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COMMUHITYfJEW YORK 2Q Press Sun-ltulletin Thursday, November 21, 1996 After cuts, Hughes hiring few workers i 4 i i i By PHILLIP PINA Assistant Business Editor Hughes Training which slashed 1 ,000 jobs in Kirkwood over the past year, is doing some limited hiring. "Our goal is to expand the operations we have in New York," Keith Hickling, Hughes' manager of the business unit at Kirkwood. The company has hired about 20 workers and is interviewing to hire another 20. Most are engineering positions paying between $25,000 and $60,000. There are about 400 workers remaining at the sprawling Kirkwood plant after the company consolidated its operations and moved most of them to Arlington, Texas.

As recently as last year 1.400 Hughes employees earned their paychecks in Broome County. The special programs remained in Kirkwood. While the new jobs may be a boost to the Southern Tier, an out-of-work Kirkwood man Kathy Fuller, right, of Hallstead was surprised to learn the Boy Scouts of America had given her their highest honor. For volunteers, a special honor Martian rocks too pricey for buyers turing Christmas carols, will follow. A $22.50 fee for the trip includes tickets and transportation.

Those interested should contact the group's tour guide, Martha Shearer, at 775-3078. TIOGA COUNTY Town of Owego: Waterman program On Monday from 5-7 p.m., Fred L. Waterman Conservation Education Center will present a special storytelling program around the campfire. Bring along your marshmallows, blankets, and get ready for a trip through your imagination as the center's staff weaves together tales from all over the world. In case of inclement weather, the program will be presented in the center's auditorium space.

For more information on this special storytelling program, call Waterman at 625-2221. The fee for this program is $2 for Waterman members and $4 for non-members. Susquehanna: Cash coming on flood repairs Borough Council will make a partial payment of $5,000 to Andzulis Brothers of Forest City for repairs completed on flood damaged Drinker Creek. The Natural Resources Conservation Service of the federal Department of Agriculture had entered an agreement with the borough to have the flood damage repaired with Conservation Service funding and some possible minor funding from the borough's liquid fuels funds. A portion of the creek was washed away during winter floods.

The accepted Andzulis Brothers' bid for the repairs was $15,827 but the service approved additions to the project that totaled $26,000. Andzulis Brothers, in a letter, requested full, or partial payment for the completed project. SecretaryTreasurer Christiane Young said that the borough would be receiving the funding but did not have the means to pay Andzulis Brothers the $26,000 for the project out of borough funds. Following a motion by council person Marian Sellitto, council voted to make a partial payment of $5,000 to Andzulis Brothers, which would be borrowed from the borough's Streets Department Fund. YOUR TOWNS Our Towns is a collection of news from the communities and school districts in Broome County and the Southern Tier.

It is organized by community to hall, Lourdes Hospital. INFERTILITY SUPPORT GROUP, 7-9 p.m., First United Methodist Church of Endicott, 53 McKinley Endicott. Call 763-6546. COMMODORE COMPUTER USERS, 7 p.m., Vestal Public Library, 320 Vestal Parkway Vestal. TRI-COUNTY CHAPTER OF THE MIXED BREED DOG CLUB OF AMERICA, 6 p.m., Skylark Diner, Vestal.Call748-0028or717-623-4112.

CENTRAL NEW YORK HORSE CLUB, 7 p.m., Burns-McCauliffe American Legion Post, Homer, call 863-4261 844-8783. COMMON THREAD QUILTERS GUILD, 9:30 a.m. -noon, Vestal Public Library, 320 Vestal Parkway Vestal. SOUTHERN TIER TOASTMASTERS, 7 p.m., Heritage Country Club, Watson Boulevard, Endwell. Call 748-2865.

FRIENDS OF THE APALACHIN LIBRARY, discussion group, p.m., library, 25 E. Main Apalachin. ITHACA CHAPTER OFZONTA INTERNATIONAL, 6 p.m., Women's Community Building, 100 W. Seneca Ithaca. Call 844-8211.

