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'fft LOCALSTATE Page 14 Bennington Banner Saturday, June 11, 1983 1 Troy road, bypass not in state plans By PATRICIA HART The states agenda for highway construction during the next five years does not include a Bennington bypass or a road connecting Bennington with Troy, N.Y., according to Patrick Garahan, secretary of transportation. However, Garahan said the state does expect to begin a flurry of smaller projects within the next five years including construction on a School Street bridge this year, a climbing lane in North Pownal the next year and a northern link to Route 7 in Dorset the year after that. In addition, state officials hope to rebuild a five-mile stretch of Route 7 between Pownal and Bennington by the late 1980s. At a Bennington Rotary Club luncheon Friday, Garahan said that he recommended that the state drop Bennington Countys designation as an intense growth area. That designation paves the way for 95 percent federal reimbursement on major highway projects.

Garahan quicker those funds will have their ripple effect on contractors, suppliers and so on, Garahan said. Engineering plans for a Route 7 bypass of Bennington have been geared to an eastern route, located entirely within Vermont. But Garahan said that the state is willing to consider local opinion on the subject. We all have to take a look at current traffic counts, said Garahan. Other projects in the planning stages for Bennington County include improvements to Route 9 heading out toward Searsburg, as well as repairs to Route 67A near Bennington College.

Also, Garahan said the state was very close to a final solution with Old Bennington village trustees on rebuilding Monument Avenue. Proposed repaving of the avenue with cement has drawn objections from residents. Trustees are expected to hire a consultant to said the reimbursements will be better used in Rutland, Chittenden County and St. Johnsbury where major highway projects are planned during the next few years. This is not a comment by the state that Bennington is feel that when those St.

Johnsbury projects are completed, Bennington can be named back as an economic growth center, he said. Garahan, who took over as secretary of transportation six months ago, said his departments prospects have changed drastically since Congress passed the Surface Transportation Act of 1982. Things have improved a lot since 12 months ago, Garahan said. By doubling the amount of money that is available to Vermont for road projects, the legislation pushed projects that had been in the pipeline into the forefront, Garahan explained. The faster we spend the highway funds on worthwhile projects, the evaluate the options for repaving the road and improving its the drainage.

Garahan quipped that I recognize that Monument Avenue is not the only avenue in the area, although we seem to spend most of our time on it." Garahan noted that one controversial issue seems to be behind him with the decision by federal highway officials to rescind a ruling which would have allowed tandem tractor trailers on Route 9. The federal government has come to their senses and dropped Route 9 from any potential route for tandems," Garahan said. Vermont officials protested when the southern Vermont highway leading from Bennington to Brattleboro was designated as open to tandem tractor trailors. Garahan said that truck drivers had not responded to the Vermont objection or indicated any interest in using tandem trailers on Route 9 anyway. VERMONT BRIEFS Meat officials wont return MONTPELIER (UPI) Two Agriculture Department officials relieved of duty following a state review of Vermonts embattled meat inspection program will not resume managerial responsibilities, Agriculture Commissioner George Dunsmore said Friday.

Moving to defuse an apparent conflict between himself and Gov. Richard Snelling, Dunsmore said in a prepared, three-page statement he had not intended to suggest to two legislative committees this week that Drs. Amos Wilson and David Walker might return to their jobs. Wilson, the states meat inspection director, and Walker, his supervisor, were relieved of duty last week for 30 days, with pay, after a management audit team concluded the meat inspection program was badly mismanaged. Although Gov.

Snelling told reporters the two had been suspended and would not be re-instated in their jobs, Dunsmore told the House and Senate agriculture committees Thursday no suspensions have been conducted and no decision had been made on their future employment prospects. Hilley investigated in third death ANNISTON, Ala. (UPI) Calhoun County authorities have been investigating a possible link between the 1974 death of a local resident and Audrey Marie Hilley who was convicted of giving arsenic to her husband and daughter. Assistant District Attorney Joe Hubbard said Friday that authorities have known about the situation for a couple of years. But he would not disclose details of the investigation or the name of the suspected victim.

Mrs. Hilley was convicted Wednesday of putting small amounts of arsenic in the food of her husband, Frank, causing him to die in 1975, and attempting to kill her daughter, Carol, the same way in 1979. She was sentenced to life plus 20 years and has been taken to Tutwiler womens prison. Hubbard said there was nothing firm in the new poison investigation. We have indications that the person could possibly have died with the same symptoms that Frank Hilley died from and that Carol Hilley suffered.

