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Hp 1 l.i iL iL A 1 vJyLl 2-1 1-i il i Section Sidney employers aid day-care center2B Franklin had eye for buildings' potential3B State drops suit against Wegmans6B Press Sun-Bulletin Friday, October 11, 1991 3. Mhrft lFinl0 ft md mm Oneonta attorney says he's disappointed by board vote How they voted found Place guilty of six of the seven charges levied against him by the town board. Because of "Mr. Place's unacceptable performance in the important areas of fire inspections and record keeping, I hereby recommend to the town board that Mr. Place be dismissed from service," Sherwood wrote in his 79- vote Wednesday along William J.

Place was Oct. 23, but he his desk Thursday tears of co-workers, the supervisor said. Vacation cover the two weeks. disappointed for Bill my town board," Ny-dam Service Hearing Officer Sherwood of Vestal Three town board mem-, bers, all Democrats, voted to fire Code Enforcement Officer William J. Place: Donald Webster A.

Marie Lusins Otsego teen wins first AIDS award COOPERSTOWN Cooperstown teenager Henry Nicols will be in Tampa, this evening to accept the first Ryan White Award for AIDS education. Nicols, 1 8, has acquired immune deficiency syndrome and has traveled around the nation speaking to high school, college and civic groups about the disease. He began speaking as part of his Eagle Scout project, but has decided to delay college a year to continue speaking. He has testified before a congressional committee and to the state Department of Health. The Ryan White Award, named after an AIDS-infected Indiana teen-ager who fought for the right to attend public school, is bestowed by the National Hemophilia Association.

The award is given to an American who has done an outstanding job of helping others understand AIDS and hemophilia. Nicols contracted the HIV virus eight years ago through infusions he received because of hemophilia, a condition White also had. Nicols said he was told he was an immediate choice for the award because of his work. "I travel three to four days a week, so I'm not home much," Nicols said. SUNY-Delhi to install new president today DELHI Mary Ellen Duncan will be installed president of the State University College of Technology at Delhi this afternoon.

D.BruceJohnstone.chancellorofthe State University of New York, will install Duncan in a campus ceremony at 4 p.m. in Farrell Hall Theatre, a news release states. Duncan was selected president in May, replacing Seldon Kruger, who retired. Duncan was dean of planning and development at Catonsville Community College in Baltimore. Speaking at the installation will be: George Marcus, chairman of the Delhi College Council; Kathleen Martin, president of the College Senate; Filto Tas, Student Senate president; Susan Crowley, classified staff observer to the College Senate; Charles Hill, president of the Delhi -v-s By LINDA JUMP Staff Writer ONEONTA An attorney for the fired Town of Oneonta code enforcement officer said he won't appeal the decision.

"I think this is a time for reflec tion, said attorney Robert Ny-dam of Oneonta. "The process is expensive and he is earning only $20,000 a year. Autumn awe -ri J.O. Roberts, left, and his wife, Helen, By a 3-2 party lines, fired effective cleaned out amid the town time will "I'm Place and in said. Civil Michael D.

See PLACEPage 2B -rt JR cliv V- i -7J' 1 have spent about 10 days visiting the East. VICIOUS of Jackson, gather fall leaves Thursday from the Chenango Valley State Park to bring home from their vacation. The Robertses, along with J.O.'s sister, Lillian Lang, peak of fall foliage. It is so beautiful I believe I would like to live here, Lang said. mm mm mm Jj i Andrew Solovitch.

Douglas M. Thompson, the lone Republican on the board, voted to keep Place, as did Republican Town Supervisor Duncan S. Davie. varietjf By GEORGE BASLER Staff Writer 1 ,4 SUNY Chancellor D. Bruce: 'Johnstone supported the idea: Thursday of a diversity require-; ment at the state University CenT-ter at Binghamton.

"It's one way, a good way, to make certain American SUNY chancellor pans proposal to close any of the 64 campuses. Story, Page2B. students get a broader picture," Johnstone said after a meeting with the Press Sun-Bulletin editorial board. The Harpur College Council which sets policy for the liberal arts college at SUNY-Bingham-ton, is debating a requirement that students take, a total of, two courses from two. categories; one emphasizing non-Western cultures; the other issues of gender, race, class, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation.

