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Boston Evening Globe Wednesday, October 22, 1969 Citizens File Suits Against Billerica Dump By WILLIAM GODSOE Glob Staff Billerica citizens, fearing their community will become a dumping area for 30 Eastern Massachusetts communities, packed a special town meeting last night in the waste disposal crisis. Articles designed to solve some of Billerica's waste disposal problems were to be acted on by town meeting members but were set aside in favor of less controversial items as angry citizens voiced loud objections. A HA-, Roof Removed, Hanlons Leave Attic Apartment 7 The Hanlon couple of Beacon Hill have vacated their attic apartment at 68 Pemberton sq. The roof over their head had been removed and 1 workmen were threatening to tear the floor from be- neath their feet when Dennis, 30, and Mary Ann Han- Ion, 27, decided to leave today. They walked quietly from the apartment they had vowed never to leave until carried out.

The building is being razed to make way for a 40-story skyscraper being built to house the home office of Employers-Commercial Union Insurance Co. "This is a forcible eviction without recourse to the courts," Hanlon told newsmen upon reaching the side- walk. 1 His wife, shivering beneath a fur coat, raised the question, "Why-. why did they have to do it this way?" The couple had lived in the dwelling the past two years on a lease that expired Aug. 31.

They claim the lease was self-renewing and therefore they had a legal right to remain. Leon R. Oliver, vice president of the insurance company, had said the Hanlons had no legal right to occupy the building, but that the firm had no intention of bodily removing them. There was a light drizzle when the Hanlons descended from their third floor suite over partially torn out staircases. It is not known where they would seek refuge.

I 4 FIRST the roof, then the floor, Hanlons, center, bottom photo, are told. (UPI) Mass Poll Vandalism, Control Both Costly commercial dumping program. Citizens also point out that Chapter 834 of the Acts of 1969, will become effective next month, will allow the state to select waste disposal areas over the objections of towns. They claim that the state has had its eye on Pond and the area if selected would make Billerica a dump. This danger is especially true if the controversial Saugus Dump is closed in December as the law requires.

Sixteen communities now use the Saugus site. Citizens fear these communities may join 14 other communities now dumping under contracts with Shaffer. In several other communities incineration and its relationship to air (pollution flared into the open. Newton officials are slated to respond to an injunction today sought by Atty. Gen.

Robert Quinn in an effort to curb pollution allegedly resulting from the $2 million municipal incinerator. The State Department of Public Health sought the action. Dr. David G. Wilson, professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at M.I.T.

related to the town officials solutions for sanitary land fill, grinding, regular and high temperature incineration. He noted that in other areas where regular incineration was in use, unwanted air pollution has developed. High temperature incineration is more desirable, since it is filtered, he said. Two citizen law suits have been lodged against town officials and the owner of the present commercial operation on Pond St. One suit is a writ of mandamus to force the building inspector to act on a.

Billerica bylaw which prohibits any area of the town to be used as a dump. The second has been filed against the Board of Health and the present owner of the dump, Philip Shaffer for failing to comply with a state law which requires assignment of an area as a dumping sight. The suit is being brought now even though the dump has been in use for over 20 years. The four articles slated for action last night, now delayed to Nov. 12, were submitted by a Dump Study Committee and would have established a municipal land fill district under zoning bylaws, establish a site for municipal use at Pond st.

(location of the present dump take the site by purchase or eminent domain, and provide funds for the operation. The Billerica dilemma traces from the purchase of the present Pond st. dump site from the Boston and Maine Railroad two years ago. Before that the town had the privilege of using the land free as a dump as partial tax obligation by B. M.

to the town. When the land was pur-chased by Shaffer, he agreed to allow townspeople to dump freee at the site if he could operate a Most Favor Legal Betting came in the wake of a report from Needham Supt. William Powers that an attempted burglary had been discovered over the weekend at Newman Junior High. School officials and selectmen have been discussing the use of night watchmen or extra police details to protect the buildings. Powers noted that open space for recreation is fast disappearing in the town, and said the school buildings are becoming more attractive as targets of youngsters with nothing to do.

Framingham has been plagued with school vandalism costing from $1000 to $2000 a month. In the latest destructive spree, the entire fleet of 37 school buses was hit last i month when distributor wires were stolen. But no more in Framing-h a In a hard-nosed VANDALISM Continued from Page 1 The destruction is not confiend to windows alone. Broken water pipes in lavatories and night and weekend breaks into buildings where school furniture is tipped over and splashed with ink and "expensive electric machines thrown i to the floor, are causing a major headache to school (Officials. 1 Needham Police Chief Daniel Henderson told iselectmen and the School Committee there last night that he believes an" electronic alarm system would be the least expensive way cut down on vandalism.

