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PAGE TWO THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS AND TIMES: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4 1940 Selective Service Organization at State House Completed J'V" Wed 72 Years Ir-- Asks Revision Of Income Tax Mrs. Laura Bayley Appeals To Supreme Court (Special to the Free Press) MONTPELIER, 3. Forms Rapidly Being Made Ready Local Draft Board Still To Be Named (Special to the free Press) MONTPELIER, Oct. 3. Adjutant General Herbert T.

John Aviation Offering Attractive Salaries To Qualified Persons Pay Ranges As High As $12,000 A Year; Sole Aim Not Training For War, Says Raymond Thompson 'Special to the Tree Press) MONTPELIER, Oct. 3. Salaries as high as $12,000 a year await qualified persons interested in the various phases of aviation, Raymond C. Thompson, head of the aviation division of the Vermont Motor Vehicle Department, stated today. Thompson made the statement (chanics, mechanics, 85c to correct the impression enter- an hour; stock clerks, 58c an tained by many persons that the hour.

Claiming that her income as a trust beneficiary for the years 1933-38 was taxable as A income at 2 per cent rather than income at 4 per cent, Mrs. Laura M. Bayley of Newbury, widow of if) thn, "vnJ III I '4' i fi I I 1 -i I I 1 i i i v' KAmaiiiI'nitiii-MiriiiTi--i A sole aim of the Federal Civilian Also: Dispatchers, son announced today that his organization at the State House for selective service was practically completed and that forms for use in registration on October 16 are being received daily and will be distributed to town clerks next week. Forms received here are being packaged in preparation for mailing. They include 80,000 Charles H.

Bayley, appealed to the Vermont Supreme Court today for a revision of her taxes paid to the State tax department for the six-year period. Mrs. Bayley was represented before the court by George L. Hunt of Montpelier and George S. Fuller, Boston attorney.

Her application for revision was opposed by Commissioner of Taxes Erwin M. Harvey and Attorney General Lawrence C. Jones. Chancery Order The State contends that Mrs. Bayley's income as a trust beneficiary is taxable at four per cent because the trust has no business income, only income from stocks, bonds and other interest bearing securities.

A pro forma Aeronautics Authority's pilot training courses is to develop young men and women for war service. Attractive Salaries A tabulation of air-line job classifications, compiled from a national survey of air lines, shows that many positions are available in this field at attractive salaries. Some of these include Pilots, $7,500 to radio engin- draftsmen, passenger agents, metereologists, traffic managers, $500 a month; schedule clerks, $200 a month; telephone operators, $140 a month; clerks, $36 a week; stenographers, male and female, $33.60 a week. In Every Phase Government jobs are provided in every phase of aviation-airline operation as well as in the Mr. and Mrs.

Gilbert Lucier (Special to the Free Press) JAY, Oct. 3. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Lucier observed at their home today their 72nd wedding anniversary receiving many friends besides gifts, flowers and greetings by mail.

They are believed the oldest married couple living in Vermont and both are in good health. Mr. Lucier was born in Enosburg in 1847 and when 16 years old enlisted in registration cards, 60,000 registration certificates, 3,000 placards for posting purposes, and 60,000 information books. Entire Force on Duty The entire force of officers on the State staff is now on duty here, and one additional officer. When orders from the War department have been received detailing a medical officer to duty here, the organization will be eers and operators (must be manufacture of airplanes and en qualified pilots), field the training and licensine decree in favor of the State was entered in Washington county court of chancery before appeal to the Supreme Court was taken.

According to the agreed statement of facts in the case, if Mrs. Bayley's income from the trusts is taxable as Class A income at two Rcr.k Breakrr i r.n.nmiii.i, I i 1 managers, $1,500 to inspectors, stewards and stewardesses, chief me- of pilots, the dissemination of weather informationand factory maintenance. ACCUSED Armond Mayer, 33, of Bridporr, who is charged with fatally shooting his father-in-law, Henry For-gues, at the latter's home in Orwell. Mayer, in a statement to the Free Press, said he intended to shoot at his mother-in-law, whom he blames for his marital trouble. Auxiliary Source Of Water For Irasburg Consumers Special to the Free Press) MONTPELIER.

