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I ly yy i upm NEW YORK Bennington Banner Page 7 Saturday, No ember 5, 1983 Policeman charged with intimidation Colenzo into contact with Konefal. Hodge and Share allegedly took cash from undercover operatives posing as drug dealers and converted it to easily cashable bonds, authorities said. Two of the names appearing on the bonds were those of dead clients of Hodge, officials said, which would have made them impossible to trace. All the money was recovered. Hodge and Share are accused of failing to report a transaction involving more than $10,000, as required by law.

Utica Police Chief Ben Rotondo was unavailable for comment. The prosecutor said Konefal made the allegations this week after we had a heart-to-heart talk about perjury. In the complaint, Konefal said Colenzo threatened twice to kill him if he implicated Hodge. Colenzo also admitted searching Konefals car, Konefal claimed. Konefal stated in the complaint that he promised to need Colenzos warning to keep him out of the case.

Ms. Jones would not comment on the relationship between Hodge and the officer. The prosecutor also said she had no knowledge of any official police business that brought SYRACUSE, N.Y. (UPI) A Utica police officer threatened to kill a witness who was expected to testify in a money laundering case, a federal prosecutor charged Friday. Officer Luke Colenzo, 38, pleaded innocent before a U.S.

magistrate to a charge of threatening to intimidate a witness and was released on $15,000 bail, Assistant U.S. Attorney Nancy Jones said. A conviction on the charge calls for a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail and a $250,000 fine. Ms. Jones alleged Colenzo threatened to rip off the heads of Eric Konefal, 36, of Whitesboro, and Konefals son, Christopher, 7.

Ms. Jones said Konefal was a witness in the governments case against Leroy Hodge, 69, who allegedly laundered money while serving as the attorney for the village of Hamilton and the towns of Nelson and Madison. Harold Share, 65, a Syracuse investor, is also charged in the moneylaundering scheme and Konefal, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the scheme, is expected to testify against Share. Ms. Jones sa0 Konefal, who has been placed under guard, filed a complaint that he was threatened by Colenzo last January, shortly after Hodge was indicted.

Donut shop goes kosher ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) A Dunkin Donuts shop near the State University of New York at Albany went kosher this week the first such switch for a fast-food restaurant in the Capital District, a rabbi said Friday. For eight hours Wednesday, a half dozen employees working under the gaze of Rabbi Gershon Gewirtz of Congregation Beth Abraham-Jacob in Albany washed ovens and grills, unpacked new dishes and silverware and replaced non-kosher ingredients. Its now the only place of its kind in the entire Capital District, Gewirtz said. Gewirtz said the switch involved researching the source of ingredients used to produce donuts, soups and other products, he said.

Kosher food is made according to strict Jewish dietary laws. A manager at the 1232 Western Ave. shop said the decision was made about two months ago, after Jewish students at SUNY Albany presented a petition saying the change could be profitable. We didnt see how it would hurt anything at all, said Mike Cayo of East Greenbush, a store manager. Several non-kosher items, such as soup, hot chocolate and fruit punch, were discountinued and the store is now seeking replacement products, he said.

However, Cayo sid the store has not changed its prices or appearance. Gewirtz said the change would be announced at local religious services Friday and Saturday, and in a weekly Jewish newspaper circulated in Albany and its suburbs. Dunkin Donuts, a national chain with 1,200 shops, has encouraged kosherization where it makes sense, company spokesman Bill Daley said. Weve had some success in shops in the Chicago area, he added, where those stores experienced a 20 percent rise in sales after going kosher. City wont release murderers', rapists ding upon the number of inmates in city jails.

Lasker is the presiding judge in a civil suit filed against the city by the Legal Aid Society over prison Candidate collapses, then dies with assault; 28 with weapons possession; and four with- arson, officials said. Lasker ordered the city Monday to cut its prison population by releasing inmates on bail of $1,500 or less. His action Friday modified that order to permit the exclusions. The city annouced earlier this week it would free at least 341 inmates to comply with Laskers orders. The jail population was 9,793 Friday.

The city has set a tentative population target of 10,000 to comply with Laskers order but officials expect an upsurge in the prison population over the weekend and next week. If we are below 10,000 on Monday, we may decide to stop releasing, Hershey said. "We have no specific cutoff point. He said the city could temporarily suspend the release program and then put it back into effect, depen- Their bail ranged from $500 to $1,500. This is what jolted us, he said.

We were particularly uneasy with the idea of releasing inmates like this." Inmates must post 10 percent of their bail amount in cash to win release and officials said the five prisoners in question had done so. The judge also permitted the city to refuse to release inmates freed under the bail program who wind up back in jail on new charges. Correction Commissioner Benjamin Ward said no prisoners in these categories would be released. The crimes covered are murder, manslaughter, rape, sodomy and sexual abuse. Inmates charged with attempting to commit such crimes arealso excluded from release.

