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1 Reggie Jackson Headed Into Hall i 1 1 The New York Yankees Mister October will enter the Baseball Hall of Fame alone. 1 SPORTSOUTDOORS All Vermonts A Stage A look at the states playhouses and some of the summers best shows. SUNDAY MAGAZINE v' i -taaiKiy1 1 1 4 1 On I THE SUNDAY HERALD ESTABLISHED IN 1794 AND THE SUNDAY TIMEjS ARGUS EIGHT SECTIONS-124 PAGES- ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS AUGUST 1, 1993 COPYRIGHT WAWrfiW.fe 'm Budget Talks: eys Clinton Pushes, Congress Rests By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM The New York Times WASHINGTON Hung up on odds and ends, congressional budget negotiators took the weekend off, but President Clinton and his staff continued Saturday to try to drum up support for his economic program. Clinton invited a group of tourists at the White House into the Rose Garden at about 8:30 Saturday morning and delivered a campaign-style speech in which he in-sisted that his Clinton program was essential for economic recovery and would pose little burden to middle-income Americans.

On Capitol Hill on Saturday, con gressional staff technicians churned out one computer spreadsheet after another showing how much revenue various proposals would raise and how much other proposals would cost. At this stage, every dime is important, and money taken from one program must be found in another. Downtown, two dozen administration officials gathered in what they call the war room on the first floor of the Old Executive Office Building, next door to the White House and placed telephone calls around the country to promote the program and to try to line up votes in Congress for it The Democratic congressional leaders who are putting together the final package, an amalgam of deficit-reduction bills passed in See Page 7: Clinton High Court Upholds Suspension Of Dluzzi VOL. 15 NO. 196 USPS 305-103 Upper Valley Forges Own Identity As It Prospers, But Some Fear For Future EDITORS NOTE: This is the first in a three-part series that explores economic and social changes in the Upper Valley.

By MELISSA TARKINGTON Sunday Staff Writer In the rear of F.H. Gillingham Sons store, not far from a rickety stack of bins brimming with nails, rests a bottle of French Chambertin burgundy wine, one of many brands found in the stores wine room. The nails run 89 cents per pound; the wine $94.99 a bottle. Up front, Vermont-made products maple syrup, jams and jellies are displayed colorfully for impulsive shoppers. live wide choice of products at Gillinghams reflect the 107-year-old stores varied clientele.

Local farmers and blue collar workers, out-of-state tourists who arrive in Volvos and wealthy second-home owners all wonder through the aisles and usually find what they need. Indeed, the red-brick store, on Elm Street in the downtown of affluent Woodstock, seems an apt metaphor for the town, even the region, where the economy seems as diverse as the products on Gillinghams shelves. Woodstock, population 3,200, is in the heart of the Upper Valley area. The region it is a cluster of mostly Windsor and Windham County towns and New Hampshire villages near the Connecticut (t River. Prosperous, 1 upscale, the -mstef' il Upper Valley is becoming ever not quite Ver- Coffin more distinctive mont, not quite New Hampshire in the eyes of many of its residents.

In recent years, a booming economy has made the area unique. While most of the rest of Vermont and New Hampshire has been struggling with the recession and its stagnant aftermath, the Upper Valley has flourished. Still, some long-time residents look back wistfully to a simpler era and see the rapid growth of recent years as a mixed blessing. Property values have gone up, but so have taxes. Tourism has grown, but so has congestion.

Newcomers arrive, but at '-i DM LCD 'v'-V tyT By KATHLEEN HENTCY Staff Writer MONTPELIER The Vermont Supreme Court has upheld a ruling by the Professional Conduct Board, suspending Sen. Vincent Dluzzi, R-Essex-Orleans, from practicing law for six months. The suspension begins Sept. 1. The decision by the court? with Chief Justice Frederic W.

Allen dissenting, ends a process that began more than two years ago, when the board first recommended Illuzzi be suspended. I dont think this took a sledgehammer to get this through to me," Illuzzi said in a telephone interview Saturday night. Jireh Billings, who runs the F.H. Gillingham Sons Store in Woodstock, stands near some of the wine he sells at his general store. Hardware goods are behind him.

Billings said the store was affected little, if any, by the national recession. 25 Years After Humanae Vitae, Contraception Divides Catholics Although he said hed made an erroneous judgment, he said that the sanction was too harsh. A reprimand would have done it, Illuzzi said. The decision reaffirms the boards recommendation, which concluded that Illuzzi had acted improperly three years ago by directly contacting an insurance company instead of communicating through the companys attorney. I guess I was pushing too hard to get cases settled for my clients, Illuzzi said.

