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12 0 Rulland Daily Herald Friday, August 16, 1996 NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND Weather Forecasts NATIONAL Weather Friday, Aug. 16 AccuWeathcr forecast tor daytime conditions and high temperatures The AccuWeather forecast for noon, Friday, Aug. 1 6. 70S Lines separate high temperature zones tor the day. 70S 60s MontrSal76j 7 Vermont Mostly cloudy Friday with more scattered showers and thunder-storms.

High in the mid 70s to lower 80s. Chance of an evening shower or thunderstorm Friday night. Becoming partly cloudy late. Low in the mid 50s to lower 60s. Mix of clouds and sun Saturday.

High in the mid 70s to lower 80s. Clear Sunday-Tuesday. Low in the upper 50s. High in the upper 70s. New Hampshire Considerable clouds Friday with scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms.

Highs in the 70s. Mostly cloudy Friday night with scattered showers And possibly a thunderstorm. Lows in th6 50s. Chance of a morning shower Saturday, then becoming partly sunny. Highs 75 to 80.

Maine Friday, sun mixed with clouds northeast portion. Elsewhere considerable clouds with scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Highs 70 to 80 except a bit cooler Downeast coast. Mostly cloudy Friday night with scattered showers And possibly a thunderstorm. Lows in the 50s.

Chance of a morning shower Saturday, then becoming partly sunny. Highs 70 to 80. Southern New England Partly sunny Friday. Chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Highs 75 to 85.

Mostly cloudy Friday night. Scattered showers and thunderstorms ending. Patchy fog. Lows in the 60s. Becoming partly to mostly sunny Saturday.

Highs 75 to 85. 1 'l-1 lPortland75 I jjtfanchesterVj Via AssocmIM Press Of ptocsN 1 W6 AceuWealhw me Almanac Local Temps Weather Systems WARM STATIONARY COLD 1996 AccuWeather, Inc. Sunset Friday Sunrise Saturday Length of Day 13 Hours 50 Minutes Moon Rise Moon Set Phase of Moon: Second waxing day of the new moon. Yesterday Year Ago Normal High 82 85 80 Low 49 68 56 High at Low at Heating Degree Days 0 Growing Degree Days 16 Weather Partly Cloudy Precipitation None Scattered showers and thunderstorms will precede a cold front moving from eastern Pennsylvania and New York into New England. Morning clouds and fog over much of the Northeast will limit the heating by the sun, and this will curtail the development of strong or severe thunderstorms in this region later in the day.

E3 ESI ED ESI ES3 0 K1 SQ HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY Via Associated Press World Temps National Travel Forecast Focus: Hurricane Season There is a hurricane season within the hurricane season. For the Atlantic basin, the official start and end of hurricane season are June 1 and Nov. 30. But 70 percent of all tropical storms and hurricanes occur between mid-August and mid-October, a period when temperatures of tropical seas reach their peaks.

Warm waters promote high rates of evaporation, thereby filling the atmosphere with large quantities of water vapor. When water vapor condenses within a developing system, large amounts of heat are released, providing thermodynamic energy that fuels the heat engines of hurricanes. Amsterdam Athens Auckland Bangkok Barbados Barcelona Beijing Beirut Belgrade Berlin Bermuda Bogota Brisbane Brussels Budapest B'Aires Cairo Calgary Caracas Copenhagen Dhahran Dublin Search Dole Continued from Page One Continued from Page One But state officials declined to address that question, saying they would wait for the results of formal reviews of the circumstances surrounding Provenchers disappearance. State police are conducting a missing person investigation, and the state Mental Health Department may make its own inquiry. Moseley said that the state currently has little purview over camps such as Silver Towers.

But he added that his agency would review whether the state should gain licensing authority and even the ability to shut down a place such as Silver Towers. Thats one of the questions to answer when the heat of the moment has passed, Moseley said. We need to look at the whole situation. Silver Towers is an Elks Club charity that provides week-long stays to people with special needs for $50 each. Founded in 1956 in East Brookfield, the camp was relocated to Ripton in 1977.

