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THE TIMES ARGUS, BAREE-MONTPELIER, VT. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1982 SEVEN Ambulance Damaged In Collision With Auto ermont Roundup Man Injured In Knife-Fight BURLINGTON (UPI) A 34-year-old Winooski man was in satisfactory condition at a Burlington hospital Friday following what police said was a knife-fight at a Burlington bar early New Years morning. Kenneth Patnaude, who police said sustained six wounds in the altercation, was to undergo surgery at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont. Police said Patnaude and Norman Francis, 32, of Burlington were at the Redwood Bar on North Street when the fight erupted at about 2 a.m. They said Francis was treated at the hospital for two wounds but was later released.

It is not known what triggered the fight, and police said no charges had been brought so far in connection with the case. the accident and that he was satisfied the city firefighters involved did not break the rules. I dont fault my men at all, the city manager said. Hermann said the problem facing the city is the cost of replacing the ambulance, estimated at more than $25,000. One month ago Hermann offered the council a budget outline calling for a 20-cent tax hike to finance city services at existing levels.

Among the items was $20,000 for a new ambulance. The proposal stirred up an old debate over the ambulance service. For months city officials have haggled over the service, which last year ran up a $13,700 deficit. Some officials believe the service should pay for itself or be dropped. It is generally agreea the financial problems stem from a law that sets a maximum of $40 per trip that can be charged by the service, a figure that officials feel is unrealistically low.

firefighter James Black, 37, police said. Police said Dexter, Christine Dexter, 18, and Eric Dexter, 7 months, all of Barre, suffered cuts and bruises in the accident and were transported to Central Vermont Hospital by police cruiser. A hospital spokeswoman said all three were treated and released. Both vehicles sustained heavy damage, police said. Two months ago Hermann handed down a set of guidelines for city fire and police department employees that chastised them for exceeding the speed limit while answering calls.

The rules spelled out when ambulances, fire trucks and police cruisers could exceed city speed limits and emphasized caution for all drivers. In particular, the memorandum warned drivers to beware of running red lights and crossing intersections on all calls. Hermann said Friday he had checked on the particulars of Barre Mayor Vergilio Bonacorsi (center) presents a framed resolution to Rotary Club President John Nicholls (right) and club member Andre LaPrade thanking the club for its $15,000 contribution to the citys new ballfield. (Watkin photo) Locke Acquitted Of Rape By GERRY McNULTY A Friday morning accident heavily damaged one of the Barre Ambulance Services two ambulances, compounding the services financial woes and putting a dent in emergency coverage in the area. Only minor injuries resulted from the mishap.

Barre City Manager Paul Hermann said late Friday the city, which houses and staffs the service financed jointly by Barre and Barre Town, had begun negotiations to temporarily borrow an ambulance from Williamstown. He said loss of the vehicle was a serious blow to the citys emergency coverage, which extends to outlying towns. Meanwhile, Hermann said he would ask the city council at its weekly meeting Tuesday to work on alternative plans to maintain adequate ambulance service in the area. Hermann said the council was scheduled to take up discussion of the ambulance services financial problems anyway. Barre police said about 1 a.m.

Friday the services 1974 Pontiac ambulance was responding to a call involving a person injured in a snowmobile mishap when it came in collision with a second car at the intersection of Washington and Hill streets. The car, driven by Luther Dexter, 20, apparently turned in front of the eastbound ambulance, driven by Fire Hits Moretown Home MORETOWN A couples home was heavily damaged by a New Year's Day fire here, state police said. Police said the home of Neal Mostov and his wife, Deborah Orr, was in flames when firemen arrived their at 12:35 p.m. The Interior of the home on Town Road 42 was gutted by the fire. The exterior of the house was intact, but most parts suffered smoke damage, police said.

The cause of the fire is not known, and the matter is under investigation, police said. They said a small amount of the couples personal belongings were saved. No one was hurt in the fire, police said. Burak To Address Capital AAUW Nov. 25, 1979, the day the rape allegedly occurred.

Do you believe that theyre (the six men who belonged to two families) going to do that, conspire to commit perjury and drag their two children in it as well? Mahady asked. Commenting afterward on the decision, co-counsel for the defense Catherine W. Scott said, "They (the jury) would have had to believe an awful lot of very good people were lying to convict Locke. She (Chapin) just told too many different stories, Scott added. During the states closing remarks, Windsor County States Attorney Michael J.

Sheehan sought to discredit the testimony that forged Lockes alibi. Its incredible, absolutely incredible, fantastic, whatever you want to call it, that they can tell you two years ago on a Sunday what they were doing and where and they havent talked about it, Sheehan said, referring to testimony that the six hunters did not rehearse their account of Lockes whereabouts. The states attorney termed Chapins testimony more credible precisely because she doesnt remember everything. Girl Survives Fall Into River ST. ALBANS A 16-year-old Swanton girl was in stable condition in a hospital here Friday after surviving a 50-foot fall from a bridge into the icy waters of the Missisquoi River Thursday.

