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Index Abby 6B Sports 1C Business 7B Television 6B Classified 6C Theaters 4D Comtes 5B 1IB tA Dispatches 2B Editorials 8A lip Side IOC Hax 6B J9 Horoscope 6B Legals 6C ru Lottery 2A People IOC Deaf students to shift to city high school The state says the Gov Baxter grade 9 12 curriculum falls short of standards By TESS NACELEW1CZ StaffWnter High school students from the Gov Baxter School for the Deaf are expected to attend Portland High School this fall because the state says the current high school program that toy Baxter offers does not meet state standards However state school for the deaf has won full approval from the state for its elementary and mid dle school programs which state education officials have described as Baxter located on Mackworth Island will continue to provide a solid education for about 30 students from kindergar ten through eighth grade and also for about 35 students in its preschool program Superintendent Larry Taub said In addition the 10 to 12 Baxter Please see BAXTER Page 6A STRANGEOLK Well traveled and well loved GO 3D kb WT3 hv WK! 1 tr iil INSIDE TODAY JOHN COLE DIES Passionate co founder of the Maine Times LOCAL IB ICE CRUSHER Capers take control against Clippers SPORTS 1C WEATHE Snow ends high to 29 12B INALEDITION Jlw 11 wwwpressheraldcom THURSDAY 0T310 60 CENTS JANUARY 9 2003 Copyright 2003 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc Volume 141 Number US 48 PAGES Neo Nazi charged in plot to kill US judge Matthew Hale who was set to speak at a racist rally in Lewiston this weekend pleads innocent in Chicago By KELLEY BOUCHARD StaffWnter The neo Nazi group leader sched uled to speak Saturday in Lewiston was arrested by BI agents in Chi cago on Wednesday on charges of soliciting the murder of a federal judge Matthew Hale 31 leader of the World Church of the Creator was arrested by the BI led Joint Ter rorism Task orce as he arrived at Chica federal court house for a contempt of court hearing in a dispute over the trade mark for the name Hale pleaded innocent late Wednesday afternoon to all charges He will be held at least until his detention hearing Monday afternoon said Kim Nerheim of the US Attor Office in Chicago Despite arrest Lewiston officials said they still plan to have la Hale Please sec HALE Back page this section 11 JB 3KB1 I fl 1 1 1 jBEII bbbhbu MKfwKH I 11 Associated Press photo by Robert Bukaty Gov John Baldacci delivers his inaugural address at the Augusta Civic Center on Wednesday after being sworn in as 73 rd governor He suggested that the state budget has grown far too fat citing boom and bust cycles of state spending and Maine not nor will it ever be a haven or headquarters for hate groups and racist organizations 4 Gov John Baldacci Baldacci sees in The new governor vows to balance the budget and provide health care to all By PAUL CARRIER Staff Wntei AUGUSTA Addressing Main ers for the first time as their governor John Elias Baldacci of Bangor said Wednesday night he is humbled by the task before him but determined to unite all regions and build kind of state and community that moves Maine toward Baldacci made that pledge to at least 5000 people at the Augusta Civic Cen ter as well as a live statewide radio and television audience after Senate Presi dent Beverly Daggett of Augusta swore him in as the 73rd governor in 183 year histoiy Dressed in a dark suit blue shirt and yellow tie the former congressman raised his right hand and placed his left hand on a family Bible held by his wife Karen and son Jack as he took the oath Addressing an enthusiastic crowd that interrupted his 33 minute speech with applause more than 30 times Bal dacci unveiled few initiatives but renewed several key promises that he made during the election campaign that propelled him into the Blaine House including his determmation to eliminate a projected $1 billion budget shortfall without raising taxes In fact Baldacci twice condemned Please see BALDACCI Back page this section INSIDE gala ball will leature Maine products and musicians 10A Legislators: Speech sets right tone By TOM BELL StaffWnter AUGUSTA Both Democrats and Republicans gave Gov John Baldacci strong marks Wednesday for an inau gural speech that gave them what they wanted to hear both content andstyie Republicans liked its bipartisan fla vor and Democrats said it set the right tone for the upcoming legisla tive session which will be difficult because of the looming $1 billion bud get deficit the legislators I talked with were said Sen John Martin Eagle Lake content and delivery it set a tone of success not lose hope There is a solu tion and we need to work at Judy Paradis a former Democratic Please see REACT Back page this section Special election is set to fill reeport vacancies With three councilors quitting abruptly the remaining four barely a quorum hurry to replace them By MARK SHANAHAN StaffWnter REEPORT The vacancies created when three town councilors abruptly resigned Tuesday will be filled March 8 The four remaining councilors set the date of the special election dur ing a hastily convened meeting Wednesday several hours after Ken Mann Susan Campbell and Andrew Arsenault unexpectedly resigned their council seats made a commitment to work together going said Councilor Rodney Regier looking worn out by the events of the previ ous evening be able to do The resignations ten dered around midnight Tuesday were the startling climax of an ongo ing clash between Town Manager Dale Olmstead and the three most conservative members Mann the chairman Campbell the vice chairman and Arsenault quit their posts after their bid to oust Olmstead town manager for 21 years failed to win the support of a majority of the council Councilor Richard DeGrandpre whose vote sunk the attempt to fire Olmstead said he arrived at Tues meeting resolved to do ever it to end the impasse between the town manager and the council tno really disappointed and DeGrandpre said hope we end up with a council that works well together to represent the Clinging to a four person quorum the minimum number of councilors allowed by charter to conduct town business Regier and the others said the vacancies will not stop or Please see REEPORT Page 6A David Comeau describes how he heard cries for help from four snowmo bilers who fell through thin icT into Kezar Lake in Ijjvell on Tuesday Stqf photo hj john Vatriquin I I Rescuer: was thinking these guys need Local residents who pulled two snowmobilers from Kezar Lake describe the ordeal By DAVID CONNERTY MARIN Staff Wntei jOVELL One of the four snowmo bilers who went through the ice on Kezar Lake on Tuesday was released from Bridgton Hospital late that night the second survivor remained hospital ized in stable condition on Wednesday Keith McNulty 28 of Groveland Mass and Shawn Judge 29 of Atkin son NH who remained in the hospital were on a snowmobiling trip to the area with two other friends Kino Caron 49 of Enfield Conn and Eric Johnson 29 of Manchester Conn died after going through the thin ice A day after the tragedy and the res cue of the two survivors local residents people in the snowmobiling community and rescue workers continued to Please mV RESCUE Backpage this section I.