Roughly 350 campers attend each year, and about 70 were there during the session that was to end Saturday. An Elks Club member from Burlington who was serving food to the search teams said club members were concerned that their charity was the source of such distress. They are very disturbed, said Norman DeForge, adding that the two counselors who were on the hike with Provencher both under 21 years old were particularly upset. The two counselors are having a very difficult time over this, De-Forge said. Volunteers on Thursday were cleared from the search area near Mount Moosalamoo, so they would not confuse the helicopters infrared search for any heat-producing object in the woods.

But the only positive hit turned out to be a rock. We covered a half-mile circle around the place he was last seen, said state game warden David Row-den, during a break in the air search. Well get a good view, and hopefully something good will come up this afternoon. But there was still no sign of Provencher late in the day. As Provenchers weary family took shelter in a shed, commanding officer Sgt.

Dennis Holman started sending out new search teams to cover areas the helicopter had cleared. Peggy Fairbrother, Provenchers sister and guardian, hugged a friend of Provenchers and offered words of encouragement. Were going to find him, arent we, she said. Going to be a big party. Officials showed growing concern that Provencher, who has a thyroid condition that requires medication, might be becoming dehydrated or vulnerable to hypothermia.

Fluids are going to be the big problem, said Rowden. If the weather turns off cold, hypothermias going to be a big problem. But police maintained their optimism that Provencher would be found, and volunteers were similarly upbeat. Special people are special in Gods eyes, said Lawrence Curtis, a volunteer from a citizens band radio group based in Randolph. I think hes going to be found in a place he thought was safe and hes just waiting for someone to come and help him.

Holman said teams would be posted in the woods through the night. The searchers planned to continue full-scale efforts on Friday with trained dogs and the specialized helicopter. Do you imagine for one minute that as I sign the bills that will set the economy free I will not be faithful to Americans in need? You can be certain that I will, for to do otherwise would be to betray those whom I love and honor most and I will betray nothing. Kemp warmed up the crowd, with an enthusiastic embrace of the Dole tax plan matched only by an emphatic pledge to expand the Republican Party by reaching out to blue-collar and minority voters. We may not get every vote, but we will speak to every heart, Kemp said.

Indeed, Dole echoed Kemps call for racial harmony and tolerance with a blunt rejoinder to anyone who did not believe the Republican Party should be open to all: Tonight this hall belongs to the party of Lincoln, and the exits, which are clearly marked, are for you to walk out of as I stand here and hold this ground without compromise. As Dole sought to leave his convention with momentum, he awoke to a sobering San Diego newspaper headline: Clintons Lead Balloons. This survey suggested the Democratic incumbent had a 17-point lead entering the conventions final night; other polls, including private Dole campaign polls, put the margin at about a dozen points. I leave here a lot more optimistic than when I arrived, said Ohio Gov. George Voinovich.

Finally we have some energy among the troops. The TV networks were broadcasting two hours of the convention proceedings, but did not telecast a seven-minute Dole campaign video shown just before Dole entered the convention hall to an explosion of cheers and chants, Dole-Kemp, Dole-Kemp. Speaking earlier, Kemp struck a similar chord. That is why they raised taxes on the middle class, Kemp said. That is why they tried to nationalize our health-care system.

That is the problem with all elitists, they think they know better than the people. For Dole, the challenge was to deliver nothing less than the speech of a lifetime, aiming not only to reintroduce himself to the American people but also to improve his partys image as it defends its fragile congressional majorities. It was a speech dreaded by some aides who worried about Doles penchant for dry delivery but it was clearly written with phrases and cadences that seemed to sparkle more brightly than his usual, drier fare. Some of the rhetorical flourishes were so un-Dole that they stood out starkly, such as his reference to cities that look like strings of sparkling diamonds. Dole said he was the product of a modest family, shaped by the adversity he faced recovering from grave World War II wounds.