Many of the prisoners released so far have been charged with property or narcotics-related crimes but their numbers also include 41 charged with robbery or attempted robbery; 18 NEW YORK (UPI) The city, which already has released 307 men including alleged burglars and drug users under a federal order to ease overcrowded jails, won permission Friday to refuse to free prisoners with homicide or serious sex crimes. A total of 307 inmates held on bond of $1,500 or less have been released from city jails since Tuesday to comply with the order by U.S. District Court Judge Morris Lasker to reduce the prison population. Lasker granted permission to exclude homicide and serious sex crime defendants from release after city lawyers informed him five inmates charged with 6uch offenses were being held on bail of $1,500 or less and had requested their release. Correction Department spokesman Edward Hershey said one inmate was charged with murder, two with attempted murder, one with rape and one with rape and sexual abuse.

A rare find near Saratoga Springs Mondale gets more support NEW YORK (UPI) Nearly half the Democratic lawmakers in the state Assembly threw their support behind former Vice President Walter Mondale Friday in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. In addition, Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink will be national head of the State Legislators For Mondale Committee, it was announced at a Manhattan news conference. Mondale, appearing with Fink, won the support of 48 of 97 Democratic Assembly members. GE gives lack of work notices SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (UPI) General Electrics Schenectady plant is scheduled to hand out lack of work notices to 350 employees Monday, but company and union spokesmen insisted the action does not mean 350 layoffs will follow.

Joseph Cowell, business agent for Local 301 of the International Union of Electrical Workers, said Friday the number of layoffs will be reduced by retirements, attrition and new orders. The pink slips were to be passed out Monday and were expected to start a chain-reaction of bumping by more senior workers a process likely to take several weeks. GE spokesman Fred Haas said the plant-wide reduction was necessitated by a lack of orders. The plant, he noted, has been laying off workers at a rate of 30-35 every Friday. Man hit by school bus GUILDERLAND, N.Y.

(UPI) An elderly man was hit Friday morning by a Guilderland Central School bus that was carrying about 15 elementary school children. Authorities said Prince Simmons, 74, of Western Avenue, was struck at about 8 a.m. as the bus was turning from Lawton Terrace onto Western Avenue in the Albany suburb of Guildrland. He was dead at the scene. School officials said the children on the bus were not injured, and may not even have noticed that the bus had struck the man.

The driver told police she did not see Simmons and was not charged. SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (UPI) A local town supervisor running for re-election had a heart attack on camera Friday evening during a live, televised debate with his political opponents and died an hour later. Rotterdam Supervisor John Kir-vin, 57, collapsed at about 5:30 p.m., just after he had been introduced by a WMHT-TV moderator as the first speaker in a three-way debate. One witness who was watching the live public television broadcast said Kirvin keeled over after having been introduced by hostess Nancy Norman.

Kirvin said, Thank you, Nancy, then stiffened, arched backward and began to topple. A candidate for supervisor on the Independent line, Nino Corradi, reached over and tried to prevent Kirvin from falling out of his chair when the television screen went black. After several minutes, Ms. Norman came back live to tell viewers Kirvin had collapsed and an ambulance was on its way to the studio. A spokesman for Ellis Hospital said Kirvin suffered a full cardiac arrest and was dead on arrival at the medical center.

1 HM DeMarcos, Guerrera and the old woman, who refused to read the figure on her check aloud for fear she would have a heart attack. As for how the papers came to be in the bam, Melvilles mother, Maria Gansevoort Melville, and sisters lived in a home in Gansevoort in the latter part of the 19th century. The town was named for Mrs. Melvilles Melvilles grandfather was a Revolutionary War hero from the region. The anonymous womans family bought the Melville home and its contents around 1900.

The woman moved to another home in Gansevoort about 1930 and the papers wound up in the barn on the new property. Scholars searched the Melville home, but they were too late the treasure had been moved. The library is still studying the material and readying it for perusal by Melville scholars. Its a very significant find, Anderle said. He stands in 20th century estimation as one of the peaks of 19th century American writing.

Weve had an enormous number of letters from sholars who are anxious to get at it. The Typee manuscript has a cover page written by Melville. The author notes it is a first draft written in the spring of 1845, after which much was added and altered. Another gem of the discovery is a humorous letter Melville wrote to his brother in celebration of the birth of the authors son. Stocks rose and brandy fell, Melville wrote of the supposed reaction to the birth.