ALL ADDICTS ANONYMOUS, for substance abuse, alcohol, drugs, mental addiction, food and sex, 7 p.m., St. Patrick Church basement, Keibel Road, Whitney Point. Call 692-4005. THE WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT GROUP, 7 p.m., Room 6, Northmin-ster Presbyterian Church, Farm-to Market and Hooper roads, Endwell. Call 723-5679.

TOPS, (TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY), CHAPTER NY306, 7 p.m., St. Paul's United Methodist Church, 303 Dwight Endicott. Call 754-0561; 7 p.m., Conklin Avenue Baptist Church, Binghamton. Call 748-2766. BROOME-TIOGA COMPOSITE SQUADRON CIVIL AIR PATROL, TriCities Airport, Endicott.

Boys and girls 13 years of age and up and any interested adults are welcome. ANOREXIA AND BULIMIA SUPPORT GROUP, 7 p.m., Wilson Memorial Regional Medical Center, Johnson City. Call 763-6546. AL-ANON, for information about times and meeting places, call 722-0889. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS, call 774-4907 for meeting times and locations.

Ml NEW YORK (AP) Apparently the sky isn't the limit when it comes to the value of martian real estate. In an auction Wednesday night that lasted about as long as an average music video, the bidding for three rare martian meteorites stalled at $1.1 million too little to separate the rocks from their owner. As auction house officials stood stunned in Manhattan's stately Seventh Regiment Armory, the only bidder present for the auction trundled off, refusing to speak with the press. "It's disappointing," said Arlan Ettinger, president of Guernsey's auction house. "I thought there was a good chance." Ettinger said the auction house will probably sell the meteorites in the next few weeks to one of several institutions that are interested in the rocks, but couldn't raise enough money fast enough to participate in the auction.

The sale had been billed as one of the most unusual auctions in history a one-lot sale of the only private collection containing trie three major types of martian mete 1 mm COUNTY County: National Family Week Broome County Executive Timothy M. Grippen proclaimed the week of Thanksgiving, Nov. 24 -30, as American Legion National Family Week. In honor of this, the Broome County American legion Auxiliary will be distributing immunization literature to children clinics in Bing-hamton and the Parent Resource Center in Chenango Forks, said Dorolyn Perry, the children and youth chairwoman. Town of Colesvilte: Church to hold bazaar Get in a merry mood at the Holiday Bazaar sponsored by the Nineveh Presbyterian Church.

Beginning at noon on Saturday, handmade gifts and ornaments and homemade baked goods will be for sale in the parish hall. Coffee, soup and sandwiches will be available. Village of JC: PTA plans dinner today The Southeastern District Parent Teacher Association is sponsoring a presidentprincipal dinner tonight. The event will begin at 6 p.m. at the Heritage County Club at 4301 Watson Blvd.

in Johnson City. The dinner, which is open to everyone, will focus on recognizing and award membership efforts from the previous year. The guest speaker will be state PTA Vice President and state PTA Legislative Chairman, Janet Ahola. Town of Lisle: Sale enriches treasury The ladies auxiliary of the Lisle Fire Company will hold its annual Thanksgiving pie sale. Beginning at 9 a.m.

on Saturday at the Lisle Village hall, a variety of homebaked pies will be for sale including apple, pumpkin and cherry. They range in price from $5 to $6. Conklin: Seniors get dinner and a musical Town of Conklin senior citizens are invited to attend a trip to Cobleskill for a dinner and musical Dec. 2. The Conklin Senior Citizens are sponsoring the trip.

Non-members are also welcome, but participants must be Conklin residents over the age of 60, according to Bessie Mras, president of the group. The group will travel to the Best Western hotel in Cobleskill, where they will receive a turkey dinner. A Magical Christmas, a show fea- CALENDAR If your meeting will be made accessible to people with disabilities, according to provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, you may notify the Press Sun-Bulletin to have that fact noted in our calendar listings. Please include that information with your news release. If you have questions, call 798-1338.

