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0 BENNINGTON BANNER LOCALSTATE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1992 3 Four from family killed in van crash Kidnapping victim will return home I i ft fflH WILLISTON (AP) A decade after leaving their native China, the Ngan family's climb up the ladder of the American dream ended Saturday when the family mini-van hit a ledge. Four members of the family that worked In shifts at their restaurant were killed and a fifth seriously injured in the early morning accident on Interstate 91 in Rockingham. The only occupant of the car to -)l WEST SPNECA, N.Y. An American relief worker kidnapped by rebels in Sierra Leone last month should be coming home to his family in western New York In the next two weeks, according to his brother. Tom ONeil, brother of Red Cross Relief worker Mike ONeil, said the family has been informed that ONeil has been released and is in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone in west Africa.

Mike ONeil, 38, was in a group of people kidnapped during a rebel attack Oct. 24 on the diamond mining center of Koidu, in th east of the country. He turned up Saturday in Ken-ema, a city in eastern Sierra Leone, said Robert Watkins, officer at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Geneva. He was taken to the U.S. Embassy in Freetown on Sunday, according to Red Cross officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Embassy officials said ONeil would hold a news conference Monday. One official ONeil and his Sierra Leonean driver, Ali Bangura, who was also kidnapped, are in fairly good shape. ONeil came to Sierra Leone to work for the Washington-based nongovernmental development agency AFRICARE, and was on loan to the Red Cross. I understand hts all right," Watkins said. The Siena Leone army, which took over the government in a coup earlier this year, said in a statement that ONeil escaped from the rebels, but Red Cross officials said ONeil and Bangura were released by rebel leader Foday Sankoh.

ONeil had been doing relief work in the country for about IS years, first as a member of the Peace Corps and then with AFRICARE and the Red Cross, his brother said. He had been working with the Red Cross as a food distributor, said Tom ONeil, 21. The relief workers wife, Millicent, and their two children, Owen, 8, and Sheila, are also in the west African country, Tom ONeil said. Millicent called the rest of the family Saturday to tell them her husband was in Freetown, Tom ONeil said. He said the family was told bv U.S.

government and Red Cross officials to keep the kidnapping "hush hush." "They kind of thought we wouldnt have trust in the American government and the way they were getting him released (if we publicized it), ONeil said. But ONeil said he is pleased about the way the rescue efforts were carried out and believed officials found his brother swiftly. ONeil said officials believed the rebels probably kidnapped his brother to call attention to their own suffering. "They figure that they probably wanted them to know that theyre starving at (that) point too, not just the area where he was at," ONeil said. ONeil said the Red Cross and government officials had been in contact with the family almost daily since the kidnapping.

The driver, Kau fling Ngan, 18, another of the couplcf children, was treated and released from Springfield Hospital. 1 he cause of the accident it under Investigation, but police believe fatigue may have been a factor. The Ngan family had lived in' for about a year and owned and operated the Fgg Roll House, a successful restaurant in Essex Junction, according to friends and neighbors. They had just moved into a $170,000 house. It was to have been one of the familys rare weekends off.

They had planned to attend a wedding, said neighbor Pamela Richland. The Ngans had closed their restaurant at around 1 1 p.m. Friday and immediately left to attend the wedding. 1 Kwan Ngan arrived in the United States before the rest of his family and lived in California and New York before settling in Vermont. At first the family used a converted bus to sell Chinese food in Barre.

Last year they moved to Williston and opeijed the Egg Roll House. They were honest, hard working people who just wanted a chance to get something better for themselves and their children," said Greg Pinard, of East Barre, who helped JKwan Ngan get his business started in Barre. A sign on the door of the Egg Roll House- Saturday said the restaurant would be closed over the weekend and reopen Monday, November 30. Happy Holiday. Richland said a family friend was headed to the restaurant to put up a sign saying closed indefinitely." HOLIDAY PERCH Mark Rayaolda of Hooalek Falla, N.Y., looke over the mar-chaatflaa daring tfce Craft Fair tatarday at St.

Marya Academy la Nooalck Falla. Hla aoa Marcaa, 2V4, looks ovor the crowd from kla klgk porch. Harassment over debt OPTICAL CEF1TER 322 Dewey Street Bennington, Vermont 05201 802-442-5530 800-442-5910 ALL EYEGLASS PRESCRIPTIONS WELCOME RUTLAND (AP) A Forest Dale woman has charged that a Louisiana debt collection agency tried to intimidate her and used obscenities and sexual remarks in an attempt to force her to pay a bill she did not owe. And a police officer who called Affiliated Accounts Services said she received the same treatment. Brandon officer Laurie Krupp quoted an agency officials as saying, This is the way we deal with women.

