Bennington Banner from Bennington, Vermont • 22

Banner, Wednesday, January 28, 1981 Seventy-five turn out to hear about drug and By KYLE HUGHES For a $35,000 investment Bennington County could go a long way toward ridding itself of problems caused by drug and alcohol abuse, a United Counseling Service staff member told 75 local residents Tuesday. That program, which Tom Fusco of UCS described at a meeting sponsored by school officials, would educate and train 60 residents of Bennington, Arlington and Manchester in topics concerning alcohol and drug abuse and prevention. After the seven workshop, the citizens would return to their communities with specific plans to raise public awareness about drug and alcohol abuse. The plans would be formulated during the workshop. The final result would be increased highway safety, more treatment of those in need of help, and a change in the way a community views drug and alcohol abuse.

Several school officials expressed interest in the program as Fusco described it. Superintendent George Sleeman said he was enthusiastic about Fusco's proposal. Mount Anthony Union School District board Chairman Robert Dimke said he was interested in the program, although he thought a greater stress should be place on prevention of the problem. "As a school board member, I'm quite interested in prevention," Dimke said. Fusco told his audience that the Fusco also said more people entered treatment or therapy for drug and alcohol abuse problems once public awareness was raised about the community's The weeklong training workshop would cost about $35,000, Fusco said.

If grant applications now underway are successful, only part of that cost would be raised locally. "Dollar for dollar I don't think you can beat the results," Fusco said, noting the costly alternative: jailing or institutionalizing people because of problems and crimes stemming from alcohol and drug abuse. Fusco described the program as something similar in its efforts to the Bennington Regional Alcohol Council, but said that it would have a wider community base. BRAC is supporting the creation of the new program, Fusco said. The new "school-community based alcohol, other drug and highway safety prevention program project," as UCS calls it, would deal with everyone affected by drug and alcohol abuse: the user and abuser, the affected person (such as the child of an alcoholic), and the nonabuser or user.

The training of the three teams which would consist of people drawn from a wide spectrum of local society would be done by specialists who would come to Bennington for the seven-day workshop. Coal shortage has burners and dealers in fuel crunch By WOODY KLEIN Homeowners who thought they'd be smiling at their bankbooks while sitting Policeman accused of embezzlement BURLINGTON (AP) A Burlingtonpolice officer is scheduled to be arraigned next week on charges of embezzlement, according to Chittenden County State's Attorney Mark Keller. Keller said Tuesday Darrell Graham, 26, a three-year veteran, is scheduled to appear in Vermont District Court in Burlington Monday. The prosecutor said he plans to charge the officer with embezzlement in connection with missing funds from policeman's union accounts. The missing funds were discovered during an audit ordered by new officers of the Burlington Patrolman's Association.

Graham was a union officer until elections last fall. TOT Keller said the sum under investigation in the case is between $500 and $800. Fourth files in Burlington mayoral race BURLINGTON (AP) Joseph McGrath, a 56-year-old Burlington man, has become the fourth official candidate in the race for mayor of the state's largest city. McGrath, a political newcomer, said he has filed papers declaring himself an independent candidate in Burlington's mayoral race. He is the third independent candidate to enter the race.

Bernard Sanders and Richard Bove have also entered the race for mayor as independents. The three face Burlington's incumbent Mayor Gordon Paquette, a Democrat, who said he will seek another term in March. Accident Bennington police are searching for a driver involved in a hit-and-run accident Sunday that resulted in damage to a parked car. Police said a car belonging to James M. Knights, 29, of Bennington was parked outside the Elks Club on Washington Avenue Sunday when it was struck by another car that left the scene.

The Board of Civil Authority will meet Monday in the town clerk's office at 7 p.m. for the purpose of registering new voters and revising the checklist of voters to be used at Town Meeting on March 3. Catholic Daughters of America, Court St. Andrew 259, will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at St.