Oct. 3. Finding that the Irasburg Water Company of Irasburg furnishes inadequate service to its customers, the Public Service Commission today ordered H. Clyde Healey, owner of the system, to procure and develop an auxiliary source of potable water under direction of the State board of health, by June 1, 1941. The order was issued following hearing on a petition filed by Annie M.

Fisher and other Irasburg residents complaining of the water system service. The commission found that a new auxiliary source of supply to furnish water during-dry periods is necessary, and that the present auxiliary source from per cent, the total amount of tax illegally assessed for five of the the 11th Vermont Heavy completed. Adj. Gen. Johnson is the State selective service director.

Major Charles N. Bar years 1933-37 would be $3,940.40 Want Representative To Explain Name On Communist Certificate Artillery and is one of the few living Grand Army men in Vermont. He enlisted in Company from this town October 7, 1863, and was (Fi-ee Press Photo) DEPLORES TAKING ROCKS OFF FARMS Mrs. Demis Densmore of Chelsea is shown above illustrating her theory that sand, containing soil food, can be secured from the break-down of rocks. In one hand she exhibits a rock, in the other a pan of sand made from rocks.

BRANDON BOY DIES WHEN CAR CRASHES TREE ber of Northfield is executive officer in charge of the State House headquarters. Others on duty are. Majors Warren B. Steele of Roxbury and Leon H. Boyd of Bennington.

Captains (Special to the Pree Pressi MONTPELIER, Oct. 3. A delegation from Strafford obtained a certified copy of a Communist wounded in the following July on the first day of the Battle Vermont Highway Users Hear Gray, National Conference Director (Special to the Free Press) MONTPELIER, Oct. 3. Members of the Vermont Highway Users Conference today heard an address by Chester Gray of Washington, director of the National Conference, on trends of motor vehicle and highway legislation, at a luncheon meeting at the Pavilion Hotel.

State officials present included. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles Mur-dock A. Campbell and Commissioner of Highways H. E. Sargent.

of Cold Harbor. He was placed (nomination certificate here today Strafford bearing the name of on the Veterans Reserve (Special to the Free Press BRANDON, Oct. 3. Thomas W. Hayes, 18-year-old son of Mr.

CharJes F. Ryan of Rutland, Daniel W. Patterson and Gerald E. Cross, both of Northfield, and Capt. George C.

Crooks of Bur J. Guy Town Representative Corps and honorably dis (special to the Free press) ting, cracking, splitting and gran- CHELSEA, Oct. 3. Mrs. Demis Julating or hatching stages.

Densmore once wrote a poem i Breakdown Process charged September 1, 1865. and Mrs. Walter W. Hayes was lington, liaison officer. lie returned to Jay to en- instantly killed i which was published in Huntley, which they intended to use at a hearing in Strafford tonight, held to make Huntley explain appearance of his name on the Communist certificate.

The delegation was headed by Crooks was in Boston; an an-it goes about 9:40 thisjffage in the lumber business, ithology. One verse of Capt. today attending an industrial like this: though from 1S to 1902 he was working in Boston with conference held to instruct liaison i a brook is unsatisfactory. T. O.

Pixley, chairman of the Strafford Republican town committee, who declared that the morning as he was thrown against a tree after losing control of his father's car which The accident By taking the rocks from their land, farmers prevent the soil food from getting back into the land, Mrs. Densmore believes. Instead of thus impoverishing their land she feels that farmers should aid the breakdown process of the rocks by depositing on them all manner of animal, mineral and vegetable waste, in party was entitled to an explana ''Eternal everlasting rocks" Have had their day and vanished, We now. can use their offspring sand, To feed the lame and tion since Huntley was nominated for re-election in the Republican Jie was driving-. primary.

