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urltnl0it Court News 3B New England 6B Tuesday, March 10, 1981 Board to Conduct Mayoral Recount Friday A Vermont Roundup among many ignored by the Paquette administration. Sanders also will meet with advisers analyze" the city budget. Burlington faces an economic crisis in city government because the 65-cent tax increase on last week's ballot failed. Pay increases, as well as inflationary expenses in insurance and utility costs, cannot be met without some form of tax increase, city officials say. Adding to the complications, Sanders has promised to fight for higher pay for all city employees.

During the campaign he opposed the tax increase, but agreed with Paquette that city expenses will go up. Sanders suggested in one public appearance that a special vote might be needed to raise extra funds for the city; He said Monday he would not make any recommendations until hearing from his economic Sanders' campaign had the paper ballots, original machine tally sheets and checklists used Tuesday impounded Wednesday morning. The restraining order request said Sanders' campaign aides were excluded from the paper ballot counting in Ward 3, and that Ward 5 paper ballots appeared to have been counted before the polls closed. The Sanders campaign has not filed charges that the vote counting or election day activities were improper. In related matters, Sanders said he plans meetings with representatives of the elderly, young and artistic communities in Burlington to begin working on ways to solve problems facing those groups.

They, in turn, will be asked to hold public meetings where people can speak out on their problems and potential solutions. Sanders said during the campaign those groups were By ALAN ABBEY Free Press Staff Writer The recount in Burlington's contested mayoral election will be conducted by aldermen Friday at Chittenden County Superior Court, City Clerk Frank Wagner said Monday. The recounting is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Mayor Gordon Paquette, who lost the race by 22 votes to Bernard Sanders last Tuesday, filed the recount petition at 11:30 a.m. Monday, Wagner said.

Paquette has expressed some confidence the election may be turned around, but Sanders believes the results will not change. The approximately 600 paper ballots will be counted and machine tallies will be added by aldermen. Until this year, recounts were handled by Superior Court officials, but changes in state election law gave local officials control over local elections. The Board of Civil Authority in Burlington is composed of aldermen. Sanders beat Paquette 4,035 to 4,013.

Richard Bove received 1,090 votes and Joseph McGrath had 138. Sanders got 43.5 percent of the vote and the mayor 43.3 percent. Monday afternoon, Middlebury attorney William E. Sessions was at the clerk's office gathering information about the election from Wagner. Sessions did not want to comment on what, if any, irregularities in Tuesday's election he was investigating.

Sessions replaces Michael Kupersmith and Gregory Packin, who represented Sanders in the request for the restraining order. Kupersmith and John Franco, both of the Chittenden County public defender's office, backed Sanders and did legal work for free and on their own time. Defender General James Morse said "As long as they don't charge for their services, it's OK." Sanders' Win Stirs Major Parties Out Of Lethargic State By SCOTT MACKAY Free Press Capitol Bureau MONTPELIER As if things were not bad enough for Vermont Democrats, along comes Bernard Sanders. -i I r-i. Jrwri Shaken, defeated and in debt because of the 1980 Republican election gains, Democrats received another humiliation last week in Sanders' up-s of Burlington's Wmri Leahy: Congress Lacks the Time To Debate Budget Th Associated Press DENVER Sen.

Patrick Leahy, said Monday he is concerned Congress may not have enough time to debate President Reagan's proposed spending cuts. The budget committees are scheduled to set new limits on federal spending by the end of the month. Leahy said he is concerned about cuts that would affect health care for low-income and rural residents. The senator said although he supports the administration's move to reduce federal spending, a national poll shows no more than 15 percent of Americans favor reducing health and social service spending. Leahy, speaking at the National Conference on Rural Primary Care, told his listeners to question the administration's proposals if they believe the plans could hurt rural areas.

yh of Town Sold To Forest Service The Auocioted Press GLASTENBURY The Green Mountain National Forest has grown by 10,000 acres with the purchase of two tracts of land in Glastenbury, officials said Monday. The U.S. Forest Service paid $1.8 million for the land, marking the largest single addition to the forest in years. Glastenbury, located in Bennington County, is almost all forest. The purchase places more than one-third of the town in the hands of the federal government.

The deal has been in the works for more than a year, forest officials said. The land was owned by the Glastenbury Cimber Lands Trust, run by the Scott family of North Bennington. Portions of the Long Trail run through it. Log Plugs Up Bennington Taps The Associated Press BENNINGTON It was only about 2 feet long, but Bennington officials have blamed a stubborn log for plugging up the town water supply for more than two days. Officials estimated Monday the cost of removing the log was $5,000.

