Valley News from West Lebanon, New Hampshire • 1

a Ir Index Ann Landers 23 Horoscope 23 Bridge 21 LocalRegion 2-4 Classified Ads 20-22 Obituaries 4 Comics Community Crossword Entertainment 23 Opinion 14 18 Sports 9-11 23 Television 22 19 WorldNation 6-8 Volume 30: Number 172 Published For The Upper Connecticut River Valley Thursday December 30 1982 30 New Hampshire Mourns Hugh Gallen Brought Great Respect To The By DAVE COBURN Valley News Staff Writer Friends and neighbors allies and adrar-aariea grieved today over the death of Gov Hugh Gallon And almost Invariably they i him aa a man who though often stiff in public cared deeply for the Impoverished people in the state and committed Us public life to Hugh Gaflea wae a private wan a peMc "He knew Jah A tvefc atUallta ami what it was Bko Ms legacy la awrdi ami to bo poor and fkwtagrapkt aa payee ha was the great ami If champion of 1 1 anyone whom life treated quite fairly said Jean From Valley News Reports CONCORD Gov Hirti Gallen died yesterday of an illness that began more than two months ago during the final days of his unsuccessful re-election Campaign He was SB Reconk dating to the late 1700a show that Gallen was the first New Hampshire governor to die in office Funeral arrangements were incomplete Gallen's office said details might be available later today State flags dropped to half staff at dusk yesterday as Gallen's colleagues and political foea echoed words of grief praise and respect for a man who prided himself on looking out for the little guy the measure of his administration and of the man that he never abandoned those who he cared the most about the elderly those at the Laconia State School the handicapped and the young the people who rely on government to make their Uvea worthwhile and said Executive Councilor Dudley Dudley are the people he served Acting Gov Vesta Roy presi- dent of the state senate today ordered a week of mourning that will run through next Wednesday one day before Gallen was to leave office and Gov-elect John Sununu is to be sworn in Gallen died at Brigham and Hospital in Boston with his family by his bedside Richard Eckel a hospital spokesman announced shortly after pm that Gallen had died at 1:41 pm of liver and kidney failure com piles ted by stomach Dr Marshall Wolf explains illness that led to Gov Gallon's death On the right is Gallen's chief of staff Dayton Duncan of Hanover an early Gallen supporter who has known tho governor Since the mid-iseoa Republican governor-elect John Sununu who defeated Gallon'! bid for a third term in November said New Hampshire citizens should be thankful of Hugh Gallon's devotion to hie fellow Sununu said the loas felt by Gallen's family indeed shared by the state of New Hampshire as a Acting governor Vesta Roy the president of tho senate praised Gallen's in battling both personal and political adver- "He has given so much of himself to Roy said House Speaker John Tucker R-Claro-mont called Gallen sincere and compassionate and said people are aa committed to public service" Vermont Gov Richard SneUing called Gallen a friend as well as a fellow governor" and said they had common as representatives of bordering liver failure could not withstand the added stress of the internal bleeding fluid in his lungs and a sharp drop in blood pressure All of those occurred yesterday Gallen's chief of staff Dayton Duncan said the governor was ill during the end of his trying campaign but did not see a doctor partly because many other campaign workers also were ill and partly because he had seen illnesses through before without medical help "He sometimes would comment that he had recovered from things on his own and felt that he could do it Duncan said were aware during the last weeks of the campaign that the governor wasn't feeling well We cut back his schedule Duncan said during the news conference Gallen suffered nausea and had a bad cough we were all suffering from stomach virus at that he said Dudley a Gallen supporter said she and others believe Gallen was worn out from a hard campaign now I cant help but realise how very hard he must have been pushing himself and when that adrenalin surge was taken away with his defeat I guess his body Just vasn't able to deal with it Wolf who treated Gallen throughout his stay at the hospital said the cause of the liver failure would remain a mystery Gallen asked (hat no autopsy be dune Wolf said and (hat request will be honored "I think that an autopsy would have been necessaiy for us to say with any certainty the nature of his liver disease" Wolf said "The governor had