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2B The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, Mondnv February 1 1 988 Hearing set on proposed milk price support program is distributed to Vermont school districts. The House Transportation Committee will sponsor a hearing Tuesday on legislation for a weight-distance tax on trucks and increases in fuel taxes. A report by a gubernatorial task force released late last year recommended increasing fuel taxes to help double the Transportation Agency's budget within 10 years. The report, which targeted bridge repair as a priority, also recommended adding a weight-distance tax on heavy trucks to help replace revenues banned by a court ruling. they produce and 50 cents per hundredweight for the second 500,000 pounds.

The program, estimated to cost about $10 million, would last as long as the federal price support remains below a certain level. The federal government cut milk price supports by 50 cents per hundredweight in January, and another cut could take effect next year. The bill comes as Vermont Gov. Madeleine Kunin and Agriculture Commissioner Ronald Al-lbee explore ways to help the state's farmers. By some estimates, Vermont could lose 40 percent of its farms by the end of next year.

Kunin said last week she does not support a state price support because it does not target farmers most in need of help. She also said it gives the federal government no incentive for establishing a regional price support system. Among the options Kunin is considering is an interest buydown on farm loans. Also Tuesday, the Senate Education Committee will hold a hearing on special education at 7 p.m. at the Statehouse.

A legislative task force this summer explored the issue, trying to find a way to restructure the way money for special education State College enjoying change for the better entire state college library system for book titles. A spacious sculpture studio has replaced the old, cramped clay arts building; Dibden Auditorium is home to a $40,000 Steinway grand piano and a 17-track computerized synthesizer, both gifts to the college. But one position each in the music art programs was cut, a move some point to as a sign that the college is selling its soul to business. To Gilbertson's critics, the price paid for financial stability and steady enrollments has been too high. Philip Allen left Johnson two years ago, frustrated with the college's direction.

He was chairman of the hu Colchester selectmen studying new master plan By Meg Dennison Associated Press MONTPELIER A hearing on a proposal for a $10 million I state milk price support program, publicized at the Vermont Farm Show last week, is planned for Tuesday. The legislation, which was approved 10-0 last week by the House Agriculture Committee, would have the state supplement the price farmers are paid for their milk. The hearing is at 7:30 p.m. at the Statehouse. Under the bill, farmers would be paid $1 per hundredweight for the first 500,000 pounds of milk Johnson From page 1B computing; a one-year office man- agement program and an athletic trainer certificate that makes use of the college's $30,000 human performance lab.

Other new programs include two-year associate degrees in business management, accounting, liberal arts and early childhood education. The degrees are de-signed for Vermonters who "can't see their way clear to four years college." A writing lab with 20 word processors has just opened, and plans to install a desktop publishing system are in the works. In addition, the library is moving toward computerizing its card catalog, and stations are set up for library users to search the England roundup Injured policeman in critical condition BOSTON A Metro police officer remained in critical condition Sunday following a shootout 'during a drug raid at a Boston residence that left one of three suspected drug dealers dead. s- Police have identified the sus-pect who was killed as Vladimir Lafontant, 22, of Boston. Lafon-'tant died at Boston City Hospital at 5:40 p.m.

Friday after also suffering a heart attack, said hos- pital officials. Maine hit-and-run suspect is sought GUILFORD, Maine Police on Sunday were looking for information that might lead to the of a vehicle that struck and skilled a 45-year-old woman who was walking along Maine Route 15 this weekend. The victim was Sharon E. Ben-)iett of Guilford, police said. Maine hotel fire puts 2 in hospital i ROCKLAND, Maine Two people remained hospitalized Sunday with burns suffered in an explosion and fire that damaged a 119-unit motel here.

