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Sljr ftirluujtmt Deaths 2B Court News 3B Money 4B Wednesday, November 26, 1986 I I ZV9BBI I VBiB AIDS Information Campaign someone in a high-risk group. The hotline trated their presentations in public schools Health DeDartment officials, however, number is 1-800-882-AIDS. "We are now concerned with the IV drug user," Richards said, "because you get into heterosexual transmission and prenatal transmission." The best way to avoid the virus is to limit sexual partners, use condoms and know whether the partner is in a high-risk group. "You can't just be concerned about the people you know have AIDS," Richards said. "You have to be concerned about everyone because a vast majority of the people who have (AIDS) don't have the symptoms." A network of help for AIDS victims and their families has been slow to develop because Vermont has had only nine cases and they are from different risk groups.

One group, the Montpelier-based Committee on AIDS Resources and Educational Services, or "Vermont CARES," has just been formed to help AIDS patients and their families. The mailing address is By MEG DENNISON The Associated Press MONTPELIER The state Health Department is boosting its efforts to educate Vermonters about the mysterious and fatal disease AIDS. "It's important because Vermont has a very low incidence of the disease," said Deborah Kutzko, who was hired in October to coordinate AIDS education programs. "We are in a perfect time and place to do prevention." Through a $139,335 grant from the federal Centers for Disease Control, which has coordinated research on acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, the department is developing programs to educate all Vermonters about the disease. The program is aimed at "lowering the anxiety of the general public" and dispelling myths surrounding AIDS, Kutzko said.

She worked on other infectious diseases programs at the CDC's regional office in Boston before coming to Vermont. AIDS is a virus that attacks the body's immune system, destroying its ability to fight infection. The virus was discovered in 1981 among homosexual men. Nine on other sexually transmitter! diseases, now also offer discussions solely on AIDS. The department is conducting a telephone survey to determine how much Vermonters know about AIDS to help develop prevention programs, and it has issued guidelines for physicians to cope with AIDS diagnosis and treatment.

At the Burlington office, the department is developing a library with slide shows and pamphlets about AIDS that will be open to the public. It is reviewing films, but because information about AIDS is changing so rapidly, the department has been reluctant to invest in a film that could be outdated within several months. Radio and television ads will be aired within the next few months listing AIDS resources and stressing that AIDS cannot be contracted merely by being in the same room with an infected person. A telephone hotline, staffed during office hours, allows people anonymously to ask questions about the virus, and, if they wish, be referred to an AIDS testing site. AIDS tests are recommended only for those in high-risk groups, such as homosexuals, intravenous drug users and people who may have had sexual contact with say the number of people at risk of the virus is growing.

"At this point in time it's not whether you are a homosexual, it's the number of (sexual) partners that is the biggest risk factor," said Marilyn Richards, a Health Department investigator. Research on the virus is limited, and there is no known cure. However, there is no evidence that the virus is transmitted by casual contact or through the air, according to a Health Department pamphlet. Donating blood is not a way to contract AIDS, and people who have blood transfusions represent 1 percent of AIDS patients. AIDS is primarily transmitted through sex, particularly through the transfer of body fluids such as blood or semen.

The disease is more easily spread during "traumatic sex," when tissues of the anus or vagina are torn, Richards said. Vermont began an AIDS outreach program last year, training public health nurses in each of its 12 districts on the disease and providing them with information to be distributed to schools, churches and civic groups. Two Health Department investigators, who until last year concen The Associated Press Health Department AIDS education coordinator Deborah Kutzko displays pamphlets that will be available as part of a public awareness program about the disease. P.O. Box 1125, Montpeher, Vt.