State police said Becky Mercier was pulled out of the river by rescue squads Thursday after her friend, Beverly Moore, also of Swanton, flagged down police. Police said Moore told them Mercier fell from the south side of the Route 78 bridge about 50 feet to the waters below and clung to rocks while her friend sought help. Rescue workers from the Missisquoi Rescue Squad and the Swanton Fire Department brought Mercier up from the river using a rope and basket. She was transported to the Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans, where a spokesman described her condition Friday as stable.

Police said it remains unknown how the victim fell and the case is still under investigation. There is no evidence of foul play at this time, investigators said. Compassion Eases Hotel Fire Victims9 Loss The Montpelier chapter of the American Association of University Women will hear Mary Burak of Burlington, account executive with Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner Smith, on Money Talks So Listen at the Sandy Snow home, 10 McKinley Montpelier, at Monday. permission, he opened up the office so that the wives of Walpole, N.H., firefighters could set up their volunteer warm-up station. Its a regular practice for Walpole firemens women to donate cocoa, coffee and soda for the firemen at large fires, said Joanne H.

Hurlburt, wife of Walpole Fire Chief George Hurlburt. We do it as a way of raising the firemens body temperature when the weather is cold. In the summer were there with cold drinks. Joanne Hurlburt said the women handed out warm drinks until about 1:30 a.m., when firefighters had put out Women interested in becoming members are welcome. For information, contact Ruth Smith, 40 Deerfield Montpelier.

And Barres AAUW will present a Jane Barber Lein-wohl dinner-lecture with Tim Jennings, storyteller, at 6 p.m. Jan. 9 at the Baptist Church, Barre. the blaze and were ready to leave the scene. She said it was her son, George Hurlburt who found the body of 21-year-old Terry Brown inside the south end of the burning building.

About thirty minutes before jBrown was discovered, the body of 25-year-old Dana Fuller was discovered by two Springfield firefighters in the north end of the hotel. Both men were volunteer Bellows Falls firefighters. Close to midnight, the Walpole women also dished up steaming soup donated by Docs Place Restaurant on Main Street in Bellows Falls. JIUllUp some of the firemen, Dexter said. The following day, he said, firefighters brought the parkas back to him but he refused to accept them.

I told them to keep them because they probably need them a lot more than I do, Dexter said. Dexter said when he heard other firefighters had cold hands and feet, he pulled out a box of wool socks and I grabbed some mitts and started handing them out. Dexter said he also happened to have a key to the neighboring Bellows Falls Chamber of Commerce office. With No More Boiling For Rutland RUTLAND Residents here do not have to worry about another boil-water order in the near future, according to Environmental Health Director Kenneth Stone. Stone Thursday released the results of Rutland water samples taken Tuesday and Wednesday.

On the basis of these samples, I dont foresee another boil-water situation any time soon, he said. Due to high coliform counts in the local water system, Rutland residents had been under an order by the state Health Department to boil their water five minutes before consumption. The order was lifted Wednesday. Of six water samples taken Wednesday, four had coliform counts of zero. By B.L.

GOLDBERG Windsor County Bureau BELLOWS FALLS The air of tragedy surrounding the Star Hotel fire that claimed the lives of two firefighters Tuesday was lightened a bit by the kindness area residents showed the nine hotel tenants left homeless by the fire and scores of firefighters who battled the nighttime blaze. While smoke billowed from the windows of the hotel, Windham County Area Red Cross volunteers moved quickly to comfort the six men and three women who had lived in the hotel on the village square. Red Cross volunteers arranged lodging for the tenants, many of whom were rescued from the fire, next door at the Andrews Inn. At the same time, several apartment-dwellers across the street were driven into the street when their electricity was cut off as a result of the fire. With the help of the Red Cross, those families were put up overnight in the Highlands Hotel and returned home the following day when power lines were repaired.

The Red Cross has since found housing for nearly all the former Star Hotel tenants, IN MEMORIAM In loving memory of Alphonse Gaboriault who passed away on January 2, 1974 It's not the tears shed at the time That tell of the hearts that are broken, It's the lonesome tears of the after years when a loved one's name is spoken. To the world you may be forgotten. To others just part of the past; But to us who loved and lost you, Your memory will always last. Lovingly remembered by his wife, children and grandchildren Sanders Blasts Voting Rule BURLINGTON (UPI) Burlington Mayor Bernard Sanders has lashed out at the citys Voter Registration Board. Sanders said Thursday a board challenge to the residency of some people who registered to vote is both pathetic and antidemocratic.

