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(th? fSurlington Deaths 2B Births 2B New England 1 0B Thursday, September 14, 1978 Governor, Challenger Square Off 00ktmy Granai Warns Against Danger Of 'Fast-Buck Development' Vermont Roundup By GAYLE GERTLER Free Press Stoff Writer Criticisms were traded and debunked while specifics continued to be avoided when Vermont's two gubernatorial candidates met face to face for the first time in the young general election campaign Wednesday. For incumbent Republican Gov. Richard Snelling, it was a chance to rebut some of the unflattering judgments made by Democratic challenger Edwin Granai, a Burlington representative. Granai, who won his party's gubernatorial nomination Tuesday had spent most of his primary campaign energy criticizing Snelling. For Granai, it was a chance to pick up where his primary campaign left off.

Asked by the Burlington Business and Professional Women's Club to join Snelling in addressing their meeting at the Sheraton-Burlington Inn, Granai repeated the themes heard throughout the primary. Without mentioning Snelling by name, Granai said, "Politics as usual is inappropriate for Vermont in 1978." and claimed that "options for the state of Vermont are being foreclosed now" because of the state's emphasis on "fast-buck development." Most of Granai's criticism of Snelling during the primary centered on what he called the Turn to SNELLING, Page 2B 1 GOVERNOR SNELLING 'credibility of government' EDWIN GRANAI 'options being foreclosed Burlington Mall Plan Interests Federal Agencies By ANN DEVROY Gannett News Service Burlington officials were peddling the Church Street Project in Washington Wednesday and it appeared some agencies of the federal government are buying it. Mayor Gordon Paquette and his crew of city officials did not leave Washington with any federal bucks, but they did get a strong show of support from a number of federal officials who spent the day talking not about whether the project will be funded but how it will be funded. The city is seeking about $17 million in federal funds for a four-block "marketplace," the city's answer to the threat of the proposed another. Burlington is seeking: $7 million from UMTA for a bus loop linking downtown shopping, waterfront and entertainment districts with the regional bus system.

$3 million from the Housing and Urban Development Department for moderate- and low-income housing near the site. $2 million from the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service for turning street-level sections of the marketplace into an "urban park setting," including trees, walkways and benches. million from the Environmental Protection Agency, mainly for sewer and utility work on the site. yourself." Watson and representatives of a half-dozen other federal agencies attended a presentation by Burlington set up by Richard Page, head of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Page brought the agency envoys together to get an initial reading on whether they, like i'MTA.

are interested in providing federal money. UMTA has agreed to be the "lead" agency but since the project involves more than transportation, Page said other federal agencies will have to provide funding as well or UMTA is not likely to do its share. Although the figures are general and could shift from one area to suburban Pyramid Mall. The marketplace involves constructing a layer of underground retail stores in what are now basements and linking the existing Center Street store level and underground level with elavators and escalators. For Burlington-backers, the news from the federal government was mostly good, including a clue President Carter knows of the project and is interested in it.

Jack Watson, special assistant to Carter and head of his intergovernment coordinating agency, said, "The president is interested and I'm here to say so We want to do business with you but only on the stipulation you are moving heaven and earth to help The city plans to add about $3 million and smaller federal agencies another $3 million. Page said after the meeting he saw "no major obstacles" to funding, but he stipulated that "we are making no definite promises here. We are very interested, obviously, but we need to have fundingfrom other federal agencies and we must be sure of Burlington's role." Burlington, in fact, is unusually early in its pleas to the federal government. It has not even made formal applications yet and isn't sure how much it wants from each agency. But Paquette stressed the city's business district "is hanging Turn to MALL, Page 2B Education committee they can provide their children with an education equivalent to the one provided at the Cabot School, she said.

Cabot Superintendent John O'Brien continued to assert that the children should be in school. He said so in a letter to Karlene Russell, who heads the committee studying the parent's requests. The parents "have not given the situation an opportunity to prove itself," the letter read. "They have kept their children out of school even though none has had any direct experience with the teachers in question," he said. Some students never have attended the Cabot School.