The fire, which was sparked by an explosion in a clothes dryer, destroyed more than a dozen rooms in the Trade Winds Motor Inn Saturday. From wire reports Death Notices From page 1B Town officials said the key to the master plan was to divide the town into 10 distinct geographical regions, from the Interstate 89 Exit 16 area to the historical village district to Malletts Bay. Once an area was broken down, planners noted the existing conditions of each piece, suggesting potential uses for them and developing policy strategies the town could use. "Rather than trying to have them come up with one vision, we $20,000 grant to help batterers change General Affairs Committee. Thursday, 1:30 p.m., Room 11, on dental care for adults on Medicaid, Senate Health and Welfare Committee.

Thursday, 3:30 p.m., Room 11, on a "home rule" amendment to the state Constitution, Senate Government Operations Committee. Senate value for barns and silos used in agricultural production. S. 321 establishes provisions relating to discipline by professional and occupational regulatory boards. of task forces to address academic, student life and other issues.

One of the new directions was to teach writing, critical thinking and quantitative thinking in every course. Another was to give equal weight to the pursuit of liberal arts and preparation for a vocation or profession. "We began asking things like: How does a traditional major in sociology lead to a career in social work?" she said. Gilbertson helped the college community look at "how we could increase the health and stability of the college," Johnson said. "He had to look at strengths and the weaknesses of each program and decide which needed more support and which programs had to be cut back.

It was a really difficult spot to be in." to be approached with a new perspective. "We're changing old perceptions," he said. "This isn't just a zoning map. We see this as something that will continue to grow over time." After the plan's adoption, the Planning Commission will begin updating town zoning codes to incorporate master plan guidelines. The process could take another year, Vartuli said.

Copies of the plan are available at the town offices. Further public hearings will be held during the adoption process. Births Medical Center Hospital Burlington BJONTEGAARD, Sigvart and Else (Overeng), Winooski, a daughter, Jan. 30. DAVIS, Peter and Caryn (Kushner), Jericho, a daughter, Jan.

28. FOREMAN, Brian and Judith (Jones), Essex Junction, a son, Jan. 30. MANNING, David and Martha (Gillespie), St. Albans, a daughter, Jan.

27. PHILLIPS, Peter and Leigh (Keyser), Charlotte, a son, Jan. 27. ROACH, Frederick and Stephani (Warver), 85 Park Street, a daughter, Jan. 28.

Copley Hospital Morrlsville JOHNSON, Michael and Mary (King), Hyde Park, a daughter, Jan. 22. KONKOL, Steven and Karen (Cartw-right), Waterbury, a son, Jan. 22. Deaths BRENT, Doris 72, of 74 Dodds Court; had been director of the Chittenden County Senior Citizens Alliance.

HOBSON, Gladys (McCormick), 92, of Montpelier, Friday; worked for the National Life Insurance Co. until her marriage In 1938 and was a member of St. Augustine's Church. PILLSBURY, Leota, 75, of Williston; was the wife of Charles Pillsbury. RAINE, Carlotta (Slater), 88, of Essex Junction.

REVOIR, Marjorie 82, of Shelburne; was a member of St. Catherine's parish. SCHURMAN, Charles G. M.D., 62, of Newport, Saturday; was a physician in Newport, retiring in 1986, operated the former Broadview Hospital, was Newport City alderman, 1967-69, and mayor, 1969-71. "SAY IT WITH OURS" Cljappell'B planet 1437 Williston Rd.

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Wednesday, 9:30 a.m., Room 11, on the annual report of the Vermont National Guard, Senate Bills passed in the The following is a list of bills recently passed in the Senate. S. 319 relates to Vermont's special education standards and criteria. S. 320 establishes the appraisal management, with 126.

He has proposed to the college's Faculty Assembly to make minor areas of study for future classes mandatory, instead of optional. "A minor would be a way to break them out of a narrow focus," he said. Andrea Johnson, an associate English professor, said four or five faculty members left as a result of Gilbertson's decisions and leadership style, but she defended his record. Before Gilbertson, there were "individual academic programs without a shared sense of mission. Some people were doing the breast stroke and others doing the crawl, but no one knew how we were going to get across the pool," Johnson said.