Were just in the investigative stage, the official said. Wilford Lane, Mrs. Hilleys attorney, told the Birmingham News he knew nothing about the latest investigation and would not comment on it. Mrs. Hilley, 50, was arrested in Vermont in January after having fled from Alabama since November 1979 when she disappeared just before she was to be tried for attempted murder in her daughters case.

Author woos, wins North Shire audience By STEVEN BREDICE MANCHESTER Author Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, juggling literary, academic and family responsibilities, once found herself engaged in a year-long nightly affair with her typewriter. One evening, soon after finishing the novel that had claimed so much of her time, Mrs. Schaeffer tucked her young son Benjamin into bed. But the boy began carrying on. Benjamin, whats the matter with you? the writer asked her son.

No more type-type! No more type-type, he cried. So Mrs. Schaeffer went to her desk and ran the typewiter, lulling the boy to sleep. And all those months I was feeling guilty about keeping the child up, said Mrs. Schaeffer.

Mrs. Schaeffer, a part-time Vermonter, spent Thursday evening at the Northshire Bookstore reading from her latest novel, The Madness of a Seduced Woman. By the end of the event, Mrs. Schaeffer herself had seduced an intimate audience into the tempestuous world of Agnes Dempster, a girl whose passionate love affair with a Montpelier stone cutter prods her into the role of murderess, would-be suicide, and, eventually, madwoman. I raised the gun again and thrust the barrel into my ear, and it was cold, and I pulled the trigger and I saw myself falling slowly toward my own face which was warm and perfect and unscarred and as wide and welcoming as the earth itself, Mrs.

Schaeffer has Agnes write. But Agnes survived not only the bullet, and the ensuing brain surgery, but her trial for murder as well despite her fiery longing for death. Here was a person who had gone to considerable lengths to kill herself, but was bound to survive, Mrs. Schaeffer told the group. The story, based on an historical event, is set in tum-of-the-century Montpelier, and will be the subject of a major motion picture to be filmed by the producer of Kramer Vs.

Kramer and Ordinary People in Vermonts capital over the next winter. And although Mrs. Schaeffer fleshed out the 1898 newspaper account of the real-life Agnes Dempster with her own experiences both real and imagined readers and reviewers seem to agree the novel maintains its psychological verisimilitude. Mrs. Schaeffers audience bore this out time and again, nodding or whispering their identification with her descriptions and observations.

Book gets good reviews Publishers Weekly recently called the book a long, detailed, intelligent and moving novel, one that demands time and patience but that will reward the reader with riches of character delineation and complex social portraiture. And the book was reccommended for vacation reading by the New York Times. Nevertheless, Mrs. Schaeffer is wary of literary criticism some of which she has found scalding prefering instead to place her faith in her readers. I think readers are more intelligent than reviewers, she said in a soft, smooth voice.

Indeed, Mrs. Schaeffer offered some equally eclectic opinions about the publishing world and on the life of an author in todays America. A writers life is very reclusive, she said. But today, youre expected to become somewhat of a performer. Im not comfortable with that.

Indeed, by their own account, Mrs. Schaeffer and her husband Neil who is chairman of Brooklyn Colleges English Department, where Mrs. Schaeffer teaches enjoy a life of quiet domesticity. We dont do the cocktail circuit, said Schaeffer. That is partly because Mrs.

Schaeffer, the author of five volumes of poetry, a volume of short stories, and five novels including Anya and -Falling spends much of her time writing. When I start writing, I write every minute I can, she said, explaining that once she gets a novel under way, she averages about three hours of sleep per night. But for Mrs. Schaeffer, that is a small price to pay. I love writing, she said.

Schaeffer backed up this statement. Its really not torture for her and therefore not for me, he said. Writing flows effortlessly According to Mrs. Schaeffer, her writing flows almost effortlessly once she actually begins a novel. But that is largely due to the amount of time and thought Mrs.

Schaeffer invests in each project before typing a single word. I dont even begin to write anything down until I know what Im going to write from beginning to end, she said. The Madness of a Seduced Woman, for instance, gestated within Mrs. Schaeffers mind for five years. It took one year to write.

A lot of things going on in the world around you sort of get swept into the book, she said. And this is no accident. I see writing as a way of preserving things from getting from getting swept backward in time." Mrs. Schaeffer who, in the words of author Margaret Atwood, has a crystalline eye for detail considers her gift of recollection a family legacy. I used to call my grandmother the source of useless I seem to have inherited her ability, she said.

Mrs. Schaeffer has obviously put that ability to work. And she intends to keep on doing so. Mrs. Schaeffer said the next book she plans to publish is a work of fiction for young adults entitled, The Dragon Who Loved Children.

