Bennington Banner from Bennington, Vermont • 16

16-Bennington Banner TE Friday, December 3, 1982 WEATHER FORECAST to 7 PM EST 12- 3 62 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 29.53 SEATTLE BOSTON LOW MILD NEW YORK CHICAGO, 30.007 SAN FRANCISCO DENVER ANGELES ANTA FAIR LOS HIGHEST DALLAS 30.00 TEMPERATURES 40 40 NEW MIAMI 29.77 ORLEANS LEGEND 70 RAIN SNOW AIR SHOWERS FLOW 70 UPI WEATHER FOTOCAST Tonight cloudy and mild with fog developing, low 45-50. Saturday cloudy and mild with a chance for a shower, high in the 50s. Saturday night cloudy and mild; low 40-45. Sunday cloudy and mild, high in the 50s. Thursday's high was 59; overnight low was 41.

Sunset tonight, Saturday's sunrise, 7:08. For updates, call 442-3121. VERMONT BRIEFS Too good to be true MONTPELIER (UPI) A company offering many Vermonters free gifts in return for $14.80 to cover postage and handling is under investigation by the U.S. Postal inspector and may not be able to make good on its offer, says Attorney General John Easton. "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is," he said Thursday in a prepared statement.

Easton said his office had received dozens of telephone calls in the last few days from people who received mailings from the American Testing Institute of Miami, Fla. He said the mailings offered gifts valued at $260 to $2,000, but that postal officials said the only prize they were aware of anyone receiving was an" "unlimited supply of Kodak film." The prize turned out to be a coupon for one roll of film at a time, he said, and the film had to be processed by a specific developer. Easton si said if the company is found to be violating laws, there would be little if anything his office could do to recover money for probably victims. Propane tank cars removed VERNON (UPI) Nine railroad tank cars filled with highly flammable liquid propane have been removed from a remote rail siding not far from the state's only atomic power plant. Northeast Utilities of Connecticut leased the siding and planned to store up to 45 tankers near the Massachusetts border and about 5 miles from the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.

But the utility agreed -Thursday to abandon the idea after state officials questioned whether it violated federal hazardous material regulations. All nine cars cars that were already in Vernon were removed Thursday night within hours of the agreement, officials said. Budget starts to take shape MONTPELIER (UPI) Budget and Management Commissioner Churchill Hyndes has droped some hints about what kind of a budget recommendation Gov. Richard Snelling might submit to the 1983 Legislature. Hyndes said Thursday he has directed department heads to aim for a 5 percent spending increase in fiscal 1984, and for 6.5 percent the following year.

If those figures hold up in Snelling's final recommendation, the administration will propose a budget of about $348 million for 1974 and $371 for 1975. The current budget is about $332 million, although Snelling has ordered more than $4 million shaved from that in order to avert a large deficit. Despite his recommendation, Hyndes said department heads have submitted budget proposals that reflect a 12 percent in 1974 and 7.8 percent in 1975 proposals that would push state spending over the $400 million mark. But he warned those requests are likely to be cut down to size by Snelling. "Obviously what's on the Christmas list is different than what's in the stocking," Hyndes said.

Arsonist fails in Burlington BURLINGTON (UPI) A potential tragedy was averted when three fires set at an apartment house failed to flare up, officials said. According to police, an arsonist used kerosine early Thursday morning to set the fires, one in an outside shed, the other two in a vacant apartment. Damage was light, however, and none of the nine occupants of the North Union Street building were injured. Arson has also been blamed for a fire that caused $100,000 damage Wednesday night to the former Thayer School on North Avenue, which is being converted into state office space. Sanders will make it official BURLINGTON (UPI) Mayor Bernard Sanders whose 1980 election stunned Vermont was to make it official tonight.

Sanders, a socialist and longtime political activist, planned to announce his candidacy for re-election. The co-founder and former leader of the radical Liberty Union Party, Sanders forged a coalition of independents and Citizens Party backers to upset well-entrenched Democratic Mayor Gordon Paquette. Since his election, he has picked up backing on the Board of Aldermen, and taken credit for opening up city government to more people. He faces opposition from Republican School Board Chairman James Gilson and service station owner Bill Williams, a Democrat. Jeffords will not step up MONTPELIER (UPI) Rep.

