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The Boston Globe Tuesday, December 2, 1975 3 Brooke, in western Mass. tour, calls for better rural housing that in Washington there is general skepticism at the suggestion that Massachusetts has an appreciable rural population. But Brooke said that out of the state's 351 cities and towns, 210 are in non-metropolitan areas and are eligible for Federal programs for rural housing. Brooke also said that 12 percent of the housing in rural New England is substandard. Among the problems he cited were overcrowding, incomplete plumbing, dilapidated structures and isolation of poor and elderly people in many rural areas.

"But there are other statistics about rural life, in Massachusetts all my time in urban housing while rural housing is crying out for help." The first stop Brooke made yesterday was in Winchendon, where he visited Rural Housing Improvement, an agency devoted to rehabilitation and self-help building of new homes. According to Hal Wilson, the director of the agency, its success it has built or rehabilitated 450 homes in the past few years is based on its ability to draw funds from many state and Federal programs. The main source of rural housing By Robert J. Rosenthal Globe Staff TEMPLETON Sen. Edward Brooke pulled on his shiny black plastic rain hat yesterday, smiled broadly and said, "I'll remember his house, I certainly shall.

When you see something like this it makes it all worthwhile." Brooke had just left a small blue wood-frame house built in this town by a low-income couple with the aid of funds made available under a Federal self-help program aimed at improving rural housing. Brooke, a advocate of urban housing programs in the said he is now also turning his interest to improving rural housing throughout the state and the country. Yesterday Brooke flew from Washington to Boston and then toured the west central part of the state by automobile to get a first hand look at rural housing problems and the results of programs already under way. After his tour Brooke made the keynote address at the first New England conference on rural housing, held at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst- In his speech Brooke pointed out says he'll fight and the rest of New England, which are disconcerting," Brooke said in a prepared speech. "Almost 11 percent of the population of New England lives below the poverty level and 28 percent of those who live below the poverty level live in rural areas." Earlier in the day Brooke said the main reason for his trip was to focus attention on the fact that there is a rural housing problem in Massachusetts.

'Teople are not aware this problem exists," Brooke said. "I've been aware of- housing problems for a long time. I just felt I couldn't spend alvucci any pay By Robert A. Jordan Globe Staff State Transportation Secretary Frederick P. Salvucci said yesterday he will strongly oppose any 1976 salary increases for MBTA employees and also will push for the elimination of the cost-of-living and no-layoff clauses during current contract negotiations.

Salvucci, who will outline these and other recommendations in a 12-page report to be released today, has requested a total cut of $7 million from the proposed $238.4 million operating budget approved by MBTA Chairman Robert R. Kiley and the board of directors. The "no-salary-increase" request is expected to be the crux of the collective bargaining negotiations between the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority management and the MBTA's 28 unions who represent a total of 6500 workers. According to sources in both management and labor, however, there is a strong likelihood that the negotiations eventually will go to arbitration, thus reducing the chances of a strike. "In my judgment," Salvucci said, "a labor contract which provides for no further cost increases is essential to the survival of the organization (MBTA) through its next period." "if 4- 1 Slk lJ '5lV(8(j i -Ajf jL air A JUwJ- x-- jt iS Victor Kudaravski, oblivious to flooded boat in Boston Harbor, fishes serenely, (Ulrike Welsch photo) Lightship going home a permanent museum funds is the Federal Farmers Home Administration (FHA).

Brooke said he is now attempting to increase the staffing of the FHA in the four Massachusetts offices so that it can handle all of the applications for housing improvements. Wilson said there is a backlog of 1600 applications in the state because of the shortage of staff. Brooke, who is the ranking Republican on the Senate's Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, said he is trying to insure that funding, already appropriated for more staffing of FHA, is approval by the Office of Management and Budget. MBTA workers said in a telephone interview last night, "Whatever Mr. -Salvucci or Mr.

Kiley says, we will do our negotiating at the collective baa-gaining table." Lazar said he has -not seen the report yet. He added, however, that the unions plan to meet frequently with the MBTA "and try to reach an agreement." Salvucci said the MBTA employ- ees are "both the best naid and most secure puDiic employees in tne torn- monwealth." He added that, during 4.1 i- Jl. HffTtm a i ees have received salary increases totaling 32.7 percent. Carmen union workers are paid $7.40 an hour under the current into cunuaci. During the same period, he said, state employees have received increases totalling only 9.5 percent.

