Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from January 1988:
HOSPITALS ANNOUNCE ACCREDITATIONS 2 VA HOSPITAL PROJECTS WIN APPROVAL.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Two area hospitals recently announced accreditations by independent health care accrediting bodies. Samaritan Hospital in Troy was re-accredited for three years by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals - a body appointed by the American Medical Association, the ...
OZONE MAY BE THINNING EXPERTS DISAGREE ON SATELLITE DATA.(Main)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Guy Darst Associated Press The earth's protective ozone layer has been thinning out around the world, not just over the South Pole, according to a new analysis of satellite data that was promptly disowned by the government agency that sponsored the study. ...
BIG BLOWOUT FOR '88 NEW YEAR'S REVELERS MIX TRADITION, SOBRIETY.(Main)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: William Gillen Associated Press Americans from coast to coast prepared Thursday to greet 1988 with parades, parties and popping corks, but they had to wait one extra second for the new year because of Earth's wobbly rotation. Thousands of fans in Pasadena, ...
AIDS INFECTS LAB WORKER WHO USED PRECAUTIONS.(Main)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Combined wire services Scientists reported Thursday that a laboratory worker who handled aconcentrated form of the AIDS virus became infected on the job, even though the worker wore gloves and apparently had no accidents with the virus. The finding was ...
ELDERLY EVICTIONS HOME OPERATOR MAY PURSUE ADOPTION.(Main)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Catherine Clabby Staff writer The operator of an adult home, pressed by state authorities to remove her elderly patients, wants to take an unusual step to continue to care for two of them. She wants to adopt them. "You can adopt children. I don't ...
SOVIET HOPEFUL OF '88 ECONOMIC GAINS CITED.(Main)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Combined wire services In a New Year's message to his countrymen Thursday night, Mikhail S. Gorbachev said that a "new political and moral atmosphere" had been created in the Soviet Union because of his policy of economic and social change. The Soviet leader ...
AIR SMOKING BAN GETS AN EARLY, ANGRY TRYOUT.(Main)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Jay Mathews Washington Post The Great Airline Smoking Revolution of 1988, a time of tense readjustment to a new social order, began in spectacular fashion - if somewhat early - Wednesday night on TWA Flight 853 from Boston to Los Angeles. When it was all ...
ALBANY REVELS IN SECOND FIRST NIGHT 7,000 TURN OUT FOR CITY'S NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY.(Main)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Jay Jochnowitz Staff writer Albany outdid itself for New Year's Eve, with a surge of last-minute ticket sales for "First Night" bringing thousands of revelers downtown to welcome 1988. With 7,000 "First Night" buttons sold by noon Thursday, the city passed ...
YULE BLUES DISCOUNTED IN 3 MASS MURDERS.(Main)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Kathleen Haddad Staff writer The three mass murders that occurred in Arkansas, Texas and Iowa this week probably are not the result of post-holiday blues - itself not a well-substantiated phenonomenon, says a Troy psychologist. The mass murders - all involving ...
MURDER-SUICIDE SUSPECT SAID TO HAVE TROUBLE SHARING SPOTLIGHT DESCRIBED AS TROUBLED LONER.(Main)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press A 40-year-old loner who apparently killed six relatives before turning the gun on himself may have been enraged by the holiday attention showered on his sister and her three children, family friends said Thursday. "Here he was living with his ...
TOBIN SEEN CHOICE FOR COURT SEAT.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Carol DeMare Staff writer Albany attorney Beverly C. Tobin is the choice of local Democratic leaders to fill a judgeship in Albany County Family Court vacated by Paul E. Cheeseman, who was sworn in Thursday as a state Supreme Court justice. J. Leo O'Brien, ...
SPA CO.'S NEW JAIL IS STILL EMPTY.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Mary Chris Kuhr Staff writer The new year has dawned, but Saratoga County's jail inmates are still calling the county's Municipal Complex their home away from home. Last-minute problems with the electrical locking systems in the county's new $9.8 million jail ...
ALBANY SETS GOLF PROJECT MUNICIPAL COURSE TO BE REVAMPED.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Deborah Gesensway Staff writer A plan to redesign the Albany Municipal Golf Course to make the back nine holes more accessible is taking shape as Albany's aldermen are expected Monday to give Mayor Thomas M. Whalen III permission to hire engineers and consultants. ...
