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Mullin Planning to Raise $1 Million Campaign Chest DeForge Seeks Senate Seat Colchester Selectman Wayne A. DeForge said Friday he will run as a Democrat for the state Senate i Campaign '80 cided to run for the state Senate. The one-term House member said he is a candidate for one of Bennington County's two Senate seats. Daugherty has been contemplating a Senate bid since Sen. Merrit Hewitt, R-Bennington, decided not to seek re-election.

Rep. Michael Silver, R-Bennington, also is undecided whether to seek re-election to the House or become the fourth GOP candidate for the Senate in Bennington County. Incumbent Republican Sen. Madeleine Harwood and Bennington School Board Director Thomas Haley Sr. are both running.

Zampieri Wants 8 th Term Rep. John J. Zampieri, a Democrat and chairman of the House Transportation Committee, said Friday he will seek an eighth term in the Vermont House from the CaledoniaOrange District 1. from the Grand Isle Senate District. The district is composed of Alburg, Grand Isle, Isle La Motte, North Hero and South Hero in Grand Isle County, Colchester in Chittenden County and Georgia in Franklin County.

DeForge, 47, is a Colchester teacher and is enrolled in a master's degree program at St. Michael's College in Colchester. He earned a bachelor's degree at Plymouth State College and an associate's degree at Champlain a U.S. Senatl candidate. Vf ferslin DroDosed a four-part plan that would, among torn The district covers Groton, Newbury and Ryegate.

He is also a member of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules composed of representatives and senators. The Legislature's first priority is to pass a new way of distributing state aid to education, because "the present system has been a tragic failure for the rural towns," Zampieri said in a written 13 1 7k U.S. Senate hopeful James Mullin now plans to raise $1 million for the campaign, according to campaign aides. Mullin's press aide, Ed Morabito, said the Williston insurance agent will try to raise an additional $500,000 before the general election if he wins the Sept. 9 primary.

Mullin has already raised $470,000 for his Republican U.S. Senate effort and has come under repeated attacks from his five GOP challengers for trying to buy the election. In recent reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, Mullin's campaign showed a $32,000 deficit. Mullin spent the past week at the Republican National Convention in Detroit actively seeking contributions. Mortgage Tax Break Urged Banks should be given a tax break to increase the amount of home mortgage money available to home buyers, said Republican U.S.

Senate hopeful T. Garry Buckley Friday. Buckley said in an interview that banks could charge as little as 6 or 7 percent on mortgage loans if they were exempted from paying corporate income taxes on the income earned from interest. The Bennington realtor said he believes it would spur the construction business and help the slumping real estate market. Under the plan, banks would not have to pay income taxes on income earned on interest from loans to those who make less than $50,000 a year and purchase a home costing $65,000 of less.

Buckley said the tax change should be tried for two years to see how it works. "This is a sqlution that seems pleasing to everyone," the former lietitenant governor said. "It would dispel middle America's fears about investing in homes," Buckley said. "Sure, it's a tax break, but I'm dead certain it will generate more revenues." Buckley acknowledged he had no estimates of how much revenue the federal government would lose through the tax break, but said he is "dead certain" the extra revenues generated by "creating a boom in the construction industry" would offset any loss of taxes from banks. Evslin: Vets Deserve More Vietnam veterans should get better treatment from the federal government in the form of more educational benefits and therapy projects, according to Tom Evslin, College.

He is a member of the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission, the town's representative to the Champlain Water District and has held other town and Democratic party offices. DeForge said, "There is a strong need for a change in educational funding to rural communities that recognizes the burden of the high cost of transporting students." He is also interested in rural law enforcement, highway financing problems and stronger drunk driving laws. A written announcement said "there is a strong need for legislators who understand the needs of the local communities." McKenzie endorsed The Northeast Kingdom Low Income Association has endorsed Gregory McKenzie for attorney general, the president of the organization said Friday. David Timson cited McKenzie's "sensitivity to the legal problems of low-income Vermonters." McKenzie, deputy attorney general, is running against Scott Skinner for the Democratic nomination. othef things, allow Vietnam veterans to substitute their erfuiation benefits for a work-training program.

Another part of his plan would add four more years tb thl eligibility period for veterans to use the education benefits. Evslin also proposed that all Vietnam veterans be given tests to determine if they are suffering from exposure to the defoliant. Agent Orange. i he also called for more programs to help veterans deal vtfeh alcoholism and depression. Tnfe Republican said Vietnam veterans currently dt riBi go out of their way to vote in elections.

But he saitf fhbre attention to their needs would change that jfrend. "Now that we are asking young Americans to 'register again for possible sefVice, we must be sure we have dealt fairly with the veterans of our last conflict," Evslin said. He also accused the incumbent, Democrat Patrick Ijeahy, of "turning his back on the needs of veterans." Evslin opposes five othef Republicans in the race fof the GOP nomination. i tbsgaie Runs for House David Fosgate of Swahton has announced his candidacy for the Vermont House seat being vacated by Rep. Edward "Mike' Daniel, R-Swanton.

