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The People's Forum 'Inherent Right' of Labor The "right to work" law advocates premise their beliefs upon the freedom to belong to, or not to belong to, a labor union, as an inherent right. If it is an inherent right to not belong, there must be, conversely, a right to belong. If no one should be denied employment because don't belong to a union, neither should they be denied employment because they do. The Vermont Railway asks those applying for employment if they belong to a union. This is an unlawful question.

It has been declared an unfair labor practice by the National Labor Relations Board. It is a question that has no bearing upon one's efficiency as an operating employe. This question, and the fact that the Vermont Railway has ignored the applications of known union men, is indicative of its deliberate discrimination against an inherent right. The Vermont Railway is the recipient of the state's largess, yet it discriminates against those taxpayers who see fit to exercise an inherent right. The right to belong to a labor union is a lawful right, and no one should be discriminated against because of it.

C. N. MONAGHAN Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen St. Albans, Vt. Once Over Lightly THERE WERE NO SURPRISES LAST week when Gov.

Hoff unveiled details of his new tax package designed to raise more money for increased state aid to education and for a few other governmental tidbits. For months the governor has hinted he would propose a capital gains tax and some other tax based on the "ability to pay" concept. He announced some time ago he wanted to eliminate the tax on meals that cost less than $1. Hoff appeared to toy with the idea of a sales tax earlier in his term of office, but he has made it clear in recent months that he is opposed to a general sales tax. His proposal for a sliding tax on adjusted gross income, coupled with his opposition to a general sales tax, will not win Hoff the enthusiastic support of the state's traditional business community.

PERSONS AND ORGANIZATIONS SUP. porting the idea of a retail sales tax for Vermont can be expected to merge their interests in opposition to Hoff's tax package. But they may have trouble getting support from influential political leaders of either party. House Speaker Franklin S. Billings one of Vermont's GOP leaders, has already announced his opposition to a sales tax and his support of the income tax as the best way to raise any additional money that is needed.

Generally speaking, that puts Billings in Hoff's corner. Lt. Gov. Ralph A. Foote, who is the favorite to be the GOP candidate for governor this year, hasn't spoken out as strongly on the issue as has Billings, but most observers would be surprised to see Foote endorse a sales tax plan.

All of which means the sales tax supporters will have to look below the top leadership of both political parties to find a spokesman for their cause. 'Human Beings Involved' When there is a discussion of the wheat sale to Russia, I think it should be kept in mind that there are human beings involved. The wheat is for people. Regardless of our ideological differences, shouldn't we have compassion for a hungry people and do what we can to help them? MELISSA SHANNEON Burlington, Vt. EDITOR'S NOTE: We are not helping hungry people by assuring the economic stability of their oppressors! A Matter of Communism The following letter has been sent to Senators Aiken and Prouty and Congressman Stafford: "It is requested you insist vigorously that our interests in the Panama Canal Zone be completely defended by military force if necessary.

"This is not a matter of internal Panamanian affairs. It is a matter of Khrushchev and Castro communism. It is but the beginning of the failures of Rusk and Kennedy at the 'Bay of CARL VON LAUTZ Jericho, Vt. Vic Maerki HOFF HAS MAINTAINED ALL ALONG that there should be a substantial increase in state aid to education, and that position appears to have won strong support from leaders of both political parties. The Democratic governor has also made it clear he would accept the responsibility of proposing appropriate tax measures to raise the additional money estimated at $2.5 million to finance the increased state aid program.

The governor has also managed to come up with a slogan that links the need for additional school funds with his new adjusted gross income tax. He calls his new tax proposal the "Education Tax." Hoff told a press conference last week that his new income tax proposal was designed specifically to raise the exact amount of money required to pay for the increased state aid for schools. THAT STRATEGY IS NOT DESIGNED TO aid the cause of a sales tax proposal. First of all, any sales tax worth talking about would raise substantially more than $2.5 million. Thus, supporters of a sales tax would have trouble selling their proposal a as an "Education Tax." In addition, Hoff said he would veto any "small" sales tax proposal that might be scaled down to the $2.5 million figure.

That means the sales tax supporters will need a 2-1 majority in the Legislature to achieve their goal in the special session. The remaining alternative for those opposed to the new income tax proposal would be to oppose increased state aid for education and, thus, eliminate the need for any new state revenues before 1965. But most sales tax supporters have already conceded the need for increased state aid for schools. In short, Hoff has grabbed the initiative by linking his new income tax proposal with the need for increased state aid to education. He promised many 1 months ago to do just that, so no one should be surprised, even if some people are unhappy.

