State faces $25 million vendor payments gap from missing deficiency budget
Albany reports up to 25 million in owed payments to hundreds of vendors who supplied goods and services to state agencies. The shortfall stems from an unreconciled deficiency budget for 1979-80 as the Legislature may recess without approving one. Vendors, many in Central New York, await funds while agencies diverted money to fuel costs.
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Herald-Journal
Department of Audit and Control
State Department
New York
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Auer
Syracuse
Senate
Warren M. Anderson
Assembly
Stanley Fink
Edward V. Regan
Comptroller
Fink
Audit and Control
Anderson
New threat deepens Love Canal fears for Niagara Falls residents
A state Assembly task force says the US military supervised dumping of nerve gas by products at scattered sites around Niagara Falls during and after World War I, adding fear to locals already living with Love Canal pollution. The report cites no new dumpsites beyond Love Canal but warns the widespread waste could yield undiscovered problems as the probe continues. Authorities seek federal aid to relocate about 700 more families while the Army denies involvement, and officials warn residents to remain wary of hidden dangers.
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Niagara Falls
State Assembly
United States
Love Canal
Love Canal Area
Hugh Carey
Hooker Chemical & Plastics Corp
Army
Pentagon
Tom Ross
Whittaker
Lewiston
Porter
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Grannis
Digest editor may have known killer Somers
Police now believe Eleanor Prouty, 67, Readers Digest editor, was murdered by someone she knew. Found strangled Sunday in rural Somers. her 66 year old husband Norman was beaten unconscious upstairs. No forced entry. rear door unlocked, suggesting she may have admitted the assailant.
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Reader's Digest
Eleanor Prouty
Jerry Zappolo
Prouty
Ouse
Adjournment date debated at Capitol
Albany Senate Leader Warren Anderson proposed June 11 as the session’s final day to shut down the Legislature, while Democratic leaders and Gov. Carey urged remaining in session to tackle jobs energy courts crime and reform. Ohrenstein called the move shameful and questioned progress as Anderson warned of a partisan recess unless compromises emerge. Carey pushed spending caps welfare and court reforms, while Anderson touted budget writing and warned of action by June 11.
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Albany
Albany — State
Senate
Warren M. Anderson
Assembly
Manfred Ohrenstein
Anderson
Hugh L. Carey
Carey
Ohrenstein
Senate Democrats
Utility bill could shrink billion-dollar windfall
Albany lawmakers accuse utility firms of collecting over a decade more than a billion dollars in phantom tax charges through rate plans and accelerated depreciation. A report says New York Telephone alone held about 1.2 billion dollars by 1979, with critics urging limits while PSC defends the tax-structure as lowering future bills.
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Albany
State Public Service Commission
PSC
New York Telephone Co
Assembly
Charles Zielinski
New York
Mark Chandler
California Public Utilities Commission
California
Pacific Telephone Co
General Telephone Co
Zielinski
Congress
Joseph Ferris
Brooklyn
Commission
Ferris
Bills to Improve Nuke Safety and Emergency Fund
The Assembly approved a package of bills to strengthen safety at New York’s nuclear plants and create an emergency fund with lump sum and annual contributions. Other measures push for tighter radiation exposure monitoring, better operator training, and funds for decontamination and decommissioning.
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Albany
Assembly
State Capitol
Senate
Warren Anderson
Buffalo
Rochester
Syracuse
Yonkers
Turner painting sets record price at auction
A Turner painting depicting Juliet and her nurse watching fireworks in Venice sold for 6.4 million dollars at Sotheby Parke Bernet in New York, a new single work auction record. Buyer paid a 10 percent commission, beating rival bids from Stanley Seeger despite his telephoned offers from London. Proceeds partly go to the Whitney Museum. Flora Whit- Whitney Museum had inherited the work. Mrs. Miller, heir to the Whitney, said she would not pay the record price and was staggered by the amount.
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Juliet
Venice
J.M.W. Turner
Tile Mieiy Ch Uistine
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc
Stanley J. Seeger
London
Whitney Museum of Art
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Whitney Museum
Transit strikers face $34 million in deductions
A federal judge approved deducting 34 million dollars from subway and bus workers’ pay for the 11 day April strike. Judge Mary Johnson Lowe upheld the Taylor Law provision that fines a day’s pay for each day on strike.
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New York
U.S
District Court
Mary Johnson Lowe
Fourth body search ends for Walker in Sacandaga Lake
(AP) State police divers abandoned the underwater search for Jeffrey Walker, 21, of Meco, the last of four college students who disappeared April 16 in Great Sacandaga Lake in the Adirondack foothills after three bodies were recovered.
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Sacanadaga Lake
Adirondack
Jeffrey Walker
Meco
Gloversville
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