Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from December 1986:
CARY GRANT, DEBONAIR LEADING MAN, DIES AT 82.(Main)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Cathleen Decker Cary Grant, a onetime child acrobat who, with a crook of his elegant head and a line of clipped, seductive patter, became the world's sophisticated cinematic ideal, has died at the age of 82. The actor was in Davenport, Iowa, Saturday night ...
CONGRESS' RETURN URGED TO ACT ON IRAN SCANDAL.(Main)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Combined wire services Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Dole, R- Kan., called on President Reagan Sunday to convene Congress in an extraordinary special session on Wednesday to create a Watergate-style committee to investigate the secret funneling of Iran ...
SIKHS KILL 24 HINDUS FROM BUS.(Main)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Richard M. Weintraub Sikh gunmen herded Hindu passengers off a bus in Punjab State Sunday and killed 24 of them with submachine gun fire, news agency reports from Punjab said. Police officials in the state capital, Chandigarh, said a young Sikh passenger ...
ONE MORE WINTER PROTECTING ANIMAL COMPANIONS.(Main)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor "Withhold not good from them to whom it is is due when it is in the power of thy hand to do it." Proverbs 3:28 In a small house in the foothills of the Helderbergs, a 90-year-old man is gearing up for another hard winter. Summers are ...
U.S. TIGHTENING SECURITY NET REAGAN, CONGRESS JOIN IN MAJOR REFORM PLAN.(Main)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Michael J. Sniffen President Reagan is secretly implementing a sweeping overhaul of the nation's defenses against foreign spies that calls for more than 100 security changes from the doors of defense plants to communications satellites in space, White House and ...
POLLUTION BY NEGLECT INDUSTRY WASTE - RIVER'S WOE.(Main)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Mary D'Ambrosio Deep in the lush hills of Washington County, on the edge of a rushing gorge, the 19th-century Stevens and Thompson paper mill has been steadily leaking pollutants into a Hudson River tributary for more than two years. Hidden a mile down a back ...
TRIAL OF TRUCKER CHARGED WITH 2 ROAD DEATHS TO BEGIN.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Deborah Gesensway More than a year after a State Police officer and a Canadian man were struck and killed by a tractor-trailer truck on the Northway, the trucker charged in the deaths is going on trial. Jury selection is expected to begin at 10:30 a.m. today ...
TOTS GUARANTEED MORE TOYS, AGAIN.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Toni Toczylowski Jim Schacher said he had no idea what he was getting into when he volunteered to help move a few toys. For a good 20 minutes, Saratoga County resident Schacher stood along with some 60 other people passing one toy after another along a line ...
ANSWERS SOUGHT AT ANSWERS TAINTED MARIJUANA TAKEN FROM PLANT.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Mark S.R. Suchecki State officials are investigating how three ANSWERS employees allegedly managed to remove 63 pounds of tainted marijuana destined for destruction at Albany's garbage shredding plant, authorities said Sunday. State Health Department ...
FEW INSPECTIONS HORSE FUND AUDIT FINDS LAME ACTION.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Timothy F. Schick The New York State Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund was criticized in state audit today for inadequate field inspections of horse farms, lack of written agreements, a no-bid printing contract and unsecured investments. The audit, ...
CURTAIN DOWN ON ELEGANCE.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Fred LeBrun No, not Cary Grant. Take Jimmy Stewart or Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., instead, and leave us Cary Grant, not that Let's Make a Deal has ever figured into it. But the world ought to be able to keep endearing, unapproachable, elegant Cary Grant forever, as the ...
THANKSGIVING DINNER LATE, BUT APPRECIATED.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Toni Toczylowski It was three days after Thanksgiving, and not a piece of leftover turkey was available at Sunday's dinner at the Trinity Methodist Church. Rather, the meat that filled the serving plates was freshly cooked that morning in preparation for the ...
CURTAIN CLOSES QUIETLY ON THIRD STREET CINEMA.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Mary D'Ambrosio It was a special, old-fashioned cinema for foreign and classic films, but the last night at the Third Street Theatre was an ordinary one, unmarked by a party, decorations or even a significant film. People straggled into the 1940s-era theater ...
