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Buchanan was next with five, and Forbes had four. Dick Lugar and dropout Phil Gramm each had one vote, along with a write-in for Colin Powell. In the Democratic primary, Clinton got 12 votes. Opening times for polls in the rest of the state ranged from 6 to 8 a.m. "However it comes out tomorrow, I'm going to be doing very well," Alexander said Monday as he finished his 100-mile walk across the state with a mile-and-a-half stroll in Portsmouth to a waterfront park.

trusted By SANDRA SOBIERAJ Associated Press Writer CONCORD, N.H.- Finally de ciding a contest wrought by uncertainty, New Hampshire votes today in the nation's leadoff pres idential primary. For Bob Dole, the fragile front-runner, the balloting is a crucial test of strength. For Pat Buchanan, it's a bid to stay atop a wave of support from social conservatives and blue-col lar Republicans that has driven him past other, better-financed rivals. "We've got a message," he said Monday, nonetheless confessing to an aide that he's "a little nervous. Dole told supporters at the Kansas senator's election-eve rally that he hoped for a big win, but would "settle for one vote." Going into today's balloting.

Bealer: 6 We i CHAMBERSBURG, poll data showed Dole, the Senate majority leader, fighting Buchanan for first, with former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander in close pursuit. Publisher Steve Forbes has seen his lead steadily sink to fourth. All in the Top Four have pledged no matter what the New Hampshire outcome to stick with the race as it moves next to Arizona, South Carolina and the Dakotas. Forbes also plans to campaign in the largely shunned Feb.

24 Delaware primary. But today's vote was expected to winnow out those stuck at tVe bottom of the eight-man pack. There also was a Democratic primary, although President Clinton had no major opposition. In the first voting after midnight today in two tiny towns in Richard Keller, left, and Dean Gelwicks 40s, have been friends since the seventh grade. They've been buying WWI memorabilia since the late 1980s mostly from collectors and people who go to flea markets and auctions for them.

"You have to rely on their honesty. That's the business," Gelwicks said. "It's the first time we've had this happen to us." The men sell to museums in the United States and Canada. Their reproductions of WWI uniforms are a part of the Smithsonian's collection. They also helped put together the Smithsonian WWI display and provided assistance in the WWI re-enactment in the movie Twelve Monkeys.

Many of their items, including a restored WWI truck, are pictured in books on the war. "It's not worth crossing the line," Gelwicks said. "We'd lose our federal license (to own firearms). We'd lose our business if we dealt in stolen goods." The men have $10,000 worth of We are super-sizing our way into a frightening new world of fast-food dining. And there's no turning back.

By one estimate, nearly 25 of the $97 billion consumers spent on fast food last year went for items promoted on the basis of larger size or extra often fattening ingredients. "Consumers talk a good story about wanting to eat healthier," says fast-food consultant Bob Sandelman, "but when they go out for fast food they buy the nastiest products they can find." Fast-food sales will likely rise 6 this year to more than $103 billion, thanks, in large part, to bigger, nastier products that are luring repeat business, says Ron Paul, president of Technomic, a restaurant research firm. "If you build it, they will come," he ISEIVSWATCH TONIGHT Rain Low: 38 TOMORROW Showers High: 5: Low: 40 id YV NSNNN Complete forecast, 2A This TIPS FOR COMMUTERS: If you have a long drive to work, Public Opinion would like to make your trip easier. About 16,600 people who live in Franklin'and Fulton counties work outside their counties more than half commuting to Maryland. We want to publish information that will help commuters cope with their busy lifestyles.

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It's been a costly lesson: thousands of dollars to get back World War I memorabilia they sold but which actually belongs to the Smithsonian Institution. "We trusted him," said Keller, who's known Karl S. Schneide for 20 years. "He's stayed in my home in Dean's home. We considered him a good friend.

This hurts." Keller and Gelwicks own Great War Militaria at 240 Grant a dealership they hope to turn into a World War I museum. Schneide, former curator of the Smithsonian's World War I aviation collection, sold airplane fabric, soldier badges and aviator wings to the Chambersburg men over the last Vh years. He also sold other items to other people. Over the past few months, Keller and Gelwicks have helped the FBI trace Schneide's thefts. Schneide pleaded guilty in December to one count of stealing government property, 18 objects between 1990 and 1994.

He was sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay $20,000 restitution. The men asked Schneide where he got the items. At the time, Schneide was restoring a car in the basement of Keller's and Gelwicks' business. His explanation made sense, Gelwicks said. "The Smithsonian turned down the items because the owners wanted to sell them and the museum only takes donated items," he said.

"He asked us if we wanted to buy them. "We didn't have a reason to doubt him." Keller and Gelwicks, in their display a replica of a World War I soldier in their business on Grant Street. Republican candidate Pat Buchanan meets TimCo Lumber in Barnstead, N.H. Mm Public Opinion J.C. North them.