In addition, she is preparing a volume of poetry called, The Day in its Parts. Also, Mrs. Schaeffer is wrestling with a new novel, The Injured Party, an unfinished manuscript of which is sitting in the false bottom of a piano stool. As for The Madness of Seduced Woman, Mrs. Schaeffer has high hopes.

She noted that the book will soon be published in England, and may very well go through a second printing in the United States. And given the sale of the movie rights, Mrs. Schaeffers seems to be a success story only partly penned: I like the writing, and I like being anonymous, but its getting harder to do that now. OBITUARIES AND FUNERALS chester, died in Wells Thursday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Katherine Hadaway.

HARRIET I. MARTELLE WELLS Harriet I. Martelle, 75, mother of Morris Martelle of Man FOR THE RECORD Nursing students could get aid WASHINGTON An amendment proposed by Sen. Robert Stafford, could provide more financial aid to students at three Vermont nursing schools, including the Putnam Memorial Hospital School of nursing in Bennington, Vt. According to Stafford aide Thomas Calcagni, the amendment would add $4.6 milllion to the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant Program.

The Senate approved the amendment Thursday and it now goes to the House. The money would be avilable for 489 schools in 28 states. In addition to the Putnam school, the Fannie Allen School of Nursing in Winooski and the Thompson School of Nursing in Brattleboro could receive funds. The grant program provides money to colleges, universities and other educational institutions to assist students who are unable to meet tuition and other expenses despite other aid and part-time jobs. As a result of shortfall, about 500 institutions, including the three in Vermont, would have received no supplemental assistance for students.

I believe this would have been very unfair to Vermont students and other students around the country who have done everything they could to raise money to pay for their education but came up a little short, Stafford said. If the bill is approved by the House and signed by the president, the aid could be avialable to eligible students at the three nursing schools this fall. Jail could hurt teen programs MONTPELIER (UPI) Alternative programs for treating troubled teenagers could suffer from a state decision not to scale down a planned 30-bed jail in Essex for juvenile offenders, House Health and Welfare Chairman Gretchen Morse, R-Charlotte, said Friday. She said the state will have to shoulder the substantial cost of running the facility once it is built, and that could mean other programs might receive smaller appropriations in times of economic difficulties. Looking at the deficit, alternatives in the juvenile justice system are in jeopardy of losing ground, she said.

Mrs. Morse had pushed for construction of a smaller jail so troubled youths would not be warehoused with hard-core delinquents. She said in a telephone interview Friday the Legislature was responsible for the ultimate size, since it approved only a lukewarm compromise allowing construction of a facility no smaller than 25 beds, and no larger than 30. The Snelling administration had already begun drafting plans for the 30-bed facility when the compromised was approved, and confirmed this week it would stick with its original size plans. Minister to be installed The installation of the Rev.

John V. Matern as pastor of the Redeemer Lutheran Church in Bennington will take place Sunday, June 11, at 3 Pm. The presiding minister, representing Bishop E. Harold Jansen of the Eastern District of the American Lutheran Church, will be the Rev. Robert Isaksen, service mission director for the district.

Assisting will be Pastor Gerald Strek of Good Shepherd Lutheran in Jericho. Reading the lessons will be Pastor Craig M. Endicott of Enfield, N.H. Chaplain Christopher Hoyer of SUNY in Albany, N.Y. will deliver the sermon.

The choir of St. Francis de Sales, under the direction of organist and choir director Vincent Dassetti, will sing and the Second Congregational Churchs hand bell choir, under the direction of Nancy Steffen, will play the prelude. Clergy from Albany and Bennington of various religious orders will be in attendance. Taft to join hospital review MONTPELIER (UPI) Hugh Taft, 59, of Springfield, was named Friday to fill the last vacancy on a five-member panel created by the 1983 Legislature to analyze hospital finances and recommend budgets with an eye toward controlling costs. Gov.

Richard Snelling said Taft, president of a 176-employee company that manufactures peripheral equipment for the computer industry and a former trustee of the Springfield Hospital, will represent purchasers of medical services. The four members of the data collection council who had already been named held their first meeting Thursday. The council agreed to ask hospitals to provide their budgets for next year by mid-July at the latest. Sanders opposes peace rally BURLINGTON (UPI) Mayor Bernard Sanders, who got his start in Vermont politics as an anti-war activist during the Vietnam conflict, has come out in opposition to a planned demonstration by a coalition of peace groups. The coalition plans to blockade the General Electric plant in Burlington June 20 because the factory produces high-speed machine guns used in Central America.