A 45-year-old Democrat, Fosgate is a real estate broker who owns a laundromat and several apartment houses. He previously operated the Franklin County State Airport in Highgate, the other town in the two-tfteftirJer district. I A political newcomer, Fosgate said he is concerned about state spending. Rep, Frank DaPrato, D-Swanton, has announced for fe-election. Dougherty Eyes Senate Rep.

Eugene Daugherty, R-Bennington, has de ZAMPIERI He said the so-called Miller formula for dividing up state aid "has not achieved its primary goal of equalizing educational opportunities and tax equity between communities for the support of schools." A South Ryegate insurance agent, Zampieri resigned briefly from the Legislature last year to take a job with the Vermont Bankers Association. He returned, however, without any loss of seniority. He is a director of the Bradford National Bank and the Newbury Area Development Corp. GOP Women to Meet Betty Rendel, vice president of the National Federation of Republican Women, will speak at the Vermont chapter meeting Aug. 7.

Mrs. Rendel, a supporter of the Equal Rights Admendment, will discuss the role women's issues will play in the presidential campaign. The luncheon will be followed by a reception for local candidates hosted by the Orange County Republican women. Tickets are available at the Republican State Committee office in Montpelier. Ledbetter Delivers Petitions Republican U.S.

Senate hopeful Stewart Ledbetter delivered his nominating petitions to the secretary of state's office Friday. Ledbetter, one of six Republicans vying for the party's nomination, presented 1,700 signatures, 1,200 more than necessary to qualify for a spot on the Sept. 9 primary ballot. Rural sewer ftems Testimony at Odds With Suspect's Statement mornings and field ifemOrHftrations I mornings and field 'demonstrations Workshops Planned on Daylong contractors' workshops about on-site sewage treatment and septic systems for rural areas will be conducted by the University of Vermont Extension Service July 26 at Williston Central School and Aug. 2 at Flood Brook School in Londonderry.

There will be presentations in the- in the afternoons. Pre-registration Wednesday is requested. More informatidff may be had by contacting Barry Stryker at the Extension Service office, 162 Elm Montpelier. Xe' phone number is 223-2389. 1976 and the other early this year.

All three cases involved bondage In two of the incidents, the husband of the victim was forced to watch at gunpoint. Peckham's alibi is that he was at the Marlboro Inn, 10 miles from the victim's home, the night of the assault. Pratt testified that "evidence consistent with bondage sex" was found in Peckham's room, specifically twine tied to the bedposts. Bernard has testified that Peckham announced at the time of his arrest that he had attended the Colorado trial of sex slayer Theodore Bundy, in which Bundy dove out a courthouse window. Peckham flatly denied in testimony that he was at the Bundy trial.

Testimony is to conclude Monday morning, with the case going to the jury after closing arguments are heard later that day. "Inside Linda Lovelace" when they searched Peckham's residence in Aspen, Col. One of Peckham's two lawyers, Philip Rosi of Brattleboro, attempted to poke holes in the former police chiefs theory that Peckham was the assailant. Rosi argued that none of the information police had was conclusive. He said no one reported seeing Peckham's blue Mercedes sedan in the vicinity of the crime scene, despite a full moori.

Peckham's charges against John Rocray, the Windham County state's attorney, and the town of Wilmington were dismissed Thursday by U.S. District Judge James S. Holden. The trial began Monday. Besides the 1977 rape case, Peckham has been a suspect in two other sexual assaults in the same Wilmington neighborhood, one in Wilmington gift shop owner, took the stand Friday and said Peckham did have a medallion pendant dangling from his neck when the two talked the day after the rape.

Preble was one of three people who identified a police composite sketch of the rapist as Peckham. A key defense question in the trial is whether the two officers had probable cause to arrest Peckham, and Superior Court Judge John P. Morrissey testified that he would have found probable cause had he been presented the police affidavit. Instead of going to a judge, however, the officers took the affidavit and application for an arrest warrant to a court clerk. Pratt, a former Montpelier police lieutenant and currently a New Hampshire arson investigator, said police found literature depicting graphic sex and a biography called By JOE MAHONEY Free Press Staff Writer RUTLAND A man who has sued Wilmington police over his arrest for a bondage sex crime had an assortment of pornographic literature and a vibrator in his Colorado apartment, former Wilmington Chief Richard Pratt testified Friday.

Pratt's testimony conflicted statements made by Thomas Peckham, whom authorities had charged teped, robbed and shot a 60-year-otd Wilmington woman in October 1977. Peckharrt, whose $630,00 civil rights lawsuit accuses Pratt and Wilmington police Sgt. Arnold Bernard with falsely arresting him, has testified that he never owned a vibrator. He also told the federal court jury that he never wore a medallion around his neck. But Frank Preble, a Court Roundup Former Employee Ordered to Repay Money Snelling Requests Report on Brutality Charges Chase Moving and Storage told Mrs.

