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B10 Post-Star. Glens Falls, N.Y. Thursday, July 2, 1987 Senators hash out insurance dispute Obituaries Mary C. Gabriele Insurance Committee or that he is aware opposition to raising the minimum insurance-coverage levels from major insurance groups; in the state. I 7 Fort Edward; 17 grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren; one brother, Antonio Gabriele of Caracas, Venezuela; and several nieces and nephews.

Services will be conducted at 8:30 a.m. Friday at the M.B. Kilmer Funeral Home, 82 Broadway, Fort Edward. A Mass of Christian burial will follow at 9 a.m. at St.

Joseph's Church, the Rev. Bernard Ahern, pastor, officiating. Interment will be at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Fort Edward. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

today at the funeral home. The family suggests memorials take the form of donations to either St. Joseph's Church or the Fort Edward Rescue Squad. minimums to $25,000 and $50,000, but has said he's still considering the issue and that he feels the state's no-fault insurance law, which requires that qualified victims to get $50,000 automatically, already provides adequate protection for those needing it most. Levy said the fact Bruno has submitted a bill to raise the limits shows he must believe some increase is necessary.

"I think that Joe filed one (a bill) for $25,000 and $50,000 and that knocks his argument out," Levy said. "Philosophically you can have a disagreement. That's fair and above-board. But then you file a bill for 25 (thousand dollars) and 50 (thousand dollars) and then you say, 'Well, then you mean Levy said, however, it is "OK" that Bruno's bill calls for slightly lower minimum coverage and he pledged to support that measure in the absence of his own. "It doesn't have to be my bill," he said.

"The issue is what's important." Though such disputes between Republican senators and the chairmen of committees on legislation are not uncommon, they rarely spill out into public as the Levy-Bruno fight over the insurance legislation has. Bruno has come under some fire from so-called good government groups for the support his campaigns have received from insurance-related companies in connection with his role as Insurance Committee chairman. A recent report from state Common Cause estimated that of $105,826 raised by Bruno in 1985 and 1986, $37,700 came from insurance-related groups. Bruno has denied that the insurance contributions have influenced his operation of the ALBANY (AP) A dispute between two Republican state senators over bills that would raise the minimum amount of automobile insurance that drivers in New York must carry was hashed out Wednesday in a conference of the Senate's majority. The fight involved attempts by Sen.

Eugene Levy, R-Rockland, to get a bill through the Senate's Insurance Committee that would hike minimum auto insurance coverage levels for the first time in New York since 1959. The chairman of the Insurance Committee, Sen. Joseph Bruno, R-Rensselaer, has opposed a bill sponsored by Levy and instead put forward his own proposal to hike the insurance levels. Bruno represents the 43rd Senate District, which includes much of Saratoga County, including the Town of Moreau, in addition to Rensselaer County. Levy tried unsuccessfully to get Senate Republicans to overrule Bruno and let the Levy bill out to the Senate floor for a vote, said sources at the conference who asked not to be identified.

Levy later said no formal vote was taken by his colleagues on whether to bypass Bruno's opposition to the measure and let his bill onto the floor. The bill favored by Levy has already passed the state Assembly. Current law calls for motorists to carry $10,000 in coverage to compensate an accident victim if the motorist is at fault. To cover claims filed by multiple victims, the minimum amount must be $20,000. Levy's bill calls for the minimums to be increased by $30,000 and $60,000 respectively.

Bruno has filed a measure that would raise the FORT EDWARD Mary C. Gabriele, 82, of 12 McKie died Tuesday (June 30, 1987) at Glens Falls Hospital. She was born Oct. 2, 1904, in Ar-t pino, Italy. She was the daughter of Orazio and Vincenzo (Pozuoli) Gabriele.

Mrs. Gabriele was a member of St. Joseph's Church in Fort Edward, -the Hudson Falls-Fort Edward 60 Senior Citizens and the American Association of Retired Persons. She was the widow of Anthony F. Gabriele.

Her son, Macardio Gabriele, died before her. Survivors include three daughters, "Mrs. Dominick (Angeline) Caputo, "Mrs. Andrew (Louisa) Esperti Jr. and Mrs.

Robert (Anna) Tidd, all of Mary E. TICONDEROGA Mary E. Peters, 61, of Bull Rock Road, died Tuesday (June 30, 1987) at Moses- Ludington Hospital in Ticonderoga. She was born Aug. 17, 1925, in "Crown Point.

She was the daughter of Harry and Pearl Taylor. Mrs. Peters was the widow of Claude C. Peters. Survivors include seven sons, "Chester (Chet) Peters, Robert E.

