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Th Burlington (Vt.l Ftm Prau. Sunday. Octobar 81, 1964 3B Sanders Takes Message Across Lake Champlain Shelburne Pond Gives Up Canoe By KEN KLEPPER Special to Iho Ftm Pratt For Burlington Mayor Bernard Sanders, an issue of more importance than who will be elected president is why, in a democracy, only half of the eligible voters bother going to the polls. The answer, he told more than 100 students and faculty last week at Clinton Community College in Pittsburgh, N.Y., is obvious: "There is among working people a feeling that government does not represent their interests, and that, by and large, no matter who they vote for, they are going to lose." During a lecture on progressive city government Sanders said the Democrats and Republicans try the point out their differences, but the major parties serve the interests of a very few, very wealthy and very powerful people. Sanders, who took office in 1981 after defeating a five-term Democratic incumbent refers to himself as a "radical" politician.

People have lost faith, he said. "If you are a struggling person, if you're having trouble paying your bills, if you can't afford to buy a house, if your kids have trouble getting a job, the government is not there to represent your interests. And 99 out of 100 politicians have neither the incli-naiton nor the guts to talk about those issues. And when the major issues of our times are not talked about the people say, 'Hey, no one's touching me. Why should I Sanders cited Burlington as an example of what a third party committed to the interests of ordinary citizens can do once it attains political leadership.

Two years before his election, 5,000 people turned out the vote, he said. The candidates for aldermen and School Board were unopposed. In 1983, when Sanders ran for re-election, he said, 13,000 people voted, and opposition candidates faced off against School Board and aldermanic incumbents. "People are getting involved in By CAROL SAVONEN Special to 4w Ftm Pnte SHELBURNE The third dugout canoe to float up in Shelburne Pond in the last seven years was pulled from the chilly waters last week. An underwater archaeologist from the Champlain Maritime Society and graduate students from the Field Naturalist Program at the University of Vermont measured, studied and photographed the wooden dugout that appeared to have been a hoUowed-out white pine log.

The canoe then was sunk to the bottom of the pond until an agency or organization can be found to arrange for care and exhibition of the artifact Dugout canoes were used by local residents to hunt muskrats and water fowl in the late 19th century. The first dugout canoe was found in 1977 by two university students on the southwest edge of the pond and was determined to be 100 years old. The UVM anthropology department has custody of it The second dugout canoe from Shelburne Pond was discovered in the autumn of 1979 in the northeast corner of the pond. Carbon-dating indicated that it was more than 400 years old, its manufacture and use falling before the time of European colonization of Vermont, somewhere between 1450 and 1570. That canoe is on display in the Fleming Museum at the university, as part of the "Original Vermonters" exhibit until August The third canoe was discovered, or actually rediscovered, in the summer when Hubert Vogelmann, chairman of the UVM botany department was fishing on the south side of the pond.

"I noticed a huge floating log sticking out of the shrubs and realized that there were no trees that big growing anywhere near Shelburne Pond," he said. Corel SovofMn is in th ftM notvroRst program at Mm University of Vermont and took part in the study of a dugout canoe found in Shelburne fond. "I reached underneath the water, and to my surprise, the log was hollow," Vogelmann said. The waterlogged and weatherworn canoe is over 15 feet long and IK to 2 feet wide. It has a thick bottom, thin sides and a distinctive square stern.

Diagonal slash marks can be seen on the floor of the boat and seem most likely to be tool marks. "It looks like a canoe made during historic, not prehistoric times," said Art Colin, diver and archaeologist for the Champlain Maritime Society. "Until a sample of the wood is analyzed by the carbon-14 dating method, an accurate estimate of its age cannot be made," be said. Vogelmann's find turned out to be a dugout, canoe that had been found in a swampy cove in the northwest corner of Shelburne Pond in the late spring of 1982. The Vermont Division of Historic Preservation took detailed measurements and photographs of the canoe before sending it back into the pond.

The artifact apparently shifted below the surface to where Vogelmann two years later was fishing. When the canoe was resunk, sand-bap were put in to hold it in place and the location carefully noted for removal later. "If old wooden boats dry out too fast the wood will crumble into dust" Conn said. "Leaving an old wooden boat underwater is the best way of preserving it until proper preservation methods can be arranged. Several old wooden boats excavated from the bottom of Lake Champlain by amateurs have crumbled away when dried at the surface," he said.

II a-il Photo by CHRIS FASTIE The third centuries-old dugout canoe to float up in Shelburne Pond gets a once-over from Carol Savonen, Art Cohn, Kevin Crisman and Sandy Whidden, left to right. Cohn and Crisman are members of the Champlain Maritime Society. Reagan Delaying Nicaragua Elections, Visiting Priest Tells Religious Conference Burlington because they understand that there's a government that is trying to stand up and fight for ordinary people," Sanders said. He drew applause more than once as he told of the horror of the arms buildup, the plight of the poor who are ignored, and the corporations that trample the average citizen in the rush for big money. Sanders spoke with an almost evangelical intensity.

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Burlington Mayor Bernard Sanders, who introduced Parrales, called the Reagan administration policy "more, than embarrassing," and referred to a CIA manual that recommended subversive action and in some cases violence. have not attained more administrative positions is community leaders have a hard time accepting a woman as fitting the traditional stereotype of the administrator. "I've proven I can do the job the same way a man would have to prove his abilities. If I have a problem I call someone for help, that's what people are supposed to do. It doesn't matter if you're a man or woman," Nash said after bearing Mertz speak.

She said it was important for female educators to create support networks, to keep in contact and find out about job openings. Men are perceived to fit the mold of being unemotional and tough, a person who can make hard decisions, while women are considered emotional, according to Mertz. "To get an administative job, women have to prove they are not a traditional woman," Mertz said. Retirement LVng president may use the upheaval to justify an invasion, Parrales said. The priest was the keynote speaker at a conference on religion and revolution.

He criticized the administration's support of guerrillas opposing the Sandinista government. He said Vice President George Bush's characterization of the anti-Sandinis-tas as "freedom fighters" was inaccurate. He questioned whether the "freedom fighters" were fighting for the people's freedom or for the freedom "to oppress and manipulate." The Sandinista government took control of the country in the late 1970s from the Somoza regime, which had been installed by the United States, Parrales said. The Sandi positions in Vermont 57 are held by men and two by women. "Tradition is changing," she said.

"Today more and more women are attempting to break down the ste retypes which have held them back." Women account for one-third of the enrollment in medical and law schools in the country, she said. But of the 16,000 school districts in the United States, women account for 1 percent of the superintendent positions. "Here in Vermont you're way above the national average you have two women superintendents," she said. Regina Nash is superintendent in Milton and Alice Angney is superintendent in East Montpelier. "That's percent" Nationally, Mertz said, there are 170 female superintendents and most serve in small districts.

Nash, who began as a teacher, said one reason women in education A New Horizon in I IflUII If "Not everybody (in America) is Ronald Reagan," Sanders said, citing the move to make Burlington a sister city to Puerto-Cabezas. Parrales said foreign governments have tried to control his country since the 1800s. Religion played a key role in the struggle against the Somoza regime, particularly after the Vatican II council meeting in 1966. That meeting changed the role of the church from one of authority to serving peopl, but conservative factions within the Nicaraguan church tried to slow the revolution, he said. "Rightists, leftists, centrists all had the same ideal.

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