It was hinted that un officers regarding their liaison duties between local boards and the War department regarding deferments of service for those in industry. OScers cn duty here will act as inspectors and advisers to local draft boards, and assist in interpretation of regulations. happened a short distance south of the Brandon State school near the intersection of the road to the school and the main highway. One of his shoes was thrown less Huntley could offer a satis factory explanation, an inde pendent candidate might be Covert cluding garbage and ashes. Mrs.

drafted to run against him in the the Carson Machine Company. He has served on the school board and board of selectmen and represented Jay in the Legislature of 1882. His wife, who was Lucy King of Berkshire, celebrated her 90th birthday today. She comes from a family noted for its longevity as her grandfather lived to be 110 years old. Canadian moose have been increasing in numbers rapidly in recent years.

In these words are incorporated I more than 56 feet from the place Densmore insists she has proved November election. the unique philosophy which her own satisfaction that thig Local Boards larm oman nas method rpsnlt in thp 1 Jl ri Ml 1 V. ales (a 11 jjocai aran Doaras wm nave no.oeen evolving ana aavocating ior functions until after the October! more than a quarter of a century, 16 registration of an estimated Although she feels that hers has 42,000 men in Vermont. Gov. been a voice crying in the wil-Aiken has been working for sev-derness she is nevertheless con-cral weeks on his that her theory is truth where his body struck a tree as it left the car.

The vehicle had hit a' guard rail on the right side of the highway as Hayes was driving south, then grazed one tree before being completely demolished as it struck, a second tree. Dr. J. W. Estabrook, who was called to the scene, stated that the boy had met instant death by the impact.

He was driving alone, and met no other car near the spot. Joseph Hanson, an employe of end of making rocks into sand if enough time is allowed. "You can't hurry nature," she says, "and you can't make baby-rocks, or sand, in a day. It takes years, depending on the kind of 9or gall USED GAR SPECIALS 39 Ford Dlx. Tudor 38 Chrysler Royal Sedan 37 Plymouth Tr.

Sedan 38 Packard 3 Pass. Coupe 37 Ford CO Tr. Tudor 37 Terraplane Tudor 36 Terraplane Bus. Coupe 36 Dodge Coupe, Radio Burlington Motor Sales F. A.

BAILLARGEOX, Mgr. 51 Elmwood Ave. Phone 2222 tions to the President regarding for she has based it on her experi-'k and the degree Qf hard Sy ness. Some people may call this' method dirty but I say that noth-1 iULcti uuaiu iiieuiuei biup. ne is ciice ox juic oil iiei iiciea.

itnni required to recommend 17 boards which she now operates alone. At of three members each, also an present there is no livestock on appeal agent and medical ex- the farm, the produce consisting aininer for each board, and five 'mainly of vegetables and flowers, members to serve on a district Her Theory mg nature is dirty. It is only stated that IIayes was cominff our minds and the false ideas down the main highway a short Small Monthly Repayments MITCHELL HINSDALE BURLINGTON, VT. 240 College St. (Near I.

M. C. distance behind him. Hanson we have in them which makes us think of natural things as un- PHO.VE S76t. or State appeal board.

The State Briefly summarized Mrs. Dens-'clean or obnoxious. Nature makes etypecti uudiu ma toniisi, oijmore's theory is that rocks con-! rocks and nature can break them representatives of agriculture. la-itain all tne elements necessary down. All we can do is to help bor, industry, the legal and medi-jfor soil and plant life up the process of return-cal professions, and will have itsof drawing the rocks off their jing soil-food elements into the headquarters at the State House.

land farmers should aid the pro- land where they belong," she de- ine governor nimseif will ap cess or breaking the rocks downiciarea stopped to pick up a pedestrian and while waiting for the man to get into.his car, Hanson said he heard a crash and saw what had happened. He rushed to his garage and phoned Dr. Estabrook and motor vehicle inspectors. Hayes had been employed for the past five months at the Central Service station on Conant Square. The accident was investigated by Inspectors Ray Smith and Harold S.

Totter. The second of five children of Mr. and Mrs. VV. Hayes, Thomas Willard Hayes was born June 26, 1922 in Brandon.

