Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from May 1993:
GAY RIGHTS MORAL IDEA.(MAIN)
May 01, 1993 ... As a practicing Episcopalian in the Diocese of Albany, I feel obliged to speak as one in the diocese who does not share our bishop's perspective on the legislation before the state Senate which would protect the civil rights of gay and lesbian people. Bishop Ball is quoted in ...
HEED LEE HAMILTON.(MAIN)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: Marianne Means President Clinton passed over Rep. Lee Hamilton for vice president and secretary of state, but it's not too late for the president to listen to Hamilton's advice. The Indiana Democrat, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, is ...
SHOPPERS CAN HELP FEED ANIMALS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: Barbara Delaney The Capital District Humane Association -- for the love of animals -- will hold its fourth annual pet food drive starting today at area Price Chopper supermarkets. Co-sponsored by the Ralston-Purina Co., the drive will run for two weeks, ...
SMOOTH SAILING DESPITE WAVES IN THE ECONOMY, ALBANY'S SCARANO BROTHERS SAY BOAT-BUILDING IS KEEPING THEM AWASH IN WORK.(LIFE & LEISURE)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: PAUL GRONDAHL Staff writer Two centuries of maritime history, from the sublime to the frivolous, are taking shape in the warehouse of Scarano Boatbuilding Inc. at the Port of Albany. The Scarano brothers, Rick and John, are busy this spring. ...
IF THE KIDS' BAGGY JEANS HAVE YOU STEAMED, CHILL.(LIFE & LEISURE)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: JEAN PATTESON Orlando Sentinel To all you parents who find yourselves getting hot and bothered about the fashions your adolescent kids are wearing, teenagers have this to say: Chill. "It's only clothes. Just because our jeans are three sizes too big, they ...
BOAT-BUILDING TEAM INVENTS 40-FOOT OAKS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
May 01, 1993 ... It's a tall order: oak beams 40 feet long, 1 foot thick, very straight and very strong. When the U.S. Navy built the Constitution in 1797, one of the first six warships authorized by Congress, it was possible to find old-growth oak trees that could be milled into such ...
HOW TO CUT DOCTOR BILLS.(MAIN)
May 01, 1993 ... While it is difficult to judge all the particulars of Governor Cuomo's latest health reform plan, the underlying principle seems especially praiseworthy. Michael Dowling, the governor's director of health, education and human services, explained that what the administration ...
HOW MANY DOOLEYS SHOULD WE SACRIFICE?(MAIN)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: Garry Wills Whatever happened to Tom Dooley? Back in the 1950s, his name was on every superpatriot's lips. He was the anti-communist Cardinal Spellman offered as a model to Catholic children. As a Navy doctor in French Vietnam, he championed the nuns who had educated ...
OUR SCHOOL TEACHERS' MYSTERIOUS 'EXPERTISE'.(MAIN)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: Thomas Sowell In a world where schools seem desperate to find things to do to avoid teaching academic subjects, San Francisco's Lowell High School still teaches the traditional subjects -- and teaches them well enough to be nationally recognized as an outstanding ...
DR. ANNA PERKINS.(MAIN)
May 01, 1993 ... Dr. Anna Perkins lived long enough to see many of her colleagues earn million-dollar incomes, restrict calling hours and charge high fees. None of it fazed her. She began her career as a country doctor, ministering to the needs of families in the hill town of Westerlo. On Thursday, she ...
LYNN REDGRAVE EXPLORES KINSHIP WITH FATHER.(LIFE & LEISURE)(Theater review)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: MARY CAMPBELL Associated Press NEW YORK -- In "Shakespeare for My Father," Lynn Redgrave speaks excerpts from Shakespeare as they relate to her relationship with her classical-actor father, Sir Michael Redgrave. The show, which opened earlier this week ...
WNYT STARTS AIRING LOTTERY DRAWINGS TODAY.(LIFE & LEISURE)
May 01, 1993 ... Starting today, Saturday, May 1 WNYT-TV (Channel 13) becomes the official Capital Region station of the New York State Lottery. Local viewers could see the lottery drawings before on cable on New York's WPIX and New Jersey's WWOR, but local viewership among those stations' ...
