtrH hv I Oft Tie affected area covered North Hamil ton Street east to Smith Street and from Thompson Street north Violet Ayenue SPEAK UP SCHOOL AID PLAN WONT WORK Wodnosday'n quostlon 33 responses Do you support a state budget compro mise proposed by G6v Milrio Cuomo that would guarantee all school districts more aid next year7 Yof 10 Jt will lower taies, and it's for a good cause lie is probably Only doing it to get votes Only if they can fig out now to Tower our But he's hoodwinking the pcople'into thinking they are" getting something but they are It, sounds good for an election year, but let's see what he docs for teal I support anything that's good foe the school No: 23 It's not money that's, ncccjcdjt's compe tpnee, the only ariswer Is to change school and land taxes to a state tax A1J school funding must be from' the locdl, level school districts bavev(o learn to do with' less State taxes must be reduced and school districts must spend as little as nec ossary to properly educate the children The money is coming out of a different pocket but it's all tax money The top priority should be to reduce state taxes, we are the highest taxed state in the coun try Today's quostlon Would a multimillion dollar devel opment plan for Beacon's waterfront be.

'successful in attracting tourism7 (See story 1A "Speak Up" is your chance to express opinions On a. variety of topics Call ($14 4S7 4923 between7a tn and 7pm Pleise pall only once. Speak Up is not fniendtd as a scientific survey Park barred to commuters New Hamburg plan set Dy ChiUtophor Landry I'ouqI koopalo Journal Commuters using the New Hamburg train depot won bo allowed to park In a nearby park, buj. thoycan still park on the street if there's, no room In the existing lot The Poughkccpsic Town Board Wednesday passed a law prohibiting parking in New Hamburg Park, Biit council members tabled voting on another law aimed at keeping commuters off tho streets surrounding the Metro xNorth Commuter Railroad's train depot "We're going to hold off on the permit parking because, there will be an Increase In parting spaces, so there mighruot be any need for permit parklhg," said Deputy Supervisor Michael Dunagan Cramped parking vsfiould be cased now that Metro North agrped earjlcr this month to add 250 spaces, he said Deforje that, officials were thinking WIIAT'S NEXT NEW HAMBURG PARKING On Sopt 20 tho Poughkoopsle Town Doard will roopon its public hoaring to discuss whothor a law srfould bo passod to ostobllsh permit parking lor stroots noar tho Now Hamburg train depot Tho law would allow only rosidonts to park along'stroots State mediator sought on city school contract about allowing only residents, of the, hamlet to park on the streets by giving them permit stickers The parking shortage this winter" prompted commuters to park "on the 'street, causing blocked driveways and tramped streets Commuter Fcd Hoe leaves his car Iri New Hamburg Park because jt's close to the train platform The new lawjwlll be a said Iloc, whp catches the 039 a (rain 7,1 11 have to park on the street untlt the. new parking slots arc there By mid June, Metro North will add about 40 spaces at the southern end of the 452 space lot Dy December, another 40 spacps will be added Dy Lurry flthor IJortz Pouyhkoopslo Journal A state mediator will be askid to hojp settle stalled contract talks between City of Paugtikec psle school teachers and the district, 'said representatives of the teach crs and the district Wednesday Tho dccTsTon to seek the services of the state mediator came after the latest negotiating session last Friday failed to move the tw(o sides any closer In fact, Superln tendent Matthew Clarke said Wednesday, "It looked like we were drifting cVen fur thcr apart" The mediator, known as a superconcilia tor, cannot Impose" a settlement but can help the two sides rcsOlyc differences Negotiators for1 the teachers' union and the district have been" working for nearly two years to reach agreement on a jnew contract Mary Ann Fajlek, president of the Poughkccpsic Public Teachers Association, said representatives of New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) the group's parent union had contacted offi cials at the state Public Employment He latlons Board to ask that a supcrconciliu tor be sent to Poughkccpsic to mediate the contract dispute No date has been set for new talks, she said Fallck added that the union planned tq hold, meetings thlswcek with every tea chcr In the district to, keep them Informed about new developments in negotiations And she said the union planned to open a "crisis center" In downtown Poughkccpsic next week to.kecp the teachers and the public Informed about the talks Fallck said "she was "very" concerned about the crisis" (surrounding the stalled contract talks) But she said she was optimistic that a supcrconcillator could help the two sides rpacLan agreement in part because a state mediator iiad helped resolved a similar dispute in the Hyde Park Central School District "We have the positive experience of Hyde Park look to and certainly we would likeo be optimfstlethat the partlci pation of a third party will help us resolve this crisis," Fallck said Fears of Nuclear Lake remain Clean area just some say KAMI tntiwnml nlinM Dy Denrilt Klpp PoughkAepsie Journal POUOHQUAft The bufldings where an accident 22 ycacs qgo scat tered radloaptlvc plutonlum along the shore Of Nuclear Lake have been demo lished ond.haulod awacy But skepticism of official assurances (hat the akc and surrounding' 1 Ml aro safe for recreational use showe'd little sn of lessening Wedriesdy Where the Gulf United Ndclear Cor porations nuclear fuel res6arch labs once stood along the lake a mile north of Boute 55 today there arc graded and seeded clearings in tht woods On Wednesday the site was temporarily opened to the public for the first time since 1979 when Die National Park Service bought it to reroute a section of the Appalachian Trail I don like the facade that I said Henry Walker of Pawling as he walked through the property I have a lot of doubt I would want to be absolu 9 Nucl(W haS cloaned' but many iisafo Long torrti Ai3eof the slto is undocldocC Since 1982, tJicNdtional service, said thr laboratory buildings' were Koa lAmmleclnnAil nrA itiQt Kail' l.il L.