Johnstone, who heads the 64-campus State University of New York system, said the world is shrinking and Americans are gen-, erally ignorant of other cultures "I'd like to think higher education 1 through its curriculum would be part of a broadening," he said. Johnstone said, however, the; Western tradition will, and should, remain the central focus of college curricula. The Harpur council has not made a decision on the diversity requirement, said Sharon S. Brehm, dean of Harpur College. On other matters discussed during the meeting, Johnstone said: The state should avoid anoth-; er tuition increase this But I he said he supports developing a I system that would tie tuition to a percentage of SUNY costs.

This would ensure small annual in-, creases, rather than periodic large jumps in tuition. The SUNY system should not develop a big-time athletic program at any campus. The state does not have the money to develop such a program, he said. "SUNY 2000," a plan that calls for expanding SUNY enrollment and boosting research, is a blueprint for the system over the next decade, but its implementation will depend on the state's financial health. Rake around the clock Norwich leaf pickup starts Monday in the first and sixth wards, said Highway Superintendent Joseph "We will be picking up through the end of the month, giving people at least three full weekends of leaf raking," Loscavio said.

Leaves must be put between on the curb In bags one man can lift. Bags don't have to be clear. SUNY chief tacks eel work WooKblk mined the defendant suffered from an antisocial personality disorder. He said the disorder is characteristic of con artists, liars and those who "go through life breaking the law one way or another." He said Oliver told him that on the day of the killing she sold the family1s food stamps for Cocaine money, then went to Woolfolk's house after smoking a quarter-gram of co- caineAfjer having sex with Woolfolk and be-in refused a box of drug paraphernalia he was using to blackmail her, she left and smoked another "quarter" of cocaine, according to Lynch. Oliver said Woolfolk refused to return the drug materials and she stabbed him with a kitchen knife after he hit her in the face, Lynch said.

On cross-examination, O'Leary reviewed events in Oliver's life that had been related to jurors earlier. They included being rejected at birth by her father, seeing her mother stab her father to death in 1974, the imprisonment of her mother, and the death of her 7-month-old son in April 1990. Lynch granted that most were significantly traumatic, but was unyielding in his opinion it was Oliver's personality disorder, predating her father's death, that led to the killing. After she stabbed Woolfolk, she did not retrieve the box of drug paraphernalia she said she had gone there for, Lynch said. Instead, she took the dead man's wallet and smoked cocaine for 12 to 18 hours, when Woolfolk's money ran out, Lynch said.

mind snapped because Woolfolk was blackmailing her for sex. The issue for the jury will be whether she acted under extreme emotional disturbance, which would reduce a second-degree murder, conviction to one of first-degree manslaughter. Lynch said Oliver, who did not take the stand, said something "so outrageous and unbelievable" that he rejected her entire account of the killing. That, said Lynch, was Oliver's statement that Vivian Wooden, Woolfolk's girlfriend of 13 years, arrived to find Woolfolk gasping on the floor, handled the knife used in the stabbing, then left without summoning police. "It's inconceivable," said Lynch as O'Leary jumped to his feet objecting to "his pure speculation." "In my opinion she was lying to me," Lynch said.

"I'm not surprised because she's been prevaricating most of her life. "I didn't see any remorse from her over the death of George Woolfolk," Lynch said. The defense psychiatrist, Dr. Robert H. Berger of New York City, told jurors Wednesday that Oliver suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Berger said that when Wool-folk demanded sex for the second time that night on the threat he'd have Oliver's children taken from her, Oliver killed him in a flood of emotions. Using the same school, hospital, criminal and mental health records Berger studied, and after interviewing Oliver, Lynch said he deter- College Foundation; and Dennis Dermody, president ot the Delhi Alumni Association. Two campus unions, United University Professions and the Civil Service Employees Association, are funding the installation, the release states. Financial support will also come from the College Foundation at Delhi the Delhi College Association and the Delhi Alumni Association. Death spurs project guiding culvert cleanup The Broome County Public Works Department may speed up a project spelling out cleaning methods lor culverts the wake of a fatal accident, the department chief said Thursday.

Public Works Commissioner David M. Donoghue said the department has been trying for some time to establish formal cleaning methods for its workers, but lack of staff has slowed the project. Workers, lacking a written guide, use their discretion in cleaning iobs. he said. Highway worker David WTiitman.

