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In Birmingham, it was renowned test pilot [Alex Henshaw] who was responsible for putting every Spitfire prototype created here through its paces, and who once commented that: \"I loved the Spitfire in all of her many versions.\" \"I was not to know at that time, that some two years or so later, I would be flying, not in Spitfires, but in RAF Lancaster bombers over Germany.\" Brave [ARTHUR Woolf] became a radio and radar operator with the Lincolnshire 630 Squadron. Arthur Woolf in his RAF uniform. Right: Castle Bromwich Spitfires on the airfield where Arthur met Alex Henshaw before he himself joined Bomber Command over Germany; Right: 94-year-old Arthur Woolf, from Sutton Coldfield, who was part of a Lancaster Bomber crew shot down over France Above: Arthur recovering in hospital after being liberated, and, below, Spitfire test pilot Alex Henshaw, who he knew

Survivors: Companion, Shirley Smith, with whom he resided; sons, James of Port Murray, N.J., Eldon of Levittown, Bucks County, Arnold of Broadway, N.J., Arthur Jr. of Washington, N.J.; daughters, Ruth Berger of Rome, Pa., Marion Rowe of Columbia, N.J.; brother, Donald of Alpha, N.J.; sisters, Ada Snyder of Oxford,...

She died Feb. 24, at the Hospice Unit of Palm Beach, Good Samaritan Hospital of West Palm Beach, Fla. She spent many years at Woods Schools, Langhorne, Pa., for the developmentally delayed. The past five years have been her happiest at the Jewish Residential Home on Luvall Drive in West Palm Beach, Fla.

[Jim Douglas] has previously thwarted efforts to raise the state income tax -- perhaps the most obvious source of revenue to supplant the property tax. But Douglas and [Scudder Parker] seem to agree on one thing -- neither are currently calling for an outright repeal of Act 68, the current education funding system. Vermont's split tax rate for residential and nonresidential property under Act 68 ensures that wealthy, out-of-state property owners, who aren't subject to the income tax in Vermont, do shoulder some education costs. Parker and [Gaye Symington] also said Montpelier needs to do much more to address Vermont's energy costs, especially with major power contracts with HydroQuebec and Vermont Yankee slated to expire in less than a decade. [Arthur Woolf], the UVM economist, said Douglas' focus on the cost of living has merit, but pointed out that other states also struggle with such issues. And taxes in Vermont, thanks in part to the progressive nature of the state income tax and the income sensitivity rebates built into Act 68 property taxes, often fall most heavily on wealthy Vermonters, he said.

For most of this decade, evening skies for Vermont's economy have been rosy red, but while professionnal observers are uniformly optimistic about prospects for the near future, they are keeping a wary eye on the morning sky. The state's economy is generally robust, benefitting from the longest sustained period of growth in the national economy in this century. However, there are questions about the strength of the underpinnings of that growth. Vermont is experiencing the same awkward transitions as the national economy, which has been buffeted by last October's stock market crash and the unsolved riddle of the deficit. (excerpt)

Gov. [Richard A. Snelling]'s proposals include additional funding for the Vermont Industrial Development authority, a financing organ designed to spur business development. Under Madeleine M. Kunin, who ended a term as governor this year, the authority lay largely dormant. In addition to trying to revive the conduit financing entity, Gov. Snelling has proposed that it take on a new task, which he dubs the \"jobs life guard program.\" The recession already has affected the market for New England's municipal bonds. Since 1989, Moody's Investors Service has downgraded credits 42 times and raised ratings only 24 times. Standard & Poor's also downgraded a far greater number of New England ratings than it upgraded. In the end, the recession itself will save the economy, according to Mr. [Arthur Woolf]. \"After the boom, our costs got out of control,\" he said. \"And the New England recession is the market getting those costs back in line. That's going to make our region more competitive in the long term.\"