From that experience, he said, my life has taught me that America is a land without limits. Dole mixed this nostalgia with details of an economic program he said would unleash the U.S. economy of tomorrow: A 15 percent across-the-board tax cut, a $500 per child tax credit, a reduction of the capital gains tax by half, and new incentives for higher education and job retraining all this while balancing the federal budget by 2002. To rebut Democratic criticism that this was impossible without spending cuts that would hurt the needy, Dole recalled the train trips his dad would take from Kansas to Michigan to visit his gravely wounded son. My father was poor, Dole said.

And I loved my father very much. wrong and I know because I was there. I have seen it. I remember. Doles address was the signature moment of a Republican National Convention that opened with a pointed abortion platform fight but closed in an atmosphere of nervous unity His vanquished primary foes sat together in a VIP section, and joined Dole and running mate Jack Kemp on the podium at the close of his 57-minute speech.

The boisterous celebration sent Dole into the fall campaign against President Clinton with a jolt of enthusiasm but still as the underdog, an often uneven campaigner against a polished Democratic incumbent at a time of peace and low unemployment. Looking to turn the tide, Dole delivered a scorching critique of the Clinton administration, faulting the president for raising taxes after promising to cut them, sitting idly by during an explosion of drug use and crime bv America's youth and being captive to teachers unions at the expense of school choice. He also said Clinton had cut the military too deeply, ignored the need for a missile defense system and undermined S. credibility by placing U.S. troops under United Nations command.

More broadly, he said Clinton and his fellow Democrats put too much faith in government, too little in people. It is demeaning to the nation that within the Clinton administration a corps of elite who never grew up, never did anything real, never sacrificed, never suffered and never learned should have the power to fund with your earnings their dubious and self-serving schemes, Dole said, without specifics. Train Continued from Page One Ethan Allen Express Schedule The Ethan Allen Express will make nine stops between Rutland and New York City. Here is the schedule: New York to Rutland Monday-Saturday Sunday Leave Penn Station 4:35 p.m. 7:30 p.m.

Arrive Rutland 9:35 p.m. 12:30 a.m. Rutland to New York Monday-Saturday Sunday Leave Rutland 7:30 a.m. 3 p.m. Arrive Penn Station 12:30 p.m.

8 p.m. The train will making the following station stops: New York Penn Station, Yonkers, Croton-Harmon, Poughkeepsie, Rhinecliff, Hudson, Al-bany-Renselaer, Schenectady, Saratoga Springs, Fort Edward, Rutland. Vermont, the patriot Ethan Allen. Ethan Allen, at least in the Northeast, is not the unknown soldier, Gershaneck said. Hes got a pretty good reputation as the head of the Green Mountain Boys and one of the top patriots of the Revolution.

The train itself is not yet ready to roll. Work is still under way on the tracks, owned by Vermont Railway, that the Ethan Allen Express will use. Those on hand for what Vermont Railway is billing a celebration will tour train cars and get a ride on the Sugarbush Express tourist train. But the Ethan Allens backers are confident their service will be running as scheduled in December, and its going into Amtraks new schedule in November, said Amtrak spokesman Rick Remington. From our standpoint we dont see anything major holding it up, Remington said.

Last spring, Vermont won $3.5 million in federal funding to upgrade the 21 miles of railroad track between Whitehall, N.Y., and Rutland. The state Legislature didnt appropriate any funds toward its operating costs, expected to be about $190,000 for the first four months. I have permission to enter into operating agreements, and permission to do a joint train contract, but I was given no money, Gershaneck said. That will be a test. I dont have that much money lying around.

But the Ethan Allen is fully expected to roll in December, Gershaneck said. Like its dauntless namesake, the proposed service has endured a few attempts on its life, both within Vermont and outside. Only this month, Amtrak announced plans to cut four lines effective in November in order to save money. One of those lines a leg of the Lake Shore Limited daily between Chicago, Boston and New York is between Boston and Albany, N.Y. But rail officials said Amtraks latest cost-cutting measures wont have any impact on the future of the Ethan Allen Express or Verfnonts east-side daily Amtrak passenger service, the Vermonter.

