Katharine Graham, 84, who led The Washington Post Co. to
prominence in the world of journalism and business and became
one of the most influential and admired women of her generation,
died Tuesday at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise,
Idaho.

Her death resulted from head injuries suffered when she fell
on a concrete sidewalk last Saturday in Sun Valley, where she
was attending an annual conference of top-level media
executives.

During three decades at the helm of The Post, Mrs.

Katharine Graham, 84, who led The Washington Post Co. to
prominence in the world of journalism and business and became
one of the most influential and admired women of her generation,
died Tuesday at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise,
Idaho.

Her death resulted from head injuries suffered when she fell
on a concrete sidewalk last Saturday in Sun Valley, where she
was attending an annual conference of top-level media
executives.

During three decades at the helm of The Post, Mrs.

Just five days after a moped accident in Oak Bluffs killed a
Virginia woman, another accident yesterday in Edgartown has left
a 60-year-old moped rider from Florida in critical condition
with severe head injuries.

Just five days after a moped accident in Oak Bluffs killed a Virginia woman, another accident yesterday in Edgartown has left a 60-year-old moped rider from Florida in critical condition with severe head injuries.

Just five days after a moped accident in Oak Bluffs killed a
Virginia woman, another accident yesterday in Edgartown has left
a 60-year-old moped rider from Florida in critical condition
with severe head injuries.

To keep abreast with the changing times, the Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association has altered the way it brings in and hosts the summer programs at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs.

"Things have changed because public taste is changing," said program director Robert Cleasby. "Many of the groups that used to come wouldn't be of interest today. I have been here for many years, long before I became program director in 1991, and I have seen that people's tastes have gone upscale like the Vineyard has gone upscale."

One state senator, one state representative, one Steamship
Authority governor and a band of Nantucket residents and town
officials spoke out yesterday in favor of a voting seat for the
town of Barnstable on the boat line board — but not for New
Bedford.

"My job is to make sure Barnstable gets a vote. But New
Bedford has to be proven to be viable before it can get a vote.
Now, they should not be on the board at all," said Barnstable
Rep.

SSA Member Skirts Issues

By JULIA WELLS

Vineyard Steamship Authority governor J.B. Riggs Parker said
this week that he will take no formal position on the pending
legislation to dramatically change the boat line governing
board.

"We are servants of the legislature; we are servants of the
state. The legislature is responsible for creating the framework
of the authority and they are entitled to change that framework,
and I don't believe that the authority member needs to take a
particular position," Mr.

Public health officials this week confirmed the third case
of tularemia contracted on the Vineyard.

The 30-year-old woman killed in last Saturday's moped accident in Oak Bluffs loved to make furniture, especially chests and tables. Kate Dunnet Miller was president of her high school alumni association. "There was a charisma about her, a vibrancy. She was a real extrovert," said her mother-in-law, Dr. Caryn Miller of Washington, D.C.