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GANNETT NEWSPAPm CiteutattOM, of AK Movutf Ntuxpapuijut, (J. S. 145th Year Serving Vermontj 32 Pages, 1 Sc hd2 No. 5 Friday, Jan. 5, 1973 nvironment i ttfl 1 Limelight At Inouguro i i 7 ill I -J I 1 greeted in the corridors by members of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, who urged them to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S.

Constitution this year. The response by legislators seemed favorable. Throughout the day many lawmakers sported "ERA" tags on their lapels; and when commission members were formally received by Speaker Walter Kennedy, House members applauded warmly. Sen. William Doyle, R-Washington, chairman of the Joint Canvassing Committee, read the committee report declaring officially the winners of the Nov.

7 election of constitutional officers, and the report was adopted unanimously by the lawmakers. Salmon swore in the remainder of the state officers Lt. Gov. John S. Burgess, Treasurer Frank Davis, Secretary of State Richard Thomas, Auditor of Accounts Alexander Acebo and Atty.

Gen. Kimberly Cheney. Burgess presided over the session, giving glowing praise to both Davis and Salmon, coordinating the transitions from one ceremony to the next and recognizing distinguished Vermonters and their families in the audience. Philip Hoff, the only former governor besides Davis attending the ceremony, received a standing ovation when he entered the hall. Burgess said two other former governors, Lee Emerson and F.

Ray Keyser, had intended to show up, but were unable to make it because of bad driving conditions. By STEPHEN CARLSON Free Press Capitol Bureau MONTPELIER Environmental preservation dominated their remarks of Vermont's outgoing and incoming governors Thursday, as the legislature met in joint assembly to mark the end of Gov. Davis's term of office and the beginning of the Salmon administration. Davis's farewell address was a stirring plea to legislators to carry through to completion the environmental programs begun under his leadership. Afterward, when Gov.

Salmon delivered his inaugural address, the new governor promised to pick up where Davis left off and push hard for legislative approval of the proposed Land Capability and Development Plan. It appeared the plan, which could have a major effect on future development in the state, got off to a good start in the 1973 Legislature there was loud applause virtually every time it was mentioned by either Salmon or Davis. The joint assembly, which took up virtually all of the legislative day, was devoted to the Usual ceremony of welcoming in a new chief executive. Salmon was sworn in by Percival Shangraw, chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, following which a salute battery of the Vermont Army National Guard fired the traditional 19-gun salute from three 75-mm howitzers on the Statehouse lawn. At the beginning of the day, legislators were attended a governors' luncheon prior to Thursday's inauguration.

(Free Press Photo by Stuart Perry) REPUBLICAN Gov. Deane C. Davis is flanked by Vermont's only Democratic governors in a century, Thomas P. Salmon, inaugurated irhursday, and Philip H. Hoff, who served from 1963 to 1969.

They U.S. Calls for End Of Rancor in Talks Other Inauguration Day Stories, Photos On Pages 4, 14, 15, 16,17 Vermont's Leadership Changes Salmon Davis agreement worked out in October between Kissinger and Tho. But Saigon's chief delegate, Pham Dam Lang, said Hanoi was trying to put over a "disguised victory" with that agreement. U.S. Ambassador William J.

Porter, in what was expected to be his final appearance as head of the American delegation, told the 172nd session that he would not "underestimate the problems which exist and which will face us still for some time." He is due to leave for Washington shortly to take up his new post as undersecretary of State for political affairs. Porter said that after "four years of largely sterile exchanges" he hoped to see this year mark "the concluding phase of this protracted conflict." He said the negotiators should set aside the bitterness that has marked previous sessions and turn to reconciliation. Hanoi's deputy peace negotiator, Nguyen Minn Vy, said that whether there will be peace or war in Vietnam this year "depends entirely on the U.S. side." PARIS! (AP) The United States called Thursday: for reconciliation and an end to bitterness in the Vietnam peace talks, but North Vietnam' response was sharp. "While B52s continue carpet-bombing on the territory of our country, provoking mourning and devastation," the Hanoi envoy replied in the semipubliic session, "today at this conference the American delegation tells us that this is not the moment for rancor but is the moment to heal the wounds." The No rth Vietnamese also charged that the United St ates and South Vietnam are trying to perpetuat the division of Vietnam.

