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The Boston Globe Thursday, February 6, 1975 of Metropolitan briefs RALPH SUCCESSOR Robert McLean, a Fra-mingham executive and campaign worker in S. Lester Ralph's unsuccessful bid for state attorney general last fall, has been nominated to serve out the unexpired TV term of Paul Tsongas as Middlesex county commissioner. Tsongas was elected to the US House last fall. Ralph, also a commissioner, submitted the name of McLean, his associate, at yesterday's meeting of the board, which in the absence of a third member has yet to elect a chairman this year. END OF SENTENCE A 12-year prison sentence imposed four years ago on Marvin T.

Karger, 42, of Newton Centre was vacated yesterday in Federal Court in Boston. Karger had been sentenced after pleading guilty to receiving and disposing of $1.7 million in US treasury bills. US District Judge Joseph L. Tauro ruled that the judge who sentenced Karger had not been notified of a deal between the prosecution and the defense in which Karger agreed to plead guilty in return for a recommended five-year prison sentence. BELLOTTI APPOINTMENTS Atty.

Gen. Francis X. Bellotti has named Robert A. Williams, 31, of Wal-tham director of his department's Civil Rights Division. Bellotti also announced the appointment of Charles Cor-kin of Concord as head of the environmental protection division.

Williams is assistant dean and associate director of financial aid and admissions at Harvard Law School. Corkin is a lawyer with the US Environmental Protection agency. MAINE JOBLESS Emilien Levesque, Maine's manpower affairs commissioner, said yesterday the estimated unemployment rate in the state rose to 11 percent in January, with almost 47,000 of the state's 417,000 workers off their jobs. The Massachusetts jobless rate is 9.9 percent. Levesque said that, if the unemployment rate goes to 12 or 13 percent and stays there through the spring, the state unemployment fund may run dry.

FINCOM DIRECTOR Peter Hiam of Cambridge, former counsel to the state Office of Administration and Finance, has been named executive director of the Boston Finance Commission. Hiam, a 1961 graduate of Harvard Law School, replaces Thomas Murphy, who retired. Ralph Fine, Fin Com chairman, said: "The investigative role of the FinCom covers virtually every aspect of Boston. More than ever before, there exists a need for an independent, aggressive body to deal with the city's administrative and financial problems." One price for all: for Twins or Fulls or Queens or Kings. School weapons story criticized as 'misleading' Most of the 300 or more "dangerous weapons" taken from 12 Boston schools recently by School Dept.

security onicers were not confiscated in Kparrtips at. the schools. A iff iCSf: i ffV i Sr ifi: day afternoon to discuss what he termed the "inflammatory" and "irresponsible journalism" prompted by the initial reports of searches. "There was absolutely no search made of the Solomon Lewenberg Middle School," Goldberg said. Doherty said there were "a few" instances of seizure of dangerous items from students in recent weeks, and added: "Some were found in corridors and some were found on lawns at schools where pupils pass through metal detectors as they enter buildings." Items taken by security officers included various kinds of knives, clubs, razor blades, chemical sprays and ice picks, Doherty said.

chief plant engineer John Doherty said last night. At some schools, including the Lewenberg Middle School in Mattapan, the items taken had been kept in locked file cabinets several years, Doherty said. Doherty, who is in charge of the security officers, said reports published in yesterday's morning editions of the Globe and Herald American, stating that officers seized the weapons during searches over the last three weeks, were "misleading." Doherty said he and chief security officer Paul Barry sent memorandums to school headmasters last month, asking them to turn over to Barry any danerous items being held on premises. The items referred to in yesterday's news reports were obtained "in compliance with our requests," he said. Joseph M.

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