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2A FROM PAGE ONE METRO TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2006 POUGHKEEPSIE JOURNAL Poughkeepfiie Journal www p6ughkeepsi9journal.com Barry Rothfsld, publisher brdthfeld 8 poughkeepsiejournal com Cynthia Andersen, market development director canderse poughkeepsiejoumal.com Jan Dewey, advertising director Jdewey poughkeepsiejournal com Margaretta Downey, executive editor madowneypougrikeepslejournal com Paul Fellclsslmo, circulation director pfelicispoughkeepslejoumal com Howard Lawrence, production director hlawfrenc poughkeepsiejournal com Nora Pletrafesa, human resources manager npielrafpoughkeepsiejournal com Randy Sutherland, controller com Pierre Swartvagher, online manager pswartvapoughkeepsiejournal com (USPS 440 480) The Poughkeepsle Journal is owned and published daily and Sunday by Poughkeepsie Newspaper Division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, Inc. Principal place of business is 85 Civic Center Plaia, P.O. Box 1231, Poughkeepsie, N.Y, 12602. Contents 2006 Poughkeepsie Journal Officers are: Barry Rothfeld, president; Jimmy L. Thomas, treasurer, and Thomas Chappie, secretary The address of Chappje and Thomas is: Gannett Co, 7950 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, VA 22107 Penodicals postage paid at Poughkeepsie, Y.

The publisher reserves the nght to change subscription rates during the term of a subscription, upon 28 days' notice. This notice may be by mail "to suDscricers, oy notice contained in tne newspaper itself, or otherwise announced. Subscnption rate changes may be implemented by changing the duration of the subscnption. For Poughkeepsie Journal six day and weekend subscribers, we will include the following days with your subscnption at no additional cost. Six day subscribers: 64, 611 and 618.

Weekend subscribers: 65, 68, 612 and 619. All advertising published in the Poughkeepsie Journal fs subject to the current applicable rate card, copies of which are available from the advertising department. The Poughkeepsie Journal may, in its sole discretion, edit, classify, reject or cancel at any time any, advertising submitted by an advertiser. POSTMASTER, Send address changes to The Poughkeepsie Journal, Box .1231, Poughkeepsie, N.Y, 12602. Suggested price Single copy: 50 cents Monday Saturday, $1 50 Sunday.

Subscription rate Standard rate $17,30 per month. By mall, daily and Sunday: 3 months, $92 60, 6 months, $185 20, 1 year, $370 40. By mall, Sunday only: 3 months, $40 20, 6 months, 1 year, $160 80. Member The Associated Press. KEEPING IN TOUCH All number's are 845 area code: Main number 454 2000 Subscription questions, customer service Weekdays: 5 a.m.

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Long distance calls can be made to the newsroom by calling 1 800 765 1120. GETTING IT RIGHT Information wrong The Ulster County Vicariate held its Eucharistic Congress June 2 and 3. A brief on page 2B of Saturday's edition stated otherwise. The Poughkeepsiejournal corrects errors of fact. To report a correction or clarification, call 845 437 4833.

V. Hawks change residence vVsjvjuv I 'i5fcrV3Sv less Associated Press photos Lola, left, and Pale Male, New York's high rise hawks, perch on the 24th floor1 of the Beresford Apartments. Birds build nest on opposite side of Central Park middle of the city. Their latest roosting spot is on tower atop the massive 1929 vin tage apartment complex where opera singer Beverly Sills and comedian Jerry Seinfeld ire among celebrity residents and Brown lives in a multilevel apartment Brown, now senior editor of Cosmopolitan International, which produces dozens of foreign editions of the magazine, said she had not actually seen the hawks, whose roost is two floors above the terrace of her multilevel apartment, but was delighted that they were visiting the Beresford. Not so her husband, film and Broadway producer David Brown, who she said was less than pleased with the attention.

Pale Male and Lola produced seven chicks at their 12th floor nest overlooking Fifth Avenue from 2002 to 2004 but none last year or this. Once the nesting season ends, they roam Central Park but would be expected to return next spring to the nest. The Associated Press NEW YORK Never let it be said that Pale Male, New York's famous high rise hawk, is not a cosmopolitan sort of bird. To prove it, he's been hanging out lately with the original Cosmo Girl, magazine editor Helen Gurley Brown. Lincoln Karim, a television news engineer who has turned the red tailed hawk and his mate, Lola, into a full time hobby, says after the pair failed to produce any progeny for the second, year in a row, they left their famous nest 12 stories above Fifth Avenue and began flying around nearby Central Park.