Ann Landers Answers Your Problems Dear Ann Landers: It happened for the third time in three years and now I'm completely fed up with this phoney friend. My Christmas gift from her arrived late, as usual. As always it had a price tag tucked underneath but in a place where I was sure to see it. And, as in the past, the price tag was about triple what the thing was worth. She had taken it off' something else.

What really burned me up is that on the outside of the package, as big as life. there appeared a sticker which said: "SENDER'S OWN." This means the gift was not purchased in the store. It's something she had at home and brought to the store for gift wrapping and delivery. I hate to let her think she is getting away with this same tawdry stunt year after year. What shall I do? -NOT SO DUMB Dear Not So: Don't do anything.

You've dissipated most of your anger by writing to me. When you see this letter in print the notion that she is seeing it, too, will take care of the rest. Dear Ann Landers: This is not my problem, because I have no children. I believe, however, it is the problem of all American parents. I've been distressed by the fact that American teen-agers are living on soft drinks, potato chips, pizza, popcorn, candy and ice cream.

Such a diet will eventually undermine the health of the nation. In recent years, parents have been less vigilant about seeing to it that their children have nourishing meals. I've observed many a teen-ager downing a malt and grabbing a frankfurter on the run and that's supposed to be dinner. Millions of teens read your column daily. Please see if you can get through to them in an area where their parents have failed.

-CONCERNED Dear Concerned: It may appear that American teen-agers are living on junk it's not true. By and large, Americans are still the best fed people in the world. Teeth and complexions would be better if teens ate fewer sweets, but my major complaint is not what they eat, but their disgraceful failure to exercise. This is where American youngsters need the shove. Strength for the Day Earl Douglas LET US USE OUR BRAINS The nation is being shocked just at present over the apparent attempt of certain persons and institutions to get religion out of our national life.

No Bible readings in schools; no prayers. "No "In God we trust" on our coins. Why not? Because these things offend certain minorities. But isn't our constitutional framework based on the rule of the majority with certain fundamental rights of minorities safeguarded by The Bill of Rights? If the majority tried to force minorities even a minority of one to worship in a certain way, or to worshhip at all, then this dissent would be intelligible. But nobody is forcing or trying to force anybody to do anything, or to think in a certain prescribed fashion.

The majority of the American people believe in God. Theologies differ and so do forms of worship. If people want to be atheists they have the right to be so, but what they do not have is the right to tell the majority that they, the majority cannot have the Bible read in the classroom or a brief, simple prayer uttered, provided, of course, that these simple Hebard Would Limit UVM's Tuition Rate Morning Press Bureau MONTPELIER Rep. Emory Hebard, R-Glover, plans to bring two bills before the special session of the Legislature that could ignite some educational fireworks. One would place a statutory limit on tuition at the University of Vermont.

The other would forbid state boards and departments from holding up payments to towns that have been voted money by the Legislature. The conservative Republican says the university is quick to assert its independence in policy-making, but nevertheless asks funds from the Legislature. Because it allocates funds to the school, the General Assembly ought to have a say on tuition ceilings, Hebard says. The bill limiting the power of departments and boards to hold up grants towns is clearly aimed at the Education Board." Several months ago, board member John G. Kristensen proposed withholding state aid to schools failing to meet board standards.

The attorney general has been asked for an opinion on the matter. They Faced Huge Shark And Lived To Tell Of It SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-How does it feel to dive under water-and come face to face with a 25-foot saber-toothed shark? A group of skin divers had the answers Sunday. Together, their accounts spelled out the harrowing moments of Saturday at the Farallon Islands, 30 miles west of San Francisco, when a shark broke up a spear-fishing party. Propped up in a hospital bed, 21-year-old John (Jack) Rochette examined the shark tooth pulled out of his leg. He recalled with a shudder how the shark shook him like a dog with a bone.

"It felt like a mountain hit me," he said. He came off lucky. Both legs were ripped, but he'll be able to walk again after surgery restores use of his nerve-severed right foot. The skin divers pieced together this drama: had just shot a fish and he handed me his spear gun so he could go after it," said Gary Neu, 24, president of the Southern Pacific Scuba Club. "Then I saw the shark 30 or 40 feet away." "I saw this huge shark surface and grab him (Rochette), said Hank Schramm, skipper of the club's chartered fishing boat.