THE ART OF IDENTIFICATION.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Joe Mahoney Albany Police Detective Paul Hulslander would be the first to admit he is no Picasso. But Hulslander is, in a sense, an artist. Instead of working with oil paints and brushes, however, he uses a small wooden box filled with hundreds of plastic ...
16-YEAR-OLD SHOT HUNTING SQUIRRELS WATERVLIET MAN CHARGED IN THEFT LATHAM MOTORIST FACING 2 CHARGES WYNANTSKILL MAN HELD; THREAT CITED.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... A teenager was shot in the chest Sunday morning as he hunted squirrels in a wooded area off of South Line Road, Saratoga County Sheriff's deputies said. Rexford J. Hubbard, 16, of South Line Road was shot at 11:30 a.m. by a .22-caliber rifle, deputies said. They added it was not ...
TEEN DIES, 1 CHARGED IN CAR CRASH.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Marc Carey One Melrose teenager is dead and another was charged with drunken driving following a single-car accident late Saturday on Route 40, according to Rensselaer County sheriff's deputies. Mark McKinney, 16, was killed when the car in which he was a ...
WOMAN CUT AND BEATEN; MAN JAILED.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Paul H. Chapman Sr. was remanded to Albany County Jail without bail Sunday morning following his arraignment in Albany Police Court. Chapman, whose age and address were not available from police, was arraigned on a second-degree assault charge before Judge Madonna Stahl Ghandi, ...
LATHAM MAN CITED IN DRUNKEN DRIVING MAN FACING CHARGE IN BURGLARY INCIDENT MALTA TOWN PLANNERS TO STUDY OUTLET PLAN RECYCLE TASK FORCE TO FORM COMMITTEES CITY POLICE WILL SELL IMPOUNDED VEHICLES.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... A Latham man will answer a felony drunken driving count in town traffic court tonight. Colonie police said Kenneth Clukey, 50, of 21 Vista Ave., was arrested at 4:43 a.m. Saturday near his home after his car was found blocking the intersection of Routes 9 and 155. He was ...
GRANT ALLOWS WILLIAMSTOWN TO OFFER THEATER FOR FREE.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... A two-year grant from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities will allow the Williamstown Theatre Festival to establish a free theater as part of its summer season. "For a long time, we've wanted to reach out to new audience members," said artistic director Nikos ...
FALL CANCELS CAP REP SHOWS.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Tim Gergich Two performances of the new Capital Repertory Company production "Community Property" were canceled Sunday because actress Anna Berger was suffering from a fall she took more than a week ago. The veteran actress, who is playing the role of Rosa ...
BALLSTON SPA PLANS MEETING ON GIFTED STUDENTS PROGRAM.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Parents of children in Ballston Spa Central Schools will be able to learn more about the district's program for gifted and talented students at a meeting called for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Milton Terrace School. Phil Grayber, co-chairman of the gifted and talented committee; ...
36 VEHICLES NEEDED VOTE ON BUS FUNDS SLATED.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Voters in the Shenendehowa School District will go to the polls Dec. 17 to vote on a $1.4 million district expenditure for new buses. The district is seeking the new vehicles since 39 percent of its fleet of 85 buses is at least 10 years old. The Shenendehowa Board of ...
CITY POLICE TO AUCTION VEHICLES.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... A total of 57 vehicles impounded in recent months by the Albany Police Department will be sold at auction beginning at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Edward Dott Garage on Central Avenue. The auction had been scheduled ...
TOWN PHONE SYSTEM FACES 2ND BID ROUND.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Faced with bids much higher than expected, the town is seeking a second round of proposals for a new telephone system at town hall. The system, bought about two years ago, is unable to cope with the telephone traffic, according to town officials, resulting in lost or misplaced ...
CDTA EXPANDS SERVICE FOR MALL SHOPPERS.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... The Capital District Transportation Authority will expand its bus service to shopping malls to help patrons beat the traffic crunch during the holiday season. The changes will be in effect until Jan. 3. *On the No. 1 Central Avenue between downtown Albany and Colonie ...
MALTA TOWN PLANNERS TO STUDY OUTLET PLAN RECYCLE TASK FORCE TO FORM COMMITTEES.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... A proposed 50-store factory outlet shopping mall on Route 9 near the Northway's Exit 13 will be the topic of a special meeting of the Malta Planning Board on Dec. 8. The meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at the town hall on Route 9. Hal Gerow, a Saratoga Springs ...
