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The Boston Globe Saturday, April 18, 1970 Mother is gun -toting police sergeant I 0 "A few men were startled to see her," Capt. Frederick Wood, chief inspector of the New Bedford police department, her boss, said. "She soon became one of us." Capt. Wood was one of the course participants, too. Although Sgt.

Macey says she carries a gun on duty and has no compunction about pulling rank on men when the situation warrants, she feels she has a special role on the police force as a woman. "There is a woman involved in every crime somehow, either as a witness, victim or defendant, and women feel it is easier to talk to a woman than a man. On the other hand, they can't sweet-talk me." If Sgt. Macey has a secret that has bridged the generation gap it may be that she doesnt always go strictly by the book although she preaches a kind of corollary of the Golden Rule. "People treat you the way you treat them.

Your attitude affects how others will react to you." By Diana Crawford Globe Staff Woman, mother and police sergeant all appear to dovetail seamlessly in the person of Marguerite Macey, 39, of New Bedford. It is questionable whether a genuine conflict of roles could exist. Being feminine, motherly and firm has not always been easy, but if combined with flexibility Sgt. Macey feels law and order can spell love. "Each person is entirely different.

You can't treat any two people alike," she says, reluctant to drag up an incident that is now old or advocate her solution to all. But if other mothers agonize, what does a policewoman do when her child gets in trouble with the law? "Let the facts come out," she says. Five years ago, she says, a group of middle-class teenagers in New Bedford discovered marijuana. Her oldest daughter was then 14 and was charged with possession of the drug. She tried everything to discourage her, but friends were more influential than mother.

"The drug problem is a peer-group thing," Sgt. Macey says. Finally, it was off to the Plymouth County House of Correction. "I know people say that marijuana does not lead to harder things, but nevertheless her old friends are at the heart of the heroin ring now." She feels her daughter is now grateful and proud of her mother as a police sergeant the only women to hold that position in New England. Yesterday Sgt.

Marguerite Macey was the first woman to graduate from the Command Training Institute at Babson College in Wellesley, where 780 command police officers have finished the three-week course since it began in 1967. SGT. MARGUERITE MACEY top policewoman (Ed Jenner photo) 'Earth People' ready to romp Inquest report locked up again ,1 7 Jn. aaw Haass' -ir QUIET Orders have come from, all parts of the country and several foreign news papers. Elaborate plans for distribution of the pa- pers Wednesday werd canceled when Lipman through Atty.

Jeromi Facher, obtained a tempo-j rary restraining order from Federal Court Judge Andrew A. Caffrey last Tuesday. Judge Caffrey canceled that order Wednesday after a Tuesday night session at which he held a preliminary hearing on Lipman'3 claims. By the time Judge Caffrey canceled his injunc- tion, Judge Paquet had reissued the state im- pounding order. The row left Keating faced with conflicting court orders.

A third order, from the Supreme Judicial Court, told Keating to distribute the inquest report and transcript to all persons requesting them. Keating was in conference with legal advisors all day yesterday, trying to determine which procedure to follow. Judge Pa-quet's order was considered as having at least the effect of instructing Keating to take no action under the federal court order pending clarification of the directives. Six named in Bennett murder plot By Michael Kenney, Globe Staff The Earth People were underground yesterday. There was an air inversion pattern in the morning and the noontime Harvard Square Reclamation Day activities had been cancelled in the aftermath of Wednesday's street fighting.

So, the Earth People were down in their brick-walled cavern in the basement of Phillips Brooks House, trying to reshape a cancelled two-day festival (another victim of the street fighting) into a pre-festival now scheduled for all day tomorrow, in the field around Harvard Stadium. "We had people coming from all over and lots of food, so we had to have something this week-end," explained Vicki, a tall, attractive Earth Person in a green mini-dress who said last names are a custom unliked by Earth People. The food includes 500 pounds of rice which will be cooked with azuki beans and 300 pounds of whole wheat flour, some of it already baked into bread. "It's going to be a pretty informal thing," said Dave, another Earth Person, "so we're not quite sure what will happen." There will be 500 pounds of clay on hand, materials to do tie-dying and silk-screening, four parachutes from the Air Force and a polyethelene air sculpture 20 feet by 40 feet. A guy decked out in cheerful motley wandered into the Earth People's cavern-office with a bulging paper sack.