James Jeffords, will not be taking over as ranking Republican in the House Agriculture Committee. Jeffords had appeared to be in line for the post when the committee's former ranking Republican, Rep. William Wampler, lost his re-election bid. But Jeffords said in a prepared statement Thursday that Rep. Edward Madigan, announced he will give up his chairmanship of the Republican Research Committee to return to the Agriculture Committee.

Madigan will become the committee's senior Republican. Jeffords said he was not entirely disappointed with the turn of events. The ranking Republican is required to represent the views of the White House on the committee, he said, and those views are sometimes at odds with what is best for Vermont. is offset with a sense of relief that there will be no presure to compromise the independent stance I have been taking in favor of the very strong needs of farmers in our part of the country," he said. Tubing plant plans move to town By BEN ROTH A tubing and machine operation, formerly part of the Connecticutbased International Silver will be moving to Bennington this January, according to a company executive who purchased the division's assets.

The new company, to be called New England Tube and Machine, will manufacture parts for the aerospace industry and could employ up to 15 skilled laborers, said president William Groben. The new company, which will be much smaller than the International Silver operation in Meriden, will be housed in the Bennington County Industrial Building in North Bennington. The new president asserted that the new company has "absolutely no relation to either International Silver or INSILCO." Groben said he and two partners purchased the equipment of the small division after the financially ailing subsidiary was put up for sale by its parent corporation, INSILCO, in October. Groben, an executive vice president of International Silver, had eyed Bennington as an expansion site for the tubing division before INSILCO announced the sale. In early October the company interviewed more than 50 people in Bennington, including laid off Bijur and UST workers.

The company dropped plans to move the division after the sale announcement, said Groben, adding that he had no prior knowledge of INSILCO's intention to divest itself of the unprofitable company. International Silver lost $600,000 in the third quarter of this year. "Frankly I would be out of work," the 45-year-old executive said jokingly, offering a reason for purchasing the division. The tubing division, which supplied parts to the defense-related aerospace industry, has been what Groben called a "fairly integrated and self-suporting division" since its inception in 1978. Unlike the shrinking market for silver items, International Silver's mainstay, the tubing division had been able to win contracts from major companies as Pratt Whitney and General Electric.

Groben said he chose to relocate in Bennington rather than remain in Connecticut because he preferred northern New England and was impressed by the BCIC facilities. "I'm just partial to that part of the country," said the executive, who maintains a home on Lake George. In addition, Groben said that the Merchants Bank in Bennington is aiding him in financing the new company. He said that as a result of the initial screening by the local Job Placement Supreme Court overturns labor ruling By KEVIN GODDARD MONTPELIER (UPI) Vermont's Supreme Court has overturned a Labor Relations Board ruling that corrections officials forced the resignation of the assistant superintendent during an administrative. shakeup at the Woodstock Community Correctional Center.

The high court said Thursday Royal Bushey, 34, mistakenly believed he was about to be fired when he resigned in January 1981. It also said, however, Bushey testified he would have quit anyway, and neither attempted to withdraw his resignation when he learned his firing was not immiment nor filed grievances to procedures he considered unjust. "By failing to try to withdraw his (Bushey) elected not to test the claim that the department was intentionally forcing his resignation," wrote Chief Justice Albert Barney in the unanimous ruling. Bushey resigned during a period of turbulence at the Woodstock facility that included allegations of' wrongdoing by prison employees, demonstrations by both employees and inmates and the firing or resignations of a half dozen employees, including Superintendent Winston Riley. In his resignation, Bushey, a fiveyear department veteran, said working conditions had become "intolerable and an affront to human dignity." The Labor Board in a September 1981 ruling hailed by the Vermont State Employees Association as "a first" found Bushey resigned "in the face of what he viewed as a corrupt, unprincipled administration which had decided to dismiss him." The board said Richard Bashaw put in charge of the Woodstock facility during the turbulent period deliberately made Bushey's working conditions intolerable to prompt his resignation and circumvent the justcause requirement for employee dismissal.

It ordered him reinstated to his job with back pay. Deputy Corrections Commissioner Joseph Patrissi said no financial settlement had been made pending the appeal. The high court found Bashaw had moved Bushey's office and changed his work schedule to preclude some of his managerial duties, but said Bushey never filed grievances to protest the actions. "While Mr. Bushey may have had a he did not resign involuntarily," Barney wrote.