47, of the Town ot Chenango, was crushed to death Wednesday between a bulldozer and the top ot a cramped culvert under Old Newark Valley Road in the Town of Maine. Donoghue said the bulldozer should not have been the culvert, because the equipment was too large. Donoghue said Whitman was working at the mouth of the culvert, and whether he intended to enter the metal pipe is unclear. A Broome County Sheriffs Department investigation into the cause ot death probably will take several more days to complete, said Capt. Richard C.

Wallikas. Wallikas said the state Department of Labor is checking into the safety of the equipment and operating procedures. State lawmaker predicts another late budget NORWICH State Sen. Nancy Lorraine Hoffman sees little hope a state budget will be in place by April 1, 1992. That's because legislators haven't adopted a budget on time for years, she said.

"This year was just horrendous," said Hotlman, D-byracuse. Local groups must therefore band together and demand lawmakers change the budget process, Hotlman told about two dozen members of the Norwich Professional Business Women's Club at a dinner Wednesday. As far as municipalities getting more state aid next year, Hoffman said, "Can you find a new way to obtain revenues Hoffman also projected seeing a scramble to compensate communities through member items. "You must remember a 1 0,000 sidewalk in Norwich I mieht mean several Little Leaeue fields on Long Island," Hoffman said of tradeoffs to obtain the budget items. Hoffman also addressed the politics nlaved in state government and talked at length about "the sad statistical reality" of women involved in politics at all governmental levels.

She said legislative bodies need more women. Questions or comments? 8 For matters regarding community news, can Metro tauor Kevin a. waiter irom Their visit to New York coincides with the By KEITH GEORGE Staff Writer Glenda F. Oliver's knife slaying of George Woolfolk was "a vicious attack" and she has lied to escape the consequences, a psychiatrist for the prosecution testified Thursday. Oliver, 29, of 197 Oak Binghamton, did not kill the 74-year-old Woolfolk in a fit of extreme emotional disturbance, as claimed by the defense, said Dr.

Michael J. Lynch, a Buffalo psychiatrist. Instead, the killing culminated years of aggressive, antisocial behavior by Oliver characterized by total disregard for the rights and feelings of others, Lynch said. Public Defender Robert M. O'Leary shouted objections and vainly urged some of Lynch's remarks be stricken from the record.

"Doesn't the act itself indicate to you someone who lost control?" demanded O'Leary, noting Woolfolk was stabbed more than 40 times. Lynch said it indicated "somebody who wants to make sure the job is done." He added: "I have no doubt she did lose control as she stabbed him it was a vicious attack." The jury is expected to begin deliberations today after closing statements from lawyers and instructions from Broome County Judge Patrick H. Mathews starting at 9 a.m. O'Leary has conceded from the beginning of testimony Monday that Oliver killed Wool-folk the night of Nov. IS in his home at 124 Susquehanna St.

The defense claims Oliver's By JIM WRIGHT Staff Writer NORWICH Some Americans will observe at home the 499th anniversary of the day Christopher Columbus discovered America, while others will be on the road literally. Contracted help for the City of Norwich decided the legal holiday the perfect time for the remnants in the municipality's 1991 street reconstruction projects. Suit-Kote of Cortland will complete paving Monday on Plymouth Street. "They decided to do the work on Monday simply because it is a holiday and we won't have to contend with all of the school buses and county and city and school em Expert Holiday no If reak for ployee traffic," said city Highway Superintendent Joseph Loscavio. Slight traffic delays are expected.

City leaders projected spending $129,348 on the summer street projects after state highway funding was received, said consulting engineer James Suozzo of Delaware Engineenng of Oneonta. The city spent $35,000 on Plymouth Street and $18,000 on Midland Drive, Suozzo recently said. In other construction work, the city plans to begin recycling Howard Street on Tuesday and begin paving York Street by the end of next week, Loscavio said. York Street will get a base coat; the final coat is planned for next year, Loscavio said. Crews were able to work on Howard and Norwich's York streets because a partial repaving of Midland Avenue by city workers cost $15,000 less than budgeted, said Public Works Committee Chairman Charles An-gelino.

The city expects to spend $25,000 for the last round of road projects to be completed in the coming weeks: Howard Street, York Street, and an entrance to the Chenango Center, $11,000. Camp Pharsalia inmates will be used on the Chenango project, city officials added. As for next year, King and Hubbard streets will get a facelift, Loscavio told the council's Public Works Committee Thursday evening. The 1992 program also calls for total reconstruction on Front and North Front streets with costs expected to reach $50,000, Suozzo said. 10 a.m.

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