BURNED-OUT FAMILY GETS POST-CHRISTMAS GODSEND.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor Staff writer Thirteen-year-old Jay Campione had resigned himself Thursday to going into 1988 wearing sneakers that crowded his feet. The laces were also too frayed to tie, but they were all he had. Like his brothers and sisters, Jay was wearing ...
MERRYMAKERS FACING THE DOUBLE WHAMMY.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Joe Picchi Staff writer As revelers toasted in a New Year early today, the State Police's "saturation patrol" was out there waiting. Where they were - and how many - was a closely guarded secret late New Year's Eve as troopers beefed up their fight against ...
SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TO APPEAL BRIBERY CASE DISMISSALS.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Laurie Anderson Staff writer A Rensselaer County special prosecutor will appeal a recent county court decision throwing out charges against six people - including two attorneys - in a bribery case because of improper grand jury proceedings, according to County Judge M ....
CLIFTON PARK PAYS BIGGEST SHARE, LOWEST RATE IN COUNTY TAXES.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Mary Chris Kuhr Staff writer Clifton Park - with the largest population in Saratoga County - will pick up the biggest share of the county's $9 million property tax levy in 1988, but residents there will still pay only 31 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation. ...
WOMAN GUILTY IN INSURANCE SCAM FIRE BLAMED ON CARELESS SMOKING CONN. DRIVER CHARGED IN FATAL CRASH TEENAGER INJURED IN ROUTE 9 CRASH.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... A 35-year-old Schenectady woman pleaded guilty Thursday in Albany County Court to accepting a $7,000 insurance check she knew was stolen in a scheme to bilk a life-insurance carrier for the Civil Service Employees Association. Gail Brannigan of 406 Furman St. pleaded guilty ...
FIRST DEMOCRATIC COUNCILMAN TAKES OATH SUNDAY BETHLEHEM BOARD MEETS MONDAY.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Ken Thurman Staff writer When Bob Burns raises his right hand Sunday to take the oath of office as a Town Board member, he will be the first Democrat to hold elected office in the 194-year history of the Republican-dominated town. So to mark the occasion, town ...
DAY-CARE CENTER NOT OPERATING TO CAPACITY.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Staff writer Two months after the Drakeland Day Care Center opened its new $300,000 building in Arbor Hill, about 40 percent of its capacity is unused despite a need for child care in one of Albany's poorest neighborhoods. "The day ...
ARBITRATOR SOUGHT IN POLICE SUSPENSION ALLEGED GUN INCIDENT AT ISSUE.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Toni Toczylowski Staff writer An arbitrator is expected to be selected shortly to decide the outcome of departmental charges brought against a town police officer who, while off duty in October, allegedly fired a personal handgun in the parking lot of an Albany ...
PLANNING BOARD CHIEF QUITS IN CLIFTON PARK.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Marc Carey Staff writer In a move that is expected to have major ramifications, the chairman of the town's Planning Board has resigned after more than a decade in that post. Donald Rudolph, chairman of the powerful board - which has approval power over most ...
POLITICAL SPLIT STALLS APPOINTMENT.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... With a dispute still unresolved over how a vacancy should be filled, two Democrats and a Republican will be sworn in today as members of a town board evenly split along party lines. Democrats Herbert W. Reilly Jr. and John Sgarlata will take the oath of office along with ...
APPEALS COURT SAYS MONET CAN STAY.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: John M. Doyle Associated Press A $500,000 Monet painting that vanished from a German castle during World War II belongs to the New Yorker who bought it 30 years ago, not the original owner, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The decision by the 2nd U.S ....
LIGHT PLANE CRASH KILLS IN BURLINGTON.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: United Press International A small plane carrying five people crashed trying to make an emergency landing at Burlington International Airport Thursday, killing two people and critically injuring three children, authorities said. An airport spokesman said the ...
NEW COUNCILMAN JOINS COLONIE BOARD.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Timothy F. Schick Staff writer In an annual New Year's Day ritual, the Town Board will meet at 11 a.m. today to set salaries, appoint committee members and approve a list of routine resolutions. But there will be no surprises during the meeting, Supervisor ...