discussed it with his wife and said he did not wish to have this done" WoU drew a connection between Gallen's liver ailment and the hepatitis he had as a youth Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver According to Wolf the recent liver problem presumably of an inflammatory A biopsy was not done (Continued on page 13) GALLEN always understood the idea that government was there to servo the people who needed it get them started help them 1a times of said Mary Louise Hancock a former state senator from Concord and one of the eariieet supporters who pushed Gallen to run for governor Deputy House Minorite Leader Mary Chambers a Democrat man Etna said Gallen could count on the support of promt- -nent local Democrats Ana aha said tho area strongly supported him because "everybody always sensed that he was dose to their position on the issues and on mast issues 1 think be was right for this area" But it was not politics alone that won him such support Chambers said liked Hugh Gallen He brought great respect to (Continued on page 12) -REACTION wife and children were at Ida aide during his last hours" Eckel said his voice cracking and his hands shaking bleeding was controlled temporarily but he succumbed despite intensive supportive therapy TWo hours later Dr Marshall Wolf at a news conference explained why Gallen who had lapsed into a coma at noon died on the 42nd day of his ration Gallen's body already severely weakened by kidney and Gov Hugh Gallen died yesterday of Complications from a blood infection Speeders Necessarily Law Breakers Court Says -Thursday's News TV? 1 5 1 7" been officially changed from the former 70 mph standard Condict based his suit on that feet The conditions according to the ticket issued wen that the road was dry and the weather clear The decision points out that Condict who admitted to driving 02 mph was not charged with violating the maximum speed limit The Justices did not overturn Condict March 1981 conviction because the lower-court Judge ruled that Gondbct had been driving a speed greater than was reasonable and prudent under the conditions" below 70 mph must be found guilty of the three-page decision said Assistant Attorney General Martin Jenkins who represented the state said this morning that he to not worried that drivers convicted In the past of speeding win bring similar suits do fear that driven will try to pwh the argument that they are not speeding when they an over the posted limits in the he said He also said that the highway commissioner will ask the Legislature to pan a law setting the state speed limit at 55 mph Thaw are said Jenkins three Condict argued that the state's speed limit never had been properly changed to 55 mph The state highway commissioner passed an emergency rule In December 1573 to reduce the so-called facie" speed limit from 70 to 55 mph the court decision said The commissioner's action did not effect the maximum speed limit of 70 mph for interstates and turnpikes it continued "Therefore unless and until the Legislature reduces the maximum speed limit to 55 mph not everyone traveling the interstate at a speed above 55 but at or Fraaa Staff And Wire Reports CONCORD (API The state Supreme Court has said that the maximum speed limit on New Hampshire's highways still to IS miles per hour and that until the Legislature takes action driven going between SB mph and 70 mph am not necessarily breaking the law Nevertheless the Supreme Court yesterday upheld a lower-court decision convicting Edgar Condict 42 of speeding The New London man with no prior legal experience took his fight against a $35 speeding ticket to the Supreme Court in September speed limits in New Hampshire The first is "what's reasonable under existing road conditions You could be speeding at 50 if the road is icy or therea The second is the prima facie limit which is the one set by the highway commissioner or the 55 mph posted as the maximum speed limit on Intentate SO when Condict was stopped and charged Under certain circumstances such as a medical emergency Jenkins said that speed Emit could he violated Then is also the third spied limit the maximum permissible speed which has never AP Miami Melee Frank Walter 34 explains how hit car was hit by atones turned over and burned by an angry mob in tho Overtown district of Miami yesterday the second day of viotenca in that area Walla was hurt from object thrown through the windshield of hit car Story photo paga 6 No New Year's 'News' The Volfey News has changed Ha publishing schedule fa New Year's weekend Tomorrow's papa will be published in the