05602 cases have been reported in Vermont. i City, Railroad Can't Agree On Waterfront Ownership are allowed in a particular site. 'The consensus seemed to be that there By MARK JOHNSON Free Press Staff Writer Negotiations between the city of and the Central Vermont Railway, was concern from the aldermen, in their opinion, that they hadn't had time to fully digest the ramifications" of the counterproposal and also were concerned that the public had not had any input on how the "North 40" should be zoned, McNeil said. McNeil declined to divulge the counterproposal made by the city that was later withdrawn. Last week, a subcommittee of the board McNeil said he hoped the breakdown with the railroad would not affect ongoing talks with Alden.

After the railroad rejected the moratorium, McNeil said aldermen decided to set up public hearings that call for the filled portion in the "North 40" about half the land to be zoned a recreation-conservation area. The area not filled in would be zoned for residential use, McNeil said. The board has a Dec. 15 deadline to pass aimed at resolving the ownership and allowable uses for certain waterfront land, have broken down. Lawyers for the city and the railroad said there is still a chance for an out-of-court settlement but the case appears headed for court.

The talks broke down after the city requested that the railroad agree to a 60-day moratorium on submitting any development proposal for the approximately 40 acres the railroad controls north of the Moran Generating Station, according to lawyers on both sides. The moratorium was requested after Burlington aldermen Monday night, in a closed-door session, withdrew a proposal made last week to the railroad. City Attorney Joseph McNeil said aldermen withdrew the proposal, which was made in response to a "concept" proposal made earlier by the railroad, because they had second thoughts. proposed zoning regulations for the waterfront from Perkins Pier to just past the Moran plant, but did not make recommendations for farther north of Moran. The city and railroad sides were trying to settle a lawsuit filed by the city and the state against the railroad and the Alden Waterfront Corp.

over the "public trust doctrine," which holds that land created by filling in Lake Champlain must be used in ways that benefit the public. The railroad and Alden claim that they own the land outright and that the public trust doctrine does not apply. Zoning was also made a part of the talks since it guides what kinds of development new zoning laws. If that deadline is missed, the old zoning laws will remain in effect. McNeil and Fred Parker, a railroad attorney, both said talks had "broken down" but did not preclude the possibility of renewing talks before the "public trust" lawsuit goes to court in January.

Parker said negotiations could restart if "there appeared to be room for fruitful discussion." McNeil said he had been involved in enough negotiations on other cases to know that a settlement sometimes comes close to court time and said he was not "blind to the fact that a settlement and renewed discussions can come at any time." i iii. i i Bouricius Protests Recount's Results I Free Press Photo by JYM WILSON n'. f) I A recount officials could not determine whether voters had cast their ballots for Truman or Bouricius. Bouricius said it was "highly unlikely" all six disputed votes would go in his favor, but said he would challenge the results for other reasons. Bouricius said there were 18 more ballots cast than the number of people whose names were crossed off the checklist.

Truman said he understood the discepancy between the number of ballots cast and the number of names crossed off the checklist was two, which would be smaller than the apparent margin of victory. Bouricius also said that after reviewing the checklists, there were a number of people whose addresses put them in another legislative district that covers the remaining part of Ward 2. But the primary challenge, Bouricius said, would be over eight ballots from another district that wound up in the Chittenden 7-4 ballot box. "I don't think the election has Torn to RECOUNT, 2B By MARK JOHNSON Free Press Staff Writer Democrat Bennett Truman's one-vote victory over Progressive Coalition candidate Terrill Bouricius for the Chittenden 7-4 House seat widened to six votes Tuesday following a recount. However, Bouricius said he found discepancies during the recount and has requested a new election be held.

If that request is denied, Bouricius said he would contest the results to the Legislature when it meets in January. According to County Clerk Francis Fee, the results of the daylong recount at Chittenden Superior Court were 524 votes for Truman and 518 for Bouricius. The two were vying for the House seat that covers most of Ward 2 in Burlington's Old North End. Unofficial results Nov. 4 had Truman, chairman of the Chittenden County Democratic Party, with 520 votes and Bouricius, a third-term Burlington alderman, with 519.