BENNETT CRITICIZED ON DRUG EDUCATION.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press The chairman and ranking Republican member of the House narcotics committee criticized Education Secretary William Bennett on Thursday for not emphasizing the drug abuse issue in his proposal for a model high school curriculum. Rep. Charles ...
BLOOD-PRESSURE TREATMENT STUDY WINS GRANT.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Kathleen Haddad Staff writer A research team composed of SUNY-Albany and Albany Medical Center researchers has been awarded a $703,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for continued research on non-drug treatment of high blood pressure. The team ...
ALBANY MAN INDICTED ON COCAINE COUNT.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... A 28-year-old Albany man was indicted Wednesday by an Albany County grand jury on three drug- related charges. Homer Bosh Jr. of Westerlo Street was charged with first- degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, second-degree ...
MUGGER TAKES $350 FROM 72-YEAR-OLD.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... New Year's Eve was marred for a 72-year-old Albany woman who was mugged on Central Avenue moments after she emerged from a bank with a wad of cash. The woman was carrying a white envelope containing $350 as she walked out of the Norstar branch bank at 339 Central Ave., city ...
ROTTERDAM DEMOCRATS ELECT OFFICERS.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... John J. Woodward, town receiver of taxes, has been re- elected president of the Rotterdam Democratic Club. Other officers for 1988 are Barry Gray, vice president; Eva Votino, treasurer; Rose Wollner, corresponding secretary; Dorothy Nonkin, recording secretary; Rose Knapp, ...
SCH'DY YWCA TO CELEBRATE CENTENNIAL.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... The Schenectady YWCA has established a centennial committee to plan a 100th anniversary celebration in 1988. Chairwoman is Debbie Botch of Niskayuna. Other committee members are: Kay Ackerman, Jan Fearing, Sue Nadler, Ginny Timberlake and Eleanor Watrous, all of ...
COUNTY LAWMAKERS TO BE SWORN IN TODAY.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Albany County's government will open 1988 today with the swearing in of the 39-member county legislature and other newly elected county officials during a noon ceremony at the Albany County Courthouse. Following the swearing in, Albany County Executive James J. Coyne ...
BOARD TO FILL GOP VACANCY.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... The Town Republican Committee has made its choice for a successor to Councilman James T. Keller, but it is being kept a secret until a special meeting of the Town Board at noon today when the board is likely to vote on a replacement. The all-Republican board is ...
SCH'DY BOARD RENAMED TODAY.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... The name "Schenectady County Board of Representatives" is no more. As of today, the legislative arm of the county government will be known as the Schenectady County Legislature. While the City Council will hold its reorganizational meeting today ...
LINCOLN DOCUMENT DISPLAY SLATED.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: James Carbone United Press International Abraham Lincoln's handwritten Emancipation Proclamation, called "one of the most priceless documents of American history," will be displayed at the New York State Museum in honor of the document's 125th anniversary, museum ...
'DARK EYES' A SLOW TALE OF TWO CULTURES.(Weekend)(Movie review)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Martin Moynihan Staff writer Always handsome, but slow to realize things. That's a description of Marcello Mastroianni's overly comfortable character in the Italian-Russian film "Dark Eyes." That's also a fair description of the movie itself. As it ...
PLAYWRIGHT SEES NOSTALGIA WITH A TWIST.(Weekend)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Jackie Demaline Executive entertainment editor Yeah, it's the feminist thing, but three years ago when Doris Baizley was writing "Mrs. California," it had just as much to do with mothers and babies, about being in your late thirties and coming to terms with the former ...
SWYER'S ARTS WISH LIST IS AMBITIOUS.(Weekend)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Martin P. Kelly Times Union Critic Lewis Swyer, long one of the prime patrons of all the arts in the region, is a one-man list of resolutions for the institutions he has helmed and supports so faithfully. "I have always worked for and continue to wish for ...
'GAMES' BLENDS BUNCO, FREUD COMEDY A CHILLY VERSION OF 'THE STING'.(Weekend)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Martin Moynihan Staff writer "Everybody gets something out of every transaction," says Mike the con man to Margaret the psychiatrist. And how! The film "House of Games" is basically one long twisting, complex and intriguing transaction between the two, with ...