Peters, Bernard B. Peters, Claude C. Peters Matthew D. Peters, all of Ticonderoga, Sgt. Norman C.

Peters of Georgia Air Force Base, and Steven F. Peters of Putnam Station; eight daughters, Mrs. Dean (Joan) Swarthout of Springfield, Mrs. Conrad (Connie) Peeters, Norma Jean Woods, Charlotte M. Belden, Tammy L.

Peters, Cathy A. Peters and Mar- Virginia G. County will receive $630,000 LAKE GEORGE Virginia G. Moon, 59, of Quoddy died Wednesday (July 1, 1987) at Glens Falls Hospital after a long illness. She was born Nov.

23, 1927, in Burlington, Vt. She was the daugh- I ter of Joseph and Irene (Sanborn) Gratton. ILfrc Maati woe a (nmmnnirant nf Whitten attributed the growing needs of the North Country facilities to a modest increase in the area's population, and pressure for the outpatient facilities to provide more comprehensive care, such as outreach and prevention education, to patients. Whitten also said the overhaul was needed because the buildings were outdated. For example, he said, the Warrensburg structure is a converted A supermarket.

Ms. Tatich said that, because the health care units were owned by the municipalities, though operated by Hudson Headwater Health Network, the funds could be drawn on by the towns, as well as the county. The grant was put together by Ms. Tatich, Whitten and Mary Ann Star-buck, director of community services for the health network, Ms. Tatich said.

Also to be added to the Warren County budget revenues is a $27,000 state grant to be used to add a pediatric home health care program to current county health services, and $23,508 to defray the cost of providing care to patients who cannot pay, said Joan Grishkot, director of patient services for the Warren County Health Services. Mrs. Grishkot said the Pediatric Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Lake George. She was a 1945 graduate of St. Mary's Academy in Burlington.

Survivors include her husband, Robert M. Moon of Lake George; one aaugnier, mrs. wiinan lerenaai Koopman of South Glens Falls; two sons, Alan Moon of Lake George and 2 Gary Moon of Queensbury; five grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Officials say nurse had illegal drugs Peters jorie J. LaPointe, all of Ticonderoga and Lisa M.

Peters of Crown Point; two brothers, Francis Taylor and William Taylor, both of Ticonderoga; several granchildren; several great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at Chilson Methodist Church by the Rev. Merwyn D. Gray, pastor, and the Rev.

Arthur Bagley, pastor of the Congregational Church of Crown Point. Interment will be in the family plot at Chilson Cemetery in Ticonderoga. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the Wilcox and Regan Funeral Chapel, 33 Algonkin Ticonderoga. The family suggests memorials take the form of donations to the Ticonderoga Emergency Squad.

Moon Gordon (Vivian) Bent of Randolph, and Mrs. Harold (Dorothy) Amseacher of Port Orchard, two brothers, Philip Gratton of Weehauken, N.J., and Donald Gratton of Montpelier, two aunts; two uncles; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Services will be conducted at 4 p.m. Friday at Stafford Funeral Home, 90 Montcalm Lake George. Interment will be in the family plot at North Caldwell Cemetery in the town of Lake George.

Friends may call from 2 p.m. until the time of the service Friday at the funeral home. The family suggests memorials take the form of donations to the Lake George Emergency Squad. Sumner Pawlet; one son, Jeffery Sumner of West Pawlet; one sister, Virginia Wood of Middle Granville, N.Y.; one brother, Clifford Sumner of Granville, N.Y.; and several nieces and nephews. Services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m.

Friday at the McHenry and Roberts Funeral Home in Granville by Wayne Johanson, pastor. Interment will be at Mountainview Cemetery in West Pawlet. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Holmes veteran.

Survivors include his wife, Leila (Eaton) Holmes of Mechanicville; two sons, Richard E. Holmes Jr. of Saratoga Springs and Jeffrey D. Holmes of Mechanicville; two daughters, Janet Perrotta of Saratoga Springs and Leila Holmes of' Washington, D.C.; one sister, Sharon Holmes of Mechanicville; and eight grandchildren. Services will be conducted at 10 a.m.

Friday at the DeVito-Salvadore Funeral Home, 39 South Main Mechanicville. Interment will be at St. Peter's Cemetery in Stillwater. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.

The family suggests memorials take the form of donations to the American Diabetes Association. Louis overruled such objections. Dworkin said during a recess that he thought Kafin was trying to confuse the issue of where the PCBs in the river came from. He said a DEC report states that the vast majority of PCBs in the river were dumped there by General Electric. But because the majority of the General Electric PCBs has not made it to the mouth of the river yet, New York Harbor contains a proportionally smaller amount of PCBs from General Electric than upstream portions of the river do, Dworkin said.