Hall called the FBI. Gelwicks and Keller worked with the FBI, providing names of other customers. In December, the men testified against Schneide. Keller and Gelwicks bought back the items and returned them to the Smithsonian. Keller started the business to fulfill his goal of setting up a WWI museum in Chambersburg.

He's about five years from achieving that goal. Gelwicks wanted a business of his own. He talked with Keller, who got him interested in collecting and selling WWI memorabilia. Both men retired from Letter-kenny Army Depot. They've amassed hundreds of helmets, uniforms, guns, insignia, patches and badges from the United States, France, Germany, England and Russia.

Their warehouse also includes shovels, canteens, eating utensils and still-packaged cigarettes, gum and food. jeans to mega-combo meals. When all else fails, fast-food chains are simply tossing on extra layers of cheese, beef or bacon. Here's why: Beef is cheap. Beef prices are at four-year lows.

Cheese is gooey. Its texture is adored by most fast-food eaters. Bacon is yummy. The flavor can completely change the taste of a burger, giving consumers the impression that they're eating an entirely new product. Executives at Pizza Hut plead no contest.

"People who choose to eat our pizza have decided to make an indulgent choke," says Bill Cobb, senior vice president of marketing. "They can balance out their calories or nutritional needs across the week." Associated Press with workers and the media at 'Hitman' turns out to be a cop A 48-year-old Chambersburg man is accused of hiring a hit man to kill his wife. He didn't know the hit man was an undercover police officer. Len Allen Cline, 314 E. King is charged with solicitation to commit homicide.

He was released Saturday from Adams County Prison on $100,000 bail. Pennsylvania State Police, Gettysburg, say Cline met with the undercover officer several times and paid him to shoot Trudy Jane Ballinger Cline, 37, of 254 S. Church Waynesboro. Cline owns Cline's Taxi Service in Waynesboro. According to the affidavit: State Trooper Daniel Wertz and Cpl.

Craig Fenstermacher met with an informant Wednesday in Gettysburg. The informant said Cline gave him $300 to buy a pistol to shoot Trudy Cline. Cline gave the informant a photo of his wife. The informant went to police. A meeting was arranged with Wertz.

See HIT MAN, Page 2A Wood's grows in Mexico By JIM HOOK Senior writer TB Wood's Inc. is ready to grow with Mexico's manufacturing economy. Wood's recently acquired Grupo Blaju, one of Mexico's largest manufacturers of individual power transmission equipment. "We have acquired a well-established Mexican company with a strong brand reputation in the Mexican market," Wood's President Michael L. Hurt said.

"Historically we have not done well in Mexico," said William Juergens, Wood's vice president of qualityhuman resources. In addition to a manufacturing plant in Mexico City, the acquisition opens a distribution network in Mexico for all Wood's products. The deal also becomes a foothold for opening markets in Cen-tral and South America, according to Juergens. "It positions us for the future of a marketplace that's going to grow." The Mexican foundry and machining plant, which employs 170 workers, is Wood's eighth. Wood's has one in Canada and six in the United States, including two in the Chambersburg area.

"We have a good, knowledgeable work force in place in Chambersburg," Juergens said. "We have manufacturing plants strategically located throughout the country, which we plan to keep in place." Wood's has a foundry and ma chining plant at 55 N. Fifth Ave. and an electronics division at 3181 Black Gap Road. Jorge R.

Kiewek, son of the founder of Grupo Blaju, will head TB Wood's (Mexico) S.A. de C.V., the new Wood's subsidiary. 4 4 He 's stayed in my home. Dean's home. We considered him a good friend.

This hurts." Richard Keller reference books to verify an item is the real thing. They don't object when a customer wants a second opinion. That's what uncovered the thefts. John Hall, an American history teacher at Albion College, bought two rare WWI airplane insignia. He asked an expert he knew in Washington state if they were authentic.

The expert recalled seeing pieces exactly like the ones Hall described while doing research at the Smithsonian several years ago. He had detailed photos of Americans like food that's fast and nasty quips. Americans began to feel far less squeamish about eating giant-sized portions of fast food three years ago when newspapers nationwide ran photos of President Clinton scarfing down jumbo-sized meals at McDonald's between jogs, says Christopher Wolf, director of The Food Channel, an on-line Web site about food trends. Since then, he says, "America has spun out of control in portion sizes." There's another driving force behind this frenzy: Americans are enamored with the notion of living large. This is especially true among trend-setting teen-age boys who eat more fast food than just about anyone.

They want everything bigger from oversized By BRUCE HOROVITZ USA TODAY Things are getting nasty out in the fast-food jungle. Not just the competition. The food, too. Especially the food: It's full of fat. A Triple Decker pizza at Pizza Hut has more fat oozing between its layers than a stick-and-a-half of butter.

It's loaded with calories. A Double Gulp drink at 7-Eleven which effervesces with the equivalent of 5.3 cans of cola can have more calories than three Hershey bars. It's gargantuan. A Macho Meal at Del Taco Mexican fast-food chain weighs almost four pounds a tad more than the Manhattan White Pages. Makes you wanna order two, doesn't it?.