SIENA OUTGUNS KEENE STATE, 108-92.(Sports)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Paul Schwartz After watching 200 points, shots from every angle and distance, old-reliables showing off new moves and newcomers making immediate impacts, Mike Deane looked as if he had just awoken from a nap. Deane's first victory at Siena came Sunday night, ...
PATROONS CUT 2, SELL ANOTHER.(Sports)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Tim Wilkin Two players were cut and another sold Sunday, bringing the Albany Patroons a step closer to finalizing their Continental Basketball Association roster. Coach Phil Jackson made the moves following an inter-squad scrimmage at the Washington Avenue ...
EX-FEDERAL WORKERS HIT IN 1ST RETIREMENT YEARS.(Business)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: James L. Rowe Jr. Federal workers are almost certain to pay far more in federal taxes in their first few years of retirement as a result of provisions in the 1986 Tax Reform Act, which took effect July 1. The tax bill took away a special clause that enabled ...
LAB ERRORS, CHEATING SKEW RESULTS OF EMPLOYEE DRUG TESTS.(Business)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Malcolm Ritter Jerry Smith, 29, had worked two years at a shipping company, recently rising to the job of dispatcher, when he was handed a plastic bottle and told to visit the washroom. What followed, he claims, was a farce that unfairly cost him his job. And ...
TOMASURA RETURNS FROM WEEK OF TRAINING FISK NAMED PRESIDENT OF JIMAPCO INC. SHARKEY RECEIVES PROMOTION IN SALES VICE PRESIDENT POST GOES TO SMITH NISKAYUNA MAN JOINS GUYSON CORP. J.E. CONWAY CHAIRMAN OF AYCO CORP.(Business)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Lisa A. Tomasura, a personnel consultant with Romac & Associates of Albany, has returned recently from a week- long training seminar in Portland, Maine. An accounting specialist, Tomasura recently joined Romac from General Electric Co. where she was a financial analyst. ...
GREETINGS' WAR HALLMARK CARDS ACCUSED OF COPYING THE LITTLE GUYS.(Business)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Mark Potts The nation's greeting-card industry, long a bastion of best wishes and good cheer, is locked in a competitive battle that is anything but saccharine. The makers of "non-traditional" cards - the modern, often wry cards that are the hottest thing in ...
N.Y. FIRM CITES STATE TAX WORRY.(Business)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Associated Press A flourishing Delaware County company says it is having trouble attracting executives locally due to New York's inability so far to alter its tax statutes to deal with the overhaul of the federal tax system. Lewis Cullman, owner of the ...
CONVICTED LEADER ANGERS DEMOCRATS.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Dan Jacobson Democrats in the Bronx were up in arms Sunday when they learned convicted boss Stanley Friedman not only has picked his successor but has called a quick meeting to confirm his choice for the powerful party post. Friedman, who had promised to play ...
AFTER STUDY IN ROME BISHOP LIFTS APPROVAL OF BOOK ON SEXUALITY.(Local)
Dec 01, 1986 ... Byline: Associated Press Bishop Matthew H. Clark has withdrawn his sanction of a book written by two local Catholics to help parents talk with their children about sex, according to church officials and the authors of the book. The Rochester bishop took the action ...
SMOKING AT AGE 18.(Main)
Dec 01, 1986 ... The Secretary of Health and Human Services is recommending that states ban the sale of cigarettes to anyone who has not yet reached the age of 18. In a report to Congress, the secretary claims that such a law could have "a strong preventive effect" on young would-be smokers. ...
REAGAN CURBS NSC FBI PROBES SEVEN MEN.(Main)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Associated Press As the Justice Department targeted seven men in its probe of a secret sale of arms to Iran and the diversion of profits to Nicaraguan rebels, President Reagan ordered his National Security Council staff Monday not to conduct diplomatic, military or ...
HUDSON RIVER OFFERS TOXIC BOUNTY *CADMIUM, PCBS PART OF CONTAMINATED CATCH.(Main)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Mark S.R. Suchecki The average striped bass pulled out of the Hudson River is so contaminated by polychlorinated biphenyls, known as PCBs, that the state Health Department advises against eating it. Eating too many whole blue claw crabs caught in the river's ...