Amy Lussier, who filed suit against the company in a Rutland Court earlier this month, said the Featuring Four members of the family that worked in shifts at their restaurant were killed and a fifth seriously injured in the early morning accident. escape serious injury was the driver who was protected by an air bag, police said. Killed in the 4 a.m. crash were Kwan F. Ngan, 49, his 42-year-old wife, Lee Siu, the couples 21-year-old daughter, Wain, and their 9-year-old son, Jim, police said.

The condition of another son, Tom, 4, was upgraded from critical to serious, but he remained in the pediatric intensive care unit of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, N.H. He and the four dead victims all of them passengers were thrown from the vehicle, according to police. None had been wearing seat belts. Zampieri actions are questioned MONTPELIER (AP) Four state troopers worked overtime to investigate a burglary at the home of the state buildings commissioner. Buildings Commissioner John-Zampieri also was given free crime scene photos of his South Ryegate home after an estimated $10,000 loss Oct.

8. Usually the department of Public Safety commissioner must approve release of such photos and charges $2 to $3 for each photo. Zampieris actions following the burglary has angered some parents in the Blue Mountain Union School District, which serves Ryegate, where children as young as kindergarten were among those suspected of the crime and whose parents were ques- tioned by state police. Zampieris wife, a teachers aide, gave police a list of pupils from kindergarten to 12th grade who were absent the day of the burglary and thus considered suspects. Zampieri has also been criticized for calling Public Safety Commissioner James Walton to.

speed the police investigation. Police are continuing their investigation into the burglary which left broken glass and emptied drawers in every room. BENNINGTON BANNER Telephone 447-7567 Classified 447-0332 The Bennington Banner (USPS050-340) is published daily except Sunday and legal holidays for $100 a year by The Banner Publishing Corp 425 Mam St Bennington, Vt 05201 Second class postage paid at Bennington, Vt POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Bennington Banner, 425 Main St Bennington, Vt 05201 A member of the Associated Press National advertising representative Landon Associates Inc Home Delivery $9 00 per month, 3 months $25 6 months $50 and 1 year $100 All subscriptions payable in advance Subscription rates by mail In County Out of County 1 month $1100 1 month $12 00 3 months $33 00 3 months $36 00 6 months $66 00 6 months $72 00 1 year $132 00 1 year $144 00 Foreign mall Double rate Current single copies 35 per Issue Back issues over 30 days 50 per Issue We are not responsible for subscription errors after the first 10 days If you do not receive your paper, please contact the circulation department immediately Sfiec (ffuxitrt jtf, rflexa, jUtal rftcteMUf. rgisy I i Matt Kelly alleged Lussiers lawsuit alleges that she started receiving phone calls in May, sometimes after 9 p.m. from an Affiliated employee named A1 Davis.

He kept insisting that she pay the debt, Lussier said, even after she explained that it was her friend who owed the money. It started making me nervous because I was afraid he was going to force me to pay, Lussier said. He would make accusations with obscenities and sexual remarks." Lussier called the Brandon police in June and Krupp called Davis. expected starting a slow recovery, up to about the levels of last summer by years end. 'J 4 -4 i 0 Milk prices were better than BURLINGTON (AP) Milk prices paid to Vermont dairy farmers this year have been better than expected with the average base price up more than 11 percent over 1991 levels.

The prices stayed a little higher than expected, said Diane Both-feld, of the University of Vermont Extension Service. I think it has1 been a better year overall. Prices to Vermont farmers peaked in September at $13.78 per hundred pounds of raw milk. The actual price received by different farmers LiJJ A debt was owed by a former roommate. In the suit Lussier alleged that she received abusive, insulting, intimidating and obscene" phone calls for two months last summer.

The company has not formally responded to the suit, but marketing director Glen Tortorich said that he could not imagine an employee conducting himself the way the suit alleges. It comes as a very shocking piece of news, Tortorich said, claiming it was the first time Affiliated Accounts has been sued in its 12-year history. depends on a variety of factors, including quality and protein content. Through October, the monthly blend price for Vermont farmers milk has averaged $1.33 per hundredweight higher than last year. But prices are headed down, Bothfeld said.

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