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The Burfngton (Vt.) Free Press, Tuesday, March 8. 1988 3B Survey shows support for Vermont seat-belt law At" 9 The Associated Press MONTPELIER Early returns from a Town Meeting Day survey show Vermonters support a mandatory seat-belt law by a narrow margin, and a moratorium on the doe season by a wide margin. State Sen. William Doyle, R-Washington, who issues the annual non-scientific survey to gauge public opinion on major issues facing the Legislature, said Monday he had received 2,600 returns from 19 towns in nine counties. The questionnaires were issued to Town Meeting goers last week.

Doyle, a Johnson State College history professor, said the early results show 50 percent of respondents favoring a mandatory seat-belt law, with 45 percent opposed and 5 percent unsure. Results from Doyle's survey showed that two-thirds of those responding do not want municipalities allowed to impose income, sales, and rooms-and-meals taxes, a position at odds with general voter support at last week's town meetings of a "home rule" amendment proposed by the Vermont League of Cities and Towns. A question on whether there should be a one-year moratorium on killing does won yes votes from 66 percent of those responding, with 17 percent opposed and 7 percent unsure. Many hunters have been calling for a halt to killing does, saying the practice is contributing to a decline in the number of deer in Vermont. Voters favored creating state planning guidelines for state, regional and local planners; prohibiting former high state officials from lobbying for a year after leaving office; providing state funds to support the price of Vermont-produced milk; increasing the gasoline tax to fund road and bridge reconstruction and repair, expanding the bottle law to include liquor and wine bottles; returning to the 36-number system in the Tri-State Megabucks game; and requiring municipalities to provide for low-income housing in their municipal plans.

They rejected, by narrow margins, proposals to allow life insurance companies to test new policyholders for AIDS and to Have the state provide health insurance to all uninsured Vermonters. 5 jfi j.j ADAM RIESNER, Free Preu Big stretch Senior Toby Ducolon, left, and junior Dan Lambert, University of Vermont hockey players, participate in an aerobics workout with teammates in preparation for their trip to the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament in Boston. The Catamounts will play St. Lawrence at 6 p.m. Friday.

Bishop: Market crash proves need for economic justice cal Council and Bible Society. "We in the United States seem to have special problems in this regard." Marshall said the National Conference of Catholic Bishops highlighted in its Nov. 13, 1986, letter "Economic Justice for All" the inequities of the U.S. economy, especially compared to the econ--omies of the many other nations of the world. Repeating questions posed by the bishops in their letter, Marshall said economic leaders must snswer: "What does the economy do for people? What does the economy do to people? How do people participate in it?" The bishops examined "everyone's right and need to work," Marshall said.

"By means of work, man shares in God's creations." The Catholic church teaches, though, that no work would be possible without the blessings of God. "Human beings have created nothing. God has created everything," Marshall said. "Work con- By Ross Sneyd Free Press Staff Writer Last October's stock-market crash has made even more poignant the U.S. Catholic bishops' pastoral letter of more than a year ago emphasizing the need for economic justice, the state's top Catholic official said Monday.

"Whatever belongs to God belongs to all," John A. Marshall, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, said at a meeting of the Vermont Ecumeni sists of fashioning and refashioning God's creations over and over again." That is why he and the other bishops say it is essential that there is justice in the economies of the world, especially in the United States, "one of the most affluent cultures in history." The bishops in their pastoral letter recognized the "right to own private property," he said, but add that "the right to private property is by no means absolute." actually would be starving. If these people came to our table and asked for food, in all charity we Americans would undoubtedly give them something." Unfortunately, Marshall said, that is the attitude in the United States and it should not be. "We don't owe these people something in charity," he said. "We owe them something in justice." That is the message carried by the U.S.

bishops. Quoting a speech by Pope John Paul II at New York City's Yankee Stadium in 1979, Marshall said, "We can't stand idly by enjoying our own riches of freedom if anywhere the Lazaruses of the 20th century stand at our door." Catholic teachings of social justice emphasize that the richest in the world those who hold the greatest amounts of private property must be willing to help the poorest, Vermont's bishop said. To illustrate his point, he asked his audience to imagine the world's population consisted of just 100 people. Imagine, he said, those inhabitants of the world gathering for lunch. "Six would be U.S.

citizens at the noon meal," he said. "At our table for six we would have an income of all the other people combined. We would have 16 and a half times the food we needed. Two-thirds (of the citizens at the lunch) would be truly hungry. Half of them Man sues, claiming mother helped kill father After he disappeared, Mrs.

King moved back into the house. Crawford has requested a rea PI BUS I "Joey King believes that the petitioner took part in the murder of her husband," according to papers filed on behalf of the 20-year-old man by Burlington attorney Geoffrey W. Crawford. That assertion is based on "information and belief," according to the documents. "What we put in there we stand by," said Crawford, who declined to elaborate on the charge.

Essex police declined Monday to comment on the new allegations. "I guess we wouldn't want to comment on that," said Detective Sgt. Gary L. Taylor. The 1980 disappearance of the 37-year-old man, known as "Butch," remains By Mike Donoghue Free Press Staff Writer An Essex man, who believes his mother helped in the murder Of his father more than seven years ago, has asked a judge to delay action on her request to have him declared dead, according to papers filed in Chittenden Superior Court.