Much of the day was spent attempting to define which members of a panel of sponsor group witnesses were responsible for SEN. JOSEPH BRUNO dispute over bills Home Care grant, to be split between Warren and Washington counties, would be put toward "getting infants out of the hospital sooner." For example, the new program would target a premature infant who was waiting in the hospital Jo grow strong enough to go home, she said. The money to be used for indigent patient care those without insurance or means to pay for tpe health services would be used jto reduce the costs that the counties, as a final source of money, normally pay, Mrs. Grishkot said. Also at the county Planning and Community Development Committee meeting, Highway Superintenjd-ent Fred Austin said that nine of 15 questionnaires sent to engineering firms to plan the closure of Warrfcn County's 12 landfills had befn returned.

The prices estimated by the companies for the closure plans ranged from about $200,000 to $700,000, Austin said. Next, several of the companies selected by the Planning Committte will interviewed, and two to four ol the firms will be invited to submit completed proposals for te closures, Austin said. He said there was no timetable fcr the final selection of a company, I vestigators accused Ludin of il-legally possessing Demoral dur- ing a one-month period in 1986, officials announced earlier this month. Seven physicians, pharmacists, three other nurses and a dentist from across New York also were charged with vi-1 olations of this state's controlled substance laws and regulations, i officials disclosed. Investigators also charged a veterinary hospi- tal in Great Neck with violating the laws and regulations, of-.

ficials report. closed Friday and Saturday ip observance of Independence Day. The clinic will reopen 9 a m. Monday. search girl, 1 6 KARI LYNN NIXON teen Warren By Eric Dexheimer Staff Writer Warren County coffers will be expanded by an additional $630,000, thanks to the awarding of several housing and health care program grants by state and federal authorities, county officials announced Wednesday.

The largest chunk of that money arrived in the form of a "unique" $582,000 federal Housing and Community Development (HUD) grant slated to go toward improving the health care facilities in War-rensburg, Chester and Johnsburg. Pat Tatich, director of Planning and Community Development in Warren County, advised members of the Board of Supervisors' Planning Committee on Wednesday of the forthcoming funds. "Given the number of lower income households in the county, it's a real plus, a real coup for the county," Ms. Tatich said. Also, county home health care officials said Wednesday at the Health Services Committee meeting at the county Municipal Center that $50,000 hi two grants had been allocated to the county for a new pediatric care program and indigent care.

The county's application for the Births Births reported at Glens Falls Hospital were: A son to Karen and James Dise, Word of Life Inn, Schroon Lake, at 5:54 p.m. Tuesday. A son to Sarah and Anthony Serafini, P.O. Box 342, Lake George, at 5:48 p.m. Tuesday.

A daughter to Jessica and Brian Locklin, 5B Reginald Drive, Glens Falls, at 10:03 p.m. Tuesday. A son to Margaret and Michael Belden, 18 7th Hudson Falls, at 11:23 p.m. Tuesday. A daughter to Donna and Jerome Dolly, 36 Whippoorwill Road, Glens Funeral Notices CYNTHIA F.

BENNETT LAKE LUZERNE Services for Cynthia F. Bennett, 10 a.m. Friday, United Methodist Church, Lake Luzerne. HELEN McMORRIS SALEM Memorial service for Helen McMorris, 2 p.m. Sunday, First United Presbyterian Church, Salem.

The family will receive friends in the McKenzie Chapel of the church after the service. which portions of an environmental impact statement for the project. Once the testimony commenced after several hours, John Reed, an environmental assessment engineer for the Malcolm Pirnie engineering firm, testified that flooding is the "primary mechanism" for PCB transport in the Hudson. Kafin asked if some PCBs adhering to sediment on the river bottom would be lost during the dredging process. Reed said this would occur, but that PCB loss could be minimized through training of dredging crews, special dredging equipment and the placing of "silt curtains" downstream from the Thompson Island Pool, where the dredging would occur if the project goes forward.

Louis said attorneys for General Electric could not ask the Malcolm Pirnie employees about possible John N. WEST PAWLET, Vt. John N. Sumner, 52, died unexpectedly Tuesday (June 30, 1987) at Emma Laing Stevens Hospital in West Granville, N.Y. He was born Jan.

21, 1935, in North Granville, N.Y. He was the son of Carl and Ruth (Getty) Sumner. Mr. Sumner was a West Pawlet resident for the past 35 years. Survivors include his wife, the former Shirley Dennison of West Richard E.