That estimate does not include the thousands of hours volunteers spent transporting water to those in need, town officials said. Behind The Newt Pre Press Photo by STU PERRY Driver Slightly Hurt former Gov. Thomas P. Salmon. Salmon narrowly defeated Skinner in the U.S.

Senate primary. Like an aging boxer, the Democratic Party in the city has gotten flabby after too many political rounds. Its leadership has lost touch with older city residents and has not recruited new ones. The myth of the Democratic strength kept Republicans from filling the void. "Republicans goofed" by not fielding a candidate in the mayoral election, John Lindley III, GOP state chairman, said.

'This has to awaken the Republicans to the splintering of the Democratic machine over there." Lindley predicted a renewed city GOP effort. 'There were a lot of reasons," Kaplan said. "One big factor is that we are not as well organized as we should be." Kaplan acknowledges the party has not "made an effort to get some of the new people in the city involved." Arte Rothenberg, Democratic city chairman, has told party leaders he is stepping down. Looking at the bright side of the Sanders win, Kaplan said it is "fortunate it happened when it did" and not a year from now, because Democrats still have a shot at recovering before the 1982 elections. Neighborhood activists, renters and the poor for years the traditional Democratic constituency bolted the party in droves to vote for Sanders.

Sanders will try to make his election organization a big part of a governing coalition, which could spell trouble for Democrats. Mrs. Kunin would like to run for governor in 1982. Her constituency and the one that elected Sanders overlap. Three University of Vermont professors and a lawyer who are part of the Sanders kitchen Turn to PARTIES, Page 2B Brenda Dusharm, 24, of Colchester escaped with a lost control of her car, which struck a telephone 'bump on the police said, in an accident on pole and overturned between Woodbury and North Avenue about 4:30 a.m.

Monday. Police Staniford roads, said Ms. Dusharm was traveling north when she Newbury Road Foreman Ousted; Selectmen Take Over His Job Democratic mayor, Gordon Paquette. Burlington is ancestral home of the Vermont Democratic Party and no party nominee gets elected to statewide office without a big Democratic vote in the city. Many of the party's leaders, such as U.S.

Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Democratic State Chairman Mark Kaplan, Lt. Gov. Madeleine Kunin and former Gov.

Philip Hoff, got their political starts in the city. But Sanders' win shatters the myth of a Burlington Democratic organization that can guarantee votes necessary to win elections. When Democrats lose to a left-wing political activist who has never won an election before, it is no secret the party is in trouble. The seeds of the Democratic decline were planted years ago, perhaps with a 1970 party split over Hoffs anti-war Senate campaign and the 1972 insurgency by supporters of George McGovern, the liberal former South Dakota senator. By 1976, the cracks in the organization were apparent when another liberal, Montpelier lawyer Scott Skinner, put together an organization that stunned party regulars, who locked arms behind school board member becoming a teacher.

Alger said no formal vote was taken at the meeting, but the understanding was that Meyette and Rosen would take control of the road crew. Haviland said the move is one of the big disadvantages with a three-member board because it is easy for two persons to take an action. "I've told everyone it was a conflict of interest, but we're not sure how to resolve the issue," Haviland said. Haviland said he told the board Turn to SELECTMEN, Page 2B letter by Rosen Thursday afternoon at 4:30 that said he was through as road foreman the following day at 4:30 p.m., without severance pay. Meyette, who was road foreman before Wheeler, is expected to do most of the work, while Rosen said he will give "moral assistance more than physical." Russell O.

Haviland, who did not seek re-election as selectman at town meeting, said he considers the action by the two selectmen a conflict of interest. Alger agrees the move is a conflict of interest and likens it to a By MIKE DONOGHUE Free Press Staff Writer Two Newbury selectmen have voted to oust Road Foreman Bert Wheeler and have agreed to put themselves into the $5-an-hour job, resulting in charges of "conflict of interest" by some residents of the Orange County community of 1,715. Selectmen John Meyette and Richard Rosen said they were dissatisfied with Wheeler's performance and, despite objection from the third selectman, Kenneth Alger, agreed to oust Wheeler. Wheeler said he was handed a Ex-Sierra Club President Brings Message of Doom By JOHN DONNELLY Special to the Free Press A man stood up in the audience and asked David Brower if he $4 papers. The Sierra Club used a similar tactic in battling the U.S.

Bureau of Reclamation more than two decades ago over proposed Grand Canyon dam sites. Brower, the Sierra Club leading spokesman at the time, said the dams would fill the area like a giant bathtub. Ads in the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle, among others, carried a large headline: "Should We Also Flood The Sistine Chapel So Tourists Can Get Nearer The Ceiling?" Public support rallied behind the Sierra Club and the proposals were nixed. Beyond media campaigns, Brower urged the audience to write letters and start groups. "You have to realize how important an individual is.

