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The Boston Globe Thursday, May 14, 1970 3 Sargent to veto bill to fix chief s' pay I -H I i 1. i -f 1 iiiirtinn-irirnntarmiiiirririnnMiiniM ifrrnnTi limiinn in "iTnrnni nn mi mini nmimnninMy' n-a nir i miMmiiwa tfwiH' rini iiHi iMiMiini iw amati iM i ir rnrnimrmmir --ihmiitttiitit- police and fire chiefs in cities and towns having over 30 members in their respective departments would receive twice the amount paid a patrolman or fireman. In communities with departments ranging from 14 to 29 members, the ratio would be 1.6 times. Sargent, notifying the meeting of the Mayors Association in Gloucester of his action, said he had conferred also with representatives of the police and fire chiefs. Newton Mayor Monte Basbas said the governor said he found it difficult to veto the bill because of the strong support it had received in the legislature.

In a joint statement issued by the three municipal administrative groups following the announcement of the veto action, it was stated: "We uphold the right of the police and fire chiefs of the Commonwealth to petition the legislature to seek 1 redress for their grievances, but we condemn underlying legislation passed by the legislature and signed into law by the governor (not Governor Sargent) whereby the determination of overtime pay, the hours and conditions of employment of the members of the police and fire departments was taken away from the municipal administrators" with the consequence that in numerous instances members on the lowest echelon have received compensation in excess of that of the chiefs of their departments." The groups also "reaffirmed their appreciation to the police and fire chiefs for the valuable public service rendered by" them and their difficult role in the matters of administration and collective bargaining and agreed to meet with their associations and associations of other department heads, not having the benefit of collective bargaining, to the end that a fair and equitable differential will be maintained between them and their By John C. Burke, Globe Staff Governor Francis W. Sargent will yeto a Senate bill which would fix the '-salaries for police and fire chiefs in His announcement yesterday signalled "an immediate all out effort by the chiefs have the veto overridden. The bill had -received strong support last week in iTboth Houses of the Legislature. Sargent announced his veto action less than three hours after conferring with representatives of the Massachusetts Mayors Association, the Massachusetts "League of Cities and Towns and the Massachusetts Selectman's' Association.

All three groups, along with the Massachusetts Taxpayers' Association, opposed the legislation because of its infringement on home rule." Sargent, in, a statement issued yester- day, said the legislation was an unwarranted violation of home rule" which would cost the cities and towns up to $2 Tjnillion." He said the bill would set a dangerous precedent concerning other local department heads and would have an adverse effect on collective bargaining. Sargent warned by profiting automatically by a state statute on salaries, the chiefs would then have a vested interest in the outcome of any collective bargaining. He pointed out that the bill would cause chiefs in cities such as Cambridge and Maiden to receive $20,400 per year while the state's Registrar of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety Commissioner would receive only $19,900 a year. 4 The Mayors Association immediately called on all municipal administrators to launch a campaign to urge legislators to uphold the veto. At the same time they resolved to try and work out new wage plans with the chiefs.

Under the terms of thelegislation, the YOUNG COUPLE, WITH A DOG TRAILING ALONG, STROLL ON THE ESPLANADE ON A HAZY DAY IN. BOSTON. (Ted Dully photo) Transfer assures welfare checks Bmgcst 'haul' $600,000 Kelley admits robbery roles current fiscal year. "It was last January when we filed that," said Dwight, "and that's what it looked like then." In other welfare devel opments yesterday, two groups of recipients went to the State House to protest to Gov. Sargent's aides that checks for regular assistance and special needs have been reaching them late or not at all.

One group presented a lis.t of 197 clients from various parts of Boston who were said to have waited as long as eight months for aid. The other group, two dozen members of the Massachusetts Welfare Rights Organization, also picketed against Gov. Sar-kent's "flat grant" welfare plan, due next August. deficiency appropriation for G.R. Two weeks ago, Bartley appointed a special 15-member legislative committee to investigate what he called "the mismanagement of the state welfare system." Asked at a news conference yesterday why he had not raised objections to the transfer on April 14, Bartley said: "It wouldn't have' got much press.

Now, we've made the point. We're putting the governor on notice -to put in the budget what he needs." Bartley further criticized Sargents "welfare funding fakery" by emphasizing that the governor has asked for $35 million for G.R. in the 1970-71 fiscal year, or $9 million less than will be spent in the Comr. of Administration Donald R. Dwight replied: "This certainly looks like playing politics." General Relief is financed entirely with state funds.

