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But they idea of requiring seat belts on the do present an interesting perspec- nation's 300,000 or more larger tive on risk and liability - 1!. school buses. The panel concluded perspective that's -all too often Monday that it would cost $40 lacking. million and save an average of just one life a year. The committee did not say s_eat • 0 \The overall potential benefits ·belts wouldn't save ~my .lives or of requiring seat belt~ in xhoui prevent · any serious injuries, buses is insufficient to justify a Rather, it concluded that the bene- federal standard mandating instal- fit - perhaps one life saved per hrtion;\ the·· commitiee· said in :year,. plus several dozen·serililus concluding an 18-month study. injuries prevented ~-1s out- The organization was set up by the weighed by the high cost. National Academy of Sciences. In 'essence, the panel. decided The committee recommended a school buses cannot be· rendered few rninor safety measUJes.... such risk-free, and that there is a point as requiring higher seat backs and where- the economics of the aver- concentrating bn the·most serious age.sctlool districfcannot support danger - accidents at occur further efforts to reduce the ha- ~ ~ 0 ·0 <3 (10 0 , ~- ~ when children are .b~~~'-\d\'ir-~.gLor~·'---.J::.z~ar~d~s_,__:. \f~h~is!-ii~s~n;;o~ee.!a!S!s~y~s~ta!!!te~m~en~t~t~o~\\tlr.rlr.:m-\tlriug;'i,tllm --aisembarking from bu~~es~·~··:~_jm~ak~e~,;e~s~pe;·c~i~a~Ily~w~h~e~r~e~c~h~il~dr~e~n~~~;~~~~~~l~~[~~ It also pointed out that a child are concerned. But it's ' children for riding a school bus is four times that ·w years; and hiS efforts in the singles safer than one who is. spectrum of American life, scene--:- which is some kind o~~- __: · 0 c \ 0 Co~~ c~ • -:-.:-·~·h i'l f ' 'l'/ ~ . <!:D 0 n·on't Knoc-k It If Tim wanteil a younger woman, that was his busines$. And wliere's a better place to meet a future wife? In the mail? Or in a bar? · Rosel is 24. She English. . _ __:.---.m.'iil\e aufumobile:_ probably a lest we become increasingly para- hadn't been fruitful. .,. \\\\\- • Tim wanted to meet and, perhaps, meet with a young woman with whom he function of the size of the typical lyzed by pathologica1 aversion to marry, a smart, young, thin, attractive had correspond~ for some time. Rosel is an old-fashioned girl. She hasn't seen or done even close to all that is available. The thing that has\impressed her most about America so far is the Kroger store. -· :\; · •ln · Res 1 on~e ~ ~ ~~ To the editor: ' . . I appreciate Mr. Amedio 's letter of May S saying that' I ~'singlehandJy killed a $2.5 million grant\ for lhe Bteneman Building· and that I -killed the .project. I'm surprised that as a member of the Breneman CollUJU'ltee, he didJ1't ~eck his facts. ~ Let's look at the of this 4, 1988- Gene Saloga, com- development dir~\01' •. smtes in a letter: \... the basic problem is that the \' project will cost $8.5 million mth(ll' than $7.5 million.\ May 5, 1988- in a letter from Mayor John T. Sullivan to Sen. Alfonse D' Amato, the mayor states that \ ... for a host of reasons ... M.B. AssnciaJM. Qf Boston has not moved forward on this project.\ - · Aug. 19, 1988 ~ a Palladium-Times · article entitled \Asbestos KillS Brene- man\ quotes Mr. Saloga .as saying that Pres\idential Develoment Corp. felt the . project was not cost effective. . . Dec. 21, 198.J! -!;ll>ject director I1red · Jackson (PresideJJU,l Development COl]!.) states in a letter to Gene Saloga: \My recuuimeudaiion is to take legal action against the owner ... \ (who Ri· -chard Brazell-;ef -the -state-Depal'tm.61lt -ef Environmental Conservatipn id~ntified, as being Mark \ ... and clean tj!e site at no cost to the city. Once it is clean¢,. it will milke a marketable commercial · site and will provide longer term .benefit to Qswego than a ... housing project.