His letter said he didn't see an opportunity for the situation to improve "with the children at home." O'Brien also said the Cabot school stands to lose as much as $16,000 in state reimbursements because of the 14 students. "It would be a significant loss," he said, "about 20 percent of our state aid." O'Brien said he didn't understand a school funding program that gave Cabot about $300 per pupil, but would take away more than $1,000 per pupil if they don't attend the school. State reimbursements are based on the town's grand list. If Cabot loses students, it will be considered to have a higher worth on a per student basis. Therefore, it will get less money per student, as well as lose the funds for the 14 who don't attend, said Mickey McCann, director of statistics for the education department.

By ALAN ABBEY Free Press Correspondent CABOT Parents who say two teachers in town abuse their students are trying to set up an alternative, private school for their 14 children, a spokesman said Wednesday. And the Cabot school superintendent said the school stands to lose $16,000 in state reimbursements if the children don't return. Polly Coffin and a dozen other sets of parents have kept their children out of the Cabot School since it opened a week ago because they say first-and second-grade teachers Patricia Ainsworth and Jean Spasyk have physically and verbally abused their students. A Tuesday night school board meeting helped some protesting parents and other Cabot residents to start talking with each other, but it didn't softened the parents' position. "We expected some alternate school plan and nothing came up," Mrs.

Coffin said. She and other parents are continuing their attempts to start individual home education programs but hope to start an alternative school Mrs. Coffin said the parents need to find out what state regulations they would have to follow if they start the alternative school. She admitted the group's lack of funds and a building and the long distances separating the 14 students might keep the school from getting started. If the school is not developed, the parents still will try to convince a state Education Department Cabot Parents Want to Open New School Kennedy Offered School Post In S.

Burlington South Burlington School Board Director Jeanne Kennedy announced her resignation Wednesday from the board after the board offered her husband, Mark, the job of Middle School principal. Happy with her husband's appointment, Mrs. Kennedy told the board in a written statement that a nepotism conflict would limit her abilities on the board. Her resignation will be effective Nov. 7, giving the city the opportunity to elect a new board member in the November election.

The board, with Mrs. Kennedy abstaining, approved hiring Kennedy with the stipulation he be released from his principalship at Camels Hump Middle School in Richmond. The Mount Mansfield school board is expected to accept Kennedy's resignation tonight, South Burlington Superintendent Frederick Tuttle said. A native of Burlington, Kennedy worked at Camels Hump Middle School since 1975 and before that, he served as assistant principal at Shelburne Middle School. Kennedy will replace Ted Mable, who was hired as assistant superintendent in the Bur-J lington School District.

Tuttle said Kennedy's salary will be determined after he is released from the Mount Mansfield school. In other business, the board reviewed the district en's rollment figures presented by Tuttle. The total enrollment is 2,483, Tuttle said. The elementary schools' enrollment dropped by 67 stu-. dents compared to last year, Yankee Granted Permit to Dump Heated Water The Associated Prt MONTPELIER The state of Vermont has given the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp.

plant permission to release heated water into the Connecticut River during winter months. The permit, approved by Environmental Conservation Secretary Brendan Whittaker, would allow the nuclear power plant to turn off its cooling towers between Oct. IS and May 15 each year. The water, used to cool the 540-megawatt plant, would be heated about 20 degrees and then returned directly to the river. Vermont Yankee would have to continue to use the cooling towers during warmer months from May 15 to Oct, 15.

Vermont Yankee applied for the permit, saying it could save ratepayers about $2 millions a year by not running the cooling towers from October to May. Plant officials say the heated water has little effect on river life during cool months. Brattleboro Man Dies From Injuries Suffered in Crash BRATTLEBORO A 22-year-old Brattleboro man died Wednesday morning in Brattleboro Memorial Hospital as a result of Injuries suffered in a three-car accident Tuesday night. Police said Steven John Carlson died of multiple injuries. He was travelling south on U.S.

5 near the Brattleboro-Guilford town line when the accident occurred at 8 p.m. Police identified the other drivers as Steven Donald Howe, 20, of Hinsdale, N.H., and Howard Edward Cook, 23, of Brattleboro. Further details were not available. The death was the 79th Vermont highway of the year, compared to 72 at. this time last year.