EUGENE F. ROHRWASSER JR., 85; D&H RETIREE.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... Eugene F. Rohrwasser Jr., 85, of George Street, died Friday in St. Mary's Hospital after a brief illness. He was born in Watervliet and lived in Green Island for 60 years. Mr. Rohrwasser was employed by the Delaware & Hudson Railway Co.in Colonie for 50 years, ...
SENATORS OPPOSE NEW NUCLEAR TESTS.(MAIN)
May 01, 1993 ... WASHINGTON -- Three senators criticized the Clinton administration Friday for considering a proposal to allow continued underground nuclear tests. They said it would conflict with a law they sponsored last year calling for a comprehensive ban on nuclear tests. In a letter to ...
JOHN J. CULLIGAN; VETERAN OF WORLD WAR II.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... John J. Culligan of Crestone Road died Wednesday in Atlantic City, N.J., after being stricken. He was born in Schenectady and lived in Colonie for the past 29 years. He was an Army veteran of World War II and served in the European Theater. Mr. Culligan operated ...
WORKPLACE POLITICS NOT ALWAYS SLEAZY.(LIFE & LEISURE)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: BETH SHERMAN Newsday Ais for always getting to work on time. B is for being exceptionally busy. C is for the conscientious way you do your job. You may be all these things at the office, and more. But when it comes to getting ahead, ...
INJURY FORCES GUNS 'N ROSES TO CANCEL.(LIFE & LEISURE)
May 01, 1993 ... Guitarist Gilby Clarke has broken his left wrist in a motorcycle accident, forcing the cancellation of Guns 'N Roses' Wednesday, concert at the ...
STEPHANIE OLGA SHUCHOWSKY, 96; HOMEMAKER.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... Stephanie Olga Shuchowsky, 96, of North Hollister Street, formerly of Cohoes, died Friday in Arlington Hospital after a long illness. She was born in Austria and moved to this country in 1916. She lived in Cohoes most of her life and moved to Virginia 17 years ago. ...
GEORGE H. DINGLEY, 60; BUILDING CONTRACTOR.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... George H. Dingley, 60, of Mohawk Street died Friday in St. Mary's Hospital in Troy after a short illness. He was born and educated in Cohoes schools. Mr. Dingley was a self-employed building contractor at the time of his death. He operated Dingley Construction Co. for many ...
GM, U.S. AT ODDS OVER RECALL.(MAIN)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press General Motors Corp.'s refusal to recall 4.7 million pickup trucks could move GM and the government toward a replay of a four-year court battle from the 1980s. In the "X-car" case, GM refused a National Highway Traffic Safety administration ...
ANTHONY GIZZO; OWNED CANDY-MAKING FIRM.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... Services will be held today for Anthony G. Gizzo of South Allen Street, who died Thursday in St. Peter's Hospital. Mr. Gizzo was born in Jessup, Pa. He was raised in Rome, Oneida County, and had lived most of his adult life in Albany. He was employed for a number of ...
ABORTION PILL GETS TRIAL RUN IN OREGON.(MAIN)
May 01, 1993 ... PORTLAND, Ore. -- The French abortion pill, which had been banned in the United States, will get its first U.S. clinical trials in Oregon, officials said Friday. "This is a giant step forward in the march for better health care for women," said Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who ...
HEARST PRESIDENT TO RECEIVE AWARD.(MAIN)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: Times Union Washington bureau Frank A. Bennack Jr., president and chief executive officer of The Hearst Corp., has been selected by the trustees of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to receive the academy's Trustees' Award. The award will ...
CHARGE DISMISSED AGAINST TYSON ALLY.(MAIN)
May 01, 1993 ... BATON ROUGE, La. -- A federal judge Friday threw out a perjury charge against a national Baptist leader accused of offering $1 million to silence the woman Mike Tyson was convicted of raping. U.S. District Judge Richard Haik tossed out the charge facing the Rev. T.J. Jemison ...
STUDY FINDS U.S. DRUG BETTER FOR HEART ATTACKS.(MAIN)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press An expensive American-made drug was found to save more lives in emergency heart attack treatment than a cheaper European-marketed drug, according to the largest study ever of "clot busters" for clogged coronary arteries. Researchers told a ...