When Pale Male picked a perch on a 24th floor tower of the exclusive Beresford Apartments on the other side of the park, Lola1 followed. So did Karim with his' camera, photographing the birds in an elaborately decorative tower window, flanked by stone cherubs. Karim later gave copies of his photos to a Beresford doorman, Pale Male, right, sits with a chick in 2004 on the 12th floor of a building on New York's Fifth Ave. to be delivered as a courtesy to the tenants whose top floor window had become the hawks' favorite away from home roost. That turned out to be Brown, 84, whose book, "Sex and the Single Girl," was a best seller in 1962 and led to her career as the pio neering editor of Cosmopolitan magazine.

Lola and Pale Male, a 14 year old red tailed hawk, have attracted a worldwide following among wildlife enthusiasts as a result of nesting and raising chicks in the SAGE: Site is scheduled for demolition by 2012 Continued from 1A room has sat unused for years with remnants hinting at its former use, according to those who have been inside. Poughkeepsie resident Edith Brown said her late husband, Paul, worked at the building as a civilian maintaining the computers for IBM Corp. She recalls families being allowed to visit the installation once and said it looked like a Christmas tree inside, "It was just a room full of com puters," Brown said. "All you saw were all these lights and people listening at these machines, watching for any blips," Long term plans for improvements at the airport call for demolishing the building, sometime between 2008 and 2012. Group wants museum Efforts by a local group a few years ago to raise funds to turn the site into a Cold War museum never picked up much steam.

They raised more than $60,000, but haven't continued to solicit donations, said Susan Zimet, an Ulster County legislator from New Paltz and one of the organizers of the Cold War Peace Museum. "We're holding on, watching how it develops," said Karl Rodman, another founder and a former New Paltz resident who now lives in Florida. "We're ready to 'start immediately to work toward the establishment ofatRuseum as soon as we get any indication from the airport they're willing to rethink their master plan." But Rodman concedes such a move is unlikely. An airport spokeswoman said rehabilitating the building would be cost prohibitive. "There's no possible way this building is going to be accessible to the public," said Tanya Vanasse, general manager of marketing for the airport.

While the airport is willing to donate some of the items still left behind such as" a plexiglass panel with outlines of the East Coast no museums have shown any interest, Vanasse said. Zimet said she understands those running the airport are only trying to improve service there and make it viable, "If the building gets destroyed, aMhe very least we need to keep the artifacts," Zimet said, referring to the panels. It was just a room full of Edith Brown describing SAGE The technology used at the sites to track and identify flights led to the creation of modem commercial air traffic control systems, Air force crews manned individual work stations featuring a screen displaying computerized information on flights. If a "scope dope" as they were commonly called picked up an unidentified flight, they'd first try to contact it by radio. that failed, they'd scramble fighter jets from the nearest Air Force base to intercut, and try to identify the flight, saw Tom Page, a Tuscon, resident who has created a Web site dedicated to the history of the Air Force's radar defense systems.

Obviously, the Russian bombers never came. "You always knew it was possible, but you didn't think it was likely," said Page, Ah Air Force veteran who supervised maintenance activities at two other immm The Cold WarPeace Museum: www.coldwar pedcemuseum.org Online Air Defense Radar Museum: www.radomes.org museum Stewart International Airport: www.sfewarrirzrlairporr. com SAGE buildings. "It was many hours of Boredom followed by minutes of excitement when they picked up an Highland resident Bob Shepard, knows all about the boredom. He spent nearly four years manning the scope at Stewart's SAGE building while serving in the Air Force.

"You're sitting in the dark, looking on the radar scope," said Shepard, who is Town of Lloyd supervisor. "I worked with a lot of fighter pilots that would have much rather been out on planes instead of sitting there directing planes on radar. They worked eight hour shifts, one hour' on and one hour off, Shepard recalled. They played pinochle during the off hour to pass the time. Security was very tight at the facility and' even those who worked there regularly 'would have a tough time getting in if they forgot their identification tags, he said.

But it wasn't always so tight. "We're sitting there one day," Shepard recalled, "and here comes a tour of Boy Scouts through the building." Rodman said it's a shame the efforts to establish the museum never gained momentum. "Times make the Cold War museum even more relevant than when we started," he said, referring to talk of Iran developing nuclear weapons. "The whole idea of living with the threat of nuclear annihilation is back." Anthony Farmer can be reached at apfarmerpoughkeepsiejour nal.com Fentress: Transit in restraint not deemed hardship Continued from 1A the Suffolk County Court Annex in Riverhead. They argued because Fentress' doctors and counselors are based at the Orange County hospital, it would also be more convenient for them to testify before an Orange County judge.