SOME AREA NATIVES FARE WELL ON SCREEN.(TV/Radio)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Janet Trinkaus Besides Scott Valentine, Russell Todd and Joe Alaskey, other Capital District people have landed TV roles. Steve Fisher, who graduated from Albany Academy in 1973, will appear in the Jan. 15 episode of "Miami Vice," playing Sheena Easton's ...
ORANGE AND BLUE, AND FOOTBALL, TOO.(Sports)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Tim Layden The woman with the white hair wears an orange sweatshirt with an orange button pinned to it. She carries a stiff, white pennant on a stick. There is orange writing on the flag; it says that Syracuse will win the Sugar Bowl. Her husband wears an ...
RPI'S JUNEAU BECOMING A SIGHT FOR SORE (NHL) EYES.(Sports)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Pete Dougherty Staff writer One of the great mysteries of this hockey season is how Joe Juneau, a freshman center at RPI, escaped the eyes of National Hockey League scouts last year. Juneau leads the Eastern College Athletic Conference in scoring, yet his NHL ...
SYRACUSE VS. AUBURN: TALE OF 2 CULTURES.(Sports)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Tim Layden Staff Writer Nobody knows. They boast and they posture; they analyze and they jive. But neither Syracuse nor Auburn knows. Nobody knows. Therein lies the beauty of the Sugar Bowl, today at 3:30 (ABC-TV, Ch.10) in the Lousiana Superdome ....
HOCKEY'S LOSS IS SU FOOTBALL'S KANE.(Sports)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Tim Layden Staff Writer Tommy Kane had to laugh. Not that this entire scenario wasn't funny in itself - what with him, a Syracuse football player from Canada, sitting for an interview in New Orleans. This was the best of all. It seems that when Kane was 11, a ...
DOES SUPERDOME FAVOR SYRACUSE OR AUBURN? SEC TEAMS AREN'T SO DOMINANT MACPHERSON ON PATERNO: HE'S BEAUTIFUL.(Sports)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Tim Layden In theory, bowl games provide no home field advantage. Today's Sugar Bowl game would seem to be an exception, although there is a difference of opinion as to who holds that edge. The argument takes place on several levels: 1) Domes: the ...
NBA RAID WOULD MAKE LIFE TOUGHER FOR PATS.(Sports)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Tim Wilkin Staff writer Even though the Albany Patroons are making a joke of the Continental Basketball Association's Eastern Division, there is concern. What if if the National Basketball Association made a full-scale raid on the Pats? Imagine ...
TAX BREAK PROPOSED TO HELP PAY FOR COLLEGE.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Jeannie H. Cross United Press International A state Senate task force Thursday proposed giving parents an income-tax break to help pay for their children's college education. The Senate Research Service Task Force on Critical Problems did not propose a ...
MISSING NEWLYWED FOUND MURDERED.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press Suffolk County police are re-interviewing the friends, relatives and neighbors of a newlywed woman now that the investigation of her Christmas Eve disappearance has become a hunt for a killer. The partially clad body of Lisa Solomon, 22, was ...
NYC PROBE SOUGHT IN KILLING OF BLACK CUOMO ASKS FEDS TO RECONSIDER SITE NICKY THE BEAVER DIES CHRISTMAS EVE AUDIT OF PROGRAM RUN BY MAYOR'S KIN NO POLITICS URGED IN OK OF CHANCELLOR.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press United Press International Associated Press United Press International Associated Press An eyewitness said Thursday that the killing of a black man by two white policemen followed the victim's angry charge that the officers administered "white justice." ...
N.Y. FIRST STATE TO HONOR A POLE: PULASKI DAY SET MARCH 4.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Elizabeth Edwardsen Associated Press Mark March 4th as Pulaski Day in New York. It will be the first Pulaski Day in the state, and the first day set aside legally to commemorate a Pole or a Polish- American in this state or any other, supporters say. ...
'88 LEGISLATURE FACES EDUCATION, ETHICS ISSUES.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Jeannie H. Cross United Press International Two "E's" - education and ethics - could make the 1988 legislative session, which begins Wednesday, a distinctly uneasy one. To begin with, five of the 16 Regents who oversee all New York school systems are to be elected by the ...
