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The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, Wednesdoy, Februory 22. 1989 3B Vermont roundup NOW chapter endorses Clavelle Bristol planner to speak on growth By Lisa Scagliotti Free Press Staff Writer In a statement sharply critical of Democratic mayoral candidate Nancy Chioffi, the Champlain Valley chapter of the National Organization for Women Tuesday endorsed independent Peter Clavelle. "Nancy Chioffi is a disappointment," said chapter president Terry Ramsey. The organization based its endorsement on a debate last week the group sponsored with the Burlington Women's Council. Ramsey called Chioffi's stands on an equal rights amendment and equal rights for gays and lesbians weak.

"We never heard Nancy say clearly that she would work for a state or federal ERA," Ramsey said. Although Chioffi did not say she opposed such an amendment, she did say during the debate that she supported other efforts within the constraints of existing law to promote equal rights for women and homosexuals. Chioffi since has said she "strongly supports" an equal rights amendment. During the debate, Clavelle said he supports both state and national efforts for an equal rights amendment. Ramsey also noted that city programs such as the Sexual Assault Prevention Program and Step-Up For Women were formed during Clavelle's tenure as director of the city's Community and Economic Development Office.

"I'm very happy the most active women in the city have chosen to support my candidacy," Clavelle said. Ramsey said that Greens candidate Sandra Baird, who won the Vermont Womens Political Caucus endorsement last week, is a strong feminist who should "continue her political pursuits." At a news conference earlier Tuesday, Chioffi called for more Burlington businesses to recycle waste paper. "The biggest culprits for paper waste are businesses. We have got to make it easier to get them involved," she said. She gave the example of McAuliffe Office Products, which sends several tons of trash to be recycled every day.

She said she hopes a similar citywide effort could begin soon. "We're throwing away America," Chioffi said. "Let's not throw away Vermont and Burlington." Clavelle later joined Chioffi in calling for more recycling. He noted there is a neighborhood recycling program now under way and he also said he would support a ban on the use of styrofoam products containing environmentally damaging chloroflurocarbons. state's growth policy should be.

The public session is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at the Waterbury Elementary School gymnasium. Council on Humanities to hold business meeting STOWE The Vermont Council on the Humanities' annual business meeting is scheduled for Friday and Saturday. Issues to be discussed include grant applications from St. Michael's College and Trinity College.

The meeting is scheduled for 3 to 7 p.m. Friday and 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Green Mountain Inn. It is open to the public and public comment will be heard at the end of Saturday's session. For information call 888-3183.

Workshops on housing cooperatives slated Vermont Tenants Inc. will hold the first of six workshops on housing cooperatives Saturday at the Community Boathouse. Those interested in affordable home ownership options should call 864-0099 for information or reservations. The program is being offered on a first come, first served basis. Candidates at odds on property taxes JOHNSON A Bristol town planning commissioner and lumber executive will speak today on the effect of population growth on farming and forestry.

William Sayre, a managing partner of the A. Johnson Co. lumber firm, will discuss possible zoning initiatives to preserve a balance between development and protection of natural resources. Sayre also is chairman of the Bristol Planning Commission, the Addison County Regional Planning and Development Commission, the Timber Policy Task Force of Associated Industries of Vermont and the forestry committee of the George D. Aiken Resource Conservation District.

His speech will take place at a public hearing scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the Johnson Elementary School. Hoff to tout plan for development WATERBURY Former Gov. Philip Hoff today will tout his proposal for a one-year moratorium on development in Vermont. Hoff has called for the moratorium to give officials and residents time to assess what the Bloodmobile This week, the Vermont-New Hampshire Red Cross bloodmobile will make the following stops: today Baptist Church, Bennington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Thursday, Moose Club, Claremont, N.H., p.m., Friday, Lebanon High School, Lebanon, N.H., noon-5 p.m.

Donor hours at the North Prospect Street Blood Center are 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday and Friday and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday.

Evening drawings are held from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday. Donors may call 658-6400 for an appointment. Transportation is available within Burlington city limits. Last week's blood collections included: Champlain College, 68; Canaan, N.H., 37; General Electric-Rutland, 106; International Business Machines 156; Immigration and Naturalization Service, Williston, 31; St.

Michael's College, 99; Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, N.H., 31; and the Burlington Blood Center, 268. the present Charter allows the city to levy special taxes. Baird said she greatly differs from her opponents because she believes in fostering "a new moral economy, grassroots democracy and ecology, both human and natural." Michael Hackett, running on the "tax-revolt" ticket promoting a 20 percent cut in property taxes, set himself apart from the rest. "I'm the one who'll stand up for ordinary people," he said. "I'm the most ordinary person here." By Lisa Scagliotti Free Press Staff Writer With the election just two weeks away, Burlington's four mayoral candidates emphasized their differences in a Trinity College debate Tuesday.

Democrat Nancy Chioffi blasted independent Peter Clavelle for campaign literature in which he touts 26 environmental accomplishments of Mayor Bernard Sanders' administration. "This is not his record. This is the record of the community," Chioffi said. "I hope we can give them the credit." Clavelle said the list reflected his leadership position in the administration. "I think I deserve part of the credit," he said.

"But it is a record that hundreds of citizens have had a hand in." Property taxes topped the list of issues dividing the four. Chioffi said the city should better publicize the state's property tax rebate program, which guarantees Vermonters pay no more than 5 percent of their income in property tax. She said she opposes a home-rule amendment to the state Constitution giving municipalities authority to levy taxes other than the property tax. Instead, the city should fight for its fair share back in the taxes it pays to the state, she said. Both Greens candidate Sandra Baird and Clavelle favor home-rule legislation.

