The Burlington Free Press from Burlington, Vermont • Page 20

Fuel Aid Stalled While Agencies Argue 8, New England February Roundup Sunday, Free Burlington The Small Plane Crashes in Woods; Pilot Killed SOUTH MIDDLEBORO, Mass. (AP) The pilot of a small amphibious plane died Saturday when the aircraft crashed in a wooded area about 200 feet from a home, authorities said. The pilot was identified only as I.R. Hiller. Police had no thee, further information about his identity.

The plane, which carried the brand name "Buccaneer" across its white fuselage, went down about 2:40 p.m. on an approach to Plymouth Airport, according to a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman. Police dispatcher Richard DeLongchamps said he got a call reporting the crash from Mrs. Patricia Joy of South Middleboro. Mrs.

Joy said her husband, Daniel, was working behind the house when he was startled by noise. "He originally heard trees snapping and then heard what he thought was a shot," Mrs. Joy said. "He went over and found the plane," she said. Mrs.

Joy, a nurse, said she followed her husband to the crash scene and tried to aid the pilot. "I could reach his hand, but I couldn't feel a pulse. It was impossible to reach him because the plane was upside down and there was a tree across the bottom," she said. Live Bullet Explodes in Youngster's Face SHARON, Mass. (AP) A dangerous junior high school game playing with live bullets seems to have ended here, but it took the near -death of one of the pupils to end the craze, police said.

"I think they've learned their lesson I really think they have," Detective James Testa said Friday after the accidental shooting of an unidentified student in this South Shore community stunned pupils at Sharon Junior High School. Testa said one student apparently found a box containing about 25 bullets last week and brought them to class to give out to his friends. Another student found about 14 bullets and also brought them in, Worried teachers tried to persuade the students to give up the bullets, but it wasn't until Wednesday, when a boy held a flaming book of matches under a bullet and watched it explode in his face, that the students came to their senses, Testa said. The lit bullet hit the bridge of the youngster's nose and lodged behind his eyeball, Testa said. A specialist in eye operations managed to extract the bullet.

110 Arrested in Chinese New Year Raid BOSTON (AP) The Chinese New Year got off to a poor start for 110 men, who were arrested in a massive gambling raid on 11 different locations, police said. The arresting officers, who acted on the first day of the Chinese "Year of the Rooster," were greeted by a chorus of crowing noises and cheers of "Happy New Year" early Friday morning when they entered the various locations, a police spokesman said. Using 11 separate warrants, police raided clubs in Chinatown and Dorchester at 2:30 a.m. and arrested the men and seized a total of Man Grabs Gun, Makes SEABROOK, N.H. (AP) Police were searching Saturday for an unidentified man who grabbed a police officer's Magnum revolver during a scuffle and raced away in the officer's cruiser.

Sgt. Patrick Manthorn was unhurt in the fracas, and his gun and damaged cruiser were recovered, a police spokeswoman said Saturday. Two women allegedly with Reward Offered To Solve Murder NEW LONDON, N.H. (AP) A group of New London residents has contributed $5,400 to a reward fund for information on the stabbing death of a Sunapee woman whose murder has remained unsolved for more than two years. New London Police Chief Walter Reney said the new reward already has prompted one person to contact police in connection with the death of Cathy Millican.

The lead did not pan out. Mrs. Millican, 26, was last seen leaving her job at Addison Publishing in North Wilmot on the afternoon of Oct. 24, 1978. She was reported missing after she failed to go to work the following day, and police found her body that night in the Chandler Brook wetlands area, a nature preserve in New London.

Police said she died of multiple stab wounds. $50,000, the spokesman said. Dice, cards and other gambling paraphenalia also were seized, he said. All 110 men were arraigned Friday in a hectic day of legal action at Boston Municipal Court, he said. Federal immigration officials were brought in when it was learned that some of those arrested were in the country illegally, authorities said.

Police Superintendent Anthony J. DiNatale said the raid was scheduled for the Chinese New Year "to make the point to the criminal element that their behavior will not be condoned in the city." Getaway in Cruiser Manthorn's assailant were arrested and released on bail. Police said the incident began about midnight Friday when Manthorn drove to a motel in neighboring Hampton Falls to back up police investigating a disturbance. When a woman at the scene sped away in a car with two passengers, Manthorn pursued, stopping the car outside a Seabrook restaurant, police said. In a scuffle that ensued, the male passenger in the car seized Manthorn's gun and drove off in his cruiser.

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pm. By JOANNE D'ALCOMO The Associated Press BOSTON Needy, elderly and handicapped Massachusetts residents eligible for government help in keeping warm have run out of oil anyway this winter their aid money apparently bottled up by bureaucratic kinks. A Boston family with 12 children went without heat for a month this winter until a charity paid for an oil delivery. The family's house was so cold that the water in the toilet froze. Under a program now in its fifth year, those in need can receive up to $750 apiece in fuel aid.

State and federal governments allocated about $96 million the largest amount ever for Massachusetts this year. The program aided 150,000 families in the state last year. But this winter the program had a late start. Federal money didn't start rolling into the state until the end of December, trickling down to local agencies during the second week in January. Though no firm count is available, private charities say they have been swamped with requests for assistance from families who have run out of fuel, including many who are awaiting public aid.

Budgets of low-income families were battered by heating bills early in the season because of rising oil costs and a brutal cold snap that hit the Northeast. But distribution of millions of dollars was delayed by a bureaucratic morass, officials of public and private agencies agree. Some examples: Springfield Community Action Commission wasn't able to accept applications for fuel aid until Dec. 22. On that day, more than Human Rights Activist, Once Jailed at 72, Dies CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

(AP) Mary Endicott Peabody, wife of an Episcopal bishop, mother of a Massachusetts governor and a human' rights activist once jailed for her beliefs, is dead at the age of 89. Mrs. Peabody, wife of the late Rt. Rev. Malcolm Peabody, bishop of central New York state, and mother of former Gov.

Endicott Peabody, died Friday at Cambridge Hospital following a short illness. At the age of 72, Mrs. Peabody attracted national attention in 1964 when she was arrested in St. Augustine, in a demonstration against segregated restrooms, churches and motels. "I will do everything within the law and if they ask me to leave a place, I will," she told reporters when she arrived in Flordia.

She changed her mind, however, when a 1,200 people lined up. 14,000 households have applied for fuel assistance at Boston's anti- agency, ABCD, but 4,000 have received aid. Teamwork, Lowell's community action agency, wasn't able to send a check to an oil dealer until Jan. 12. Richard Rowland, a lobbyist for the Massachusetts Association of Older Americans says, "I'm dismayed that intelligent people could so badly foul up a program that everyone in the bureaucracy says is the No.

1 priority." Why the delays? Congress and the Legislature both approved the program by midJuly, seemingly in plenty of time. But then the state's 349-page plan for distributing the federal money had to be approved by the federal government a process which took about two months. State and local agency officials blame dickering between layers of government. The federal government attributes much of the lag to the state's stubborness. Compounding the delay was GUY CHENG'S VALENTINE SPECIAL JEWELRY OFF except Guy's Jewelry San.

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