ALBANY GROUP'S BID FOR ECAC TOURNAMENT IS 'KNICK'ED.(SPORTS)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: BOB CROCE Staff writer Albany community group's slick presentations were overcome Friday by the group holding the home-court advantage as the 1994 and 1995 ECAC Division I hockey championships were awarded to Lake Placid. In an undisclosed vote of the ...
MARY A. LANNON MC DOWELL; RITES MONDAY.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... Mary A. Lannon Mc Dowell of Elmhurst Avenue died Thursday at home after a long illness. She was born in Newburgh, Orange County, and lived in Rensselaer most of her life. She worked as a telephone operator for the New York Telephone Co. in Albany for 22 years. More recently, ...
DAVID G. KANSER, 32; GARDEN WAY ASSEMBLER.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... David G. Kanser, 32, of Route 84 died Friday as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Grafton that day. He was born and educated in Cohoes and was a graduate of Cohoes High School. At the time of his death, he was an assembler for Garden Way ...
REGAN SPENDS HIS FINAL DAY AFTER 14 YEARS AS COMPTROLLER.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: MARC HUMBERT Associated Press State Comptroller Edward Regan, New York's chief fiscal watchdog for more than 14 years, resigned the $110,000-a-year post Friday to head an economic think tank. "It was time for me after 27 years (in public office) to move ...
MACY WANTS OWN SHOPPING NETWORK.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 1993 ... NEW YORK -- Joining the herd of retailers stampeding to sell their wares on cable television, R.H. Macy & Co. is thinking of starting its own shopping channel. Unlike Saks Fifth Avenue, which received publicity when it announced in March that it would try its hand at selling ...
CARPET SUPPLIES FIRM TO OPEN STORE.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 1993 ... A Rhode Island firm that sells carpet installation equipment and materials to the trade plans to open a showroom and store on Central Avenue in Colonie this summer. Carpet Products Inc. of Cranston, which has 14 locations in the Northeast, expects to select a site of at least ...
NON-UNION FIRM IRKS TRUCK DRIVERS.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 1993 ... Unionized truck drivers at Grand Union's Waterford distribution center are continuing to talk with management over the company's apparent decision to hire a non-union trucking firm for some shipments. The dispute prompted an afternoon of informational picketing Wednesday at ...
CHASE BEGINNING SATURDAY HOURS.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 1993 ... Chase Manhattan Bank said it plans to open its upstate branches on Saturdays beginning today MAY 1 because of customer demand. Saturday hours will be 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Most Capital Region banks already have some Saturday and evening hours. "Saturday is an ...
DRIVER OF CAB THAT KILLED CHILD HAS LONG RECORD OF OFFENSES.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press The unlicensed driver whose livery car killed a 2-year-old Brooklyn boy and injured his mother and brother had been barred from driving and cited for ignoring more than two dozen driving offenses since 1989, records showed Friday. "We have ...
BAD HEART STOPS SUSPECT IN COMMACK BANK ROBBERY.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press A 68-year-old man with a bad heart and big gambling debts held up a bank with his grandson's toy gun but was captured when he collapsed during a chase, police said Friday. Eugene Cadwalader, a 280-pound great-grandfather, blew the $100,000 ...
POLITICIANS SAY PROSKIN IS MULLING A SENATE RUN.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: MARC CAREY Staff writer A year and a half prior to the election, longtime Republican Assemblyman Arnold Proskin is gearing up to run for the state Senate seat held by Democrat Howard Nolan, according to politicians on both sides of the aisle. Nolan, now in ...
ELIZABETH BRADLEY, 90; WAS MATERIAL HANDLER.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... Elizabeth M. Bradley, 90, of South Broadway died Thursday in Saratoga Hospital after a long illness. She was born in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, and moved to Saratoga Springs from Albany in 1972. Mrs. Bradley was a material handler at the Cohoes Manufactoring Co. ...
VERA HOWELL, 93; HOMEMAKER, RITE SUNDAY.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... Vera Vyse Howell, 93, of Devon Road, Delmar, died Thursday in the Guilderland Center Nursing Home, Guilderland Center. Mrs. Howell was born in Kent, England, and was a homemaker for most of her life in New York City. She moved to Delmar 12 years ago. Mrs. Howell was ...