SUSPECT'S STATEMENT OK FOR PRIEST-KILLINGS TRIAL.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: United Press International A statement given by one of two young men accused of killing two Roman Catholic priests can be used in his upcoming trial, a judge said. State Supreme Court Justice Frederick Marshall on Wednesday rejected a bid by attorneys for ...
NEWSPRINT COST TO SPUR HIGHER NEWSPAPER AD RATE.(Local)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Mariann Caprino Associated Press Newspapers around the nation are making a few resolutions for the new year to compensate for a sharp increase today in the price of newsprint: Trim waste and, analysts say, push for higher advertising rates. While newspapers ...
PEPPERS PREPARES FOR THIRD BOWL; NFL?(Sports)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Keith Marder If all goes well, Saturday's Peach Bowl won't be Vic Peppers' final football game. Peppers, an Albany native, is a possible National Football League prospect with high hopes. Scouts have been at every Tennessee practice this year and ...
BLOWOUT CITY EX-SIENA STARS CAN STILL LAUGH AT SYRACUSE MISMATCHES.(Sports)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Paul Schwartz Staff writer Every so often, Rod Owens and Mike Catino dust off an eight-year old tape, one filled with a memory that won't die. It is a Siena game, one against Syracuse. Sure to pop up time after time is Owens' dunk over 7-foot Roosevelt Bouie ....
A SMART OPPORTUNITY.(Main)
Jan 01, 1988 ... Byline: Tim Spofford Staff writer Of the Capital District's seven four- year colleges, three are profiled in a new edition of Edward B. Fiske's guidebook, "Best Buys in College Education." Fiske, education editor of the New York Times, had listed both Siena College ...
STATE LOTTERY DIVISION BEGINS 1988 WITH $11,111,111 JACKPOT.(Local)
Jan 02, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press The New York Lottery is opening the new year on a one-digit theme: $11,111,111. That is the prize being offered in Saturday's Lotto 48 game, in ...
BOOM-TOWN BUILDS INSPECTION OFFICE.(Local)
Jan 02, 1988 ... Byline: Jill Murman Staff writer After about two weeks on the job, Malta's new building inspector is making his presence known around town. "People are complaining so he must be doing his job," one town official joked about John Olkowski's arrival in Malta. ...
USE OR ABUSE? DRUG TREATMENT FOR HYPERACTIVITY ATTACKED.(Main)
Jan 02, 1988 ... Byline: David Treadwell Los Angeles Times LaVarne Parker didn't like what the pills seemed to be doing to her young son, Melvin. But, she says, officials at his suburban Atlanta elementary school insisted that he take them if she wanted to keep him enrolled there. The ...
VIOLENCE AND PRAYERS BRING IN THE NEW YEAR.(Main)
Jan 02, 1988 ... Byline: Combined wire services At least 11 people were killed and nearly 1,000 seriously injured in Manila alone Friday, as Filipinos rang in 1988 with their traditional annual orgy of gunfire, grenades and hundreds of tons of explosives. Hospital authorities said all ...
COYNE ANGERS MUNICIPALITIES WITH FUND PLAN *WOULD CUT LOCAL SHARES.(Main)
Jan 02, 1988 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Staff writer Albany County Executive James J. Coyne's New Year proposal to increase county revenues by slashing the local governments' share of sales tax money was called "a back-stabbing move" and an unwanted surprise by local officials. ...
*PLANS SHIFT IN BILL PAYING.(Main)
Jan 02, 1988 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Staff writer The responsibility for paying the bills of Albany County's two major projects - the $100 million development of the county airport and additions to the $41.5 million civic center - are to be shifted elsewhere under plans being developed ...
TRUSTEE AFTER $9.36M PAID TO BAKKERS.(Main)
Jan 02, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press PTL's trustee will take action to recover what the Internal Revenue Service says is $9.36 million in excessive compensation paid to Jim and Tammy Bakker, an attorney for the television ministry's trustee said Friday. R. Bradford Leggett, an ...
REAGAN, GORBACHEV GREET NATIONS SOVIET, U.S. TELEVISION BROADCAST NEW YEAR'S SPEECHES.(Main)
Jan 02, 1988 ... Byline: Joel Brinkley New York Times President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev exchanged televised New Year's greetings to the Soviet and American people Friday, and Reagan used the occasion to tell millions of Soviet viewers about freedoms and opportunities largely unavailable ...