There were six "disputed ballots" at the end of the recount. Fee said i i Crickmore Funeral Pallbearers carry the casket of Paulette Crickmore from the Brandon Congregational Church after funeral services Tuesday morning. Paulette, 1 5, the daughter of Alan Crickmore of Richmond, was found slain in Duxbu'ry Nov. 1 9, almost two months after she disappeared Sept. 10 on her way to Mount Mansfield Union High School in Jericho.

She was buried later Tuesday in the Forest Dale Cemetery. Free Press Photo by MARK SASAHARA Burlington Alderman Terrill Bouricius watches Tom Smith, center, and Foster Graham recount ballots in the disputed Chittenden 7-4 District House race. The recount put Bennett Truman six votes ahead of Bouricius. N. Walden Trailer Fire Kills 2 Young Children Citv to Fiaht Cable Increase fire investigator.

"One of the problems hindering our investigation was the extensive burn mere. The damage was so eiensive tint we have not been able to pin down a real point of origin." Both Hall and Bissell said they were told at the scene that the mother was in a rear bedroom with the infant and child, when she apparently heard a noise possibly the scratching of a dog at the front door, at the other end of the 60-foot-long home. "She walked up front and all of a sudden it was totally engulfed," Bissell said. "Apparently she couldn't get back to that end of the trailer where the kids were. It burned so quickly and so thoroughly that there was absolutely nothing left.

There's just ashes on the ground and the frame of the trailer." Volunteer firemen from Walden, Hardwick, Greensboro and Cabot responded. "There was no saving anything. Everything was completely Turn to TWO, 2B By RICHARD COWPERTHWAIT Free Press Correspondent An 8-month-old infant and a 3-year-old child perished in a Tuesday morning mobile home fire in North Walden that Fire Chief Chris Bissell termed the worst ever in the small Caledonia County community. Anthony S. Miller, 3, and Phillip A.

Keough III 8 months, died in the 9 a.m. fire from which their mother, Rose Miller, escaped unharmed, officials said. A third child was at a local elementary school and the father, Phillip Keough Jr was at work in Morrisville when the fire of undetermined origin swept through and leveled the trailer, officials said. They said Miller and Keough had moved into the mobile home, off Town Road 9, about two months ago. "At this point, we don't think there's anything to indicate that the fire was suspicious," said Detective Sgt.

Richard Hall, a state police vestments made to improve the system and increased programming costs. The dispute centers on how to interpret the agreement between the city and the cable company, a pact that included a $1 million payment to Burlington in return for its giving up ideas of starting a municipal cable service. Another section of the agreement allows Mountain Cable to seek an "annual increase" if the cable industry is deregulated, which will happen at the end of December, according to Franco and McGill. When deregulation occurs, the $10.50 charge would become the base for future increases. Whether annual increases should come at the beginning or end of a year is Turn to CITY, 2B continues to pursue this rate increase, they are looking at major litigation with the city of Burlington, and I mean major with a capital Franco said, adding the city would file an court injunction to stop the rate increase.

Replied McGill, "I don't know what to say except I think we're well within our rights," adding Franco does not understand how the cable business works. Mountain Cable serves more than 20,000 customers In Chittenden County, about 8,500 of them In Burlington. Franco said the agreement applies only to rates for Burlington residents. The basic rate for customers with the new, 21-channel service is $10.50 per month. Mountain Cable wants to raise that to $12.50 per month in January to cover in By MARK JOHNSON Free Press Staff Writer The city of Burlington plans to fight a 19 percent rate increase requested by Mountain Cable claiming it would violate an agreement the two signed last year.

Assistant City Attorney John Franco Jr. said Tuesday the agreement prevents the cable company from seeking a rate increase in basic monthly service until next December. Mountain Cable President Robert McGill disputed Franco's interpretation of the agreement and said the rate increase was legal and justifiable. A meeting was scheduled for today of Mayor Bernard Sanders, Franco and McGill to discuss the rate increase. "It's safe to say if the cable company.