I thought that talking to adjusters directly would get the job done. Its a comer that I should not have cut." The Supreme Court decision is the third time Illuzzi has lost in the case. The board originally issued a recommendation that he be sanctioned in 1991. But lawyers for D- See Page 7: Dluzzi member Catholic Church, the effects of the initial debate linger like a low-grade fever, flaring up in areas that have little to do with sexual morality. To this day, they shape everything from Catholic views on other issues to the selection of bishops and other leaders.

The encyclical, Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life), was issued on July 29, 1968 a time of turmoil around the world, a momert of street battles at the Democratic See Page 7: Catholics 1 Editorials C-2 Health E-2 Lotteries A-8 Obituaries D-2 Outdoor B-7 State News D-l Sunny and warm, low mid 80s. Full report, Pag Liu 54006 05 156 the expense of some cherished values. ODD The recent recession never really hit Gillinghams. We stayed pretty steady even when the market was flat, says Jireh Billings, 34, who runs the store with his brother Frank. They didnt lose financially during the downturn just experienced a growth pause.

We didnt have a drop in any department, says Billings, whose Sandy Macya Photo South Burlington, and an economic adviser to the Dean administration. There has been a relative success story on the whole eastern border stretching down to Brattleboro, said Carr. There is an industrial mix, not the large concentration of computer business and order-line defense contracting. When you look at what (sector) is struggling right now, the only one in that region that has, to any degree, is and even ately." See Page 6: Valley deter swimmers, but dead mussels create a stench that rivals rotting fish. In addition, there are potentially seijious issues to be addressed due to the zebra mussels penchant for concentrating toxins at a much higher level than any other lake dweller.

Such toxic loading can lead to devastating effects to mussel predators and lake bottom scavengers. The possibility that game fish, which feed on the scavengers, may become Contaminated with high concentrations of toxic materials, is being investigated by scientists. wire-rimmed glasses and chinos give him a casual air. I think we would survive in another part of the state, but I dont know if we would do as well if. we werent at a crossroads like we are.

Billings was referring to Interstates 91 and 89 which cross at White River Junction and are the main avenues for tourism. The Upper Valley region has traditionally been an economic success compared to the rest of the state, 3 jeirS Economic and Policy Resources, a regional consulting firm in could cause serious complications for those who draw water from the lake or moor boats in the area. The tiny D-shaped mussels set up colonies inside watfer; intake pipes and can eventually block the pipes all together. The mussel larvae, which are microscopic, can be drawn into water systems and later develop into adult mussels, and stop up plumbing. In a similar fashion, they cah ruin certain boat engines.

The mussels also reportedly favor rocky beaches, and Cah cover the stones densely. Not only do stacks of mussels and sharp, broken shells Zebra Mussels Seen As Widespread In Southern Champlain By PETER STEINFELSM The New York Times Twenty-five years after Pope Paul VI put a jolting halt to expectations that the Roman Catholic Church might ease its opposition to artificial birth control, only 1 out of 10 American Catholics agree with the churchs position. But the popes 1 968 encyclical and the furor it created continue to polarize the American church. Though birth control is seldom the subject of much serious debate among lay people in the 58-million- Zebra mussels, which are native to eastern Europe and western Asia, heavily infest the Great Lakes. The exotic bivalves became, widespread in the Great Lakes only three years after a European tanker discharged mussel-carrying ballast water into the lakes in 1986.

By 1989, the mussels measuring only one quarter of an inch across their shell reached densities of 23,000 animals per square meter (one meter equals 3.3 feet) in Lake Erie alone. The mussel differs from freshwa- See Page 8: Mussels KATHLEEN HENTCY mes Argus Staff Zebra mussels, which were found a bay in the southern part of ake Champlain and positively entified for the first time last sek, have now been found along entire eastern shore of the lake uth of Chipmans Point. Until Frday, according to a okesperson from the Lake Cham-ain Basin Program, the zebra ussels were known only to be in bay at Benson Landing. We have confirmed that there zebra mussels from Whitehall, ew York to Chipmans Point, Liz Soper of the Lake Champlain Basin Program said Friday afternoon. We have found zebra mussels that whole wdy.

The town of Orwell is approximately five miles east of Chipmans Point. The Department of Environmental Conservation biologist, James Kellogg, who has been collecting the mussels for identification, was in the field Friday afternoon and couldnt be reached for comment. According to Soper, until there are enough mussels to form encrusted colonies, the mussels probably wont cause any problems. But pnce they begin to cluster, they.