Francis de Sales Parish Center. Each member is asked to bring a valentine to exchange. The Women's Fellowship of the Second Congregational Church will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the church. Program topic will be "The Bible in History." A movie and displays from the American Bible Society will be featured.

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Carnival organizers are keeping fingers crossed for snowstorm program has worked in communities in Maine that have experienced problems such as a high rate of fatal accidents similar to those seen locally in the past few years. In one Maine community where several teen-agers were killed in an alcoholrelated car accident, the program was started and a significant drop in highway deaths was noted. A campaign called "Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk" was given credit for part of the improvement. Tom Fusco around a roaring coal stove this winter are instead shivering as they see their coal piles dwindle. A shortage of some sizes of coal has hit the Northeast this winter, an apparent result of the large number of families who have converted to that fuel from wood, oil and gas systems.

"I'm starting to get a little bit sick and tired of answering the phone and having to tell some cold people that I don't have any coal and I don't know when I'm getting more," said Don Patten Jr. of Cambridge Lumber Co. in Cambridge, N.Y. "It is a problem," agreed Ron Nadeau of Joseph A. Nadeau Inc.

of North Bennington. "We've been running behind all the way through As the coal comes in, it's already sold before it gets here." Dealers in the area sell coal in four sizes: chestnut, pea, stove and buckwheat. The chestnut and pea coal burned by most home stoves has been in short supply, and dealers have been substituting the other two sizes when necessary. Nadeau, who is selling coal for the first time this winter, uses a triage system in deciding who gets coal and who doesn't: Whoever heats only with coal, and needs it the most, gets the first delivery. Some coal-burners are blissfully unaware of the shortage and the difficulties of their coal dealers, while others know all too well that the fuel is scarce.

Patten cited two elderly women in Cambridge who burn exclusively with coal, who have suffered some chilly nights. Nadeau said most of his customers have supplementary heating systems. He has on occasion mixed two sizes of coal to stretch his supplies or he has delivered smaller orders than his customers requested. "In a pinch we can mix something together," he said. "Some customers say three tons, and we bring one ton." Patten has had to buy coal from other area dealers and sell that to his customers, sometimes taking a loss on the deal himself.

While that has kept his customers happy, it has hurt his balance sheet, he acknowledged. "I buy a ton or two from them to keep the customer satisfied," he said. Area coal is suppled by a Reading, mine, and dealers have rarely received as much as they ordered. Another problem is getting truckers to haul the fuel to the Northeast, according to Patten, who has found rail service equally unreliable. The cold winter has also boosted demand.

Coal dealers are convinced that the shortage is temporary. "I feel it's going to break," said Patten. "I think what's probably going to happen is that either we're going to see some of the new coal companies going out of business or we're going to see some of the old coal companies get tired of playing games and go out of business. I'm not interested in going out of business, that's for sure." Nadeau had a different theory: The shortage is being created by the coal companies in hopes of a government bailout. "It's pretty much just a mess right now," said Patten.

"I've got people waiting in line. I can sell all the coal I can get." "We could have sold more if we had it," agreed Nadeau, who has sold 200 tons this year. Chimney fires up The Bennington Rural Fire Department recorded a 70 percent rise in the number of chimney fires in 1980 over the previous year, Chief Robert Morrissey reported Monday at the Bennington Fire District No. 1's annual meeting. Morrissey also reported that the department answered 159 calls last year.

Officers elected at the annual public meeting included: chief, Robert Morrissey; 1st assistant chief, Sam Kelson III; 2nd assistant chief, Thomas Meeham. Also: moderator, Alden "Corky" Harwood; prudential member for three years, Norm Turgeon; treasurer, Betty Paskiewicz; clerk, Wanda Harrington; tax collector, Kevin Goodhue; and auditors, Helen Wiggins, Norma Oldham and Marie Turgeon. Verne Corkum and John Harrington were elected to serve one-year terms on the Bennington Briefs Apple Hill Studio, Harwood Hill, Bennington, announcing a tole and decorated painting course for beginners and intermediates Monday evening, 7 to 9:30 p.m., Feb. 9-March 9. Call Muriel Bohne, 1- 802-442-9624 for information.