Noting that industry successfully employs tronic detection methods, Henderson said it is increasingly difficult to get men to watch buildings, and increased pay is not an incentive. The chief's comments Natick recently appointed a three-member committee to investigate repair of its schools. The group found damages estimated at $8000, of which $3000 was for broken windows in the elementary schools. One Natick school custodian told a reporter last night that children were continually breaking into his building on week-ends and causing havoc despite attempts of police to catch them. He recalled that earlier this Summer, a group of junior high school boys started a bulldozer on a tennis court project near the school.

The machine was moving toward the school wall before it stalled. They tried it again the following week, and were foiled when police took coils from the machine, he said. crackdown, the School Committee and police let it be known that they will invoke a new state law, making the parents of the guilty parties personally responsible for the damage. The law, enacted last June, provides that parents are responsible for injuries and damages resulting from willful acts of minor children between the ages of 7 and 17, up to and not exceeding $300 in damage. They are also liable for civil action.

Since announcement of the get-tough policy, there has not been a reported case of vandalism at the schools, a Framingham official told the Globe today. Efforts to frustrate van- dalism in Arlington by having custodians stay in the buildings at night ran into a labor dispute. The town manager ordered the move, but the union objected. Off -track betting on horse and dog races and a state lottery are favored by an overwhelming majority of the Massachusetts public and Beano is even more popular. City people, by 3-1, favor legalized gambling; the suburban support is almost 2-1; and farther away from the core city, the margin drops to 5-4.

On the question of whether churches, synagogues and schools should be allowed to conduct Beano games, the proportion rises to more than 4-1 throughout the state. Men favor legalized gambling by a larger margin than do women. But women are more enthusiastic about Beano. The higher your income, the more likely you are to favor legal gaming, and Catholics appear to have fewer reservations than do Protestants. On the gambling issue, there seems to be little difference between whites and blacks.

Whites, however, support legalization of Beano by a larger margin than blacks do. Question No. 1: Would you be for or against legalized gambling in Massachusetts that is, legalized off-track betting, a state lottery and the like? Newton Man Arrested In $1M Bonds Theft Sargent Accepts Marino's Resignation as Qerk 1L I mMM liilfl Marino, who handwrote his resignation outside Gov. Sargent's office yesterday in the presence of Sargent's chief secretary, Robert Yasi, sought to rescind his action after learning of the high court petition. He was met outside the governor's door just before 1 p.m.

today and told that the governor already had accepted the resignation. mayor in that community, has come under attack by the Massachusetts Bar Assn. for allegedly using his official court position "in furtherance of his political goal." The bar association petitioned the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts for Marino's removal as clerk. Justice R. Ami Cutter set Nov.

3 as a hearing date. Atty. Joseph E. Marino was informed today that Gov. Francis Sargent had accepted his resignation as clerk of the Somerville District Court.

Marino was told at the State House where he made an unsuccessful attempt to see the chief executive and withdraw his resignation. The Somerville lawyer, who is a candidate for Under its terms, Marino will step out of his court post, which he has held since 1967 after appointment by Gov. John Volpe, on Oct. 31. Marino said after meeting with Yasi and receiving written notice of Sargent's acceptance that the high court question of his removal was now moot.

He said earlier that he planned to ask the Supreme Court to advance the date No. For Against Opinion Total Mass. Public 56 35 9 City of Boston 64 23 13 Boston Suburbs 62 33 5 Rest of State 50 39 11 Sex: Men 67 30 3 Women 44 41 15 Income: Under $5000 42 41 17 59 31 10 57 35 8 60 32 8 $15,000 and over 64 35 1 Religion: Catholic 58 34 8 Protestant 50 41 9 HsC6! White 55 36 9 Black 54 28 18 Charged with the theft and sale of more than a million dollars in stolen U.S. Treasury certificates, a Newton delicatessen proprietor was arrested and arraigned before a U.S. Commissioner in Boston last night.

Marvin Karger, 35, of 100 Glen father of three, was taken into custody by FBI agents as he sat in his auto in Revere. U.S. Commissioner R. Robert Popeo released Karger in $2500 bond after he continued the case until Nov. 7 for a probable cause hearing.