In a decision made public Monday, Catterson rejected those arguments and said he intended to keep the case, "(Fentress's) argument in support of a transfer to Orange County is that he will be subject to restraint while in transit from Orange County to Suffolk County and that such restraint will have a deleterious effect upon Mr. Fentress's psychological and physical health," Catterson wrote. "(Fentress) has failed to establish that the three hour transit time will constitute an enormous hardship, One of Fentress' attorneys at Mental Hygiene Legal Services, Lisa Volpe, declined Monday to comment on Catterson's decision. Lawyers from Mental Hygiene Legal Services, the Dutchess County District Attorney's Office and the state attorney general's office are scheduled to meet with Catterson this month to determine whether Fentress will appeal Catterson's ruling or whether a date should be set for a hearing in the Larry Fisher Hertz can be i reached at lhertzpoughkee'p siejoumal.com Autopsy: Woman stabbed repeatedly Mall killing motive remains a mystery LAKE KATRINE Ah Ulster woman found dead in a Hudson Valley Mall restaurant Sunday died of multiple stab wounds. Ulster town police Chief Paul Watzka declined to say what kind of weapon was used, but said a Monday autopsy confirmed the cause of death.

With more than $0 officers on the case, Watzka said at this point the investigation into Sharon Inger's death hasn't narrowed on a particular motive, State police and the Ulster County Sheriffs Office were assisting in the investigation. The body of Inger, 42, was dis covered a few minutes before 9 a.m. by two employees of the Ground Round as they were opening the restaurant Sunday. Police were scheduled to close their crime scene Sunday night and hand the restaurant back, to its owners, but the premises Anyone with information about the.death of Sharon Inger is asked to call Ulster town police at 845 382 1111. remained closed off Monday as shoppers walked throughout the rest of the mall.

The Ulster Ground Round is a franchise owned separately from the Ground Round's corporate entity, spokeswoman Monica Botti said. Bottl said the company's "sympathies go out to the family" and said the company sent. a representative to Ulster to assist the franchise owner. The restaurant usually closes about 11 p.m., according to police, and anywhere from a half dozen to dozen employees usually remain afterwards" for closing. Police believe Inger was killed late Saturday night or Sunday morning within a window of about nine hours.

Death: Club owner heard shots in city lot Continued from 1A Wise Brown didn't come out of his cafe. Peterkin said he was standing outside of his building with three bouncers and a city police officer when they heard shots from the city parking lot, which sits between Ciboney Cafe and another club, The Aegean, on Academy Street. The city officer called for backup, Peterkin said, and Ciboney's bouncers kept moving people away from their property and did not get involved. "We pat search everybody who comes in the club and ID them," Peterkin said. "There's already a stigma, in the City of Poughkeepsie around black establishments." Siegrist said police don't have Anyone with information on the shooting is asked fo call the.City of Poughkeepsie Police Department at 845 451 4000.

evidence the Wise Brown incident is directly related to Larry's killing. He said detectives are continuing to interview witnesses and follow leads but would not say if they've identified any suspects in the case so far. Nik Bonopartis can be reached at nbonoparpoughkeepsiejour nal.com 3 year old boy allegedly kidnapped by girl, 13 The Associated Press NEW YORK A 13 year pld girl, arrested after the abduction of a 3 boy later found unharmed, was on her way to Bronx family court on Monday, police said. The teen, Tatiana Morales, was accused of taking the child Saturday from Zeus Tattoos, a tattoo parlor owned by the boy's father, where she often hung out, police said. Two witnesses spotted the pair on a street in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn and called police, who picked them up at around 2 am Monday, authorities said.

Photographs of the girl and the little boy had been disseminated by the news media. The boy, Brandon Aponte, was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where initial exams indicated he was in good condition, Tatiana was initially arrested on charges of kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a child. Her case was turned over to Family Court, where she will answer charges as a juvenile. It was not immediately known whether she had a lawyer or legal guardian.

Police had been looking for Tatiana after employees of Zeus Tattoos said she had lured the tot outside on Saturday even though his father had made clear he didn't want her to take him. The boy's father, Luis Aponte, called police at 5 p.m., three hours after the abduction. He had been hoping the girl would come back with his son. Two weeks earlier the teen, who often playgd with the boy, had taken him to a nearby candy store with his father's permission and had returned promptly, Zeus TattooS employees said. Zeus Aponte, the boy's uncle, said he once overheard Tatiana tell 'the boy, "I'm your mommy." The 13 year old, who ad been a straight A middle school student, recently got a tattoo from the boy's father after showing him false identification she was 19, authorities said.

Tatiana had been reported missing from a group home on May 19, police said. She apparently had been living with different friends over the last couple of weeks, The teen had become moody and rebellious after she started seeing an older man, said a cousin, 17 year old Eli Prado. She. stopped coming home and dropped out of school, he said. The boy's family had offered a $10,000 reward and pleaded in front of television cameras for the girl to bring him back.

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