REAGAN OPEN TO PROBE DENIES HAVING KNOWN OF DEAL.(Main)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Combined wire services President Reagan denied "flat out" Monday that he had advance knowledge that money from sales of U.S. arms to Iran had been diverted to aid the contras opposing the Nicaraguan government, and said for the first time that he would "welcome" ...
NEW ARMS FUNDING ALLEGED BENEFITS TO OTHER REBELS.(Main)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Joel Brinkley Senior administration officials suggested Monday that some of the money from arms sales to Iran might have been diverted to other anti-commmunist rebel groups. In voicing this suspicion, the officials said the Nicaraguan rebels had received far ...
SHULTZ WANTED TO STAY IN DARK ABOUT DEAL.(Main)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: John P. Wallach Secretary of State George Shultz "a few months ago" was offered a top-secret briefing on the covert Israeli link to the arms-to-Iran operation but spurned the offer, preferring to remain in the dark about it, a U.S. intelligence source disclosed Monday. ...
*POLLUTION PLAGUING RIVER'S FEW FISHERMEN.(Main)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Paul Grondahl It was some 35 years ago that Everett Nack traded 18 muskrat skins for a rotting haul seine net and with a rowboat that leaked like a sieve and put out for the placid Catskill Flats section of the Hudson River. With a drop of the net Nack became ...
WHO ARE WE? GENES OUTWEIGH UPBRINGING.(Main)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Daniel Goleman The genetic makeup of a child is a stronger influence on personality than child rearing, according to the first study to examine identical twins reared in different families. The findings shatter a widespread belief among experts and laymen ...
UTILITIES' 'EXCESS' CRITICIZED NIMO CUSTOMERS PAY EXTRA $13.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Harvy Lipman Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.'s average residential customer pays an extra $13 a year for electricity because the company has more power plants than it needs, according to a new study by the Environmental Action Foundation. The study, scheduled to ...
ROBILOTTO, TWO TEAMSTERS TO BE SENTENCED IN 'GHOST STORY' CASE.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Shirley Armstrong Teamsters Local 294 Business Agent Michael Robilotto and two other union members, convicted by a federal court jury of numerous charges, including racketeering and conspiracy, will be sentenced by Judge Lee P. Gagliardi Monday. All three ...
ELDERLY WIDOW FORGETS BUT NEEDS TO BE REMEMBERED.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor "How long wilt thou forget me?" Psalm 13:1. Mrs. A.V. lives with an elderly male relative in an apartment in the inner city. At age 75 she has been a widow for several years and, sadly, because her memory has failed, she remembers nothing of ...
TAINTED POT CONCERNS DRUG USER.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Joe Mahoney The man's voice contained just a hint of nervousness as he said over the phone, "I'm trying to find out how hazardous this stuff is." This was Monday afternoon, and the man contacted The Times Union, he said, because he had smoked "this stuff" - ...
BLOOD DRIVE UNDER WAY; IT'S SAFE AND NEED GREAT.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Joe Picchi Gov. Mario M. Cuomo kicked off the "Gift of Life" blood donor program for the American Red Cross Monday with a dual message: it's safe and it's an act of caring. The only difference between Cuomo and the hundreds of other donors in the Capital ...
STATE SAYS HIGHER PURCHASE AGE REDUCES DRINKING-RELATED CRASHE S.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Bennett Roth It has been a year since New York state - in the name of public safety - took the right to buy alcohol away from 19- and 20-year-olds. On Monday, state officials released statistics showing that drinking-related accidents and fatalities involving young ...
PRICE GUARANTEED CIVIC CENTER COST TO NOT TOP $34.9M.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Carol DeMare The construction manager of the Albany County civic center guaranteed county officials Monday that the maximum construction cost of the facility would not exceed $34.9 million. County Democrats said the so-called guaranteed maximum price ...
CHARITY FALLS SHORT FOR 1ST TIME.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Jill Murman For the first time in its 61-year history the United Way Campaign of Northeastern New York finished short of its fund-raising efforts, organizers announced Monday night. Meeting for their annual campaign dinner at the Marriott Hotel, volunteers ...