Other letters document Melvilles departure and return from his fateful three-year whaling voyage to the South Pacific in the 1840s, which spawned Typee, Moby Dick and other works. fc Just as Melvilles significance took time to be recognized, however, it will be some time before the full biographical and literary value of the new find is known. woman, Guerrera and the DeMarcos. DeMarco, who had been on many literary chases with bad endings, sped to his wife with the manuscript. His eyes were like saucers, Mrs.

DeMarco said. I didnt even have to ask him. DeMarco soon went back to Gansevoort and grabbed the remaining papers and two trunks of Melville family artifacts from the barii. 1 Ten other pages of Typee were found, the manuscript was transcribed and photocopied and transferred to a bank vault. The DeMarcos then spent more than a month painstakingly poring over the 19th century script of Melville and more than 400 letters.

Among the letters were three written by Melville and four to him, including the only surviving letter Melville ever received from Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter. Another 141 letters referred to him. Amusingly, the corners of many of the envelopes had been cut off. Someone apparently had stumbled onto the treasured material earlier and decided its value lay in the stamps the letters bore. After cataloguing the documents, the DeMarcos began appraising the literary gems, a difficult task because of the dearth of similar material.

There was nothing to be had at any price, DeMarco said. A signed first-edition copy of Moby Dick had commanded $53,000. Taking that and other factors into account, the DeMarcos settled on a price in the mid-six figures. The DeMarcos approached the library first because Melville was a New Yorker, the library has an extensive Melville collection, and the DeMarcos did not want to see the material scattered at an auction. They were shocked at the price, DeMarco said of library officials, but they paid it.

Don Anderle, the librarys associate director for special collections, and DeMarco believe an auction of the papers could have brought considerably more, perhaps $1 million. The money was split among the From our house to your Share our Favorite (EljristmaB Hectpea with us and the Bennington community. Again this year the Bennington Banner, the Standard Press and the Washington County Post will publish Christmas Recipes in the CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE. We are looking for Old Vermont Recipes Ethnic Recipes Easy-To-Make Children's Recipes Recipes for Cakes, Cookies, Breads, Candies Gift Giving Recipes Recipes for Christmas Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Buffets Please print (or better, type) your recipes to avoid mistakes (Sorry, we wont print it if we cant read it) Sign your name and address, if you wish it included SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (UPI) The significance of 30 pages of Herman Melville manuscript found this year by blind luck becomes clear when one learns there are now 31 such sheets in the authors hand accounted for.

No wonder the New York Public Library called the find a miracle and paid.about $500,000 for the 140-year-old portion of the first draft of Melvillesfirst novel. 1 It 'seems the troubled author of Moby Dick had a penchant for burning what he wrote. Off all the works published in his lifetime, literary detective work produced a single page of Typee and a few scraps of Confidence Man before the recent big haul in a musty barn. The find was nicely timed, says Meville scholar Thomas Tanselle. Regard for Melville among critics and general readers has never been higher, he says, and a 15-volume, definitive edition of his works by Northwestern University and Chicagos Newberry Libary is half-completed.

Tanselle notes the discovered material is a bonanza for scholars who can study Melvilles compositional method by comparing the draft with published versions. The precious pages were also a financial treasure for their finders, and the discovery is a good story in itself. An anonymous woman in her 90s, a man rummaging for antiques and a quick-thinking book dealer are the characters in the tale. Word of the find came in the summer, when the library announced the buy of the Typee manuscript and hundreds of letters by, to and about the 19th century author. The six-figure price was far beyond what Melville ever pocketed for his works.

He died in obscurity in New York City in 1891 and it was not until decades later that his novels moved to the top shelf of critical esteem. The story opens with Jack Guerrera, an antique picker who occasionally bought bric-a-brac from an elderly woman in Gansevoort. Last February, he entered her barn in search of modest saleables and came across two boxes of papers all about a family named Melville. The name rang a bell. He learned one Melville was an author of some note, and began asking for someone who could tell him whether the stuff was worth anything.

He was referred to John DeMarco, a Melville student of nearby Saratoga Springs, who ran an antiquarian book business with his wife, Carolyn. Guerrera called the DeMarcos and said he had 20 manuscript pages of Typee. An excited but skeptical DeMarco arranged to view the papers the next day and spent a sleepless night boning up on Melville. As soon as a I saw the manuscript I knew it was right, said DeMarco. Other dealers had heard rumors of the find, so DeMarco drew up a contract with Guerrera and the publicity-shy old woman on the spot.

DeMarco purchased all the Melville material from the woman for a small price, and agreed to sell them. The eventual purchase price was to be split evenly among the CYCLE EXERCISER SEND TO: CHRISTMAS RECIPES 425 Main St. Bennington, Vt. 05201 P.S. Sorry, we cant return any recipes.

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