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i'N -4 10A the Journal Timet, Sunday, April 1978 Ratlna, Mil. it's junk vs. justice in this Vermont town We have. real ducks and people can't handle that." Some townspeople seem lo agree. "There are three camps in this town," says one.

"The 'no comment' camp, the camp that Is In his corner, and the one that Is dead set against him. "Peter will tie them up in knots right to the end, but they'll never get him." did their best to explain this philosophy to the townspeople. "I found myself comparing our junkyard to the repression of art in other countries," says Doris. "It's embarrassing to think about It now I really don't see junk as art. "But there is a principal here.

Other people have little plastic ducks In their yards. says, he Is a firm believer In "less centralization and more local control right down to the Individual. In other words, If you don't like the looks of my yard, don't look at It. "It's an old, traditional American philosophy," Dlamondstone says, and one that does not seem to set well with his neighbors. At a meeting in Braltleboro this fall, the Dlamondstones not commemorate the expenditure of millions of dollars while people on earth were without food, clothing and shelter, 1 got fired." He later was reinstated.

Then, In May 1070, he says, "I told the Poor People's Congress In a speech at Middlebu-ry College that might makes right. I got fired again." Meanwhile, the law began to ponder Dlamondstone's junkyard. The law is still pondering and the cars are still there. But a lot has happened in between. Dlamondstone has entered and lost four campaigns for state attorney general.

Doris Dlamondstone lost a bid for a U.S. House seat. He has appeared in court 20 times, on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to driving an unregistered vehicle. "But I've never broken the law Intentionally," he" says. "Of the 20 or so times I've been In court, I've pleaded guilty about five times.

And I really believe that most of the enemies I've made In this town are people who don't know me." As a member of the Liberty Union Party, Dlamondstone list the Dlamondstones say has 1,000 names. The problem Is the junkyard "conservation yard," if you please which graces the center of town. Diamond-stone gays he uses the cars for spare parts that they're for family use and beyond the purview of (he luw; the state and town say Dlamondstone must clean up, regardless. On a typical Saturday Inside the ramshackle house a mile from Interstate 81, three Saint Bernards collide with a halfdozen visitors who vie for a seat at the breakfast table or a spot in line at the bathroom door. Coffee cups rattle and clatter in the kitchen, where a cat snoozes in a basket of fruit.

In the living room, Doris dispenses mittens and hatfe to watting children she has four as Van Gogh and Roosevelt stare Icily at each other from their respective spots on the wall. In July of 1969, Dlamondstone says, "I took out an ad In the paper on Moon Shot Day to say my office would not be closed because I would BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) It looks tame enough a lumps of snow beside a "disheveled yellow house. But this Is no ordinary lawn. Here lies the Braltleboro Conservatory of Junk and Jus-lice Vermont's most celebrated junkyard and the front yard of Peter and Doris Dla-imondbtone.

Beneath the snow sit partly dismantled Eldora-'tios, Saabs and Chryslers that have been a source of In this southeastern Vermont town for 10 years. When Peter Dlamondstone arrived Irt Braltleboro la 1W8 Ijwlth five used cars In tow it jwas to enjoy a vacation from his Long Island law practice, 'to write a book and work on Jils cars. He decided to stay. Today, the name Diamond-stone is synonymous with small town controversy that pits traditionally crusty Ver-monters against an equally crusty New Yorker. It also Is synonymous with the Liberty Union Party, Vermont's third official political party, founded by the Dlamondstones.

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