Realize your Turn to BROWER, Page 2B secretary, could erase many triumphs by environmentalists. "Right now we have Mr. Watt. There's a danger of him giving away public lands. But he can be stopped," Brower said.

The establishment of the Alaskan national park areas could easily be reversed, he said. Brower said Friends of the Earth is emphasizing the dangers of nuclear power and arms. Pro-nuclear stands by several in the Reagan administration, including Vice President George Bush and Secretary of State Alexander Haig, worry many in the organization. "Somehow they think nuclear war is winnable. Scary, I say." Brower said one way to "educate" the public and the administration is to take out full-page advertisements in major news thought President Reagan was "ignorant, biased, and had no amount of reason." After the laughter subsided inside Ira Allen Chapel Monday night, Brower, perhaps the leading conservationist For 42 years Brower has been near the forefront of the wilderness preservation movement.

He has moved from an outdoorsman to a publisher to an intense political activist over the last three decades. Ousted from his Sierra Club post for his political activity, Brower formed two groups the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies and Friends of the Earth to protest modern technology. In "retirement," he is still board chairman of Friends of the Earth. Brower said Monday that present threats pose greater dangers than ever before. He said his victories stopping dam sites down the tiers of Western states are always in jeopardy.

"Any conservation victory is only temporary. There's always a chance to take something apart," he said. He said James Watt, U.S. interior Br6wer said. But the former executive director of the Sierra Club could not help warning the crowd that Reagan "was once worried about the amount of pollution trees caused." Brower, 68, brought a stern message of "doom" to a crowd of mostly University of Vermont students, warning that threats to the environment have reached crisis proportions.

Attempting to "sprinkle a little humor in if it's possible in times like these," Brower told the audience the power to turn the conservative tide in Washington must come from grass-roots organizing. "I want to worry you a little bit more and go into a little session on the doom," he said. Conservationists are not sounding a premature warning, but are "responding to the doom-makers," he said. BROWER in tne country, paused. "Well, he did a lot of good things while he was governor of California," he said.

"And he.U also lover of votes," Former Director Of CIA to Speak William E. Colby, director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 to 1976, will be the March 20 banquet speaker for the Vermont Bar Association's midwinter meeting at the Radisson Hotel in Burlington. Colby will discuss "Intelligence in the '80s." Colby joined the CIA in 1962 as director of the Far East division. He headed the agency's Saigon operations at the height of the Vietnam War and was appointed CIA direc- tor in 1973 by President Nixon. Vermont Supreme Court Chief Justice Albert W.

Barney will discuss the "state of the judiciary in Vermont" following the March 20 luncheon. The other noontime speaker will be the head of the Connecticut Bar Association's professional responsibility board, a critic of the controversial American Bar Association commission which is developing a new code of ethics for lawyers. The midwinter business meeting will be March 21. Agencies Plan to Continue Despite Threat of Cuts those two counties and Franklin and Grand Services Administration. "We will continue to operate, but I don't know what we'll look like," said Director Ben Collins.

"We won't look like we do now." The council operates almost $2 million in programs. They include Head Start, food and energy programs in Washington, Orange and Lamoille counties and parts of Windsor, Addison and Rutland counties, and a statewide senior citizen outreach program. Collins said the council could set up new non-profit corporations to accept federal funding from other sources. the Champlain Valley Office of Equal Opportunity, which oversees $2.5 million worth of programs in four counties. "I don't have any plans to lock up shop if CSA goes down the drain.

We'd be heavily crippled but not dead." Goff said the agency's demise would mean the loss of about $360,000 a year and up to 40 staff members, but federal funding from other sources could keep some programs afloat. A federally-funded alcoholism program in Chittenden and Addison counties and Head Start, a preschool education program in By MARILYN ADAMS Free Press Capitol Bureau MONTPELIER Community action program spokesmen said Monday they will continue their anti-poverty work in Vermont even if the Community Services Administration is killed by Congress. Agency (directors said abolishing the agency, as ('resident Ronald Reagan has proposed, woild seriously damage but not destroy programs dating back to the mid-1960s "wal rfn poverty." "We're certainly not going to roll over and play dead," said Donald Goff, director of Isle counties, would continue. Weather-ization work is jeopardized by other proposed budget cuts, however. "If any major business said it was leaving the area, laying off 35 people and pulling $2 million out of the community, everyone would be jumping up and down," Goff said.

"We buy thousands of dollars of weather-ization materials from local vendors, and our employees buy and pay rent and taxes." A spokesman for Central Vermont Community Council said its programs would survive the death of the Community.