Government Meetings NICHOLS, 7:30 p.m., economic development board, municipal building, East River Road, Nichols. TIOGA COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD, 7:30 p.m. County Department of Mental Hygiene, Conference Room 51, Washington-Gladden Building, 1277 Taylor Road, Owego. COLESVILLE, 7:30 p.m., town zoning board of appeals, town office building, Harpursville. WINDSOR, town planning board, town hall, 124 Main room 3, Windsor.

BROOME COUNTY LEGISLATURE, 4 p.m., County Office Building, Government Plaza, 44 Hawley Binghamton. School Board Meetings SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY, 7 p.m., regular meeting, board room, Susquehanna Valley High School, Conklin Road, Conklin. BAINBRIDGE-GUILFORD, 7:30 p.m., location alternates monthly between Guilford Elementary School and Bain-bridge schools. Meetings PARENTS WITHOUT PARTNERS, 7 p.m., new-member orientation, Executive Inn, 1 Delaware Endicott. Call 774-6697.

POST POLIO SUPPORT GROUP, 7 p.m., East-West Dining Room, Lour-des Hospital, Binghamton. MACINTOSH COMPUTER CLUB, 7:30 p.m., Vestal Public Library, Vestal Parkway East, Vestal. SOUTHERN TIER WRITER'S GUILD, 7-9 p.m., Decker Annex, 2nd floor, 31 Front Binghamton. Call 723-6654. ENDICOTT JOHNSON 25-YEAR CLUB, 6 p.m., Johnson City Senior Citizen's Center, 30 Brocton Johnson City.

WIDOWWIDOWERS CLUB OF THE SOUTHERN TIER, 7:30 p.m., lecture thinks the hiring is in response to a number of engineers leaving the company when the consolidation took place. "We all saw the writing on the wall," said Leon Truman, whose data processing job was cut by Hughes in May. "They have ruined that company." Other workers have gotten jobs with other companies and have left Hughes, he said. Hughes offered jobs to about 600 workers at plants in Texas, Virginia or Florida. About 350 took the company up on the offer, said Hughes spokesman Richard Oylcr.

In the midst of the layoffs the company announced the remaining division in Kirkwood would remain instead of being phased out, bringing relief to the remaining workers. Now with the prospects of additional contracts, the company needs to hire a few more engineers, Hick-ling said. The special programs division works on highly classified flight simulation projects for the B-2 and F-117A aircraft. orite. "We know that we've gone into some uncharted waters in making this presentation and offering them as a single lot," Ettinger said just before bidding began.

Ten minutes later he said he'd do it that way again if he could. Meteorite prices have gone up astronomically since Aug. 7, when NASA scientists announced that they'd found possible signs of life on a martian meteorite. But most of the people at the auction were simply curious. The only person there who placed a bid was a gray-haired gentleman who said he represented a private investor.

At least two other bidders participated by telephone. The trio of rocks does represent the three major types of martian meteorite. The largest of the three, discovered in Nigeria, weighs nearly a pound. The other two, from Egypt and France, are much smaller. The seller of the martian rocks, whose identity has not been revealed by Guernsey's, probably accumulated them through some clever buying and trading, said Robert Haag, a meteorite dealer based in Tucson, Ariz.

Special Olympic Martial Art I Rv Classes are limited. IstflllljDI yeii'ue Isaeii wmtlm fop 1 I i TV I A' BRIAN J. GAFNEYPRESS A SUN-BULLETIN must show other community service as well. Fuller was lauded for her history as a cub master for Pack 91, den leader of pack 91 and Webelos leader, and for serving on the Troop 89 committee and other troop projects. She was director of Girl Scouting in Delehanna District and on the District Roundtable staff, and later Roundtable commissioner and unit commissioner in a number of area units.