What we announced last week involves Amtraks national system, as opposed to services like the Vermonter and the Adirondack, which are state-supported trains that we run bycontract, said Amtrak spokesman Rick Remington. The 300-seat daytime Ethan Allen Express will run along the Hudson Valley to Whitehall, N.Y., and then to Rutland. The trip takes about 5 Vi hours. And the journey doesnt have to stop in Rutland. Two excursion trains, one that heads east, and one that heads north, serve Rutland in the summer months as charter trains.

One is the Sugarbush Ex- month. She said this figured in their decision to hold a special, closed meeting because she, Follett and Magwire were aware of the accusation. I was under the impression that Curt was going to be named very soon, if not the next Monday, she said. I was concerned that we would- have the appointment of a highway director and in the meantime have this issue unresolved. The question was how we could stem this off until the situation was resolved.

Unlike Magwire, who said he has suspicions about the reliability of Burtons drug test, Tetrault said she was convinced of his innocence. As far as Im concerned its over and done with, Tetrault said. The fact that Curt volunteered to take the test shows he had nothing to hide. The town manager said he was uncertain when he would again take up the issue of Burtons promotion. Im going to have to put things on hold until at least the dust settles, he said.

Steele said that despite Magwires complaint, his favorable opinion of Burton had not changed. Steele said he spoke with Burton Thursday and the employee said he wanted to continue working for the town. minent, and it would have happened around the time of the 20th or the 22nd, Steele said. The manager said that Select Board members were aware of his choice weeks earlier, because he had contacted each of them individually to solicit their opinions. Steele said he contacted them around the time of July 8th, but was not told of Magwires experience.

During the time period between July 8 and the special meeting, July 20, Follett, Tetrault and Magwire succeeded in passing a new town drug policy. That policy, passed on July 17, would allow the town to lire employees who were convicted of using or possessing drugs on or oft the job. It wasnt until after the policy was passed that the trio informed the town manager and Board Chairman Paul Putnam of the accusation. On Thursday, Steele said he questioned the timing of events surrounding Burtons planned promotion. Questions certainly come to mind, Steele said.

However, the manager said his main concern now was that the town had been opened up to legal action, because the complaint had been discussed in public. Im concerned that weve been exposed, Steele said. Im concerned that theres been a breach of confidentiality of a personnel matter. Tetrault and Magwire have denied that they were using the marijuana claim to keep Burton from being appointed head of the Spring-field Public Works Department. Follett could not be reached for comment.

Magwire said he reported the incident after a period of soul-searching, and said he would have been unable to live with himself had his suspicions proven to be true. What if there was something going on and somebody got injured? I had to say something. For her part, Tetrault said the Select Board urged quick passage of the hew drug policy so that it would have proper guidance in dealing with Burtons case. The select-woman also noted that Follett had been working for some time to pass a new drug policy, but had met with little success. Tetrault said she and her fellow board members were never out to get Burton.

Not at all, Tetrault said. We were looking for guidance. To adopt a policy after an event has happened is illegal and it would be unethical for us to attempt. Tetrault confirmed that the town manager had contacted her and fellow board members about Burtons promotion sometime earlier in the press, a two-year-old tourist service owned by ski tycoon Les Otten of Maine and run by a consortium of companies including Vermont Railway. The other is the Green Mountain Railroad which will charter historic trains between Rutland and Bellows Falls.

Both excursion operators have said they would like to coordinate their service with the Ethan Allen Express. Were in the process now of doing major track reconstruction on the entire line, said Jerome Hebda, president of the Green Mountain Railroad, which also has a more modern passenger fleet. We hopefully will be positioned by this time next year tc offer whatever service is demanded out of there possibly to Okemo Mountain. Meanwhile, a lot of track repairs remain to be completed before the train can start running, said Gershaneck. He said some hold-ups in receiving the federal funding should be resolved soon.

Well have a busy fall, Gershaneck said. Hebda welcomed the news that his train would remain the only one with the Green Mountain moniker. The Green Mountain Railroad is protective of its identity, and were pleased they chose to use the Ethan Allen name, he said. 1 i.