Gilbertson instituted a variety meeting last week and will study it to prepare recommendations. After public hearings, the board will make changes and adopt the plan. Action is expected this spring. "I don't believe there'll be many changes," Timmons said. Officials said the process used in compiling, analyzing and arranging the data for the plan was the most comprehensive ever.

Those efforts were coordinated through consultants Humstone Squires Associates, Dubois and King and UVM. Stewart said the plan will have their habits followed by police when they first arrest a batterer, by state's attorneys prosecuting a battering case, by the judges who impose a sentence, and by probation officers, counselors and Women Helping Battered Wwnen funds to employ an advocate for women as well as someone to conduct surveys of offenders and victims in the program to evaluate the pilot program so it eventually can be adopted statewide. being reserved for the troubled Vermont Electric Cooperative, should the co-op be able to buy it in a year. The co-op has been hurt financially by large investments in the stalled Seabrook nuclear power plant in New Hampshire. Paid classified advertising CARLOTTA RAINE ESSEX JUNCTION Carlotta (Slater) Raine, 88, died Sunday at her home.

A full obiturary will appear in a later Free Press. LEOTA PILLSBURY WILLISTON In loving memory of my wife and our mother, Leota Pillsbury, Oct. 16, 1912. She touched and made a difference in our lives and in the lives of all who were privileged to know her. She is in our thoughts forever.

Husband Charles; daughter and son-in-law Judy and Tom Siccama and granddaughter Caroline; son and daughter-in-law George and Celine Pillsbury and grandchildren Mark and Jennifer; daughter and son-in-law Sharon and Glen Roa. She is also survived bv three brothers-in-law. six sisters-in-law, and her many friends of Williston who will continue to celebrate her life. She is predeceased by an infant daughter, Mary; a brother, William; and a sister, Mildred Phelps. Friends may call Monday evening from 7 to 9 at the Corbin and Palmer Funeral Home, 9 Pleasant Essex Junction.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Williston Federated Church with the Rev. William Cotant officiating. Memorial contributions in her name may be made to the Williston Federated Church. Funerals Held BURLINGTON LOWE, Margaret T.

Memorial services were held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the First Unitarian Universalist Society with the Rev. John Weston officiating. Delegations were present from the Converse Home, Champlain Water District and the First Unitarian Universalist Society. From page 1B implement the Duluth curriculum and to meet regularly with probation officers from the batterers' unit of the Burlington Office of Probation and Parole.

The money also will allow the organization to offer 24-hour services for victims. "This $10,000 grant allows us to help women in this very needy and high-risk population. It will let us improve and what education is based on," Allen said. Math has since been reinsti-tuted. Majors in dance, interdisciplinary humanities and foreign languages were all lost as the college tried to find new markets to attract and retain students.

"An educational institution is essentially a cultural institution before it's a business, and when the two conflict, you've got to have the guts to support the cultural values. I thought we had forsaken that mission," Allen said. Gilbertson disagreed with that assessment, but said he does worry about students involved in "excessive the three most popular majors are elementary education, with 170; business management, with 168; and hotel ment. That's all it is." The process was slow. "A lot of time, frustration and effort has gone into it," Vartuli said.

The commission did not base its work on members' opinions alone. A summer telephone survey of about 200 members of the community and November public hearings provided ideas from the taxpayers. "It gave the citizens an opportunity to speak, and it gave the officials the opportunity to hear them firsthand," he said. The Board of Selectmen officially received the document at its munities in Vermont, including Brattleboro, Newport and St. Johnsbury.

But the Burlington Domestic Abuse Intervention Project takes the Duluth model beyond counseling by implementing a coordinated approach, beginning from the assault conviction through the 26-week counseling groups to the conclusion of the probation period. It calls for specific steps to be watts of electricity. Of that amount, Tarrant said, 63 megawatts are being sold to in-state utilities, with the rest going to the Massachusetts-based New England Power Co. Although the remaining 10 megawatts of electricity is now being sold to NEPCO, Tarrant said it is Montpelier. Friends may call at the Barber and Lanier Funeral Home, 139 Main Montpelier, Tuesday at 10 a.m., where the rosary wake service will be held at 10:15 a.m., followed by the Liturgy of Christian Death and Burial at 1 1 a.m.

in St. Augustine's Church in Montpelier. Burial will be at a later date in St. Augustine's Cemetery in Montpelier. Memorial contributions may be made to St.