Karger was identified as owner of the Onion Roll, a delicatessen in Newton Centre. The FBI said the Treasury certificates Karger is alleged to have sold were valued at $100,000 each and part of $2 million worth of such bills reported missing from the Marine Midland Trust Co. of New York. An affidavit filed by MARVIN KARGER after arraignment FBI agent Robert Sheehan states the records of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston show the Treasury notes were sold by the New England Merchants National Bank of Boston for the Town Bank and Trust Co. of Brookline.

In each case, according to the affidavit, the transaction was handled by two Brookline' brokers who later handed over the proceeds to Karger, less bank charges and fees payable to the bank and Registry BAN Deodorizes Objectionable Vanity Plates mmMJl Question No. 2: Would you be for or against allowing charitable and other non-profit organizations such as churches, synagogues and schools to conduct Beano games? Gold Coast with plates which read FAG, SEX, BRA and DAM. These are now banned in California. Aware that the same situation could exist here despite the use of common sense by Registry personnel officials now see the need of a similar BAN list of objectionable or potentially obscene or embarrassing words on auto plates. "You have to be a linguist," said one San Francisco Motor Vehicle Department official, "in order to know just what combination of letters might turn out to be objectionable in its translation into English." Possible taboo combinations in.

seven languages were combed with the help of University of California language professors, according to John L. McLaughlin, the auto registration chief in California. "For example, we found something that was real tad in French still in use on one of our plates," said McLaughlin. "That's why we had to employ the He declined to disclose the French word, however. Among the combinations banned there are: ALE, BAD, BAG, BUM, FAG, CAN, DAM, DDT, FAT.

GYP, HAG, KKK, RAT, RUM, RUT and SOT. By JEROME SULLIVAN Globe Stall One Massachusetts car-owner returned his vanity plates after receiving them because he realized on second thought that he might take a lot of ribbing. Another applied for a four-letter Greek word on his plates, but when one of the Registry's Hellenic scholars pointed out that the translation was objectionable the plate was canceled. Now the Registry is considering the adoption of a plan similar to one used in California where the State Department of Motor Vehicles has a BAN list a list of words that cannot appear on number plates. "Up to now we've just used common sense in- the issuance cf vanity plates," said an employee of the Special Plates Division of Massachusetts Registry.

"But now that you tell us what California does I think we ought to have some such list ourselves," she said. California adopted the policy some five years ago after its Motor Vehicle officials realized they had plates with initials which, in effect, advertised such narcotics as LSD and POT. Other cars were running around the For Against Opinion Total Mass. Public 81 15 4 City of Boston 79 12 9 Boston Suburbs 79 17 4 Rest of State 82 14 4 Sex Men 77 19 4 Women 85 10 5 Income: Under $5000 74 19 7 84 10 6 78 20 86 10 4 $15,000 and over 81 17 2 Religion: Catholic 85 10 5 Protestant 75 21 4 Race: White 82 14 4 Black 55 26 19 ATTY. MARINO governor acts of his hearing so it would not fall the day before the Somerville municipal election.

The petition alleged that Marino "repeatedly used his judicial office as the basis for solicitation of political and financial support." It charged that Marino instructed his assistants not to issue default warrants to 1700 traffic violators, that he reversed a judge's decision to "help out a defendant who was represented by a law associate of Marino" and that he placed a judge's initials on nine criminal complaints indicating the cases were disposed of on a day that particular judge was not sitting in Somerville District Court. Eisenberg Long Viet Critic jrEISENBERG Continued from Page 1 Yesterday's statement by Dr. Eisenberg was not the first he has made attacking the futility and the immorality of the war in Vietnam. A year and half ago he told a medical conference in Boston that "a national morality that is blind and indifferent to the needs of underprivileged children in this country will be blind to the starving, maimed and bombed-out children of Vietnam.M "Rich as this nation is," he said on that occasion, "we cannot afford the cost of war and peace at the same tune." He noted that "not winning" the war in Vietnam is already costing lis $25 billion annually. Dr.

Eisenberg is a 1944 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. A native of Philadelphia, he is married and the father of two. Before coming to Harvard Medical School two years ago. Dr. Eisenberg was a professor of child psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

In 1967 he was appointed chief of psychiatric services at Massachusetts General Hospital Counties of Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth and Suffolk, excluding Boston (Prepmrtd trclunivtly tor Th Clab by Btcker RtMearch tubtidiarj of National Information Services, Int.) v..

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