This reminded Vicki there would also be a Free Store. In fact, stock was piling up behind the olive drab parachute sacks. Doug, an Earth Person with a corona of red hair and beard, wanted to be sure people bring paints, musical instruments and especially bags to put their litter in. "Old bottles, too," he added. "We'll paint them and fill them with water and re-cycle them." Harvard Stadium wasn't the Earth People's idea of the right place for their festival.

"We were planning a real community thing," said Vicki. "The stadium is just the place the Patriots don't play," added Dave. And they're hoping to reschedule the complete festival for the Memorial Hall overpass, maybe next week-end. Outside, the air inversion pattern was breaking up, under the healing attack of the sun and an offshore wind. Vicki talked a few minutes about living in Cambridge and the way the pollution felt.

"I don't know if anything will change it," she said. "It's impossible to think about living here forever." 4 T. IN IPSWICH (Ted Dully Stuart is charged with being an accessory after the fact of the Bennett murder. Miss Clary answered several preliminary questions before Atty. Joseph Balliro, Shield's lawyer, moved to have the court hear her testimony with the jury absent until Judge Walter McLaughlin could determine if it was admissible against his client.

According to Daddieco's testimony, Stuart drove Flemmi back to where Bennett's body had fallen today being in the room during a grand jury session. Final witness in connection with that motion was James Linehan, Boston and Lowell lawyer and accountant. Linehan testified he was present at the grand jury sessions most of the time and worked on preparation of information used- before the grand jury. Linehan denied that Schofield was in the grand jury room. The trial will open at 9 a.m.

today. RIDE AT CRANE'S BEACH Daddieco, were Richard Grasso, driver of the car in which the slaying allegedly occurred; Peter Poulos -who, with Grasso, was later executed by gangland guns, and Stephen Flemmi and Francis Salemme, both fugitives. Yesterday's proceedings were highlighted late in the day by the appearance on the stand of Patricia Clary, a red-haired Providence divorcee identified as a girl friend of Boston police Det. William H. Stuart.

trial begins ground that state police Lt. Edward Schofield was present in the Suffolk County grand jury room while Brady and others were testifying in May 1962. Judge Hennessey ruled that there was no evidence to prove that Schofield, chief investigator in the case of alleged theft of parking authority funds, was actually in the grand jury room. The law prohibits persons other than witnesses and prosecutors -Ut 1 REPORT Continued from Page 1 Last Thursday, Chief Judge Bailey Aldrich in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to enjoin the public release of the inquest transcript.

He ruled that copies of the transcript could be sold to news media and other persons either by Suffolk Superior Court clerk Edward V. Keating or by Boston court stenographer Sidney Lipman, both of whom claim a right to distribute the document. He ordered that any money received from sale of the papers be set aside pending a trial in the suit filed by Lipman against Massachusetts and Keating to prevent distribution of the transcript by anyone other than himself. Keating had planned to make the report available Wednesday to all persons who filed requests and paid a $75 fee to cover the costs of reproducing the 764-page transcript and the 12-page inquest report. Lipman, alleging he made a contract with Dist.

Atty. Edmund Dennis in January to take down the transcript, claims he has an exclusive right to sell it for about $800 per copy. Keating's office has received more than 100 orders for copies. Salem State SALEM A three-day, student sit-in at Salem State College ended yesterday when the head of the foreign language department agreed to step aside pending investigation of charges of discrimination. The students charged that Edwin L.

Francis, chairman of the school's French department, was guilty of "unfair administrative and teaching practices." They had called for him to step down pending the results of the investigation. about the plaza trying to get a kite up. The wind failed to raise her kite very far but did succeed in raising her hemline, and her efforts were cheered by five construction workers sunning themselves during their lunch break. Miss Scoville handed her kite to the most vocal of her admirers, a stocky young man who then ran circles, dragging the kite behind him. "The last festival was wonderful," Miss Scoville said.