In his immediate family he is survived by his parents; by an older sister, Miss Alice Hayes; by two other sisters, Patricia and Elenita Hayes and by one brother, Walter, point the members of advisory boards which will assist local in each area. to their final stage, sand, thus returning to the land those food elements contained in the rock but necessary for good plant production from the soil. Morrisville Pair Answers To Questions By FREDERIC J. IIASKIN A reader can get the" answer to any question fact by writing The Free Press Information Bureau, Frederick J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D.

C. Please enclose three (3) cents for reply. UP GOES YOUR APPEARANCE IN THE SMART NEW Years Wed Fifty The Process Should you visit her at her farmhouse here she will show you to the shed where over a period of years she has gathered a large exhibit of rock and sand to illustrate her theory. She will ask you to look at the rocks through a magnifying glass to prove they are composed of solidified and congealed sand particles. Then she will explain that in the course of its breakdown, rock goes through various stages which she has classified as crystal, jagged, solidifying, discoloring, pre-lin- WONDERFUL WEATHER as we go to press, but every October we usually have several days like what we have had lately, but YOU KNOW as well as anyone that it does not last always and a change can come mighty quick, so keep in mind that your fuel needs are safe if left in our hands, COAL, COKE or OIL, no matter which you use they all get the Same careful attention by our "SILENT SQUAD." 511-W Citizens Goal Inc.

5II-R THE HANDY FUEL OFFICE 105 Church St. Covert and VJhipcord Topcoats Come in. Give your appearance a little flattery. Slip into a smart Covert or Whipcord coat, a gentleman's choice to dress up your style this Fall. A fine selection of sizes in the new smart shades.

Fly front models with balloon sleeves are featured. Mr. and Mrs. Strong To Hold Open House (Special to the Free Preset MORRISVILLE, Oct. 3.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Amos Strong are tomorrow celebrating at their home on Pleasant street in observance of their 50th wedding anniversary. Both Mr. and Mrs.

Strong are 71, and each is the descendant of early New England pioneers. Mrs. Strong was formerly Miss Orpha Chaffee, the elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Chaffee of Stowe; Mr.

Strong was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Strong of Morristown. Both were bom. and reared in Lamoille county, were educated in Morristown and Stowe schools and were married October 4.

1890, the Chaffee farm home in towe by the Rev. Mr. Douglass, astor of the Stowe Federated Church. They have spent their entire life in Lamoille county. They lived for a short time on the farm off the Elmore road, but in the town of Wolcott, J3 .50 to Mite.

ii'M'- choose their rings for VICTORY AUTO STORES OF VT and BATTERIES YANDOW'S 1-15 So. Winooski Ave. FINE GABARDINE TOPCOATS Tailored by "Alligator" $23.50 and $26.50 REVERSIBLE COATS $14.95 FOR SAFE DRIVING A. -Prepare your car for inspec- STEEL VEHICLE INSPECTION TlOni carry a ii smartness, quality and value itock ot ail necessary pam i. iL.l inrl cnnr-i iax AT Dricei mar and price mai SHEETS that's why we recommend Supplies WJL mean greater savings for you.

jiT-. BARS Ask also to see the complete line of Finger Tip coats as well as a line of Covert suits and trousers. Extra Saving! BEAMS CHANNELS ANGLES PLATES For You Nowl BANDS Genuine j- BOLTS Auto Bulbs 2c up known as the Ferland farm. They also lived on other farms in the west part of this town, thenjbought the Harris farm in Stowe, selling that, to return here where Mr. Strong and his sons owned the F.

A. Strong Sons dairy, which after several years they sold to the late H. M. Douglass of Swanton. Nine years ago Mr.

Strong retired and purchased the home on Pleasant street, where they will entertain at a family dinner at noon tomorrow, and in the afternoon from 3 on through the remainder of the day and the evening will hold open house. Active Both Mr. and Mrs. Strong are in good health and are- active in their daily affairs, continuing to be keenly interested in national events and civic affairs. Mr.

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145 Cherry St. Phone 3683-M Open Evenings Burlington, Vt. Thone 78.

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