"A difficult employment environment can generate a voluntary resignation." In another ruling Thursday, the high court overturned a jury verdict that found a Windsor physician innocent of medical negligence in a malpractice lawsuit. Dorothy Perkins, who is now dead, in September 1978 filed a lawsuit claiming negligence by Dr. Dale Gephart, the Mt. Ascutney Hospital UVM students crowd housing in Burlington By ANDREA ZENTZ MONTPELIER (UPI) Although a campus housing shortage at the University of Vermont has eased, Burlington officials say the city still has a problem because large humbers of students live off campus, tying up much needed rental property. For the first time since the mid1960s, UVM has more lodging than students, Dean Keith Miser said Thursday, and has been able to offer lodging to all who want it.

There were 4,003 UVM students living on campus Nov. 1, about 200 fewer than there were available spaces, he said; about 3,500 students lived in the community. As UVM's undergraduate student body approaches the board of trustees central goal of 7,400, the demand for housing seems to have stabilized," Miser said in a news release. "'Every student seeking UVM housing, including transfer students and' students presently living in community apartments, has been offered (gn campus) space." The lodging has been available since May, he said. But City Health and Safety Administrator Steven Goodkind said the university should place a stronger emphasis on encouraging students to live on campus, thus easing competition between students and families vying for housing a longstanding problem for Burlington.

Goodkind said the school must address its housing needs by building more dormitories, providing economic incentives and requiring freshmen and sophomores to live on campus. Mizer said the university already requires freshmen to live on campus, is trying to curb housing costs and has renovated some older dormitories. He added. UVM now faces a new problem. "We are no longer concerned about the need for additional housing on campus," he said.

"If anything, we're concerned about maintaining our current occupancy level for the next few years. "It is a formidable challenge," he said. Mizer said studies show number of college students in the United States will decline through 1990. Because of uncertainty about 6 UVM's future enrollment, he said, the board of trustees has postponed any plans for new housing. The newest dormitory was built in to house 600 students, Mizer said; the university also bought a building in 1979 with space for 185 students, and rented another to house 150 students.

BENNINGTON BRIEFS Free children's films offered Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Bennington Free Library are: "The Cow," a little girl and a group of cows seen through the eye of a camera; Time Capsule," 200 years of American history; "Shorelines" and "Dragon Castle," length and contents unknown. Girl Scout Troop 47 will hold a candy sale this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at various location in the Bennington area.

Proceeds will benefit a trip to Rhode Island. Santa Claus will join Town James Colvin at the annual lighting of the community Christmas tree tonight on the lawn of the Service, it would not be difficult to hire workers capable of doing the sophisticated metal work. Groben also said that pay scale for workers would not be substantially different from wages paid in Connecticut. Officials from the United Steel Workers, who represent International Silver employees, were concerned when the company announced its possible expansion plans. But Groben said he will pay "whatever it takes to get workers and I don't think it will be much different than down here." Groben said the work, involving forging complex parts for aircraft, is a relatively unusual trade in New England, and required skilled laborers who generally are highly paid.

Groben worked for IBM and Timex before joining International Silver four years ago as vice president of manufacturing. He said he plans to move his family up to Bennington. and a local pharmacy. She alleged a drug prescribed for her by Gephart caused an adverse medical reaction, and claimed she had not been been warned the reaction was possible if she took the drug after drinking an alcoholic beverage. Ms.

Perkins said the hospital was responsible for the actions of an attending physician, and the pharmacy was negligent in preparing, dispensing and labeling the drug. A Superior Court judge dismissed the complaint against the hospital, and a jury subsequently returned verdicts absolving Gephart and the pharmacy. The high court in a ruling opposed by Justice Louis Peck affirmed the finding against the hospital and ordered a new trial. But it said Superior Court Judge Hilton Dier erred by dismissing Ms. Perkin's complaint against the hospital, It said the trial court, judge wrongly instructed the that Ms.