But Sanders and unionized GE workers said Thursday it would be wrong for the peace groups to target their protest at workers. Not everybody has the luxury of choosing where they are going to work or the money not to work, said Sanders, a socialist. Francis Moisan, president of Local 248 of the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, said he was upset because his union has supported the peace movement in the past. was done to Ms. Fosters vehicle.

She received lacerations to her head. PUTNAM HOSPITAL Medical Center after a long illness. Born on Jan. 31, 1916, in East Dorset, son of Halleck Rowell and the former Annie Congdon, he was a U.S. Army veteran of World War n.

Mr. Rowell had also lived in South Wallingford and Arlington before moving to Rutland. His wife, the former Nina Penn, died in 1966. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Carolyn Mommsen of Somersworth, N.H.; three grandsons; several nieces, nephews and cousins.

There will be calling hours. Cremation will take place at the Gardner Earl Crematory in Troy, N.Y. Burial will be in the South Dorset Cemetery at a later date. Contributions in Mr. Rowells memory may be made to the Bennington County Humane Society in Shaftsbury.

Bom in Chittenden on April 18, 1908, daughter of Carleton and Eva (Chapin) Whitney, she had lived all her life in Besides hef son in Manchester and her daughter in Wells, she leaves six other daughters, Mrs, Rena Tardie, Mrs. Vera Kelley, Mrs. Thelma Hayes and Mrs. Ella James, all of Wells, Mrs. Shirley Gould of Pawlet and Mrs.

Beatrice Durrum of Poultney; five other sons, Phillip, Ernest, Robert and Stanley Martelle, all, of Wells, and Fred Martelle of Pawlet; three sisters and two brothers; 44 grandchildren and 39 great-grandchildren; several nieces, nephews and cousins. Another sister is deceased. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Robert M. King Funeral Home in Granville, N.Y.

The Rev. Charles Knight will officiate. Burial will follow in Wells Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Car door hit A car driven by Tammy LaBonte, 16 of Pownal, struck the door of a vehicle driven by Gary Bessette of Gage Street as he was attempting to get out of his car on Park Street, according to police.

Police said $200 worth of damage was done to Bessettes vehicle and $100 to the LaBonte car. Friday, June 10 Admissions Beatrice OBrien and Beatrice Maxon of Bennington. Discharges Dorothy Munroe of Woodford; Lawrence Hall and Stephen Green of Bennington; V. Audreta Carlisle of East Dorset. BIRTHS JAMES F.MYLOTT James F.

Mylott, 70, of Woodford Road died Friday evening at Putnam Memorial Hospital. The Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. A full obituary will appear in Mondays Banner. JOHN W. ROWELL RUTLAND John W.

Rowell, 73, of 35 Church St, died Thursday morning at the Rutland Regional Police investigating Hoosick damage HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. Local police are still investigating a property damage accident which probably occurred sometime between 8 30 and 9 p.m. Friday. A concrete abutment to the Mechanic Street bridge was damaged in the accident, police said. In addition, a damaged vehicle was found near the scene, police said.

No further information was available at press time. BENNINGTON BRIEFS A son, Michael, was bom June 10 at the Pittsfield (Mass.) Birthing Center to Pat Gibbons and David Beech of Hoosick Falls, N.Y. THE NUMBERS NEW YORK The winning daily number drawn Friday in the state lottery was 507. The Win 4 number was 8636. VERMONT The daily lottery number Friday was 623.

Students in the sixth grade at Sacred Heart School will hold a bake sale today after the 5:15 p.m. Mass, and again Sunday after the 8, 10 and 11:30 a.m. Masses. The Bennington Board of Civil Authority will register voters and add names to the checklist today from 10 a.m. to noon at the town clerks office on South Street for the special town meeting on June 28.

The Coalition of Disabled Individuals will hold a cookout Wednesday, June 15, starting at 6 p.m.. Participants are asked to meet in the community room at Beech Court. Benningtons disabled community is invited to attend. For more information, call Charlie Murphy at 447-7515. Motorcyclist still on critical list David Fedorka, 31, of Arlington who was injured in a motorcycle accident in Shaftsbury Thursday, remains in intensive care at the Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center where he is listed in critical condition, a hospital spokesman said late Friday.

Vermont State Police said his motorcycle was totalled. Car hits pole A Bennington woman struck a telephone pole on West Main Street at 4:30 p.m. Friday while leaving the Paradise Restaurant, police said. Heidi Foster, 22, of Maple Street, became distracted as she was pulling out of the driveway when her car door swung open, according to police. Her vehicle then hit the pole Police said $300 worth of damage.