\ r ' i ' I /! 0 Joe St1 La the bu Ca school bus and the driver's skill. the routine perils each of us faces woman. · . , She turned out to be what he wanted, Indeed, the Fulton accident that daily. \In the fmit place,'; he said to me, and he turned outto be what she wanted, To anybody who still has doubts, I saw Tim and Rosel together, and I ~aw some major league happiness that left very few drY eyes at the wedding. Jan. 17, 1989 ~ a Palladium-Times article, entitled \Developer Qui~ Brene- man. Pmject,\ 'quotes Fred Jackson of Presidential Develoment as saying the ~ Ha project is \... unbuildablc:..'' : What's your-opinion? Please let us know in a letter to the editor. All letters m I be signed. Include your address and phone number- not.lor publication, b in case we need to contact you. For questions on editorial page matters, cont.act Steven Macey, managing and editorial page editor. Still More New Taxes There are but three certainties in life in New York: death, snow and taxes. Thanks· to Gov. Mario Cuomb's recent intiatives to yank the Empire State out of the financial morass largely created by our friends downstate, taxes are getting ~- star billing lately. · ._ Taxes for smokers, drinkers, barbers: drivers, undertakers and explosive makers .. Acupuncturists are feelingJil.e pinch, : 'along with architects, .chfiopractots,\ CPAs, dental hygienists and real estate brokers. \' Keglers notw,l\l)standing, the budget ' ho~hg_§ in AJ~any's ~~ec~tive office already have New Yorkers covered from cradle to grave in the 1989-90 fiscal package. Young parents,- lovers {)f all ·· a.ges and survivors face $5 to $10 fee increases in birth cenificates, marriage certificates and death certificates. This particular formula, of continuing to hike the take· on seerningl.y already· overtaxed commodities, practices and professions, is establishing a dangerous precedent in what has become a take- from-Peter-to-pay-Paul kind of state mentality. Consider the fact that this penny- Fol.ks upstate howling because their pinching process will start aU over again bridges are COllapsing -lll!d tlleir roads - --next-year; when it's· tlrne\ 11> figure aut reg__Ularly gobble up Yugos, never to be . where state's 1990-91 operating funds seen again? . will come from, and marvel at the The answer is simple - charge those possibilities: nasty smokers an extra 12 cents a pack, •. After inadvertantly hearing the -and use the P.roceeds to jury-rig problem phrase \talk is cheap\ during budget spans and highways so nary a peep is deliberations, Gov. Cuomo is inspired to qeard for another few years. _j!Ush through a tax on idle chatter. Can'tkeep up witl1 the spiraling cost of Politicians and Morton Downey Jr., of paying the big bucks to top state employ-· course, are exempt from the talk tax. ~s, judges and_lawmakers? E:tsY· Hit the e Running out of money to fund the bttle guy wholikes_ to buy a SlX·pack and state's attempts !&.clean up the environ- watch a b~lgame on TV· . ment, deer and fish are allowed to buy And so 1t goes. Ob~Ionsly, c~garcttes licenses tor a limite,(! annual take of and beer are not essen11al to one s moral hunters and anglers. eneddays of they don't stop with the OEl\'IOUS. If the governor had his druthers, for instance, bowlers would have felt the long fin,gers of- Albany prying at their wall!'lts, even as they sidled up to the line in another futile effort f01 a 300 game. grab---a- piece of the take on newly established neighborhood racetracks featuring ger\ bils, frogs and cats. Out in left iie1tl2 Perhaps. But New York State promises to be full of surprises in the 1990s. 100 Years Ago Class of 1939 was to \Ten men- employedpas \carmen\ ~-hence in -the ,~f~~~~~~f (coa:l shovelers) on 'l'lle D.L. & W, \there aren't that many young American and the other afternoon in San Jose, women interested in 40-year-old men. Calif., Tim Jarvis married Rosel Siazon. I Throw in smart, thin and attractive and was the best man. . that limits the field even more. The reason the wedding was held in \Plus so many of the womep I met- California is that Tim's parents, no:w. not all, but many - really weren't retired. live in San Jose, and Rosel has impressedwithmuchofanything. They'd relatives in nearby Vallejo.