All other welfare programs, which aid 380,000 persons each month, are funded on a 50-50 basis by state and Federal governments. The grand total comes to about $600 million. Eligible for General Relief are disadvantaged single persons who are neither aged nor disabled and low income working families. There were 38,851 persons on the G. R.

rolls last February, the most recent month for which dates are available. In March, the Legislature approved without a murmur Gov. Sargent's request for a $12 million of hospitals by recipients, Edmund M. O'Riordan, director of administrative services for the Welfare explained. Anticipating the shortage, 1 Gov.

Sargent on Apr. 14 asked that $10 million be transferred from the Old Age Assistance account, which had more money than was needed. Last week the House Ways and Means Committee voted against the transfer. It was the first legislative response to Sargent's request. "Bartley, a Holyoke Democrat, claimed credit yesterday for averting "this crisis" and accused Gov.

Sargent of "fiscal dishonesty" for not having announced that General Relief costs had "mushroomed" to $44 million in the 1969-70 fiscal year. By F. B. Taylor Jr. Globe Staff The Massachusetts Senate hastily approved yesterday a $10 million budget transfer requested four weeks ago by Gov.

Sargent, virtually assuring welfare checks this week for some' 40,000 persons on General Relief. House Speaker David M. Bartley pledged that his' chamber would ratify the transfer today, making the shift of funds official and enabling the state Welfare Department, whose General Relief ac-. count had been exhausted, to mail checks to clients. General Relief Funds ran out last week because of an unforeseen caseload increase, the General Electric strike and greater use By Walter D.

O'Leary Globe Staff "My largest single haul from an armored car robbery was $600,000," John Kelley of Watertown testified yesterday in Federal Court. He said that his largest haul from a bank holdup was $100,000. Kelley made the admissions under cross-examination by Atty. Francis J. DiMento at the trial of Gennaro Angiulo, Charles Dominico and Benjamin F.

Tilley. Angiulo is charged with being an accessory after the fact to the $68,000 armored car robbery at the VA Hospital in Jamaica Plain July 26, 1966. 1 Dominico and Tilley are accused of the actual holdup. Kelley had testified earlier under questioning by Edward F. Harrington, chief of the Federal Strike Force in Boston, that he had taken to Angiulo $15,000 of the loot which he said, had been given to him by Tilley.

He told the court that Angiulo swapped the $15,999 which was "hot" money for $11,250 in other currency. Under cross examination, Kelley frankly admitted that for the past 15 years or so his means of livelihood was armed robbery. "I robbed armored cars, banks, people on the streets and people in their homes," Kelley testified. Harrington objected to this line of cross examination but Judge Charles E. Wyzanski Jr.

allowed Kelley to answer as long as he wasn't being asked about a specific robbery. Kelley testified that he had robbejl about 20 banks during his lifetime. Atty. Ronald J. Chisholm, counsel for Dominico, asked Kelley specifically if he had taken part in the Plymouth' mail robbery.

There was an immediate objection by Harrington and Judge Wyzanski ruled that Kelley did not have to answer because of the constitutional privilege against self incrimination. Judge Wyzanski remarked that Kelley might still be facing possible prosecution( in the State Court for the Plymouth mail robbery and should not be required to give evidence which might be used against himself. Kelley admitted to Chisholm that he is facing trial in a state court in connection with the $1 million Brinks armored car holdup in Boston two years ago. The witness conceded that he knew that the penalty in the event of conviction could be life imprisonment but said he hoped to get out of that mess and start life anew with a new identity in another part of the world. "Do you hope to be at liberty soon?" asked Chisholm.1 "That's up to the courts," said Kelley.

The trial will resume tomorrow morning after a one-day recess for the annual Federal judicial conference being held today in Brookline. 1 i I 1 East Boston priest to become candidate for Beacon Hill seat '68 N.H. plane crash blamed on approach By Robert L. Ward, Globe Staff Attempts to expedite landing by a "nonstandard instrument approach" were cited yesterday as the cause of the crash on Oct. 25, 1968, of a Northeast airliner near Lebanon, N.H.,.

in which 32 of 42 persons died. The National Transportation Safety Board, which conducted the on-site investigation four days of hearings in Boston from Apr. 1 to 4, 1969, said the crew was unable to know the aircraft's exact position over the ground. As a result of these factors, together with a cloud cover in the area, the NTSB report states, the plane began its initial descent to the Lebanon Airport too soon and struck the peak of 2300-foot Moose Mt. in nearby Etna.

The report notes that the aircraft, if. on a standard instrument approach, would have been no lower than 2800 feet. The impact occurred at 2237 feet. The investigators said also that false navigational data may have been presented on cockpit instruments by faulty radio signals from the ground. Killed were the pilot, John A.

Rapsis, 52, of Nashua, N.H., with Northeast 11 years; First Officer John C. O'Neill, 29, of Revere, with the line a year, and 30 passengers. The FH227 propjet had left Boston 47 minutes late in its flight to Montpelier, Vt. The NTSB noted that there were no problems with the aircraft, the instruments or its engines and that the flight was routine. The board pointed oufthat an erroneous geographic identification also could have contributed to the disaster.