MARIJUANA CASE YIELDS TWO ARRESTS.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Joe Mahoney Albany narcotics detectives arrested two more men Monday in connection with the theft of insecticide-tainted marijuana from the Albany ANSWERS plant, police said. Facing arraignment in Albany Police Court this morning are: 35-year-old Augustina ...
WOMAN WON'T LEAVE RENSS. CO. READIES FORECLOSURE OF FARM.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Jon Rabiroff The scene of the strong-willed widow battling government officials attempting to take claim to her farm is one typically seen in low-budget movies and television reruns. In Rensselaer County, the scene may become all too real soon when attempts ...
POESTENKILL LANDFILL ENCON TARGET.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... The town has until September 1988 to close its landfill on Dennis Road, according to a draft consent order issued Monday by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. By receiving that order, Poestenkill joins other Rensselaer County towns that must find an alternative ...
STUDENTS ASKED TO INK ANTI-DWI PACT.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Toni Toczylowski High-pitched "what's" and "your kiddings" came from the students after the anti-drunken driving speaker suggested the group hold a BYOB party. Steve Wallace, a representative of the national headquarters of Students Against Driving Drunk, ...
HEAT HELP REQUESTS TAKEN NOW.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: John Rabiroff The Rensselaer County Social Services Department is accepting applications for the Home Energy Assistance Program known as HEAP, County Executive John Buono has announced. "This federally funded program is administered locally and is designed to ...
PANEL TO DEVELOP DISCLOSURE LAW ETHICS COMMITTEE NAMED.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Daniel Gold The Albany Common Council took the first step toward creating a financial disclosure law for city officials Monday night when members of the council's new select committee on ethics were named. Joseph Buechs, president pro tempore of the council, ...
MAN HUNTED IN $5G RING THEFT.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... State Police said an arrest was imminent late Monday night in the theft of a $5,000 diamond ring from a store in Loehmann's Plaza. The suspect sought is described as a mustachioed black man, about 5 feet, 10 inches tall, according to Trooper Charles Sullivan. The man entered The ...
VOTERS TO DECIDE NEXT WEEK ON NEW JONESVILLE FIREHOUSE.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Marc Carey Voters in the Jonesville Fire District will go to the polls next week to decide the fate of a proposed new firehouse on Main Street. The proposed bond issue is for $1.5 million, according to Charles Fannucci, chairman of the department's board of ...
SUMP PUMPS BLAMED SEWAGE EXCESSIVE AT NISKAYUNA PLANT.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Paul Grondahl The town's sewage treatment plant is drastically overtaxed during wet weather and sewer officials believe they have found the culprit in the ubiquitous sump pump. Those relatively inexpensive devices that drain off unwanted water from leaky ...
SARATOGA CO. BUDGET HEARING A QUIET AFFAIR.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II The nearly empty auditorium in Saratoga County's facilities building filled for a few minutes Monday night with the sound of a British accent when Catherine Woodford spoke up on the county's proposed 1987 budget. "I think it was such a ...
WASHINGTON COUNTY CHEAPER PATROL PLANS TO BE OUTLINED TODAY.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Washington County Sheriff Martin D. Wescott will announce today how his department can provide road patrols for about one- third the cost of the proposed Washington County Police Department. Wescott will detail his proposal at a press ...
SCHENECTADY MAN INDICTED IN RAPE CASE.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... A 28-year-old city man was indicted by a Schenectady County grand jury Monday on charges of sexually assaulting a 63- year-old woman in his apartment, authorities said. The suspect, Keith B. Krzeminski of 758 State St., was charged with first- degree rape, first-degree sodomy ...
NISKAYUNA PARENT WINS SUIT OVER HER CHILD NOT LEARNING TO READ.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Tim Spofford A Niskayuna parent has won a lawsuit against Niskayuna Central Schools for failing to tutor her child in reading. Con G. Cholakis, a federal judge in the Northern District of New York, ruled Monday in Albany that Niskayuna schools owed Laureena ...
MORE FACTS REQUESTED ON HIRING OF MINORITIES.(Local)
Dec 02, 1986 ... Byline: Daniel Gold The state attorney general's office says it needs more information before it can determine whether Albany officials have been deficient in monitoring affirmative action programs at federal- and state-subsidized construction projects. In October, ...