Vasseur to close the account in June 1977. A police affidavit said'- Mrs. Vasseur "wrote checks under" her signature out of itCcftint of which over $13,000 cali b(J established that went to her-ofth personal use into her personal Dank accounts or to her relatives." The investigation began after John Dupee, Chase's present owner, complained to the state's Attorney last October that hestispecfed money was being stolen fforrulhe company. A former employee of Chase Moving and Storage in Burlington was ordered Friday to repay $20,000 to the company. Eileen Vasseur, 45, of Richmond, pleaded guilty Wednesday to embezzling money from the company.

She was sentenced in Vermont District Court in Burlington Friday to serve 60 days, during the daytime, of a one- to three-year suspended sentence. She is to be released at night. Officials said checks for $21,835 were written on a moving company account at the Merchants Bank in Barre after the former owner of Michael Collins, chief investigator for the state Defender General's Office, confirmed that public defenders are representing two persons in cases in which the conduct of guards at the Rutland center is at issue. One of the clients, Bertram Irish, has been charged with escape. Whenever abuse by guards is charged, the department routinely investigates, he said.

Under advice from Assistant Attorney General Allen Coulman, assigned to the department, Vesely declined further comment, saying the incident "could be the subject of litigation." From reports by Seager and others, Colomb was badly bruised. He was transferred early this month to the St. Albans Community Correctional Center. John Vesely, director of adult facilities for the Corrections Department, said the Colomb case "has been and is under investigation." Maryland Man Faces Arraignment in Rutland e. a British passport indicating he is RUTLAND A Glen Arms, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on several immigration violation charges and is to be arraigned in U.S.

District Court in Rutland Friday. The indictment handed down this week alleges that Mohammad Qadir Khalje was seen entering a car near Morse's Line June 17, was stopped soon after and was found to have a By NEIL DAVIS Free Press Capitol Bureau MONTPELIER Gov. Richard Snelling has asked for a report from Corrections Commissioner William Ciuros about allegations of guard brutlaity made by Rutland Community Correctional Center inmates. "I asked Bill to report as soon as he could," Snelling aide Paul Wickes said Friday. At least three inmates have complained, by contacting the governor's "Action Line," that guards have been doling out physical and mental abuse, said Jill McDermott, who took the calls and relayed the information to Wickes.

Rutland County State's Attorney James Mungeon confirmed there is "something of an investigation going on." At least one former inmate, Daniel Colomb, was treated this summer at the Rutland Hospital emergency room as a beating victim, according to his lawyer. Attorney Edward Seager said he is considering litigation if an out-of-court settlement cannot be reached. Colomb alleges mistreatment by two guards. "We have a case; we're going to pursue it; but it won't necessarily take the form of litigation," the lawyer said. citizen.

The indictment also alleges Khal-je applied June it United States consulate Mdfitreal for a non-immigrant visa to -'enter the United States and Hed a false name. 4 Khalje lives in Glen Arms with his wife, according to court documents. He is free orr $5,000 bail. We Suggest You Invest In A High Yield 6-MONTH Savings Certificate At The Chittenden Bank Minimum Deposit 10,000 New CD's Thru ANNUAL July 23, OI fTf INTEREST 1980 U.OOTt? Reinvestment of Existing CD's 8.61 Ferrisburg Resident Sentenced in AsscWjt RUTLAND Robert W. God- unsuccessful attempt tsteafch her ette, 16, of Ferrisburg was sen- handbag tenced to serve six months of a nine- He als0 admitted nis invoV6ment to-12-month sentence Friday for simple assault and unlawful tres- ln a and entf don last March.

Godette pleaded guilty last The sentence was tneted out by month to pushing Roberta Wortman Vermont District Court Judge of Rutland to the ground in an Ronald F. Kilburn. 4th DWI Conviction Brings 3 MonthsiaiL i Super Specials Only I RUTLAND Convicted of drunk driving for the fourth time, 43-year-old Roland A. Mable of Rutland is going to jail for three months. Mable was handed a 10-to-12- month sentence, with all but three months suspended, ifeVelfrnoht District Court Friday.

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Bryan Jul II: Bryant Allen, 27, al Wain Street, Winooskl charged with unlawful mischief June 28 in Winooski; pleaded guilty; sentenced up to three davs, suspended. David George Bruch, 16, of Krug Rood, Underhill Center charged with grand larceny May 31 In Underhill Center; pleaded innocent; bail set at $1,000. Ralph Martin Sumner, 71. of Bolton Valley Rood, Bolton chorged with attempting to elude police officer July 18 In Bolton; pleaded no contest; fined $150. Marlorle Ellen Emmons, 20, of Main Street, Burlington charged with unlawful mischief May 30 in Winooski; pleaded guilty; fined 525.

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