MECHANICVILLE Richard E. Holmes, 62, of 6 Columbus died Monday (June 29, 1987) at New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston, after a short illness. I He was born Dec. 11, 1924, in I Troy. He was the son of Herbert and Terena (Leonard) Holmes.

Mr. Holmes was a resident of Mechanicville most of his life. He was employed as a lab technician for the Waterford General Electric Co. plant before retiring in 1986. Mr.

Holmes was a former owner of the Bendon and Holmes Gulf station in Mechanicville. He was a former officer of the I U.E. technicians union in Water-ford. He was a member of the G.E. Retirement Club and the American Legion.

He was also a U.S. Army federal money, provided through HUD Community Development Small Cities funds, was termed "very unique" by Ron Monti, a program director for HUD's Buffalo office. "I'm sure that we haven't had very many (applications for health care facilities using this HUD grant), if any at all," he said. "It is somewhat different." Monti said that most communities applied for development grants planning to use the money for sewer and water projects. Peter Whitten, community services officer for the Hudson Headwaters Health Network, said that $312,000 of the $582,000 is to go to the Warrensburg Health Center, $100,000 to the Johnsburg center, and $80,000 to the Chester facility.

The remaining $90,000 is slated to cover administrative costs, he said. Whitten said that the money will go toward expanding the buildings that house the health care centers. Examination and meeting rooms will be added to each of the facilities, he said. The additional clinical space is expected to bring to 63,000 the number of yearly patient visits at the three health centers, up from the presently served number of 50,000, Whitten said. Falls, at 12:11 a.m.

Wednesday. A boy to Johanna and Patrick Nichols, 13 Baker Hudson Falls, at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday. A daughter to Laurie and Michael Gould, RRl, Box 1277A, Fort Ann, at 5:40 p.m. Wednesday.

Other births reported were: A daughter, Allison Sarah, to Diane and Tom Marino, of Col-ebrook, at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at New Britain General Hospital in New Britain, Conn. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Weller of Bolton Landing.

JULIA RAWLINS POTTERSVILLE Services for Julia Rawlins, 11 a.m. Friday, Barton Funeral Home, Pine Street, Chestertown. Calling hours: 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. NELLIE F.

WALDO GRANVILLE Services for Nellie F. Waldo, 1 p.m. today, Robert M. King Funeral Home, Granville. health problems associated with work Malcolm Pirnie did at PCB-contaminated areas in the 1970s.

Dworkin had objected to such questioning. A dispute occurred after Kafin said the project sponsor group had made a "wild claim" that the DEC has been precluded from dredging any portion of the Hudson south of Fort Edward because of the PCB contamination. Dworkin responded heatedly that this had not been claimed by the project sponsor group. Louis then admonished both attorneys for their words and tone. Dworkin said later that the PCB contamination "threatened maintenance dredging" in the river.

Kafin said he thought a previous sponsor group witness had said such maintenance dredging was already precluded. GREENWICH A registered nurse in this Washington-County town has been charged with illegally possessing prescription pain killers, state health officials report. John T. Ludin, of 9 Washington Square, was fined $3,000 in connection with the violation, according to the state Department of Health. That fine, however, will be suspended, officials indicated, if Ludin does not renew his nursing license.

Health Department in Planned Parenthood hours listed Siting board hearing looks down river The Glens Falls branch of Southern Adirondack Planned Parenthood, .135 Warren will be State police for missing MOREAU State police have launched what they are describing as a large-scale search for a missing 16-year-old Au Sable Forks girl and have asked for citizen assistance in locating the teen-ager, troopers said Wednesday. Kari Lynn Nixon, last seen June 22, is described as 5-foot-3 with shoulder-length brown hair and weighing 106 pounds, according to police. She was last seen wearing a "blue jean-jacket, a two-button yellow shirt with one light blue sleeve and one turquoise sleeve, maroon color warm-up pants and size 7 loafers," police said. Police asked that any one with information concerning the missing teen contact authorities near them. By Michael Kilian Staff Writer FORT EDWARD The state Department of Environmental Conservation wants to remove PCBs from the Hudson River near Fort Edward, but many of the questions at Wednesday's siting board hearing were centered a considerable ways down river.

For the second day in a row, Robert Kafin, attorney for the General Electric Company, asked DEC project sponsor group witnesses what they knew of PCB levels in New York Harbor and of PCB transport downstream. Carl Dworkin, attorney for the project sponsor group, protested several times that such questions were beyond the scope of the prepared testimony of the witnesses. With only a few exceptions, Administrative Law Judge Daniel.