South Vietnam argued it was fighting against annexatio by the North. With a new round of secret sessions between Henry A. Kissinger and Le Due Tho scheduled to begin 1 Monday, the weekly four-party peace talks resu med after suspension of U.S. bombing of Hanoi tut were as deadlocked as ever over the basic queiition of South Vietnamese sovereignty. Tho was ii Moscow en route to Paris.

The North Vietnamese called on the United States to sign immediately the draft peace Senate Demos Support War Fund Cutoff WASHINGTON (AP) -Senate Democrats agreed overwhelmingly Thursday to support legislation cutting off funds for the Vietnam war. The 36-12 vote in the Senate Democratic Conference followed a 154-75 vote of House Democrats who adopted the same position Tuesday and ignored a White House warning that such action by Congress could prolong peace negotiations. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, said he saw no chance that the fund cutoff policy could be translated into legislation by Jan. 20, when President Nixon begins his second term. But Chairman J.

W. Ful-bright, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee told the Senate, "I believe that Congress can and should act decisively immediately after the inauguration." Legislation to cut off funding for military operations in Indochina and to require total withdrawal of all U.S. forces within 60 days was introduced in the Senate by Sens. Edward W. Brooke, and Alan Cranston, and a bipartisan group of 18 co-sponsors.

Like the Democratic policy statement sponsored by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the bill would allow use of funds only for defense of withdrawing forces conditioned upon release of American prisoners of war and ah accounting of Americans missing in action. Meanwhile, retiring Defense Secretary Melvin Laird accepted an invitation to testify Monday before the House Armed Services Comm i 1 1 MONTPELIER With a warning to developers that they will be subjected to strict environmental controls, Thomas P. Salmon formally took over as governor of Vermont Thursday.

Salmon's inaugural address focused largely on environmental preservation, which he discussed in general terms in his prepared text. But he departed from the script to put in a strong plug for the proposed Land Capability and Development Plan. Turning to Gov. Davis, who has described the newly revised plan in glowing terms earlier in the day, Salmon remarked: "Governor Davis, just last night I did a cursory reading of the Land Capability and Development Plan I was deeply impressed." The plan, he said, provides "a real and positive sense to our environmental mission, and I will attempt to pick up where you (Gov. Davis) left off." The loudest applause Salmon received during his speech was when he told legislators he will not back off from the environmental pledges he made during his campaign.

"Let us tell developers who are not interested in profiting Vermont, but making Vermont profit them what I told them six months ago," he said. "We are not going to change our laws they are going to have to change their ways. "Let us tell them, and let us tell the rest of the country, right here and now, that Vermont is not for sale. He described Act 250, the major environmental legislation passed in 1970, as "just a start." (Continued on Page 4) Tax Reforms Foreseen Free Press Capitol Bureau MONTPELIER Stepping down from what he called "the most lonesome job in the state of Vermont," Gov. Davis Thursday called on the 1973 Legislature to complete the environmental programs begun under his administration.

In his farewell address, the 72-year-old retiring governor showed a great deal of emotion in asking the legislators to do whatever possible to preserve "this thing we call the Vermont quality of life." He had high praise for the 1970 Legislature, which adopted Act 250 the sweeping environmental legislation designed to allow the state to get a handle on the rate at which developers were carving up the state into one-acre lots. That legislature, he said, was responding to serious questions "which were brought to its attention by the troubles of towns in Vermont first exposed to the effects of rapid and unplanned development." Among those problems, he said, were "steeply rising land values from land speculation, matching tax increases as service demands followed subdivision and development, the inability of farms and small businesses to bear the tax increases, the overloading of roads and schools and other town services to the point of disruption of the community." He pleaded strongly for legislative approval of the Land Capability and Development Plan called for by Act 250, which he had signed the day before. Public opposition to the plan as it was first drafted was "substantial," Davis said, and he noted he has worked with the Environmental Board to make sure suggestions made at the public hearings were incorporated into the final rewrite of the plan. That has been accomplished, he said, and the plan as it is now written is in good shape. "The changes in the present draft will soften that opposition but will not eliminate it," Davis said, adding he has some "emotional sympathy" for the opponents.

"I wish it were possible for us to go back to the days of the '20s and the '30s in Vermont," he said. "It was a glorious time as I look backward. But the clock will not turn back." Davis described a balance, between the rights of individuals on one hand and the rights of the public on the other. Decisions regarding that balance, he said, "cannot be made in a vacuum," and must be based on actual, existing conditions. As one who has lived his whole life in Vermont, I can say to you with deep conviction the land upon which the life cycle depends, which produces the forest growth from which the very air we breathe is generated, must be protected if we are to sustain the Vermont quality of life." (Continued on Page 4) WASHINGTON (AP) Rep.