Perkins "assumed the risk" associated with the drug if she was warned by Gephart or anyone else of possible reactions. In his dissenting opinion, Peck wrote the assumption of risk language was irrelevant, but should not have been grounds for reversing the jury's decision because it was "trivial and non-prejudicial." More flatlanders move in MONTPELIER (UPI) Figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show the number of people moving into Vermont has doubled over the past 20 years. Statistics also showed one out of every six Vermonters had lived in the state less than five years when the 1980 census was taken. According to the report, there were some 36,000 people living in Vermont in 1960 who had been here less than five years.

By 1970, though, that number jumped to more than 72,000. Many of the newcomers moved into southern Vermont, particular Windham, Windsor and Bennington, most coming from other northeastern states. And, officials said, they are generally younger, better educated and better paid than Vermont natives. State buys more rails MONTPELIER (UPI) Vermont has been given permission to buy 9.4 miles of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad. The state became interested after the announced plans to abandon the line-between Castleton and the New York state border a spur considered vital to several Vermont busiresses and one in New York that employs hundreds of Vermonters.

Transportation Secretary Tom Evslin said Thursday the federal Intersate Commerce Commission has approved the state takeover for $120,000. Under the proposal, Vermont will also lease 7.4 miles between the border and Granville, N.Y. Since the 1982 Legislature allocated up to $150,000 for the purchase and Gov. Richard Snelling and the Transportation Board have endorsed it, the deal is not expected to run into trouble next week from the Joint Fiscal Committee. As it has with other railroads it owns, the state is expected to lease the line to private operators.

Machinists ratify contract SPRINGFIELD (UPI) Unionized machinists at Bryant Grinder one of the area's largest employers, have neluctantly ratified a new three-year contract which includes no cost-of-living increase. "It's just not the time to go out on the streets," said Emmett Gavin, business manager for Local 218 of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers Union. "Business is not that good." Union members voted 118-89 Wednesday to ratify the contract, which included wage increases of five, six and seven percent over the three OBITUARIES AND FUNERALS DORIS H. KNIGHTS POWNAL Doris H. Knights, 72, of Alta Mobile Park, died Thursday at Putnam Memorial Hospital.

Born on Jan. 15, 1910, in Bennington, daughter of Freeman and Fanny E. (Wallen) Harrington, she had always lived in the Bennington area and at one time was employed in Bennington textile mills. Her husband, Fred E. Knights, is deceased.

Survivors include three daughters, Pauline Roucoulet of Hollyhill, Edna Winslow of Pownal, and Joyce Conklin of Cambridge, N.Y.; three brothers, Clarence Harrington of Bennington, Edward Barber of Fort Davis, Texas, and Ralph Barber of North Bennington; two sisters, Ethel Leight of Holmes, N.Y., and Hilda Barber of Bennington; 21 grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren; nieces, nephews and cousins. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Hanson- GOLDEN KRUST WEEKEND SPECIAL Jelly Donuts French Bread Fudge Fancies Saturday Sunday Only Walbridge Funeral Home in Bennington with the Rev. William Wilson of Williamstown, officiating. Burial will take place in White Chapel Cemetery, Bennington.

Friends may call at the funeral home one hour prior to the service. Memorial contributions may be made to the Pownal Rescue Squad. CHARLES E. LAMB town office. Members of the community are invited to join in caroling and some hot cider and present their Christmas requests to Santa.

On Saturday, Dec. 4, the Women's Fellowship of the Second Congregational Church will hold its annual "Snowball Bazaar" from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; members of the Catholic Daughters of America, Court St. Andrew, will hold a minibazaar at. St.

Francis de Sales Church from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and a "Christmas Bazaar" will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Shaftsbury Elementary School under sponsorship of the United Methodist Women of the Methodist Church, Shaftsbury. Funeral services for Charles E.

Lamb, 27, a former resident of Bennington who died in a hunting accident in Alaska on Nov. 23, will be held Monday lat 10 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church here. Friends may call at the HansonWalbridge Funeral Home Sunday evening from 7 to 9. A graveside service will be held at the Hartland Village Cemetery at 1 p.m., where burial will take place.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Bennington Rescue Squad or to a charity of one's choice. JAEGER HAUS Restaurant R1. 7, Pownal, Vt. Has limited space still available on weekends only for Christmas parties. Call 823-9377 for more details.

Join a friend for lunch at the Snowball Bazoor, Second Congregational Dec. 4th. Luncheon served 11 a.m.-2 p.m..