· . already seen it a1l or done it all. That Rosel. is tiny. She weighs maybe 80 turned me off, too.\ ~~unds. She looks ·like a doll. She is shy · Tini read_ . _oc_ . a_ 11_ .or.ganizatJ.. ·on called . and her eyes are big an. d bright and her Asii!ILI'r~entatio!ls. From that organiza- mile wins ov~ amanger.in ah.eartbeat. lion he olitained a 'list of women in the When I fll'St wrote of Tim's plans, Philippines who were interested in meet· much of the reaction I received was ing American men. With the help r.:~f his negative. . heine computer he began writing to some \Why does he want a young woman?\ of these. women. began one letter. \I'm 42, but I know He sifted through the replies, then· moreabouthowto take~;aTeofaman than wrote back to those he felt were the most some child. Give him ,my number.\ interesting. ·Another woman wrote, \How can you · He continued to narrow the list, and in marry somebody you meet through the December he flew !O ~-~iliBI?Yt~~tG-., .~1!' \· I saw a man in lo\l'e with a precious woman-child who looked Ill ·him in a manner that said, unmistakenly, \i. adore.\ .. . Tim Jarvis .. went halfway around-the world to get his womim. He battled scores of bureaucrats to get Rosel her visa, and he did ertough paperwork to wear out Fawn Hall: · -He said to those who were negative, \It's my life and I'll rnn it the way I want to.\ And if he and Rosel don't live happiJy eveF after, my swprise will be industrial ., strength. As for me. yeah, I cried a little at the wedding, too. An ·old veteran of weddings lik~ me. WHat do you think !ibout that? (CQvt!es Syoglcata 1 !99·! , As· fans my mili:siJl,l ~ 1 BlreB1illllilill=G-~-Jj=-=---'-'-;~ mittee meetings is concerne<l, there have been, to the best of my knowledge, three meetings. I missed on~, and the chairman knew iii adviiJlce of my priiiri:ommitiilenf that Saturday ·monting in A]lrll: · Once again, I must ask, who is the \obstructionist\ standing in the way of the clty code and charter, who ~as willing to give thedeveloper the \fast shuffle\ on · the environmental status of Breneman and act in an unethical and immoral manner? It wasn't me. · Robert L. Riggio 6th Ward Alderman qswego For more of Your VIews, see Page 14 •. we bu Ira du fo1 mi thi fo1 0! W! co CE we · rel hb an .fir • -.~ · ... T.l ~~~·J·H·? ,.., \1t);· ,_,~ ·· .r-.,r \'\\\' ... ·n , ... H·ig-hlighters M~ike The Gra~e In North. T~i3:l Al gil ag wl ne WI so ca· we dt'l br< die fill by ----:-!( otl ab pe ~I co is be tw llf ca •tru dr Trilstle mfu~ to gg . .!lL w.oi:.k. aLnaoll--- ~lteklc;mc':\a.s-~biil\'!.e~~,a!f.;'!e-c~~m-\'\-J~~1wt3~efE'rii~lirise to-day;· demanding \\an increase -in rnittee in charge, by aides Jean =--\yc dr . ~tr< wages·,\ the -Oswego Pafladium--re- · Cash; \Yvonrre---cook ... DevTne-;- ported. \Since the opening of naviga- Evelyn Hoxie and Ruth Carrier. tion, they have been receiving $1.25per 25 Years Ago day. They demand $1.50. At 2:30 this \Members of the Oswego Town afternoon, the men me.t Mr. A.G. Cook Board plan to hold a public hearing to talk the matter over.\ some time in July on a proposal to 50 Years Ago construct a town garage and meeting The annual dinner dance in\ honor of hall here,\ The Palladium-Times members o( the Fulton High School reported. sc \\\'fl re w: a \I f< 8