Augustine's Church, Montpelier, Vt. 05602. MRS. MARJORIE D. REVOIR SHELBURNE Mrs.

Marjorie D. Revoir, 82, of The Pillars, Harbor Road, died Sunday, Jan. 31, 1988, at her residence. She was born June 22, 1905, in Newport, the daughter of Clinton and Maude (Kinal Day. She was predeceased by her husband, Emile E.

Revoir, in March 1 969, and a son, James C. Revoir, in April, 1 973. She was a member of St. Catherine's Parish. She is survived by a daughter, Suzanne Parker-Pollak, M.D., and son-in-law, Peter Pollak, of Charlotte; four grandchildren, Aaron and Jordan Pol-ik of Charlotte, Nancy R.

Dezotell of Newport and Bradley J. Revoir of Waterbury; four great-grandchildren, Travis and Kyle Dezotell, and Jason and Karlin Revoir; one sister, Mrs. Pauline Mackenzie of Burlington; one daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lorraine Alderfer of Colchester; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held today at 1 p.m.

at the Ready Funeral Home, South Chapel, 261 Shelburne Road. Entombment will follow to await spring burial in Pine Grove Cemetery in Newport. Visiting hours will be today from noon to 1 p.m. at the Ready Funeral Home, South Chapel, 261 Shelburne Road. manities department when Gil-bertson arrived and is now dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Frostburg State College in Maryland.

Allen said the college's mission was changed by former Vermont State Colleges Chancellor Richard Bjork before Gil-bertson arrived. "Gilbertson was hired with the charge to make sure Johnson was a viable place and that it followed the market. He was a good man for the job," Allen said. Turning around Johnson's deficit meant cutting programs. The Vermont State College board of trsutees already had dropped Johnson's majors in history, English and math all available elsewhere in the state college system.

"We had lost the essentials of tried to work with several images," town Manager David Timmons said. Officials who worked on the new document say they are pleased with how their result compares to the recent report by the Governor's Commission on Growth. "We feel we've pretty much captured all of those elements (in the report)," town Planner Ray Stewart said. "The interesting thing is that we did it before they did," Timmons said. "It's growth manage expand our services, including support groups for these women," McCandless said.

Powell said coordination between Women Helping Battered Women and probation officers was important "to make sure these special cases are being attended to properly and things are not slipping through the cracks." The Duluth model is being used as a counseling tool in other com Gerald Tarrant said Friday he expects the board's final decision to be released within a week. The power deal worked out by the department is being challenged by the state's two largest utilities. The department has contracted with Ontario Hydro for 73 mega Held one son and daughter-in-law, James and Kathy Brent of Huntington; three sisters, Anita Upton of Fort Lauderdale, Loretta Dorey of Burlington and Grace Kiesiich of Burlington; four grandchildren, Eric, Robert, Adam and Lindsay DesLauriers, all of Bolton Val ley; several nieces and nephews; and many good friends. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Wednesday at 10 a.m. at St.

Mark's Roman Catholic Church. Burial will be in the spring. There will be no visiting hours. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in her memory to the Visiting Nurse Association, 284 East Burlington, Vt. 05401.

Ready Funeral Home, 261 Shelburne Road, in charge of arrangements. GLADYS (MCCORMICK) HOBSON nitwit i tutu (fvicCor-mick) Hobson, 92, died Friday at the McFarland House in Barre following a long illness. She was born Sept. 11, 1895, in Montpelier, the daughter of George and Ellen (Lynch) McCormick. She attended St.