"We had thnurands of children attending kite-making clinics ail over the city. The festival got people from all different neighborhoods together." Beginning today, kite-making clinics will be held for three consecutive War-test bill killed in K.I. Senate wbsb; photo) from the car after the shooting to determine if Bennett was dead and then made a second trip to help Flemmi remove the death car from the scene. It was parked two blocks away from Bennett's body in a driveway with the motor still running. After Daddieco testified, Miss Clary took the witness stand and under direct examination by Asst.

Dist. Atty. Lawrence Cameron she testified she met the Boston detective in December 1968 at a bar in Roslindale. She said she dated him several times after that. She testified sometime after 1969 she received a call from the detective and he asked her to meet him for a drink at a bar in Dedham.

Cameron asked her if at that time at the bar there was a conversation about the Bennett murder. She answered, "yes, there was a conversation." At this point, Balliro asked the court to hear the evidence without the jury being present and the court agreed. The trial continues today. Part of the turn-on is an exhibition of kites from India, South America and the United States which opened yesterday in the two entrances to the Prudential Tower. For a week before the festival free kites will be distributed at midday to shoppers and workers in the Prudential Center.

"We hope people will fly kites in the plaza during their lunch hour," Parks said. "The only trouble is that this place is not very big. They'll be stepping all over each other." Kite fivers were not having that problem yesterday. Despite warm, sunny weather and strong gusts of wind, the crowd was sparse. Committee member Sally Scoville, in a red knit mini-dress, pranced By Robert E.

Walsh Globe Staff Six underworld assassins plotted the 1967 murder of gangland figure William Bennett in Mattapan, a Suffolk Superior Court jury was toid yesterday. The testimony came from the government's star witness, Walpole State Prison inmate Robert Daddieco, who said Hugh J. Shields, 33, of South Boston, Bennett's alleged killer, was one of the plotters. The others, according to Brady jury The denial yesterday of the last of preliminary motions in the trial of George L. Brady, former Massachusetts Parking Authority chairman, cleared the way for the jury trial to begin today in Suffolk Superior Court.

Judge Edward F. Hennessey, following a two-day hearing, turned down late yesterday afternoon Brady's motion to have the indictments against him dismissed on the VSJ hi cial legislation voted 8-5 to postpone the bill indefinitely. The committee action is1 final. The bill was inspired by and patterned on the Massachusetts saying that no state resident shall be compelled to serve in any war not declared by Kite fliers set for annual event Associated Press PROVIDENCE A Senate committee killed yesterday a bill which proposed that the Rhode Island General Assembly adopt a Vietnam War test bill similar to that passed last month in Massachusetts. The committee on spe- 'u i sit in ends Throughout the night; negotiations were carried on between students and administrators.

The administration named a nine-member committee of students, faculty and administrators to investigate the charges, which, according to stu-." dent spokesmen, involved Francis' criticism of the French accents of a number of French-Canadian students. Executive Vice President Dr. James B. Sullivan said the students ant a voice in the choice of Francis' replacement. Saturdays in 15 neighborhood centers.

All materials will be provided free. At noon Saturday, May 4, a ceremony at the Prudential Center will mark the beginning of Kite Week in Boston. The green and blue banner of the Great Boston Kite Festival will be flown all week beside the American flag. Kite Week leads to Kite Day, May 9, when the festival will kick off with a parade at Franklin Park Golf Course at 1 p.m., led by John Finley ar.d His All Girl Kazoo Band. Judges in the kite flying contests will include Perry director of the Museum of Fine Arts; Bozo the Clown and artist Corita Kent.

Skydiver Ted Strong will judse the highest flying kite as he parachutes from an airplane. By Diane White Globe Staff The Committee for the Better Use of Air was watching the sky over the Prudential Center Friday and was trying, not very successfully, to fly kites. The committee and the Boston Parks and Recreation Dept. are sponsoring the second Great Boston Kite Festival in Franklin Park on May 9. Last year more than 6000 experienced and novice kite flyers celebrated Spring at the festival.

The committee is working to attract a bigger crowd this year. "We want to turn people on to kites," said Michael Parks, a young architect who designs zoos, children's museums, banks and dating bars on the job and kites in his spare time. 1 f.v i Hiv KITE DISPLAY AT THE PRUDENTIAL CENTER (Paul Connell photo).

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