Salvucci said he thinks his recommendation marks the first time a cabinet-level official has pushed for a no-salary-increase clause during labor negotiations. VVi-C at liiC UUSSlUdUd ill LUC MBTA's history," he said. "But we really believe it is in the interest of the MBTA workers to have a settle ment without increasing costs. If it goes up any higher, the cities and towns are not going to come up with the money, the employees will not get anything and the public will ln3p its transnnrtaHnn UMass board expected to double tuition By James Worsham Globe Staff Trustees of the University of Massachusetts are expected to vote tomorrow to increase the $300-a-year tuition for the 32,000 students at the Boston and Amherst campuses Reportedly under consideration is a proposal to raise tuition to $600 over a two-year period, coupled with special provisions for needy students and guarantees that non-tuition fees would nnt bp inrrpaspd UMass President Robert Wood yesterday declined to comment on any proposal but noted that the board is scheduled to take action tomorrow. He said the increases had been discussed for two months and that a wide range of views, including those of students, had been considered.

A tuition increase at UMass would follow by several mornh? the vote of the state college truces raising tuition at the state's 10 state colleges by $100 next month and another $100 in September 1976. Sources said last night that although the proposal to be considered by the UMass board would raise tuition it would provide guarantees that student fees, which are now almost as much as tuition, will not be raised. One of the unresolved issues is whether the university would get credit for the new money raised from the tuition increase when the governor and the Legislature consider the board's 1976-77 budget request. As it stands, money raised by state colleges and universities from tuition goes into the general state treasury. CORRECTION Yesterday's Globe story on home mortgage lending in the Boston area said Mutual Bank for Savings of Newton was accepting mortgage loan applications only from established customers.

A spokesman yesterday said the bank is accepting all applications. 1 -hilt tA 5-. Nantucket to serve as After months of negotiations, the old Nantucket Lightship soon will have a permanent home as a museum on Nantucket. The island's board of selectmen first found out in April that the ship was on the Federal government's surplus list, according to board member Arnold Small. Unfortunately, officials in Atlantic City learned about it earlier and they acquired rights to the ship before Nantucket's claim could be processed.

But they're reasonable in New Jersey. After months of discussions, in which the board of selectmen was aided by the New England Regional Commission and the offices of US Rep. Gerry Studds and Sen. Edward raise for 'We're at the crossroads in the MBTA's history. If it goes up any higher, the cities and towns are not going to come up with the money, the employees will not get anything and the puhlic will lose its transportation." Frederick P.

Salvucci Transportation Secretary Kiley said last night he had just received the report and wanted to digest it before commenting. Salvucci said most of the $7 million he wants cut from the budget would come from the amount Kiley included for salary increases. As a result, Salvucci said, "Kiley has to bargain tougher than he thought." He said he had discussed his recommendations earlier with Kiley. "Kiley is aware he has a tough job bargaining the contract and at the same time getting no labor cost increases," Salvucci said. Steve Lazar, business agent for the Carmen's union which represents 4200 of the MBTA's 6500 enate "If no final decision is rendered within such time," the draft said, "any court having jurisdiction shall order the board or administrator to render a final decision within 10 days.

The applicant' would waive the deadline by failing to file data with the board' within 30 days of submitting his request. The House bill would extend rent control at local option through 1978. Dukakis favors permanent adoption of the legislation. "No termination date should be necessary because any city or town that wishes to revoke its acceptance of the act can do so at any time," Dukakis said at the time when Jimmy said, 'Coach, I'm Flanagan said. The coach ran onto the ice to assist Dragone, who was bleeding profusely, he said.

"At one point he stopped breathing, so I applied mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and got him breathing again, but he was in shock," Flanagan said. Dragone was taken to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, where he died at 10:04 p.m. after receiving 20 units of blood, about 10 pints. to Santa provided the gifts, clowns "Jerry the Hobo" (left) and "Charlie Brown" the laughs and the children of Cardinal Cushing School in Hanover the appreciative audience at the annual Christmas Party held yesterday in a Braintree restaurant.