IF YOU CAN BREAK THEM, U.S. OFFERS WILD HORSES.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press New Yorkers can drag these wild horses away -- if they can come up with a modest "adoption" fee and a suitable home. Having patience would help, too, says Elizabeth Partlow of Hartwick, who is helping promote the federal Bureau of Land ...
UNIVERSITY HOSTS CENTER TO HELP LITERACY EFFORT.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... ALBANY -- Teachers and literacy volunteers who work with adult students will now have one place to turn to for additional training, research and resources. A State Literacy Resource Center, operated under the auspices of the state Education Department, is being created at the ...
BREAKAWAY EPISCOPAL BISHOP TO SPEAK.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... SCHENECTADY -- The Rev. Leo Combes, bishop of the recently formed Episcopal Missionary Church, will address the Episcopal Prayer Book Society at 2:30 p.m. today at Holy Name of Jesus Polish National Catholic Church on Pearl Street. At 10 a.m. Sunday, Bishop Combes will ...
MEDIATION OF DISPUTES TOPIC OF PTA MEETING.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... ALBANY -- The use of mediation to deal with violence will be the topic of discussion at the next meeting of the Albany City Council PTA on Monday, May 10. Several Albany schools have been using mediation to resolve disputes and head off conflict. Guest speakers at ...
DISNEY BUYS MIRAMAX FILM.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: JOHN HORN Associated Press After a year in which independent films made a big splash at the box office and the Academy Awards, the Walt Disney Co. bought Miramax Film Corp. on Friday. Through such films as "Sex, Lies and Videotape," "The Crying Game" and ...
CORPORATE INVESTMENT GOING INTO AUTOMATION, NOT NEW HIRES.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: CATHERINE CLABBY Staff writer Friday's economic reports from the U.S. Commerce Department on income and purchasing reinforced local analysts' views that the current economic recovery is modest and far from traditional. Investment strategist Ed Lavarnway, of ...
LAWYER SAYS BLAST SUSPECT TORTURED.(MAIN)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press The lawyer for a defendant in the World Trade Center bombing said Friday that his client had been tortured in Egypt, then questioned by the FBI while groggy after 10 days of beatings. The statements came as participants in the case were ...
CONSUMER SPENDING, FACTORY ORDERS SLUMP.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: DAVE SKIDMORE Associated Press Consumer spending fell in March for the first time in seven months and orders to factories slumped too, the government said Friday. Personal income rose, but mostly because of huge farm subsidy payments. Personal consumption ...
CLINTON REDUCES BENEFITS FROM NATIONAL SERVICE PLAN.(MAIN)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: Washington Post President Clinton Friday proposed a national service program to help people pay for their college costs after he made last-minute benefit reductions to avert an outcry by veterans' groups and secure support from congressional Republicans. ...
JOHN BAKER, 56; AWARDED MEDAL OF HONOR.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... John W. "Jack" Baker, 56, of Lake George, a recipient of the Medal of Honor, died Thursday in Glens Falls Hospital. He was born in Glens Falls. Mr. Baker was a veteran of the Army Special Forces, and served three combat tours in Vietnam. He was awarded the Medal of ...
APPOINTMENTS TO AIRLINE COMMISSION FAULTED.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: MARTIN TOLCHIN New York Times President Clinton and congressional leaders have spurned both consumer groups and the leading airlines in naming the 15 members of a bipartisan commission charged with recommending measures to revitalize the ailing American airline ...
ANTI-NAPLES COALITION CRUMBLES AS DEMOCRATS CAN'T UNITE.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: TIM O ' BRIEN Staff writer An attempt to form a coalition to battle Brunswick Supervisor Romeo Naples for the Rensselaer County Democratic chairmanship fell apart Friday. Frank Fleming, the Sand Lake Democratic chairman for 20 years, and Troy attorney John ...
TROY HIRES CONSULTANT TO STUDY WATERFRONT.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... TROY -- The city hired a Massachusetts consultant Friday to study how it should develop its waterfront. Christopher Chadbourne Associates of Cambridge will be paid $50,000, City Manager Steven G. Dworsky announced Friday. ...
CROPSEYVILLE MAN, 32, KILLED IN ROUTE 2 CRASH.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... GRAFTON -- The Rensselaer County sheriff's office Friday is investigating an accident that killed a 32-year-old Cropseyville man and injured three others. David G. Kanser was killed Thursday in the 8:20 p.m. crash on Route 2 just east of Route 84. John C. Conboy, ...