Letter Details Why OCCSA Funds Cut Dietz Foe Asks Demos To Boycott By NEIL DAVIS Free Preti Capitol Bureau MONTPELIER Wynn Kernstock said Wednesday he will ask fellow Democrats to boycott the congressional election Nov. 7. The Burlington Democrat lost the congressional primary Tuesday, to Marie Dietz of Woodstock, who had 52 percent of the vote. Kernstock had accused her during the campaign of representing interests of the anti-abortion Vermont Right-to-Life organization rather than those of the party. "I am going to advise my friends in the Democratic party that voting for Mrs.

Dietz would create the false impression that the party endorses her stand on abortion," he said. "Contrary to what she predicted I would do, I won't advise Democrats to vote for the incumbent (Republican James Jeffords), but neither will I advise them to vote for her," Kernstock said. "I simply am going to ask them to boycott this particular election." The unsuccessful candidate said he has decided against calling for a recount. The party's nominees for governor and lieutenent governor, state Reps. Edwin Granai and Madeleine Kunin of Burlington, said Wednesday they would support the entire Democratic slate, inlcuding Mrs.

Dietz. "I don't share her sentiments (on abortion)," said Granai, "but you don't support or not support a candidate on one particular issue." Mrs. Kunin said, "It's an Issue that is terribly important to a lot of people, but it's not the only, or the most important, issue to a lot of people." But Kernstock charged Granai and Kunin are "afraid of the Right-to-Life group." "They're afraid of losing votes. I understand it, but I don't respect it. I think they should refuse to have anything to do with this woman who is making a mockery of the party," he said.

Kernstock said he believes he lost because leading Democrats, including Sen. Russell Niquette, D-Chittenden, and former Gov, Thomas Salmon of Rockingham, refused to help him when he asked them. "If Niquette had simply shown me around Winooski, which he first promised and than refused to do, and if Salmon had simply said that Kernstock has been a fine party worker, those things would have turned some votes," the Burlington man said. "1 could have won." He attributed their unwillingness to help to "the power of the Right-to-Llfers." "I can think of Democrat after Democrat who is tearing his Insides out to think that this type of candidate is carrying the party's standard," Kernstock said. "It goes against everything they've stood for.

But not many of them would stand up to be counted when It mattered." By SCOTT MACKAY and Katherlne Gregg Free Press Capitol Bureau MONTPELIER Thomas J. Hahn, director of the Orleans County Council of Social Agencies, may have engaged in a profit-making business at government expense, according to documents released Wednesday by a state office. The State Comprehensive Employment and Training Office released an Aug. 31 letter in which a U.S. Labor Department spokesman detailed reasons more extensive than previously reported why OCCSA's $3 million federal job training contract was cut off.

In the letter, provided after a Freedom of Information Act request, regional Labor Department Administrator John Bailey implicated OCCSA employee, John Emerson, "a longtime friend and business associate" of Hahn, in an alleged profit-making lumber operation at CETO expense. Bailey identified Emerson as an employee of OCCSA subsidiary Vermont Sawmill which is owned and operated by Hahn and his family, and staffed "primarily with CETO-funded positions." "It is our finding that a staff member (Emerson) was paid wages from CETO funds for a work day during which he was used for private purposes to deliver logs." Bailey alleged funds received from sale of those logs went to Emerson, then to Hahn's wife and then into the Bradford National Bank, where "we believe Mr. Hahn had an account, but that OCCSA and Vermont Sawmill did not," Hahn at a Montpelier news conference later Wednesday said the FBI and a federal grand jury looked into the same charges and decided there was no evidence he did anything wrong. Hahn said he severly reprimanded Emerson for conducting private business on public payroll, The director acknowledged he sold logs from his own home to contractors outside Vermont because they gave him a better price than he could claim in the Northeast Kingdom. But, he Insisted all proceeds from the sales went back into Vermont Sawmill.

Hahn released a personal finan-Turn to LETTER, Page 2B 0 Tf Shhh, Men At Work Workers are about one-fourth through the $4.3 million construction project of an addition to the University of Vermont's Bailey Library in Burlington. The addition, scheduled for completion in July 1979, will nearly double the size of the existing library. At the time of its completion in 1961, the library was built to accommodate 4,400 students. The library now is serving nearly 11,000 students. I 1.14 I Fret PreM Photo by ITU KMV i.