The report added: "It is also possible that the crew might have seen glimpses of terrain through breaks in the clouds. There are two rather similar prominent lakes east of the approach radial. One is in the area of the procedure turn, and the other is near the VOR (ground radio navigational) station. during a nonstandard approach, the captain glimpsed 'a prominent lake through a break in the clouds and shortly thereafter saw instrument indications of an impending station passage this might have influenced him to start a descent to his minimum descent altitude." Since the accident, New Hampshire has installed navigational aids near the airport, and the Federal Aviation Administration has approved new approach procedures for pilots. Viet bonus fund $10M shy State Treasurer Robert Q.

Crane's announcement that another $10 million is needed almost immediately to pay the cost of continuing Vietnam veterans bonuses is forcing another major decision from Gov. Francis W. Sargent. Adopted by the Legislature in 1968, and made retroactive to 1959, the program grants $200 to any Massachusetts resident serving in the Armed Forces since '59, $300 for those who served in Vietnam combat. The $31 million total appropriations provided for the bonuses was exhausted several weeks ago.

MOCKUP OF PROPOSED NEW MBTA TROLLEY (Joseph Runci Photo) MBTA designs own Riverside train proved operational safety and more mechanical dependability, said Raymond F. Walsh, superintendant of Equipment Engineering who headed the design project. In a two-car unit the new rail cars are designed to accommodate a total 265 passengers including standees. This is a I By Viola Osgood Globe Staff A Catholic priest will announce today he will be a contender for one of the two East Boston seats in the state House of Representatives. Rt.

Rev. Msgr. Mimie B. Pitaro, a Democrat, community activist and for six years pastor of Holy Redeemer Parish, told The Globe yesterday he is seeking election against incumbents George DiLorenzo and Louis Buttig-lieri and any other unannounced candidates. Msgr.

Pitaro said he decided two months ago to run because he feels the current legislators are not really sensitive to the needs of the people. Hp was referring to the community's problems with Logan Airport and the subsequent air and noise pollution which have become popular complaints with East Bostonians over the past several years. He said he sees no conflict between his roles as priest and candidate for state office. "It's just an extension of my pas-torial duty which is to serve the people," Msgr. Pitaro said.

Msgr. Pitaro is president of the East Boston Neighborhood Council and is involved in many other civic associations. He has been in the forefront of many of the neighborhood's confrontations and disputes with the Massachusetts Port Authority. He was involved in drafting and filling some 162 anti-Port Authority greater number than a similar unit 01 PCC trolleys. Equipped with large picture windows, the rail car has four sliding doors instead of the three folding doors on the PCC trolleys.

The operator has a compartment and a high back swivel chair. The operator's compartment will also be equipped with two-way radios and a public address system. Cusick said that when the new fleet is in operation the best of the present aging PCC cars on the Riverside line will be transferred to By Robert B. Carr Globe Staff The MBTA unwrapped a wooden mock-up of a proposed $150,000 modern, high speed, air-conditioned rail car for the Riverside line yesterday. Designed by the MBTA's equipment engineering staff, the rail car may be adopted as the national standard by other cities in the United States, Canada and Mexico with trolley lines.

The new car is 50 feet long three feet longer, but otherwise the same dimensions as the present trolleys. The MBTA in its $1 billion capital expansion improvement program planned a fleet of 130 new rail cars for the Riverside line. The cost of the new fleet is included in the new $300 million capital outlay for which the MBTA is seeking legislative approval. The transit will also seek Federal funds to defray at least half the cost of the new fleet, MBTA General Manager Leo J- Cusick said. The new rail car is designed for greater running performance over the present Presidential Conference Car (PCC trolleys).

And also for better operating flexibility and more passenger comfort, im- MSGR. MIMIE PITARO bids for office bills the community presented to the Legislature this year. Msgr. Pitaro feels he is more at- 1 tuned to the attitudes of the East Boston people than the current legislators. He said his candidacy is a "movement by grass roots people" who are concerned about the future of the community.

The 54-year-old priest is a native of Brockton. He attended Brockton High School, Boston College and St. John's Seminary in Brighton and was ordained May 1, 1942, by the then Bishop Richard J. Cushing. Msgr.

Pitaro spent 19 years of his priesthood in the South End at Our Lady of Pompeii parish and in 1964 was transferred to East Boston. operate me otner iour ironey lines ine system. The rail car is believed to be the first to be designed in the United States since World War II. Cusick feels that the design of the new car by the MBTA's own staff is a highlight of his 22-years as the general manager of the system a $40,000 a year post when he resigned effective June I.