The board in recent weeks has challenged the residency of students who live in dormitories, and this week it left off the checklist names of 34 people who registered to vote but who are not listed in the telephone book or city directory. Many of the would-be voters were recruited by the Citizens Party. I charge political partisanship, said Sanders, who added he will ask aldermen to intervene. He said Burl ngtons Republicans and Democrats are discriminating against the third party by applying new standards to voters it recruits. By MICHAEL WILSON Windsor County Bureau WHITE RIVER JUNCTION A jury of eight women and four men Thursday acquitted Charles A.

Locke III of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old in an incident alleged to have occurred more than two years ago in Springfield. The Vermont District Court jury deliberated just over three hours before agreeing upon acquittal. According to two members of the panel, the decision came on the fourth or fifth vote. The two jury members, who asked to remain anonymous, also suggested police bungling in the initial investigation of the rape complaint may have influenced the outcome of the case. Locke did not testify and showed little emotion during the three-day trial.

After the decision was announced, he smiled and termed the acquittal just. According to one jury member, the panel acquitted Locke because there was insufficient evidence to convict him. Conviction for rape carries a maximum 20-year sentence. Throughout his closing statement, defense attorney Frank G. Mahady reminded the jury that it could not bring a guilty verdict if there were reasonable doubt Locke had committed the rape.

Citing Donna Chapins failure to identify Locke as her assailant at the time of the alleged rape and "vagueness in her recent testimony, Mahady asked the jury, Do we really know beyond a reasonable doubt what really happened that day? Chapin, a resident of Or-fordville, N.H., initially told police she did not know her assailant. On Wednesday, Chapin said she had lied about not knowing her assailant because Locke had threatened to get her if she told anybody of the rape. Chapin had been a friend of Lockes daughter for about two years prior to the alleged incident in November, 1979. Chapin claimed during the trial that Locke offered her a ride to her aunts house as she was walking along the road. Chapin testified that Locke drove to a dirt road leading to a field where he forcibly raped her and then tossed her and her clothes out of the vehicle.

In his closing remarks, Mahady also claimed that to convict Locke, the jury would have to disbelieve beyond a reasonable doubt the testimony of six hunters who swore Locke was with them CARDOF THANKS The family of George Hull, Sr. wish to thank relatives, friends, and neighbors for the kindness shown during our recent loss. SHIP-AH0Y! TREAT YOURSELF AT THE LG3STER POT Today and enjoy our all new hot cold salod boat. Over 30 items to choose from for a delicious light lunch or a beautiful addition to your dinner. which include elderly people, a handicapped woman and several young couples, according to Windham Area Red Cross Executive Director Lynn Proctor.

Proctor said throughout the relocation process the Andrews Inn was most cooperative, offering the Red Cross a room in which to interview the homeless citizens and donating free coffee. During the fire the Andrews Inn also offered free coffee to firefighters who had to bear the icy chills of a winter evening to fight the six-hour blaze. Among the hundreds of spectators turning out to watch the fire was Claude Lover Dexter, owner of Dexters Clothing Store, located across from the hotel. Dexter said he noticed several firefighters drenched with water and shivering in the evening cold. I opened up the shop and grabbed three parkas off the rack and gave them out to IRENE'S PLACE East Barre, VI Entertainment SAT.

JAN. 2 9-1 "ED GARY SNOW" 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Curfew Misdeed BURLINGTON (UPI) A Burlington youth has been ordered confined to his parents home because he violated bail conditions on a stolen properties charge. District Court Judge Edward Costello ruled Edward Coy, 17, violated a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew by going to a party.

Foy was arrested Christmas Eve and charged with concealing stolen property. He was later released on $50 bail. Deputy Chittenden County States Attorney Susan Via asked that he be held without bail because of the curfew violation. In a related matter, the Burlington Patrolmens Association says It will lobby for tougher bail laws. oooooooooooooooooo Pollution Sentence Stands BURLINGTON (UPI) A federal judge has refused to reduce the prison sentence he Imposed on William Bushey, convicted of violating water pollution laws.

Bushey, 57, of Ashuelot, N.H., pleaded guilty to dumping wastes illegally into the Wells River from the former Corning Fibers Co. paper mill he managed. He was sentenced last month to serve 90 days in jail and to pay a 82,500 fine. Busheys lawyer asked Judge Albert Coffrin to reduce the sentence on grounds the jail term was excessive and would result in the layoff of employees under Busheys supervision at his new job with the Ashuelot Paper Co. Coffrin, however, said Tuesday he considered the case carefully before Imposing the sentence, which he termed reasonable.

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