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By WOODY KLEIN Ask Jim Horrigan what his hopes are for this week's Bennington winter carnival and he answers instantly: "Snow!" This is the third carnival Bennington has held. Both carnival chairman Horrigan and the Greater Bennington Chamber of Commerce, sponsor of the event, are hoping the third year will be the lucky one. The first year it rained, and last year there was no snow until the night the festivities began. Carnival events officially begin on Friday, with a broom hockey game between the Rotary and Lions clubs. But one of the events has actually already started.

School children have built snow sculptures that will be entered into a competition. GBCC Executive Director Gloria Van Derzee wants the carnival to be an event mostly for the children and teenagers in the Bennington area, the ones who participate in most of the events. The school system, she said, has been especially helpful. this year in signing up children for the event. Some out-of-towners have inquired about the carnival, especially about the snowmobile races on Sunday, but the event is geared more toward local people than visitors.

"The Chamber has accepted the fact that this is probably never going to be a big money-maker," said Horrigan, who agrees that the participants in the festival will always be mostly Benningtonians. That doesn't mean Horrigan has, no ambitions for the festival. On the contrary: He wants the carnival to rival Brattleboro's, which boasts a the help. of the Elks club and other drastically in future years, Horrigan service organizations. warns.

Horrigan, a banker at The Merchants Prospect is offering dinner and Bank, hopes the festival will eventually cocktails as part of the carnival this draw some tourist dollars into Ben- year. Reservations for the 6 p.m. nington, as people come up from urban Friday meal can be made at the areas to watch the races and enjoy the Chamber of Commerce office. snow. Entertainment will be offered at Prospect, provided by Mrs.

C's Big Band on Friday and by an unannounced group on Saturday. Entries from a school-system art contest will also be on display at the lodge through Sunday. From the base lodge at Prospect, diners will be able to watch Friday as a torchlight procession skis down the mountain. That ceremony opens the sports events of the festival. Saturday, a cross race begins the carnival at 10 a.m., followed by a 1 p.m.

Alpine race. Sunday, chidren's events begin at 11 a.m., and the afternoon will see snowmobile races, "fun events," a cross -country ski tour, an inner tube race and an awards presentation. The minibus will go to Prospect Mountain several times, over the weekend, for both participants and spectators. Saturday's first bus leaves Jim Horrigan at 9 a.m. from the First Vermont Bank parking Lot and will return at 11:30.

"I hope to make it a money maker," The next bus goes to Woodford at noon he said. and returns at 6 The fate of the carnival is tied to the On Sunday, the p.m. bus will leave at 10 fate of Prospect Mountain Ski Area, and return at 5 a.m. p.m. which owner Joseph made There is a $1 registration fee to enter Parks has available for the festival for each of the all of the events at with the last three years.

Parks, however, has Prospect, exception of the "fun events" on said this is the do-or-die year for Guests invited to watch the Prospect: The area will either attract a Sunday. are races without charge. larger number of customers or go The best news of all for the carnival under. Unless the slopes stay open, has come from the weatherman: Snow the weeklong schedule of events and enlists carnival will have to scale down is expected on Thursday and Friday. House upholds dead man's election MONTPELIER (AP) A House committee voted today to uphold last November's election of a dead man.

The House Municipal Corporations and Elections Committee rejected the arguments of Lauren Leavitt that the reelection of Rep. Sergio Passetto, D-Barre, on Nov. 4 was unconstitutional because he died before Election Day. The committee voted 8-1 to recommend that Gino Sassi, the Democrat appointed by Gov. Richard Snelling to replace Passetto, be allowed to keep his seat.