(Globe photo by Ulrike Welsch) Dry Dock in Chelsea, where it is being refurbished. If all goes according to plan and weather permits, the Nantucket will leave Chelsea at noon Saturday and arrive at the island about 3 p.m. Sunday. It will be kept temporarily at the Steamship Authority Wharf and, after a permanent berth is found, the Nantucket Historical Assn. will set up the ship as a museum.

The Nantucket was decommissioned last March and was replaced by the old Portland Lightship, which was repainted and given a new name the Nantucket Light Vessel. A lightship has been on station off Nantucket since 1854, warning ships of the treacherous island shoals and guiding them as they approach US ports. Failure to follow these procedures, the bill says, "shall constitute approval of the petition retroactive to the date of petition." Dukakis said these procedures would encourage delaying tactics that would force the board to either miss the deadline or make hasty decisions that would not stand uip under appeal. He said that local rent administrators Boston, Brookline, Cambridge and Somerville are the only communities which have voted to have rent control have told him the 90-day deadline was not unreasonable. On the other hand, he said the 60-day deadline for a hearing was Rent control extension clears House, goes not reasonable because the parties often fail to file the needed financial data within that time period.

The aovernor also suggested that hearir. uificens be permitted to act on requests instead of board members. "I have enclosed for your consideration a draft amendment that includes these provisions," Dukakis said, "and my staff will be available at any time if your staff or that of the House Counsel would find further discussions of the matter useful." The governor's draft stipulates that local authorities deliver a decision within 90 days of receiving a request for a rent increase. By Bob Sales Globe Staff Despite last-minute lobbying by Gov. Michael S.

Dukakis for changes, the Massachusetts House of Representatives yesterday sent to the Senate its own bill to continue local option rent controll for three more years. In a letter delivered to the office of Heuse Speaker Thomas W. McGee, Dukakis praised the House for voting to extend the present law while criticizing its only two amendments. Several hours later, however, the legislation was approved on a voice vote and passed on to the Senate. A copy of Dukakis's letter was sent to Nantucket: A face-lift in Chelsea Kennedy, Atlantic City agreed to give up the Nantucket Lightship in return for the old Boston Lightship, also on the government surplus list.

Michael Todd of Nantucket and a volunteer crew recently took the Boston Lightship to New Jersey, and the Nantucket is now at the Monroe Senate President Kevin B. Harrington. In his letter, Dukakis asked for permanent rent control legislation and suggested different procedures for setting a deadline for rent boards to act on requests for increases. "While I do not oppose the insertion of such a deadline," the governor said, "I believe that the manner in which it is drafted is both unfair and unworkable." The House bill stipulates that local rent control boards hold a hearing within 60 days of receiving a request for an increase and rendering a decision within 30 days of that hearing. Christmas this year in the Drag-one home at 65 Crawford Water-town, will lack the youthful voice of the boy who occupied a second floor bedroom and lounged in his basement refuge.

Hard work, concentration and dedication toward improvement were terms Frank Sama, 18, used to describe his friend's attitude toward hockey. Both young men graduated from Watertown High School last June and spent much time together during the summer. 3000 at wake for youth killed in hockey accident By David Farrell Jr. Globe Staff Nearly 3000 persons attended the wake of a popular young Watertown man yesterday to pay their respects to James and Rosemary Dragone. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m.

today -in Sacred Heart Church, Watertown, for their 18-year-old son, James, who died Friday from a hockey injury while playing with his New Preparatory School team of Cambridge. A cousin, Richard Dragone, 36, said the young man was attending the Cambridge preparatory school for a year to play hockey and apply himself to studies necessary for acceptance into college. "He was going through that stage of where am I at?" Dragone was one of two defense-men for New Prep playing Friday afternoon in a scrimmage against Melrose High School, at the Boston Skating Club on Soldiers Field 9 Road. The accident occurred about 1:35 according to his coach, Daniel Flanagan. Flanagan said one of the Melrose players was attempting to skate through New Prep's defense when Dragone cleared the puck away from him.

The other defenseman checked the Melrose player who collided with Dragone. "While both were falling, the Melrose player's skate struck Jimmy's neck. I was watching the puck i.