"I had a rifle but I couldn't shoot-I might have hit one of the other "I saw a guy swimming in a tight little circle in what looked like a pool of blood," said Jack Bolger, 40-year-old mechanic. Bolger dived into the pool of blood and grabbed Rochette. He pulled him, torn and bleeding to the boat. A Coast Guard helicopter sped Rochette to a San Francisco hospital. "It was after the shark attacked Rochette that he suddenly appeared and began circling us, said Jim Davis, 27.

"He was huge, more than 22 feet long. I couldn't have put arms around him he was so big." Jim and his brother, Bruce, 25, dropped to the sandy bottom of the shallow Pacific waters just off the islands. The bubbles of their breathing apparatus may have saved another skin diver's life. "That big shark just hung there, right below me, not much over 20 feet away," said Neu. "He kept edging closer.

Every time I made any move toward the boat, he moved in-until finally he was only three feet away. "I finally pointed my spear gun right at him and we sort of sat there, eyeball to eyeball." Just then the bubbles of the Davis brothers' diverted the shark. Neu shot to the surface. "As I did so, I felt his head bump my leg," Neu said. Meanwhile, down at the source of the bubbles: "He was so close I could have touched him with my hand," Jim Davis said.

"In fact, I kept my spear gun pointed at his nose so he wouldn't close with us. He made about four circles, then swam away." Will they try it again? "All sports have their risks and sharks are one in skin diving," said Bolger. "If you participate in a sport, you must take the Student Thrown In Front of Car While Sliding RIPTON Two Middlebury College students, sliding on town road 2 here Saturday evening, escaped serious injury as their sled tipped over throwing one of the students in front of an approaching car. W. Davis Winkle, 22, riding on the rear of the sled, was taken to Porter Hospital, Middlebury, where he was treated for a possible back injury.

State police said. the student fell into the path of a 1961 sedan driven by Neil E. Day, 24, of Milton. Due to the icy roads, the car, which was traveling downhill, was unable to stop, and the student was pushed a distance of 30 feet by the auto before it stopped. buy someday.

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13, 1964 13 42 1 Miss Theodora A. Peck is shown on April 14, 1951, the 86th Anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, with mourning crepe decorating her father's sword dented by bullet five days before Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Va. Historical Novelist, Miss Peck Dies at 81 After Long Illness Miss Theodora Agnes Peck, 81, of 275 College author of three of historical novels published before World War died at a local hospital late Saturday night after a long illness. She was born Oct. 25, 1882, in Burlington, the daughter of Maj.

Gen. Theodore Safford and Agnes Louisa (Lesslie) Peck. Her father was adjutant general of Vermont from 1881t 1891 and a founder of the T.S. Peck Insurance Co. Miss Peck traveled extensively throughout the world with her parents.

Her published novels included "Hester of the Grants" (1905), "Swords of (1908), and "White Dawn" (1914). Her poetry was published in literary magazines and in Vermont newspapers. She had been a benefactor of St. Michael's College and many Burlington service organizations, including the Young Men's Christian Association. She had been an active member of the Burlington Literary Society; Green Mountain Chap- ter; Daughters of the American Revolution; Vermont Society of Colonial Dames, the Athena Club, and the Third Order of St.

Francis. She was also a member of Commodore Macdonough Chapter, United States Daughters of 1812, and a member No. 1, second class Medal of Honor Legion of the United States. She was an honorary member of the International Mark Twain Society, the Institut Litteraire et Aristique de France, and the Society, Army of the Potomac, Catholic. She leaves no survivors.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 9 a.m. at Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Interment will be in the family lot in Lake View Cemetery. Friends may call at the J. P.

Dower Funeral Home, 37 Elmwood this Monday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Third Order of St. Francis will meet at the funeral home Monday at 7:30 p.m. J.P. Dower Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Driver Unharmed Vermont Truck Loaded With Liquor Hijacked in New York NEW YORK Truck driver Wendell Therrian of Hanksville, a community in Huntington, returned home Sunday but without his tractor trailer containing $50,000 in liquor hijacked in Brooklyn Friday night. Therrian was unharmed by the trio of holdup artists. They made him drive his truck around for a short distance, before taping his eyes. He was then put in a car and driven around for almost two hours before being put out, police said. months in the House of Correction on the careless and negliget driving count, and six months on the third offense driving under suspension count.

Both sentences are to served concurrently. Fine and costs were waived. Pleads Innocent of to Mrs. Ruth B. MacNaughton Alburg pleaded innocent to a her with op- $10 complaint charging erating a nursing home witha license.