Fuller currently serves on the Delehanna District Committee and has been a fall camporee committeeman and a committeeman for the council anniversary show. She was called an active member of St. Lawrence's church and a member of the church's bell choir, as well as chairman for school science fair. Fuller teaches in the Susquehanna School District and is a member of Who's Who In Teaching. Her husband, Chuck, said she deserved the honor.

"She puts her heart and soul in everything she does for Scouting. She really loves the kids," he said. 1177. 1 Information on other towns may be sent to: Our Towns, Metro Desk, Press Sun-Bulletin, Vestal Parkway East, P.O. Box 1270, Binghamton, N.Y.

13902-1270. Please include your name and telephone number. BIRTHS CHENANGO HOSPITAL, Norwich South New Berlin: To Wendy and Monroe Wall, a daughter, born Nov. 15. Norwich: To Catherine J.

Ring, a son, born Nov. 16. PACKER HOSPITAL, Sayre, Pa. Newark Valley: To Delyn and Mark Snyder, a son, Stephen, born Nov. 1 4.

Sayre, To Jacquline Miner, a son, Thomas, born Nov. 13. To Deborah and Murray Cole, a son, Casey, born Nov. 1 5. Waverly: To Sheila and James Gann, a son, Thomas, born Nov.

1 5. WILSON HOSPITAL, Johnson City Binghamton: To Heather and Jerel Gillette, a daughter, Lexia, born Aug. 8. Endicott: To Irene and Joseph Watkins, a daughter, Melissa, born Sept. 16.

To Cathleen and David Drake, a daughter, Katie, born Sept. 1 6. Hallstead, To Lynn and Thomas Bolles, a daughter, Sarah, born Sept. 23. DEATHS Alvin Colley, of Endicott, died Friday.

Ruth V. Forkey, 68, of Lisle, died Wednesday. Lawrence E. Jordan, 69, of Chenango Forks, formerly of Vestal, died Tuesday. Gladys Finch Penird, 85, of Sennett, died Tuesday.

Eugene George Perry, 76, of Kattelville Road, Chenango Bridge, died Tuesday. Paul Schoop, 91, of Vestal, died Wednesday. Lori Anne (Stevens) Shults, 38, of Syracuse, formerly of Vestal, died Monday. Katherine F. Thomson, 91 formerly of Endicott, died Tuesday.

Minnie M. Williams, 97, of Montrose, died Wednesday. Violet M. Withstandley, 64, of State College, died November 4. Edward James Wolf, 50, of Owego, died Tuesday.

By BRIAN J. GAFNEY Press Sun-Bulletin Kathy Fuller, of Hallstead, been awarded the Silver Beaver, the highest honor given by the Boy Scouts of America for volunteer service. The award proved a surprise to Fuller, who was the last person honored at the ceremony and who thought the prize was going to Andrea Wood, who in fact had nominated her in secret. "It's a huge honor," Fuller said, "I'll feel like I haven't done enough to deserve it." The award was made at the Binghamton Regency by Walter Osgood Rogers, chairman for the Scouter Recognition dinner. Rogers convened a Silver Beaver Court of Honor in favor of Fuller and three other recipients, Joseph Ozvold, Ann Carlson, and Sterling Pierson, all of Binghamton.

He said Silver Beaver is a national award, given only to one candidate in every 25 scouting units. Fuller was the only Penn-sylvanian honored at the ceremony earlier this month. The Silver Beaver is given for scouting service, but awardees help you find the news you want quickly. If you have an item for Our Towns and you live in: City of Binghamton Dickinson Port Dickinson Fenton Call Erika Stutzman at 798- SalesSuppers AUCTION, 6:30 p.m., antiques and miscellaneous, Boulevard United Methodist Church, 113 Grand Binghamton. THRIFT SHOP, sponsored by Ogden Hillcrest United Methodist Church, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., 1061 Chenango Hill-crest.

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