BALLSTON SPA MAN GUILTY OF SEX ABUSE.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... TROY -- A Ballston Spa man was found guilty Friday in Rensselaer County Court of the rape, sodomy, and sexual abuse of a young girl. A jury found Richard J. Dworakowski Jr. guilty of sexually abusing the girl in her home in 1991 when she was 7 years old. Both the ...
JAPAN ACCUSED OF UNFAIR TRADE.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: BOB DEANS Cox News Service The Clinton administration fired the opening salvo Friday in its long-promised trade offensive with Japan, accusing Tokyo of denying U.S. companies fair access to Japan's $700 billion construction market. The White House called for ...
NICHOLAS L. FERA; RETIRED TROY ELECTRICIAN.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... Nicholas L. Fera of Troy died Thursday in St. Mary's Hospital after a long illness. He was born and educated in Troy. Mr. Fera was employed as an electrician at Tek-Hughes in Watervliet for 45 years before retiring in 1975. He was a communicant of St ....
DOCTORS TO OFFER FREE TESTS AT BETH EMETH.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... Fifteen local doctors will offer a variety of free health screenings during a "Health Fair Extraordinaire," between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday at Temple Beth Emeth, 100 Academy Road in Albany. Among the screenings offered at the fair: thyroid conditions, cholesterol, blood ...
ARSENAL GETS BIG ORDER TO IMPROVE CANNONS.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... WATERVLIET -- The Watervliet Arsenal has been awarded a $12.5 million contract to increase the range and improve the firing life of a 155mm cannon. "The workload was listed as ...
COHOES SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER TO BE SWORN IN.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... COHOES -- The city public school board will hold a special meetingWednesday May 5 for the purpose of accepting results of this Tuesday's May 4 annual school board election and to ...
230 SCHOOLS TO JOIN IN COLLEGE FAIR AT PLAZA.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... ALBANY -- Representatives of about 230 colleges and universities will participate in an annual spring college fair Wednesday at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center. The fair will operate in two sessions ...
WOMAN FACES 6-12 YEARS FOR DRUG SALE.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: CAROL DE MARE Staff writer A city woman who has had a number of drug arrests in the last six months is facing 6 to 12 years in state prison. Patrice Whitbeck, 33, of 175 Jay St., will be sentenced on May 18 by County Judge Thomas A. Breslin as a repeat felon ...
RENSSELAER COUNTY'S PROFIT PROVES BUONO A PROPHET.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: TIM O ' BRIEN Staff writer Rensselaer County Executive John L. Buono's prediction has come true: After earlier worries about its fiscal state, the county ended the year in the black. An audit by the firm of Peat Marwick showed the county ending the year ...
LET'S CUT TAYLOR A LITTLE SLACK.(SPORTS)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: Pete Dougherty We all look at Brien Taylor's $1.55million signing bonus with envy. We could handle that kind of money. But could we deal with the sideshow that follows Taylor's every step? To earn his unprecedented signing bonus, Taylor must do ...
FRANCIS M. CANAVAN, 70; FORMER GE WORKER.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... Francis M. "Bant" Canavan, 70, of South Linden Street, Hemstreet Park, died Friday in Leonard Hospital, Troy, after being stricken in his residence. Mr. Canavan was born in Cohoes. He grew up on Gilbert Street and moved to Hemstreet Park in 1965. He was a graduate of St. Paul's ...
ALBERT L. NISCO, 74; RETIRED FROM ARSENAL.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1993 ... Albert L. Nisco, 74, of Miller Road died Thursday in Ellis Hospital, Schenectady. He was born in Lynn, Mass., and lived on Miller Road for the past 45 years. Mr. Nisco was employed as an engineer-technician of ordnance cq for the Watervliet Arsenal before ...
AMA PRESIDENT SAYS FAMILY PRACTICE KEY TO REFORM.(MAIN)
May 01, 1993 ... Byline: MARK MC GUIRE Staff writer For 39 years Doc Clowe drove his car, a modest sedan, to his Schenectady office. There he would take babies' temperatures. Give shots. Tend to the aches of the elderly. Black bag stuff. He made $12 his first week. Doc Clowe is ...