She was released in $50 bail and ordered to return to court Jan. 27. Third Conviction Costs Burlington Driver 6 Months NORTH HERO Conviction for the third time cost a Burlington man six months Friday. William Edward Chastenay, 28, of 358 N. Winooski Ave.

pleaded guilty in Grand Isle Municipal Court here to counts of careless and negligent driving resulting in an accident, and to driving while his license was suspended, third offense. Judge Carl S. Gregg sentenced Chastenay to serve three Therrian had just picked up the liquor in Brooklyn, and was headed for Montpelier, to deliver it to the Liquor Control Board warehouse. The tractor, owned by Marcel's Motor Express of 947 Shelburne Road, Burlington, was recovered several hours later by police. But Sunday the trailer was still missing.

Richard Sylvia, manager of Marcel's office in Burlington, said Sunday that it was the second liquor hijacking in years for the company. The first incident, involving another driver, also happened in Brooklyn where the hijackers emptied the truck of the liquor and left other cargo alone. Therrian, 40, has driven for Marcel's 16 years. Marcel's is a division of Quinn Freight Lines, Brockton, Mass. Green Mountain Club To Be Host To '64 Trail Talks The local section of the Green Mountain Club, gathered at its annual dinner Saturday at Hotel Vermont, selected officers for the year, heard committee reports, and reviewed club business.

Prof. Albert Worthmunn, who was overseas at the time of meeting, was re-elected president, as was vice president Shirley Strong. Other officers: Secretary, Shirley Wilcox; treasurer, Leland Brown; properties cochairmen, Joseph Frank and Jack Harrington; trails, Dane Shortsleeves; outing, Peter Keelty; entertainment, Julia Hatch; membership, May Forrester; publicity, Larry Dean; section trustee Roderick Rice. George Saunders was chairman of the nominating committee. Benjamin Rolston, of Schenectady, president of the Clubat-Large, reminded the group of the annual meeting of the full club on Memorial Day weekend and of the next intersectional week camp sponsored by the Burlington Section in the Lake Eden area.

He said the Green Mountain Club, for the first time, would be host to the 1964 Appalachian Trail Conference, at the Stratton Mountain Ski Area next autumn. More than 300 are expected. A color film on hazards and safety in mountain climbing, produced by the Appalachian Mountain Club in the Pinkham Notch area of the White Mountains, was followed by Sgt. Donald Jennings, Army, mountain rescue and cold weather instructor at Norwich University. A model winter clad mountain, trail and cabin arrangement by Wurthmann and Mary and Jim Forrester formed a decoration.

Chairman for the annual dinner was Miss Julia Hatch. Robert J. Cummings, 35, of Grand Isle pleaded innocent to a complaint charging him with driving without a license, and was released in $50 pending his return Jan. 27. Alvin Earl Lockerby, 37, of Isle La Motte pleaded no contest to charges of driving while under the influence.

He was adjudged guilty, handed a suspended 10-day county jail sentence, placed on probation and ordered to pay a $50 fine and costs of $5.10. Richard Leo Myers, 19, of 159 East Allen Winooski, pleaded guilty to a complaint charging him with careless and negligent driving, accident resulting. He was ordered to pay a $50 fine and $5.10 costs. Bernard Francis Cameron, 20, of South Hero, pleaded to a charge of possessing liquor, and was ordered to pay a $10 fine and costs of $5.10. Polio Clinic Set In Essex Center Type I Sabin oral polio vaccine will be administered in the Essex Center school gym from 4 to 6 p.m.

Wednesday for anyone from 2 months to 30 years. School children will be treated during school hours. A public health nurse will administer the Type I vaccine. Essex Center PTA To See How French Is Taught to Teens The Essex Center PTA will see an exhibition of how French is taught in the junior high grades. Mrs.

Wylie Raymond will demonstrate, with the assistance of a tape-recorder, film, and her pupils, during this Monday night's meeting. Word has begun on a variety show to be presented next month, but more talent is still needed, said Mrs. Charles Newell and Raymond Merola. Classrooms will be open to the parents from 7:30 to 7:55 p.m. devotional services are voluntary, depending on the requests of parents and children of atheists and other unbelievers not required to take part.

Rule by majority might become tyrannical, and to guard against this The Bill of Rights was adopted. But giving in to the minority all the time is this justice? Let's use our brains a little and urge others especially those in high station to do the same. Family Prayer Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:3.) PRAYER: Our Father, we earnestly pray that Thou wilt lift the blindness and deception grip us on every side. Grant to people everywhere a new and true vision and draw them by the Holy Spirit to Christ the Savior and Lord.

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