Ms. Leavitt, a Republican, opposed Passetto in the November elections. Her Continued from Page 1 added revenues. Critics charged Reagan's need to whittle down the budget deficit was the primary reason he chose immediate decontrol and its promise of $7 billion more in federal revenues. But administration officials estimated the higher prices brought about by immediate decontrol would decrease the country's appetite for oil by 100,000 barrels per day.

This would not only reduce U.S. Windham Continued from Page 1 Meers, considered a representative of the organization, to discuss deal. But Moulton said that while the idea had been discussed by the leaders of the organization, there had not been any commitment, which contrasts with Meers's statements. "Although I was reassured by one person in Washington that Mr. Meers was doing exploratory work for such a center, I should have looked further," Moulton said.

"I accept this Meers had talked about the project in great detail on Monday, saying that a total of 2,400 refugees would be taken in at the proposed center. The plan called for a staff of about 400, including 25 to 30 sociologists and psychologists, and an operating budget of $12 million to $15 million, Meers had said. Windham closed its doors in December 1978, the victim of declining enrollments. Moulton said that while prospects for the purchase have dimmed considerably, he was still hopeful a purchase would be possible. Burglaries Bennington police today are investigating two burglaries.

At 12:15 a.m. today, police were called to the junior high school on Main Street. Someone had broken a lock on a sliding glass door, and had entered the main office. Nothing appeared to have been taken, however, and damage was confined to the broken door. Tuesday night, police were notified of a burglary at Willowbrook apartments.Someone entered the Edward Allen apartment and took a Regency scanner.

Fire activity Bennington firemen were called out twice Tuesday, once for an arson fire and once for a false alarm. About 4:30 p.m., someone lit a pile of rubbish on fire at the Valentine mill on Pleasant Street. The fire was quickly put out by firemen. The building sustained extensive damage in a fire last year. About 3 p.m., someone turned in a false alarm at the junior high school.

No' one was apprehended at the scene. attorney argued before the committee that Passetto could not have been elected because voters knew he was dead. The 25-year-old college student said she was "not very hopeful" the committee would favor her appeal. But she contended her main concern was that a new procedure in such cases be adopted. Before- the vote committee members discussed various' alternatives, including a call for a new election.

But several legislators opposed that idea, saying it would complicate the issue and could take several months. They also discussed possible revisions in Gas dependence on foreign oil, they said, but perhaps ward off further OPEC price increases by cutting demand. The estimate of the impact on consumers varied widely because of different assumptions on just how much OPEC will raise prices in the next few months increases that domestic producers will now be allowed to match fully. Budget Director David Stockman, who earlier had predicted an 8 to 12-cent-per- U.S. Obituary CLAUDE H.

SUMNER Word has been received here of the death on Jan. 21 of Claude H. Sumner, 84, of Portland, formerly of Bennington. Born in Searsburg, Dec. 11, 1896, son of Orrin Sumner and Ellen Frazer Sumner, he was raised in and around the Bennington area.

On Aug. 13, 1916, he enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Slocum, N.Y. Mr. Sumner was assigned to the 318th Engineers, Company and served in the Philippine Islands and at the Panama Canal during its construction.

At the outbreak of World War I his company was sent to France where it took part in the Gerardmer Sector fighting and later in the Meuse-Argonne Funerals GRACE R. BARBER Funeral services were held Friday morning at the Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home for Grace R. Barber, a former longtime resident of Pownal. The Rev. Sidney Lambert, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, officiated.

Burial was in the family lot at Eastlawn Cemetery, Williamstown, Mass. Mrs. Barber died Wednesday at the Beverly Manor Nursing Home in Rutland at the age of 83. CECILET. BREWSTER The Liturgy of Christian Death and Burial was offered Tuesday afternoon in the Conversion of St.

Paul Church in Manchester for Mrs. Cecile Tetreault Brewster. The Rev. Joseph J. Lagor, pastor, offered the mass.