Michael's graded schools, Montpelier High School, and graduated from Castleton State College. Following a brief period of teaching, she was employed with the National Life Insurance Co. until her marriage to Austin H. Hobson in September 1938. He died in 1 974.

Mrs. Hobson was a devout member of St. Augustine's Church in Montpelier, a member of St. Vincent de Paul Society of the church, the Montpelier Women's Club, the former Heaton Hospital Auxiliary, and the local Red Cross chapter. Survivors include three nieces, Mrs.

Thomas Kelly of Gardner, Mrs. Donald Henberg of Hingham, and Mrs. John Hock of Detroit; a nephew, George McCormick of Potomac, a cousin, Mrs. Julian Goodrich of Board extends interim approval for state's power sale The Associated Press MONTPELIER The Vermont Public Service Board Friday will extend until Feb. 29 interim approval for the state Department of Public Service to sell electrical power from Ontario Hydro.

Public Service Commissioner and Funerals surviving are two sons, David and William Schurman of York Beach, Maine; three daughters, Mrs. Linda Schurman of Chicago, Tammy Schurman of Boston, and Jill Schurman of Newport, attending the University of Vermont; his mother, Mrs. Beatrice Schurman of Newport; and sister, Mrs. James (Mary Louise) Palin of Newport. Funeral services will be held at the Converse-Rushford Funeral Home in Newport Wednesday, Feb.

3, at 2 p.m. Spring interment will be in the Pine Grove Cemetery, Newport. Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday evening from 7 to 9. Should friends desire, donations in his memory may be made to the Charles G. Schurman M.D., Scholarship Fund, for a student interested in continuing education in the health field, in care of North Country Union High School, Newport, Vt.

05855, or the Junior Pro Goif Program, in care ot Walt Kerner, Newport Country Club, Newport, Vt. 05855. Arrangements by the Converse-Rushford Funeral Home. DORIS D. BRENT Doris D.

Brent, 72, of 74 Dodds Court, Burlington, died suddenly Sunday, Jan. 31, at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont. She was born July 4, 1915, in Burlington, the daughter of Peter and lydia (LeClair) Dorey. In 1943, she married Camille J. Brent at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.

Until recently, she was the director of the Chittenden County Senior Citizens Alliance. She was a member of St. Mark's Parish, a past regent of the Catholic Daughters of America, an active member of the Eldoes in Burlington, and a member of the Williston Country Club. She is survived by her husband, Camille J. Brent of Burlington; one daughter and son-in-law, Ralph and Lynda Deslauriers of Bolton Valley; CHARLES G.

SCHURMAN M.D. NEWPORT Charles G. Schurman M.D., 62, of Newport passed away suddenly in Venice, early Saturday morning. He was born in Newport July 23, 1 925, the son of Charles G. Schurman, M.D., and Beatrice (Parker) Schurman.

Or. Schurman graduated from Newport High School in 1 944, when he entered the Army Medical Corps. He grad- uated from the University of Vermont 1951 and from the Medical School at McGill University, Montreal, in 1955. He interned and did his resi- dency in general surgery at the Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine. He then returned to Newport and entered practice with his father and operated the former Broadview Hospi-, tal.

He later opened his office on Pine i ft 1. 1- I t- rftiutti ill iignpjii uuw iuioi wcwmu associated with Dr. Richard Beloin and Dr. James Holcomb. For several years he was the CP.

Railroad physician and also Orleans County medical examiner. He retired in 1 986. Dr. Schurman was Newport City alderman, 1967-69, and mayor from 1969-71. He was a member of the Rotary Club, Newport Lodge 1-2155, BPOE, Newport Post American Legion, and the Newport Country Club.

He married the former Elaine Drew "June 20, 1958; she survives him. Also Professional Announcements Geoffrey Smith, MD, MPH an-nounces the closing of his practice in Fairfax on 26 February to become the Public Health Physician, Division Health, State of New Mexico. For record transfer before 26 February, 'call 849-6116; after, call 524-5911 ext. 340..