a a. 1 ice has commissioned more, than a half dozen1 studies in hopes of assuring persons like "that the property w.as though slate and federal agencies declare) clear for us soon after the 1 972 accident Instead of assurances, the studies confirmed the critics concerns In 1984 rcmovod late last year at a cost of $500,000 The cost was shared by the gov ernment and Chevron Corp( which merged With Gulf United Nuclear in 1984 But JTobcrt Young of Doycr was not con vinced. "There is nO doubt in. my min) that 'the place was contaminated he said hirii 1c nn inukl tKA lalrn uifls ncnH in ivereT ndainy mo" encourage people to play on discovered contaminated property Muane 1 carson regional represeniauve for the National Park Service said a dcci sion about the future of the Nuclear Lake property will be up to the Nuclear Lake Management Committee, a group created in 1970" that will be re activated to cofi sjder public uses for the property For how, though, jtVstill, closed, said Pearson New concerns were raised in Anril 1992 when the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission included the Nuclear Lake site on a list of 46 sites acrpss the country that pose longtcrni environ mental hazards because bf radioactive contamination John Byrner the Nuclear Lake pro for the National far 11 Xi 1 MBM ject manager for As part of the major pverhauh new spillway's 'fprthe take were created, part oir a system that can Jrain the lake qUfcklylf needed He left his mark in ways big and small Former President Richard Nrton death is hot incandescent Jt will biirn, ut hot so well Of long that it will last It will stay about aslongas Lyndon Johnson's passing Or John Glenn's orbit of the earth At the, moment, there is much to say and write and think about Nixon Thiji will not be true in a week's time I will be unlike most others I wili re member the detajls the moment of this discovery about Nixon I saw the news first not on television but in headline, which I will remember bftcape it was in newspapers, in my business, that 1 built my relationship with Nn It was always a balanced relationship I knew him but could nottMich him, he did not kpow mW hot toothed me deeply owed my draft notice to President LyridonVohnson But Nfton fcame into o( fce a "to endthe Viet THOMAS N.T0BIN HERE AND THERE ham War I Wanted to believe I took the enlisted man's oath in 1969, 10 months' after Nir dn inauguration I had voted for Hubert Humphrey iri 1968, but entirely without enthusiasm, and when Nixon I was skeptical but not dismayed He might hive a plan to end the war, I thought. I put on the uniform and went away into the Navy and by the time I reached my duty station I had given up on Nixon Never before had; a campaign promise, meant anything to me personally, and since, il the truth be known, Presf dents make history but on a canvas so lafge, with such broad strokes that little spgtter? on tho madding crowd Irfmy netft ljfe, Nixon again loomed large I was patching on in the newspaper business when Watergate broke Many newspaper journalists owe their persistence in a line of work noted for defee tion to Nixon's travails They ve been waiting all this, time for the second com big Watergate, wais pnof ihe greatest real life stones eyeifl Arrlericajt was written by SMhocle, iffcia)) ending by Melville, played, to 'Wagner's music Because I had lost Jarth Iq tyxO during" the; war, but sWl wondered twai being fair, Witergate my otorf darkening view of things and oi people liks Nixon, except tere was noonCquitclikehlm.

They broke jthe moid Arid now that's gono. This week: he was givepi princely respectful good bye The post offices closed The flag draped casket was dehv fcred to Stewart Airport on its way to California. Twentyoneguns rroaredr Nixbn did one gYeat thing he opened China to the West; In this I feel connected to him again but. this time in a good way We re adopting a Chinese child Without Nixon she" probably would not be coming to us Thus will remember the moment I saw the headline, Con.vefience store Da' try Mart Rack Of papers' Pulled pne" up to look i The words I saw ran right through me Thtimas Tofyn is deputy editorial page, There xtate and national issues affect the mid Hudson aMy yppodrs estcb Thursday andSaturday tyMehinjfitfiotmi Povhkcepsh, fit i.