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Shr urlintnn Wednesday, August 4, 1 982 Tax Idea Rejected By Panel MkvliL 4)av ft 7 t'i'-H as, ft OCX hit f-v u. i it The bones as they were found in the Burlington Intervale. 7 in Bones Uncovered; May Be Remains Of Missing Man By ROB ELEY Free Prut Staff Writer A plan for a Burlington restaurant and hotel tax will carry a negative subcommittee recommendation when Burlington aldermen view the lS-page proposal Monday. The Ordinance Committee voted 2-1 Tuesday to send the tax regulations to aldermen without its support. The tax issue went down by 45 votes out of more than 6,700 cast in a non-binding June referendum.

Mayor Bernard Sanders advanced the tax as an alternative to the property tax and was bitterly opposed by the restaurant industry. "I was not shocked," Sanders said after Tuesday's committee vote. Alderman Richard E. Musty, Citizens-Ward 1, backed the tax. Republicans William O.

Skelton from Ward 4 and Richard H. Wadhams Jr. of Ward 6 voted against ft. "I think we have to do some lobbying. My understanding is the Republicans are not very sympathetic to this issue," Sanders said.

The mayor said he has five votes on the 13-member board and he hopes to sway others to support the tax. Wadhams said the 3 percent proposed tax would unfairly single out a small group of businesses. "I think we could find a much fairer tax," he said. He said he might favor a plan under which the state would channel sales tax revenues to local communities. Wadhams said he also is concerned about the impact the tax might have on commercial property values.

If additional charges in Burlington prompted customers to patronize restaurants in other communities, the tax rolls might suffer, he said. Wadhams and Musty said they felt the Close June vote meant they could decide the issue on their own. Musty, however, said he supports the levy because it would be a tax on consumers, not on the business owners. "We have a large number of consumers who beat up our streets and use our city," Musty said, admitting that a tax on all income generated in the city would be the fairest of all such taxes. In the absence of such a plan, he said the restaurant and Turn to SUBCOMMITTEE, foge 2B dicates the bones are of animals, but she plans to meet with an anatomy specialist today to continue the examination.

New York State Trooper Ralph Suffolk of Oneida, N.Y., and two of his specially trained dogs were brought to Vermont for the search because of his success in other states. The dogs also were used to search near a gravel pit off West Oak Hill Road in Williston, where King's 1979 blue and white Chev-rlet Blazer was found three weeks after the disappearance. Detective Cpl. Gary L. Taylor said part of a pair of glasses was found at the scene and will be Turn to BONES, Page 2B By MIKE DONOGHUE Free Preil Staff Writer Bones found by a police dog in the Burlington Intervale Tuesday are being examined to determine if they are the remains of a missing Essex man.

Lt. Robert G. Yandow said Essex police have received information that Wilfred F. King III, missing since Oct. 24, 1980, may have been buried in the Intervale.

The information came from two secret court inquests and phone calls to police and the Champlain Valley Crime Stoppers tip line, Yandow said. Dr. Eleanor McQuillen, chief medical examiner, said Tuesday night a preliminary check in 1 iK-W Fre. Prei. Photoi by ELAINE ISAACSON New York State Trooper Ralph Suffolk holds his specially trained dogs from Oneida, N.Y., up one of the bones.

Suffolk brought two of to search the Intervale. Tax Resister Turns Over Income Records tax for 1981, she said. She said she does not know what will happen when the IRS computes her bill. "They have methods which they may try," such as confiscating cars or garnisheeing wages, she speculated. Although she yielded the records after initially refusing, Kohrmon said she felt she had accomplished something.

"I think every time somebody in this country resists, something is accomplished," she said. She said she would participate in a Brattleboro forum on war resistance soon, and later this month she expects to contribute to a forum on war tax resistance. Kohrmon said Tuesday. Kohrmon, a part-owner and baker at the Common Ground Natural Foods Restaurant in Brattleboro, said she has received letters of encouragement from other tax resisters throughout New England since she first appeared in court May 28. At the July 22 hearing, Kohrmon, who represented herself, read a prepared statement saying the world was at the brink of nuclear holocaust.

"I will not stop until the Earth is rid of these threats against life," she said. Contacted by telephone Tuesday, Kohrmon said she would continue tier antiwar efforts. She has paid no federal income By DON MELVIN Free Preu Staff Writer Under threat of a $100-a-day fine for contempt of court, Brattleboro tax resister Katherine Kohrmon turned over her income records for 1979 and 1980 to the Internal Revenue Service Monday. But Kohrmon, 26, who refuses to pay federal taxes because some of the money goes to the military, said she will not pay when the IRS figures out her bill. "I've never paid income tax, and I don't intend to," she said.