Clavelle also suggested that the community rewrite the city Charter to allow for special taxes. The state Legislature questions whether COUPON I Testimony clashes on use of wiretaps I FREE yard of quality 38" Omalon carpet I pad with each yard of carpet ordered I SAVE350 I with this ad I 123-225 I I Not good any other 10 in-store carpet sale or carpet promo i VoILsu Point No studies in states where wiretapping has been used suggest that crime has been deterred or that convictions have increased, Halperin said. Wendy S. Collins, a Montpelier lawyer, used a Justice Department investigation of a Boston Mafia family as an example of the need for electronic surveillance. While admitting that abuses do occur, she said wiretapping had saved a witness's life.

The lack of a wiretap later in the same investigation prevented Justice Department officials from stopping the murder of another person, she said. The number of wiretaps allowed annually in Vermont should not be limited for that reason, she said. Defender General Walter Mor ris begged the committee not to approve the legislation. After reading an excerpt from George Orwell's "1984," he said, "I don't pretend to come in and tell you that this is the society we're on the brink of having," but added that lawmakers must consider the implications of allowing wiretapping in Vermont. "You have to look at what it would do to our society, our Vermont society, to allow wiretapping How far do you go in trying to enforce order?" he asked.

If legislators proceed with the wiretapping legislation, Morris said an immense amount of work needs to be done on the bill. He added that the U.S. attorney in Vermont already has the power to use wiretaps if granted a court order. that would allow state police to use court-ordered electronic surveillance up to five times a year. It could be used only to investigate murder, arson, sexual exploitation of children, drug offenses, kidnapping and conspiracy.

"There is, in our view, a very substantial invasion of privacy," Halperin said of the proposed legislation. Halperin said during and after his service on the National Security Council in the Nixon administration, 21 months of wiretapping of his phone inadvertantly recorded dozens of conversations between him and his wife. "The very fact that people were hearing that seems to me is a fundamental invasion of the privacy rights that all of us, I think, hold dear," he said. By Betsy Liley Special to the Free Press MONTPELIER A top official in the American Civil Liberties Union told the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday that allowing telephone wiretapping would violate constitutional freedoms. Morton Halperin, national legislative director of the ACLU, called all wiretapping legislation "fundamentally and incurably defective." He testified by telephone from Washington.

A Montpelier lawyer, however, Said telephone taps were essential in some cases, saying it had saved the life of one person in her work at the U.S. Department of Justice. Vermont law enforcement officials have asked for legislation 81 Waitstield, Stowe, South Burlington. VERMONT MATTRESS FURNITURE COMPANY SUPER SAVINGS FASHION FURNITURE 617 RIVERSIDE AVE. 864-6821 SUNDAY 12-5 Call T-B00-B5Z-0900.

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The group recommended the joint committee be made up of members of both towns' planning commissions, zoning administrators, school boards members and an administrator from the Chittenden East School District. there is a clear cost advantage to a union district then that's what will make up people's minds," Frank said. At a meeting of the school boards Tuesday, the districts decided to sound out town officials on the plan and set in motion the study group's recommendation to form a Joint Jericho-Underhill School Planning Committee. A merger, if it materializes, will affect kindergarten through fourth grades. The joint committee would study growth patterns, evaluate advantages of a larger elementary school and compare costs for different school district alignments.

"The committee can then make a recommendation whether the districts should proceed to form a one-union school district," Frank said. Rather than add to a Jericho school, for example, a one-union school district might decide to add on at Underhill he said. Underhill I.D. has 130 students versus more than 300 students at Jericho Elementary School and about 190 at Underhill Central. Frank said such a plan would 1 Admissions are hurting small hospitals '51 waif familiar one: What figure for medical inflation should the Data Council incorporate in its guidelines? Meehan proposed that the council change its method.

He suggested that an inflation rate based specifically on medical costs in Vermont be used instead of the national rate for medical inflation. The difference between the two rates is significant. The medi cal inflation rate for the nation has been hovering around 5.1 percent. However, the rate Blue Cross recently had computed for Vermont was 9.2 percent. The fiscal 1989 guidelines were based on the national rate.

Several council members were skeptical of changing the inflation base, saying guidelines based solely on Vermont data might thwart efforts to contain hospital costs. Rivett added, "The question now is how much are you going to pay for so much less?" In another matter before the council, members failed to agree on what budget guidelines to issue to hospitals for fiscal 1990. The five-member body agreed to postpone until next month a decision on the budget recommendations, which are to be issued to the hospitals April 1. The stumbling block was a From page 1B hospitals, it will have to pay for costly inefficiencies that come with supporting that many facilities, many of which are underused. "Right now Blue Cross is saying we're going to try and support that facility until society says we don't want you to do it," Meehan explained.

"I think the whole state has to deal with this problem." Front row. Ifift to rinht- Rarhara Wuman Qncsn cino Board seeks more aid for special education Charles Butterfield, a chemistry From page 1B awards during his 31 years of teaching, including Vermont Chemistry Teacher of the Year in 1987. teacher at Brattleboro Union High School. A Hinsdale, N.H., resident, Butterfield has received numerous waning budgets. In other action, the board elected Douglas Tudhope, 51, of North Hero as chairman and Norma M.

Roth of Burlington as vice chairwoman. The terms of O'Connor and Vice Chairman Robert S. Gillette of Montpelier end this month. The board also honored Vermont's teacher of the year, Genie Verge, Manager; Edwarda Aiken, R.N., B.S. Top row, left to right: Sheryl Latreille, Receptionist; Paula Schneider, Counselor; Virginia Parker, R.N.; Mary Ruggiero B.S., Head Nurse1 Terri Job B.S., Counselor.

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