Diane I. King, 41,. of Essex petitioned the court to declare Wilfred King III dead so she could sell the house he had built on Jericho Road. By having her husband declared dead, Mrs. King hopes to become the sole owner of record, but the couple's oldest child questions whether she should gain financially from his death.

1 under active investigation, he said. Authorities have said the investigation has been slowed by Mrs. King's refusal to cooperate with law enforcement authorities. Mrs. King told the Free Press in 1981 that she was willing to take a lie detector test, but police said she has since declined.

"She made it quite clear she would not cooperate," Lt. Robert G. Yandow said recently. She also told her other two children not to cooperate. Wilfred F.

King III, who had to use crutches because of injuries when struck by a car, was last seen Oct. 24, 1980, as he left the couple's Jericho Road home. His blood-stained crutches were found by hunters a few days later off Middle Road in Colchester. About three weeks later his four-wheel-drive vehicle was found off West Oak Hill Road in Williston. Mrs.

King had filed a $100,000 suit against the driver who struck her husband, on the grounds she lost his love and support. She later moved out of the house, and Wilfred King III filed for divorce. sonable period, not to exceed four months, to allow for depositions and interrogatories. He said the court then could schedule an evidentiary hearing on Mrs. King's "participation in her husband's apparent- murder and disappearance." Wilfred King III, when he was 19, was given the land by his parents, who still live next door.

He married Diane Irish of Under-hill in 1966. The latest legal action marks the second time Mrs. King has filed suit in an effort to gain possession of property in the case. In 1981, Mrs. King sued her son, Joey, then 14, and Wilfred King her father-in-law, who she claimed was holding property that she thought belonged to her.

In that case, the Superior Court ruled that Wilfred F. King Jr. was not responsible for the removal of the property, but that he should have control of it until the missing man was found or his death established by authorities. Day in court You've Got a College Education. Now All You Need Is a Job.

LIGHTEN UP. Burlington March pleaded no contest; sentenced to up to 30 days, suspended. Paul A. Sovkoplas, 17, Milton charged with disorderly conduct in Milton Jan. 26; charge dismissed.

Joseph Legrand, 40, Cambridge charged with retail theft (misdemeanor), amended from retail theft (felony), in South Burlington Dec. 23; pleaded guilty; fined $100, sentenced to up to 90 days, suspended. Robert G. Harris 21, Colchester charged with careless and negligent driving, amended from DWI, in Burlington Sept. 19; pleaded guilty; fined $300.

John H. Robillard, 45, Rowley, Mass. charged with driving while license suspended in Essex Jan. 30; pleaded innocent. Brett B.

Boucher, 26, South Burlington charged with driving while license suspended and DWI in Burlington Feb. 11; pleaded innocent to both charges. Robert R. Sheldon, 35, North Hero charged with DWI in Milton Jan. 17; pleaded innocent.

Jay M. Danis, 26, Colchester charged with DWI in Milton Jan. pleaded innocent. Eugene J. Collette, 27, Essex Junction charged with DWI in Essex Junction Feb.

pleaded innocent. Christine M. Bessette, 24, Richmond charged with driving while license suspended in Winooski Jan. 13 and in Richmond Feb. 18; pleaded innocent to both charges.

Chittenden Circuit Judges Alden T. Bryan, George T. Costes and Michael S. Ku- persmith March 7: Steven G. Williams, 34, Colchester charged with driving while intoxicated in Burlington Nov.

28; pleaded no contest; fined $200. Stephen R. Trottier, 33, Essex charged with furnishing alcohol to a minor in Essex Sept. 1987; pleaded guilty; fined $200, sentenced to up to six months, suspended. Timothy J.

Sheehan, 25, Burlington charged with retail theft in Colchester Jan. 17; pleaded guilty; fined $45. John H. Robillard, 45, Rowley, Mass. charged with DWI in Essex Jan.

30; pleaded guilty; fined $250, sentenced to up to six months, suspended. Andrew I. Myers, 20, South Burlington charged with petty larceny in Williston Nov. 25; pleaded guilty; sentenced to up to six months, suspended. Michael J.

Hunt, 19, Burlington charged with retail theft in Burlington Feb. pleaded guilty; fined $45. Aldo A. Dimeco, 23, Quincy, Mass. charged with driving while license suspended in Underbill March pleaded guilty; sentenced to one day.

Wayne N. Deny, 43, Winooski charged with disorderly conduct in Winooski March pleaded no contest; sentenced to one day. Robert B. Ladabouche, 42, Burlington charged with simple assault in FT I i- mm i ir ALL NEW FOR 1988 20 Faster Even Healthier Special Savings of 20 or $17oo BUY PREPAYMENT PLAN 10 Weeks for6300 (does not include registration fee) i TLX 4 1 TUESDAY, MARCH 8th DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS Children's Menu Always Available to oe dOUP anu ochiuwiui ueviai Our summer program can prepare you for a rewarding job! These days, a college degree is crucial. But even that may not be enough to get you a good entry-level job.

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