Entombment followed in Factory Point Cemetery, Manchester, where burial will take place in the spring. Bearers were eight grandsons, Peter Coy of Albany, N.Y., Edward Coy of South Glastonbury, Robert Brewster of Providence, R.I., Christopher Brewster of Danielson, Mark Jestes of Manchester, Matthew Tarbell of Lake Placid, N.Y., Douglas Tarbell and Jeffrey Tarbell, both of Dorset, and a nephew, Clarence E. Comar of Manchester. Mrs. Brewster, 72, died at her home in Manchester Center Saturday evening following a short illness.

Brewster Funeral Service in Manchester handled arrangements. Vermont's election law after the Leavitt issue was settled in order to avoid a similar controversy in the future. Snelling appointed Sassi last month, endorsing an attorney general's ruling that the Passetto election was constitutional. Snelling said it was clear that voters did not want Ms. Leavitt representing them in the House.

Most of the committee members agreed today. "The biggest issue here is the intent of the voters," said Rep. Timothy Corcoran, D-Bennington. The recommendation now goes to the full House. gallon gasoline increase, said Tuesday he now believes the rise will be only 3 to 5 cents in the next two months because of slack demand.

Some private analysts said the first sharp price hikes may be felt by heating oil customers because of tight demand brought about by severe winter weather. Energy Action, another consumer group, said heating oil prices could rise by more than 10 cents per gallon in February. prudential committee. Salary adjustments included: treasurer, from $650 to $1,000 annually; clerk, from $15 a meeting to $300 annually; auditors, from $10 a meeting to $25 annually. In other fiscal areas, it was decided to increase the new hose fund by an undetermined amount, and to increase the fire truck sinking fund by $5,000.

The tax rate will remain the same. The purchase of new uniform coats for firemen was voted down. Continuing to provide fire protection to Woodford was also approved at Monday's meeting. Chief Morrissey thanked the prudential committee for its assistance during 1980, and saluted outgoing 1st Assistant Chief Pat Kinney, who did not seek re-election. Fire department officials said 97 people turned out for the annual meeting.

engines, ball clocks, electronic kits, plus more hobbies and crafts. Discounts to 66 percent. Red Tag it at Knapp's Pets and Hobbies, Monument Plaza, Bennington. ADV. Frank J.

Hogan, owner of Hogan's Antiques and Garden Supply Shop, announces that the Drysdale display case is longer for sale. It will be retained by the family in memory of their aunt, Miss Josie Hogan, who was given the case at her retirement after 40 years with the dry goods department at Drysdale. ADV. The Bennington Lions Club invites anyone who plays a musical instrument, sings, dances or does comedy to audition for the club's version of "The Gong Show." John Wolfe of Channel 13, Albany, will MC. All potential candidates will be screened; 10 finalists will perform on stage Saturday, -Feb.

21, during the Lions' annual Sportsman, Home and Energy Show. For information, contact Pete Turner, 447-7928. ADV. Quiet Valley Food Cooperative will hold its annual meeting and potluck supper at the Second Congregational Church this Saturday at 4 p.m. All members are welcome.

Due to no school this Thursday, the Recreation Center will offer a free swim from 1 to 03 p.m. Offensive. He was discharged Oct. 14, 1919, with the rank of corporal. After the war Mr.

Sumner traveled to the West Coast and later married the former Stella Bloom. They settled in Bend, where he worked for steel construction companies building bridges and later landing craft and ships after the start of World War II. Mr. Sumner enjoyed fishing and the peace and quiet of the wilderness. He had been an active member of American Legion Post 66 in Oregon until his health began to fail.

Survivors in addition to his wife include a son, Donald Sumner of Portland; two brothers, F. Willard and Lawrence Sumner, both of Bennington; three sisters, Grace S. Gross of Bennington, Mrs. Joseph (Jessie) Maclay of South Strafford, and Alice Cherry of Stoughton, Mass. Another brother, Guy T.

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