Wilbur D. Mills, the House tax chief, foresees passage by the House this summer of a tax reform bill but one not likely to include some of the changes for which refoirmers have been pressing. The Arkansas Democrat said in an interview that the le gislation, though intended to correct some inequities, probably will not substantially increase go vemment revenues nor result in a big overall tax cut. The Ways and Means Committee, of which Mills is cha irman, will begin about six weeks of hearings lat this month or early in February, reviewing all ax preferences, Mills said. The committee will not wait to receive recommendations from President Nixon's admin-istation, but will hear administration witnesses at some later point in the hearings, he indicated.

He said the committee is beginning its review with no preconceived ideas as to which tax preferences should be trimmed or abolished, but pointed out some areas in which he is interested. These include estate and gift taxes, especially the practice of avoiding taxes by generation-skipped trusts; capital gains, the minimum tax to recapture from the rich some of the revenue lost when they take advantage of certain tax preferences, and municipal bonds. Air War Costly for U.S. Hanoi claimed Thursday that 1,318 persons were killed during the B52 raids and added that there is no indication the United States "is ready to renounce further aggression." The U.S. Command reversed its decision of the previous day and said it would not make public its own assessment of the bomb damage in Hanoi and Haiphong from Dec.

26 to 30. SAIGON (AaP) More than 100 American casualties have been reported in Indochina since the resumption of stepped-up bo mbing last month, and aircraft losses now number 30 in the costl iest air campaign of the war. On the other side, Radio Pressure-bomb Threat Diverts Airliner GoodMbrning! Today will be wi idy and cold. (Details, Page 2.) been found aboard the plane. Originally, TWA said the flight was being sent to mile-high Denver airport because the caller said a bomb aboard was set to explode below 3,000 feet.

A spokesman at Ellsworth, located near Rapid City, said the runway used by the jetliner was at an elevation of 3,200 feet above sea level. Two persons aboard the plane, Larry Henschel and Louis Comroe, both of Dallas, said passengers were told about the bomb threat while in flight between Madrid and New York. They said the pilot announced he would divert the plane to Denver but said he would land at Ellsworth because of a fuel shortage. Hugh Stratton, Butler, who was aboard the plane with his wife and daughter, Elaine, said there was no panic. "The people were very well disciplined.

They were shocked when they heard the news, but everybody handled it well." The passengers, many of whom were not United States citizens, were being housed in the officers club at the base. James Leonard, Denver, sales manager for TWA, said two jetliners were being flown to the base to pick up passengers and crew and take them to New York and Chicago. TWA said the threat was received in Madrid 90 minutes after the jetliner took off at 5:20 J.m. (EST). It was due in New Ydrk seven hours later.

The caller was said to have demanded 15 million pesetas, or about $200,000, to reveal where aboard the craft he had planted the bomb. The SAC base has an estimated 15 B52 bombers, base authorities were quoted, and there were no measures taken to move any from the base.The plane was ordered to land at a remote runway far from buildings and hangars. The extortion threat was the latest of a number identical to the plot of a movie, "Doomsday Flight." In the film, a man demanded $100,000 to reveal where he had secreted a pressure-sensitive barometric bomb aboard an airliner. He outwitted when he plane was diverted to Denver. ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D.

(AP) A transatlantic jumbo jet carrying 233 persons landed safely at a high-elevation airport here Thursday after being diverted from New York because of threats of a pressure-sensitive bomb that would explode beneath 3,000 feet The Trans World Airline Boeing 747, en route from Madrid, Spain, touched down at the Strategic Air Command Base, the passengers were evacuated and an Air Force bomb crew immediately began a search of the plane. An Air Force bomb squad immediately began a search of the plane, and the FBI took charge of the investigation. An F3l spokesman said no bomb had Here's Today's Index. Amusements 1 12 Classified 26 Comics 26 Editorials 18 Financial 22 Landers 19 Obituaries 14 Sports 24 Women's 6 News? Coll the free Press 8 63-3441 vsmmtMrnJivt wxxms PASSENGERS come down Air Force ladder from TWA 747 at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., Thursday after bomb threat On flight Spain. (UPI Telephoto).