HEW study finds sprays not harming farm workers
A Health, Education and Welfare team tested 115 migrant workers from Sleepy Hollow and Garda Farms last summer with blood samples on two occasions. Preliminary results, announced by the Orange County Vegetable Growers Committee, found no positive evidence of pesticide poisoning among black dirt workers, though final findings are pending.
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Pine Island
Health, Education and Welfare Department
HEW
Charles Umhey Jr
Migrant Health Clinic
Orange County Vegetable Growers Committee
Sleepy Hollow
Garda
Dr. Umhey
Umhey
Horace Smith
Orange County Cooperative Extension
Jeff Liddle
Mid-Hudson Legal Services Project
Occupational Health and Safety Division
West
Stover
Paralyzed by fear Rubin speaks at New Paltz
Yippie leader Jerry Rubin told about 500 students at State University of New Paltz that a catatonic generation has been paralyzed by fear starting with Kent State. He said the movement was guilty in Chicago and labeled the Nixon administration a dictatorship while predicting Vietnam defeat. The talk titled Politics and Yoga as an Alternative to Hard Drugs was sponsored by the S.G.A. Lecture Committee.
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NEW Paltz College
New Left
Jerry Rubin
State University At
New Paltz
Kent State
Rubin
Chicago Seven
Ilinois
Chicago
U.S
Vietnam
University of California At Berkeley
S.G.A
Brothers with 62 prior arrests charged in Laurels Hotel robbery
Dominick and Thomas Schiaffo both Bronx men with a total of 62 prior arrests were charged with third degree burglary after allegedly stealing 1107 from Carl Orcutt, a Laurels Hotel housekeeper. They were caught leaving Sackett Lake Resort near Harriman. They appeared before Thompson Town Magistrate Walter Gersten and await a preliminary hearing.
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Monticello
Bronx
Laurels
Dominick F. Schiaffo
Thomas F. Schiaffo
Sackett Lake
Carl Orcutt
Dominick Schiaffo
Thompson Town
Walter Gersten
Ira J. Cohen
Carl J. Silverstein
Gersten
Accidental shooting wounds Sullivan man at Downs Road home
Frank Van Nest, 20, was shot in the right side about 12 30 a.m. Monday while handling a .22 rifle owned by his brother Robert Jr. The bullet pierced his side and hit the attic ceiling. He was found moaning on the bedroom floor by his brother Richard, 18, and rushed to Community General Hospital in Monticello in good condition. Sheriff Wasser said the investigation continues.
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Monticello
Sullivan County
Frank van Nest
Community General Hospital
Sheriff's Office
van Nest
Joseph Wasser
Robert Jr
Carl Knapp
Richard
The
Robert
Two Salisbury Mills Fire Commissioners Run Unopposed
Salisbury Mills district voters will pick two unopposed fire commissioners on December 12. Michael J. Kennedy seeks a second five year term, first elected in 1967. Joseph O'Brien, appointed to replace the ailing McCormick, seeks to finish McCormick’s term. Polls at the firehouse open 7 to 10 p.m. The district covers portions of Blooming Grove Cornwall and Windsor.
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Salisbury Mills
Michael J. Kennedy
Kennedy
Me McCormick
Joseph O’brien
McCormick
O’brien
Mountain Lodge
Fallsburg teens charged in third degree arson case
Correction reports two 19 year olds Deutsch and Steven Gold of Fallsburg accused not of lighting six fires but of transporting others to scenes. Gold and Deutsch allegedly aided in the arson plot while Allan 16 and Ralph Burger 82 face six-fire charges. All were released to attend Fallsburg magistrate hearing.
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South Fallsburg
Ralph R. Fuente
Gold
Fee Deutsch
Fuente
Deutsch
Steven C. Allan
Fallsburg
Charles Allan
Ralph Burger
Sullivan County Community College
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Vegetable Growers Committee
Stanley Wiecek
Wiecek
Kevin Foley
Richard Nixon
Harriman
New York
Sullivan
Wasser
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