Kohrmon also said she would not pay a $300 fine levied against her July 22 by U.S. Judge James S. Holden. In the July 22 hearing in U.S. District Court in Rutland, Holden told Kohrmon she would be fined $100 a day between Aug.

2 and Sept. 1 until she produced her 1978, 1979 and 1980 federal tax records. Kohrmon said Tuesday she had no records for 1978. Assistant U.S. Attorney Patti Page confirmed Tuesday that Kohrmon had turned over the records to the IRS and had avoided the $100-a-day fine.

Page said her office was out of the case, at least temporarily. "I wasn't interested in starting to accrue $100 fines every day when the money goes to the same place as income taxes," Stafford Takes the Offensive; McClaughry Pushes for Debate I W. i. 4f J- -V Si l. I I.

rt 1 1 r. JOHN SHAMBO Hunt Grows After Store Reports Theft The Aswcioted Press PLAINFIELD A robbery at the Plainfield Service Center Tuesday touched off another round of pursuit for two escaped inmates who have been the subject of a weeklong manhunt. The robbery was the second at the store since John Shambo, 19, of Underhill and Stephen Galyean, 18, of South Burlington escaped from a Cosrections Department van in West Danville a week ago, police said. Both robberies are believed to be the work of the inmates, police said. State police and a team of bloodhounds headed to the woods near the center of Plainfield Tuesday morning, where police said they believed the two were hiding.

Two attempts with the dogs turned up nothing, police said. Police also tried frightening the inmates out of the woods with an attack German shepherd, but that also failed. State police said the Service Center robbery took place between midnight and dawn Tuesday. Several prepared sandwiches and two packs of cigarettes were stolen. Police also found an abandoned motorcycle near the store that they believe was stolen the night before.

They said they think the pair spent Monday night in an abandoned car behind a nearby house. The inmates were handcuffed and chained at the time of their escape, but police believe they freed themselves shortly after their escape. The pair were identified as the men who broke into the home of Roland and Mary Seavey in West Danville early Thursday evening and robbed the elderly couple of $50 and their car before leaving the victims tied to their living room furniture. Police said they are still optimistic they will find the inmates. "If the dogs can pick up their scent, there's a good chance we are going to find them," said Trooper Charles Brooks of the Plainfield outpost.

1J what he really did down there," McClaughry said. "I promise I won't try to trap our reluctant senator. I'll just raise straightforward issues where he and I differ sharply." Stafford charged, however, he has agreed to attend as many candidates' forums as possible with his hectic schedule in the nation's capital. "There ought to be an adequate opportunity for he and I to exchange views on whatever is necessary," the senator said. Stafford criticized McClaughry and Ledbetter for focusing on his public record, while failing to outline their views on key issues.

He said he would like to -know their views about acid rain and the Clean Air Act, on which he has worked as chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Stafford said he also would like to quiz his opponents about the loan program for college students and the education of handicapped and disadvantaged children. The senator said the stands McClaughry has taken so far on issues such as financial aid for Poland and funding for the MX missile and the B-l bomber belle his description of himself as "an ardent Reagan supporter." By DEBORAH SUNE Free Presi Capitol Bureau Sen. Robert Stafford, R-Vt, went on the offensive against his two primary opponents Tuesday, countering charges about his performance by criticizing their failure to focus on issues. Stafford described his three-way GOP primary battle as extremely negative, saying Stewart Ledbetter and John McClaughry have been attacking his stands rather than explaining their own.

"I can't recall a campaign I've been in where candidates talked so much in criticism of an opponent especially one of their own party," Stafford said in a ephone interview from Washington. "I think the Vermont public will make up their minds, In the final analysis, what we're all for," he said. "Resorting to criticizing each other is not a sound basis for electing anybody." Stafford's comments came on the heels of a call by McClaughry for a public debate among the three Republicans. McClaughry charged In a press release that Stafford "ducked and ran" when asked about his record on issues. "I say to Bob Stafford: Let's make a real campaign out of this," he said.

"Then if you survive the 1 JOHN McCLAUOHXY ROBERT STAFFORD r'7 ') hi I I i' I elections, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that you met your challengers and whipped them straight up, instead of sneaking back into office wearing a cloak of invisibility." McClaughry said a candidates' forum attended last month by both Republicans 1 and Democrats running for the U.S. Senate failed to create significant debate among the contenders. He predicted the five other forums scheduled before the primary would be just as inadequate, because the candidates would not be able to question each other. He also said he preferred an all-GOP debate, so he would not have to criticize Stafford in front of members of other parties. McClaughry said he was not aware of any scheduled forum that met those requirements.

"At this point, I don't know of any forum coming up where he and I are on the same platform. "You'd think a man who has been in Congress for 22 years would be proud ef his record but Robert Stafford Is acting like he doesn't want Vermonters to know STEPHEN OALYIAN.