morning ratha than in the afternoon and there will be no papa an Saturday New Yoar'a Day Our offices will be closed Sentence: 30 Years To Life By NANCY ROBERTSON Volley News Staff Writer NEWPORT NH His mother feels that three-year-old JD Kaplan is safe now that ha husband to dead The mother Kathleen Kaplan was sentenced yesterday to 30 yean to life in Jail fa ha hiring someone to kill him The 25-yeerold Charlestown woman pleaded guilty SepL 14 to being an accomplice to second degree murda She admitted paying William Gagne 15800 to kill ha husband Morton Kaplan who was shot to death in his mobile home in Claremont on SepL 25 1981 Superia Court Judge Joseph DiOerice's sentence fat Sullivan County Superia Court matched the prosecution's recommendation Howeva includes a key request by the state Probation Department fa aa annual review to consida reducing the sentence Assistant Attorney General Brian Tucka said this montiiw the state Probation Department recommended a 21-year-to-life sentence that included retiming Kaplan to the Sullivan County Jail altar a yew to begin working eight hours pa week with battered women through Women's Simportive Services If that peeves successful Kaplan's sentence should be suspended end she should be released on probation after two yean in Jail the Probation Dmrtmcnt recommended IfDiCtarice'a sentence stays as to Kaplan would not be eligible far penis until the yaw 3000 Ha attorneys had sought a minimum sentence of IS yean in JaiL Kaplan was to begin serving ha sentence at the County House at Conation today Dietaries recommended that she be transferred to the Maine Correctional Center la South Windham Maine when has DiSStee considered the sentence la his chambers far more than aa hour after heertng testimony that Kaplan was an abused wife who believed ha husband would have kilted ha aoa If she had sought divorce thoiaht and I still believe (it) my son would die If I dxtaldo Kaplan said Dietaries laid Kaplan ho attempted to weigh the (Continued ae page 12) KAPLAN Soviet Union Lashes Out At John Paul MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union in a stinging attack an Pope John Paul II has teemed him of being a rigid anti-communist who cloaks political rhetoric in prayer The unusual personal attack earned yesterday by the official news agency Tam also accused the Roman Catholic Church of carrying out subversion in Poland and otha East-bloc nations There was no explanation fa the attack which denounced the Vatican fa using the of religion" to engage in propaganda on a broad In Rome the Vatican dismissed the Tam criticism as a attack in contrast to the real (acts and It said John Paul has worked fa and far a Just solution to tho serious problems that trouble The Polish-bora pope was cited by name in an article Tam said appears in this month's edition at the Journal Political Self-Education published by the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee Tim said tho Journal takes note that Vatican policy to Influenced by growth of aggrmslve designs of imperialism and the stepped-up activity at the opponents at detente catchwords fa the United States his predecessors tho is i si id head of the Catholic chuirik has taken a much neon conservative and rigid position vis-a-vis the socialist Tam said quoting from the Journal goes without saying that the present lexecuta of SL Peter' prefers to speak the language at Christian Tam said But 8 said the pope's statements are (Continued on page 12) POPE Valley TefeviaioM the weekly magasine at TV lutings and articles that to muaily included in Saturday's papa will be included tomorrow Tomorrow A Look Back Tomorrow's Valley Newr will contain a number of pages devoted to the events and personalities that hflpjtj thapo 1982 Inciudeo will be the top 10 feral end national stories at the year a review at sports highlights and a page at some of the yea's best photographs We hope you enjoy reviewing the yea with us Inside A birthday party far the wife at Boston Maya Kevin White that was neva held has became tho focus of an extensive federal investigation involving as many as few separate grand Junes It has pitted White against U1 Attorney william Weld and The Poatoe Me Page 8 The Weather We ui a rare eight this morning some enow And we may be seeing aome more at tonight and tomorrow Bui wiU be only nwrim at tight snow with bttle at no accumulation Flumes may linger through the weekend with Bear enable temperatures Sunset today to at 4:21 pm Smnaa tomorrow to at 7:21 a Details page l-TMUMV Kathleen Kaplan in sworn in before her sentencing yesterday.